top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-20

Why Your McD's Burger Doesn't Look Like the One in the Ad

http://adage.com/article/adages/video-burger-ad/235508/

14 years ago

505 upvotes – 181 comments

Why go out?

http://www.brickmag.com/why-go-out-heti

14 years ago

273 upvotes – 107 comments

Introducing The New IFTTT

http://blog.ifttt.com/post/25506427600/thenewifttt

14 years ago

263 upvotes – 85 comments

Why I'm Doing It All Wrong

http://danshipper.com/why-im-doing-it-all-wrong

14 years ago

235 upvotes – 37 comments

Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than programmers?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/45776/why-do-business-analysts-and-project-managers-get-higher-salaries-than-programme

14 years ago

226 upvotes – 175 comments

Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser

https://www.action.io/

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 79 comments

Experiment: Unit testing isn't enough; You need static types, too

http://evanfarrer.blogspot.ca/2012/06/unit-testing-isnt-enough-you-need.html

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 267 comments

Why 'Nigerian Scammers' Say They're From Nigeria

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/WhyFromNigeria.pdf

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 76 comments

2:40

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2012/06/240/

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 99 comments

Firing

http://cdixon.org/2012/06/19/firing/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 80 comments

Microsoft introduces Windows Phone 8

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/microsoft-introduces-windows-phone-8/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 186 comments

FunnyJunk lawyer to subpoena Twitter, Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/doubling-down-funnyjunk-lawyer-to-subpoena-ars-twitter/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 91 comments

WWDC 2012 Session Videos

https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 44 comments

GeoCities is not completely dead

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ageocities.com

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 54 comments

Secure Boot: Who will control your next computer?

https://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.en.html

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 114 comments

How to incorporate a US Corporation from outside the USA?

http://blog.freshdesk.com/how-to-incorporate-a-us-corporation-from-outs/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

An in depth but easy to understand explanation of Naive Bayes Classifiers.

http://code.google.com/p/ourmine/wiki/LectureNaiveBayes

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 1 comments

Sketchy Maps with Geometry Smoothing

http://mapbox.com/blog/sketchy-maps/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 10 comments

Effective ML - Yaron Minsky

https://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/82

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

Static Typing is not enough

http://blog.fogus.me/2012/06/20/not-enough/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 63 comments

Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Forum

http://rationalconspiracy.com/2012/06/20/why-academic-papers-are-a-terrible-discussion-forum/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 38 comments

Build your very own UAV drone spy plane

http://bordelon.net/ezstar.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Android Tablets Still Suck, And Google's Running Out Of Time To Fix Them

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/06/19/android-tablets-still-suck-and-googles-running-out-of-time-to-fix-them/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 113 comments

Work, Life And Side Projects

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/06/19/work-life-and-side-projects/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 38 comments

Why You Didn't Get the Job

http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2012/06/20/why-you-didnt-get-the-job/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 40 comments

Zapier (YC S12): An IFTTT For Business Users

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/20/zapier-ifttt-for-business/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments

Jack Dorsey’s 28.3% Square ownership gives him 75% control.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4136451

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 32 comments

Why Big Monitoring Software Sucks

http://obfuscurity.com/2012/06/Why-Big-Monitoring-Software-Sucks

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 23 comments

Lanyrd no longer requires write access to your Twitter account

http://lanyrd.com/blog/2012/twitter-read-only/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments

Announcing Windows Phone 8

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2012/06/20/announcing-windows-phone-8.aspx

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 71 comments

Peter Thiel Opens a New Venture Capital Firm

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/peter-thiel-opens-a-new-venture-capital-firm/?hpw

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

Microryza - Grow the next generation of ideas

https://www.microryza.com/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

Functional Programming in JavaScript using LiveScript and prelude.ls

http://gkz.github.com/LiveScript/blog/functional-programming-in-javascript-using-livescript-and-prelude-ls.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

Harvard + MIT = edX

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18191589

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Modern robotics hits Hollywood. IRIS: The most advanced camera rig ever created.

http://www.alexandrosmaragos.com/2012/06/bot-and-dolly.html

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 43 comments

We're Not Censoring You, Just Your Computer

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/were-not-censoring-you-just-your-computer/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 38 comments

New Crowdinvesting Rules Mean Everyone Can Play VC

http://betabeat.com/2012/06/amateur-hour-new-crowdinvesting-rules-mean-everyone-can-play-venture-capitalist/?show=all

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 43 comments

'Steam for Schools' is a free version of Steam for students

http://i.joystiq.com/2012/06/20/steam-for-schools-is-a-free-version-of-steam-for-students-fac/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 11 comments

Comprehend releases clinical analytics in the cloud

http://www.comprehend.com/comprehend-systems-enables-clinical-research-data-analytics-from-the-cloud/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 13 comments

On Efficiency

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/06/16/Efficiency

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 18 comments

Astronomers catch asteroid near-miss on video

http://www.nature.com/news/astronomers-catch-asteroid-in-near-miss-video-1.10873

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 0 comments
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