top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-10-16

My son is schizophrenic. The ‘reforms’ that I worked for have worsened his life.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/my-son-is-schizophrenic-the-reforms-that-i-worked-for-have-worsened-his-life/2012/10/15/87b74a98-eadd-11e1-b811-09036bcb182b_print.html

14 years ago

322 upvotes – 202 comments

Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=55

14 years ago

264 upvotes – 81 comments

IBM: The cost difference is too great for business not to look for H1B workers

http://cis.org/miano/ibm-cost-difference-too-great-business-not-look-h-1b-workers

14 years ago

250 upvotes – 208 comments

FiveThirtyEight: Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/15/us/politics/swing-history.html?hp

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 96 comments

How I Hired Someone On Craigslist And Quadrupled My Productivity

http://hackthesystem.com/blog/why-i-hired-a-girl-on-craigslist-to-slap-me-in-the-face-and-why-it-quadrupled-my-productivity/

14 years ago

232 upvotes – 122 comments

A new kind of fractal?

http://www.gibney.de/does_anybody_know_this_fractal

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 47 comments

Data Mining 3.4 billion Web pages for $100 of EC2

http://blog.luckyoyster.com/post/33592990831/data-mining-the-web-100-worth-of-priceless

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 29 comments

Why becoming a data scientist is not easier than you think

http://www.josephmisiti.com/why-becoming-a-data-scientist-is-not-actually

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 94 comments

Gary McKinnon saved from extradition to the US

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19962844

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 114 comments

A Dragnet for Pee-Wee

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/33713850223/a-dragnet-for-pee-wee

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 54 comments

How to do a great product promo video for less than $200

http://blog.kickofflabs.com/how-to-do-a-great-product-promo-video-for-less-than-200/

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 50 comments

Google Earth Fractals

http://paulbourke.net/fractals/googleearth/

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 23 comments

Scaling PostgreSQL at Braintree: Four Years of Evolution

https://www.braintreepayments.com/braintrust/scaling-postgresql-at-braintree-four-years-of-evolution

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 25 comments

OOCSS + Sass = The best way to CSS

http://ianstormtaylor.com/oocss-plus-sass-is-the-best-way-to-css/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 51 comments

Matlab, R, and Julia: Languages for data analysis

http://strata.oreilly.com/2012/10/matlab-r-julia-languages-for-data-analysis.html

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 80 comments

Caching in theory and practice

https://tech.dropbox.com/2012/10/caching-in-theory-and-practice/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 10 comments

Teaching linear algebra

http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-linear-algebra.html

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 31 comments

The Next Twenty Years: What Windows 8's Closed Distribution Means for Developers

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/179420/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 100 comments

Patents on Software: A Nobel Laureate’s View

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/opinion/patents-on-software-a-nobel-laureates-view.html?_r=2&

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 52 comments

Save Even More Time On Hacker News

http://danmaz74.me/2012/10/15/save-even-more-time-on-hacker-news/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 46 comments
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