top 50% 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

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

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

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

Today is Ada Lovelace Day

http://findingada.com/ald-2012/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 18 comments

Marie Curie Day

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/10/marie-curie-day.html

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 68 comments

The Side-Project Project

http://sachagreif.com/the-side-project-project/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 47 comments

Rsvp.js

https://github.com/tildeio/rsvp.js

14 years ago

★ 3.5k JavaScript MIT
94 upvotes – 25 comments

World's biggest geoengineering experiment 'violates' UN rules

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/15/pacific-iron-fertilisation-geoengineering

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

Surface Pricing Announced - $499 USD

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2012/Oct12/10-16announcementPR.aspx

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: The Five Year Itch

http://fiveyearitch.com

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

Announcing the Juju Web UI

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/10/16/announcing-the-juju-web-ui/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

Jekyll blog on Amazon S3 and CloudFront

http://vvv.tobiassjosten.net/development/jekyll-blog-on-amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 51 comments

As Surface Goes On Sale Today, Microsoft Seeks to Reinvent The Tablet

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/as-surface-goes-on-sale-today-microsoft-seeks-to-reinvent-tablet/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 89 comments

Enter Darth Vader's Tie Fighter

https://sketchfab.com/show/eIFt03aD0BrZPcTVU4F9jfw9duj

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

Sim City adopts a tilt-shift style look and feel

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/10/wireduk-sim-city/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 60 comments

Who Works With ‘Creative Coders?’

http://timstutts.com/post/33707922665/who-works-with-creative-coders

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 44 comments

Your Fat Needs Sleep Too

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=your-fat-needs-sleep-too-12-10-16&WT.mc_id=SA_sharetool_Twitter

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

Tonnes of iron dumped off B.C.'s coast

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Tonnes+iron+dumped+coast/7395723/story.html

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 49 comments

Pull Request: Launch GOV.UK

https://github.com/alphagov/static/pull/94

14 years ago

★ 21 Ruby MIT
72 upvotes – 30 comments

Exploring the Virtual Database Engine inside SQLite

http://coderweekly.com/articles/exploring-sqlites-virtual-database-engine.html

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

Crashlytics Labs announces the release of Backbone.StateManager

http://www.crashlytics.com/blog/crashlytics-labs-is-proud-to-announce-the-release-of-backbone-statemanager/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

Microsoft Surface RT price announced

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/16/microsoft-surface-rt-priced-32gb-for-499-without-touch-cover-599-with-64gb-for-699/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 87 comments

Celebrating Dart’s birthday with the first release of the Dart SDK

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/10/celebrating-darts-birthday-with-first.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Gary McKinnon extradition ruling due today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19957138

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

Wherein I Write Apple’s Technote About OpenSSL on OS X

http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/33696323211/wherein-i-write-apples-technote-about-openssl-on-os-x

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

[] are like Facebook

http://arelikefacebook.com/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 43 comments

Dart is ready for the real world

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/googles-bid-to-fix-javascript-dart-is-ready-for-the-real-world/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 51 comments

Willpower: It’s in Your Head (2011)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/opinion/sunday/willpower-its-in-your-head.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 20 comments

Responsive Sketchsheets

http://www.zurb.com/playground/responsive-sketchsheets

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 3 comments

CashFlow forecasting for small businesses and freelancers

https://www.wisecashhq.com/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 28 comments

You keep using that word "meritocracy"

http://www.garann.com/dev/2012/you-keep-using-that-word/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 96 comments

How DRM will infest the 3D printing revolution

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/137955-how-drm-will-infest-the-3d-printing-revolution

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 45 comments

Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development

http://kylerosenbluth.com/2012/10/8/fonts

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 23 comments

Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-11/asian-seafood-raised-on-pig-feces-approved-for-u-s-consumers.html

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 46 comments
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