top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-07-12

I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to my resume

http://qz.com/103453/i-understood-gender-discrimination-after-i-added-mr-to-my-resume-and-landed-a-job/

13 years ago

643 upvotes – 376 comments

Use "Amazon 1 Button" Chrome extension to sniff all HTTPS websites

http://blog.kotowicz.net/2013/07/jealous-of-prism-use-amazon-1-button.html

13 years ago

516 upvotes – 58 comments

Don't be evil: Moving everything off of Google

https://blog.samwhited.com/2013/07/dont-be-evil/

13 years ago

442 upvotes – 300 comments

Statement by Edward Snowden to human rights groups at Sheremetyevo airport

http://wikileaks.org/Statement-by-Edward-Snowden-to.html

13 years ago

404 upvotes – 239 comments

Bose founder, Amar Bose, has died at 83

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/obit-amar-bose-0712.html

13 years ago

368 upvotes – 159 comments

Microsoft helped the NSA bypass encryption, new Snowden leak reveals

http://rt.com/usa/microsoft-nsa-snowden-leak-971/

13 years ago

298 upvotes – 114 comments

The Grep Test

http://jamie-wong.com/2013/07/12/grep-test/

13 years ago

284 upvotes – 169 comments

Estonian E-Voting Source Code Made Public

http://news.err.ee/politics/0233b688-b116-44c3-98ca-89a4057acad8

13 years ago

275 upvotes – 137 comments

Anonymous Person Posts $500,000 Bond To Free Texas Teen

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/11/201202207/anonymous-person-posts-500-000-bond-to-free-texas-teen

13 years ago

221 upvotes – 153 comments

Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/do-call-yourself-a-programmer-and-other-career-advice.html

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 112 comments

Revising MailChimp's logo

http://jessicahische.is/monkeyingaround

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 64 comments

Keep a static "emergency mode" site on S3

https://coderwall.com/p/68ozza

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 82 comments

The NSA's Surveillance Is Unconstitutional

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323823004578593591276402574.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 64 comments

5D ‘Superman memory’ crystal could lead to unlimited lifetime data storage

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2013/jul/13_131.shtml?1

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 111 comments

Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

http://qwerjk.com/posts/duck-duck-firefox/

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 148 comments

If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does? (2012)

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-imply-causation-then-what-does/

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 69 comments

Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/11/ubuntu_1310_to_ship_with_mir_instead_of_x/

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 148 comments

Think Distributed: A Distributed Systems Podcast

http://thinkdistributed.io/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 34 comments

So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/07/so-you-wanna-build-a-crowdfunding-site/#

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 10 comments

My Product Has Failed

http://www.ironconversions.com/blog/Post/My-product-failed

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 67 comments

DARPA and Boston Dynamics unveil a new humanoid robot

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/161193-meet-darpas-real-world-terminator-atlas

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 89 comments

Snowden to meet with human rights groups in Moscow

http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_07_12/Snowden-proposes-meeting-at-Sheremetyevo-airport-at-5-00-p-m-on-Friday-lawyer-Padva-6625/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 31 comments

Edward Snowden appears at Moscow airport and renews asylum claim

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/edward-snowden-to-meet-amnesty-and-human-rights-watch-at-moscow-airport-live-coverag

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

Crowd steps up to fund 'NSA-proof' app

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201307112159-0022901

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 67 comments

Sen. Wyden imagines the White House is willing to reconsider surveillance

http://rt.com/usa/nsa-surveillance-wyden-snowden-021/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 96 comments

Python quirks

http://www.lshift.net/blog/2009/10/29/python-quirks

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 56 comments

Snowden Is Said to Renew Plea for Asylum in Russia

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/world/europe/snowden-russia-asylum.html

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 28 comments

New developments in the Opus audio codec

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/celt/demo3.shtml

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 22 comments

Unemployed Black Woman Pretends to be White, Job Offers Skyrocket (2012)

http://www.techyville.com/2012/11/news/unemployed-black-woman-pretends-to-be-white-job-offers-suddenly-skyrocket/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 67 comments

Introduction to Support Vector Machines

http://rvlasveld.github.io/blog/2013/07/12/introduction-to-one-class-support-vector-machines/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 18 comments

Leading Australian Telco storing data on behalf of US government

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/telstra-storing-data-on-behalf-of-us-government-20130712-hv0w4.html

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 28 comments

HN on StoryLine – historic news browser

http://www.storyline.im/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 31 comments

Snowden about to step forward, live.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article17121859.ab

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

Cancel Netflix if you value freedom

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/cancel-netflix-if-you-value-freedom

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 161 comments

Are mobile web apps really slow?

http://danbricklin.com/log/2013_06_19.htm#jsspeed

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 56 comments

Culturalism, Gladwell, and Airplane Crashes

http://askakorean.blogspot.hk/2013/07/culturalism-gladwell-and-airplane.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 83 comments

ADHD Drugs Don't Boost Kids' Grades, Studies Find

http://wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323368704578593660384362292.html

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 109 comments

How the U.S. is forcing Internet firms' hands on surveillance

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57593538-38/how-the-u.s-is-forcing-internet-firms-hands-on-surveillance/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

Three More MMO Developers Receive Letters from Treehouse Attorneys

http://gamepolitics.com/2013/07/10/three-more-mmo-developers-receive-letters-treehouse-attorneys

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

Why Can’t Offline-Borns Tell Difference Between Voluntary And Forced Actions?

http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/12/why-cant-offline-borns-tell-difference-between-voluntary-and-forced-actions/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 23 comments

Kremlin security agencies buying typewriters "to avoid leaks"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23282308

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 32 comments

How to get a job when you have no connections

http://www.karenx.com/blog/how-to-get-a-job-when-you-have-no-connections/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 67 comments

Effortless monitoring with collectd, Graphite and Docker

http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/effortless-monitoring-with-collectd-graphite-and-docker/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

So You Want to be A Freelancer

http://samuelmullen.com/2013/07/so-you-want-to-be-a-freelancer-dot-dot-dot/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 81 comments

Software Transactional Memory Lisp experiments

http://morepypy.blogspot.jp/2013/07/software-transactional-memory-lisp.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 3 comments

Web API performance: profiling Django REST framework.

http://dabapps.com/blog/api-performance-profiling-django-rest-framework/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments

Kasparov flees Russia on detention fears amid Putin crackdown

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-06/kasparov-flees-russia-on-detention-fears-amid-putin-crackdown.html

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

Any.do Cal

http://www.any.do/cal

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

Chevron Granted Access to Activists' Private Internet Data

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/11-3

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Qwest – Refusal of NSA surveillance requests

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_for_NSA_spying

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

Report Indicates More Extensive Cooperation by Microsoft on Surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/us/report-indicates-more-extensive-cooperation-by-microsoft-on-surveillance.html?hp&_r=0

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

China’s plan to build the longest underwater tunnel on the planet

http://qz.com/103187/china-plan-to-build-bohai-undersea-tunnel/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 37 comments

OAuth Improvements

https://github.com/blog/1523-oauth-improvements

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments
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