top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-10-21

Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code

http://countaleph.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/dear-startups-stop-asking-me-math-puzzles-to-figure-out-if-i-can-code/

13 years ago

How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage

http://benguild.com/2013/10/20/store-sell-old-stuff-with-amazon/

13 years ago

Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/

13 years ago

Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life?

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/10/why-does-windows-have-terrible-battery-life.html

13 years ago

Startup School 2013 Doodles

http://startupnotes.org/

13 years ago

Learn Haskell Fast and Hard

http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Way/

13 years ago

Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/experian-sold-consumer-data-to-id-theft-service/

13 years ago

Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/wikipedia-editors-locked-in-battle-with-pr-firm-delete-250-accounts/

13 years ago

How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/stallman20131020

13 years ago

CryptoSeal (YC S11) Shutting Down Private VPN

https://privacy.cryptoseal.com/

13 years ago

The First App Store

https://www.makegameswith.us/gamernews/276/the-first-app-store

13 years ago

Visualise the structure of a spreadsheet

http://www.slateforexcel.com

13 years ago

Show HN: Unirest

http://unirest.io/

13 years ago

ZeroVM: Smaller, Lighter, Faster

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/zerovm-smaller-lighter-faster/

13 years ago

Project Shield

http://projectshield.withgoogle.com/

13 years ago

The Melancholy of Subculture Society

http://www.gwern.net/The%20Melancholy%20of%20Subculture%20Society

13 years ago

NYTimes's Pogue going to Yahoo

http://pogueman.tumblr.com/post/64682813641/goodbye-and-hello

13 years ago

France summons U.S. ambassador over spying report

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/21/us-france-nsa-idUSBRE99K04920131021

13 years ago

Kids Were Terrified of Getting MRIs. Then One Man Figured Out a Better Way

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2013/10/18/creative_confidence_a_new_book_from_ideo_s_tom_and_david_kelley.html?wpisrc=burger_bar

13 years ago

Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather

13 years ago

★ 1.9k Shell BSD-2-Clause

Post-mortem of a Dead-on-Arrival SaaS Product

https://www.petekeen.net/marginalia-postmortem

13 years ago

On Hacking

http://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

13 years ago

The inside story of Bombardier’s $4-billion gamble on a super quiet jet

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-industries/shhhhh/

13 years ago

The End of Stanford?

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/silicon-valley-start-ups-and-the-end-of-stanford.html

13 years ago

Soylent Closes $1.5M In Seed Funding From Lerer, Andreessen Horowitz

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/21/soylent/

13 years ago

The letter Q was illegal in Turkey from 1928 until last month

http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2013/10/16/yasmine-seale/q-v-k/

13 years ago

Windows 8.1: Not Using Secure Boot? Don't Worry We'll Let You Know

https://tom-pryor.co.uk/blog/2013/10/21/windows-8-dot-1-not-using-secure-boot-dont-worry-well-let-you-know/

13 years ago

Google Cloud Datastore

https://cloud.google.com/products/datastore

13 years ago

Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/us/insurance-site-seen-needing-weeks-to-fix.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0

13 years ago

Apple Patent on Touch Typing, Multitouch Upheld; Allows Ban on Most Androids

http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+Patent+on+Touch+Typing+Multitouch+Upheld+Allows+Ban+on+Most+Androids/article33580.htm

13 years ago

Nimrod: The Return of Pascal

http://steved-imaginaryreal.blogspot.sg/2013/09/nimrod-return-of-pascal.html

13 years ago

PG charts acceleration of YC applications since noon

http://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=ls&chs=100x300&chd=t:70,70,70,70,70,70,70,71,71,71,71,71,71,71,72,72,72,72,72,72,72,73,73,73,73,73,74,74,74,74,74,74,74,75,75,75,75,75,76,76,76,76,77,77,77,78,78,78,78,78,79,79,79,79,80,80,80,81,81,81,82,82,82,83,83,83,83,84,84,85,85,86,86,86,87,87,88,88,88,89,89,90,90,91,91,92,92,93,93,94,94,95,95,96,96,96,97,98,98,99

13 years ago

Why I Jumped Off the Ivory Tower

http://zacharyernst.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-i-jumped-out-of-ivory-tower.html?m=1

13 years ago

Digital Attack Map

http://www.digitalattackmap.com/

13 years ago

How To Send Bitcoin Tips On Reddit

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/64708670240/how-to-send-bitcoin-on-reddit

13 years ago

Is Your Country Despotic? A 1940s Guide to Freedom

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2013/10/is-your-country-despotic-a-1940s-guide-to-freedom/280695/

13 years ago

The Myth of Multitasking (2008) [pdf]

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/hinera/CRTW-Spring_2011/TheMythofMultitasking_Rosen.pdf

13 years ago

Ask HN: Do you see the future in Go?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6584260

13 years ago

Introducing WhiteHat Aviator – A Safer Web Browser

https://blog.whitehatsec.com/introducing-whitehat-aviator-a-safer-web-browser/

13 years ago

Zuck makes his first major investment in Panorama Education (YC S13)

http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/21/zuck-makes-his-first-major-ed-tech-investment-in-panorama-education-the-brainchild-of-a-yale-coder/

13 years ago

Cargo Cult CSS

http://www.kapowaz.net/articles/cargo-cult-css

13 years ago

How Java’s Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere (1998) [pdf]

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf

13 years ago

Why Android First is a Myth

http://stevecheney.com/why-android-first-is-a-myth/

13 years ago

The newsonomics of “Little Data,” data scientists, and conversion specialists

http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/10/the-newsonomics-of-little-data-data-scientists-and-conversion-specialists/

13 years ago