top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-16

Dear Googles: Stop asking

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/ayk2DF43eF1

13 years ago

A living death: Sentenced to die behind bars for what?

https://www.aclu.org/living-death-sentenced-die-behind-bars-what

13 years ago

Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me

https://plus.google.com/115668950429167517685/posts/JcPQuXzXTgU

13 years ago

37signals valuation tops $100 billion after bold VC investment (2009)

https://37signals.com/svn/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-valuation-tops-100-billion-after-bold-vc-investment

13 years ago

Why Do Companies Still Use Microsoft Windows For Displays?

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/11/why-do-companies-still-use-microsoft-windows-for-displays/

13 years ago

Many PS4 units dead on arrival

http://www.amazon.com/PlayStation-4-Launch-Edition/product-reviews/B00BGA9WK2/ref=cm_cr_pr_hist_1?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

13 years ago

Empty London

http://www.roberttimothy.com/empty-london

13 years ago

Make-A-Wish Foundation Turns San Francisco Into Gotham for 5-Year-Old Batkid

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/11/san-francisco-batkid-wish/

13 years ago

A crossword based on the Adobe password leak

http://zed0.co.uk/crossword/

13 years ago

New Documents Confirm Police Vehicles’ Real-Time Access To DHS Spy Cameras

http://www.storyleak.com/new-mesh-network-documents-confirm-police-vehicles-real-time-access-dhs-spy-cameras/

13 years ago

Why Valve's SteamOS Could Be Revolutionary

http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-applications/why-valves-steamos-could-be-revolutionary/d/d-id/899846

13 years ago

Getting a bit creepy

http://blog.gingerlime.com/2013/getting-a-bit-creepy/

13 years ago

New GPS game is out of this world: Stratocaching

http://technet.idnes.cz/stratocaching-geocaching-from-space-experiment-prague-czech-republic-1kk-/tec_vesmir.aspx?c=A131115_171153_tec_vesmir_pka

13 years ago

An Empirical Evaluation of TCP Performance in Online Games

http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~swc/pub/tcp_in_games.html

13 years ago

Big Ball of Mud

http://laputan.org/mud/

13 years ago

Reaching for Silicon Valley

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/technology/reaching-for-silicon-valley.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

FastR: An implementation of the R language in Java [pdf]

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/jvmls2013vitek-2013524.pdf

13 years ago

Wireless Attacks With Python: Part One - the "Dnspwn Attack"

http://jordan-wright.github.io/blog/2013/11/15/wireless-attacks-with-python-part-one-the-airpwn-attack/

13 years ago

Introduction to the Python Interpreter, Part 1: Function Objects

http://akaptur.github.io/blog/2013/11/15/introduction-to-the-python-interpreter/

13 years ago

Sunset on Mars

http://sci-universe.tumblr.com/post/66712887712/a-reminder-that-there-is-an-image-of-the-sunset

13 years ago

Bitcoin for the Befuddled – Our fancy new book and website

http://befuddled.org

13 years ago

Ask HN: Thoughts on Meteor.js?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745163

13 years ago

CrowdProcess

http://crowdprocess.com/index

13 years ago

Apply to the Winter 2014 Batch of Hacker School

https://www.hackerschool.com/apply?2014

13 years ago

Where to begin when learning C? Start by making lots of errors

http://morganwilde.svbtle.com/where-to-begin

13 years ago

Easystar.js - Pathfinding for HTML5 games

http://www.easystarjs.com

13 years ago