top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-05-16

I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee

http://ergoemacs.org/misc/xah_as_good_as_dead.html

12 years ago

“A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines”

http://it.emory.edu/windows7-incident/

12 years ago

Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

http://www.macuser.co.uk/9015-adobe-creative-cloud-outage-leaves-adobe-users-locked-out

12 years ago

The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

http://wololo.net/2014/05/16/the-shock-of-playing-the-ouya-one-year-later/

12 years ago

Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp

12 years ago

Baidu Hires Andrew Ng

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527301/chinese-search-giant-baidu-hires-man-behind-the-google-brain

12 years ago

I Don’t Want to Hire Women

http://clarissasblog.com/2014/05/14/i-dont-want-to-hire-women/

12 years ago

Practical Tmux

https://mutelight.org/practical-tmux

12 years ago

Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2014

12 years ago

Don’t Blame Big Cable. It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition

http://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-just-cable-companies-and-blame-local-government-for-dismal-broadband-competition/

12 years ago

India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/16/us-india-election-idUSBREA4E0XG20140516

12 years ago

TDD your API

http://blog.balancedpayments.com/tdd-your-api/

12 years ago

Claude Shannon demonstrates Theseus, a magnetic maze-solving mouse [video]

http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2010/3/16/In-Their-Own-Words-Claude-Shannon-Demonstrates-Machine-Learning

12 years ago

The Multiple SQLite Problem

http://www.ericsink.com/entries/multiple_sqlite_problem.html

12 years ago

Zero to One, by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters

http://zerotoonebook.com/

12 years ago

How Wall Street recruits so many Ivy League grads

http://www.vox.com/2014/5/15/5720596/how-wall-street-recruits-so-many-insecure-ivy-league-grads

12 years ago

Word Lens (Quest Visual) is Joining Google

http://www.wordlens.com/

12 years ago

Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for'

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-25559089

12 years ago

Asynchronous JavaScript at Netflix

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/03/going-reactive-asynchronous-javascript.html

12 years ago

How libraries decide which books to keep

https://medium.com/book-excerpts/4ca8405f1e11

12 years ago