top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-05-23

Don't mess with Newegg

http://blog.newegg.com/patent-trolls-learn-mess-newegg/?cm_mmc=SNC-Facebook-_-SS-_-Blog-_-NA

12 years ago

Ask HN: What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789014

12 years ago

Surface Pro 3

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/05/23/surface-pro-3

12 years ago

Neutralizing the iOS camera click sound through active sound cancellation

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23758875/capture-image-via-capturestillimageasynchronouslyfromconnection-with-no-shutter

12 years ago

The new VirginAmerica.com

http://static.virginamerica.com/Web3/newlookvx/vx-redesign-9/7/index.html

12 years ago

Understanding web pages better

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/05/understanding-web-pages-better.html

12 years ago

Privacy Badger

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

12 years ago

Why TLS is called "TLS", not "SSL 3.1"

http://tim.dierks.org/2014/05/security-standards-and-name-changes-in.html

12 years ago

Developer Anxiety, we’re not alone

http://geekyboy.com/archives/880

12 years ago

Stay Classy Makerbot

http://www.openbeamusa.com/blog/2014/5/22/stay-classy-makerbot

12 years ago

Animals in the wild found to use running wheel if given the choice

http://phys.org/news/2014-05-animals-wild-wheel-choice-video.html

12 years ago

The Fourier Transform and its Applications

http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseInfo.aspx?coll=84d174c2-d74f-493d-92ae-c3f45c0ee091

12 years ago

Panda 4.0: Why eBay lost many of its organic rankings

http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2014/05/21/panda-4

12 years ago

Why Online Communities Decay Over Time

http://rs.io/2014/02/26/why-online-communities-decay-over-time.html

12 years ago

Browserify handbook

https://github.com/substack/browserify-handbook

12 years ago

★ 4.6k JavaScript

Explanation of 44.1 kHz CD sampling rate

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/audio/44.1.html

12 years ago

Google Project Lets You Program a Simulated Quantum Computer

http://readwrite.com/2014/05/22/google-quantum-computer-project

12 years ago

Amazon Flexes Its Muscles in Fight Against Publishers

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/amazon-escalates-its-battle-against-hachette/

12 years ago

Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/05/msg00006.html

12 years ago

CoreOS images are now available on Google Compute Engine

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/05/official-coreos-images-are-now-available-on-google-compute-engine.html

12 years ago

OS X 10.9.3 Is Toxic

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-23/osx-10.9.3-is-toxic.html

12 years ago

A Western Kid Living in Communist Poland

http://jacquesmattheij.com/a-western-kid-living-in-communist-poland/?

12 years ago

The Hidden Beauty of Airport Runways, and How to Decipher Them

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/the-hidden-beauty-of-airport-runways-and-how-to-decipher-them/

12 years ago

Why lawmakers just voted against their own bill to reform the NSA

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/22/why-76-lawmakers-just-voted-against-their-own-bill-to-reform-the-nsa/

12 years ago

U.S. officials cut estimate of recoverable Monterey Shale oil by 96%

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-oil-20140521-story.html

12 years ago

Rust for C++ Programmers Part 7: Data Types

http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.com/2014/05/rust-for-c-programmers-part-7-data-types.html

12 years ago

Coinbase now supports the Bitcoin Payment Protocol

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/86563321757/coinbase-now-supports-the-bitcoin-payment-protocol

12 years ago

Mathematical Impressions: Spontaneous Stratification

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/multimedia/mathematical-impressions-multimedia/mathematical-impressions-spontaneous-stratification/

12 years ago

Predictive brains, situated agents and future of cognitive science (2013) [pdf]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/280585369/2013-clark.pdf

12 years ago

New Middleware Technology Quadruples SSD Speed?

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20140522/353388/

12 years ago

Meteor vs. Angular

http://differential.io/blog/meteor-vs-angular

12 years ago

E-Commerce Is A Bear

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/d233f02d52a5?attempt=2

12 years ago

Single Speaker Speech Recognition with Hidden Markov Models

http://kastnerkyle.github.io/blog/2014/05/22/single-speaker-speech-recognition/

12 years ago

Ask HN: Owe over $100k US backtaxes. Not sure what to do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789363

12 years ago

An earth-cooled beer dispenser

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&u=http://www.ecool.dk/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.ecool.dk/%26biw%3D1680%26bih%3D929

12 years ago

The Hobbit House (2012)

http://www.beingsomewhere.net/hobbit.htm

12 years ago

Piketty's Findings Undercut by Errors

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/e1f343ca-e281-11e3-89fd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz32Z6vP0JO

12 years ago

How we nearly lost our domain, and how to prevent this

http://www.jitbit.com/news/198-how-we-nearly-lost-our-domain-and-how-you-can-prevent-this/

12 years ago

Upgrading to Ruby 2.1 (and why complex regexes will inevitably hurt you)

http://engineering.freeagent.com/2014/05/23/upgrading-to-ruby-2.1/

12 years ago