top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-08-31

FTP Server at LSUHealth New Orleans

http://samsclass.info/125/proj11/conway.htm

12 years ago

342 upvotes – 95 comments

I Ghostwrite Chinese Students' Ivy League Admissions Essays

http://www.vice.com/read/i-ghostwrote-hundreds-of-chinese-students-ivy-league-admissions-essays-897

12 years ago

282 upvotes – 217 comments

Notes on bookmarks from 1997

https://notes.pinboard.in/u:vitorio/05dec9f04909d9b6edff

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 52 comments

Common App Rejections

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/rejections/

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 128 comments

71 TiB DIY NAS Based on ZFS on Linux

http://louwrentius.com/74tb-diy-nas-based-on-zfs-on-linux.html

12 years ago

164 upvotes – 129 comments

If programming languages were weapons

http://bjorn.tipling.com/if-programming-languages-were-weapons

12 years ago

159 upvotes – 63 comments

Boeing Flies on 99% Ada

http://archive.adaic.com/projects/atwork/boeing.html

12 years ago

150 upvotes – 157 comments

Space Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140831.html

12 years ago

146 upvotes – 42 comments

AnandTech Publisher Anand Shimpi Headed to Apple

http://recode.net/2014/08/31/veteran-tech-journalist-anand-shimpi-headed-to-apple/

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 48 comments

Avoiding Event Chains in Single Page Applications

http://www.code-experience.com/avoiding-event-chains-in-single-page-applications/

12 years ago

130 upvotes – 63 comments

Popping a shell on the Oculus developer portal

https://bitquark.co.uk/blog/2014/08/31/popping_a_shell_on_the_oculus_developer_portal

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 16 comments

Bayesian vs. frequentist: squabbling among the ignorant

http://madhadron.com/posts/2014-08-30-frequentist_and_bayesian_statistics.html

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 38 comments

DebConf 2014's QA with Linus Torvalds [video]

http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2014/debconf14/webm/QA_with_Linus_Torvalds.webm

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

Curl.io – Share files from your terminal or ssh

http://curl.io/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 65 comments

Embedding Scheme for a game mission scripting DSL

http://carloscarrasco.com/embedding-scheme-for-a-game-mission-scripting-dsl.html

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 24 comments

A call to arms: Helping Internet services accept anonymous users

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept-anonymous-users

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 15 comments

Richard Dawkins' response to “What scientific idea is ready for retirement?"

http://edge.org/response-detail/25366

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 71 comments

A Financial Model Comparing Car Ownership with UberX in Los Angeles

http://gohe.ro/1wVkvkj

12 years ago

95 upvotes – 111 comments

This is why you never end up hiring good developers

http://qz.com/258066/this-is-why-you-dont-hire-good-developers/

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 50 comments

Apple Working with American Express on iPhone 6 Mobile Payments

http://recode.net/2014/08/31/apple-partnering-with-american-express-on-new-iphone-payments-system/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 75 comments

Uber and Lyft Have Become Indistinguishable Commodities

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/uber-and-lyft-have-become-indistinguishable-commodities/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 62 comments

Want to fight climate change? Build more nuclear power

http://csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2014/0828/Want-to-fight-climate-change-Build-more-nuclear-power

12 years ago

78 upvotes – 158 comments

Do Students Really Have Different Learning Styles?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/04/do-students-have-different-learning-styles/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 39 comments

Random Startup Generator

http://www.ykombinator.com/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

Replicated PostgreSQL with pgpool2

http://michael.stapelberg.de/Artikel/replicated_postgresql_with_pgpool

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 45 comments

HabitRPG – A free habit-building app that treats your life like a game

https://habitrpg.com/

12 years ago

70 upvotes – 33 comments

The FCC’s next CTO is a net neutrality expert

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/28/the-fccs-next-cto-is-a-net-neutrality-expert/

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 4 comments

Shen is a portable functional programming language

http://shenlanguage.org/

12 years ago

65 upvotes – 34 comments

Extreme Moneyball: The Houston Astros Go All In on Data Analysis

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-28/extreme-moneyball-houston-astros-jeff-luhnow-lets-data-reign

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 9 comments

Transforms – Tool for web developers

http://westciv.com/tools/transforms/index.html

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments

Sibyl: Google’s System for Large Scale Machine Learning

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/08/sibyl-google-system-large-scale-machine-learning.html

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

My accidental experiment on seller psychology

http://www.anirudhtom.com/2014/08/my-accidental-experiment-on-seller.html

12 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Nearables: Why a global lost-and-found network is finally viable

http://willd.me/posts/nearables-why-a-global-lost-and-found-network-is-finally-viable

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Interview with an Adware Author (2009)

http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware-author

12 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments

Requiring NPM modules in the browser console

https://gist.github.com/mathisonian/c325dbe02ea4d6880c4e

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 5 comments

Nomogram

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 7 comments

Segregation Now – separate and unequal education is coming back

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/04/segregation-now/359813/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 27 comments
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