top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-10-01

Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/feature-germanys-great-tuition-fees-u-turn/2011168.fullarticle

12 years ago

Show HN: Open-Source, Free, Agile Project Management Tool

http://www.taiga.io

12 years ago

Dollar a Day

https://dollaraday.co/

12 years ago

The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in 1966

http://www.coal-seam-gas.com/accidents/ussr.htm

12 years ago

Beyond Light Table

http://www.chris-granger.com/2014/10/01/beyond-light-table/

12 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394339

12 years ago

Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft

https://sway.com/

12 years ago

Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It

http://www.substance.com/most-people-with-addiction-simply-grow-out-of-it-why-is-this-widely-denied/13017/

12 years ago

XSA-108 Advisory

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-108.html

12 years ago

if (osName.startsWith("windows 9"))

https://searchcode.com/?q=if%28version%2Cstartswith%28%22windows+9%22%29

12 years ago

“Not” Neutrality?

http://blog.level3.com/open-internet/not-neutrality/

12 years ago

Terms of Service; Didn't Read

https://tosdr.org/

12 years ago

After raising $50M, Reddit forces all remote workers to relocate to SF

http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/01/after-raising-50m-reddit-forces-remote-workers-to-relocate-to-sf-or-get-fired/

12 years ago

MemSQL Does Oracle’s Own Demo Ten Times as Fast, Sixty Times Cheaper

http://blog.memsql.com/memsql-does-oracles-own-demo-ten-times-as-fast-sixty-times-cheaper/

12 years ago

Bash bug: the other two RCEs, or how we chipped away at the original fix

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/10/bash-bug-how-we-finally-cracked.html

12 years ago

Sile, a typesetting system inspired by TeX and InDesign

http://www.sile-typesetter.org/what-is/index.html

12 years ago

Bye Bye JavaScript Promises

http://sriku.org/blog/2014/02/11/bye-bye-js-promises/

12 years ago

William Binney Explains Snowden Docs

http://www.alexaobrien.com/secondsight/wb/binney.html

12 years ago

Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing

http://duckling-lib.org/

12 years ago

A Path to Full-time Open Source

http://www.mikeperham.com/2014/10/01/the-path-to-full-time-open-source/

12 years ago

Reddit source code

https://github.com/reddit/reddit/

12 years ago

★ 16.9k Python

Atom: Editor window startup is slow

https://www.github.com/atom/atom/issues/2654

12 years ago

★ 60.8k JavaScript MIT

Best Papers vs. Top Cited Papers in Computer Science

http://arnetminer.org/conferencebestpapers

12 years ago

ComputerCOP: Dubious 'Internet Safety Software' Police Distributed to Families

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/computercop-dangerous-internet-safety-software-hundreds-police-agencies

12 years ago

EC2 Maintenance Update II

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-maintenance-update-2/

12 years ago

The $1,200 Machine That Lets Anyone Make a Metal Gun at Home

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/cody-wilson-ghost-gunner/

12 years ago

First Blood Test to Diagnose Depression in Adults?

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2014/09/first-blood-test-to-diagnose-depression-in-adults.html

12 years ago

MiniKanren – An embedded DSL for logic programming

http://minikanren.org/

12 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394329

12 years ago

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394327

12 years ago

Computers are made of metal, not category theory

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/computers_are_made_of_metal.html

12 years ago

Google Drops Compute Engine Prices by 10 Percent

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/01/google-drops-all-compute-engine-prices-by-10-percent/

12 years ago

Immigration Crackdown on Digital Nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand

http://www.johnnyfd.com/2014/09/live-updates-immigration-crackdown-in.html

12 years ago

Ask HN: Your best passive income?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8395801

12 years ago

The New York Times’ App Plan Isn’t Working, So It’s Laying Off Staff

http://recode.net/2014/10/01/the-new-york-times-app-plan-isnt-working-so-its-laying-off-staff/

12 years ago

NearlyFreeSpeech.NET now supports persistent processes

https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2014/09/24/more-power-more-control-more-insight-less-cost/

12 years ago

BAP: Binary Analysis Platform

http://bap.ece.cmu.edu/

12 years ago

On the role of GRBs on life extinction in the Universe

http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2506

12 years ago

RamanPi – The 3D Printable Raspberry Pi Raman Spectrometer

http://publiclab.org/notes/flatCat/08-29-2014/ramanpi-the-3d-printable-raspberry-pi-raman-spectrometer

12 years ago

The Medium Is the Message, 50 Years Later

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/medium-message-50-years-later-91552/

12 years ago

Parallel In-Place Merge Sort

http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/parallel-in-place-merge-sort/240169094

12 years ago

Show HN: HackerBracket – What are you working on?

https://www.hackerbracket.com/v/2

12 years ago

Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) [pdf]

http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pdf

12 years ago

The 10,000 Hour Rule for deliberate practice is wrong

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/09/malcolm_gladwell_s_10_000_hour_rule_for_deliberate_practice_is_wrong_genes.single.html

12 years ago

Show HN: OrderCircle – Wholesale ordering software for small businesses

http://ordercircle.com

12 years ago

The Downtown Project Suicides

http://recode.net/2014/10/01/the-downtown-project-suicides-can-the-pursuit-of-happiness-kill-you/

12 years ago

Facebook Apologizes to LGBT Community and Promises Changes to Real Name Policy

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/01/facebook-apologizes-to-lgbt-community-and-promises-changes-to-real-name-policy/

12 years ago

How the Shinkansen bullet train made Tokyo into the monster it is today

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/30/-sp-shinkansen-bullet-train-tokyo-rail-japan-50-years

12 years ago

Search Funds: The quiet, dependable, risk-averse sibling to the startup

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/buy_a_small_business/2014/10/search_funds_the_quiet_dependable_risk_averse_sibling_to_the_startup.html

12 years ago

Linear Optimization with Glop

https://developers.google.com/optimization/docs/lp/glop

12 years ago

Inside the Cosmonaut Survival Kit (2013)

http://theappendix.net/blog/2013/11/the-cosmonauts-survival-kit

12 years ago

Sense of smell 'may predict lifespan'

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29441323

12 years ago

Open-source client scaffolds and API pricing

https://www.inboxapp.com/blog/clients-and-pricing

12 years ago

The Mythology of Dog Years

http://priceonomics.com/the-mythology-of-dog-years/

12 years ago

Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals (1938) [pdf]

https://webspace.princeton.edu/users/jedwards/Turing%20Centennial%202012/Mudd%20Archive%20files/12285_AC100_Turing_1938.pdf

12 years ago