top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-07

Doing Business in Japan

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/

12 years ago

818 upvotes – 305 comments

Sometimes, it’s just time to go home

http://www.benmilne.com/sometimes-just-go-home/

12 years ago

564 upvotes – 163 comments

Pulling JPEGs out of thin air

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/11/pulling-jpegs-out-of-thin-air.html

12 years ago

444 upvotes – 83 comments

What can I only do in Erlang?

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-November/081570.html#

12 years ago

356 upvotes – 167 comments

Rust and Go

https://medium.com/@adamhjk/rust-and-go-e18d511fbd95

12 years ago

352 upvotes – 302 comments

Google's phone number handling library

https://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/

12 years ago

284 upvotes – 42 comments

The $9B Witness: JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106?page=6

12 years ago

270 upvotes – 107 comments

Why Broken Sleep Is a Golden Time for Creativity

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/why-broken-sleep-is-a-golden-time-for-creativity/

12 years ago

241 upvotes – 64 comments

Thank You HN, Voxel Quest Is Funded

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8572611

12 years ago

220 upvotes – 65 comments

Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/operation-onymous-dark-web-arrests/#

12 years ago

163 upvotes – 132 comments

Receiving Dead Satellites with the RTL-SDR

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/receiving-dead-satellites-rtl-sdr/

12 years ago

162 upvotes – 54 comments

Why do we need modules at all? (2011)

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/058768.html

12 years ago

155 upvotes – 76 comments

The Best Investment Advice You'll Never Get (2008)

http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-best-investment-advice-youll-never-get

12 years ago

151 upvotes – 124 comments

Libtls – New TLS API from LibreSSL

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init&sektion=3

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 48 comments

Amazon’s Echo Chamber

http://dcurt.is/amazon-has-no-taste

12 years ago

139 upvotes – 91 comments

AudioKit: Open-source audio synthesis, processing, and analysis platform

http://audiokit.io/

12 years ago

137 upvotes – 13 comments

How the FBI made the world a more dangerous place by shutting down Silkroad 2.0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/06/how-the-fbi-just-made-the-world-a-more-dangerous-place-by-shutting-down-silkroad-2-0-and-a-bunch-of-online-drug-markets/

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 87 comments

“2015 will be the year that Perl 6 officially launches for production use”

https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/get_ready_to_party/

12 years ago

126 upvotes – 149 comments

SmartDataCenter and Manta are now open source

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2014/11/03/smartdatacenter-and-manta-are-now-open-source/

12 years ago

113 upvotes – 22 comments

UAB cures diabetes in lab mice, preparing for human trial

http://wiat.com/2014/11/06/uab-cures-diabetes-in-lab-mice-preparing-for-human-trial/

12 years ago

112 upvotes – 48 comments

Basic colour theory for programmers

http://polymathprogrammer.com/2008/08/04/basic-colour-theory-for-programmers/

12 years ago

109 upvotes – 24 comments

A.C.L.U. In $50M Push to Reduce Jail Sentences

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/us/aclu-in-dollar50-million-push-to-reduce-jail-sentences.html

12 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

I taught my black kids their elite upbringing would protect them

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/06/i-taught-my-black-kids-that-their-elite-upbringing-would-protect-them-from-discrimination-i-was-wrong/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 99 comments

FBI director defends impersonation of AP reporter

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/07/us/fbi-associated-press-deception/

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 87 comments

How secure is TextSecure?

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/001030.html

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 52 comments

Common C++ Gotchas

http://vickychijwani.me/cpp-gotchas/

12 years ago

91 upvotes – 46 comments

Our Development Workflow

http://engineering.zenpayroll.com/this-is-how-we-zenpayroll-our-development-workflow/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 45 comments

HN Salary Survey Results, Fall 2014

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17Mr201gfDoOTe5ONLS6LYJi1wQbtT26srXeSwUjMK0A/edit?usp=sharing

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Who ordered memory fences on an x86? (2008)

http://bartoszmilewski.com/2008/11/05/who-ordered-memory-fences-on-an-x86/

12 years ago

86 upvotes – 23 comments

Khan Academy Lite

http://bjk5.com/post/101915851596/ka-lite

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

Dart and Google Cloud Platform

https://www.dartlang.org/cloud/

12 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

Computers Are Not Designed for Productivity

http://app.getflowmeter.com/blog/productivity.html

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 68 comments

In South Carolina, a Program That Makes Apprenticeships Work

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/06/361136336/in-south-carolina-a-program-that-makes-apprenticeships-work?utm_source=news.google.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorspicks&google_editors_picks=true

12 years ago

68 upvotes – 8 comments

What makes for a stable marriage? Part 2

http://www.randalolson.com/2014/11/06/what-makes-for-a-stable-marriage-part-2/

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 76 comments

‘How Google Works,’ by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/books/review/how-google-works-by-eric-schmidt-and-jonathan-rosenberg.html?mabReward=RI%3A12&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0

12 years ago

64 upvotes – 7 comments

Learn Lisp the Hard Way

http://learnlispthehardway.org/

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 32 comments

The Dark Market for Personal Data

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/opinion/the-dark-market-for-personal-data.html?_r=3&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Versioning

12 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

FBI takes down over 400 .onion sites

http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/more-than-400-.onion-addresses-including-dozens-of-dark-market-sites-targeted-as-part-of-global-enforcement-action-on-tor-network

12 years ago

62 upvotes – 63 comments

Java Functions: Every Java FunctionalInterface You Want

https://github.com/mintern-java/functions

12 years ago

★ 115 FreeMarker
61 upvotes – 40 comments

Editor’s note: Reader comments in the age of social media

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/11/07/editors-note-reader-comments-in-the-age-of-social-media/

12 years ago

60 upvotes – 39 comments

Interactive map shows where native and new Berliners live

http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/zugezogene-in-berlin

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

A Fast General-Purpose Lock-Free Queue for C++

http://moodycamel.com/blog/2014/a-fast-general-purpose-lock-free-queue-for-c++

12 years ago

59 upvotes – 22 comments

Raided for Running a Tor Relay

http://raided4tor.wordpress.com/

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

Why I wish C# never got async/await

http://mrange.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/why-i-wish-c-never-got-asyncawait/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 33 comments

Another Unsolicited HN Redesign

http://www.uxbeginner.com/hacker-news-uxui-redesign-process/

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 35 comments
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