top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-12-07

Why is every story on Uber Delhi driver raping a passenger getting instakilled?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711284

12 years ago

Please don't denigrate what a beginner is currently learning

http://pgbovine.net/programmers-talking-to-beginners.htm

12 years ago

Reimplementing “git clone” in Haskell from the bottom up (2013)

http://stefan.saasen.me/articles/git-clone-in-haskell-from-the-bottom-up/

12 years ago

Large Scale Deep Learning – Jeff Dean [pdf]

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/people/jeff/CIKM-keynote-Nov2014.pdf

12 years ago

“This” in JavaScript

http://bjorn.tipling.com/all-this

12 years ago

The reason people burn out on open source

https://github.com/steveklabnik/emoji/issues/23

12 years ago

★ 444 Ruby MIT

Valgrind is much more than a leak checking tool

http://maintainablecode.logdown.com/posts/245425-valgrind-is-not-a-leak-checker

12 years ago

Detroit by Air

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/exposures-detroit-by-air-alex-maclean.html

12 years ago

Make your program slower with threads

http://brooker.co.za/blog/2014/12/06/random.html

12 years ago

Superconductivity without cooling?

http://www.mpg.de/8785897/superconductivity-room-temperature

12 years ago

Icdiff: side-by-side command line diffs

http://www.jefftk.com/icdiff

12 years ago

Ignoring pull requests discourages open-source contributions

http://danluu.com/discourage-oss

12 years ago

Interface Upgrades in Go

http://avtok.com/2014/11/05/interface-upgrades.html

12 years ago

A cautionary tale about subscription services and how not to shut down a startup

https://medium.com/@ireneau/whimseybox-and-a-cautionary-tale-about-subscription-services-and-how-not-to-shut-down-a-startup-be1bd2c69ecd

12 years ago

Zusie – My Relay Computer

http://www.nablaman.com/relay/story.php

12 years ago

Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language

https://github.com/TheBerkin/Rant

12 years ago

★ 2.9k C# MIT

You can't dig upwards

http://www.evanmiller.org/you-cant-dig-upwards.html

12 years ago

ImageMagick, four point perspective distortion in a video

http://silveiraneto.net/2014/12/07/imagemagick-four-point-perspective-distortion-in-a-video/

12 years ago

The Internet is Shit (2003)

http://www.internetisshit.org/print.html

12 years ago

How browsers get to know you in milliseconds

http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/12/how-browsers-get-to-know-you-in-milliseconds.html

12 years ago

Free Python Books

http://inventwithpython.com/bookshelf/

12 years ago

Endaga – Community Cellular Networks

http://www.endaga.com/

12 years ago

New Paypal gateway UI susceptible to spoofing

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/12/new-paypal-gateway-ui-is-disaster.html

12 years ago

QEMU Advent Calendar 2014

http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/

12 years ago

Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of First System for Home Video Games, Is Dead at 92

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/business/ralph-h-baer-dies-inventor-of-odyssey-first-system-for-home-video-games.html

12 years ago

RIP Go Seigen

https://gogameguru.com/rip-go-seigen/

12 years ago

NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Pluto Encounter

http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons/on-plutos-doorstep-new-horizons-spacecraft-awakens-for-encounter/#.VIPZ6R4Vg4R

12 years ago

International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out

https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/

12 years ago

Lampsort: Leslie Lamport's Non-recursive Quicksort

http://bertrandmeyer.com/2014/12/07/lampsort/

12 years ago

Statistical Learning

https://class.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesScience/StatLearning/Winter2014/about

12 years ago

What’s happening with Secret?

https://gigaom.com/2014/12/05/whats-happening-with-secret/

12 years ago

Estonian e-residency

https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/about/

12 years ago

Our quantum problem

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/our-quantum-reality-problem/

12 years ago

When in Go, do as Gophers do

http://talks.golang.org/2014/readability.slide#1

12 years ago

OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t (2013)

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/osi-the-internet-that-wasnt

12 years ago

Sony saved thousands of passwords in a folder named 'Password'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/sony/11274727/Sony-saved-thousands-of-passwords-in-a-folder-named-Password.html

12 years ago

Guile Emacs Todo

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacsTodo

12 years ago

Rick Reed – WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TneLO5TdW_M#

12 years ago

Uber Confirms It Is Assisting Police in India Following an Alleged Rape

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/06/uber-confirms-it-is-assisting-police-in-india-following-an-alleged-rape/

12 years ago

U.S. Passenger Rail Ridership (2013)

http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/2013/AmtrakRoutes

12 years ago

Please Offer an Excel Export Option

http://www.evanmiller.org/please-offer-an-excel-export-option.html

12 years ago

Founders at Work: Steve Wozniak

http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html

12 years ago