top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-02-08

India bans discriminatory pricing based on source/destination/app/content

http://blog.savetheinternet.in/statement-on-trai-order-on-diff-pricing/

10 years ago

Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-apple-users-really-hate-apple-software-20160208-column.html

10 years ago

PayPal CTO Resigns

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1633917/000163391716000110/a8-kbarrese.htm

10 years ago

Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/08/uninstalling-facebook-app-saves-iphone-battery-life?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

10 years ago

Flash-Free Video in 2016

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/flash-free-video-in-2016/

10 years ago

The Zen of Erlang

http://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html

10 years ago

How to do distributed locking

http://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distributed-locking.html

10 years ago

Diff So Fancy: make Git diffs look good

https://github.com/stevemao/diff-so-fancy

10 years ago

★ 18k Perl MIT

How Wired Is Going to Handle Ad Blocking

http://www.wired.com/how-wired-is-going-to-handle-ad-blocking/

10 years ago

Not-so-secret atomic tests: Why the photographic film industry knew (2013)

http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/02/26/not-so-secret-atomic-bomb-tests-why-the-photographic-film-industry-knew

10 years ago

Avast: a Chromium fork with critical security checks removed

https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=679

10 years ago

Parse 2.0

https://medium.com/@newfosco/parse-2-0-600839abebdf

10 years ago

How a Legal Journalist Got Fired for a Non-Compete

https://bol.bna.com/how-a-legal-journalist-got-fired-for-a-non-compete/

10 years ago

The cost of transpiling ES2015 in 2016

https://github.com/samccone/The-cost-of-transpiling-es2015-in-2016

10 years ago

★ 1.3k JavaScript

Love Resembles Addiction

http://nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/love-is-like-cocaine

10 years ago

Test your BIOS and share your results on GitHub

https://github.com/farjump/fwtr

10 years ago

★ 151 HTML

What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki? (2010)

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/1539/whats-new-in-purely-functional-data-structures-since-okasaki

10 years ago

Long Short-Term Memory-Networks for Machine Reading

http://gitxiv.com/posts/tfkjEgw9x4KSi2GnH/long-short-term-memory-networks-for-machine-reading

10 years ago

Department of Homeland Security Devices on SF Streets

http://sfist.com/2016/01/27/trust_no_one.php

10 years ago

A battle over solar power in Nevada

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-solar-power-buffett-vs-musk/

10 years ago

Windows 10 Enterprise telemetry network traffic analysis, part 1

https://voat.co/v/technology/comments/835741

10 years ago

The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (2001)

http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html

10 years ago

Bare Bones Back end

https://webkit.org/docs/b3/

10 years ago

Riddle of cement’s structure is finally solved

http://news.mit.edu/2016/cement-structure-solved-0208

10 years ago

20 Years Since John Perry Barlow Declared Cyberspace Independence

http://www.wired.com/2016/02/its-been-20-years-since-this-man-declared-cyberspace-independence/

10 years ago

NY Public Library Releases 670k Images

http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

10 years ago

How we got our first 100 paying customers

https://www.stackfield.com/blog/how-we-got-our-first-100-paying-customers-33

10 years ago

One of Paris’s last horse meat butchers discusses the disappearance of his trade

http://thenewinquiry.com/features/its-hip-to-eat-mare/

10 years ago

Australia Cuts 110 Climate Scientist Jobs

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/australia-cuts-110-climate-scientist-jobs/

10 years ago

How We Get Things Done (2015)

https://engineering.canva.com/2015/08/25/how-we-get-things-done/

10 years ago

The Key to Higher Quality is Higher Quantity

https://medium.com/the-business-of-living/why-quantity-should-be-your-priority-3bc2b16fe3f5#.71nkro3k4

10 years ago

Introduction to the Zig Programming Language

http://andrewkelley.me/post/intro-to-zig.html

10 years ago

Old Tjikko, the oldest living clonal Norway Spruce

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko

10 years ago

Oculus Connect 2: Live Coding Session with John Carmack [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydyztGZnbNs

10 years ago

Monad transformers, free monads, mtl, laws and a new approach

https://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2016-01-26-transformers-free-monads-mtl-laws.html

10 years ago

Things to Know about Databases that Leverage Partially Homomorphic Encryption

http://www.lab41.org/survey-of-encrypted-databases-that-leverage-partially-homomorphic-encryption/

10 years ago

A lambda is not necessarily a closure

https://wingolog.org/archives/2016/02/08/a-lambda-is-not-necessarily-a-closure

10 years ago

Show HN: Zappa – Serverless Python/Django on AWS Lambda

https://gun.io/blog/announcing-zappa-serverless-python-aws-lambda/

10 years ago

What Kind of Name Is That? How to Name Fictional Characters

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/02/08/what-kind-of-name-is-that/

10 years ago

Nanomsg postmortem and other stories

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/nanomsg-postmortem-and-other-stories/

10 years ago

Jessica Livingston Talks Female Founders and Her Favorite Event of the Year

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/08/jessica-livingston-talks-female-founders-business-cycles-and-her-favorite-event-of-the-year/

10 years ago

How CPU load averages work, and using them to triage webserver performance

http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/02/07/cpu-load-averages/

10 years ago

British Homeowners Build a 'Superhighway' for Hedgehogs

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/01/26/464307528/british-homeowners-build-a-new-superhighway-for-hedgehogs?sc=17&f=1001

10 years ago

Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for the Expanse

http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/02/nick-farmer-knows-dozens-of-languages-so-he-invented-one-for-the-expanse/

10 years ago

DIY heavy water reactor

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/can.general/cfAh7ldu3vk

10 years ago

Amino.bio – Homebrew synthetic biology kit

http://www.amino.bio/

10 years ago

Pacman-5.0 Released

http://allanmcrae.com/2016/01/pacman-5-0-released/

10 years ago

Show HN: Lanes – a minimalist week-planner and Pomodoro timer

https://lanes.io

10 years ago

The Wonder of Quasars

http://www.intelligentlifemagazine.com/the-music-of-science/the-wonder-of-quasars

10 years ago

Free drum-only backing tracks, sorted by genre and tempo

http://www.smarthobbymusician.com/over-300-drum-tracks/

10 years ago

Leaked police files contain guarantees disciplinary records will be kept secret

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/07/leaked-police-files-contain-guarantees-disciplinary-records-will-be-kept-secret

10 years ago

The Surprising Subtleties of Zeroing a Register (2012)

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/the-surprising-subtleties-of-zeroing-a-register/

10 years ago

Brain to Brain: The Therapist as Neurobiological Regulator (2010) [pdf]

http://www.janinafisher.com/pdfs/regulator.pdf

10 years ago

Real Estate Broker Arbitrage in Vancouver

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/investigations/the-real-estate-technique-fuelling-vancouvers-housing-market/article28634868/

10 years ago

How the Fight Over Transgender Kids Got a Leading Sex Researcher Fired

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html

10 years ago

CNI for Docker Containers with Weave and Calico

http://www.weave.works/cni-for-docker-containers/

10 years ago

Continuously writing an iPhone app, on an iPad Pro, using C# [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEY8eehULAo

10 years ago

Hoverboard fires

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22hoverboard+fire%22&tbm=isch

10 years ago

Currency Traders Are Left Out of New Wall Street

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-08/a-dying-breed-currency-traders-are-left-out-of-new-wall-street

10 years ago

The Hunt for Algorithms That Drive Life on Earth

http://www.wired.com/2016/02/the-hunt-for-the-algorithms-that-drive-life-on-earth/

10 years ago