Hacker Newsletter - #230

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Issue #230 // December 12, 2014 // View in your browser

It seems as though someone turned the dial to eleven on Hacker News this week... lots of awesome reads. Enjoy! –kale #SPONSOR Mandrill is a powerful, affordable email infrastructure servicetrusted by more than 375,000 customers. Our easy setup will have you sending in minutes, and our detailed analytics offer all the insight you need to measure your performance. #FAVORITES Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society //ncase comments→ Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates //markshuttleworth comments→ Firefox.html: Rebuilding Firefox UI in HTML //mozilla comments→ Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two //wired comments→ Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo //threefingeredfox comments→ The reason people burn out on open source //github comments→ MIT students build a roller coaster in one week //monograph comments→ A City That Is Moving 9 Kilometers Down the Road //nextcity comments→ How our side project generated $51,365 in 60 days //needwant comments→ How can I remedy scatter brain and information overload? //ycombinator #SHOW HN BPG Image format //bellard comments→ Android Studio 1.0 //android-developers comments→ Artful for Mac //artfulmac comments→ Code Words, a quarterly publication about programming //hackerschool comments→ Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders //presslabs comments→ #CLASSICS Jason Fried: Why I Run a Flat Company //inc comments→ How to Take a Walk //ribbonfarm comments→ Fly the Airplane //dcurt comments→ #CODE Streem – a new programming language from Matz //github comments→ Plan 9 from Bell Labs //github comments→ “This” in JavaScript //tipling comments→ Postgres full-text search is good enough //lostpropertyhq comments→ A quick tutorial on implementing C memory management functions //danluu comments→ The Offline Cookbook: caching and serving offline-first //jakearchibald comments→ Shapeme – Evolve images using simulated annealing //github comments→ Wrapping web APIs made easy //github comments→ #DESIGN Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework //getskeleton comments→ Evil Icons – Lightweight SVG icons for your web project //evil-icons comments→ Material Design for Bootstrap //github comments→ There is no fold //thereisnofold comments→ Alien – My third post about typography in sci-fi //typesetinthefuture comments→ #LEARN A Formula for the Number of Days in Each Month //cmcenroe comments→ Category Theory by Tom LaGatta //youtube comments→ Flying with Machine Guns? //wolfram comments→ #BOOKS What book changed your life in 2014? //ycombinator Intro to statistical data analysis in Python – frequentist and Bayesian methods //githubcomments→ Free Python Books //inventwithpython comments→ The Best Books I Read in 2014 //gatesnotes comments→ #WATCHING Donald Knuth's 20th Annual Christmas Tree Lecture: (3/2)-ary Trees //youtubecomments→ Almost all numbers contain the digit “3” //numberphile comments→ High Speed Robot Hand Dexterity //youtube comments→ #WORKING Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy //paperplanes comments→ Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more //andyadams comments→ Why you should move your startup to a small fishing town //thebluehouse comments→ Things I wish people who write job postings would stop writing //ycombinator comments→ #FUN You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind //spacebar comments→ An analysis of the Super Street Fighter IV game balance //ryuuko comments→ Retro Game Internals: Contra //tomorrowcorporation comments→

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