Hacker Newsletter #236 + HoloLens, A Better Parking Sign, Elevator Games

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Issue #236 // January 23, 2015

I have to say, this turned out to be an awesome issue with a lot of great reads... so grab a coffee and enjoy. Before doing that though, maybe forward it on to a friend or two? If you've told all your friends, whisper it to some strangers:     #SPONSOR Real-time Data from the Things You Care About. Librato works with the open-source tools you use today. Measure, visualize, and alert on metrics that are critical to the projects you engineer. Full-featured and free for 30 days. #FAVORITES Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles //wired comments→ Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster //aadrake comments→ What Doesn't Seem Like Work? //paulgraham comments→ A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs //priceonomics comments→ A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Scalable Web App on AWS //airpair comments→ “What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?” //github comments→ Emacs Is My New Window Manager //howardism comments→ The Best Entrepreneur I Know //donpottinger comments→ How Amazon Tricks You into Thinking It Always Has the Lowest Prices //recode comments→ Retiring Python as a Teaching Language //dadgum comments→ Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game //elevatorsaga comments→ #ASK HN How do you find freelance/contract gigs? //ycombinator What's the best way to write an API spec? //ycombinator #SHOW HN µBlock for Firefox //github comments→ Adopted a dog, had no clue what meds she needed, did some research//dogmedicationdb comments→ Lightbot: A simple programming game //lightbot comments→ tld-list.com – 818 Top Level Domains and Their Cheapest Registrars //tld-listcomments→ drive-db: A Google spreadsheet database //github comments→ #CLASSICS How Browsers Work //html5rocks comments→ Bret Victor on working at Apple //worrydream comments→ Holography without lasers: hand-drawn holograms //amasci comments→ #CODE Matter.js – A 2D rigid body physics engine for the web //brm comments→ What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8 Speed? //stackoverflowcomments→ Python Tips and Traps //airpair comments→ Run SSH and HTTP(S) on the same port //github comments→ The Silicon C++14 Web Framework //github comments→ Rbkit – a low-pause profiler for ruby //codemancers comments→ #LEARN Eigenvectors and eigenvalues explained visually //setosa comments→ An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra //betterexplained comments→ Path Tracing 3D Fractals //hvidtfeldts comments→ Alligator Eggs //worrydream comments→ #BOOKS Open Data Structures //opendatastructures comments→ Learn Unix the Hard Way //learnunixthehardway comments→ How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn Spreadsheet //openculturecomments→ #WATCHING SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time” //vine comments→ How rain gets its distinctive smell //washingtonpost comments→ Windows 10: The Next Chapter //microsoft comments→ Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent //youtube comments→ #WORKING Working at Netflix //brendangregg comments→ Why We Still Believe in Private Offices //stackoverflow comments→ #FUN So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative //imgur comments→ Chiptune //chiptune comments→ A Photographer Who Tinkers with Time //nautil comments→

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