Hacker Newsletter #243

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Issue #243 // March 13, 2015 // View in your browser

Lots to read this week. Enjoy! –kale #SPONSOR Real-time Data from the Things You Care About. Transform your monitoring data into valuable insight at any layer of the stack. Collect, correlate, visualize, and alert on the metrics that are critical to the projects you engineer. Full-featured and free for 30 days. #FAVORITES Fired //zachholman comments→ Announcing Starfighter //kalzumeus comments→ Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL //olery comments→ The Hiring Post //sockpuppet comments→ The Mighty Named Pipe //vincebuffalo comments→ How Betty, Who Is 89, Gets Her News //github comments→ Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know: Reservoir Sampling //omniref comments→ The joyless world of data-driven startups //medium comments→ Motion sensing using the doppler effect //github comments→ The adventures of Norway's most radical billionaire //fortune comments→ #ASK HN Anxiety is limiting my enjoyment of a wonderful career. Can you relate?//ycombinator Idea Sunday //ycombinator What are the most useful Chrome extensions? //ycombinator #SHOW HN The new MacBook //apple comments→ 2015 Chromebook Pixel //google comments→ A website that deletes itself once indexed by Google //github comments→ JavaScript Acid Techno Machine //errozero comments→ Paid, an API for invoicing //paidapi comments→ #CODE Bidding farewell to Google Code //google-opensource comments→ RuboCop – A Ruby static code analyzer //batsov comments→ My Weird Ruby //awardwinningfjords comments→ Bish – Shell scripting with a modern feel //github comments→ #CLASSICS Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business //reddit comments→ Why does NASA use gold foil on equipment and gold-coated visors? //stackexchangecomments→ An USB plug that goes both ways //yankodesign comments→ #LEARN Apple gold //leancrew comments→ Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go //github comments→ I Was a Guard in the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment //reddit comments→ #BOOKS Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python //ipython comments→ Bill Watterson talks //washingtonpost comments→ Author’s Note 119: Shameless Blegging //hpmor comments→ #WATCHING/LISTENING How Air-Traffic Controllers Sound When They Have to Close the Airport //theatlanticcomments→ 10+ Years of Rails with DHH //thechangelog comments→ Hermit crabs line up by order of size to exchange shells //vimeo comments→ Working Effectively with Unit Tests //fogcreek comments→ #WORKING On Secretly Terrible Engineers //techcrunch comments→ This bakery will hire anyone //grist comments→ Find tech jobs that come with a visa //jobsintech comments→ #FUN USB Killer //kukuruku comments→ USB Typewriter //usbtypewriter comments→

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