Hacker Newsletter #231

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Issue #231 // December 19, 2014 // View in your browser

If you're waiting till the last minute and still need a gift or two, my friend Dan Lewis' book Now I Know More makes a great one. Have a merry week! –kale #SPONSOR The Art & Science of Real-Time Monitoring Librato is a complete platform for real-time operations analytics that accepts metrics from any source for real-time aggregation and transformation, anomaly detection, alerting, visual analysis and storage. Start using Librato today. Full-featured and free for 30 days. #FAVORITES “Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS” //imgur comments→ Farewell, Dr. Dobb's //drdobbs comments→ How You Know //paulgraham comments→ Good News You May Have Missed in 2014 //gatesnotes comments→ Fun with your friend's Facebook and Tinder sessions //robertheaton comments→ Einstein: The Negro Question (1946) //onbeing comments→ BPG Image Comparison //github comments→ Comments on the Sony Hack //schneier comments→ Post mortem of my one game a month //usebox comments→ 600613 (searching for numbers on Google) //bit-player comments→ Passive WiFi Tracking //edwardkeeble comments→ A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer //catonmat comments→ #SHOW HN Air Traffic Control Simulator //github comments→ For my final project I built a sous-vide immersion cooker //mit comments→ Wysihtml – Open-source rich text editor for web apps //github comments→ Map the Banks //mapthebanks comments→ Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X //ianyh comments→ Hosty – Image/Text self-hosting for minimalists in PHP //bitbucket comments→ What color is it? //scn9a comments→ #CLASSICS Today the Dow dropped 1000 points in about ten minutes. //stockcharts comments→ 10 years later, ‘Star Wars Kid’ speaks out //macleans comments→ Sum of 1 to 1000000000 in different programming languages //stackoverflow comments→ #CODE Android: I don't need your permission //danlew comments→ Mochi – Dynamically-typed language for functional and actor-style programming//github comments→ Fake2db – Generate fake but valid data-filled databases //github comments→ MIT 6.858 Computer Systems Security Final Projects //mit comments→ #DESIGN Redesigning SoundCloud //medium comments→ IBM Design Language //ibm comments→ Student Doodles from the Middle Ages //studio360 comments→ #LEARN How Products Are Made //madehow comments→ Are Christmas Lights in Series or Parallel? //wired comments→ Functional Geometry //github comments→ The Nth Fibonacci Number in O(log N) //kukuruku comments→ #BOOKS Programming and Programming Languages //brown comments→ Game Theory //stanford comments→ Hipster Business Models: A New Book by Priceonomics //priceonomics comments→ #WATCHING Underactuated Rotor for Simple Micro Air Vehicles //modlabupenn comments→ Defcon 22 videos and slides //defcon comments→ Millennium Falcon's SFX Demonstrated by Sound Designer Ben Burtt (1980)//youtube comments→ #WORKING The Rise of Men Who Don’t Work – And What They Do Instead //nytimes comments→ Working remotely for extroverts //hoppycow comments→ #FUN Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid //github comments→ A look inside Facebook's source code //sintheticlabs comments→ Moonjs: Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator //svtsim comments→

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