Hacker News on 17 July 2014

• Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives
• Verizon's accidental mea culpa
• Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk
• Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs
• Django REST framework 3
• Large Round of Layoffs Expected at Microsoft
• The getrandom(2) system call was requested by the LibreSSL Portable developers
• Wayback Machine points to pro-Russia rebels in downing of MH17
• Don't link to line numbers in GitHub
• The History of Civilization