Hacker News on 21 October 2014

• Firebase is Joining Google
• My Day Interviewing for the Service Economy Startup from Hell
• Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant
• I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (2011)
• India’s Downward Spiral
• Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking
• Magic Leap Secures $542M Led by Google
• Strengthening 2-Step Verification with Security Key
• Introducing Phoenix, Swift set free
• Troubling Arguments from the Government in Smith v. Obama