Hacker News on 15 December 2016

• Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
• World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind
• German research institutions boycott Elsevier
• Godbolt: Enter C, get Assembly
• GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016
• The Talk
• Amazon Restaurants
• Scientists engineer mice genomes to lengthen their lifespans by 30 percent
• Pyret – A language exploring scripting and functional programming
• Advice on learning Python efficiently