hackerNews

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Google plays Conway's Game of Life (www.google.com)

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Paid Vacation? That’s Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation. (www.fullcontact.com)

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Re-Designing the classic email client (www.vanschneider.com)

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The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents (flightfox.com)

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Show HN: Gridspot, 10x cheaper cloud compute using distributed computing (gridspot.com)

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Ouya: A New Kind of Video Game Console (www.kickstarter.com)

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New Dropbox Pro plans (blog.dropbox.com)

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Lamar Smith trying to quietly revive SOPA (boingboing.net)

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Lies, Damn Lies and LIBOR (londonbanker.blogspot.co.uk)

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Swombat, Entreporn: learning vs doing vs wasting time (swombat.com)

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Interview with Alan Kay (www.drdobbs.com)

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Penny Arcade Wants to Ditch Advertising Again (www.kickstarter.com)

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The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned (www.stevenpressfield.com)

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Twitter Bootstrap with themes, enhancements, and other goodies (ajkochanowicz.github.com)

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The Crazy World of Code (tilomitra.com)

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Drug made from toxic weed kills cancer (www.futurity.org)

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How we make 5000 row tables fast in Streak (blog.streak.com)

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City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products (mashable.com)

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"The whole Droplr platform runs on HTTPS" ...except content. (support.droplr.com)

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Unicode is, in 2012, still “cutting edge.” (golem.ph.utexas.edu)

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Parallel Universe open sources a novel in-memory data grid (blog.paralleluniverse.co)

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Scalatron: Learn Scala with a programming game (scalatron.github.com)

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Kim Dotcom Will Go to the US in Exchange for Legal Funds (torrentfreak.com)

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DC Uber Amendment Shelved (dcist.com)

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Getting Started with Android Development (alexlod.com)

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Coding Horror: The Book (www.codinghorror.com)

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PyPy - Python 3k Status #5 update (morepypy.blogspot.in)

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Installing Rails on a Mac Shouldn't Be As Hard As It Is (cabforward.com)

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Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8 Hours (www.theatlantic.com)

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One Year, Six Products: What I’ve Built and Learned (alexlod.com)

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Twitter says they fixed the Memcache calcification problem. Dormando disagrees. (github.com)

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Snowflake Server (martinfowler.com)

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Levels of aspiration (37signals.com)

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A Wikipedia Reader for iOS that visualizes the connections between articles (www.wikiwebapp.com)

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Wired Test-Drives Boeing’s New 787 Dreamliner (www.wired.com)

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A computer that learns the rules of a game by watching you play (www.extremetech.com)

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The Philippine startup scene: Asia’s best kept secret? (sgentrepreneurs.com)

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Linux code search (codesear.ch)

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Uber, Maker of Summon-a-Car App, Wins in Washington (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Dwolla Developers (developers.dwolla.com)

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When they have to change the rules (waxman.me)

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Ask PG/HN : Replacing Email - What problems/solution comes to your mind? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Apple's App Store Secrecy Hurts Indie Developers (www.readwriteweb.com)

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Valve to crowdsource distribution choices with Steam Greenlight (arstechnica.com)

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Could This Real-Time Editor Take Social Code to the Next Level? (thenextweb.com)

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SPDY for Rest of Us (laktek.com)

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Search Big Data in Five Minutes with Pig, Wonderdog and ElasticSearch (hortonworks.com)

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San Francisco turns its back on Apple after green registry pull-out (arstechnica.com)

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The most important lesson I ever learned (alexshye.wordpress.com)

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Climate was hotter in Roman, medieval times than now (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Motorola's Montage Javascript app framework (github.com)

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Twitter's Roof Deck (teleportd.com)

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Face.com closes its API after Facebook purchase (www.gyford.com)

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LinkedIn Announces 2012 Intern Hackday... via an easter egg terminal (hackday.linkedin.com)

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What To Do If Prosecuted For Sharing Culture: STFU (falkvinge.net)

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RIM Customers Working On Contingency Plans (www.bloomberg.com)

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How We Track Our App Reviews, And Why You Should Too (discovr.info)

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Is it unethical to quit just before a project? (workplace.stackexchange.com)

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Lessons learned from our recent switch to GitHub Enterprise (dev.hubspot.com)

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Plop: Low-overhead profiling for Python (tech.dropbox.com)

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Facts about global warming that you should keep for yourself (lemire.me)

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Canvas Experiment with Code: Particles Web Matrix (cssdeck.com)

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Excuses (madebyloren.com)

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A Massive NodeConf Recap (w/ isaacs, dshaw, visnup, substack, and mikeal) (www.nodeup.com)

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Turbulenz HTML5 gaming platform and engine released free of charge to developers (http://biz.turbulenz.com)

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Can Ivy leaguers groomed for success navigate the failure-friendly tech economy? (betabeat.com)

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Uber’s pressure works, as DC councilmember drops the Minimum Fare plan (thenextweb.com)

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Dereferencing NULL Pointer, without a Seg Fault (blog.8thlight.com)

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WD's Red is the first line of NAS-specific hard drives (www.geek.com)

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Ask HN: What type of challenges do you like to code for fun? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Firefox: Can this Web browser be saved? (www.zdnet.com)

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Ask HN: Can anyone who presented to Google Ventures share their experience? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: HTML5 Ping-Pong Game (cssdeck.com)

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Oracle Acquires Involver (www.oracle.com)

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Life is Not Always An Engineering Problem. (lexilewtan.tumblr.com)

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From "Zero to Civic" in 5 Minutes (codeforamerica.org)

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Show HN: Auto-post your GitHub activity to Twitter (http://tweethub.herokuapp.com)

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Learn X The Hard Way (gitorious.org)

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Formspring: Change Your Password (blog.formspring.me)

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Steve Ballmer: We won't be out-innovated by Apple anymore (www.networkworld.com)

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I ruined my credit. Will VCs count this against me? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Much Is Enough? : A Formula for FU Money (www.nileshtrivedi.com)

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Behind the Scenes: The Hardware that Powers Basecamp, Campfire and Highrise (37signals.com)

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Introducing Drag and Drop Uploading (hello.corkboard.me)

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The Caves of Clojure part 3.2: World Smoothing (stevelosh.com)

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Measuring An Employee's Worth? Consider Influence (www.fastcompany.com)

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Shopify Announces Build-A-Business Competition (www.shopify.com)

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Shopify's 1m competition (www.shopify.com)

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PayPal Bans Major File-Hosting Services Over Piracy Concerns (torrentfreak.com)

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Ask HN: Best payment processor for marketplace webapp (news.ycombinator.com)

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Heroku Toolbelt is also for Linux (toolbelt.heroku.com)

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Nodejitsu is now in public beta (blog.nodejitsu.com)

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13 JavaScript Performance Tips (www.jonefox.com)

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LA Startups: I want to work for you for free (news.ycombinator.com)

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Cautionary Tale for Entrepreneurs: Hacked & Database Whacked, Thruzt Interview (www.networkworld.com)

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Get on the darknet/CJDNS in under 10 minutes with zero technical background (www.reddit.com)

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How programming lets me know I'm getting older (shrik.theswamp.in)

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UpCounsel's Legal Marketplace Finds The Right Lawyer for the Job (betakit.com)

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Ask HN: What do I do with my growing online game (developer went AWOL) (news.ycombinator.com)

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GitHub is Eating the World (erickerr.com)

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Path's Dave Morin on the future of design (venturebeat.com)

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Ask HN: What is the problem you face everyday and can't find a solutions 4 yet? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Increasing retention for social games (teejm.com)

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The poetry of Steve Ballmer (www.asymco.com)

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Twitter open sourced twemcache, its memcached fork (engineering.twitter.com)

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Tao: Cambridge U. Press Launches Open-Access Journal "Forum of Mathematics" (terrytao.wordpress.com)

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Learning to Program (lenz.unl.edu)

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DotCloud - Django Python Tutorial (docs.dotcloud.com)

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What has Microsoft done for Skype? You’d be surprised (venturebeat.com)

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Conference Organizers: Give a 3G sim (news.ycombinator.com)

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$99 Ouya wants to bust down console gaming’s walled gardens (arstechnica.com)

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How Morocco Dodged The Arab Spring (www.nybooks.com)

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Firefox dev claims "everybody hates Firefox updates" (www.neowin.net)

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Show HN: Ycommentator - HN front page with Slashdot-like inline comments (http://news.ycommentator.com)

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How to be more creative by using a memory palace (ninjasandrobots.com)

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Scientists have discovered what makes migration possible (www.deathandtaxesmag.com)

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How to find a good employer (news.ycombinator.com)

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Steve Jobs NeXT presentation, 1990 (www.youtube.com)

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Ruby developer? Grab your speedo. This startup wants to send you to Brazil (code.craftcoffee.com)

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Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in Javascript (github.com)

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Making Online Notarization Legal (blog.signnow.com)

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A reality series intrudes on Silicon Valley, and finds it cringing (gadgets.ndtv.com)

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Why Binge-Watching Is Bad (blog.parsely.com)

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Google plays Game of Life (www.google.com)

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Kicksend for iPhone Now Lets You Print to Walgreens (blog.kicksend.com)

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Be Honest About The Problem You Want To Solve (nickcrocker.com)

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Asia Now Has 1 Billion Web Users, And This is What They Do Online (www.techinasia.com)

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Relativistic Baseball (whatif.xkcd.com)

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Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla (en.wikipedia.org)

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On Resilience in Automated Systems, Failures and the Human Factor (www.paperplanes.de)

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Re-imagining life at night (blog.doingtonight.com)

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Second month freelancing (alanhollis.com)

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Dark silicon and the end of multicore scaling (delivery.acm.org)

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Tunes / Demo 5 (jamful.com)

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What Predicts Achievement Better Than Intelligence, Grades Or Personality (www.businessinsider.com)

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US Law Enforcement Sought Mobile User Data More Than 1.3 Million Times in 2011 (www.pcworld.com)

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IRC Driven Development II (3scale.github.com)

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WHY are YOU doing a startup? (blog.jasonhanley.com)

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Google Does Not Have Innovator's Dilemma (cloudcomputing.blogspot.ca)