hackerNews

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Advice for Marissa Mayer from an ex-Yahoo (sriramk.com)

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Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US citizen (www.networkworld.com)

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Google+ is now larger than LinkedIn (plus.google.com)

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Miles Davis' reactions to other bands in a blind listening test (www.noisemademedoit.com)

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The Latest Findings On Intelligence (www.danielwillingham.com)

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GIT is the new FTP (coderwall.com)

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Dear Marissa Mayer...please make Flickr awesome again (dearmarissamayer.com)

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How I converted a software thief into a customer (www.blurity.com)

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Lack of semicolons causes Twitter to crash in Opera (my.opera.com)

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Show HN: Scoutzie, 444 best mobile designers for hire. (www.scoutzie.com)

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NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate (www.wired.com)

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Operating System Development (wiki.osdev.org)

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Laser-powered bionic eye gives vision to the blind (www.extremetech.com)

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Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything (blog.heroku.com)

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R.I.P. Donald J. Sobol, Encyclopedia Brown Author, 1924-2012 (www.wired.com)

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Prime number patterns visualization with D3.js (www.jasondavies.com)

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Autodesk Buys Socialcam for $60M (allthingsd.com)

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Torchlight art assets stolen, used in iOS game Armed Heroes (www.geek.com)

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3

The Value of Time (jackg.org)

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Show HN: Block yourself from the Internet until you write or code each day (www.blockr.me)

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How Pivotal Labs use Tmux for remote pair programming (pivotallabs.com)

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Help this man decipher his cool creative code. (dl.dropbox.com)

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Here's life after a Michael Arrington retweet on Twitter. (cliffdailey.posterous.com)

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Raspberry Pi production grows, $35 Linux computer now available in bulk (arstechnica.com)

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Dotcom judge quits the case (www.nzherald.co.nz)

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RedPhone is now Open Source (www.whispersys.com)

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PayPal Acquires card.io (www.thepaypalblog.com)

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Mozilla Firefox 14.01 release notes... (www.mozilla.org)

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Learning to Love JavaScript - great video of a Google presentation. (www.google.com)

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Finding the mystery man behind FunnyJunk (arstechnica.com)

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Copyright Holders Punish Themselves With Crazy DMCA Takedowns (torrentfreak.com)

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Top Grossing Finance Mobile App Generates Barely $80,000 Annually (www.techvibes.com)

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Dropbox users' email addresses targeted by spam (forums.dropbox.com)

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Rich Hickey on Functors in C++ (1994) (www.tutok.sk)

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11 hrs of work today produces as much as 40 hrs in 1950 (groups.csail.mit.edu)

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Mobile Video Sharing App Socialcam (YC W12) Acquired By Autodesk For $60 Million (techcrunch.com)

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Why use Moose? A PostgreSQL perspective. (ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com)

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European Union backs open access of research findings (blogs.nature.com)

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TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox (blog.tapengage.com)

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Six Impossible Problems (blog.artillerygames.com)

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Meetings.io (YC W11) - now enables embedding rooms on any site. (blog.meetings.io)

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Already Valued at $4B, China’s Xiaomi Has Declared War on Apple (pandodaily.com)

49 points first seen 2012071806 last seen 2012071821 53 comments

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Beware the NDA (vcexperts.com)

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Designing an effective pricing table (www.red-team-design.com)

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Data Jujitsu: The Art of Turning Data into Product by DJ Patil (oreilly.com)

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App.net project update #1 (daltoncaldwell.com)

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Show HN: Share your screen from within Gmail with Screenleap browser extension (www.screenleap.com)

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UIUC Prof Indy Gupta: Indian vs. US Education, Distributed Systems at Google (rnd.io)

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U.S. Laboratory Breaks Laser Record (www.npr.org)

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Technique gets clear images from light reflected off blank paper (arstechnica.com)

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Tagging is broken (blog.kippt.com)

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Google execs: fight Mexico drug cartels with technology (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Google’s Project Glass will lock down when it senses theft, patent shows (venturebeat.com)

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Show HN: Jeff Atwood's "Effective Programming" on Hyperink's new Crowd Reader (www.hyperink.com)

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Here’s to the PHP Misfits (melvinmt.com)

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Stochastic, Nerdtastic Restaurant Bill Splitting (messymatters.com)

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Sony develops thermal sheet as good as paste for CPU cooling (www.geek.com)

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Coursera adds first international university partners, raises additional $6M (gigaom.com)

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Show HN: Pibow (a case for your Raspberry Pi) (pibow.com)

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Guido van Rossum talks about Python 3, tomorrow, University of Amsterdam (uvaguido.eventbrite.com)

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At 36.7M Frames Per Second, STEAM Camera Is A Powerful Cancer-Detecting Machine (techli.com)

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I will puke if I hear array search interview question again (www.webapplog.com)

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How to write a self-printing program (igoro.com)

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Rotate database credentials on Heroku Postgres (postgres.heroku.com)

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Building data science teams (radar.oreilly.com)

17 points first seen 2012071812 last seen 2012071900 0 comments

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Skype goes open source: Flawless victory (joindiaspora.com)

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How to succeed on Kickstarter (blog.betable.com)

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Thoughts on the Online Extortion Business of Mugshots (blog.safeshepherd.com)

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Facebook is blocking posts to the Eyetap Mcdonalds incident story (news.ycombinator.com)

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Interesting hacks from Photo Hack Day 3-San Francisco. (blog.filepicker.io)

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Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb (www.npr.org)

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Investigative work by Redditor shows power of Twitter (www.reddit.com)

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Why Wordpress is the framework of the future (speakerdeck.com)

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PHP's brighter future? On the "PHP the Right Way" project (blog.phpfog.com)

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The real reason Marissa Mayer left Google (venturebeat.com)

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SendHub (YC W12) hits 1M text messages (blog.sendhub.com)

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Procedural Textures in HTML5 Canvas (asserttrue.blogspot.ca)

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Learning IE8 (www.learningie8.com)

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Virool (YC S12) Provides An Easy Way For Video Producers To Boost Their Views (techcrunch.com)

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Adventures in App Creation - PledgeWall and Parse (www.gaiagps.com)

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Multi-task like a boss: MP3s of web articles while you drive (http://soundgecko.com)

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The TSA are operating in the UK 'for the Olympics' (news.sky.com)

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Tibet's Golden "Worm" (ngm.nationalgeographic.com)

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Offer HN: Free Tax Help From a Pro. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Slashdot Founder CmdrTaco doing AMA on Reddit (www.reddit.com)

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MetaLab: Design Capital (metalabdesign.com)

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Springboard Launches new Mobile Accelerator in London (www.kernelmag.com)

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In-Q-Tel: The CIA's Tax-Funded Player In Silicon Valley (www.npr.org)

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ShowHN: Hacker Tourist - opinionated ecommerce for photographers (hackertourist.com)

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Show HN: Built a web-based competitor to Grindr. Would love tips and advice (http://www.fantsy.me)

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HTML5 Lessons from LinkedIn using Node.js (www.eventnook.com)

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Ask HN: Using C or C++ for parallel Android and iOS dev. (news.ycombinator.com)

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'Don't forget to use your semicolons' - Douglas Crockford (plus.google.com)

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The Clovis Weren’t the First Americans (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

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How Things Work: A free online course from University of Virginia (www.coursera.org)

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Schemaverse MMO Postgres game - ruby wrapper on Heroku (www.functionalimperative.com)

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Chaos Versus Complexity (www.synthesisips.net)

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Apple Wins Patent iPhone and GUI for Displaying Electronic Lists & Documents (www.patentlyapple.com)

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The untold story behind Kickstarter stats: I was wrong (venturebeat.com)

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Economics Education and Greed (amle.aom.org)

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Thiel-Schmidt Brawl (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

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Beauty and Death: A World-Famous Icon’s Dark Side (www.berfrois.com)

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Ask HN: AI clubs, meetups or willing to meet in London (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to undo Unity (www.osnews.com)

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Wealth Inequality and the Human API (situnayake.tumblr.com)

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Lambda Calculus, detailed history (D Scott)[PDF, 30pgs] (turing100.acm.org)

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Ask HN: How much would you price a template-based simple lead-gen website? (news.ycombinator.com)

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My AngelPad Experience - Constantly Learning (bretthard.in)

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Is New York’s Startup Scene a ‘One-Trick Pony’? (betabeat.com)

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"I had three requirements for seeking a great job; All glory, Top pay, No work." (www.legacy.com)

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SocialCam's sale deflates social video sector (pandodaily.com)

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Firefox 14 Encrypts Google Searches (blog.mozilla.org)

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Glossi’s Social Megafeed Takes on RebelMouse, Vizify (pandodaily.com)

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How NFC Tech Stole the Show at a New York Event (mashable.com)

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Pythonista - an iPad editor and interactive Python prompt (omz-software.com)

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Should C# compiler warn on null dereference? (blogs.msdn.com)

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Webfaction fail. over. Failover setup with webfaction. | Gingerlime (blog.gingerlime.com)

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Microsoft tweaks Skype to facilitate wiretapping (www.extremetech.com)

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81

An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory (www.fdi.ucm.es)

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Ask HN: How do you deploy a simple web project? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Better Interviews (sachagreif.com)

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Systems Administration for Cyborgs (cyborginstitute.org)

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Move Over WordPress, There's A New CMS In Town (www.forbes.com)

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Heroku Labs: dot-profile - set your dyno startup environment (devcenter.heroku.com)

4 points first seen 2012071806 last seen 2012071806 0 comments

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AppFog OpenStack Birthday Contest (openstack.appfog.com)

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0

Move over, Flame: New Messiah-themed malware targets Iran, Israel (arstechnica.com)

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PayPal Acquires Card.io (www.reuters.com)

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The Closing Bell (elasticsales.com)

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0

Can You Please Help With a Patent Demand Survey? (www.groklaw.net)

4 points first seen 2012071809 last seen 2012071809 0 comments

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Ask HN: How do I contact a domain name owner if the WHOIS says little? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Rights Group Fined For Not Paying Artist For Anti-Piracy Ad (torrentfreak.com)

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Data Monday: Top Three Passwords (www.lukew.com)

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7-way Venn (www.informationisbeautiful.net)

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Announcing Google Cloud Messaging for Android (developers.google.com)

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Graphene transistors in high-performance demonstration (www.bbc.co.uk)

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XBOX Clone made in Unity/WEBGL + iPhone/Android Controllers (playbrassmonkey.com)

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Show HN: Our 5th app idea:Persona-virtual diary of your stories,thoughts,opinion (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Why aren't users told when their HN accounts turn 'dead' (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to Break Into Security, Schneier Edition (krebsonsecurity.com)

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CA cities eye plan to seize mortgages (news.yahoo.com)