hackerNews

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Sparrow acquired by Google (sprw.me)

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Talent Acquisitions (www.marco.org)

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Lenovo CEO Gives His $3 Million Bonus to 10,000 Employees (www.dailytech.com)

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In a First, an Entire Organism Is Simulated by Software (www.nytimes.com)

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Pareidoloop: Faces generated at random (iobound.com)

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I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar (blogs.hbr.org)

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Quick Nexus 7 Comments By Linus Torvalds (plus.google.com)

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Firefox Beta 15 supports the new Opus audio format (hacks.mozilla.org)

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RethinkDigg.com (rethinkdigg.com)

150 points first seen 2012072103 last seen 2012072321 109 comments

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Men Walk On Moon - July 20th 1969 (www.nytimes.com)

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Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll (notch.net)

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Why You Won’t See Hard AR Anytime Soon (blogs.valvesoftware.com)

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How to say nothing in 500 words (advice on good writing) (web.archive.org)

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Pixate - beautiful native mobile apps with CSS (www.kickstarter.com)

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Phonegap 2.0 released (phonegap.com)

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A syntax comparison across many languages (rigaux.org)

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Apple: Help the best app developers not get "acquihired" (blog.selligy.com)

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Bold plan: opening 1,000 MHz of federal spectrum to WiFi-style sharing (arstechnica.com)

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2012 State of Clojure survey now open (cemerick.com)

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The Facebook Fallacy (www.technologyreview.com)

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Old school developers - achieving a lot with little (www.dodgycoder.net)

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Kaspersky Lab Defeats Patent Troll (www.securityweek.com)

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Video: Nexus 7 touchscreen defect (www.geek.com)

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Claude Monet at Work in His Garden, 1915 (www.openculture.com)

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JSTerm, Firefox JavaScript terminal (paulrouget.com)

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Secure multiparty Bitcoin anonymization (blog.ezyang.com)

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Valid Credit Card Number Generator for Testing Purposes (www.getcreditcardnumbers.com)

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U.S. Admits Surveillance Violated Constitution At Least Once (www.wired.com)

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Photo Sharing Service PicPlum (YC S11) Gets A Revamp. Mobile App & API Are Next (techcrunch.com)

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RubyMotion Tutorial: Write iOS Apps in Ruby (rubymotion-tutorial.com)

64 points first seen 2012072106 last seen 2012072300 11 comments

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The "Just look at it" hack for problem solving (heydave.org)

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Physicists solve Casimir conundrum (physicsworld.com)

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Node.js v0.9.0 is out (blog.nodejs.org)

58 points first seen 2012072106 last seen 2012072303 15 comments

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New Programming Jargon (www.codinghorror.com)

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Lessons learned from MITx’s prototype course (www.mit.edu)

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Probability distributions fitting with Python (glowingpython.blogspot.it)

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Writing good commit messages (github.com)

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The Many Sides of Jack Dorsey (www.wired.com)

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Why Google’s Sparrow Acquisition Just Ruined My Morning (pandodaily.com)

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The Instagram Effect: Causing Silicon Valley to fund the wrong companies? (gigaom.com)

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Kayak - a model of customer service (joshgoldstein.me)

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A first look at Dell's 'Sputnik' Ubuntu Linux developer laptop (www.zdnet.com)

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OVH's Maintenance SSH Keys compromised (www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr)

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Building and Managing Remote Teams (presentation) (gregario.us)

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Google Says Some Apple Inventions Are So Great They Ought to Be Shared (allthingsd.com)

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Dropbox Says No Intrusions Found, Investigation Continues (techcrunch.com)

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OSCON 2012 Proceedings: Speaker Slides and Video (www.oscon.com)

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Caching AJAX calls with local storage (fre.sc)

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StickyMojo: A contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery. (mojotech.github.com)

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Microsoft fixes 'big boobs' coding gaffe (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Is Google's Cash Pile a Sign of the End of Technological Progress? (reason.com)

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Fortress Project At Oracle Wrapping Up (blogs.oracle.com)

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Choosing an ORM strategy (lostechies.com)

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Acrylic team joins Facebook (blog.acrylicapps.com)

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Remember When Microsoft Almost Bought Yahoo For $50 Billion? (massivegreatness.com)

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STARTING NOW: Google Hangout w/ Brad Feld on the Broken Patent System (www.feld.com)

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Strong static typing made easier for web developers (blog.opalang.org)

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Pinterest Meets Spotify with New Music Social Network Wavo (betakit.com)

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Building an Insanely Great Team (delvenews.tumblr.com)

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HTML5 microdata: Creating a semantic breadcrumb for SEO (coderwall.com)

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Opinion: Meritocracy in Silicon Valley a worthy goal but not a reality (inamerica.blogs.cnn.com)

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Sparrow has been acquired by Google (sparrowmailapp.com)

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Judge: OK to use seized phones to impersonate you and entrap your friends (boingboing.net)

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Ask HN: side projects on resume? (news.ycombinator.com)

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New Behavior By Design Video (www.nirandfar.com)

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Ask HN: Is low-level programming dead? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Blooie - Intelligent Conversation Platform (bloo.ie)

7 points first seen 2012072100 last seen 2012072100 19 comments

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Old-Timer reaction to newbies (blog.stackoverflow.com)

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Show HN: Public sharing using doctape (news.ycombinator.com)

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3,006 Species Can’t Be Wrong (www.wired.com)

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SSL/TLS Deployment Best Practices (www.ssllabs.com)

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Startups: If you take a hiring test... (news.ycombinator.com)

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RasPiThon - Young programmers code live, raising funds for RasPi Foundation (raspithon.org.uk)

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Kim Dotcom Sings: Are You Going to Fix This Mr. President? (torrentfreak.com)

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Rapid API Prototyping with Heroku Postgres Dataclips (craigkerstiens.com)

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Carbon Transistors to Increase Speed, RAM of Smartphones and Tablets (techpp.com)

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How to attract a tech co-founder - Stephen Rapoport (stephenrapoport.posterous.com)

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So you call yourself a data scientist? (venturebeat.com)

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Camera-Transparent Plastic (www.schneier.com)

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Lenovo CEO distributes his $3 million bonus to lower level employees (www.theverge.com)

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The largest known prime in word form (prime.isthe.com)

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New Owners Take Digg Back To The Drawing Board, Relaunch Scheduled For August 1 (techupdates.com)

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Ninja - new HTML5 authoring tool by Motorola (github.com)

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Ask HN: How do I make better use of random browser checks? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Better JSONP-ifier turns any JSON API into a JSONP API quickly and safely (better-jsonpifier.herokuapp.com)

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I’m 17 and I’m decent. Just decent. (getonstage.tumblr.com)

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Show HN: aes.io - secure storage/collaboration with client-side JS crypto (https://aes.io)

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Fontello - Mash-up Font Icons (fontello.com)

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Nexus 7 Screen Washout and Ghosting a Potential Widespread Issue? (www.nexustablets.net)

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How Healthy Is Your Office? (blog.boundless.com)