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The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition (www.elezea.com)

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On Patents (notch.tumblr.com)

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On perception of murderers (www.nytimes.com)

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The Two Egg Problem (www.datagenetics.com)

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Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away (everydaypanos.com)

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Linux 3.5 Kernel Released (kernelnewbies.org)

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Entitlement and Acquisition (mattgemmell.com)

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Fay -- A proper subset of Haskell that compiles to Javascript (chrisdone.com)

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Is Berlin the new home for tech start-up business? [video] (news.bbc.co.uk)

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Overfocus on tech skills could exclude the best candidates for jobs (radar.oreilly.com)

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Say 'Ahhh': A Simpler Way To Detect Parkinson's (www.npr.org)

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EFF: Americans may not realize the impacts of face recognition technology (www.networkworld.com)

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Why Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Is Hotter Than Apple's iPad (www.forbes.com)

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IAmA Patent Examiner on reddit (www.reddit.com)

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Kentucky teen faces charge for naming attackers in tweets (www.sfgate.com)

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How emacslisp packages make it rock (nic.ferrier.me.uk)

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MIT Economist: Here's How Copyright Laws Impoverish Wikipedia (www.theatlantic.com)

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Does Canada Even Need a Technology Sector? (www.techvibes.com)

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Code Rush - Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 (www.organizedwonder.com)

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Unlock Your Inner Rain Man by Electrically Zapping Your Brain (www.wired.com)

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Twitter-Owned Posterous Loses Databases, Offline for 2 Hours Plus (thenextweb.com)

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Art’s Sale Value? Zero. The Tax Bill? $29 Million. (www.nytimes.com)

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Characterizing people as non-linear 1st order components in software development (alistair.cockburn.us)

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Corporate hacking tool disguised as a power bar (www.wired.com)

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All of the available CSS color names (www.147colors.com)

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Getting Rich By The Numbers, A CrunchBased How-To (techcrunch.com)

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Addict Pride? (www.thefix.com)

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Immutable Persistent Data Structures in Common Lisp (blog.thezerobit.com)

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Freemium has run its course (gigaom.com)

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Reddit transforms into real-time news source for Aurora shooting (techcrunch.com)

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How science is rewriting basketball wisdom (www.msnbc.msn.com)

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Possible solution to PG's frighteningly ambitious idea for email overload (pranavdharma.com)

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Microsoft explains Windows 8 Store: Free 7-Day Trial, lower pay-cuts and more (www.the4cast.com)

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Why you shouldn’t write off Google+ just yet (www.washingtonpost.com)

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How to work with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in HTML 5 (mrbool.com)

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Users will take control (scripting.com)

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On the business of e-mail clients / Sparrow (gist.io)

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Neither Nerd nor Bro (shadow.cat)

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IOS 'in-app purchase' hack extended to include Mac App Store apps (www.forbes.com)

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Conscientiousness and Online Education (www.gwern.net)

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'Sparrow for Windows' was never an official Sparrow client, not weeks away (www.theverge.com)

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More on Sparrow and talent acquisitions (www.marco.org)

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Zsh 5.0 released (www.zsh.org)

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How can you help non-programmers understand the development process? (arstechnica.com)

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LessAccounting Turned Down Acquisition from “Low Moral Fiber” GoDaddy (techcrunch.com)

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Tumblr – The Harder They Fall (www.red-sweater.com)

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Reddited, lwn-ed and News.YComb-ed, on a 128MB VPS (www.lowendtalk.com)

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Search the web from Vim (hartley.io)

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Why are there almost no marine insects? (shkrobius.livejournal.com)

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Silicon Valley job growth roars back (venturebeat.com)

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Ask HN: Why is jQuery everywhere? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: HN Timeline - A cool way to read Hacker News Chronologically (hntimeline.com)

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Show HN: eLearning for teachers, not CIOs (http://getlexim.com)

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The Last Critic Turns 100 (www.tabletmag.com)

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How To Do Rollback Well (benjaminwootton.co.uk)

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Tell HN: Apple will reject any app containing a mic icon (news.ycombinator.com)

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Growl for Linux (mattn.github.com)

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Berlin's drive for tech start-ups [video] (news.bbc.co.uk)

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API Analytics - using Heroku, 3scale, GRAPE and Ruby (www.3scale.net)

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Ask HN: Best way to raise Family and Friends Round (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What's your favorite shell? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why Firefox Mobile OS Is An Actual Game Changer (tuts.pinehead.tv)

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From MIT to Stanford, college classes where a startup is the final exam (venturebeat.com)

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Apple’s App DiContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1scovery Lead On Google Shrinking. Publishers: Not to worry (techcrunch.com)

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Amanda Palmer Kickstarter Event (lefsetz.com)

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Ask HN: Can someone explain these programming terms for me? (news.ycombinator.com)

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JQuery 2.0 ends WinXP support - Good. (skyhighcode.blogspot.com)

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Peter Thiel says Google is not really a tech company (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Design for Good (and for profit) in NYC (news.ycombinator.com)

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