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Sal Khan responds to critic (www.washingtonpost.com)

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How to add a new syntactic feature to PHP (nikic.github.com)

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A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community (www.reddit.com)

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Dave Winer: An open Twitter-like ecosystem (scripting.com)

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Government: we can freeze Mega assets even if case is dismissed (arstechnica.com)

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A Different Road To Work, Bypassing College Dreams (www.npr.org)

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How well does Khan Academy teach? (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee Stars in Olympic Opening Ceremony (www.zdnet.com)

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Why isn't iTunes shuffle random? (apple.stackexchange.com)

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Sparrow made downloadable to conform to LGPL (sprw.me)

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NBCOlympics’ Opening Ceremony Tape Delay: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid (techcrunch.com)

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Apple Is Said to Discuss an Investment in Twitter (www.nytimes.com)

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US Census API now available (www.census.gov)

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NSA director finally greets Defcon hackers (news.cnet.com)

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Bezos pledges $2.6M to support same sex marriage (mashable.com)

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Samsung Outsells iPhone, Breaks Shipping Records (mashable.com)

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An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem (yudkowsky.net)

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Move Over Meteor: Derby Is The Other High Speed Node.js Framework In Town (techcrunch.com)

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Virtual Incubator to All (pandodaily.com)

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Fogus leaves Relevance and Clojure/core (blog.fogus.me)

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IOS Image Tricks (www.dwellable.com)

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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (www.brainpickings.org)

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Show HN: multi-perspective StarCraft 2 web replays (http://ggreplayz.com)

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Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA “Ineffective Tool” Against Music Piracy (torrentfreak.com)

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PayDragon (YC S11) raises $1.35M so hungry people can skip lines (pandodaily.com)

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AppFog Pricing Released (console.appfog.com)

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Microsoft’s Lost Decade (m.vanityfair.com)

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Beyond Meat: Fake Meat So Good It Will Freak You Out (www.slate.com)

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Why Google makes the perfect ISP (www.extremetech.com)

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Patent troll says it owns GPS, sues Foursquare (gigaom.com)

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Transparent plug-in hybrid retrofit for any car (mtsunews.com)

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Backbone.js: Hacker's Guide Part 2 (Backbone.Collection) (dailyjs.com)

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It's SysAdmin Appreciation Day (sysadminday.com)

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The Word Count Problem (blog.peterdonis.com)

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OnLive comes to Ouya, Controller Makes Full Frontal Debut (www.kickstarter.com)

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Command line tools for the novice (andymatthews.net)

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Things I’m loving about derbyjs (micknelson.wordpress.com)

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Journey Through The JavaScript MVC Jungle (coding.smashingmagazine.com)

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FundersClub: An online platform for making angel investments (thefundersclub.com)

58 points first seen 2012072815 last seen 2012072921 13 comments

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The Linux Talent Draft is On (www.linux.com)

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German Student Defies Google Cease-n-Desist w/ 1M Sigs (www.readwriteweb.com)

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Learn Meteor Fundamentals and Best Practices (andrewscala.com)

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Red Hat petitions the Supreme Court of America to end software patents [pdf] (www.groklaw.net)

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As Social Sites’ Shares Fall, Some Hear Echo of 2000 (www.nytimes.com)

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API Documentation: Where to Begin (www.braintreepayments.com)

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Getting out of your comfort zone with Node.js (blog.count.ly)

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15

A Day without Programming (blog.filepicker.io)

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Vayable (YC S12) goes global to explore the world’s nooks and crannies (venturebeat.com)

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Zuckerberg's Big Facebook Mistake (www.forbes.com)

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Bottlenose, the now engine (bottlenose.com)

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FB nearly cut in half since IPO (22.28 current low) (www.google.com)

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What Caffeine Really Does to Your Brain (www.forbes.com)

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Mathematicians Encrypt Images Using Mathematics of Sudoku (www.technologyreview.com)

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Friend builds app to help find climbers lost in Peru (tomnod.com)

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Keeping multiple programming languages straight — The Endeavour (www.johndcook.com)

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Aussie cops: Silk Road TOR anonymity 'not guaranteed' (www.cso.com.au)

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Swiftype (YC W12) site search added to Mixergy (mixergy.com)

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First screenshots of App.net (dribbble.com)

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The Two Types of Companies in Silicon Valley (www.forbes.com)

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How Gödel Saved Mark Changizi from Physics (io9.com)

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The Twitter Rebellion: App.net Builds a Hacker's Alternative (www.readwriteweb.com)

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DOJ Argues It Can Hold Megaupload's Assets Regardless of Potential Dismissal (www.techdirt.com)

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OpenStates.org in public beta (openstates.org)

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Questions to Ask at Google-Fiber Announcement (precursorblog.com)

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The Case vs Ad-Supported Platforms (www.digiday.com)

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Microsoft's cheapest Surface tablet won't cost $1K after all (news.cnet.com)

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Meanwhile RSS is some powerful shit (scripting.com)

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Automatic Redis Failover (engineering.spreecast.com)

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Martin Fowler: Snowflake Servers (server.dzone.com)

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Responsive Design Bookmarklet (http://responsive.victorcoulon.fr)

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Hipmob now live for iPhone. Live support chat for your iPhone app users. (hipmob.tumblr.com)

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Really, product only matters? (kamil.rudnicki.info)

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Languages to master (michaelochurch.wordpress.com)

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Attention: The social-web IPO window is now closed. (gigaom.com)

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62

Experience building open src projects crowdfunding site in Clojure (from Django) (groups.google.com)

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Ask HN: (how) do you early reject candidates during onsite interviews? (news.ycombinator.com)

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40 Stunning iOS App Icons for Design Inspiration (spyrestudios.com)

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Shield, A Security-Minded PHP Microframework (github.com)

9 points first seen 2012072800 last seen 2012072800 8 comments

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Twitter hit by Blackhole malware attack (nakedsecurity.sophos.com)

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Can Creativity be Automated? (www.technologyreview.com)

9 points first seen 2012072815 last seen 2012072900 0 comments

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Plagiarism Haunts Europe (www.bbc.co.uk)

9 points first seen 2012072821 last seen 2012072903 5 comments

0

The best damn Olympic infographic ever (gosquared.com)

8 points first seen 2012072800 last seen 2012072800 0 comments

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Google Drive Gets a Jump on Dropbox (pandodaily.com)

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0

Slime Molds solve the travelling salesman problem (www.youtube.com)

8 points first seen 2012072815 last seen 2012072815 2 comments

0

Ask HN: Startup CEO Salary (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2012072800 last seen 2012072800 5 comments

68

Tesla Motors Inc. Stock Downgraded (TSLA) (www.thestreet.com)

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Ask HN: Mathematicians' jobs -- What am I missing? (news.ycombinator.com)

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81

This Cute Chat Site Could Save Your Life And Help Overthrow Your Government (www.wired.com)

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88

Hackable Humans Are The Future? (techcrunch.com)

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0

The Inside Story On Why Kevin Rose Never Had A Big Hit (www.businessinsider.com)

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Attack of the Drones (www.aljazeera.com)

7 points first seen 2012072815 last seen 2012072900 0 comments

0

BlackBerry invents something really cool (www.wimp.com)

7 points first seen 2012072815 last seen 2012072815 0 comments

60

Simulating Physics with Computers - Richard P. Feynman [1981] (www.cs.berkeley.edu)

7 points first seen 2012072818 last seen 2012072900 0 comments

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Apple Buys Samsung’s Android Security Partner AuthenTec For $365M (techcrunch.com)

6 points first seen 2012072800 last seen 2012072803 3 comments

83

Ask HN: Just learnt some python(Udacity CS101). Where to go from here? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012072800 last seen 2012072803 2 comments

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Does Windows 8 succeed as a true tablet operating system? (arstechnica.com)

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Conversocial is looking for Python Developers (roundabout.io)

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83

Add FaceTime features to any iOS app, all without learning Objective-C (venturebeat.com)

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How We Build CMS-Free Websites (developmentseed.org)

6 points first seen 2012072806 last seen 2012080721 3 comments

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A warning about cliff vesting (kevin.is)

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0

Ask HN: What do you guys use to check browser compatibility (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Anyone looking for a developer partner? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to bust your Rails etag cache on deployment. (ninjasandrobots.com)

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86

Ask HN: Why is Google tiptoeing around the Olympics? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Impact-activated solidification of dense suspensions via dynamic jamming fronts (www.nature.com)

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Linux.conf.au 2013 has attracted a record number of proposals for talks (www.itwire.com)

4 points first seen 2012072800 last seen 2012072803 0 comments

0

Six languages to master (michaelochurch.wordpress.com)

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0

3taps is Raring to Fight Craigslist Over Data Access (allthingsd.com)

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0

Dammed Tibet: Extracting Wealth and Power from the World's Biggest Water Tank (ieet.org)

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Far from Silicon Valley, tech industry finds an oracle (www.msnbc.msn.com)

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RubyMotion: Ruby In Your Pocket: Laurent Sansonetti at RuLu 2012 (news.ycombinator.com)

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Marketing Yourself as a Programmer (www.codeofhonor.com)

4 points first seen 2012072815 last seen 2012101306 0 comments

0

Show HN: Cascade, An Image Viewer for Any URL (usecascade.com)

4 points first seen 2012072815 last seen 2012072815 0 comments

66

The Agile Consulting Magic Act (tiny-giant-books.com)

3 points first seen 2012072800 last seen 2012072803 0 comments

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Stay Up to Date - Basic Web App Security Pt 9 (coffeeonthekeyboard.com)

3 points first seen 2012072800 last seen 2012072803 0 comments

0

Facebook Posts Quarterly Loss (marketday.nbcnews.com)

3 points first seen 2012072800 last seen 2012072800 2 comments

0

Ask HN: Where do young working professionals hang out? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012072800 last seen 2012072800 0 comments

0

Study: The Top Words Used In Mobile App Titles On iOS (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2012072800 last seen 2012072800 0 comments

0

Android is built for piracy…if you ignore the facts (venturebeat.com)

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0

From One Ruby Dev to Another: Come Join Us (labs.thredup.com)