hackerNews

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Matasano Security acquired for £8.4m ($13m) - Congrats tptacek (www.nccgroup.com)

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Adobe’s first open source font family (blogs.adobe.com)

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The No Excuse List (The Best Place On The Web To Learn Anything) (www.noexcuselist.com)

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Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously (gigaom.com)

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Elon Musk of SpaceX: The Goal is Mars (www.latimes.com)

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Functional programming Books Review/Reading List (alexott.net)

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Fasting & Programming (www.mahdiyusuf.com)

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The U.S. Senate has blocked the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. (www.zdnet.com)

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Microsoft abandon Metro name due to legal challenge (www.loopinsight.com)

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Open source cross-platform FPS Warsow hits 1.0 after 7 years (www.warsow.net)

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MySQL now includes memcached, and a plugin that allows fast NoSQL-style access (dev.mysql.com)

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Ask PG: Is RFS3 "Things built on Twitter" still sensible to prioritise? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Mountain Lion seems to have addressed the memory management issues in OS X (workstuff.tumblr.com)

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400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year (www.bgr.com)

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Is it time for an OpenGL revolution? (www.extremetech.com)

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Facebook has more than 83 million 'fake' users (www.bbc.com)

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We are Colorblind (wearecolorblind.com)

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1 Bitcoin Worth 10 USD (bitcoincharts.com)

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Charlie Stross on long-term implications of Moore's Law and Koomey's law (www.antipope.org)

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Facebook Loses 3 More Executives (Stock Low) (venturebeat.com)

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Why Programmers Are Bad at Estimating Time (java.dzone.com)

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LuaJIT maintainer's take on Apple/Clang (osdir.com)

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Heroku announces support for 17 new Postgres extensions (postgres.heroku.com)

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HP releases more Open webOS code, including System Manager and core apps (arstechnica.com)

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Pixel art and the art of preserving pixel size (mrgan.tumblr.com)

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Authy (YC W12) launches two-factor auth as a service (techcrunch.com)

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Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Streaming" numbers (docs.google.com)

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Draconian ‘Wi-Fi police' stalk Olympic Games (www.theage.com.au)

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Hacker Dojo auctions its members to raise funds (www.hackerdojo.com)

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Show HN: Makr.io, a creative and collaborative way to play with images (https://makr.io)

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Daring Adventures with Passive Income (www.patrick-wied.at)

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RIM agrees to hand over its encryption keys to India (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

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Knight Capital Says Trading Glitch Cost It $440 Million (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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YC-Backed VoiceGem Brings Communication Back To The Future (techcrunch.com)

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“Fetch as Googlebot” tool helps to debug hacked sites (www.mattcutts.com)

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The inconsistencies in your site's color palette (coderwall.com)

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The College-Cost Calamity (www.economist.com)

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Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles (plus.google.com)

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FiveStars (YC W11) Picks Up $14 Million to Challenge the Loyalty Punch Card (allthingsd.com)

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Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS (http://www.hubchilla.com)

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Legit: Git Workflow for Humans (www.git-legit.org)

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Researcher says he can see cycles in history. Predicts wave of violence in 2020 (www.nature.com)

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We quit our jobs, went to Kickstarter and here we are: Turf Geography Club (thenextweb.com)

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Give your Commodore 64 new life with an SD card reader (stevehanov.ca)

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India's street children bank on the future (www.france24.com)

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Sean Parker's Airtime deflates (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Microsoft demos muscle-computer interface, air Guitar Hero now a reality (www.pcgerms.com)

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Why thread-based application parallelism is trumped in the multicore era (www.ibm.com)

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Amazon launches Prime Instant Video (http://amazon.com)

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Get Started Writing iOS Apps With RubyMotion (mobile.smashingmagazine.com)

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Pixate promises app UI production in pure CSS (webdev360.com)

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E la Carte (YC S10) to Deploy Restaurant Tablets in 113 Airports Nationwide (pandodaily.com)

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How Coffee Meetings Power Silicon Valley (www.jasonshen.com)

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Tell Your Boss Anything (www.tellyourbossanything.com)

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Unsupervised Billboard Detection (tech.adstruc.com)

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How everyone benefits from Verizon’s FCC-mandated free tethering (www.extremetech.com)

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Mac Apps with Retina-Display Support (blog.avneeshkohli.com)

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How AT&T Integrated Olympic Results Into Its Ads So Darn Fast (www.fastcocreate.com)

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Introducing Facebook Stories: "Remembering" (www.facebookstories.com)

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Why Twitter’s Co-Founders Are Betting Big On A Vegan Meat Startup (www.fastcoexist.com)

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SocketStream 0.3 released (groups.google.com)

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Government Cutbacks Separate This Expansion From Others (blogs.wsj.com)

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Marc Andreessen Steps Down From Dalton Caldwell’s Mixed Media Labs Board (allthingsd.com)

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The Decade-Long Campaign to Lock Down Your Computer (feeds.dashes.com)

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Commercial blue-sky research lives on at IBM’s Watson center (arstechnica.com)

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REST APIs with Symfony2: The Right Way (williamdurand.fr)

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Not perfect but it's time to integrate Web Notifications (blog.pragmatic.ly)

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PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0 Early Access Program started (blog.jetbrains.com)

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OneSec - A revolution in self-expression (www.indiegogo.com)

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Linux lessons for Hadoop doubters (www.theregister.co.uk)

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KDE 4.9 already available for Ubuntu (www.thepowerbase.com)

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Using Foursquare to Detect Tax Evasion / Money Laundering (diegobasch.com)

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Dear Facebook, It Could Really Be This Simple (techcrunch.com)

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Dribbble’s Position on Spec Work (blog.dribbble.com)

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Blindly speculating on Twitter’s future (www.marco.org)

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Olympics WiFi Police (twitter.com)

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QuicklyChat introduces multi-user video walkie-talkie and more (blog.quicklychat.com)

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The Service Recovery Paradox (blog.krit.com)

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Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites - 3 months later (www.millionshort.com)

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Internet security bill supporters scramble to pass it before Congress recesses (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Parse partners with interactive agencies for mobile development (blog.parse.com)

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Dalton’s point (iamwilchung.wordpress.com)

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Javathcript - Javascript with a lisp (kybernetikos.github.com)

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Poetics by Aristotle (classics.mit.edu)

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Show HN: Planboard - Intuitive lesson planning for teachers (www.planboardapp.com)

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California Says Tax Revenue ‘at Risk’ From Facebook Drop (www.businessweek.com)

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The solar system and most valuable asteroids modeled in 3d canvas/webgl (www.asterank.com)

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Show HN: My first screencast. 2 hours spent for every minute of video (customer.io)

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Patterns and Anti-Patterns in Code Comments (ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com)

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6 months with Clojure (olabini.com)

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BRANDiD - sweet onboarding process (www.getbrandid.com)

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Amazing Apple Turnaround: Allows book with Amazon links (hollylisle.com)

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Hacker Monthly #27 is out (hackermonthly.com)

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Effectively Collecting and Acting on Feedback (app.bo)

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LinkedIn Q2 earnings beat the street (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: Need feedback on new website/concept (news.ycombinator.com)

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Greasy Fingers and Reading (jsoncorwin.tumblr.com)

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XScreenSaver for iOS now available in the App Store (www.jwz.org)

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More than 150,000 links to http://127.0.0.1/ according to Google Search (www.google.com)

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Backbone.js on WebSockets (comoyo.github.com)

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ParaSail: A Pointer-Free Path to Object-Oriented Parallel Programming (parasail-programming-language.blogspot.co.uk)

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RestKit Object Mapping with RubyMotion (thunderboltlabs.com)

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Court orders TSA to justify year-long defiance of the law (arstechnica.com)

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Megaupload's bid for dismissal a goldmine for procedure enthusiasts (www.bna.com)

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Linear algebra for game developers ~ part 2 (blog.wolfire.com)

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Here's a number So (don't) call me Metro (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: Looking for examples of "really great code"? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bernard von NotHaus: Hippie and Alternative Currency Pioneer (www.indianapolismonthly.com)

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Can You Get A Patent On Being A Patent Troll? (www.npr.org)

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Major Facebook Insights Changes You Need To Know About (blog.getpostrocket.com)

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Pie chart progress in your website's favicon (github.com)

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A peer-to-peer escrow (soundboy.tumblr.com)

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Amazon joins Walmart in push for online sales tax (washingtonexaminer.com)

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Ask HN: Online Courses For Someone Interested in Basic Design? (news.ycombinator.com)

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'Turf Geography Club': if Wes Anderson made a mobile game (www.theverge.com)

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Why I'm ditching MaxCDN (b.lvh.cc)

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Automatically activate your python virtualenvs (lucasvo.com)

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Why isn't join.app.net catching on? (www.virtualpants.com)

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Thoughts on the Google Nexus 7 (speirs.org)

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Trident: a high-level abstraction for realtime computation (engineering.twitter.com)

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Why Software Development Methodologies Suck (continuousdelivery.com)

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Brogrammers Wanted (www.slate.com)

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Court: Embedding videos is not a crime (gigaom.com)

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Show HN: A .Net Lisp interpreter with First Class Macros, Continuations (patient0.github.com)

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Ask HN: How can I start executing on side projects? (news.ycombinator.com)

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#1 Design Commandment: Steal from Nature (blog.applicake.com)

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BlackBerry: other manufacturers could license our new BB10 platform (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Android now has 68% of the global smartphone market. (www.businessinsider.com)

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Election Staff loses unencrypted personal info on 2.4 million voters (www.ottawacitizen.com)

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Profile on Eugene Kaspersky (www.schneier.com)

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Ask HN: Best approach for adding an API to an existing rails app (news.ycombinator.com)

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I Hate to Pick on Facebook, But … (steveburge.com)

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Select2 3.0 Released (ivaynberg.github.com)

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Show HN: Online Inventory System for Individuals & Businesses - Want Feedback (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google is Losing Top Talent; Twitter is Growing It (mashable.com)

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John Carmack QuakeCon keynote streaming now (www.own3d.tv)

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Nokia closes Brisbane Qt office amid sale rumours (www.zdnet.com)

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The Problem with Two-Factor Authentication (coovtech.com)

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This is Parrot: A new View Engine for ASP.NET MVC (buildstarted.com)

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Trolls, Fake Trolls, and Outrage Addiction (craigconnects.org)

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Watch Everything in 3-D? Here’s How One Inventor Is Making it Possible (pandodaily.com)

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Exceptional Continuous Integration with CircleCi. (blog.exceptional.io)

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Linear algebra for game developers ~ part 4 (blog.wolfire.com)

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Linear algebra for game developers ~ part 3 (blog.wolfire.com)

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Easiest way to receive files from Anyone (tips.populr.me)

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Language and computers: Why language isn't computer code (www.economist.com)

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Modular Android malware dev kit to be released (www.scmagazine.com.au)

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Slovenia are winning the Olympics (simon.forsyth.net)

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This Is Now: world's Instagram photos in real time (now.jit.su)

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US resists control of Internet passing to UN agency (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Concurrent Ada Programming (blogs.fsfe.org)

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Robots revolutionize ancient art form (tile mosaics) (www.hizook.com)

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An Open Letter to Tesco UK (44con.com)

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Mountain Lion: Things (Not) To Complain About (brooksreview.net)

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Google Fiber: Why Meaningful Broadband Competition Is So Hard (www.slate.com)

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Dieting vs. Exercise for Weight Loss (well.blogs.nytimes.com)