hackerNews

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ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (http://www.tos-dr.info)

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Wikipedia Redefined (http://www.wikipediaredefined.com)

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How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking (www.wired.com)

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Jack Dorsey's Letter (squareup.com)

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The weakest link by far is Apple (www.marco.org)

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Germany's laws on github, machine-readable and ready to be forked (github.com)

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HN statistics (labs.im)

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Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident (techcrunch.com)

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Veteran NYTimes Photographer Arrested & Allegedly Beaten by NYPD (blog.chasejarvis.com)

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Please turn on two-factor authentication (www.mattcutts.com)

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Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents (torrentfreak.com)

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Starbucks signs up for Square (squareup.com)

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Released footage of the police raid on the Kim Dotcom mansion (www.3news.co.nz)

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Ask HN: Where is the Hostility on HN Coming From? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Continuations by example (matt.might.net)

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What I've Learned About Learning (raganwald.posterous.com)

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Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets (www.wired.com)

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Decrypt.py: Act like a decrypting hacker on tv (github.com)

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Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist’s Devastating Hack (www.wired.com)

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The Beauty of Bresenham's Algorithm (free.pages.at)

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Synthetic biology is heading for the cloud (www.judegomila.com)

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Racket v5.3 (blog.racket-lang.org)

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Riak 1.2 Officially Released (basho.com)

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The German Model (www.handelsblatt.com)

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Judge Alsup orders Oracle, Google to disclose paid advocates (arstechnica.com)

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Picplum launches Photo Printing API (www.picplum.com)

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IPhone caused "crisis of design" at Samsung -- memo admitted into evidence (allthingsd.com)

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The Best Recruiters – followup to The Recruiter Honeypot (www.ewherry.com)

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Filepicker.io now supports Instagram, Flickr and Video Recording (www.filepicker.io)

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Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for the web in your browser (techcrunch.com)

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Airtel, an Indian ISP, penalized for blocking a torrent site (www.medianama.com)

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Watch High-Speed Trading Bots Go Berserk (animated chart) (www.technologyreview.com)

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Samsung internal doc: 125 iphone pic competitive analysis (www.scribd.com)

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Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers (onstartups.com)

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The surprising, stealth rebirth of the American arcade (arstechnica.com)

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Want to be more secure? Build two-factor authentication into your webapp (blog.alainmeier.com)

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9th Circuit Dismisses Al Haramain (Warantless Wiretapping) Case (www.eff.org)

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Samsung internal document evaluating the iPhone (translated) (www.scribd.com)

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Do It Yourself Porsche (911nation.com)

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Go out, talk to your users (blog.kippt.com)

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Job market for a 30+ person learning to code? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Chrome Extension Lets you read quora without logging in (github.com)

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Getting Going with Go (www.drdobbs.com)

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XBMC and TuneIn on the Ouya (www.kickstarter.com)

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Slick: a modern database query and access library for Scala (slick.typesafe.com)

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France backs away from Hadopi (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Canopy Labs (YC S12) Unveils A Self-Serve Approach To Customer Modeling (techcrunch.com)

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Dark Reign 2 Open Sourced (code.google.com)

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CDE Open Sourced (cdesktopenv.sourceforge.net)

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Recovery-Oriented Computing (roc.cs.berkeley.edu)

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Acer begs Microsoft to 'think twice' about Surface tablet (news.cnet.com)

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Show HN: 10-minute programming challenge. Let's do more of these. (missstep.com)

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Craigslist’s Challenger Could Be an App, or Several (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Hacking Behavior: Going Beyond Growth Hacking (kyrobeshay.com)

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IOS 6 Automatically Scales to Fit Taller 1136x640 iPhone Display (www.macrumors.com)

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Tweak the iOS simulator device size (0xced.blogspot.co.at)

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Is WPA2 security broken due to Defcon MS-CHAPv2 cracking? (revolutionwifi.blogspot.com)

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FileVault 2’s Apple ID Backdoor (mjtsai.com)

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Show HN: My first webapp. Build with rails, backbonejs and lots of love. (http://www.themescroller.com)

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Microsoft is pushing users and vendors to Macs and Linux (www.zdnet.com)

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Wikipedia Redefined (www.wikipediaredefined.com)

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Samsung’s Report Says Galaxy Would Be Better If it Were More Like the iPhone (allthingsd.com)

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Megaupload Boss Kim Dotcom Says New Zealand Police Beat Him (www.securityweek.com)

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Looterism: The Cancerous Ethos That Is Gutting America (pandodaily.com)

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500 Startups Snaps Up LatAm Startup Accelerator Mexican.VC (techcrunch.com)

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Lessons From Netflix (www.kitd.com)

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TokBox embraces WebRTC to give developers access to Flash-free video chat (gigaom.com)

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Spectacles - Anonymous browsing for Quora (github.com)

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Did Bill Gates Steal the Heart of DOS? (m.spectrum.ieee.org)

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Cosmic rays discovered 100 years ago (cerncourier.com)

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Want to Do Mobile Payments? Here's a Free Tablet (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Animated Atari Logo (cssdeck.com)

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Immigration will solve the talent war in the valley (rvivek.com)

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Show HN: Send postcards with Node.js & Sincerely (github.com)

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Recruiting Technical Co-Founders (andysparks.co)

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The market doesn't care about your overpriced valuation (Failbook) (williamkasel.posterous.com)

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What Facebook Knows (www.technologyreview.com)

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Improving Transparency in Scientific Research (blog.scienceexchange.com)

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Google Maps Adds Live Traffic Support for Additional 130 Cities Across America (www.droid-life.com)

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Show HN: A comprehensive (and growing) list of Retina Mac Apps (http://retinamacapps.com)

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Floating point comparisons (randomascii.wordpress.com)

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Subscriptions: Braintree vs. Chargify/Recurly, etc. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Retina Mac Apps: Not a Review, But a Site (theindustry.cc)

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Starbucks chooses Square (squareup.com)

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Internet Archive: Over 1,000,000 Torrents of Books, Music, and Movies (blog.archive.org)

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Visit Your Musers (blog.idonethis.com)

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Kippt (YC S12) Is Your One Stop Shop for Saving the Web for Later (lifehacker.com)

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Apple v. Samsung Evidence: 'Relative Evaluation Report on S1, iPhone' [pdf] (www.scribd.com)

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IMDb orders imdbAPI to shout down or else (imdbapi.com)

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Indian Outsourcing Firms Hire in US (online.wsj.com)

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Apple's motivation for suing Samsung (www.loopinsight.com)

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Scheme's missing ingredient (axisofeval.blogspot.com)

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Craigslist cuts off its search engine to spite its face (gigaom.com)

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Ask HN: Frontpage showing 25 instead of 30 stories? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A followup email that actually works (copy-cat.co)

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Ask HN: How do I create a Terms of Service for my Application? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Roswell UFO Crash: There Were 2 Crashes, Not 1, Says Ex-Air Force Official (www.huffingtonpost.com)

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Penny4NASA - Increase NASA funding to be 1% of U.S Budget (http://www.penny4nasa.org)

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Craigslist Blocks Search Engine Indexing, Hangs Itself to Remove Competitors (pandodaily.com)

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Ask HN: What is your favorite split testing/AB/lean framework for Django? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Test your iOS apps on the "new" resolution (www.cocoanetics.com)

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What to Expect When Curiosity Starts Snapping Pictures (www.nasa.gov)

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Crowds for a Cause: MobileWorks (YCS11) gives away a month of free manpower (blog.mobileworks.com)

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$10 AeroPress filter can "filter smaller particles than any other metal filter" (www.kickstarter.com)

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Craigslist reportedly removes listings from search engines (www.theverge.com)

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Listening to users (mdzlog.alcor.net)

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The self-driving car logs more miles on new wheels (googleblog.blogspot.com)

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The Next Internet? Inside PARC’s Vision of Content Centric Networking (www.xconomy.com)

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iOS 6 is scalable to taller, 640x1136 iPhone display (9to5mac.com)

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Commando.io open sourced on GitHub (blog.nodesocket.com)

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First color photo from Mars Curiosity (spaceindustrynews.com)

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Ask HN: Why does Goldman Sachs charge Dragon Systems $5 million to give advice? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: A fake pg would say (what?) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Kim Dotcom raid illegal, New Zealand court rules (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Pilot Rapid Prototyping with JavaScript and NodeJS Class (www.webapplog.com)

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Finally - list of all cloud/hosting costs in one place. (serverbear.com)

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Ask HN: What do you use for website analytics? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Free CDN (eng.pulse.me)

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Chrome extensions lets you attach large files to emails and send instantly (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Is it possible for a EU student to get an internship in the States? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Skillshare Launches Hybrid Classes, Letting Anyone Join Online Or Offline (techcrunch.com)

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Amazon AWS Throttling Non-Elasticache Memcache Traffic (news.ycombinator.com)

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Craigslist reportedly blocks search engines to kill competitors (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: Strange Whois Records for Major Sites (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bloc Demo Day: check out apps our students have built (blog.bloc.io)

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Mac designer: Samsung phone fooled me (news.cnet.com)

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Ask HN: Google Adwords Effectiveness (news.ycombinator.com)

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High-Performance, Garbage-Collector-Friendly Code (buildnewgames.com)

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"Old" Flexbox and "New" Flexbox (css-tricks.com)

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JPL Infographics Site Wants You and Your Creativity (www.jpl.nasa.gov)

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OculusHub - Oculus Rift developer community (http://www.oculushub.com)

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Samsung: power, corruption and lies (www.kernelmag.com)

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How to pitch a VC (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ask HN: How much do you pay for cloud service each month? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How you manage your to-do list? Are you happy with it? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The World's Most Expensive Drugs (www.forbes.com)

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Ask HN: What is your 1 biggest business challenge or frustration? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Want to build a successful business? Date consumers but marry businesses. (www.emcap.com)

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An open solution for transit directions in iOS 6 - OpenTripPlanner (www.kickstarter.com)

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The next Internet? Inside PARC's vision of Content Centric Networking (www.xconomy.com)

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Olympic Medals per Capita (www.medalspercapita.com)

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Craigslist is down (www.isup.me)

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How to generate caves like minecraft? (gamedev.stackexchange.com)

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Microsoft proposes alternate spec for Web audio/video chat standard (arstechnica.com)

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Django's security policies (docs.djangoproject.com)

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Proposed Privacy Law Demands Court Warrants for Cloud Data (www.wired.com)

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Ask HN: I loved Snow Crash and Daemon. What should I read next? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask Dalton Caldwell: why not a wikipedia-like business model for app.net? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Does anyone actually get call centers right? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google-Backed Asteroid Mining Venture Attracts Billionaires (www.bloomberg.com)

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Tutorial: Create a data driven Twitter avatar (www.netmagazine.com)

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What It Feels Like To Be A Freelancer (http://www.dontgetscrewedover.com)

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Ask HN: Is there a right way to Save As in Mountain Lion? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The State of Augmented Reality (ralphbarbagallo.com)

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Feeding Interns Spaghetti (lockewatts.com)

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Proofs without Words Gallery (www.artofproblemsolving.com)

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LinkedIn Gives Developers More Clarity on Platform Policies (allthingsd.com)

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The Internet Archive teams up with BitTorrent, starts seeding 1M torrents (gigaom.com)

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How to sync contacts with iCloud on iOS 5 or iOS 6? [iOS6] (www.karthikk.net)

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Private and Trustworthy In-Person Certiﬁcations (www.usenix.org)

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How To Fail A PCI Audit (www.darkreading.com)

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How much is a gold medal really worth? (blog.swagsy.com)

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Paul Graham's most inspiring quotes (changemakrs.com)

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Anyone Shilling for Google and/or Oracle Might Want to ‘Fess Up Now (betabeat.com)

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Nvidia reveals PlayPad for Android devices (www.tegrazone.com)

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2-factor authentication on Ubuntu using Google Authenticator (blog.theroux.ca)

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Show HN: I added rt updates (Node.js, Socket.io & Redis) to my PM tool Θ (www.thetaboard.com)

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Looking for marketing guru / designer to help repair the world. (YC W12) (news.ycombinator.com)

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MakeGamesWithUs (YCW12) is looking for a game producer (news.ycombinator.com)

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Yardsale - Mobile Marketplace, Seeking iOS/Rails Engineers (YC S11) (news.ycombinator.com)

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