hackerNews

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Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web (tent.io)

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Typing Practice for Programmers (http://typing.io)

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'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`;' -- Stripe's Web Security CTF is Live (stripe.com)

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Show HN: SideProjects.com - 37 Bootstrapped Profitable Projects (www.sideprojects.com)

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Scientific Communication As Sequential Art (worrydream.com)

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Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard (statuschart.com)

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Why ratings systems suck - a response to today's XKCD (goodfil.ms)

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Twitter cuts off “find friends” access to Tumblr (www.marco.org)

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The innovations of Internet Explorer (www.nczonline.net)

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Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala (techcrunch.com)

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Dwm.vim : Tiled Window Management for Vim (www.vim.org)

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Emacs under Clojure (github.com)

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Bill Thurston has died (terrytao.wordpress.com)

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Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male (royal.pingdom.com)

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2.8M Simultaneous Connections /w Erlang [slides] (www.erlang-factory.com)

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Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make a beautiful baby (www.datagenetics.com)

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IKEA's New Catalogs: Less Pine, More Pixels (online.wsj.com)

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Why Jason Fried gave his company a month off (www.inc.com)

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AOL: still providing insanity after all these years (rachelbythebay.com)

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FlipCode is back, after 7 years (www.flipcode.com)

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Bootstrap Based UI for Logstash (Open Source Splunk) (rashidkpc.github.com)

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Being Featured on the App Store (blog.anylistapp.com)

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Y Combinator’s Young Startups Tout Revenue Over Users (go.bloomberg.com)

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Seven Things I Hate About Agile (blog.assembla.com)

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New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000AD (www.theregister.co.uk)

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How To Share an iPhone Screen Live Across the Internet (mgalligan.com)

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Silicon Valley Techies Fight to Save a Popular but Illegal Haven (www.nytimes.com)

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The myth of doing “that one thing” (leostartsup.com)

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Father’s Age Is Linked to Risk of Autism and Schizophrenia (www.nytimes.com)

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Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) (customerdevlabs.com)

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1: An Embarrassing, Lazy, Arrogant Money Grab (www.androidpolice.com)

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Research Blog: Machine Learning Book for Students and Researchers (googleresearch.blogspot.com)

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A Software Entrepreneur On The Madness Of Software Patents and Trolls (www.feld.com)

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Man kicked off flight by pilot for wearing anti-TSA shirt (arijitvsdelta.blogspot.co.uk)

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How to tear down the walls of your echo chamber (cdevroe.com)

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There is one App blacklisted in Facebook's JS API (news.ycombinator.com)

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When Land Is History (pjmedia.com)

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On why Y Combinator Demo Day does its companies a disservice (blog.noupsi.de)

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Scientists create new form of matter that can dent diamonds (phys.org)

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Disney's 'Physical Face Cloning' produces the ultimate photo-realistic robots (www.digitaltrends.com)

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An industry commits suicide and blames us (gwolf.org)

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Berliner: Sinatra like Framework written in 16 lines of CoffeeScript. (berliner.jcoglan.com)

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ImagePickerController with live filters (github.com)

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Black Widow (dcurt.is)

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“Pirate Patch” Unblocks The Pirate Bay In a Blink (torrentfreak.com)

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How we open sourced Instagram (backspac.es)

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FTC Approves Instagram Acquisition (www.ftc.gov)

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Hipset. It’s the stupid algorithm, stupid. (tobiaspeggs.tumblr.com)

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Microsoft says don't use PPTP and MS-CHAP (www.h-online.com)

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What Y Combinator Startups Actually Do, Based On Their (Unpronounceable) Names (betabeat.com)

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Virool (YC S12) Helps Advertising Videos go Viral (venturebeat.com)

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Deal of the Year: Architexa Toolsuite Made Free (java.dzone.com)

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Rails Testing with Factory Girl (www.hiringthing.com)

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Fred Wilson says venture capital funds have gotten too big (www.technologyreview.com)

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"Paypal-Discover Trumps Square-Starbucks" - AllThingsD (allthingsd.com)

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A Cautionary Tale: Do not move or rename your iCloud folder (www.tuaw.com)

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A Summer in the Life of a YC Intern (refer.ly)

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40% of U.S. food wasted (news.blogs.cnn.com)

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Why you don’t overturn the Big Bang via a media interview (arstechnica.com)

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Geek Alarm at Campus Party Berlin - is this us? (salon.io)

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Show HN: Get an email when press, investors, or competitors use your app (dailycred.tumblr.com)

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YC Alum BigCalc Makes Hadoop Easier for High Frequency Trading Firms (techcrunch.com)

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Chezjj: Itinerant Hackers, Scientists, Cylons (www.chezjj.com)

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Startup is not your job (igzebedze.com)

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In Google’s Inner Circle, a Falling Number of Women (www.nytimes.com)

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High price of corn forcing farmers to feed candy to livestock (www.wpsdlocal6.com)

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Unity3D graphics engine coming to Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 (wmpoweruser.com)

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Ubisoft: PC Piracy Levels 95%, and 95% of Free-To-Play Users Do Not Pay (torrentfreak.com)

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The innovations of Internet Explorer (www.nczonline.net)

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Funded startup vs Bootstrapped startup (www.junloayza.com)

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10" GoNote - The Touchscreen Android 4 Notebook (www.ergoelectronics.com)

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Why Bash is like that: Subshells (www.vidarholen.net)

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Y Combinator pitch boosts Waterloo’s BufferBox (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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T-Mobile Announces Truly Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data (newsroom.t-mobile.com)

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Struggling to Recover From a Cyberattack (www.nytimes.com)

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Borderlands 2 16bit 'Demake' game (wubwub.eu)

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A Safer JS Environment (webreflection.blogspot.com)

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What are the Best hg/Mercurial Extensions? (stackoverflow.com)

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Maximizing your launch on iOS and Android (blog.betable.com)

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YouTube Will Now Let Mobile Users Choose Whether to Watch Ads (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Monitor Any Cloud Or Web Infrastructure With New Rackspace Cloud Monitoring (www.rackspace.com)

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Entrepreneurial Happiness Is Possible (venturebeat.com)

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When Freemium Fails (online.wsj.com)

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New Apple patent could kill commercial radio (www.mediauk.com)

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CouchSurfing raises $15 million Series B (www.couchsurfing.org)

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Tumblr 'Truly Disappointed' That Twitter Revoked Its Friend-Finding Privileges (techcrunch.com)

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Rich Kids of App.net (http://richkidsofappdotnet.tumblr.com)

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FBI says pirated Android apps a "top priority" (arstechnica.com)

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How to Build a Space Elevator (www.theatlantic.com)

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Ask HN: What are the most useful tools for freelancers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Typesafe (the Scala company) raises $14m in series B (blog.typesafe.com)

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Show HN: Full rewrite of Plunker, an online code editor with real-time features (http://plnkr.co)

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Ask HN: I want to make money by helping Hackers write better (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bill Thurston's answer to "What's a mathematician to do?" (mathoverflow.net)

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Transparent Git Encryption (gist.github.com)

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The Facebook SDK for Parse is Better Than Ever (blog.parse.com)

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JSON+UDP+DHT=Freedom (telehash.org)

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Ask HN: Where would you go if HN shutdown for 1 month? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Seattle's Million-Dollar, CIA-Affiliated Camera Network (slog.thestranger.com)

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Zynga: the whole "they treat their employees badly" thing is a lie (charlesyay.wordpress.com)

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The birth of Lisp - a summary of McCarthy's original paper (swizec.com)

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Start-Up Chile Company Installs Pipelines by Air (Helicopter) (www.youtube.com)

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For Stripe Cofounders, Y Combinator Supplies Far More Than Mentoring (www.fastcompany.com)

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Webcrawling at Scale with Nokogiri and IronWorker (blog.iron.io)

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Scala's CanBuildFrom explained (blog.bruchez.name)

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Startups, don't do this (www.patrickshampine.com)

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1992 Wash Post editor memo on the PC and impacts (recoveringjournalist.typepad.com)

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Elections Code Section 13117 says ballot order should start with 1 and not 0 (www.ocregister.com)

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One-molecule-thick material has big advantages (web.mit.edu)

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Complete MSL Curiosity Descent - Full Quality Enhanced 1080p (www.youtube.com)

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Complete MSL Curiosity Descent - Enhanced 1080p + Heat Shield impact (www.youtube.com)

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Facebook Has Been Hacked. What Will You Do? (www.readwriteweb.com)

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IRobot Developing Inflatable Robot Arms, Inflatable Robots (spectrum.ieee.org)

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How Hollywood Is Encouraging Online Piracy (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Makr.io (Y Combinator project) - A meme generator developed by Diaspora founders (makr.io)

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Facebook Officially Launches “Sponsored Results” Search Ads (techcrunch.com)

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A Beginner’s Guide to Big O Notation (rob-bell.net)

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This is what it feels like to land on Mars (io9.com)

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PHP drops world domination from TODO list (github.com)

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Ask HN: Do we really need real-time social networks? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Offer HN: Usability Feedback (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Learn Philosophy The Hard Way (news.ycombinator.com)

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FutureAdvisor (YC S10) raises $5M Series A, led by Sequoia (www.xconomy.com)

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Ask HN: Why has'nt Samsung used the argument that Apple copied Braun? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Would you give the government remote control over your router? (arstechnica.com)

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How to Build a CSS3 Sliding Menu with 3D Page Effect (www.sitepoint.com)

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Why the 3D printing revolution won’t happen in your garage (www.extremetech.com)

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Star Wars Speederbike, in Real Life: Aerofex Hover Bike Flies the Mojave (dsc.discovery.com)

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Microsoft: Don't standardize shader language in CSS shader standard (codeflow.org)

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Tumblr becomes next to have Twitter friend-finding privileges revoked (thenextweb.com)

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Reality Show: Be the Next Microsoft Employee (www.microsoft.com)

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Tweets vs. Likes: What gets shared on Twitter vs. Facebook? (blog.echen.me)

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Bootstrap-ajax - Declarative ajax support with Twitter Bootstrap (github.com)

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World's most efficient polymer-based organic solar cell yet (www.chron.com)

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Yahoo Smush.it (www.smushit.com)

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Ask HN: Is there any place like HackerDojo in NYC? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What do you dislike about hackathons/startup-weekend type events? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Can you help us test our new website? Pleeeeease (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bringing Mention Tagging to Open Graph (developers.facebook.com)

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"Sometimes science must give way to religion" (www.nature.com)

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Writing and Publishing Your First Symfony2 Bundle (blog.newbridgegreen.com)

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Twitter cedes to government demands, blocks fake parody accounts in India (thenextweb.com)

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How a drug mule named "Big Foot" helped create terrible GPS search law (arstechnica.com)

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A Man Is Not A Virgin (www.onelowerlight.com)

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Javascript Unit Testing with Jenkins, JSTD, Phantom.js and Sauce (eng.netwallet.com)

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Create Ember.js applications with persistence in elasticsearch (www.elasticsearch.org)

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Motorola's ITC Complaint Against Apple, With All the Trimmings (www.groklaw.net)

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Show HN: Inspector Gifget - Speed up, slow down, play backwards your .gif(s) (inspectorgifget.com)