hackerNews

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Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on. (www.apple.com)

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The Most Revealing Job Interview Question (refer.ly)

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Wait, Chrome DevTools could do THAT? (www.igvita.com)

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Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage (www.waybackletter.com)

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Zip bomb - 42kb file unzips to 4.2 Petabytes (en.wikipedia.org)

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Software Architecture cheat sheet (gorban.org)

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“I am calling you from Windows”: A tech support scammer (arstechnica.com)

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Linus on keeping a clean git history (2009) (www.mail-archive.com)

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Yale scientists explain how ketamine vanquishes depression within hours (news.yale.edu)

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Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js (ikaisays.com)

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LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut and Up to 20x Faster (highscalability.com)

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Things you didn't know about Python (speakerdeck.com)

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Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users (www.facebook.com)

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Todon't (www.codinghorror.com)

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Show HN: Powderkeg, a realtime, synchronous, multiplayer HTML5 action game (powderkeg.artillery.com)

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Please Don't Kill Feedburner (pleasedontkillfeedburner.com)

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Fizzbuzz, Interviews, And Over-thinking (dave.fayr.am)

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Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes (thenextweb.com)

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Paypal runs a 100TB globally distributed decentralized MySQL database on AWS (www.itnews.com.au)

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The Code Side Of Color (coding.smashingmagazine.com)

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Homomorphic encryption: Compute with data you cannot read (www.americanscientist.org)

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How to Sniff Out Online Fakers (gigaom.com)

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The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing (www.technologyreview.com)

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Comtypes: How Dropbox learned to stop worrying and love the COM (tech.dropbox.com)

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Amazon Orders More than 10,000 Nvidia Tesla cards (vr-zone.com)

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Perfect Audience (YC S11) Makes Facebook Retargeting Easy, Raises $1.1M (techcrunch.com)

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Conflagration: Zynga’s OMGPOP acquisition torched nearly $500,000 a day (thenextweb.com)

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Visualizing Tolkien (5013.es)

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HP CEO: We’re screwed (for the next few years) (arstechnica.com)

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Neural Networks officially best at object recognition (vision.stanford.edu)

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So, You Don’t Have Any Disabled Users? (www.21times.org)

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Teaching My 5 Year Old Daughter To Code (www.in-the-attic.co.uk)

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The Best Way to Find Aliens: Look for Their Solar Power Plants (www.theatlantic.com)

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Intel's Haswell Architecture Analyzed: Building a New PC and a New Intel (www.anandtech.com)

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Kixeye fires four after investigation into allegations of racism (venturebeat.com)

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Facebook deletes TCH's hugely popular fanpage without warning (www.thecoolhunter.net)

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My Favorite Start-up Chile Companies (naysawn.com)

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The art of getting stuff done without bossing around (blog.idonethis.com)

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PandaBot: A friendly, affordable 3D printer (www.kickstarter.com)

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Canadians may now apply for a TN visa before they reach the border crossing (www.uscis.gov)

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How and why we switched to Amazon EC2 (blog.railsonfire.com)

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Some hedge fund managers walk onto an Argentinian navy ship (ftalphaville.ft.com)

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New approach to AI to improve many Google products (www.technologyreview.com)

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Forget Freemium (blog.priceintelligently.com)

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Use Jekyll To Keep Your Blog From Folding Under Traffic (www.kapilkale.com)

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Founders, teach your employees statistics (tomtunguz.com)

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Google doodle for Alan Turing's 100th birthday is Open Source (code.google.com)

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Filepicker.io's "Don't write off HTML5" contest (blog.filepicker.io)

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You are probably misusing DOM text methods (benv.ca)

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Republicans out Democrat in 'World of Warcraft' witch hunt (www.nbcnews.com)

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Write Articles, Not Blog Postings (2007) (www.useit.com)

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New draft of Trevor Perrin and Moxie Marlinspike's TACK SSL extension (www.ietf.org)

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256 DSP core at 28nm, 200 GFLOPs with 5 Watts, designed by KALRAY (blog.thinkteletronics.com)

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Stanford, Berkeley profs launch Trifacta data tool, raise 4.3M from Accel (gigaom.com)

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Show HN: Get Maid - Uber for Maid Service in NYC (getmaid.com)

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Most startups are expensive hobbies (blog.firmhouse.com)

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How To Sell A Digital Comic (www.warrenellis.com)

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Bitcoin's Biggest Problem: It's a Den of Thieves (blog.nyaruka.com)

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ZTE Firefox OS Smartphone Specs Emerge (www.tomshardware.com)

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Calling all Geeks: Chattanooga Pays Techies to Relocate (www.cnbc.com)

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The aim is to build a complete vehicle that can fly right out of the 3D printer (www.foreignaffairs.com)

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Engineering Practices in Data Science (blog.kaggle.com)

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Craigslist begins to roll out PadMapper-like map view for apartment listings (venturebeat.com)

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Dwolla updates and expands API (blog.dwolla.com)

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Small companies in poor countries (www.economist.com)

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Firefox for Windows 8 preview build now available for download (www.winbeta.org)

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Chewsy 4.0 for iOS adds thousands of dish reviews by critics in your city (blog.chewsy.com)

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FDA cracks down on thousands of websites for selling bad drugs (www.reuters.com)

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Programming isn't fun — it's much more than that (nop.xxx)

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Why should I start my career at Microsoft, rather than a startup? (microsoftjobsblog.com)

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Strategies for Increasing Profitability (www.shopify.com)

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On Hiring Developers (blog.trackabout.com)

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Show HN: Send secure, self destructing messages (http://www.cycret.com)

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The CIA Burglar Who Went Rogue (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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The Other L-Word (2010) (www.vanityfair.com)

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Amazon S3 - Support for Website Redirects (aws.typepad.com)

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Nitrogram turbocharges brands’ Instagram campaigns with powerful analytics (thenextweb.com)

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What features would you like to see added soonest in your favorite C++ compiler? (herbsutter.com)

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TrackLikes.com: track likes from facebook and twitter in realtime (http://tracklikes.com)

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Show HN: Fatnest, easy collaborative tweeting (http://fatnest.com)

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Litepanels may ban all LED lights from the market (patentfreeled.com)

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Microsoft.com is not a website (jgthms.com)

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Entrepreneurs Starting Up With Fewer Employees (www.nytimes.com)

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Dropbox expiring old passwords (www.dropbox.com)

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Hell Yeah - Hacking at 50 (blog.maclawran.ca)

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In case you forget it: An awesome property search engine in the UK (cravify.com)

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Is Amazon PIOPS Really Better than Standard EBS? (garantiadata.com)

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What? You Don't Spend Most of Your Work Time Coding? (architects.dzone.com)

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Hipmob launches messaging libraries for Python, NodeJS and PHP (www.hipmob.com)

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Apple showing vulnerability year after Jobs's death (www.zdnet.com)

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How we improved our conversion rate by 46% (www.thetaboard.com)

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0.3 - 0.2 == 0.2 - 0.1 is falsy. Which language gets this right? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Crafting a Mobile App: a UX Design Case Study for Startups (www.jasonshen.com)

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My laptop was stolen, I have an IP, now what? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How changing a single word increased click through rate by 161% (visualwebsiteoptimizer.com)

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The Top 35 Startup TechCrunch Missed out on this month (www.startupplays.com)

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Teaching is Compression (www.laurenipsum.org)

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How 'The Big Bang Theory' Sent Howard Wolowitz to Space (www.space.com)

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Ask HN: What are some optimal places to live in NYC? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Programming Languages Should Satisfy College Language Requirements (www.andykessler.com)

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French beekeepers in Ribeauville abuzz over blue honey (www.bbc.co.uk)

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What We Found Scanning Millions of Email Systems (blog.smtplogic.com)

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FedEx CIO Rob Carter talks real-time analytics (slashdot.org)

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Simple way of predicting a country's future prosperity (blogs.law.harvard.edu)

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RoboMind: A New Introduction to Programming (www.robomind.net)

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To bring coding to the masses, we may have to reinvent what programming is (www.technologyreview.in)

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Lazarus 1.0 : First Impressions (www.deltics.co.nz)

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ShowHN: Quickly find people with the right skills within your company (blog.discoursehq.com)

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Movie "JAVA 4-EVER" - Official Trailer (www.youtube.com)

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What server options are available for your applications on the cloud? (blog.planforcloud.com)

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ScriptEd Teaches Underprivileged Kids to Code (techland.time.com)

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Svgs are cool, but icon fonts are just 10% of their file size (blog.pictonic.co)

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APIs: The Power Transforming the Web (blogs.wsj.com)

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Craigslist launches Padmapper Functionality (sfbay.craigslist.org)

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The Beauty of the Airline Baggage Tag (www.slate.com)

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First Obama-Romney debate produces over 10.4 million tweets (blog.peoplebrowsr.com)

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Play Powderkeg (blog.artillery.com)

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Engineers hope to upload bees' brains into robots (news.cnet.com)

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Unfit For Office Because She Plays World of Warcraft (kotaku.com)

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Human Greenhouse Gas Emissions Traced to Roman Times (www.livescience.com)

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Cultural technology and the making of K-pop (www.newyorker.com)

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Mobile malware concept snaps photos and recreates your environment in 3D (blogs.computerworld.com)

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Some Schools Actually Want Students To Play With Their Smartphones In Class (www.npr.org)

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Google Introduces New Open-Source Framework for Building Reranking Models (googleresearch.blogspot.com)

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The Clothesline Paradox (edge.org)

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Photon reaches from beyond the grave in quantum trick (www.newscientist.com)

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Every Lost episode visualized and recreated (flowingdata.com)

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Parallella: The $99 Cluster That Needs Your Help (www.thepowerbase.com)

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My patent-pending three-question technical interview (stu.mp)

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KnowledgeHives.com - Semantic Web technologies applied (semanticweb.com)

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Trusting Amazon (no longer) (boards.fool.co.uk)

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For what Saas (Software as a Service) are your clients paying for? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Acer's $800, Ivy Bridge-toting Windows 8 tablet hits on October 26 (arstechnica.com)

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The Forgotten Mapmaker: Nokia Has Better Maps Than Apple and Maybe Even Google (www.theatlantic.com)

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Mailbox Simulator for Amazon SES (aws.typepad.com)

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MoviePass: Go to the movies as often as you want (www.businessinsider.com)

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Targeter App offers free CRO for a limited time (blog.targeterapp.com)

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On Proof and Progress in Mathematics (www.math.toronto.edu)

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Cross Platform Shaders in 2012 (aras-p.info)

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Amazon Lowers Cloud Drive Prices (techcrunch.com)

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Apple reportedly wants to ditch Intel chips in Macs, hire its own SoC designer (www.techradar.com)

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Visualizing progress on github issues (deepakbala.me)

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Women Executives Make Venture-Backed Companies More Successful (blogs.wsj.com)

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100% Guaranteed SEO Bullshit (wprealm.com)

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Facebook: The Making of 1 Billion Users (www.businessweek.com)

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Facebook Ad: The Things That Connect Us (thecuriousbrain.com)

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Everpurse: keep your phone charged with a wirelessly-charged purse (everpurse.com)

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The "Skills Gap" is a Hiring Problem (sciencecareers.sciencemag.org)

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Nicholas C. Zakas' Thoughts on TypeScript (www.nczonline.net)

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Hosting Providers Reliability Rating - September 2012 (blog.pingoscope.com)

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Kids, Arduinos and Quadricopters (blog.stephenwolfram.com)

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Maine State senate candidate attacked for World of Warcraft character (arstechnica.com)

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No, You're not entitled to your opinion (theconversation.edu.au)

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Paypal Here - The Paypal Card Reader (www.paypal.com)

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Data Beats Math (lsvp.com)

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Maine Candidate Attacked for ... Playing World of Warcraft (www.newser.com)

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Ask HN: YC s12 Python Hacker seeking co-founder (news.ycombinator.com)

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Zynga’s financial troubles worsen, company falling faster than before (arstechnica.com)

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Hosting all versions for Bootstrap documents. (akiyan.com)

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PyDev & Eclipse 4.2 (i.e.: stick with Eclipse 3.8) (pydev.blogspot.ro)

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The Feeling of Power (www.themathlab.com)

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Minecraft API proposals (mojang.atlassian.net)

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PagerDuty (YC S10) is hiring engineers for a Canadian dev centre (www.pagerduty.com)

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