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If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This (blogs.hbr.org)

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The game of life emulated in the game of life (www.jwz.org)

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The Product is the Byproduct (zachholman.com)

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Satellite burns up following SpaceX rocket glitch (www.reuters.com)

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Sugar, acid and teeth (2009) (www.dbskeptic.com)

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Sun Goes Down. Up Comes A Mystery (www.npr.org)

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A primer on sexism in the tech industry – by an actual girl (Rebuttal) (laurasanders.net)

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win (blog.optimizely.com)

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The New Oracle (www.oracle.com)

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GET /browser.exe (blog.ezyang.com)

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Why does pinging 192.168.072 return a response from 192.168.0.58? (superuser.com)

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How to easily beat comment spam (dendory.net)

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What’s really so bad about bubble sort? (nicknash.me)

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Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong (www.theatlantic.com)

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Apache releases Lucene Core 4.0 and Solr 4.0 (lucene.apache.org)

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Google Homepage Size Over Time (measuredmass.wordpress.com)

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Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma due to gravitational challenge (www.bmj.com)

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Git over FTP (github.com)

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AndroidKickstartR: Start your next Android app in 10 seconds (www.androidkickstartr.com)

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Ask HN: Can I visit your startup in SF? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Scripted: A JavaScript editor from VMware (github.com)

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PayPal Said to Cut as Many as 400 Jobs (www.bloomberg.com)

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AMD’s layoffs target engineering; Board incompetence dooms the company (semiaccurate.com)

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Your Company Needs A Chief Dissent Officer (www.fastcompany.com)

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Inception: firewire password bypass for Windows, OSX and Ubuntu login (www.breaknenter.org)

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Show HN: GBA.js, a Game Boy Advance emulator written in JavaScript (jpfau.github.com)

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Cause and Effect Fallacy: The By-product Does Not Make The Product (times.jayliew.com)

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Designing for iOS: Taming UIButton (robots.thoughtbot.com)

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Show HN: Docverter: convert plaintext to PDF, Docx, or ePub. Now in open beta. (www.docverter.com)

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Rejected by Kickstarter? 'Roll your own' with Selfstarter instead (www.pcworld.com)

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Dancing Baby Video Battle Back in Court Tuesday (www.eff.org)

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Can we build a more efficient airplane? Not really, says physics. (www.empiricalzeal.com)

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Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery (t3hprogrammer.github.com)

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What the Heck Is CSS Specificity? (designshack.net)

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OAuth 2.0 finalized (dickhardt.org)

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Replacing Work/Life Balance with Work/Life Harmony (bubs.co)

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Open Sourcing May Be Worth the Risk (blogs.hbr.org)

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The Opa Framework for Javascript (opalang.org)

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Can You Work in Netscape Time? (1995) (www.fastcompany.com)

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I created a little tool for presenting website mockups/designs to your clients (bartsitek.com)

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Scientists uncover mystery of ball lightning (www.abc.net.au)

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Lazarus Free Pascal RAD IDE 1.0.2 is released (www.lazarus.freepascal.org)

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Google Gravity (mrdoob.com)

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Academia.edu Overhauls Profiles As Researchers Grow Their Personal Brands (techcrunch.com)

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Mozilla Details How Firefox 17 Will Block Old, Vulnerable Versions Of Flash (thenextweb.com)

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Dolly the Sheep creator scientist Keith Campbell dies (www.theregister.co.uk)

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A Call for Apps that Prevent Atrocities (www.thetechchallenge.org)

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Startup = Idea (jmlite.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: What startups are highly profitible but VCs won't touch? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to Design the Perfect Twitter Profile Page (www.loudnoises.us)

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Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: Piki, a fresh take on the wiki (piki.heroku.com)

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Treating depression with deep brain stimulation (www.extremetech.com)

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Using Zenbox and Mixpanel for Support and Sales (for fun and for profit) (blog.zenboxapp.com)

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Show HN: Soragora Helps You Build Real-Time, Multiplayer Mobile Games (www.soragora.com)

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Show HN: I made Unmentionables, a free Taboo game for iPhone (appmonkeys.org)

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Atomic batches in Cassandra 1.2 (www.datastax.com)

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Three day health hackathon. Investors pitch problems they'd love to fund (www.prebacked.com)

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Apple rethinking Samsung chip partnership, say sources (news.cnet.com)

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Developing PythonAnywhere on PythonAnywhere - Dogfooding part deux (blog.pythonanywhere.com)

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Don’t look at Average Time to Conversion (blog.custora.com)

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A Visit to HackNY’s Fall Hackathon (betabeat.com)

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Expand Your Definition of Content Marketing to Achieve More (www.ginzametrics.com)

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F.T.C. Staff Prepares Antitrust Case Against Google (www.nytimes.com)

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Information Theory: Obstacles To True Artificial Intelligence (paulbohm.com)

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Non-tech Cofounders – Don’t Hire an Agency (blog.kera.io)

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Amazon's Bezos: We don't make any money on Kindle (www.bizjournals.com)

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Easier Backbone form views with Backtastic (blog.gaslight.co)

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Photographer Sues Apple Over the Use of Her Photo to Promote the Retina Display (www.cultofmac.com)

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Why I Two-Space (stevelosh.com)

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The Degradation of Java Developers (yakovfain.com)

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In under 3 weeks, iPhone 5 overtakes Galaxy S III in mobile web traffic (thenextweb.com)

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Zigi gives mobile gamers location-based rewards (zigi.com)

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New Android Maps API around the corner? (blog.recursivepenguin.com)

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Minute by Minute Twitter Sentiment Timeline of the VP debate using R (stathack.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: Do you know of any startups targeting problems of young married couples? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Brief - A daily briefing of technology news worth caring about (http://thebrief.io)

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How Zapier made us support a hundred new services in half an hour (ducksboard.com)

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Ask HN: Interesting (small) bits of C or C++ code (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How are your friends making money online? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How do you manage issues/bugs, track features (news.ycombinator.com)

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MakerBot's Bre Pettis 3D scanned face in WebGL (sketchfab.com)

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Emulators 101: how to write a program that functions like an NES CPU (hackaday.com)

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Ask HN: What is your favorite documentation website? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Paradox of Autonomy and Recognition (katemats.com)

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The Author Of The 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' Books Has Filed For Chapter 7 Bankruptcy (www.businessinsider.com)

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Videos of 10Gen, Mortar, Datadog & Rick Smolan at the NYC Data Meetup (mattturck.com)

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First ever iOS remote desktop solution is released (www.apperian.com)

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Redis_failover 1.0 Released - Distributed monitoring, failover strategies, more (github.com)

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Quora: What's a cool/useful skill that only takes five minutes to learn? (www.quora.com)

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Create cloud-based 3D-printable shapes with plain JavaScript (tinkercad.com)

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Washington Post's Fact Check of the VP Debate (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The Degradation of Java Developers (yakovfain.com)

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Rich Hickey talks codeq (thinkrelevance.com)

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The mysterious case of the missing noble gas (www.nature.com)

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This is Why We Need More Women in Technology (java.dzone.com)

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Stallman: Canonical will be forced give data to gov (benjaminkerensa.com)

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An Analysis of Android Architecture (os.ibds.kit.edu)

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E-tailers ordered to update websites by UK Govt.'s Office of Fair Trading (www.bbc.co.uk)

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AMD executives have forgotten how to run a company (www.extremetech.com)

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BTW, Apple's stock is crashing (www.businessinsider.com)

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Quantum Computing With Ions (2008) (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Last day for early registration to New York's Python Data Conference (nyc2012.pydata.org)

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Apple puts money where its mouth is, pays for Swiss railway clock design (arstechnica.com)

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Paul Graham: Silicon Valley Favors Obama Over Romney 2 To 1 (www.forbes.com)

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Ask HN: What is the ideal self-study computer science curriculum? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Essential Startup Team (paraschopra.com)

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Strange Loop 2012 Video Schedule (thestrangeloop.com)

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Food Fight 30 - DevOps culture and metrics-driven engineering (foodfightshow.org)

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Apple Agrees To License Iconic Swiss Federal Railways’ Clock Design (techcrunch.com)

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NextGuide iPad app adds Amazon, gestures and more (www.engadget.com)

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What happens when computers are cheaper than Legos? (gigaom.com)

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The 20 inch tablet (www.pcworld.com)

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Photographer Sues Apple Over the Use of Her Photo to Promote the Retina Display (www.petapixel.com)

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More Retweets Lead to More Twitter Followers, Right? (moz.com)

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Ask HN: Open Source projects for a C and C++ begginer. (news.ycombinator.com)

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3 freelancing projects that I just had to turn down (www.glenscott.co.uk)

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Facebook's Promoted Posts (www.facebook.com)

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Tiny MMOs, Massive Opportunities? (www.gamasutra.com)

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Goldman Sachs:Biggest opportunities are in data, efficiency (venturebeat.com)

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Plivo (YCS2012) is hiring Inside Sales/Account Manager (plivo.recruiterbox.com)

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Like solving non-sexy problems? Well-funded start-up is hiring (SF) (news.ycombinator.com)

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