hackerNews

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My son is schizophrenic. The ‘reforms’ that I worked for have worsened his life. (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The Pirate Bay in cloud (thepiratebay.se)

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Hacker News supports browsing with a points treshold (news.ycombinator.com)

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IBM: The cost difference is too great for business not to look for H1B workers (cis.org)

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How I Hired Someone On Craigslist And Quadrupled My Productivity (hackthesystem.com)

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A new kind of fractal? (www.gibney.de)

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Data Mining 3.4 billion Web pages for $100 of EC2 (blog.luckyoyster.com)

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Hacker Gary McKinnon saved from Extradition to the US (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A Dragnet for Pee-Wee (blog.priceonomics.com)

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How to do a great product promo video for less than $200 (blog.kickofflabs.com)

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Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof (torrentfreak.com)

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My OpenBSD story « blather.michaelwlucas.com (blather.michaelwlucas.com)

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Scaling PostgreSQL at Braintree: Four Years of Evolution (www.braintreepayments.com)

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OOCSS + SASS = The best way to CSS (ianstormtaylor.com)

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Matlab, R, and Julia: Languages for data analysis (strata.oreilly.com)

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Caching in theory and practice (tech.dropbox.com)

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Teaching linear algebra (bentilly.blogspot.com)

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SpaceX aims big with massive new rocket (www.flightglobal.com)

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The Next Twenty Years: What Windows 8's Closed Distribution Means for Developers (www.gamasutra.com)

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How To Land Any Major Brand For Your Startup (www.virool.com)

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Patents on Software: A Nobel Laureate’s View (www.nytimes.com)

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Exoplanet found right next door in Alpha Centauri (arstechnica.com)

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Today is Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating women's achievements in sci/tech/eng/math (findingada.com)

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Windows System Exploit (megafrock.com)

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Bountify. Crowdsource small coding tasks (https://bountify.co)

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World's biggest geoengineering experiment 'violates' UN rules (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Rsvp.js (github.com)

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Surface Pricing Announced - 499 USD (www.microsoft.com)

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Announcing the Juju Web UI (www.jorgecastro.org)

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As Surface Goes On Sale Today, Microsoft Seeks to Reinvent The Tablet (www.wired.com)

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Sim City adopts a tilt-shift style look and feel (www.wired.com)

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Jekyll blog on Amazon S3 and CloudFront (vvv.tobiassjosten.net)

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Software development final exam answers: Algorithms and Data Structures (www.daemonology.net)

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Enter Darth Vader's Tie Fighter (sketchfab.com)

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Who Works With ‘Creative Coders?’ (timstutts.com)

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Tonnes of iron dumped off B.C.'s coast (www.vancouversun.com)

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Your Fat Needs Sleep Too (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Exploring the Virtual Database Engine inside SQLite (coderweekly.com)

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Crashlytics Labs announces the release of Backbone.StateManager (www.crashlytics.com)

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Celebrating Dart’s birthday with the first release of the Dart SDK (google-opensource.blogspot.com)

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LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta11 released (www.freelists.org)

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Microsoft Surface RT price announced (techcrunch.com)

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Willpower: It’s in Your Head (2011) (www.nytimes.com)

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[] are like Facebook (arelikefacebook.com)

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Responsive design sketch sheets from ZURB (www.zurb.com)

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How DRM will infest the 3D printing revolution (www.extremetech.com)

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Dart is ready for the real world (arstechnica.com)

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Fonts, they're more useful than you may think. (kylerosenbluth.com)

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The Git Revolution Is Here (www.drdobbs.com)

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Worrying php.net status page (visitors' IPs visible and more) (php.net)

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Tech conference for people called Ben* (bens.me.uk)

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Google adds Google Drive documents to search results (g.co)

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What African startup scene needs? (munyukim.blogspot.com)

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Survey: Simple iOS Forms library (github.com)

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GoPro introduces Hero3 4k video 2x frame late & low light performance (www.engadget.com)

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Pathjoy (YC S10) Offers Affordable Housecleaning With Easy Web Booking (techcrunch.com)

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Walt Mossberg's Windows 8 Review (allthingsd.com)

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Show HN: JustBeamIt v2.0 - file transfer made easier (www.justbeamit.com)

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Understanding Postgres Concurrency with MVCC (devcenter.heroku.com)

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HAML vs ERB vs SLIM in terms of render speed (github.com)

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An Operations Mindset is at Odds with Innovation (spin.atomicobject.com)

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Signs You've Found Your Life's Work (www.fastcompany.com)

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Finding A Development Process For a Small Startup Team (stuartkhall.com)

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Global market share of Google public DNS and OpenDNS (www.cdnplanet.com)

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Zynga sues former CityVille Exec for stealing (arstechnica.com)

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Stripe NYC Meetup (stripe.com)

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Save Most Time On Hacker News (chrome.google.com)

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GroupTalent on Finding, Picking and Hiring Designers (blog.folyo.me)

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How Fast is Bit Packing? (lemire.me)

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SendHub (YC W12) Launches Shared Groups - Keep your team's contacts synced (techcrunch.com)

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SpaceX promises new engine and rocket larger than Falcon 9. (www.flightglobal.com)

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Case Study: 13 Pre-Launch Traffic Strategies for Startups (www.softwarebyrob.com)

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The crypto dream (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

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A letter to myself (alpblog.heroku.com)

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Show HN: findthin.gs - Find where to watch tv series & movies (RailsRumble) (http://findthin.gs)

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Apple Sends Out Invitations to October 23 iPad mini Media Event (www.macobserver.com)

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Building a Binpress challenger in 48 hours (blog.gitiosk.com)

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Google Releases The First Stable SDK For Its Dart JavaScript Alternative (techcrunch.com)

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Snapjoy (YC S11) Launches Its iOS App (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: DRUNK-SAPN -- A live, drunken, debate transcript (openedcaptions.com:3001)

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Sending async data from Rails into the world (blog.arkency.com)

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Show HN: Uptilt - multiplayer card game we built during Rails Rumble 2012 (upti.lt)

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Kaspersky Lab Developing Its Own Operating System (eugene.kaspersky.com)

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Hacker Dojo ditching problematic building (www.mv-voice.com)

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UberTAXI in NYC Shutting Down for Now (blog.uber.com)

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Judging Websites (Make a good homepage) (www.codinghorror.com)

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Uber decides to pull the plug on its New York taxi service (arstechnica.com)

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Speeding up and running legacy test suites, part 1 (spideroak.com)

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Show HN: Capo.io - Bringing Capistrano deployments to the masses (http://capo.io)

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Review of Sublime Text 2 and SlickEdit (www.drdobbs.com)

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Inducement and Goals for Publishers (blog.parsely.com)

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MacHeist bundle (macheist.com)

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Hacked terminals capable of causing pacemaker 'mass-murder' (www.scmagazine.com.au)

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Parental Control for iOS (my weekend project) (mocava.de)

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A teardown of Samsung's new f2fs flash filesystem for Linux (lwn.net)

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Zendesk Open Sources Real Time Push Notification Framework (http://radar.zendesk.com)

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IQ and Religion (hypnosis.home.netcom.com)

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Sincerely Gets Out the Vote With 100,000 Shepard Fairey Postcards (blogs.wsj.com)

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Anyone Can Ride Rails - should I write this book? (news.ycombinator.com)

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LESS Mixin to make custom Twitter Bootstrap alerts (jsfiddle.net)

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First shipment of 32 GB Surface RT tablets sell out, now on 3 weeks back order (microsoft-news.com)

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Mapping The Entertainment Ecosystems of Apple, Microsoft, Google & Amazon (www.macstories.net)

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Dock+ The first charging dock for iPhone 5 (www.kickstarter.com)

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Earth-sized planet found in a very close orbit around Alpha Centauri B (translate.google.com)

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Windows Azure Mobile Services adds iOS support and more (weblogs.asp.net)

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New LinkedIn Profile Page Design (www.linkedin.com)

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Alpha Centauri and the New Astronomy (www.centauri-dreams.org)

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Open-sourcing our dashboard for Apache Oozie (engineering.foursquare.com)

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Happy Eyeballs - RFC6555 (tools.ietf.org)

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Show HN: ComodIT, IT Automation as a Service, is launching today (www.comodit.com)

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The Weird Processing Unit has only 4 instructions (attowpu.solirax.org)

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Faster JavaScript by avoiding locking mechanisms in multi-threaded sessions (www.google.com)

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Ask HN: Would love your advice, critique and ideas (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: An ephemeral real-time social news site built in 20 hours (bergen-ruby-brigade.r12.railsrumble.com)

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CUDA 5 is now production ready (developer.nvidia.com)

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After granting GrexIt OAuth privileges, a noticeable delay in email (bufordtaylor.com)

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Solving the problem of open source contributions - contrihub.com (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why does so much innovation come from America? Because it sucks. (blog.ejovi.net)

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Top mistakes of startups rising from Nokia's ashes (toughloveangel.com)