hackerNews

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Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues (www.amazon.com)

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Unix tricks (mmb.pcb.ub.es)

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EA refuses to refund user for SimCity, threatens account ban (www.gamechup.com)

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Linode Nextgen: The Network (blog.linode.com)

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Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (2000) (www.sean-crist.com)

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Flat UI DCMA Takedown (github.com)

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Salary Negotiations: What is Possible When There's no More Money (www.articulateventures.com)

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Facebook's New Feed (www.facebook.com)

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Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients (gist.github.com)

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Why are payment forms so complicated? (blog.siftscience.com)

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Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling (aerogrammestudio.com)

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How to "open" a microchip and what's inside? (zeptobars.ru)

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Google Docs makes it easy to do market research (plus.google.com)

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Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (1970) (ivolo.me)

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Godel Escher Bach QR Code shadow cube (www.thingiverse.com)

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An Iron Man Like 3d Hologram Controlled by Leap Motion and Three.js (badassjs.com)

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Tracking down a memory leak in Ruby's EventMachine (blog.nelhage.com)

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Software Development Is Bad For Your Health (www.alexmedearis.com)

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Flash vs HTML - Waste Invaders (flashvhtml.com)

129 points first seen 2013030821 last seen 2013031018 71 comments

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List of Online Services EA Has Shut Down (webcache.googleusercontent.com)

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Google licenses VP8 patents from MPEG-LA (www.businesswire.com)

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AI Algorithms, Data Structures, and Idioms in Prolog, Lisp, and Java [pdf] (wps.aw.com)

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From idea to AppStore in 2 weeks (www.alasdairmonk.com)

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How I migrated from Heroku to Digital Ocean with Chef and Capistrano (matteodepalo.github.com)

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'Too Big to Jail' Admission Changes Debate (www.americanbanker.com)

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'Viking sunstone' found in shipwreck (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Redis with an SSD swap – not what you want (antirez.com)

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The Startup Legitimizer (thestartuplegitimizer.com)

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Introducing Passion Projects (github.com)

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PHP is the right tool for the job (for all the wrong reasons) (blog.samuellevy.com)

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Bill Introduced to Re-Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking (allthingsd.com)

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Minecraft Environmental Lighting Experiment (blog.taptonics.com)

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Introducing Braintree.js (www.braintreepayments.com)

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The enigma of the Ford paradox (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

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The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer (firstround.com)

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Linux cheat sheet (github.com)

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Tarski's high school algebra problem (en.wikipedia.org)

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Blog in 500 lines of bash (mmb.pcb.ub.es)

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Elements of Statistical Learning (www-stat.stanford.edu)

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Why We Choose Python (www.sixfeetup.com)

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North Korea Warns of Pre-emptive Nuclear Attack (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: the remote-only job board called HireThere (a weekend project) (http://hirethere.com)

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Pandora CEO stepping down (investor.pandora.com)

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DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaper… (www.allthingsdistributed.com)

63 points first seen 2013030818 last seen 2013031003 19 comments

13

How Stripe Builds Software: Conversation with CTO Greg Brockman (blog.airbrake.io)

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A parable about problem solving in software development (www.drmaciver.com)

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Open Source And Responsibility (felixge.de)

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Not convinced by rolling releases (www.markshuttleworth.com)

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Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old (news.yahoo.com)

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GroupMe: Split the Bill (blog.groupme.com)

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Catholic Church -- how to run the World's biggest enterprise (www.economist.com)

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Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’ 10,000x speed of light (www.extremetech.com)

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Amoeba (operating system) (en.wikipedia.org)

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What EA could have done to help Sim City (blog.minefold.com)

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Dealing with SVG images in mobile browsers (kristerkari.github.com)

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Freelancers Are Not Pieces of Meat - Don't Act Like One (grouptalent.com)

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Is there really an IT talent shortage? (www.informationweek.com)

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Building my first web app - 5 months later (premiumthemes.com)

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Asus launches touchscreen desktop that turns into an 18 inch tablet (liliputing.com)

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Attorney General Claims Swartz Case Was “A Good Use of Prosecutorial Discretion” (techcrunch.com)

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Google Glass: You'll kiss your privacy goodbye, and you won't mind (www.zdnet.com)

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Plants make bees remember them fondly with a jolt of caffeine (arstechnica.com)

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The GitHub Revolution: We're All in Open Source Now (www.wired.com)

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Hackers Pull Off $12,000 Bitcoin Heist (www.wired.com)

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Ask HN: Looking for beta testers for Cupcake, a color code editor for mac (news.ycombinator.com)

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Challenge yourself and be Awesome (blog.filipekberg.se)

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Politely refusing to talk to DHS checkpoints (boingboing.net)

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I Have No Idea What I'm Doing with Responsive Web Design (blog.teamtreehouse.com)

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The New Facebook News Feed: A UX Breakdown (zachtratar.com)

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Gumroad introduces Offers (allows discount codes for products) (blog.gumroad.com)

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Yes, your code does need comments. (mikegrouchy.com)

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The Scariest Jobs Chart Ever Isn't Scary Enough (www.npr.org)

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CDC: 'Nightmare bacteria' spreading (edition.cnn.com)

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Rules of startup storytelling (peternixey.com)

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Firebase used in 1/3rd of hacks at Launch hackathon (www.firebase.com)

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The no-hire paper trail Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt didn't want you to see (www.theverge.com)

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The NoSQL Partition Tolerance Myth (hackingdistributed.com)

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Scientists Enhance Intelligence of Mice with Human Brain Cells (io9.com)

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Ask HN: Ever feel your skills are judged based on your appearance? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Gotchas, Irritants and Warts in Go Web Development (www.braintreepayments.com)

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The Snapchat Lawsuit, Or How To Lose Your Best Friend Over $70 Million (techcrunch.com)

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Revolution in the Resale of Digital Books and Music (www.nytimes.com)

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Why online reputation needs to be portable (soroker.blogspot.com)

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SimCity launch a disaster – error messages and random disconnections (m.cnet.com)

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The Striking Relationship Between Gun Safety Laws and Firearm Deaths (www.theatlanticcities.com)

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To Place Graduates, Law Schools Are Opening Firms (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Open source mobile email client built with HTML/CSS/JS (news.ycombinator.com)

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Five Things (www.maxhodak.com)

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Ask HN: I am good at something and I started doing it for free. Now what? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Joy of Hyper-Rapid Development (blog.johnback.us)

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Frozen Android phones give up data secrets (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Technology Stacks, 2013 edition (news.ycombinator.com)

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Retired lab chimps see the sky for the first time (www.hlntv.com)

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A theory on the difference between iPhone and Android users (virtualpants.com)

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How to Find the Right Candidates for Your Start-Up (www.thedailymuse.com)

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Non-profits - How to Get $10,000 Every Month From Google (hallmancommunications.com)

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Apple Maps Leads the Way in Navigation (www.pcmag.com)

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It’s time to overturn DOMA: Bill Clinton (www.washingtonpost.com)

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It Is Never Too Late To Launch A Simple Website (statspotting.com)

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Peer-to-peer rental: The rise of the sharing economy (www.economist.com)

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Refcam - A Camera Strapped Onto The Referee's Head [video] (www.youtube.com)

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A loose rant on motivation and evaluation (37signals.com)

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Welcome Our Robot Overlords (www.scriptrock.com)

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Why you should apply to Startup Chile (from a Round 4 entrepreneur) (clairepelletreau.com)

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/r/ReadableCode (www.reddit.com)

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NFC Hardware Hackathon by Tagstand (YC S11) (hacknfc.eventbrite.com)

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MAC address shortcuts in your .bashrc for re-upping those “30 minutes free Wifi” (mobile.twitter.com)

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Researchers: movie studios sold more after Megaupload was shut down (arstechnica.com)

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DynamoDB - Price Reduction and New Reserved Capacity Model (aws.typepad.com)

5 points first seen 2013030818 last seen 2013030900 0 comments

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Ask HN: What are your favorite books about computer hardware? (news.ycombinator.com)

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OSX tricks (http://miron.github.com)

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Gawker told me to disable NoScript (news.ycombinator.com)

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Haiku Deck Adds Charts, Graphs, Other New Features to iPad Presentation App (betakit.com)

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Android: Vulnerability in PBKDF2 implementation (code.google.com)

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How people live on minimum wage. (inplainsight.nbcnews.com)

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Posterous discontinued April 30 (news.ycombinator.com)

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Moon mining race under way [video] (www.bbc.co.uk)

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SimCity Review (www.jonathancresswell.co.uk)

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Unmanned Robot Army (www.scriptrock.com)

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Visualize JavaScript source complexity with Plato (jsoverson.github.com)

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How Working Remotely Empowers Employees and Fails to Make Business Sense (www.techvibes.com)

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0

Pandora CEO announces resignation following record revenue and losses (www.theverge.com)

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0

Consulting Firm Aquihire? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN : Have trouble keeping in touch with friends? Penguit to the rescue! (penguit.com)

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0

Ask HN: best place to post technical, non developer, job opening? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Alternatives to Adsense? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Amazon has re-decided to sell Sim City V again (www.amazon.com)

4 points first seen 2013030818 last seen 2013030821 0 comments

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Ask HN: how to get revenue from my site (news.ycombinator.com)

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81

North Korea ends peace pacts with South (bbc.co.uk)

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Hacking First Meetings For Startups (www.startupmoon.com)

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Latest Prenda Filing: John Steele Knows Who Alan Cooper Is, But Won't Say (www.techdirt.com)

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The 'Big Data' Revolution: How Number Crunchers Can Predict Our Lives (www.npr.org)

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0

Lynda.com Inspiring Story (leansparks.com)

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Ask HN: How not to be a computer addict? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What are your thoughts on .co domains in 2013? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Blimp launches new discussions feature (blog.getblimp.com)

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Horizontal centering using CSS fit-content value (www.red-team-design.com)

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Tune In Live To Facebook’s News Feed Event (techcrunch.com)