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If the Earth were 100 pixels wide (www.distancetomars.com)

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Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project (blog.chromium.org)

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Disney Shuts Down LucasArts (kotaku.com)

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A Personal Statement from Iain Banks (www.littlebrown.co.uk)

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Stop working so hard (medium.com)

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Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine (blog.mozilla.org)

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Stop externalising your life (jshakespeare.com)

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The Jellyfish Entrepreneur (blog.priceonomics.com)

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Google going its own way, forking WebKit rendering engine (arstechnica.com)

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Valve's GDC Talk Slides: Porting Source to Linux [pdf] (developer.nvidia.com)

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Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target (ejohn.org)

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Answering your questions about Heroku routing and web performance (blog.heroku.com)

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DotCloud is going open source (blog.dotcloud.com)

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Show HN: HN Store (www.hnstore.co)

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Rust 0.6 Released (mail.mozilla.org)

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Raven Software releases source code for Jedi Academy, Jedi Outcast (www.polygon.com)

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The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency (medium.com)

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Introducing Vdio (blog.rdio.com)

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Opera will use Blink (www.brucelawson.co.uk)

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Great Computer Science Lectures for all levels (codeschool.org)

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Go 1.1 beta 1 Released (groups.google.com)

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Metascala: a Metacircular JVM written in Scala (github.com)

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Analysis of Stack Overflow's Survey of 10K developers (www.statwing.com)

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5 ways to implement HTTPS in an insufficient manner (www.troyhunt.com)

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Douglas Hofstadter has a new book (www.amazon.com)

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Introducing Tabula, a human-friendly PDF-to-CSV data extractor (source.mozillaopennews.org)

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Teenager Who Reads News Online? According to the DoJ, You May Be a Criminal (www.eff.org)

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ISP Advertisement Injection - CMA Communications (zmhenkel.blogspot.com)

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Reasons Not to Stretch (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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How the Internet Archive is having a great time with Bitcoin (blog.archive.org)

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Instawallet Hacked (notice.instawallet.org)

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Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact (www.icij.org)

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Bitcoin Plunges By Nearly $30 As Largest Market Suffers Outage (mashable.com)

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Abusing hash kernels for wildly unprincipled machine learning (jeremydhoon.github.com)

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Mt. Gox under largest DDoS attack as bitcoin price surges (www.computerworld.com)

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Free Must-Have “Security Engineering” Book (www.novainfosec.com)

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Archelogists rediscover Plutos Gate (The Gate to Hell) (www.abc.net.au)

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Thomas Friedman Op-Ed Generator (thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com)

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O'Reilly on Morozov (io9.com)

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The Quiet Revolution in Programming (www.drdobbs.com)

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So your teenager tells you they want to 'make video games' for a living (codesuppository.blogspot.com)

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Love what you do, not what you earn (www.kevinholler.com)

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The other side of working for yourself (thehodge.co.uk)

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XmppFlask (xmppflask.org)

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Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering Engine (techcrunch.com)

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Perl and Perl Module Administration in the Modern Era (speakerdeck.com)

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Amazon Services Hackpad (hackpad.com)

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CB Insights Sells List of Dying Tech Startups for $4,895 (www.cbinsights.com)

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Build-your-own-Dropbox service AeroFS (YC S10) now open to the masses (arstechnica.com)

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Pithy.js - An internal DSL for generating HTML in JavaScript (github.com)

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Bitcoin has everything it needs to become a major speculative bubble (www.businessinsider.com)

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$50,000 for a bunch of dimethyl fumarate? Who's going to stand for that? (pipeline.corante.com)

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Filing taxes: It shouldn't be so hard (www.economist.com)

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StoryWorth Aims to Elicit and Record Family Stories (allthingsd.com)

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Show HN: EssenceApp.com – Daily digest of your Twitter VIPs (http://essenceapp.com)

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Moot 1.0 launches with embeddable forums and commenting without iframes (moot.it)

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BloomJoin: Fast asymmetric Hadoop joins using Bloom Filters and Cascading (blog.liveramp.com)

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Lessons Learned Working from Coffee Shops (blog.sqwiggle.com)

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Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer confirms unexplained excess of high-energy positrons (physics.aps.org)

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Indexing the Andreessen Horowitz Portfolio Companies (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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Bitcoin’s Rise: What If It Is Not A Bubble? (statspotting.com)

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Startup Investment Hits 3.5 Year Low in December, Q1 M&A Slowest Since 1995 (www.daniellemorrill.com)

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Stop using strncpy already (randomascii.wordpress.com)

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Check your router for open ports (www.checkmyrouter.org)

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Chrome Blink FAQ (prng.net)

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Show HN: Forbidden Fruit – Patch built-in Python objects (clarete.github.com)

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JackDB Heroku Plugin - Explore Your Databases In Your Browser (github.com)

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Show HN: EmberScript - Ember.js Infused JavaScript (http://emberscript.com)

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Small-business customer acquisition for your freemium product launch (www.limedaring.com)

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Java Infinite Streams (blog.informatech.cr)

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Hybrid Memory Cube receives its finished spec, promises up to 320GB per second (www.engadget.com)

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Withdrawing sent invitations automatically on LinkedIn (brunosouza.info)

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R 3.0.0 Released (www.r-project.org)

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New Hybrid Memory Cube spec to boost DRAM bandwidth by 15X (www.computerworld.com)

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BillPin buys BillMonk, the US service that inspired it (thenextweb.com)

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Litecoin now trading for $5.78 (btc-e.com)

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FreedomCP private beta: SaaS control panel for Python & PHP apps on Ubuntu (freedomcp.com)

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Scaling with CacheObservers (nerds.airbnb.com)

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The untold story behind Apple's $13,000 operating system (news.cnet.com)

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Backbone.js Collection (mrbool.com)

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Why What You’re Reading About Blink Is Probably Wrong (infrequently.org)

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I'm not Zuckerberg (smitpatel.com)

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SimpleHoney acquired to make digital currencies like Bitcoin go mainstream (blog.simplehoney.com)

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WP Engine hints at IPO with hiring of Bazaarvoice’s Heather Brunner as its COO (thenextweb.com)

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HipChat for Linux (beta) is here (blog.hipchat.com)

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Bitcoin Is Poised To Change Society More Than The Internet Did (falkvinge.net)

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Christina Cacioppo : SF things (www.christinacacioppo.com)

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Iain (M) Banks has terminal cancer (www.iain-banks.net)

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Keep Control of Your Start-up Forever (www.inc.com)

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MtGox down (mtgox.com)

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Casascius Coins now only available by invitation (casascius.wordpress.com)

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'suspended' cofee should totally be a thing everywhere (mbstories.quora.com)

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Ionic wind thrusters may be efficient alternative to conventional jet engines (mit.edu)

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Google Announces Blink, Its Own Rendering Engine For WebKit (readwrite.com)

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What if ‘source code’ were a serialized syntax tree? (clipperhouse.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg's first website is still on Angelfire (news.ycombinator.com)

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Hipchat for Linux (www.hipchat.com)

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NASA to Announce Major Astrophysics Discovery Today (news.yahoo.com)

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Radiation Info For New HTC First "Facebook Phone" Leaked (tawkon.com)

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Lawrence Lessig's TED Talk: We the People – the Republic we must reclaim [video] (www.ted.com)

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Google jukes the stats (www.marco.org)

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Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: JSON data generation (michael.otacoo.com)

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Snabb: My Lab (blog.lukego.com)

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Request-Response Pattern in Postal.js (appendto.com)

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Show HN: jQuery.Feedback widget (github.com)

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Welcome Back, Coach (Brian Pokorny re-joins SV Angel) (daslee.me)

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Thoughts On Mike Arrington Hitting Women (Loren Feldman) (www.youtube.com)

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Why your Github Account is the Best Certificate you'll ever Have (www.codemy.net)

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The Best-Paying Companies For Software Engineers (www.businessinsider.com)

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MountainWest RubyConf 2013: Live Stream (www.reddit.com)

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NYC's Pneumatic Tube Mail Network (untappedcities.com)

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I break stuff all the time (plusbryan.com)

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Prebacked partners with Blue Cross to facilitate med-tech innovation (pandodaily.com)

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Bitcoin Falls Below $117 (www.businessinsider.com)

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Xkcd April fool's comic explained (www.explainxkcd.com)

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Redditor invests $30,000 life savings in bitcoin a month ago when it was $25 (www.reddit.com)

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Ask PG: Why are HN usernames inconsistently case-sensitive? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Write Ruby API's with Poncho (thechangelog.com)

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A look at C++14 and beyond: Part 3 (www.meetingcpp.com)

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Suspended meals (mbstories.quora.com)

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WebcamSwiper (developer.cdn.mozilla.net)

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Instawallet: We've Been Hacked, And Are Suspending Service Indefinitely (www.businessinsider.com)

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AudioBox: Why We Moved to DigitalOcean (www.digitalocean.com)

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Lawrence Lessig: The Republic We Must Reclaim (www.ted.com)

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Princeton's Marriage Market Theory Worked for Me (www.bloomberg.com)

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Shipping Service Bufferbox Is Preparing A Bay Area Launch (techcrunch.com)

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US building first nuclear reactors in 30 years (www.newscientist.com)

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T-Mobile Breaks Free of the Cellphone Carrier Conspiracy (www.nytimes.com)

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How Do You Compete with Starbucks in the Coffee Industry? (www.slate.com)

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PaaS Heroku's misleading of customers poisons the cloud (www.theregister.co.uk)

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How Google Remade the Computer Science Researcher (www.wired.com)

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Ask HN: How to build a portfolio? (news.ycombinator.com)

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New Clues to the Mystery of Dark Matter (www.nytimes.com)

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Bazaar-NG: 7 years of hacking on a distributed version control system (stationary-traveller.eu)

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Evil genius behind the Flashback OS X trojan may have been uncovered (arstechnica.com)

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Mozilla And Samsung Collaborate On Servo, NextGen Browser Engine Written in Rust (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Did your startup's domain name affect your reputation? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Zappos CEO buys 100 Tesla Model S sedans for his Project 100 initiative (www.theverge.com)

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How dangerous is it to access an array out of bounds? (stackoverflow.com)

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Why History Needs Software Piracy (www.pcworld.com)

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H-1B visas usher in cheap replacements for US workers (www.bostonglobe.com)

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Building Faster Mobile Websites [pdf] (www.igvita.com)

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California introduces 'right to know' data access bill (www.zdnet.com)

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DNA Is The Linux Of The Natural World (gizmodo.com)

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At 15, Mark Zuckerberg might have been working through early Facebook prototypes (www.boston.com)

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Swartz Incidents Prompt MIT to Boost Network Security (web.mit.edu)

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J.P. Morgan CEO Answers a Girl Who Wants To Marry a Rich Guy (inspirationalstories.quora.com)

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Facebook Is Expected to Introduce Its Phone (www.nytimes.com)

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Thrusters powered by ionic wind may be an efficient alternative (web.mit.edu)

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Ask HN: Learning PHP Suggest Book (news.ycombinator.com)

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New California Act Would Let Consumers Find Out Who Has Their Personal Data (www.eff.org)

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How I Improved the Speed of My Mobile App by Over 1000% (www.jeremymorgan.com)

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SimCity’s first free DLC is a logo-plastered Nissan Leaf charging station (www.pcgamer.com)