hackerNews

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Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation (www.hummingbirdnotation.com)

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Google Street View Hyperlapses (www.thisiscolossal.com)

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Bitcoin falls from $266 (data.mtgox.com)

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Github turns five (github.com)

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Csscss: a CSS redundancy analyzer that analyzes redundancy (zmoazeni.github.io)

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A non-mathematical explanation of one way functions (blog.jgc.org)

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Mendeley users revolt against Elsevier takeover (paidcontent.org)

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The Tyranny of Taxi Medallions (blog.priceonomics.com)

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Lulu: Sexist gossip about men you know, anonymously, without their permission. (www.compylr.com)

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IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant (news.cnet.com)

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I skateboarded 85km (52mi) from Sydney to Wollongong. It took me 12 hours. (www.rotub.me)

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Why Chemotherapy That Costs $70,000 in the U.S. Costs $2,500 in India (www.theatlantic.com)

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Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO (blog.mozilla.org)

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Rust will likely not support tail call optimization (mail.mozilla.org)

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Top Coders Can Now Get Agents (www.businessweek.com)

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Using AngularJS at Localytics (www.localytics.com)

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Twitter Just Shut Down Ribbon’s Newly Launched In-Stream Payments Feature (techcrunch.com)

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Developer Tools Update – Firefox 22 (hacks.mozilla.org)

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You Can't Stop Universal From Removing Your YouTube Videos (www.dailydot.com)

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Show HN: Rappad - Write better lyrics (rappad.co)

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Optimizely Raises $28 Million to Go Global (blog.optimizely.com)

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A KPI dashboard for early-stage SaaS startups (christophjanz.blogspot.de)

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Schrödinger's 😻 and outside-the-box naming (lwn.net)

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It was not a DDoS: MtGox got 20k new accounts per day (bitcointalk.org)

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Is it Time for Mutiny? (blogs.hbr.org)

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US rice imports 'contain harmful levels of lead' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A simple dark theme and accompanying color scheme for Sublime Text 2 (github.com)

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Intel wants to kill the traditional server rack with 100Gbps links (arstechnica.com)

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The Day the Replication Died (www.kickstarter.com)

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Be The Sucker That Buys The Spammy Domain (searchengineland.com)

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Ambrosia Software lays off its entire staff after 20 years in business (www.tuaw.com)

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Dissecting PostgreSQL CVE-2013-1899 (blog.blackwinghq.com)

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Backlift (YC W12) Launches A Back-End Service For Front-End Developers (techcrunch.com)

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Mysterious Stone Structure Discovered Beneath Sea of Galilee (www.livescience.com)

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The underappreciated power of common courtesy (helloarchenemy.tumblr.com)

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Practical Techniques to Achieve Quality in Large Software Projects (developers.memsql.com)

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Bitcoin down 60% to $100 (www.bitstamp.net)

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GNU Guile 2.0.9 released (lists.gnu.org)

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Neural Network Visualisation in Clojure (clojurefun.wordpress.com)

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Computerists (blog.fogus.me)

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Problems in Education (lesswrong.com)

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Ask HN: How can I make an extra 30-50k a year? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to learn a language from your news feed (and win a Facebook hackathon) (quizlet.com)

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Google Wants To Operate .Search As A “Dotless” Domain (techcrunch.com)

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MtRed Bitcoin mining pool will be shutting down (bitcointalk.org)

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How Optimizely Is Improving Website Personalization (video) (www.bloomberg.com)

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ZenPayroll launches modern payroll service for accountants and bookkeepers (thenextweb.com)

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Funding Innovation Through Google Glass (www.glasscollective.com)

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Collaborative chat done right (about.jabbr.net)

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The Importance of Overdelivery - experience using FlightCar (YC W13) (cooleronline.tumblr.com)

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PC sales plunge, Microsoft and Windows 8 blamed (blogs.seattletimes.com)

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Certificate-based Mozilla Persona IdP (unmitigatedrisk.com)

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Can people really get by on four hours of sleep? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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An Update on In-Stream Payments on Twitter (blog.ribbon.co)

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Kippt (YC S12), An “Evernote For The Web”, Lures Devs With New API, App Gallery (techcrunch.com)

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Startups, you don’t need to be in Silicon Valley (ryancarson.com)

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Tesla messes with Texas over how to sell its electric cars (gigaom.com)

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The Api Paradox (jacquesmattheij.com)

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Meteor Devshop 2: How Spark Works, Meteor 101, 26Plays, and other wisdom (meteor.com)

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The Ever-Shrinking Role of Tenured College Professors (www.theatlantic.com)

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Extract and structure unformatted data without prior system training (http://convextra.com)

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Programmer? Back Pain? Try archery (www.irrlicht3d.org)

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Poll: How do you rate your coding skill compared to your peers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Google Glass Will Change Porn (www.technewsdaily.com)

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Vaulting Credit Cards (blog.spreedly.com)

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Hacker News Redesign (jsbin.com)

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Coming soon to a Dropbox for Business near you: Single sign-on (www.dropboxatwork.com)

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Ribbon Lets You Buy On Twitter, Launches YouTube Support, Price-Matches PayPal (techcrunch.com)

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Brainwave based authentication prototype from UC Berkeley (www.ischool.berkeley.edu)

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South Korea Probe Says North Behind Cyber Attack: Report (www.securityweek.com)

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Firepad Plugin: WebRTC video collaboration (www.tokbox.com)

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Encapsulate What Varies (appendto.com)

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What Bitcoin Is Teaching Us (lfb.org)

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A general technique for automating NES games (www.cs.cmu.edu)

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Fighting human trafficking (googleblog.blogspot.in)

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Learn Ruby (www.kickstarter.com)

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Ask PG, HN: Is someone tampering with article positions? (news.ycombinator.com)

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I know the solution, but it's illegal (hackertourism.com)

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Mathematicians Predict the Future With Data From the Past (www.wired.com)

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SmartAsset (YC S12) Expands Its Home Ownership Platform (venturebeat.com)

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Godaddy shows a lower price while not logged in to your account (news.ycombinator.com)

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Clustrix 5.0 SQL DB now GA on AWS Marketplace (www.clustrix.com)

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Ask HN: Is anyone making money from garbage? (news.ycombinator.com)

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GoodUI (www.goodui.org)

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Gmail: 9 years and counting (gmailblog.blogspot.com)

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The Tyranny of Taxi Medallions (blog.priceonomics.com)

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Why Game Developers Are Flocking to Sony and Fleeing From Microsoft (www.wired.com)

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The New Blogger Template Editor (www.stylifyyourblog.com)

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How many seconds does your website have to capture user attention? (blog.eyequant.com)

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Fake Twitter followers (www.itworld.com)

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Google Glass and the Glass Collective (blog.pmarca.com)

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Kim Dotcom: ‘Eat this FBI, leading the Time100 poll with a 93% approval rating' (venturebeat.com)

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Oil is Oil is Oil - Except When It's Not (www.quantopian.com)

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A Clojurescript rookie’s survival guide notes (blog.markwatson.com)

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Show HN: MindCipher – Challenge yourself (www.mindcipher.com)

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Ask HN: How come hardware engineer's salary is declining? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Give me your used laptop (and a book) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Want to keep track of gem updates? BundleWatcher's got your back! (www.bundlewatcher.com)

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Show HN: Webify - command line webfont generator (github.com)

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Show HN: Instabug – easy in-app feedback. What do you think? (http://instabug.io)

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Inside Operation InVersion, the Code Freeze That Saved LinkedIn (www.businessweek.com)

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Ask HN: How did you learn design? What resources exist to help one learn? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Why is Bitcoin so volatile? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: How do you evaluate Stocks? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Your Least Engaged Employees Might Be Your Top Performers (blogs.hbr.org)

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Ask HN: What do you think about my first coding project? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Enthought Canopy - Comprehensive Python analysis environment (enthought.com)

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Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone (www.net-security.org)

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Raspberry Pi GSM gateway (www.raspberrypi.org)

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When Dickens met Dostoevsky (www.the-tls.co.uk)

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GNOME or KDE? The Old Question Is New Today (www.datamation.com)

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Give me a napkin quick ... there's a turd floating through the air (www.news.com.au)

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What can we learn from the last 200 million things that happened in the world? (ideas.foreignpolicy.com)

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Why did your startup fail? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Adam Orth leaves Microsoft following 'always-on' console controversy (www.theverge.com)

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Online, Latvians’ Ideas Can Bloom Into Law (www.nytimes.com)

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Enthought Canopy: comprehensive Python analysis environment (www.enthought.com)

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UDOO: Android Linux Arduino in a tiny single-board computer (www.kickstarter.com)

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Reasoning under uncertainty: philosopher or scientist? (www.brbr5.co)

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What are your favorite news websites beyond Hackernews? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Website Testing Service Optimizely Raises $28M Round (techcrunch.com)

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Open-source Workflowy clone (github.com)

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George Soros: How to save the EU from the euro crisis (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Wavelet Trees - an Introduction (alexbowe.com)

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Programming Language Theory Texts Online (www.cs.uu.nl)

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UDOO Might Eat Raspberry Pi for Lunch (www.hackthings.com)

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Seven Rules for Creative People (lancercreative.com)

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IDC Reports 'Worst Ever' Q1 PC Sales (www.eweek.com)

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Researcher's trick transforms conservatives into liberals ahead of election (www.nature.com)

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Being Wrong - how we make decisions (ohadfrankfurt.com)

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Bitcoin: A call-to-arms for technologists (www.jperla.com)

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Bitcoin tops $250 (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ask HN: How do I choose the right domain registrar? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Choosing a Programming Language (blog.activelylazy.co.uk)

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The Zen of Agile (blog.fliptop.com)

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Brains as Clear as Jell-O for Scientists to Explore (www.nytimes.com)

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Glass Explorer Edition To Ship Within Next Month, Google Confirms (techcrunch.com)

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Structural and molecular interrogation of intact biological systems (www.nature.com)

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Real-time map of all forests on Earth (www.theverge.com)

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The appearance of new phantom fingers post-amputation in a phocomelus (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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IDC: PC Shipments Post the Steepest Decline Ever in a Single Quarter (www.idc.com)

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How to control office light color using Meteor and Philips Hue (q42.com)

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Don’t Ask “What Are You Good At?”, Ask “What Are You Willing to Get Good At?” (calnewport.com)

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Ask HN: I need quick help (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Minimal Superpermutation Problem (www.njohnston.ca)

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Gartner: Apple should quit hardware business (www.zdnet.com)

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Work for Zencoder: Software Engineer in Test (hire.jobvite.com)

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Crowdtilt is growing rapidly – Hiring a full-stack hacker in San Francisco (www.crowdtilt.com)

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UX Designers - Join the ZenPayroll family and help build modern payroll (news.ycombinator.com)

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Fight fraud with machine learning at Sift Science (siftscience.com)

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