hackerNews

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Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration with Georgia Tech (blog.udacity.com)

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Etsy accused me of not assembling my synths by hand and shut down my shop (wtfbyrne.tumblr.com)

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Sydney tunnel water screen stop sign for oversized vehicles [video] (www.youtube.com)

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The Scientific 7-Minute Workout (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Mt. Gox Dwolla account frozen by DHS (bitcointalk.org)

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"Programmer. Come Work For Us" (x.myles.io)

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Come here and work on hard problems – except the ones on our doorstep (programmingisterrible.com)

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Https URLs posted in private Skype chats visited by Microsoft (translate.google.com)

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Larry Page posts about his voice (plus.google.com)

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Sydney tunnel water screen stop sign for oversized vehicles [video] (www.doobybrain.com)

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When a Startup Sends a Passive-Aggressive Email Every Day (minimaxir.com)

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Indie game Haunts unable to compile its Go code (forums.thedailywtf.com)

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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls (www.rackspace.com)

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FOIA release: Completely Redacted Document About Text Snooping (reason.com)

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4

Turing Drawings (wry.me)

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Firefox, Heal Thyself (blog.mozilla.org)

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The reliability of Go - Go in production (andrewwdeane.blogspot.com)

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9

Those who teach (ninjasandrobots.com)

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Show HN: CoderPad, an etherpad + REPL for coding interviews (http://coderpad.io?hackernews)

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Show HN: Every feedback app sucked – so I learnt Ruby and made one (http://redpen.io)

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Bitbucket introduces online editing (blog.bitbucket.org)

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Florida shortened yellow light times to increase red light camera revenue (www.wtsp.com)

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New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More (www.forbes.com)

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Microsoft announces Windows 8.1 (blogs.windows.com)

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Dribbble offline due to Postgres problem (twitter.com)

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Kickstarter project raised $196K and stopped responding (www.kickstarter.com)

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Writing a Vi-like Graphics Editor in Racket (jeapostrophe.github.io)

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Why MongoDB is a bad choice for storing our scraped data (blog.scrapinghub.com)

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Introducing the Square Stand (squareup.com)

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Our Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Saurik releases Substrate for Android (www.cydiasubstrate.com)

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San Francisco's Real Startup Secret Sauce (www.inc.com)

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Only 200 Startups Per Year End Up Mattering and Most of them Aren't in Tech (bostinno.streetwise.co)

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WalmartLabs acquires Tasty Labs (walmartlabs.blogspot.com)

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We understand why Etsy removes Electronics projects (www.tindie.com)

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MitmProxy 0.9 is out (corte.si)

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BBM for iOS and Android to Launch This Summer (blogs.blackberry.com)

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Choosing the Right EC2 Instance Type for Your Application (aws.typepad.com)

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Department of Homeland Security Bans Dwolla Transfers To or From Mt. Gox (dl.dropboxusercontent.com)

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Access Dropbox as a network drive on Mac and Windows (blog.expandrive.com)

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Coffee with Tim Cook finishes at $610,000 (www.charitybuzz.com)

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Dropping In on Gottfried Leibniz (blog.stephenwolfram.com)

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Writing unit tests is reinventing functional programming (noss.github.io)

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Show HN: ApplyBin - hiring as easy as email, made with Meteor (https://applybin.com)

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Square Debuts its Latest Hardware, a $299 Card Swiper for iPad Registers (techcrunch.com)

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Etsy shut down Brendan Byrne's shop (Part 2) (wtfbyrne.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: Would you hire me? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Do a Google Image search for "atari breakout" (images.google.com)

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0

The Jenna Marbles Paradox: Why Are YouTube Videos So Terrible? (betabeat.com)

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Builders bulldoze Mayan Pyramid (news.uk.msn.com)

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Science Is Broken (www.scienceisbroken.org)

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How I'm Predicting Baseball Outcomes (blog.zachschnell.com)

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Poll: Where do you host your static website? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Hire Me GitHub (hiremegithub.com)

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Managing Memory in Javascript is Hard (polarmobile.com)

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[Show HN] Debuggify: Advanced error analytics for modern javascript applications (www.debuggify.net)

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Educating the Planet with Pearson (thinkaurelius.com)

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Approximate Heavy Hitters – The SpaceSaving Algorithm (boundary.com)

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Ask HN: Is anynone on HN currently developing for Google glass? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The 21st century skill students really lack (www.danielwillingham.com)

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Startup hustle: Why two men decided to sleep together in a van for months on end (pandodaily.com)

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Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write (www.h-online.com)

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Pay your dues (medium.com)

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Tell HN: I did it (thank you) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask PG: Can we see our Y combinator application score? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Rescale releases live tailing (blog.rescale.com)

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CS undergrad looking to combine travel and supporting NGOs this summer (www.charity-hack.org)

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The first community on Gittip is ... Korea (blog.gittip.com)

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The worst enemy to my startup is depression. (www.limedaring.com)

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The Corporate Radical Who Organized Visa Wants to Dis-organize Your Company (www.fastcompany.com)

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Algorithms: it's got what hopeless romantics crave (jtame.com)

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Windows Blue will be a free update named Windows 8.1 (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: Do you click on ads as a way to say thank you? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Indexing video through content (manage.veezio.com)

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We're getting slower... and more dumberer. (www.sciencedirect.com)

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Google Ventures invests in OpenCoin, the firm behind Bitcoin exchange Ripple (gigaom.com)

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Why developers hate 8 (www.reactos.org)

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Engineering Team For Sale. Again. (http://acquihire.me)

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Boost Your Productivity with a 10-minute Workout - Part 1 (medium.com)

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13 year old Firefox bug (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: 4th member of startup. I missed out on the H1B lottery. Options? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Qt 5.1 Beta Released (blog.qt.digia.com)

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Announcing iOS and Android App Testing on Sauce (sauceio.com)

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Changing Your SSH Port Does Lower Your Risk (danielmiessler.com)

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Startup Edition: weekly wisdom from founders, hackers, and designers (startupedition.com)

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Strong Opinions, Weakly Held (blog.filepicker.io)

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Bret Victor - Drawing Dynamic Visualizations (vimeo.com)

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Discover Meteor (meteor.com)

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Ask HN: two developers with no marketing skills built an app, then what? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why I Don't Use Interface Builder (blog.teamtreehouse.com)

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)

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Justice Department's pursuit of AP's phone records is both extreme and dangerous (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Homeland Security attempting to seize Mt. Gox's accounts? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: ReelSurfer Pro for Online Video Marketers (reelsurfer.com)

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US Department of Homeland Security forces Dwolla to stop payments to MtGox (www.reddit.com)

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Google Is Expected to Start a Music Service to Compete With Spotify (www.nytimes.com)

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You absolutely should not get backyard chickens (www.nwedible.com)

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Mathematical formulas are designed to be pretty, not suitable for computation (blogs.msdn.com)

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Closing Issues via Pull Requests (github.com)

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How to Properly Conduct an Interview (blog.mightyspring.com)

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Why an Atlas Shrugged smart people strike would never work. (michaelochurch.wordpress.com)

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Bro-sie the Riveter (thehawkeyeinitiative.com)

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Show HN: NoList, a To-Do List that is not a list. (www.joaquinllaneza.com)

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Steve Gibson announces development of SpinRite 6.1 and 7 (www.grc.com)

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Don’t have the right gear? Make it. (37signals.com)

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Ruby 2.0.0-p195 released (www.ruby-lang.org)

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Boost VC raises Bitcoin Fund (techcrunch.com)

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How I converted 20000 users, with a $50 budget in 1 month (andreasaltheimer.wordpress.com)

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Mad Dash: How to Use the Dash in Writing (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Indicators of Talent For Software Engineers (jobtipsforgeeks.com)

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How to exploit academics (aubreymcfato.com)

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Video Recording From Your Mobile Browser (http://cameratag.com?)

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Department of Homeland Security Shuts Down Dwolla Payments to and From Mt. Gox (betabeat.com)

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Google readies its Spotify competitor with Universal and Sony now on board (www.theverge.com)

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DHS confirms investigation that led to Dwolla cutting off transfers to Mt. Gox (news.cnet.com)

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Ask HN: What are some good programming blogs? (news.ycombinator.com)

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JavaScript Is Eating the World (slashdot.org)

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Go Kart: Rails style development with golang (Rake, sprockets, etc. and go) (github.com)

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Ancient Mayan Pyramid Bulldozed (www.theage.com.au)

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Did you know: Google has their own military (twitter.com)

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Show HN: Latest side project, a poetry app that suggests rhymes as you type (poetreatapp.com)

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NoSQL in PostgreSQL (blog.dsl-platform.com)

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Build the Internet of things (www.simpledata.io)

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Beginner's Intro to Coding Fundamentals (blog.learnstreet.com)

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Nomad: world-class command line utilities for iOS development (nomad-cli.com)

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Ditch MVC, here comes SVC - Selector-based View Composition (static.usenix.org)

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Ask HN: Have you done a programming boot camp? How'd it turn out? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Chairs for use w/ standing desks? (news.ycombinator.com)

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6 Mozilla GitHub Projects to Hack On (tech.pro)

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Writing Go applications with a clean architecture (manuel.kiessling.net)

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Third major solar flare in 24 hours (www.foxnews.com)