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Members of Congress Go Silent Over Prior False Testimony On Surveillance (jonathanturley.org)

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PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its best week ever (venturebeat.com)

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Supreme Court: Natural Isolated DNA Not Patentable, Synthetic DNA Is [pdf] (www.supremecourt.gov)

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Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac (www.modern.ie)

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Anonymous Microsoft engineer on Xbox1's DRM (pastebin.com)

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Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine (help.duckduckgo.com)

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There's a map for that (github.com)

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Supreme Court rules human genes may not be patented (www.washingtonpost.com)

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It's not just metadata – the NSA is getting everything (blog.rubbingalcoholic.com)

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The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean (news.netcraft.com)

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U.S. National Security Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms (www.bloomberg.com)

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Lawsuit: "Happy Birthday" is not in copyright (boingboing.net)

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8M Americans who may be tracked, questioned or detained in a time of crisis (en.wikipedia.org)

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Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB (www.itwire.com)

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Hackers vs. suits: Why nerds become leakers (www.washingtonpost.com)

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What people are googling in real time (www.google.com)

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Surviving under water in an air bubble (physics.stackexchange.com)

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How We Uncovered the Biggest Fraud in Kickstarter History (www.kickstartedmovie.com)

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Yes, you really can make complex webapps responsive (adioso.com)

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Stop Watching Us Gathers Over 100,000 signatures to fight NSA surveillance (thenextweb.com)

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RethinkDB 1.6 is out: regex matching, new array operations, random sampling (rethinkdb.com)

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The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to servers of tech companies (www.mediaite.com)

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Retiring Chrome Frame (blog.chromium.org)

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Clojure.core: Batteries (Almost) Included (adambard.com)

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Remove unofficial debian-multimedia.org repository from your sources (bits.debian.org)

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UK moves forwards with plans to imitate PRISM (m.bbc.co.uk)

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Show HN: The fantastical free invoicing tool of tomorrow, today (invoiceomatic.io)

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NSA gets no reply in Dutch cloud provider (translate.google.com)

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Deploy Java Apps With Docker = Awesome (blogs.atlassian.com)

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Swedish government offices not allowed to use Google Apps (gigaom.com)

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Beyond the default Rails environments (37signals.com)

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More on Feudal Security (www.schneier.com)

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BBC blows $152 million on failed content management system (www.economist.com)

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"I have nothing to hide" is the wrong way to think about surveillance (www.wired.com)

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Putin defends the U.S. on spying programs, drones and Occupy Wall Street (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Thomson Reuters Gives Elite Traders Early Advantage (www.cnbc.com)

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CSS3 Animations with special effects (www.minimamente.com)

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Case filed to declare 'Happy Birthday' is in the public domain (www.nytimes.com)

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Intro to JS Web Workers (zapier.com)

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Journalists Detained Attempting to Video NSA Building where Snowden Worked (photographyisnotacrime.com)

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Don’t Hash Secrets (2008) (benlog.com)

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Instagram Django site admin (instagram.com)

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Edward Snowden not welcome in the UK as Home Office issues alert (www.express.co.uk)

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Snowden banned from flying to UK (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Economic return from Human Genome Project grows to nearly $1 trillion (www.nature.com)

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Nonblocking Algorithms and Scalable Multicore Programming (queue.acm.org)

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Content-based image classification in Python (blog.yhathq.com)

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Secret Court Ruling Put Tech Companies in Data Bind (www.nytimes.com)

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A gay island community created by Italy's Fascists (www.bbc.co.uk)

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What it feels like to be hit by turkish tear gas (www.fastcoexist.com)

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Retiring Chrome Frame (googleenterprise.blogspot.com)

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Apple: The organizational Rorschach (37signals.com)

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Facebook is Getting Old (www.dailydot.com)

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UML in Practice (www.neverworkintheory.org)

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Univ Glasgow builds Raspberry PI Cloud Server (raspberrypicloud.wordpress.com)

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Drupal on Docker (robknight.org.uk)

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FBI Director Defends Surveillance Programs (www.boston.com)

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Twitter Opens Up Its Analytics Platform To The Public (thenextweb.com)

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Top WP sites exploitable 6 wks after cache plugin fix (hackertarget.com)

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Solve NASA's problems? They'll fund your startup (medcitynews.com)

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Ask HN: Is it really this easy? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Nanocubes: Fast Visualization of Large Spatiotemporal Datasets (http://www.nanocubes.net)

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Supreme Court’s Myriad decision is deeply confused over cDNA (blog.carbocation.com)

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Quick Redis Benchmark: AWS vs. Azure (zapier.com)

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Show HN: aufond.me — a résumé for the modern age [Meteor.js MVP] (http://aufond.me)

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System76 unveils the 14.1" Galago UltraPro, Haswell+Iris *nix-friendly ultrabook (www.system76.com)

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Spinnakr calls for the end of the data scientist to democratize analytics (pandodaily.com)

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Php-ist: Istanbul PHP Conferance (2013.phpist.org)

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How the NSA Got So Smart So Fast (on.wsj.com)

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Building Responsive Web Applications (mobile.smashingmagazine.com)

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3 Reasons the ‘Nothing to Hide’ Crowd Should Be Worried About Govt Surveillance (reason.com)

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LaunchSky (launchsky.com)

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By datamining himself, gabe can predict the gender of callers w/ 67% confidence (www.fastcolabs.com)

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Pro Edward Snowden petition hits 250,000 in 24 hours (www.zeropaid.com)

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Core Concepts of Django ModelForms (pydanny.com)

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Amazon creates 3D printing store (techcrunch.com)

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Khan Academy Cryptography Challenge (www.khanacademy.org)

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Leaker Snowden alleges NSA hacking on China (www.sfgate.com)

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Ask HN: Accused of plagiarism because I used HTML5-Boilerplate for a project (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Foursquare Time Machine (foursquare.com)

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How 'Sailing Stones' Move Themselves Across Death Valley (m.core77.com)

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A D3 visualization of drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004 (drones.pitchinteractive.com)

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Review my startup (background job monitoring as a service) (https://snooze.io)

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RethinkDB issue #1000 — Database tools should be indistinguishable from magic (github.com)

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Tesla promises Model S recharge 'faster than you can fill a gas tank' (twitter.com)

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Camjacking: Click and say Cheese (homakov.blogspot.com)

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The Economics of Craft Beer (www.smartasset.com)

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Category Theory for Programming (yogsototh.github.io)

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Tech Burnout Suggestions (gist.github.com)

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Help Me Help You -- A Month of Code (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Is Chrome now the standard for web developers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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More on Feudal Security (www.schneier.com)

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Analyzing Facebook Interactions of a Small College (vikhyat.net)

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Four dead at business incubator in St. Louis [video] (www.stltoday.com)

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Interview: Today's Java with Cay Horstmann (www.infoq.com)

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The N.S.A.'s Prism Remains Opaque (www.newyorker.com)

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Unpaid No More: Interns Win Major Court Battle (www.theatlanticwire.com)

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How Netflix Deploys Code (www.infoq.com)

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Mustrrd: social news without the noise (www.mustrrd.com)

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5 Upcoming Mobile Operating Systems (www.technologeek.net)

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Ask HN: the best(s) web security book for web developers (news.ycombinator.com)

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Encrypted VoIP data is usually not secure (security.stackexchange.com)

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NSA chief drops hint about ISP Web, e-mail surveillance (news.cnet.com)

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Camjacking: Click and say Cheese (homakov.blogspot.pt)

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Camjacking: Click and say Cheese (homakov.github.io)

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Up and Running With Espresso: Rapid Web Development in the Browser (mherman.org)

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Ask HN: Why is Apple's new design referred as flat design? (news.ycombinator.com)

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NSA chief: We owe the American people stats on surveillance programs (www.cbsnews.com)

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The Secret To Living A Happier And More Fulfilled Life (nostatusquo.co)

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I am James Bamford, one of the journalists investigating the NSA. AMA. (www.reddit.com)

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What if things don’t work out for you? (pandodaily.com)

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Want a Million Likes on Facebook? It's All About the Reshares (mashable.com)

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How the US government taps fiber optic cables for the NSA (www.nytimes.com)

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Meet the Robotics Company Apple Just Anointed (www.theatlantic.com)

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How the Government Spies On Us (howthegovernmentspiesonus.hackpad.com)

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Lucas And Spielberg Predict “Massive Implosion” Of Hollywood (techcrunch.com)

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PRISM-style surveillance is global, Julian Assange says (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Update on GC issues in Go 1.1 and beyond (code.google.com)

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Show HN: 'Job Tips For Geeks: The Job Search' ebook release (news.ycombinator.com)

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Sun apologises to alien lifeforms over Scientology (www.itv.com)

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Amash to Clapper: “Perjury is a serious crime” (hotair.com)

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NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Has a Higher Approval Rating Than Congress (reason.com)

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Thumbtack Series B raises $12.5M (techcrunch.com)

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Facebook's React vs AngularJS: A Closer Look (www.quora.com)

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Widespread AWS DNS issue. Status dashboard is green (status.aws.amazon.com)

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The Astronomical Math Behind UPS' New Tool to Deliver Packages Faster (www.wired.com)

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Wormhole pub/sub system: Moving data through space and time (www.facebook.com)

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Type Punning, Strict Aliasing, and Optimization (blog.regehr.org)

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E-Cigarettes Are in Vogue and at a Crossroads (www.nytimes.com)

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The Astronomical Math Behind UPS’ New Tool to Deliver Packages Faster (www.wired.com)

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Spies Like Us (www.nsfwcorp.com)

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AngularJS Interactive Tutorial (198.199.117.192)

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Google Photo Search: A Step Across the Semantic Gap (googleresearch.blogspot.com)

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Show HN: I made a PostgreSQL GUI for the Mac: PG Commander (eggerapps.at)

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About iOS icons (mantia.me)

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Susan Kare thinks new “flat” iOS 7 icons are A-OK (arstechnica.com)

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Linode down? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Justices rule human genes cannot be patented (www.usatoday.com)

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How poverty might change the brain (www.cnn.com)

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The Supreme Court’s Bad Science on Gene Patents (www.bloomberg.com)

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Supreme Court Rules Human Genes May Not Be Patented (www.nytimes.com)

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Another 3rd party service possibly in decline as Twitter opens their analytics (www.windowsobserver.com)

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Installing Redis on Docker (johnmcostaiii.net)

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How to Build Company Transparency and Reduce Email Using WordPress P2 (blog.tommoor.com)