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NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants (news.cnet.com)

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Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catch flights home (thehill.com)

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Watch 2013 Barack Obama Debate 2006 Joe Biden Over NSA Surveillance [video] (www.eff.org)

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Martin Luther King Jr. was wiretapped (sub.garrytan.com)

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The IRS has upgraded its technology to track virtually everything you do online. (money.msn.com)

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Algorithms from the Book. (cstheory.stackexchange.com)

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Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure (bigstory.ap.org)

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COINTELPRO (en.wikipedia.org)

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“Whistleblower welcome in China” (news.xinhuanet.com)

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Off-the-Record Messaging – encrypt your instant messages (www.cypherpunks.ca)

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22k more signatures needed on the Snowden pardon petition (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

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U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of Internet, phone metadata (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Cryptogams and the NSA (fiction) (www.warscapes.com)

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Returning to Free Software: A Guide (words.steveklabnik.com)

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Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? (2008) (www.codinghorror.com)

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Senate Staffers Told To Pretend Top Secret Docs Are Not Widely Available On Web (www.forbes.com)

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Naomi Wolf: My Creeping Concern That The NSA Leaker Is Not Who He Purports To Be (www.facebook.com)

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General Alexander wearing EFF shirt (twitter.com)

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The Snowden Principle (pressfreedomfoundation.org)

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Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#, JS, AS, Perl and D (cito.sourceforge.net)

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Redbus.in acquired for $138M (www.nextbigwhat.com)

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Could we please end the SQLite ALTER TABLE pain? (dustycloud.org)

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How Canada’s shadowy metadata-gathering program went awry (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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Fragile Plan vs Robust Plan (sivers.org)

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Simple Statistics, a JS library for doing statistics. (macwright.org)

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Source: Obama Considering Releasing NSA Court Order (www.npr.org)

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Numba vs. Cython: Take 2 (jakevdp.github.io)

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A new lightweight lift cable will let buildings soar ever upward (www.economist.com)

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Project Loon details from the Christchurch event today (news.ycombinator.com)

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One Year Later: An Epic Review of PyCharm 2.7 from a Vim User’s Perspective (andrewbrookins.com)

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Filmmaker from NSA Leaks Case Emerges from Behind the Camera (www.nytimes.com)

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Sony Smartwatch now open-sourced (www.linuxandlife.com)

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Django's Architecture: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (speakerdeck.com)

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Notational Velocity (notational.net)

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Sublime Text Ctrl+P Like Fuzzy Matching In Few Lines of Python (crossplatform.net)

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Nitpicker – an overly picky language style checker (http://nitpickertool.com)

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CBS confirms reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s computer breached (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Peak Google, Apple and Facebook (www.xconomy.com)

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How Cults Seduce and What Marketing Can Learn From Them (www.scribd.com)

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Changing gut bacteria through diet affects brain function (newsroom.ucla.edu)

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Ethics Aside, Is NSA's Spy Tool Efficient? (online.wsj.com)

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Should the Apache Foundation stop hosting NSA-sponsored code? (tomslee.net)

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Vim as a Python IDE, or Python IDE as Vim (blog.jetbrains.com)

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Australia gets 'deluge' of US secret data, prompting a new data facility (www.theage.com.au)

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Design your focus - Read better, work better, sleep better, X better. (medium.com)

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How To Make A Mint: The Cryptography Of Anonymous Electronic Cash (1996) (cryptome.org)

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Ask HN: Shortest path to $1 million? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Programmable Water (www.blikstein.com)

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The Worst Startup Idea (medium.com)

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China’s Great Uprooting - Moving 250 Million Into Cities (www.nytimes.com)

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Googling ourselves to death (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Rock found in backyard came from space station (boston.cbslocal.com)

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Live Stream from Taksim Square [video] (rt.com)

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US Embassy in Islamabad found wiretapping offices of the President (www.terminalx.org)

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NSA search trends (www.google.com)

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Fears of National ID With Immigration Bill (www.nytimes.com)

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IOS 7 Parallax Background in JS (jsbin.com)

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JavaScript tool that validates your HTML and warns you in the web console (github.com)

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Outsourcing and Limiting to Core Competencies are Essential (medium.com)

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Glenn Greenwald: "You have no idea what is coming" (twitter.com)

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Spies Without Borders III: Modern Foreign Surveillance - A Legal Perspective (www.eff.org)

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Pine Gap (en.wikipedia.org)

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Show HN: Filmgrain, a realtime movie + Twitter app (www.filmgrainapp.com)

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Facebook, Microsoft Disclose Government Data Requests, But Google Balks (blogs.wsj.com)

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Silencing immune attacks in type 1 diabetes (vectorblog.org)

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A few pixels here and there, and iOS 7 is beautiful (josh.io)

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Migrate from FeedBurner (http://feedpress.it)

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Tuktuk (tuktuk.tapquo.com)

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There is only one cloud icon in the entire universe [2011] (www.hanselman.com)

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A very brief history of US government Internet surveillance programs (seldo.com)

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How Tiny Swiss Cellphone Chips Helped Track Global Terror Web (2004) (www.nytimes.com)

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The Bitcoin Believers (www.ft.com)

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Study: Reading novels makes us better thinkers (www.salon.com)

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A Case for a OneToMany Relationship in Django (blog.amir.rachum.com)

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Snowden's Chinese Fans (www.newyorker.com)

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Meet Tranquility, the military-grade 2,500GHZ monster that powers Eve Online (m.pcgamer.com)

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Man's static jacket sparks alert (2005) (news.bbc.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Best Post-NSA debacle Dropbox Alternative? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Seiko watch movement, Part 1 (q-m.org)

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Ulam Spiral (en.wikipedia.org)

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Mattermark Weekly Issue #1 (mattermark.com)

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WebRTC clone of vine on codepen (cdpn.io)

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Iain Banks Final Interview (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Is Sweat Equity a viable idea? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Apple to Bring Official Game Controller Support to iOS 7 and OS X (www.mactrast.com)

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Ask PG: Can you fix the HN RSS feed? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Coming Age of Space Colonization (www.theatlantic.com)

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If your Xbox Live account is banned, you also forfeit your game licenses (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: Should I include my GPA and/or transcripts when applying for jobs? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Police Storm Park in Istanbul, Setting Off a Night of Chaos (www.nytimes.com)

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Why not adopt "Python Style" indentation for Ruby? (2007) (www.ruby-forum.com)

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Debian Wheezy 7.1 released (www.debian.org)

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Category Theory & Programming (yogsototh.github.io)

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Virus Textfiles (www.textfiles.com)

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VP Biden in San Francisco for Democratic fundraiser (abclocal.go.com)

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For Snowden, a Life of Ambition, Despite the Drifting (www.nytimes.com)

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The Government's FISA Requests Shell Game Scam (lauren.vortex.com)

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Nobody understands MRI's GIL implementation (www.jstorimer.com)

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What Dell tells us about the entrepreneur’s endless fight (pandodaily.com)

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Ask HN: What is good language / project to teach 12-year old to code? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Be Like Clark Kent, Not Superman (seanmeverett.quora.com)

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Save your Tweets and links using #bat hashtag (http://batnotesapp.com.)

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Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm (duplicity.nongnu.org)

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How Lincoln Was Dissed in His Day (www.theatlantic.com)

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Good Resources to become a C# Expert (pauloortins.com)

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How my crowdfunding turned into singlefunding (www.debuggex.com)

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Sean Parker on his wedding, redwoods, and death threats (news.cnet.com)

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The Man of Steel, Myostatin, and Super Strength (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

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Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure (www.sfgate.com)

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No Country for Slow Broadband (www.nytimes.com)

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A Python script that saves Google Reader unread items to Markdown files (github.com)

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Obama issues whistleblower directive to security agencies [2012] (m.washingtonpost.com)

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[FORBES] The real engine of innovation is government. (www.forbes.com)

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The NSA has us snared in its trap – and there's no way out (www.guardian.co.uk)

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SaaS Secret Sauce (pandodaily.com)

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Cost to store all US phonecalls made in a year in cloud storage (blog.archive.org)

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More Americans killed in gun deaths than in terrorist attacks (amanpour.blogs.cnn.com)

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Profiling Python Part 1 [video] (www.neckbeardrepublic.com)

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Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests (newsroom.fb.com)

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The Lives of Others (en.wikipedia.org)

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Sinocism China Newsletter (Beijing) - heavy on "snow crash" (Snowden) (sinocism.com)

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Encode your data-streams with NSA-profanity (bitbucket.org)

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No use for old things (www.johndcook.com)

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Brazilians Protest High Cost of Hosting World Cup (www.nytimes.com)

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The Real War on Reality (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Hong Kong Demonstrators Show Support for Snowden (www.nytimes.com)

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Thomas Penfield Jackson, Judge for MS Antitrust Case, Dies at 76 (www.nytimes.com)

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Technical Support Engineer – PagerDuty San Francisco (www.jobscore.com)

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Technical Support Engineer - PagerDuty San Francisco (www.jobscore.com)

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Chute (YC W12) looking for a Front End Lead and a Senior Rails Developer (www.getchute.com)

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