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Snowden Leaves Hong Kong on Commercial Flight to Moscow (www.scmp.com)

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Demonstrations to protest NSA spying planned for July 4th (http://restorethefourth.net)

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HKSAR Government issues statement on Edward Snowden (www.info.gov.hk)

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Snowden: US hacks Chinese mobile phone companies, steals SMS data. (www.scmp.com)

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Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

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The Physics Behind Traffic Jams (www.smartmotorist.com)

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Ask PG: Please consider a resurrection vote for the undead amongst us (news.ycombinator.com)

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Chinese students and families fight for the right to cheat their exams (www.smh.com.au)

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U.S. Seemingly Unaware of Irony In Accusing Snowden of Spying (www.newyorker.com)

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Statement by Julian Assange after One Year in Ecuadorian Embassy (wikileaks.org)

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Snowden's destination is Venezuela through Havana (www.interfax.com)

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U.S. asks Hong Kong to extradite Snowden (www.usatoday.com)

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EFF: Help Us Protect Mesh Networking From Overbroad Patents (www.eff.org)

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The Technical Interview Is Dead (techcrunch.com)

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Turkish drone shooting heralds a new age of civillian counter-surveillance (www.geek.com)

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Free "Lisp Hackers" Ebook (lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com)

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PNG vs SVG for sprites (codepen.io)

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Only Nixon Harmed a Free Press More (www.nytimes.com)

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“Feel Free To Kill Protesters”, said Brazilian Public Prosecutor (medium.com)

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US hacked Pacnet, Asia Pacific fibre-optic network operator, in 2009 (scmp.com)

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Steve Blank: Don’t Give Away Your Board Seats (blogs.wsj.com)

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Show HN: Blynde - A new way to listen music on Youtube (Nick:demo - Pass:123456) (http://blynde.com)

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Snowden not yet arrested despite U.S. request (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Announcing pqR: A faster version of R (radfordneal.wordpress.com)

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Book Review: Violent Python (www.ethicalhacker.net)

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Free "Lisp Hackers" Ebook (lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.it)

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Convert Twitter Boostrap to a "flat" design (gist.github.com)

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FBI using "facial recognition" on millions of DMV driver photos. (epic.org)

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Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization (www.businessweek.com)

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This is a regular text file. People will read it. Maybe. (slopjong.de)

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Assange's Advice To Snowden: Go To Latin America (edition.cnn.com)

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Petition to prosecute James Clapper for lying to Congress (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

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Fmr NSA worker Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong for Cuba (www.rte.ie)

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Go's range clause (www.funcmain.com)

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NewsDiffs: Tracking Online News Articles Over Time (www.newsdiffs.org)

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Petition to pre-emptively pardon Edward Snowden reaches goal of 100k signatures (falkvinge.net)

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A Million Engineers in India Are Struggling to Find a Job (globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com)

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New York Lawmakers Set Aside Bill Threatening Tesla Sales (www.bloomberg.com)

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First steps with Hy, the Pythonic Lisp (www.tech-thoughts-blog.com)

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Snowden with WikiLeaks legal advisers over Russian Airspace (twitter.com)

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DuckDuckGo privacy: A search engine that doesn’t track its users (www.slate.com)

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White House: "We expect" Hong Kong to comply with Snowden extradition (www.cbsnews.com)

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German Army buys 31% less helicopters to save 2.2% (translate.google.com)

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Snapjoy (YC S11) is closing (blog.snapjoy.com)

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World first: Live stream Japanese deep submergence vehicle 5,000m dive (live.nicovideo.jp)

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Project Loon: Google’s biggest obstacle isn’t technology. It’s politics (gigaom.com)

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Tom Mitchell working on new Machine Learning chapters (www.cs.cmu.edu)

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Ostel: Encrypted Phone Calls (https://ostel.co)

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Disoriented, Man With ID Is Still a Puzzle (www.nytimes.com)

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World Bank Insider Blows Whistle on Corruption, Federal Reserve (www.thenewamerican.com)

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Why is programming an art (blooki.st)

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Tesla: It's faster to 'recharge' electric car than pump gas (www.csmonitor.com)

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Anger mounts after Facebook's 'shadow profiles' leak in bug (www.zdnet.com)

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Twitch.TV misconfigured cache-server exposes user data (blog.twitch.tv)

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Cato Comments on TSA Body Scanners (www.cato.org)

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Texas college students hijack drone aircraft (www.geek.com)

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Show HN: Vintage Cartoons (4hv hack) (http://vintagecartoons.tv)

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Self-interview after leaving the NetBSD board (julipedia.meroh.net)

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Senator Bernie Sanders' Restore Our Privacy Act (www.sanders.senate.gov)

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Raspberry-Pi-Powered, Android-Controlled Remote Garage Door Opener (ryanfx.blogspot.com)

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Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ (gigaom.com)

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English is no longer the language of the web (qz.com)

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Doctor Performs First Google Glass Equipped Surgery (www.pcmag.com)

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Ask HN: Who is working on a Saturday? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Snowden is currently over Russian airspace (twitter.com)

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How hacker news saved my 2 years (news.ycombinator.com)

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Snapchat launches SnapKidz (blog.snapchat.com)

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Snapchat Snaps Up $80M From IVP At An $800M Valuation (techcrunch.com)

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Node.js Database Real-Time Monitoring Library (github.com)

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Filmmakers’ group tries to reshape treaty that would benefit the blind (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Swarm Cyber-Shaming in Science Fiction (www.fantasticalandrewfox.com)

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Understanding Tail Recursion (blogs.msdn.com)

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Help us electrifying this village (www.indiegogo.com)

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Ask HN: Would getting arrested at #restorethefourth affect your hiring decision? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Password Cracking AES-256 DMGs (blog.whitehatsec.com)

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Eight Toxic Foods: A Little Chemical Education (pipeline.corante.com)

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Why Are Dead People Liking Stuff On Facebook? (readwrite.com)

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VC-istan is dead, not “the technical interview” (michaelochurch.wordpress.com)

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DDG’s Post-PRISM Growth Actually Proves No One Cares About “Private” Search (searchengineland.com)

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What Not to Do in Python (blog.juanl.org)

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No, actually what the NSA is doing IS illegal even by patriot act standards (m.youtube.com)

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Revealed: US Spy Operation That Targets Social Medial [2011] (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Google’s billion dollar acquisition of Waze faces FTC antitrust probe (thenextweb.com)

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Actually, what the NSA is doing IS illegal even according to the patriot act (www.youtube.com)

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Introducing the NSA-Proof Font (motherboard.vice.com)

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Ask HN :How to become a low-end big data consultant? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Five Ways Augmented Reality Will Make Us Transhuman (www.seriouswonder.com)

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Free strong 256-bit encryption service for everyone (www.encryptfree.com)

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Using Shell Commands to Gleen Data From Log Files (blog.hypergeometric.com)

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The Joy of Time Zones (norman.walsh.name)

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Edward Snowden 'leaves Hong Kong on Moscow flight' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Nightfall: Mudding since 1990 (nightfall.org)

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CloudUp Is A Fast, Dead-Simple Way To Share And View Files On Any Platform (techcrunch.com)

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Pineapple fields grow in Fibonacci sequences (www.kuriositas.com)

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Holder says he did not mislead Congress over reporter leak probe (www.cnn.com)

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The Dirty Little Secret Of Inkjet Printers [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

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Any interest in an java nio FileSystem implementation over SSH? (github.com)

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Stripe’s Payout Technology For Collaborative Consumption Startups Does $500K/Day (techcrunch.com)

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Tracking bug on activist in New York (www.smh.com.au)

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Show HN: How to set up a screaming fast LEMP server in Gentoo (www.jeremymorgan.com)

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Don't outsource, distribute (www.startersquad.com)

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On the Espionage Act charges against Edward Snowden | Glenn Greenwald (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Debian Wheezy on my Macbook, cool. (blog.giuseppeurso.net)

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Hong Kong to refuse extradition of Snowden if found to be political (www.cnn.com)

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Fun with SMB on the Command Line (www.ethicalhacker.net)

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The Guy Who Used To Protect Your Facebook Data Now Works For The NSA (www.businessinsider.com)

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Whats the fastest JSON C serialization library? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Amiga Unix (en.wikipedia.org)

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Why Espionage vs Treason for Snowden? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Equivalence of Mass and Energy (plato.stanford.edu)

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Show HN: Top of the Morning is now available on the App Store (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Humanist Vocation (www.nytimes.com)

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Dear NSA, It’s Not Just About the Spying (xato.net)

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Show HN: WebSite to Play Board/Card Games - looking for feedback (www.funnode.com)

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Ask HN: New term for "stolen" data/secrets etc (news.ycombinator.com)

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I got tired of fighting with Chrome and Safari over reading RSS files (smallpicture.com)

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Free Pascal (www.freepascal.org)

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Rapiro Kit Robot For Raspberry Pi Gets Funded On Kickstarter In Two Days (techcrunch.com)

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Stop stressing about startup competitors (startupnorth.ca)

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Ask HN: How many people would want to check-in/check-out in public transit? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Why Does It Take "10 Days" To Be Unsubscribed From Marketing Emails? (news.ycombinator.com)

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First steps with Hy: write Python in Lisp (www.tech-thoughts-blog.com)

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Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong for Moscow (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Director of Engineering – Disrupting eCommerce (http://letote.com)

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