hackerNews

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HBGary journalist is facing 105 years in prison (www.thenation.com)

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Pandora Paid Over $1,300 for 1 Million Plays (theunderstatement.com)

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Richard Stallman Inducted Into the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame (www.fsf.org)

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How to properly plagiarize a website (www.infinum.co)

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Pandora and Royalties (blog.pandora.com)

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How I Structure My Flask Applications (mattupstate.com)

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Inside An Illegal Party In An Abandoned Subway Station Deep Under NYC (gothamist.com)

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Firefox 22 released (www.mozilla.org)

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Google Gay Marriage (www.google.com)

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NSA fact sheet pulled after being challenged by Sen. Mark Udall (www.denverpost.com)

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Only clear skies on Google Maps and Earth (google-latlong.blogspot.de)

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Snowden given safepass to Ecuador (s0.uvnimg.com)

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Court Order told Yahoo that Prism does not require a warrant [pdf] (www.fas.org)

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Is There Any Point to the 12 Times Table? (blog.wolfram.com)

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The book that inspired the birth of reddit (alexisohanian.com)

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Show HN: ngrok – secure introspectable tunnels to localhost (https://ngrok.com)

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Complaint filed against Irish subsidiaries of Apple, Facebook (www.irishtimes.com)

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Google Hangouts adds remote desktop support (plus.google.com)

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EFF Sues FBI For Access to Facial-Recognition Records (www.eff.org)

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Alcoholism in Antarctica (www.funraniumlabs.com)

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Opera breached, has code cert stolen, possibly spreads malware (nakedsecurity.sophos.com)

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Tim Berners-Lee scolds 'hypocritical' West over spying (www.nbcnews.com)

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Adblock Plus is changing amazon refs and using other mafia-like behaviour (translate.google.com)

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Coming Out as a Porn Addict (www.theatlantic.com)

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Hijacking a Facebook Account with SMS (blog.fin1te.net)

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Eye-surgery by magnetically-guided microrobots moves toward clinical trials (robohub.org)

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Why I'm Not Using RubyMotion in Production (joshsymonds.com)

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Is it too late to be awesome? (medium.com)

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GHCJS - Haskell in the Browser (weblog.luite.com)

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iOS 7: Catch me if you can (www.allenpike.com)

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Goodbye node-forever, Hello PM2 (devo.ps)

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Yes, summer job paid tuition back in ’81, but then we got cheap (seattletimes.com)

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SSL Report: duckduckgo.com (www.ssllabs.com)

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Windows 8.1 Preview (windows.microsoft.com)

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On Snowden and the Enduring Need for Civil Disobedience (bobwaycott.com)

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New Dimension For Windows: Microsoft Puts 3D Printing Support Directly Into OS (www.geekwire.com)

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Ask HN: Becoming a Freelancer in 6 months? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Could Glenn Greenwald go to jail? The law is alarmingly murky (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Responding to iOS 7 (tapity.com)

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Source SDK 2013 (github.com)

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What If The Moon Was Replaced By Other Planets (www.boredpanda.com)

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The Lyme-disease infection rate is growing (www.newyorker.com)

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Windows 8.1 Preview (blogs.windows.com)

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Father’s genetic quest pays off (www.nature.com)

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An Introduction to Node's New Streams (calv.info)

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Play Ping Pong using your browser windows (stewd.io)

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Bitcoin Black Market Competition Heats Up (www.forbes.com)

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We're killing it, bro (mystartuphas30daystolive.tumblr.com)

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Nitrous.io brings its browser-based app development environment into public beta (thenextweb.com)

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How I live and how I work (alexwarren.co.uk)

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Why Are So Many College Graduates Driving Taxis? (www.bloomberg.com)

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An open source Google Reader replacement: Sismics Reader (www.sismics.com)

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From Learning Rails to Deploying a SaaS App in 7 Days (www.vutran.me)

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UK Police Routinely Spy On 9000 'Domestic Terrorists' Very Loosely Defined (www.techdirt.com)

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Being Present (nathanbarry.com)

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Fight fraud frugally (blog.siftscience.com)

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Meet Prism's little brother: Socmint (www.wired.co.uk)

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Performance Tuning at Airbnb - How we cut our site load time by 25% (nerds.airbnb.com)

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From the resource curse to the finance curse (www.trust.org)

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GeoJSON rendering improvements (github.com)

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Firefox v22 released (ftp.mozilla.org)

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Speculative Lock Elision in Varnish Cache (www.varnish-software.com)

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Close.io adds SmartSearch: Data analytics so simple a salesperson can do it (pandodaily.com)

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Lemonad: Functional JavaScript Library (fogus.github.io)

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Visual Studio 2013 preview available for download, 5,000 new APIs in Windows 8.1 (www.engadget.com)

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Show HN: RiffUp - Edit Music Notation in the Browser (www.riffup.com)

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Nerve cells 're-grown' in rats after spinal injury (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Dependency Injection for Python (github.com)

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Show HN: Programmatically sent 42k snapchats, created a social contest (ranker.io)

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Raspberry Pi Hosting (raspberrycolocation.com)

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Nitrous.IO is now in public beta (blog.nitrous.io)

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San Diego Hacker News Meetup 42 (Fri 6/28) (anyvite.com)

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Redis (consistent hashing based) sharding made easy (emre.github.io)

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Snowden a prize for Russians -- until they have his secrets (www.latimes.com)

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Are We Ready to Kill Thresholds? (obfuscurity.com)

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Poll: How often do you deploy to production? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Q&A with Greylock's David Sze: The $250MM Difference in Facebook’s Valuation (iamvictorio.us)

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Al-Qaida said to be changing its ways after leaks (hosted.ap.org)

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Ask HN: Career trajectory for software developers (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Close.io (YC W11) built per-recipient email tracking (hack.close.io)

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Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, and the end of civil disobedience. (www.slate.com)

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The Terminal: Snowden stuck in Moscow airport (rt.com)

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Ouya – What The Hell Is Wrong With Everyone? (whatculture.com)

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My 5-year-old son died 7 months ago. Help me find out why (www.change.org)

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Ask HN: I failed a lot, what should I do? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Boomerang - New Alternative to Gmail App on Android (www.talkandroid.com)

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Australian Minister for Broadband resigns (www.gizmodo.com.au)

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Tips for nailing an iPhone app demo during a presentation (medium.com)

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The NSA reads my t-shirts. (teespring.com)

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Heroku taps industry vet Tod Nielsen as new CEO (gigaom.com)

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ASP.NET MVC security and user management done the right way (http://aspsecuritykit.com)

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Here’s what happens to asylum-seekers who stay in airport limbo indefinitely (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Test-drive Rails 4 with BitNami (blog.bitnami.com)

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Adobe donated $5000 to JS-Git (www.bountysource.com)

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How Much Damage Has The NSA Scandal Done To US Tech Giants? (warnewsupdates.blogspot.ca)

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Ask HN - I just left my job today and I'm really confused. Need urgent advice (news.ycombinator.com)

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Someday, somebody with a lot of Bitcoins is going to say “no.” (chralash.wordpress.com)

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Microsoft confirms Internet Explorer 11 is coming to Windows 7 (www.engadget.com)

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700,000-Year-Old Horse Becomes Oldest Creature With Sequenced Genome (news.sciencemag.org)

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Contentful: an API-first approach to content management (www.contentful.com)

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Vole - a decentralized social network (vole.cc)

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Hijacking a Facebook Account with SMS (blog.fin1te.net)

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Sponsorfied (YC S12) relaunches as Partnered (venturebeat.com)

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MOST-POSITIVE-BIGNUM (www.jwz.org)

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The Science of Smart: Eight Ways Of Looking At Intelligence (www.pbs.org)

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Court Upholds Man's $675,000 Fine for Music Piracy (reason.com)

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Youtube download counter-countermeasures applied (www.jwz.org)

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Reminder: 72 hours left to export feed list OPML from Google Reader (news.ycombinator.com)

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Breathe with chest or stomach? (www.livestrong.com)

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Netflix HTML5 Video in IE 11 on Windows 8.1 (techblog.netflix.com)

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Category Theory in JavaScript | by Mike Stay (jscategory.wordpress.com)

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Flamingo: Better colors for basic Bootstrap (rriepe.github.io)

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Mathematics versus Computer Science (ninazumel.com)

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In 2009, Ed Snowden said leakers “should be shot.” Then he became one (arstechnica.com)

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Edward Snowden: history will be kind to him (www.guardian.co.uk)

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How to waste 90,000 Dollars in three months (news.ycombinator.com)

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It can’t just be “better.” (medium.com)

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Analyze Github commits to know which convention is popular (sideeffect.kr)

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Learn X in Y Minutes (adambard.com)

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Live Map of Internet outages (stable at 4.000 per hour) (www.pingdom.com)

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Who authorised the NSA and GCHQ to spy on Germans? (www.guardian.co.uk)

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If Earth Had a Ring Like Saturn (io9.com)

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Ask HN: What are stock options? What should I do with them? (news.ycombinator.com)

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SonicWeb: My freetime project is the german top mac music app, what now? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A Guide to Facebook's Photo Cropping 'Wild West' (blog.changemakrs.com)

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The Errors of Edward Snowden and His Global Hypocrisy Tour (www.vanityfair.com)

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The Internet of Things and the Future of Manufacturing (www.mckinsey.com)

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A Remarkable Life Requires You to Overcome Mediocrity, Not Fear (calnewport.com)

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Kasparov Will Not Return to Russia (www.chessbase.com)

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Eclipse Kepler 4.3 released (news.ycombinator.com)

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Move your on-site surveys from Qualaroo to WebEngage (http://qualaroo.justmigrate.com)

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Anyone up for living for cheap in Turkey and working on our own projects? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Giving Our Customers More Choice with Windows Azure (blog.engineyard.com)

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Why U.S. is being humiliated by the hunt for Snowden (www.cnn.com)

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Lyft and Uber to keep operating in LA despite city orders (www.latimes.com)

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I only have a HackerNews cred of (10), does it make a difference to have more? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: What's a good way for an engineer to learn design (news.ycombinator.com)

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Gigabit Seattle priced at $80 per month (arstechnica.com)

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Bay area police using automated plate readers, sharing data with feds (np.reddit.com)

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Apple Spells Out iTunes Radio Terms for Record Labels (blogs.wsj.com)

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What if Edward Snowden were Chinese? (www.theatlantic.com)

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The Long Shadow Of The Valley Reaches Berlin (onstartups.com)

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Soylent : Soylent v.8 alpha ingredients (blog.soylent.me)

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Zagat: How A Great Google Workplace Turned Into A 'Nightmare' (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ask HN Recruiters: What if someone doesn't want to phone interview? (news.ycombinator.com)

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On Losing Our First Hire (medium.com)

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Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals: archief nrc.nl (vorige.nrc.nl)

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How Geogram built a free group email service using Yii for PHP with MySQL (blog.mailgun.com)

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How to disable Turbolinks in Rails 4 (blog.flightswithfriends.com)

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Greenwald: Media complicit in NSA scandal (www.businessinsider.com)

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The Play Framework at LinkedIn: Productivity and Performance at Scale (marakana.com)

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Football player convicted of murder based on text messages and surveillance (espn.go.com)

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Is Silicon Valley Wasting Its Talent On Foolish Ideas? (www.fastcompany.com)

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UW Study On Why Women Avoid Computer Science Careers (www.geekwire.com)

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21-Year-Old Thiel Fellow Raises $3.8 Million For Figma (techcrunch.com)

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In 2009, Ed Snowden said leakers “should be shot.” Then he became one (arstechnica.com)

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Wanna try to spawn 8 cloud app servers by one click and within 1 second? (rush.erlangonxen.org)

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Ask HN: OpenSource PaaS (news.ycombinator.com)

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HP Confirms Backdoor In StoreOnce Backup Product Line (www.securityweek.com)

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Statistical Process Control Rules That Can Detect Anomalies in Your System (vividcortex.com)

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Ed Snowden posts an interesting answer as "TheTrueHooha" in 2006 (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: ASP.NET devs, no need to code user management for your site ever again (www.aspsecuritykit.net)

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Makes lossless optimisation of images part of your automated build process (github.com)

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Prop 8 appeal did not have standing (link to decision) (www.supremecourt.gov)

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Hazr.me - Disposable email forwarding (hazr.me)

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How to get 10,000 page views in 3 days and win a £50 blog competition (www.latitudegroup.com)

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Show HN: Android app to keep track of movies you want to watch (play.google.com)

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Microsoft Opens Up Bing As A Platform For Developers (techcrunch.com)

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Bacon.js Cheat Sheet (www.cheatography.com)

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The most famous companies per state (visualization) (alpha.app.net)

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Swedish localised music service Tunaspot gets 200k Euro investment (translate.google.com)

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What 'Sent From My iPhone' Really Means (www.collisiondetection.net)

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'3D printing is a gimmick,' says Foxconn boss (www.scmp.com)