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Prism Break (prism-break.org)
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Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File (www.wired.com)
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Alternative Internet (github.com)
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San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down (tomdale.net)
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Firefox OS devices officially released (hacks.mozilla.org)
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Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users (highscalability.com)
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Anatomy of a pseudorandom number generator - visualising Cryptocat's buggy PRNG (nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
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Monocle (blog.alexmaccaw.com)
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Kenya Shilling Symbol (arkafrica.com)
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New interview: Snowden - 'The US government will say I aided our enemies' (www.guardian.co.uk)
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YouCompleteMe - A code-completion engine for Vim (valloric.github.io)
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First arrest captured on Google Glass points to a “Little Brother” future (arstechnica.com)
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US Emergency Alert System private SSH key mistakenly distributed (arstechnica.com)
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Secret Court's Redefinition of 'Relevant' Empowered Vast NSA Data-Gathering (online.wsj.com)
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Switzerland: Say no to a surveillance state (http://buepf.ch)
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Justice Dept. defends secret rulings in new spy court filing (gigaom.com)
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Discovering Sketch (medium.com)
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Privacy International files legal challenge against UK government (www.privacyinternational.org)
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After PRISM reports, Swiss data bank sees boost (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Docker Desktop: Your Desktop over ssh inside of a Docker container (blog.docker.io)
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Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure (www.guardian.co.uk)
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Agreements with private corps protect US access to cables’ data for surveillance (www.washingtonpost.com)
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How Driverless Cars Could Reshape Cities (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Miyamoto Admits Nintendo Underestimated The Switch To HD (www.forbes.com)
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Afghanistan in the 1950s and 60s (www.theatlantic.com)
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A Memory Comparison of Light Linux Desktops (l3net.wordpress.com)
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Apple makes top iOS apps free ahead of App Store 5th anniversary (www.tuaw.com)
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List of Hacker Spaces (hackerspaces.org)
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CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou’s Open Letter to Edward Snowden (dissenter.firedoglake.com)
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Apple TV for Torrent Streaming in JS (github.com)
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Why public libraries should follow Chicago’s lead and build maker labs (gigaom.com)
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Why I Turned Down A $20,000/Year Client (creativeoverflow.net)
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Germany's Solar Industry Is Imploding (www.forbes.com)
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Ryan Davis, 1979 - 2013 (www.giantbomb.com)
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Show HN: REST API for Global Address Verification (www.lob.com)
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Archy (en.wikipedia.org)
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Beyond Helvetica: The Real Story Behind Fonts in iOS 7 (typographica.org)
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Primecoin: The Cryptocurrency Whose Mining is Useful (bitcoinmagazine.com)
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On the Security of RC4 in TLS and WPA (Full Paper Released) (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk)
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Haste – A Haskell to JS Compiler (hackage.haskell.org)
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Promises/A+ (promisesaplus.com)
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Immersion: a people-centric view of your email life (immersion.media.mit.edu)
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VoodooJS - Mix 2D & 3D content on the same page (http://www.voodoojs.com)
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Re-writing from scratch (gocardless.com)
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Fast integer compression in Java (lemire.me)
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You need an acquisition culture to sustain a startup culture (techcrunch.com)
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NSA Turns Everyone Into 'Threat To National Security' By Classifying All Data (www.techdirt.com)
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The Morality of Meditation (www.nytimes.com)
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TaskRabbit Confirms Layoffs As It Realigns To Focus On Mobile And Enterprise (techcrunch.com)
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A History of Film in Wikipedia (blog.argteam.com)
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The Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds (www.wired.com)
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Protecting E-Mail from Eavesdropping (www.schneier.com)
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Julython 2013 (http://www.julython.org)
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How Streak (YC S11) uses Streak for Bug Tracking (blog.streak.com)
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This Call Is Being Recorded (shkspr.mobi)
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Pac Man’s split screen bug analyzed and fixed (2011) (www.donhodges.com)
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Officially, the Special Collection Service doesn't exist (2012) (theweek.com)
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Wonderful mail service (amail.io)
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Why I Left OpenBSD (www.trollaxor.com)
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Ask HN: Review my app – Sbscribe, a social RSS feed reader (Google Reader alt) (news.ycombinator.com)
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Google Doodle of Roswell anniversary is a point-and-click adventure (www.google.com)
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Alan Moore Kickstarter - His Heavy Heart (www.kickstarter.com)
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How a Group of HN Users Saved RestoreTheFourth.net (sina.is)
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Egypt has become an economic basket case since Mubarak was ousted (qz.com)
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Ask HN: Aren't Ember and Angular a "wrong" kind of framework, similar to J2EE? (news.ycombinator.com)
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This guy reinvented the wheel -- by turning it into a cube. (www.theatlantic.com)
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What Is Nostalgia Good For? Quite a Bit, Research Shows (www.nytimes.com)
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Ask HN: Combating thoughts of suicide/depression (news.ycombinator.com)
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A Thicker Hope (www.marco.org)
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The lonely pretty girl syndrome and invite-only websites (eduardo.intermeta.com.br)
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Authentication with Warden (Rails) (pothibo.com)
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Federal Judge Allows EFF's NSA Mass Spying Case to Proceed (www.eff.org)
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Why You Should Learn HTML5 Now Before It Explodes In Popularity (www.diygenius.com)
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DOJ Says Public Has No Right To Know About Secret Laws Feds Use To Spy On Us (www.techdirt.com)
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Ex-Valve hardware expert shares uncommon look inside the company (www.gamasutra.com)
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Why being a VC sucks. Advice to anyone who wants to get into venture capital. (www.thisisgoingtobebig.com)
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Free will, determinism, quantum theory: a Physicist's Take (www.edge.org)
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Socialicious: a Social Media icons font (including social sign-in buttons) (shalinguyen.github.io)
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Show HN: Tamber – The best local concerts, carefully matched to you (for iOS) (http://www.tamber.com)
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Throwing Money Away (Buying vs Renting) (messymatters.com)
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Sublime text 2.0.2 build 2221 is now available (www.sublimetext.com)
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Concurrent Programming on iOS/OS X (objc.io Issue #2) (www.objc.io)
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How to Hack LinkedIn (medium.com)
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Entrepreneurial Life Shouldn't Be This Way (www.inc.com)
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Working at an Open Company (medium.com)
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Youth Defence Site Hacked (www.youthdefence.ie)
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Hack Reactor: Call for Open-Source Projects (gist.io)
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Ask HN: Advice for a frustrated CS student (news.ycombinator.com)
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Silicon Valley’s ugly rich-poor gap: What’s the tech world gonna do about it? (pandodaily.com)
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US agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses (arstechnica.com)
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Five Mind-blowing things science still cant explain. (www.mindopenerz.com)
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How We Made The Animated A/B Testing Guide (engineering.wingify.com)
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Create your own fleet of servers with Digital Ocean and salt-cloud (russell.ballestrini.net)
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Dead Among Those Interviewed in Faulty Background Checks (www.bloomberg.com)
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Effecting Change From The Outside (www.marco.org)
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Stop using bad passwords. Start using Vault. (getvau.lt)
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20 Lessons I Learned Leading A Growth/Marketing Team (www.ericosiu.com)
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Canada trading freedom for "security" (www.huffingtonpost.ca)
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Boondoggle Goes Boom: A demented tale of how the Army actually does business (www.newrepublic.com)
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Thank You For Choosing Cyberpunk Dystopia. (medium.com)
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Show HN: Premortems, help projects be more successful (https://premortems.com)
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July 2013 Mattermark Startup Index – Top 20 Startups by Stage of Investment (mattermark.com)
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.NYC TLD – New York City's New Web Address (nyctld.com)
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Patent Troll Threatens Small Game Developers Over Storing Character Attributes (gamepolitics.com)
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Project Tox: The Crypto IM & Video Conferencing Program (news.ycombinator.com)
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MSActiveConfig: Remote configuration and A/B Testing framework for iOS (github.com)
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Securing Microsoft Windows 8: AppContainers (news.saferbytes.it)
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Twitter has a serious credibility problem (blog.sefsar.com)
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Plasma Ring Experiment Offers New Path for Fusion Power (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Econ 101 is killing America (www.salon.com)
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I built a search engine for startup jobs in 2wks. (http://www.amplifyinvestin.me)
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0
Ask HN: What article submission has accumulated the most points to date? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Ask HN: Travelling in South America - is there good Internet access? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Stop telling me to go to college (www.teknically-speaking.com)
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New Scientist Special Edition on Quantum Computing (www.newscientist.com)
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Irish High Court rejects US request for provisional arrest warrant for Snowden (twitter.com)
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Slot machine sounds can manipulate players, researchers say (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Econ 101 is killing America (www.salon.com)
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Idea: A mind map for the 'Idea folks' (firespotting.com)
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Modes and Modality (dtrace.org)
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Microsoft banned Google, VMware, Salesforce employees from WPC 2013 (finance.yahoo.com)
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S&P says no one should believe its ratings are independent and objective (qz.com)
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Ask HN: Projects/resources to learn more about networking? (news.ycombinator.com)
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NationalSecurityAgency wants to merge 5 commits into yiisoft:master (github.com)
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Founder2be - Match.com For Co-Founders now in 100+ Countries (techcrunch.com)
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German Post Office scans letters as well; cooperates with NSA (translate.google.com)
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Left and Right Brain User Personas (www.meltingasphalt.com)
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Streaming Approximate Histograms in Go (vividcortex.com)
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Tissue engineering: How to build a heart (www.nature.com)
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Seven Plus or Minus Two (synesthesiam.com)
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Google remembers Roswell UFO incident with elaborate point-and-click adventure (www.theverge.com)
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What Douglas Engelbart Taught Me About Designing User Interfaces (blog.flinto.com)
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Companies saying sorry on Twitter (bizbuzz.wizewerx.com)
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Map: The Most Famous Brand From Every State (www.theatlanticcities.com)
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Show HN: A feedback tab with JavaScript callback for onSubmit event (engineering.webengage.com)
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Drizly's Secret Weapon that Makes Alcohol Delivery a Reality (venturefizz.com)
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FilterStack: Customizable WebGL/Webcam effects. (sketch.io)
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Need to Find Angel Investors? Start With this A to Z List (www.udemy.com)
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Want to be better? The answer is simple (nathanconyngham.com)
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Can Spider Web Be Recreated? A Japanese Startup Thinks So. (online.wsj.com)
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Introduction to Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists (www.coursera.org)
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FISA court Twitter account [parody] (twitter.com)
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Getting Started With Vagrant (leftnode.com)
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Adding Minitest Spec in Rails 4 (blowmage.com)
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The Apps That Get Featured By The App Store (daveaddey.com)
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How to use Logentries to understand your logs (blog.codeship.io)
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Cornelius.js – A Cohort Visualization library for the browser (restorando.github.io)
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Ask HN: Where to find a mentor in my city (or any)? (news.ycombinator.com)
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JavaScript currying with the curry library (hughfdjackson.com)
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Our great cosmic motion (scienceblogs.com)
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Software Recognition Technology Is Amazing, but Not Amazing Enough (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Realtime Software Engineers - PagerDuty - Toronto (news.ycombinator.com)
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RESTless? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Sourcery (YC W13) conjures a full-stack Ruby on Rails craftsperson (news.ycombinator.com)
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Rails developers – join ZenPayroll (YC W12) to build the future of payroll (news.ycombinator.com)
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