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Ubuntu Edge (www.indiegogo.com)

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Victory Lap for Ask Patents (www.joelonsoftware.com)

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Forgotten Employee (2002) (sites.google.com)

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Canada's Start-up Visa (www.cic.gc.ca)

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Leaked report shows much higher civilian death toll from CIA drone strikes (www.salon.com)

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Game Programmer Quits Job To Sell Street Food, Doubles Salary (kotaku.com)

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Goodbye Google Analytics. Hello Piwik (dicasdolampada.wordpress.com)

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Reginald Braithwaite is a GitHubber (github.com)

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ZeroMQ instead of HTTP, for internal services (augustl.com)

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Upton: A Web Scraping Framework (www.propublica.org)

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A Tour Inside CloudFlare's Latest Generation Servers (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Ask HN: Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib because they asked? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Faster Than the Speed of Light? (www.nytimes.com)

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Unofficial Linux kernel exFAT driver turns out to be illegally relicensed (lists.gpl-violations.org)

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FP vs. OO, from the trenches (blog.fogus.me)

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LL and LR Parsing Demystified (blog.reverberate.org)

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Steve Blank: An MVP is not a Cheaper Product, It’s about Smart Learning (steveblank.com)

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Leap Motion Has Launched (blog.leapmotion.com)

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Poll: What do you use for Unix process management/monitoring? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Web’s longest nightmare ends: Eolas patents are dead on appeal (arstechnica.com)

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On Distributing Command Line Applications: Why I Switched From Ruby to Go (codegangsta.io)

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Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud (37signals.com)

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OVH Security Incident (status.ovh.net)

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In America, Where You're Born Is Correlated With How Far You'll Go In Life (www.slate.com)

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Nate Silver Went Against the Grain for Some at The Times (publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Rep Justin Amash: Strip NSA Of Power To Collect Phone Data On Innocent Americans (www.techdirt.com)

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OpenGL 4.4 is launched (www.opengl.org)

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DarkJPEG (n0where.net)

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Google Serves 25 Percent of North American Internet Traffic (www.wired.com)

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SEO in JavaScript Web Apps (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

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Web development performance inside and outside a VM (www.stackmachine.com)

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BufferBloat: What's Wrong with the Internet? (queue.acm.org)

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Show HN: Audobox – Android Voice Recorder (www.audobox.com)

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The Baltic Demographic Disaster (www.forbes.com)

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Fifty Shades of Grey Now Banned in UK (coderinaworldofcode.blogspot.com)

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Try RethinkDB: How we did it (nick.stinemat.es)

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More Bad Angel Behavior (www.crashdev.com)

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Setup.py vs requirements.txt (caremad.io)

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Try RethinkDB in the cloud – powered by Docker (http://tryrethink.info)

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“When all your engines stop, the flight is over” (blog.theoldreader.com)

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Canonical seeks $32M to make Ubuntu Edge smartphone (www.pcpro.co.uk)

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Josef Desimone, Facebook's executive chef, has died (www.facebook.com)

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Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up (semiaccurate.com)

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The war on drugs has been made redundant by designer drugs (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Turkish security researcher claims responsibility for Apple dev center hack (www.engadget.com)

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Canary - Smart home security device for everyone (canary.is)

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How one Japanese gaming startup is generating $3.8 million in revenue per day (www.shoestring.com.au)

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LikeBtn - like button for anonymous voting on the website (www.likebtn.com)

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The Underbelly of Racket Macro Basics (jeapostrophe.github.io)

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iWork for iCloud beta (www.apple.com)

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Show HN: Serverless OAuth on a Github page (oauth-io.github.io)

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Emacs package Geiser improves Scheme development (www.nongnu.org)

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Why I'm no longer giving up on C# (mat-mcloughlin.github.io)

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What if Google bought Detroit? (brandonhtomlin.blogspot.com)

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Postgres Open 2013 List Of Talks Published (www.postgresopen.org)

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MIT Researchers Develop Computer-Generated TCP That is Twice as Fast (web.mit.edu)

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Show HN: Sync.js - Upload changed local files to remote server (github.com)

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How I replaced Google Analytics in 30-ish minutes (blog.freedomsponsors.org)

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Is the NSA Blinded by Big Data? (medium.com)

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ARM and firmware specifications (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

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NASA Releases Images of Earth by Distant Spacecraft (www.jpl.nasa.gov)

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Exercism.io: Crowd-sourced code reviews on daily practice problems (exercism.io)

21 points first seen 2013072303 last seen 2015031809 9 comments

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In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters (www.nytimes.com)

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The decline effect and the scientific method (2010) (www.newyorker.com)

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MailChimp threatens legal action against an open source side project (imluke.me)

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Friends, Family and Fools: the worst investors (swombat.com)

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Linus is wrong about being a jerk (blog.existentialize.com)

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UN climate science body condemns report leak (www.rtcc.org)

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Cool Stuff the U.S. Government Has Done (and Is Doing) (b0ing.me)

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LinkedIn's Most Glaring Deficiencies (www.annielytics.com)

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On the Bleeding Edge: Advanced AngularJS Form Validation (code.realcrowd.com)

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Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law (torrentfreak.com)

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Deploy Your Apps to Nodejitsu with Travis-CI (about.travis-ci.org)

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A Taste of the λ Calculus (www.flyingmachinestudios.com)

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Tale of a $1000 Facebook Bug Bounty (www.princeton.edu)

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Avoid Hadoop: a beginner's checklist for big data reporting (danielharan.posthaven.com)

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BigCouch to merge into CouchDB (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Clone yourself a million dollar idea this year (katsenblog.com)

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Samsung to cut out Google middleman with own developers’ conference (arstechnica.com)

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Leap Motion Controller is a great toy, but not yet the future of interaction (www.theverge.com)

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Docked.com, an instant web presence for apps (http://www.docked.com)

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Darkjpeg - Steganography Redefined (darkjpeg.github.io)

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Apple has lost the plot (cubicgarden.com)

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Brainbows (en.wikipedia.org)

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How To Not Kill Your Retention (lasseclausen.tumblr.com)

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Ubuntu Forums hacked, all usernames and passwords stolen (ubuntuforums.org)

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Why the government's legal position on metadata is wrong on technical grounds (blog.rongarret.info)

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CO2ube – Carbon Dioxide Filtration System (www.kickstarter.com)

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Raising a VC fund in 100 days (hunterwalk.com)

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Danger: This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death (www.nytimes.com)

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3d scene reconstruction from photos (www.disneyresearch.com)

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Yumcoin – Sell your digital creations for Bitcoins (yumcoin.com)

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Microaggression and Management (medium.com)

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Ouya developers report poor to middling sales figures for early games (arstechnica.com)

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Animating server outages with Firebase, D3.js and PagerDuty webhooks (blog.pagerduty.com)

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Problematic traits in Erlang (jlouisramblings.blogspot.com)

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The perils of being a knowledge worker (blog.vivekhaldar.com)

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Leap Motion Controller Review (www.engadget.com)

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Credit card numbers, parity and RAID (www.datagenetics.com)

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Our First Outage (keen.io)

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The Adults in the Room (dandreamsofcoding.com)

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The last days of big law (www.newrepublic.com)

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Show HN: wsend - the opposite of wget (github.com)

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Kaihōgyō (en.wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Best mathematics courses for programming and intrigue? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Apple confirms developer site hacked (www.guardian.co.uk)

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New MongoDB feature for efficiently paging geo queries (emptysqua.re)

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Some Thoughts on Classes After 18 Months of Clojure (2012) (vimeo.com)

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How Is This Huge Yahoo Stock Deal Not Insider Trading? (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ask HN: How do you think Snowden's "dead man's switch" works? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Cost of Coworking Space vs. Your Own Office (blog.spacelist.ca)

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Stretch Goals Are Important (blog.launch.co)

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How can a high school student learn to code? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Coding etiquette: Don't shorten your code (www.codemy.net)

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How Do Good Ideas Spread? (newyorker.com)

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New Zealand Government About To Legalize Spying On NZ Citizens (politics.slashdot.org)

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Scientists crack wolves' howling code (www.bbc.co.uk)

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“Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python” Released (inventwithpython.com)

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Why We Wrote our Blog using Rails (gaslight.co)

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Battery Life of Haswell ULT vs Modern ARM Tablets (www.anandtech.com)

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Regexes: Now you have 2^N problems. (devblog.getinvisiblehand.com)

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Ask HN: What are good sources of food while staying ramen profitable? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Was America's Economic Prosperity Just a Historical Accident? (nymag.com)

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Why One Geek Parent Hates The UK's Porn Filter Idea (plus.google.com)

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What platforms do you think will still be useful in 20 years and why? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Netflix says it will produce original documentaries, stand-up comedy specials (www.theverge.com)

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Digg Reader Tech Stack (www.fastcolabs.com)

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Russia’s Anti-Gay Crackdown (www.nytimes.com)

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The Awesomest 7-year Postdoc (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

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NSA locates cell phones even when they are turned off (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Journalist James Risen ordered to testify in CIA leaker trial (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Recommendation for good VCs in Canada? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Some Mormons Search the Web and Find Doubt (www.nytimes.com)

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Craigslist's contributions to open source (www.craigslist.org)

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Ask HN: Standing desks? (news.ycombinator.com)

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BMW's New Electric Car Is Surprisingly Cheap (www.businessinsider.com)

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Disney algorithm builds high-res 3D models from ordinary photos (www.gizmag.com)

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OpenGL 4.4 Released - Official Feedback Thread (opengl.org)

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I visited Andrew Auernheimer "weev" rabit in jail on 19 July 2013 (pastebin.com)

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Recent Improvements to Mono on ARM (blog.alexrp.com)