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Obama Promises Disappear from Web: Whistleblower segment gone (sunlightfoundation.com)

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As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Public-Key Encryption (lauren.vortex.com)

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New Udacity course: The Design of Everyday Things, taught by Don Norman (blog.udacity.com)

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“NASDAQ is owned.” Five men charged in largest financial hack ever (arstechnica.com)

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How do I “think in AngularJS” if I have a jQuery background? (stackoverflow.com)

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Probablistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (camdavidsonpilon.github.io)

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OVH launches 2.99€/mo dedicated servers (2G RAM, 500G disk) (www.ovh.co.uk)

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Chinese firm Huawei controls UK net filter (m.bbc.co.uk)

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Defund the NSA - This Isn't Over (defundthensa.com)

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Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute (www.newscientist.com)

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Watsi (YC W13) raises $1.2M first-of-its-kind 'philanthropic seed round' (blog.watsi.org)

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An open letter to Jeff Bezos: A contract worker’s take on Amazon.com (www.geekwire.com)

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Feds tell web firms to turn over user passwords (m.cnet.com)

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U.S. cloud firms face backlash from NSA spy programs (www.computerworld.com)

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You shouldn't hotlink someone else's JavaScript (beta.whatispolymath.com)

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Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75% (www.drdobbs.com)

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Storage Space Doubled For All Linode VPS plans (blog.linode.com)

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Privacy Protects Bothersome People ...and isn't about me (or probably you) (martinfowler.com)

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Intel Labs: comparing Haskell against best-in-class C (www.leafpetersen.com)

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Docker, Containers, and the Future of Application Delivery (www.slideshare.net)

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How Nancy Pelosi Saved the NSA Surveillance Program (thecable.foreignpolicy.com)

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Twitter's Tool For Debugging At Scale (twitter.github.io)

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How Much to Charge as a Freelancer (www.jamiebegin.com)

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Fake memory implanted in mice with a beam of light (arstechnica.com)

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Zynga loses $15.8M in Q2, nearly half its daily users year-over-year (www.polygon.com)

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Why we're doing things that don't scale (37signals.com)

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LibreOffice 4.1 New Features and Fixes (www.libreoffice.org)

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A Universe Full of Planets (www.nytimes.com)

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Chuck Moore: The Invention of Forth (www.colorforth.com)

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How A Police Officer Threatened A Yelp Reviewer (www.popehat.com)

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Prim (YC S13) Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome (techcrunch.com)

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CouchDB merges in BigCouch (blogs.apache.org)

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12 Years of GPL Compliance: A Historical Perspective (ebb.org)

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Petition Of The Candle Makers (bastiat.org)

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Apple Prohibits Android Lessons in New Treehouse App (tech.co)

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Lob (YC S13) Debuts a Cloud Printing and Shipping Service for Developers (techcrunch.com)

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Pixar's RenderMan turns 25 aka How to Design a Spec (www.fxguide.com)

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Understanding CPU Steal Time - when should you be worried? (blog.scoutapp.com)

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Flying a Drone in First Person View Using the Oculus Rift (laughingsquid.com)

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Harvard researcher quantitatively tracks his working habits over one year (moalquraishi.wordpress.com)

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Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (www.coursera.org)

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Ask HN: What happened to Steve Yegge after 'quitting' (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google will pay for free wireless in S.F. parks (www.sfchronicle.com)

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Details on NSA/FBI Eavesdropping (www.schneier.com)

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FAQs: why we don’t have them (digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk)

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Philanthropist. Family Man. Sex-Toy Tycoon: The Value of Privacy in Business (www.slate.com)

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Extract GnuPG private keys by L3 cache monitoring (eprint.iacr.org)

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State AGs Ask Congress to Gut Critical CDA 230 Online Speech Protections (www.eff.org)

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Oauthd: OAuth.io open sourced (github.com)

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Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers (news.ycombinator.com)

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In the Universe of Printers, One Worth Talking About (pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)

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My experience with FastMail as a Gmail replacement (blog.workhere.io)

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How Microsoft killed off a massive botnet, with trademark law (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Internet Explorer 11 Developer Preview for Windows 7 (www.microsoft.com)

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Growth Hacking Notes (tedna.sh)

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SAC Capital hit with criminal charges (money.cnn.com)

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U.S. lawmakers want sanctions on any country taking in Snowden (www.reuters.com)

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LinkedIn Payola: Selling out employers and job hunters (corcodilos.com)

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How Chinese Ingenuity Destroyed Salad Bars at Pizza Hut (kotaku.com)

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Quantum Physics Leads To Perfect Mirror (www.scientificamerican.com)

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The "Do I Look Like I Give A Shit" Public Licence (blog.samuellevy.com)

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My Experience with OAuth.io (tommcfarlin.com)

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Will Ubuntu Edge commit to using only free software? (www.fsf.org)

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Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords (news.cnet.com)

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I'm Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu & Canonical. AmA. (www.reddit.com)

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How to use checklists effectively in your tech company (blog.netguru.co)

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Show HN: OpenHacker, a weekly competition for hackers (openhacker.co)

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Wolves’ howls have distinct identities, voice recognition study shows (arstechnica.com)

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Four new NSA slides air on Brazilian TV (www.dailydot.com)

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Snipcart (snipcart.com)

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Police Defend Bank that Looted Wrong House, Won't Return Items or Pay (www.activistpost.com)

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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for Startups (blog.nextjump.com)

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Google ends free Netflix/Chromecast promotion due to ‘overwhelming demand’ (9to5google.com)

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JP Morgan to Eurozone periphery: “Get rid of your pinko constitutions” (blogs.euobserver.com)

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Disqus launches new website (blog.disqus.com)

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Predictive policing: Don’t even think about it (www.economist.com)

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Arduino-Powered Stoplight for Continuous Integration Build Monitoring (www.helpshift.com)

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NSA snooping is hurting U.S. tech companies’ bottom line (www.washingtonpost.com)

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ThomsonReuters: Your hiring manager is a jerk. There is said it. (pricees.github.io)

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Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear? (www.nytimes.com)

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Marketing with Asana: The Tools We Use (blog.asana.com)

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Bone.io: real-time HTML5 apps using websockets (github.com)

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Chinese firm Huawei controls net filter praised by PM (www.bbc.co.uk)

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99-Year-Old Minimum Wage Custodian ... Why Everyone Hates Economics (www.slate.com)

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Show HN: create a site for "adopting" public infrastructure (https://www.adopta.co)

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OVH launches 2.99€/mo dedicated servers (2G RAM, 500G) (forum.ovh.com)

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Treehouse launches iPad app (teamtreehouse.com)

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The New Audio Geeks (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Hosted CMS, created instantly from your HTML markup (900dpi.com)

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Console.log() all the things (seanmonstar.com)

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Ask HN: Cryptographic salary negotiation protocol? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Embedded Content and Iframe Security (www.tinfoilsecurity.com)

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Turn your laptop into a NSA spying machine (stickonspy.com)

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Most academic papers are useless: Elon Musk (www.youtube.com)

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A glimpse into ANCHORY, NSA's intelligence catalog database (www.muckrock.com)

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Firefox OS Push Notifications (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Amazon's cloud revenues rocket up as company posts loss (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Slooow: U.S. slips to 9th in Internet speed (www.cnn.com)

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Terminally ill “Simpsons” co-creator to leave entire fortune to charity (www.salon.com)

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What insights could you get from your data? (joymetrics.com)

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What is your prefered VPS host? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Introducing the MongoDB Driver for Rust (blog.mongodb.org)

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Nate Silver, data, and storytelling (features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)

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Zynga loses half of its active users, drops plans for real money gambling (www.theverge.com)

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Experimenting With Babies: Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid (www.experimentingwithbabies.com)

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Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor (en.wikipedia.org)

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Quizlet: How it really works (www.youtube.com)

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Thinking Mathematically (hodteacher.wordpress.com)

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Church plans to 'compete' Wonga out of business (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How Google accidentally uncovered a Chinese ring of car thieves (theverge.com)

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Xamarin.Mobile: new, improved and open-sourced (blog.xamarin.com)

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Mojang challenged to Unreal Tournament CTF over trademark (mojangdontkillhandmadegoods.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: How do acquisition taxes work? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Lob - Printing For Developers (www.lob.com)

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Things Computer Science Freshmen Should Know (waltercarvalho.com)

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Alan Kay - 2012 SCIx Keynote Presentation (www.youtube.com)

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Activision buys out Vivendi in a deal worth $8.17 billion (venturebeat.com)

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Gotham’s Only Black Millionaire (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Any Startups Interested in PRaaS? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why we're doing things that don't scale (37signals.com)

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My Gmail account got a hacking attempt from China, anyone else? (i39.tinypic.com)

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Show HN: A Ruby command-line tool for checking Apple Dev Center status (github.com)

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Hackers Track Their Vital Signs. Sounds Cool, But TMI? (www.npr.org)

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Ask HN: What are the best marketing resources as a developer running a Startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ecommerce in Minutes – SimpleCartjs (simplecartjs.org)

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Netflix Scores Big in Emmy Nominations, But Wall Street Not Impressed (www.wired.com)

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Zynga Gives Up Gambling, Hope (www.slate.com)

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Can you get too much exercise? (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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The Man on Facebook Standing Up To Zimbabwe's President (thinkafricapress.com)

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How Samsung is beating Apple in China (finance.yahoo.com)

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Find code quickly in Sublime Text (github.com)

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New device makes wheelchairs obsolete. (www.wimp.com)

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Samsung overtakes Apple as 'most profitable phone firm' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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North Pole Now a Lake (www.livescience.com)

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The real truth about GMOs (www.scientificamerican.com)

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IE11 Developer Preview for Windows 7 is Available (blogs.msdn.com)

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How to make a telepresence robot with node.js and a Raspberry PI (www.appneta.com)

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First consumer focused FireFox smartphone announced (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Best way to anonymize connection from a browser extension? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Given ChromeCast, how can we now kill hollywood? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ruby jobs in New Zealand for foreigners (news.ycombinator.com)

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When and Why You Should Use C++ (slashdot.org)