hackerNews

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Skeuocard (kenkeiter.com)

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We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012) (stackoverflow.com)

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Edward Snowden has successfully acquired refugee status in Russia (rt.com)

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Pressure cookers, backpacks, and quinoa, oh my (medium.com)

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Samsung agency is buying off StackOverflow users (delyan.me)

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Volvo Gave Away the Most Important Design They Ever Patented (priceonomics.com)

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Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks, Get a Visit from the Feds (www.theatlanticwire.com)

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Ask HN: I'm a chronic procrastinator how do I break it (news.ycombinator.com)

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In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity (mobile.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Forebruary, an endless wall calendar (ilyabirman.net)

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Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy (www.pachamama.org)

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Michael Lewis: Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer? (www.vanityfair.com)

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New attack plucks secrets from HTTPS-protected pages (arstechnica.com)

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A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites (www.hanselman.com)

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PEP 8 Modernisation (hg.python.org)

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Employer Tipped Off Police In Pressure Cooker/Backpack-gate, Not Google (techcrunch.com)

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OAuth of Fealty: Resignation beyond sorrow on the Facebook Platform and beyond (m.bogost.com)

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Uruguay moves to legalize marijuana (www.csmonitor.com)

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Compilers in OpenBSD (marc.info)

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John Carmack Quakecon 2013 Keynote Livestream (www.twitch.tv)

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Paul Graham reviews Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2000) (www.amazon.com)

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NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ (www.theguardian.com)

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YC Partners Taggar, Tan And Ohanian Raise $39M For Initialized Capital (techcrunch.com)

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Khan Academy now accepts Bitcoin via Coinbase (blog.coinbase.com)

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How We Created a Fake Vodka Brand to Promote Our Startup (blog.speakeasy.is)

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In Defense Of Leakers: Snowden and Manning (www.newyorker.com)

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Bradley Manning and "hacker madness" scare tactic (www.newscientist.com)

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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2013) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Defense subcontractor posted a job listing for XKEYSCORE 2 weeks ago (www.washingtonpost.com)

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PyPy 2.1 – Considered ARMful (morepypy.blogspot.com)

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A new kind of browser benchmark (google.github.io)

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Here’s why economists hate software patents (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Animatable: One property, two values, endless possiblities (leaverou.github.io)

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Full Stack Web Development (act2.me)

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Application Development in Go (jasonroelofs.com)

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The Million Dollar Homepage (2005) (www.milliondollarhomepage.com)

72 points first seen 2013080200 last seen 2013080206 79 comments

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NoFlo Kickstarter, the hacker's perspective (bergie.iki.fi)

72 points first seen 2013080215 last seen 2013080306 48 comments

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SSL, Gone in 30 seconds (http://breachattack.com)

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NYTimes objective-c style guide (github.com)

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True Link (YC S13) To Help The Elderly Avoid Scammers With Pre-Paid Visa Cards (techcrunch.com)

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Edward Snowden leaves Moscow airport (www.theguardian.com)

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Shopify Acquires Jet Cooper (www.shopify.ca)

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WordPress 3.6 arrives with better post locking, built-in HTML5 media player (thenextweb.com)

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CSV as a Data Source (chartio.com)

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NSA’s Internet taps can find systems to hack, track VPNs and Word docs (arstechnica.com)

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Soylent reaches $1M in pre-orders (techcrunch.com)

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Declan McCullagh on Pressure-CookerGate (plus.google.com)

58 points first seen 2013080209 last seen 2013080209 65 comments

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Any cellphone can be traced by its digital fingerprint (www.newscientist.com)

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Moto X phone specifications (www.motorola.com)

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'WWIII Queen's speech' script revealed (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The crazy ideas which failed to solve the longitude problem (www.bbc.co.uk)

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NoFlo: Help Everyone To Understand And Visualize Code (techcrunch.com)

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Chinese scalpers booking up all Genius Bar appointments & selling online (9to5mac.com)

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The Quantum Zeno Effect actually does stop the world (io9.com)

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Bloodline - Social Initiative from India (http://bloodlinelabs.com)

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Mystery object falls from sky, area sealed off by military (www.theregister.co.uk)

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HootSuite Raises $165M Series B (techcrunch.com)

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Solo Wheel as a transportation option? (http://solowheel.com)

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Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet (threatpost.com)

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How Google Has Completely Botched Zagat (www.businessweek.com)

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Google ‘pressure cooker,’ get a police visit? Maybe not. (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Nginx Performance Tuning for SSL (techsamurais.com)

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How Student Debt Reduces Lifetime Wealth (www.demos.org)

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Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo? (www.businessweek.com)

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Hyperloop speculation – launch assist for electric aircraft (electrictakeoff.com)

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Why cooperators always win in the long run (phys.org)

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The Inside Story of Moto X: The Phone That Reveals Why GOOG Bought MOTO (www.wired.com)

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Opscode wiki and ticket user database compromised (www.opscode.com)

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FBI Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects (online.wsj.com)

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Architect – Your Web Workers’ Supervisor (github.com)

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Flotsam: Insanely Fast Floating-Point Number Serialization for Java, Javascript (blog.factual.com)

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Petition: Public inquiry into the implications of GCHQ's 'Tempora' programme (epetitions.direct.gov.uk)

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Lanyrd's new speaker directory – 70,000+ speakers categorised by topics (lanyrd.com)

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USB 3.1 specs launched, offers 10Gbps transfer speed (arstechnica.com)

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CSP is Responsive Design (swannodette.github.io)

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PressureNET (pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca)

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Ask HN: India == bad devs? (news.ycombinator.com)

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I’m Really Tired. It’s A Good Thing. (bubs.co)

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Show HN: Make your iPhone and iPad app beautiful (www.uipsd.co)

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How Hugh Jackman Taught Me to Make a Lasting Impression (www.inc.com)

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Robot With Long Finger Wants to Touch Your iPhone Apps (www.wired.com)

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Regarding the ITC's exclusion order against Apple (www.osnews.com)

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Bayesian Analysis of Normal Distributions with Python (engineering.richrelevance.com)

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Terrorist Attacks Cannot be Completely Prevented (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: SuperPower - speaker deck and app for introducing programming to kids (stonly.github.io)

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ECMAScript 6 Modules: What Are They and How to Use Them Today (www.infoq.com)

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Codementor: Open Marketplace Providing Developers With 1:1 Programming Help (techcrunch.com)

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On Hiring Intangibles (rrwhite.com)

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Entrepreneurship in the samurai tradition (beaconreports.net)

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BSkyB makes Microsoft rename Skydrive (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Adding a staging environment to your Jekyll blog, with Wercker (blog.wercker.com)

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What to Do When a Company Wants Your Current Salary (www.thehiredguns.com)

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How Vice Hacked Google Glass To Tell Crisis Stories (www.fastcolabs.com)

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New Credit Card Will Prevent Your Grandma From Getting Scammed (www.fastcoexist.com)

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Should I go to college or keep working in Silicon Valley? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Tools Are Not Skills (programmers.blogoverflow.com)

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Android 4.3 ported to x86, runs on desktop, laptop computers (liliputing.com)

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How the Snowden Saga will End (hackingdistributed.com)

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Show HN: Parley.co Pre-Beta Launch - Encrypted Email for Everyone (https://parley.co)

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Show HN: dead simple XML/JSON to NSObjects and vice versa. (github.com)

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Apple Recently Acquired Low-Energy Chipmaker Passif (jessicalessin.com)

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3 Universities Will Grant Credit for 2U’s Online Courses (chronicle.com)

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Second Reality source code (demoscene) (github.com)

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This Is the Moto X, the First True Google Phone (www.wired.com)

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Chromecast: One Device to Rule Them All (katsenblog.com)

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Living in the Bay Area for under $400 (khamoud.com)

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Making the Case for Eating Fruit (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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What percentage of on-camera orgasms in pornographic films are real? (www.quora.com)

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Bigger is always better (www.dotgil.com)

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Mobile Application Performance: Caching (www.speedawarenessmonth.com)

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Edward Snowden's First Day as a Free Man in Russia Involved Offers of Jobs (www.slate.com)

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BCI: Emotiv Insight (www.kickstarter.com)

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The Ticktock of the Death Clock (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Lite mode - Google Maps (support.google.com)

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Percona celebrates its 7th-year by giving back to open source (www.mysqlperformanceblog.com)

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Using Kickstarter data to predict Ubuntu Edge's success (www.openanalytics.eu)

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SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps – Ready for Development [pdf] (www.usb.org)

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Show HN: Find your friends with realtime (but temporary) location sharing (head2.me)

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GNU Bison 3.0 (lists.gnu.org)

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FirefoxOS devices launch in Latin America (blog.mozilla.org)

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I Almost Dropped Out Of School (blog.seangransee.com)

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Base rate fallacy (en.wikipedia.org)

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Optimizing Production Apps on Heroku (blog.heroku.com)

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Show HN: Fileti.me - Snapchat for file sharing, a weekend project of mine. (http://fileti.me)

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Ways to Acquire Knowledge: A Guide from 1936 (www.brainpickings.org)

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India revokes GSK patent in latest blow for Big Pharma (in.reuters.com)

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You Tell Me If This Word Processing App Is Worth $15 Million (www.fastcodesign.com)

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A Fallen Wall Street Programmer Tells His Side (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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Is Google using depressing CSS with IE? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Watch the Crab Nebula expanding, over 13 years. (plus.google.com)

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Don't shoot your friends - Twitter game with real consequences (toys.usvsth3m.com)

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UN narcotics body warns Uruguay over marijuana bill (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Chef: Cooking up great cloud servers (community.csc.com)

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Team develops new water splitting technique that could produce hydrogen fuel (phys.org)

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Google Analytics Launches Real Time API In Beta (analytics.blogspot.co.uk)

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OAuth of Fealty - Resignation beyond sorrow on the Facebook Platform and beyond (www.bogost.com)

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Snapchat Founder Discovered He Had No Equity In The Company (www.businessinsider.com)

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Do you want to work in genomics because it's big data? (blog.counsyl.com)

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Performance preview: The Moto X sports a great GPU, respectable CPU (arstechnica.com)

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The NSA Rejected My FOIA For Data About Me (www.andymboyle.com)

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Apple buys Passif SemiConductor (allthingsd.com)

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Snowden gets job offer from Russia's version of Facebook (www.chicagotribune.com)

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Yahoo to Rebuild Research Group With 50 PhD Hires (www.bloomberg.com)

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Google analytics launches real time api (analytics.blogspot.com)

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Pressure cookers, backpacks: author's clarification and update (medium.com)

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Architecting Servo: Pipelines and Paralellism (air.mozilla.org)

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Revealing a Health Care Secret: The Price (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Get 10% OFF IntelliJ IDEA Personal License until end of August (blogs.jetbrains.com)

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Become a Vim Genius (vimgenius.com)

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Report from the Microsoft v. Motorola Hearing in Seattle (www.groklaw.net)

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Is apple.com doing User-Agent based discrimination? (gist.github.com)

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Product Manager - The one-man band? (piotrbiegun.com)

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What Brick-And-Mortar Stores See When They Track You (www.fastcompany.com)

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Ask HN: Language Focus (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google Analytics adds a Real Time API (developers.google.com)