hackerNews

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John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO (www.oculusvr.com)

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How to Convince Investors (paulgraham.com)

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Russian Man Hacks Credit Card Agreement (Small Print), Sues Bank for $727,000 (www.minyanville.com)

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EFF: "Parallel construction" is really intelligence laundering (www.eff.org)

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Steps To $5,000 In Monthly Recurring Revenue (blog.statuspage.io)

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Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Android AOSP maintainer quits (plus.google.com)

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Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid' (www.aljazeera.com)

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I cannot afford to go back to engineering school (medium.com)

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Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet (www.schneier.com)

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3 new programming languages to watch (adambard.com)

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Shutting Down a Dream (dandreamsofcoding.com)

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DigitalOcean raises $3.2M Seed Round (techcrunch.com)

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Pixel-perfect timing attacks with html5 (contextis.co.uk)

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IRS manual detailed DEA's use of hidden intel evidence (www.reuters.com)

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Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever (www.thevine.com.au)

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How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - Interactive Edition 2.0 (interactivepython.org)

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Russia's Mark Zuckerberg offers Snowden a job. (money.cnn.com)

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Design Patterns in Dynamic Languages (1996) [pdf] (norvig.com)

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Staring at the Sun: Dalvik vs. Asm.js vs. Native (blog.mozilla.org)

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Envelopes - Python email for humans (tomekwojcik.github.io)

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JS-Git (github.com)

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Typo: A programming language that runs in Haskell's type system (github.com)

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Queueing in the Linux Network Stack (www.coverfire.com)

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America's Chronic Overreaction to Terrorism (online.wsj.com)

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Thoughts on Twitter's new Two-Factor Authentication (blog.authy.com)

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We Already Know What Kind of Newspaper Owner Jeff Bezos Will Be (coreypein.net)

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Reactive.coffee: reactive programming and declarative UIs in CoffeeScript (yz.mit.edu)

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Stop asking users for their timezone – use per-device settings and JavaScript (trevoro.net)

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How Much Will Prism Cost the U.S. Cloud Computing Industry? (www.itif.org)

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Stealth Startups Are Stupid (alexstechthoughts.com)

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Defective Heat Sinks Causing Garbage Gaming (randomascii.wordpress.com)

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Ubuntu Edge Gets First Major Corporate Backer, Funding Still Off Needed Pace (techcrunch.com)

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If Amazon is the future of work, then be afraid (pro.gigaom.com)

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3d Printing at UPS (www.economist.com)

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IJulia: iPython Notebook for Julia (github.com)

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OS X apps run on Linux with Wine-like emulator for Mac software (arstechnica.com)

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Bootstrapping a $15m/yr lifestyle business (www.mindvalleyinsights.com)

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Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever (www.ign.com)

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The Powerball Jackpot is $425m. Should you play? (medium.com)

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Rediscala: Non-blocking Redis driver for Scala (Akka) 200k+ requests/s (github.com)

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Weilos (YC S13) Wants To Pair You With An Online Weight Loss Coach (techcrunch.com)

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UX is not UI (www.helloerik.com)

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OpenMailBox: An alternative to Gmail based on free software (www.perseosblog.com)

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Broader Sifting of Data Abroad Is Seen by N.S.A. (www.nytimes.com)

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Nvidia Shield (store.nvidia.com)

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How scammers drained $1,700 from a bank account using Starbucks cards (gigaom.com)

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A Year and a Half With a Nissan Leaf (Part 1): The Acquisition (sam-koblenski.blogspot.com)

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Can You Keep Your Integrity? (www.artofmanliness.com)

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This Startup’s Cheap Sensors Could Create an OS for Everyday Life (www.wired.com)

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A first look at docker.io (www.alexhudson.com)

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Tomodo - reskinning websites as-a-service (tomodo.com)

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Stephen Fry: Putin is making scapegoats of gay people, just as Hitler did Jews (www.pinknews.co.uk)

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Instacart launches Express – Amazon Prime for Groceries (techcrunch.com)

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Nexus 7 (www.google.com)

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App.net Response to Brennan Novak, part II (blog.app.net)

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Meshnet activists rebuilding the Internet from scratch (www.newscientist.com)

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The Man Who Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again Probably Going to Be a Billionaire (www.vice.com)

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Prism Fallout: $35B in Lost US Business (www.dailydot.com)

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ShipBuilder - Open Source PaaS written in Go (github.com)

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Are mobile web apps slow? (blogs.adobe.com)

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Streak’s New iPhone App Is A CRM Service With Gmail Baked In (YC S11) (techcrunch.com)

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Startup Advisors (blog.rmorrison.org)

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Who's writing the book on web business? (1996) (www.fastcompany.com)

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New high-tech laser method allows DNA to be inserted 'gently' into living cells (www.sciencecodex.com)

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Becoming the most frequent committer on Github (github.com)

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Is Amazon Art a Doomed Venture? (marginalrevolution.com)

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Federal judge: Bitcoin, “a currency,” can be regulated under American law (arstechnica.com)

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Koding: Cloud development, private VMs (with root) and much more is now public (blog.koding.com)

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Use labels to break ifs in JavaScript (rthor.is)

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Do we have an instinct for privacy? (www.aeonmagazine.com)

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Demanding leakers: US doesn't do extradition either (www.theguardian.com)

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The Amazon Post (www.amazonpost.tomodo.me)

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GCloud – Go Packages for Cloud Services (http://gcloud.io)

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Adding Interval Sets to Redis (blog.togo.io)

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The Bitcoin Crypto-Currency Mystery Reopened (2011) (www.fastcompany.com)

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Trello introduces Power-Ups: Calendar, Card Aging, and More (blog.trello.com)

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Google Chrome security flaw offers unrestricted password access (www.theguardian.com)

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Gist meets GeoJSON (github.com)

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3 million pc botnet owner AMA on reddit (www.reddit.com)

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Xcode 5 Finally Makes Interface Builder a Viable Option for Teams (nilsou.com)

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Tesla Posts Surprise Profit (www.cnbc.com)

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A Simple Text Editor Foot Pedal (blog.mattgauger.com)

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Bebo.com is back and there wont be penises [video] (bebo.com)

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Pope Gregory's revenge on programmers (gist.github.com)

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Give Snowden Immunity (www.nationalreview.com)

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Tesla Motors, Inc. – Second Quarter 2013 Shareholder Letter [pdf] (files.shareholder.com)

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Show HN: LeapFM - A new way to find music (http://www.leapfm.com)

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Nerdboat: Developers, Designers and Tinkerers on a boat - one ticket for free (github.com)

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Canadian quarter found inside Macbook Pro (forums.macrumors.com)

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Ask HN: What are you working on right now? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: Blink.js (github.com)

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Moore’s Law could stay on track with extreme UV progress (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: Watchtower, like Light Table for Pig (Hadoop) (blog.mortardata.com)

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Bitcoin is a Form of Money, Federal Judge Says (www.reuters.com)

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An Open Letter to David Cameron and the IOC (www.stephenfry.com)

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ShipBuilder: Go make your deployments smooth sailing (http://shipbuilder.io)

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Total Failure: New AWS Console UI (www.itistrivial.com)

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DigitalOcean now hosting over 64,000 domains (blog.meanpath.com)

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Sold for $850M; bought back for $1M (www.entrepreneur.com)

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Would the U.S. Grant Asylum to a Man Who Exposed Russia's Spying? (www.theatlantic.com)

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Can We Do Better Than XML and JSON? (programming.oreilly.com)

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Show HN : SideProjectors, got a side project to you want to sell? (news.ycombinator.com)

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In 2 Minutes - From Zero to Elasticsearch with Mongoose (usesold.com)

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The US Government has a patent on medical marijuana (www.google.com)

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Into thin air (www.sfbg.com)

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An IJulia Preview: IPython + Julia (nbviewer.ipython.org)

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JetBrains Day in Malmö, Sweden (www.jetbrains.com)

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BBTN - Open Source Buttons (dracs89.github.io)

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Sorta homeless, more displaced...not really sure what to do... (news.ycombinator.com)

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Bitly For Feelings (yaythis.me)

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How to Fatten Pigs and People (www.wellfedhomestead.com)

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The real reason why Jeff Bezos bought Washington Post (www.geekculture.com)

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Programmers slam Google for Chrome's 'insane password security' (www.independent.co.uk)

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Amazon Appstore Now Open To Web Apps, With One-Click In-App Purchases In Tow (techcrunch.com)

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Feedback Loop: How I Improved My Day-to-Day Productivity with Data (blog.parsely.com)

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Why Clojure will win (michaelochurch.wordpress.com)

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Kickstarter says it consulted scientists before banning bioengineered organisms (www.theverge.com)

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What Words Do You Use to Describe Yourself? Personal Branding for Introverts (personalbrandingforintroverts.com)

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Xerox to update scan software after switched number outcry (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A $1.45 million Monet is for sale on Amazon - with only 3 stars from reviewers (www.nypost.com)

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Bitcoin is now a declared currency in Texas. (techcrunch.com)

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Emscripten: You've Got C In My JavaScript (the.rockhouse.org)

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Language in books shows how we have grown more selfish (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Korean buses now wirelessly charge as they drive (www.theverge.com)

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After A Decade, 500px Raises $8.8M Series A Funding To Build Out Photo Site (www.forbes.com)

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Stop Multitasking, It's Not Doing You Any Good (www.fastcompany.com)

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Building an API with Golang, RethinkDB and wercker (blog.wercker.com)

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Using BBCP to copy files over the network real fast (faster than rsync) (pcbunn.cithep.caltech.edu)

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Obama cancels Putin meeting over Snowdon asylum (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Data fabrication in Academia - Fail. (lifesciencephdadventures.wordpress.com)

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Detecting Genetic Copy Number with Gaussian Mixture Models (blog.counsyl.com)

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Ask HN: A similar forum/news aggregate site, but mostly for math, physics, CS? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A unique hackathon to rebuild flood-affected Uttarakhand (India) (hack.rebuilduttarakhand.org)

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Seeing depth through a single lens (www.seas.harvard.edu)

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The Science of Annoying Emails: A Presidential Campaign Case Study (blog.engagegrid.com)

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Hollywood Keeps Censoring Pirate Bay Documentary, Director Outraged (torrentfreak.com)

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PayPal to "accept" Bitcoin. Official announcement to come before September. (www.reddit.com)

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Tricked: Paul Verhoeven's crowdsourced script (www.bbc.com)

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Resources for Building Robust Rails Applications (gaslight.co)

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Show HN: I wrote a library to read/write/export 3D printing STL files (github.com)

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Show HN: Sendloop.com - An easier way to set your SaaS email schedule (sendloop.com)

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Summer of R (www.datamind.org)

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H2O - Open source Big Data platform (0xdata.com)

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Budget cuts spell end of fire-ravaged nuclear sub (www.cnn.com)

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In Vancouver, Traffic Decreases as Population Rises (dc.streetsblog.org)

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Amazon passwords truncated to 8 chars in some cases (heise.de - German) (translate.google.de)

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Tonido Home Cloud gets Chromecast support, lets you stream from desktop to TV (www.engadget.com)

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Uber has launched in South Africa (news.ycombinator.com)

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GTK3+ Tutorial for Lisp (www.crategus.com)

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Jobs movie trailer (2013) (www.youtube.com)

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Introduction to the PuDB Python Debugging Tool (heather.cs.ucdavis.edu)

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Python Web Framework Performance Comparison (2012) (mindref.blogspot.se)