hackerNews

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He got 1%, we can't hire him (www.codingjohnson.com)

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What happens when you stand for 2 years. (arshadchowdhury.com)

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Google has lowered the price of the Nexus 4 by $100 (play.google.com)

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Flutter: $20 Wireless Arduino with half mile (1km) range. (www.kickstarter.com)

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What happens when you sit at a desk for 13 years and also exercise (deanproxy.com)

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Coding Horror: The CODE Keyboard (www.codinghorror.com)

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Go After 2 Years in Production (blog.iron.io)

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Isaac Asimov's predictions for what the world will be like in 2014 (www.nytimes.com)

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Logstash joins Elasticsearch (www.elasticsearch.com)

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Introducing Brick: Minimal-markup Web Components for Faster App Development (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Coursera: Principles of Reactive Programming (www.coursera.org)

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Puma, a fast concurrent web server for Ruby (http://puma.io)

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Twitter’s whois records altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility (thenextweb.com)

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A bank robber debates the judge who sent him to a decade in prison (comments) (herculesandtheumpire.com)

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Don't Get Pwned on Public WiFi: Use Your Own VPN (www.tinfoilsecurity.com)

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Mozilla Servo: the road to Acid2 (groups.google.com)

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Researchers reverse-engineer the Dropbox client: What it means (www.techrepublic.com)

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Details Behind Today's Internet Hacks (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Detaining David Miranda (www.schneier.com)

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What is algebra? (profkeithdevlin.org)

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F1: Google's new SQL database (research.google.com)

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Memories of positive associations get written onto DNA (arstechnica.com)

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A different way of looking at responsive design: intention.js (intentionjs.com)

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Drivetrain Design for Boosted's Electric Skateboard (boostedboards.posthaven.com)

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The Journey of Launching My First Product, “To Do Cal” (www.chrisnorstrom.com)

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Facebook's Transparency Report (www.facebook.com)

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10gen is now MongoDB, Inc. (www.mongodb.com)

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Java Algorithms and Clients (algs4.cs.princeton.edu)

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NYTimes.com down for some users; paper suspects “external attack” (gigaom.com)

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Researcher controls colleague's motions in 1st human brain-to-brain interface (www.washington.edu)

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Youtube retires video responses. Click-through rate was .0004% (youtubecreator.blogspot.com)

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First impressions using Julia (acooke.org)

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Free online resume creator based on LaTeX (https://www.cvsintellect.com)

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Inside the Bitcoin advocates’ closed-door meeting with federal regulators (www.washingtonpost.com)

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What technology should your startup use (matt.aimonetti.net)

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The return of nftables (lwn.net)

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MongoDB Days (gaiustech.wordpress.com)

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You Are Your Own Worst Enemy - thoughts on ego protection and self-sabotage (zachobront.com)

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Web Browser based control system for the RaspberryPi (github.com)

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Map Vectorizer - An NYPL Labs project (github.com)

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What Makes Employees Work Harder: Punishment or Pampering? (www.theatlantic.com)

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Apple attempts to trademark the word 'startup' (zd.net)

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Along For The Ride (www.marco.org)

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Noisebridge's Homeless Hackers (kalw.org)

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Apple seeks to trademark “startup” in Australia (www.startupsmart.com.au)

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Algorithmic Trading: A Practical Tale for Engineers (www.toptal.com)

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Java 6 exploit found in the wild (www.theinquirer.net)

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Espruino -- a JavaScript Arduino (www.kickstarter.com)

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How Goya brought ethnic food to white America (www.washingtonpost.com)

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CTL-C: Re-imagined IaaS with Docker Containers (ctl-c.io)

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US behavioural researchers more likely to exaggerate findings (www.nature.com)

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Python module for parsing semi-structured text(like cli output) (code.google.com)

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Posters everywhere but no attacks (German elections) (www.economist.com)

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Soylent: Operations Update (blog.soylent.me)

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Nissan pledges commercially viable autonomous drive by 2020. (nissannews.com)

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DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com (digitaloceanstatus.com)

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Show HN: Realtime Coding Q&A. Stack Overflow meets IRC (www.enginehere.com)

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Paul Vixie to step down from ARIN board (lists.arin.net)

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What to Do When You’re the Only Designer They’ve Got (firstround.com)

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Now all Windows developers have been thrown under the bus (www.zdnet.com)

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Why I Hate Frameworks (2005) (discuss.joelonsoftware.com)

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Ubuntu Edge: how many phones were really ordered - and the mistakes (www.theguardian.com)

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Ten things we've learnt about the surveillance state (www.crikey.com.au)

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Jeff Sagarin, sports analytics pioneer, still codes in Fortran (college-basketball.si.com)

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Yahoo redesigns 7 of its sites (yahoo.tumblr.com)

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The Growth Hacker's Dilemma: Process vs. Tactics (onstartups.com)

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Feedbin is Open Source (blog.feedbin.me)

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Railroads beware: Technology is gaining on you (www.railwayage.com)

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How to (Not) Hire Freelancers for Your Startup (dennybritz.com)

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We're losing perspective on 3D CSS (logicalfriday.com)

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Show HN: The CampusData.org guide to bringing Open Data to universities (http://campusdata.org)

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Heap (YC W13) Raises $2M for Their “Capture Everything” Analytics Tool (techcrunch.com)

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UW researchers figure out human-human brain signal transfers (www.geekwire.com)

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Rails autoloading – how it works and when it doesn't (urbanautomaton.com)

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Lessons learned: working remotely as a cofounder (blog.netguru.co)

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The Worst Work Day of My Life - So Far (blog.amir.rachum.com)

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Fighting between cofounders: one of the main reasons that startups fail (www.berrebi.org)

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Announcing the Amazon Mobile Associates API (developer.amazon.com)

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Career Advice From Bill Watterson (imgur.com)

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Twitter.com Domain Seized by Syrian Electronic Army (whois.domaintools.com)

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Show HN: BitBalloon, insta-deployment of static sites with forms that just work (www.bitballoon.com)

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Show HN: Real time code sharing and video chat (WebRTC) (http://codeshare.io)

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Get Faster, More Affordable Cloud Applications With OS Virtualization Containers (www.rackspace.com)

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OpenBlas project raising money for Haswell+Piledriver hardware (www.bountysource.com)

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CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran (www.foreignpolicy.com)

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Syria: Russia’s warning falls on deaf ears as Britain and US prepare to bomb (www.independent.co.uk)

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How to create more qualified candidates for tech jobs (medium.com)

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Hacker group, Syrian Electronic Army, has control of Twitter & NY Times domains (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: Any Hackers Appreciate The Importance Food Has On Feeling Good? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Economics of Electronic Dance Music (www.smartasset.com)

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Syrian Electronic Army Takes Over Twitter's Domain (NYTimes too) (twitter.com)

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Why Microsoft’s next CEO should break up the company (www.technologyreview.com)

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Harvestman - Quick and dirty web crawling (github.com)

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Ask HN: What did you want to be when you were younger? And what are you now? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Nissan says it will bring multiple self-driving cars to market by 2020 (www.theverge.com)

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Syrian Electronic Army Hacks DNS Records Of Twitter, New York Times (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: What would you do? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Life without a cell phone (blog.nbrogi.com)

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Use yielding (await) in javascript today, with traceur (kyle.graehl.org)

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UC Berkeley free big data analytics & machine learning online class (ampcamp.berkeley.edu)

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Ask HN: Algorithms for inline comments? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Easy Authentication Using AngularJS, Node.js and CouchDB (www.twilio.com)

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Steve Jobs' 'To all iPhone customers' letter removed from Apple website (news.ycombinator.com)

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Liberia students all fail university admission exam (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Learn to run a viable business book launched (curtismchale.ca)

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Campus Data (campusdata.org)

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Teaching as Marketing (www.kalzumeus.com)

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Ask HN: Gmail's new Compose ruined my e-mail writing. What's a good client? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Syrian Electronic Army now hosting NYT & Twitter domains on their IP (tweet) (twitter.com)

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Peter Thiel on Mapping A Life (daslee.me)

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Apple apply for trademark of the term 'startup' in Australia (tmwatch.net)

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CODE Keyboards (codekeyboards.com)

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The vi editor causes brain damage [2007] (lwn.net)

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Ask HN: You're running a shared photoalbum startup, how will you battle Facebook (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Ignorant Entrepreneur (priceonomics.com)

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Quantum inverted pendulum maintains unstable quantum system (phys.org)

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The lunacy of trying to avoid NSA spying by moving tech out of the US (www.zdnet.com)

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NYTimes hacked by Syrian Electronic Army (i.imgur.com)

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How to Choose a Startup Idea (justinmares.com)

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A Cloud And Azure Glossary For The Confused (www.hanselman.com)

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Signs You’re Secretly a Narcissist Masquerading as a Sensitive Introvert (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

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I have a different view on stack ranking (theludwigs.com)

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Reflections on teaching algorithms in spreadsheets (www.john-foreman.com)

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Syrian Electronic Army Claims to Have Taken Over Twitter's Domain (gizmodo.com)

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Tesla Model S REST API Authentication Flaws (programming.oreilly.com)

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Gnu turns 30 (gnu.org)

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Linux Performance Analysis and Tools (www.joyent.com)

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The joys and benefits of working as a distributed team (joel.is)

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Break into programming: customer development and landing your minimum viable job (medium.com)

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Startup Metrics, a love story (www.slideshare.net)

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Scalability Through Event and Session Tracking With Angler.js (usesold.com)

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Ask HN: Any good resources/books on Marketing for first time entreprenuers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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NSA Data Collection (www.schneier.com)

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Ask HN/PG: Why can't I collapse comment threads? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Smithsonian acquires first piece of code for design collection (www.theverge.com)

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Atomic number 155 (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Visualizing the first 700 binary tree structures (randomcomputation.blogspot.com)

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Here’s how phone metadata can reveal your affairs, abortions, and other secrets (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Incredible paintings of sci-fi suburbia will make you wish you were Swedish (www.theverge.com)

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IBM's Watson could get even smarter with Power8 chip (www.pcworld.com)

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A litmus test for your idea (ninjasandrobots.com)

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Steve Ballmer's Microsoft (2012) (dcurt.is)

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Chip daddy: Moore's Law is about to be repealed, but don't blame physics (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Scala Lists Part 2 (scalatuts.com)

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In ACLU lawsuit, scientist demolishes NSA’s “It’s just metadata” excuse (arstechnica.com)

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Retro DIY Mini Mac Fits in the Palm of Your Hand (mashable.com)

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Language can reveal the invisible, study shows (www.news.wisc.edu)

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The Omni Group’s Answer to the App Store’s Lack of Upgrade Pricing (mac.appstorm.net)

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GoCardless (YC S11) is looking for software developers (gocardless.com)

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Join Exec as a Product Manager of Growth (news.ycombinator.com)

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Come help us hack the Auto Industry - Designer (CarWoo Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1S09) (news.ycombinator.com)

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Lead Full Stack Engineer at Dreamforge (3D printing software) (news.ycombinator.com)

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