hackerNews

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Explainshell - match command-line arguments to their help text (explainshell.com)

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Why You’ve Never Read “I Have A Dream” (varnull.adityamukerjee.net)

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iPhone, meet Haskell (groups.google.com)

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In emergency cases a passenger was selected and thrown out of the plane. [2004] (lwn.net)

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Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content without login (news.ycombinator.com)

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A horrifying startup accelerator story (www.davidgcohen.com)

300 points first seen 2013083009 last seen 2013090203 130 comments

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I'm Building a GitHub for Writers (madebyloren.com)

294 points first seen 2013083003 last seen 2013090200 142 comments

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Ask HN: How Can I leave Syria now and get asylum in Europe(Germany) (news.ycombinator.com)

276 points first seen 2013083021 last seen 2013090121 201 comments

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Does Steve Jobs know how to code? (www.woz.org)

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Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome (corner.squareup.com)

228 points first seen 2013083003 last seen 2013090121 136 comments

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Gnome's Web Browser Ditches Google For DuckDuckGo (people.gnome.org)

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The Raising of Chicago (en.wikipedia.org)

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Show HN:Basics of Neural Networks with example codes and illustrations (natureofcode.com)

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New Snowden Leak Reports 'Groundbreaking' NSA Crypto-Cracking (www.wired.com)

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Ignored by big companies, Mexican village creates its own mobile service (articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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Magic: The Gathering - Complete Card API (mtgapi.com)

176 points first seen 2013083015 last seen 2013090200 119 comments

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Startups ruin you (dcurt.is)

163 points first seen 2013083012 last seen 2013090106 124 comments

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Dark Patterns: inside the interfaces designed to trick you (www.theverge.com)

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Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why (arstechnica.com)

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No federal challenge to marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington (www.cnn.com)

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Show HN: We built a fast substring search engine in Go (www.tamber.com)

139 points first seen 2013083006 last seen 2013092706 0 comments

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Stanford Javascript Crypto Library (crypto.stanford.edu)

135 points first seen 2013083003 last seen 2013083106 82 comments

8

Speed Up Git (5x to 50x) (interrobeng.com)

135 points first seen 2013083021 last seen 2013090706 47 comments

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U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ (www.washingtonpost.com)

133 points first seen 2013083006 last seen 2013083021 49 comments

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First look at Clojure.core.typed (logaan.github.io)

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Letter from Da Vinci to the Duke of Milan applying for a position (brucesterling.tumblr.com)

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Spy Kids (www.foreignpolicy.com)

121 points first seen 2013083003 last seen 2013083106 62 comments

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10 years and still Cannot Measure Productivity (martinfowler.com)

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Use RF noise from VGA DAC to drive VHF TV (bellard.org)

114 points first seen 2013083009 last seen 2013090103 20 comments

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Is Unicode Safe? (www.jefftk.com)

105 points first seen 2013083003 last seen 2013120906 39 comments

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Creative Link Effects - Subtle and modern effects for links or menu items (tympanus.net)

103 points first seen 2013083000 last seen 2013083106 28 comments

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The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet 2.0 (moz.com)

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Why aren’t there any technologists on the NSA review panel? (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Google is hiding data again. The Keyword Tool story. (growthhacker.am)

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How two men survived under 1500ft of water for 3 days (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Nearly a fifth of scientists are considering abandoning the U.S. (www.salon.com)

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How “cell tower dumps” caught the High Country Bandits—and why it matters (arstechnica.com)

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Attack-driven defense (www.slideshare.net)

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Andy Hertzfeld on the Original 'Boot Beep' (folklore.org)

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Introduction to AWS OpsWorks (artsy.github.io)

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Ask PG: Why are apostrophes filtered out of URLs? (news.ycombinator.com)

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NSA finds Snowden hijacked officials’ logins (arstechnica.com)

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A guide to analyzing Python performance (www.huyng.com)

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The cardinal UX mistake we made, you might be making it too (www.cucumbertown.com)

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115, the Newest Element on the Periodic Table (news.nationalgeographic.com)

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The Walking Dead: the consequences of living with a legacy PHP framework (blog.yannickmahe.com)

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Bring Me Your Accents. Immigration Fuels Innovation (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)

64 points first seen 2013083003 last seen 2013083021 63 comments

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Why We’re Traveling (phileasandblogg.com)

64 points first seen 2013083006 last seen 2013083021 67 comments

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Roll your own Ruby Web Framework in Half an Hour (svs.io)

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Discovered: Huge canyon hidden under the Greenland ice. (www.nasa.gov)

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Grabbing random DHL package signatures (blog.mclemon.cz)

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Open Source and the iOS App Store (blog.inkmobility.com)

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Reverse Engineering Marketing For Startups (www.startupmoon.com)

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Show HN: Ready-made, Modular Landing Pages for Startups (http://www.modulz.co)

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[pdf] This syllabus for a cs class at berkeley seems a little draconian. (people.ischool.berkeley.edu)

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Defensive Javascript - Run code safely on untrusted pages (www.defensivejs.com)

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Pilbox: an image resizing application server (agschwender.github.io)

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Less guns = more violence: Harvard Study (lifesciencephdadventures.wordpress.com)

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Announcing Teleport Tool: Backwards-compatible resilience to network outages (blog.gocircuit.org)

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Graying Linux developers look for new blood (www.zdnet.com)

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The KH-11 (aka Keyhole) is dead (www.nasaspaceflight.com)

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“Developers Don't Need to Know the Product” (www.projectsherpa.com)

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Stripe: Redesign our status page as part of job application (spec work) (finejobs.co)

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Is it Time to Open Source Windows? (starter.io)

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Cyber Crime Scene Investigations through Cloud Computing [pdf] (www.cs.uml.edu)

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The Top 5 Productivity Hacks for Entrepreneurs (founderdating.com)

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Growth Hacking (www.slideshare.net)

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Nokia Chief Elop Is Top Gambling Pick to Be Next Microsoft CEO (www.businessweek.com)

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Sergey Brin love quadrangle blamed for Hugo Barra's sudden departure (www.smh.com.au)

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Announcing Mixen: Multiple Inheritance in JavaScript (dev.hubspot.com)

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AngularJS Full Stack Tutorial: Learn to quickly build modern web apps (www.thinkster.io)

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The Black Budget - $52.6 billion (www.washingtonpost.com)

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MnmlRdr - A lightweight and minimal RSS feed reader (mnmlrdr.com)

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Moore's Law Dead by 2022, Expert Says (www.eetimes.com)

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ZenPayroll (YC W12) is processing $100M/yr in payrolls, expands to 4 more states (www.businessinsider.com)

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Morons Judging Ballmer's Performance (www.alexstjohn.com)

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Unmasking Tor through Network Ownership (www.google.com)

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Show HN: Create interactive HowTo guides with just few clicks - public beta (whatfix.com)

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David Cameron loses Syria vote in Commons (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Learn JS - Free Interactive JavaScript Tutorial (www.learn-js.org)

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Jeff Bezos on the Founding of Amazon (1998) (web.archive.org)

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Improve SEO: How we increased search traffic by 2600% (www.tintup.com)

7 points first seen 2013083006 last seen 2013083009 0 comments

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Oh. I Thought You Were a Guy. (www.lastwordonnothing.com)

7 points first seen 2013083012 last seen 2013083021 0 comments

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Machine learning techniques being used to analyze flu virus mutations (www.simonsfoundation.org)

6 points first seen 2013083003 last seen 2013083009 0 comments

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How Release Mobile Uses Windows Azure and Cloudant (cloudant.com)

6 points first seen 2013083003 last seen 2013083006 0 comments

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Bad Data Analysis (medium.com)

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Ember.js 1.0 RC8 released (emberjs.com)

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Sleazy countries are best at breaking New York City's parking rules (www.economist.com)

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The "Bullshit Jobs" That Keep You From A Four-Hour Workday (www.fastcoexist.com)

6 points first seen 2013083009 last seen 2013083018 0 comments

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Age-related memory loss and the protein that may reverse it (www.theverge.com)

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Ask HN: Someone trademarked my domain. What do I do? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Open Source platform for musicians (cashmusic.github.io)

5 points first seen 2013083006 last seen 2013083012 0 comments

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Reverse Engineering Marketing : Where Do Other Sites Get Their Traffic? (www.startupmoon.com)

5 points first seen 2013083006 last seen 2013083009 0 comments

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Ask HN: How much are you worth? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Showcase of Rails 4 and AngularJS integration (github.com)

5 points first seen 2013083006 last seen 2013083009 0 comments

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How App Store grifters clone an overnight success to make a quick buck (arstechnica.com)

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Computer Scientists Figured Out How To Execute The Perfect Reddit Submission (www.businessinsider.com)

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The prospects for 128 bit processors (1995) (yarchive.net)

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New Heroku.com site. (www.heroku.com)

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Havenco is back (www.havenco.com)

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Some Thoughts On The SEC's Rulemaking On General Solicitation (www.avc.com)

4 points first seen 2013083003 last seen 2013083003 0 comments

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Building a GHC cross-compiler for Apple iOS targets (ghc.haskell.org)

4 points first seen 2013083003 last seen 2013083003 0 comments

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4% of US Internet user are now on IPV6 (twitter.com)

4 points first seen 2013083003 last seen 2013083003 0 comments

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Web Development with Clojure (book) (pragprog.com)

4 points first seen 2013083006 last seen 2013083006 0 comments

0

NASA Mars Rover Views Eclipse of the Sun by Phobos (mars.jpl.nasa.gov)

4 points first seen 2013083006 last seen 2013083006 0 comments

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Zip archives as first-class citizens on the Web (lists.w3.org)

4 points first seen 2013083006 last seen 2013083006 0 comments

75

Obscure Facebook URL (spoiledtechie.com)

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Which Start-Up Could Be the Next Big Thing? (www.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2013083009 last seen 2013083012 0 comments

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How App Developers Should Prepare for iOS 7 (blog.bignerdranch.com)

4 points first seen 2013083009 last seen 2013083012 0 comments

86

Web Development with Clojure: Build Bulletproof Web Apps with Less Code (pragprog.com)

4 points first seen 2013083009 last seen 2013083012 0 comments

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Poll: Who will be the next Microsoft CEO? (news.ycombinator.com)

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GAO study hints that patent-system problems are due to software patents (www.washingtonpost.com)

4 points first seen 2013083012 last seen 2013083012 0 comments

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Free online letter creator based on XeTeX (letterly.com)

4 points first seen 2013083015 last seen 2013083021 3 comments

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Linux: It's being ignored (www.benbristow.co.uk)

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Ruby on Rails, still scaling at Envato after all these years (webuild.envato.com)

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How does biology explain the low numbers of women in CS? (2009) (www.slideshare.net)

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China Conducted Nuclear Blasts in Tibet to Divert Brahmaputra River (tibet.net)

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Would banning firearms reduce murder and suicide? (www.law.harvard.edu)

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Ask HN: Why aren't there different articles for hacker and cracker in Wikipedia? (news.ycombinator.com)

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New Read Replica Capabilities for Amazon RDS (aws.typepad.com)

3 points first seen 2013083006 last seen 2013083009 0 comments

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Ask HN: web design for 'backend' devs (news.ycombinator.com)

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Don't launch the perfect product (randomfoundersmemories.co)

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Text a driver in New Jersey, and you could see your day in court (www.cnn.com)

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0

Benchmarking Amazon RDS with Provisioned IOPS (blog.celingest.com)

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Customer First: The PayPal Way (www.paypal-forward.com)

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Things to Know About Salt Cloud Management (www.linux.com)

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Poverty causes a 13-point drop in IQ (due to stress) (www.sciencedaily.com)

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How Medium is building a new kind of company with no managers (firstround.com)

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Automating DPR switching with Client-Hints (www.igvita.com)

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Secret Service Will Post All Aaron Swartz Files On Website, First Batch Up Now (news.firedoglake.com)

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AquaTop display (www.youtube.com)

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The 8 things I know that it seems like nobody else gets (techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)

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Nintendo (ignorethecode.net)

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Universal ARM/x86 COM standard gets a boost (linuxgizmos.com)

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Explore and contextualize data in the rails console (http://tableprintgem.com)

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How I Smuggled 'Porn' Out of North Korea (blog.foreignpolicy.com)

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Swiftype is hiring engineers to help fix site search (news.ycombinator.com)

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Lead Analytics / Strategy at OrderAhead (news.ycombinator.com)

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