hackerNews

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OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on (marc.info)

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Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics) (googleblog.blogspot.com)

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Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA (www.schneier.com)

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Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Announcing The Matasano/Square CTF (www.matasano.com)

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Tell HN: Server Status (item?id=7069013)

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NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep (www.theguardian.com)

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Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying (www.nytimes.com)

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Value is created by doing (blog.samaltman.com)

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JavaScript: The Right Way (jstherightway.org)

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The iPod of Prison (www.newyorker.com)

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Rdio is Now Free on the Web (blog.rdio.com)

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Intel's Recommended Reading List for Developers: 1st Half 2014 (noggin.intel.com)

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WebKit.js: Pure JavaScript Port of WebKit (github.com)

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Frere-Jones is suing Hoefler for half of preeminent digital type foundry (qz.com)

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Coding tip: Leave your code in a broken state (plus.google.com)

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Why Real Estate Tech Is So Attractive For Founders (blog.ezliu.com)

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Nimrod: A New Approach to Metaprogramming (www.infoq.com)

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Node.js and the Road Ahead (blog.nodejs.org)

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.NET Fiddle adds F# (dotnetfiddle.net)

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Adventures in Wearable Electronics – Making a Light-up Dress (www.ofbrooklyn.com)

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Obama and the N.S.A.: Why He Can't Be Trusted (www.newyorker.com)

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How the Drug War Disappeared the Jury Trial (www.outsidethebeltway.com)

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Eero Saarinen's Bell Labs, Now Devoid of Life (www.metropolismag.com)

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Ask HN: How do you deal with potential acquirers? (item?id=7074264)

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Udacity: World's First Massive Online Degree Program Starts Today (blog.udacity.com)

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Obama Is Announcing His NSA Reforms Tomorrow - Use This Scorecard To Judge Them (thedaywefightback.org)

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Coming to an office near you (www.economist.com)

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Belgian startup DPTechnics releases OpenWRT module - runs Linux (dptechnics.com)

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Payments startup WePay pockets $15M, kills direct-to-consumer offering (venturebeat.com)

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The State of Hy (fox.devport.no)

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Coding Horror: The Magpie Developer (2008) (www.codinghorror.com)

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Starbucks caught storing mobile passwords in clear text (www.computerworld.com)

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Netflix picks up an Oscar nomination for “The Square”, a documentary (thenextweb.com)

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Why Did An Angry Man Punch Me? (www.siliconvalleywatcher.com)

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A Dive Into Plain JavaScript (blog.adtile.me)

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California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffic ticket (www.reuters.com)

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Good fun with bad crypto (intrepidusgroup.com)

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Look Out, Payments Startup Balanced (YC W11) Is Processing $370M A Year (techcrunch.com)

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Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism (www.slate.com)

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Get 50 GB of free storage from Box (techcrunch.com)

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Founder's Blues (www.economist.com)

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Microsoft says it's prepared to hand over Skype users' data to Russia (www.globalpost.com)

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Show HN: Releasing my first real open source project – Captionss (http://captionss.com)

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Node.js, MongoDB, and you: an intro in parts (blog.mongohq.com)

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Requests for comment: MP4 Video (commons.wikimedia.org)

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How Do You Teach Kids the Value of Money? (www.getrichslowly.org)

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The Future of Music Genres Is Here (blog.echonest.com)

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Hackers? Techies? What To Call San Francisco's Newcomers (www.npr.org)

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Markers of Gentrification: Mapping Rent as a Share of Income for Top US Metros (blog.kwelia.com)

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Net Neutrality and the Oil War (recode.net)

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When You Get a Job Counteroffer: Should You Stay or Should You Go? (blog.smartbear.com)

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The Feds Are Ready To Sell $25 Million of Bitcoin Seized From The Silk Road (www.forbes.com)

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WebGL & CreateJS for Firefox OS (hacks.mozilla.org)

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The Programmer and the Stone Statue (janogonzalez.com)

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Test Driven Devops: black-box test your web apps (robb.weblaws.org)

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The Cost of Poor Web Performance (blog.smartbear.com)

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The Hidden Backdoors to the City of Cron (blog.sucuri.net)

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Startup Culture Divide: United States and Japan (blogs.parc.com)

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The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Francisco's Dot Com Boom 2.0 (svenworld.com)

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A philosophy of movie recommendations (blog.tanktop.tv)

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F.C.C. Chairman Adds More Ambiguity to His Position on Network Neutrality (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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“In-browser and email notifications as you near the 300 GB per month limit” (customer.comcast.com)

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Yahoo’s Editor-in-Chief Jai Singh Departs Company (recode.net)

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Optimizing large selector sets (github.com)

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F.lux (justgetflux.com)

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Microsoft remotely deleted Tor from Windows machines to stop botnet (it.slashdot.org)

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Booth Babes Don't Work (techcrunch.com)

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USS Rancocas: The Cornfield Cruiser (www.lockheedmartin.com)

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Ask HN: I've done absolutely no work since December 15th (item?id=7073417)

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Memory Monitoring With LXC (blog.codeship.io)

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Dart 1.1 features up to 25% faster Javascript (news.dartlang.org)

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Rap Genius Explains Why Worse is Better (firstround.com)

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Latest Perk on Google Buses: Security Guards (www.nytimes.com)

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Teespring Raises $20M from Andreessen Horowitz (techcrunch.com)

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The Bitcloud Protocol (github.com)

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Tcl the misunderstood (2006) (antirez.com)

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Show HN: Search Grader. Check out Amazon, Craigslist & others' scores (grader.algolia.com)

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Oh shit I started getting a million requests a month for a CGI script (charlieharvey.org.uk)

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11 free services every tech entrepreneur needs to know (fullstart.com)

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Working with Django and Flask on Nitrous.IO (www.realpython.com)

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The new GE: Google, everywhere (www.economist.com)

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Tell HN: Moniker increased the price of .tc domains from $28 to $140 (item?id=7069513)

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The story of prisoner F95488 (sports.espn.go.com)

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Show HN: Maintenr, a platform for auto enthusiasts (http://www.maintenr.com)

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Delight.io (YC W10) shutting down Jan 31st (www.delight.io)

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Why You Should Always Be Looking For A Cofounder (founderdating.com)

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RailsBricks - Create Rails apps faster using smart generators for common tasks. (www.railsbricks.net)

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The Harsh, Logical World of Cryptocurrencies (diegobasch.com)

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UX: Why do washing machines have windows? (ux.stackexchange.com)

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Ask HN: Which platform do you prefer and why, Ghost or Pelican? (item?id=7069767)

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W3C EME is not DRM (nor other fear-mongering TLAs) (blog.adrianroselli.com)

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Fine Gael calls for open source browser crackdown (www.bit-tech.net)

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Guess Who Owns The Patent to RSA's Backdoor Algorithm? Blackberry (jeffreycarr.blogspot.com)

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D-Wave Quantum Computer Flunks Speed Test (www.newscientist.com)

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YesGraph Simplifies The Process Of Using Referrals To Hire The Best Candidates (techcrunch.com)

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Twitter Gets Serious About Commerce, Nears Deal With Payments Startup Stripe (recode.net)

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I'm writing a blog about learning Haskell (lwheng.github.io)

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Another HN outage? (item?id=7068964)

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Do Acquisitions Always Kill Products? (blog.eladgil.com)

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Coeffects: The next big programming challenge (tomasp.net)

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Latest perk on Google buses: security guards (in.reuters.com)

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Storehouse: visual storytelling (www.storehouse.co)

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Dragging Emacs forward (esr.ibiblio.org)

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Show HN: The "Hacker News Status" Twitter account (twitter.com)

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Half-Life Inbox: A Realistic Way to Tackle E-mail (http://www.halflifeinbox.com)

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Show HN: Developer-Focused App Designs (https://www.taptemplate.com)

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Even Ph.D.s Who Got “Full Funding” Have Huge Amounts of Debt (www.slate.com)

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The Looming Payment Liability Coming to American Merchants in 2015 (www.digitalpay.info)

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The Architecture of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (www.aosabook.org)

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Big Picture: Google Visualization Research (research.google.com)

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Announcing Bloc’s second Apprenticeship: Front End Web Design (blog.bloc.io)

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How A Single Email Made Customers 350% More Likely To Convert (www.groovehq.com)

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Sacramento Kings Become First Professional Sports Franchise to Accept Bitcoin (espn.go.com)

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Data-driven, interactive science, with d3.js plots and IPython Notebooks (www.authorea.com)

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If MBA’s Ran the NFL (www.idatix.com)

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Ask HN: Startups improving business insurance? (item?id=7072800)

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A universe made for man (www.asianage.com)

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Why I Said No to Silicon Valley (pastebin.com)

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Ask HN: Where to hire designers? (item?id=7069280)

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Which programming language has the best package manager? (blog.versioneye.com)

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Ask HN: Spying in a time of spies (item?id=7069940)

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Meet the Man Google Hired to Make AI a Reality | Wired Enterprise (www.wired.com)

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WePay Raises $15M To Focus On Payments API For Marketplaces, Crowdfunding Sites (techcrunch.com)

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Google Now in Chrome for Desktop (googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk)

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Tesla, you did it again. (medium.com)

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ATMs Face Deadline to Upgrade From Windows XP (www.businessweek.com)

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Bridge: A faster way to integrate with APIs [video] (bridge.nudgepad.com)

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Creating peer-to-peer mesh networks with browsers using WebRTC (ozan.io)

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Proposed Q&A site for beer aficionados and collectors (area51.stackexchange.com)

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Another Look at the Target Malware - KrebsOnSecurity (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Someone’s refrigerator just took part in a malicious cyberattack (qz.com)

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Adobe goes 3D (blog.sketchfab.com)

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Japan to test magnetic net to clean up space junk circling Earth (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Show HN: I built a platform for scripting your own Bitcoin trading bot in Python (item?id=7069378)

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Ask HN: Remote Internship (item?id=7071261)

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Bitbucket is down (status.bitbucket.org)

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Ur/Web in production (www.impredicative.com)

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LinkedIn, Wherefore Art Thou (jamesrorimer.com)

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GlobalHack Offers $50K Prize For IP Generated During Hackathon (techli.com)

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CloudFlare CDN over https down (cdnjs.cloudflare.com)

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Slides: The Ultimate Guide to Funnel Optimization (growthhackers.com)

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KillYourPhone – A DIY phone signal blocking pouch (killyourphone.com)

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Surprising math on Obamacare levels: Go for the Bronze (ideas.4brad.com)

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Breach at Neiman Marcus Went Undetected From July to December (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: I am a US Citizen and I own a Canadian Corp and a US LLC ..Tax advice? (item?id=7074464)

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See a crime and videorecord it? Go to prison. (www.volokh.com)

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Help design the future of banking at Standard Treasury (YC S13) (item?id=7071907)

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Campaign Managers: Manage Millions in Ad Spend at URX (YC S13) (urx.theresumator.com)

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Balanced is looking for infrastructure/system engineers (item?id=7073032)

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Teespring is looking for Ruby and JS hackers to help us reinvent ecommerce (www.teespring.com)

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Position a machine learning product. Lead product marketing at Sift Science (item?id=7075079)

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