hackerNews

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How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engineer wages (pando.com)

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Debunking Princeton (www.facebook.com)

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Linda Liukas' Programming book for Children has Huge First Day on Kickstarter (arcticstartup.com)

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Startup developing HIV/AIDS vaccine is 2nd nonprofit accepted into Y Combinator (venturebeat.com)

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Emacs strip tease (bzg.fr)

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Google Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information (Disclosed) (shkspr.mobi)

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HTTP Security headers you should be using (ibuildings.nl)

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Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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Almost Everything in "Dr. Strangelove" Was True (www.newyorker.com)

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Google outed me (www.zdnet.com)

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Thirty Years of Mac (www.apple.com)

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React: Finally, a great server/client web stack (eflorenzano.com)

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TigerDirect.com Now Accepts Bitcoin Payments (www.tigerdirect.com)

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Model Your Users: Algorithms Behind the Minuum Keyboard (minuum.com)

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The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs (www.wired.com)

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If Immunity Project (YC W14) succeeds, they'll offer AIDS vaccine for free (www.fastcompany.com)

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Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Second Quarter (www.microsoft.com)

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How I went from 100 to 0 things (or how I was robbed of all my stuff) (levels.io)

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Why I'm Betting On Julia (www.evanmiller.org)

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'Revenge porn' website former owner Hunter Moore arrested (www.bbc.co.uk)

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CNN website hacked: "China dumps all bonds" (webcache.googleusercontent.com)

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The Free HIV/AIDS Vaccine (pledge.immunityproject.org)

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5

The Early History Of Smalltalk (worrydream.com)

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Snowden says he "acted alone" — exclusive interview (www.newyorker.com)

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Bayer CEO: Nexavar cancer drug is for "western patients who can afford it.” (keionline.org)

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Mastering Vim in Vim (nerds.weddingpartyapp.com)

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Google Play Store Ratings Drop (blog.testfairy.com)

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Verizon rescinds service to Samsung Chromebook 3G owners (groups.google.com)

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CmdrTaco's Trove (http://trove.com)

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Functional Programming 101 with Haskell (blog.gja.in)

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A keyboard that rises up from flat touch screens (news.cnet.com)

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Ask HN: Do you cold call? (item?id=7110588)

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Legal Marijuana Businesses Should Have Access to Banks, Holder Says (www.nytimes.com)

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Poll: Full-time software engineer salaries in Berlin (item?id=7109180)

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Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here. (item?id=7107626)

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One new HTML5 game per week (www.lessmilk.com)

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Ask HN: Should I remind users that their card is about to be charged? (item?id=7108168)

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The toll of the anti-vaccination movement, in one devastating graphic (touch.latimes.com)

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Zidisha (YC NP W14) Launches A Micro-Lending Platform for Developing Nations (techcrunch.com)

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How Inactivity Changes the Brain (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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File IO in Rust (blog.safaribooksonline.com)

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Bill Gates: I assume my phone's not being tapped (news.cnet.com)

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Trust,Users & The Developer Division,A follow up to what went wrong at Microsoft (m.facebook.com)

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If You’re "Blogging" For SEO, You’re Doing it Wrong (www.airpair.com)

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10

Pentagon Report Faults F-35 (www.aviationweek.com)

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Show HN: Meet Dockship (braindump.ghost.io)

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An insider’s story of the global attack on climate science (arstechnica.com)

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Nokia posts disappointing Lumia sales (www.osnews.com)

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Live: Guido van Rossum talks about Tulip (asynchronous I/O for Python 3) (nicholsonjf.com)

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Breaking passcode hashing algorithm used on the Samsung Galaxy S4 (gist.github.com)

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iPhone 5 with iOS 7 randomly shuts off (discussions.apple.com)

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What Jobs Will the Robots Take? (www.theatlantic.com)

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Confession From a Go Programmer (notbroken.org)

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Consent of the Surveiled (www.ribbonfarm.com)

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Salt stack, the simpler puppet (www.saltstack.com)

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Aperture Science Personality Core 01 - URL Lengthener (spaaaccccce.com)

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The Joke-Publication of the Paxos Algorithm (research.microsoft.com)

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State Machines - How Balanced controls funds flow (blog.balancedpayments.com)

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Stack Exchange Creative Commons data now hosted by the Internet Archive (blog.stackoverflow.com)

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Stupid Simple Things SF Techies Could Do To Stop Being Hated (dashes.com)

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Stay on top of Github pull requests with Trailer.app (item?id=7107531)

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Help Coinpunk Keep Bitcoin on the iPhone (www.indiegogo.com)

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Google patents ad-powered taxi service that would offer free rides to shoppers (arstechnica.com)

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Everyblock re-launches in Chicago (www.everyblock.com)

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AngelList Tests Charging For Job Posts (techcrunch.com)

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83

Use Subqueries to Count Distinct 50X Faster (www.periscope.io)

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Understanding Database Isolation levels in JDBC and Play (blog.codacy.com)

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WebRTC demo to reveal your true IP address behind proxy/NATs (jsfiddle.net)

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The Joys of Affordable Concurrency (www.rounds.com)

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Solving a Heisenbug (tech.blog.box.com)

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Show HN: Contastic - Staying in Touch Made Easy (www.getcontastic.com)

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San Francisco Eviction Protests (elias-levy.tumblr.com)

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The Future of NPM (sudomakethought.com)

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Ask HN: Our kickstarter is 38k of 100k funded, with little hope (item?id=7113738)

11 points first seen 2014012418 last seen 2014012500 11 comments

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Star Trek vs Babylon 5 (blog.vivekhaldar.com)

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1:60 model of an Air India Boeing 777-300ER made from file folders (www.flickr.com)

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Restaurant Payment is an Awful Experience (nickcammarata.com)

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Street Fighting in Kiev (translate.google.com)

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King.com apparently copied a Game back in 2009 (junkyardsam.com)

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Red Hat ups its virtualization and cloud game (www.zdnet.com)

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Ask HN: Resources (books/articles) to learn JavaScript in 2014? (item?id=7110607)

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Can Robots Own Money? (dilbert.com)

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Ask HN: Any interest in a modern QBasic? (item?id=7109253)

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Predicting Bitcoin's Future Value (leve.rs)

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Using Amazon EC2 to mine Dogecoin (grantammons.me)

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Researchers discover first new species of dolphin since 1918 (news.nationalpost.com)

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US hints at Edward Snowden plea bargain to allow return from Russia (www.theguardian.com)

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How Google controls Android's open-source software (www.theguardian.com)

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Samsung Profit Drops as New iPhones Win Sales, Won Gains (www.bloomberg.com)

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Linux: nohz_full=godmode? (www.breakage.org)

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Mendix Closes $25M Series B Led By Battery Ventures (techcrunch.com)

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Analysis of the Botany, Zoology, and Mineralogy of the Voynich Manuscript (2013) (cms.herbalgram.org)

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Understanding the Mystery of False Confessions (www.thejuryexpert.com)

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Corporate dev job or startup tech support? (item?id=7110746)

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Hacker News Data Analysis: 2014 Edition (blog.rjmetrics.com)

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Billion dollar startup club info graphic (graphics.wsj.com)

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Introducing boot.rackspace.com (developer.rackspace.com)

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This is how analog clocks should be. With a polar projection of the world. (imgur.com)

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Instead of elections, let’s use lotteries (aeon.co)

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Show HN: Network: Podcast App for iOS (itunes.apple.com)

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Col. State-Pueblo Vigilant Against Metaphor, Allusion, Unpleasant References (www.popehat.com)

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Salaries Are For Employees, Not Founders (founderdating.com)

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0

Forget Tesla vs. Edison. Remember Kettering, whose hack revolutionized cars. (blog.selligy.com)

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A keyboard and mouse that you use with one hand (handykey.com)

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King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga... Trademark Trolls with a Double Standard? (junkyardsam.com)

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Have I tattooed a syntax error on my arm? (stackoverflow.com)

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Lenovo Agrees To Buy IBM's Server Business For $2.3 Billion (www.pcworld.com)

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Nonprofit HIV Vaccine Maker Immunity Project (YC W14) Looks For Crowdfunding (blogs.wsj.com)

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Bitcloud: A Peer to Peer System for Sharing Bandwidth (github.com)

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0

How Lita.io uses the RubyGems and rubygems.org APIs (www.jimmycuadra.com)

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0

The potential for a Python 2.8 (regebro.wordpress.com)

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Revenge-Porn King Hunter Moore Indicted on Federal Charges (newsfeed.time.com)

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Glasnost: Test whether your ISP is traffic shaping (www.measurementlab.net)

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Blogs.perl.org hacked (perlhacks.com)

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90

40th Issue of PHP Weekly (phpweekly.com)

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0

Ask HN: What's the easiest way to get started modding Quake2 or similar? (item?id=7108203)

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From Zero to 10,000 Clients in Two Years Using Channel Partners (firstround.com)

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Schema Alteration (blog.datomic.com)

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This 100-year-old idea could end San Francisco’s class war (qz.com)

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Upward Mobility Has Not Declined, Study Says (www.nytimes.com)

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Offer HN: I will work for free this Wednesday in São Paulo or REMOTE (item?id=7110893)

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React with LevelDB and websockets (github.com)

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0

Is Your ISP Messing With BitTorrent Traffic? Find Out (torrentfreak.com)

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Pope Francis Declares the Internet a 'Gift From God' (mashable.com)

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JPMorgan Chase CEO denounces bitcoin as ‘terrible,’ predicts its downfall (rt.com)

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Show HN: Arbitrary JSON Comparison in Python (github.com)

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Google Maps available offline on iOS / Android (support.google.com)

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Bad science: No, Facebook won’t lose 80% of its users by 2017 (pando.com)

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A gallery of art found on video game walls (www.theverge.com)

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Sega Channel (en.wikipedia.org)

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JPEG Standard Gets a Boost, Supports 12-Bit Color Depth and Lossless Compression (petapixel.com)

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Making an Indian agency work for your startup (codemancers.com)

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Independent review board says NSA phone data program is illegal and should end (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Why Google Wants to Give You 101 Alternatives to .Com (www.thedomains.com)

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Optimizely Introduces "Preview As" (blog.optimizely.com)

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Speaking Colors in 7 Lines using webkitSpeechRecognition (leemart.in)

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Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup (www.zoomshift.com)

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Valve VR Demo (garry.tv)

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Unlike its rivals, Tesla will sell cars in China for the same price as in the US (qz.com)

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South Korea Is Building A $1.5 Billion 5G Service (www.businessinsider.com)

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Unicode separators in urls make sites appear down in some browsers (daniel.lubarov.com)

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How Sony Is Ushering In a Golden Age of Photography (www.yahoo.com)

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Singularity University to launch $50M venture fund to tackle ‘grand challenges’ (gigaom.com)

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Huawei pays off Rockstar in patent spat (www.engadget.com)

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MakContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1eGamesWithUs (YC W12) is hiring instructors for our Boston Summer Academy (item?id=7108782)

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The Priceonomics data crawling business is growing fast. Join us (priceonomics.com)

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