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Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize (www.theguardian.com)

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1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128 0256.. (www.wolframalpha.com)

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Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division (www.reuters.com)

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Show HN: Product Hunt (Hacker News for Products) (www.producthunt.co)

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205.68GB of Research Data Available For Download (academictorrents.com)

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AWS Tips, Tricks, and Techniques (launchbylunch.com)

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The NHS is selling your private data – here's the price list [pdf] (www.hscic.gov.uk)

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Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility (googleblog.blogspot.com)

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A 33-Year-Old NPR Story Convinced Me Google Glass Will Stop Looking So Dorky (www.onthemedia.org)

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Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work? (item?id=7144934)

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Patch's new owner lays off staff in 1:39 conference call (soundcloud.com)

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Machine Learning in JavaScript (burakkanber.com)

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4 million songs on Spotify have never been played. Let’s change that (forgotify.com)

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What's in my iOS toolbox? (edsancha.com)

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SymPy Gamma: an open-source, Python-based alternative to Wolfram Alpha (www.sympygamma.com)

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Ruby 2.1: Out-of-Band GC (tmm1.net)

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Dear Bill Gates: The world’s rich stay rich while the poor struggle to prosper (www.johnkay.com)

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Nordic.js | A two-day conference all about JS in Stockholm 18-19 September 2014 (nordicjs.com)

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Drilling surprise opens door to volcano-powered electricity (theconversation.com)

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Show HN: Unregistered word.tld domain names for your project (www.dictionarydomains.co)

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Metered Billing (beta) (forum.linode.com)

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DataHand (en.wikipedia.org)

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Facebook's new optical storage solution [video] (www.facebook.com)

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The Two Teenagers Who Run the Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics (www.theatlantic.com)

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State of The Union address minute by minute on Twitter (twitter.github.io)

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Evolution of words frequencies in porn (porngram.sexualitics.org)

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Mint.com now supports tracking Bitcoins (thenextweb.com)

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Ask Google to choose your next domain (rvmenu.com)

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Interviewing a front-end developer (blog.sourcing.io)

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Announcing Guides (github.com)

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Observation of Dirac monopoles in a synthetic magnetic field (www.nature.com)

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The World's Worst Penetration Test Report by #ScumbagPenTester (it.toolbox.com)

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Pt.StackOverflow.com is the first non-English SO (blog.stackoverflow.com)

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A Brief And Mostly Wrong History Of Programming Languages (james-iry.blogspot.mx)

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Irish Company Locates Office In Ireland (blog.tito.io)

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My first six weeks working at Stack Overflow (www.jonhmchan.com)

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California regulator seeks to shut down 'learn to code' bootcamps (venturebeat.com)

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With Amazon Redshift SSD, querying a TB of data took less than 10 seconds (www.flydata.com)

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Stolen Camera Finder: uses serial numbers embedded in photo metadata (www.stolencamerafinder.com)

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Where should I start learning Assembly? (item?id=7143186)

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On The Plains, The Rush For Oil Has Changed Everything (www.npr.org)

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Using Python and pandas to Create Continuous Futures Contracts (www.quantstart.com)

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Groundbreaking discovery could pave way for use of stem cells in medicine (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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Paving the way for the new Node.js (blog.justonepixel.com)

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The Older Mind May Just Be a Fuller Mind (newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Slabbed-or-not: Detect if your VPS container is running under a hypervisor (github.com)

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Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies [2010] (godheadv.blogspot.co.uk)

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Amazon, the time has come to give you a key (peternixey.com)

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On ElasticSearch: Why we built Marvel? (www.elasticsearch.org)

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California Pollution: Made in China? (blogs.wsj.com)

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FOSDEM 2014 – call for volunteers (fosdem.org)

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Killing RC4 (softly) (blog.cloudflare.com)

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EU court rules that it may be lawful to circumvent console protections (www.polygon.com)

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Special (daringfireball.net)

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New website lets you trade Starbucks gift cards for Bitcoin (www.digitaltrends.com)

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Google's updated Java coding guidelines (google-styleguide.googlecode.com)

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Colorado Man Challenges Evidence Collected Secretly Through Surveillance Law (www.npr.org)

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South Korea's online trend: Paying to watch a pretty girl eat (edition.cnn.com)

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Fighting Against Evidence (www.sciencebasedmedicine.org)

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Blue Bottle Coffee Gets Caffeinated With $25.75 Million in Funding (recode.net)

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Startup Idea – The Best Way to Buy Furniture – Would You Use This? (http://homehub.co)

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Seven Years Is Too Long (lolindrath.com)

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Lavabit appeal against data handover (www.bbc.co.uk)

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What Programming Languages Do You Struggle To Hire For? (www.codingcupboard.com)

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Facebook Beats In Q4 With Revenue Of $2.59B, EPS Of $0.31 (techcrunch.com)

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Ribbon Launches P2P Payments App. No app or account required (techcrunch.com)

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Lessons From McDonald’s Clash With Older Koreans (www.nytimes.com)

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Stem cell 'major discovery' claimed (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Google’s Internal Memo On Motorola’s Sale To Lenovo (techcrunch.com)

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Move Your Domain Day: Support EFF (www.namecheap.com)

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How to properly use Creative Commons images on your projects (gozesty.com)

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Has Anyone Ever Flipped Heads 76 Times in a Row? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

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Eterni.me - Become Virtually Immortal (http://eterni.me)

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PHP 5.5 to drop standard JSON extensions (iteration99.com)

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Why 'Sexual Mind Control' Is Rare in Nature (news.sciencemag.org)

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Developing Good Software is Damn Hard (blog.filipekberg.se)

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Scribd takes aim at Amazon by bringing subscription ebook app to the Kindle Fire (thenextweb.com)

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Tumult Hype 2.5 Brings Responsive Design to HTML5 Animations (blog.tumult.com)

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Hackathon Playbook Part 1: How to Sponsor (www.lob.com)

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Show HN: usefulscience.org – one sentence summaries of journal articles (http://usefulscience.org)

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Welcome To The French Tech Ecosystem (techcrunch.com)

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Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize (www.bloomberg.com)

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Can we expand our time? Better track time. (www.timecamp.com)

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Show HN: Zendesk for apps: add an FAQ to your app + sync with Desk/Zendesk (hipmob.com)

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UK government plans switch to open source from Microsoft office suite (www.theguardian.com)

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"Megaupload" on Apache Mesos (mesosphere.io)

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Keeping Your Data Clean (engineering.zenpayroll.com)

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There isn’t enough money to keep educating adults the way we’re doing it (www.shirky.com)

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Please don't call them 'Legos' (english.stackexchange.com)

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How to Get Started with PyCharm and Have a Productive Python IDE (pedrokroger.net)

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Google to sell Motorola to Lenovo, say reports (www.theverge.com)

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Rocketrip (YC W14) Lets Your Boss Pay You For Saving Money While Traveling (techcrunch.com)

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A new type of book (aenism.com)

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Show HN: https://www.markdownmail.io – Bulk newsletter sender using Amazon SES (item?id=7144866)

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After Google Pressure, Samsung Will Dial Back Android Tweaks, Homegrown Apps (recode.net)

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What GE and GitHub Learned From Each Other (a16z.com)

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Social condensing service Slim shuts down (blog.slim.io)

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Anyone can change your email subscription on LinkedIn without your approval (ytbryan.com)

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Trying to Value Online Privacy (www.schneier.com)

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Congress, Don't Let Us Down: Oppose the Bill to “Fast Track” TPP (www.eff.org)

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FollowGen: Twitter Shut Me Down (myles.io)

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Skype Exorcisms Are Worthless, Say Full-Time Exorcists (www.vocativ.com)

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Ask HN: Who Has Stopped Using RSA Since The Backdoors Were Revealed? (item?id=7146101)

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Revive the Postal Service by making it a bank (www.newrepublic.com)

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How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username (thenextweb.com)

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Ask HN: Do frelancers cost/earn/value more than regular employees? (item?id=7144224)

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Ask HN: Best way to find a CTO? (item?id=7145312)

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“Honey Encryption” Will Bamboozle Attackers with Fake Secrets (www.technologyreview.com)

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Ask HN: Has anyone ever clicked on a tag cloud? (item?id=7146377)

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Making 30-Year-Old Pascal Code Run Again (troydm.github.io)

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Grayscale – A Free One Page Theme for Bootstrap 3 (startbootstrap.com)

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Facebook puts 10,000 Blu-ray discs in low-power storage system (www.pcworld.com)

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New Clues in the Target Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Bootstrapping to 1,000 Paying Customers in 4 Months (www.bootstrappedwithkids.com)

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Ask HN: Have you found your passion yet? (item?id=7145349)

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New Course on TDD for Embedded Software Developers (throwtheswitch.org)

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NSA Announces New Civil Liberties and Privacy Officer (www.nsa.gov)

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My First Board Meeting as CEO (jrodthoughts.com)

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Bitcoin is experiencing its longest stretch of price stability (www.businessinsider.com)

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UC Berkeley's future is as a 'finishing school for the superrich of Asia' (www.bizjournals.com)

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Orbit 64 bytes intro (www.youtube.com)

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Make every day feel like Saturday (www.gamasutra.com)

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Hell's Kitchen School Raises 10,000 Fish in Basement (www.dnainfo.com)

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Angry Birds website hacked after NSA-GCHQ leaks (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Valve's VR technology seen at Steam Dev Days (cmonteroart.blogspot.com)

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When Big Data Marketing Becomes Stalking (www.scientificamerican.com)

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NSA espionage was a means to strengthen the US position in climate negotiations (www.information.dk)

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There isn’t enough money to keep educating adults the way we’re doing it (www.shirky.com)

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A Guide to Building Your First Ember.js App (www.toptal.com)

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Allow any developer to play with your API or SDK in 60 seconds or less. (first.askvc.com)

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Firefox: the new Internet Explorer? (blog.boxuno.com)

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Ask HN: What will happen if I try doing this? (item?id=7144226)

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PayPal and GoDaddy may have cost one man his '$50,000' Twitter account (www.theverge.com)