hackerNews

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Put.io (http://put.io)

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Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV (github.com)

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AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started (wblinks.com)

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It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map (stevecoast.com)

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After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him (www.newyorker.com)

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A letter from Paper (FiftyThree) to Paper (Facebook) (news.fiftythree.com)

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Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK (googledevelopers.blogspot.com)

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Why we love Mozilla Persona. And why you should, too. (blog.zonino.co.uk)

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Indian School Girl Creates Washing Machine That Runs Without Electricity (trak.in)

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The Plan | Nullify NSANullify NSA (offnow.org)

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What Happens When You Drop A Magnet Inside A Copper Tube [video] (digg.com)

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Innovative traffic light. (streetpong.info)

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UX Crash Course: 31 Fundamentals (thehipperelement.com)

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So you want to write your own language? (www.drdobbs.com)

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Silicon Valley billionaires believe in the free market, as long as they benefit (www.theguardian.com)

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Judges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to the Internet (www.wired.com)

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Show HN: SlaveryStories.org – Written Memoirs and Audio from American Slaves (http://www.slaverystories.org)

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Why Games Should Enter The Public Domain (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly (github.com)

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Julia, the One Programming Language to Rule Them All (www.wired.com)

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KeePass: OpenSource Password Manager (keepass.info)

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Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon Existing Users (www.the-digital-reader.com)

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DEA teaches agents to recreate evidence chains to hide methods (www.muckrock.com)

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Playing with the CPU pipeline (lolengine.net)

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Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft disclose data about NSA requests (thenextweb.com)

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Google Doodle celebrates Canada’s coldest day, -63 ℃ (www.ottawacitizen.com)

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Show HN: Visualize every GitHub push with Awesomebox (http://awesomebox.co)

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ActorDB | A distributed SQL database with the scalability of a KV store (www.actordb.com)

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Paper – stories from Facebook on the App Store (itunes.apple.com)

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Independently Poor: A Twist on FU Money. Or: "FU, Money" (2012) (micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com)

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Heroku XL (www.heroku.com)

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Less 1.6.2 Released (github.com)

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Stop Telling Web Development Beginners to Use a Framework Thanks (www.mogosselin.com)

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P versus NP Explained (www.danielmiessler.com)

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Where Lisp Fits (adereth.github.io)

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Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary (www.facebook.com)

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The fake vc (www.shaf.co)

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Surge Price Predictor for Airbnb Hosts (beyondstays.com)

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Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014 (blog.codeeval.com)

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Yet Another Framework Syndrome (YAFS) (blog.tastejs.com)

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It’s time to explore the Pebble appstore (blog.getpebble.com)

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Why the Heck is Git so Hard? (merrigrove.blogspot.com)

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How Religion Destroys Programmers (simpleprogrammer.com)

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How i built a full application in two days (www.rm2kdev.net)

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Parkinson's Law of Triviality (en.wikipedia.org)

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Google makes it official: no porn apps for Chromecast (gigaom.com)

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Report: Dell layoffs this week – 15,000 to be hit (www.zdnet.com)

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Third prominent banker found dead in six days (www.housingwire.com)

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How We Built a Cutting-Edge Color Search App (bits.shutterstock.com)

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Netflix Kills Discussions (matt.xerq.net)

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What's in my iOS Toolbox? Part 2 (edsancha.com)

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Framed Data Helps Developers Understand The People Behind Their User Numbers (techcrunch.com)

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Shedding some light on FISA requests (googleblog.blogspot.com)

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Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013 (warmingworld.newscientistapps.com)

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More Bitcoin Regulation Is Inevitable (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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Why is the opt-in toolbar scam still acceptable? (item?id=7170021)

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Elixir and the Internet of Things (Part 2) – What's in a Process? (www.neo.com)

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Inside Google's Mysterious Ethics Board (www.forbes.com)

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Graphene circuit's wireless promise (www.bbc.co.uk)

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DataRank (YC S13) Raises $1.4M For Its Online Analytics Platform For Brands (techcrunch.com)

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Heroku XL: Focusing on Large Scale Apps (blog.heroku.com)

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Windows XP gains in January but so does Windows 8.1 (m.cnet.com)

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1000's of publicly accessible private HDD's spread on Piratebay. (item?id=7171494)

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These Awesome Shoes Were Printed Using The World’s First Color 3D-Printer (nocamels.com)

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Retailers Ask: Where Did Teenagers Go? (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Secure remote iSight viewing and motion detection for Mac, iPhone (www.theoncueapp.com)

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Poll: Developers how often are you contacted by (job) recruiters? (item?id=7171442)

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Sturgeon's Passionate Revelation (braythwayt.com)

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Potholes abound on the road to car-to-car communication (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: Coffee Meets Bagel for Recruiting (http://www.overcoffee.co)

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Why clever and lazy people make great leaders (theweek.com)

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C# Tutorials (msdn.microsoft.com)

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Holvi lets startups compare their finances to Apple's first year (arcticstartup.com)

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How Kendo UI Uses Kendo UI To Build Angular Directives For Kendo UI (flippinawesome.org)

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Ask HN: Are my expectations for a workplace unrealistic? (item?id=7169572)

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Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014 (blog.codeeval.com)

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Amber.checkout, a Chrome extension to re-use your buying data on 100 merchants (blog.amber.io)

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Ask HN: How did you take your freelance web development biz to the next level? (item?id=7175352)

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Cryptography Breakthrough Could Make Software Unhackable (www.wired.com)

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It Requires Super Human Discipline to Write Readable Code in Callbacks (joshaust.in)

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Makers of Paper App Ask Facebook to Change Its New App Name (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Dell layoffs this week: 15,000 to be hit: report (www.zdnet.com)

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3D Printing, Graphene and Quadcopters: A Brave New World? (pulsosocial.com)

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Ask HN: Our Startup is at a Crossroads. What Would HN Do? (item?id=7170887)

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Interviewing a JavaScript engineer (agentcooper.ghost.io)

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Demystifying Secret (medium.com)

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Ask HN: Why is Mono still not widely used on Linux? (item?id=7173343)

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Stack Overflow co-founder shares his secrets on creating great community sites (blog.kunalo.net)

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Where in the U.S. will you find the most “pleasant” days in a year? (www.kellegous.com)

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NullCrew attack on Bell Canada was SQL injection and Bell knew weeks ago (www.databreaches.net)

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North American video game crash of 1983 (en.m.wikipedia.org)

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Show HN: I Made a Decentralized Web Browser Built Built on BitTorrent Sync (jack.minardi.org)

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Connect Balanced with over 260 Apps Using Zapier (blog.balancedpayments.com)

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App sends and receives morse code using the iPhone flashlight and camera. (item?id=7173708)

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Writing a composable JS/CSS Build System (engineering.eventbrite.com)

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A look into the nuts-and-bolts of Eve Online's single-shard architecture (massively.joystiq.com)

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Giganews Scores Legal Victory for Usenet (www.ngrblog.com)

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Jil: Doing JSON Really, Really Quickly (kevinmontrose.com)

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Fast Internet Service Speeds Business Development in Chattanooga (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Early Founders – Do you buy new computers for all of your employees? (item?id=7175278)

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Show HN: An API for gender classification (gender.hankstoever.com)

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Ask HN: Which Tiling Window Manager do you use? (item?id=7175620)

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Simpleheat – A tiny JavaScript library for drawing heatmaps with Canvas (github.com)

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Join as a startup co-founder or the first employee? (item?id=7172954)

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French Revolution Digital Archive (frda-stage.stanford.edu)

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Pig livers and blindness: Growing up in North Korea’s famine (www.nknews.org)

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Attempting to Code the Human Brain (online.wsj.com)

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Ray Kurzweil is wrong: The Singularity is not near (pando.com)

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Show HN: flinch – a tool for async workflows (github.com)

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Meet Julia, the One Programming Language to Rule Them All (www.wired.com)

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Ask HN: Niche content blog gets 20k views per month, now what? (item?id=7172772)

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Asseta (YC S13), A Marketplace For Used Manufacturing Equipment, Raises $535K (techcrunch.com)

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Evidence Emerges That Google’s Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All (medium.com)

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Ask HN: Am I ready to be a Python developer? (item?id=7171725)

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Hadoop, There It Isn’t – A Startup Bucks The Big Data Consensus (readwrite.com)

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EtcML: Online text sentiment analysis and classification from Stanford AI Lab (www.etcml.com)

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App sends and receives morse code using the iPhone flashlight and camera. (www.codefellows.org)

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Ask HN – SAAS owners in non-developer space, how did you come up with the idea? (item?id=7174317)

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High Tech Injection Heals Gunshot Wounds – in 15 Seconds (betabeat.com)

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Let's learn about netcat (www.brainsage.com)

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“Fat model, skinny controller” is a load of rubbish (joncairns.com)

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StumbleUpon and Uber Founder Garrett Camp Is Raising $75M For Expa (techcrunch.com)

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Wisembly Raises $2 Million To Make Meetings Suck Less (techcrunch.com)

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Bell Canada Says Customer Passwords Posted Online (www.bloomberg.com)

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FOSDEM video streaming, post-mortem (blog.sesse.net)

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King, Supercell and EA are destroying gaming (osito.io)

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Tuning Blink for faster animation (groups.google.com)

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Testing C#.Net Async Code (spin.atomicobject.com)

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Advanced Redis: Subscribe Lua Scripts to Pub/Sub channels (matt.sh)

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MongoDB 2.8 set to support finer grained locks (jira.mongodb.org)

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The First Nonreciprocal Acoustic Circulator: A One-Way Sound Device (www.utexas.edu)

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Facebook “Paper” May Beat Trademark Complaint (techcrunch.com)

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Send Your Balanced Transactions to Hundreds of Apps with Zapier (zapier.com)

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The Supreme Court on Digital Privacy (www.code-love.com)

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Elsevier opens its papers to text-mining (www.nature.com)

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Ask HN: Will you still subscribe to Amazon Prime if they hike the price by $40? (item?id=7172082)

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Top Super Bowl Commercials: A lesson in PR (rayyanislam.squarespace.com)

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US to push for mandatory car-to-car wireless communications (news.cnet.com)

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Twitter Rolls Out New Web Design That Aligns With Mobile Interfaces (techcrunch.com)

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FiftyThree response to Facebook's Paper (news.fiftythree.com)

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Quantum Internet: First Teleportation To A Solid-State Quantum Memory (www.technologyreview.com)

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Yahoo discloses number of FISA requests and NSL's (yahoo.tumblr.com)

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Google Told to Remove San Francisco Bay Barge (recode.net)

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Target to accelerate $100 million chip-enabled smart card program (www.reuters.com)

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Ask HN: is it possible to open source an iOS app and protect it from copies? (item?id=7175237)

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Jeopardy's New Champion Uses a Controversial Game Theory Strategy to Win Big (www.policymic.com)

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Democrats Introduce Open Internet Preservation Act To Restore Net Neutrality (techcrunch.com)

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Global Submarine Cable Map 2014 (submarine-cable-map-2014.telegeography.com)

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Ask HN: Are Effective People Usually Impatient? (item?id=7175796)

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Kentucky lets Computer Programming satisfy their foreign language requirement (www.courier-journal.com)

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Mobile A/B Testing 101 (blog.taplytics.com)

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PHPKonf – Yet Another PHP ConferContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1ence in Istanbul (phpkonf.org)

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In the End, It All Adds Up to – 1/12 (www.nytimes.com)

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Ask HN: Would you use Facebook's original native app now after Paper? (item?id=7176181)

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PlanGrid (YC W12) is looking for senior Android engineers (item?id=7172176)

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Seasoned engineers, Rails and Python: AnyPerk (YC W12) wants you (anyperk.theresumator.com)

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ZenPayroll (YC W12) is looking for senior front-end developers to join the team (item?id=7175172)

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