hackerNews

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Losing graciously (www.markshuttleworth.com)

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How the US Treasury imposes sanctions on me and every other "Stephen Law" (stephenlaw.blogspot.com)

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The French way of cancer treatment (blogs.reuters.com)

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De La Soul to Make Entire Catalog Available for Free (www.rollingstone.com)

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Show HN: A simple IP address API (ipinfo.io)

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What did Persona get right? Why did Persona fail to gain wide adoption? (wiki.mozilla.org)

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Why I Dropped Out Of YC (wikichen.is)

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Solo.im – A single founder peer group (solo.im)

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Drop the ego and prove "I could make that so much better" (blog.lawnstarter.com)

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Cryptic Crossword: Amateur Crypto and Reverse Engineering (www.muppetlabs.com)

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The Insecurity of Secret IT Systems (www.schneier.com)

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BitPay introduces Bitcore (bitcore.io)

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Crazy ants take on fire ants and win (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: Sublimall, SublimeText synchronized (sublimall.org)

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Instapainting Turns Your Photos Into Hand-Painted Oil Paintings On The Cheap (techcrunch.com)

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How I want to write Node: stream all the things (caolanmcmahon.com)

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Darpa Open Catalog (www.darpa.mil)

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Venezuela Blocks Twitter as Opposition Stage New Protests (www.businessweek.com)

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The New Normal: 200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks (krebsonsecurity.com)

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My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do (item?id=7240165)

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Apple Removes Shadow DOM from Safari (trac.webkit.org)

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95% of climate models agree: the observations must be wrong (www.drroyspencer.com)

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GOG.com giving away Dungeon Keeper for free (www.gog.com)

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Apple's Remote Desktop software is secretly bundled for free with every Mac (benguild.com)

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"BitHack" Hackathon by Coinbase (blog.coinbase.com)

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CppCat, an Ambitious C++ Code Analyzer from Tula (www.viva64.com)

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Man Confronts CEO of MT. Gox In Tokyo (www.coindesk.com)

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Throwing in the towel on becomming a programmer (waterstreetgm.org)

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Multiple Simultaneous Ajax Requests (with one callback) in jQuery (css-tricks.com)

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Rendered Prose Diffs (github.com)

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Internet troll study: Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism (www.slate.com)

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Show HN: Writebin, an inline markdown editor (http://writebin.io)

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Linux Design Tools: High-end Design on a Low-end Budget? (www.sitepoint.com)

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Show HN: Phaser. It's Trello for software development, with Vim built in. (http://phaserapp.com)

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Linking to free web content is legal, says EU Court (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence (www.theatlantic.com)

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TrueVault (YC W14) Brings Easy HIPAA Compliance to Startups and Health Apps (techcrunch.com)

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New pagination and crawling features (kimonify.kimonolabs.com)

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Making Mistakes (www.aaronkharris.com)

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NSA Employee Shared Password, Key, Classified Data with Snowden (msnbcmedia.msn.com)

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Useful Learning Resources For Web Designers (www.smashingmagazine.com)

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Squarespace: They Asked for My Password. (www.keepitlit.co)

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Airbnb and Housing (publicpolicy.airbnb.com)

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Mars Rover Heads Uphill After Solving 'Doughnut' Riddle (www.jpl.nasa.gov)

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8 Cool Things About Java Streams (speling.shemnon.com)

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Using pry in production (bugsnag.com)

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The Science Behind 'Brain Training' (www.theatlantic.com)

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Every ending holds a new beginning (doo.net)

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Ask HN: Open source an abandoned Mac app for mockups? (item?id=7243193)

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Volkswagen's US workers vote against joining union (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Where do you register your domains? (item?id=7238727)

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Tesla electric car catches fire in Toronto; company has not yet explained (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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Flightplan – a Node.js library for streamlining deployments and sysadmin tasks (github.com)

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UpCounsel launches Outside General Counsel program for startups (techcrunch.com)

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Oppressed Majority: the film about a world run by women that went viral (www.theguardian.com)

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Real-time tech support with Olark integration into your client-side app (breakthebit.org)

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...was granted a divorce because he was constantly working calculus problems (explore.noodle.org)

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Pandora Knows if You Are a Republican (online.wsj.com)

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Please publicly disavow Tom Perkins at your earliest convenience (istommydrunk.svbtle.com)

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Build your Valentine a custom iPhone game (www.makegameswith.us)

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First geologic map of Ganymede made with Voyager data (arstechnica.com)

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Why Teachers Won't Be Replaced By Software (blog.trinket.io)

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Don’t be the startup that accidentally runs out of money (josephwalla.com)

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Dropbox’s hiring practices explain its disappointing lack of female employees (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Ask PG: What are you most excited to see in 2014? (item?id=7241974)

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Trig functions on 64-bit floats are hard. (code.google.com)

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[Namecoin] How to register .bit domains (www.freespeechme.org)

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Tom Perkins suggested that only taxpayers should have the right to vote (money.cnn.com)

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Open Mesh Network based on the Bitcoin Protocol (http://www.openlibernet.org)

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VC Tom Perkins' big idea: The rich should get more votes (money.cnn.com)

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Perkins suggests rich should get more votes (www.msnbc.com)

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Romance.js – Programmable Valentine's Day Poetry (blog.fullstackacademy.com)

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ProgressJS – A themable HTML5 progress-bar library (github.com)

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NSF Report Flawed; Americans Do Not Believe Astrology is Scientific (neoacademic.com)

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Transaction Fees and the Adoption of Bitcoin (disruption.vc)

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Ukrainian Security Service Prepares to Destroy its Archives (euromaidanpr.wordpress.com)

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Red: help us build the first "full-stack" programming language (www.red-lang.org)

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Google admits data mining student emails in its free education apps (safegov.org)

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The Color Run Sues College Photographer After He Asks for Compensation for Image (fstoppers.com)

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95% of climate models are not wrong. (blog.hotwhopper.com)

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Yes, You Will Probably Get Screwed If The Comcast-Time Warner Deal Goes Through (www.businessinsider.com)

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If you get a PhD, make it an economics PhD (theweek.com)

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New forms of 'racism' arise in science research (m.timesofindia.com)

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The real CrowdSelling Platform Launched (www.intubus.com)

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Rakuten, Japanese Internet Giant, To Buy Cyprus-based Viber for $900 million (techcrunch.com)

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Android-x86 4.4-RC1 released (www.android-x86.org)

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Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s (www.theatlantic.com)

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Quantum Mechanics: A graduate level course(PDF/190 pages) (papers.vidcat.org)

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Microsoft v Microsoft (stratechery.com)

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UK backs huge US neutrino plan (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Your Boss Won't Appreciate TDD: Try BDD (www.toptal.com)

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Chrome Extensions for Marketers (blog.getambassador.com)

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Religious are less intelligent according to analysis of studies (www.independent.co.uk)

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My First Week at Flatiron School (medium.com)

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My Startup Was Failing Because I Was Solving a Problem That No One Would Pay For (startupsanonymous.com)

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Mtgox bitcoin prices going to zero..what should i do (item?id=7237761)

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What happens when a Tesla electric car gets rear ended? (www.treehugger.com)

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New in Vim 7.4: operating on search matches using gn (vimcasts.org)

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Ask HN: Where to focus, user acquisition vs. more demo functions? (item?id=7240789)

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I (socmoth) will send your DOGE coins if you want to try them for the firs time. (twitter.com)

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This Company Wants To Makeover Your Sock Drawer (www.fastcodesign.com)

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Tom Perkins Willing to Say What Rest of Ultrarich Secretly Thinking (www.nationaljournal.com)

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What happens when you Rear-End a Tesla? (twitter.com)

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How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers (www.theatlantic.com)

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One in four Americans unaware that Earth circles Sun (phys.org)

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Video: A secret climb to the top of the World's Tallest Building (www.youtube.com)

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The Art of Customer Centric Companies (www.userlike.com)

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Twitch Plays Pokemon (Enter button inputs via chat!) (www.twitch.tv)

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The World's First Field-Programmable RF Chip (www.eetimes.com)

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NYC's Touchscreen Subway Maps Are Finally Here, and They're Amazing (gizmodo.com)

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X86 PC Assembly Programming Book for Beginner (vidcat.org)

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Alien Earths: why life on other worlds would be far weirder than us (www.theverge.com)

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Why Writer Are The Worst Procrastinators (www.theatlantic.com)

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What's The Point If We Can't Have Fun? (thebaffler.com)

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Show HN: imgsea – image sharing made beautiful. (item?id=7217133)

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Why Jelly is my new Jam (medium.com)

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Belgium legalizes euthanasia for children (www.theverge.com)

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A Forth HTML Generator (www.drdobbs.com)

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Protecting Against a Man-in-the-Middle Attack on Origin Traffic (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Lick your phone: processing.js JavaScript communication. (http://lickthisapp.com)

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Food API (www.hilarymason.com)

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Joltem – Openly collaborate to build and launch a startup (joltem.tumblr.com)

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Show HN: Flatchy Bird – An HTML5 Flappy Bird Tribute/Parody (item?id=7241866)

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Firefox 27.01 Release Notes (www.mozilla.org)

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Ask HN: What is the most important single thing you'd tell a new entrepreneur? (item?id=7242468)

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Group Mind. More than 13,000 People Are Playing Pokémon Red Together (www.polygon.com)

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Trees and Paths using “with recursive” in PostgreSQL (blog.databasepatterns.com)

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A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie [video] (www.youtube.com)

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1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says (www.npr.org)

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YC Company is hiring iOS, Android developers and a Designer in SF (item?id=7239772)

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