hackerNews

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GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter (github.com)

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Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (zachholman.com)

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Why I stopped being a Voluntourist (pippabiddle.com)

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Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 with SSL fix (9to5mac.com)

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Twitter finally returns @N to rightful owner (thenextweb.com)

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Famous tech acquisitions, cost per user (public.brightside.io)

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Consumer Reports Calls Tesla Model S The Best Car Of 2014 (business.time.com)

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For 40 years, this Russian family was cut of from all human contact (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Show HN: Easily add forms to your static site – no iFrames required (www.formspree.com)

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Microsoft Office Online is now free (www.office.com)

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Portal 2 Beta for Linux officially released (steamcommunity.com)

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Wolfram Language (reference.wolfram.com)

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Servo: Inside Mozilla's mission to reinvent the web browser (www.zdnet.com)

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ArnoldC – A programming language based on Arnold Schwarzenegger one-liners (github.com)

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Overkilling the 8-queens Problem (davidad.github.io)

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Scale of the Universe (www.htwins.net)

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WebGL raytraced eye (www.vill.ee)

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A Bitcoin Address with 782,000 BTC Moved Through It (blockchain.info)

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Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in California (www.news.com.au)

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Real money, invested with algorithms (blog.quantopian.com)

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New message from Mt. Gox (https://www.mtgox.com#new)

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Paul Graham Shares Lessons Learned From 630+ YC Startups (techcrunch.com)

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'Secret agents' warning removed from Chrome incognito tab (src.chromium.org)

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Programming With Types, Not Tutorials (www.fpcomplete.com)

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Rolls-Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375B Freight Industry (www.bloomberg.com)

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Mt. Gox Receives Subpoena From Federal Prosecutor (online.wsj.com)

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Has goto fail been fixed yet? (hasgotofailbeenfixedyet.com)

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Stross on Schadenfreude (and MtGox) (www.antipope.org)

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WhatsApp’s Founder Goes From Food Stamps to Billionaire (www.bloomberg.com)

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MPAA’s latest anti-piracy move accidentally screws Hollywood studios (pando.com)

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Google's Hangouts blunder helped WhatsApp (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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My Management Lessons from Google, Apple, Dropbox, Twitter and Square (firstround.com)

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Working Backwards to the Technology (daringfireball.net)

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Apple Releases iBeacon Specification (beekn.net)

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Python socket.recvfrom_into() remote buffer overflow (pastebin.com)

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Space Elevators Are Totally Possible (and Will Make Rockets Seem Dumb) (www.techblog.co)

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2014: The year the Americans broke the internet. For good. (www.thedrum.com)

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Even Knowingly Taking A Placebo Seems To Help (www.npr.org)

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Why Did Symbolics Fail? (2009) (danweinreb.org)

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4.4 billion-year-old crystal is oldest confirmed piece of Earth (www.cnn.com)

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360 million newly stolen credentials on black market (www.reuters.com)

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Superhost (YC W14) Is Your Personal Assistant For Your Airbnb (techcrunch.com)

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One of the good explanation on Bayesian Probability (nbviewer.ipython.org)

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American Aqueduct: The Great California Water Saga (www.theatlantic.com)

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Mt. Gox Shuts Down, Loses $409,200,000 (www.forbes.com)

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Bugged recordings of prominent Turks are appearing almost every day (www.ft.com)

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Claypoole: Threadpool Tools for Clojure (eng.climate.com)

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Statement on Mt. Gox (antonopoulos.com)

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64 Terabyte RAM computer from SGI (www.sgi.com)

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If you aren’t getting rejected, your goals aren’t ambitious enough (2010) (cdixon.org)

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Save uberX in Seattle (action.uber.org)

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Is tweeting Top Gun frame-by-frame illegal? Paramount thinks so. (techcrunch.com)

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What UPS Drivers Can Tell Us About the Automated Future of Work (www.wired.com)

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Packt Publishing ebooks free today with DOTDEBOOKFREE promo code (item?id=7303832)

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Hosting radically disrupted—1 sec installs, forking apps, container based, etc. (jumpstarter.io)

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Using PostgreSQL Arrays The Right Way (blog.heapanalytics.com)

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Microsoft Is Interested in Buying Stake in Dailymotion (techcrunch.com)

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Australian-made high tech armour could reinvent Mixed Martial Arts (www.news.com.au)

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Defending Bitcoin, Andreessen Says Mt. Gox Is 'Like MF Global' (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Working With Designers (blogs.wsj.com)

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Introducing Ratchet 2 (blog.getbootstrap.com)

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Hardware hacker manifesto (daeken.com)

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A Twitter Data Scientist Hacks San Francisco's Subway Fares (www.fastcoexist.com)

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Update on the Mt. Gox "Crisis Strategy Draft" leaked document (two-bit-idiot.tumblr.com)

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MtGox leaks its own acquisition? (blogs.computerworld.com)

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Go talks at FOSDEM 2014 (blog.golang.org)

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Facebook open-sources KVOController – simpler key-value observing for iOS (github.com)

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Five Lessons from Building A Great Core Team (blog.zactownsend.com)

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New Programming Language Removes Human Error from Privacy Equation (www.technologyreview.com)

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ArnoldC – Programming based on one liners of A. Schwarzenegger (github.com)

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Mt. Gox CEO Karpeles says Bitcoin exchange is at "turning point" (www.reuters.com)

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The Best UX Articles of February 2014 (blog.usabilla.com)

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This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood (www.wired.com)

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Ask HN: What has recently pissed you off that ideally a product could solve? (item?id=7303291)

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Now (xkcd.com)

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Why I Will Give 100% of My Book Earnings to Women in the Struggle (www.bhorowitz.com)

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About the security content of OS X Mavericks v10.9.2 (support.apple.com)

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Inequality worse now than on ‘Downton Abbey’ (www.marketwatch.com)

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Industry without community is without heart and soul (blog.engineyard.com)

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Just released an infographic on how YouTubers don't make much $$ from ads (www.patreon.com)

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Geo Theme for Bootstrap (code.divshot.com)

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MtGox.com HTML comment tag: "put announce for mtgox acq here" (http://www.mtgox.com)

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Eve: The most thrilling boring game in the universe (www.polygon.com)

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Entrepreneurs, Advisors and Fools (founderdating.com)

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My Conversation with Mark Karpeles of Mt. Gox (www.wickedfire.com)

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Mt. Gox reportedly subpoenaed by the feds, CEO confirms proposal was legit (www.engadget.com)

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10 Realtime Web Technology Predictions for 2014 (www.leggetter.co.uk)

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When You Can't Compete On Salary: Tech Talent on a Budget (jobtipsforgeeks.com)

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Telcos gouging on SMS by up to 90,000%, says consumer group (www.theage.com.au)

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Ask HN: Why is "Programming With Types, Not Tutorials" dead? (item?id=7299571)

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Show HN: Colleagues.io (http://colleagues.io)

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How we increased chat performance by 10x without writing any code. (kirillzubovsky.com)

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Xkcd/now (xkcd.com)

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The Internet is Fucked (www.theverge.com)

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Mass arrest of protesters at rallies in Russia (www.bbc.co.uk)

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“Just a Flesh Wound” (milesobrien.com)

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Obesity Rate for Young Children Plummets 43% in a Decade (www.nytimes.com)

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A Modest Proposal for Ethical Ad Blocking (nicolas.kruchten.com)

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The Wild Wild Web: YouTube ads serving malware (labs.bromium.com)

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The man who destroyed America‘s ego (medium.com)

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A place to send your friends when they ask for "help making a website" (item?id=7300067)

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Mongo 2.6 Highlights (bugsnag.com)

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Summer and fall 2014 applications are open (www.hackerschool.com)

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Twitter restores $50,000 N username to its owner (arstechnica.com)

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Lies, Damned Lies, and the Telegraph (2013) (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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What Getting Fired Taught Us About Hiring – Lever (YC S12) (blog.lever.co)

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ThoughtWorks just open sourced Go, their tool for Continuous Delivery (www.go.cd)

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Startup sales - the pair negotiation tactic (blog.close.io)

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How to safely generate a random number (sockpuppet.org)

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2013 – Another Year In MAME (mamedev.emulab.it)

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Ask HN: Sci-Fi novels? (item?id=7301740)

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The Scrum Backlog is where Features go to die. (medium.com)

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New iOS flaw makes devices susceptible to covert keylogging, researchers say (arstechnica.com)

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How Young Is Too Young To Learn About The Singularity? (www.fastcolabs.com)

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Show HN: Dynamic graphs of crowdsourced atmosphere sensor data (pressurenet.io)

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Hello, MS-Android. Good-bye, Windows Phone (www.zdnet.com)

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Purple.com, since 1994 (www.purple.com)

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Mt. Gox – AVC (avc.com)

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Announcing TypeScript 1.0RC (blogs.msdn.com)

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Chinese Robot Plays Flappy Bird (www.youtube.com)

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Facebook Massively Overpaid for WhatsApp (continuations.com)

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Vast Study Casts Doubts on Value of Mammograms (www.nytimes.com)

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Mt Gox acquisition? (item?id=7297881)

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Getting started with Broccoli and Ember.js (ampersate.com)

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Points on Elliptic Curves as Python Objects (jeremykun.com)

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How to Mine the Web (www.whosbacon.com)

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North Korean defector fights Pyongyang with thumbdrive-laden balloons (arstechnica.com)

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Visualizing 15 Years Of Acquisitions By Apple, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook (techcrunch.com)

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No Bailout for Bitcoin Holders (dealbook.nytimes.com)

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Mt. Gox Receives Subpoena From Federal Prosecutor (www.reuters.com)

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I have $8k of AWS credit that expire soon. What should I do with them? (item?id=7302872)

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NASA turns research to California drought (www.apnews.com)

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Atom.io (http://atom.io)

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Five of the strangest online communities (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Sam Altman Takes Over as President of Y Combinator [video] (www.bloomberg.com)

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Removing the pain points from Android development (endlesswhileloop.com)

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Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wallet when it shut down? (item?id=7297471)

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Egyptian military lies on national TV about finding a cure for cancer. (www.youtube.com)

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Forget About SEO, Here is What to do Instead (www.epicster.com)

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Upgrade from Rails 3.2 to Rails 4 in one line (github.com)

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Marijuana: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (slatestarcodex.com)

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The Internet is fucked (mobile.theverge.com)

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Proof of concept captures all SSL traffic via Apple's goto fail exploit (www.zdnet.com)

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Why Few Teams Build Billion Dollar Companies and most Disintegrate (blog.urx.com)

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US Senate hearings on solitary confinement (live stream) (www.senate.gov)

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Lack of QA was the problem, not the sloppy coding (www.enhance-ict.com)

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Depression Re-examined: A New Way to Look at an Old Puzzle (www.sciencebasedmedicine.org)

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How colleges are finding tomorrow's prodigies (www.csmonitor.com)

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Google fights back against proposed bans of Google Glass while driving (arstechnica.com)

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YanukovychLeaks: How Ukraine Journalists Are Making History (gijn.org)

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Apple Security Update 2014-001 (Mountain Lion) (support.apple.com)

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New keylogging security flaw found in iOS 7 (gigaom.com)

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Sabeen Ali v. Gregory Gopman (Former AngelHack CEO) (www.scribd.com)

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Why I Will Give 100% of My Book Earnings to Women in the Struggle (www.bhorowitz.com)

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Space Elevators Are Totally Possible (and Will Make Rockets Seem Dumb) (motherboard.vice.com)

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iOS Dev Summer Academy Instructor (item?id=7297563)

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Senior Software Engineer for Homejoy (homejoy.theresumator.com)

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Casetext (YC S13) seeking a front-end engineer (item?id=7300970)

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