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Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (2009) (sivers.org)

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Elon Musks Industrial Empire (www.cbsnews.com)

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Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That (raganwald.com)

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Grafana – feature rich Graphite dashboard replacement and graph editor (grafana.org)

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You Got Your Web Browser in my Compiler (randomascii.wordpress.com)

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Abstract Ideas Don’t Deserve Patents (www.nytimes.com)

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U.S. stock markets are rigged, says author Michael Lewis (www.reuters.com)

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Generational GC has landed in Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)

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The Surprisingly Large Cost of Telling Small Lies (boss.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Big data: are we making a big mistake? (www.ft.com)

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Scrubbed droplets at DigitalOcean are still recoverable (gist.github.com)

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New Zealand school tossed its playground rules (news.nationalpost.com)

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Ask HN: I can't do this anymore, I need help (item?id=7499035)

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Linux 3.14 out (lwn.net)

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How Turtl has no idea when you're sharing copyrighted stuff (turtlapp.tumblr.com)

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Movie Recommendations with k-Nearest Neighbors and Cosine Similarity (gist.neo4j.org)

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Why CoffeeScript Isn't the Answer (www.walkercoderanger.com)

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Why Lisp is a Big Hack and Haskell is Doomed to Succeed (2011) (axisofeval.blogspot.ca)

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Win $10,000 by creating a race car bot in haskell, scala or clojure (helloworldopen.com)

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Google's Pyringe: Enables to inject code in processes. (github.com)

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Dropbox DMCA takedown on personal folders (twitter.com)

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WebRTC: Not Quite Magic (alexfreska.com)

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Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores (http://worldbackupday.com)

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In Some Ways, It's Looking Like 1999 in the Stock Market (www.nytimes.com)

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Signs you might be in "Survival Mode" (5whys.com)

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Tesla Motors plans to debut cheaper car in early 2015 (articles.latimes.com)

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Good Samaritan Backfire (medium.com)

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Combining the power of gdb and valgrind (billiob.net)

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Against intellectual property (www.uow.edu.au)

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The Town That Turned Poverty Into a Prison Sentence (www.thenation.com)

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Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD OS 2nd edition available for preorder (www.amazon.com)

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Against Intellectual Monopoly (levine.sscnet.ucla.edu)

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Working Ridiculously Long Hours is a Sign that Something is Wrong (blog.netizencorp.com)

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Univalent Foundations: New Foundations of Mathematics (video.ias.edu)

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The J Programming Language – Tracy Harms at Strange Loop (www.infoq.com)

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Oculus Facebook deal could ignite equity crowdfunding (bernardlunn.wordpress.com)

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CHICKEN internals: the garbage collector (www.more-magic.net)

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VIX: A New Kind of Video Editor (interfacelab.com)

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MongoDB, Better (go.rackspace.com)

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Statistical Natural Language Processing in Python (nbviewer.ipython.org)

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Tech startup scene starting to flourish in Oakland (www.sfgate.com)

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Bitcoin Slips In The Wake Of The IRS’s Tax Decision (techcrunch.com)

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Psdash – A linux system information web dashboard using psutils and flask (github.com)

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Oculus founder didn’t expect “so many death threats” after Facebook deal (arstechnica.com)

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What is an entity system framework for game development? (www.richardlord.net)

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How much pee in a pool would kill you? (arstechnica.com)

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2014 F1 explained: What is brake by wire? (www.racecar-engineering.com)

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Lawsuit: Waze owes 'open-source' programmers $150 million (www.haaretz.com)

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Is the U.S. stock market rigged? [Autoplaying video w/ audio] (www.cbsnews.com)

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Pyringe : a python debugger that can attach to and inject code into processes (github.com)

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Ask HN: Why Haskell? (item?id=7498198)

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As Amazon Mimics Google’s Price Drop, Cloud Computing Grows Up (www.wired.com)

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Why TypeScript Isn't the Answer (www.walkercoderanger.com)

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The Day Microsoft Gave Up World Domination and Settled For Relevance (waffle.wootest.net)

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The Big Data Backlash (plus.google.com)

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Change careers like Tarzan (sivers.org)

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San Francisco Police Department: Duties, Salary and Benefits (www.sf-police.org)

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How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff (techcrunch.com)

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The First World's Biggest Addiction (www.raptitude.com)

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Ask HN: Open accelerator program without the VC? (item?id=7496495)

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Litecoin [LTC] X11 hardfork at block 564,480 (bitcointalk.org)

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From the trenches: real data science project from start to finish (www.datasciencecentral.com)

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U.S. autism rate surges, CDC reports (1 in 68) (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Clearskies (BitTorrent Sync alternative) fundraiser (www.bountysource.com)

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The Buffett Formula – How To Get Smarter (www.farnamstreetblog.com)

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Picking features to build without a horrible 3 hour meeting. (blog.forcerank.it)

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Why the (CoffeeScript) arrow matters (blog.gadr.me)

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How Twitter Has Changed Over the Years in 12 Charts (www.theatlantic.com)

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John Carmack: Linux is not the right platform for video games (2013) (ubuntuxtreme.com)

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Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come (www.nytimes.com)

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The Eight Hour Burn (2013) (chadfowler.com)

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In China, Alibaba now lets you invest in TV and movie projects (thenextweb.com)

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Asynchronous I/O in Windows for Unix Programmers (2011) (tinyclouds.org)

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Virtual Panel on Immutable Infrastructure [infoq] (www.infoq.com)

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What Games Are: Virtual Reality, We Hardly Knew You (techcrunch.com)

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Optimizing memory usage of scikit-learn models using succinct Tries (blog.scrapinghub.com)

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Why Sports Are A Sad and Dangerous Waste of Time (medium.com)

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Using ccrypt as a password manager (jonblack.org)

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The Tech Bubble’s Silver Lining: Cheap Services for Everyone (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff Without Actually Looking (techcrunch.com)

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Is the Music Industry Doomed? (www.concertwindow.com)

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When it comes to privacy, proof is better than promise. (the.longaccess.com)

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Exposing NSMutableArray (ciechanowski.me)

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I'm looking for a full-stack job like Mike Ross has at Pearson Spector (item?id=7496921)

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UK government takes step towards modernising copyright (www.gov.uk)

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Why is GitHub not opensource? (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: Good books on economic history? (item?id=7498166)

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Why I'm Ditching CoffeeScript (toshokelectric.com)

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Solving Boggle from a photo (blog.megafaunasoft.com)

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How can I make wearing headphones at work more acceptable? (workplace.stackexchange.com)

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Why your previous developer was terrible (medium.com)

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Debunking the "expensive procedure call" myth (1977) (repository.readscheme.org)

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A Night at Hacker News Kansai in Japan (pandoralive.info)

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Facebook Has Become The New Yahoo, And It's Obvious Mark Zuckerberg Knows It (www.businessinsider.com)

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Show HN: Reddit from the Powershell command line (github.com)

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Patching a TV's buggy UDID in linux (dmesg.gr)

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Apple sues Samsung for $2bn as tech rivals head back to court (www.theguardian.com)

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Can playgrounds be too safe? (www.cbc.ca)

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Why do ISPs show speed in bits and not in bytes? It's confusing (item?id=7497758)

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Average revenue per customer is meaningless (data.heapanalytics.com)

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The moment a deaf woman could hear for first time (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Show HN: This is our startup. "If pinterest and reddit had a baby..." (scrollr.co)

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Millennials Don't Care About Owning Cars, And Car Makers Can't Figure Out Why (www.fastcoexist.com)

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Climate impacts 'overwhelming' – UN (www.bbc.com)

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The Power of Framework Thinking (medium.com)

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Senegal seals borders as Guinea Ebola epidemic kills dozens (rt.com)

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Ask HN: have you ever worked on a startup with remote co-founders? (item?id=7497244)

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(Chicago startup) puts "Photoshop" behind CDN (redid.net)

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No Silver Bullet (1986) (faculty.salisbury.edu)

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Sidekiq 3.0.0 released (github.com)

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Mass participation experiment reveals how to create the perfect dream (www.sciencedaily.com)

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The world must invest in mangroves (www.theecologist.org)

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An App Store Experiment (pollenizer.com)

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UN climate panel calls for urgent action as risks increase (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The Utility of Erlang Records: Where Maps Should and Shouldn't Replace Records (blog.troutwine.us)

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Google hiked wages to combat Fb after fb refused to join hiring cartel (pando.com)

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