hackerNews

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Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler (roslyn.codeplex.com)

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Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO (blog.mozilla.org)

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What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap (www.kalzumeus.com)

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Show HN: GitBook – Build beautiful programming books using GitHub and Markdown (www.gitbook.io)

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Rust 0.10 released (mail.mozilla.org)

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A nation of slaves (www.antipope.org)

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Vatican to Digitize 41 Million Pages of Ancient Manuscripts (hyperallergic.com)

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Imgur Raises $40M From Andreessen Horowitz (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the Brightest from Stack Exchange Co-Founder (firstround.com)

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F# language and library opened for community contributions (visualfsharp.codeplex.com)

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The Woman Behind Apple's First Icons (priceonomics.com)

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A Better Way to Track JavaScript Errors (trackjs.com)

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The Guilt of the Video-Game Millionaires (newyorker.com)

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PostgreSQL Gets Columnar Store for Analytic Workloads (www.citusdata.com)

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Places to submit your launching startup (ovoice.net)

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Pissing Away Our Money With Google Display Ads (blog.aha.io)

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A Moon of Saturn Has a Sea, Scientists Say (www.nytimes.com)

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Don't use assembly unless you're an expert (quetzalcoatal.blogspot.co.uk)

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Show HN: Sysdig, a tool for Linux system exploration (github.com)

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NASA Open Sources Apollo 11 Code (apcmag.com)

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US Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter' To Stir Unrest (hosted.ap.org)

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Here a meteorite zooms past a parachutist (www.nrk.no)

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Japanese Toilets: The Future Called 30 Years Ago (blog.hopefullyuseful.com)

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OneGet – Microsoft adds repositories and package manager to PowerShell (blogs.technet.com)

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Announcing Pyston: an upcoming, JIT-based Python implementation (tech.dropbox.com)

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Ketamine 'exciting' depression therapy (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How The Rise Of The "R" Computer Language Is Bringing Open Source To Science (www.fastcolabs.com)

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Europe votes for clinical trial transparency (www.alltrials.net)

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PopcornTime official website is back (popcorn-time.tv)

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Xtend – Modernized Java (www.eclipse.org)

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EU votes net neutrality into law, abolishes mobile roaming charges (www.computerworld.com)

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A List of JavaScript Tools and Libraries (www.codefellows.org)

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Twitter spam wave (twitter.com)

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CNAME Flattening: RFC-Compliant CNAMEs at a Domain's Root (blog.cloudflare.com)

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Brendan Eich resigns as CEO from Mozilla (www.bbc.co.uk)

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I'm hacking my microbiome, here's a first look at results (biomehacking.brace.io)

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Inside the Incubator – Silicon Valley is satire, but feels like a documentary. (www.slate.com)

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Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz (betabeat.com)

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Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio (stephenhaunts.com)

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How Old Are Silicon Valley’s Top Founders? Here’s the Data (blogs.hbr.org)

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Consumer Safety Notice for Nest Protect: Smoke and CO Alarm (nest.com)

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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 2 (www.apple.com)

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An open-source Python implementation using JIT techniques (github.com)

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32 bit version of KDB+ is now free for commercial use (kx.com)

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Why Facebook should worry about Tencent (blogs.hbr.org)

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How to not get ripped off by High Frequency Traders (www.chrisstucchio.com)

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Help fund Rails Girls Summer of Code 2014 (railsgirlssummerofcode.org)

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My Eclipse experience with Java 8 was so bad, I switched to NetBeans (zeroturnaround.com)

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Wanted to share my past 3 years since being rejected from CS (www.vutran.me)

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NYC Startup Artsy Raises $16M to Become Pandora for Visual Art (blogs.wsj.com)

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Why I Built cointipping.com (diegobasch.com)

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PlanOut: the web framework Facebook uses to run experiments on a billion users (facebook.github.io)

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Startups are a great start, but not the goal (www.economist.com)

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Ted Ts'o: For those who believe systemd developers are reasonable (plus.google.com)

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Do physicists really believe in true randomness? (www.askamathematician.com)

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The reason Angular JS will fail (okmaya.com)

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Can you hear me now? No, I don't have that app (www.mwmeyer.com)

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Show HN: Kiwichat – group chat of people who are within 1 mile (kiwichat.co)

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Show HN: Hash your work and store it in a bank transfer for priority statement (rschoenm.github.io)

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How Retargeting Gets Our SaaS $650 for $6 (www.baremetrics.io)

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Siri's Psychological Effects on Children (www.newrepublic.com)

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U.S. lawmakers ask Gilead to justify hepatitis C drug's $84,000 price (www.latimes.com)

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We are all in this together (www.craiglockwood.co.uk)

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The LLVM Foundation (blog.llvm.org)

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Internationalizing your Rails Application (eng.joingrouper.com)

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The Gender Balance in Tech, in New York And Beyond (fivethirtyeight.com)

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Higher Education: Too many degrees are a waste of money. (www.economist.com)

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Yelp Reviews Brew Fight Over Free Speech, Fairness (online.wsj.com)

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Build complex forms in rails with FormBuilder (pothibo.com)

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Google's Nest Stops Selling Smart Smoke Alarms Over Fire Safety Concerns (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

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Microsoft Open Sources Roslyn (C# Compiler) (roslyn.codeplex.com)

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Announcing Sysdig: strace + tcpdump + lsof + awesome sauce (www.sysdig.org)

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Better voice commands using head-tracking and proximity sensing (ryhan.org)

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Tell HN: Tuft and Needle Follow-up (Ten mattress, improvements and growing pains) (item?id=7522503)

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GrubHub Raises $192 Million Pricing IPO Above Marketed Range (www.bloomberg.com)

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Microsoft provides legal Vagrant box for Windows Server 2012 R2 Data Center (vagrantbox.msopentech.com)

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Hotfixes: Fix iOS bugs live (apptimize.com)

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Mozilla boss Brendan Eich resigns after gay marriage storm (www.bbc.com)

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What happened to the Markdown standardization effort? (item?id=7528461)

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Turkey lifts Twitter ban (www.reuters.com)

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Why is a highly ranked, recent story being buried? (item?id=7527423)

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Newegg and friends crush a patent troll (arstechnica.com)

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Why You Should Uninstall Firefox and do Some Soul Searching (www.zdziarski.com)

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75 Essential Cheat Sheets for Designers and Programmers (designzum.com)

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Top Investors in High-Technology (sbirsource.com)

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Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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OpenCart project responds with profanity and censorship to GitHub issue (gist.github.com)

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U.S. States Investigating Breach at Experian (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Show HN: SaaS for MySQL Performance Management (vividcortex.com)

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Mozilla Chief Steps Down After 1 Week (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Facebook Events Suck (hotspotapp.wordpress.com)

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Open Source .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") (roslyn.codeplex.com)

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Python Bitcoin address generator in shape of Bitcoin logo (preshing.com)

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That guy in the coffee shop (www.dilbert.com)

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Hacker News All-Time Top Links (hn.algolia.com)

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Xkcd: Lorenz (www.xkcd.com)

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I'm a high school student in SF for 2 days, can I visit your startup? (item?id=7523642)

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Getting Maximum From JavaScript Error Tracking (blog.qbaka.com)

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The .NET Foundation and .NET Innovation (blogs.msdn.com)

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An Interview with Scott Murray, Code Artist (chartio.com)

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Ask HN: Why are all the Eich posts being deleted? (item?id=7528104)

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Welcome to the Era of Politically Correct Web Browsing – Hit and Run : Reason.com (reason.com)

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Tell HN: App idea that should become reality (item?id=7528872)

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FBI Seizes Thousands of Artifacts from 91-Year-Old Man's Home (www.usatoday.com)

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Faith in Humanity is lost, faithinhumanity.com is squatted. (item?id=7522086)

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Du Pont heir received no jail time after rape conviction (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Heap Analytics vs. Mixpanel – Which is better? (substantial.com)

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NIST Launches a New U.S. Time Standard: NIST-F2 Atomic Clock (www.nist.gov)

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European Parliament votes to end roaming charges (europa.eu)

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Barrett Brown Signs Plea Deal (www.wired.com)

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Introducing ION: A Music Detecting Mood Light with Bluetooth Low Energy (www.kickstarter.com)

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EFF Statement on Mozilla and the Importance of the Open Internet (www.eff.org)

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The Hounding of Brendan Eich (dish.andrewsullivan.com)

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Harvard discovers three of its library books are bound in human flesh (roadtrippers.com)

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ConvNet Features off-the-shelf: an Astounding Baseline for Object Recognition (arxiv.org)

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.NET Foundation, a community for open source development with .NET (www.dotnetfoundation.org)

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Software that turns Google Analytics into plain English reports (https://app.automatedinsights.com)

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We Slept in an Office for 6 Months..and Still Failed (medium.com)

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Linus Torvalds Blocks All Code from Systemd Developer for the Linux Kernel (news.softpedia.com)

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PostgreSQL pain points (lwn.net)

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Letter by Alec Guiness to a friend as he prepares to shoot Star Wars (twitter.com)

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U.S. states probing security breach at Experian unit (www.reuters.com)

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Linus Torvalds suspends key Linux developer (www.networkworld.com)

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Kdb+, simply faster (www.kxcommunity.com)

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Ask HN: Strategies for not screwing up? (item?id=7522338)

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Winamp – There's More Coming Soon (www.winamp.com)

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Outlier Detection in Time-Series Signals using FFT and Median Filtering (bugra.github.io)

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Academic Journal Demanding Researchers Waive Their Own Open Access Policy (www.techdirt.com)

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FireChat’s anonymous, off-grid messaging app arrives on Android (gigaom.com)

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Sysdig creator blogs about motivations for project (draios.com)

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Blink’s First Birthday (blog.chromium.org)

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Show HN: cointipping.com – send dogecoins easily to anyone (item?id=7526799)

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Show HN: Seen.js – Render 3D scenes into SVG or HTML5 Canvas (http://seenjs.io)

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Microsoft, Apple, and others form a pact to make patents cool again (www.theverge.com)

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Our March Madness Machine Learning Model --Explained (statsguys.wordpress.com)

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At HBO’s “Silicon Valley” Premiere, Elon Musk Is Pissed (recode.net)

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Five Reasons Eich Should Step Down (www.teamrarebit.com)

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New Microsoft Azure management portal (portal.azure.com)

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'Silicon Valley' review (www.theverge.com)

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Hack is to PHP what ES6 is to JavaScript (blog.vjeux.com)

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Mark Andreeson's tweets on early Mozilla and Brandon Eich (twitter.com)

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Matt Cutts on How Google Tests Its Algorithms (searchenginewatch.com)

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UrtheCast – First Light (www.urthecast.com)

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America's prison bias : A DuPont trust-fund creep gets probation for rape (www.theguardian.com)

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Brendan Eich resigns as Mozilla Corporation CEO (arstechnica.com)

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Poll: Do you submit bug reports? (item?id=7524239)

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Gawker bans ‘Internet slang’ (www.poynter.org)

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Obsolete (www.leveragedsellout.com)

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Infinite scroll search-friendly recommendations (googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)

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Outfoxed: how protests forced Mozilla's CEO to resign in 11 days (www.theverge.com)

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How I Manage Multi Million Dollar Companies With Ruthless Optimization (www.imgrind.com)

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Group By in Plain Ruby (www.adomokos.com)

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[Ruby] Heap Overflow in YAML URI Escape Parsing (CVE-2014-2525) (www.ruby-lang.org)

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What's ahead: the information age transition (continuations.com)

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Microsoft’s security products will block adware by default starting on July 1 (thenextweb.com)

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How profilers lie: the cases of gprof and KCachegrind (www.yosefk.com)

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Obama's NSA overhaul may require phone carriers to store more data (www.reuters.com)

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Hacking Core Directives in AngularJS (briantford.com)

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New Nvidia Pascal GPU offers colossal memory bandwidth (www.extremetech.com)

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Intel Releases $99 Open-Source Single-Board Computer (techcrunch.com)

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Off the record YC W14 company is hiring its first sales rep (item?id=7525702)

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SmartAsset (YC S12) Hiring Software Developers (www.jobscore.com)

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