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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (item?id=7685170)

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It's Different for Girls (heidiroizen.tumblr.com)

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How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch (gizmodo.com)

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A new book compiles knowledge necessary for society to recover after disaster (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Headphones and Earphones Benchmarking Test Files (www.audiocheck.net)

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Global heatmap of cycling and running routes (labs.strava.com)

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With IPO Hopes Fading, Square and Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products (techcrunch.com)

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Common LibreSSL porting mistakes (insanecoding.blogspot.com)

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Why I won’t work for Google (qnrq.se)

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‘Solar’ jet fuel made out of air (www.rsc.org)

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Washington state sues Kickstarted game creator who failed to deliver (www.gamasutra.com)

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Thinking in Types (robots.thoughtbot.com)

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The Illusion of Life: Disney's principles of animation (the12principles.tumblr.com)

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When Sued Don't Tweet (jacquesmattheij.com)

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Initial proposal for Java value types made public (cr.openjdk.java.net)

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How to tell when someone is lying? (www.newyorker.com)

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‘~’ is being removed from Rust (github.com)

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OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Redirect Vulnerability (tetraph.com)

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Snowden: Why hasn’t DNI Clapper been punished for lying to Congress? (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The bug that hides from breakpoints (drewdevault.com)

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Snails Are Dissolving in Pacific Ocean (news.sciencemag.org)

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Plan 9: Inferno OS ported to Raspberry Pi (lynxline.com)

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Make Your Own Grid Paper (gridzzly.com)

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What Programming is Like (blog.samstokes.co.uk)

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New MacBook Air's SSD is slower than 2013's one (www.macworld.com)

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Show HN: HTML5 Game of Life in 24 bit RGB (http://rgb.0-z-0.com)

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Elm 0.12.1: Fast immutable arrays (elm-lang.org)

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Working simultaneously vs. waiting simultaneously (www.yosefk.com)

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Show HN: Stash, an evernote for command line (http://trystash.com)

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What do conductors do? (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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IN/MSX: Running 4 Copies of an Operating System at Once (2008) (jeff-barr.com)

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Steve Ballmer Now Owns More Microsoft Stock Than Bill Gates (techcrunch.com)

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Stephen Hawking: AI, Potentially the Worst Thing to Happen to Humanity (uk.news.yahoo.com)

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CSS Variables in Firefox 29 (jan.rs)

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Uptalk is becoming more frequent among men (www.bbc.com)

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Elon Musk Wants SpaceX to Replace Russia as NASA's Space Station Transport (www.businessweek.com)

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SQLAlchemy vs Other ORMs (www.pythoncentral.io)

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Steve Jobs, a Genius at Pushing Boundaries (www.nytimes.com)

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U.S. jury orders Samsung to pay Apple $119.6 million (www.reuters.com)

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Modified poliovirus used as therapy for brain tumor (www.dukemedicine.org)

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Fedora 21 To Have DNSSEC Validation Enabled By Default (www.internetsociety.org)

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Show HN: Add-ons that work anywhere (addonlist.com)

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The development of SlideViewer – a QML based presentation program (www.kdab.com)

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Java is the COBOL of my generation and Go is its successor (influxdb.org)

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Egyptians may have moved massive pyramid stones on wet sand (www.washingtonpost.com)

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You don't always know what you're saying (www.nature.com)

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Nuclear plants in the US keep closing (www.vox.com)

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Eventjoy (YC W14) Makes Its Ticketing Service Free for Organizers (thenextweb.com)

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Microsoft’s new open source direction for C# and .NET (www.itwriting.com)

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Appsdeck, EU-based PaaS, is now in open beta (blog.appsdeck.eu)

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Going through Y Combinator as a Nonprofit (blog.1deg.org)

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Octopart Excel Add-In (octopart.com)

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Google Buys Rangespan to Add Inventory Management to Google Shopping (techcrunch.com)

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Police use new tool to source crowds for evidence (hosted.ap.org)

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Achieving 1.26% mcommerce conversion rate on a mobile ad network (blog.twotap.com)

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How Foursquare bought my domain to steal my idea (medium.com)

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The Limits of the Digital Humanities (www.newrepublic.com)

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In Surveillance Debate, White House Turns Its Focus to Silicon Valley (www.nytimes.com)

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The economics of political correctness (www.iea.org.uk)

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The Waterwheel (wellowater.org)

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Ask HN: Hiring remote and international (item?id=7686602)

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Streaming Similarity Search over one Billion Tweets (2013) [pdf] (istc-bigdata.org)

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Do we understand the math behind the PPP calculations? (blog.mpettis.com)

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Revealing Hidden Services by their Clock Skew (2006) (www.lightbluetouchpaper.org)

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NASA code from years of projects (github.com)

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How to make a fractal shape (georgemdallas.wordpress.com)

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Cursor Control Without Lifting Hands from Keyboard (www.kickstarter.com)

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Microsoft releases QuickVB (blogs.msdn.com)

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Darpa working on its own deep-learning project for NLP (gigaom.com)

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Two Years Of Programmer Anarchy (the-arm.com)

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Covert Redirect FAQ (homakov.blogspot.com)

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One Weird Trick To Make Vim Go Faster On Your Mac (danmarner.com)

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Codebabes.com : Real or Troll (techcrunch.com)

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Chilling Letter From Chinese Factory Worker Found In Saks Fifth Avenue Bag (www.businessinsider.com)

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HD Livestream of Earth Now Available 24/7 from the Space Station (www.universetoday.com)

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Ask HN: Twitter using facial recognition for image previews? (item?id=7687729)

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On Piketty on Capital (www.tbray.org)

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Marc Andreessen on Ex-Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich's Contributions (vozag.com)

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Erlang On Xen is now Open Source (twitter.com)

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Pregnant founder stories (venturebeat.com)

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Scalable sales models in SaaS – it starts with your pricing (blog.kissmetrics.com)

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Samsung found to infringe Apple patents for over $119 million in damages (www.theverge.com)

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Bitcoin Risk Management Study Spring 2014 (www.scribd.com)

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Ask HN: Is it possible to get a job at Facebook without going to ivy league? (item?id=7688226)

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Jury Finds Samsung Infringed on Apple Patents (recode.net)

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Visualization of Comic World Data (www.somervillain.com)

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Stephen Hawking Says A.I. Could Be Our 'Worst Mistake In History' (io9.com)

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PredictionIO – open source machine learning to add prediction features to apps (www.prediction.io)

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Why It's Hard for Women to "Lean In" in Tech (poweredbypardees.com)

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Ask HN: Anyone else getting SSL errors this morning on HN? (item?id=7685054)

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Internationalization on the web – why is it so bad? (www.planetjones.co.uk)

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Erlang On Xen returns its maiden name Ling ang goes Open Source erlangonxen.org (github.com)

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Superheavy element 117 confirmed (phys.org)

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Apple Acquires Power Efficient LED Tech Company LuxVue (techcrunch.com)

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Jury Orders Samsung to Pay $119 Million to Apple in Patent Case (online.wsj.com)

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Long-Fought Victory for Anonymous Email Users (www.eff.org)

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Tips for starting as web designer or developer (alexsblog.org)

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"Artificial Leaf" splits water into H2 and O2 easily and cheaply (us.cnn.com)

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Android Application Secure Design/Secure Coding Guidebook[pdf] (www.jssec.org)

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DOJ Morality Police May Be Behind Chase Closing Accounts Of Adult Film Actors (www.techdirt.com)

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Microsoft’s decision to patch Windows XP is a mistake (arstechnica.com)

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Turn coffee into code faster with this iOS cheat sheet. (github.com)

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An open letter to disruptors (medium.com)

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Why PayPal Rushed A New Logo To Market (readwrite.com)