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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 29, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Linux perf command rocks
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• Why we need an Open Wireless movement
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• Genesis of requiring a "Dropbox folder," versus designated folders
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• If You’re Going To Kill It, Open Source It
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• Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space
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• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
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• AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem
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• Geohot Chimes In
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• LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug
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• Bose founder makes big stock donation to MIT
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 28, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Non-Libyan URL Shortener
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• Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US
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• How to parse a sentence and decide if to answer "that's what she said"?
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• Eating Healthily for $3 a Day
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• Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)
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• MacBook Air is enough for a work machine
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• Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; account lock-out attack works
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• Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation
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• Joel Spolsky: Lunch
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• I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 27, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to beat Apple
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• Pixar's Library
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• Heroku's AWS outage post-mortem
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• Your taste is why your work disappoints you.
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• Apple Q&A on gathering and use of location data (Apple Press Release)
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• Google’s secret perk? A private hackerspace
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• Why I, Jeff Bezos, Keep Spending Billions On Amazon R&D
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• YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious From Yahoo
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• YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious
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• Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 26, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Sitting All Day: Worse For You Than You Might Think
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• How I got into YC as a non-technical single founder
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• 7% of Americans Subscribe to Netflix, Now Larger than any Cable Company
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• Protip for salary seekers pt 2: Results from some mining of the H1-B database
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• SETI Institute suspends search for aliens
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• A “perfect” voting system
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• Tell HN: Please bring back comment scores
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• Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity
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• Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR)
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• Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 25, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?
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• Russia's Crime of the Century
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• Tanking the YC interview, some lessons learned
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• Working with the Chaos Monkey
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• The Guantanamo Files
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• Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”
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• SurveyMonkey to buy Wufoo (YC W06) for $35m
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• SurveyMonkey Acquires Wufoo (YC W06)
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• The Merge Button
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• Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 24, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Python for Android | Linux Journal
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• MLPY - high-performance Python library for predictive modeling
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• A minimalistic desk to handle cables and electronic clutter elegantly
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• Ask PG: How has voting habit/volume changed since being hidden?
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• The Linux Security Circus: On GUI isolation
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• We’re In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble
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• Dropship — successor to torrents?
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• Custom UI Database for iOS
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• Pry: A better Ruby REPL
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• SpaceX aims to put man on Mars in 10-20 years
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 23, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Amazon EC2 instance comparison table
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• Basics of Compiler Design
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• Super Mario 64 was built with a system written in Lisp
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• The Dark Side of Hadoop
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• Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
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• Google Tech Talks: "All Questions Answered" by Donald Knuth
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• Joel Spolsky: Can your programming language do this?
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• Finally someone makes sense of JavaScript's this keyword
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• Company was hosting cardiac patient monitoring on EC2
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• Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 22, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Everything popular is wrong: Making it in electronic music
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• Fallacies of Distributed Computing
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• IBM's infamous "Black Team"
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• A common bug in published code
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• Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issues
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• Amazon’s problem isn’t the outage, it’s the communication
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• Doom engine code review
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• Court rules Linux kernel infringes on patents. Lawsuit avalanche to follow.
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• Linus Torvalds on Garbage Collection (2002)
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• Questions you’ll (probably) get asked at your YC interview
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 21, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Recommended Readings in AI - a list by Russell and Norvig
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• 2-D Glasses
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• Apple is not “recording your moves”
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• Great jquery tutorial
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• "... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak" is not acceptable'
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• Amazon Web Services are down
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• My National Security Letter Gag Order (2007)
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• Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I
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• Thank HN: 127 days since I asked for your advice.
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• AWS is down, but here's why the sky is falling
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 20, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A better way to teach math
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• Why PHP Was a Ghetto
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• Bug 647959 – Add Honest Achmed's root certificate
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• Have you ever printed a boarding pass?
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• The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything
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• IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted file on the device
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• Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs to start saying Yes"
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• iPhone Tracker - map a history of your iPhone's locations.
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• Showoff
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• Joel Spolsky is doing an IAmA on reddit
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 19, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: An isometric marble run build in CoffeeScript
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• Peter Thiel Is Wrong About Higher Education (It’s Worse Than A Bubble)
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• Dropbox Lack of Security
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• Git Cheatsheet (Visualization)
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• (Android) Developer Income Report #9
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• The Node Beginner Book
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• Working Best at Coffee Shops
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• QuickSilver for Mac Lives
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• Want to attract top tech talent? Offer telecommuting
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• Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 18, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• JQuery Events: Stop (Mis)Using Return False
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• Git can't be made consistent
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• Oracle gives up on OpenOffice after community forks the project
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• Dropbox Hits 25 Millions Users, 200 Million Files Per Day
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• The unofficial Google shell
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• Spine -- A lightweight framework for building JavaScript web applications
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• New CSS Techniques and Tools
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• Insight From Dropbox: Failure Is Not The Worst Outcome, Mediocrity Is
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• Hacking The Status Game
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• DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 17, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• RFC 2468 - I remember IANA
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• Conway's Game of Life Extrusion
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• A Patently Obvious Problem
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• How Bitcoin Works
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• Khan Academy Redesign
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• Square's Disruptive Payment Service About to Get A Huge Retail Boost from Apple
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• List of copyrighted places
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• Git is Inconsistent
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• In the UK? Strange browser behaviour? You might be being IWF’d.
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• Fooling myself to work
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 16, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Leaves Really Fall Off Trees
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• The Lisp Curse
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• Ask HN: How would you make a site resistant to government takedown?
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• What was the code quality of the initial version of Google?
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• A death sentence for a young Chinese businesswoman chills entrepreneurs
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• Ask HN: how to become a morning person?
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• Show HN: made a html5 game, polished it many many times
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• Photo tour of Facebook’s new datacenter
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• Online Cash Bitcoin could Challenge Governments, Banks
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• Cellular Automaton Music Generator
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 15, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Voyager 1 is on the edge, and so is he
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• Simple algorithms
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• Why no company that values their data should ever "Go Google"
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• Rackspace cloud beats Amazon EC2, by a lot
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• Ubuntu Unity usability testing results and analysis
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• Former Google VP Kai-Fu Lee Got a Nickname, Start-Copy Lee
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• Living in the zone
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• Screw you. Pay me.
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• Why the password "this is fun" is 10 times more secure than "J4fS!2"
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• FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 14, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• My first six months of programming: from man-rodent to partyman
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• Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
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• Is Sugar Toxic?
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• Poll: Display points on comments?
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• Joel Spolsky on allocating ownership in your startup
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• Teaching binary to 3rd Graders using the Socratic method
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• Collection of documents that startups commonly need: Privacy Policy, NDA, etc...
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• Pictures of the first GUIs from Xerox
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• Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS.
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• Rent the country of Liechtenstein for $70,000 a night with Airbnb
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 13, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ioerror's tweets after yet another detention (this time in Texas)
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• Soldering is easy - 7 page comic book about how to solder
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• The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle
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• How to hack yourself a standing desk - an illustrated guide
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• Flock is dead
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• Dear Internet: Take the reset buttons off your damn forms
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• Leaving in a Huff
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• Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
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• Stanford CS enrollment increase "downright scary"
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• Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 12, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Copy-on-write B-tree finally beaten.
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• Three signs you have a management problem. And that problem might be you
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• IPad 2 gets glasses-free 3D display using front-facing camera for head tracking
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• That dev's salary is higher than mine
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• Mac OS X hidden features and nice tips & tricks
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• Edw519 wrote a book compiling his best HN Comments
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• Nginx 1.0.0 is out
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• VMware launches Node.js, Rails and Spring PaaS
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• Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours of practice?
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• The Programmer Salary Taboo
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 11, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The jQuery Divide:Understand where jQuery ends and JavaScript begins
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• How to build toddler app UIs.
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• White Hat SEO: It F$#ing Works
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• Apple AirTunes private key extracted
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• Peter Thiel: We’re in a Higher Education Bubble
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• "Diff for HN": Update and highlight changes
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• Ask HN: Why can't I make as much as I make?
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• What Lucky People Do Different
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• ReCAPTCHA Founder's New Startup: Killing Two Birds With One Stone
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• Notice: Experimenting with HN
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 10, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• House tells FCC to drop net neutrality
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• One Way to Deal with Internet Thieves
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• Wozniak: Innovative projects, not tests, should determine a student's grade
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• Bittersweet news from Groklaw: mission accomplished, signing off
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• Modern Microprocessors: A 90 Minute Guide.
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• GitHub launches Issues 2.0
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• All Star Trek Episodes from Every Series to Stream on Netflix
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• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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• Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes
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• The US Government Keeps Harassing a UW Researcher Who Speaks for WikiLeaks
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 09, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Meet the IOIO - USB breakout board for android w/48 digital+analog IO pins
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• Google acquires ITA Software
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• Why T-shirts matter at tech companies
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• My startup story: from big idea to thriving business in 8 short years
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• Lorempixum: Generate placeholder images (not just gray boxes)
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• We need a GitHub of Science
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• MPlayer - Monday 18.4.2011 I will stop providing any service to MPlayer
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• Scott Adams on How to Get a Real Education
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• Harvard's 1899 Entrance Exam [pdf]
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• Larry Page's first blunder
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 08, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 7.1 magnitude earthquake hits Japan
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• Life beyond HTTP 1.1: Google’s SPDY
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• Introducing Pow, a zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X
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• Anonymous goes after Sony, makes it personal... very personal
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• Physics Engines for Dummies
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• Why do apps from the same company look worse on Android than on iPhone?
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• Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing
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• Why Can't Developers Estimate Time?
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• YouTube is going Live
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• Crash Course: Design for Startups
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 07, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The traveling German carpenters
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• Well funded YC W11 startup is hiring: lead backend engineer
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• C Craft: C is the desert island language.
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• Before I Die...
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• France outlaws hashed passwords...
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• Chinese Infinite Magical Hard-Drive
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• Poll: Do you know C?
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• Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds
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• Facebook open sources its servers and data centers
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• If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email address in your profile
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 06, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• India Graduates Millions, But Too Few Are Fit to Hire
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• Self-Taught Programmers vs CS-Educated Programmers
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• Writing Clear, Concise, Sentences
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• Meet news:yc, the open source Hacker News client for your iPhone.
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• Firefox Add-ons with the Slowest Start-up
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• Must Read CS Books For Self Self-Taught Programmers
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• Plain Text Offenders - Did you just email me back my own password?
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• Writing code with MS Paint
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• Jason Fried: Why I Run a Flat Company
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• The Montessori Mafia
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 05, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Raphters, a web framework for C
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• Introducing the New Commodore 64
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• Facebook Ads: The Cheapest Traffic You'll Ever Buy
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• Where can I get large datasets open to the public?
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• What skills do self-taught programmers commonly lack?
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• Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography
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• Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done
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• The Prime That Wasn’t
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• OpenSSL memory use in Node.js
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• Larry Page Begins Major Google Reorg: Engineers, Not Managers, In Charge
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 04, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Clever algorithms in Ruby
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• Alan Turing Documentary
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• Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada
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• Tron Legacy: how the special effects were done
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• How to find startup ideas that make money
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• The Möbius Gear
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• On Tesla's induction motor
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• Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad
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• Patents and innovation
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• Sshuttle - tunnel all your traffic through ssh
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 03, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Android
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• Ask HN: Help me, I fuck around on the Internet too much
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• Gmail Motion April Fools' gag inevitably turned into reality using Kinect
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• Success, and Farming vs. Mining
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• Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity
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• Formatting your web content to be a pleasure to read
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• On Bushido, launch apps from github repos
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• Zed's new project: Vulnerability Arbitration
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• Predator Object Tracking Algorithm
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• Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 02, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Learn to remember everything: The memory palace technique
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• Facebook is Big and Boring
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• Craigslist has been disrupted
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• App store shenanigans
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• Why I went with them and not you: feedback to an interviewer
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• Why incorporating my startup was my worst mistake
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• Why TechCrunch is over
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• Why Is It Rocket Science That Laws Should Apply Online Too?
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• Show HN: CSS3 Animated Glowing Forms
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• Top Gear responds to Tesla
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-04-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 01, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why GNU grep is fast
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• Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut
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• Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators
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• Angry Nerds
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• Collect HN: Aprils Fools
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• Slice HD: you will hurt your fingers on your iPad
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• Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)
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• The most difficult CEO skill: managing your own psychology
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• Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions?
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• James Cameron champions faster film projection rates (from 24 to 60 fps)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-03-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 31, 2011 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Slightly More Advanced Git techniques
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• Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Hits Out at Gates
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• With +1, Google Search Goes Truly Social — As Do Google Ads
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• +1’s: the right recommendations right when you want them—in your search results
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• AIDS vaccine in final testing
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• Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics Technique
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• Confirmed: Samsung is not shipping keyloggers
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• Ask HN: Should we agree that this account will submit all Who is Hiring posts?
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• At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW]
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• How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
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