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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-29

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

• You’re Pricing It Wrong: Software Pricing Demystified
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• Carnegie Mellon face recognition study has unsettling results
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• Chris Espinosa: Fire
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• IEEE Refuses to Accept Public-Domain Papers?
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• Fixing the callback spaghetti in node.js
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• Academics should stop doing free peer-review for non-open-access journals.
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• Pre-branded domain names for startups
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• Minimum Viable Personality
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• Promising HIV vaccine passes phase one human trials with 90% success rate
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• Stripe: instant payment processing for developers
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-28

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

• Apple Announces Event on October 4th: Let's Talk iPhone
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• OpenVim: Learn Vim in Your Browser
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• I want to pay for TextMate 2
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• Show HN: HackerThings - Products for hackers
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• Princeton bans academics from handing copyright to journal publishers
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• Hey Google, I want my cache links back
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• How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing (2009)
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• Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet
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• Introducing Amazon Silk
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• Python and Django on Heroku
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-27

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

• When the rules prevented Kenneth Cole from launching, he broke the rules
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• Show HN: Write a sort, watch it go
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• Zynga's Profits Down by 95%
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• Well-funded YC startup looking for seasoned devs. Great pay + perks + happiness
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• A better introduction to Objective-C
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• "How much does a website cost?" – a survey of web designers
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• Google Drive: Is the Dropbox Party Over?
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• Trader: I dream of another recession (and Goldman Sachs rules the world)
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• SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
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• Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-26

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

• How Quake (the videogame) changed my life forever.
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• Stanford's online Machine Learning class now open for enrollment
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• What I learned on a round-the-world yacht race
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• Size is the best predictor of code quality
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• Textmate 2 - Alpha this year
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• One of the Best Bits of Programming Advice I ever Got
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• It’s the end of the web as we know it
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• Spotify now requires a Facebook account to sign up.
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• Neutrinos Faster Than Light, or FPGA artifacts?
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• How to Rock an Algorithms Interview
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-25

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

• OpenBSD imports nginx into tree as future apache replacement
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• All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook...
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• Feynman On The Importance Of Playing
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• Chrome Privacy
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• SICP optimized for Kindle
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• Your idea sucks now go do it anyway
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• Facebook Disconnect
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• Logging out of Facbook is not enough
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• Why Facebook's 'Frictionless Sharing' violates HTTP
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• How to Force Facebook into Handing-Over their Secret Tracking Data
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-24

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

• Payment processing for Django
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• Lovelace's Leap
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• The Facebook Timeline is creepy as hell
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• Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents
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• This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
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• Groupon Restates Revenue, Revenue Fell In Half, COO Exits
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• 37signals sent me a gift for pwning their leaderboard
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• Why you should not go to medical school
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• White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit
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• Dave Winer on Why You Should Log Out of Facebook
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-23

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

• Samurai: New Payment Gateway from FeeFighters
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• Tricky Programming Concepts Aren’t
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• Supercoders needed to take down cybercriminals. Join us (YC S11)
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• One Million Concurrent TCP connections
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• Petition: Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents
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• SPDY: What I Like About You
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• Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories?
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• I was once a Facebook fool
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• CERN press release regarding neutrino experiment
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• AeroFS is hiring!
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-22

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

• Yahoo blocked emails about Wall Street protest
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• GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
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• Guys buy island on Craigslist, use Kickstarter to turn it into artist community
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• How Github uses Github to build Github
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• Bring a stick man to life.
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• Art of writing unmaintainable code.
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• How can C Programs be so Reliable?
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• Excited about new developments at f8? We need Ruby developers at PageLever
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• Facebook Timeline
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• Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-21

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

• Running a startup on Haskell
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• Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera
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• Parse (S11) is hiring engineers.
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• Windows 8 OEM specs may block Linux booting
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• Why do Windows functions all begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction?
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• Betty Weissman (mother of edw519) 1930-2011
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• Very cool, but very creepy, open source project
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• A First Look at BankSimple
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• Comprehend Systems (YC W11) hiring frontend and backend engineers
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• Love startups but not a developer? We need tenacious biz dev individuals!
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-20

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

• Urban Airship: Postgres to NoSQL and back
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• SSL broken. (TLS 1.0 cryptographic attack that works. Not just fake certs.)
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• Tim O'Reilly on OccupyWallStreet
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• Why 80 Percent of Web Projects Are Total Bullshit: A Freelancer’s Rant
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• Help, I’m on the IRS hit list
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• OnStar Begins Spying On Customers’ GPS Location For Profit
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• Google+ Opens to All
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• Quake 2 Source Code Review
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• What Netflix Could Have Said This Week
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• Like working at massive scale? Flotype (W11) is hiring scalability experts
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-19

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

• Show HN: Kerning.js — Take control of your web typography
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• SSH Tricks
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• Netflix Splits DVD And Streaming Businesses
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• Greedy Register Allocation in LLVM 3.0
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• Mining of Massive Datasets
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• Don't make my eyes bleed: a rant about business plans by Neil Davidson
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• A resume template in TeX
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• Bootstrapping a $30k profit/month company from our internship earnings (Part 4)
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• Twitter's Storm (complex event processing system) is now open source
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• Five Stars (YC W11) has really challenging technology problems.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-18

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

• Show HN: We measure classroom confusion
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• The Joy of Indexing
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• Firefox Now Scores 100% on Acid3 Test
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• Bada Bing, Bada Boom: Culture inside Bing
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• Show HN: Pulse — A simple pulsating indicator.
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• HTML5 Map of the the World Migrations using SVG, Raphael.js and offline storage
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• Why two men committing the same crime get different chances at a parole
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• PG's Rarely Asked Questions
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• Pirate Party Germany gets into the parlament for the state of Berlin
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• Cracking OSX Lion passwords
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-17

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

• Show HN: Fluid iPad App Concept
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• Will It Optimize?
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• Modern GPU: a collection of well-written GPGPU programming tutorials
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• Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action.
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• Arch Linux – "It is what you make it"
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• Home-made bombs are being sent to physicists in Mexico
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• James Gosling witnesses and blogs Reno airshow crash.
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• ORM is an anti-pattern
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• My Family’s Experiment in Extreme Schooling
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• The Document Which Was Formerly Called The MIT Guide to Lockpicking
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-16

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

• Show HN: Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile HN website
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• Break Google
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• Love startups but not a developer? We need biz dev hustlers!
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• SingleHop Are Cheats
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• What's wrong with this code, really?
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• Sony to ban gamers from PSN unless they waive right sue over security breaches.
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• Be Careful when Speaking to Federal Agents - 18 U.S.C. Section 1001
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• PageLever is hiring Ruby developers
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• Opening *.txt file is dangerous on Windows
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• Love startups but not a developer? We need tenacious biz dev individuals!
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-15

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

• David Kadavy's "Design for Hackers" now on Amazon
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• JavaScript is Not Web Assembly
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• Metro
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• TinyProj connects developers, designers, etc. with paid, short-term projects.
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• Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins
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• 37signals.com - Evolution of a homepage
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• From $0-100million with no sales people. Atlassian's commandments for startups.
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• Remembering a relationship, one chat at a time
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• Facebook and Heroku
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• MobileWorks (YCS11) is Hiring (San Francisco/Berkeley)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-14

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

• Please don't use pie charts
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• Surprises from numerical linear algebra (2010)
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• How prostitution and alcohol make Uber better
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• Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
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• I have Crohn's, an incurable digestive disease, and built Crohnology
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• Cornell Ergonomics Web finds standing desks present their own issues
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• Watch other people code
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• IOS Boilerplate: A base template for iOS apps
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• Mixpanel: We're hiring and here's where we're at.
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• AeroFS is Hiring Smart Engineers
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-13

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

• Kendo UI - a framework for modern HTML UI
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• New Boston Globe website design
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• Five Stars (YC W11) has really challenging technology problems.
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• Tech recruitment: how not to do it
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• Programmers' Day
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• Show HN: Final Touch
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• File Hosting Service Hotfile Sues Warner Bros. For Copyright Fraud and Abuse
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• Aisle50 (YC S11) is hiring in Chicago
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• Show HN: PickHealthInsurance.com
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• Google Flight Search
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-12

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

• The Costs of Bookmarking
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• Fucking Sue Me
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• Git Tips
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• LucasFilm Tells Darth Vader that Return of the Jedi Hasn’t Made a Profit
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• One-electron universe
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• Obama's job aid plan - $10,000 to $13,000 in assistance for entrepreneurship
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• PostgreSQL 9.1 released
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• Rule #1 for beta invites: remind me what you do
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• The Long Grind Before You Become an Overnight Success
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• MongoDB 2.0 Released
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-11

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

• Îñţérñåţîöñåļîžåţîöñ
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• Java Vs. JavaScript
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• Reddit user explains aging vs cancer
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• Deft -- easy note taking for Emacs
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• The Drupal Crisis
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• Bash Shortcuts For Maximum Productivity
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• Why all HDMI cables are the same
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• Ask HN: I am wasting so much of time, what can I do?
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• Eliezer Yudkowsky: Is That Your True Rejection?
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• Introducing a new data structure, streams, in Javascript
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-10

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

• Google's expert report in Oracle case explains complexities in plain English
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• Our Vacation Policy: Take Some
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• Java's Comb-Over
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• Bootstrapping a $30k profit/month company from our internship earnings (Part 3)
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• Bootstrapping a Software Product
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• Share of Income Gains by Quintile - Great Depression til Now
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• More information on Google's new web language, Dash
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• The New Apple Advantage
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• Why the film industry needs disrupting
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• Ask PG: What has changed since you wrote Hackers and Painters in 2004?
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-09

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

• The $700 Million Yogurt Startup
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• ~/.osx — a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion
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• Notifo (YC W10) Will be Shutting Down
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• Fouling Out and Moving On (re: Notifo Shutdown)
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• MobileWorks (YC S11) is Hiring (San Francisco/Berkeley)
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• Show HN: Smozzy (for Android/T-Mobile) - browse the web without a data plan
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• Vim Cheat Sheet - For Programmers By Programmers
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• PageLever is hiring Ruby developers
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• The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit)
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• Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-08

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

• Shuush
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• Realistic Skin Rendering in WebGL
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• PHP will switch to git
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• Obituary for Michael Stern Hart, Project Gutenberg Founder
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• Envolve looking for Designer / Frontend Engineer to build real-time interfaces
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• Ask HN: How do you promote your web apps?
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• The Tricks Investors Use Against Founders
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• Google buys Zagat
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• Google to announce "new programming language for structured web programming"
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• ZeroCater is looking for people to talk to restaurants.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-07

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

• Michael Arrington: Editorial Independence
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• Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Interim CEO
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• Miguel de Icaza: Learning Unix
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• Mixpanel: We're hiring and here's where we're at.
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• Krugman on BitCoin
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• Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever
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• Are jobs obsolete?
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• Git Is Simpler Than You Think
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• If this then that
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• Summer 2011 YC company seeks CoffeeScript drinking engineer (Chicago)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-06

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

• One base class to rule them all.
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• Ultrabook: Intel's $300 million plan to beat Apple at its own game
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• Seriously, stop with the booth babes
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• GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy
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• Don't dumb girls down
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• TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over
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• "I've got an idea for an app"
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• Writing Vim Plugins
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• Reddit becomes reddit Inc.
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• ZeroCater is looking for people to talk to restaurants.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-05

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

• Akamai thrives in the spirit of its lost founder
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• Sane RSS usage
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• Teal and Orange in Hollywood movies
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• Linux is now hosted on GitHub
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• Game theory article from a professional Starcraft player/caster.
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• I bought a webOS device and went to Taiwan. This is what I learned.
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• Google Gravity
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• Vim is hard, I just want to click around
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• Giving away my Rails 3.0 book. Code examples also available on Github.
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• We open-sourced 90 node.js modules at Browserling
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-04

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

• The Sugary Secret of Self-Control
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• Asking for accessibility gets you nothing but grief.
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• NSA built a NoSQL database
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• If TV Companies Released Authorized Torrents With Ads, Would You Download Them?
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• Linus Torvalds now on GitHub
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• Ask HN: How much did you earn as an employee from an exit?
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• My job is to watch dreams die
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• How to self-educate if you lack a formal design education
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• Lone Yelp review dogs business owner
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• DigiNotar Damage Disclosure (with full list of issued certs)
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-03

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

• Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964 … And Kind of Nails It
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• The conversation that led to Ruby being called Ruby
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• Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with VirtualBox (Linux/OSX)
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• A fall spring-cleaning - Google products getting shut down
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• The $100K Taxi Ride, One Year Later
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• DigiNotar root CA trust removal follow-up
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• A new locker system from Amazon sends your deliveries to 7-Eleven
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• Make things
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• Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures
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• Ask HN: I think My code isn't Good enough
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-02

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

• How I name my apps
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• Release day economics
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• Linode Reduces Transfer Pricing (Incoming Data is now Free)
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• Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new movies
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• Michael Arrington Resigns From Techcrunch
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• Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups
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• How to Write Good iOS Apps
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• Google Correlate by Drawing
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• Google App Engine Pricing Angers Developers, Kills PlusFeed
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• Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I’ve Seen It, Played With It.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-09-01

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

• Now that people are considering NOSQL will more people consider no-DB
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• My Neighbor, Steve Jobs
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• Google App Engine leaves preview, new pricing
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• You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
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• Iran forged the wrong SSL certificate
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• First employee of startup? You are probably getting screwed
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• Why Developers Never Use State Machines
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• Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)
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• Tilemill: Maps done right
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• ZeroCater is looking for people to talk to restaurants.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-08-31

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

• 87% of the U.S. Population are uniquely identified by {DOB, gender, zip}
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• I just got meta-copied
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• Rails 3.1 Gem Available
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• How Steve Jobs handles trolls (WWDC 1997)
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• 9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM
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• US Government seeks to block AT&T & T-Mobile's $39 Billion Merger
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• The Million Dollar Question
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• GitHub Flow
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• inPulse (YCW11/Mountain View/Hardware-ish) seeks 1st full-time Android Dev
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• The Patent Pledge
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