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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-29

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

• Developer Income Report #16
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• 50% of neuroscience papers suffer from a major statistical error.
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• Startup hopes to hack the immigration system with a floating incubator
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• Whatever works for you
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• Back in the Django saddle
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• Matrix multiplication in O(n^2.373)
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• Watch a VC use my name to sell a con
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• I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make
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• How does SOPA threaten Stack Overflow?
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• US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-28

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

• Design for Developers
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• 'Most Beautiful Woman' By Day, Inventor By Night
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• Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why
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• The Trouble with Bright Kids
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• Zynga's Tough Culture Risks a Talent Drain
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• Firefox – tons of tools for web developers
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• Scroogled (1997)
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• Python Ecosystem - An Introduction
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• Equations True Computer Science Geeks Should (at Least Pretend to) Know
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• I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-27

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

• Quotes from 1995 Steve Jobs Interview
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• Peter Norvig on dance photography
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• Want jobs? Encourage immigration
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• Solving Instagram's Unshredder with Mechanical Turk and $0.50
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• LLVM 3.0 Type System Rewrite
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• Nobody's Going to Help You, and That's Awesome
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• Linux Mint signs a partnership with DuckDuckGo
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• Bitcoin
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• The Clojure Community and Me
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• Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-26

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

• Microsoft Announces "Kinect Accelerator" to Turn Hacks into Businesses
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• How Spotify Works
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• Books For Learning to Design, The Hard Way
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• Linus's first version README for git
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• Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown
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• Student can't afford tablet for girlfriend, so builds her one for $125
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• How to be interesting (2006)
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• Man-made super flu could kill half of humanity
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• Open Sourced Google Wave demo site. Run from a single server
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• GitHub forking has one big flaw
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-25

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

• ECMAScript 6 looks promising
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• Why do humans procrastinate?
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• The sports footage you won't see on TV this Thanksgiving
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• China to cancel college majors that don't pay
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• How to Get Good at Making Money
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• Twine: Listen to your world, talk to the Internet
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• Build Doom3 on MacOSX with XCode4
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• Python Facts
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• Joel Spolsky On Tech Hiring: Beware the Exploding Offer
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• Suddenly, Hacker News is not the first result for 'Hacker News'
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-24

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

• Groupon falls below $20/share
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• Image Ad Blending Works Really, Really Well
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• GitHub for Mac 1.1
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• How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks
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• The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia
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• In Response to SOPA, Reddit Meshnet Project picks up steam
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• What's In A GIF
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• EU Court of Justice: Censorship in Name of Copyright Violates Fundamental Rights
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• "Invisible Electrostatic Wall" at 3M adhesive tape plant (1996)
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• For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-23

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

• Carmack: Parallel Implementations
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• Twelve Factors of Web Application Development
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• Forth Inventor Chuck Moore's $20 144 core CPU now in full production
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• Open Source (Almost) Everything
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• RIP, Anne McCaffrey
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• Microsoft, Apple and Others Withdrawal Support for SOPA
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• Apache considered harmful
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• Google.pl's crazy doodle
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• Please let this not be the future of reading on the web
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• What's wrong with OKCupid's matching algorithm.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-22

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

• PyPy 1.7 released: widening the sweet spot
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• EBay acquires Hunch for $80m
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• GCC 4.7 adds transactional memory extensions for C/C++
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• How Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story
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• Welcome to the new web.
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• The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad
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• The Hushed Dangers of Startup Depression
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• The Government's $200,000 Useless Android Application
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• Traveling, Writing and Programming
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• Doom 3 source released
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-21

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

• The co-op business model: share whatever you've got
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• Steve Jobs brainstorms with the NeXT team
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• Smooth CoffeeScript
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• &! (and bang), project management for teams
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• Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation?
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• Ask HN: How do you know if you're burnt out or just being lazy?
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• The Sugru story
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• How automatic transmission almost made sperm whales extinct
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• Progress against SOPA
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• Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-20

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

• Clojure & Python, Side by Side
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• Norway: an Eden with wifi
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• http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to
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• 90% Good parts of jQuery - at only 13% of the size
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• Why Emacs?
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• Clayton Christensen: How MBA-driven Profit focus is Killing the U.S. Economy
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• Stanford University Free Class: Design and Analysis of Algorithms I
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• What's the one Linux command you wish you knew years ago?
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• Proxy server for Siri
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• Don't. Waste. Time.
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-19

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

• Show HN: When is good time to submit a story on HN?
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• OS.js (JavaScript Operating System)
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• Back to the Future Photo Project (NSFW)
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• Most laser printer printed pages have tracking watermark
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• Full disk encryption is too good?
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• Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st Century Linux’
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• New Arrested Development will appear exclusively on Netflix Streaming
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• How Facebook is ruining sharing
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• Declassified Bunker of the USSR
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• New Stanford class on Cryptography
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-18

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

• EU Adopts Resolution Against US Domain Seizures
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• A human review of the Kindle Fire
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• Please Poach Me
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• Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim
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• Nancy Pelosi, Ron Paul join SOPA opposition
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• SOPA sponsors break their own laws
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• Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone calls to representatives
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• USB Stick Contains Dual-Core Computer, Turns Any Screen Into an Android Station
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• An Introduction to Stock & Options for the Tech Entrepreneur or Startup Employee
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• Sergey Brin gives $500,000 to help Wikipedia
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-17

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

• What Jeff Bezos Knew Back in 1997 That Made Amazon a Gorilla
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• RIAA claims you do not own your iTunes music purchases
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• Williams: Master of the "Come From"
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• Sweet sanity: 75% of Americans say infringement fines should be under $100
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• If you want to get rich, stop being a fucking joker
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• Stanford to host more online classes
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• .bit non-governmental domain name registrar, for the post-SOPA era
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• JQuery Mobile 1.0
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• I Saw An Extremely Subtle Bug Today And I Just Have To Tell Someone
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• Microsoft, Apple and 27 other tech companies backing SOPA indirectly
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-16

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

• Fail Upwards
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• Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms
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• "Build something people want" is not enough
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• Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter
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• A shuffled deck of cards is unique in all human history
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• Mozilla urges its users to raise their voice against SOPA
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• Airport full-body X-ray scanners banned across Europe as unsafe
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• SOPA Hearing is Streaming Live
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• Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces
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• Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-15

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

• Massive networks of stripes appear in Chinese Desert--visible from space
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• Planet Earth time lapse photos from the International Space Station
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• Google releases full Android 4.0.1 source code, includes Honeycomb too
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• How to lose time and money
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• Modern Web Applications are Here
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• Saving a Life is Easy, But I Didn't
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• Spark
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• US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America
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• How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code
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• This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-14

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

• Generation Sell
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• List of freely available programming books
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• Congress: Trading stock on inside information?
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• At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future
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• Isaacs: try/catch is an anti-pattern
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• InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had
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• Barnes & Noble Exposes Microsoft's Trivial Patents and Strategy Against Android
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• Jack Dorsey does 8 hours at Twitter, 8 hours at Square daily
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• Stop SOPA, save the Internet
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• Cracking Siri
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-13

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

• HTML5 terminal
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• Flash is dead. Long live the internet.
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• It's not just Flash for Mobile, Flex is dead too
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• Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble
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• Think different about Jobs
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• Europe's Web Of Debt
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• PragDave: I'm on vacation, and I've deleted your message—really
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• Oppenheimer's recommendation letter for Richard Feynman
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• Neil deGrasse Tyson AMA
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• Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-12

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

• 10x XSS on apple.com
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• "I would dial the 300 baud dial-up number, and scream the carrier tone."
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• Father's homemade machine helps disabled son to walk (video)
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• Fakecall: helping polite introverts stay productive
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• Machine Vision made Easy - SimpleCV
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• Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder
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• Why Gmail's new design is unsuitable for heavy use
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• Planes overhead
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• Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.
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• How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-11

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

• Redesigning the country selector
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• Lessons I wish I had been Taught
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• Can you build beautiful sites with Twitter Bootstrap? Hell yes
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• Steam loses user database
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• If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong
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• Shapecatcher - draw the unicode character you want
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• In defense of the Google chef
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• EMI music is sold to Universal. We're down to three major labels.
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• Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu?
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• Google Engineer: What I learned in the war
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-10

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

• Microsoft may halt development work on Silverlight plugin after next release
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• Half of China's millionaires want to leave country
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• Mozilla launched popcorn.js
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• Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People
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• Swearing
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• Confident Code
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• ØMQ: Mission Accomplished
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• Go nuts with CSS3 hover effects
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• How to work from home without going insane (purple monkey dishwasher)
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• Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-09

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

• A web video company that is most likely a hoax
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• Why Is The Defense Department Snooping On My Phone?
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• Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams
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• Unix v6 Ported to ANSI C
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• Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers
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• The Social Graph is Neither
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• SEO tricks from Patio11
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• Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5
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• "I've isolated the bug to a database query"
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• Watch Me Make Mistakes
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-08

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

• Something is wrong with this picture.
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• Security researcher Charlie Miller booted from Apple Developer Program
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• Take a short break in a quiet place
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• Free 5 Billion Page Web Index Now Available from Common Crawl Foundation
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• Nimbus.io: Open-source alternative to Amazon S3
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• Redis: Zero to Master in 30 minutes
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• The Knife Maker
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• BankSimple invites first customers; rebrands itself as Simple
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• Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV
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• A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-07

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

• Teachers write their own online textbook, save district $175,000
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• What being hopelessly single taught me about pitching tech celebs
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• AI are taking jobs
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• Revisiting Google App Engine's pricing changes
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• Steve Jobs's Real Genius
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• I wrote BozoCrack to show why plain MD5 is a horrible way to hash passwords.
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• Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse
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• One-time Secret: Share passwords etc with URIs that work only once
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• Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.
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• Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-06

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

• Failing with MongoDB
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• Goldman's new money machine: warehouses
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• Python: copying a list the right way
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• Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail
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• Why the cheapest maple syrup is the best
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• Missing Person - Tracy Williams, Technorati Employee
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• 1TB Hard Drive Prices up 180% in a Month
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• Don't use MongoDB
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• Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up)
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• You're a developer, so why do you work for someone else?
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-05

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

• WikiLeaks: Out of time and money
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• How Not to Design a Home Page
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• The Hustler's Manifesto
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• Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boilerplate - Extend
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• DressRush Pitch Deck
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• Why Daylight Saving Time Should Be Abolished
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• The Number One Trait of a Great Developer
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• How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates?
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• Node.js v0.6.0 is released
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• Online graduate-level machine learning course from CMU's Tom Mitchell
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-04

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

• Apple and the Kindle
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• Convergence: complete HTML5 game
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• Apple's 1978 office floor plan
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• Stop motion video shot over 2 years with 288,000 jelly beans
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• Twitter Bootstrap v1.4.0 Released
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• Apple's Supply Chain Secret
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• Google threatens to cut ties with Chamber of Commerce over Protect-IP lobbying
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• “But The Client Wants IE 6 Support”
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• Linus Torvalds: Software and Process Patents Don't Make Sense
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• Show HN: Scroll Reddit
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-03

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

• Underrated Features of PostgreSQL
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• Two decades of productivity: Vim's 20th anniversary
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• How Khan Academy is using machine learning to assess student mastery
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• Happy Birthday Vim, The Venerable Text Editor Turns 20
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• The End of the Credit Card? New Square app: Card Case
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• My offer to Google Reader
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• Awesome about page
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• Why the Mac App Sandbox makes me sad
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• Do a barrel roll - Google Search
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• JQuery 1.7 Released
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-02

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

• Racism in Tech
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• White House responds to Patent Petition
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• Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Hacktivists
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• Ring Counter Clock: still running after 40 years
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• College has been oversold
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• Carmack: Doom 3's engine ready for open-sourcing, awaiting 'OK' from legal
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• The end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of Web usage
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• I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode
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• Dark Sky - Weather Prediction, Reinvented
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• Don't Give Your Users Shit Work
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-11-01

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

• The (logarithmic) calendar I want
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• I also stand up for Stallman
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• How One Missing `var` Ruined our Launch
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• SciRuby
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• I am a programmer
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• Stop the E-Parasite Act
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• Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
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• Gmail’s new look
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• Khan Academy: Computer Science
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• Introducing GitHub Enterprise
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Daily Hacker News for 2011-10-31

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

• All Maps in China are Transformed
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• Ruby 1.9.3 released
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• Online hackers threaten to expose cartel's secrets
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• You Are the Average of Your Five Closest Friends
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• Klout Is Odious
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• Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than
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• Why Palantir Makes My Head Hurt
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• The Book That Every Programmer Should Read
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• Steve Jobs' memo to startups
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• Dave Winer: Why I stand up for Stallman
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