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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 30, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Screw the power users
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• Stripe open-sources Einhorn
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• CryEngine 3 soft-body physics simulator
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• The Design of LLVM
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• Google employee explains how they use sitemaps and how we can benefit from them
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• Dutch parliament rejects ACTA, prohibits government to sign or ratify.
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• Seriously? Ads?
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• F1 - The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business
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• Parse launches JavaScript SDK: Parse for Websites
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• The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these two images
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 29, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Gunshot detection system transforms and raises issues
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• Elon Musk entrepreneurship lecture.
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• Why cheap customers cost more
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• Bogus story: no Chinese backdoor in military chip
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• Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed?
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• This Is the Gyro-Stabilized, Two-Wheeled Future of Transportation
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• Hunting Down My Son's Killer
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• Clippy.JS - Add Clippy and friends to any website
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• Why I Use Perl: Reliability
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• 20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 28, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to Read Mathematics
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• The Software Developer’s Guide to Fitness & Morning Productivity
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• The Art Of The iOS Icon
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• Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6
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• It's 2012, HTML5 is awesome, and I'm surfing a PDF
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• Self-driving Volvos cover 200km of busy Spanish motorway
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• Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say
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• Apple rejected Flattr… and it’s not the end
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• China publishes a human rights record of the USA
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• Redactor - javascript (jQuery) WYSIWYG editor
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 27, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Meth Labs and Dead Dogs: How the Founder of McAfee Antivirus Went on the Run
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• Don't use Scatterplots
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• Learn R two minutes at a time
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• The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (1989)
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• Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL
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• The "bat signal" for the Internet
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• Elon Musk's determination
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• Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously
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• The THX Sound
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• Backdoor found in a China-made US military chip
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 26, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Art of Computer Typography
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• Bing shows results that MS asked Google to take down
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• Reddit founder aims to build bat signal for the Internet
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• So You Want to be a Programmer
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• MIT Builds A Needle-Free Drug Injector
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• The Shapes of CSS
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• Govt of India proposes to ban SSH (Or wants you to use 40 bit keys)
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• Apple And Microsoft Behind Patent Troll Armed With Thousands Of Nortel Patents
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• Getty's New Watermark
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• Germany sets new solar-power record
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 25, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How Tim Cook is changing Apple
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• API Design - Matt Gemmell
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• Python for Data Analysis (new O'Reilly book from creator of Pandas)
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• Github: United States Code
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• Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS
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• Retailer uses 3D QR codes and the Sun to time limit discounts
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• Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship
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• I sued a telemarketer and got $4,000
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• Virtualenv to be part of Python 3.3
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• Rick Santorum's Fake Donation Meter
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 24, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Is it true that you can't tweet "Get Better."?
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• Maddox on Link-Baiting Aggregation Sites
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• Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict
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• Judge.me - A Private Small Claims Internet Court
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• Show HN: I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store
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• After Facebook fails
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• So you are making good money, now STFU
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• Hello Downloader
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• Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL
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• Most popular browser missing (Chrome)...
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 23, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google: We’ve acquired Motorola Mobility
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• A Tale of Two Pwnies (Part 1)
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• MIT’s Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing
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• Getting Real book is now free PDF
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• Google's HTML5 synthesizer for Moog's 78th birthday
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• Now That's What I Call Social Proof
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• Confessions of a recovering lifehacker
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• Mark Zuckerberg sells 30.2 million shares of $FB common stock at $37.58
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• The only way to get hold of a human at Google
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• Verdict for Google in Oracle's patent infringement case
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 22, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Facebook is killing Silicon Valley
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• GTar: The First Guitar That Anybody Can Play
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• Nmap 6 released after three years of work
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• Why airplane bathrooms have ashtrays
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• SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon Launch Webcast (starts at 12:00am PDT)
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• Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car
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• Facebook Bankers Secretly Cut FB Revenue Estimates In Middle Of IPO Roadshow
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• WebGL: 80,000 particles
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• The future is specific
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• Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 21, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Satellite killed by trajectory patent
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• Being deaf
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• WYSIHTML5: A better approach to rich text editing
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• Petition Obama adminstration to require free access to publicly funded research
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• Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices
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• I put my family business on Facebook. Here’s what happened.
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• FB down 8% at opening
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• Dan Benjamin: Regarding The Talk Show
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• GitHub for Windows
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• Coda 2
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 20, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• SpaceX ISS launch webcast starts at 4:15 am EDT
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• Show HN: My first web app, DailyDo.it
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• Ask HN: Favorite HN threads of all time
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• A few things to remember while coding in Python
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• Mark Zuckerberg married
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• Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account
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• The world's first HTML5 SIP client
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• Show HN: My 1-year project, iPad IDE with GitHub and Heroku integration
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• Show HN: Habit List - my first iOS app
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• I’m tired of the opportunists and their hackathons
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 19, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Gödel and the limits of logic
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• 'The Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over, and We're Dancing on its Grave'
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• Recording police with your smartphone is a Constitutional right, says DoJ
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• The story of the ‘secret’ room at Pixar, frequented by Steve Jobs
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• The default state of a startup is failure
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• We Who Value Simplicity Have Built Incomprehensible Machines
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• High-dimensional spheres are "spikey"
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• Nikola Tesla Wasn't God And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil
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• Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in an tiny expensive package
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• Morgan Stanley bought 63M Facebook shares ($2.3B) to create a floor around $38
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 18, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• CSS Hat translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3
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• How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary
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• Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator
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• It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code
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• Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.
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• NASDAQ:FB
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• SpaceX headed to the ISS tomorrow
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• Light Table is in YCS12
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• Avoiding Depression While Not Running a $1B Company
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• Objectivist C
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 17, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The 10k Bootstrap Challenge
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• Flotr2 : a library for drawing HTML5 charts and graphs
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• Smart people don't think others are stupid
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• Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind
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• Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India
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• The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You
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• 50 Years Ago: The World in 1962
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• All the oxygen trapped in a bubble
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• TED and inequality: The real story
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• The Facebook Offering: How It Compares
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 16, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• WTFWG
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• Wil Wheaton: Yo Hollywood, Let Me Download Ubuntu
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• Steve Ballmer's Microsoft
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• The First Time I Used Programming At Work
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• Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle
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• The Bastards Book of Ruby
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• Google's Code Editor
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• Please learn to write
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• Things not Strings -- Google launches Knowledge Graph
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• Pretty RFC
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 15, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How Pixar Almost Lost Toy Story 2 To A Bad Backup
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• Wozniak calls for open Apple
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• Perian is shutting down
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• Please don't learn to code
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• OpenShift by Red Hat
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• My Raspberry Pi Thinks It's a Mainframe
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• Please Learn to Code
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• On Atwood's Please Don't Learn to Code
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• Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer
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• GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 14, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ivy League school janitor graduates with honors
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• ZTE Backdoor
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• How To Scale a Development Team
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• The Coming Meltdown in College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Soon
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• Welcome To Life
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• VLC has been downloaded over a billion times
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• We got a takedown notice from LifeShield for our positive review
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• Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails
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• Turn anything into a videogame controller, even a banana
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• Plagiarism
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 13, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google Shares Experience of Using Ubuntu in their Offices
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• Light Table reaches funding goal of $200k
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• FreeBSD 10 to use Clang, GCC will be deprecated
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• *JS : Low-Level JavaScript
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• German Police Used Only 85 Bullets Against People in 2011
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• The 144 Million Dollar Button
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• Ask HN: losing faith in the startup where I'm employee #1
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• 30 minutes a day
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• What's That Programming Language?
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• GitLaw: GitHub for Laws and Legal Documents - a Tourniquet for American Liberty
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 12, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Apple to drop Google Maps in iOS 6 for in-house Maps?
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• Show HN: A directory of single-page sites and useful apps
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• It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Microsoft does it
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• Life Below 600 Pixels
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• State paid $22K each for Internet routers
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• Men In Tech
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• Louis CK does it again - 2 audio shows without DRM at $5 each
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• Dutch Judge Who Ordered Pirate Bay Links Censored Has Conflict of Interest
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• Dear StackExchange: Thank You
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• Dress code: blue tie and male
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 11, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• No, I won't be your technical co-founder
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• Big Data University: Free Database And Hadoop Courses
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• When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed
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• Goodbye, CouchDB
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• Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference
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• Miso pays disputed $10k referral bonus to ex-engineer, apologizes
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• Infinite complexity in 4096 bytes
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• My Doctor's Office Asked me to Lie
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• IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA
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• Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 10, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Simperium, a realtime data layer
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• Old People Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore
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• Pixel-fitting – how antialiasing can ruin your logos and icons
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• Recursive Drawing
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• Mozilla: Microsoft bans Firefox on ARM-based Windows
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• "Adobe has released Adobe Photoshop CS6, which addresses these vulnerabilities"
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• Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++
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• Why I'm thrilled Mark Zuckerberg is annoying the bankers
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• NCombinator
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• I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me out of 10k
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 09, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
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• 55,000 Twitter passwords leaked
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• ABC takes 5% equity or 2% royalty from all companies that appear on Shark Tank
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• Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed
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• Netherlands first country in Europe with net neutrality
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• CSS arrow please
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• Germany's Leading Technical University Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions
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• HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS
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• Say hello to Octicons
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• JQuery knobs
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 08, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Oracle/Google jury finds Google infringed SSO but hangs on fair use
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• Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
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• Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads
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• Behind the scenes at Adioso - Part 1: Reality Check
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• Firefox finally plugs the leak
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• A set of top Computer Science blogs
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• Rich Hickey: Reducers - A Library and Model for Collection Processing
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• Dwolla is going to eliminate ACH
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• Swiftype (YC W12) Builds Site Search That Doesn’t Suck
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• Move over Zuck, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for Facebook in 1845
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 07, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A good developer has a natural, almost visceral aversion to complexity
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• Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
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• Timeline of the far future
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• 3x faster linux boot with e4rat
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• Touché by Disney Research brings touch control to everyday things
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• Why do web sites and software take so long to build? And why is it so hard?
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• This Is All Your App Is: A Collection Of Tiny Details
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• Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails
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• I appeared on CNN this morning to talk about why I'm not buying Facebook (CISPA)
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• Jury rules Google violated copyright law, Google moves for mistrial
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 06, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Perspective: All of Earth's Water in a Single Sphere
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• Linux's awesome and underused traffic control facilities
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• Who Killed Men's Hats? Think Of A Three Letter Word Beginning With 'I'
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• How not to ask questions at a conference
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• I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python?
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• Show HN: My first web app - Resumonk - A beautifully simple resume builder
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• Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings?
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• Video Stabilization on YouTube
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• Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in clear text
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• The frequent fliers who flew too much
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 05, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Roger Penrose Says Physics Is Wrong, From String Theory to Quantum Mechanics
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• Day Against DRM
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• DRM-Free Day, forever.
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• Inverse Fizzbuzz
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• IOS app success is a lottery: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even
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• The new Git-scm.com
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• The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers
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• Write hybrid CPU/GPU programs in Haskell
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• Understanding database normalisation: a very short tutorial
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• Indian drug company slashes crucial medicine prices by 76%
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 04, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Python Application Deployment with Native Packages
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• SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn
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• How text editing on the iPad should be
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• Getting the closest string match
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• Machine Learning in Python Has Never Been Easier
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• Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes
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• Overpriced Developer Conferences
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• Vert.x – JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js
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• Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement
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• FBI pushing for surveillance backdoors on websites
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 03, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Weebly CEO David Rusenko: It’s Time to Take Us Seriously
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• The guy who made it so difficult to open your bag of potato chips
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• What makes one appear smarter and more sociable?
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• Inbox.py: SMTP for Humans
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• I'm Giving Up Reading for a Year
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• Want good programmers? Then pay them.
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• Judge: An IP-Address Doesn’t Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate)
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• A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi
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• RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS
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• Yahoo CEO might have lied about having CS degree
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 02, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Everything I wish someone had told me (about freelancing)
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• Probabilistic Data Structures For Web Analytics And Data Mining
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• Going from $0 to $500k in 1 Year with no VC Money
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• Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox
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• The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget
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• Google is making a huge and annoying mistake
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• MIT and Harvard announce edX
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• Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project
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• What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1
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• Best Practices Exist For A Reason
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-05-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 01, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Hacking the iPod: How I Earned $65K in High School
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• Getting Beaten by a Voting Bot in 50 Minutes
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• Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI
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• What time is it?
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• Why Instagram is so fast at uploading photos
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• Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2012)
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• Carmack on why transatlantic ping is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen
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• Google open sources key piece of Street View technology
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• Introducing DuckDuckHack
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• Android Ported to C#
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-04-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 30, 2012 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Cube: 3D home printer starts shipping in days
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• Python Programming in your Browser: PythonAnywhere
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• How Billionaire Asteroid Miners Make Money -- Without Mining Asteroids
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• Startups Are Bands for Hackers
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• Show HN: Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex]
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• High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs
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• Ctrl-P for Vim: Pure Vimscript Command-T
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• Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index
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• Secure Shell chrome (killer) app
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• Why Use Postgres
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