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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-30

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

• Peter Thiel’s startup class notes in PDF
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• In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo
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• Show HN: My weekend project using the Soundcloud API
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• Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit
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• Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco
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• Lying on your resume
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• Chaos Monkey released into the wild
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• Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots
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• Titan, one of Saturn's moons, has an underground ocean
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• Why Apple's new ads look like Microsoft made them.
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-29

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

• I built a resume-padder and earned $700 in the process
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• The Internet Map
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• OAuth 3.0: the sane and simple way
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• Please Don’t Watch NBC Tonight. Or Any Night
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• ~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion
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• I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
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• How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States
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• Captchas Are Becoming Ridiculous
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• Discussion of HN at 4chan's /g/
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• Corner Office: Dennis Crowley
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-28

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

• How well does Khan Academy teach?
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• Why isn't iTunes shuffle random?
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• A Different Road To Work, Bypassing College Dreams
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• Dave Winer: An open Twitter-like ecosystem
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• Government: we can freeze Mega assets even if case is dismissed
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• Sir Tim Berners-Lee Stars in Olympic Opening Ceremony
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• Interesting new Unix commands/binaries in OS X Mountain Lion
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• The Disappointing Surprise From Apple
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• Garzik: An Andre To Remember
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• iBookstore rejects Holly Lisle's writing course because she mentions Amazon
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-27

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

• Show HN: Music for Geeks and Nerds
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• Apparently Yelp has a no-fly list
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• What I Learned From Increasing My Prices
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• Get A Job: The Craigslist Experiment
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• First glider discovered in a cellular automata on an aperiodic tiling
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• 1987 Time Capsule Predictions by Sci-Fi Writers About 2012
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• Gnome: Staring into the abyss
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• How to add a new syntactic feature to PHP
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• Sal Khan responds to critic
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• A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-26

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

• .mail app
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• Google Fiber
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• Open-Source High-quality PDF of SICP
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• Moving On
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• What's with this anti-directory structure movement?
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• OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell
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• Why Do Startups Do This?
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• The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance
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• Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous
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• Google Fiber Plans & Pricing
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-25

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

• Go at SoundCloud
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• Even experts get it wrong
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• The Mystery of 355/113
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• Show HN: Brandseen - A logo coloring game built in 24h
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• If You Don’t Think You Need It, You Haven’t Seen Greatness
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• John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
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• The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
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• Meteor Raises $11.2M from Andreessen Horowitz
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• Those budget 27" IPS displays from Korea are for real
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• Gabe Newell Wants to Support Linux, Because Windows 8 is a 'Catastrophe'
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-24

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

• Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon
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• Sally Ride, first American woman in space, has died at 61
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• The Sparrow Problem
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• Show HN: Markupwand, magically convert your photoshop files to HTML & CSS
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• Command line tools every web dev needs to know
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• Show HN: Hacker News Comments
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• Ask PG: Any chance of an update on "What I've learned from Hacker News"?
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• Craigslist Suing Padmapper
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• Iranian nuclear program hacked, made to play AC/DC
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• Congress Must Act After US Government Admits To Warrantless Wiretapping
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-23

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

• Expensive lessons in Python performance tuning
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• Sprite Cow: Generate CSS for sprite sheets
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• Jack Daniels writes the politest cease and desist notice ever.
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• Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012
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• Destined To Fail
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• Step by step from jQuery to Backbone
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• Redis Sentinel beta released
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• How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism
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• HN's Daeken will expose security flaw in 4m hotel room keycard locks
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• Gittip stats
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-22

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

• Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll
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• Entitlement and Acquisition
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• Linux 3.5 Kernel Released
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• Fay -- A proper subset of Haskell that compiles to Javascript
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• On Patents
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• Is Berlin the new home for tech start-up business? [video]
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• Don’t Jump to Conclusions About the Killer
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• The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies
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• The Whiskey Rebellion
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• The Terrifying Background of the Man Who Ran a CIA Assassination Unit
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-21

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

• Men Walk On Moon - July 20th 1969
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• Pareidoloop: Faces generated at random
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• RethinkDigg.com
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• In a First, an Entire Organism Is Simulated by Software
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• Firefox Beta 15 supports the new Opus audio format
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• New Programming Jargon
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• Quick Nexus 7 Comments By Linus Torvalds
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• The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition
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• The Two Egg Problem
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• Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-20

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

• Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks
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• Unbreakable crypto: Store a 30-character password in your subconscious memory
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• Tell, don't ask
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• Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever
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• PostgreSQL Rising
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• Marissa Mayer Employment Offer Letter
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• How to hack the beliefs that are holding you back
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• Sparrow acquired by Google
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• Lenovo CEO Gives His $3 Million Bonus to 10,000 Employees
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• Talent Acquisitions
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-19

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

• CSS3 meets AMC's Breaking Bad
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• Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb
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• Show HN: gist.io, blogless writing for hackers
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• Windows Executable Walkthrough Graphic
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• New High I/O EC2 Instance Type - hi1.4xlarge - 2 TB of SSD-Backed Storage
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• Watch what you store on SkyDrive–you may lose your Microsoft life
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• Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second
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• 15-Year-Old Maker Astronomically Improves Pancreatic Cancer Test
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• EFF, Reddit, Mozilla, others launch Internet Defense League and Cat Signal
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• Living with HTTPS
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-18

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

• How I converted a software thief into a customer
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• Show HN: Scoutzie, 444 best mobile designers for hire.
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• Advice for Marissa Mayer from an ex-Yahoo
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• Miles Davis – blind listening test
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• Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US citizen
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• GIT is the new FTP
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• Wikileaks credit card donation is back
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• HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans
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• A Hole in Mars
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• Fluid: A UI Prototyping Tool
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-17

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

• Making Friends Over 30 with Grubwithus
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• Steam'd Penguins
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• Varnish author criticizing HTTP/2.0 proposals
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• 12 new universities join Coursera
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• Microsoft changes skype supernodes architecture to support wiretapping
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• Twitter crashes itself with commas
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• The Latest Findings On Intelligence
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• Prime number patterns
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• Dear Marissa Mayer...please make Flickr awesome again
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• Google+ is now larger than LinkedIn
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-16

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

• Lying with pictures: Smartphone manufacturer share by OS
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• The long and sordid history of the user-agent HTTP header field
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• MineCraftWebGL
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• An iPad Lover’s Take On The Nexus 7
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• Here’s why we keep getting hacked – clear and present Billabong failures
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• Ask HN: I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?
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• Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
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• RIP Stephen Covey, "7 Habits" author, dies at 79
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• Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief
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• Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-15

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

• Yeoman.io - Quickly build beautiful web applications
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• Ask HN: Learn Math the Hard Way
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• Read the masters
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• Traction mistakes
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• Joe Armstrong: Why OO Sucks
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• Intel Core 2 Duo Remote Exec Exploit in JavaScript
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• Goldman Sachs and the $580 Million Black Hole
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• Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text
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• WikiLeaks wins case against VISA
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• The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-14

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

• Logins are Dead, and Mobile Killed Them
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• Facebook Didn't Kill Digg, Reddit Did
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• Apple is back on EPEAT
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• Super-resolution from a single image
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• Show HN: Collections, a fast multiple-account Google Docs client for Mac
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• Dalton Caldwell: Announcing an audacious proposal
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• How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly
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• Why Publishing on the Windows Phone is Like Walking Barefoot On Broken Glass
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• Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia’s Woman Problem
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• The Silent Majority of Experts
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-13

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

• We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned
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• Vim, you complete me
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• When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide: 'People Staring at Computers'
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• Fullscreen in Mountain Lion still renders second display useless
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• Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1
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• EpicEditor: An Embeddable JavaScript Markdown Editor
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• HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲
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• Still running strong after 1,532 days without a code change.
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• What are the most intellectually stimulating websites you know of?
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• Show HN: BrainTripping - language model comedy
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-12

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

• Use OSX Finder Quicklook (Spacebar) to preview all plain text files
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• John Resig: Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Update
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• Petition the U.S. Government to Force the TSA to Follow the Law
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• How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail
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• Introducing Mozilla Persona, An Identity System for the Web
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• Some things I've learnt about programming
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• UK anti-encryption law
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• Richard Posner: Why There Are Too Many Patents In America
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• Vim Creep
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• Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-11

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

• Penny Arcade Sells Out
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• Lies, Damn Lies and LIBOR
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• Lamar Smith trying to quietly revive SOPA
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• Show HN: Gridspot, 10x cheaper cloud compute using distributed computing
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• The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents
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• Interview with Alan Kay
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• Paid Vacation? That’s Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation.
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• Entreporn: Learning vs doing vs wasting time
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• Aaron Winborn: Special Needs Trust
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• Ouya Breaks Kickstarter Records
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-10

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

• Coming Home to Vim
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• Light Table Playground Levels Up
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• Investing in GitHub
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• Stripe Raises $20M From General Catalyst, Sequoia, Thiel
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• DC "Uber Amendment" would force sedans to charge 5x more than taxis
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• Show HN: Moqups - Vectorial mockups with HTML5 and SVG
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• Ouya: A New Kind of Video Game Console
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• What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies
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• Re-Designing the classic email client
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• New Dropbox Pro plans
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-09

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

• Confession of a Haskell Hacker
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• A skeptic faces possible charges for debunking Mumbai’s miracle statue
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• Google Open Sources Collaborative IDE
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• Divine intervention: Google's Nexus 7 is a fantastic $200 tablet
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• What We Should Have Said To PG
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• Software Inventory by Joel Spolsky
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• Bringing Craigslist Back
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• Trello is now half million strong
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• If you run a contest as a startup, don't be dishonest. JPEGmini scammed me.
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• Github Raises $100 Million
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-08

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

• Canada’s vanishing tech sector
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• Drone hijacked by UT hackers with $1,000 spoofer
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• The rotten heart of finance
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• Google Announces Global Campaign To Legalize Gay Marriage
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• Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope)
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• Easy 6502 - Learn the 6502 Assembly Language
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• A Dust Over India
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• Three NSA Whistleblowers Back EFF's Lawsuit Over Government Spying Program
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• Freelancing: A 6-Month Retrospective
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• MPAA/RIAA lose big as US backs copyright "limitations"
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-07

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

• Preparing Yourself for Modern JavaScript Development
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• If You Don't Prioritize Your Life, Someone Else Will
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• Being a Software Architect
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• Illegal Engineering
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• Introducing BitTorrent Torque
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• Everybody Hates Firefox Updates
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• So, That’s It For Thunderbird
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• The Pal-V flying car
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• Apple Removes Green Electronics Certification From Products
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• PHP: The Right Way
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-06

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

• Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs boson'
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• Another year of Clojure
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• So You Want to Be a Security Expert
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• Patent troll stalks travel site Hipmunk
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• The Google Nexus Q Is Baffling
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• Judge Posner: U.S. patent system out of sync
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• Machine Learning Video Library - Learning From Data (Abu-Mostafa)
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• How tiny wasps cope with being smaller than amoebas
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• Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web
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• A file that's both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (view source on it)
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-05

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

• Things I like about programming in Go
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• HTC wins swipe to unlock patent dispute against Apple
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• Everything you need to know about Machine Learning in 30 minutes or less
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• Tarsnap outage post-mortem
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• Stephen Hawking lost $100 bet over Higgs boson discovery
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• Another Spanking for Apple from Judge Posner
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• Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder
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• Sqlmap: Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool
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• ACLU launches phone app to help motorists secretly record police stops
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• Mousetrap: Keyboard shortcuts in Javascript
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-04

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

• European Court: Used software licenses may be resold.
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• Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden Ordered the Megaupload Shutdown
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• Vulnerabilities in Heroku's Build System
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• Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator
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• Live CERN Higgs Announcement in 20 Mins
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• CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson
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• PHP is much better than what you think
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• ACTA killed in EU parliament: 478 votes to 39
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• The Perfect Compliment
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• Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-03

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

• DragonBox: Gaming children into learning algebra
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• Facebook's e-mail debacle: One 'bug' fix, but rollback impossible
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• Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
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• Opensource contributor Bassel Khartabil detained in Syria. Needs help
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• "Flip", the vertical ship, marks 50 years at sea
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• Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon
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• Apple ignores bug report
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• Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant
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• Louis C.K. sees ticket scalping drop over 96% by selling tickets himself
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• The Next Microsoft
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-02

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

• Flask 0.9 codename Campari released today
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• Lisp Hackers: Peter Seibel
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• As crops rot, millions go hungry in India
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• Interface Design with a Homeless person
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• Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun
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• Mozilla Gains Global Support For a Firefox Mobile OS
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• Shall We Use Clojure?
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• Facebook Blames Email Problems On User "Confusion"
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• MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on
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• Windows 8 Pro Upgrade to cost $39.99
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-07-01

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

• Amber Waves of Green
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• Chrome now the most popular browser
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• Leap second causing Linux server crashes?
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• Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost
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• The FFmpeg/Libav situation
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• #BoycottApple trending on Google plus due to Galaxy Nexus ban
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• The busy trap
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• Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (July 2012)
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• Anonymous Publishing is Dead
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• What Twitter could have been
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-06-30

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

• My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report
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• Building Your First Profitable Startup
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• If malware authors ever learn how to spell we're all screwed
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• Why Files Exist
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• Apple granted preliminary sales ban of Galaxy Nexus
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• The Ph.D Grind: A Ph.D Student Memoir
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• Heroku is down again
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• AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US
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• Introducing ccv, a modern computer vision library
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• To Elon Musk and the Model S: Congratulations
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