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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-30

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

• Support the FSF: Help us stop Restricted Boot
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• GitHub Says ‘No Thanks’ to Bots — Even if They’re Nice
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• Progressive JPEGs: a new best practice
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• Elusive Icons - 268 Sleek Vector Icons For Bootstrap
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• I don't want to download your app
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• Laconic History of the World
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• PHPPHP: a PHP VM in PHP
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• WTF Google, you stole my $5
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• Joe Biden tried to ban email encryption back in 1991
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• An FBI Hostage Negotiator Buys A Car [audio]
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-29

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

• Show HN: Hacking a Raspberry Pi into a wireless airplay speaker
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• Warrantless wiretaps? Congress votes yes
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• What one book could give me a new, useful superpower?
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• Show HN: The home automation system with an API
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• SQL is Agile
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• It's like JSON. but fast and small.
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• Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2012
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• Bingo Card Creator (and other stuff) Year in Review 2012
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• One Year After Quitting My Job
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• Tenth Grade Tech Trends
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-28

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

• Developing Backbone.js Applications
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• How To Become a Successful Freelance Web Developer (and Not Kill Your Career)
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• Json ⊄ js
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• OS X emulation layer for Linux
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• Solve your first world problems
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• $89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB
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• Root Domain Website Hosting for Amazon S3
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• YouTube kills billions of video views faked by Music Industry
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• Show HN: CSS3 animation
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• The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-27

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

• Why MongoDB Never Worked Out at Etsy
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• The Programming Books That Meant The Most To Me
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• The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed
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• Desktop App for All Your Email
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• Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)
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• Never Have the “What Would It Take to Keep You Here?” Conversation
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• What happens when you are the doctor on the airplane?
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• Rails is omakase
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• Stop Generalizing About Europe
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• Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profitable website
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-26

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

• SpaceX’s entry into $70 billion U.S. launch market draws Lockheed jab
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• Half the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
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• Laws of Physics Can’t Trump the Bonds of Love
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• Receiveee.com - disposable email address
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• Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs?
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• Why use SVM
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• Advice for US entrepreneurs who move to Europe
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• Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)
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• The Flat Sink
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• Downtime last Saturday
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-25

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

• The Parley Letter
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• Kenyan Women Create Their Own 'Geek Culture'
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• How the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition
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• SpaceX Grasshopper Takes Off and Lands Vertically [video]
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• A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It
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• Are mass shootings really random events? A look at the US numbers
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• Expedia: Bad for the Traveler, Bad for the Hotel
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• Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012
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• Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
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• Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-24

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

• The Sex Tape Litmus Test
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• GitLab 4.0 Released
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• First Sale Under Siege: If You Bought It, You Should Own It
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• Whatever happened to the Hurd? – The story of the GNU OS
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• Dangling by a Trivial Feature
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• Zed Shaw's Template for "Learn X The Hard Way" Books
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• Why learning Haskell makes you a better programmer
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• What is the enlightenment I'm supposed to attain after studying finite automata?
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• DARPA challange: Can you program a radio to dominate the spectrum?
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• How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-23

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

• School of Data - Learn how to find, process, analyze and visualize data
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• Developer CEO vs Sales Guy CEO
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• Producers of Minecraft Documentary upload their new movie to The Pirate Bay
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• Gitlab
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• Github experiencing major service outages across all services.
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• Page Weight Matters
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• Investors
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• Google Flights
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• Ed McMillen: Ubuntu Store Sold Super Meat Boy Without Permission, Has Yet To Pay
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• The best interface is no interface
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-22

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

• China listening in on Skype - Microsoft assumes you approve
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• NASAs Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn...
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• Rust 0.5 released
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• A $5 Lamp Powered Solely by Gravity
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• Patio11 Wrote A Book On Conversion Optimization For Software Companies
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• What does randomness look like?
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• Screenshot-proof images via temporal dithering
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• 125th Birthday of Ramanujan
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• E17 is out
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• GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-21

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

• Wikipedia doesn't need your money
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• An Interactive Guide To The Fourier Transform
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• Engineering Pornography (2002)
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• Nate Silver confuses cause and effect, ends up defending corruption
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• Rice Cooker Hacks - The Ebert Way
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• Help HN: Developer laid off 5 days before Christmas, have kids
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• Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek
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• xkcd: Instagram
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• IV: Don't Mind Our 2000 Shell Companies, That's Totally Normal
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• Verizon Is Blocking Google Wallet Anti-Competitively
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-20

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

• Bootstrap 3.0 Upcoming changes
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• EFF Patent Project Gets Half-Million-Dollar Boost from Mark Cuban and 'Notch'
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• Apple's pinch-to-zoom patent invalidated by USPTO
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• The economic return of Iceland has proved that the joke was on Ireland
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• PlainSite Exposes 2,000 Intellectual Ventures Shell Companies
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• When I first heard the name "Safari"
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• The Basement
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• JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only
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• Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment
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• MIT discovers a new state of matter, a new kind of magnetism
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-19

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

• Top ten algorithms in data mining (2007) [pdf]
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• Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
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• Whose bug is this anyway?
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• Instagram's official response
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• The Real Silicon Valley
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• Young, Unemployed and Living on the Street
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• Migrate Your Instagram Photos to Flickr in One Click.
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• Interactive Guide to Blog Typography
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• Facebook's legal team bans developer of F.B. Purity from Facebook
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• Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-18

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

• Indiana Jones journal mystery solved
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• Doing Game Gravity Right
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• Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers
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• Two-for-one: Amazon.com’s Socially Engineered Replacement Order Scam
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• Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos
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• Perl is 25 years old today
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• Wil Wheaton on Instagram's new ad policy
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• How I Made $600K in the iOS Education Market (2012 update)
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• The New Firebase Security API
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• How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-17

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

• Tor trip report to an FBI conference
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• I Don't Understand
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• List of data science and machine learning resources
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• Why 256 bit keys are large enough
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• Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5
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• Why I Love Being A Programmer in Louisville
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• Requests, Python HTTP for Humans, reached v1.0
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• Show HN: Scratchpad.io - a real-time HTML and CSS editor
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• Cards Against Humanity: Results of "pay what you want"
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• The Gift
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-16

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

• Online collaborative LaTeX editor
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• Valve boss says living room Steam PCs coming with Linux support
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• Things I wish someone had told me about life after college
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• Man Walks All Day to Create Spectacular Snow Patterns
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• How to Make Your Site Look Half-Decent in Half an Hour
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• Thinking the unthinkable
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• Massive New Surveillance Program Uncovered by Wall Street Journal
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• I am depressed and I need someone to talk to
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• What You Really Need Is A Market, Not An Idea
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• Ask HN: What unknown technical blogs or sites do you read?
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-15

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

• Tcl the misunderstood (2006)
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• Thank HN: You helped the FreeBSD Foundation raise over $43K in three days
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• Moravec's paradox
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• Brython - Python to Javascript translator
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• Google Disabling Exchange Sync for Free Accounts
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• Ray Kurzweil joins Google
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• Web Revenue Models
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• PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing
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• Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct
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• Building my Own Laptop
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-14

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

• UChicago receives package for Indiana Jones
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• Show HN: roots - a toolkit for advanced front-end dev
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• Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
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• Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network
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• Backbone.js 0.9.9 Released
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• Ole Roemer and the Speed of Light
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• EFF: Stop Congress from Reauthorizing the Warrantless Spying Bill
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• Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk
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• Want to learn to code? Don't copy and paste, type out other people's code
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• The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-13

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

• Your C# App on 66 Million Macs: Announcing Xamarin.Mac
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• Thorium
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• Kickstarter backers ready class action lawsuit against Code Hero dev
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• Mona Lisa in 50 polygons, using a genetic algorithm (2008)
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• Google Set to Release iOS Maps App Tonight
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• Google Maps for iOS
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• The Mathematical Hacker
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• Google Maps becomes the App Store’s most popular free app in 7 hours
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• I love you, dad
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• The Web We Lost
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-12

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

• Bot written to buy random things each month from Amazon
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• Welcome to a New Gist
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• Lorem Pixel
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• You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
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• IPv6 Attack Kills Mac OS X and makes Windows Server 2012 restart in Seconds
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• The hum that helps to fight crime
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• IPython gets $1.15M funding
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• Any page loaded in IE can track your mouse movements anywhere
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• If you’re trying to hack/deface a website, don’t submit a pull request
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• Show HN: Analytics.js – The analytics API you've always wanted
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-11

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

• New board in the Arduino Family: Esplora
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• An office with "library rules"
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• What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap
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• Show HN: Clojure DSL for pattern-matching, parsing and generic programming
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• Search, Mad Men style: A complete IBM 362 Google interface in the browser
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• 8-Bit Generation Documentary
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• You Are Naturally Short Housing
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• Linux 3.7 released
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• 23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M genotyped customers
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• ITunes 11 and Colors
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-10

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

• The End: NZBMatrix closes
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• Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster, dies aged 89
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• The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraising goal by 50%
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• 160 Mac Minis, One Rack
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• Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On Abstract Ideas
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• Police concerned with Apple iOS 6 mapping system
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• A collector is selling every Super Nintendo game for $24,999
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• The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library
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• Mining a 1993 game design for innovative game mechanics
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• Gmail.com was down
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-09

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

• Can websites personally identify visitors?
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• How I coached a basketball team in Afghanistan and what went wrong
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• Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua
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• "Office Space" creator Mike Judge shooting new HBO parody of Silicon Valley
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• Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy
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• 1983 Radio Shack Catalog
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• I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit
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• Better Rails errors
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• How would I get started?
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• Everything is my fault
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-08

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

• Let's make GitHub better, together
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• Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes painfully wrong
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• A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science
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• GitHub now has Issue Attachments
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• Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” because it tracks searches
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• Gravity Light - Alternative form of lighting to replace Kerosene
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• Nomic
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• Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)
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• Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?
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• Pokemon Yellow hack recodes the game from within
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-07

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

• Most lives are lived by default
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• Something really scary is going on in Germany
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• AR Drone That Infects Other Drones With Virus Wins DroneGames
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• Bitcoin-Central.net is now licensed to operate as a bank in Europe
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• Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac
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• Google Apps stops accepting free sign-ups
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• Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?
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• Larry Page "providing free flu shots to all San Francisco bay area kids"
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• Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum
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• Welcome Guido
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-06

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

• A new era begins for Haskell
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• How To Accept Bitcoin On Your Website
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• Portal’s physics engine rebuilt in 25KB—on a graphing calculator
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• Try R — A new online course, for free
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• John McAfee arrested in Guatemala
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• DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator
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• IRecognition: I am no longer Apple's Target Market
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• Great HN parody
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• Apple will invest $100 million to bring Mac production back to the US next year
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• Staffer axed by Republican group over retracted copyright-reform memo
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-05

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

• ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation
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• So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (2008)
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• On Heroku and 2012
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• 'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistleblower
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• One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks
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• Tesla Was Cash Flow Positive Last Week, CEO Musk Says
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• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Academia
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• Dave Brubeck, Who Helped Put Jazz Back in Vogue, Dies at 91
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• You can now create files on GitHub
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• Why First Round Capital funded a lawsuit
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-04

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

• Feudal Security
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• Voyager 1 spots new region at the edge of the Solar System
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• Steve Ballmer's Nightmare is Coming True
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• Vice.com Reveals John McAfee's Location In iPhone Metadata
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• Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites
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• Touché
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• China prepares to grow vegetables on Mars
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• Lego Finds Discontinued Set For Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years
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• Karma - pay as you go data by sharing your hotspot
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• University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-03

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

• Books of a Highly Effective Programmer (2009)
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• Improving Your Python Productivity
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• Never mind talent: Practice, practice, practice
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• When Facebook was Fun
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• Julian Assange: Cryptographic Call to Arms
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• Don't read TechCrunch
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• Explorations in Unix
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• Apple - Think Twice
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• Command & Conquer in HTML5 with multiplayer
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• Thinking of Selling on eBay using Paypal? Think Again
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-02

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

• Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?
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• Editorial: "How piracy changed my life"
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• Netflix open sources resilience engineering library
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• Show HN: Interactive SICP
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• Android Performance Case Study
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• Ask HN: what was the best life/programming choice you ever made?
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• You don't have to be local
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• YC W13 Will Be Smaller
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• Understanding The Fourier Transform
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• Notch trying jsFiddle
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-12-01

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

• The Useless Web
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• Why I Sold My Startup Instead Of Taking VC Money
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• 24 Pull Requests - Giving little gifts of code for Christmas
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• How to directly upload files to Amazon S3 from your client side web app
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• A Warning for Airbnb Hosts
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• Show HN: Responsive Email Templates
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• A single line of Basic sends readers into a labyrinth
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• Microsoft releases tool for creating Windows 8 apps in the browser
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• Norway is building thorium reactor
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012)
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Daily Hacker News for 2012-11-30

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

• A Tutorial on Anonymous Email Accounts
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• How Syria Turned Off the Internet
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• Speeding up PHP with the HipHop VM
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• Canadian scientists create a functioning, virtual brain
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• Skrillex Quest
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• Love Your Terminal
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• 2D Game Art for Programmers
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• Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
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• Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College
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• Google acquires BufferBox (YC S12)
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