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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 30, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Identical Droplets in the DigitalOcean: Regenerate your Ubuntu SSH Host Keys now
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• Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat
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• Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments
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• Observations from a Tipless Restaurant
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• MIT Report is a whitewash. My Statement in Response
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• Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, but convicted of multiple other counts
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• Show HN: CoreOS, a Linux distro for containers
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• The Future of Programming
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• Psd.rb
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• Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 29, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• My hell as a 911 operator
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• Who Are We at War With? That’s Classified
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• Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet
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• Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make and break online video
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• Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance
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• Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.
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• Bitcoin ruled illegal in Thailand
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• Tox: secure messaging for everyone
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• Groupcache: an alternative to memcached, written in Go
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• US patent office rejects claims of Apple 'pinch to zoom' patent
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 28, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• GPGMail 2 is finally here
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• xkcd Time - at your own pace
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• Antibiotic resistance: The last resort
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• SkyMall's SkyFall
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• RubyWarrior - Bloc
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• My Doctor's Office Asked me to Lie (2011)
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• Edward Snowden's not the story. The fate of the internet is
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• Sleepwalking into censorship
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• Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes
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• Dont Worry Government, I Got This Porn Filter Sorted
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 27, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Feds tell web firms to turn over user passwords
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• How to kill an unresponsive SSH session
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• Hacker Barnaby Jack has died
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• Simple API with Nginx and PostgreSQL
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• Free email address validation API for web forms
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• Porting dl.google.com from C++ to Go
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• Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars
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• Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer
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• Why 'Passive Income' Is A Dangerous Fantasy (2011)
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• Bootstrap 3 RC1
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 26, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute
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• How do I “think in AngularJS” if I have a jQuery background?
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• Probablistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers
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• OVH launches 2.99€/mo dedicated servers (2G RAM, 500G disk)
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• Watsi (YC W13) raises $1.2M first-of-its-kind 'philanthropic seed round'
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• “NASDAQ is owned.” Five men charged in largest financial hack ever
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• Obama Promises Disappear from Web
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• Chinese firm Huawei controls net filter praised by PM
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• UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal
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• Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 25, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Essential Math for Games Programmers
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• Ractive.js
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• Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys
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• Google Unveils The New Nexus 7 Android Tablet
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• What's new in Android 4.3
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• Amash’s Amendment To Defund NSA Program Fails 205-217
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• Why I cancelled my TechEd talks
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• New Course: The Design of Everyday Things
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• As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Public-Key Encryption
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• Defund the NSA - This Isn't Over
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 24, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The unprofitable SaaS business model trap
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• Hillbilly Tracking of Low Earth Orbit Satellites
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• The slippery slope
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• A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95
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• How Emacs changed my life
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• Practical Typography
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• Snowden asylum still under review, stays in airport for now
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• LLVM Intermediate Representation is better than assembly
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• I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
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• Google Chromecast
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 23, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A Tour Inside CloudFlare's Latest Generation Servers
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• Upton: A Web Scraping Framework
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• ZeroMQ instead of HTTP, for internal services
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• Reginald Braithwaite is a GitHubber
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• Leaked report shows high civilian death toll from CIA drone strikes
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• Forgotten Employee (2002)
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• Block NSA funding for collecting the call records of all Americans
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• Sneak peek of Macaw – a code-savvy web design tool [video]
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• The sad story of Facebook Platform
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• How Gmail’s New Inbox Is Affecting Open Rates
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 22, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Apple Developer Website Update
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• Apple Confirms That Its Dev Center Has Been Breached By Hackers
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• David Cameron cracks down on online pornography
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• Questions about Cameron’s ‘new’ porn-blocking
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• Haskell Lenses In Pictures
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• Goodbye Google Analytics. Hello Piwik
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• Game Programmer Quits Job To Sell Street Food, Doubles Salary
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• Canada's Start-up Visa
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• Ubuntu Edge
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• Victory Lap for Ask Patents
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 21, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone
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• iPhone 6: An edgy concept
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• CSS Zen Garden relaunched
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• Existential Depression in Gifted Children
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• My Summer Reading List
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• Ideas for Computing
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• 'Crack baby' study ends with unexpected but clear result
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• Apple Developer Center still down
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• SIM Cards Have Finally Been Hacked, and the Flaw Could Affect Millions of Phones
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• Riding the New Silk Road
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 20, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Switching from Gmail to FastMail
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• Biggest Virus Yet Found, May Be Fourth Domain of Life?
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• Replace Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync and a Raspberry Pi
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• The 2005 screenwriting book that’s taken over Hollywood
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• NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say
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• How I Earned A Lot More on Projects by Changing My Pricing Strategy
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• “What Is That Box?” – When The NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company
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• Thanks For The Identity Theft, Yahoo
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• Hacker News Folks Get Long Overdue Thanks
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• The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 19, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• American Summer: Before Air-Conditioning (1998)
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• Twilio is erroneously over-billing and suspending accounts
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• VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced
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• Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes
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• MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File
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• The Forbidden Island
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• JavaScript Isn't Scheme
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• Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?
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• Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS)
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• Apple Dev Center outage
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 18, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Lifehacks from 100 Years Ago
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• Police Documents on License Plate Scanners Reveal Mass Tracking
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• Stunned by Go
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• Why Is Netflix Secretly Cropping Movies?
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• Effeckt.css
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• The Drone that Killed my Grandson
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• Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA
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• Trinity College experiment succeeds after 69 years
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• ‘America has no functioning democracy at this moment’ – Jimmy Carter on NSA
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• Show HN: Floobits – Remote pair programming done right
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 17, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Logic Pro X
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• Malware Hidden Inside JPG EXIF Headers
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• 19 Groups Sue NSA Over Data Collection
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• Gittip at Khan Academy
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• Mission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism
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• White Coke
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• Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud
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• Poll: How old are you?
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• Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker
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• The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 16, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• $99 ARM-based PC runs either Ubuntu or Android
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• Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups"
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• GitHub's on your phone
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• Yahoo wins motion to declassify court documents in PRISM case
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• Linus on "acting professionally"
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• Home-made robot doing a perfect quadruple backflip [video]
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• A Low-Tech Mosquito Deterrent
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• Ask HN: I'm quadriplegic – can you help me with my security?
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• EFF sues the NSA Over Illegal Surveillance
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• Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 15, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Sustaining git-annex development
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• Why We Can No Longer Trust Microsoft
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• Enough with the JavaScript already
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• Set up an email server in two hours
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• Elon Musk to publish hyperloop design by August
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• When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at their firms goes up
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• The Case for Abolishing the DHS
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• Cello: Higher level programming in C
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• Yahoo's Fight for its Users Earns the Company Special Recognition by EFF
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• Quine Relay
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 14, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• High-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain than sugar (2010)
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• Intel In Bed with NSA?
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• Communicating Sequential Processes
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• How secure is Linux's random number generator?
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• I bootstrapped a $10 million company and need serious help
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• Beyond Helium
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• About the Reuters article
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• DuckDuckGo: illusion of privacy?
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• Dijkstra: “You will be treated as grown-ups”
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• Do Things that Don't Scale
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 13, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 5D ‘Superman memory’ crystal could lead to unlimited lifetime data storage
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• The Grep Test
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• Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice
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• Keep a static "emergency mode" site on S3
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• Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox
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• Revising MailChimp's logo
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• Bose founder, Amar Bose, has died at 83
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• Valve Pipeline
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• Reveal App
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• Show HN: Minified.js – a fully-featured, 4K alternative to jQuery and MooTools
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 12, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Microsoft reorganizes
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• Why is nobody using SSL client certificates?
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• Navigating the Postmodern Python World
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• Do the right thing, wait to get fired
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• Don't be evil: Moving everything off of Google
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• Estonian E-Voting Source Code Made Public
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• Microsoft helped the NSA bypass encryption, new Snowden leak reveals
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• Statement by Edward Snowden to human rights groups at Sheremetyevo airport
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• I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to my resume
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• Use "Amazon 1 Button" Chrome extension to sniff all HTTPS websites
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 11, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 1987: Kid submits 7 Robotron bugfixes using only the machine code from the ROMs
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• The SEC Just Voted To Lift The Ban On General Solicitation
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• Storage for Photographers
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• Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux
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• Feds, We Need Some Time Apart
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• Show HN: I hacked my microwave with a Raspberry Pi
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• Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income
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• Small Utah ISP firm stands up to ‘surveillance state’
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• How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
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• Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 10, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask PG: Will you post an update to "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund"?
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• Secret government: America against democracy
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• Shit for Making Websites
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• Dance in a Year
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• Should I use a carousel?
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• Amazon Drops Price Of EC2 Dedicated Instances By Up To 80%
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• Too Many Cops Are Told They’re Soldiers Fighting a War. How Did We Get Here?
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• Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours
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• The NSA slide you haven’t seen
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• DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 09, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File
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• Anatomy of a pseudorandom number generator – visualising Cryptocat's buggy PRNG
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• Prism Break
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• Firefox OS devices officially released
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• Asiana Airlines Flight 214: A Pilot’s Perspective
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• HTTP 2.0
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• US court rejects state-secrets defense in NSA surveillance case
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• Why mobile web apps are slow
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• Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident
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• Hospital creates bidding war by posting pricing online
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 08, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Snowden Interview with Jacob Applebaum
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• Game Programming Patterns
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• "Nothing like this will be built again"
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• Snowden releases information about Australian Intelligence gathering programs
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• Final Term - Terminal Emulator
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• Alternative Internet
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• Tangle: a JavaScript library for reactive documents
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• The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users
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• Monocle
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• San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 07, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Indescribable numbers: The theorem that made me fall in love with math
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• Using ImageMagick to make sharp web-sized photographs
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• Python: Common Newbie Mistakes, Part 1
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• Google Correlate - Draw
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• In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.
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• Alief
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• NSA Rejecting FOIA Requests by US Citizens
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• “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”
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• Armchair air crash investigator
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• Stay-at-home dad
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 06, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Basic Neural Network on Python
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• A Disease Without a Cure Spreads Quietly in the West
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• Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NSA’s surveillance state?
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• Rare Cancer Seen In 41 Homosexuals (1981)
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• The Revel Web Framework for Go
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• Venezuela offers asylum to Snowden
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• The Strange Story of Dual_EC_DRBG – suspected NSA backdoor (2007)
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• Update on Novena Open Laptop
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• An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works
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• Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashes at SFO
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 05, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Distributed Everything
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• How Exercise Can Calm Anxiety
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• The 19-year-old jailed for the crime of sarcasm
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• If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism?
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• Hikikomori: Why are so many Japanese men refusing to leave their rooms?
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• What is A/B Testing?
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• EU Parliament supports the possible suspension of U.S. data sharing agreements
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• Ideas on how to improve customer conversion and ease of use
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• Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted
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• Thorium nuclear reactor trial begins in Norway
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 04, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Uncovering Android Master Key That Makes 99% of Devices Vulnerable
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• Students Question the NSA at Recruiting Session [audio]
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• Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers
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• A few words on Doug Engelbart
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• EFF: Show Support for the Fourth Amendment
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• FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire"
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• DecryptoCat
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• Join the largest online protest since SOPA to stop NSA spying
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• Bill before Icelandic Parliament to grant Edward Snowden citizenship
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• Restore the Fourth
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 03, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash
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• Why I’m not paying the Troll Toll
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• Lockdown
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• An Open Letter to Craig Newmark
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• Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade
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• Nginx just became the most used web server among the top 1000 websites
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• U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement
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• Restore the Fourth
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• Doug Engelbart has died
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• MasterCard breaks ranks in WikiLeaks blockade
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 02, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to build (and how not to build) a secure “remember me” feature
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• Motorola cell phones are regularly phoning home
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• California Police Arrest Man for Video Recording, then Kill his Dog
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• Restore the Fourth Organizes Protests Against Unconstitutional Surveillance
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• Google Reader is dead
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• Python Tools for Visual Studio
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• Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome
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• Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”
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• Releases – a workflow for shipping software to end users
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• Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and father’s attorney
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 01, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Startup Investing Trends
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• Germans Loved Obama. Now We Don’t Trust Him
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• "Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23
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• Tell-all telephone – Six months of phone metadata visualized
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• Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)
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• Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School
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• How Google is Killing Organic Search
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• Never Trust Facebook
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• Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-06-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 30, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Papers and essays that every programmer should be aware of
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• NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program
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• A Hacker's Replacement for Gmail
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• Der Spiegel says US bugged EU offices in Washington
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• Secret Documents: NSA monitored 500 million connections in Germany
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• Germany Minister of Justice demands immediate response to US spying on Germany
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• German Federal Prosecutor's office gets involved in the NSA data scandal
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• New PRISM slides say the program allows NSA to eavesdrop on live conversations
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• Keith Alexander's Statement to the NSA Workforce
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• Drugs and the Meaning of Life (2011)
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