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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-30

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

• Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome
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• Explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text
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• Gnome's Web Browser Ditches Google For DuckDuckGo
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• iPhone, meet Haskell
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• In emergency cases a passenger was selected and thrown out of the plane (2004)
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• Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content without login
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• Ask HN: How Can I leave Syria now and get asylum in Europe (Germany)
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• More on the NSA Commandeering the Internet
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• Founders' Accents
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• Reversing Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator hack - half the ROM of the HP-35
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-29

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

• Docker: Git for deployment
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• Why am I being endorsed for skills and expertise I do not claim on my profile?
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• Let me tell you about a game I made with the sole intention of watching it die
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• Why Wal-Mart Will Never Pay Like Costco
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• The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009)
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• The Raising of Chicago
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• Does Steve Jobs know how to code?
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• Why You’ve Never Read “I Have A Dream”
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• I'm Building a GitHub for Writers
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• A horrifying startup accelerator story
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-28

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

• Introducing Brick: Minimal-markup Web Components for Faster App Development
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• Logstash joins Elasticsearch
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• The CODE Keyboard
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• Google has lowered the price of the Nexus 4 by $100
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• Isaac Asimov's predictions for what the world will be like in 2014
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• What happens when you sit at a desk for 13 years and also exercise
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• He got 1%, we can't hire him
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• New Zealand bans some software patents
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• Shopify POS
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• How one man turns annoying cold calls into cash
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-27

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

• The flawed psychology of government mass surveillance
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• John Carmack: Thoughts on Haskell [video]
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• Reddit: Lessons Learned From Scaling To 1 Billion Pageviews A Month
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• Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth
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• Show HN: Easy to use Wikipedia API for Python
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• SQLite 3.8.0 Release with next-generation query planner
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• What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate
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• Go After 2 Years in Production
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• Flutter: $20 Wireless Arduino with 1 km range
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• What happens when you use a standing desk for two years
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-26

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

• On the Cleverness of Compilers
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• JsPDF - HTML5 PDF generator
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• I’m Thinking. Please. Be Quiet.
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• Mesh Networks
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• 901614 – Adopt Tor as a feature in Firefox
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• Defeated
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• Matt Damon: Edward Snowden did a great thing
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• Map of America's Racial Segregation
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• What would you like to see most in minix? (1991)
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• The one HR benefit every startup should add
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-25

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

• Loneliness Is Deadly
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• How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction
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• Showing stored passwords – Tim Berners-Lee
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• Dear Prime Minister Cameron
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• Vasili Arkhipov
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• GitLab 6.0 Released
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• Calibre version 1.0 released
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• NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show
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• Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying
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• Nimrod: C + Macros + GC
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-24

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

• Python module that makes working with XML feel like working with JSON
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• Yeoman 1.0 Released
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• The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life
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• OpenStreetMap gets new, easier to use in-browser editor
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• Just Delete Me
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• The Poisonous Employee-Ranking System That Helps Explain Microsoft’s Decline
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• Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now?
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• 0 to 60 in One Second: Fusing WebGL, CSS 3D and HTML
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• Linux 3.9 introduced a new way of writing socket servers
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• We're only being dishonest to get your attention. Join us!
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-23

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

• Selling Software To Large Businesses
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• Why does NASA use gold foil on equipment and gold-coated visors?
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• Javascript Frameworks Are Amazing and Nobody Is Happy
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• Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever
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• Hi I’m Hank, and I bought a bus
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• How far the once-mighty SourceForge has fallen
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• UK government now leaking documents about itself
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• Schema migrations merged into Django master
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• Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
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• NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-22

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

• Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light? (1998)
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• Bradley Manning's Post-Sentencing Statement
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• Declassified Documents Prove NSA Is Tapping the Internet
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• Nginx Plus
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• Four fears for authoritarians
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• The detention of David Miranda was an unlawful use of the Terrorism Act
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• Linux may have been causing USB disconnects
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• Fukushima leak is 'much worse than we were led to believe'
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• In California, a Champion for Police Cameras
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• Don't Fly During Ramadan
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-21

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

• Why was Mini USB deprecated in favor of Micro USB?
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• Nanomsg – MIT-licensed ZeroMQ alternative
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• An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Node.js
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• Don't reinvent the scrollbar
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• Ungit – Git UI that makes you understand git
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• Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks
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• 'Sending a message': what the US and UK are attempting to do
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• We Need To Talk, Google
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• Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years
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• I will not do a tech interview
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-20

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

• My Final Post
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• Loyalty and Layoffs
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• Tesla Model S achieves best safety rating of any car ever tested
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• Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches
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• Tesla Model X
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• Forced Exposure
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• UK Authorities Destroy Guardian's Hard Drives
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• Groklaw legal site shuts over fears of NSA email snooping
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• Mailpile – taking e-mail back
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• NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-19

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

• Amnesty International on the detention of Greenwald's partner
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• Rewriting a large production system in Go
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• PostgreSQL Basics by Example
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• Chesscademy, a free chess learning site
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• On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
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• "Journey to Justinia" – how I got my 5-year-old son to sit still for 5 hours
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• Sayonara, V8
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• White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention
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• Bootstrap 3 released
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• "You've had your debate. There's no need to write anymore."
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-18

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

• Hacker sends this through the mail to record a video of the process
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• Lossy PNG
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• Artificial Intelligence and What Computers Still Don't Understand
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• Facebook vulnerability 2013
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• Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements
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• NY Comptroller: Legalise marijuana, tax it and end wrongheaded war on pot
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• Why I left Google
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• Cookieless cookies
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• How to trap a whistleblower
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• Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-17

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

• Brick – UI Components for Modern Web Apps
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• The De-evolution of My Laptop Battery
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• ZMap: Internet scanner maps all of IPv4 in 45 minutes
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• Show HN: noteZilla - Interactive sheet music
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• Kal – a clean JavaScript alternative without callbacks
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• Stack
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• Rotating Images
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• Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line
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• Groupon sales rep threatens restaurant with negative Yelp reviews
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• Reshaping New York
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-16

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

• Firebase Leaves Beta Today
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• Show HN: Virtual Machines in the Browser
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• Callbacks as our Generation's Goto Statement
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• “People simply empty out”
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• NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds
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• Obama said the NSA wasn’t “actually abusing” its powers. He was wrong
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• Lavabit.com owner: 'I could be arrested' for resisting surveillance order
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• Happy 20th birthday Debian
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• Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead
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• Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-15

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

• Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road
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• From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
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• 40 Days Without Booze
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• JavaScript right on the hardware
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• Google confirms Java and OpenSSL crypto PRNG on Android are broken
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• Ask PG: Why are submission titles manipulated without notification?
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• Campaign for a new HTTP Error code: 451 - Blocked for legal reasons
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• The NSA is Commandeering the Internet
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• Introducing Stripe UK
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• The limits of Google’s openness
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-14

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

• Firefox now only has one HTML parser
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• How phone batteries measure the weather
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• Wireless devices go battery-free with new communication technique
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• Lavabit Founder Says He Had ‘Obligation’ to Shut Service
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• Startup lessons
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• Google Open-Sources Gumbo: C Library for Parsing HTML5
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• Google Treks
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• Encryption is less secure than we thought
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• Your Thoughts Can Release Abilities Beyond Normal Limits
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• Grasshopper 100m Lateral Divert Test
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-13

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

• Yesterday I Wrote My First Firefox OS App
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• You Might Have an Invisible Facebook Account Even if You Never Signed Up
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• Investor Herd Dynamics
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• Every important person in BitCoin just got subpoenaed by NY financial regulators
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• Using Voice to Code Faster than Keyboard
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• SDL 2.0.0 is out after many years in development
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• Q & A: Edward Snowden speaks to Peter Maass
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• This coupon code is a slap in the face
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• After Multiple Denials, CIA Admits to Snooping on Noam Chomsky
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• The Future of Programming in Node.js
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-12

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

• Injectable oxygen keeps people alive without breathing
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• Pixel Shaders: Proposal for an Interactive Introduction to Graphics Programming
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• Papers, Please - A Dystopian Document Thriller
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• The NSA is turning the Internet into a total surveillance system
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• Mio: A High-Performance Multicore IO Manager for GHC [pdf]
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• The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
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• Do things, write about it
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• Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Servers”
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• Hyperloop
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• Hyperloop Alpha [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-11

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

• Learn Emacs and Lisp with simple, bite-sized screencasts
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• How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine
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• Why founders fail: the product CEO paradox
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• Show HN: TextBlob, Natural language processing made simple in Python
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• What makes Lua tick?
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• ElementaryOs Luna released
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• PEP 450: Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
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• You broke the Internet. We're making ourselves a GNU one [video]
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• mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
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• The Massachusetts Software Tax
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-10

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

• Hex, Lies and Startups
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• Obama to release FISA court opinion that ruled NSA surveillance unconstitutional
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• Panopticlick – How Unique, and Trackable, Is Your Browser?
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• Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t
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• How I Created the Iconic iPhone Sound
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• The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldn’t have happened without Snowden
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• Text-based terminal screencasts
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• Lavabit's founder: 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It'
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• Vim 7.4 is released
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• CSS Absolute Centering
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-09

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

• Hacker News Web App for Mobile
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• I quit my job
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• Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox
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• Silent Circle shuts down email service
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• Show HN: Run iOS apps in the browser
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• Free Schnail Mail for life
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• Bugger
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• Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies
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• NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls
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• Kids can't use computers, and why it should worry you
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-08

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

• Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet
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• Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir
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• I cannot afford to go back to engineering school
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• Shutting Down a Dream
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• Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid'
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• Ubuntu Edge price dropped to $695
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• Why I Changed My Mind On Weed
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• Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users
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• Lavabit abruptly shuts down
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• Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-07

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

• My experience at a YC startup
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• I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas
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• Cyberscare: Ex-NSA chief calls transparency groups, hackers next terrorists
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• EFF: "Parallel construction" is really intelligence laundering
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• John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO
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• Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News
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• Steps To $5,000 In Monthly Recurring Revenue
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• Android AOSP maintainer quits
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• Russian Man Changes Small Print in Credit Card Agreement, Then Sues
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• How to Convince Investors
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-06

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

• Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly
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• Introduction to Recommender Systems
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• 7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional Support With Listeners
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• Jeff Bezos on Post purchase
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• Crossbar Resistive RAM stores a terabyte on a chip
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• Beg HN: Please only report serious GitHub outages (1h+)
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• SOPA died in 2012, but Obama administration wants to revive part of it
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• The Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip
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• Security advisory: Breach and Django
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• Judge to serve 28 years after making $2 million sending children to jail
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-05

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

• HN is Becoming 2005 Slashdot
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• Tesla Nabs 8% of the U.S. Luxury Car Market
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• “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”
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• U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans
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• OS X emulation layer for Linux
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• Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef
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• Why I'll be a solo founder next time
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• Torsploit takedown: analysis, reverse engineering, forensic
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• Taken
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• Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-04

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

• Web Tracing Framework by Google
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• How does Trello access the user's clipboard?
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• The White Hat's Dilemma
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• Founder of Tor Freedom Hosting arrested in Ireland, awaiting extradition to USA
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• Bradley Manning case stretches credibility of US computer fraud law
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• Ask PG: Why is everybody hellbanned?
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• Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA
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• Give Manning and Snowden the Nobel Peace Prize
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• Xerox scanners and photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents
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• Half of all Tor sites compromised, Freedom Hosting founder arrested
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-03

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

• TimelineJS: build visually rich interactive timelines
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• Don't Plug Your Phone into a Charger You Don't Own
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• Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?
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• After NSA's XKeyscore, Wikipedia Switches to HTTPS
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• FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software
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• NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst
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• What a 600,000-megapixel-wide picture looks like
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• Nightcode: An IDE for Clojure and Java
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• Mailpile: Let’s take email back
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• Why does Angular.js rock?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-02

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

• In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity
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• PEP 8 Modernisation
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• New attack plucks secrets from HTTPS-protected pages
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• Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
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• Forebruary, an endless wall calendar
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• Volvo Gave Away the Most Important Design They Ever Patented
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• Ask HN: I'm a chronic procrastinator – how do I break it?
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• Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Backstory of His Epic 3,990-Panel Comic
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• Two Stories of Passive Income Excess
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• Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-08-01

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

• The Door To The FISA Court Doesn't Even Have A Sign On It
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• How 'One Weird Trick' Conquered The Internet
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• Scientific Breakthrough Lets SnappyCam App Take 20 Full-Res Photos Per Second
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• Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport
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• Samsung agency is buying off StackOverflow users
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)
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• Pressure cookers, backpacks, and quinoa, oh my
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• We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
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• Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks, Get a Visit from the Feds
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• Skeuocard
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-07-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 31, 2013 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Linus on git rebase and merge (2009)
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• Android Fragmentation Visualized
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• MIT releases report on its actions in the Aaron Swartz case
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• Reversing Bits in C
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• Looking at CPU/GPU Benchmark Optimizations in Galaxy S 4
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• Introducing Quip
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• Ask HN: I might be going to prison soon – how to save my one-man SaaS startup?
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• XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
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• The entire US Code is now online in XML
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• NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security conference
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