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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-29

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

• Clojure: The JFDI language
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• Myth: The astronauts didn’t float away because they had heavy boots
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• How SQLite is tested
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• The Jolla phone – first impressions
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• Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving? Join Us
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• Shaft passer
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• Go 1.2
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• How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995)
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• What I’ve learned in 5 years of running a SaaS
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• An engineer's emergency kit business card
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-28

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

• CMS Trap
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• Show HN: Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail
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• Once-great SSD manufacturer OCZ filing for bankruptcy
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• CyanogenMod Installer Application Removed from Play Store
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• 102TB of New Crawl Data Available
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• A JavaScript parser and interpreter written in Go
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• Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
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• A universal income is not such a silly idea
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• Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles
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• Facebook
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-27

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

• Cmder: portable console emulator for windows
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• I Am Not Satoshi
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• Penny Arcade’s Insultingly Horrible Job
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• Started a stupid company. Failed.
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• On Asm.js
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• The string type is broken
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• New Bacterial Life-Form Discovered in NASA and ESA Spacecraft Clean Rooms
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• Jolla
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• Bitcoin Reaches 1000 USD
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• Dear Spike Lee
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-26

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

• What if successful startups are just lucky?
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• Lessons from 2 months of remote working
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• Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million
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• How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties
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• Vote Now: Who Should Be TIME’s Person of the Year? Edward Snowden
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• End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now
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• Docker 0.7 runs on all Linux distributions
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• “MongoDB is dead. Long live Postgresql”
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• Web GL Ocean Simulation
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• On Penny Arcade, Exploitation, and the Myth of the Do-Everything Rock Star
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-25

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

• How I Automated “Finding Almost Anyone’s Email Address”
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• Motherfucking Website
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• How to Get Good at Chess, Fast
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• Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2
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• Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch
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• How Money Moves Around The Banking System
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• FDA Warning Letter to 23andMe
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• India's Nuclear Scientists Keep Dying Mysteriously
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• That's a fun trick Google
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• My deadly disease was just a 23andme bug
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-24

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

• Here’s who probably did that $150 million Bitcoin transaction
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• The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath
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• Basic Data Structures and Algorithms in the Linux Kernel
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• What does "HREF" stand for? (2008)
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• Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto
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• One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet
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• What is the enlightenment I'm supposed to attain after studying finite automata?
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• I Hope My Father Dies Soon
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• 33 Questions
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• Why Class?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-23

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

• Redis 2.8.0 stable is out
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• Wolfram Language
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• Richest Bitcoin Addresses
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• ClojureScript Koans: Learn ClojureScript from inside your browser
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• Why don't metals bond when touched together?
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• How to design a class
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• Building a Crystal Clear Whiteboard
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• Programming Language Checklist
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• Sudden Progress on Prime Number Problem Has Mathematicians Buzzing
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• Walmart Node.js Memory Leak
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-22

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

• Free vector icons
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• Why I Turned Down $5 Million in VC Funding
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• Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
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• LG TV logging filenames from network folders
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• Google Account Recovery Vulnerability
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• HTML5 game written in 0 lines of JS
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• Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion
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• Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer
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• DOJ lied to Supreme Court to avoid judicial review of warrantless surveillance
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• Id Software founder John Carmack resigns
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-21

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

• Bokeh – Interactive web visualization library in Python
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• What happens when the U.S. President uses your startup for a conference call
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• Machine learning is easier than it looks
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• When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else We'll Lose Too
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• 25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do WYSIWG word processing
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• High Frequency Dating
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• US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale
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• Mathematica on Raspberry Pi for free
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• Why open-office layouts are bad for employees, bosses, and productivity
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• Zurb Foundation 5 Released
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-20

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

• "Like A Rolling Stone" – Interactive Video
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• JavaScript particle simulator
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• English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet
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• The American Police State
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• Undo
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• Mathematicians Team Up on Twin Primes Conjecture
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• US senators say there’s “no evidence” bulk metadata surveillance is useful
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• Can anyone tell me what these services do?
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• Software patent reform just died in the House
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• Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-19

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

• Why Russians Are Not Smiling (2011)
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• Senate hearing on Bitcoin [video]
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• This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan
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• Booting to Rust
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• LG Smart TVs log USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers
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• Recursive raytracer in 35 lines of JavaScript
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• The Mission of Tesla
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• Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States
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• Pencil
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• The first Bitcoin post on HN
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-18

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

• Read less HN
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• Mercurial developer responds to "Switch to git?"
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• Google's Decline Really Bugs Me
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• GitHub Résumé
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• Code Firefox
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• Idiomatic Clojure with LightTable
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• Ask HN: I'm 15, won a grant to develop a suicide prevention app, what next?
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• Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
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• Visual Cryptography
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• What It's Like to Fail
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-17

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

• Why Do Companies Still Use Microsoft Windows For Displays?
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• Empty London
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• Many PS4 units dead on arrival
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• Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me
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• Deleting my Google+ profile
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• What 4chan thinks of HN
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• Ask HN: Google employees, why is G+ more important than your users?
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• Petition against forced Google+ integration on YouTube hits 112,000
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• Battle-ready Nginx – an optimization guide
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• Two million Raspberry Pi sold
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-16

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

• ZeroMQ is just sockets
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• Twitter Bootstrap without all the debt
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• PS4 UX is powered by WebGL
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• FixYT
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• Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails
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• Terminal Cornucopia
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• A living death: Sentenced to die behind bars for what?
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• Make-A-Wish Foundation Turns San Francisco Into Gotham for 5-Year-Old Batkid
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• 37signals valuation tops $100 billion after bold VC investment (2009)
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• Dear Google: Stop asking
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-15

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

• Never Heard of It
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• How GitHub No Longer Works [video]
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• How I Got a 2x Speedup With One Line of Code
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• Coin: A step in the wrong direction
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• The Wallaby Card
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• How I Learned to Work a Room
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• Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub
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• Winning at Candy Crush
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• Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years for Stratfor leak
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• Why the tech press is ignoring Zulily's huge IPO
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-14

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

• How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math
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• Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook
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• TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms
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• What happened when my co-founder quit the night before our YC interview
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• Should Quadrotors All Look Like This?
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• EFF: Stop Secret Copyright Treaties
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• Vi Hart: cramming G+ into YouTube has made comments even worse, I'm leaving
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• Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds “fair use,” cites many benefits
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• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
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• Coin
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-13

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

• Dataset: Databases for lazy people
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• Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different
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• The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone
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• Edward Snowden is Almost Broke
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• Moving forward on improving HTTP's security
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• Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
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• A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no library used
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• Microsoft and Xamarin partner
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• Amazon WorkSpaces
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• Stop Freelancing
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-12

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

• GitHub's Explore Email
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• Jenkin developers accidentally do "git push --force" to over 150 repos on github
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• Severing Ties with the NSA
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• FTL: Advanced Edition
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• How long do disk drives last?
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• End of Inception decoded [video]
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• Bill Gates: My Plan to Improve Our World, and How You Can Help
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• Heirloom Chemistry Set
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• Microsoft does away with stack ranking
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• Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-11

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

• Facebook Publications
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• I quit my job, and I'm excited about a more independent life
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• Four years of Go
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• Tetris and The Power Of CSS
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• Microsoft Research Publications
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• Amazon to Begin Sunday Deliveries, With Post Office's Help
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• The Narcissism of Small Code Differences (2008)
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• Simpsons in CSS
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• Linux ate my RAM
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• Why You Should Never Use MongoDB
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-10

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

• The Big Data Brain Drain: Why Science is in Trouble
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• Questions to ask your potential employer
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• Super Soaker creator awarded $72.9M from Hasbro
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• From a Model S owner in Tennessee
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• Hey developers, stop forcing me to login to unsubscribe
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• Stop the NSA "Fake Fix" Bill
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• Android: The Land That Python Forgot
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• Typhoon Haiyan kills 10,000 in Philippines
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• Dear Facebook: You Suck
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• Nonplussed
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-09

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

• OpenSSH security advisory
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• Git Cheatsheet
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• Wounded QR Codes
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• Amazon Analytics Service
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• Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL
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• AngularJS 1.2.0: timely-delivery
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• GIMP Windows Installers move from Sourceforge to ftp.gimp.org
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• Try Hy
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• Shopify accepts Bitcoin
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• Pyret: A new programming language from the creators of Racket
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-08

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

• Wikipedia Zero
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• How Can the New York Times Endorse an Agreement the Public Can't Read?
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• A culture of beer and overtime
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• Zurb Ink: Responsive HTML Email Framework
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• The Surveillance State Puts U.S. Elections at Risk of Manipulation
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• Rotate the world
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• Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years
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• Fix Ubuntu
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• Sprite Lamp
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• Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-07

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

• Fourier Transforms – The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face
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• Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook
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• Fourier Toy
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• Google Apps drop support for IE9
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• Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing
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• Google's Shell Style Guide
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• Clang is now feature complete for C++14
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• Hstore development for 9.4 release
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• TWTR
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• Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-06

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

• Debian: Change default desktop to xfce
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• A Critique of Lavabit
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• Apple hides a Patriot-Act-busting "warrant canary" in its transparency report
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• After traffic stop, man forced to have x-ray, enema, anal probes and colonoscopy
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• Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys"
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• Show HN: I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement
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• Django 1.6 released
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• Kofi Annan: Stop 'war on drugs'
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• Silk Road 2.0 Launches
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• Lifestyle programming
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-05

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

• Show HN: Real-time file sharing site
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• Avoiding Heart Disease
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• Use a Google Spreadsheet as your JSON backend
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• The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
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• Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission
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• MacKenzie Bezos Writes Amazon Review for Jeff Bezos Biography
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• Let's have coffee.
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• Statistics Done Wrong – The woefully complete guide
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• Everpix was great. This is how it died
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• We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-04

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

• Fake femme fatale dupes IT guys at US government agency
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• Few successful entrepreneurs blog
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• Dogescript
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• All around the world, labour is losing out to capital
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• Hawala
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• My First Job: Fired and Rehired on Day 1
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• Chuck Moore's Creations
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• In CSS, “px” is not an angular measurement and it is not non-linear
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• Get Shit Done: The Worst Startup Culture
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• Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-03

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

• Why does the alarm clock snooze button give you nine extra minutes, not ten?
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• Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players
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• Git 2.0 changes push default to ‘simple’
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• Smooth Online Signatures, Open Source
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• Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups
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• Django plugins you shouldn't start without
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• Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? (2011)
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• The Quest to Build a Truly Free Version of Android
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• Why It's So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to Queens
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• How much money are you earning from your software products?
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-02

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

• OpenBSD 5.4 Released
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• University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder School
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• My Hardest Bug Ever
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• 25 years ago this week, the Morris Worm brought the Internet to its knees
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• Rails 4.0.1 has been released
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• My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
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• Time to move on? The case against daylight saving time
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• Can Snowden be targeted using the Adobe breach?
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• Smart Air
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• Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-11-01

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

• Introducing Neo900
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• Fifth Amendment Prohibits Compelled Decryption, New EFF Brief Argues
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• Web Framework Benchmarks Round 7
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• It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?
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• How I Got My First 1000 Users in 1 Day
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• Don't Pipe to your Shell
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• Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google
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• Martin Gräßlin, KDE: "Good Bye, Ubuntu"
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• NSA Files Decoded: What the revelations mean for you
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• I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb
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Daily Hacker News for 2013-10-31

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

• The Battle for Power on the Internet
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• Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes push for WebRTC’s future
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• Java Virtual Machine in pure Node.js
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• Let's Build a Compiler
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• Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails
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• MIT Wristband Could Make AC Obsolete
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• Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?
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• Android for all and the new Nexus 5
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• Nexus 5
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• Comcast is donating to defeat mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle
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