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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 30, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A Map of the World Won Japan’s Prestigious Design Award
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• Step-by-step tutorial to build a modern JavaScript stack from scratch
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• Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, in 20 minutes (2014) [video]
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• Intel driven MacBook Pros have secondary ARM processor for Touch ID and security
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• Don’t go to art school (2013)
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• DMCA exemption for repairs, modifications, research on your vehicle takes effect
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• Museu de la Tècnica
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• Buttery Smooth Emacs
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• Elementary OS
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• The No More Ransom Project
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 29, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to De-Risk a Startup
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• Zcash begins
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• Ask HN: Any other blind devs interested in working on dev tools for the blind?
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• A very valuable vulnerability
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• Microsoft offers Apple users $650 off to trade a MacBook for a Surface
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• Sub-millisecond GC pauses in Go 1.8
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• Powerwall 2 and Integrated Solar
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• ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company History
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• Total Nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3
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• How I Became HackerRank 1 in Two Hours
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 28, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Open Salaries: Outcomes
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• Origami Studio – Design Prototyping
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• FCC Vote Means Internet Providers Need Permission to Share Your Data
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• Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick
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• Pre-Safe Sound: Playing ‘pink noise’ in the split second before impact (2015)
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• Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm
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• George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
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• New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore
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• Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for
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• Eve: Programming designed for humans
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 27, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why does software development take so long?
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• Supercharging Style Transfer
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• Wikipedia and Internet Archive partner to fix 1M broken links on Wikipedia
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• Git from the inside out
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• Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
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• Cognitive bias cheat sheet
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• A Quantum Leap for the Web
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• Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
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• DTrace for Linux 2016
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• MacBook Pro
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 26, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Killing Procrastination by Making Everything Fit
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• ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency
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• Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
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• White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many workers
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• Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement
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• Parsing JSON is a Minefield
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• Google Fiber Cutting Jobs and Halting Rollout
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• Microsoft Surface Studio
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• Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
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• Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three years
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 25, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• We Got Phished
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• Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich kids who do things wrong
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• Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (2001)
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• Twitter Plans Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week
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• Concorde
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• Introduction to Cyber Security
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• CPP: A Standardized Alternative to AMP
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• Happiness is a Boring Stack
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• Next.js – A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
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• Server APIs Project
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 24, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Elon Musk SpaceX AMA
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• The Remote Freelancer: A list of remote work alternatives to Upwork
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• Building a Bank with Kubernetes [slides]
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• Overview of JavaScript ES6 features
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• Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
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• Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
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• Webcams used to attack Reddit and Twitter recalled
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• Introducing Initialized Capital
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• The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory
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• Font Awesome 5
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 23, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• When Your Screen Breaks in the Himalayas
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• Freeablo – An open-source Diablo engine
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• Thousands of California soldiers forced to repay enlistment bonuses
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• The Best Way to Not Get Tenure
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• IPFS is the Distributed Web
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• PayPal 2FA Bypass
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• HN comments are underrated
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• Why you should never use Upwork
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• Hack the Kernel – Learn about operating systems online
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• Battery technology may emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 22, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 'Black Mirror' Is Back, Reflecting Our Technological Fears
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• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter views Schiaparelli landing site
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• Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC
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• Internet Attack Spreads, Disrupting Major Websites
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• 2017 Rust Roadmap
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• Comparison with Other Frameworks
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• 1177 BC – The Year Civilization Collapsed [video]
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• A Professor Who Was Right About Index Funds All Along
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• AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B
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• Exposing high-end poker cheating devices
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 21, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Neural Network Zoo
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• Kodak Ektra
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• “Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is under active exploit
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• Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw
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• Why we chose Vue.js
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• Deep learning papers reading roadmap
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• DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS
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• Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
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• Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos
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• CA Comodo used broken OCR and issued certificates to the wrong people
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 20, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Netflix Chaos Monkey Upgraded
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• Radar – A new set of integrated tools to help prevent fraud
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• Fixing Python Performance with Rust
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• Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
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• All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
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• I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me
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• Tesla released video of a car driving itself
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• Nintendo Switch – New Video Game System [video]
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• Angular 1.x Banned from Firefox Addons
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• Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it less secure
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 19, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Linux Foundation Unites the JavaScript Community for Open Web Development
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• Node v6.9.0 (LTS)
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• Air India Taking Advantage of Tailwinds
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• Introducing Rust Language Server
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• An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Development [pdf]
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• Show HN: Get encrypted data from people that don’t know how to encrypt
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• The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play
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• More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold on Amazon are fake
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• How the Web Became Unreadable
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• LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 18, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Your Next iPhone Won't Be Ceramic
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• The VeraCrypt Audit Results
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• Disney Open Source
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• I Won $104M for Blowing the Whistle But Was the Only One Who Went to Jail
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• Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Stealing Your Mobile Traffic”
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• How breakpoints are set
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• Shame on Y Combinator
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• The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’
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• Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase
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• Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 17, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Numerai – A hedge fund built by a global community of anonymous data scientists
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• Caddy – HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
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• Feds Walk into a Building and Demand Everyone's Fingerprints to Open Phones
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• Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you did to market it?
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• Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
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• WTF is a container?
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• Google May Be Stealing Mobile Traffic
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• Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
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• Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions
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• The 2016 Election
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 16, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Walmart Paid Its People More to Get Cleaner Stores and Higher Sales
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• GitLab reinstates list of servers that have malware
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• Noms – A versioned, forkable, syncable database
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• Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump
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• Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (2013)
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• Programming books you might want to consider reading
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• Elm and Phoenix/Elixir in Production for France TV
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• Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes
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• Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline
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• SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 15, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Becoming a CTO
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• Intel will add deep-learning instructions to its processors
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• Easy Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison
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• Google Reveals It Received Secret FBI Subpoena
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• Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?
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• A single byte write opened a root execution exploit
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• Books Programmers Don't Really Read (2008)
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• GitHub and GitLab remove list of servers that have malware
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• Ask HN: How to get started with machine learning?
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• What has happened down here is the winds have changed
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 14, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Cooled Nikon D5500a Chills the Sensor for Clearer Star Photos
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• Static types in Python
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• An Open Source, Self-Hosted Heroku
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• Robot Can Do More Push-Ups Because It Sweats
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• What $50 buys you at the Huaqiangbei electronics market in Shenzhen, China
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• PHP 7 deployment at Dailymotion
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• A Man Who Stood Up To Facebook
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• Maslow CNC
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• KDE Project releases KDE 1
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• Be Kind
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 13, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Barack Obama on A.I., Autonomous Cars, and the Future of Humanity
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• Most drivers who own cars with built-in GPS systems use phones for directions
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• Decades-Old Mystery Put to Rest: Why Are There X's in the Desert?
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• Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Steps Down
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• It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android
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• Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing Its Human Editors
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• The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 awarded to Bob Dylan
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• Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
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• Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?
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• Taking PHP Seriously
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 12, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming from IoT cameras
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• CHIP Pro
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• Facebook seems not to be paying app developer $160K in ad revenue
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• You might not need JavaScript
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• Windows 93 (2014)
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• So You Want to Learn Physics
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• Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)
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• Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List
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• Facebook React.js License
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• Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 11, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Git-repo – Manage Gitlab, GitHub and Bitbucket from the command line
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• React Implementation Notes
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• Visual Studio Code 1.6
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• Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager
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• Statistical Machine Learning, Spring 2016
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• Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone
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• Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken
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• Making Human Settlement of Space a Reality
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• Yarn: Fast, reliable, and secure dependency management for JavaScript
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• Open Guide to Amazon Web Services
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 10, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• SQL style guide
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• Hugo: A fast and modern static website engine
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• Fossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, and wiki software
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• The P programming language
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• The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”
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• Algorithms for making more interesting mazes
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• How I built a keyboard by hand
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• Suspicious court cases, missing defendants, aim to get webpages taken down
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• Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
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• FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 09, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A gentle introduction to Prolog (2013)
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• Image unshredder by simulated annealing (2015)
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• Latency numbers every programmer should know (2012)
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• HTML Kong
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• EC2's most dangerous feature
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• Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks
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• A decentralized web would give power back to the people online
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• IRC v3
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• Developer hiring and the market for lemons
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• Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit?
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 08, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How We Built the World’s Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps
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• Shenzhen I/O
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• Graph-Powered Machine Learning at Google
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• RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source Software
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• Silkworms that eat carbon nanotubes and graphene spin tougher silk
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• Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (1996)
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• Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel Spolsky
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• A Javascript journey with only six characters
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• Rant HN: I hate hackerrank
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• Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 07, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Reflections of an “Old” Programmer
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• Farm grows vegetables in a desert using sun and seawater
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• Hurricane Matthew Visualization
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• Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers
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• Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in Web standards
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• Foundations of Data Science [pdf]
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• A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man
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• RethinkDB needs a new home
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• Brain training exercises might just make you better at brain training exercises
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• IP Spoofing
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 06, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• N.S.A. Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets
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• Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform
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• Typora – A cross platform markdown editor
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• An Open Letter From Elizabeth Holmes
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• RethinkDB is shutting down
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• Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make a Bid
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• Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become a Google engineer
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• Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious
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• What it's like buying a $128k side project
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• Google Noto Fonts
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 05, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Drakon: a visual language for specifications from the Russian space program
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• There's no easy way to say this
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• The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weather buoy
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• Industry Concerns about TLS 1.3
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• MailChimp’s founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers’ needs
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• Vim Anti-Patterns
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• A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors
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• Not OK, Google
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• Epiphany-V: A 1024-core 64-bit RISC processor
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• Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 04, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Police complaints drop over 90% after deploying body cameras
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• Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars
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• How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
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• I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.
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• GitHub Audio
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• Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data
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• Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone
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• Daydream – Google VR
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• Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence
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• Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 03, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Never accept a counter-offer
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• Deep-Fried Data
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• Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny
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• The Deletion of gcj
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• Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend
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• Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community
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• The State of JavaScript – Survey results
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
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• Paper Planes
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• Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 02, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How being alone may be the key to rest
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• Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow
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• Why kernel development still uses email
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• The Berkeley Document Summarizer: Learning-Based, Single-Document Summarization
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• A Law Professor Explains Why You Should Never Talk to Police
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• Show HN: Ascii to SVG
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• Gitless: a version control system
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• Ask HN: How do you get people to use your product when you suck at networking?
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• Learning Reinforcement Learning: Code, Exercises, and Solutions
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• NoScript is harmful and promotes malware
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-10-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 01, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How many lines of code is Candy Japan?
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• Microsoft forms new 5,000-person AI division
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• Lesser known Git commands
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• Blender 2.78 released
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• Ranking TV Shows That Got Canceled
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• Neural-redis – Neural networks module for Redis
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• Implication of sabotage adds intrigue to SpaceX investigation
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• How to Build Muscle
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• The terrorist inside my husband's brain
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• Dropbox Hasn't Learned Their Lesson
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Daily Hacker News for 2016-09-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 30, 2016 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Modern Functional Programming: The Onion Architecture
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• ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer
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• Debugging PostgreSQL performance the hard way
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• Hard Tech Startups
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• Atmospheric carbon dioxide passes 400ppm
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• DNS-over-HTTPS
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• Rosetta ends its mission
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• Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm
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• 90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs Are Paid for Luck
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• Open Sourcing a Deep Learning Solution for Detecting NSFW Images
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