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Jesse Jackson: Tech diversity is next civil rights stepusatoday.com
Jesse Jackson called Monday for an EEOC scrutiny of the tech industry's lack of diversity. -
Free source code hosting for Git and Mercurial by Bitbucketbitbucket.com
Bitbucket is a free code DVCS hosting site for Git and Mercurial. Manage your development with a hosted wiki, issue tracker and source code. - news.ycombinator.com
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Bill Gates Foundation Announces Implantable Remote-Controlled Contraceptive Microchip That Can Last Up To 16 Yearsearthweareone.com
Bill Gates, one of the world’s most notable (or notorious) billionaires is at it again, announcing a remote controlled implantable birth control chip that could last up to 16 years. The idea sprouted after a visit Bill made to the Massachusetts Institu... -
With Microsoft in Sights, China Starts to Squeeze U.S. Tech Companiesnytimes.com
An agency that enforces antimonopoly laws visited company offices in four cities, as the country more closely scrutinizes multinational companies. - marco.org
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Steel mill worker reveals blocking view of U.S. aircraft on day of Nagasaki atomic bombing - 毎日新聞mainichi.jp
KITAKYUSHU, Fukuoka -- As the 69th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing approaches, a former m... - matt.might.net
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Online Tool for Young Bankers Raises $1 Million in Fundingdealbook.nytimes.com
Thinknum, a start-up created by two former Wall Street analysts, allows users to share and collaborate on financial models. - news.ycombinator.com
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gordol/malloc-ld_preload-soundsgithub.com
malloc-ld_preload-sounds - Generates raw WAV output by hooking malloc() and read(). -
Uber vs Car Ownershipblog.samaltman.com
Taking uberX everywhere is now cheaper for me than owning a car. I first played around with one of those web calculators and was so surprised by the result I sharpened my pencil and did it myself... -
Apple Allows the World’s Most Popular Bitcoin Wallet Back Into Its Store | Enterprise | WIREDwired.com
It looks like Apple has finally changed its stance on bitcoin. Six months after Apple removed Blockchain from its online App Store—effectively preventing people from using the popular bitcoin wallet app on the iPhone and the iPad—the tech giant has now... -
BitcoinJSbitcoinjs.org
BitcoinJS is a clean, readable, proven library for Bitcoin JavaScript development on node.js and web browsers. - news.ycombinator.com
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Hilton is betting $550 million on smartphone technology in a race to win over millennialsonline.wsj.com
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is placing a $550 million bet that hotel guests increasingly will use smartphones to choose rooms, check in and even unlock doors. -
The Danger of Financial Jargonnewyorker.com
John Lanchester decodes the language of the finance industry: When it comes to discussing money, “incomprehension is a form of consent.” - maxtraffic.com
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How to take over the computer of any Java (or Clojure or Scala) developer - Ontoillogicalblog.ontoillogical.com
The other day I started hacking on a Clojure project of mine, when I saw my firewall display this: I’m downloading clojure.jar from http//repo. …