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Twitter sues U.S. government over limits on ability to disclose surveillance orderswashingtonpost.com
Company says DOJ restrictions on speaking publicly about requests it receives violate the First Amendment. -
rethinkdb.com
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Hacker News APIblog.ycombinator.com
Today we’re excited to launch an official Hacker News API. We’ve partnered up with Firebase (YC S11) so that the data we’re making available will be near real time, which should be a huge... -
How Apple caused our iPhone app to crash for 3 days · Dustin Hoffmanbreefield.com
Dustin Hoffman is a web designer/developer, traveler, and aspiring writer. - readme.io
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What the Garbageman Knowsnewyorker.com
As Sayyid Ahmed collects trash in Peter Hessler’s Cairo neighborhood, he reveals the contradictions of life in modern Egypt. -
The Placebo Effect Doesn’t Apply Just to Pillsnytimes.com
“Sham surgery” has been shown in some cases to make people feel as good as a real operation, but we often ignore the results and their implications. -
The LED's Dark Secret - IEEE Spectrumspectrum.ieee.org
Solid-state lighting won't supplant the lightbulb until it can overcome the mysterious malady known as "droop" -
Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay | WIREDwired.com
Michael Friberg John Kane was on a hell of a winning streak. On July 3, 2009, he walked alone into the high-limit room at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas and sat down at a video poker machine called the Game King. Six minutes later the purple light o... -
GitHub Student Developer Packeducation.github.com
The best developer tools, free for students. Get your GitHub Student Developer Pack now. -
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Javascript Battlejavascriptbattle.com
A daily artificial intelligence challenge that anyone can join by simply submitting Javascript with GitHub -
hhvm/oss-performancegithub.com
oss-performance - Scripts for benchmarking various PHP implementations when running open source software. -
Big Banks Face Another Round of U.S. Chargesdealbook.nytimes.com
Around a dozen major banks are being investigated after being accused of colluding to set currency levels, and several are expected to plead guilty. -
Ebola for Entrepreneursthinkhardly.com
If I’m betting on a pathogen to generate the most human deaths within the next 5 years, I’d put my bet on Ebola. Ebola is a totally different ball game from long-established and controllable... - cl.cam.ac.uk