top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-04

Lego Finds Discontinued Set For Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years

http://consumerist.com/2012/12/03/lego-finds-spare-discontinued-set-so-boy-who-saved-up-for-2-years-wouldnt-be-disappointed/

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Karma - pay as you go data by sharing your hotspot

https://yourkarma.com/

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ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation

http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/workprog/wp_item.aspx?isn=7082

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Touché

http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/computing/2012/spring/touche.shtml

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I quit Twitter for a month and it changed my thinking about mostly everything.

http://adambrault.com/post/37201680402/i-quit-twitter-for-a-month-and-it-completely-changed-my

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The Insourcing Boom

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2012/12/the-insourcing-boom/309166/

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Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering

http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article

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Netflix signs licensing agreement with Disney

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/04/netflix-strikes-licensing-agreement-with-disney-will-be-exclusi/

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University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon

http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/news/facebook-hackathon

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Hacker News: DMCA

http://news.ycombinator.com/dmca.html

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How I got a YC interview as a single founder and blew it at the final hurdle

http://swaggadocio.com/post/37188318276/how-i-got-a-yc-interview-as-a-single-founder-and-blew

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The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-gmail-app-for-iphone-and-ipad.html

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China prepares to grow vegetables on Mars

https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hod_Ie0wMvZ5X0-YlGuCU9G63PNw?docId=CNG.46a88dd86d10a67a9033edc98156d446.471

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How tall can a Lego tower get?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20578627

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Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/mag-portals.html

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Peter Thiel’s Unorthodox Management Philosophy of Extreme Focus

http://blog.idonethis.com/post/37113345206/peter-thiels-unorthodox-management-philosophy-of

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Common Pitfalls with Django and South

http://andrewingram.net/2012/dec/common-pitfalls-django-south/

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$20 Cardboard Bicycle Could 'Change The World,' Inventor Says

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/15/162949884/for-about-20-cardboard-bicycle-could-change-the-world-inventor-says

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Developer Time

http://pydanny.com/developer-time.html

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WiFi Signals Caught on Camera

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/03/invisible-wi-fi-signals-caught-on-camera.html

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Crap I'm speaking at [insert conference here]. How do I prepare?

http://www.roguelynn.com/words/crap-im-speaking/

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Hacker School Winter 2013 Applications are Open

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/10-winter-2013-applications-open

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Most Popular How-To Guides of 2012

http://lifehacker.com/5964782/most-popular-how+to-guides-of-2012?popular=true

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Designing Pragmatic RESTful APIs

http://info.apigee.com/Portals/62317/docs/web%20api.pdf

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Google Car Search

https://www.google.com/cars/

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Twemproxy, a Redis/memcached proxy from Twitter with auto-sharding

http://antirez.com/news/44

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Why 'The Daily' Failed

http://daringfireball.net/2012/12/why_the_daily_failed

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The Next SoundCloud Becomes SoundCloud

http://blog.soundcloud.com/2012/12/04/next-becomes-soundcloud/

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Auto-Threading Compilers Are Here

http://developinthecloud.drdobbs.com/author.asp?section_id=2284&doc_id=255275

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Google Play comes to Google Apps: Enterprises can distribute apps internally

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/12/04/google-play-comes-to-google-apps-letting-enterprise-customers-distribute-apps-internally/

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D3, Conceptually - Lesson 2

http://code.hazzens.com/d3tut/lesson_2.html

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Playable Mario Game as a blog background

http://blog.nihilogic.dk/

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Marc Andreessen: Not every startup should be a Lean Startup or embrace the pivot

http://gigaom.com/2012/12/03/marc-andreessen-not-every-startup-should-be-a-lean-startup-or-embrace-the-pivot/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=gigaom

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A Better Makefile for Bootstrap

http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/12/04/better-makefile-for-bootstrap.html

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Save Your Kisses For Me

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2012/11/save_your_kisses_for_me.html

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The Best Replacements for Privacy-Invading Services

http://lifehacker.com/5965462/the-best-replacements-for-privacy+invading-services

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MySQL Local/Remote Account Password Cracking

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2012-December/089076.html

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Programming like a Pirate (Alt+Shift+M)

http://kranglefant.tumblr.com/post/30266564679/programming-like-a-pirate-alt-shift-m

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What was the strangest coding standard rule that you were forced to follow?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/218123/what-was-the-strangest-coding-standard-rule-that-you-were-forced-to-follow

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Uber triumphant

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/wp/2012/12/03/uber-triumphant/

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First RubyMotion Conference

http://www.rubymotion.com/conference/

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How People Change

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/opinion/brooks-how-people-change.html

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Top Startups That TechCrunch Missed - Nov

http://www.startupplays.com/blog/top-35-startups-in-tech-that-techcrunch-missed-november-2012/

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Google I/O 2013

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&ved=0CGwQiBUwBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.google.com%2F111395306401981598462%2Fposts%2FbLnk6DmRzhT&ei=BW--UOSgKMiw2wXM-oHICw&usg=AFQjCNFjC94f2N--aOthUqh_YocPNVKAxQ&sig2=-bb1gRHfak00oxZCSYIQRw

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Money != Object

http://awesomistguy.com/blog/2012/12/4/money-object

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Brad Feld created a Hacker News-esque site, Startup Revolution

http://hub.startuprev.com/

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Compostable all-natural water filters

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zachallia/soma-beautifully-innovative-all-natural-water-filt

14 years ago

Plenty Of Zip Codes For Form Auto-Completion

http://www.zippopotam.us/

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Shimming your way to Linux on Windows 8 PCs

http://www.zdnet.com/shimming-your-way-to-linux-on-windows-8-pcs-7000008246/

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Open Source Guilt and Passion

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3349-open-source-guilt-passion?

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Adobe and HTML

http://html.adobe.com/?hn

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