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Title: The future came crashing down on me this week at the Google I/O developer conference while I stood at a bathroom urinal. Upvote:
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Title: Two days ago, Google announced it would finally support the most popular computing language on the planet, PHP, in its platform-as-a-service offering, Google App Engine. Upvote:
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Title: Hi,<p>So I'm a student who's graduating college in a month, and I'd like to freelance until I find a job. Ideally, I'd like to work with JavaScript and Node.js. I don't have a ton of experience with Node, but my degree was pretty hands-on and we learned several technologies that have given me translatable experience.<p>I have written code in C, C#, VB.NET, PHP, Python, Java (Android/Web), JavaScript, and Ruby. I am also familiar with Drupal, Oracle and MySQL. I am by no means an expert in all of these technologies, but I do believe that I can ramp up in a reasonable time frame in a given technology.<p>I've tried ODesk and Elance, but my experience so far has been that most of the jobs there favor freelancers with the most experience and the lowest bids.<p>So where can I find some decent opportunities that will help me to grow quickly? I'm open to any ideas! At this point its not even so much about the salary, but I just want to be able to put my coding skills to good (paid) use.<p>Cheers,<p>A. Upvote:
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Title: Whit is an open source SMS service, which allows you to query CrunchBase, Wikipedia, and several other data APIs.<p>Simply text 917-791-3098.<p>Special commands include: P:'personName', C:'companyName', S:'stockTicker', W:'wikiSearch'<p>ex. queries: 'p:bill gates', 'c:apple', 's:fb', 'w:philosophy' Upvote:
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Title: I was inspired by this little discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5732602<p>I'm a native English speaker myself, but I didn't know what a 'deck' was when [a management consultant] mentioned it to me at one of my first few startup events. (Normal, non-corporate people call it a PowerPoint presentation, I think.)<p>I'm hoping to compile a jargon/lingo cheat sheet for people new to the startup scene, so contributions and shares will be most welcome! Upvote:
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Title: Today Apple redesigned the homepage of the online Apple Store. I was having a look at their code and I found out some interesting code smells that apparently even the most skilled developers will commit. Upvote:
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Title: I know some folks are hardcore fans of https://ifttt.com/ - what are the most clever uses of IFTTT you've seen or heard of? Upvote:
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Title: AT&#38;T added $0.61 fee on all mobile phone service.<p>Per the following AT&#38;T contract, now you have an opportunity to cancel your current contract without an early termination fee:<p><pre><code> 1.3 Can AT&#38;T Change My Terms And Rates? We may change any terms, conditions, rates, fees, expenses, or charges regarding your Services at any time. We will provide you with notice of material changes (other than changes to governmental fees, proportional charges for governmental mandates, roaming rates or administrative charges) either in your monthly bill or separately. You understand and agree that State and Federal Universal Service Fees and other governmentally imposed fees, whether or not assessed directly upon you, may be increased based upon the government's or our calculations. IF WE INCREASE THE PRICE OF ANY OF THE SERVICES TO WHICH YOU SUBSCRIBE, BEYOND THE LIMITS SET FORTH IN YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICE SUMMARY, OR IF WE MATERIALLY DECREASE THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA IN WHICH YOUR AIRTIME RATE APPLIES (OTHER THAN A TEMPORARY DECREASE FOR REPAIRS OR MAINTENANCE), WE’LL DISCLOSE THE CHANGE AT LEAST ONE BILLING CYCLE IN ADVANCE (EITHER THROUGH A NOTICE WITH YOUR BILL, A TEXT MESSAGE TO YOUR DEVICE, OR OTHERWISE), AND YOU MAY TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT WITHOUT PAYING AN EARLY TERMINATION FEE OR RETURNING OR PAYING FOR ANY PROMOTIONAL ITEMS, PROVIDED YOUR NOTICE OF TERMINATION IS DELIVERED TO US WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER THE FIRST BILL REFLECTING THE CHANGE</code></pre> Upvote:
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Title: I've been writing code for almost a year now. A friend told me once that contributing to open source projects can really improve my coding skills.<p>My question is, how do I actually do that? How do I become a contributor for an open source project? Upvote:
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Title: I'm desperate.<p>I'm almost 38. Start programming at 10. Spent 7 years in video game industry as programmer, project manager, CTO. I tried during 5 years to create a "startup".<p>I still have a half time job that pay the bill and give me enough time to create something. During these 5 years I created a game, a tool for geeks, a B2B project and lot of more things. I created some projects alone, with CEO partners, CTO partners. Each time, I have no traction, negative feedback, I demotivating and then I stop the project. I read too much about pretotyping, MVP, lean startup, marketing.<p>Now I don't even know what to do. All ideas I have seems already made by someone else, and often better than I planned to do them. Each partners I meet seems too newbie to work with.<p>It's horrible because I have time and skills to do lot of things but nothing motivate me anymore. I think all those failures killed me and now I'm lost. What a waste.<p>If you have any advises, ways to help me, ideas, insult, whatever, shoot.<p>--- <i></i>UPDATE<i></i>: Thank you so much for your advises, I need to think about all this. I'll answer you one by one.<p>I'm on HN since 1400 days with a total of 42 karma point and never been on HN homepage. My anonymous account have more karam and on homepage in 30mn. What a pitty! but anyway, I'm not looking to be a star or for vanity metrics so it's not a problem.<p>Lot of people would love to enough money each month and free time to do whatever they want. It's a waste because I don't know what to do with this free time...<p>Everything is insipid for me. I have no hobby, no programming idea, no desire to meet people, travel whatever. When I try to get a hobby, I m fed up after a few try. When I go to nice tech event, I'm bored. Upvote:
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Title: I've already written all of my APIs and the entire backend using NodeJs and Postgres. My biggest fear is what happens if it breaks down, as my start up is something akin to say twitter(not really, but thought that's a better example when it comes to stability and a good API), I'm worried if node is good enough to build the next twitter.<p>I'm well versed in Python, and if things go balls up, I can rewrite the entire backend in a weekend in Python. But having used Python before in many other projects and been rather pissed with its overhead of realtime operations, I picked Node as the way to go.<p>But am I right? If things have gone wrong for people here using NodeJs, where does it happen? Which parts should I be most careful in during the architecture of the project?<p>EDIT:<p>Thanks for the answers till now. To clarify, no, I'm not building the next twitter. I took it as an example to explain a worst case scenario(or best case scenario, the way you look at it). Recently Jeff Atwood wrote about why he choose Ruby, and he made a valid point that isn't the cool language anymore. It has matured, stable and all of that. Considering that I wasn't using Node since it came into existence, I can't comment on its maturity.<p>Most examples in Node available on the web, try to clutter up everything in one file. So, I wanted to know the best practices when it comes building an architecture in node. Upvote:
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Title: Security researcher John Wilander makes a case that String should be an abstract class. His analysis comes from a cross road of Domain Driven Design and Application Security. Also, he is not only doing research, he actually writes production code on every-day basis, so he knows what he is talking about. Upvote:
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Title: They look amazing. Bug bounties for everything, completely transparent architecture, data duplication and compression on the fly, they will be up even if two of Amazon's data centers die, one pays per byte and they are pretty cheap. Upvote:
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Title: Dear HN, I am a decent Rails/HTML/JS/iOS/Android/C# programmer. I want to be able to do a project from beginning to end (web+mobile), but I never have any idea what I need to make should look like. How can I learn design? Upvote:
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Title: I heard twitter advertising was pretty good, so I decided to give it a shot.<p>Why I try new advertising channels, I typically spend $20 to be fair.<p>I also run a personal link shorten-er, and decided to use that to track my CTR.<p>In about 30 minutes 20$ bought me 31 engagements (all clicks in this case) on a promoted tweet.<p>At ~$0.65 ecpe, this sounds like an awesome deal. Obviously the quality of the traffic won't be as good as search traffic.<p>However, I made sure my ad was at least geographically targeted.<p>Reality:<p>Of the 31 reported engagements, my link shorten-er showed 10 clicks.<p>2 were from self proclaimed bots (Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; TweetmemeBot/3.0; +http://tweetmeme.com/))<p>6 others were also from bots, they had these user agents:<p>Ruby<p>Kimengi/nineconnections.com<p>MetaURI API/2.0 +metauri.com<p>JS-Kit URL Resolver, http://js-kit.com/<p>(twice) UnwindFetchor/1.0 (+http://www.gnip.com/)<p>At the end of the day, only two other clicks came from realistic useragent/ips that could be construed as a real person.<p>Real Cost:<p>$10 CPC<p>conclusion:<p>Totally not worth it. Twitter needs to get their shit straight and resolve their blatant click fraud OR provide the real data behind those engagements (useragents, precise IP based geolocation, referrers.) Upvote:
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Title: Having unsuccessfully attempted to use Freelancer.com to complete a relatively simple job (I could do it myself but don't have time at the moment), I was wondering if HN could suggest a good freelancer sourcing site for relatively straight-forward work? Unfortunately the freelancer marketplace sites seem to be dominated by weak PHP developers. Upvote:
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Title: I've been working in IT as a software engineer for almost 12 years now. Half of that in Europe with J2EE, the latter half in the Bay Area as a web developer in .NET.<p>I'm starting to become more and more bored with work. I started to look around for other opportunities, but I feel it's hard to do that while working full time. Also, my problem does not seem to be with that particular job, it's with the whole corporate world. Being forced to sit at a desk the whole day. I'm still motivated to work on my own projects after work and on the weekends. I still like programming. I just don't like coding stuff <i>for other people</i>.<p>Long story short, I'm preparing to take a time out. Maybe one year, maybe two, maybe only six months. My savings could probably sustain my current lifestyle for 5-10 years, if not more. My plan would be to crank out mobile apps, maybe one every two months, see if any of them can make some money. If it doesn't work, I could use them as a reference to get a mobile dev job, hopefully at a company with a product I can be passionate about.<p>Am I crazy to give up a six figure salary just because I don't feel like being employed anymore? I'm in my mid-late thirties, will I even find a new job with a gap in my resume like this? Any first hand experiences? I'm single, no kids. Upvote:
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Title: I am in a relationship with a lady who has a 3 year old son. I've grown to love him like he's my own child.<p>It's clear that he's behind in terms of development due to lack of attention in the first two years of his life, for reasons I don't completely blame his mother but reasons I don't feel are appropriate to disclose.<p>I'm currently focusing on helping his speech and potty training as a priority, with helping in other areas and being a general father figure. I believe my efforts have paid off because I've been told his rate of development has been remarkable since I became involved.<p>I was just wondering if anybody who has a child or has studied this area has any extra ideas for my to try? Are there any techniques or methods I can employ to help his development along further?<p>I'm asking here because this is hacker news and its going to take a seriously effective and elegant hack to get this kid where he needs to be a d further. I can't stand to see a clearly intelligent child locked behind a wall of impeded speech and behaviours typical to a 1 year old.<p>I eventually want to to teach him the wonders of computers and how to tell them what to do. It will be very hard if we can't communicate effectively. Upvote:
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Title: There are five pretty distinct characteristics. Here’s a look at each, plus an introduction to “almost” flat design. Upvote:
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Title: Very cool project of a good friend of mine... Upvote:
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Title: "But if you were to go to Bulgaria to volunteer or to start a social enterprise, how would the folks back on Facebook know you were helping ‘the poor?’ if the poor in your pictures kind of looked like you?" Upvote:
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Title: After reading arguments about using cryptography in the browser, I wanted to see how easy it was to fail in practice so I built a simple app: notecrypt.appspot.com. It encrypts notes using SJCL and stores their encrypted form on the server and enables retrieval with the same credentials.<p>This approach is uniformly as good as or better than a browser app not using in-browser crypto from a security perspective. As daeken noted in a discussion a few days ago, it provides protection against a demand to produce the notes. He also claims that "For all other cases, there are a million simple means by which you can break it." So I challenge anyone on HN: Show me such simple means.<p>The instructions for claiming a reward are contained in a note stored in the app's database. To help you along, I'll navigate to any URL you send me while logged into the site. If you'd like to try your hand at finding a vulnerability in the AES implementation used, I'll send you a snapshot of the database. If you want to try injecting code, I'm happy to use a network you control if we can arrange the logistics though I won't promise to log in if you can't provide a valid SSL certificate :). If you need assistance to demonstrate a reasonable attack, ask. Post your attacks below or email my user name @gmail.com. The first successful attack wins. Usual disclaimers apply.<p>You might argue that this doesn't prove anything about JavaScript cryptography since additional security is used. That's true. If this survives, it doesn't provide evidence that the in-browser cryptography is sufficient; it only suggests that it can defeat some additional threats against an otherwise secure application. Upvote:
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Title: Could not post the link in the URL...maybe I am not supposed to?<p>The Mobile version is not uploading either, though files are accessible. Upvote:
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Title: They come up as blank pages for me. I realize that if they are indeed broken for everyone that no one will be able to comment here :) Upvote:
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Title: In a previous HN thread about selling side projects, someone floated the idea of trying out a "Sell HN" thread - so here it is.<p>If you have any side projects that you've built and that you no longer have time for, list them here and let's see if others want to buy it from you. Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5803767 Upvote:
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Title: I'm kind of tired of all of these salary surveys because I don't trust them, but I am curious and think that it would be useful for the HN community to get advice/inspiration from some of the most financially successful engineers.<p>So, for the developers making more than (plus or minus) $200,000 per year in salary:<p>How much are you making?<p>Is your income stable or volatile?<p>What industry are you in?<p>Where do you live?<p>How long did it take to get to your level?<p>What kind of work do you do?<p>Do you enjoy it, or is it the stereotypical "highly paid because it's crappy" work?<p>Is this a short-lived opportunity, or do you expect it to exist in 5 years?<p>What would your advice be to a 20-year-old aspiring developer? 25? 30? Upvote:
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Title: It started from my personal problem, "I want to take memos using markdown!" I use a memo app everyday. I used Evernote, but it's too big for writing memo.<p>I thought "I'm a programmer, so I can create a memo app easily!" I started to create a memo app with the following features.<p>- markdown format - gmail like Archive feature - Calendar view - iPhone/iPad support - keyboard shortcuts<p>I thought some people could have same problem when I was creating it. So I decide to release it to public.<p>Today, I released my tool "https://wri.pe". Especially, Tech people would love it!<p>Screenshots are here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/masuidrive/sets/72157633740687207/<p>Feedback on how to improve it is also very welcome.<p>I hope you love https://wri.pe . Upvote:
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Title: https://www.jottit.com/7a9fv/ Upvote:
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Title: https://status.github.com/ Upvote:
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Title: Reading the poll about salaries in London (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804134) it seems a lot of people working permanent jobs are getting shafted. Contract rates seem to be quite good though, so I'm wondering if anyone who has made the move from permanent to contract work could give some hints and tips on their experiences. Upvote:
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Title: I wanted to share an achievement and thanks to this community. Our startup, 2600hz, has hit 3 years of life without venture funding. This, frankly, wasn't by choice, and we'd have loved to have VC money early on, but it changed the way we had to operate in a few ways I want to share.<p>* Our focus became revenue and only revenue<p>* We hired based on need not dreams<p>* We were exceptionally frugal on marketing efforts<p>Because of these three axioms, which were not part of the business plan originally, the last 3 years have been painful, but the pain has been its own reward. This community, with its brutal honesty and exceptional advice, has been one that I'm proud to be a member of since joining a few years ago. I like this community and I thank you for allowing me to be a part of it.<p>This post isn't about 2600hz, but about the dreams of entrepreneurship and of suffering the indignities of reality to achieve something greater.<p>You can bootstrap a startup from 0 to 30 employees in 3 years. You can bootstrap a startup to X,000,000 in revenue. You can do it, and if my experience is any indication, HN is here to help.<p>My advice is to dream big, and if you've got an itch you just have to scratch even when everyone tells you it's impossible, well then you just might be an entrepreneur ;).<p>Thanks. Upvote:
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Title: Fairphone is manufactured using raw materials from conflict-free regions in Africa (D.R. Congo).<p>A completely open source, rooted, hardware and software on which you can also install FirefoxOS and UbuntuOS too. Upvote:
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Title: The Light Sport Aircraft category was created by the FAA in 2004 with the hopes that it would lead to the first affordable airplanes. By lowering restrictions for LSA’s, it was predicted that planes would be able to sell for around $60,000.<p>9 years later, none of the big players in the industry have been able to accomplish this. Cessna made its Skycatcher, which was supposed to sell for under $100,000. It launched in 2007 at $110,000, and has since increased its price up to $150,000. Several, better attempts at an affordable LSA have been made since then, but decent planes have struggled to find price points under $80,000. A few are sold in the $60-80k range, but these are “bare-bones” airplanes, and the market has shown little demand for planes not equipped with radios, lights, navigation, iPod jacks, etc… even if they are affordable.<p>I co-founded a company that has made an airplane with all these amenities and more for $55k. The design has been around for a few years now and comes from a kit-plane manufacturer in the Czech Republic. It is tiny: 250 pounds empty weight, which is small enough to be classified as an ultralight (although its performance takes it way out of ultralight eligibility). It is very strong, capable of carrying 60 pounds of fuel, a 230 pound pilot, and 30 pounds of baggage. Because it’s so small, the performance specs are competitive with the Cessna Skycatcher on just a 50 hp engine. It is very fuel efficient, getting 60 mpg and flying 575 miles on one tank. Radio, GPS navigation, collision avoidance, synthetic flight, lights, and an emergency locator transmitter all come standard on the plane.<p>I know this isn’t tech news, but I love this website and rarely get to contribute since I’m not a programmer. Here is our website: http://www.skycraftairplanes.com. Please give me your input. Upvote:
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Title: I see great projects here on HN every day, but we are a species which loves cynicism. The comment threads can be especially hard on authors.<p>To all the creators out there, I salute you. Upvote:
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Title: Are there other similar sites to HN which focuses more on technical topics, constructive discussions and other interesting things? Upvote:
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Title: I have been a victim of procrastination. Since linode have been compromised, i promised my self i would cancel the credit card and get a new one. Well I didn't, eventually I just stopped thinking about it.<p>On May 28 checked my card account and I see multiple charges for large amounts. (cash converters, groceries, cheese, and so on). Note this is all done overseas.<p>How do I know this is from linode?<p>For my online transactions I use prepaid cards that are easy to dispose of, and this card was used solely for linode.<p>Advice: If you are still on linode and didn't cancel your credit card, well you should. Upvote:
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Title: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scotch.io http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codemonkey.io http:&#x2F;&#x2F;geocod.io<p>Are all down for me.<p>$ host filepicker.io Host filepicker.io not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Upvote:
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Title: The upcoming standard for real time communications on the web, WebRTC, currently makes DTLS mandatory to implement: All communications will be encrypted at all times with ephemerally keyed encryption. With DTLS-SRTP content interception will always be _possible_ to detect (e.g. by comparing session IDs) and when coupled with something like Persona (BrowserID) MITM becomes infesable. This is a massive step forward from today&#x27;s Internet: Even where we have encryption it&#x27;s almost user to service, not user to user and even that can usually be defeated by a downgrading attack.<p>Some parties have been periodically proposing that SDES (&#x27;Security Descriptions&#x27;) be also made mandatory to implement (e.g. http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;draft-ohlsson-rtcweb-sdes-support-01), and Google&#x27;s WebRTC stack already supports it. SDES sends the crypto keys over the signaling channel, making them visible to all the signaling servers at a minimum. SDES-SDES makes passive and undetectable monitoring possible and provides a false sense of security in a world where powerful parties bend the rule of law to engage in massive surveillance.<p>If you care about building infrastructure which ensures individual privacy I strongly encourage becoming informed and an active participant in the IETF RTCWeb working group: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;wg&#x2F;rtcweb&#x2F; The IETF is an open organization and thoughtful contributions from everyone, especially people who will be building systems using these standards, are welcome.<p>The security architecture draft http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;draft-ietf-rtcweb-security-arch-06 and the mailing list archives are good starting points as well as the Wing draft on problems with SDES: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;draft-wing-rtcweb-sdes-problems-00. Upvote:
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Title: I come here for tech content and interesting discussions, not US political discussions and speculation. Are there any tools which classify&#x2F;filter HN threads? I&#x27;ve found http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hckrnews.com&#x2F; but there&#x27;s still too many NSA stories hogging the top. Upvote:
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Title: I am evaluating this cloud service since yesterday, and it looks promising so far. Since data are not stored un-encrypted on the company servers, it means that there is not a web access to files, but I am not missing this feature that much. Real-time syncing works fine, although it seems to be a bit slower comparing to Dropbox. Upvote:
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Title: In the world outside of the NSA news cycle.... Upvote:
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Title: Dear NSA, you can do whatever with my data. But not with my eyes. Those slides are hideous.<p>So here&#x27;s a quick revamp of your #PRISM slides. Upvote:
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Title: I am in a bit of a tricky financial situation, and urgently need $300 by the next two days; no one I know is able to help me with this so I am reaching out to HN.<p>In return I will do any sort of programming you require for the next 48 hours solid. I can do web development(Experience with Javascript[ Node Meteor] Python[Django], Php[My own frameworks, CakePHP, Codeignitor... etc]), Java, C#...<p>Normally I would not post something like this but I am desperate. If you would like to know more email is in profile. Upvote:
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Title: This poll is almost the exact opposite of the one Pew Research did, http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.people-press.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;10&#x2F;majority-views-nsa-phone-tracking-as-acceptable-anti-terror-tactic&#x2F;. Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;m browsing startups near my area and what I&#x27;m seeing are a lot of startups that are based on previous big ideas, just applied to a very niche market. Ideas that I&#x27;m sitting on the subway and thinking to myself, &quot;Hmm that&#x27;d be a cool idea&quot;, and then I discard it two seconds later. I have hundreds of ideas written down, and I am so quick to discard each and every one of them as silly because who the fuck would use any of these apps I came up with. Then I see the list of startups and what they are all about and I weep.<p>How do these companies get funding? Why do they get funding? A majority of these startups don&#x27;t have a very unique ideas and it doesn&#x27;t look like many are really making a difference or increasing wealth.<p>How do startups work? Do a lot of these just get initial funding, get an office, work on their stuff, and if it doesn&#x27;t succeed, it just shuts down?<p>I&#x27;m honestly a bit confused at how the startup scene works as I have a great idea and I&#x27;m pouring my blood, sweat, and tears into it. It&#x27;d be lovely to have a small team to work with and I&#x27;m wondering how do these people get SO MUCH funding? It seems that every second company I&#x27;m looking at has been funded through the roof.<p>I&#x27;m genuinely curious how it works as I&#x27;m trying to get my own business going. Can somebody shed some light into the process? Upvote:
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Title: Repository: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;miniMAC&#x2F;magic Upvote:
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Title: It seems that Hacker News is inaccessible via Tor. Is this because of manual blocking of exit nodes, and if so can this blocking be lifted (at least for read access)? Upvote:
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Title: I have been thinking about long term investment in real estates and mutual funds, but then I wondered why I don&#x27;t leverage the technology and world I already know.<p>$1 million (assets or cash) or $50k&#x2F;month (stable for the next couple years)<p>Here are a couple ideas I have:<p>1. Premium WordPress Themes. Looking at Themeforest author sales, some of them are hitting $100k&#x2F;month and they are not seasoned (at least in ThemeForest).<p>2. Premium WordPress Plugins. These guys (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tri.be&#x2F;wordpress-events-calendar&#x2F;) used to sell on CodeCanyon and it looks like their product took off quite well (selling $20k&#x2F;month last year)<p>That&#x27;s it so far. Some of you are going to complain about support and stuff. Cost of doing business in my opinion and $50k&#x2F;month is the net profit you make. So maybe your revenue should be in the $80-60k range.<p>Any ideas? Please I don&#x27;t want the overgeneralized SaaS or eBook thing. Something more concrete and with examples of people who achieved it.<p>Time doesn&#x27;t matter as long as you believe or it&#x27;s what you know to be the shortest thing. Upvote:
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Title: martin luther king jr was wiretapped and sent an anonymous letter from J hoover encouraging him to-kill himself Upvote:
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Title: Pictures: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;IrZFq<p>I went to the Project Loon event today (Sunday June 16) at the Air Force Museum in Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand. Here&#x27;s what I learned. (Some of this may be misunderstood or misremembered, so don&#x27;t take it as absolute truth, and this is all early prototype stuff anyway.)<p>It was quite a big museum-style exhibit with lots of people (it had been on the news), and several members of the team were there answering questions.<p>Currently there are four balloons up. Several have recently been successfully been brought down and recovered from the ocean (land landings are easier to recover but there is no nearby land east of here). The main reasons for testing here are that the stratospheric winds are &quot;boring&quot; (basically all west-east) and this latitude has few countries to coordinate with (they&#x27;re working with Chile and Argentina).<p>The project involves a &quot;couple of dozen&quot; people and has taken two years to go from &quot;ideas on a chalkboard&quot; to this.<p>One of the balloons was there, inflated to its maximum size (launch size is smaller because of pressure differences, but it&#x27;s a superpressure balloon with a maximum size). It was roughly 5m high and 12m in diameter. It has an upper portion with helium and a lower portion with air, with an impeller that can change the pressure in the air part, and thus control the height. The height control is used to navigate, by moving to layers with different wind directions and speeds, and can take it right down to the ground (though that sounds a bit untested). They are aiming for flights of &quot;hundreds of days&quot;.<p>(continued in comments) Upvote:
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Title: These days, anyone who values their privacy are probably considering migrating away from US-based cloud-services... In an age of NSA masss-surveilance and service-providers getting hit with secret requests for information, it seems the only thing you can actually trust is open-source software you host yourself.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have a good guide or experience moving from cloud-services like Google apps to a completely self-hosted open-source solution for email, contact-management and calendering? What about productivity tools?&lt;p&gt;Can you make all of this (more or less) seamlessly integrate with mobile-platforms? Upvote:
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Title: Hi,<p>I&#x27;m working on my startup, at http:&#x2F;&#x2F;superspeedyservers.com which is to be a dedicated server provider.<p>I have $3,000.00 left to invest in the company, and am interested in hearing feedback about which of the following options I&#x27;m considering might be the best way to spend the money, considering my goals.<p>My first thought was to spend this money on completing the purchase of server #1 since I already spent $2,000.00 on SSDs with which to outfit the server.<p>Then I would need to hire a web developer to build the customer portal using an API, @ $1,500.00.<p>I&#x27;m considering launching a fundraising campaign on Fundable.com to raise funds to launch the company with more than just 1 server for rent- maybe a 1&#x2F;2 rackful. But I&#x27;d have to raise alot of money, and give up some equity, which is fine, as long as I&#x27;m not giving up a controlling stake.<p>I think it might help if the company were an LLC rather than a Sole Proprietorship like it is now. That&#x27;s $1,017.00.<p>I think it might help to get the website in a little better shape than it is now, with some custom graphics implemented from some designs I already have that just haven&#x27;t been adapted for use on the site, which could cost $500.00 or so to do.<p>The Fundable campaign itself is $100&#x2F;month, and since I would be asking for alot of money I would be opting for an extended length to help ensure its success- maybe 9 months. So there&#x27;s $900.00.<p>If I get the funds from Fundable.com, I can build faster servers for my customers, &amp; rent them at a greater profit than the 1 server I can build myself, too. As it stands, I have to compromise on the storage subsystem &amp; use small 3Gb&#x2F;s SATAII SLC SSDs, rather than much larger 6Gb&#x2F;s SAS MLC SSDs I can afford if I&#x27;m properly funded, which would bring in $300&#x2F;month more per server.<p>Thanks in advance for your feedback.<p>Regards,<p>-c Upvote:
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Title: Computers. It used to be a strong academically controlled field. It was an area where you needed needed a PhD in Math to even touch the machines. That was then.<p>I want to get deeply involved in a field that was started by academics. It is dominated by academics. Guess what their minimum requirement is for a job?<p>I don&#x27;t have a PhD. My academic credentials suck. However, the field fascinates me. It&#x27;s getting to the point where I&#x27;m reading papers on the subject in my spare time. What realistic options do I have?<p>I want to build something that goes beyond NASA&#x27;s Curiosity. Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;ve recently come to appreciate true veterans of technology hang around mailing lists and IRC channels.<p>What are some of your favorite programming&#x2F;security&#x2F;sysadmin mailing lists and IRC chaneels? Upvote:
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Title: Is not that they are monitoring me. I have nothing to hide. Other than the usual, which is encrypted in utorrent, apparently.<p>What worries me more is, what if they were to perform covert MiTM attacks? They are in the perfect position to do so. Anyone using online banking could be targeted and suddenly they have no money. Or they could transfer money into people&#x27;s accounts and make them look like money launderers, so they could be arrested.<p>Yes yes, it is all a bit conspiracy theory-ish... but if I had suggested I thought the NSA was mirroring fibre a year ago you would think the same.<p>This is what worries me over the debacle, as most data appears to pass through the USA. Upvote:
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Title: To anyone who developed a real world application in Haskell, what are the downsides of it?<p>What is in your opinion more laborious than needed? Are library sufficiently available and documented? Is doing I&#x2F;O fine? Is working with a DB easy? Please share with people interested in learning Haskell and put it to work in a real world application!<p>PS: asking for negatives only because I&#x27;m very interested and positive about Haskell, but I wonder if I miss some gotchas... Upvote:
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Title: Do not ask for your users&#x27;s email passwords. It&#x27;s phishing, pure and simple. Upvote:
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Title: I can code well and I have 1-2 hours daily that I can spend on any project&#x2F;activity that will, after some work, generate $1000&#x2F;per month net in passive income. I have kept the number at 1000 as my hours to spend are limited. Change the number if you think I can have a bigger passive income with the amount of time I am have. I would like to hear ideas from the community, specially from folks who have done this in the past or are doing this currently. Please give concrete actionable ideas.<p>EDIT: I am willing to learn anything. Upvote:
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Title: DuckDuckGo Google Tracks You We DontEver since the news hit about the NSA PRISM surveillance program in the United States, many people have become much more concerned about what exactly search engines are tracking about them. Upvote:
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Title: The NSA metadata gathering and passive monitoring is quite upsetting, and we don&#x27;t have much confidence in legal changes happening quickly, so we put together a really simple consumer VPN service. We&#x27;re still cleaning up the UI and making the install process easier, but it should work for people now.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s based in the US, but there&#x27;s a big difference between &quot;will turn over data proactively&quot; and &quot;will push back on requests to the fullest extent of the law&quot;. Since we don&#x27;t fall under CALEA, there&#x27;s no requirement for us to have any monitoring infrastructure.<p>We&#x27;re focusing on the mobile experience for iOS and Android -- the best combination of platform security but also difficult to &quot;roll your own&quot; service.<p>Would greatly appreciate HN&#x27;s feedback on concept and implementation; still under active development. Posting some free signup codes in the comments to try it out.<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;privacy.cryptoseal.com&#x2F; Upvote:
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Title: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.upboat.us<p>Demo: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.upboat.us&#x2F;idea&#x2F;upboat Screenshot of logged-in view: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;vUZXfZc.png<p>Upboat is an idea validation platform, somewhere inbetween Kickstarter and LaunchRock. If the idea you pitch receives over 200* &quot;upboat&quot;s (consented would-be users) within one week, you get the whole emailing list of all those who upboat&#x27;d it. If not, you get nothing. This is helpful for those who have ideas for side-projects, but lack the strong-enough incentive to get to work and just hack something together. Should you put up an idea you came up with, and in a week it gets enough upboats, you have a 200-strong user incentive to get to work. If not, then not a big deal.<p>You can upboat an idea as an potential user of the service, a potential developer of the idea (github auth&#x27;d), and&#x2F;or as a potential investor in the idea (angelList auth&#x27;d). No commitment--just the chance to chat. This hopefully provides a stronger social proof scheme than a landing-page-captured email count.<p>* In the future, I&#x27;d prefer this to be 500 instead of 200.<p>Backstory: I built this at the Angelhack Silicon Valley hackathon this past weekend in 24 hours of maddening, restless typing. Granted, I was also &quot;in the zone&quot; for most of it. In past Angelhacks, I&#x27;ve done silly things like single-handedly build and present 3 different hacks (drives the judges nuts), but this time I decided to go for one production-ready hack (we&#x27;ll see if I&#x27;m right). Upboat came out of it, so please, if you can contain yourself, don&#x27;t mind the sloppiest code you&#x27;d ever laid eyes on.<p>I&#x27;d love to get some feedback, but I&#x27;d love even more to get enough Upboats to keep working on it :) Upvote:
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Title: The Guardian cited British intelligence memos leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to claim that UK spies were tapping into the world&#x27;s network of fibre optic cables to deliver the &quot;biggest internet access&quot; of any member of the Five Eyes - the name given to the espionage alliance composed of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Upvote:
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Title: I browse Hacker News with show dead on, and what I see is that increasingly Hacker News is becoming haunted, with more and more undead walking amongst us. Not knowing they are dead; making comments no one will read. Worse, I often find that the comments of the dead are interesting and have value.<p>I realize they were killed off for a reason, and I realize that moderating is a tedious pain and a real chore, but it makes me feel sad to see that people who have taken the time to enter a good comment in good faith, will never have it seen. It leads me to wonder if their death wasn&#x27;t a mistake.<p>And it makes me feel lessened to participate in that.<p>I wonder if it might be more fair to our undead to either inform them of their ban after a time, to resurrect them after a time, or to give to the rest of us with show dead set a way to give them a resurrection upvote. To indicate they seem to be participating in good faith, and allow a way bring them back to life after enough some period of time.<p>Anyway, it&#x27;s not often we can bring the dead back to life, .... Upvote:
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Title: &quot;The NSA Transparency Initiative was undertaken in response to the recent unauthorized disclosure of classified information. This website will answer your questions about the NSA&#x27;s programs.&quot; Upvote:
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Title: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use? Upvote:
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Title: The movements through the world of this individual &quot;don&#x27;t amount to a hill of beans&quot;.<p>Is he on a plane, isn&#x27;t he, will Country X extradite him, won&#x27;t they, does his old girlfriend still pole dance, doesn&#x27;t she, what is Wikileaks&#x27; stance on him, is he allowed to trend on Twitter, etc.<p>The great majority of these stories seem mainly fodder for news companies to gain revenue while people voraciously seek more information about a quickly diminishing story. The documents were released, the hearings have been held, there are some lawsuits pending.<p>But we all know essentially how this will end: Prism isn&#x27;t going away and Edward Snowden&#x27;s fate is grim. And while we can discuss myriad elements &#x27;til we&#x27;re blue in the face, fifteen front-page stories a day aren&#x27;t going to help us understand the issues any better, nor are they coverage of some important event.<p>Let&#x27;s stop turning HN into a tabloid news service and get back to the deeply interesting stories.<p><i>&quot;Essentially there are two rules here: don&#x27;t post or upvote crap links, and don&#x27;t be rude or dumb in comment threads.<p>A crap link is one that&#x27;s only superficially interesting. Stories on HN don&#x27;t have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren&#x27;t only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.<p>What does &quot;deeply interesting&quot; mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, then perhaps it could be.<p>The worst thing to post or upvote is something that&#x27;s intensely but shallowly interesting. Gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which tends to be quieter.&quot;</i> Upvote:
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Title: From January 2011, but well worth a re-listen today. This highlights one of the problems with government secrecy. National Security Letters come with a gag order that keeps the recipient from even discussing receipt of the letter with their lawyer. Upvote:
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Title: 1. “On hold” will replace “closed” on newly closed posts<p>2. New close reasons are nicer and clearer<p>3. Questions edited by the original poster automatically go to the re-open queue Upvote:
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Title: Hey All,<p>Bit of an odd, specific question here, but I think it brings up an interesting discussion, so here goes -<p>If I have 6 months to get my web development skills to a level where I can be paid $35+&#x2F;hour freelancing, what&#x27;s the best way to go about it?<p>Now a couple things I want to mention to help keep the question clear: the timeline is somewhat arbitrary (give or take a few months), but for personal reasons I&#x27;d like to be able to quite my current job and move home for at least a year, while still being able to make some money (hence the freelancing). Also, I do have beginner&#x2F;intermediate level experience with HTML, CSS, Java and C++, but nothing that anyone would pay for right now.<p>So, with all that being said, what&#x27;s the best way to go about positioning myself to make money as a freelancer in the very near future? Is it possible in that timeline? What language(s) should be focused on, and where&#x2F;how should I learn? And what projects should I do to prove to someone that I&#x27;m worth hiring?<p>Edit: One other note, learning to code at a high level is something I&#x27;ve been wanting to do for a while, so this isn&#x27;t just a &#x27;one year and done plan.&#x27; After my hypothetical sabbatical, I&#x27;d like to join a start-up as an engineer and use the programming skills I&#x27;ve acquired. Anyway, thank you for the help. I&#x27;m interested to see the responses. Upvote:
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Title: Empower your product manager. Let them decide what the messages to your users say, when those messages are triggered, as well as how they are sent (sms, email, etc.) while you focus on building product features. They&#x27;ll be able to use trusted providers like sendgrid, twilio and apple so you don&#x27;t have to worry about message delivery. Upvote:
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Title: You can confirm this by searching for &#x27;hacker news&#x27; in Google; the #1 ranking URL is &#x2F;newest, rather than the front page. This isn&#x27;t term specific - the site doesn&#x27;t appear for other terms that it usually ranks well for, such as &quot;news.ycombinator.com&quot; or &quot;hn&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ve checked the usual technical reasons (html head canonical&#x2F;robots meta tag, http headers, robots.txt issues) but I don&#x27;t see anything untoward.<p>I&#x27;ll keep looking into it, but I&#x27;m posting this here in case the admins&#x2F;mods have made any changes recently that could have had an effect. There&#x27;s a possibility that the URL has been removed by Google for some particular reason, though I can&#x27;t think of many pages that deserve it less than HN.<p>I&#x27;ll update this thread if I see anything, but hopefully someone else will post an answer before I figure it out.... Upvote:
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Title: Today we decided to make our 7 year old free photo site paid. We really didn&#x27;t want to do that, but Google banned us from Adsense because some users kept uploading porn. Google has been very lenient over the years allowing us ample time to remove the illegal content (illegal for Google and also illegal for us).<p>Because of the amount of users, traffic and images, we run quite a cluster for this site and we can simply no longer pay for it now that we don&#x27;t have ads. We tried different providers but they don&#x27;t come even close.<p>Did anyone here take the same (drastic) step and what can we expect do you think? Did we make the right decision?<p>We wrote this to our users; http:&#x2F;&#x2F;picturepush.com&#x2F;gopro<p>Hoping for some positive experiences! Upvote:
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Title: I am 35 years old and have been in a totally unrelated career for the last 13 years. I have always loved tech, and computers. And in hindsight, feel I should have continued school in this area. But alas I did not, and now I wonder if it is too late to realistically have this career change sometime in the future.<p>I am not even a programmer now, and there is no way I could afford going back to school for a CS, or any type of degree. But I do have the free schools and information available on the internet. I have started at the beginning with web development in one of the free online schools. And I enjoy it. I know I have a long way to go... I know that the chance of me developing the next twitter or facebook is remote. But There is no chance if I don&#x27;t try to learn about it.<p>Realistically, I am not planning on quitting my day-job....<p>But my fantasy is, if I do stick with this, and learn about web development, Python, Ruby, PHP, etc etc in my free time. Maybe it could happen. Maybe a door or two would open for me. Maybe I would create an app, or be part of one&#x27;s creation. If this hobby becomes more than a hobby, and I crate web pages, web apps, and contribute to the community... Maybe I would be confident in my skills to apply to some tech jobs. Or do some freelance work. And don&#x27;t get me wrong, I really feel like I missed my calling. Now 15 years later with a family I am not in the position to quit this job and go to school. And of course the money issue, I would probably be able to make more than I make now if this happened. But that&#x27;s not why I am interested.<p>What do you guys think? Is this possible or is this a pipe dream? Should I just play more Halo and quit doing exercises on the web? Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2013) https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5970190 Upvote:
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Title: Today I’ll show you how to setup a gitolite installation on a VPS with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. To save myself some typing I’ll be using the following conventions:<p>A command prefixed by sysadmin$ is meant to be run in your local workstation.<p>A command prefixed by user@vpshost:path# is meant to be run in the vps under the specified user on the specified path. Upvote:
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Title: Many businesses use our Enterprise File Sharing Product called FileCloud (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tonido.com&#x2F;filecloud). Think of it as a self-hosted alternative to Dropbox. With the latest Chrome update, the browser is showing phishing warning (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;patch.codelathe.com&#x2F;foruser&#x2F;phish_1.jpg) with our installations. The warning is not based on the domain and it appears in our different customer installations. It has to be heuristic based because it generates warning even on a debug&#x2F;local webpage. The chrome browser heuristically decides our login page as a phishing page and gives the wrong warning. We are trying to find if there are any published &quot;guidelines&quot; as to legitimate web pages should NOT be doing to trigger these? Either there should be clear methods to resolve these warnings or Chrome should avoid doing this blanket-so-called-protection racket. Because of Google’s missteps, our reputation as well as customer reputation got a hit. We have spent countless hours in our resources to see what is going on and all thing points to heuristic decision making by Chrome browser. There is no way to contact Google Chrome team to resolve this issue. We have lost few large deals. Now all our support team is pretty much focused on this issue and fielding queries from our customers. Since our UI code (Developed in GWT) is common between our Enterprise and Consumer product (Tonido), if we this error start appearing in our consumer version (half a million users) it is an EXISTENTIAL RISK to our company that we have built over 5 years. We have 2 questions. 1. How to get in touch with Chrome team and solve the issue? 2. Are there any legal avenues or precedence to force Google to take action and claim compensation for lost business? Please provide us with your suggestions. P.S: It is happening to our software today. It may happen to your products tomorrow. Upvote:
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Title: In case you didn&#x27;t guess, it this app lets Tesla Model S owners interact with their vehicle with Google Glass.<p>Here&#x27;s what it can do:<p>- View vehicle charging status. Start or stop charging via Glass. You can even open the charge port without having to get back into your car.<p>- Locate your Model S on a map and get directions to it. You can even honk the horns or flash the headlights if you still can&#x27;t spot it.<p>- See whether the doors, trunks, or sunroof is open&#x2F;closed. Of course, you can lock or unlock your car remotely and even control the sunroof too.<p>- You can view the car&#x27;s interior and exterior temperatures. With a single tap, you can enable &quot;auto climate&quot; to either cool or heat your vehicle to an optimal temperature remotely.<p>What do you guys think? Upvote:
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Title: From Tesla e-mail:<p>As you may know, Tesla is under attack from a number of car dealer associations in various states who are challenging Tesla&#x27;s right to directly serve our customers at Tesla Stores and Service Centers.<p>Their efforts are protectionist in nature and infringe on the right of the consumer to choose how they purchase and service their vehicle.<p>An anonymous Tesla enthusiast created a White House petition to allow direct sales of cars to consumers in all states. We want to thank the tens of thousands of fans who have voiced their support and have already signed the petition.<p>We want this petition to succeed. For that to happen, the petition needs 15,000 more signatures by Friday, July 5, 2013.<p>Please act now and take a moment to register, sign and forward the petition today!<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petitions.whitehouse.gov&#x2F;petition&#x2F;allow-tesla-motors-sell-directly-consumers-all-50-states&#x2F;bFN7NHQR Upvote:
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Title: fat tailed distributions Upvote:
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Title: I noticed the who&#x27;s hiring threads are very popular every month, so I decided to create a job board specifically for hacker news. You can tag jobs, search, view user&#x27;s profiles and more.<p>Tell me what you guys thing! Any feedback is appreciated. Upvote:
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Title: When Holger Schubert created his studio-garage space, he did what any self-respecting, Ferrari-loving, minimalist architect would do: he took his work-of-art BB 512i and built everything around it. As any showcased work of art deserves to be, Holger&#x27;s car is in the spotlight and on the pedestal that is the studio garage, which was designed and built for the specific purpose of working and living alongside the Ferrari. Holger shares the details of his car and of his enviable space, which includes a 16-foot driveway bridge, a ramp to roll the car outside to start, and some of the best views a car can take in of the Pacific Ocean. Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;m 27 years old and I&#x27;ve never really been bothered to protest before. Sure, I&#x27;ve volunteered. I&#x27;ve participated in political campaigns. I&#x27;ve signed petitions and written my Congressmen. I&#x27;ve voted. But nothing had ever felt quite so bad to me that I needed to march. Other people would take care of that, as they always have, and the system would fix itself.<p>Something&#x27;s changed. A little over a year ago today I enlisted in the Army National Guard. In a week I head to SD for &quot;Phase 1&quot; of Officer Candidate School. (I don&#x27;t purport to represent the military).<p>Perhaps the reality of putting my life on the line for our country has made me take political change more personally. Of course, the past decades&#x27; worth of restrictions on our freedoms hasn&#x27;t helped. I&#x27;ve seen many comparisons here between warrantless spying and past oppressions, or with other states&#x27; far more terrible security apparatuses. &quot;It&#x27;s really not that bad.&quot; &quot;It could be worse.&quot; These all feel like false equivalencies.<p>We, of all people, should recognize the staggering, unpredictable impact that technology will have on our lives in just the coming decade alone. Given what we know about the accelerating pace of technology, are you really comfortable giving the government – any government – free reign over all your data? Do you want to set that precedent?<p>I&#x27;m no longer convinced that the system will self-correct. I see things coming to pass that make me worry for our collective future. I worry that if I don&#x27;t step up and say something, these worries will be completely brushed aside.<p>Today I march. And I feel like it&#x27;s the best thing I&#x27;ve done since I took my oath of enlistment.<p>Join me: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.restorethefourth.net&#x2F;protests&#x2F; Upvote:
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Title: So I&#x27;ve completed Codecademy&#x27;s course on Python, I have some experience fiddling with Flask and putting together random Python scripts. Generally, when I want to build something that I&#x27;ve never built before, I look up how to do it on Stackoverflow and manage to understand most of the things.<p>How can I take my knowledge to the next level?<p>Free learning resources are preferred. Hopefully ones you have used yourself when in my position.<p>Thanks! Upvote:
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Title: Sorry, there is no English discussion yet and not even a mainstream media article on Kaneko&#x27;s (handle: 47) death. However, his colleagues at the University of Tokyo are confirming his passing on Twitter and it is all but certain.<p>Cause of death: cardiac arrest.<p>While Sean Parker creates Napster and goes on to help make Facebook what it is today, Kaneko is persecuted by authorities for years, finally wins a not guilty verdict two years ago, and just as things were looking up, this.<p>RIP. Upvote:
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Title: Better translation:<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spiegel.de&#x2F;international&#x2F;world&#x2F;edward-snowden-accuses-germany-of-aiding-nsa-in-spying-efforts-a-909847.html Upvote:
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Title: What makes you decide start a project&#x2F;start-up&#x2F;etc?<p>From idea to implementation...<p>Do you go for something based on a technical analysis, market research, monetary potential, the start-up &quot;ride&quot;, or just because it&#x27;s fun to build something regardless of the outcome? Do you ever commit to a project knowing that even if you &quot;fail miserably&quot;, you will still gain from the experience?<p>Obviously most people weigh multiple factors, but which carries the most weight in your decision? Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;m not talking about products like the first iPhone, I&#x27;m talking about products (like gameboys) that are still cool and interesting, but completely irrelevant for the company that invented them.<p>Why don&#x27;t these companies open-source their old products? Upvote:
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Title: I imagine it depends on how this identity is to be used, and what sorts of scrutiny it must hold up to, so detailed information on the topic would be much appreciated. Upvote:
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Title: I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+ hangouts in every village and city from Beijing, China, to London, England. Upvote:
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Title: Improved title Upvote:
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Title: Proposed Kenya Shilling Symbol Upvote:
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Title: A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Friday ordered the government to promptly start releasing thousands of pages of Secret Service documents about the late activist and coder Aaron Swartz, following months of roadblocks and delays Upvote:
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Title: Here&#x27;s a link to the original one from 2008: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ycombinator.com&#x2F;ideas.html<p>Much of it still seems relevant and proved over the ensuing 5 years to be quite prescient. I&#x27;d love to hear what new ideas&#x2F;themes have emerged in the time since this was written. Upvote:
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Title: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;basho.com&#x2F;basho-announces-availability-of-riak-1-4&#x2F; Upvote:
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Title: There is allot of buzz around darknets and encrypted mesh-nets. But can we trust our hardware? A modern computer contains allot of different CPUs or CPU like circuits. Is there any way to determine if any of these chips are &quot;Phoning home&quot;? Upvote:
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Title: &quot;I made one change that day. I put Mr. in front of my name [Kim] on my CV. It looked a little too formal for my liking but I got an interview for the very next job I applied for. And the one after that. It all happened in a fortnight, and the second job was a substantial increase in responsibility over anything I had done before. In the end I beat out a very competitive short-list and enjoyed that job for the next few years, further enhancing my career.&quot; Upvote:
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Title: When did people start paying for your SaaS?<p>How many times did it take before you got it right? I don&#x27;t suspect most people get it right on their first go, so what have you taken from your failures and what have been the biggest factors in your success in terms of gaining traction with your SaaS?<p>In particular, what marketing&#x2F;promo tactics have served you best? Upvote:
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