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by ben1040 14y ago
WHAT TWOSOME NEEDS Twosome has to be installed on your and your sweetheart's phone. To create the special link you need a connection to the internet just for the moment both of you bump your phones. It doesn't matter how Twosome gets the
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by ben1040 14y ago
I'm OK with the Prius, but the Leaf definitely looks like an "electric car" where "electric car" is said as though it were the punchline to a joke.
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>Most hit shows of the '00s till today are invariantly tied up in trying to peddle toys of some kind. This isn't anything new or particular to children's shows from the '00s; this has been going for the entire lifetime (or longer) of ma
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I think their security rating system is more than a bit wrong. They rank badness using star ratings, which imply to users that anything above 1-star is still acceptable (you'd still see a 3-star movie or eat at a restaurant with a 3-star r
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by ben1040 14y ago
>Such things always made me question why they bothered mandating having GPS in "dumb phones" in the first place. Obviously there's other reasons, but none that seem to help consumers. The main purpose of GPS in dumbphones (and one which
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Looking at the version history, I totally forgot about the early days of the web when browsers by default only came with 40-bit encryption because of US export regulations.
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I'm most depressed by the "fast forward to 2006" part of this article, where they mention 3-6 Mbps service being delivered. Fast forward to 2013, AT&T will still not offer anything faster than 3Mbps DSL to my home, and they charge a pri
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The status page itself seems to be timing out, too, at least for me.
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I thought that at least here in Missouri[1] and in numerous other states[2], the exclusivity contract is no longer a lever the municipalities have, thanks to statewide franchising laws. AT&T was the main lobbyist behind these laws durin
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>Now it's unclear to me whether Anonymous placed the spreadsheet on the .gov server, or they simply found it and exposed it. Consider the ".gov" URL that this was hosted at. If Anonymous had just found and exposed this, we'd have to acc
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by ben1040 14y ago
FDIC says it is also a good internal control policy - force people to take a 2 week vacation as a means to mitigate fraud. http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/1995/fil9552.html
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HN Commentary from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313570
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So the technology platform is Simple's main product (after all, they're not a bank, that part is left up to their bank partner), right? In light of that, it seems odd that they'd farm out the development of one of the biggest customer-facin
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>It's interesting to see the music industry keep moving forward and allowing this type of stuff to happen (and the itunes match/etc services). The other two big industries are so far behind. The reason seems to be exactly what you point
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The funny thing is the linked article shows an Android screenshot. But from googling around, it looks like no such app has been released yet. http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2013/01/09/business/SIMPLE...
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"One of the best" != "the best." I wouldn't in a heartbeat trade my life now for what I had then. But looking back, if life is a series of ups and downs then my university years would definitely fall under the "ups" column. I have met some
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by ben1040 14y ago
>the type of people that were unlikely to buy anyway. As someone whose Android app has wound up on some pirate sites, it's not so much the lost revenue I'm worried about. It's the possibility that the version of my app on some Chinese
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LG has also apparently been charging a much higher wholesale price to everyone except Google. http://www.zdnet.com/retailers-rebel-as-lg-tries-pricing-nex...
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How long has it been a requirement that any Apple Developer Program business membership requires a DUNS number? I thought that was only a requirement for their enterprise program, but apparently they now require a DUNS number for even the
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Longest-Running Earth Observation Satellite to Retire(space.com)
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>3) ftnn2lhnosm.youtube At least I'll be able to blacklist dQw4w9WgXcQ.youtube in my /etc/hosts and be able to blindly click links again.
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Relevant - this 20 year old video with Steve Jobs giving a demo of NeXTSTEP 3. I first saw this after having bought a Mac running OS X 10.2 and was surprised by how the user-facing stuff was still very similar to its roots (maybe not nearly
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>They are all now (or will be) a bunch of yuppies worried about their retirement benefits I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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Also, it's got to be a pretty old stock photo, given that in the background you've got an ABI 373 DNA sequencer connected to what looks like a Mac II. Being a relic of the very early 90s, the only thing the 373's good for now is taking apar
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>But later he had no problems. No problems, except for being dead of diabetes and heart disease. Certainly makes me wonder if the stress of being a wrongfully accused terrorist shortened his life. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
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Has the nav on Mapquest gotten any better? I had an iPhone 4S for a few weeks last year and tried the Mapquest app. I found that it was terrible when driving down a freeway. Every time I crossed an overpass, it would assume that I was on
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Google I/O 2013 Announced: May 15 - 17(plus.google.com)
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A few months ago here in St Louis, a woman was murdered in broad daylight in an armed robbery attempt. Police started looking at other recent street robberies reported in the area. It turned out that a week before the murder, a person was
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http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/06/30/why-... The Boeing Connexion system was satellite-based (thus high latency), cost $500K per plane, and weighed 1000 pounds. The Gogo equipment costs $100K per plane, and weighs 100 p
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Yeah. On someone's advice here on HN a year or so ago I bought a ScanSnap 1500 and have been scanning everything I get into Evernote. It's awesome.

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