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Spew: the UI-less feedreader(github.com)
6 points by dpapathanasiou 12y ago|0 comments
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by dpapathanasiou 12y ago
Actually, the post office may have noticed, but they probably don't care, since I'm not really cheating them out of revenue; they just charge Fidelity as if the envelope were legitimate. Only Fidelity might complain, but they crea
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by dpapathanasiou 12y ago
No, of course not. The permit number corresponds to a specific address.
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Hacking Business Reply Mail(denis.papathanasiou.org)
36 points by dpapathanasiou 12y ago|45 comments
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Airbnb Will Hand Over Host Data to New York(mobile.nytimes.com)
3 points by dpapathanasiou 12y ago|0 comments
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by dpapathanasiou 12y ago
Ha, nice catch!
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by dpapathanasiou 12y ago
Yes, there are post-docs in the lab; please get in touch via the jobs page.
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by dpapathanasiou 12y ago
New York City Tired of the startup goose chase? Change the world for real in 2014. Work on projects involving solar power, hardware controller software, data science, and mobile apps which really are life-changing[1] at the Sustainable Engi
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
" Soylent is betting on the fact that consumers want to separate the nourishment of food from the ritual of eating. That's a bit like saying, 'We can offer you the ability to reproduce without the inconvenience of having sex.
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
New York City Tired of the startup goose chase? Change the world for real in 2014. Work on projects involving solar power, hardware controller software, data science, and mobile apps which really are life-changing[1] at the Sustainable Engi
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
" Well, as you see it's not an earth shattering amount, but thanks! " I'm still encouraged that you managed to get any revenues, so kudos for that. " Just checked out your site. Looks cool and shares some similari
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Nice work, Steve! It's great to see someone making money with this; I have a similar project for Japanese + English[1] which is more of a hobby site right now, but I'll start following readlang.com more closely. [1] http:/&#
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Bitcoin and the dangerous fantasy of "apolitical" money(yanisvaroufakis.eu)
2 points by dpapathanasiou 13y ago|0 comments
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Does anyone know what the author meant by this? " Software that assigned identities to enrollees and ensured that they saw only their own personal data, known internally as the EIdM, was being quickly overwhelmed. Customers could not l
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Not to worry, the last two paragraphs explain why it won't take over the world: " I was euphoric. I felt the endorphins rushing through my body, the gob of chicken skin wandering down my esophagus, the juices staining my chin. Rob
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
In 1994, someone at Wired magazine (which was only in its 2nd year of existence) registered mcdonalds.com to see what would happen: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/mcdonalds_pr.html
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
This is a simple command-line based rss reader which is great for browsing your favorite sites unobtrusively, without having to open a browser window. Unless people look really closely at your terminal window, they will think you are compil
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Show HN: a simple command-line rss reader great for browsing unobtrusively(github.com)
2 points by dpapathanasiou 13y ago|1 comments
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John McAfee: Addict, coder, runaway(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by dpapathanasiou 13y ago|0 comments
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
It's more about bureaucratic procedures which make no common sense: " White House memo: Shut down government sites, even if it’s cheaper to leave them online "[1] [1] http://jonchristian.net/2013/10/
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Tooling for the Lazy Programmer: DRYing up D3(urbanairship.com)
2 points by dpapathanasiou 13y ago|0 comments
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Right, it wasn't just the fact that the code was the same; it was that he initially posted those questions under his real name.
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Number 3 was huge because the stackoverflow answer was used on the site nearly as-is: Based on forensic analysis of the Silk Road Web Server, I know that the computer code ... includes a customized PHP strip based on 'curl' that
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Fun with D3 and Web Visualizations(denis.papathanasiou.org)
2 points by dpapathanasiou 13y ago|0 comments
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
I'm just getting started with d3 myself, and I found this ebook, which is free online, to be a great tutorial for all of things mentioned in the OP's post, but in greater detail: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/boo
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
I'm doing something similar for Japanese and English, though there's no machine translation involved. Instead, it's a pure wikipedia-style site[1], where anyone can post their best attempts. Multiple translations are allowed
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
But given that I have no idea what I want, I figure the more people I invite to provide ideas the better. You can just do what Steve Jobs did with Next: pick a designer you like, and leave it entirely up to him. Ironically not because Job
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
I can't figure out what the target audience of this post is. It's part of Wired's "Enterprise Technology" blog[1] so it's for CIO/CTO and other IT consultant types who don't write any code themselve
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
The content of the corpus doesn't matter, so the answer to your first question is no, and yes, if you're clever in terms of how you've composed the corpus so that no one could re-create it easily, then it's ok (relativel
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by dpapathanasiou 13y ago
Thanks I'll look more into how TweetFS works. I was just kidding about the hijiacking comment; don't people know how to interpret emoticons anymore? :D

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