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by jakobe 13y ago
I just landed in Madrid, coming from Vienna. It was an international flight, but since it was within the EU, I didn't have to show my ID once. I bought my ticket online, I checked in online. At the security checkpoint, I showed my boar
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by jakobe 13y ago
Maybe freedom to communicate without being subject to government surveillance?
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by jakobe 13y ago
The fact that Google illegally circumvented the "3rd party cookie" policy in Safari suggests that they do care a lot about an individual's data.
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by jakobe 13y ago
This seems to be the peer-reviewed journal article: http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/62/5/1665.abstr... From reading the abstract, it seems that inhibiting the mentioned pathway prevents islet cel
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by jakobe 13y ago
This is a great article. The best part is where the author suggests alternative icons for Zappos, Amazon and Apple. So true.
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Show HN: I made a PostgreSQL GUI for the Mac: PG Commander(eggerapps.at)
5 points by jakobe 13y ago|0 comments
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by jakobe 13y ago
I'd see this as a red flag and look for a different photographer. Some time ago I've had similar issues with a designer I hired: He wouldn't give me vector files, only flat PNGs. He said it had to do something with his reputa
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by jakobe 13y ago
Who is everyone else?
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by jakobe 13y ago
Yes, children this young are totally able to use their skills responsibly. If you think it's necessary to eavesdrop on your kids, read all their private communications --- how will they ever trust you? If you want to find out about a t
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by jakobe 13y ago
If you really want to work on machine learning, do a PhD. If you have a bit of experience and if you are good at it, it should be very easy to find a paid position. In academia, especially during your PhD, you are very free to work on your
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by jakobe 13y ago
What worries me most is that they don't even deny spying on foreigners. With so many international websites and services located in the US, what does that mean for us in Europe? What difference do our European privacy laws make, if we use w
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by jakobe 13y ago
If you search for "Hacker News" on the iOS App Store, you'll find 20-something apps for reading Hacker News. I like MiniHack[1], but I've only actually tried two of the apps. [1] https://itunes.apple.com/at/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id6
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by jakobe 13y ago
You don't need multiple cards with the same private key. You can use multiple cards with different private keys, that are all authorized for your server(s). If you lose one card, just remove that card's public key from the authorized keys.
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by jakobe 13y ago
I get the feeling that at the very top of every Hacker News comment thread, there's someone who claims that the author of the article is an incompetent idiot because they found a factual error somewhere in the article. Often this leads to a
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by jakobe 13y ago
The automatic trademark blacklist in Google adwords is really idiotic even if the trademark is valid. I once tried making an ad for my Mac app, and I couldn't include the word "Mac" or "Mac OS" in the copy because they are trademarks.
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by jakobe 13y ago
Jeeze... do you really think that your native characters are a good idea to be used in an URL? Take this URL for example: http://archaeologie-ooe.info/orte/hoersching I could have used UTF-8, and made the URL http://archäologie-oö.info/o
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by jakobe 13y ago
When converting from utf-8 to ascii with iconv, try specifying "ASCII//TRANSLIT" as target encoding to avoid removing foreign characters.
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by jakobe 13y ago
Unfortunately, you can't just claim that Aspirin (ASS) is safer than Tylenol (Paracetamol). Among the NSAIDs, aspirin is the strongest anti-coagulant, and the anti-coagulation effect can last for weeks. While small doses of ASS are benefici
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by jakobe 13y ago
Naming things is so hard. Descriptive names might be great at telling users immediately what your service does. But there are only so many plays on "To Do List" that work for product names. As soon as you start actually using a product, it'
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by jakobe 14y ago
It's amazing how everybody is so quick to dismiss the general public as "stupid" just because they are not familiar with some domain specific terminology.
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by jakobe 14y ago
Isn't it weird that there are only girls in the video?
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by jakobe 14y ago
I don't like that the buttons appear only on hover, and that they hide the headline. I usually move the mouse wherever I'm currently looking at the screen, and then the text suddenly disappears... not good. I like that the headlines are big
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by jakobe 14y ago
The idea that science is done discrete tiny steps is a bit disturbing to me. It's not just doing a PhD, it's all of academia. Most Funding Agencies give away their money in tiny chunks, for short term projects, for individuals or very small
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by jakobe 14y ago
I like the content selection, but I'm not a fan of the design. Also, for inexplicable reasons, the website uses a lot of bandwidth when it's open in my browser.
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by jakobe 14y ago
> Don't downplay education. Are you saying that training on the job with a good mentor, with classes once a week, does not qualify as "education"?
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Realistic textures in user interfaces(jakobegger.at)
1 points by jakobe 14y ago|0 comments
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by jakobe 14y ago
When web fonts came on the scene, I was enthusiastic to finally see headlines rendered as images, or even worse, those sIFR Flash headlines, disappear. But now people are using custom fonts even for body copy, and with this whitespace probl
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by jakobe 14y ago
It makes me a bit sad that this is just as unusable on mobile as HN.
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by jakobe 14y ago
Slightly off-topic, does anybody know of a good European email service provider, that actually has servers in Europe? I am currently using Fastmail, which is operated by an Australian company owned by a Norwegian company, and apparently the
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by jakobe 14y ago
I somehow understand that Jobs would be angry when Palm started hiring all those people from the iPod team, especially at a time when Apple was stealthily working on the iPhone. As much as I despise patent litigation, I can understand Jobs'

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