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Apollo, the data stack for modern apps(medium.com)
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by joeyspn 11y ago
Startups 100% focused on WebRTC? not many as per startup/high growth definition... The question is tricky, but I'd say that some of the startups using WebRTC as a key part of their offer are: Twilio, Tokbox, Plivo, Tropo, Slack.
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Yes, there are already several implementations... https://github.com/feross/webtorrent https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-dht https://bitbucket.org/vardump/webrtc-kademlia
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> A laser capable of propelling an interstellar probe is also a mighty space weapon. Yes, but maybe it could also give us the technology to quickly deflect perilous asteroids... ?
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Ahh yeah, this is from Tim Urban's Your Life in Weeks post [0], and way before Tim discovered and wrote his awesome posts about the AI Revolution [1] and cryonics.... I guess he knows now that 90 might actually be quite short sighted
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Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?(scientificamerican.com)
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That is the most abstract and confusing roadmap I've ever seen... Two improvements before rocket.chat eats your lunch... 1 - Give devs the option to extend the UI via fly-in panels (like rocket.chat does) 2 - Update API to support comm
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by joeyspn 11y ago
Download mp3 with the maximum possible quality. $ youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" <URL>
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IBM's Dharmendra Modha: We'll have a brain in a box before 2020(youtube.com)
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Clean water will be the next big commodity... Guess who has been buying it... 1+1=2
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A couple of weeks ago I read a more compelling theory, that also is an interesting solution for the Fermi Paradox. It said something like this IIRC: The normal evolution of a civilisation of smart species is to arrive to a point where they
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by joeyspn 11y ago
With FOSS... I.e: https://rocket.chat/
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The future or the past?... motion design for UIs started in the 80s/90s and gained traction in the web during the early 2000s with Flash/AS2/AS3... Denying this is knowing nothing about the history of UI design. Browse the
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With the new MS backing I hope Xamarin adds other languages like TypeScript to their product... This would be awesome.
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6.25% now...
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Meet Jitsi... https://meet.jit.si/ It's a nice FOSS alternative for group calling.
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Use Meteor's client side DDP protocol and Minimongo in a non Meteor project(github.com)
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A couple of weeks ago, researching options for remote pair programming I signed up to Cloud9... and I was quite (positively) surprised! They give you a full VM/container so you can play with a proper Terminal.. I only disliked one thin
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Announcing Ionic Framework 2 Beta(blog.ionic.io)
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> HN has traditionally been full of self-promotion... Yes, but there are rules, and we all should play by the same rules. HNs rules state that if your story got significant attention recently (this story was 1st six months ago) it'l
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by joeyspn 11y ago
I've just emailed dang, hopefully someone from the HN team can clarify where is the red line...
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We all miss many stories, but HN's rules are quite clear about reposts: >Are reposts ok? If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok. htt
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What's the point of sending this again? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914045 I thought this was considered spammy behaviour: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dragula&sort=byPopularity&pref.
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I was going to post this... it's about time until the WHO classifies added sugars in the same carcinogenic category as cigarettes... what is happening in the food industry is simply bizarre. Artificial sweeteners aren't the soluti
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OVH is well known here in Europe, they were the counterpart to USA's "The Planet" (merged with SoftLayer). If you wanted dedicated servers in the EU during the early 2000s, the preferred option was always OVH...
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> The article talks about the slow transaction time being a barrier to arbitrage. The article is wrong on many levels. You don't need to transact (or even own) bitcoins in order to arbitrage. You can just buy/sell and open s
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> Correct my if I'm wrong... You are very wrong , plus you are talking to jerguismi (localbitcoin's founder), who I'd presume has made quite a bit from arbitrage in the space...
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> Would you do it for animals too? Why not? Veterinaries would love novel approaches. Plus the pre-research is always carried in animals. > How would people remember everything? You should ask Google's Director of Engineering
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Along with clean nuclear fusion (already well funded), this is another great idea. I think there are already a couple of big projects working on this... http://www.theoceancleanup.com/
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Another vote for Aubrey de Grey's SENS. It means funding indirectly fields like alzheimer research, cancer research or cardiovascular disease research with radical and different approaches, more startup-like. Conventional academic rese

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