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Stop Doing the Thing that Makes You Powerless(4ormat.com)
10 points by mef 15y ago|0 comments
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Gene therapy succeeds in destroying leukemia tumor(reuters.com)
1 points by mef 15y ago|0 comments
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by mef 15y ago
Looks like node + socket.io for the push updates. Very snappy.
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Apple briefly becomes largest U.S. company(reuters.com)
2 points by mef 15y ago|0 comments
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Using ants as pixels(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by mef 15y ago|0 comments
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Sea-based X-band Radar(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mef 15y ago|0 comments
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by mef 15y ago
Would this not be compensated in the end-to-end TCP checksumming? And couldn't the traffic to bit-squatting domains be accounted for by the myriad bots that constantly scan the web on port 80?
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by mef 15y ago
Interesting history: VeriSign acquired Netsol for $21 Billion in 2000, and then sold them to Pivotal Equity Group in 2003, but did not include in that sale Netsol's role as the sole registry for .com/net/org TLDs. Today VeriSign's naming d
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Pay-it-forward startup Akoha shutting down August 15(blog.akoha.com)
3 points by mef 15y ago|0 comments
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by mef 15y ago
Great news, thanks for the link. From the article: On 06/28/11 the SFPD through investigative leads conducted a search of a premise in Belmont, CA. Two people were detained, but released pending further investigation. The search yielded som
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by mef 15y ago
Seems like a pretty good response to the situation, especially the host insurance, 24-hour customer service, and improved guest verification. For Brian Chesky's sake I hope the SFPD actually have a suspect in custody this time.
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by mef 15y ago
Looks like the admin stored the wallet.dat and backups on an ec2 instance, and then shut it down while doing a RAM upgrade without realizing he would lose everything on the disk. Translation of post: DECLARATION I hereby inform all users of
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3rd largest Bitcoin exchange lost its wallet.dat(bitomat.pl)
117 points by mef 15y ago|98 comments
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US iOS and Android game revenue estimated to pass $1 Billion in 2011(blog.flurry.com)
5 points by mef 15y ago|0 comments
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by mef 15y ago
Reading the headline, I was hoping this was a ruby-debug console in the localhost browser for the current request. Perhaps that can be shoehorned into rack-webconsole?
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JQuery Masonry(masonry.desandro.com)
2 points by mef 15y ago|0 comments
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by mef 15y ago
Interestingly, they will exclusively fly 9-passenger planes in order to skirt the TSA rule of screening for planes that fly 10 or more.
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by mef 15y ago
From the welcome email, which also links to their blog http://planered.tumblr.com/ : Thanks for signing up! Our goal is to change the way we fly. No more buying outrageously priced tickets. No more lost luggage. No more middle seats in a c
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Startup Airline to offer all-you-can-fly subscriptions for $150/m(planered.com)
25 points by mef 15y ago|34 comments
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Study: length of vacation does not affect happiness level(arno.uvt.nl)
1 points by mef 15y ago|0 comments
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Chomsky on Cognitive Systems (University of Cologne, 2011)(youtube.com)
2 points by mef 15y ago|0 comments
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by mef 15y ago
Looks like it's an issue tracker. http://traction.ownlocal.com/ Why wouldn't they just link to it in the post?
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by mef 15y ago
A three paragraph post about launching something called "traction" about which they give no information except that it's "awesome" and improves "every metric we track". Also some self-congratulations and a screenshot that sheds no additiona
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by mef 15y ago
The article is a bit breathless and has an odd Apple-specific thrust to it, but that aside I'd never heard of webdoc before and using it is actually a pretty cool experience. I can especially see this appealing to casual bloggers or teenage
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Mt. Gox beefs up security, adds support for Yubikey(forum.bitcoin.org)
4 points by mef 15y ago|4 comments
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by mef 15y ago
To run on OSX: grab the archive http://wyvern.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de/~antocuni/pypy-image-dem... brew install pypy brew install mplayer pypy demo/magnify.py pypy demo/sobel.py For me, 24 average fps on magnify.py, 34 average
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Bitcoin Miner does the math, calls it quits(bitcoin-board.com)
94 points by mef 15y ago|99 comments
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You're more likely to survive a plane crash than click a banner ad(businessinsider.com)
5 points by mef 15y ago|0 comments
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by mef 15y ago
Sure, but what motivation would they have to open it in China instead of just blocking it and propping up a Facebook-style Chinese site that they can surveil for free?
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by mef 15y ago
The article confusingly states first that China's stake would not be influential, and then states that the apparent reason for China's interest is to have "control in the long run". Even if China's stake was influential, why would they need

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