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by nir 13y ago
Got it. Good catch, thanks! We put the site together pretty quickly, so left the images at their original, slower server. I need to move them to gh-pages and check performance again.
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by nir 13y ago
Thanks! I didn't get the part about lazy load - the images are pretty big, but only get loaded when you view them, isn't that what LL is about?
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by nir 13y ago
Great lib, I used it for http://nli-labs.net/jerusalem_maps/ and it worked beautifully, easily integrating with some other 3rd party JS libs. (Source here, in case it's useful for anyone: https://github
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by nir 13y ago
Some sleep in the trees: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/13/nyregion/13trees.html?page... Must be cooler there than on the ground.. Having lived through a few NYC summers, they can really be the worst. No
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The RoboRoach: Control a living insect from your smartphone(kickstarter.com)
1 points by nir 13y ago|0 comments
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by nir 13y ago
Yes, but experience shows it's FB's interest that you share as much of your data as possible. It's not going to change, publicizing your data is its whole business.
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by nir 13y ago
Isn't advertising your personal information, relationships and whereabouts the whole point of Facebook? If it's private, don't put it on Facebook.
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Instant Server - Click the button to get a virtual private server(instantserver.io)
203 points by nir 13y ago|78 comments
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by nir 13y ago
(1) Well, Chomsky is doing alright.. And I wouldn't say The Nation or the New Yorker have any qualms about criticizing Israel (and they shouldn't). (2) I agree, the situation is represented in the US in very simplistic terms, by b
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by nir 13y ago
If I'm ignorant, feel free to enlighten me. "Clown" was not a good choice for word, but the author's claim that Israel is comparable to 1984 is a joke and his referrals to traffic cameras etc are ridiculous. I'm not
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by nir 13y ago
"The Israeli authorities took George Orwell’s book, Ninteen Eighty Four, and made it in to a master plan." OMG! The author expands: "Israeli nationals are always subjected to espionage and surveillance: employers read your em
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Hong Kong Baffled by Snowden’s Hideout(blogs.wsj.com)
130 points by nir 13y ago|97 comments
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by nir 13y ago
Anyone who follows China's foreign policy knows that it's entirely driven by economic interests (eg, supplying weapons to Sudan during the Darfur genocide, breaking the UN embargo). From a pure economic standpoint, the US governme
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by nir 13y ago
I agree the parent comment's insinuation of antisemitism was nonsense. >it's utterly vital for Israeli survival to have the threat of American nuclear reprisal at their beck and call (1) Why exactly do you think Israel has US s
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by nir 13y ago
US military aid is about %1 of Israel's budget, so factually it can't be said to "survive" on it (BTW it's required to spend nearly all of it buying from US suppliers). As for "nominally democratic" I&#x27
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by nir 13y ago
Well said. Also, tip to US journos (and Israeli Business-Insider-wannabe bloggers): 8200 used to be a small and highly selective unit. These days it's the biggest unit of any kind in the IDF. The fact an Israeli company has people wh
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by nir 13y ago
I don't understand - was it not obvious from the get go? The PPS lists various types of data the NSA gets from various companies. For some reason most commenters here chose to interpret this to mean the NSA has a direct pipe feeding it
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by nir 13y ago
Judging from the article it seems like Asia's loss.
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by nir 13y ago
Some reports said the main thing delaying the deal is Waze's reluctance to move to Facebook HQ.
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by nir 13y ago
When you're on the client side you don't have much of a choice. On the server, there are various options. And even then, GAE is more risky than, say, .Net - since you never actually buy the platform, you're subject to Google's changing pric
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by nir 13y ago
Scraped from http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/maps/jer/html/date.html , added TimelineJS + FancyBox + ImageLens
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Show HN: My side project, timeline of old Jerusalem maps(nli-labs.net)
15 points by nir 13y ago|1 comments
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by nir 13y ago
Why would anyone lock themselves to a Google-only infrastructure now?
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by nir 14y ago
I suspect the infamous Mossad Shark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel-related_animal_conspirac...
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by nir 14y ago
It might be naive, but my own little protest is avoiding Google+ whenever possible, as a user and in projects I build. RSS isn't dying of natural causes. Plenty of small-medium sites are getting orders of magnitude more traffic from Reader
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by nir 14y ago
The CTO who hired me, a college dropout and former construction worker, to my first startup. It was a menial data entry job but he took a chance when he let me start coding 2 months later, and lead the web team to the launch a year after th
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by nir 14y ago
Well said. Seems like companies are starting believe their own job ads, searching for Ninjas and Rock Stars and obsessing about hiring processes. We're not doing brain surgery, and we're not flying to the moon. The JS frameworks mentioned i
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by nir 14y ago
True story: Worst code I've ever inherited in my life was in Python / Django.
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by nir 14y ago
If building websites is like building bridges, you're right. I think it may be more like communicating. In that sense, English is "better" than Esperanto, even though it's not as well thought out, simply because more people can use it at so
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How do I "think in AngularJS" if I have a jQuery background?(stackoverflow.com)
9 points by nir 14y ago|0 comments

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