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by shared4you 13y ago
There is Scicos [1] which is the "Simulink" of Scilab, itself a Matlab-lookalike. [1]: http://www.scicos.org/
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Dear Software Vendors: Your network licensing causes me pain.(walkingrandomly.com)
1 points by shared4you 13y ago|1 comments
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Image Processing Challenge: What does the world look like through my eyes?(walkingrandomly.com)
2 points by shared4you 13y ago|0 comments
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by shared4you 13y ago
As a non-US HN'er, I totally agree with this. I come here for tech news, not US politics. Some HNer has set up a nice filter: http://diff.biz/?remove=%28nsa|prism|privacy|crunch|snowden|... It filters away all stories
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by shared4you 13y ago
I can't believe Kim Dotcom stored the data on only Leaseweb's servers. I hope he has backup copies or mirrors from another storage provider.
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by shared4you 13y ago
This article [1] says that cockroaches do experience pain, care for their offspring, form social hierarchies. They can suffer from stress and can die from it, even without injury. Therefore, the ethics issue cannot be ignored. [1]: http:&#
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Debian Wheezy 7.1 released(debian.org)
8 points by shared4you 13y ago|0 comments
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India gets ready to roll out cyber snooping agency(thehindu.com)
67 points by shared4you 13y ago|7 comments
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by shared4you 13y ago
Here's a list with mostly shortcomings of some RSS readers: https://gist.github.com/bdsatish/5627447
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by shared4you 13y ago
Somebody needs to tell Amazon about this site: http://webrupee.com/ This pulls in a web font (woff) to display ₹. If Javascript is disabled it shows up as "Rs" instead. A fair compromise instead of images everywhere.
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by shared4you 13y ago
"What will happen if im an asshole" -- that's the first time I've seen a URL anchor like that! https://rawgithub.com/#what-will-happen-if-im-an-asshole
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by shared4you 13y ago
Agreed. You can catch a glimpse of the real phone at the production shop, around 00:50s: http://vimeo.com/66409578
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by shared4you 13y ago
Fairphone is manufactured using raw materials from conflict-free regions in Africa (D.R. Congo). A completely open source, rooted-by-default hardware and software on which you can also install FirefoxOS, Ubuntu and Debian too ( http://www.f
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Fairphone: Android phone that puts social values first(fairphone.com)
72 points by shared4you 13y ago|59 comments
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by shared4you 13y ago
OT: I submitted the same news yesterday, but HN didn't pick it up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5797905 Just 7 votes, but today this story is already on HN front page. Hmmm, may be I should've chosen a better title.
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by shared4you 13y ago
> 18 official languages here in India Correction: it's 22. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_languages_of_India
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by shared4you 13y ago
List of bugs fixed, 91 in total: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&...
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GCC 4.8.1 released(gcc.gnu.org)
14 points by shared4you 13y ago|1 comments
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VP8 cross-license draft compatible with FOSS licensing(softwarefreedom.org)
1 points by shared4you 13y ago|0 comments
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by shared4you 13y ago
So, basically Gmail labels have been converted into tabs. One tab per label. I can get rid of labels now.
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by shared4you 13y ago
The last slide: gcc (38/39) -- Not implemented: threads, regex I think this is no longer true. I've some threads and regex code running well with gcc 4.7 and 4.8. Anyone knows when was this presentation given? It doesn't have any
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by shared4you 13y ago
Not to forget pdf.js -- even God would not dare to write a PDF viewer in Javascript, but Mozilla did it.
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by shared4you 13y ago
> reservation system for the admission of scheduled castes and others residing at the bottom of India's socioeconomic pyramid Correction: it's social pyramid only. Classification of SC/STs is purely based on caste alone, not on econ
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by shared4you 13y ago
Some bugs & gotchas for me: * Select Layout -> Small. But it is not remembered across all feeds. I have to change it for each. * Click RSS on menu bar. Then under "My Feeds", click the '+' icon on one of the feeds. Doesn't do anyth
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by shared4you 13y ago
Agree with the OP. Just use Verdana (sans-serif) and Georgia (serif). If you are on Debain (and its children) you can install "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" -- which provides Andale Mono, Arial, Verdana, Georgia, Comic Sans, Times New Roman an
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by shared4you 13y ago
> no white space after the keywords if, for, while, etc. Woh, my workplace enforces the exact opposite! The idea is that if, while, etc are not functions, therefore `if (x)` is unacceptable but `my_func(x)` is ok. I personal
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by shared4you 13y ago
I choose the "German" flag. Does it mean that I should type in German or others ' messages are translated to German? It's not at all clear from the wording: "Choose your username and language to start chatting with the world"... What if
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by shared4you 13y ago
I'm running Aurora from Ubuntu PPA (but on Linux Mint). Absolutely no issues. Yes, it replaces regular Firefox. Add-on compatibility is excellent though; can't remember any addon causing me trouble whatsoever. I'm currently on Firefox 23 fr
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by shared4you 13y ago
Google also has a chat bot: guru@googlelabs.com . Just add it to your contacts list and you can query it over XMPP.
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by shared4you 13y ago
I recommend you read the unofficial FAQ [1] and the official guidelines [2]. In short, you can't downvote a story but you can "flag" it, which penalizes by pushing it down the page. You can downvote comments if you have atleast 500 karma. [

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