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bookfeed.io 5y ago

RSS feed with authors' most recently released books

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techcrunch.com 5y ago

Apple won’t force developers to let users opt out of tracking until next year

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ffmpeg.zeranoe.com 5y ago

Ffmpeg.zeranoe.com will close on Sep 18, 2020 (windows ffmpeg builds)

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9to5mac.com 5y ago

Facebook wanted to tell users about Apple’s 30% cut; Apple blocked it

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Apple Is Wrong About Xbox Game Streaming (Rene Ritchie)

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www.forbes.com 7y ago

iPhones and Some Android Are Vulnerable to a New Device Fingerprinting Attack

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mobilepassport.us 7y ago

Mobile Passport app segments features to go freemium

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9to5mac.com 7y ago

ACLU files complaint – US border control intense interrogation of Apple employee

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www.zdnet.com 7y ago

New browser attack lets hackers run bad code even after users leave a web page

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developer.apple.com 8y ago

iOS App Guidelines: must allow the user to see information used to target them

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twitter.com 8y ago

German butcher's GDPR notice

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www.theverge.com 8y ago

Showtime websites secretly mined user CPU for cryptocurrency

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www.economist.com 8y ago

The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore

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daringfireball.net 9y ago

In-App Purchase Scams in the App Store

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woodgears.ca 9y ago

Blower Impeller Design Experiments

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9to5mac.com 9y ago

Apple releases iOS 10 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to the public

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Why does Facebook require 2 admins to add a Company, even if sole prop.?

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recode.net 12y ago

Top Free iOS App Is an Anticapitalist Spoof That’s Making $50K Per Day

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vimeo.com 12y ago

How to Lose at Poker

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www.cringely.com 12y ago

Cringely: Apple's iPad Problem (They Last Too Long)

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status.namecheap.com 12y ago

DDOS on Free DNS Servers (NameCheap)

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www.cringely.com 12y ago

Google Earth is now on Mainframe2

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www.cringely.com 12y ago

An impending black swan for electric cars

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www.nbcnews.com 12y ago

Candy Crush maker trademarks the word 'candy'

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www.cringely.com 12y ago

Try editing your images in the cloud via Mainframe2

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: How can I market my iOS games to older folks?

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: How to get an iOS 4.3 iThing for testing? Anybody have one for sale?

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struct.ca 13y ago

Futile by Matt Rix (maker of Trainyard) a code-centric 2D engine for Unity3D

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blog.talenthouse.com 13y ago

Tips to Recharge Your Creativity

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What if there was a spec that web browsers could submit small amounts of mining work as a micropayment system for web content? (amount determined by content provider per-page or per-session or some other better granularity, only sent if user approves)

Browsers could pre-mine/cache some amount of work so that page load times would be relatively unaffected.

Browsers could ask about payment similar to pages requesting location (yes/no/always/never) so future payments are automatically applied or denied.

Thoughts?

I think that may have been Chris Hardwick's inflection point for going mainstream. At least that's when I first heard about him...

I had this happen to me a while back and came up with a fairly simple possible explanation/implementation. Facebook could look at the time and geo stamps in uploaded photos to determine who was in the same place at the same time, and offer those people up as potential friends to add.

Anybody want to buy one? Let me know :-)

(edit) To clarify, my Dad still has one, and with all the VHS decks and monitors and mixers and such it's kinda like a mainframe and takes up a huge amount of space. But could be fun for the right, uh, museum? :-)

What kind of a box do you really need for that, though? The requirements seem to say 4G of RAM, which seems to demand a big VPS or a dedicated box... (would be $40/month for a 4G RAM VPS at digital ocean or Linode)

Quote at the end of that article contradicts your statement...?

"Current medical opinion is that the benefits of fasting are unproven and until there are more human studies it's better to eat at least 2000 calories a day. "

Anybody know why NameCheap is getting hit with lots of DDOS lately?

Unfortunately I didn't realize this when I just started moving my domains there, as I can't even log in due to two factor auth from namecheap not working, possibly as a side effect from the DDOS...

Answering my own question:

CasperJS is an open source navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for the PhantomJS WebKit headless browser and SlimerJS (Gecko). It eases the process of defining a full navigation scenario and provides useful high-level functions, methods & syntactic sugar for doing common tasks such as:

    defining & ordering browsing navigation steps
    filling & submitting forms
    clicking & following links
    capturing screenshots of a page (or part of it)
    testing remote DOM
    logging events
    downloading resources, including binary ones
    writing functional test suites, saving results as JUnit XML
    scraping Web contents

I got rejected, but I _do_ show ads. My guess is Apple is targeting particular SDKs/libraries, and so that even apps that are showing ads are getting flagged. Not sure what the resolution is going to be - still waiting on an Apple response.

I've got a whole bunch of libs included, several of which use AdSupport. Arg.