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kolev

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        "full_name": "Nikolay Kolev",
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            "https://nikolay.com",
            "https://nikolay.io",
            "https://github.com/nikolay",
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    }
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www.tinycert.org 10y ago

TinyCert – Become Your Own PKI/CA Authority in a Matter of Minutes

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sangria-graphql.org 10y ago

Sangria – Scala GraphQL Implementation

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github.com 10y ago

Alternative Internet

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aws.amazon.com 10y ago

Resource-Oriented Bidding for EC2 Spot Instances

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hjson.org 10y ago

Hjson, the Human JSON

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en.wikipedia.org 10y ago

Bus Factor

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www.lita.io 10y ago

Lita – A robot companion for your company's chat room

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github.com 10y ago

GitCompound – Compose you projects using Git repositories and Ruby tasks

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wordpress.org 10y ago

WordPress 4.2.4 Security and Maintenance Release

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www.opsgenie.com 10y ago

OpsGenie – We make alerts work for you

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www.antipattern.io 11y ago

Community code reviews for the greater good

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irc.gitter.im 11y ago

Gitter IRC Bridge

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github.com 11y ago

Sublime Text packages are on GitHub

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todogroup.org 11y ago

TODO – Talk Openly. Develop Openly. For Companies Committed to Open Source

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github.com 11y ago

CoreOS Running on xhyve Hypervisor

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aws.amazon.com 11y ago

AWS – Attach and Detach Elastic Load Balancers from Auto Scaling Groups

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fugue.it 11y ago

Fugue – Continuous Cloud Ops

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dev.myscript.com 11y ago

MyScript – World Reference for Handwriting Recognition APIs

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github.com 11y ago

Hitch – A Scalable TLS Proxy by Varnish

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www.lakka.tv 11y ago

Lakka – The DIY Retro Emulation Console

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www.lakka.tv 11y ago

Lakka – The DIY Retro Emulation Console

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www.popularmechanics.com 11y ago

This $25 Blood Test Tells You All the Viruses You've Ever Had

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parquet.apache.org 11y ago

Apache Parquet Graduated

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petuum.github.io 11y ago

Petuum – A distributed machine learning framework

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lists.rpm.org 11y ago

VMware Photon and dnf

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www.dartlang.org 11y ago

Dart 1.10 released

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Markdown-like structured document format

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jmespath.org 11y ago

JMESPath – a query language for JSON

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www.latimes.com 11y ago

In the gut, one key probiotic helps by orchestrating others

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en.wikipedia.org 11y ago

Prüfer sequence

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[dead] 3 years ago

True, but otherwise it would seem like a free ad for a future troll.

I don't mind paying more, but what is the way to get exome sequencing in the States today? There are some Australian companies using Illumina equipment and offering it for about $1,500, but is this possible in the States as well?

Yup! I don't use Twitter, because I'm tired of abbreviating. I've heard all the made-up motives from people both inside and outside of the company but for many years already nobody has been using Twitter via SMS! Also, for years, phones have been splitting long messages into multiple short ones if necessary and composing them back as well. Remove the limit and save Twitter, please!

Yes, I know who he is. Although I had a much older account, which password I couldn't recover, because it's from the days when no email was necessary here, I frequent HN for years and that's why I care about this community as I spend a significant portion of my life in here.

I don't exercise and I'm fine although genetically I have 30% higher risk of obesity, so, just don't eat more than you have to and find pleasures in creation and discovery, in socializing, not in eating!

Why do people try to boost their metabolism (or demise) these days then? I strongly believe that being physically lazy (i.e. not expending much energy and keeping metabolism slow), but mentally active, and walking 30-45 minutes a day is the healthiest lifestyle one could have (if they can afford it).

I am sure that you cannot back with any credible evidence the assumption than downvoting comments makes HN a better place. You can add flagging and that will do better, but downvoting is unhealthy. The fixed -4 threshold is random and wrong as well. The loyalty to Paul Graham's original decisions is misunderstood loyalty and there are a lot of missed opportunities here, because of these repeated mistakes.

Then do the right thing and solve the problem by removing downvote on comments - you will do this community a huge favor and you will simplify the UX as well. It has no purpose outside of emotional buildups. Upvotes give you enough for sorting purposes - it's been working well for Facebook and Twitter. For everything else, there's reddit!

Like/dislike is not structured feedback. The most awkward situation is when people "like" some tragic article. In this case, Reddit and HN do better - you up/down vote, you don't "like". Instead, they should've added multiple "reactions". Like/dislike, agree/disagree, boost up/down, etc. Of course, the equivalent of "upvoting" possibly is "sharing", but often you don't want to pollute your timeline, just to boost the visibility. I think Facebook is making things worse, not better.

This is some really stupid decision! Even more stupid than adding the stickers! All that we've seen going wrong here and over at reddit with the community-destroying negative voting is coming to Facebook - let the flame wars begin! Trolls are gonna love it, too! Instead, what they had to do is copy Slack's emoji reactions - the most brilliant thing they could've done to improve feedback. Or at least copy BuzzFeed's original reaction approach for the lazy majority.

Most are just suggestions, not law. I stand by what I said. Being vindictive is not civilized. I didn't make personal attacks - I have no idea who downvoted me.

I am civil, but those who can't help the sick urge to downvote every single comment of mine although they all represent the same points are not civilized.

You're wrong. EV is a scam. I can afford to buy EV for most of my sites, but I don't do it. Because consumers don't really care. Even HN doesn't have an EV! Ferrari is what everybody wants, EV is a different story! And stop downvoting all my comments - it shows your subpar human material. Downvote my main point and stop right there. No need to go aggressive and try to silence me and not comment further, because you will "punish" me further as well.