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pocketpod.app 1y ago

What happened to pocketpod podcast app:

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Open-Source TTS for Indian Lanaguage

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Facebook feed removing Ads after loading

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Mobile App to listen to emails

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: How to monetize free SMS notification service in India?

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www.linkedin.com 13y ago

Is LinkedIn down?

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news.cnet.com 14y ago

ASK HN: Facebook Trending Articles shows article read by self

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www.facebook.com 14y ago

Tips to succeed as a programmer (Facebook engineering Notes)

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Since when Google started showing how many times you have visted a page?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Online Code Review?

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stackoverflow.com 14y ago

ASK HN: FTP or HTTP for download or upload small/large files?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Got my Peek today, any one got theirs?

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www.dhs.gov 14y ago

DHS Reforms: Provide work authorization for spouses of certain H-1B holders

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Steve Jobs: We are working on something you've been expecting for years.

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epaper.timesofindia.com 15y ago

Amazon to launch it's services in India

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

How to enable Google exprimental UI access

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Any Free Service to monitor if website is up/down?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Any Good text ad service for India?

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com 15y ago

IIIT to break online language barrier

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

ASK HN: Any Online Customised News Notification Service?

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Wondering if the pocketpod team is here and see it. I loved their personal podcast but seems they have pivoted to build the studio for creaters. Wonder if they can share their learnings and reasoning behind the pivot. Also if anyone has suggestion on alternative of it which can be used for personal news podcast, please share.

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Google podcast is going away next year. :(((

it's not that difficult and no need to use pestisides. As long as you grew healthy plant in good soil, they can resist pests. And yes, some times you do get failure, but if you grow enough stuff, some failures won't be noticable given you have other stuff growing. And gardening is also a skill, the more you do, the better you get at it.

Pretty much every vegetable seeds bought from store are viable, it just for some vegetables (i.e. bottle guard, okra), store bought vegetables aren't ripe enough and so those seeds won't able to germinate. To germinte the seeds of any vegetables, the fruits has to be matures (some times on the plant, sometimes on the shelf) before seeds become viable to germinate. I don't know a single vegetable that will be sterlite. I know some Mangoes (coming outside of US) do get sterlite and so their seeds won't produce plant even if the seeds are mature.

that's how exactly it works. We got one Italian Tomato (heirloom, indeterminate) from a neighbor and grew it. It grew 10-12 ft tall and bushy. My wife loved it so much, she saved seeds from couple of tomatoes and next year, we grew only that Tomatoes along with other vegetables. And we grew enough to store for the entire year. We are still eating those tomatoes (Frozen) and hope it will last till our this season tomatoes will start coming.

When we bought home, we got it with bunch of fruit tress (cherry, peach, orange, strawberry guava, lemons). And our previous owner grow 3 tomato plants for us before they left. It was a big yard with lot of fruit trees and plenty of empty space. In few years, we started growing some vegetables starting tomoato, okra, egg plant. And now in few more years we stop buying tomatos from grocery. we build bunch of raised beds and started growing more and more food and got bunch of okra and bottle guard. This year we build more raised bed by replacing/transplanting existing flowering plants and put raised bed there. And almost all the work done by us. You never believed but when you cook food from home grown vegetables, it tastes a whole different than the bought one. Give it a try and you can feel the difference. As long as you enjoy doing it, you won't feel all the pain that it comes with (i.e. hard work). Start small and as you go ahead, you will add more and more as you find it more manageable. But worth trying as long as you have space in your home (you will find time)

We just upgraded our Apple 6 to Pixel 2, due to it having some Network Not Found issues. Tried all tricks available on internet, but none worked. Eventually asked Apple and they aggreed to replace it with similar phone given we pay $300. I said, why buy again the same phone which probably have some hardware issue which apple is not agree to resolve. As ppl know, they are having the same issue with higher version. I asked the customer representative, and they mentione, hold the phone. If they get enough complaints, they might look into it and offer a free repair. I think most of the users of old phone might have upgraded to new one and so i am guessing not enough ppl will compain and all those phones will go to waste.

It's so easy to identify those fake comments by just looking at few. I figure this is one of the comments that seems fake. Why is it taking long to identify there are lot of fake comments in it?

'The unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed on the internet is smothering innovation, damaging the American economy and obstructing job creation. I urge the Federal Communications Commission to end the bureaucratic regulatory overreach of the internet known as Title II and restore the bipartisan light-touch regulatory consensus that enabled the internet to flourish for more than 20 years. The plan currently under consideration at the FCC to repeal Obama's Title II power grab is a positive step forward and will help to promote a truly free and open internet for everyone.'

I think, i didn't provide much information in the question. We have a website where user subscribe with their Mobile No. and Indian Railway PNR. We send them their PNR status updates via bulk SMS package which we have bought from some third party service. Now each SMS cost us money, but we didn't figure out how we can make money by sending SMS to thouse users. (i.e. putting advertisement in SMS, but didn't find any Ad network provide such feature for SMS).

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Is it just an experiment or what, as this url is only for second page. Starting 3rd page its normal url.

One thing i notice it, it shared the news read by me to myself. Is it a good or unnecessary feature? I know by trending article means, it shares all the articles which are in trend independent of whether you have read it or not, but still i feel it should not share the same article to me.