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www.davidhunt.ie 12y ago

PiPhone – A Raspberry Pi based Smartphone

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www.slate.com 12y ago

Winning The Price Is Right

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www.polygon.com 12y ago

The birth of Xbox Live

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www.media-server.com 12y ago

Splunk.conf 2013 livestream keynote

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www.mcsweeneys.net 13y ago

A Message to Shareholders About Our New $70 Million Purchase of “Elevator Pass.”

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arstechnica.com 13y ago

Two months later, developers (mostly) positive about OS X's GateKeeper

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www.nowgamer.com 13y ago

The Making Of Goldeneye

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arstechnica.com 14y ago

Does "Mastered for iTunes" matter to music? Ars puts it to the test

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

PG: Would you be willing to upload a more current version of news.arc

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www.lasvegasweekly.com 14y ago

A man, a ball, a hoop, a bench (and an alleged thread)… TELLER

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arstechnica.com 14y ago

Anonymous calls off outing of cartel after release of kidnapped member

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www.insidehighered.com 14y ago

Obama proposes changes to student loan programs

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arstechnica.com 14y ago

Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator

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www.designnews.com 15y ago

The Case of the Dying AA Battery Cells

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news.consumerreports.org 15y ago

TomTom Sold User Data to Police, Motorists Then Targeted With Speed Traps

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www.reddit.com 15y ago

Sophisticated Gmail Hack

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arstechnica.com 15y ago

Z-410: How ZFS is slowly making its way to Mac OS X

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arstechnica.com 15y ago

PTC: bleeped broadcast expletives on the rise

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www.macrumors.com 16y ago

Apple Design Awards for iOS Devices Announced

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www.engadget.com 16y ago

Sony: Don't turn on your PS3 until PSN bug is fixed

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www.youtube.com 16y ago

Super Mario Galaxy, the Chinese plagiarism version

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arstechnica.com 16y ago

iPhone and Snow Leopard Server's failure to communicate

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www.mcvuk.com 16y ago

LGC 09: Microsoft dismisses OnLive threat

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rampantgames.com 16y ago

Why Presentation Is Important

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www.macworld.com 17y ago

Apple’s enterprise strategy the same as it ever was

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www.nytimes.com 18y ago

Jon Stewart talks about the strike and the Oscars.

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daringfireball.net 18y ago

Why we hope Amazon's ebook fails

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www.nytimes.com 18y ago

What Do You Do After Nothing? An Interview with Jerry Seinfeld

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www.trinity.edu 18y ago

What happens to a spider's web when the spider is on DRUGS?

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www.last.fm 18y ago

Join the Hacker News last.fm group!

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From the FAQ: Does Tracking Card Air support Precision Finding? You can track your items from anywhere in the world using the Apple Find My app, but sound alerts only work when you’re within about 150 feet. Since Apple doesn’t yet support Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology for third-party trackers, Tracking Card Air doesn’t include Precision Finding at this time.

Jails on FreeBSD 3 years ago

Since this is gaining some traction. I'm curious if you are using jails and a jail manager, what are you're using now? I'm still using IOCAGE (Version 1.2) on freeBSD 13, but it seems like its not the best way to do it anymore? Documentation is all over the place on what is the best way to manage jails now.

A lot of the mini’s are used at kiosks etc with attachments and stands. I wonder if Apple sees that as the primary buyer?

This doesn't surprise me at all, I've completely stopped shopping at Amazon since it is impossible to determine the quality of a lot of the goods on their site. It seems to take longer to research what is worth buying versus going to the store and finding something that looks like it is good quality.

I was having similar problems as well. I sent them some emails about it, but they kept asking for more pictures and I just got frustrated with the process. It doesn't happen all of the time and I'm not really doing anything crazy with the watch, so I've just been kind of dealing with it.

It's too bad on a site that exists for upstarts and tech minded folk looking for a way to monetize their projects people complain that good interesting content costs money. /rant

Taken 13 years ago

When the New Yorker publishes an article it always uses the date for the print magazine.

Here is an interesting anecdote. From the author of the article's wikipedia page.

His best-appreciated hack was a takeover of all of the telephone lines for Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM, guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller and win the prize of a Porsche 944 S2.

When the Federal Bureau of Investigation started pursuing Poulsen, he went underground as a fugitive. When he was featured on NBC's Unsolved Mysteries, the show's 1-800 telephone lines mysteriously crashed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Poulsen

It's important to note though that the type of things that this 'plug-in' does is social already. When you're logging in to Pepsi SoundOff you already know you may want to share something on your Facebook feed, or you don't care about what brands can see your information on Facebook. Each service should consider what their target audience is and work towards using that method.

To be completely fair though, I never let anything login with my Facebook account, I just don't want other sites to have access to that data. And I would probably never use something like what this place provides, so people who use the net like me would never show up in their numbers.

His best point is "Don’t use technology for the sake of it." This sentiment is true for design, but its core idea can be applied to pretty much anything. It is important to think about what you're trying to accomplish and use the technology to aid in that, not the other way around.

I'll give you qwikster and possibly silverlight (would probably say that one is only correct in hindsight), but I'm curious why you'd place "house of cards" on there as it seems to be getting lots of attention and is looking like one of Netflix's best decisions recently.

I really agree with this aswell. On some corporate networks vimeo and youtube are always blocked, and it is impossible to see what your app does, etc.