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NSAID··on Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access
Emojitracker gives live, realtime usage numbers for all emoji used on twitter.

http://emojitracker.com/

NSAID··on The Endless Mini $79 desktop PC stores as much of the Internet as it can
Perhaps not. Thinking about other comments referencing Wikipedia:

"This may be the first attempt to print Wikipedia to succeed in the sense that all of Wikipedia has been formatted as printable pdf files and made available for individual printing. The task has taken 3 years, and the upload process took 24 days, 3 hours and 18 minutes. It was completed 12 July 2015. PediaPress had attempted to raise money for a full Wikipedia print out on Indiegogo in 2014, but the project was pulled. Michael estimates that the printing costs of a full printout are around $500,000."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_Wikipedia

NSAID··on Destroying the Encryption of Hidden Tear Ransomware
He's a pretty incredible programmer, and is probably the best example of "outsider art" you'll find in computer science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer

He has also been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

NSAID··on HTC sends Fantastic Four push notification ad
You can remove that album.

https://itunes.com/soi-remove

NSAID··on Even – Get your average pay, every payday
This concept isn't terribly different than what the FLSA rules for Fluctuating Work Week offer.

http://kielichlawfirm.com/fluctuating-work-week-flsa-calcula...

NSAID··on Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder
You may be interested in "Tasks", an open source replacement for Astrid. I don't believe it does everything Astrid did, but it has worked wonderfully for my needs.

https://github.com/tasks/tasks https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tasks

NSAID··on Contributor by Google: An experiment in additional ways to fund the web
Strange. I searched before submitting but didn't see any results.
NSAID··on Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit
yishan just gave some more background about his comment in the discussion in r/RedditCensorship.

https://np.reddit.com/r/RedditCensorship/comments/2ifd3p/ude...

NSAID··on Why I took on building a better way to frame any poster, print or photo
I would expect 13x13x0.75" to be the exterior dimensions of the wood, given that 3 dimensions are listed.

Maybe I just misunderstand how frames are described and sold, but I would fully expect to receive a frame with a 12x12" opening ("to fit a 12.0" x 12.0" print") if I bought that frame, and would feel misled if I ended up with a 13x13" opening. Again, maybe that's just how frames are sold, but if that's the case perhaps the site could explain that better.

NSAID··on Why I took on building a better way to frame any poster, print or photo
> "I need a frame that has a 18x18" opening,"

That's just the poster size that you enter in, right?

https://www.levleframes.com/frames/new?height=12.0&width=12....

I punched in 12"x12" and it's showing me various frame/matte combinations that result in a 12"x12" opening.

NSAID··on Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Will Too
That's a great paper and addresses some of the concerns I've had about net neutrality. Given the push away from traditional cable/telephony infrastructure to IP based services, it seems misguided if your ISP cannot also guarantee high quality VoIP service simply because internet and voice are coming over the same wire.

From the paper:

Table 2. Effect of policy goals upon an ISP offering VoIP.

Is it acceptable if …

… a carrier blocks a competitor’s VoIP traffic? no

… a carrier doesn't block a competitor’s VoIP traffic, but doesn't offer QoS to competitor’s VoIP subscribers while using QoS for its own VoIP subscribers? no

… a carrier gives a broadband subscriber who uses a competitor’s VoIP service the choice of (a) best-effort transport of their VoIP traffic as part of the basic broadband package, (b) enhanced performance for their VoIP traffic for an additional 1¢/min paid by the subscriber, or (c) enhanced performance for up to 500 minutes of their VoIP traffic for an additional $5/month paid by the subscriber? yes

… a carrier gives a VoIP competitor the choice of (a) best-effort transport of their VoIP traffic as part of the subscriber’s basic broadband package or (b) enhanced performance for their VoIP traffic for an additional 1¢/min paid by the VoIP provider? yes

… a carrier charges different VoIP competitors different prices for QoS? no

… a carrier charges VoIP competitors a uniform price for QoS, but a different price than charged to its own affiliates? no

NSAID··on Show HN: Self-hosted project management application
From the GitHub readme:

Minimum Server Requirements

PHP 5.4 or greater

PDO PHP extendsion

MCrypt PHP extendsion

GD PHP library

MySql Database

If your webserver is running Apache then mod_rewrite should be installed

NSAID··on State of MetaFilter
The benefit is that it's easy to follow everything, like on ongoing conversation. I've been following this post throughout the day and I have no idea where the new comments are. Perhaps I've just never taken well to threaded comments, but I'd much rather have to mentally follow threads if that means I can at least read everything as it's posted.
NSAID··on Puff Puff… Pass
Agreed, but it makes me wonder if we can trust the author's description of his disclosure efforts. Not that that gives a free pass to the app developer(s), of course.
NSAID··on Puff Puff… Pass
As did a site the author was running, by my read. Responsible disclosure is one thing, but I won't support defacing of websites.
NSAID··on Puff Puff… Pass
I'm not too impressed with the blog's author either. He documents breaking into another website in a previous blog post: http://faptrackr.org/blog/?p=45
NSAID··on Obama's Trauma Team: Inside the Nightmare Launch of HealthCare.Gov
That's most likely the date of the print edition this article will appear in.
NSAID··on Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
Ah, I missed the identical users. That is an interesting situation, especially if a user might be fluent in both languages (which may or may not be the case in this situation).
NSAID··on Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
Completely intended, by my read. It wouldn't make any sense if you couldn't ask a question that was already asked in a language you don't know.

FTA: "we expect almost every question asked on the Portuguese site to also be asked (and answered) on the English site."

NSAID··on All Visitors to Sochi Olympics Immediately Hacked [video]
The security consultant is on Twitter[1]. It looks like he's explaining things weren't "automatic"[2] and it was FUD ("TV's goal is to make it interesting.")[3] and "tv magic"[4]

1. https://twitter.com/lowcalspam

2. https://twitter.com/lowcalspam/status/431086164905181184

3. https://twitter.com/lowcalspam/status/431114615893028864

4. https://twitter.com/lowcalspam/status/430883194380881920

NSAID··on Chaos Computer Club files criminal complaint against the German Government
The local news station talked about this today. They described it as a group of "lawyers and computer hackers" suing the government. I get what the CCC is, but I'm thinking the average member of the public is rolling their eyes at a bunch of criminals suing the government of surveillance.
NSAID··on The Sad State of Mobile XMPP in 2014
Maybe someday I'll be able to use my iMessage-to-XMPP scripts to communicate with several devices instead of just my Android phone.

And maybe someday I can build a bridge between FaceTime and XMPP once all the media protocols get sorted out.

It may currently be a sad state, but it's exciting to see the direction things are/can be going.

NSAID··on Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algorithm, “Hummingbird”
You could set that up in Firefox. Create a keyword search for Google[1], and replace &q=%s in the link to &q=allintext:%s

[1] http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address-...

EDIT: Looks like Chrome works in a similar manner: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95653

NSAID··on USB Condoms
Oh, this is fantastic. I've been wanting to build something like this into a few cables, but this is even better.
NSAID··on Tech From a 30-Year-Old Sears Catalog
"Sears should have morphed into Amazon."

They were so close. They started the Discover CC, the Prodigy computer network, and were the largest retailer nationwide. They shut down mail orders two years before Amazon launched.

http://www.metafilter.com/62394/The-Record-Industrys-Decline...

NSAID··on How would the unprotected human body react to the vacuum of outer space?
"Boiling" is really a liquid turning into a gas [1]. This happens when the liquid has enough energy to transition into a different state [2], that is, when the vapor pressure of the liquid [3][4] equals the surrounding pressure. Thus at the pressure given in the article (say, 0.5 psi), water can boil at around 79.6 °F / 26.4 °C [5].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_point

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_of_vaporization

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_pressure

[4] A solid can "boil" too, but it's called sublimation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(physics)

[5] http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/boiling-point-water-d_926....

NSAID··on Show HN: TextIt – Visually build SMS applications anywhere in the world
Wow, perfect timing. Just last week I started teaching myself Android development just so I could write something like https://github.com/nyaruka/android-sms-relay. Any chance for MMS support(receiving and sending) in the future?
NSAID··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)
Holland Bulb Farms - Milwaukee, WI

We're looking for an entry level ASP.NET (C#) web developer to assist current developers with maintaining our group of e-commerce sites. Knowing C# is ideal, but we're willing to teach you.

Other projects on our to-do list include things such as increasing integration between our warehouse and sales systems, very basic maintenance of our iPhone app, building data feeds for shopping comparison sites, and working with drop-ship suppliers to automate order placement.

Apply on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=5558451

NSAID··on I Choose Superman
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad." -Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
NSAID··on Heroku Fucking Console
Humorless users can use "--safe-updates"

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-tips.html#safe-...

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