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cheiVia0on CHIP $9 Computer

I've bought mine at a brick-and-mortar Microcenter, and I ended up paying less than $35 for it ($35 with a $5-off coupon plus tax). So for RPi at least, the cost is not disguised as shipping.

cheiVia0on Ask HN: What's the biggest risk you took in your career that paid off?

I know a lot of people like poke fun at "RAS syndrome" but how would you write this phrase without using a redundant acronym?

"Built a few other SaaS services since then"

Would it be "Built a few other SaaSes since then"? "Built a few other Software as a Services since then"? "Built a few other SaaServices since then"? "Built a few other services following the SaaS model since then"?

I can't think of a way that doesn't sound more contrived than the original.

cheiVia0on Blocklist of all Facebook domains

Well, if my goal is to block all of Facebook's domains, I wouldn't complain if uBO happens also to block new.sub.domain.fbcdn.net even if it's not in the hosts file :)

Does uBO optimize these cases, though? E.g. if there's "apps.facebook.com", "connect.facebook.net" and plain "facebook.com", does it collapse to just 1 filter (facebook.com)? I see it says "880 used out of 881" which is the number of entries in the file.

cheiVia0on Blocklist of all Facebook domains

uBlock Origin can handle hosts files, so you can just add it on the bottom of the Third Party Filters tab. It will auto-update it too.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmdugan/blocklists/master/...

cheiVia0on Show HN: Chext – a shell utility to change file extensions

I don't use Ubuntu, but it's weird that it seems to replace the rename command from util-linux, and has a completely different syntax:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/rename.ul.1....

cheiVia0on How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying It from India

Incarceration rate (Prisoners per 100,000 population):

United States: 698

India: 33

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

cheiVia0on WebExtensions in Firefox 48

Thankfully, there's the Old Search addon for that brings it back

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-search1/

cheiVia0on Ask HN: Good throw-away email service?

gmx.com offers up to 10 email aliases at a time for free. So of you're signing up for something from which you don't want to receive emails, use one of the aliases until it starts getting spam. Then delete it and create a new one.

cheiVia0on Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone

Curious how if I search for the exact name of the game on the Play store, I get it all the way on the bottom of the screen...

http://i.imgur.com/p8OnlG8.png