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digitalbosson AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software WASTE (2003)

"The name WASTE is a reference to Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying of Lot 49. In the novel, W.A.S.T.E. is (among other things) an underground postal service." - Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE

digitalbosson Stripe cuts internal valuation by 28%

Journalists don’t really grasp that nuance. ‘Lower Valuation for Popular Company’ is always a good way to get eyeballs.

digitalbosson Databricks acquires Redash

I've been using Mode Analytics for almost 5 years, and use Metabase or Redash for self hosted solution.

digitalbosson Zoom monitors activity on your computer

via Zoom Support Reply: https://twitter.com/zoom_us/status/1241768006327336963

"Hi, attention tracking feature is off by default - once enabled, hosts can tell if participants have the App open and active when the screen-sharing feature is in use. It does not track any aspects of your audio/video or other applications on your window."

Points to this article: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115000538083-Atten...

digitalbosson World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency

Relevant Posted today: The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal Space Agency (PT Space), European Space Agency (ESA) and Unbabel Labs open competition for a €500,000 award that will combine Artificial Intelligence and space technologies to solve major environmental issues. The winning team will present its solution at Web Summit 2020.

https://unbabel.com/news/500k-ai-moonshot-challenge-will-com...

digitalbosson Show HN: Webwide – a discussion community for web designers, devs and makers

A sad reminder of the Geeklist old days. I'll give it a spin, congrats on the launch Adam!

digitalbosson Copia|Food Waste Solution for Businesses

I know Copia very well, currently only offered in the US. Thanks for sharing @artur_makly

YC Winter '16 Batch

digitalbosson Remove.bg – A service to remove the background of any photo

They do mention higher res output here Even higher quality with 4000 × 2500 pixels, or any other dimensions with up to 10 megapixels.

https://www.remove.bg/pricing

Image https://www.remove.bg/assets/comparison-hd-9b9708387758e42f0...

digitalbosson Show HN: Chrome Extension to See IMDB Ratings Directly on Netflix

I've been using RateFlix for a while now - haven't seen many issues as of yet. I love these type of ideas. When you add Rotten Tomatoes, I'm totally in to use!

1. Movies and TV shows will show an IMDb™ rating next to wherever you would typically see a Netflix™ rating, and additionally will be shown on the play bar of what you're currently watching as well as next to each listed episode when browsing episodes of a TV series

2. Rotten Tomatoes™ and Metacritic™ ratings will also be displayed in the same way, but currently only for movies

3. Clicking on an IMDb™ rating will open the IMDb™ page for that movie or TV show in a new tab

For Chrome only https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rateflix/dddmgiige...

digitalbosson Sequel Pro – Open source macOS native MySQL GUI client

Ditto. Tab issue in prod release, Not nightly. I love the app but it’s made me look for diff options. I close tabs all day, it’s a big bug in my head that should’ve forced an update. Otherwise monster fan.

digitalbosson Classic text adventures online

I rmbr how proud I was when I registered for the BBS I ran in Texas for Red Dragon (LORD) in High School, saving a dollar here and there.

digitalbosson How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites

Update from site "Google’s team has tracked down my test site, most likely using the source code I shared and de-indexed the whole domain."

digitalbosson Why fundraising is a terrible experience for founders: Lessons learned

Here's the 3rd edition of the Venture Deals book https://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitali...

digitalbosson A millisecond isn't fast (and how we made it 100x faster)

Everything is running just fine in this thread, I don't see the tone you're expressing. There's always some level of interest to someone - sharing is caring.

digitalbosson GitLab raises 1.5M

It's a seed investment, they really don't need to offer a valuation at this time, especially to the public.

digitalbosson Ask HN: How to reskill without losing income?

I'v really enjoyed seeing what companies such as tradecraft have doing around this sort tactic http://tradecrafted.com/ - check them out.

digitalbosson Show HN: Startup Jobs for Developers

I'll have to disagree with you on this when you say "useless". Most sites don't post a salary, and for those few that do, a range is listed.

I like using https://angel.co/jobs to find those companies that have raised $ and currently hiring. One thing about is that I'm not really sure how frequently these startups have the time to update this on Angellist.

digitalbosson Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

Read https://www.virustotal.com/en/about/

digitalbosson Stream graph of online music listening history over the past 365 days by Artist

Made using Windows prog last.fm Extra Stats - http://www.last.fm/user/C26000/journal/2006/07/30/383m_last....

via @shaggorama - In case anyone is looking for tutorials to make this type of graphic on their own, this style of graphic is called a stream graph . Here are some demos: D3 - http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4060954 Protovis - http://mbostock.github.io/protovis/ex/stream.html Processing - https://github.com/leebyron/streamgraph_generator Python - http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576633-stacked-graphs-us...

digitalbosson What are the practical steps for monetizing a web service?

Also, you can try http://quickmvp.com to gauge interest, etc.

digitalbosson How one man bypassed Internet congestion and fixed his Netflix streaming

well it's only 17pts at this moment - but it's a timely post since it's another good reminder that it's the last day to send net neutrality comments to FCC http://www.fcc.gov/comments.

digitalbosson Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform for New York Times and Washington Post

-3 Karma

Do better. Be useful to this community.

digitalbosson FlatBuffers: a memory efficient serialization library

And lobster http://strlen.com/lobster (game programming language open source). He's a personal friend as well, one of the wisest dorks I know :)

"Wouter van Oortmerssen is a humorous guy preferring strange names for his programming languages and often also programming examples."

digitalbosson Hacking Sonos

FYI - Unofficial SoundCloud Sonos application using Heroku app endpoint http://www.hirahim.com/projects/sonos-soundcloud/

Works great - cool to see the Sonos web interface for the zones.

digitalbosson My children’s book on technology raised 100k within 24 hours – here’s how

Some relevant news - "Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science Course" - good to see this growth and interest.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/women-outnumber-men-for-the...

digitalbosson My children’s book on technology raised 100k within 24 hours – here’s how

Just move on - change the channel, not for you troll. And your remarks towards women not thinking logically is embarrassing to see in this forum.

A lot of what we learn today in technology specifics changes frequently - it's the thought process behind our execution and methodologies to build that is the most valuable.

digitalbosson Show HN: Gargl – Create an API for any website, without writing a line of code

FYI Gargl vs Kimono - mentioned at the bottom original article. http://jodoglevy.com/jobloglevy/?p=146

digitalbosson Show HN: Site for musical artist recommendations (and anti-recommendations)

http://ifyoudig.net/page/about ----- Note for the nerds: the math is legit. We take sample size into account when calculating artist associations, and the likelihood factor is the lowest bound of a confidence interval. Everything is statistically significant. Results are real, yo. ----

digitalbosson Show HN: A game I've been working on for the last year is out today

If there was Hacker News Gold, I would've give you some for that excellent gesture.

edit: typo