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nns··on An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s
This is a well orchestrated publicity stunt. A reputed auction house like Sotheby's would never put an item up before thoroughly checking and documenting it.

Post this stunt, the artwork will now be valued much higher than what it sold for at this auction. Banksy has been known for such ingenious and clever marketing stunts.

nns··on European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
Article 13 puts more onus on websites to enforce copyright and could mean that every online platform that allows users to post text, sounds, code or images will need some form of content-recognition system to review all material that users upload.
nns··on New seat alert app for pregnant commuters
In London, Transport for London (TFL), who run the Underground Network (and some other train lines), already provide a 'Baby on Board' batch:

https://tfl.gov.uk/forms/23479.aspx

nns··on Facebook Messenger Platform
Wouldn't it be wise for Facebook to just replace Messenger with WhatsApp and offer that as a platform?
nns··on Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?
Can you give examples of what kind of low-touch reasonable-return investments you've benefited from?
nns··on Distributed Ledgers: UK GOV Report [pdf]
Accompanying Video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sm5LNqL5j0

nns··on Ask HN: Is there space in the market for a Delivery Marketplace?
Yes. Similar. But maybe for local deliveries.
nns··on Skier almost hit by camera drone in World Cup slalom
Am sure when the first cars hit the road, similar news made it to the newspaper front pages then.
nns··on Mindfulness meditation trumps placebo in pain reduction
"Mindfulness meditation reduced pain by activating brain regions (orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate cortex) associated with the self-control of pain while the placebo cream lowered pain by reducing brain activity in pain-processing areas (secondary somatosensory cortex).

Another brain region, the thalamus, was deactivated during mindfulness meditation, but was activated during all other conditions. This brain region serves as a gateway that determines if sensory information is allowed to reach higher brain centers. By deactivating this area, mindfulness meditation may have caused signals about pain to simply fade away, Zeidan said."

nns··on Gene Amdahl has died
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt

FUD was first defined with its specific current meaning by Gene Amdahl the same year, 1975, after he left IBM to found his own company, Amdahl Corp.: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering Amdahl products."[

nns··on Uber drivers consider legal action
For someone wanting to start an on-demand service, what would be the correct way to design their app so that you could meaningfully link requester to providers?
nns··on MH17 Report
Video Reconstruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDiLEyT9spI

At the 10.30 mark you can see the missile impact on the plane.

nns··on GitHub had connectivity problems
What do they possibly get by DDoS'ng GitHub ? Is this out of pure malice or are there any probable commercial gains to this?
nns··on Ryan Stewart’s Content Marketing Dashboard
Are content and inbound links the only way a new startup can get some SEO creds?
nns··on Ask HN: Share your best personal productivity tips and tricks
I've recently started doing Yoga (mainly breath yoga - Pranayam) and Mindfulness.

30 minutes - first thing every morning.

It's unbelievable how much my energy levels and concentration have gone up!

nns··on Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent
Earlier this year Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein spoke to Michael Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, on technology and the financial industry.

http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2014-06-03/blankfein-bloo...

nns··on Ask HN: What interesting trends would you like to know of from a Recruiter?
Adding some for context to the question since it sounds a bit vague - We were thinking of how we would improve the quality of conversation between job seekers (active and passive) and recruiters.

So Recruiters could share Trends like - What's the latest skills on the rise int he Job industry? What are companies actively looking out for? Trends probable job candidates (active and passive) could use to improve their skills. Especially candidates who are not immediately looking for new work - but eventually want to.

nns··on Ask HN: What interesting trends would you like to know of from a Recruiter?
Trends like - What's the latest skills on the rise int he Job industry? What are companies actively looking out for?

Trends probable job candidates (active and passive) could use to improve their skills. Especially candidates who are not immediately looking for new work - but eventually want to.

nns··on LinkedIn Publishing
"Publishing on LinkedIn is a great opportunity to strengthen your professional reputation and get discovered for your knowledge."
nns··on Show HN: Get discreet job interviews with your LinkedIn connections
Sorry if the first comment sounded a bit discouraging. I think you folks have made a great start and would be on the verge of a breakthrough.

Good luck and I hope it works! :)

nns··on Show HN: Get discreet job interviews with your LinkedIn connections
So this is basically speed dating for job interviews ! This is how most speed dating events work (atleast in London) - you indicate your interest in the other person anonymously and if they 'like' you back, the system sends out an email to both.

This kinda breaks when someone ends up clicking 'like' for everyone they met at the event ! This someone in your case will be recruiters who'll use the information to hunt probable passive candidates.

So in search for discreteness, the job-seeker would end up falling prey to the game of head hunters.

nns··on Tracking devices hidden in London's recycling bins are stalking your smartphone
As someone living and working in London, I pass more than a couple of these 'bins' every single day.

These bins are quite strategically placed (1) in the heart of the square mile - the prime financial district and tourist hub of London city (2) especially around bus stops and city squares in this area - which have some form or other of free city wide wifi networks - where one would be waiting for enough time (consuming lunch, waiting for bus, meeting a friend, shopping...) to be an ideal consumer for targeted advertisement.

They also have an extremely amusing design which makes them look slick - but extremely unlike waste bins - infact you have to look at them closely to find where you need to dispose off your waste. This was one thing that amused me extremely when I first saw them - the strange inconspicuous design - but things make much more sense in the light of this article.

As someone who's targeted more than once a day by these things, I see this as a breach of privacy and expect to be informed that data about me is being collected and stored and maybe used for commercial purposes in the future (irrespective of the ICO technicalities and loop holes).

As a human, its a fundamental breach of trust and I would personally not see these things with the same inconspicuousness they have been designed with to deceptively integrate and blend into our daily environment.

nns··on Hacker News Web App for Mobile
This is really great (except for the Orange!). But love the interface. Kudos.

My only gripe with all HN interfaces is that none of them can login and hence are read-only. You cant really comment on anything.

nns··on Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments
This has been discussed before over here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4988914
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Paypal Adaptive Payments
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Balanced Payments
nns··on Ask HN: Your Software Development Methodology?
I agree. The sames true with me. I find myself getting distracted and fiddling around with new frameworks and libraries. I think I'll try your approach of nailing myself down to a Functionality First approach !
nns··on Learn Java in Minutes
A lot of libraries these days come with a Docco[1] annotated code and examples [2]. This looks very similar, but could make use of Docco.

[1]http://jashkenas.github.io/docco/ [2] http://documentcloud.github.io/underscore/docs/underscore.ht...

nns··on Does the world need yet another programing language? - Ceylon
http://ceylon-lang.org/
nns··on Ask HN: What is your daily reading list?
This is cool ! Thanks for the link.
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