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pdfcollect··on StartPage vs. Google – 10 reasons
"StartPage protects you from NSA surveillance and spying": And how do you save me from NSA owning CA's and decrypting the SSL Traffic from you? Please explain. (I wish https was any good against NSA - is it?)
pdfcollect··on Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO
Just curious: Does anyone know his GPA @ Wisconsin–Madison?
pdfcollect··on Why we love Mozilla Persona
We used Persona for http://bit.ly/blibonline - and one of the problems we faced was that we would have liked the registration process to let our users tell us the name / icon (avatar), which was missing in Persona then. Any news on the timeline for these additions to Persona? (OpenID gives those two elements from registration/usage)
pdfcollect··on Reduced Pricing on Azure Storage - Price Matching Amazon Web Services
I've not tried Azure yet, but Digital Ocean we have been using for a few months. No complaints there.
pdfcollect··on The Day We Fight Back
Hopefully someday we can use this to help: http://bit.ly/blibonline
pdfcollect··on Show HN: I learned basic data mining over christmas and build a news aggregator
is this open source? What tech stack did you use? How much time did it take to code up?
pdfcollect··on List of Free Programming Books
Most of these books are not PDF, but if you own PDF books, here is something you can try to organize/search them: https://register.blib.us (and access them from anywhere)
pdfcollect··on Facebook's robots.txt
Is there a way to replace this robots.txt with a null robots.txt? :)
pdfcollect··on The exponential growth of Bitcoin value explained
How many bitcoins does the writer/his friends/investors own? BitCoin Bait? The Bitcoin bubble will burst - there are enough reasons for that as well.
pdfcollect··on Google Can Bring an End to Censorship in 10 Days
What about surveillance by Google itself? What we should be asking ourself is how do we improve https://duckduckgo.com ? or something similar.
pdfcollect··on Why open-office layouts are bad for employees, bosses, and productivity
In open offices, these are the things that are problematic (when it happens from the person who is sitting next to me):

- cell phones - chats - social networking - random web surfing

(when my neighbor does it)

Maybe I'm not just concentrating enough at work. But perhaps there is a way to solve these problems?

pdfcollect··on Iris, a ready-to-fly UAV quadcopter
How does one control this using linux?
pdfcollect··on How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half
Why not do this for the entire world? :-)
pdfcollect··on New Dell UltraSharp Monitors
Where is my $500 25600 x 16000 30" monitor :)?
pdfcollect··on The NSA Revelations Are Destroying IBM Hardware Sales In China
Just in case this was a retaliation to the US: IBM employs more people outside US than inside US, isn't it?
pdfcollect··on Inside 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki's $99 DNA Revolution
Owned by Google = Privacy nightmare?
pdfcollect··on Many Eyes - a visualization tool by IBM
JRE Install required. I can't install anything on my OS. Can you please get rid of this requirement?
pdfcollect··on Getting Meteor to 1.0
Any hope of writing/supporting meteor with python backend? :)
pdfcollect··on How IPython Notebook and Github have changed the way I teach Python
Does anyone know how to do this on windows? $ python -m IPython - first code line of github repo readme : https://github.com/ipython/ipython - on python 3.3 gives me an error.
pdfcollect··on How to Hire
And why does Stripe need top developers? To make a REST API for payments? What am I missing?
pdfcollect··on How You Can Invest In My Deals
$5 apart from already high postage?
pdfcollect··on Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit
Double Click, Which was known to being a privacy nightmare in its time -- if i remember right; - Glad to see $1m of that money is going in fighting a patent troll.
pdfcollect··on Tech Choices - Why we use Centos instead of Debian / Ubuntu
Isnt Redhat more expensive than Windows? I hope Debian gets better than Redhat, if its not already :).
pdfcollect··on Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API
When is this department going to collect the data ( or perhaps it already does? ) - Which major in college actually gets jobs for students (say within 5 years of graduation - according to their training) ? Last time I called them, they told me, you should do your own statistics if you want to answer that. Does anyone know?
pdfcollect··on Local IP discovery with HTML5 WebRTC: Security and privacy risk?
How can one disable WebRTC on chrome/firefox? (Apart from using an older browser of course)
pdfcollect··on Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use?
Anyone knows if something like this exists for python?
pdfcollect··on ShowHN : Blib (pre-alpha); A privacy friendly media library in the making
Nice Photo Album demo.