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startswithajon Ask HN: Where do you go to trade your cryptocurrencies?

So how does this differ from Ox?

startswithajon LibriVox: free public domain audiobooks

Mark Smith's reading of Great Expectations is great highly recommend.

startswithajon Fantasy Sports Employees Bet at Rival Sites Using Inside Information

I guess, the trivial inconvenience of the user having to return, recreate the lineup from scratch and remember the 10 digit number/salt (or pull from local memory/localStorage if its the same device) . They would have to do this after the start of the first game but before the end of all the events in the event group. I.E before winners are calculated. If you didn't force the players to do this early on, you wouldn't be able to see live rankings which would take some fun out of it I guess. There would be other problems I guess to with edit lineup functionality.

It is a good idea though and would certainly curb this kind of thing happening.

startswithajon Show HN: eatkeep.io - a natural language food diary

There's a web and command-line version too.

https://eatkeep.io

https://github.com/startswithaj/eating-cli

startswithajon Show HN: eatkeep.io - a natural language food diary

Quickcal

startswithajon Ferrolic

BT ftw.

startswithajon Ferrolic

hey thanks for this! awesome.

startswithajon Ferrolic

Does anybody know where I can find other music similar to that of the video?

startswithajon There are more trees in the U.S. than there were 100 years ago

This is suprising but now compare this to rainforest devastation in the Amazon and the rest of the world and I doubt we're in the positive overall which is what logically counts.

startswithajon iOS 8 length bug breaks jQuery and Underscore object iteration

I came across an equally strange bug a year or so ago.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22139746/ios-javascript-e...

I found a way to reproduce it, put in a bug report with apple and never got a response.

startswithajon Read less HN

Obligatory lesswrong link http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/

startswithajon A primer on elliptic curve cryptography

Doing 256 bit sign ecdsa's for 10s: 42874 256 bit ECDSA signs in 9.99s

Doing 2048 bit private rsa's for 10s: 1864 2048 bit private RSA's in 9.99s

That's 23 times as many signatures using ECDSA as RSA.

42 874 256

18 642 048

23 times as many signatures?

startswithajon Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests

People were discussing the legitimacy of this release. I read the release, googled the authors name and I thought his history relevant to the conversation. Not just ties 'deputy assistant to President George W. Bush'.

startswithajon Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests

I was just bringing the point to light for discussion.

startswithajon Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests

If there is slipperyness it's the fact that the guy who wrote this and is Facebook General Counsel, Ted Ullyot, use to be G.W Bush's right hand man.

startswithajon Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests

Ted Ullyot, Facebook General Counsel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Ullyot

"From January 2003 to January 2005, Ullyot worked in the White House as associate counsel and as a deputy assistant to President George W. Bush. He then served as chief of staff to U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales."

startswithajon Shortly: a Serverless Pastebin Service - All Data is Stored in the URL

It needs a $ on the first line of shortly.js (function() { >>>$(function() {

startswithajon Shortly: a Serverless Pastebin Service - All Data is Stored in the URL

I have to fire the url twice in chrome in console I get

uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined

Is it firing some code before it can load Jquery?

startswithajon How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE Online’s entire economy

I read this earlier and now 404'd...

startswithajon _why's complete printer spool as one book [pdf]

I hadn't read that far when I posted the question. Even soo, Oprah's had some pretty wacky guests in her time :)

startswithajon _why's complete printer spool as one book [pdf]

Is the oprah thing he refers to real?

startswithajon Australian Institute of Applied Sciences? For Real?

Naturopathy is a hodge-podge of mostly unscientific treatment modalities based on vitalism and other prescientific notions of disease. As a result, typical naturopaths are more than happy in essence to “pick one from column A and one from column B” when it comes to pseudoscience, mixing and matching treatments including traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy, herbalism, Ayurvedic medicine, applied kinesiology, anthroposophical medicine, reflexology, craniosacral therapy, Bowen Technique, and pretty much any other form of unscientific or prescientific medicine that you can imagine.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/471156 http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/naturopathy-an...

“Do you know what they call ‘alternative medicine’ that’s been proved to work? ‘Medicine’.” — Tim Minchin

From your girlfriends experience learning pseudo-science you have concluded "the course was very thorough, they are a very good educational institution". How?

Enough Said?

startswithajon Australian Institute of Applied Sciences? For Real?

Since when have Beauty Therapy, Natural Medicine, Hairdressing, Massage Therapy or 'Health & Fitness' been defined as applied sciences?

I think it's pretty outrageous that the Department of Education allows them to carry this name.