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vincon A remote UK community living off-grid

Does he have a website? I'd love to read more about his place!

I spent a couple of years traveling and living in remote permaculture communities before starting my own project six months ago, so far I feel like I'm living the dream but I'm just at the beginning. Having some successful examples help a lot.

vincon GitHub: sysget – A front-end for every package manager

So it means it's a good idea!

vincon GitHub: sysget – A front-end for every package manager

I wrote this little thing in bash: https://github.com/vinc/pkg

I find it quite useful as I'm switching daily between Arch Linux, Ubuntu, and MacOS.

vincon Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

I use Mail-in-a-Box on my own server. It's free, open source, and well maintained.

[1]: https://mailinabox.email

vincon Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text

Oh, you were an admin of C2? That's cool!

Yeah this new service is definitely a wiki.

vincon Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text

Have you been to C2 recently? It's now a web app that load only if you have JavaScript activated. Pretty sad.

At least this one works well on text browsers, and pages load fast without the need for a spinner.

vincon The Hacker News Habit

It's a good idea, being more mindful of the content we consume is the key.

Last year I made a little website to control how much time I want to spend on HN. For instance I have one page where the 10 most upvoted items for the week are listed, and I hide them as I read them. When the list is empty it means I'm done for now.

https://news.vinc.cc/search?q=hn+sort:top+time:week+limit:10

(open sourced here: https://github.com/vinc/news.vinc.cc)

Also work for Reddit.

vincon Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

Vue + Rails 5.2 + Postgres + Dokku

With Bootstrap and Devise (auth) and many other ruby gems / npm packages, we can prototype a project extremely quickly with this stack by simply following the conventions of the community and trying to avoid writing too much custom code.

vincon The Sound of Madness

Thanks for the PDF. Here's direct link from another website: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/607/2/Feynman.pdf

vincon Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes

Look at a blue sky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

vincon Ancient DNA Is Rewriting Human and Neanderthal History

I'd suggest watching some of the recent lectures of Svante Pääbo on YouTube (and his papers on Google Scholar), he's very good at explaining the latest findings.

This one for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4TLaRSJN2k

vincon The Trouble with Mindfulness Apps (2016)

There's a good subreddit dedicated to the book: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMindIlluminated/

And if you really want an app, someone made a beautiful one for android, free and without ads, that follows the stages described in the book: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ragone.io.quie...

I found the light gamification useful to establish my practice.

vincon Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?

I couple of months ago I found a good TED talk on the same topic as your first link:

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dy...

vincon Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua

If it's 400 meters long and do one rotation in 7 hours the gravity is essentially zero. It'd have to rotate twice per minute to produce 1g.

vincon The Big Vitamin D Mistake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natt%C5%8D

You may not like the taste, but trying it is an interesting experiment.

vincon Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating

Or perhaps this is a very valid way to look at things and it will make you reconsider driving a gasoline vehicle if you can.

Personally I have the option to ride a bike and electric (nuclear+hydro) trains instead of driving a car, so that's what I do.

vincon Increasing numbers of wingsuit jumpers are dying (2016)

The same happened to me. It was fun to swim in the big waves and spend half of the time under the water until I got tired and realized that the current was stronger than me.

vincon Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

I scrape Wikipedia[1] for my website[2] like another user from this thread, it's pretty good to have a quick look at what happened during the day.

Then I check only the top news from some subreddits[3] and hackernews[4], and I usually hide what I read to avoid seeing them again.

And if I need more I can get the headlines of major news websites[5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2017_Jul...

[2] https://news.vinc.cc/search?q=wikipedia

[3] https://news.vinc.cc/search?q=reddit+science+environment+tim...

[4] https://news.vinc.cc/search?q=hackernews+time:week

[5] https://news.vinc.cc/search?q=newsapi+the-guardian-uk

vincon Firefox 57 as the first release where only WebExtensions will be supported

The situation with Vimperator is so sad, I can't use Firefox without it.

I don't like all those toolbars that clutter my screen estate, I prefer to browse the web full screen. There are a lot of projects using Webkit, and I also use elinks a lot, but I'd rather support Mozilla and Firefox by using the later when I need a graphical browser.

vincon Mongolia is changing all its addresses to three-word phrases

You could also use Lojban's numbering system[1] for example with GPS coordinates in decimal form to the same effect.

[1]: https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lojban/Numbers

vincon Workman Keyboard layout

Oh, that's an interesting idea!

vincon Android Studio 2.0 Released

My computer from 2009 is limited to 32-bit but it's still working fine so I'm reluctant to throw it away. I guess I'll have to now.

vincon Movie rental page on YouTube

My browser is in English, and so are all my Google/YouTube settings, yet the movies are also dubbed in another language based on my current IP address. YouTube should respect my language setting.

vincon Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous

We need a browser extension to help us solve captchas with OCR. This is indeed ridiculous.

vincon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

Slate.fr - http://www.slate.fr - Paris, France (local only)

Launched in 2009, Slate.fr is the French version of Slate.com.

We are looking for Drupal developers to help us grow and merge our desktop and mobile websites together with responsive design.

- Prior experience working with Drupal

- Able to collaborate in French with our team of journalists

- Fluent in front-end (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript) and back-end languages (PHP, MySQL)

- Bonus points for a familiarity with the RFC 2616 and curl

If you are interested you can contact me via my profile or follow this link:

http://www.slate.fr/story/81389/cv-developpeur-web-slate

vincon Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name

There is currently a great course on Coursera named "A Brief History of Humankind"[1] that is exploring those ideas. If you have another source that goes deeper into the subject I would be interested to know it.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/humankind

vincon Google has lowered the price of the Nexus 4 by $100

Mine has broken its screen after half a meter fall on a carpet.

vincon Syrian Internet Is Off The Air

It seems to be visible now : https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=SY&...

vincon How to beat comment spam

I used this solution on a network of WP blogs with moderate traffic (maybe somewhere around 100 to 500k+ visits per month at best) but after a while some spammers took the time to script their way into the comments.

vincon If We Told You That, We Would Have to Shoot You

I wrote a small program named Oximon a few months ago to extract data from CMS-50x pulse oximeters and generate Gnuplot graphs. I use it to detect REM sleep and it does the job with a nice accuracy so maybe it could help someone suffering from sleep apnea as well: https://github.com/vinc/oximon