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devonbarrett··on Anyone willing to checkout a startup I just launched?
The ability to link to questions and share them via social media would help.

Overall, the UI is clean an intuitive - nice job!

devonbarrett··on Ask HN: How do you get paid for remote freelance work?
http://www.svb.com/uk
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: What's your favorite keyboard for programming?
What was the learning curve like?
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Feynman Video Collection?
Bill Gates purchased the rights for the lectures and made them freely available with annotations at: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: What are some alternatives to HN?
Me too pretty please! Email in profile
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Recommend a team work site with file sharing and a chatroom?
https://redbooth.com/ (formerly teambox)
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Is there an HN leaderboard for story sources?
This would give you the top 30 sources for the past 30 days.

Note the date is hardcoded

http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?q=*&f...),72)))%20desc&pretty_print=true

devonbarrett··on ASK : What are the most promising Silicon Valley startups to watch for in 2014?
BRB
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: How to submit a website to cakephp.org?
Try asking in #cakephp on freenode or in the google group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cake-php).
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)
I checked you out at while back when this popped up in the ML google group and was really impressed! Interested to see where this goes!
devonbarrett··on Why can't Google understand why I don't want to combine my Gmail and Youtube?
Unpopular personal story time.

I have a Google account, and it is perfect. I use the gmail UI to send and receive email from my own domain name, which I use for work and personal email; I then have a gmail address which I use when I am signing up for sites that I expect to receive spam from - I can use both of these simultaneously just selecting which account I want to send from. I have Google+ which I have set up granular permissions, so that certain people can only see certain content. I have a Youtube page, which is connected to my Google account but uses a separate alias completely separate from my real name, which I automatically become when using Youtube. There is no public facing connection between my real name and my YT alias, and I never have to switch accounts or select which one I would like to use.

I might be missing the problem, but to me it seems straight forward and logical.

devonbarrett··on Be a Man and Stand Up for Gender Equality
By the title I expected a piece of satire.

Titling an article about sexism with 'Be a Man' probably is not the best way to go about advocating equality.

devonbarrett··on Question: How do I build a discussion board in the HN Style?
> How scalable is hosting on meteor.com?

Currently hosting on meteor.com is mainly meant for demoing and testing, not as a stable production enviroment. However, with the release of Meteor 1.0, the Meteor Development Group will launch Galaxy, which is a production ready hosting managed hosting platform.

devonbarrett··on Ask HN: What's your IQ?
136 - Cattell III B - UK - No practice, at age 15.
devonbarrett··on Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
More publicity for bitcoin, to drive the price higher.
devonbarrett··on Good ebook for learning data structures & algorithm
The art of computer programming; not really an introduction, but a must read.
devonbarrett··on Show HN: CaaS - Coffee as a Service
I would be interested in this myself, but as a big coffee drinker, I am rather picky about where it comes from etc.

More information on the beans and even expanding the selection of different geographic regions, would probably hook me in.

devonbarrett··on An IPv6-only VPS that costs less
In same way, no one except 'us tech nerds' care about IPv4. Why would anyone who does not have to work with it, or have an interest in tech, care about protocols?
devonbarrett··on Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission
>If launch aborts, we will bring the rocket down for engine inspection, so probably a few days before next attempt

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/statuses/406205904141697024

devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Would you pay for a bitcoin insurance policy?
What would stop someone sending them to another address which they own, and then claiming they were stolen?
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Best way to buy litecoins?
The minimum and maximum order you can place with that seller.
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Best way to buy litecoins?
Exchanging BTC for LTC is the better option.

But https://litecoinlocal.org/ is good for small-medium transactions.

devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Hacker News Person Of the Year
Aaron Swartz
devonbarrett··on NFL, MLB Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts
As a non-american MLB.tv was great this season! No blackouts, every game, hi-def, choice of home or away commentary. I would gladly pay for that every season, and for the NFL. I would even rather they show commercials instead of a blank screen.
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: I'm 15, won a grant to develop a suicide prevention app, what next?
Also would do it pro-bono if you need a hand with the backend. Email in profile.
devonbarrett··on Petition against forced Google+ integration on YouTube hits 112,000
If anonymity matters you should not have been using Google as a way to remain anonymous prior to this.
devonbarrett··on MI5, MI6, and GCHQ chiefs public hearing live on the BBC
Sorry, but again, what video are you watching?

They have provided zero public evidence that they are following the law. Just their word.

edit: in reply to your edit, I would choose my tin foil hat any day over your glasses of ignorance.

devonbarrett··on MI5, MI6, and GCHQ chiefs public hearing live on the BBC
I am going to make an assumption that any 'terrorist' that plans their next attack through facebook or gmail is more of a threat to killing themselves by a bomb backfiring, than to the public.

Mass surveillance is not the solution.

Also, their claim that 'they operate fully within the law' is just a claim without any public evidence to back it up, if all three of them were subject to a polygraph during this then I might take it a bit more seriously. Otherwise, why should I be inclined to trust the words of a organisation that clearly does not trust me?

devonbarrett··on MI5, MI6, and GCHQ chiefs public hearing live on the BBC
Sorry I might be watching a different video; what reasoned points are you talking about?
devonbarrett··on MI5, MI6, and GCHQ chiefs public hearing live on the BBC
'so we have to do detective work' - Iain Lobban

uuum... what did he think his job was?

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