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digitalnalogikaon SSD makers start warning that mining products like ChiaCoin will void warranty

Classic FUD around the internet, 1 TB of plots gives you 10 months expected time to win currently.

https://chiacalculator.com/

digitalnalogikaon Poop Map Removed from App Store Charts

Thank you! I went to post this and it was already there on HN.

(This is Nino from Poop Map)

digitalnalogikaon Hipmunk Says Goodbye

kiwi.com?

digitalnalogikaon Facebook: Another three billion fake profiles culled

Oh so that's what happened to the Instagram account I created for one of my apps. It was completely gone without trace while I was on vacation, didn't even use it actively.

digitalnalogikaon The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext

What are you thoughts on using Krypton? https://krypt.co

digitalnalogikaon Instagram Lite quietly launches to find a billion more users abroad

| but currently lacks the options to share videos or Direct message friends.

digitalnalogikaon SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage has landed at LZ-1 [video]

Watch the whole stream, it was beautiful. There was a view from ground all the way from separation to landing.

digitalnalogikaon Simplifying Firefox Release Channels

It has lower memory requirements, great developer tools and once Servo is integrated in Firefox, I think it has potential to really beat Chrome performance-wise.

Of course, until that happens Mozilla needs enough funding from search engines to keep the lights running so it's my main browser.

digitalnalogikaon TruffleRuby Status

Are there any performance gains on that sample Rails application, however simple?

digitalnalogikaon Stockfighter is live

https://discuss.starfighters.io/session/sso?return_path=/ redirects to https://staging.stockfighter.io/

digitalnalogikaon New Search Strategy for Firefox

What will be the default engine in countries not listed in post? It is not exactly clear, apart from saying that Google will be pre-installed (but not default?).

digitalnalogikaon Firefox 31.0

Generational garbage collection didn't make it into release? I kept seeing it in the 31.0beta release notes.

digitalnalogikaon VPS Classic: The most afforable VPS

Over time, I realized I don't really want to manage services needed to run my apps on a VPS, like Apache, nginx or MySQL configuration and upgrades.

Is there anything like WebFaction, but cheaper, that can handle sysadmining for me?

digitalnalogikaon iOS cache_encryptedA.db contains unencrypted geo-locations harvested by apps

The first word of the title gets auto-capitalized no matter what you put inside, so you have to go and manually edit it to "iOS" afterwards. That's why you frequently see "IOS" and "IPhone" at the beginning of the title if the links are recent and no mod has edited it yet.

digitalnalogikaon HipHop VM: now at 98.5% PHP framework parity, 16% faster

Does anyone have an easy method of testing HHVM on your website?

I was thinking of recording the production requests for x amount of time and replaying them on HHVM so you could see if responses are identical, there are no crashes, state of the database is same afterwards, etc.?

digitalnalogikaon What I learnt bootstrapping my startup from Thailand for six months

Thanks for the post, I now feel like I want to do similar thing sometime in my life. Is there any other interesting, safe, cheap place where you could live comfortably using at most $1000/month?

digitalnalogikaon Ask HN: Why does "Who is hiring" always drop so quickly from top ranks?

I agree, it's not posted so often to be an annoyance, and if it weren't for this HN thread, I probably wouldn't have spent 2 summers out of my small European country as an intern in a Canadian startup.

digitalnalogikaon [dead]

Please wait for the "Who Is Hiring" submission by whoishiring

digitalnalogikaon In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold

Which he also won.

  His accomplishments include gold (2000, 2002) and silver (2001) medals in the IOI, gold medals (2003, 2005) in the ACM ICPC World Finals as part of the team of Moscow State University and ...

digitalnalogikaon Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS

For some reason I had English (Australian) active in the Google language settings even though I don't live there. It started reading the answers when I switched that to English (US).

digitalnalogikaon Little-Known Awesome Algorithms: Fenwick Range Trees

I used this structure (although I knew it by totally different name) a lot in time constrained contests, the code is very short and easy to implement.

Also: