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This gigaom post has more details on iBeacon: http://gigaom.com/2013/09/10/with-ibeacon-apple-is-going-to-...

This is a fantastic collection. Thanks for sharing this!

karthikvon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)

SolarCity in San Mateo, CA.

We are looking for an Embedded Systems Engineer: http://www.solarcity.com/hr/204/26/Embedded-Systems-Engineer...

We are a small software team working on some really important problems in the solar/renewable and home energy efficiency space. Come join us if you want to change the world one roof at a time. Email me if you are interested.

karthikvon Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

I imported mine to Evernote a while back. They have an import from delicious tool.

karthikvon Hacker's Guide to Tea

Or a few mint leaves for a soothing flavor...

karthikvon Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

There are a few sites that already do that, but I've personally never used them.

http://www.bookswim.com/

http://www.booksfree.com/

karthikvon The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository

There's a wiki that has solutions to the exercises at the end of all chapters. http://www2.algorithm.cs.sunysb.edu/mediawiki/index.php/The_...

karthikvon Search Google Docs From Within Gmail

Is this the beginning of integrating all personal info stored in various Google products under one search box?

karthikvon Ask YC: Review my startup

Not sure if it was meant to be this way.. but the design looks eerily similar to facebook's.

karthikvon Ask YC: What's the most inspiring sci-fi book you've read?

I love 1984. I wouldn't say it was inspiring (its dystopian) but rather an eye-opening experience. It made me change the way I look at security and privacy.

karthikvon Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?

I think this has been discussed a couple of times here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61831

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99936

karthikvon Mozilla Messaging

Here's the FAQ:

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/news/faq/2008-02-19-01

karthikvon Poor People Use Yahoo, Those Better Off Use Google

I disagree that money has anything to do with the service people use.

karthikvon Run this: python -c "import this"

I think the "other ways" might not always be horrible ideas. It just leads to messy, unreadable code. Of course, its upto the programmer to write readable code.

karthikvon Run this: python -c "import this"

Python says "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

But Perl says "There's more than one way to do it."

karthikvon Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out

It says it won't "store" those actions sent by the partners. Its not clear if they will "use" that information in any other way.

karthikvon Is Aaron Swartz the Paris Hilton of Web 2.0?

qwertyy: Did you create a new profile just to post this? Gosh, get a life dude!

karthikvon Android developer challenge ($10 million in awards)

I meant written in Java. BTW, they have their own VM called Dalvik virtual machine.

karthikvon Android developer challenge ($10 million in awards)

The only thing that sucks (for me) is the app has to be developed using Java. The SDK does not support native application development yet.

karthikvon Bountii - New YC Startup

Are you also planning to include ebay results?

karthikvon Bountii - New YC Startup

Hey John - That explains the results I got. Maybe you should include this information in the homepage. But otherwise I like the way the results are presented and the feeds (Google still doesn't have this).

karthikvon Bountii - New YC Startup

Search 1: oral-b sonic complete toothbrush Google: http://www.google.com/products?q=oral-b+sonic+complete+tooth... Bountii: http://bountii.com/search.php?item=oral-b+sonic+complete+too...

Search 2: oral-b sonic complete toothbrush head Google: I got 2-3 links to eBay and couple of other sites Bountii: No results found

Search 3: gillette MACH3 razor Google: http://www.google.com/products?q=gillette+MACH3+razor&bt... Bountii: No results found

Edit: I know these searches may not be the most popular searches. But still these are not hard to find products...

karthikvon Bountii - New YC Startup

The site looks good and does what it says. But I compared a few products with Google Products search (formerly Froogle) and I got more deals from Google than Bountii. Of course, you don't have a large index as Google (yet), but ultimately the question is how is it different from Google Products?

karthikvon Mint Wins TechCrunch40 $50,000 Award

Just curious: How many of you are willing to give your bank passwords to Mint.com? I'm still scared to give out my most important credentials to a 3rd party. Maybe I'm paranoid.

karthikvon Walt Mossberg Reviews Dell Ubuntu: "...still too rough around the edges..."

I wonder how Ubuntu will be reviewed by an user who is using a computer for the first time and has no OS exposure of any kind before?? hmmm...

karthikvon The Character Traits for an Entrepreneur

"I now have enough experience with startups to be able to say what the most important quality is in a startup founder, and it's not what you might think. The most important quality in a startup founder is determination. Not intelligence-- determination." http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html

karthikvon Jeremy Zawodny: There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS)

Maybe we should start calling these services as "Web Desktop" instead of WebOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_desktop