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timklyon IEEE, a major science publisher, bans Huawei scientists from reviewing papers

I'll just leave this here. The US has been spying on the world forever, but what we are seeing here, is that if you want to be a truly global organisation of any kind, then the US is the place you don't want to be setting up in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

timklyon Google suspends some business with Huawei

As an Australian with a Hauwei phone, the writing is on the wall for me.

Google Android in no longer a universal platform and moving forward, I doubt I'll ever buy anything again Google or US related again in terms of tech.

This si no longer a China vs US issue, it's the US vs the world.

timklyon Everything you need to understand to start with AngularJS

excellent post. probably the most simple introduction to Angular JS I've read

timklyon Ask HN: How to find a good startup name?

I use http://www.namechk.com to ensure the social media real estate is available for a given name. also you want the .com as most non tech ppl wont remember tricky urls. keep it short and simple

timklyon Ask PG: Will HN ever get a search (& memory) friendly url structure?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5464028&title=testi... - you can just hack it in. maybe someone could put together a simple bookmarklet to get the title appended to the url

timklyon Instagram's official response

Let’s say a business wanted to promote their account to gain more followers and Instagram was able to feature them in some way.

Isn't this just exactly how facebook fooled the world? You pay x to gain y followers and when they have bleed that river dry, they roll out another update that requires you to pay z if you want your posts to show up in their feed?

timklyon AOL Might Just Have Invented Email’s Next UI Paradigm

Aggregation networks that focus on a individual users experience across mutliple channels rather then a single channel will be the driving force for the next wave of big startups IMO (and providing they can get the data cleanly).

ALTO confirms this, Its not just a new paradigm for email UX but communication UX. HootSuite and others have attempted similar by focusing on a few networks or channels and they have shown that people want a service where then can manage their online profile and communication from a single system. Attach email and file management capabilities and its a one stop shop.

btw: I would also add this is where Google has failed to capitalise in the marketplace. Users don't want another social network, The want control of everything from a single point.

timklyon Show HN: Sift through recently dropped .com's in order of pronounceability, etc.

I've done a little bit of domaining myself and the first thing to take away from any list is that recently dropped doesn't always equal available. Also you have guys that are running massive lists that perform thousands of buys requests per second across a massive number of domain name sellers in order to ensure they get to purchase the domain as soon as its released.

In terms of obtaining information, most whois queries can be performed via command line utilities... so to start you off here is a good list for whois servers (http://code.google.com/p/whois-servers-list/). Finally, check out each service, some will allow queries which will return true or false to being registered and generally you get a lot more of these requests then complete lookups (without being IP blacklisted)

Finally, in terms of building and managing an index, I believe manual crawling is the only option available... and start with dictionary terms and work out.

Edit: Read this as well - http://www.dotweekly.com/pending-delete-domain-name-drop-lis...

timklyon I don't like Bootstrap.

Its a problem with CSS frameworks these days (especially bootstrap). No longer are they the starting point for a design but instead they are now considered the final solution.

timklyon Show HN: idea for the future of document editing

I would like to see the ability to drag and drop the text directly into the editor... and an ability to choose the sources for obtaining information (Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia etc). Also, if you could highlight individual results and run a lookup against them you could drill down even further making the information more relevant... and as a sidenote, I be would inclined to target the student market whom could use this as a study tool (or lifesaver for last minute assignments)

timklyon AWS Start-Up Challenge

You fill out a form to register for the challenge and you get $25 free credit to build a start up on their platform.

The actual process for how it all works is here

http://aws.amazon.com/startupchallenge/rules/