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villagefoolon A life less posted

Putting aside the issue of posting about oneself, I wonder if there is research data whether not keeping track of others/society makes one less achieving or more...

villagefoolon Information Hiding: Steganography done with JavaScript

Where can I get that shirt?

villagefoolon Search Big Data in Five Minutes with Pig, Wonderdog and ElasticSearch

Agreed, the actuall time measurements are missing for the comparison.

villagefoolon Exploiting Silicon Valley For Profit (and Maybe Fun)

By the way, how much of this post is IndexTank's own story?

villagefoolon Exploiting Silicon Valley For Profit (and Maybe Fun)

A bit ironic that he sarcastically referees to HN as "Hacker Noise" but then at the end invites people to discuss the post on it.

villagefoolon Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon

>> - put media specific folders in the public folder (maybe at different price tiers) and turn it into a flickr/soundcloud/youtube competitor!

Is it really a good idea to open multiple fronts against services which are 'pro' at what they do?

villagefoolon Ask HN: Web crawler generator

Interesting service, never heard of it. I am actually looking for a library/framework rather than service, I was hoping there is some "visual editor" for defining what to scrape/crawl and simplify the building process.

villagefoolon Learning to Program: Why Python?

But that doesn't explain why Python and not C#. Can't a C# programmer be up-and-running with Python in a day or two too?

villagefoolon Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

"After that Gmvault will automatically authenticate itself using the credentials stored in $HOME/.gmvault (or %HOME%/.gmvault for Windows). " how are the credentials stored offline?

villagefoolon Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

Is there an online open archive of YC applications?

villagefoolon We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m

You are profitable, and have a large base of users. So what is the funding for?

villagefoolon Instagram

Can someone please explain what "...Kevin came to it organically based on the Burbn data" means?

villagefoolon Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework

Trying to read your docs and examples to figure what is in the framework (Leaderboard is a Meteor object?) and how it works. An image showing the sequence/flow of data between client/server/framework/and user code, would of helped a lot.

villagefoolon Instagram’s founder, a marketer who learned to code at night

Is it still true? can you actually do much nowdays (in that scale) on a cheap PC? it seems like heavy machines/cloud access is crucial

villagefoolon Elite trade engine in C

didn't those guys hear about Github ;)

villagefoolon Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 2 Notes

Sorry for the ignorance, but who is Nolan that is listed as the second lecturer of the course? (tried Googling)

villagefoolon Rick Falkvinge and his "a bit slow full-duplex 100Mbit" Internet Connection

You only have two eyes, so why so many screens? just flip desktops...

villagefoolon Google co-founder Sergey Brin spotted wearing Project Glass prototype IRL

In the image he looks like a borg.

villagefoolon How do you take breaks? Try singles Bughouse

Did I miss something? on 2:04 the player on the right takes a piece that has been removed and returns it to the end of the board. Is that legit?

villagefoolon There's no speed limit (2009)

This is the second time today that I hear about Askolo, seems more then a quincidence (heavy PR going on?). How are they different from Quora?

villagefoolon Why you should choose an ambitious startup idea

Where can that data be found if it is publicly available?

villagefoolon Pinterest, We Have a Problem

Funny thing is that Pinterest in their terms of service are asking people to follow rules they are breaking for other services...

villagefoolon Show HN: Stash, a graph-based cache for Node.js and Redis

Where can an example for how to use such cacheing in when serving pages using node be found? Sorry, first time I am hearing about this...

villagefoolon Messenger.js - dead simple API for multi-server communication in Node.js

The examples and output don't seem to be synchronized (for example in the pub/sub example). But more interesting, how can the client reach servers on a different network/ip? since that is the more common case for distributed servers...

villagefoolon Ask HN: Where can I learn more about Random Forests?

Great, thanks

villagefoolon Rapportive (YC S10) Has Been Acquired By LinkedIn

Care to share how you use Rapportive to get work done?

villagefoolon Show HN We just launched forking for your Minecraft worlds

Sorry I don't really know minecraft, but it isn't open source right? if so how did they manage to technically do this

villagefoolon A Moment of Clarity in the Pursuit of Happiness

When you have a new child on the way, an extra room in the house could be a hell of a difference for more then 2 years of your life... is this advice realistic for people who need to support a family?