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Ask HN: Visiting Bulgaria and Romania: Where to Stay? What to Do? Who to See?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11523542Looking for advice on getting the most out of the city from a startup perspective. I'd love to have the potential to meet a few freelancers or dev shops in the area face to face.I wouldn't mind having some advice as far as where to stay, anything I have to see or do while I'm in the area. As a first time visitor, is their anything I just cannot miss?I wouldn't mind building a good network of contacts that have a potential for friendships or working relationships.To put it bluntly, what would you share with an American coming to Bucharest, Romania. Then Burgas and Sofia in Bulgaria.Apr 18, 2016 10:19 PM
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TakeGuru – New Active Hobby Global Marketplacehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11026671New powerful Internet start-up in the field of travelling and active outdoor and indoor activities, namely TakeGuru, has been launched at the end 2015. Presentation of the service took place at the Internet summit Fast Track Lisbon.TakeGuru (http://takeguru.com/) is the first online service which helps people who travel to other countries in getting a hobby or continuing to be engaged in active outdoor and indoor activities. Now people, who for certain reasons are going on a trip, can online reserve the air tickets, accommodation and excursions. They rent a car, effect an insurance in advance. However they should still look for the corresponding their interest activities upon arriving to the destination place or spend much time studying the sites among searching systems of Internet.Mean a particular active hobby? Arrive to a special spot? Previously to your landing at any place in the world TakeGuru takes over for the fast online matching and agreeing the short-term courses with the loFeb 3, 2016 2:45 PM
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Banana bread recipe a salute to the yellow fruithttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMisAFBVV95cUxPYnVyYzZfMURmZUktYjktckp0VGZZS2M3UkpVbU00d3gtUzI4X0VrdjVqMzFvZ0JnWHI2dWt6Q3VHYzRIQnFBMzFteWs3NmZaQkFGRk5xa0J6MFVsZTEydWdtNnlTekJVNmdoN09Kc0w4aTZ5Ukswbm90T0twRnVFcUphZ1Z4Z2dLYk11Yy1GWWhJR2xaZm94UkdMcFZseG5PU2E5b1ROTnhwaC10NXcxaA?oc=5Banana bread recipe a salute to the yellow fruit Cape Cod TimesJan 13, 2016 8:00 AM
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Ask HN: How good are the local startup scenes in Lisbon and Sofia?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638815I'm a solo founder and my startup is beginning to get some momentum. To capitalise on this I've decided it's time to move ops out of my spare bedroom and in to a more dynamic environment. Main goal for moving: increase my chances of bumping in to like minded people and finding a co-founder / first hire.I've narrowed the choice down to Lisbon or Sofia (having started with London, Paris, Barcelona, Sofia and Lisbon) and would love to hear the experiences of any HNers who have spent time in either city - especially if it was while bootstrapping your own startup (or working for someone else's)!Things I'd love to know: quality, size and diversity of local talent; quality of local accelerators and investors; how easy/hard it is to find (good) people that want to take a risk and work for an early stage startup; friendliness of the local startup scene.My pros for Sofia:- Betahaus co-working space- Fantastic cost of living (~30% cheaper than Lisbon - which itself is already cheap)- Lovely city,Nov 27, 2015 9:01 PM
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A Cookbook to Rehabilitate Soviet Cuisinehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMihwFBVV95cUxPSGN5bmp2LTBoT1lJUmFoQThFY2VqbkNhQm84eG1Ha0ZoTVNNdW1ELVJOUHV0QU9hWGphdFp5LWU5cy1MRjdzc2NhRkNKbEtiVlhpZEJFbXc2Xzk3dVVFTFYxVHZ2RzNPR09hWWEzZXc1eVM3YWo5eUtqMFc4ZEFiXzFsQ0xoQ2c?oc=5A Cookbook to Rehabilitate Soviet Cuisine The Moscow TimesOct 28, 2015 7:00 AM
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Soviet 'Vegetarian' Borscht Recipe Contains Pork Fat, Angers Vegetarianshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMirAFBVV95cUxPNHRoV1JtRXJpQWlYZldrajNsb3prQmh2dnFMZzdYZlFqQVBhWU1lVlZBT1hqNExKbFJBYmE4cERzRzhTbWtKRXdvYUNHUnZCMUZOZ3dyYW55MUQwSUo5MmV1R3pzZUlCamRCMmV0UlJUR2U1TnNZdWZaZ0Q0ZkQ2SGtYV0YtSWJ5d2tOSHE1UDZCMkFyMWN0R1E5RXY1MUo4NjJtaTR6UnBURVFx?oc=5Soviet 'Vegetarian' Borscht Recipe Contains Pork Fat, Angers Vegetarians The Moscow TimesOct 15, 2015 7:00 AM
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Ask HN: Staying Happyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10104051I really remember it, back to the time when i was in college, i have so much tasks. I needed to attend campus club. Lots of assignment. But the fact i was happy still surprises me.It has been ~1.5 years since i graduated from my college and got to work as a software engineer. I got decent job with decent salary (at least pretty good in my area). The workplace itself considered as a "fun" environment: sleeping pod, ping pong table, coffee machine and no cubicles. Also, workload is lighter than class assignments. But it seems like i am not happy anymore -- i don't know why. (Btw, yes, i do love coding. I do some of my pet projects in weekend)I tried to do so much things (to try) making myself happier: Cycling around the city, playing some game with friends; but none of them seems to be working.After all, i want to create happiness, not to "do something" or "buy something" to make myself happy. I know happiness is intrinsic and subjective. Two persons doing a same thing may perceive that Aug 22, 2015 10:41 PM
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ADHD patienter skulle utredas på Husby Säterihttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b01178c1d419590bd597e8033c820&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nt.se%2Fnyheter%2Fsoderkoping%2Fartikel%2Fadhd-patienter-skulle-utredas-pa-husby-sateri%2Flynx8n9j&c=15873682227417613757&mkt=en-usI maj startades en klinik på Husby Säteri för att utreda vuxna adhd-patienter. Efter bara några veckor lades verksamheten ner. Utkastade, säger en. Time out , säger en annan. – Det är en planerad time ...Jul 13, 2015 2:14 AM
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MacOS is the new Windowshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816994I'm typing this on my late 2010 MacBook Air. Recently I was starting having problems with it (you know when you type your password and the system does not recognize your key presses, etc.). And I thought, “Oh, ok, I have to accept that we live in a world of planned obsolesce (how else faster-than-a-gigahertz multi-gigabyte-RAM machine could become slow? If it is capable of real-time response to user's actions, it should respond in real-time) and I have to upgrade to get my job done”.So I switched to this new aesthetically marvelous wonder: an early 2015 13 inch MacBook Pro. In 5 days I'm using it the machine restarted two (or three?) times "because of problems" though it has much less software installed than my old rock-stable-in-comparison MacBook Air. And now I'm installing an OS update which already restarted my system twice. First it restarted the system, than it said, “Ooops, I cannot verify the update”, fiddled with it for several more minutes, restarted-downloaded-restarted... WJul 2, 2015 5:20 AM
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How a Challenging Past Can Lead to a Happier Presenthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89f0ce72b342ba80eea59f8df8cd02&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgreatergood.berkeley.edu%2Farticle%2Fitem%2Fhow_a_challenging_past_can_lead_to_a_happier_present&c=254049715723775552&mkt=en-us“That which does not kill us outright makes us stronger,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche more than 100 years ago. As a psychotherapist for 20 years, I’ve seen clients bear this out many times. “I wasn’t ...Feb 22, 2015 4:00 PM
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Russian Candymaker Hopes Putin Chocolate Bars Are Recipe for Successhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiuAFBVV95cUxOMmZGSjkxQTRHV1U3UTdobjBsMDhfSVlpenJEbkNLRTZhYnZ3Q3MzT0VzeXNidnNyWElCM3dMVE40WGNnRXc0VVVqbHZ3UHdNS24tb2FHcnRwUkhXX3kxVmdVT0hNcnc2MXBwM2JlNnFqUGhRMVNXQ3ZJV25WVkNlQk9MQ1EwYkkta3lxbnlMcjYtaDFTNXhBcEExRm5ZNGEtVE9HdU5paEJNQjZ0cjE1ZUpoeUIyUTJq?oc=5Russian Candymaker Hopes Putin Chocolate Bars Are Recipe for Success The Moscow TimesNov 26, 2014 8:00 AM
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Russian Food ?€“ How to Pickle Like a Prohttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMihwFBVV95cUxPb01pcWNvUWZONnpTa1VpUXpJVEJyVU5CNi1NMWcxTk5FR0lxbGFRcFktSllOSmo2aVRYaWxnRVgza2t5MlNCX25GMEJSR2NmT1d4ZmJfUFQycnUtMVhTcVpVeHBCbXllUnZoX2lhTWFDTTVuWEdCemdKaFI1bXprN21Md2ZTME0?oc=5Russian Food ?€“ How to Pickle Like a Pro The Moscow TimesAug 24, 2014 7:00 AM
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Play Doesn't End With Childhood: Why Adults Need Recess Toohttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b10815aa34f038e14500a1f4df284&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fsections%2Fed%2F2014%2F08%2F06%2F336360521%2Fplay-doesnt-end-with-childhood-why-adults-need-recess-too&c=5886167234166535670&mkt=en-usThis week, NPR Ed is focusing on questions about why people play and how play relates to learning. More and more research suggests that healthy playtime leads to healthy adulthood. Childhood play is ...Aug 6, 2014 2:00 PM
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Peace Corps Volunteers in Their Own Wordshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8aa12897e34757b8b7545c88e713e7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Finteractive%2F2014%2F07%2F25%2Fworld%2Fpeace-corps-stories.html&c=5908059088113757429&mkt=en-usThe Peace Corps faces a number of challenges beyond the health care problems outlined in Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s Times article as it works to remake itself in the modern era. To reflect the diversity of ...Jul 25, 2014 11:49 AM
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Peace Corps Volunteers in Their Own Wordshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a894a12eafd455fa6b6510401d92e5f&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Finteractive%2F2014%2F07%2F25%2Fworld%2Fpeace-corps-stories.html&c=5908059088113757429&mkt=en-usThe Peace Corps faces a number of challenges beyond the health care problems outlined in Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s Times article as it works to remake itself in the modern era. To reflect the diversity of ...Jul 25, 2014 11:49 AM
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Warwick Capper's life with bad-news Bearshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8aed08dc0d4799b78172fba2697d5e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theage.com.au%2Fsport%2Fafl%2Fwarwick-cappers-life-with-badnews-bears-20140506-zr5hn.html&c=8372438902225045010&mkt=en-usIt's a laugh a minute when Warwick Capper recalls his three tumultuous years as a Brisbane Bear, but it's clear there are also pangs of regret for the one-time glamour full-forward. Many remember ...May 6, 2014 5:36 AM
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Ask HN: Need of a much better GitHub/Gitlab?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7618161Github [1] has become slow and the hosted solution (enterprise version) is too costly, so we have been using Gitlab which is a Github like repository hosting platform that also has issue tracking and merge/pull request based workflow and integration with its CI (gitlab-ci project).In the past couple of months, we've been facing a lot of problems for example -- Gitlab has broken our development workflow (due to bugs in it), the web hooks would stop working, the merge request diffs would be too slow to load, sometimes the ruby based backend would blow up and give us 500 etc. So, we've started working on a single page webapp based on Go and AngularJS that just does minimalistic things that we need. We wanted a tool that is easy to manage and install so we chose Go (single binary) and we wanted to keep the frontend easy to implement and use so we chose AngularJS (single page app).What are the pain points you've faced while using these tools, and what features etc. you want in it and will yApr 20, 2014 7:30 PM
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Help choose which Linux distro saves the earth from alien invasion.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6880434This post is for something I have made. So it is, by definition, self promoting. But I know many of you will be interested. So, with that in mind, I'm going to post it anyway.I have almost finished a novel. And I need help getting some dedicated writing time to get the last ~10k words down and final edits in place.The book, “Steve’s Laptop”, is a Sci-Fi Comedy about a developer named Steve who, while working at “the world’s largest software company” near Seattle, is trying to save the world from an alien invasion. Primarily with his laptop. Hence the title.If I were forced to compare it to something I would call it: “They Live” + “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” + “The IT Crowd“.I'm holding a "Help me finish this book" sale/fundraiser. A pay-what-you-want deal where you get my existing books, and get a chance to take part in shaping a small part of the book itself.Specifically, you get to vote on which Linux distro is used on "Steve's Laptop". If you want to see Arch save the world fDec 10, 2013 1:03 PM
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Show HN: seekr [StartupHacks hackathon, London]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6663516Background. We're a diverse team of students and young professionals that has just spent a productive weekend at StartupHacks London building seekr [1], and we'd love to have HN's feedback on it.Product. Put simply, seekr is a service (and iOS app [2]) that lets you find interesting events around you. Our aim is to figure out in real-time what's popular. By analysing publicly available social data we can avoid relying on 3rd party services, and also create some valuable data of our own. We also use the metadata to improve event detection accuracy and identification.Mobile. The iOS app can be used to submit photos (together with a "mood" rating) and to browse a map that displays photos grouped in clusters, their size being an obvious indicator of popularity.Platform. seekr is effectively a platform - by making our APIs public we can allow developers take advantage of the analysis we perform on the data. Our technology stack can be seen here http://i.imgur.com/t0gEYq0.png[1] Landing pageNov 3, 2013 3:45 PM
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Arrested in Port Harcourt, detained in Abuja, alleged notorious kidnappers seek freedomhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMixgFBVV95cUxNSDNYVUp5VHB6d2tHNy1HMzllbHMydFRlLVJRb3A5SWIxZkZ6UkZ4ZmE3TWdoS1I1QVpTdno3VXFrNENuYzVhZ0lBT3RqNXFhTGktRW1hS2w2Z3p1a3lJZEVNUjFiVFdKRnhsdmZkeFNtMUJHTGhtUzFxeDVMTE1UNkZMWjYyU2VpSEs5S3VyWkxBV1dPblgtUnV5dWc3SE00NkNyT0JDaVhZYS02ZXJrVTJNSEpXVUpQRl9KcmpzSDlmb0FfX2c?oc=5Arrested in Port Harcourt, detained in Abuja, alleged notorious kidnappers seek freedom Premium Times NigeriaOct 24, 2013 7:00 AM
