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Franklyn premieres Dinnerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88c5b281d54d47a41dbabda918efcd&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenationonlineng.net%2Ffranklyn-premieres-dinner%2F&c=2774522735096129022&mkt=en-usNigerian filmmaker, Jay Franklyn, penultimate Friday premiered his latest production, Dinner, at FilmHouse IMAX Cinemas, Lekki. The star-studded movie features stellar performances from its lead ...Nov 21, 2016 3:02 PM
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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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The Windows Start menu saga, from 1993 to todayhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88ce1524fb4188ad282d0149f8936c&url=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Fgadgets%2F2015%2F08%2Fthe-windows-start-menu-saga-from-1993-to-today%2F&c=17802006806300686057&mkt=en-usWindows 95 launched exactly 20 years ago today, and though the operating system is long dead many of its ideas still live on. In celebration of 95's 20th birthday, we're revisiting our piece on the ...Aug 23, 2015 11:35 PM
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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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Ask HN: Blockchainshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10032099More and more noise seems to be appearing about blockchains. I see the small benefit of use in transactions between organisations, but am struggling for the case for private blockchains and some points of cryptocurrency in general. I don’t know if this is the best place to ask, but everything online is full of jargon and is inaccessible to me.I have a few questions:- What are the benefits of using a private blockchain (should I be thinking of it as a replacement to a General Ledger?)? Is this just another name for a ledger with auditable history?- Can a blockchain exist without mining or without a currency/coin? Will all private blockchains need a “coin”? (eg the Goldman Sachs coin or ABC plumbing coin?)And another couple of broader questions- What keeps people interested in a blockchain (and currency) once all of the easy mining is done eg, for people joining later?- I see that transaction costs for bitcoin keep rising, is that related to the size of the blockchain?- I thought bitcoinAug 10, 2015 12:27 AM
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Potentials for Wallpaper market in India until 2018http://www.marketreportsonindia.com/consumer-goods-market-research-reports-11561/wallpaper-marketdia-forecasts.htmlIndia has always had a giant industry for home decor stuffs, wallpapers are one of the most in demand among them. This report is an independent complete coverage of the niche and its market share in the Indian markets. It indicates the present trends and also puts through most likely trends for the industry until 2018. Therefore, the report is an essential "must have" document for the wallpaper industry business indulgers from India.Jan 24, 2015 12:20 PM
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Used Car Valuation – Free Online Price Checkhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89aaf2c3564e228bbfc2b63fa25bfb&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zigwheels.com%2Fused-car-valuation&c=11824609588268388295&mkt=en-usZigwheels uses its years of automobile industry experience and dealer relationships to provide the customers with the best used car valuation Engine. Whether your are a buyer or a seller, our used car ...Oct 19, 2014 5:41 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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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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World's Roundest Objecthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y%3Fhd%3D1The world's roundest object helps solve the longest running problem in measurement -- how to define the kilogram. A kilogram isn't what it used to be. Literally. The original name for it was the 'grave', proposed in 1793 but it fell victim to the French Revolution like its creator, Lavoisier. So begins the tale of the most unusual SI unit. The kilogram is the only base unit with a prefix in its name, and the only one still defined by a physical artifact, the international prototype kilogram or IPK.But the problem with this definition has long been apparent. The IPK doesn't seem to maintain its mass compared to 40 similar cylinders minted at the same time. The goal is therefore to eliminate the kilogram's dependence on a physical object. Two main approaches are being considered to achieve this end: the Avogadro Project and the Watt Balance.The Avogadro project aims to redefine Avogadro's constant (currently defined by the kilogram -- the number of atoms in 12 g of carbon-12) and reverseAug 3, 2013 12:21 PM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d0aa9f634d5da3365ab6b0fba611&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ec39e475431c812df0980b6420b3&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ca9f01cb4da69b4ab2269fc2fe55&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85cc88714f418f9c8f3b8acdb5312e&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d7244a0d4673928e79b7654f32f5&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ea0d5d9f4637ac10a61d3d87c698&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e5cc4ea649cab60206dc6b905347&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e18e99dd404a8b4e0b0a5a139e90&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dd4e53254709ad589b77fa29b6d9&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
