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Fundation Hires Industry Vet as Chief Operating Officerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88cf8068004844a94ba87b5227e9a9&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanbanker.com%2Fnews%2Ffundation-hires-industry-vet-as-chief-operating-officer&c=6759669635166276536&mkt=en-usBarry Feierstein will be charged with overseeing the New York-based company's marketing, business development, lending operations, and servicing and administration, according to a Monday news release.Jan 11, 2016 3:56 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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I Turned Off JavaScript for a Whole Week and It Was Glorioushttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88cdc94aea40bda18a4c6777d3c109&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2F2015%2F11%2Fi-turned-off-javascript-for-a-whole-week-and-it-was-glorious%2F&c=11718921688328504438&mkt=en-usThere's another web out there, a better web hiding just below the surface of the one we surf from our phones and tablets and laptops every day. A web with no ads, no endlessly scrolling pages, and no ...Nov 17, 2015 11:00 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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Social Media Curation Appshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiW0FVX3lxTE5Ucm5Qd3o2cHZKU1dBLV9jaWtXSmZtR2pPa3BPTURaMHVzX3JIWGtyVHZVa2RjcXpCbFlSZmh2UGdTRnhDa0JYVmJKeHcxSU1NeVJQNk9ENnR5cTTSAWBBVV95cUxOZDdpOV9YRTNIR3lKVVJXdXBGS0ZHcXNZb1MyQnowMzVadWtCZGxSZUlUSXJRMEEzcXpkMHhQSFdXZk9wMzhqT3RFendmVGYzUl9WMTg1V1VmU2pLSGxNbXg?oc=5Social Media Curation Apps Trend HunterAug 22, 2015 1:14 AM
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Patriot Act Section Goes Way Too Farhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628531Via: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/letters/2015/05/29/letter-patriotact-sunset-senate-spying/28185561/"Section 215 of the Patriot Act is scheduled to sunset on Monday. This law was secretly interpreted to allow the mass surveillance of who you talk to on the phone. Such information can be deeply intimate and private: Consider, for instance, what you could infer from a record of numerous calls to a local oncology center and pharmacies. Section 215 is a pointless, expensive intrusion into the private life of every American. On May 22, the Senate voted against extending Section 215. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has indicated he will bring it up again for a lastminute vote on Sunday. I write to encourage local readers to ask their senators, especially McConnell and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, not to extend these surveillance provisions because they run counter to the spirit and letter of the Constitution. Your say: Submit a letter to the editor (http://static.cincinnati.com/leMay 30, 2015 1:47 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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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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Ask HN: Does anyone get numbness in the pinky?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6620337I recently started getting numbness in my left pinky. Here is a little background on me: An amateur coder who spends many hours every day on his laptop (although recently I haven't been doing enough coding practise). I'm left handed, mainly stick to ubuntu and tend to use gvim, I hardly ever use emacs. I looked up "emacs pinky", but this seems to be associated with pain in the finger (here's a nice picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabrielsaldana/4468068807/in/photostream/). I had a quick look at carpal tunnel syndrome, but this is associated with the median nerve. The pinky is innervated by the ulnar nerve, and I can't recall any injuries in the past few days. Also over the last few months I have made an effort to keep a reasonable sitting position when typing. Anyone with similar experiences? I am not asking for medical advice or an "online diagnosis", since I can make an appointment with the local witch doctor after the weekend finishes.Oct 27, 2013 1:23 AM
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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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Tools to monitor website performance?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6068848Hi,I'm curious what the current state-of-art for website performance monitoring is?Most of the tools I've seen are either Pingdom-style applications, which simply tell you if a website if up or down, or they're like YSlow-style, which run a bunch of tests to see if you're following best practices.But is there something like say, Chrome's SpeedTracer that you could run as a service, and monitor your website's performance over time? Or before/after each commit?What would you guys recommend to track the performance of your own website over time, or gather deep-level metrics?Could you use something like PhantomJS to achieve this?Are there any existing open-source projects that already do this?Cheers , VictorJul 19, 2013 8:06 AM
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Ask HN: What should I be asking for salary wise as a soon to be graduatehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5827099I am soon to be Computer Science/Business graduate in the Los Angeles,CA area and am trying to figure what to be expecting/asking for salary wise.My background:-I have been programming for 9 years-I have worked for the CTO of my college through out college designing and implementing J2EE web applications from end to end.-I have had an internship every summer during college all related to computing/programming with companies including the Walt Disney Company-A colleague and I have a start up project on the side of school that I have developed in Rails.(I like rails a lot )-I know some other web frameworks including Play and Django.-My strong languages are Java, Ruby, Pyton,HTML/CSS, Javascript(Jquery and a little Node),SQL,PHP(basically anything web app related)Here's my linked in for more:http://www.linkedin.com/in/griffinmartyThanks in advance for the advice!Jun 5, 2013 5:24 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
