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Re:Fog Creek’s Remote Work Policy on Friday September 13, 2013 @01:16AM (#6378795)
Because Reddit front page
Re:India: the Story You Never Wanted to Hear on Monday August 19, 2013 @09:41PM (#6241160)
I lived in India for awhile and had female friends go though a bit of what is described in the story it brings back situations I was in and I empathize.

But why is this on the front page of Hacker News?

Re:Massive number of Yahoo email accounts compromised on Monday June 17, 2013 @09:40PM (#5897061)
I've gotten three of these in the last two days from three family members on different sides of the family who all use Yahoo. I thought the first two were just idiots, but after the third I started to wonder how widespread this was.
Re:Show HN: "Dropbox for Wi-Fi" on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @01:09PM (#5363176)
Ouch: "Error establishing database connection"

Scramble to fix it before you drop off the front page!

Re:John McAfee arrested in Guatemala on Thursday December 06, 2012 @11:47AM (#4882439)
Vice footage of the detainment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWqiVhRa0xI
Re:Use Hulu, Netflix, Pandora and Rdio from any country on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @03:01PM (#4754912)
Is all traffic being routed through their proxy or just the bare minimum to start the stream on the various websites?

Basically: is all my chrome browser traffic going through their servers?

I have lived outside of the US for 6 years and can hands down recommend Charles Schwab Bank. All ATM fees in the US and abroad are reimbursed and there are no foreign transaction fees. That shady private ATM in the bar charges $5 per transaction? You are totally insensitive to it.

When was the last time you walked into a bank with a checking account question? You are here on HN so I assume it is rarely or never

But...it's a debit account, so if you need a credit card this may not fit your use case.

Re:Start-Up Chile opens a new application process on Sunday July 01, 2012 @02:07PM (#4185583)
I am from the US and I have not heard anyone paying taxes on the $40k as a US citizen. I can not say if this is the correct way to handle it or not. Since the money is split up between the team it is a bit complicated if you have more than one team member, but the money does get reimbursed to the head team member so if someone was responsible for paying taxes on it, it would be the head team member. All charges that you submit for reimbursement must be made from an account of a human team member on the contract or a Chilean company, and not from a US entity such as an LLC.

You can elect to draw a small salary from the grant money here in Chile (which most do) and you must register with the tax office here, but the salary is not high enough to require you to pay taxes here in Chile either.

Re:Facebook Plans to Speed Up its iPhone App on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @03:03PM (#4168610)
One reason:

"...performance of UIWebViews is less than in mobile Safari. This has a lot to do with the absence of the new Nitro JavaScript engine in UIWebViews, apparently for security reasons. I ran some tests on my iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1.1, the JavaScript benchmark Sunspider running in Mobile Safari was 3 x as fast as running in a native app with a UIWebView. Also, to communicate from the UIWebView to the native app, a JavaScript bridge is needed. This is tricky stuff, slow and not really thread safe."

http://blog.mobtest.com/2012/05/heres-why-the-facebook-ios-a...

Re:Facebook Plans to Speed Up its iPhone App on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @12:42PM (#4167818)
I think the bigger problem is still iOS's webview from within native apps, not that it has to pull most of the assets from the server. If you go to m.facebook.com in Safari it is much faster than using the native application and most of it is the same HTML5 code that is running within the webview of the native app. The twitter app is also painfully slow when clicking a link and it opens up the resulting page in a webview.
Re:AirBnb's new site design on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @12:12PM (#4167667)
Next month's post: Wimdu's new site design http://wimdu.com
Re:Start-Up Chile opens a new application process on Monday June 25, 2012 @06:59PM (#4159209)
Great point. I initially thought I would float everything on my credit card until I got reimbursed. I found out it doesn't work like that unfortunately. You have to show that the credit card has been paid off for the transactions you are submitting.
Re:Start-Up Chile opens a new application process on Monday June 25, 2012 @06:30PM (#4159098)
Yes, they make it pretty clear that you should have $5k per person to get you on your feet. I took it pretty lightly but it ended up being quite accurate and we ran into some cashflow issues.

As for time on program overhead, minimum probably 2 days a month. Much more if you want to be more involved with the community. You are not forced to do much more than the reimbursement process and finding some ways to give back to the Chile. You could go to meetups and such 3-4 days a week if you wanted, a lot going on.

Re:Start-Up Chile opens a new application process on Monday June 25, 2012 @06:15PM (#4159030)
I'm currently down in Santiago and part of round 3. I'm happy to try to answer any questions anybody has about the program.
Re:Heroku is down on Thursday June 07, 2012 @12:16PM (#4079744)
Confirmed. One of my apps is down. I hope they resolve it soon, but I don't pay anything at the moment so I am not too upset.
Re:Is Diaspora dead? on Thursday May 17, 2012 @02:14PM (#3988295)
They got into the next round of YCombinator, so I'm sure we will see something soon.

http://allthingsd.com/20120511/diaspora-says-its-back-on-tra...

I am a skinny guy so my problem is not keeping weight off but rather putting weight on. When I am deep into my work I put off eating and end up skipping meals.

My co-founders and I have started going to the gym for an hour or so every night which is a great break from work. Before it got cold and I started going to the gym I would sneak out for a 30min run every other day, a lot of great ideas come to me while running.

Re:Show HN: Namerick - an app for people who forget names on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @02:58PM (#3217123)
Free for next 3 days...why wouldn't I download it?

Ask HN: Low effort way to monitize Facebook cover pictures?

I have been sitting on timelinecoverpictures.com and profilecoverpictures.com and am looking for a low effort way to monitize them. Most obvious is a gallery of interesting cover pictures but I think this will take too much work to curate. I opted to not register domains with 'facebook' in them as I have heard horror stories about being contacted by facebook legal department for using their...

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Mine are all running fine, but I am using Java. Not sure why it would be different for python though.
Re:How To Build A Team That Will Make You Rich on Monday March 07, 2011 @07:32AM (#2296909)
What kind of projects are you creating? Shallow ad based content sites or something more involved?
Re:Ask HN: Where to host your projects? on Monday March 07, 2011 @05:58AM (#2296738)
I host all of my side projects on Google App Engine and write them using Gaelyk. It is a lightweight Groovy framework for GAE, if you already know Java you're good to go. Once you get one project out, it is amazing how productive you can be. Check it out here: http://gaelyk.appspot.com Let me know if you want any help or would like to work together on something.
Re:Libya turns off its internet: this time it's a flatline on Friday March 04, 2011 @10:12AM (#2288257)
Wow, that's flat!

But, perhaps they haven't turned it off: "Data after this point are still being finalized. Interpret them with caution."

We will have to wait and see.

Re:Ask HN: Who's looking for a job? (March 2011 Edition) on Friday March 04, 2011 @10:06AM (#2288229)
I'm looking for remote development jobs. Preferably groovy related, as that is my current strength and interest, but am a very fast learner of different technologies. I'm currently located in Germany but am currently looking for a move. A link to my website with more information about me is in my profile.
Re:Ask HN: Random startup generator templates on Friday March 04, 2011 @08:34AM (#2287952)
If you just want to throw something up quickly you can use http://thiss.is example: http://thiss.is/whycharliesheeniswinning

Disclaimer: I created thiss.is

Re:Registration up 300% with Facebook’s Registration Tool on Monday January 24, 2011 @08:41AM (#2135122)
But now you can go ahead and use it so it's all good.

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