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Author here. Inspired by John Oliver's segment[0] on 911, I've drafted a system which can communicate the location of emergency callers, but without any major infrastructure upgrad…

Google Domains (if you're in the US) or AWS Route 53. They cost about the same ($12/year for most domains, including private registration) but AWS charges extra (about $6/year) if …

SEEKING WORK -- Delhi, India (Remote work preferred; I am also willing to travel) I'm a software developer and operations guy. I love taking on interesting and challenging projects…

SEEKING WORK -- Delhi, India (Remote work preferred; I am also willing to travel) I'm a software developer and operations guy. I love taking on interesting and challenging projects…

From http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring : "This account automatically submits a 'Who is Hiring? (Month YYYY Edition)' post at 9 AM Eastern time on the 1st of every mon…

$ curl http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=j No such user. Clearly you could have named yourself just 'j' instead of the overly verbose 'jon6'. All those extra characters!!

The output can be made much smaller if you just encode (and possibly compress) the bitmap data as a (base64?) string in JavaScript, then use a little JavaScript to actually render …

The download contains the Babylon toolbar, but if you open the installer with 7-zip, then extract and run $TEMP\PrivitizeVPNInstaller.exe - you get the VPN sans the adware.

How does this actually stop spam? Any automated bot would just do the POST or whatever is behind the HTML form, without actually loading up the page with this script, and since the…

This looks very similar to http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/ - they've even used the same graphics!