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Hey underyx! Would you mind referring me as well? (Email in profile). I'd love to give Superhuman a try! Way too many emails, and always looking for more efficient & effective ways…

ROS is definitely the way to go. Aside from the plethora of existing libraries for preexisting robots, its the 'industry-standard' for personal robots. Plus, its really quite easy …

I think people are seeing the products that Google has to maximize profit on (Youtube, AdSense, G+, etc...) and using those as the basis for the entire ecosystem that is Google. Go…

My droplet has been working fine in NY. There was an email earlier today about a problem detected and expected, intermittent downtime for tonight. Not sure if that is related.

Heh ;) For clarification, I was meaning pure C.

Hey all - I am going to be needing to program a lot in C in the near future, and am looking for some good recommendations to get me started from the basics of the language to how t…

It might be wise to contact DigitalOcean support (or on their forums) before posting this on a public forum that they probably will not read. Even if you are completely wrong, ther…

I've received replies within a day or two from them. Depending if you sent yours during one of the bursts from an HN thread it might of got lost. Try sending them an email now?

As a current student, I think what you are doing is quite wonderful, and having just read PG's 'What You'll Wish You'd Known' Speech, I think that such a talk like this could be in…

Definitely check out Kyle Rush's report on the optimization of the Obama Campaign's donation page via A/B testing. Here's the link: http://kylerush.net/blog/optimization-at-th e-ob…

It would be interesting to correlate this to number of views it is likely to get. Hitting the first page at 3am is not nearly as valuable as hitting the first page at prime time de…

Clickable: https://gist.github.com/grownseed/5384323 Actually found these really interesting and started playing around with the selective sight, although I used to do that when I …

Ads are also the thing that enables really amazing things to exist. Regardless of your feelings about facebook, the community it has created has had drastic impacts on the world at…

"Instead, I would like to know what is your recommendation for an easy to use, safe and practical way to encrypt my email communication that I can set up right now?" None. Although…

The problem is that it is doable to create an encrypted email client, but the problem is how does one then send this off encrypted to a gmail account? There's no practical solution…

Clickable: http://s-crit.com

Heh, see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5318632 Yes, it's a joke.

URL shortener for music links that then redirects to user's preferred music service (saved for future) anyone?