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by NathanKP 14y ago
For what it is worth I've been an HN member nearly four years and I've never seen this before. I enjoyed it and up voted. I don't think reposts are necessarily a bad thing because there is always going to be new members who have not seen th
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by NathanKP 14y ago
I'm really excited about the price reduction and the reserved throughput possibilities. Over the past six months I slowly but surely migrated most of the core data storage for the startup I work for to DynamoDB and I have been very satisfie
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by NathanKP 14y ago
For navigation, Dragon uses positional information that it receives from the ISS, along with GPS data it calculates itself. As it approaches the station, it uses imagery of the ISS and the relative size of the station to compute the distan
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by NathanKP 14y ago
I think the title is quite overoptimistic. 3D printing is starting to take off because the cost of 3D printing is going down, and making it feasible. 4D printing is going to be far too expensive for practical application for a long time, an
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by NathanKP 14y ago
Exactly. I did the very same thing, made a small app that showed off my coding skills. It only made about $1000 through Amazon Affiliate sales over the course of a year, but it got some press coverage and got me numerous job offers, one of
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by NathanKP 14y ago
Very nice! I beat the ten demo levels too quickly, and found myself wanting more. Two things: * An iPad version is needed. The graphics seem to be high res enough to make an iPad version feasible, and if this is on the iPad I'd buy it for s
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The energy is in a different form which won't necessarily raise the temperature of the earth as much as the sunlight hitting the earth would have. Not to mention the hydrocarbon based energy sources replaced by the clean electricity wouldn'
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by NathanKP 14y ago
Yeah I'm afraid this may just go the way of several other petitions regarding judicial cases, in which the response was basically "here is why we aren't going to respond". In this case I feel some sort of real response is deserved even if I
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by NathanKP 14y ago
The HEPA filter would prevent germs from being sucked in and blown onto your hands. I guess there might be issues with germs in the sink becoming aerosolized, but if the sink basin was designed properly it could become a sort of funnel so t
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by NathanKP 14y ago
This is one of those practical inventions that I could see being in everyone's home (and bathroom) in twenty years, with future generations asking: "Did people really use unhygienic towels to dry their hands after washing, grandpa?"
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by NathanKP 14y ago
It is definitely nice to be able to see Instagram photos at their full resolution on the bigger screen. Sometimes I forget that my phone camera is actually taking pictures with a fairly decent resolution. I do notice that some pictures whic
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by NathanKP 14y ago
How do the maps get saved then? Or is that part of it still in the works?
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This would be only the latest in a long series of Iranian announcements which turned out to be nothing more than hoaxes or photoshopped inventions.
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The most telling thing for me when I was reading this post is that I was just looking at the words and assumed the author was a woman, because they were writing about sexism and poor treatment of women in the tech industry. It wasn't until
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by NathanKP 14y ago
If Android gains traction on x86-based tablets and other mobile devices, CodeWeavers has a lot of commercial opportunities for pushing the running of Windows software on Android. I honestly don't see how there would be that much of a mark
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by NathanKP 14y ago
I wonder if they would be opposed to allowing Google or some other big book digitizing company to scan the manuscripts to preserve electronic copies in case of disaster? It would do wonders as far as allowing the world to take a peek at the
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by NathanKP 14y ago
While we are on the topic of Google indexing things and revealing security holes I think that VoIP devices should also be mentioned. I remember when I was taking a network security class in college the professor was guiding us through the s
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by NathanKP 14y ago
Many of the items on that list are actually public keys, which should be perfectly safe to share to the world in a Git repo, but there are definitely a few private keys in there as well.
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by NathanKP 14y ago
"Firing the prosecutor expresses anger, but it doesn't seek structural change. Lynch mobs don't." That was pretty much exactly what I said in a comment on that petition the day it was posted on HN. I received multiple downvotes right away,
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by NathanKP 14y ago
It seems like Facebook graph search has a lot more functionality, or maybe I just can't discover how to do everything that Path can do with search. I did discover that it can do delightfully strange things like if you search for "snow" it f
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by NathanKP 14y ago
Rather than forming a lynch mob against the prosecutor let's consider working on a petition more along the lines of this one: "Posthumously Pardon Aaron Swartz" https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/posthumously-pardo...
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Yeah, that is how I felt at first as well. But I regularly use a Windows VM / Remote Desktop Client for Windows on my Mac, so I've gotten used to scrolling one way in the VM window or the RDC, and the other way outside it in the rest of my
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by NathanKP 14y ago
I personally like the lack of design. It puts the focus on the text and the ideas in the text, not the design of the page.
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I imagine they hope people will go to these stores for the same reason they go to Apple's retail stores instead of just shopping for Apple products online: 1) Immediate gratification. Sure it takes less time to order prints (or Apple comput
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That could easily have been a software limitation in that program rather than hardware limitation.
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If it just had a version of Lynx embedded it could show the website fairly well unless it was a heavily scripted site that loads its content for each page via JavaScript.
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by NathanKP 14y ago
The only thing I hate about pages like this is that they hijack the browser with their fake history. When I press the back button from this page I want to go back to your homepage, or back to HN. I don't want to have to click it 20 times to
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by NathanKP 14y ago
Isn't there something to be said for the standard port 80 website that the average person can use with their built in web browser without the need to install custom apps? I'd rather see everyone using a "sociopathic person's website" to sta
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On my iPhone the flashing alternating images were extremely visible. I'll have to try it on my computer later. One thing is for sure this won't work well on slower computers or mobile devices.
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True, but my question is if a clock winding mechanism can keep going for days without need of winding could a clock winding style mechanism be more efficient than a gravity weight powered one.

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