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by arscan 14y ago
For those of you that are confused as I was, they are referring to the site as the "Github for food", and are not managing their content using Github as I wrongly inferred from the title. EDIT: title was changed to make this clear.
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by arscan 14y ago
>Mega will also grant direct access to their servers for entities such as film studios, allowing them to remove copyright-infringing material themselves. How? Is this if the person that uploaded the file is openly distributing the ke
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by arscan 14y ago
You should make a Coldfusion port next if you really want to give this thing a 90's feel.
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by arscan 14y ago
Also submitted yesterday. That would explain the ? at the end of the url. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4609321 Not complaining though; this article is definitely worth a read for those that missed it the first few times around.
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by arscan 14y ago
This is my favorite paper on money & happiness (actionable & grounded in science): http://dunn.psych.ubc.ca/files/2012/09/1-s2.0-S1057740811000... "Money is an opportunity for happiness, but it is an opportunity that people routi
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by arscan 14y ago
This would be a great step in some kind of rube goldberg inspired website.
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by arscan 14y ago
Ah, I just realized that this simply prints text out in a gif... it doesn't encode text in the gif and then decode it in the browser into text that javascript could manipulate. Too bad. I wonder if that's possible...
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by arscan 14y ago
This is awesome -- you never know when a solution like this might come in handy. Wayyyyy back in the day (NS4, IE4 day) I used the width / height of an image the browser polled every few seconds as a transport mechanism... the only other op
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by arscan 14y ago
I'm anxiously awaiting this pen to arrive: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/894128597/the-pen-projec... Sure, its expensive for a pen. But I plan on carrying it around with me everywhere and I wanted a pen that I feel reflects my valu
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by arscan 14y ago
I recall Datomic making a bit of a splash on HN when it was announced 6+ months ago, but basically crickets since then. Anybody build something cool that took advantage of Datomic's unique design?
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by arscan 14y ago
I'm not following your rationale. Isn't that Facebook's default model? I explicitly choose who is allowed to see my content, and I have control over how much of that content they can see through privacy settings / lists. The problem with
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by arscan 14y ago
This looks great guys. I'll definitely put up a server and hook up the content I traditionally expose through my personal website. Question: what features that are taken for granted on today's popular social networks are difficult/impossibl
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by arscan 14y ago
A thousand times? This article says 2 - 3 times: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428914/the-link-between... Just curious because to me that's the most important piece of data.
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by arscan 14y ago
The article doesn't directly mention the risk to a man in his 20's or 30's... just that up to 30% of the cases of autism has to do with the mutations associated with "older" sperm. Obviously there is a lot more work that needs to be done t
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Cornell's NYC Tech Campus now accepting applications(tech.cornell.edu)
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by arscan 14y ago
Looks cool. Is your brothers project based on this: http://gofreerange.com/hello-printer ?
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by arscan 14y ago
Talking about procrastination is my favorite form of procrastination :)
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by arscan 14y ago
Happened to me last night -- I wish I read this yesterday. Who am I kidding... I prefer to learn these lessons the hard way :)
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by arscan 14y ago
Wow, this is a really great visualization.
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by arscan 14y ago
Substantially smaller transfer size is certainly a valid reason. I don't know how accurate his numbers are though.
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by arscan 14y ago
I used to do this with a right-border, not sure if that's a best practice these days or not. You could do something similar in between the date/link/comment sections underneath a given link as well (since it logically is a list).
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by arscan 14y ago
Looks pretty similar to the 2008 version: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/one-fish-two-fish-red...
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by arscan 14y ago
Hmmm, looks from outer space can be deceiving. The rent I pay for my one bedroom apartment in Ball Square is obscene.
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by arscan 14y ago
When Chrome was announced, I recall a reporter asked what Google's goal was in terms of market adoption within a year (10%? 20%? market share). They said that misses the point, and they weren't using adoption as metric, but rather they wer
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by arscan 14y ago
Fair enough. It is a talking point that puts them on the "right" side of the privacy debate, though I find it hard to believe that people will move from Firefox/chrome because of this feature. Strategically its much more about breaking th
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by arscan 14y ago
This doesn't have to do with marketing Internet Explorer as being more secure / privacy friendly. Its about using Internet Explorer's still substantial market share to expose the level of tracking that occurs w/out user knowledge. This hu
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by arscan 14y ago
Perhaps a slightly more realistic usage would be for financial analysts to use the data as a (weak) signal as to whether or not companies are on track to meet their earnings expectations. I believe that they have gone as far as to buy sate
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by arscan 14y ago
Yeah, that information is really represented in the transition between the pages. So I just ended up clicking back and forth between 4 and 5 to get a feel for those kinds of patterns (like an animated weather map).
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by arscan 14y ago
It looks like they scale it based on area, not radius... just by eyeballing it. Polynomial (not exponential) growth btw.
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by arscan 14y ago
The fact that they are bubbles makes that an obvious comparison. But from the IPO perspective, things aren't nearly as crazy as they were in the ~1999 timeframe. The sheer number of IPO's back then was nuts, and most of them ended up fall

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