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by dpearson 15y ago
What is truly appalling here is the claim that the video had been reviewed by humans, who had determined that birdsong was copyrighted music (although the birds ought to be flattered by that), and, as such, Rumblefish is either lying (about
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How Often Should I Charge My Gadget’s Battery to Prolong Its Lifespan?(lifehacker.com)
2 points by dpearson 15y ago|0 comments
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by dpearson 15y ago
Anonymous seems (to me) mainly to be attention-seekers. I'm not convinced that their DDOS attacks on various sites actually accomplish anything, other than to make the server admins' lives hell until the sites are back up. Further, there ar
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Show HN: NFLScoreBot, a Twitter bot that generates summaries of NFL games(twitter.com)
2 points by dpearson 15y ago|1 comments
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An analysis of iOS 5 OTA updates by innoying(blog.innoying.com)
6 points by dpearson 15y ago|1 comments
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by dpearson 15y ago
It's non-commercial, but, looking at that, I'm thinking that mentioning team names would be the problem ("commercial text" would seem to apply)
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by dpearson 15y ago
NFLScoreBot is actually my project. I was hoping a private API might be a bit less of a gray area legally, but at this point I'm almost wondering if scraping is the way to go again.
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by dpearson 15y ago
I'll shoot them an email (if I can find an email address) and see what they say. Thanks for the help.
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Ask HN: Legality/Ethics of using a website's private API?
3 points by dpearson 15y ago|6 comments
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Show HN: A Twitter bot that tries to summarize football games(nflscorebot.github.com)
2 points by dpearson 15y ago|0 comments
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From "Hack" to "Popular Project"(zachholman.com)
64 points by dpearson 15y ago|16 comments
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Android super smartphones: Too much of a good thing?(news.cnet.com)
3 points by dpearson 15y ago|2 comments
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Lisa Maree Domican: Two Steves who changed my world(hammie-hammiesays.blogspot.com)
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Weaponized Tinderbox(jwz.org)
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by dpearson 15y ago
That last line is absolutely beautiful.
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by dpearson 15y ago
The whole page can scroll (on iOS 4), but not individual parts of the page. That's what he's been trying to address, and that's the hard part.
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Fast animation with iOS WebKit(joehewitt.com)
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by dpearson 15y ago
If done right, it shouldn't be that much of a performance drain, and the benefits would outweigh that.
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Nitobi and Phonegap's new home at Adobe(blogs.nitobi.com)
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Responsive Web Design(alistapart.com)
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by dpearson 15y ago
What this article talks about is only for trains that run on tracks used for freight...so that wouldn't apply to monorails/maglevs...
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by dpearson 15y ago
Track has been an issue in the US, as has losing track of trains and having collisions. The vast majority of fatalities are exactly what these laws won't help with: people swerving the gates, or walking on the tracks.
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by dpearson 15y ago
Another failed government policy regarding rail: the requirement for cleaner locomotives. The vast majority of railroads in the US do not buy new locomotives, and in fact usually use locomotives from the 60s and 70s (bought secondhand). Yet