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by foob 11y ago
Hi, one of the creators here! You might also like to check out an example of the image pages that people share [0]. We're really looking forward to getting some feedback from HN and are happy to answer any questions that you might have
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Show HN: ThreadShots.com, share anonymized Facebook posts with a single click(threadshots.com)
9 points by foob 11y ago|9 comments
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by foob 11y ago
In most cases, yes. There are libraries that you might want to use that don't support it yet but the vast majority do. Personally, I'm anxiously waiting for Fabric 2 which has been pending for a long time. This is a good resource
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by foob 11y ago
Hi Kat, we're very excited to hear about this and we look forward to applying. The FAQ for the normal YC program says that it's fine for the cofounders to submit separate applications focusing on different ideas. Does that apply f
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by foob 12y ago
I'm perfectly willing to make people learn all sorts of new things :-). We focused on optimizing over the permutations of the key labels in this analysis but we designed dodona [1] to be much more flexible. To demonstrate this, I just
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by foob 12y ago
I honestly wrote that entire section just so that I could work that quote in :-)
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by foob 12y ago
Sure, here you go: http://sangaline.com/blog/optimizing_for_swype/img/qwerty.ke...
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Optimizing Touchscreen Keyboards for Swype Input(sangaline.com)
6 points by foob 12y ago|1 comments
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by foob 12y ago
Visually, the researchers have demonstrated the ultrasound patterns by directing the device at a thin layer of oil so that the depressions in the surface can be seen as spots when lit by a lamp. They were probably referring to the oil dep
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by foob 12y ago
I'm sure this varies between states but at my school in New York we had nine periods per day rather than nine classes. One of these was taken up by lunch and then science classes would often take up two adjacent periods. Most people al
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by foob 12y ago
For reference, you can do this using the wc core utility. The -l option makes it count the number of lines so 'wc -l' will do the same thing as your sum expression.
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by foob 13y ago
Comments get from pending to live by being endorsed by multiple HN users with over 1000 karma. Those users will see pending comments, and will be able to endorse them by clicking on an "endorse" link next to the "flag"
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by foob 13y ago
In hard sciences it's typical that your tuition will be completely covered and that you'll additionally be paid a livable wage. With that knowledge, do you agree with his premise now?
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by foob 13y ago
I can't comment on how the police treat it currently but your quote is referring to the Rockefeller Drug Laws ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Drug_Laws ) which mandated a 15 year minimum sentence for poss
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by foob 13y ago
What was the price? They sold out of them and have apparently taken it down now.
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by foob 13y ago
You're thinking of the universe in a very classical sense. Our current understanding of physics is that quantum mechanical outcomes are truly random. Not just that we don't know what will happen but that it is inherently not prede
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A Testament to X11 Backwards Compatibility(theresistornetwork.com)
258 points by foob 13y ago|89 comments
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by foob 13y ago
But you may also be struck by the shape of that trend line (Sen is quick to note, by the way, that he's not a statistician). It roughly suggests a political tipping point somewhere around a population density of about 800-1,000 people
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by foob 13y ago
In fact, they calculated that words uttered at least 16 times per day by an average speaker had the greatest chance of being cognates in at least three language families. If chance had been the explanation, some rarely used words would hav
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by foob 13y ago
It seems like this problem has been growing out of control and nobody in government cares even the slightest bit about it. What are you basing this on? Take a look at this: http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-internat...
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by foob 13y ago
Reddit also got hammered pretty hard by legitimate traffic last night. There were many thousands of people in the Boston live update threads hitting refresh over and over all night. The admins actually locked the first update page because t
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by foob 14y ago
it's important that someone speaks up. I am pro DMCA! The petition isn't entirely anti-DMCA and neither are many people on HN. The DMCA offers a safe harbor for websites that host user submitted content and it gives a mechanism for truly
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by foob 14y ago
We have similar 3% in the US on blank media cds ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy#United_Sta... ). The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, the same legislation that put these levies into place, also protected the rights of i
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$10,000 App Challenge: Connect Businesses with Government(whitehouse.gov)
3 points by foob 15y ago|0 comments
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by foob 15y ago
I just won (#7 - foob) and I felt the need to post here to tell people that the person I spoke with from Quixey afterwards was very friendly and that I enjoyed talking to him. I was really just playing for the $100 but after speaking with h
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by foob 15y ago
My first though after reading your comment was that there's probably a very small number of people that read HN and support SOPA. After thinking about it a little bit more I realize that my dismissive attitude was inappropriate. When Reddit
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by foob 15y ago
I also tried a variant of this for a while in college and I generally agree with you but for me it did have some significant benefits. It caused problems in many relationships and certainly produced a lot of drama but this had an interestin
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by foob 15y ago
Every time an article involving Richard Stallman gets posted here I cringe as I read through the comments. There are a range of opinions so I don't want to overgeneralize but there are a large number of people here that seem to almost despi
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by foob 15y ago
IBM has tried several times to obtain this patent. Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2759642
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by foob 15y ago
If this result is valid then it would mean that neutrinos are capable of traveling .0025% faster than light. There was a supernova that we observed in 1987 (SN 1987) that occurred 168,000 light years away from us. A neutrino burst was obser

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