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by idm 17y ago
Thanks jacquesm! The more I look into the problem, the more challenges I'm finding. A friend of mine did this for his master's thesis back in 2002, so I know it's not impossible, but he had a strong background in EE (whereas I'm a relative
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Ask HN: have you built an electromagnetic levitator?
7 points by idm 17y ago|6 comments
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by idm 17y ago
good tip! I wonder why cmd-opt-ctrl doesn't have any other numerical bindings... it seems like there's an opportunity to create a usability convention, but instead, this function is sitting by itself on an island named "8".
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by idm 17y ago
The "nice gesture" idea is way off. By default, you need to assume they haven't opted into any sort of promotion for facebook or for your site. Treat it like private information, since their comments should be assumed to be private. Sinc
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by idm 17y ago
While I think this is an interesting move, and that there's probably a problem worth addressing somewhere in there, I don't think the FTC has the right angle with this move. Specifically, I think this regulation is intended to target the "l
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by idm 17y ago
Agreed. Whatever the motivations of the agents referred to in the article, it is still the case that "inappropriate" laws were applied to (presumably) non-criminal activity. It's just speculation on my part, but my theory had to do with th
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by idm 17y ago
Obligatory Ayn Rand quote (via Dr. Ferris, in Atlas Shrugged): "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One dec
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by idm 17y ago
My own take on this is that, while it's possible for a bunch of countries to invent a new pseudo-currency, it's probably easier to use an existing pseudo-currency, and I think the IMF's XDR is a likely candidate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by idm 17y ago
It doesn't appear TechCrunch linked to this article at any point: http://consumerist.com/5349663/the-article-cash4gold-doesnt-... Essentially, The Consumerist makes a strong case that the ads are misleading, that Cash4Gold systematically
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by idm 17y ago
I spent the last 6 hours reading about kswizzle. I'm angry at you and also grateful. Or perhaps I don't know how to feel.
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by idm 17y ago
Berkeley and Oakland here - it was amazing. Got robbed once, saw one murder on my property, but it was five years and not much else happened. Okay, that's an understatement, but there was so much else happening that I actually think it wa
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by idm 17y ago
I definitely agree - and really, I want my statement to be falsified, since it will be so much worse for it to be confirmed.
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by idm 17y ago
I've been suspicious of Murdoch's motivations in the past (vis a vis the particular bias of Fox News) but this for-pay initiative seems like a testable proposition. If Murdoch can decide, one day, to charge for "news," and if this sentiment
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by idm 17y ago
/me hugs amichail http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=786874
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by idm 17y ago
I visited fundable.com right now, and it looks like the site is functioning again. What gives?
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Ask HN: is there a Firefox extension for viewing C code in the browser?
1 points by idm 17y ago|0 comments
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by idm 17y ago
Yeah, but arc nevertheless is a Lisp, and for whatever reason, news.arc is certainly using '=' to perform assignment.
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by idm 17y ago
:) Well, I noticed the issue of karma comes up more than once per year, and the thresholds are mysteriously different each time. I was about to ask (since I was certain I had read the downvote threshold was 100) when I realized I could
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by idm 17y ago
I realize I should also point out what the regexp is doing, since it's pretty simple and it's the meat of the recipe. It starts off by looking for the open paren that is the beginning of any LISP expression. Next, it looks for an assignment
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by idm 17y ago
Yeah - note that vulpes typed "dash oh" instead of "dash zero." The latter will send an HTTP 1.0 request (since curl defaults to HTTP 1.1) whereas the former will Output the file to disk (otherwise curl defaults to stdout). ...or just cut-
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by idm 17y ago
Personally, I'd rather his server checked it out, rather than leaking my IP all over the place, potentially making requests to untrusted servers.
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by idm 17y ago
Topcolor is the hex code of the bar across the top of HN. Check this out: http://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors It's a neat little page that displays a bunch of colors and hexcodes from live users' profiles.
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by idm 17y ago
Thanks for the reference! I suppose he could release news.arc as a separate file a little more frequently than the arc codebase.
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by idm 17y ago
Good point. With the recent experiment involving hidden comment scores, I understand pg was updating the code in the REPL. ...but if you want to grab the source code, is there any other way to get it, aside from the version that is bundled
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by idm 17y ago
Really cool, but why is the progress indicator right in the middle of the display!?
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by idm 17y ago
I might as well point out that grep -n will give you line numbers in the output, so you can quickly reference the source code to figure out a little more from the context. You could use grep -C3 to get some context right on the command line
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Tell HN: How to find karma thresholds in the HN source code
35 points by idm 17y ago|14 comments
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by idm 17y ago
Actually, there's a bookmarklet for non-firefox users. Check out the home page for the project: http://www.longurlplease.com/ Still, I think you're on to something; Greasemonkey might be the best of all worlds.
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by idm 17y ago
I see what you mean now, but there are several threads in this discussion that use "tank" to refer to old cars (i.e. made-out-of-steel rust buckets.)
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by idm 17y ago
Check out this URL unshortener extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9549 Also posted to HN here (upvote if you want others to know about it): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=853586

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