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by re 14y ago
Yes, I believe HN comment sorting uses the same algorithm as news items, where the score of an item is based on both votes and time, decaying over time. Description: http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574 Comment sorting: https://github.com/nex3
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by re 14y ago
"Plus or minus" is most likely used here to mean "more or less" or "approximately".
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by re 14y ago
> I assume it's the way it was shot that not all of the notes that are being played start or end with movements and/or touches of the keyboard. There are two separate tracks being played back at the same time with the video cutting betw
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by re 14y ago
Multiple people have pointed out that Chrome has click-to-play for plugins. Great! But now that new HTML5 features (<video>/<audio>/Web Audio API) are widely available and ripe for abuse, will we have any options for disabli
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by re 14y ago
It's been done: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003YYUSP6 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005I88LY6
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by re 14y ago
Arguably, the only thing derivative about JoCo's cover is the lyrics. Hypothetically, if he had released it first with original lyrics (or as an instrumental), and then released his Baby Got Back as a mashup , would that afford him copy
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by re 14y ago
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you, but "did an about-face" is a good translation; it's a common English idiom: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/do+an+about-face
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by re 14y ago
There are pictures of a few piano desks someone else made here: http://www.tinkertunes.com/upright-furniture-co
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by re 14y ago
> The test is objective Less so than you might think. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001863.h...
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by re 14y ago
Heroku enforces the timeout. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/request-timeout https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/s3#file_uploads http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7854239/heroku-timeout-wh...
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by re 15y ago
It also breaks the browser history in Safari, which is really frustrating: http://i.imgur.com/pOQmo.png
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by re 15y ago
EasyXDM is apparently a wrapper around HTML5's window.postMessage() with fallbacks for older browsers. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
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by re 15y ago
> SPDY does not exist without SSL, nor will it. Can you elaborate on this, or provide a link with more context? Almost all TLS/NPN references are missing from the current SPDY draft spec. (I've found webpages that repeat the SSL requi
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by re 15y ago
On NPR, this turns into: "an algorithm that can find Waldo in any image." http://www.npr.org/blogs/waitwait/2011/12/18/143865340/the-w... via http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/116401/stack-overflo...
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by re 15y ago
I would say that Python breaks backwards compatibility in small ways for minor releases semi-regularly, such as adding new keywords (with, yield), removing little-used standard library modules, and removing support for raising strings as ex
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by re 15y ago
Browsers can support bookmarklets without allowing javascript to be entered directly in the address bar.
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by re 15y ago
... on Windows.
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by re 15y ago
Similarly, if you're posting an image of a mailed envelope and want to block out your address, don't forget to remove the postal bar code, which can be specific enough to identify your mailbox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSTNET
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by re 15y ago
Browser-based upload, but with file-hash-based deduping to skip the upload if possible, à la Dropbox? (Not a use-case for this site, but one for in-browser file hashing)
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by re 15y ago
So those messages will say "press [whatever key combo activates the console] and paste this text there for a funny video" instead?
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by re 15y ago
> it's not even indented It's an issue of mixed tab-space indentation, with tabs being displayed at 4 spaces instead of the 8 spaces they were intended to be.
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by re 15y ago
I don't have a Google+ account, and don't know if it solves this, but one of the failings of FB lists is that they only control what you share, not what others share about you--there's no way to set things up so that you can have your work
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by re 15y ago
Answered here, somewhat: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=... > Files must be music recordings in MP3 (.mp3) or AAC (.m4a, iTunes non-DRM files) format and must be less than 100 MB in size... audio recording
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by re 15y ago
What's with all the 0-friend Google employees?
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by re 15y ago
I suspect that the link: operator doesn't work well (or at all) anymore, and that those results are only getting returned because the comments contain all the words in the URL (because someone invariably links to the FAQ). Other searches (
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by re 15y ago
> The most important thing that columns preserve is readable line lengths. A single column can give you that. Multiple columns seem to me to be fundamentally incompatible with (vertical) scrolling. Yes, they make perfect sense when you
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by re 15y ago
No. Time Machine uses the FSEvents API so that it only needs to scan directories where files have changed since the last backup, and branches of the filesystem hierarchy whose contents haven't changed can be referenced en masse with a singl
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by re 15y ago
It does. It tests for ArrayBuffer support, outputting that message if the necessary constructors aren't found. What browser are you using that you expect to be supported? (Safari doesn't have support for ArrayBuffer, but a recent WebKit n
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by re 16y ago
Email storms are pretty common on any mailing list with wide enough distribution; I kind of doubt there was anything particularly unique about this one, but it is kind of impressive that it hit several hundred messages in the space of 20 mi
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by re 16y ago
Poor title ("Removing From Kindles") on the HN submission: > A discussion thread on Amazon’s Kindle Community forum notes that Amazon has begun removing some previously-published books or stories from its store, and from the Kindle arch

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