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How a Programmer Can Discover an Asteroid(ianww.com)
65 points by typpo 13y ago|11 comments
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by typpo 13y ago
I've been working on this as a side project for a while; wondering what people think and how I can improve it. Asteroids actually do show up in this imagery (taken from NEAT and SDSS). People who spot something get to name their disco
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Show HN: discover asteroids online(asterank.com)
5 points by typpo 13y ago|3 comments
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by typpo 13y ago
Me too. I spent about a year after college in constant pain from carpal tunnel and sciatica. Even basic actions like opening a door were extremely painful. I blew a lot of money on ergonomic equipment, PT, steroidal treatments, and was st
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by typpo 13y ago
There are partial solutions to the problem of FB read receipts. You can block the endpoint that the Facebook client sends the receipt to. I wrote a simple Chrome extension (11 LOC) for this: https://github.com/typpo/f
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by typpo 13y ago
B612 wants to make a big telescope and put it in an orbit very far from Earth. PR's approach is different - make many small, cheap Arkyd telescopes and take advantage of economies of scale. They don't want to concentrate resources and ris
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by typpo 13y ago
The purpose of the Arkyd is to discover NEOs. Right now there are no low-cost, mass-produced telescopes in LEO, and asteroid discovery is driven by government-funded projects centered around universities. The compelling advantage of this
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by typpo 13y ago
I would think this simplifies email organization for the average user. Normal people don't use labels extensively and don't customize their inbox. With sane presets for these tabs, Google can give most users an inbox that is organized by
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by typpo 13y ago
What a negative article. I disagree that any founder is "stupid" for not jumping on their first chance at life-changing money. By BusinessInsider logic, Facebook should have been bought out by Friendster or Microsoft. Dropbox should hav
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by typpo 13y ago
Here is a similar visualization in webgl, superimposed on our solar system for reference: http://www.asterank.com/exoplanets Nearly every single exoplanet discovered is within the orbit of Mercury.
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by typpo 13y ago
We created this as a hackathon project and have cleaned it up a bit. Interested in feedback from the HN crowd!
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Show HN: use virtual cloud displays to monitor your competition(gowatchtower.com)
8 points by typpo 13y ago|2 comments
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by typpo 13y ago
We created this at the LAUNCH hackathon in March and have spent some time polishing it on the weekends. Curious whether the HN crowd has suggestions or finds this useful.
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An Analysis of My Dreams Over the Past Year(ianww.com)
5 points by typpo 14y ago|1 comments
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by typpo 14y ago
One of my side projects[1] was shown for about 20 seconds on BBC News. Overall it drove maybe 10k visitors. The traffic comes in huge waves. It jumps 500x in seconds and dies down almost as quickly. In my case there were aftershocks as t
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by typpo 14y ago
I agree that GLSL shader support would be awesome, but if IE didn't support GLSL we wouldn't have to hand-write our HLSL. Chrome and Firefox for Windows already use ANGLE, which translates GLSL shaders to HLSL [1]. Unfortunately, complex r
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by typpo 14y ago
Perhaps the students were treated better at the Apple store because they were buying 15 macbooks. Surely they didn't spend that much money at all the other mall stores.
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by typpo 14y ago
The comet has a hyperbolic orbit, but that doesn't mean it came from outside of the solar system. Most comets come from the Oort Cloud, where they orbit around the sun at great distance until their orbits are perturbed. It's postulated th
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by typpo 14y ago
There are a number of other competing APIs. One of the best is OpenCalais, which is owned by Thomson Reuters[1]. You can demo it with some text here: http://viewer.opencalais.com/ [1] http://www.opencalais.com
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F.D.A. Approves Technology to Give Limited Vision to Blind People(nytimes.com)
6 points by typpo 14y ago|0 comments
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WebGL view of 2012 DA14's near miss of Earth(asterank.com)
3 points by typpo 14y ago|1 comments
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by typpo 14y ago
Sorry it's not clear - you can generate your own at http://verifiedfacts.org/search
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Show HN: a conspiracy theory generator(verifiedfacts.org)
181 points by typpo 14y ago|70 comments
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Visualizing Asteroid 2012 DA14’s Upcoming Near Miss(ianww.com)
2 points by typpo 14y ago|0 comments
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by typpo 14y ago
Why is it necessary to use a proxy?
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by typpo 14y ago
The reason this is an attractive prospect in space and not on Earth is that the cost of getting rocket fuel off Earth is quite high. Once fuel becomes available in space, it makes refueling possible and lowers the cost of further activity
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by typpo 14y ago
Some of the more cynical responses to this article ignore the fact that AP credits at Dartmouth were already strictly limited by departments on a case-by-case basis. I went in with 11 AP credits and was able to graduate at most a term earl
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by typpo 14y ago
Kayak has also done something similar at http://kayak.com/explore since 2010.
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by typpo 14y ago
Apophis isn't getting closer than 9 million miles today. If you're interested in close passes, you may look forward to February 15th, when 2012 DA14 will pass only about 21,000 miles away, within the orbits of the moon and geosynchronous s
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by typpo 14y ago
Not too long ago I made a service, http://textbelt.com , that wraps many email-to-SMS gateways with a simple API: curl http://textbelt.com/text -d number=5551234567 -d "message=Blah"

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