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What If the Moon Orbited at the Same Height as the ISS?(slate.com)
65 points by zck 12y ago|43 comments
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The $5 Million Violin and the Telltale Taser(news.vice.com)
18 points by zck 12y ago|8 comments
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by zck 12y ago
Whoa. I'm the author of this 2048-game.el (the one in MELPA; there are many implementations), located at https://bitbucket.org/zck/2048.el . The coloring is definitely something I've wanted to add to the game,
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by zck 12y ago
Notably, their code for their Firefox extension^1, while not free software, is available to look at. Firefox extensions are delivered as an XPI file ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPI ), which is simply
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by zck 12y ago
There's a common complaint in this thread that is basically "just write your code better, then it'll be readable." There's also a common praise of Haskell that says that its type system eliminates entire classes of
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by zck 12y ago
What's the recommendation on applying to multiple Startup Schools? I've been to the last two, but I live in NYC. Do you consider it rude to apply to NYC now, and the Valley one in the fall, and take up two spots?
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Why Parents Are Told To Give Babies Unseasoned Food(web.ncsu.edu)
2 points by zck 12y ago|0 comments
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by zck 12y ago
If the subtitle (Do orchestras really need someone flapping their arms on a podium?) had fit in the 80-character limit, I would have added it to the title here. I probably should have titled it something like "What do orchestra conduct
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What do conductors do?(telegraph.co.uk)
68 points by zck 12y ago|31 comments
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by zck 13y ago
There's another effect of the ten-year exercise window. Remember how Facebook was "forced" to go public because so many people owned stock? ( http://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-sec-will-force-facebo... ). W
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Analysis of a Toxic Death (1995)(discovermagazine.com)
1 points by zck 13y ago|0 comments
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by zck 13y ago
I'm no security expert, so this is an honest question. Why was Tarsnap running a version of OpenSSL that's at least two years old^1 ? My understanding is that, while you might not want to upgrade immediately upon release (because
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by zck 13y ago
>I am a PM and based on these rejections, not a good one at that Everyone goes through this. But note! You got to the final round of Google interviews. That doesn't scream "awful PM" to me. How many people make it that f
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by zck 13y ago
The software that HN runs on can handle arbitrarily large numbers. Check it out on http://tryarc.org/ : arc> (expt 2 64) 18446744073709551616 arc> (expt 2 65) 36893488147419103232 arc> (expt 2
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by zck 13y ago
I haven't actually been on HN when pending was turned on, but there's one question I have: How do I tell when pending is on? As far as I know, it will be in the top bar -- if you qualify to approve comments. Does it appear if I ca
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by zck 13y ago
How are changes in the value of "traditional", state-backed currency taxed? If I, say, bought 1 Euro for $0.80 in 2000, and sold it for $1.60 in 2008 (prices from https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/exchange/
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by zck 13y ago
Does this have any impact on Arc? Are you still going to be using it for things you make? I hope you are.
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by zck 13y ago
There's a key question whether or not to do this that I haven't seen discussed: is the fact that a given login has an account private information? Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. For example, on HN, it's trivial to
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by zck 13y ago
On google maps, with obligatory face-blurring: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=williamsburg&ll=40.723358,-73...
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Coffee and its Effects on Feature Creep(royrapoport.blogspot.ca)
7 points by zck 13y ago|0 comments
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by zck 13y ago
Last month, they published a New User's Guide: http://blog.beeminder.com/newbees/ .
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Google Disavow used as threat against Seattle Bubble(timandjeni.com)
8 points by zck 13y ago|2 comments
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Disenfranchised: Why Are Americans Still Buying Into the Franchise Dream?(psmag.com)
17 points by zck 13y ago|3 comments
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by zck 13y ago
One thing that I've seen that's a problem with this kind of thing (whether given out by humans or faucets), is what people can do once they get the coins. You're probably not giving them enough to buy anything with them, so
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Addiction and Fame: How Flappy Bird is the App Store’s Grunge Moment(thedailybeast.com)
1 points by zck 13y ago|0 comments
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by zck 13y ago
From the co-founder of Dogecoin, it's pronounced "dohj". Listen to him say it and explain where it came from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVDcOI0-gdQ
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by zck 13y ago
Of the speakers of this event, Diane Greene spoke at Startup School this past year. Here's the video of her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEeFxq2X_c Jessica Livingston gave a talk in 2012 ( https://www.yo
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by zck 13y ago
I love mercurial, but you don't get quite the benefit of `git add -p`, because mercurial has no staging area. If you quit out of `git add -p`, you still get the benefit of having whatever you added staged. In contrast, if you quit `hg
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by zck 13y ago
ddg.gg redirects to https://duckduckgo.com/ .
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by zck 13y ago
It's interesting that /r/politics got a huge bump (looks to me to be about 75% increase in size) around the 2008 U.S. presidential election, but had no noticeable difference in 2012.

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