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Re:HTTPS: //Www.npmjs.com/ Is Down on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @04:17PM (#47940093)
Reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg joke: "The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall."
It's electron based.
Re:We Will Fight Until The End on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @12:22AM (#8135503)
> only one -- poison -- is an example of an actual product you can buy (nobody's selling home drowning kits)

They're also not selling magnet ingestion kits

you can directly edit the dollar amount in the field to the right of the slider, and it will bubble-up to the total.
Re:Planes overhead on Friday November 11, 2011 @11:33PM (#3227143)
It says under the table "locations based on projections of delayed data" I would guess that they look at where a flight plan is going from and to and interpolate in between.
Re:How to build an 8x8x8 LED cube on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @04:07AM (#2066382)
Thinkgeek sells a 4x4x4 version for $80: http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/techies/d71d/
Re:Video: Notion Ink Adam, iPad alternative on Sunday February 14, 2010 @01:23AM (#1124235)
Swiveling cameras are not a new idea, Sony picture books had one at least ten years ago: http://www.transmetazone.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=381&#...
Chrome comes with the element inspector built in which replicates a lot of the functionality of Firebug.
Re:Ask HN: What sub-$400 2nd monitor should I get for coding? on Thursday December 10, 2009 @08:05PM (#988975)
I recommend the Asus VW266H 25.5" 1920x1200 and about 300 dollars. Plenty of space for code.
Re:Google Living Stories on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @02:53PM (#986439)
At the moment it's pretty simple matching based on a few rules, but machine learning is in development. In the case of google, it appears they are using human editors.
I have been building a site which does this for news, with plans to allow arbitrary feeds.

http://www.newsdive.net

Re:Google Living Stories on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @08:21PM (#985060)
This is somewhat similar to a site I have been working on. http://www.newsdive.net I am doing filtering based on story content, but this seems to be based on tags and categories more.
Re:Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed? on Saturday November 21, 2009 @11:57PM (#955419)
A lot of people really enjoy keeping track of sports stats. Maybe some sort of a wiki would work well for this purpose?
Re:What I Wish Someone Had Told Me (about starting a company) on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @08:23PM (#947593)
then they just won't believe you.
Re:Experiment HN: Idea Day Results on Friday November 13, 2009 @02:01AM (#939538)
Order a pizza delivery while at the store, and you get to ride along!