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Re:NFC Stickers Make Smartphones Smarter
on Friday July 13, 2012 @05:25PM (#4242025)
I did the same thing. Tag next to the entry-way light switch for changing to an "at-home" profile, tag next to the bed for switching between night mode and morning mode, tag at work, keychain tag for switching between car mode and quiet mode.
And profile switching is just the basics. You can have a tag that connects guests' NFC-enabled phones to your wifi without having to hand out the password, for instance.
NFC task launcher + tasker is an amazing combination that opens up all kinds of possibilities.
Re:Ask HN: What music do you like to listen to while you program?
on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @11:55AM (#3400377)
Anything that I already know very well (and like, of course). What that is will depend on the day/mood.
The main thing is that I find I work better with music already known over silence or new music. My brain can kind of just go along with it without any extra work since the patterns are familiar and it seems to help thought flow.
There are times when I prefer no music though, if it's involved research or something I really need to think over or internally debate.
Re:Mass Animal Deaths Are Not in Fact Unusual
on Friday January 07, 2011 @12:29PM (#2080200)
The google map linked in the article[1] contains many entries that don't quite fit the oddness of some of the die-offs people are talking about. For example, [2] refers to 150 tons of tilapia that died because of being farmed too densely. [3] refers to fish that died when a small city lake froze over with a bunch of decaying leaves trapped under the ice releasing methane. And others.
[1]: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=20... [2]: http://business.asiaone.com/Business/News/Story/A1Story20101... [3]: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/201...
Re:Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer
on Thursday December 16, 2010 @06:56PM (#2014438)
Country names/adjectives:
English,England,British,French,France,German,Germany
In most cases the adjectival form of a country tracks pretty closely to the nominal form (e.g. France vs French and others) except for the case of England vs English/British, the latter two spike from almost nothing around 1795. I can't think of a good explanation for why those two forms were so rare in comparison with "England" before 1795, anyone have an idea?
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=English%2CEngland...
Re:Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer
on Thursday December 16, 2010 @06:46PM (#2014414)
Exactly
Re:Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer
on Thursday December 16, 2010 @05:16PM (#2014027)
Also interesting, the 1700s were not kind to the numbers "six" or "seven":
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree...
Re:Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer
on Thursday December 16, 2010 @04:46PM (#2013876)
The parsing of contractions/words with apostrophes is broken/unsupported:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=can%27t%2Ccouldn%... vs http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=t%2Ccan%27t%2Ccou...
Re:Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer
on Thursday December 16, 2010 @04:25PM (#2013765)
one,two,three,four,five,six,seven,eight,nine,ten
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree...
In order, except "ten" shows up between "six" and "seven".
Re:Vmail - A Gmail client in Vim
on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @06:03PM (#2006119)
I can't upvote this enough.
Re:Inside Google’s (open source) Compact Language Detection tool
on Monday December 06, 2010 @03:38PM (#1976710)
Link to the Chrome branch's tool source code: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/...
Inside Google’s (open source) Compact Language Detection tool
Re:Keys to Being Excellent at Anything
on Thursday December 02, 2010 @10:54AM (#1962454)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6273202.stm
Larger lung capacity, larger heart, lower lactic acid levels, higher Vo2 max.
Also: "Spaniard Miguel Indurain, who took five successive [Tour de France] titles, had lungs so big they displaced his stomach, leading to his trademark paunch. Indurain's lung capacity was eight litres, compared to an average of six litres."
Re:Review my startup: An artificial intuition based Q/A engine.
on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @03:11PM (#1935158)
How does this compare to other question answering systems?
Re:Blekko partners with DuckDuckGo
on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @02:35PM (#1935044)
I like how they're sharing features with each other.
Re:Blekko Partners Up With Search Engine DuckDuckGo
on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @02:32PM (#1935028)
Very interesting mashup. I like how they've decided to share features with each other instead of just one incorporating those of the other.
Googlish Google's secret code language - wdyt?
Life After OOP [OOP-GP]
Re:Browse github fast with GithubFinder
on Friday November 19, 2010 @03:43PM (#1922724)
All diff views are returning HTTP 301s instead of the commits for me, same for everyone else?
I really like this viewer, definitely much easier to quickly browse a repo than normal.
Also, link to original HN post by app author: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1630306
Weekend Project: Add PubSubHubbub Syndication to Your Site or Blog
Re:How is HN karma calculated?
on Friday November 19, 2010 @10:10AM (#1921578)
Ask HN: How is the avg in my HN profile calculated? -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648811
Tech Blog Frenzy
Re:You probably misunderstand XML
on Thursday November 18, 2010 @11:56AM (#1918385)
Got it.
Re:You probably misunderstand XML
on Thursday November 18, 2010 @11:34AM (#1918296)
I looked for a prior submission before posting - search and browse. Somehow I missed it.
You probably misunderstand XML
Re:Ask.com to refocus away from search, towards Q&A
on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @05:00PM (#1888114)
No problem. That nextweb article is misleading.
Re:Ask.com to refocus away from search, towards Q&A
on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @04:48PM (#1888065)
Ask.com is not shutting down. They are ending their in-house general crawling & search system to focus on the Q&A aspect. These articles[1],[2] have better details. They will be continuing to offer general search results on ask.com, but outsourced through an unknown provider.
"Ask will continue to use its web crawling technology, but far more selectively. Rather than trying to find everything from across the web, the crawling will be much more focused around sites that provide answers to questions people search for at the service. Ask will also continue to maintain its own news search service, both through crawling and pulling in news feeds.
Of course, Ask doesn’t want to be in a position where if someone does a search, they come up empty if Ask’s own database of answers has nothing. So the company will outsource for the comprehensive web search matches that it used to gather itself.
Which company will provide those results? Leeds said he’s not allowed to say. Almost certainly, it’s Google."
[1]: http://searchengineland.com/ask-com-to-focus-on-qa-search-en... [2]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-09/iac-s-diller-surren...
Re:Google Sawzall now open source
on Thursday November 04, 2010 @12:05PM (#1869448)
Buzz post from a Googler on the release:
"We have inflicted Sawzall on the world."
http://www.google.com/buzz/100587561646339426146/2Ehn2s7Nf1D...
Re:Ask HN: Should I put my github profile on my Resume?
on Monday October 25, 2010 @06:46PM (#1831963)
Definitely. Many professions have some kind of portfolio of previous work to demonstrate to a potential employer. Since it's common in the development field to not be able to show any source code you have written from a prior company, any kind of visible open source code you might have should definitely be on a software developer's resume.
Re:Approaching Optimality for Solving SDD Linear Systems
on Monday October 25, 2010 @10:07AM (#1829824)
On a post made a day later... tear