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If you're interested in guitar, it's worth looking at some music from West Africa. A lot of music from that region (at least a lot of what gets exported as "world music") relies he…

This is a clever idea. I really don't want this to come off as discouraging because I love stuff like this. That said... This shows the limitations of relying on orthography as a p…

Processing / p5.js? https://processing.org/tutorials/gettingstarted/ http://p5js.org/get-started/

I don't know if anyone will read this at this point, but if you're going to proof-of-concept an exploit, please make that clear in the title or have an opt-in step with an explanat…

I'd suggest reading this line-by-line explanation of the MIT license: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/09/21/MIT-License-Line-b... Once you understand why everything that's in a…

Length does not trump complexity. "Internationalization" is 20 letters long, but it will be cracked in seconds by even a moderately sophisticated attacker. (zxcvbn gives it guesses…

My point is that 72^8 and 72^22 is an invalid comparison to determine the relative strength of those passwords. B5s9z-Qx is 72^8 SophisticatedpwsRock!! is something like number_of_…

Despite admitting that... > Attackers use programs that try all words in a password dictionary, which is typically just a file of commonly used words in a given written language. T…

I obviously can't tell you how YC will respond to your video, but I find it very unlikely your accent is incomprehensible if your American cofounder said it was fine. Here's an exa…

English is spoken by over a billion people. Many of those people, even ones who are native speakers, have accents that are nearly incomprehensible to American English speakers. The…

Put simply: It matters because taste is not the only criteria used to select which seafood to buy. One might make a choice based on mercury content, environmental friendliness, die…

Why land? Fuel makes up a very small percent of the launch cost of a rocket. Landing also allows a much better experience for cargo and crew return, and it makes it possible to bri…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_pivot_irrigation

They tell you why they were made: "NASA originally commissioned these posters for an exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Complex in 2009. As part of our Journey to Mars, …

Succinct, statically-typed, functional, web-friendly languages are not especially common. Maybe C#, Scala, or TypeScript. Note as well that Java 8 is a lot better for succinctness …

Unsurprisingly, their FAQ covers this: https://www.producthunt.com/faq#my-product-was-submitted-by-... Please try to find an answer yourself before asking for help.

If you think you are being scammed regarding a Pebble product purchased through Kickstarter, you should be contacting Pebble and Kickstarter. It goes without saying that you should…

This seems to disproportionately generate languages where all syllables start and end in a consonant. Example: lium / les / seap / lim / mus / mis / sus / nus / suis / san / sois /…

Bing actually does this already. Not perfectly, of course, but there is precedent to be aware of. (You may have to turn on their Maps Preview version. Then just search for directio…

It's off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new pheno…

Because it's off-topic. Just because something is important doesn't mean it belongs on this site. When something gets flagged, it doesn't mean it was bad , it just means it doesn't…

> For example, if I’m in the mood to think about shapes— and I often am— I might imagine a triangle inside a rectangular box. I wonder how much of the box the triangle takes up? Tw…

Can you explain a little more about what you're trying to simulate and why you chose the model that you did? Also... did you consider using known sound change processes? https://en…

Indeed. And if you see something getting flagged off the site, it's generally because users don't want it here, not because it's getting removed from on high by the mods.