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Is the streaming you talk about here and in the RFC over websockets, or the event-stream HTTP content type, or something more custom? Will the architecture have the potential to su…

Langrangian points L4 and L5 are stable places where objects can orbit ahead of and behind a larger one, like a planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point Asteroids occ…

The article mentioned that after 5 yes-or-no questions in 60 minutes, the patients became exhausted. I'm guessing that activating certain parts of the brain requires considerably m…

"no plugins" probably means that the extension doesn't install native code, but is written in JavaScript that's run in the browser.

Most IDEs can map the tab key to insert a certain number of spaces.

"New-space" aerospace companies are operating on a different funding framework from the old aerospace juggernauts. Instead of cost-plus funding that came almost solely from the gov…

One way you can think about it is that humanity's finally hit the "elbow" in the exponential curve of technological advancement.

What's the difference between that and any other type of media on the internet? Take YouTube videos for example. An MP4 video file is also "nothing but a regular file served from a…

http://geoguessr.com/

I feel bad that I had to look up "lawrence page" as it just didn't click.

It doesn't seem like you actually read the article. The service doesn't just send you a box, but appraises and lists the item you're trying to sell.

the picture changes every half-hour. Someone put together a gif of all the frames here[1]. [1]: http://primis.org/time/output.gif

everyone might not end up painting, but to extend the analogy, most schools have art classes.

First thing something would do with this: integrate it with Google Glass. While nodding your head or tapping a touchpad on the side by your temple might be awkward, discretely swip…

> Apps ought to provide some actual functionality, not just blobs of content wrapped up in binary files. I completely agree with this. I've downloaded some apps for blogs on my pho…

At least on OS X, bullets are alt-8. Can't speak for any other OS. Looks like this: •

Thank you. Thank you so much.

As a fellow 14 year old with a working product (mine's used internally within my school, but deployed at daltonplanner.appspot.com), congrats! It's nice seeing another "kid" around…

Going through the front page of HN today, it became clear to me how amazing Aaron Swartz was. Co-authoring RSS at age fourteen and then going on to help with the creation Markdown,…

As a fellow fourteen-year-old programmer, congrats! The game looks great!

>>>By that logic, driving on the right side of the road in the US vs driving on the left in the UK is "pop culture" Well, if using the definition of pop culture described in this a…