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And compared to lowest: 00000000 000003da 5849ade5 e2112447 73478c46 5fcdc744 9e247df4 11e97b28 (#1 of leaderboard) 00000000 00000000 0000fac0 39d91fc6 1db532f3 879ec244 15a2bff9 c…

I've recently built a tagging system based on SKOS [1]. This supports hierarchical as well as associative relationships between tags (while not strictly requiring either), as well …

1 year-old and/or 3-year-old wake me up between 5:45 and 6:15. (If my 6:30 alarm wakes me instead, I get up quickly and search for diabolical mischief.) Make breakfasts. Shower & d…

Vim and Emacs are quite well-suited for textual manipulation of very large data files. Use of a macro is a very pleasant alternative to piping the file through sed/awk/etc. for a o…

Not plain timestamps, but there is such as thing as a trusted Time Stamping Authority which will sign a document hash + timestamp to prove that information existed before a certain…

Also see a recent discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656154

I was quite a fan of listening to pink noise at work but found after a while that I started to get aural hallucinations. It felt like my mind was finding patterns in the noise that…

The nose was "only" pitched 15 degrees up. The descent was at 40 degrees. With considerable turbulence, and a storm raging outside even the rapid descent may not have been apparent…

As the article mentions, aviation experts are rightly bamboozled by this. The closest I've come to flying was Chuck Yeager's AFT on the Commodore 64, but even then I knew presence …

The author did touch on it: "According to Camilleri, not one of US Airway's 17 Airbus 330s has ever been in alternate law. Therefore, Bonin may have assumed that the stall warning …

Your alternatives are for the income that hosting advertisements may provide. They are not alternatives for the service that advertising itself provides. And for that I offer in pl…

To be fair, their meaningless is their value. Using "real world" names may distract from the logic being discussed or unreasonably suggest that the logic may fit only a particular …

Remember the old Windows time zone picker that let you click on the world map to select your zone? Geopolitical sensitivity about precise borders forced Microsoft to switch off the…

From the Direct Connect help page: > A page’s eligibility for Google+ Direct Connect is determined algorithmically, based on certain signals we use to help understand your page's r…

test1234@example.com and tets1234@example.com yield the same background colour. Isn't the point of this to detect accidental transpositions? You may want to use a simple hash in yo…

It seems your first comment to invoke the shadowban was a link to your own site with a (rather contentious!) post calling-out famous physicists as murderers. http://news.ycombinato…

Does it integrate with any HRMS or payroll systems? It may be a nice bolt-on to such systems which have rather dated interfaces, and would allow you to target past the small busine…

"There’s really only one way to solve an email reputation problem. You have to make an effort to clean up your list. Here again I was thankful for the awesome reporting built into …

This table is a round-up of C++0x support in various compilers: http://wiki.apache.org/stdcxx/C++0xCompilerSupport

Perhaps "Software Sculptor" or "Crafter". I find "artist" a little broad. The end idea may well be an emotive expression, but there's a lot of disciplined craft that must go in to …

It's a "Web 2.0"-style dropped-vowel spelling of "lanyard". (Lanyards being commonly used at conferences to hold ID cards.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyard

Good stuff. Sports like this are ripe for presenting their many statistics in interesting ways. I'm working on a hobby statistics/prediction site for Aussie Rules football at the m…

Your landing page is extremely light on details. This fails to entice, and the requisite login will immediately turn-away X% of visitors. Add a simple preview.

That range is 58 characters which (perhaps suspiciously) is size of alphabet + 2^5. (Although a whitespace character is also encoded, making that suspicion a little less "round".) …

Perhaps this is something that may be mined from the Twitter firehose (which may be easier than marketing a new site). Let's be generous and say: Two mentions in the firehose would…