DanielStraight

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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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 heavily on guitar. Maybe the renaissance o
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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 proxy for phonetics, especially in a language like Engli
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
Processing / p5.js? https://processing.org/tutorials/gettingstarted/ http://p5js.org/get-started/
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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 explanation of what it will do like the EFF uses on https
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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 license is there,
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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_log10 of 4.34708) The only way to measure passwor
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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_common_words^2 + 26^3 + 10^2. In other words, two common wor
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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. These programs will even use combinations of these words,
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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 example from the site I linked before that I would co
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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. There are even debates about whether some dialects of English a
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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, dietary restrictions (medical or philosophical), to support (or
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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 bring equipment to other planets or moons. Why vertical? Vertic
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_pivot_irrigation
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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, these versions are now available to everyone onlin
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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 and functional programming than previous versions were.
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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.
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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 never provide credit card information of an unsecured conne
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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 / taum
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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 directions and click the food icon for restaurants along the way.)
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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 phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls o
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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 belong here .
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
> 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? Two-thirds maybe? The important thing to understand is that
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_change
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
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.
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
Should I be able to see the unvote link on older votes or is it only available for a limited time or only on stuff voted on from now on?
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
If you go to your profile, you can turn on "showdead" which will let you see submissions and comments that have been killed by flags. Since your other submissions was to a YouTube video which is no longer available on YouTube, I&#
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
The guidelines suggest what you should submit: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Relevant to your question: "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startup
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
Original article: http://us-climate.blogspot.com/2015/10/70f-road-trip.html
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
Looks like with their lowest tier bare metal server + 450 GB additional storage the total would be 11.99 Euros per month or $13.28 USD. And there wouldn't be transfer cost between server / storage.
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by DanielStraight 10y ago
Since the OP indicated elsewhere that the storage need not be local on the machine, Backblaze is almost certainly the best answer. 500 GB of Backblaze B2 storage is $2.50 / month Pair that with a $5 DigitalOcean droplet and the need is

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