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davyjoneson ASMR: The videos which claim to make their viewers 'tingle'

For me, the coda of Comfortably Numb almost always does it. Interestingly, there is a refractory period too! I haven't considered it a worthwhile exercise to scientifically measure it.

davyjoneson Ask HN: Where do I find a good developer?

Pakistan is an Asian country.

davyjoneson Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?

I have made about 100 USD from pgxplorer. The site is in a bit of a limbo after my server crashed and I got a bit busy with dayjob. But looking to inject a couple of booster shots and also working on pg as a service platform as we speak.

davyjoneson DNA Can Survive Reentry from Space

Miller Urey expt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment#...

davyjoneson Ask HN: What's your innovative idea to change the world?

Augmented reality contact lenses.

davyjoneson Magnus Carlsen Repeats at World Chess Championship

Quite a chess following in India. And likely that many were watching because of V. Anand.

davyjoneson Pilot Who Survived Space Crash Says Parachute Opened Itself

Actually, the water boiling is a sign that probably Nitrogen is boiling off your blood too. Don't want that to happen.

davyjoneson Learning languages is a workout for brains, both young and old

If you want a really really good workout, practice writing with your non-dominant hand.

davyjoneson Learning languages is a workout for brains, both young and old

Multilingual family here. All of us speak 3+ languages (English, Japanese and our native language). Our son is proficient in all three though a bit short on vocab in Japanese for a 6 year old. By 2.5, he was code switching comfortably and had a vocab on numbers till 20, "bandaid", and other usual stuff (food, colours, etc.).

davyjoneson Live Coding in VR with Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript, Three.js [video]

I haven't seen this mentioned in the comments here: I think this is huge for CAD/CAE. I can see this disrupting current [Digital Mockup](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_mockup) offerings.

Everything from design, analyses, testing moves into the VR environment. Already CAD/CFD/CAE computational models are saving huge costs to companies. Throw in VR and we are that much closer to a tangible, collaborative environment. Very very excited!

davyjoneson Looking to start a partnership with a programmer

According to some people, if there is a tie, helps to have a veto power. 51-49 helps in that regard.

davyjoneson Need Postgresql HTTP API Extension

I was thinking of a pg-as-a-service (got pgaas.com/pgsafe.com) solution not too different along these lines. Does the idea have any merit? Would people be interested?

davyjoneson Ask HN: Looking for a a Japanese speaking/writing person in the HN community?

Feel free to email me (in profile).

davyjoneson Stripe launches in Australia

Is Stripe Japan on the anvil?

davyjoneson Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer

Just a few hours ago I have run into a weird bug in IE 11. I am guessing some cookie values are cached and this is leading to unpredictable behaviour in my app. Seems to disappear when I have the dev tools open or when I clear the browser.

IE8 -> IE9 -> IE10 was fraught with stability issues that didn't go away till I upgraded to 11.

I get it that all browsers have bugs but somehow IE seems to lead the pack.

davyjoneson (pi^4+pi^5)^(1/6)

i th root of i

Not what you would expect.

davyjoneson With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer

> At a bottleneck, the water that gets through is moving faster, but the total volume of water going through is lower.

This is incorrect because the volume of water will be the same under I3 flow (called I-cube flow: Incompressible, Inviscid and Irrotational).

Due to conservation of mass, we have

mass = density x volume = density x area x speed x time

Measuring the amount of volume for the same time with changing area, the only quantity that can change is the speed (recall that we have fixed the time and already assumed incompressible flow, hence density does not change).

So, more area means lower speed and vice versa. But the volume always is the same under stated assumptions.

davyjoneson Show HN: Mighty Spring – Passive job search

I am honestly, honestly blown away by the user experience! Amazing walk through; at no point did I feel anything as a chore.

Very well executed indeed. Kudos to the team.

davyjoneson Show HN: Betatype - A freelance site where clients pay $3,500 for prototypes

Guessing by what curl -I says, looks like lighttpd + webpy.

davyjoneson Ask HN: Describe your web development stack

angularjs, go, nginx + ngx_postgres, postgres

davyjoneson US burns through all high-skill visas for 2015 in less than a week

> What is that makes the United States such an attractive place to immigrate to for people whose skill sets could take them almost anywhere in the world?

Unrestricted Jus soli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli#Unrestricted_jus_soli)

davyjoneson 0^0

Are PDF warnings relevant anymore? Of late Chromium and Firefox display PDF natively, sandboxed(?).

davyjoneson Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do

I don't really understand why this explanation was even warranted. People looking from outside don't get the picture at all. Ergo, conclusions are erroneous at best and malicious at worst.

davyjoneson The Drugging Of The American Boy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_R_(Leading_Us_Along)

"The song was written about a friend of the Loeffler brothers, who was misdiagnosed with ADHD, and developed an addiction to Ritalin. As a result, he would often do crazy and odd things, such as drive around aimlessly for hours, determined to hear a specific song on the radio."

:-(

davyjoneson Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

A miss is as good as a mile.

davyjoneson PostgreSQL: Jsonb has committed

I wouldn't be too quick to swap it out yet. Especially if you are using replication. I usually wait for a few minor releases before upgrading.

davyjoneson Mt. Gox Finds 200,000 Missing Bitcoins

All of us who look down upon Accountants take a hard look in the mirror (I am one of them who used to). Most of us are like..."meh...its just +'s and -'s with some tax component here and there, how hard can it be. I will get to it when I get to it."

Turns out all those tough exams and practices are in place to mitigate this exact scenario.

The above assuming no malicious intent on part of MtGox and the recent revelation was pure stupidity.

davyjoneson SQLite vs MySQL vs PostgreSQL

Seriously. No numbers, no benchmarks. Hearsay sprinkled in. Just another fluff piece without any meat.

davyjoneson Ask HN: What have you learned in 2014 so far?

I am still learning that the business side of things is tough, very tough. A finished product will not just 'take-off' on its own.

Sales and marketing is just as important as the tech side of a product.

davyjoneson Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama to complain about NSA

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."