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dzucon Phonebloks

With everyone pointing out it's infeasibility in mind; didn't Bug Labs do something similar already?: http://buglabs.net/products/blocks

dzucon We searched for Porn. We found you

They aren't exactly hiding that: http://www.artisopensource.net/#team

dzucon What it’s like to die

What exactly are the risk factors that lead up to this type of event?

dzucon Raw Thought: The Weblog of Aaron Swartz in Markdown, PDF, and ePub

(I never thought about this before but I would love to be able to convert arbitrary blogs to ebook formats.)

dzucon Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz: Image Atlas

Probably has run up against API limits?

dzucon On logic in a Rails app

What to do about callbacks in the models?

dzucon Photography’s Third Act

Thinking about an expanded definition of photography: I've been experiencing this often with the combination of instant screenshot uploading apps (CloudApp, Scrup, et al.) in combination with realtime chat.

dzucon The Useless Web

I'm impressed with how much consistent traffic this site has been sending my way: http://s3.amazonaws.com/arena_images/56036/original_90541c1f...

dzucon Show HN: An IDE for poets

Is this just in the air right now? ( I built this over the weekend: http://dzucconi.github.com/haiku )

dzucon Webyshots – REST API for webpage screenshot capture

See also: http://url2png.com/

dzucon Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice

Which makes me wonder: is there a text to voice application based on convolution?

dzucon New "Surveillance-Proof" App To Secure Communications Has Governments Nervous

Janke assembled what he calls an “all-star team”: Phil Zimmerman, a recent inductee to the Internet’s Hall of Fame, who in 1991 invented PGP encryption, still considered the standard for email security. Jon Callas, the man behind Apple’s whole-disk encryption (which is used to secure hard drives in Macs across the world), became Silent Circle’s chief technology officer.

Yeah... that might actually qualify as "all-star"

dzucon Remove your alarm safety net and fix your sleep

Put it on the other side of the room so you have to physically get out of bed to do anything to it.

dzucon Google Glass Graces the Runway at New York Fashion Week

End of the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

dzucon Show HN: A multi-touch document manipulation system

Calls to mind aspects of Xanadu, which is nice to see: http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/PTF2CLO8.JPG http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html

dzucon List of Unexplained Sounds

(An excellent sleep soundtrack)

dzucon A room so quiet, no one can spend more than 45 minutes in it

Well apparently one can hear one's own circulatory and nervous system: http://theresonator.blogspot.com/2007/04/john-cage-visits-an...

> Cage entered the chamber expecting to hear silence, but as he wrote later, he "heard two sounds, one high and one low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation."

dzucon Picplum Tech Stack - Backbone, Async Uploads, Prints API

Can you talk a bit about why you use Transloadit?

dzucon The Instagram/Facebook deal: 30% cash, 70% stock at 75+ billion valuation

So Facebook is about a half a percent of the US GDP: 75000000000/15094025000000 = 0.4969%

dzucon Ruby Developers Offended by $2,800 Ruby Class

Here's a 10 session Rails class at NYU for $1300: http://www.scps.nyu.edu/course-detail/INFO1-CE9970/20121/rub...

dzucon New Stanford course - Anatomy

is dada not valid?

dzucon Show HN: draughtsman, a webserver for front-end devs

Another to add to the list of alternatives (this one has been serving me nicely as of late): http://middlemanapp.com / https://github.com/tdreyno/middleman

dzucon Commit logs from last night

It makes a call to this thing: http://www.wdyl.com/profanity?q=interesting

http://fffff.at/googles-official-list-of-bad-words/ if you want the complete list of offenders

dzucon Repairing a dented tuba with magnets

Really: be careful. Strong magnets are extremely dangerous. I once managed to get a 1" cube of neodymium stuck on either side of my hand for a few minutes.

dzucon Throwable 360 degree Panoramic Ball Camera

Here's a 360 player: https://github.com/hi-res/360player

dzucon PG's Rarely Asked Questions

(I designed a nested version of the Tractatus if you're interested: http://tractatuslogico-philosophicus.com/)

dzucon Ask HN: Has anyone worked with the education industry?

I'm wondering, along these lines, whether or not they shun SaaS products and have to host the code on their own servers.

dzucon Free online version of Stanford's Fall 2011 Intro to AI course

Could someone describe what sort of prerequisite knowledge is required for following along a course like this?