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keeranon Headroom.js – hide your header on scroll

When I scroll away from the top of the page it makes the header disappear, then reappear when I scroll back up to the top of the page.

Isn't that what scrolling does? :)

keeranon Finch – local port forwarding

Looks like http://proxylocal.com/ (and others), but implemented in Node.js ?

Would be interesting to see a chart & timeline of similar services and products reimplemented each time a new tech comes around...

keeranon Customer Reviews and Ratings for Apple 85W MagSafe Power Adapter

I would guess that if Apple removed those stupid fold-out cable wrap points they would see a significant drop in failure rates.

keeranon Cunningham's Law

This is how many get help in #rubyonrails on Freenode. Join the channel and state that x is impossible with ActiveRecord/ActionView/ActionController - solution posted in seconds.

keeranon GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/1424/1228569/cce6eb26-27a6...

"Collaboration is now working (and accepts 2FA logins)."

keeranon Dogecoin market manipulation?

Market manipulation happens everywhere, why is this special?

keeranon Paul Graham Proves Sexism in Tech Is Still a Problem

"What I actually said was "make these women look..." I was simply explaining why CS major != hacker. All that got cut." [0]

"Will write about female founders, but traveling all day so it will have to wait. Reserve judgment? Prob too much to hope for, alas." [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/416934337435537410 [1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/416994260995416064

keeranon Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins

If you search for 'coinbase' on https://bitcointalk.org/ you get a sea of people complaining about the same or similar issues - stay well clear.

keeranon No Man’s Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Exploration Sim

try this http://smoothmouse.com/

keeranon Filter HN - Exclude All Bitcoin Articles. Made with AngularJS

A community built around people making money on/from tech continually whining about content on the future of money in tech.

keeranon Sheerwind

Is this the same technique employed by the Windcatcher [1] (rapid inflation)

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1484284472/windcatcher-i...

keeranon Solo-run Bitcoin exchange shuts down

This comes after selling shares in the fee structure system for thousands of Bitcoins as well, users are furious.

keeranon Particle effects in JavaScript

Really great to be able to play with the source of this. Reminds of the 'uzu' app[1].

[1] http://uzumotion.com/

keeranon Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free

When the Hackintosh movement started that was the case, sure. Nowadays it's a lot easier - tools like MultiBeast make it trivial on fully compatible hardware.

keeranon How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers

There are multiple communities of 'creative coders' who already work with this paradigm using tools like vvvv[0], MaxMSP[1], PureData[2] & others.

Closer(ish) to home we have QuartzComposer[3] available for OSX.

I like all of these tools but can't help feeling I'd be more effective if I could just get at the underlying code half the time (in cases where that's not an option).

[0] http://vvvv.org/ [1] http://cycling74.com/ [2] http://puredata.info/ [3] http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/quartz/quartzcomp...

keeranon Sleepwalking into censorship

I assume a mod realised the Wired article was just a lazy rehash of this source.

keeranon Ask HN: do you keep a stash of ideas?

My registered domain list is a stash of ideas that made it past the 'should I buy a domain for this?' filter :) </squattershame>

keeranon Reply to Aphyr attack on Redis Sentinel

His continued use of "CP" confused me for a while, so TIL about CAP Theorem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem

keeranon Florida Teen Charged With Felony After Science Experiment Goes Bad

This is ridiculous! At our school we were over enthusiastic with a thermite experiment that burnt through the workbench, the floor and into the room below - with no consequences for anyone involved (though the teacher probably never ran that experiment again).

I expect I would have been charged with WMD possession in the States?

Sickening.

keeranon Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games

and possibly a fan of WarGames :)

keeranon Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)

Also see http://tldr.it (a RailsRumble 2010 entry)

keeranon Helios

Good to see some potential (and OSS!) competition for Parse :)

keeranon He Has Millions and a New Job at Yahoo. Soon, He’ll Be 18

Lots of speculation about how this young man managed to achieve these accomplishments, a lot quite negative and bitchy.

Seems straight forward to me - his prototype generated interest and investment (nepotistic or otherwise), he paid SRI to develop real technology behind the product, Yahoo bought that technology.

keeranon RubyMotion: Dreams do come true

Example of a well written, well tested RubyMotion app (according to the ML)

https://github.com/tkadauke/TinyMon

keeranon Show HN: API for detecting people, cars, and everyday objects in images

UnexpectedHairsOnBreastException

keeranon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2013)

Guess that's what happens when people shift to selling 'how to be a freelancer' tools, books and content on HN :)

keeranon Stop the Ruby Drama

At least rubydramas.com is slightly functional (albeit out of date;).

keeranon Apple - Think Twice

I had a similar dance with Apple tech staff. I took in a 27" iMac which had a faulty video card fan which made a horrible high pitched whine at low brightness settings.

First visit they couldn't hear it (in loud store environment..), I was sent home. Second visit they agreed to take it in for testing - returned with a chipped display, scratched glass and a report that the problem didn't exist.

Finally gave up with them and called Apple USA direct (from UK), complained to anyone who would listen. Was advised to take into a 3rd party repair supplier to confirm the problem existed. I went in with an audio spectrometer to visualise the problem, had a new iMac shipped the next day.

It's hard to accept that they're no longer the specialist hardware supplier who treats every customer exceptionally well. Now we're just being farmed like any customer.

Going hackintosh/linux for all future machines.

keeranon Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok

I wish you could sue the muppets slinging mud around on Twitter etc.

keeranon Show HN: We just launched Homelight, a data-driven realtor finder

Congrats on the launch guys :)