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meseznikon An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform [video]

He wrote his own tools in Python to achieve this (repo: https://github.com/3b1b/manim).

meseznikon DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing

I've been using this chrome extension (made by Google) for quite some time. Surprised it's not more popular:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

meseznikon Continued G4 (Severe) Geomagnetic Storming Observed

Apparently there are 100 of these per 11-year solar cycle.

Seems that there are much more than 100 flares each cycle: https://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/hessidata/dbase/hessi_flare_l...

It also seems that flares above X2.2 are quite rare. There have been only 10 of those since 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle_24#Events

The latest flare, measured at X9.3 is VERY rare: https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/top-50-so...

I wouldn't downplay this

meseznikon Sea Peoples

I recently stumbled upon this lecture, definitely recommended it (Sea Peoples introduced @ 08:20):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4 -1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)

meseznikon Learning to Predict Where Humans Look [pdf]

mirror: http://spotidoc.com/doc/744813/learning-to-predict-where-hum...

meseznikon The Pirate Bay is counting down

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/12/23/encryption-key-pira... -bittorrent sync key?

meseznikon A novel computer architecture inspired by the working of the human brain

I am. Looks like a bad cert (https://spinnaker.cs.man.ac.uk/tiki-index.php?page=emulator)

meseznikon InstaNerd

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meseznikon This is why cloud computing rocks1

Looks like it's down now. Here's the msg:

Our Servers are currently offline due to the failure of the harddisk RAID controller, an IBM technician is on the way to Salzburg.

At this time we have no estimate when the server will come back online

meseznikon Ask HN: What are your favorite audiobooks?

Yes, the entire series is a joy to listen to. As a lifetime theater actor Roy Dotrice not just reads the book, but really brings it to life.

You could also check The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. It is also a good series and has two fine voice actors. Though IMO, not on par with Dotrice.

Please tell what you've bought, I have some credits of my own that lay around :)

meseznikon Ask HN: What are your favorite audiobooks?

Game of Thrones (Narrated by Roy Dotrice) would be a great choice IMO.

meseznikon Stolen From Apple

Macintosh SE Easter Eggs (via EEVblog): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6OTAG1Ersw

meseznikon Would it be hard to have a mobile style sheet for HN with pressable buttons?

I've been using cheeaun's version to read from mobile: http://cheeaun.github.com/hackerweb It will be great to see it integrated into HN