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XIII: The Conspiracyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e78b85604024a4acd084974e417b&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.tvguide.com%2fmovies%2fxiii-the-conspiracy%2fcast%2f2030061832%2f&c=13982645734076928638&mkt=en-usThe first female US President Sally Sheridan is shot dead by a sniper during her Veterans Day speech. Her assassin narrowly escapes the scene with his life, national security hot on his heels - or so ...Jan 19, 2015 10:36 PM
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XIII: The Conspiracyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e7cd2537429abcaecbfc718d09e6&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.tvguide.com%2fmovies%2fxiii-the-conspiracy%2fcast%2f2030061832%2f&c=13982645734076928638&mkt=en-usThe first female US President Sally Sheridan is shot dead by a sniper during her Veterans Day speech. Her assassin narrowly escapes the scene with his life, national security hot on his heels - or so ...Jan 19, 2015 10:36 PM
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XIII: The Conspiracyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85df08f5bc4b8b9f3dea86240e9f41&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.tvguide.com%2fmovies%2fxiii-the-conspiracy%2fcast%2f2030061832%2f&c=13982645734076928638&mkt=en-usThe first female US President Sally Sheridan is shot dead by a sniper during her Veterans Day speech. Her assassin narrowly escapes the scene with his life, national security hot on his heels - or so ...Jan 19, 2015 10:36 PM
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How Stories Change the Brainhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88d21e8e264a4aa23e791d3dc5788e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgreatergood.berkeley.edu%2Farticle%2Fitem%2Fhow_stories_change_brain&c=12120734569994440856&mkt=en-usThat’s what Ben’s father says to the camera as we see Ben play in the background. Ben is two years old and doesn’t know that a brain tumor will take his life in a matter of months. Ben’s father tells ...Dec 16, 2013 4:00 PM
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How Stories Change the Brainhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88c520b3e143c6a8e0e57dafcee6a2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgreatergood.berkeley.edu%2Farticle%2Fitem%2Fhow_stories_change_brain&c=12120734569994440856&mkt=en-usThat’s what Ben’s father says to the camera as we see Ben play in the background. Ben is two years old and doesn’t know that a brain tumor will take his life in a matter of months. Ben’s father tells ...Dec 16, 2013 4:00 PM
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Ask HN: Does explaining your program's complete design reduce sales?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3674312I'm working on my very first Android application; and, I've been considering talking through the different parts of my design; and how and where my code is growing organically to support the different ideas that I have.Since I'd basically be explaining every feature and design decision I make from here on out, this leads me to a question. Would I lose sales from my application? I'm very interested in selling it.It's an active wallpaper that plays the Game of Life. I know the market already has one, but I was going to be adding more features to it that would make it more interesting and perhaps a good wallpaper.Mar 7, 2012 4:49 AM
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Ask HN: What's the point with so many stupid people in the world?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2997502Have you ever tried to sit and write code in a bar? It's nice. It's a hell of a lot more conducive to creativity than working in an office cubicle. You got your drink, you got your smoke. You sit at a table with wifi and a plug and you're invincible until about six drinks in. You look out over the patio at the mountains and you think...this is what life's all about.Then at about 6pm the soccer game starts. Suddenly, the owner of the bar comes out and unplugs your laptop, turns on the TV, and cranks the volume up to 7000000. Even though there's no one there. You say, "Man, that's too loud." And he says, "when they show up, that's what they're gonna want."Sure enough, about 3 minutes before the game starts, the patio goes from empty to packed. People are trying to move your table, your laptop bag. Then suddenly they're all staring, slackjawed, at this stupid TV that's blasting the same shitty commercials it was showing yesterday, last week, last month.HN readers, I'm sitting in that bar Sep 14, 2011 7:22 PM
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Ask HN: What is Gravity?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629794While watching a documentary that mentioned gravity (forgive me the particulars escape me at the moment) my 8yo son reached across my lap and tapped the space-bar pausing the video. He then turned toward me and asked, ‘what is gravity?’Now, in our house we require explanations for actions because we are becoming, sadly too late in life, convinced that being on purpose is paramount. Because it is our opinion that if you do not understand, even at the most base level (epistemological questions aside), why you are doing something then you will never have any power over what you do. When any of us does something that results in negative consequences we try to be in the habit of either tracing down the root of our reasoning or admitting that we had none.To this end we have made much of the distinction between description and explanation. Briefly; all explanations include description but not the reverse. When we ask one another for an explanation and instead receive only description it has bAug 24, 2010 2:04 PM
