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How Stories Change the Brainhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89dd543b024e28b9039a312d8b667a&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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Help choose which Linux distro saves the earth from alien invasion.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6880434This post is for something I have made. So it is, by definition, self promoting. But I know many of you will be interested. So, with that in mind, I'm going to post it anyway.I have almost finished a novel. And I need help getting some dedicated writing time to get the last ~10k words down and final edits in place.The book, “Steve’s Laptop”, is a Sci-Fi Comedy about a developer named Steve who, while working at “the world’s largest software company” near Seattle, is trying to save the world from an alien invasion. Primarily with his laptop. Hence the title.If I were forced to compare it to something I would call it: “They Live” + “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” + “The IT Crowd“.I'm holding a "Help me finish this book" sale/fundraiser. A pay-what-you-want deal where you get my existing books, and get a chance to take part in shaping a small part of the book itself.Specifically, you get to vote on which Linux distro is used on "Steve's Laptop". If you want to see Arch save the world fDec 10, 2013 1:03 PM
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Snowden leaks US giving Israel private information on Americanshttp://www.jpost.com/International/Report-Israel-receives-intelligence-from-US-containing-private-information-on-US-citizens-325871"This headline plays down the biggest part of this story: The NSA has programs that collect data on US Supreme Court Justices and elected officials, and they secretly provide it to Israel regulated only by an honor system."Sep 12, 2013 2:30 AM
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World's Roundest Objecthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y%3Fhd%3D1The world's roundest object helps solve the longest running problem in measurement -- how to define the kilogram. A kilogram isn't what it used to be. Literally. The original name for it was the 'grave', proposed in 1793 but it fell victim to the French Revolution like its creator, Lavoisier. So begins the tale of the most unusual SI unit. The kilogram is the only base unit with a prefix in its name, and the only one still defined by a physical artifact, the international prototype kilogram or IPK.But the problem with this definition has long been apparent. The IPK doesn't seem to maintain its mass compared to 40 similar cylinders minted at the same time. The goal is therefore to eliminate the kilogram's dependence on a physical object. Two main approaches are being considered to achieve this end: the Avogadro Project and the Watt Balance.The Avogadro project aims to redefine Avogadro's constant (currently defined by the kilogram -- the number of atoms in 12 g of carbon-12) and reverseAug 3, 2013 12:21 PM
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Tools to monitor website performance?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6068848Hi,I'm curious what the current state-of-art for website performance monitoring is?Most of the tools I've seen are either Pingdom-style applications, which simply tell you if a website if up or down, or they're like YSlow-style, which run a bunch of tests to see if you're following best practices.But is there something like say, Chrome's SpeedTracer that you could run as a service, and monitor your website's performance over time? Or before/after each commit?What would you guys recommend to track the performance of your own website over time, or gather deep-level metrics?Could you use something like PhantomJS to achieve this?Are there any existing open-source projects that already do this?Cheers , VictorJul 19, 2013 8:06 AM
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Ask HN: Anyone else seeing Gmail's "Display density: Compact" not working?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5383558TL;DR: Gmail theme "Orcas Island" is borked. Any others?(Maybe I should have tried harder to squeeze "theme Orcas Island" into the title...)--Yes, this is using HN as "Google customer support", but what other option do I have?In Gmail's web client, I use the theme "Orcas Island" for a more pleasant experience. (Not only do I like the pictures; it also changes the background from white to a less bright gray-blue.)Today, in that theme, "Display density: Compact" is no longer working. Whitespace galore.I noticed some other Gmail changes, e.g. the prompt to confirm mobile phone number (for security notifications). So, maybe the same push broke this aspect of theming?So far, I've only noticed this affecting the theme "Orcas Island". (But, I'm not going to check them all...)Googling has revealed nothing on this.Mar 15, 2013 11:09 PM
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What Is ‘Artistic Literacy’? Framework for Arts Standards Takes Lookhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813e0613c44fce9b56662dffbf891d&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.edweek.org%2feducation%2fwhat-is-artistic-literacy-framework-for-arts-standards-takes-look%2f2013%2f01&c=8365497633080013251&mkt=en-usWe talk a lot about literacy here. The ability to read and write. Math literacy. Science literacy. But what does it mean to be artistically literate? A document issued last week by the National ...Jan 24, 2013 1:13 PM
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What Is ‘Artistic Literacy’? Framework for Arts Standards Takes Lookhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813db71a4d42fabfde93483f22f13a&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.edweek.org%2feducation%2fwhat-is-artistic-literacy-framework-for-arts-standards-takes-look%2f2013%2f01&c=8365497633080013251&mkt=en-usWe talk a lot about literacy here. The ability to read and write. Math literacy. Science literacy. But what does it mean to be artistically literate? A document issued last week by the National ...Jan 24, 2013 1:13 PM
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What Is ‘Artistic Literacy’? Framework for Arts Standards Takes Lookhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a813de250de41b7bd937e162bc0f7eb&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.edweek.org%2feducation%2fwhat-is-artistic-literacy-framework-for-arts-standards-takes-look%2f2013%2f01&c=8365497633080013251&mkt=en-usWe talk a lot about literacy here. The ability to read and write. Math literacy. Science literacy. But what does it mean to be artistically literate? A document issued last week by the National ...Jan 24, 2013 1:13 PM
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Ask HN: What makes the perfect office? I'm building one.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4739458I run a web development agency with 18 people. The building we're looking at moving to will need extensive refurbishment, so we have a chance to spec out our office 'wish list' and then build that!So: If you could completely design your office space (aesthetics, layout, furniture, lighting, flooring), how would you want it to be?(We're a Rails agency, working in scrum teams of 2 or 4, doing some pairing but not full-time, based in London).Nov 4, 2012 10:58 AM
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Has minimalism gone too far?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4721593I am a minimalist at heart, but practicality & utility override any and all desire for a minimal UI.To a degree minimalism increases usability, cuts down on distractions with other links to other articles,media,etc and lets the user focus on the article or whatever work they're doing if its a desktop app.To be quite frank I'm sick of websites with three miles of whitespace on both sides of an 80 character wide column article text and no navbar or links to get to the website's homepage.examples (from HN's top articles about 30 mins ago) http://mkronline.com/2012/10/30/you-arent-imagining-it-the-web-is-a-mess/ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/googles-most-advanced-voice-search-has.html http://joel.is/ I'll admit, to a degree, some of it is bad coding/design using fixed sizes in pixels instead of relative sizes for things (em) so the page renders the same independent of screen resolution.The same sort of thing is going on with desktop applications, menus and options are getting gankOct 31, 2012 7:17 AM
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Releasing a Stuck Anchorhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8983c2376145e5b106f0d39ecccd8f&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.boatingmag.com%2Fhow-to%2Freleasing-stuck-anchor%2F&c=539776366864108078&mkt=en-usYou’ve anchored for a while to relax, but when it comes time to pull up, the anchor won’t budge. Don’t stress over that stuck anchor. Try these tips for using the boat to break a stuck anchor free.Aug 30, 2012 4:55 PM
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MovieCat for Android, the Greatest Feline-Based Movie Trivia Game of All Timehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d1a1c9ca4fa19eb5ae1125f04795&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.droid-life.com%2f2012%2f07%2f24%2fmoviecat-for-android-the-greatest-feline-based-movie-trivia-game-of-all-time%2f&c=10381725945428927182&mkt=en-usI don’t care if you’re either a movie lover or a cat lover, you have got to try out MovieCat. It’s a really good trivia game that is made a hundred times better by having cats appear in scenes from ...Jul 24, 2012 12:08 PM
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MovieCat for Android, the Greatest Feline-Based Movie Trivia Game of All Timehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d3e18fc34b4290b70751f41c4233&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.droid-life.com%2f2012%2f07%2f24%2fmoviecat-for-android-the-greatest-feline-based-movie-trivia-game-of-all-time%2f&c=10381725945428927182&mkt=en-usI don’t care if you’re either a movie lover or a cat lover, you have got to try out MovieCat. It’s a really good trivia game that is made a hundred times better by having cats appear in scenes from ...Jul 24, 2012 12:08 PM
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MovieCat for Android, the Greatest Feline-Based Movie Trivia Game of All Timehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e048693748e5a84d5afc89e1d064&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.droid-life.com%2f2012%2f07%2f24%2fmoviecat-for-android-the-greatest-feline-based-movie-trivia-game-of-all-time%2f&c=10381725945428927182&mkt=en-usI don’t care if you’re either a movie lover or a cat lover, you have got to try out MovieCat. It’s a really good trivia game that is made a hundred times better by having cats appear in scenes from ...Jul 24, 2012 12:08 PM
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MovieCat for Android, the Greatest Feline-Based Movie Trivia Game of All Timehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dc1b245148d2b86a87cab8e8a80e&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.droid-life.com%2f2012%2f07%2f24%2fmoviecat-for-android-the-greatest-feline-based-movie-trivia-game-of-all-time%2f&c=10381725945428927182&mkt=en-usI don’t care if you’re either a movie lover or a cat lover, you have got to try out MovieCat. It’s a really good trivia game that is made a hundred times better by having cats appear in scenes from ...Jul 24, 2012 12:08 PM
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MovieCat for Android, the Greatest Feline-Based Movie Trivia Game of All Timehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d7f54ea54990a547546994780b96&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.droid-life.com%2f2012%2f07%2f24%2fmoviecat-for-android-the-greatest-feline-based-movie-trivia-game-of-all-time%2f&c=10381725945428927182&mkt=en-usI don’t care if you’re either a movie lover or a cat lover, you have got to try out MovieCat. It’s a really good trivia game that is made a hundred times better by having cats appear in scenes from ...Jul 24, 2012 12:08 PM
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MovieCat for Android, the Greatest Feline-Based Movie Trivia Game of All Timehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e488f0eb41b0bf0f04a7f283709b&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.droid-life.com%2f2012%2f07%2f24%2fmoviecat-for-android-the-greatest-feline-based-movie-trivia-game-of-all-time%2f&c=10381725945428927182&mkt=en-usI don’t care if you’re either a movie lover or a cat lover, you have got to try out MovieCat. It’s a really good trivia game that is made a hundred times better by having cats appear in scenes from ...Jul 24, 2012 12:08 PM
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MovieCat for Android, the Greatest Feline-Based Movie Trivia Game of All Timehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d600ca2d469e82e054690b38ed7c&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.droid-life.com%2f2012%2f07%2f24%2fmoviecat-for-android-the-greatest-feline-based-movie-trivia-game-of-all-time%2f&c=10381725945428927182&mkt=en-usI don’t care if you’re either a movie lover or a cat lover, you have got to try out MovieCat. It’s a really good trivia game that is made a hundred times better by having cats appear in scenes from ...Jul 24, 2012 12:08 PM
