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Ask HN: Which is the most powerful satellite camera directed towards earth?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14139787Remember the scene from MIB where 'K' zooms in on his wife and watches her live. How close are we to that ?After a quick search, I found a few videos which showed scenes of an area with some traffic activity but it wasn't that zoomed in. As far as images go, I haven't found any other image source providing a better definition image than what Google Maps provide.The American government had used live satellite feed while carrying out the Bin Laden operation ( Source of Information: Documentary | Correct me if wrong ).Are there any images/videos publicly available which demonstrate the limits of cameras in space directed towards earth ?If not publicly available, can you describe how a possible image/video might look like and what are the current limits for those cameras ?Apr 18, 2017 3:44 PM
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The Science of the Storyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88d21e8e264a4aa23e791d3dc5788e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgreatergood.berkeley.edu%2Farticle%2Fitem%2Fscience_of_the_story&c=15124567939592166470&mkt=en-usStories are told in the body. It doesn’t seem that way. We tend to think of stories as emerging from consciousness—from dreams or fantasies—and traveling through words or images to other minds. We see ...Jun 7, 2016 5:00 PM
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The Science of the Storyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89dd543b024e28b9039a312d8b667a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgreatergood.berkeley.edu%2Farticle%2Fitem%2Fscience_of_the_story&c=15124567939592166470&mkt=en-usStories are told in the body. It doesn’t seem that way. We tend to think of stories as emerging from consciousness—from dreams or fantasies—and traveling through words or images to other minds. We see ...Jun 7, 2016 5:00 PM
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The Science of the Storyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88c520b3e143c6a8e0e57dafcee6a2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgreatergood.berkeley.edu%2Farticle%2Fitem%2Fscience_of_the_story&c=15124567939592166470&mkt=en-usStories are told in the body. It doesn’t seem that way. We tend to think of stories as emerging from consciousness—from dreams or fantasies—and traveling through words or images to other minds. We see ...Jun 7, 2016 5:00 PM
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Show HN: Minimalist HN reader with material designhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9755681Hello everyone!, this is a app I have being working on recently. I know there are number of HN readers on android. But couldn't find a one suitable for daily use. So I started developing this app. News articles, comments open in default browser of the device. Click on title of the item to open the article and anywhere else to open comments. Pull down to refresh. Swipe left and right to change the tabs. This is only the first phase of application. Lot of functions yet to be implement (you can read more in Google play listing). Before developing further I would love to have some feedback. BTW I'm a CS undergraduate.Thank you.Image :http://www.kasungamlath.com/assets/hnyc_framed.png Application :https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kasungamlath.hackernewsAny feedback is appreciated, thanks!Jun 22, 2015 1:12 AM
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Vector graphics shoot-out: Inkscape v CorelDRAWhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89c3aec8de4f2a83225fe7c9e28888&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Farticle%2Fvector-graphics-shoot-out-inkscape-v-coreldraw%2F&c=14622041165727463810&mkt=en-usIn the first of this 'FOSS v proprietary' series we looked at some of the best software for editing and manipulating bitmap images. With digital photography such programs replace the earlier darkroom ...Aug 13, 2012 2:18 AM
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How to Get a Big Picture for Your Background on YouTubehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a8f19529949d586ac7b7162dd4cda&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2Fbig-picture-background-youtube-44362.html&c=9576923919364811045&mkt=en-usIf you use YouTube to market your small business, adding a unique background image can help visitors to identify your brand whenever they visit your YouTube channel. Adding a big picture for your ...Apr 25, 2012 9:52 PM
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What was Google thinking(Contains text from the blog)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460094This is the text contained in http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-thinking/blog as written by Mocality CEO You can follow the blog link to read the full story(of which I propose since it is of better quality) but just in case you can't access the site here is some of the contents that the blog contains. Note: Some resources such as images might be missing and also I didn't have enough time to format the content properly============================================= Links to some of the resources contained in the blog ============================================= https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/mocality-wordpress/audio/douglas.mp3 http://blog.mocality.co.ke/files/2012/01/Incoming_Call-Redacted-20111221-1133502.pdf ============================================= I’m very proud of the business that we’ve created here at Mocality, but I’m especially proud of two things:1. Our crowdsourcing program. When we started this business, we knew that (unlike in the UK or US, Jan 13, 2012 11:12 AM
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Ask HN: Is that important for a developer to have an impressive personal page?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407157I am a Python developer with good design background. I am willing to expand my freelance activity in Python web development area now. I have seen tons of visually appealing impressive personal pages of web designers. Those that are more web graphic designers working with HTML/CSS/JS than hardcore programmers. I bet you saw much of them too on the web. They have professional look and feel giving you an image of the person. I tried to find something similar for the programmers to inspire myself for creating my personal page. I searched for 'web developer portfolio', 'web developer personal page' and some other keywords on Google. I didn't find anything as impressive as web designers' pages. All I could see were some boring CVs or something like CVs, sometimes with a small photo of a person and more or less average look. Obviously everyone is the best at what he is the best and programmers sell their technical/analytical skills. They can show perfectly structured code to impress a potentiApr 4, 2011 4:15 PM
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Ask HN: Do you think primarily in English?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387921Rather, do you think primarily in your native language, or more in terms of abstract imagery?I've noticed that rather than forming images in my head to represent ideas, I will instead often think in English. For example, if I'm working through a logic problem, I will repeat the various elements of the problem in my head in English repeatedly until I solve it.I'm unfortunately unilingual. English is the only human language I have ever learned. I've noticed that when I speak phrases in Spanish, I'm actually speaking English in my head. It's like a lookup table. By that I mean, let's say I want to communicate "How are you?". Rather than attempting to reason through this task in Spanish (by trying to communicate the individual elements "how", 'in what way', "are", 'your state of being', and "you" 'the person I am communicating with'), I try to remember the phrase in Spanish that corresponds to the ordered set of words "How are you?". So it is rote memorization -- I'm not thinking in SpanisDec 6, 2008 6:54 AM
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ZBrush painting-modeling now Mac OS X compatiblehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a899ca29e0f4592ab00260285e0aca5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.macworld.com%2Farticle%2F157775%2Fzbrush-2.html&c=6806554994682135642&mkt=en-usPixologic has released ZBrush 1.55b, an update to their 2D, 2.5D and 3D painting and modeling tool. ZBrush is an image creation and processing tool, powered by a real-time rendering engine. Based on ...Jan 30, 2003 4:00 PM
