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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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Ask HN: Software- Better to focus on or complement with?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13858596From your experience, what advantages/disadvantages are there to: 1) Majoring in electrical engineering and physics, minoring in software development 2) Majoring in software engineering, minoring in electrically engineering and physicsContext: I'm a first year engineering student and would like to pick either Software Engineering (electrical engineering with computer science) or Engineering Physics (electrical engineering with physics). I already have a couple years experience programming, really enjoy it, and is why I went into the program. But, I've also really enjoyed physics and math classes and they've given me a strong desire to learn more about physics. Intuitively, I think that having a strong physics background opens the door to more problems I could solve with software. However, I don't want to to discount the value of studying software engineering. I don't have the experience to see what kind of walls and limitations each choice offers. What have you seen?
Mar 13, 2017 3:27 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=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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TakeGuru – New Active Hobby Global Marketplacehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11026671New powerful Internet start-up in the field of travelling and active outdoor and indoor activities, namely TakeGuru, has been launched at the end 2015. Presentation of the service took place at the Internet summit Fast Track Lisbon.TakeGuru (http://takeguru.com/) is the first online service which helps people who travel to other countries in getting a hobby or continuing to be engaged in active outdoor and indoor activities. Now people, who for certain reasons are going on a trip, can online reserve the air tickets, accommodation and excursions. They rent a car, effect an insurance in advance. However they should still look for the corresponding their interest activities upon arriving to the destination place or spend much time studying the sites among searching systems of Internet.Mean a particular active hobby? Arrive to a special spot? Previously to your landing at any place in the world TakeGuru takes over for the fast online matching and agreeing the short-term courses with the lo
Feb 3, 2016 2:45 PM
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Ask HN: How good are the local startup scenes in Lisbon and Sofia?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638815I'm a solo founder and my startup is beginning to get some momentum. To capitalise on this I've decided it's time to move ops out of my spare bedroom and in to a more dynamic environment. Main goal for moving: increase my chances of bumping in to like minded people and finding a co-founder / first hire.I've narrowed the choice down to Lisbon or Sofia (having started with London, Paris, Barcelona, Sofia and Lisbon) and would love to hear the experiences of any HNers who have spent time in either city - especially if it was while bootstrapping your own startup (or working for someone else's)!Things I'd love to know: quality, size and diversity of local talent; quality of local accelerators and investors; how easy/hard it is to find (good) people that want to take a risk and work for an early stage startup; friendliness of the local startup scene.My pros for Sofia:- Betahaus co-working space- Fantastic cost of living (~30% cheaper than Lisbon - which itself is already cheap)- Lovely city,
Nov 27, 2015 9:01 PM
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I Turned Off JavaScript for a Whole Week and It Was Glorioushttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88cdc94aea40bda18a4c6777d3c109&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2F2015%2F11%2Fi-turned-off-javascript-for-a-whole-week-and-it-was-glorious%2F&c=11718921688328504438&mkt=en-usThere's another web out there, a better web hiding just below the surface of the one we surf from our phones and tablets and laptops every day. A web with no ads, no endlessly scrolling pages, and no ...
Nov 17, 2015 11:00 PM
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Mustardy Potato Pierogieshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89b23a867f451dbc9453d908ffe045&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foodandwine.com%2Frecipes%2Fmustardy-potato-pierogies&c=13569227787880117210&mkt=en-usThursday was "Polish Night" at the restaurant run by Grant Achatz's parents, with specials like sausage and sauerkraut, cabbage soup and pierogies. Those humble pierogies inspired the avant-garde ones ...
Nov 10, 2015 1:40 PM
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Ask HN: Why does some music labels hide their albums on Allmusic.com?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10412420Now and then when I visit http://allmusic.com and click an album I get an error page saying "Due to label restrictions, we are no longer permitted to display this information on AllMusic."I find this very strange, why on earth would a label restrict information about an album they have?So I asked Allmusic that question and got this response from Zac Johnson, Senior Product Manager: "If I felt as though I was comfortable going into the intricacies of the deals that are in place between a specific worldwide distributor and our data provider, I would detail it further, but the truth is that it's an area that I don't want to poke further."Example album: "The Definition" by Jon Bellion. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jon-bellion-mn0003006966/discography (click the album link to see the error message)To see the response from Allmusic, go here: https://getsatisfaction.com/allmedianetwork/topics/some-albums-are-unreachableCan HN shed some light on what's going on?
Oct 19, 2015 12:27 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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Patriot Act Section Goes Way Too Farhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628531Via: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/letters/2015/05/29/letter-patriotact-sunset-senate-spying/28185561/"Section 215 of the Patriot Act is scheduled to sunset on Monday. This law was secretly interpreted to allow the mass surveillance of who you talk to on the phone. Such information can be deeply intimate and private: Consider, for instance, what you could infer from a record of numerous calls to a local oncology center and pharmacies. Section 215 is a pointless, expensive intrusion into the private life of every American. On May 22, the Senate voted against extending Section 215. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has indicated he will bring it up again for a last­minute vote on Sunday. I write to encourage local readers to ask their senators, especially McConnell and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, not to extend these surveillance provisions because they run counter to the spirit and letter of the Constitution. Your say: Submit a letter to the editor (http://static.cincinnati.com/le
May 30, 2015 1:47 AM
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Ask HN: EU Opportunities in Software Development and Medicinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9062852Hello all,I'm a Portuguese software development student and I'll be completing my Master's in Informatics and Computer Engineering (aka Software Development) next year, majoring in Distributed Systems and minoring in Artificial Intelligence. I'm also in a long term relationship with a med student that will also be graduating next year, when she'll be taking the Harrison Exam, a nationwide exam for all med students graduating that year that rank them by grade and prioritize their specialty internship choice in our National Health System. This exam essentially decides her medical specialty for the rest of her life, which due to possible bad luck, may damage her career prospects and make her unhappier overall. When I'll graduate, the job market that'll be waiting for me is essentially comprised of a bunch of outsourcing companies that work primarly in SAP and Microsoft SharePoint, website, back-office and other business critical applications development in C# and .Net, with a very small b
Feb 17, 2015 3:52 PM
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Potentials for Wallpaper market in India until 2018http://www.marketreportsonindia.com/consumer-goods-market-research-reports-11561/wallpaper-marketdia-forecasts.htmlIndia has always had a giant industry for home decor stuffs, wallpapers are one of the most in demand among them. This report is an independent complete coverage of the niche and its market share in the Indian markets. It indicates the present trends and also puts through most likely trends for the industry until 2018. Therefore, the report is an essential "must have" document for the wallpaper industry business indulgers from India.
Jan 24, 2015 12:20 PM
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Ask HN: Finding a technical lead in Cambridge, MA?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8675900Over the last several months, I have tested and validated a business opportunity in the legal space. Customers are very interested - 4 or the last 5 have asked to be part of a paid Beta as soon as possible. I'd like to get something workable into customers hands as soon as possible, but am hamstrung by my technical skills.I'm by background and skillset much more business than technically oriented. I know enough Python/Django to be dangerous and have built a working proof-of-concept / demo. However, I know when I'm at the limit of my capabilities, and to take it from POC to working product, would like to bring on someone to help buildout a real product.Some of the problems that need to be solved for (many of which I've been dealing with in one capacity or another): - web scraping. Done mostly with BeautifulSoup to date + lots of custom regexes. There are a lot of corner cases to deal with. - regularly scraping 10,000s of pages and watching for changes on those pages - entity and person
Nov 30, 2014 3:42 AM
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The Best iPad Digital Comic Book Readershttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88cdb5b1f54a53af3eaa0345d2d5d5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcmag.com%2Fnews%2Fthe-best-ipad-digital-comic-book-readers&c=7906438246801419445&mkt=en-usThe iPad is an excellent digital comic book device. It's thin, lightweight, and has enough storage to house Kirby and Lee's groundbreaking Fantastic Four run. But in order to read comic books on Apple ...
Oct 13, 2014 7:00 AM
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Ask HN: Need of a much better GitHub/Gitlab?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7618161Github [1] has become slow and the hosted solution (enterprise version) is too costly, so we have been using Gitlab which is a Github like repository hosting platform that also has issue tracking and merge/pull request based workflow and integration with its CI (gitlab-ci project).In the past couple of months, we've been facing a lot of problems for example -- Gitlab has broken our development workflow (due to bugs in it), the web hooks would stop working, the merge request diffs would be too slow to load, sometimes the ruby based backend would blow up and give us 500 etc. So, we've started working on a single page webapp based on Go and AngularJS that just does minimalistic things that we need. We wanted a tool that is easy to manage and install so we chose Go (single binary) and we wanted to keep the frontend easy to implement and use so we chose AngularJS (single page app).What are the pain points you've faced while using these tools, and what features etc. you want in it and will y
Apr 20, 2014 7:30 PM
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Ask HN: What should I be asking for salary wise as a soon to be graduatehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5827099I am soon to be Computer Science/Business graduate in the Los Angeles,CA area and am trying to figure what to be expecting/asking for salary wise.My background:-I have been programming for 9 years-I have worked for the CTO of my college through out college designing and implementing J2EE web applications from end to end.-I have had an internship every summer during college all related to computing/programming with companies including the Walt Disney Company-A colleague and I have a start up project on the side of school that I have developed in Rails.(I like rails a lot )-I know some other web frameworks including Play and Django.-My strong languages are Java, Ruby, Pyton,HTML/CSS, Javascript(Jquery and a little Node),SQL,PHP(basically anything web app related)Here's my linked in for more:http://www.linkedin.com/in/griffinmartyThanks in advance for the advice!
Jun 5, 2013 5:24 PM
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Tech co-founderhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4686804About us Gymnati is an exciting new innovative way for people to find and connect with others who share similar sport interest and are looking for a sport partner or team to engage in such sport with. Think of us as a sport matchmaker. Gymnati is located in Vancouver, BC and currently in developmental stage. We are seeking talented individuals with unique skills and personality for an 8 months program. This is an unpaid internship position with the option of making it permanent after serving.Working with the Gymnati team is a great opportunity for those willingly to get a taste of being part of a start-up as well as gain valuable experience in their respective field. The exciting thing is that you get to work alone as well as create your own project with little supervision. This thrilling experience would push you to your creative limit. Have you got what IT TAKES? Start date- December 2012Technical Co-Founder We are currently seeking talented developers to be part of a great team that
Oct 23, 2012 5:41 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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The End of the Road for the actual American pastime…TVhttp://technovisions.wordpress.com/The Grim Future for our Favorite Pastimeby Evan CTelevision. For most, it seems like the most basic of technologies, something people have been living with their entire lives. However, discussing the future of such an important and (dare I say) essential technology is no easy task, for you and I both know that change is not something people are always open to. My purpose for writing this is to not only inform people of the revolution at our doorstep, but to also encourage others to seek alternative viewing methods and explore the existing technology that is already out there.Now, the things I am about to explain may seem obvious at some points and entirely unrealistic at others, but you must remember to think outside the box and understand that the future is not always simple to explain. For example, think about trying to explain e-mail (or e-mail on your iPhone) to somebody from 1988. To them it would seem impossible, but little did they know that only a decade later, AOL would have o
Jun 6, 2012 2:04 AM