Hacker News: rickyconnolly

New comment by rickyconnolly in "Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms"

rickyconnolly — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 01:31:19 +0000

Dude in article pic looks like he's an expert on mushrooms

New comment by rickyconnolly in "It's 100 years since Fritz Haber found a way to synthesise ammonia"

rickyconnolly — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 12:05:05 +0000

Yes, Fritz Haber is pretty much single-handedly responsible for starting the chemical weapons race that ravaged soldiers and citizens alike during the great war.

Edit: Although Victor Grignard, on the Allied side, deserves a fair scoop of the blame as well.

New comment by rickyconnolly in "The Nazi's comprehensive graphic standards manual"

rickyconnolly — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:57:32 +0000

And a PDF of the manual itself, if you want to try your hand at reading German printed in tightly-spaced Fraktur:

http://ia700306.us.archive.org/16/items/OrganisationsbuchNSD...

The Nazi's comprehensive graphic standards manual

rickyconnolly — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:50:47 +0000

Here's a link to a PDF of the book itself, if you want to try your hand at reading German printed in tightly-spaced Fraktur:

http://ia700306.us.archive.org/16/items/OrganisationsbuchNSDAP/Organisationsbuch_der_NSDAP_3._Auflage_1937_678_S._Scan_Fraktur.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6667904

Points: 2

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The letter Q was illegal in Turkey from 1928 until last month

rickyconnolly — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:20:35 +0000

Article URL: http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2013/10/16/yasmine-seale/q-v-k/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6584333

Points: 92

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New comment by rickyconnolly in "Human brain boiled in its skull lasted 4000 years"

rickyconnolly — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 08:19:18 +0000

Now I am completely freaked out. I could have no brain and not even know it!

Reading a Message from ET

rickyconnolly — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:50:09 +0000

Article URL: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Reading_a_Message_from_ET_999.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6198432

Points: 1

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New comment by rickyconnolly in "The Pirate Bay is down"

rickyconnolly — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:26:16 +0000

+1. Since my ISP blocked TPB, I've moved to kickass.to

New comment by rickyconnolly in "MTU Study: 3D printers may soon be in every home"

rickyconnolly — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:32:13 +0000

3D printing is rather useful in the research lab. For example, most biological research labs will have a piece of kit called an electrophoresis chamber. This is essentially a plastic, watertight box with two wire electrodes inside. These chambers will cost upwards of 800 dollars.

I drew up plans for my own electrophoresis chamber in Sketchup, uploaded it to Shapeways (https://www.shapeways.com/model/1240729/sds-page-tank-v6.htm...), and got it printed and sent to me for less than 70 bucks. Wiring it up cost less than a dollar.

By the way, does anybody know of similar services that are even less expensive? Shapeways seem to specialize in making little trinkets and gadgets, so I suspect my rather large, bulky box cost even more than it needed to.

New comment by rickyconnolly in "[dead]"

rickyconnolly — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:32:05 +0000

Buy one of those stickers and nobody will ever have to know!

New comment by rickyconnolly in "The "Amen Break" and the Golden Ratio"

rickyconnolly — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:47:11 +0000

You can find the 'golden' ratio, as well as any other ratio you fancy, within any complex dataset, such as the waveforms of an audio file or the spirals on a sea shell. The golden ratio meme is like numerology, once you know what it is, you will see it pop up everywhere.

New comment by rickyconnolly in "Coffee shops look to oust 'laptop hobos' "

rickyconnolly — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 08:33:53 +0000

If anything, it affects us less. All the fake tan and glitter make us nigh-impermeable to the elements

New comment by rickyconnolly in "Zen Photon Garden - Ray Tracing in the Browser"

rickyconnolly — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:09:00 +0000

You either die a hero...

http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgfwAzAgIBhwHtAV7/AAAB7QFeAc...

New comment by rickyconnolly in "Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts"

rickyconnolly — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:13:36 +0000

>Now I've written the whole thing: for Christ's sake give me a drink.

Equally as likely to be uttered by a modern-day graduate student on the Nth draft of his presentation.

New comment by rickyconnolly in "Quake 3 bots left running for 4 years, find optimal strategy?"

rickyconnolly — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:08:13 +0000

This submission deserves more attention that it is getting!

Mapping America: Every City, Every Block [2010]

rickyconnolly — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:49:14 +0000

Article URL: http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5955209

Points: 3

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New comment by rickyconnolly in "HELLO, NSA"

rickyconnolly — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:33:29 +0000

Apparently 'pork' is one of their keywords. I wonder why.

New comment by rickyconnolly in "Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere"

rickyconnolly — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:13:37 +0000

You ʃhould have uʃed the long ʃ in this article

New comment by rickyconnolly in "Sealed bottle garden still thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water"

rickyconnolly — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:37:19 +0000

It looks like the bottle is sealed with cork, which is permeable to both air and moisture.

Photographing hallucinations

rickyconnolly — Fri, 31 May 2013 11:46:16 +0000

Article URL: http://mindhacks.com/2013/05/29/photographing-hallucinations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5797984

Points: 2

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