hac
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Karma2009-11-29
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Submitted: "X is selling existing users' handles"
196 points91 comments
I've been on Twitter since 2007 as @hac.
In recent years I didn't sign in frequently, then last week I saw my handle show up on the new X Handles marketplace.
It seems the account now belongs to X, and because I had a "rare handle" I can't even buy it back. From what I c...
Commented: "Webcam Pulse Detector"
I've gotten this far trying to install this on Lion:
brew install gfortran
sudo easy_install scipy
sudo port install opencv +python27
export PYTHONPATH=/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/:$PYTHONPATH
wget http://openmdao.org/releases/0.5.0/go-openmdao.py
sudo python ./go-openmdao.py
cd ~/Downloads/webcam-pulse-detector-master/openmdao-0.5.0
. bin/activate
cd ~/Downloads/webcam-pulse-detector-master && python get_pulse.py
Hope it's helpful to anyone else doing the same. OpenCV is segfaulting now, but I may update this later if I get it.
Commented: "Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal"
I might copy the command, quickly paste it in my URL bar to make sure it is indeed what I expected, and then paste it into Terminal
Commented: "Show HN: I built a thing"
+1 for mobile app. It could be done very well as an iPhone app combined with the Rails backend.
Commented: "The world's only immortal animal"
As some already noted, there are other animals like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence
