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Google Chrome Canary has network throttling functionality.

I am aware. That was the "parser needs to be updated" part. Probably should have fixed it before posting! Thanks for looking.

http://www.moredrunk.com - Lists alcohol from different bars and grocery stores in order of Alcohol Content/Price. Haven't touched it in over a year and the parser needs an update. Not a lot of traffic currently but perhaps has a high potential.

I've used PrinceXML in the past and it worked well: http://www.princexml.com/

Fantasy Football.

No?

"Decide that you’re going to sit in a position where you can rub her leg and back. Physically pick her up and sit her on your lap. Don’t ask for permission. Be dominant. Force her to rebuff your advances."

I have made a very low-res polar coordinates version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/543600/1110polar.png

I will make a larger version later tonight.

That was my reasoning when I purchased http://www.moredrunk.com - that and it was ridiculously cheap.

As dweis mentioned here, I am working on something like this for the NYC area: http://www.moredrunk.com - it is still in early development but I will definitely post an update to HN when it's more stable and polished.

Edit: However, I am not keeping track of happy hour deals since that requires a new data source that I haven't figured out yet. Ideally, I'd have establishments give me the data but the site doesn't have the ability or userbase for yet.

I like the implementation of The City Swig, and I'll be sure to keep it in mind when working on my own, (NYC-based) project. Keep up the good work!

Hey, thanks for the feedback. I run that website. It's still in early development and there are still some technical challenges. I will definitely post to HN when it's more production ready.

I think the change is due to cheap and plentiful on-board graphics that limits the screen resolution but provides a longer battery life. Since most users don't need a powerful gaming laptop, manufacturers use the cheap, efficient, but limited on-board graphics processors.

And the original source: http://andreasgal.com/2011/06/15/pdf-js/

I don't get it.

I assume he still had to pay for what he took home, so how is him going to a farm and killing a chicken, pig and goat any better than someone else doing it and selling it to him? Hell, the people at the farm would probably have done it more humanely anyways.

Yes, he wants to be more thankful by providing himself with a concrete connection between the animal and his food, but what does that really change?

And I think a lot of the pig and goat will go to waste.

There is also the official airbnb article and HN post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2586652

Wow. Thanks for the link.

> Maybe some people just have a knack for this stuff?

True, but IMO that knack has to be fostered for it to develop. If you were raised on a farm, I assume you had some guidance. I doubt that a lot of kids whose parents are software developers would go into woodworking.

That's a good point, but I'm not sure to what extent it's true; Where did Mike Rowe's grandfather learn to be a jack-of-all-trades? Most likely from his father or grandfather. If parents today choose to be "less interested in how things got made, and more interested in how things got bought" then chances are so will their kin.

Thanks for the link!

I believe it's an overlay. The one below it is a background.

If they use the wording "recommend this" and not "liked this" then I expect sharing and liking (but perhaps not commenting on) an article to constitute as recommending it.

It looks like they're comparing their new "Blender" search server with a specific case when search volume was higher than average on their old server... while this is definitely faster, I don't think it's 3x faster on average.

>> "Following the launch of Blender, our 95th percentile latencies were reduced by 3x from 800ms to 250ms and CPU load on our front-end servers was cut in half."

It doesn't look like that 250ms latency is at their 95th percentile search volume. It looks more like the average dropped from 600ms to 250ms, which is still very impressive.

Disclaimer: Not my project; found it via Smashing Magazine.

Cool to see a Paul Graham quote here (http://quotevadis.com/post/3539428188/you-are-forced-to-face...) And some others regarding a lot of topics from various sources (people, movies, poems, etc).

Bonus: It just never ends.

Interesting... playing around with similar tags and some offsets, I got those results as well as some irrelevant images (aurora borealis for "friend"). Definitely a concern when you need the placeholders to be at least somewhat relevant. Personally, I have no problem with using http://placehold.it/

This isn't my project - I just found the site. Even though these images aren't meant for live sites, it's good to see that the images have proper attribution.

Looks like pressing ESC invokes the puzzle.

Interesting - I had the same thought not too long ago. I talked with a friend, and it turned out that a lot of the same friends that show up on my profile when I am looking at it show up for him when he views my profile.

As to (a) and (b), the friends that showed up seemed pretty random - I interact regularly with less than half of them. It's definitely not random, but I'm not sure how it's determined. It would be interesting to track it over time (as friendships are added, removed, and changed).

I didn't mean it as a negative comment; I don't see being isolated as a bad thing, but definitely (at least) mildly mind-blowing. Honestly, I don't think I've though about this level of isolation (not used negatively here either) from other regions and cultures. For the majority of my life I have been connected to people via different networks and this is a culture that I, also a highly plugged-in urbanite, can't relate to much (again, not in a bad way). I think that other people who see this on HN share a similar viewpoint - we're so far removed from isolation that we don't see this as "valid" or "invalid" but as a completely different culture that doesn't relate to ours except on very basic levels.

Nice idea, especially for $11 USD. :-) It will be interesting to see the turnout and MVPs.

Wish it was offered in my area.

Sidenote: Some relative links seem to be broken (#/contact, #/ideas...)

Would it be possible for you to use Dropbox (not collaborative...) or Google docs (not for design...)? I (or, my employer) use PrinceXML, but I don't think it would work well for collaborative work as it takes too long to deliver an actual PDF document, which I assume is a problem for most PDF generators.

Interesting - can you link to any sources?