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not sure exactly how to word this, but i find running headless chome and xvfb and the like is cumbersome on servers, i was wondering if there is a service that is more similar to an actual personal computer, with a…

i think its pretty good at extracting heartbeats. maybe it would be interesting? i tried some libraries but didnt have any luck, maybe someone on here does this kind of thing more often?

taking hn as an example, it seems like there is a fairly simple a/b test you can do that doesn't really harm user experience. swap the order of, say, the 5th and 6th ranked article for some people, and see if there is a…

is there a service that you can submit output of ps ax to, to look for suspicious processes?

i'm sure you can guess what i've been thinking about, but i'm wondering if anyone has any interesting stories or articles about people who went in to unexpected fields after quitting programming- like someone who became…

im wondering what kind of stuff there is that can do something like look at how you type, or when you use the computer, or how much, or what you do on it, or how your patterns change, and make inferences about health.…

Even formulating a precise definition of those things is tough, but I'm curious if there has been any good analysis on what kind of a baseline ROI you would expect a random strategy to net if you are picking from some…

I thought of this (as I'm sure other people have) because I was thinking about how some people may not care if a story is old, or maybe think the discount over time should be stronger / weaker. Maybe they want a heavy…

I see links to bold, overconfident predictions on here often. I'm kind of curious to see which articles from years past were really popular, really confident, and turned out to be really wrong.

I got an email today with suggestions of people to follow, including my former therapist. This was a little surprising because he only has 13 followers and follows 5 people. My only guess is this information came from…

I am trying to figure out how to process payments for an iphone app. This involves choosing which gateway, merchant, and card input (jumio / card.io / all the different magnetic strip readers / others?) Most charges…

I imagine something that you open windows in, arrange however you want, and then you can slide left and right, up and down, and maybe even zoom out and in. Os X has discrete spaces, i want something that would be the…

I imagine a small bit of glass on the back, that just records scrolling, and could be disabled. I think it would be nice because you could scroll without obscuring your screen, and it could allow for differentiation…

like the actor who is a waiter as a day job, the musician who is a bartender as a day job etc. Inspired by pg's high school graduation speech essay.

I have been helped by so many people in irc channels, I often wish I could click on their username and tip them instantly. Does anyone else want this service?

Given the difficulty of differentiating between real and bot traffic, why, as the person paying, would you choose pay per click vs pay per sale, or pay per sign up or pay per <actual goal>? I am not well versed…

Is there something that logs your keystrokes in vim (or any other editor of choice) and uses basic analytics to suggest snippets? Like, it looks at your keystrokes and sees the most common patterns that are repeated, or…

Has anyone ever used a color e-paper display as the monitor to their computer? Can it be done currently? I think it would be nice to code with that kind of display.

At the olympic village, the guys with the most gold medals are the most desirable, but the same is not true for women- their attractiveness has almost nothing to do with their athletic prowess... according to an…

If I collaborate with someone on a project, like music, art, or software, is there something we can use to sell our product that splits profits from sales in a way we agree upon (50/50 or 25/75 etc..)?

For instance, if you collaborated with someone else on a piece of music, is there an easy way to agree to say, a 65/35 (or anything) split of profits, and then have all sales be split like that, going into paypal or…

I was thinking of getting an oxygen monitor, or something like that, since I worry that my office does not have good ventilation. Maybe I'm paranoid... Does anyone else use things to measure air quality and oxygen…

Would that do anything useful? I thought it might scale the influence of opinions to the esteem of the community member, since people with lots of karma would be able to upvote more. Also, I like the idea of giving…