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www.crowdsupply.com 8y ago

Snickerdoodle FPGA and ARM board

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www.iflscience.com 8y ago

The Science Museum vs. Natural History Museum Fight on Twitter, and it's Amazing

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marcos.kirsch.mx 8y ago

Font Size Bookmarklets for iOS Safari

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github.com 9y ago

Make a Lisp (in 57 languages)

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theintercept.com 9y ago

The NSA and Me (2014)

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www.crowdsupply.com 10y ago

A book for the DIY hardware movement

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www.ucd.ie 10y ago

Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity [PDF]

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Thinking like a hardware designer

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: A book on hardware hacking

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www.gentoo.org 11y ago

Gentoo Linux Project – Gentoo Prefix

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github.com 12y ago

Open source FPGA Bitcoin miner

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www.johndcook.com 12y ago

Selection Bias and Bombers

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github.com 12y ago

Minecraft plugins written in Clojure

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www.eff.org 12y ago

HTTPS Everywhere

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www.tor.com 13y ago

Five years of free stories from Tor

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

How does hackernews store passwords?

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variety.com 13y ago

Zach Braff’s Kickstarter Campaign Closes With $3.1 Million

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phys.org 13y ago

Scientists enhance light emission in 2D semiconductors 100x

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www.ft.com 13y ago

Apple in record $17bn US bond issue

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www.717madisonplace.com 13y ago

Patent Claim Term Glossaries

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Show HN: HackerNews group on goodreads

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alexander.kirk.at 13y ago

Collapsible comment threads for HN

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www.infoq.com 13y ago

Parser Combinators in Clojure

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web.archive.org 13y ago

Rumsfeld's Rules (from archive.org)

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github.com 13y ago

Clj-minecraft: write minecraft plugins in clojure

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vimeo.com 13y ago

Brian Marick Visually Teaches Monads in Clojure

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www.cs.indiana.edu 13y ago

Monads à la Mode

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books.google.com 13y ago

Beer Making is a Marvel of Industrial Chemistry (1933 PopSci)

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arborjs.org 13y ago

A graph visualization library using web workers and jQuery

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www.electronics-lab.com 13y ago

Lectures from Cornell, Spring 2012 ECE4760 “designing with microcontrollers”

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Keep in mind this is relatively new. The press seems to be spinning it as an "ah ha, old phones really are getting slower!" Well, yes, now. I mean as of 10.2.1, so a year ago, but people have been thinking their phones were getting slower since smartphones became a thing.

Likewise with old computers.

And as someone else commented, "apple will never add a MAKE MY PHONE UNSTABLE switch."

That this is a problem is just ridiculous. It's on freaking rails! There is absolutely no excuse for this. GPS, Inertial Nav, simply integrating speed over time, it should be absolutely dead simple to calculate exactly where the train is at all times.

The article mentioned crap like differential GPS. Completely unnecessary. You don't need to be that accurate, I mean good grief, +/- 100 feet would be just fine for dealing with such gross overspeed detection.

I can't believe this is actually a problem. Pure politics/bureaucracy. It's certainly not a technical problem.

The downvotes seem weird to me. Maybe it felt off topic?

Dr. Francis S. Collins is in several of the videos, and the third video is all about this particular controversy of dangerous experiments at the dawn of genetic engineering(for example one guy wanted to splice a cancer causing gene in e. coli bacterium).

It seemed relevant to me. It is what the article is talking about afterall.

An informative series from pbs narrated by Jeff goldblum on YouTube: search for "dna episode 1 of 5 the secret of life"

It's a great high level overview of dna sequencing from the discovery of its shape through the completion of the human genome project in 2000.

I'm having trouble pasting a link, maybe someone could help me out.

I must have missed that. Thanks for pointing it out, I was bothered by the seemingly contradictory advice :)

all I noticed was:

  >"Titles are 80% of the work, but you
  write it as the very last thing. 
  It has to be an compelling opinion 
  or important learning"
followed by
  >"Most of my writing comes from
  talking/reading deciding I strongly
  agree or disagree. These opinions
  become titles. Titles become essays."
and then the example
  >"The best example of this in
  my work is 'Growth Hacker is the
  new VP Marketing' which started
  out as a tweet with 20+ shares, and
  then was developed into an essay
  afterwards."
  > Fugitive
That's interesting. I switched back from emacs to vim (neovim), and fugitive was recommended. it just looked like :commands for the normal git cli... maybe I missed something.

So even though I edit in vim, I jump back to emacs for magit for bigger commits or multiple smaller commits (where I need to see diffs to be sure I capture my changes).

I have desired something as useful in vim, but I didn't think there was anything. I'll take another look at fugitive.

I wonder if this would be feasible at the neighborhood level via Home owners association. The neighborhood gets a tower and microwave link to a backhaul station, and provides internet via wifi or wires to the neighborhood.

I think our neighboorhood is about 130 houses. probably not enough to make it cost effective.

On the flip side, maybe starting a local company to provide LOS microwave hookups to the various neighborhoods in the area could make it work.

  > Is there a base number of participants that are required?
Well, the money has to come from somewhere. If you have a homogenous group, all with the same income/wealth, then UBI would do nothing. You'd give everyone the same money you took at tax time. No net change.

You need a group of people with diversified income/wealth. The wealthier contribute more than they get from UBI, the poorer contribute less (if any) than they get from UBI.

I like it mainly for the idea of replacing welfare with a much simpler system. But it will never happen in America, land of absurd tax code complexity. And certainly not with a name like Universal Basic Income. It would have to be called something else to avoid triggering people.

The problem here in Oregon is not presorting the recycling.

The centers can’t sort to the level of “purity” required and people don’t realize how truly problematic it is to be lazy in presorting.

I honestly didn’t think it was that big of a deal to let some plastic bags make it in to recycling. I know better now, mainly due to local npr reporting.

There is not much to solve laziness, but sorting tech has room to advance.

"If you need to force yourself, or if you need extra special motivation to use Clojure .. most likely you will never use it"

Amen. Learning is best a journey of desire, not compulsion.

I happen to have a gene mutation that makes methylation of B12 inefficient. I never did well in chemistry or biology for that matter, but my limited understanding is that methylation is necessary for it to be useful.

It turns out that you can buy methylated B12 called methylcobalamin. The more common form is cyanocobalamin, and is not very useful for people like myself.

That is my understanding, if anyone here knows better or more, please correct me.

Considering this as fact (that concessions make the money), I would think a theatre would do everything in it's power to make purchasing and consuming concessions the most pleasant aspect of movie going that they possibly could.

Having to juggle sodas, popcorn, napkins, etc., is always an adventure in the negative sense when I go to the movies.