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I can't tell if you're parodying HN here. This is from someone's blog and is a personal reflection on his most important work of the past 10 years. Do you expect everyone to be an …

I did similar a few years back, but for Mars DEMs, also in PDS format. At first I despised it, but yes, there is a certain pragmatism to the format. And, yeah, the best way to figu…

Having read about historical radio astronomy and practiced signals analysis, I think they were a little more sophisticated than that. The recording in this format was made for easy…

I started here: http://reactfordesigners.com/labs/reactjs-introduction-for-p... (h/t tptacek). And then I found the egghead.io videos particularly helpful. Nice bite-sized chunks, …

I do. The one I'm familiar with has large garden areas, trees for climbing/wandering around, uncultivated wilderness areas, etc. It's not a vast tract of land, but enough that it s…

Depends on what you mean by "school" (NB the quotes in the parent comment). There is a huge variance in options for working parents of a 2-3 year old. From cramped cinder block day…

Wikipedia links to that as a hoax in Stroustrup's entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup .

I might be wrong, but I believe the THREDDS server the article points to (by way of https://cds.nccs.nasa.gov/nex-gddp/ ) supports OPeNDAP, which means you can pull subsets of the …

I knew about Guided Access, but I forgot it allowed you to disable specific regions of the screen. Thanks for the reminder.

Nice. I'm going to put this in front of our resident toddler tonight. Bit of feedback: * I would have been willing to put down a couple of bucks up front just to try it out, even w…

Of note, there is an Earth observation instrument, RapidScat, being carried in the Dragon's trunk, which will be (has been?) plucked off the capsule by operators on the ground. Thi…

This comment explains why I saw so many bumper cushions. And it also explains why I never want to drive in a car again.

I think I'm a careful driver, and I (see other comment) recently drove into Manhattan from out of state. I almost killed several people. I don't live there, but my impression is th…

I recently drove from my home near DC to Manhattan and back. Exiting the Lincoln Tunnel and heading north, my expectations of "normal" traffic behavior were shattered. I wondered w…

FYI, here's a Namecheap page that should show domains pending verification: https://manage.www.namecheap.com/myaccount/WhoisContactsVeri...

You're forgetting the voice recognition. What if there's no barcode to scan? The Fire TV voice search is excellent -- I used it last night -- and if the Dash has similar tech then …

Eh, looks pretty good to me. Our wants are diametrically opposed: Voice search (do care -- Apple TV search is painful), tech specs (non line-of-sight remote -- Apple TV is line-of-…

This is a kind of ridiculous article. It entirely ignores NASA's Earth Science work, which gets the largest allocation of science funding in the FY2014 budget (almost $2B). Caveat:…

Works great on a i7 Ubuntu 13.10 x64 machine under Chrome 31.

> When 'tptacek is wrong, he's obnoxiously wrong, especially in his inability to believe in government misbehavior For the record, this is incorrect. In past interactions he has st…

I'm not saying I trust it to police itself. I'm trying to suggest that the environment in which NSA analysts work does have a (positive) material effect on their behavior. Non-syst…

Folks have lost clearances and jobs. I don't know about prison time. But I do know the fear of these things happening is a motivating factor not to cross the line. But I'm just som…

>If someone in the NSA abuses his powers, it is very likely that nobody will ever know. You mean, besides his family, friends, and loved ones when he loses his job and potentially …