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The text says “a current with a potential of up to 1 volt.” The key word is potential, i.e. electrical potential whose SI unit is the volt. That must be the amount of potential tha…

March 20, 1996. Before that I worked on so many different computers that I didn't manage to keep a continuous archive. Early on, my files would have been on punched cards, then 9-t…

I'm a huge fan of https://nextdns.io which works on iOS.

This sounds similar to Radiant Earth https://www.radiant.earth/ They are also spearheading the Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF project http://www.cogeo.org/ and the SpatioTemporal Asset Ca…

I found v3 on the App Store by going to the Sketch 2 page and noticed "More by Bohemian Coding" on the right side had a link to the Sketch 3 app store page.

National Security Agency, not Administration ;)

It went to the 'allmit' list ( http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/allmit ) which goes to "all current students (including incoming freshman and graduate students, special and …

App Inventor is here now: http://www.appinventor.mit.edu/

I just got this on Fidelity: Attention: FB order execution slowness Certain marketplaces are experiencing slowness resulting in delays in execution for Facebook orders. Industry te…

The fine for jaywalking in Massachusetts is one dollar. It's unheard of here to be stopped for crossing the street anywhere. When I first arrived in Boston, years ago, I was waitin…

Rats. I don't think there was archery back in my day. I did pistol, sailing, and 2 sessions of fencing. At least I didn't have to sign up at 8 am.

My math teacher in the 8th grade in 1971 made up a virtual machine with an assembly-like instruction set. He had us write programs and then 'execute' them by thinking about them as…

The site itself: http://apfel-kind.de/

EarthNow provides a live-looking (it's delayed) stream from Landsat 7. US/N. America only, uses Java. http://earthnow.usgs.gov/earthnow_app.html

Perhaps finding all the politicians' sites that use rollovers and pointing out how they are in violation of the patent might help.

Sounds like Chandler. http://chandlerproject.org/vision Maybe one of these days someone will succeed in this space. It would be nice.

In the US, these discussions are pretty much always about gross pay. People also don't include the value of benefits other than bonuses, and as you see, bonuses are explicitly stat…

I often go to the comments page for a submission first, then click the article link. Particularly if it looks like it's going to be one that drifts off. That way the back button pu…

You definitely can hit different sweet spots with plugs vs Minis. That's one reason I was playing with the Eee Box. They cost just under $300 with a decent amount of RAM and disk, …

Reliability is a key factor for me with low-power being important, too. I've been running Mac Minis as servers since they first came out. Right now I have ~25 of them running at th…

I just found this, not sure what a good HN title is for the submission, but it looks pretty useful.