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Can confirm. (I am 50% of the original engineering team. @tashian is the other/smarter!)

Oh wow thank you, I’ve looked for this for years. I am pretty sure this story and King’s Quest are the two major reasons I ended up in computer engineering.

[edit: already answered in the parent thread!] Wasn’t there an old Nova episode about this on PBS? I vaguely recall it, and have always wanted to rewatch as an adult. Just a fantas…

Hm, this is not Velodyne's first announcement of a solid state lidar breakthrough. http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sens... Several other companies are worki…

And it helps address the racism issues they've been having trouble with.

I'm a host as well, and their new stats section breaks down the reviews in detail. You can see who left what stars. Don't know if this works the same for the traveler.

Hi Peter, thanks for doing this! My company currently employs a brilliant, in my opinion, Argentine scientist. We'd love to bring him to the US periodically, but he can't get a vis…

As usual with AWS (or anything I guess) there's more than one way to accomplish a particular goal. How much of Amazon's Elastic Container Service is replicated by Docker for AWS? I…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jEz03Z8azc

Step 0: Don't call your employees "remote." You're either a distributed team, or you're not really trying.

That's not quite what the wholesale rate means in the US; we have what you describe but it's typically referred to as the spot market. The wholesale rate when used by politicians a…

While you wait, check out http://stackoverflow.com/a/23500670/229006 My plan is to rely on these functions for now, and switch to the native implementations once 9.5 is production …

For me it shaves several minutes (about 80% of the total time) off a build/deploy cycle, which is huge.

The water sources themselves are ok. (They could be much cleaner of course.) It's the aging and decaying infrastructure that brings the water from the source to a Flint homeowner's…

The State DEQ applied the wrong federal standards: http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/10/top_state_...

Don't forget that it was a State-appointed emergency manager that made the water source switch (from Detroit's supply to the Flint River), and the State DEQ that didn't enforce the…

Excellent. I also enjoyed Brian Greene's visuals on the Late Show recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jjFjC30-4A

However, there's a big difference between electric resistive heating (generating heat) versus electric heat pumps (moving heat around.) The latter can be 3x or more efficient than …

Heat pump! You can get wall mounted units that work just like an A/C (but in reverse of course.) Efficiencies have gotten pretty good in the last decade. Check out units made by Da…

Something's wrong here, because the out of pocket max for a year (which for BCBS of MI is not the same as the deductible) cannot exceed $13,200 a year for a family. By law. See htt…

I've been to plenty, and at the national level there is ample patriotism for one's country, regardless of nationality. I do agree with your point. I just don't think it's quite as …

For the Twitter-inclined follow Emily Lakdawalla [1] - she is usually mere seconds behind the actual data, which is pretty amazing. [1] https://twitter.com/elakdawalla

Have you never attended a European football match?!

Social security, tax benefits, death benefits (including child custody), health insurance coverage, legal (marital communications privilege) There are probably thousands of these b…