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Great news, though the headline is kind of weird. GPS-only RNAV STARs (Standard Terminal Arrival Routes) have been in use for some time. The "next gen" technologies referred to in …

http://arpnetworks.com/ I was a customer for several months and the level of service was very good. Good peering, too.

This guy's site is full of fascinating stuff. Check it out.

Retail political and topographic maps are a relatively small part of the work load of most cartographic studios. Forestry and petroleum exploration require constant updating and pr…

Heh. Turns out Benchmark and Raven maps use the same studio to produce their maps. http://www.allancartography.com/

What do you think of Raven Maps? Their state maps are more topographic but offer excellent detail. http://www.ravenmaps.com/

As a high school student in 1988, I interviewed with Bob's previous company, Parsons Technology, for an after-school customer support position. At that time Parsons Technology was …

He looks like a really nice guy.

If you're into manual monitoring like this, check out https://github.com/hcooper/sarplot Its only dependency (beyond enabling sar) is gnuplot.

virtualenv can't isolate your system's package util like it can isolate pip.

Perfect way to close out shark jumping week.

Is there any way to implement these memorial black bars in a way that doesn't break the mobile HN apps? I assume they're scraping.

http://arpnetworks.com/

Wow. Thanks for the Reaper tip. Very impressive effort there, and for $60... Nuts!

An obituary for Dennis Ritchie in The New York Times isn't written for people like you or me. In addition to hacking, I love flying and aviation -- another area of science and tech…

> a self-employed American engineer unable to get even basic health insurance Why is that?

Fantastic. Thank you for that.

I'm asking as a potential user of Pinboard because I don't care much for the new Delicious. How was that confusing?

Does Pinboard show you how many others bookmarked the same link, including the usernames? It's nice when a bookmarking service can be a discovery tool itself.

I'm a USAA account holder and it is very true: you cannot take advantage of iPhone deposits unless you are military or family. Same goes for most of their insurance products.

This was one of my favorite college texts. I'm really disappointed that I'd forgotten about it until your comment. Thanks.

Bizarre.