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On a similar note, a full dictionary of the Assyrian language is available online through the University of Chicago. [1]: https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/assyrian-dic…

Much of the decipherment of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics was due to the discovery and the analysis of the Rosetta Stone. An accurate translation was made by Jean-François Champol…

Hey, Everyone - So it looks like my brother has a good shot of being offered a position in Apple's logistics/operations department (he isn't a programmer). The thing is, he current…

I've made the publication available here: http://cl.ly/3O2q291Y362s?_ga=1.160823550.2112655899.1426272...

I very much like to see this type of pseudo-science on HN. I read the article a few weeks ago and was pretty iffy about it, but I didn't really have a venue to converse about it. T…

Before I finished reading your reply, I was going to say "but someone just submitted a formula for libbpg!" Thank you, sir. :)

Not to mention that it is essentially Franklin's medal anyway...

It's entirely possible that I'm being biased as an American, but I've never really felt this way. I love public transportation whenever I'm in cities like Chicago or New York City.…

This is purely anecdotal, but one of my favorites is "Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations." http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract

It should also be noted that (as of now) there are no immediate citations for these claims.

Very cool, thanks!

I personally feel like the colors shouldn't affect color blind individuals (e.g. light blue and orange). But great job overall!

I go between hating transparency and loving transparency. The "Reduce Transparency" option in Universal Access is useful at times.

Hah, that sounds really, really painful. Wouldn't you take to finding a way to compiling it yourself or committing a Formula for it instead of installing MacPorts? But if a VM work…

I find it very mildly ironic that the author is comparing these "ancient" versions to MacPorts. Am I naïve, or do the overwhelming majority of OS X developers use Homebrew nowadays…

Can anyone clue me in as to why (ex-)soviet regions have such an adamant opposition to anything other than heterosexuality? I'm an odd case I guess since I'm an American who is bot…

neocomplete.vim[1] and neocomplcache.vim[2] are nifty alternatives if you don't prefer YouCompleteMe. [1]: https://github.com/Shougo/neocomplete.vim [2]: https://github.com/Shougo/…

I agree. Regardless of one's stance on drugs and their respective online black markets (the latter of which I had a sizable knowledge), I don't really see what Shrem's expected out…

I really need to educate myself further about these sorts of things. Great tip, much appreciated!

I appear to be the only one who thinks it looks like an "A". The loop reminds me of something an air plane would do in the air . I can see the sexual resemblance, but only if I con…

I'll preface by saying that I used to smoke a lot of weed, but I haven't in quite some time. > it is fat soluble, and you can end up high even years later if you burn enough calori…

If you aren't obtaining medical-grade ketamine or if you aren't synthesizing it yourself, the drug is highly variable. For example, you could be getting a different isomer or diffe…

I don't dispute that ketamine may perhaps have some clinical relevance for humans, but unfortunately it wreaks too much havoc on the kidneys for me to consider it as a viable optio…

> Out of genuine curiosity, what's the advantage from your point of view, other than being able to communicate to other people who use the same system, at the cost of not being und…

I'm American, so I use imperial units in my everyday life. I'm also a (bio)chemist, so I do use metric units about as often as I do imperial units. While I might be slightly biased…