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Sweet, but it's always risky getting the first generation hardware. I'm holding out for the iPhone SE/30.

Indeed they do (and far better than most English-speakers speak any foreign language). My point was that this has been professionally translated from Greek into many languages, beg…

Don't forget that they actually speak German in Germany, not English.

It is a fantastic book. I'd also like to recommend Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk ( http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-S.…

Since our daughter was three, we have read aloud to each other every night. Like others in this thread, we don't have a TV. When she was younger, she would sometimes draw or play w…

in vino veritas

The title is a bit hyperbolic. The article shows how the Van Allen belts constitute a "nearly impenetrable" barrier preventing "ultra-fast electrons" from approaching the earth.

The UCB Logo logo is adorable

For one optimistic moment there, I thought this was going to be about, you know, ethics. Like how Uber abuses its drivers, or how it demeans women, or how it threatens journalists.…

I'm reminded of http://xkcd.com/1232/ (Edit: Not intended to be snarky; I just think people do ask those questions all the time, and this xkcd answers it well.)

Or even, Where were you 40 minutes before we heard that Philae had landed?

Cue the smoke and evil laughter!

I believe GPS was designed such that the US had the ability disable it over arbitrary areas to prevent its use by hostile forces in a conflict.

Link to the actual project: http://allaregreen.us/

I clicked on this article thinking it was about Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf, wondering what the alternatives are now that installed payphones with TDD consoles are not …

I'm dubious about the meaningfulness of broad terms like "Christian", "Muslim", etc., because of their coarse granularity. I'm not religious, but from what I observe, I don't think…

Yes, all his code is available at the github repo linked at the end of the page [1], and .pde is a Processing file. [1] https://github.com/blackencino/SimClass

Persona uses third-party cookies, so this is expected with this add-on. If you whitelist persona.org (e.g., just visit persona.org and set self-destruct to "never"), then Persona w…

JSONSelect lets you do queries on JSON objects using CSS-style selectors. There's an interactive demo here: http://jsonselect.org/ The code is on github: https://github.com/lloyd/J…

I think I just peed my pants.

Mozilla Identity dev here. The reason for that was due to a large degree to time and priorities. We were close to shipping Persona preffed off in Firefox over 18 months ago. Then F…

If your email is hacked/malicious, and that's where your password reset requests from twitter, facebook, HN etc. are sent, it doesn't matter whether you reuse passwords or not; the…

I agree. As a parent of a kid interested in programming and math, I would only suggest replacing "for kids" with "for beginning learners." From what I've seen, kids over 7 and grow…