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I was surprised at the early failures of my Sylvania bulbs. Had expected that going with a brand that has been in the light bulb industry for a long time, I would get decent qualit…

I had some complex JS plotting to do as part of a client project, with axis navigation, color changes, discontinuous lines on time-axis scatter plots, custom markers, and custom gr…

Backed! I hadn't heard about this Kickstarter campaign, thanks for posting. Magit is such a great tool that I think it's worth learning emacs for, even if you just use emacs for re…

There might be insight to be gleamed from a better dataset than public repos on github. It's a big leap to make inferences about the use of Django in the wild from this.

Oh my, X%! Did the upvoters see the many placeholders in the article or were they asked to vote by someone?

This is an interesting problem. I'm trying to visualize this and I must be thinking about the problem incorrectly; perhaps you can help me wrap my head around it. Since the pieces …

Really? I was under the impression that Glass was discontinued. Can you provide any links?

I'm very curious to see this CV!

Looks like the video is here, but YouTube is having trouble with it at the moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwIOmKZBuVI

No, the Gates Foundation just has open access requirements. Sorry Nature and Science. I hope this sets the stage for all grant funding sources to institute similar requirements, an…

They've built some lunar rovers though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle (Not that it proves anything, ask Harrison Schmitt about the fenders)

Find a study and sign up. Look for research groups in your local institutions and send an email to a couple grad students asking about studies they or their colleagues are running …

With news of Intel's acquisition of Altera, I thought HN would enjoy this excellent lecture on the use of reconfigurable architectures for the next step in improving computing effi…

You hypothesized about tissue damage from ultrasonic excitation, so this tangential post may be of interest. Tissue damage from ultrasound is an intentionally-caused phenomenon bei…

SEEKING WORK - Toronto, Canada or remote Available for robotics, electronics and mechanical design and interface design projects. I have over a decade of embedded experience across…

I'm not a runner, but I know many. Training for a marathon involves running fast, and it involves running far, but typically not at the same time. I don't know anyone who runs a ma…

This is an interesting analysis of available data for runners and record-breakers, outlining what will have to happen to break the two-hour mark for marathon times. Dennis Kimetto …

My thought after reading this—a great product would be an actual analog watch (quartz or mechanical) with the same styling and finishes that the Apple Watch has, with a much thinne…

This tool involves switching to Emacs to compose a message body, while doing all of your mail interactions with the web interface. Once composing is done, the content is sent to th…

Backed. There's some negativity floating around here with regards to the video, but I'm glad I watched it before reading the comments. The video clearly shows what Craig has in min…

Nice game! As it stands, later 'enemies' appear higher than more recent (and therefore more imminent) ones. The downside is that you sometimes can't read a number properly because …

SEEKING WORK - Toronto or remote I have over a decade of embedded experience across a range of microcontrollers, mechanical fabrication and CAD expertise, as well as master's in hu…