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> It may also be expected that the symptoms of the patients infected via facal-oral or conjunctival route will be lighter than those infected intranasally. That seems like the hypo…

It completely makes my day that the solver is on HN.

William Gibson had something like this in one of his later books. Spook Country maybe? As I recall it was simply called the Ugly Shirt.

I just ran through this - works flawlessly. One peculiarity that might help someone else in my shoes: I was connecting to my VPN node through Terminal (with Solarized Dark) on OS X…

Someone skin this to mimic 'Dark City'! Complete with signs to Shell Beach...

Somewhere (possibly Reddit?) I learned about the unlabeled mute button for gas station TV ads. For certain pumps there are two rows of five or six unlabeled white buttons on the le…

> John Gaughan, an American manufacturer of equipment for magicians based in Los Angeles, spent $120,000 building his own version of Kempelen's machine over a five-year period from…

I bought an iPhone SE when it came out. It's the perfect phone in my opinion. I am fully prepared to use it until it falls apart and it's so well built I think it may take a while.…

Wow! Anyone else reminded of the gargoyle rig from Snow Crash? I went from "probably vaporware" to "I should look into buying one of these" just from looking through this teardown.…

This is very cool but unfortunately it looks a bit rough in Solarized Dark since some of the output defaults to black text. Suggestion: configurable text colors. You already have a…

I would love to see the terms for that emergency 5 million in cash. Probably eye-watering interest rates.

> Hell, even major freelance marketplaces try to track your every billed second by taking screenshots of your desktop or webcam "just to make sure you're working". Well that's some…

For a good perspective on this see Ken Burns' documentary series about the creation of the national parks. It will open your eyes to the constant battle the parks face from commerc…

Looks like plenty of opportunities for more installation pieces like this: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/us/28piano.html

I had a very similar experience. I heard about Loopt on here when they first launched. It seemed really interesting and I wanted to sign up but it was only for Boost Mobile at the …

She's never explicitly named; the only thing that gives her away is a single phrase: "chiseled spam" I love literary Easter eggs like that.

Anyone tried a Turing test on Siri yet? She'd fail the first time she tried to call someone or do a web search, but if you could head her off before she can try to do anything but …

Long live the first Knight of the Lambda Calculus!

For one who works with HFT systems, an extremely refreshing clarification. Though I do get a chuckle out of the extremely bombastic stories ("MAN OBSOLETE? COMPUTERS TAKING OVER!!!…

Seconded, this is truly awful. Navigating the map instantly becomes a chore.

Anecdotal rebuttal: The soldiers I've met and interacted with are among the most varied group of people I can imagine that all do the same basic job. They show more inherent varian…

I saw a wonderful talk at HOPE 6 concerning Project Gutenberg, and can only assume it was Michael Hart speaking. It made me donate on the spot. As a staunch supporter of paper book…