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by PLenz 11y ago
Folium + Geopandas is my new goto GIS toolkit this year
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ULA bows out of Pentagon launch competition, paving way for SpaceX(washingtonpost.com)
74 points by PLenz 11y ago|36 comments
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The Boom, Bust, and Rebirth of New York's Tech Scene(fastcodesign.com)
2 points by PLenz 11y ago|0 comments
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by PLenz 11y ago
Being a native of New York City I didn't own a car until I was 30 and my wife and I bought our first house north of the city. It gets about 3 miles a day between Metro North and home. I'm still taking mass transit everyday and pro
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by PLenz 11y ago
Originally published in 2000 in Cryptologic Quarterly, the NSA in-house (and classified) journal. Declassified 2010.
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Dodging Armageddon, the Third World War That Almost Was, 1950 (2000) [pdf](nsa.gov)
30 points by PLenz 11y ago|9 comments
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by PLenz 11y ago
To me, this is the best news I've heard all day. See, used books made me - my local library as a kid was heavy on Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys, and decades-old travel guides, not so much on other subjects. I very distinctly remember wanti
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by PLenz 11y ago
For the most part Amtrak runs on rails owned and maintained by private companies. Plenty of exceptions - especially the Northeast Corridor - but the vast majority of track is outside government control.
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by PLenz 11y ago
It seems most of the jobs are clustered around lower Manhattan - not because that's where the jobs are, but because that is where the location "New York City" geocodes to.
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by PLenz 11y ago
It mocked me for having spent too much time reading it!
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by PLenz 11y ago
The article fails to mention that the DHR is a UNESCO World Heritage Site - only one of two railways so honored. The DHR has actually tried to replace the Class Bs a few times since they were introduced. The original Class As were too flims
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U.K. speed trader arrested over role in 2010 'flash crash'(reuters.com)
7 points by PLenz 11y ago|0 comments
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Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival(twitter.com)
4 points by PLenz 12y ago|0 comments
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by PLenz 12y ago
Looks like we'll have to find out if Stage 1 makes it on twitter. Webcast is ending.
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by PLenz 12y ago
Abort due to weather.
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by PLenz 12y ago
Is LinkedIn even a social network? Everyone I know uses it as basically a resume hosting site. I don't know of anyone who uses it for actually doing anything 'social' - just career related things.
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by PLenz 12y ago
I guess io.js forced their hand.
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Multi-screen engagement during the Superbowl(dstillery.com)
1 points by PLenz 12y ago|0 comments
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Stolen and missing moon rocks(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by PLenz 12y ago|0 comments
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by PLenz 12y ago
Large amounts of text in images breaks the Internet for people with screen readers too.
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by PLenz 12y ago
None of them work on my Firefox install
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by PLenz 12y ago
If the U.S. claims this power I can't see how it can then turn around and say anything about China (or any state) hacking into American servers. This is spectacularly poorly thought out.
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US says it can hack into foreign-based servers without warrants(arstechnica.com)
9 points by PLenz 12y ago|3 comments
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Möbius Bagel(kottke.org)
3 points by PLenz 12y ago|1 comments
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by PLenz 12y ago
They are all named for the mountains of New York State in decreasing height order.
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by PLenz 12y ago
I really love this kind of lateral thinking to uncover evidence of another phenomena.
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The Hidden Damage From Geomagnetic Storms(medium.com)
1 points by PLenz 12y ago|1 comments
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by PLenz 12y ago
Awesomely alliterated amigo
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by PLenz 12y ago
Anyway to get this to run in node with the output going to say Cairo? It'd be a fun little project to see if you could build a simple but working browser in nothing but JS.
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by PLenz 12y ago
Dammit - now I have that Frozen song stuck in my head...

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