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IRS electronic filing system breaks down hours before midnight deadline(washingtonpost.com)
69 points by cos2pi 8y ago|97 comments
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Gene Editing for Good: How CRISPR Could Transform Global Development(foreignaffairs.com)
2 points by cos2pi 8y ago|1 comments
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The Man Who Knew Too Little(nytimes.com)
1 points by cos2pi 9y ago|0 comments
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by cos2pi 9y ago
I don't get anything out of this, frankly. There's no scientific context, exposition of the data/data collection methods or even what ppm means. For the interested, the ESRL Global Monitoring Division ( https://www.
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by cos2pi 9y ago
Computer models certainly produce forecasts, but humans are needed to interpret these forecasts. At each National Weather Service office, forecasters typically use model output to guide their daily forecast products, such as temperatures an
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2016 Mercury Transit(mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov)
4 points by cos2pi 10y ago|0 comments
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by cos2pi 11y ago
Gravity waves are waves in a fluid that obtain their restoring force from their buoyancy relative to the surrounding fluid. See [0] for the gory details. Some examples of gravity waves in the atmosphere: [1] [2] [0] http://gloss
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by cos2pi 11y ago
If you'd like to submit your own weather observations from anywhere on the globe, the National Severe Storms Laboratory has created an app[0] to report them. [0] http://mping.nssl.noaa.gov
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by cos2pi 11y ago
> You can follow the event per livestream on 3 February 2016 at 2.45 p.m. CET. The program should begin at any time. EDIT: Err, CET... UTC+1. So, perhaps it is over?
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by cos2pi 11y ago
Given these points, what protocol(s) do you think is the best candidate for development?
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Kelly Slater built a man-made wave that could change surfing forever(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by cos2pi 11y ago|4 comments
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by cos2pi 11y ago
I always think of Feynman's minority report [0] on the Challenger Disaster when these types of risk assessments pop up. [0] http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roger...
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by cos2pi 11y ago
For those interested, the monthly report the article refers to is the NOAA/Climate Prediction Center ENSO discussion: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/en...
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by cos2pi 11y ago
These plots are very difficult for me to read. I'm not sure why the color maps span 90F+ when discussing nighttime radiative cooling on the order of 12F. I'm also not sure how a regression line with a negative slope constitutes
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by cos2pi 11y ago
Because now they can write a blog post about it, which duly appears on HN's front page.
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by cos2pi 12y ago
This is really cool. I've already shown your site to my mom, who loves it. However, I can't seem to find a way to display the recipes that I "crave" - seems like this would be a good way to save tasty meals for later c
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by cos2pi 12y ago
Two recent works [0] have attempted to model the occurrences and magnitudes of terrorist events and war casualties. Both seem to fit power law distributions. The Johnson et al. work was mentioned at the end of the article. [0] https:&#x2F
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by cos2pi 12y ago
I get NaNs when I put a Dwarf star as close as I can to the parent star. Perhaps a black hole is generated? :) http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=3069947