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by privong 10y ago
> Was still going. GOES 3 is scheduled for final decommissioning on 23 June 2016.[5] Presumably the date is for the East Coast of the US, so that's tomorrow.
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by privong 10y ago
This is important: > Mitch McConnell (R-KY) switched his vote at the last minute. He submitted a motion to reconsider the vote following the defeat. A new vote may be set for later on Wednesday. So while it didn't advance this morni
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Can Urbit Reboot Computing?(reason.com)
2 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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L-99: Ninety-Nine Lisp Problems(ic.unicamp.br)
2 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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by privong 10y ago
> The difference here is that guns are created for one purpose, killing another person. Or hunting, or target shooting.
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by privong 10y ago
> Because many people need a car to function (get to work, shops, take kids to school). I'm not sure that's a compelling argument. One could easily counter that people could move to be closer to work and/or school. Cars a
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by privong 10y ago
> the HAM portion Just a quick note that "ham" is not an acronym and so isn't written in all-caps.
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Probable Caustic-Crossing Event in MACS1149 Galaxy Cluster Field(astronomerstelegram.org)
3 points by privong 10y ago|3 comments
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by privong 10y ago
I've not been involved with SoC myself, but check out the website: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/ Unfortunately the deadline for this summer has already passed.
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by privong 10y ago
So, to answer my own question, based on the graph of the rates at the wikipedia article[0] it looks as though you might see 100 to 1000 events per year, over an area the size of the Bay Area. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by privong 10y ago
Have you thought about trying to partner with someone to do a Google Summer of Code (or something similar) for this? It seems specific and targeted enough that it might have a chance of getting support.
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by privong 10y ago
> Theres probably 100 to 1000 or so events like that in an area the size of the Bay Area. On what timescale?
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by privong 10y ago
> Is the app open sourced? any link? I'm guessing not, since they currently seem to be only letting authorized beta testers use it. For what it's worth, there haven't been any blog posts since Feb 2015[0], so I'm not
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by privong 10y ago
Have they started sending around apps to beta testers? You can sign up[0] and I'm pretty sure I did, but I haven't heard anything. [0] http://crayfis.io/
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All-in-one LPR, speedometer, and facial recognition scanner(arstechnica.com)
14 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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StockCity for Oculus Rift(fidelitylabs.com)
2 points by privong 10y ago|1 comments
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by privong 10y ago
> How hard is it to run a "canary watch" though? The overhead has to be pretty low. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to pull the plug. I don't imagine the decision was based on resources, but rather on a realization
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Use of Extraterrestrial Resources to Facilitate Space Science and Exploration(arxiv.org)
2 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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by privong 10y ago
> 2.)We are talking about SCIENCE and whats great about SCIENCE is that to do it well requires SKEPTICISM. The article itself even says that the results haven't been confirmed by a different specialized lab. I would be floored if we
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by privong 10y ago
> Were you able to see the rings of Saturn with this telescope? How about the red spot of Jupiter? Any of its moons? I obviously can't speak to the OP's light pollution, but if they were above to observe Messier objects, seeing
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Language Checking for Scientific Papers(github.com)
1 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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by privong 10y ago
> what kind of sexual misconduct is so serious that two people consensually meeting warrants a jury trial, complete with subpoenaed phone logs? Their meeting up may have been consensual, but what happened while they were together might n
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Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform(home-assistant.io)
2 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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Large Synpotic Survey Telescope Data Management Developer Guide(developer.lsst.io)
3 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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by privong 10y ago
> Well aside from the bottom left key being FN instead of Ctrl...that part is retarded. There's a BIOS option to swap Fn and Ctrl, at least on the X250.
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NIST Kicks Off Effort to Defend Encrypted Data from Quantum Computer Threat(nist.gov)
4 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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by privong 10y ago
I guess such things are not very widespread, but there is an Astrophysics Source Code Library[0] that is citeable. I am not sure how hiring/tenure/promotion committees weigh those citations, though. http://ascl.net&#x2F
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by privong 11y ago
> What is "Proprietary JavaScript"? JavaScript is a part of the web, arguably the least proprietary technology platform in existence. They're not arguing the language is proprietary, they're taking issue that the code
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by privong 11y ago
Mods, can you please update the link to go directly to the pdf ( http://www.phdcompletion.org/resources/cgsnsf2008_sowell.pdf ) rather than going through the google redirect?
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by privong 11y ago
The Aeon post linked in the article[0] discusses this a little bit. As @pm90 notes, it may have had a lot to do with the Vietnam war. [0] https://aeon.co/opinions/the-us-military-is-everywhere-excep...

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