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by siculars 15y ago
Be sure to watch the video for a wealth of interesting engineering detail. More details at http://hdtrobotics.com
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MK-1 Robotic Arm Capable of Near-Human Dexterity(engineeringtv.com)
2 points by siculars 15y ago|1 comments
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by siculars 15y ago
seconded. and an opt-in growl notification for applications that are trying to outbound connect.
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by siculars 15y ago
In other news - lots of people put pants on one leg at a time and don't forget to walk the dog in the morning!
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by siculars 15y ago
I'm sure we'll hear from Noah soon enough...
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American Museum of Natural History, first museum with its own doctorate program(nytimes.com)
1 points by siculars 15y ago|0 comments
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by siculars 15y ago
I've set up high availability load balancers on linode before. Basically two 512mb vm's running heartbeat between them and both running the same config of haproxy. This seems like a spiffy interface to something like that minus the heartbea
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Summarizing next-gen sequencing variation statistics with Hadoop using Cascalog(bcbio.wordpress.com)
5 points by siculars 15y ago|0 comments
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The Space Shuttle (Narrated by William Shatner)(youtube.com)
1 points by siculars 15y ago|1 comments
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by siculars 15y ago
"...the import service is doing a full binary copy of the disk into Amazon EBS..." This enhances their preexisting import/export program. As good as free inbound traffic and something that separates the AWS stack from the rest of the virtua
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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS(allthingsdistributed.com)
3 points by siculars 15y ago|1 comments
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by siculars 15y ago
Looks like they shut their free api down around noon today. Not even a tweet. Boo.
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by siculars 15y ago
I was using some of BackType's API's myself. Now I'm taking a look at http://corp.topsy.com/developers/api/ .
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by siculars 15y ago
I'm all for what the Author is getting at here. My one nit to pick is the following: "Some might object that private firms will have incentives to cut corners on safety. It is a legitimate concern, but competitive mechanisms tend to weed th
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by siculars 15y ago
There is way too much PR speak going on here. RIM = Yahoo!
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by siculars 15y ago
RIM == Yahoo!
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Instantly Deployable "Watch Tower"(contest.techbriefs.com)
2 points by siculars 15y ago|0 comments
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by siculars 15y ago
"...took four years to build..." Compare that to any infrastructure project here in the US.
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Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, World's Longest Cross-Sea Bridge, Opens In China (VIDEO)(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by siculars 15y ago|1 comments
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by siculars 15y ago
I would recommend a user curated feature to that marks 'overlaps' as duplicates that then get sent to some human to moderate. Similar to user curated spam or inappropriate material.
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Clever Foursquare Hack Turns New York City Into a Giant Game of Risk(mashable.com)
78 points by siculars 15y ago|28 comments
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by siculars 15y ago
I went to visit the Golden Gate Bridge[0] for the first time a year ago. Standing in Marin county, overlooking the Golden Gate, there is a nice little park with a number of plaques rattling off various tidbits of information. Two items stru
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by siculars 15y ago
I don't think you could pay me enough to work for the government. As a geek, I am of the opinion that geeks care very little for bureaucracy which the government is by definition. Not that this article is about working for the government bu
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High-Speed Rail Poised to Transform China(nytimes.com)
2 points by siculars 15y ago|0 comments
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by siculars 15y ago
This is beyond. Where does it end? Governments and corporations will no doubt misuse this technology. Imagine a corporate HQ with this at the gate. Maybe a tank with this on the turret or riot police with this on their helmets. I, for one,
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FireIce: A major breakthrough for fighting wildfires(money.cnn.com)
7 points by siculars 15y ago|2 comments
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Using Twitter as Your Database(open.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by siculars 15y ago|0 comments
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Today's Lunar Eclipse in Real Time with Commentary(eclipse.slooh.com)
3 points by siculars 15y ago|0 comments
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by siculars 15y ago
I'm pretty sure the US public would require retaliation in the event of, say, a prolonged regional blackout, a breached dam, a meltdown at a nuclear facility or any other number of real world insanity caused by a cyber attack. "for no reaso
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Justice Goes Global(nytimes.com)
1 points by siculars 15y ago|0 comments

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