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by typpo 14y ago
All my sources are listed on http://asterank.com/about . Most of the raw data comes from the Minor Planet Center and JPL. The intuition on how to calculate value and cost comes from a number of papers on the subjects of asteroid composit
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by typpo 14y ago
I've used this hidden API in the past, but overall Yahoo's free finance API is much more accurate and developer-friendly. The output of this endpoint is formatted to be human-readable in such a way that it is annoying to do calculations wit
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by typpo 14y ago
Thanks. I estimated the value based on spectral class, which gives us an idea of composition based on how they reflect light. I combined this with current prices for materials mostly from the London Metal Exchange. Other costs such as ge
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by typpo 14y ago
Neat projects! A lot of useful things for developers in there. My projects for this year are less developer oriented, just random things I thought were interesting at the time: Six Degrees of Bowie - http://www.sixdegreesofbowie.com/ -
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80,000 Visitors on Christmas Morning: A Post-mortem (ianww.com)
14 points by typpo 14y ago|0 comments
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by typpo 14y ago
I had this issue but noticed it's because the Ghostery chrome extension blocks Brightcove, where the videos are hosted. Maybe you have a similar problem?
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by typpo 14y ago
Reminds me of the million dollar homepage, which succeeded in raising a million dollars: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
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Scarlett Johansson hacker Chaney given 10 years(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by typpo 14y ago|0 comments
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Organic Organization: a visualization of Autodesk's company structure over time(youtube.com)
4 points by typpo 14y ago|0 comments
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by typpo 14y ago
The wikipedia article[1] is about 100 times as informative as this article. Apparently the technology was conceived of in the 50s, and it looks like basic hardware testing took place earlier this year. I have no aerospace background but th
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by typpo 14y ago
Or route port 80 to your node port (eg. 8080): sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080
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by typpo 14y ago
If you are interested in scientifically accurate models in webgl, you may like this asteroid simulation, which models objects in our solar system in an astronomically accurate manner: http://asterank.com/3d/
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Optimizing Three.js Performance: Simulating 20,000 Independent Moving Objects(ianww.com)
1 points by typpo 14y ago|0 comments
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by typpo 14y ago
Thanks for the great extension! My suggestion is to move extraction to your server, which would solve the permissions and same origin policy problems. We'd only have to give permission for your website, and as a bonus you can cache extrac
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Ubuntu's new Amazon integration displays NSFW results(bugs.launchpad.net)
15 points by typpo 14y ago|2 comments
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by typpo 14y ago
I miss the blue too, so I made an extension that adds the old-style coloring for your commits: https://github.com/typpo/github-participation-graph
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Add colors back to Github activity graphs (Chrome Extension)(github.com)
2 points by typpo 14y ago|0 comments
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by typpo 14y ago
I recently did something somewhat physics related, implementing Kepler's laws of planetary motion in JS to produce a 3d simulation of the solar system: http://www.asterank.com/3d/ ...I plan to generalize it into an open source educational
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by typpo 14y ago
Deleted post from Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:samgran...
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by typpo 14y ago
Is that actually so different from the way things used to be? If you run the example 2008 query, "open source social networking," the number of ads hasn't changed. It seems like most of this complaint should be directed at the navigation s
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by typpo 14y ago
As a side project, I've been working on a site, http://asterank.com , that attempts to rank asteroids by their economic potential. These calculations take into account things like the energetic cost of reaching and extracting material fro
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by typpo 14y ago
It doesn't seem unreasonable to split water using a solar or nuclear energy source, and then use the hydrogen and oxygen as rocket fuel to actually move the asteroid. Anderson's goal is not a net energy gain, it's to move the asteroid.
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Mixpanel's faster, more reliable Javascript SDK(blog.mixpanel.com)
1 points by typpo 14y ago|0 comments
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by typpo 14y ago
The nocebo effect is quite powerful. I'm 22 years old and was in chronic pain for a year. I had trouble doing simple things like opening doors. Understanding nocebos helped me cure my carpal/cubital tunnel and thoracic outlet problems. A
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How I Built A WebGL Canvas Visualization With No Graphics Knowledge(ianww.com)
2 points by typpo 14y ago|0 comments
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The solar system and most valuable asteroids modeled in 3d canvas/webgl(asterank.com)
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by typpo 14y ago
This is not an unusual practice. For example, Microsoft has been known for sending people home early for quite some time. In some cases they'll tell you the next guy is out of work today (which is disingenuous), in other cases they'll tel
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by typpo 14y ago
robots.txt doesn't enforce itself so there is no IP limitation; this is still a violation and no better than simply lowering the delay on a single scraper.
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Chrome Extension: Stop Facebook From Telling People You've Read Their Message(ianww.com)
2 points by typpo 14y ago|0 comments
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by typpo 14y ago
She is working the crowd, so to speak. Here is the final CERN press release, which claims a 5 sigma result: http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR...

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