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astanwayon Journey to the center of the earth

This is cool, but the lack of drawing it at least partially to scale kinda ruins it.

Another big fan of Chris DeMayo here - extremely helpful NYC startup accountant, highly recommend him for all.

astanwayon Ask HN: Differences you've noticed between CS students and the self-taught?

I have a CS degree. I have never noticed a difference. I also don't ask. You're either smart and talented and I enjoy working with you, or you're not.

astanwayon BioFabric: New way to visualize large interaction networks without any hairballs

These seems pretty cool. My worry is that you lose intuitions of centrality with this, with the exception of degree centrality, since nodes with the highest degree are sorted from left to right. How can we capture other measures of centrality? What about weak ties?

astanwayon Among the Disrupted

Although it was written by someone put out of work by that culture - Leon Wieseltier used to be an editor of the New Republic.

astanwayon Skiplagged sued by United and Orbitz

His legal fund is here:

http://www.gofundme.com/skiplagged

I encourage everyone to donate.