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rstoner··on Year of the Beagle
We've had the same experience on BBBs re: powering USB devices. Using a powered dlink hub helps to resolve it (of the 10+ brands we've tried).
rstoner··on DeepDive – System that enables developers to analyze data on a deeper level
This could be a huge value-add to the groups that have invested heavily in human-directed knowledge graph construction (e.g. Project Halo/Aristo at the Allen Institute for AI).
rstoner··on Satellite Eyes – Change your Mac desktop to a map of where you are
Neat work. This plus a visible satellite overlay would be fun add-on.
rstoner··on Most Autistic People Have Normal Brain Anatomy
Agree 100%. It doesn't even have to be connectivity (brain wiring). There have been plenty of studies that have found a variety of different neuropathologies at the cellular scale.

/postdoc

rstoner··on Product Video for the New $2.75M Patek Philippe Watch Is Most Incredible
Warning: this link points to a 926MB mp4. Anyone have a non-direct download mirror before we kill the site?
rstoner··on Naval Charts
I recommend moving to openlayers 3 (http://openlayers.org) - it's not backward compatible with OL2, but the improvement in user interaction and tile display is worth it, especially on mobile targets.

(not affiliated, but use it heavily for my own projects)

rstoner··on Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup
Dear Github.

Please buy these guys and enable this functionality for gists.

rstoner··on Introducing Avocado: A new toolbox for interaction designers
See also: http://facebook.github.io/origami/ - Another QC-based UI/UX toolchain
rstoner··on OpenWorm: A Digital Organism In Your Browser
The iOS source code is on github: https://github.com/openworm/openwormbrowser-ios

Plenty of bugs to fix.

(disclaimer: I wrote a good chunk of it.)

rstoner··on OpenWorm: A Digital Organism In Your Browser
They released an iOS port (GLKit-based) of their worm browser on the app store.

Source code is here: https://github.com/openworm/openwormbrowser-ios

rstoner··on Network of 75 Million Neurons of the Mouse Brain Mapped for the First Time
All of the data is available through a well-documented API: http://www.brain-map.org/api/index.html

Fully documented with plenty of examples and relevant white papers.

rstoner··on Apple just updated without asking and locked my iPhone
Same problems. Please report back if the update was successful.
rstoner··on Massive iPhone activation errors
Appears to affect iOS7 only (personal experience)