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stefap2on YouPronounceIt: Search for a word, get videos of YouTube speakers pronouncing it

This is fun way to discover random videos. I searched "invincible", and you get array of videos on topics from technology, cancer, health care to solar panels.

stefap2on FCC Fines Smart City $750K for Blocking Wi-Fi

What if the building is intentionally built as a Faraday Cage thus preventing an outside signal? This way the signal is passively blocked and they can still provide their wifi inside.

Not that I condone their behavior.

stefap2on 60 years ago: The famous Boeing 707 prototype barrel roll over Lake Washington

I have a feeling that in today's corporate culture he would be probably fired.

stefap2on How to smuggle $1K into North Korea

That's actually true. Communism was suppose to be the next step after socialism. In communism we would abolish money, and people would take from stores only according to their needs. So we were taught in elementary school :)

stefap2on Looking for a Sign: Hobo Communication in the Depression

See samples of hobo signs. https://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_heritage/museum...

stefap2on Hawaii Wrestles with Vagaries of Solar Power

Try this through Google. https://www.google.com/search?q=Hawaii+Wrestles+With+Vagarie...

stefap2on Vortex Bladeless, wind turbine without blades

http://www.vortexbladeless.com/

stefap2on Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

    Monthly Gross Pay $29,166.67
    Federal Withholding $8,195.61
    Social Security $1,808.33
    Medicare $422.92
    California $2,831.70
    SDI $262.50



    Net Monthly Pay $15,645.61

stefap2on Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it

Doesn't have small villages.

stefap2on Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it

Since it was stitched using a number of smaller images printed from Google maps, wouldn't you end up with a bunch of "google-maps" watermarks all over the map?

stefap2on Surge in Chinese tech stocks is making the dot-com bubble look tame

So, should we be shorting these stocks?

stefap2on US Navy develops cannon-launched 'swarming' drones

Something along these lines? https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vc...

stefap2on Slurpee Waves – Frozen Waves on Nantucket

Related NY Times article: On Nantucket, Surf’s Up, if You’re Part Penguin http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/science/nantucket-frozen-w...

stefap2on Show HN: My first startup, making premium long distance cyclewear

I gave up after 2 mins.

stefap2on Computer Engineer Barbie Needs Men to Write Code, Can’t Reboot Computer

Barbie is designing a game but she admits, "I'm only creating the design idea, I'll need Steven and Brian's help to turn it into a real game".

stefap2on For ‘Big Data’ Scientists, Hurdle to Insights Is ‘Janitor Work’

I do this with awk or sed scripts. This way I preserve the original data and have an exact and documented steps how the data set was changed. It was ages since I actually went manually into a file to overwrite information.

stefap2on Czarist Russia in color (1905–1915)

The whole collection is here: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok/?loclr=flik

stefap2on Finding the best ticket price – Simple web scraping with Python

thanks

stefap2on Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3

it's now on their front page

stefap2on I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee

"well, i can only say i procrastinate"

No there is my motivation to end the lunch break earlier.

stefap2on Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car

Is minimum car price $5000?

stefap2on Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course

If I remember correctly we called it "audit a class". Visit lectures without actually taking the course for credit.

stefap2on How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage

The whole article sounds like an advert. TGTBT

stefap2on The Story of My Desk

I have learned that this is the best way. And getting the furniture cheap makes me less afraid to modify it to my needs. If I destroy $10 table in the process I just get another one.

stefap2on Australian Startups To Begin Delivering Textbook Orders By Drone

The books should be delivered by google's driver less cars.

stefap2on Arizona solar plant achieves six hours after sun goes down

For the nukes there are a few so called SMR (small modular reactors) being worked on, and some of the are in process of licensing with NRC. The main selling pint is that these units with a capacity of about 200MWe can be deployed under 1bil dollars when compared to 15bil dollars for a large plant (>1000MWe). Most of these small plants can operate in a load follow mode, similar to gas plants. Also their footprint is similar to that of a gas plant rather than to that of a large nuke.

See for example:

BW mPower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26W_mPower

Nuscale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuScale

SMR-160 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMR-160

Westinghouse SMR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor#Westingho...

stefap2on Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization

A similar case was a logo mentioned in previous HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6509473

Once you see it ...

stefap2on Global warming shown in Google Maps

How is it shown? Is there a picture for comparison?

stefap2on How IPython Notebook and Github have changed the way I teach Python

thanks. this worked for me.

stefap2on How IPython Notebook and Github have changed the way I teach Python

I would like to know. For Windows and Ubuntu. I was never able to properly ipython notebook under 3.3 either.