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Behind The Curve from Planet Money talks with Duke Professor Campbell Harvey about whether or not to worry about yield curve inversion in today's economy - https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/12/04/673429096/behi...

celiason 'Like a ghost town': how short-term rentals dim New Orleans’ legacy

Planet Money did an episode on this

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/28/698763891/epis...

celiason Strange “paint disease” is putting Georgia O’Keeffe paintings at risk

Sateen Dura-Luxe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabo_Karabekian

celiason Why's a Big Red Tanker Drifting Near Boston?

Here's a Planet Money episode on the Jones Act

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/09/27/553990861/epis...

celiason A DIY Robot That Responds in GIFs and Videos Only

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_(Doctor_Who)

celiason Perth's first ocean rubbish bin is sucking plenty of plastic out of the sea

Reminds me of Mr Trash Wheel in Baltimore's Inner Harbor https://www.baltimorewaterfront.com/healthy-harbor/water-whe...

celiason Ken Nordine, Chicago creator of ‘word jazz’, dies at 98

Sad news. http://www.wordjazz.com https://vimeo.com/3088569

I remember accidentally finding the local NPR station on the radio in the 70's. Word Jazz and NPR Playhouse were my favorite programs. "Here we are with something imaginary in the trembling air." You can listen to the 30 minute NPR episodes on the internet archive here https://archive.org/details/WordJazzRadio15#

celiason Wayward Satellites Test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity

In June, 2003 Italian astrophysicists used radio signals from the Cassini satellite to test general relativity when the sun was between Earth and Cassini -

(paywall, but nice summary in the non-paywalled abstract) https://www.nature.com/articles/nature01997

https://www-n.oca.eu/Mignard/Grex/Presentations_pdf/Grex04_B...

https://physicsworld.com/a/general-relativity-passes-cassini...

celiason How Python made it big at Microsoft

Interview of Steve Dower at TalkPython podcast

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/191/python-s-journey-at-...

celiason Particle physics may have reached the end of the line

There's the ISS-CREAM cosmic ray detector on the space station that can "measure elemental spectra of Z = 1–26 nuclei over the energy range 10^12 to >10^15 eV" Given that CREAM is roughly 2x1x1m^3 and weighs 1258 kg while ATLAS on the LCH is "46 metres long, 25 metres in diameter, and weighs about 7,000 tonnes" it may not be possible to put LHC-class detectors in space

https://cosmicray.umd.edu/iss-cream/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_experiment

celiason Pandas dropping Python 2 support

There is a discussion about Instagram's approach to migrating to python3 around the 34 minute mark in this talkpython podcast https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/155/practical-steps-for-... Lisa Guo's presentation starts around the 13 minute mark in the 2017 keynote linked to on that page.

Here's a blog post about Dropbox migrating from python 2 to 3 https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/09/how-we-rolled-out-one...

celiason In Praise of the Long and Complicated Sentence

T. R. Pearson's books such as "The Last of How it Was" have wonderfully long, rambling sentences that remind me of how some people in the southern US I've known speak.

celiason Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System'

In some sense the Voyager spacecraft have been leaving the solar system since launch. :) As the Nature article points out, Voyager 2 crossed the termination shock in 2007, entering the heliosheath. The recent announcement is about Voyager 2 exiting the heliosphere and entering interstellar space. Here's a nice graphic that shows the various regions - https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pi...

celiason Ask HN: Resources to learn “modern” Python?

The book Fluent Python is a good book that goes beyond the introduction to python books http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032519.do

Here's an interview with the author in 2015 https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/24/fluent-python

celiason Is the Second Farm Crisis Upon Us?

Planet money did a piece the "government cheese" program during the Carter and Reagan administrations that was supposed to help dairy farmers

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/31/643486297/epis...

celiason Police seized $10,000 of a couple’s cash. They couldn’t get it back

John Oliver did a piece on civil forfeiture in 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks

celiason My wonderful world of macOS

DTerm is a nice utility https://github.com/muhqu/dterm

celiason The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon

If Jupyter is not your cup of tea you might like Cauldron, the unnotebook - http://www.unnotebook.com

Interview with the author in May, 2017 - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-cauldron-might-right-data...

celiason New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment

https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/how-the-stanford...

celiason I Published My AWS Secret Key to GitHub

I learned a few things from Miguel Grinberg's talk at PyCon 2018 - Oops! I Committed My Password To GitHub! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uaTPmNvH0I

celiason Ask HN: Who is your domain registrar and hosting provider?

xeliux.com for registration, hosting at digitalocean.com

celiason Mountain of Bikes Left at Dallas Recycling Center After Ofo Leaves City

It's interesting to see the timeline in serpentza's youtube videos about bike sharing in China Starts out well in January https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi9G1jLUeUk Overcrowding starting to be a problem in April https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdsb2wwn-7g Bike graveyards in October https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IYu4wzy9Lw

celiason Nuitka: A Python compiler

Talk Python has a podcast with an interview of the Nuitka developer https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/172/nuitka-a-full-python...