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This is the interface I want on my TV!

From the article: "Hatfill: When the SARS epidemic happened, Singapore came very close to being wiped out. People don't realize this. And over there, if you chew gum or spit on the street, they cane you. Singapore had this under control overnight, and all their contact tracings were confined to their house, to the point where they would phone you every hour and you'd better answer the phone or the cops came by to arrest you. And they stopped it. You saw in the U.S. the journalist went out for pizza, this nurse went on a plane. Are you out of your mind?"

"What [Dr Hatfill] does know, at a depth that can rival any scientist’s knowledge, is Ebola."

Instaparse, a parsing library for Clojure, tries to make context-free grammars "as easy to use as regular expressions." It uses an EBNF input format that should be familiar to many programmers. https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse

My first exposure to programming was The TeXbook by Donald Knuth (back in 1990). I still remember marveling at how he always managed to come up with perfect names. Little did I know then (and experience has since delivered plenty of fails) that it really is a hard problem.

A great exposition, and worth it just for the introduction to "schrödinbug". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug#Related_terms

Because these relatively small reactors can be made to tie in with existing gas turbine power plants. They can ship these replacement fusion plants all over the world. http://aviationweek.com/blog/high-hopes-can-compact-fusion-u...

The dynomak paper abstract (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379614...) makes it all sound conceptual/simulated.

Yeah, that seems to imply they've already achieved a sustained fusion reaction. Seems like that would be big news on it's own.

Heh, heh. Lego minifigure comparison (although probably not a TripleE): http://instagram.com/p/q_yDmLiL1F/

It also seems positively weird that Apple's support pages and this security update aren't delivered via https.

So how were any of you able to watch this? ("Sorry Because of it's privacy settings, this video cannot be played here.")

The web server has stopped responding. More details about the project here: http://www.pugo.org/project/pshttpd/

These highlights (with pictures) are coming in real-time and save the bother of trying to watch video.

Apple's web site has a curated set of "live" posts giving details. http://www.apple.com/live/2014-sept-event/

I have noticed this occasionally on weekends, when the luxury of a nap is more practical. I'll have a small late-morning coffee, feel cozy/sleepy, then nap briefly and wake up refreshed. Seemed crazy at the time. I'd guess you need to feel somewhat tired for this to work (and I am able to fall asleep quickly).

Ancillary to the sad news, for a fictional treatment of cryopreservation (circa 1993) -- one that I couldn't help think about as I read that email/release -- Gregory Benford's novel, Chiller, works through many of the thought-provoking implications. http://www.gregorybenford.com/product/chiller/

The actual article (http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal....) has a web simulation here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhknjl/research/membranedivergence (https://github.com/UCL/membranedivergence)

"Despite popular misconceptions, the Leap Motion Controller doesn’t generate a depth map – instead it applies advanced algorithms to the raw sensor data."

And I've been even happier reading about Delorean. http://delorean.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart.html

Carbonates? Like sodium carbonate? Maybe you mean acrylamides (think burnt toast), which appear to be carcinogenic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamides#Toxicity_and_carcin...).

I'll disagree. A paper filter with grounds pulled out of a Chemex, Kalita, Hario V60, etc. is a lot easier to clean than an Aeropress, which I'll agree is an improvement over the mess that a French Press makes. A paper filter keeps the grounds contained in a way that makes composting simple, rather than washing half the grounds down the drain.

Friends more familiar with making their own espresso seem to love the Aeropress. Friends familiar with pour over seem to moonlight with Aeropress now and then.

Your pour over brewing experience can be greatly enhanced by roasting your own coffee. It's surprisingly easy to do. Unroasted green beans cost half what roasted beans go for. You'll never have a dull pour over moment again. The roaster I started with and still use is the Behmor 1500 ($300). You can get started for closer to $150 (e.g., http://www.burmancoffee.com/roasting_equipment.html)

If you're in the US, there are several great home roasting web sites where you can buy fresh coffees from all around the world.

The Captain's Coffee: http://thecaptainscoffee.com/shop/green-coffee-beans

Roastmasters: http://www.roastmasters.com/new.html

Sweet Marias: http://www.sweetmarias.com/store/coffee-list.html

Burman Coffee Traders: http://www.burmancoffee.com/coffeelist

I'll second that. It's really excellent if you don't have the patience for pour over brewing. I recently discovered the baby Chemex ($30), which works really well brewing for two people. It's smaller and stockier than the usual 6–8 cup Chemex pots, and probably won't break as easily.

Date handling in PostgreSQL has always seemed ideal compared with what was available in Python. I'm happy to read about arrow.

From a recent IEEE Spectrum article: "If you were to make a 2-hour motion picture with an extended color range in 4K and at 48 frames per second, the raw (uncompressed) movie file would occupy more than 15 terabytes. For comparison, the total amount of data in all of the e-mails sent in the United States in one year has been estimated to be 10.6 TB." http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/las...

Except when ten years have passed and everyone's forgotten about the movie and tending its backups. Corruption happens, then it's too late. If you have a film print in a vault, it can be ignored or forgotten for decades and there's still hope.

"Kodak's motion-picture film sales have plummeted 96% since 2006, from 12.4 billion linear feet to an estimated 449 million this year. With the exit of competitor Fujifilm Corp. last year, Kodak is the only major company left producing motion-picture film."

I didn't realize Fuji had already discontinued manufacturing motion-picture film. I keep thinking the film business will hit rock bottom and the trickle of remaining demand will be stable enough to maintain what little is left of the industry. Sigh.

Except I didn't submit the article and I hadn't upvoted it or looked at it yet, which is why I was confused. Thanks for your answers.