martian

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• Drink Like a Rainbow

  by martian on 9/19/2022, 8:15 PM with 0 comments

• The Crime of Curiosity

  by martian on 9/14/2021, 5:59 PM with 0 comments

• Novel immunotherapy approach to treat cat allergy

  by martian on 2/28/2021, 3:47 AM with 0 comments

• The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption

  by martian on 2/10/2021, 7:39 PM with 3 comments

• The Secret, Essential Geography of the Office

  by martian on 2/10/2021, 6:12 PM with 0 comments

• Bringing Google Fi to More People on Android and iOS

  by martian on 11/29/2018, 7:32 AM with 0 comments

• Did Humans Create the Sahara Desert?

  by martian on 5/5/2017, 6:40 AM with 6 comments

• San Francisco Muni hacker gets hacked back

  by martian on 11/29/2016, 11:22 PM with 0 comments

• What I Learned from Developing Branding for Airbnb, Dropbox and Thumbtack

  by martian on 11/1/2016, 8:32 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What are your favorite board games?

  by martian on 7/31/2016, 1:23 PM with 62 comments

• by martian on 7/7/2016, 4:34 PM with comments

• A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib

  by martian on 5/31/2016, 5:40 AM with 23 comments

• Should farmers or city pay to clean the water? Iowa may decide

  by martian on 5/18/2016, 10:39 PM with 0 comments

• How economists rode maths to become our eras astrologists

  by martian on 5/15/2016, 6:02 PM with 0 comments

• How America's Coastal Cities Left the Heartland Behind

  by martian on 5/2/2016, 9:00 PM with 0 comments

• Kevin Kelly on Technology forces shaping the future [video]

  by martian on 4/23/2016, 2:56 AM with 0 comments

• Edward Snowden's Fermi Paradox Solution

  by martian on 9/21/2015, 7:08 PM with 3 comments

• A romance of a single dimension: linear git history in practice

  by martian on 8/20/2014, 3:02 PM with 0 comments

• Do More and `make` Less with GNU Make and Less.js

  by martian on 5/5/2014, 6:21 PM with 16 comments

• Let Designers Code, and Engineers Design

  by martian on 2/26/2014, 5:07 PM with 0 comments

• Levels of Excellence

  by martian on 2/19/2014, 8:44 AM with 44 comments

• The Kids' Guide to the Internet (1997)

  by martian on 9/2/2013, 2:04 PM with 0 comments

• Designing with Forces (Ryan Singer)

  by martian on 7/6/2013, 4:11 PM with 0 comments

• Classical Sculptures Dressed as Hipsters

  by martian on 6/15/2013, 9:51 PM with 5 comments

• A Local Services Hub to Rival Angie's List?

  by martian on 6/13/2013, 9:49 PM with 0 comments

• MapStack: Maps for All

  by martian on 6/13/2013, 6:20 PM with 0 comments

• Leveraging Big Data To Create More Secure Web Applications

  by martian on 6/4/2013, 10:56 PM with 0 comments

• PyCon 2013 Coding Challenge Roundup

  by martian on 4/16/2013, 6:48 PM with 3 comments

• Petition to save Google Reader

  by martian on 3/15/2013, 4:15 AM with 0 comments

• 20 Tech Trends for 2013

  by martian on 12/16/2012, 9:28 PM with 0 comments

• Stacked Git

  by martian on 11/5/2012, 9:31 PM with 0 comments

• The Top of Coprates Chasma (Valles Marineris)

  by martian on 10/10/2012, 10:52 PM with 0 comments

• Honduras deal sets stage for investors to build 3 privately run cities

  by martian on 9/6/2012, 4:35 PM with 4 comments

• Microsonic Landscapes - visualizing music in physical form

  by martian on 8/30/2012, 8:42 PM with 0 comments

• Using Fertilizer Wisely Could Help Feed 9 Billion People

  by martian on 8/30/2012, 3:47 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: San Francisco Startups and Chefs?

  by martian on 8/28/2012, 9:53 PM with 0 comments

• Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am to Debut New Song...From Mars

  by martian on 8/27/2012, 8:10 PM with 0 comments

• The Rise of Income Segregation

  by martian on 8/2/2012, 11:17 PM with 0 comments

• Data Monday: Top Three Passwords

  by martian on 7/18/2012, 3:21 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How do you run your product process?

  by martian on 7/13/2012, 4:34 AM with 0 comments

• HTML5, CSS3, and DOM Performance

  by martian on 7/9/2012, 4:44 PM with 0 comments

• More about devicePixelRatio

  by martian on 7/3/2012, 4:08 PM with 0 comments

• Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?

  by martian on 6/20/2012, 11:59 PM with 0 comments

• Know your latency: a simple hack using Graphite and Memcache

  by martian on 6/20/2012, 6:27 PM with 0 comments

• by martian on 6/1/2012, 4:23 PM with comments

• Geography of Incarceration in the USA

  by martian on 5/24/2012, 10:01 PM with 0 comments

• How is Facebook like a Temple?

  by martian on 5/23/2012, 5:44 PM with 0 comments

• How to find good food in American Bars

  by martian on 5/22/2012, 7:06 PM with 0 comments

• Fast bitmap decoding

  by martian on 5/22/2012, 4:10 AM with 0 comments

• A Cartography of the Anthropocene

  by martian on 5/2/2012, 5:17 PM with 0 comments

• Climate change affecting corn prices

  by martian on 4/27/2012, 6:02 PM with 1 comments

• A squinty-eyed look at population densities

  by martian on 4/16/2012, 9:43 PM with 1 comments

• Watercolor Process: How Stamen made watercolor map tiles

  by martian on 3/28/2012, 5:15 AM with 0 comments

• Maps.stamen.com is live

  by martian on 3/26/2012, 11:43 PM with 0 comments

• Are Conservatives More Fearful Than Liberals?

  by martian on 2/6/2012, 5:38 PM with 0 comments

• Thumbtack raises $4.5M, already half the size of Yelp

  by martian on 1/9/2012, 5:27 PM with 12 comments

• Ask HN: How can a US citizen get work abroad at a startup?

  by martian on 11/15/2011, 2:28 AM with 3 comments

• Page titles matter more than you think

  by martian on 11/11/2011, 12:08 AM with 0 comments

• Edward Tufte on Princeton's Acceptance Letter

  by martian on 11/9/2011, 11:30 PM with 0 comments

• What Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About

  by martian on 11/6/2011, 11:48 PM with 0 comments

• Case study: Are daily deal discounts inflated?

  by martian on 10/13/2011, 7:03 PM with 0 comments

• Googlebot makes POST requests via AJAX

  by martian on 10/11/2011, 7:54 PM with -1 comments

• That daily deal you bought? Maybe not so great a deal after all

  by martian on 10/3/2011, 7:35 PM with 14 comments

• A Visual Analysis of How People Shop in IKEA

  by martian on 9/29/2011, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• Canadian film-maker's bionic eye

  by martian on 9/27/2011, 3:08 AM with 0 comments

• How Change Is Going to Come in the Food System

  by martian on 9/21/2011, 5:25 AM with 0 comments

• Interactive Submarine Cable Map

  by martian on 9/20/2011, 11:38 PM with 0 comments

• Craigslisp: clathifiedth for jobth, apartmenth, perthonalth, for thale (...)

  by martian on 8/25/2011, 3:54 AM with -1 comments

• Takin' VC Money (Money Cash IPO's)

  by martian on 8/18/2011, 9:57 PM with 0 comments

• MotoGoogle

  by martian on 8/15/2011, 3:59 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Other startups are cloning my startup - what should I do?

  by martian on 8/12/2011, 10:53 PM with 10 comments

• What's it like to work at a start-up that's on fire - doing really, really well?

  by martian on 7/26/2011, 6:49 PM with 0 comments

• The Perfect Landing Page

  by martian on 6/17/2011, 6:35 PM with 0 comments

• Pretend Office - email archives

  by martian on 6/15/2011, 2:57 AM with 0 comments

• Visualization candy: the making of a realtime geo-dashboard

  by martian on 5/26/2011, 2:12 AM with 5 comments

• Bay Area Maker Faire - today and tomorrow in San Mateo

  by martian on 5/21/2011, 4:37 PM with 0 comments

• Three string functions every PHP project needs

  by martian on 5/21/2011, 1:30 AM with 19 comments

• Building our own tracking engine with MongoDB

  by martian on 5/3/2011, 10:18 PM with 4 comments

• Ask HN: Recommendations for a bank?

  by martian on 5/3/2011, 9:27 PM with 4 comments

• Computer Science and Biology Come Together to Make Tree Identification a Snap

  by martian on 5/3/2011, 6:47 PM with 0 comments

• ModePick - ZipCar vs City CarShare vs Walking vs Biking vs Uber

  by martian on 4/8/2011, 12:20 AM with 0 comments

• How database replication helps me sleep at night

  by martian on 4/7/2011, 12:49 AM with 8 comments

• Will the Female Founders Please Stand Up?

  by martian on 2/17/2011, 2:54 AM with 22 comments

• TRON concept art from the 1970s

  by martian on 2/15/2011, 9:56 PM with 0 comments

• Designing for the Mobile Web: Special Considerations

  by martian on 1/26/2011, 9:42 PM with 0 comments

• CPython to LLVM to Javascript - Python in the browser

  by martian on 1/25/2011, 5:04 AM with 15 comments

• Proof-of-Concept Android Trojan Captures Spoken Credit-Card Numbers

  by martian on 1/21/2011, 7:51 PM with 0 comments

• Hiring Front-End Engineers

  by martian on 1/20/2011, 9:37 PM with 52 comments

• Need office space for your startup? (San Francisco, SOMA)

  by martian on 1/19/2011, 11:38 PM with 0 comments

• Redrawing the Map of Great Britain from a Network of Human Interactions

  by martian on 12/13/2010, 6:24 PM with 0 comments

• Backscatter machines provide "Minimal risk" (Letter from the FDA)

  by martian on 11/17/2010, 7:56 PM with 0 comments

• Make your team happy: give them good food

  by martian on 10/21/2010, 7:51 PM with 0 comments

• Journalism in the Age of Data

  by martian on 10/14/2010, 11:16 PM with 0 comments

• On the Origin of Foods

  by martian on 10/11/2010, 8:56 PM with 1 comments

• Pretty Maps from Stamen

  by martian on 9/23/2010, 4:54 PM with 0 comments

• Mechanical Proust: An automated crowd-written blog

  by martian on 9/18/2010, 1:18 AM with 5 comments

• Arranging Things (for visual designers)

  by martian on 9/17/2010, 11:13 PM with 0 comments

• Twisted shape of the Mississippi River

  by martian on 9/16/2010, 8:10 AM with 1 comments

• Web form design guidelines: an eyetracking study

  by martian on 8/5/2010, 11:24 PM with 0 comments

• Yelp Hackathon results in an iPad-powered KegBot

  by martian on 8/4/2010, 9:26 PM with 19 comments

• Bing Maps gets an overhaul

  by martian on 8/3/2010, 8:16 PM with 0 comments

• Raising money as a first time entrepreneur

  by martian on 7/23/2010, 5:47 PM with 0 comments

• Top Secret America - Report by the Washington Post

  by martian on 7/20/2010, 6:53 PM with 0 comments

• The Billion-Dollar-o-Gram 2009

  by martian on 7/15/2010, 6:19 PM with 0 comments

• Happy Cog redesigns Zappos.com

  by martian on 7/14/2010, 8:07 PM with 1 comments

• How much is Facebook Connect limiting Quora's growth?

  by martian on 7/9/2010, 8:10 PM with 35 comments

• Realtime London Tube Map

  by martian on 6/21/2010, 11:12 PM with 0 comments

• Google ditches Windows on security concerns

  by martian on 5/31/2010, 11:22 PM with 152 comments

• Section of a major US interstate missing from Google Maps

  by martian on 5/6/2010, 10:34 PM with 1 comments

• Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health

  by martian on 5/6/2010, 6:01 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Best headphones?

  by martian on 5/3/2010, 4:42 AM with 15 comments

• My startup is hiring

  by martian on 4/21/2010, 12:34 AM with 5 comments

• Well-funded startup Thumbtack.com is hiring a Backend Engineer in SF

  by martian on 4/16/2010, 5:36 PM with -1 comments

• Exploiting the Bluetooth Spectrum as Material for Space Management Strategies

  by martian on 3/18/2010, 9:27 PM with 0 comments

• Stock Market Trends as Realistic Mountain Ranges

  by martian on 3/18/2010, 9:24 PM with 0 comments

• PayPal app integrates with Bump (YC09) for mobile payments

  by martian on 3/17/2010, 6:59 PM with 0 comments

• Google Wonder Wheel

  by martian on 3/12/2010, 9:00 PM with 0 comments

• Tim Berners-Lee: The Year Open Data Went Worldwide (TED Talk)

  by martian on 3/9/2010, 8:36 PM with 0 comments

• Water consumption in Edmonton during the Olympic gold medal hockey game

  by martian on 3/8/2010, 10:29 PM with 1 comments

• Augmented reality maps in Bing with integrated video and indoor imagery

  by martian on 3/8/2010, 6:49 PM with 0 comments

• Zelda-style maps of New York City based on Open Street Map

  by martian on 3/8/2010, 4:21 PM with 15 comments

• Open Angel Forum - Thursday Recap

  by martian on 3/6/2010, 12:23 AM with 0 comments

• Ayn Rand Mike Wallace Interview 1959

  by martian on 3/3/2010, 10:55 PM with 56 comments

• Where bars trump grocery stores (US map)

  by martian on 3/2/2010, 9:07 AM with 0 comments

• The Power of Building Codes: Chile Death Toll Less Than 1% That of Haiti

  by martian on 3/1/2010, 9:27 PM with 51 comments

• Mathematical functions in our environment

  by martian on 2/28/2010, 10:47 PM with 3 comments

• My new iPhone app - should you walk or take the bus?

  by martian on 2/25/2010, 8:12 PM with 0 comments

• Hijacking JSON

  by martian on 12/15/2009, 3:55 AM with 0 comments

• Google confirms Goggles for iPhone

  by martian on 12/15/2009, 1:05 AM with 0 comments

• Why are Europeans the whitest people on the planet?

  by martian on 12/14/2009, 3:36 PM with 62 comments

• GQL: Geospatial query language for Google Maps

  by martian on 12/10/2009, 7:54 PM with 0 comments

• City-go-round: Open transit data for 89 cities

  by martian on 12/10/2009, 6:55 PM with 3 comments

• Visualizing Prime Numbers

  by martian on 12/10/2009, 5:09 PM with -1 comments

• Trees, cabs and crime in San Francisco

  by martian on 12/9/2009, 7:56 PM with 1 comments

• Blews - What the Blogosphere tells you about news (Microsoft research)

  by martian on 12/7/2009, 5:03 PM with 0 comments

• Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, and Opinion Spam Detection

  by martian on 12/7/2009, 4:56 PM with 0 comments

• "I can sell only what I like"

  by martian on 12/7/2009, 3:43 PM with 1 comments

• Sell what cannot be copied

  by martian on 12/7/2009, 2:01 AM with 0 comments

• Mapping the geographies of Wikipedia

  by martian on 12/6/2009, 4:45 PM with 0 comments

• Why hackers rule my world

  by martian on 12/5/2009, 11:54 PM with 0 comments

• A Brief History of Data Visualization (video)

  by martian on 12/5/2009, 9:32 PM with 0 comments

• Are you a weasel negotiator?

  by martian on 12/4/2009, 4:51 PM with 1 comments

• Picol - Pictorial Communication Language

  by martian on 12/4/2009, 4:50 PM with 0 comments

• Munsell Color Space data files

  by martian on 12/4/2009, 4:35 PM with 7 comments

• Daily Vim

  by martian on 12/3/2009, 5:42 PM with 0 comments

• ASCII Art from 1934

  by martian on 12/3/2009, 5:17 PM with 10 comments

• Chart of NASA website traffic

  by martian on 12/3/2009, 5:12 PM with 0 comments

• Startup Lessons - a manual for aspiring entrepreneurs

  by martian on 12/2/2009, 2:28 PM with 12 comments

• EBay Visualizes Black Friday (interactive map)

  by martian on 12/2/2009, 2:16 PM with 0 comments

• Cartography 2.0 - An Overview

  by martian on 12/2/2009, 4:23 AM with 0 comments

• Introduction to Bayesian Networks

  by martian on 12/1/2009, 5:55 PM with 1 comments

• Stereo 3D video collection

  by martian on 12/1/2009, 5:49 PM with 0 comments

• Feltron - beautiful analog diagrams and maps

  by martian on 12/1/2009, 5:13 PM with 0 comments

• Global warming rigged? Here's the email I'd need to see

  by martian on 11/24/2009, 6:25 PM with 0 comments

• The Cost of a Sick Chart

  by martian on 11/23/2009, 3:37 PM with 0 comments

• Maturity Models

  by martian on 11/22/2009, 9:58 PM with 0 comments

• Modeling wine preferences by data mining from physicochemical properties [pdf]

  by martian on 11/18/2009, 3:11 PM with 2 comments

• Falling Fertility

  by martian on 11/16/2009, 3:16 PM with 0 comments

• The Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact

  by martian on 11/10/2009, 10:45 PM with 29 comments

• Where is Twitter? - 250,000 users plotted on a google map

  by martian on 11/3/2009, 7:25 PM with 0 comments

• Supply Chains visualized in Google Maps

  by martian on 10/29/2009, 2:45 AM with 0 comments

• Cartographer.js - simple thematic mapping library for Google Maps. (Alpha)

  by martian on 10/7/2009, 1:23 PM with 0 comments

• Should you Walk or Bus?

  by martian on 9/28/2009, 1:10 PM with 20 comments

• Mapping Twitter followers

  by martian on 6/9/2009, 6:02 PM with 1 comments

• Visualizing historical New York City subway ridership

  by martian on 5/20/2009, 8:54 PM with 0 comments

• Axiis - Flex/Flash data visualization framework

  by martian on 5/19/2009, 11:15 PM with 7 comments

• Random Walk - Thesis attempts to visualize randomness

  by martian on 5/19/2009, 10:19 PM with 0 comments

• Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller? - Interactive Graphic

  by martian on 3/3/2009, 6:58 PM with 0 comments

• Great talk on visual analytics by Tableau CEO

  by martian on 2/19/2009, 7:41 PM with 0 comments

• Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis (book)

  by martian on 2/18/2009, 10:51 PM with 3 comments

• Aquarium for the blind at Georgia Tech

  by martian on 12/22/2008, 4:49 AM with 0 comments

• Workplace Personality Types - PDF of T-Mobile's Workplace Motivation Report

  by martian on 12/4/2008, 8:48 PM with 0 comments

• World Bank data API

  by martian on 10/29/2008, 2:51 AM with 0 comments

• How designers work (Ph.D. Dissertation)

  by martian on 10/11/2008, 6:43 AM with 2 comments

• Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers

  by martian on 10/4/2008, 8:41 PM with 5 comments

• Getting content right

  by martian on 9/19/2008, 11:53 PM with 0 comments

• A Modest Proposal

  by martian on 9/17/2008, 12:02 PM with 43 comments

• Brief history of playgrounds and the importance of children's play

  by martian on 9/3/2008, 7:57 PM with 0 comments

• Bathroom Art

  by martian on 8/26/2008, 3:20 AM with 1 comments

• C++ Boost Version 1.36 Released

  by martian on 8/19/2008, 3:56 AM with 0 comments

• Python vs PHP benchmarks - Computer Language Benchmarks Game

  by martian on 7/24/2008, 9:11 PM with 0 comments

• Python for Lisp Programmers

  by martian on 7/24/2008, 8:25 PM with 9 comments

• Simple DB commits: zodb + cherrypy python

  by martian on 7/20/2008, 5:57 AM with 0 comments

• Phoenix Lander ‘Talks’ to Twitterers

  by martian on 5/31/2008, 9:49 PM with 0 comments

• Robotic construction of homes and buildings

  by martian on 5/29/2008, 7:22 AM with 0 comments

• 3D Graphics through JavaScript and Away3D

  by martian on 5/28/2008, 8:10 PM with 0 comments

• Inspirational books from a CS professor

  by martian on 5/25/2008, 6:47 PM with 0 comments

• Streaming video from your phone, with live user comments

  by martian on 5/18/2008, 7:35 AM with 0 comments

• Flash Player 10 - Beta release

  by martian on 5/15/2008, 6:23 AM with 0 comments

• Science or Philosophy?: Jon Elster and John Searle (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

  by martian on 5/13/2008, 7:13 PM with 0 comments

• by martian on 5/9/2008, 3:47 AM with comments

• How do users search your website?

  by martian on 5/8/2008, 3:13 PM with 8 comments

• Trolltech: Qt 4.4.0 fully released

  by martian on 5/6/2008, 9:54 PM with 0 comments