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by Matti 13y ago
"from roughly 150 feet away down to just one or two inches." Are these kind of sensors/receivers available in such commercially available versions that they can be easily incorporated into robotic projects? It seems like this
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by Matti 13y ago
I actually received my server today. It was ordered from the French site on the evening of the 25th -- I am a EU-resident and paid with Paypal. If you can find your order under "orders in progress" and some of the "fields&quo
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by Matti 13y ago
According to discussions on lowendtalk they've cancelled ALL orders made with Paypal as the payment method. This might possible be true for the order I made an EU-resident on the 25th. (The information in OVHs manager is sketchy.) The
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by Matti 13y ago
One of the concepts: "Digital Chocolatier Prototype The Digital Chocolatier is a prototype for a machine that allows users to quickly design, assemble and taste different chocolate candies. This machine is composed of three primary ele
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by Matti 13y ago
The "jump" is seldom more than a decision to change your path. Robert Ringer's Leapfrog Theory states: "No one has an obligation—moral, legal, or otherwise—to 'work his way up through the ranks.' Every human be
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by Matti 13y ago
For a certain type of engineer everything involving sales, marketing, discussions about perceived value and getting paid tons of money for something that basically equates to "advice giving"... will seem strange and weird.
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by Matti 13y ago
Leaner and lighter variants -- such as the Bullitt -- exist: http://www.larryvsharry.com/english/index.html (~24 kg, decent maneuverability, not much wider than a regular bike)
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by Matti 13y ago
It's not immediately obvious but they are an off-shoot of FS Data -- a fairly well-known (and old) Swedish hosting provider. It is in other words unlikely to be a "fly-by operation" in a niche where new companies pop-up very
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by Matti 13y ago
"What makes the robot wicked fast is the fact that it's got four independent drive motors, each one of which has a power to weight ratio that's absolutely bananas. Only 6 millimeters in size each, the motors output 1.5 watts of power at 40,
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by Matti 13y ago
Where do you see it learning to walk? You can't equate the inverted pendulum problem with upright walking. It is neat if it can choose it's own reference level ("goal") for a classical control problem -- but that's a long way from "learning
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by Matti 14y ago
The more memorable version that most of us probably remember as Nielsen's site: http://web.archive.org/web/20120530170411/http://www.useit.c... (The same design was used for ~13 years and often evoked strong responses from web designers.
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Kevin Pollack interviews Elon Musk - KPCS #6(youtube.com)
1 points by Matti 14y ago|0 comments
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Memolane gives hours of notice before shutting down service forever(sitenomore.wordpress.com)
4 points by Matti 14y ago|0 comments
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by Matti 14y ago
From the email sent on Feb 21: " Today we want to share the exciting news that our team is joining another company that will utilize the Memolane features in an expanded way, adding more value to all the great memories captured on social me
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by Matti 14y ago
Not the first death of that kind in Singapore: "Family suspects interference in David Widjaja case" http://sgforums.com/forums/3317/topics/363855 "However, it appeared the court process was intentionally directed to a conclusion of suicid
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by Matti 14y ago
"A common myth regarding science crowdfunding is that only charismatic projects are funded. The topic of the research, however, is less important to the project’s success than the crowd a project engages. Almost any topic in science can be
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by Matti 14y ago
The filling a request process appears to be more complex than it is due to superfluous form fields. The information about authors, title and DOI has already been entered by the requester. For the service to be a viable alternative, it shoul
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by Matti 14y ago
It's a mistranslation, and you are ignoring the context. He points out that every time he has been beaten up or robbed the assailants have been immigrants. And by immigrants, he clarifies, he is not talking about 7th generation Finns but ab
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by Matti 14y ago
By right-wing racist, are you talking about Fredrik whose children are mixed-race (note the clips where he got married in Laos) or Carl who's married to a jewish woman?
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TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard(youtube.com)
6 points by Matti 14y ago|1 comments
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by Matti 14y ago
A label saying "This container is for coffee _ _ _ _ s" with a lettered padlock ( http://wordlock.com/padlocks/ ) would perhaps be preferable to the hidden key solution.
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by Matti 14y ago
It would be interesting to have this contrasted with an article written about the same age span 75-150 years ago.
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by Matti 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4280532
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by Matti 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5152415
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by Matti 14y ago
It was submitted with the title "Minecraft brought in $92 million net in 2012". The linked URL is the original source and when it was submitted, there were no translations available.
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Mojang's Monster Profits(it24.idg.se)
206 points by Matti 14y ago|168 comments
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by Matti 14y ago
Getting by in Stockholm won't be a problem: you can safely assume that people within the start-up scene are fluent in English. You'll be met with a slightly different kind of problem: as communicating in English is so effortless, you'll hav
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by Matti 14y ago
Unless things have changed recently, Berlin still has fairly low rents and low living costs going for it -- giving people a fair amount of marginal space: http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html Alexander Young (of Soundcloud) speaking ab
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by Matti 14y ago
Along the same lines: for a young college student the death of a grandparent might very well constitute the first experience of losing a family member. With little experience, it's not always clear how these situations should be handled wit
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by Matti 14y ago
That one concerns Carmen Ortiz -- not Steve Heymann.

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