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From the article it looks like they use a technique similar to the 'Heart rate monitor' apps, but instead of trying to look for pulses they look to quantify the blood oxygen content, perhaps using colour? and from that get a diagn
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This is true, it has been revolutionary. There is a bit of a dark side to it that's not often mentioned, mobile banking isn't exactly a white knight. For example interest rates on mobile banking/microlending platforms are qui
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To be fair, X-Rays are photons, maybe its about the fine-grainness of the technique since they're not X-Raying it but looking for other minuscule changes
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From the perspective of many, including myself, it is easier to develop apps for Windows than for Linux. While having software that's open source on the Pi would be awesome, what would be even more awesome is tonnes of apps on Github t
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Well yes but its more than that. Apple's iPhones when it comes to the smartphone industry make up a large proportion of the entire industry's profits even though they don't sell as many phones or have as much sales in proport
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It's not only amazon that does this with loss leader pricing, it its also my local grocery store with milk and bread. For me what gives me the impression amazon has the lowest prices are their nearly nonexistent profits. Whatever'
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It's a bit disappointing that you see it is OK through an understanding of the system. In a time of emergency, its just not right. Market pricing can be justifiable but not when the person may have no choice. It is taking advantage of
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12y ago
Hi! Yes we'd consider it. Could you send me your contact info [tp@telo.co.in}
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I wonder if the next step in the evolution of public transport is something akin to Uber. It may be more entropic come the day self driving cars come along. Given that each car heads to its destination without a transit route where passenge
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Eato // https://eato.co.in Eato is an online food delivery service in India (Kerala) - Marketing Lead We're working on the next gen food delivery in India & South Africa. It's important that you have: - E
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Its not the first time. Their status page is not trustworthy. When there was an issue a few weeks ago concerning the HVM? many instances were restarted. Status page showed green as if nothing had happened. They probably change it when its w
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It probably means ARM will create ASIC type encryption on their chips. May be helpful saving battery life.
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I got the same feeling. It reminds me of Goldeneye (Nintendo 64). The graphics are almost exactly as they appear in the pics.
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Meteor recently acquired FathomDB. Additionally SQL is on the cards too ( http://roadmap.meteor.com ) they're not exactly heavily invested in MongoDB. If anything it looks like they're giving users the choice of what to
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I tried to update it/send a PR but there are a lot of packages in there that are missing so its very difficult to do.
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12y ago
Another nice site built on Telescope ( https://github.com/TelescopeJS/Telescope ). Its nice to see these communities come up, particularly when the focus is something of interest.
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Because it's public infrastructure. TFL is a government body. We also pay to to use the road in the form of taxes, it would not be nice for the government to call us a 'customer'. If thats not a good enough example, there are
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Small/TLDR backstory: Marriott jammed Wifi hotspots and offered its own internet services instead, charging from $250 per device. Source: http://www.slashgear.com/marriott-fined-600000-for-jamming-g...
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It may not end poverty directly but it certainly can help. With direct welfare payments over over other benefits in particular it allows poorer people to get money without any middle men in between.
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Can someone put this into context. It sounds like a huge sum? What would someone with a taxi license & without Lyft typically earn?
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I'd imagine any language which is multi threaded and with plenty of race conditions, because he'd code that perfectly knowing it would work fine.
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Its actually a deliberate 13px border, I initially thought it was a margin caused by a chrome extension. I guess it makes it feel a bit more like the news page
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I use http://hackerne.ws which works well too.
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I have to type this awful thing every time I log into Envato and I can never get it right. It's so frustrating. Envato refuse to acknowledge its an issue. I don't even get the point of it since you can get passed them by just hiri
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I think its because Stephen Wolfram built it. If anyone else did it it would be super awesome. While I don't share the hate I see this every time with anything 'Wolfram' on HN.
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There was a BBC Horizon episode that went into each in depth to show that each is not as trivial as they seem. Money and Attention wouldn't really be able to solve what they're aiming for. The example they used of why this prize
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Once someone said a company is worth people are willing to pay for it.
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The name of the service is DreamObjects. No affiliation to Dreamhost but doing something as basic as storing files as a service hardly deserves to be called a clone.
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This must be a response to the protests today. I guess adding this is a way of saying Uber is not exactly like a Black Taxi and distinguish the two as different
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