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Have you wondered how the accelerometer chip in your iPhone works?(leancrew.com)
1 points by computator 14y ago|0 comments
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by computator 14y ago
Of particular interest to me (and I think HN readers) is the incredible rig they built to film this. See the video starting at 5m 42s.
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Cheetah at 1200fps captures every nuance of the cat’s movement (vimeo.com)
3 points by computator 14y ago|1 comments
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by computator 14y ago
No, the grandparent was right. He's talking about how big a cube could contain 6000L, but you're calculating the volume of 6000L. Simple way to visualize this: Think about the difference between a 4-foot square and 4 square feet. The former
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by computator 14y ago
> it raised the price overnight, to more than $23,000 a vial, from $1,650, bringing the cost of a typical course of treatment for infantile spasms to above $100,000. > we only have about 800 patients a year > Sales ... tota
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by computator 14y ago
> His DNA sample was on record after he had willingly given it to them as part of an investigation into a burglary at his mother's home some years earlier. Lesson to everybody: Don't ever voluntarily give your fingerprints or DNA. Onc
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by computator 14y ago
> VBV is supposedly hack-proof Something very strange I noticed with Verified by Visa and with Mastercard Secure Code is that both sometimes forget that you have already enrolled and make you re-enroll (i.e., answer their weak "security
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by computator 14y ago
> Consumers whose CC info is stolen aren't liable for fraudulent charges That's only if the credit card company believes or accepts your story. I once reserved a flight by telephone using a credit card, but at the airport I paid for
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by computator 14y ago
> About 20% of the users have good graphic cards, but are not sophisticated enough to install drivers, so my [Bitcoin] miner can't run. If he has root-level control of the systems, why doesn't he install the needed drivers himself? Some
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by computator 14y ago
It's actually https://www.securesuite.net . I very suspicious of that the first time I was subjected to Verified by Visa. The other thing that infuriated me about Verified by Visa is that when you are forced to sign up for it, it thanks
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by computator 15y ago
I read the story above and I did like it. It has a blend of math, insanity, and consciousness like the story in the main article. A synopsis for others to decide if they want to read it: Chloe is a beautiful humanoid companion. Deliberately
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by computator 15y ago
What's the most expensive part in an iPhone at the component level? According to the teardown, it is the display ($38.50). Well, that's no surprise. (In fact, I've been quoted more to replace a broken laptop display than the price of the la
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by computator 15y ago
> I'm also just aesthetically opposed to descriptive names. In your case, I think a coined name is OK because any alternative that I can think of--like "Multi Product Installer"--sounds horribly generic. Multi Product Installer is no
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by computator 15y ago
$750,000 per patent--$4.5B divided by 6000 patents--is clearly absurd. Or is it? I'm thinking that it does make economic sense, but only if you buy in bulk. The vast majority of patents (not even limited to software patents) make no money,
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by computator 16y ago
Regarding idea #52 SoftBricks (Bricks that contain software components that you can connect just like lego pieces). I had a very similar idea more than a decade ago. I wrote a business plan and shopped (unsuccessfully) for venture capital.
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Why did this invention -- obvious and trivial to implement -- take 30 years?
7 points by computator 16y ago|12 comments
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by computator 17y ago
> Coincidences do happen and if you happen to be around the area of two murders you'll have a very hard time to explain that away, whereas in a society with good privacy you would never even appear on the radar. I have the perfect real-
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Ask HN: Achieving high security and privacy by daily re-imaging of your system
2 points by computator 17y ago|2 comments