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by djahng 15y ago
The patent they reference in the article states that the LED's current is PWMed, where the modulation function is sinusoidal.
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by djahng 16y ago
"Bnter was so star-struck by Spark, the company hadn’t widely pitched itself to other investors, but told the ones that it had talked to it’d be going with Spark." That seems like a pretty big mistake. It sounds like Bnter could have proba
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by djahng 16y ago
The point of probability is to describe uncertain events. Coin flips aren't described by uniform distributions, they're binomial. Human intelligence can be modeled by a Gaussian distribution. And this site's experiment seems to suggest t
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by djahng 16y ago
The site asks you to pick a random number, not mentioning anything about trying to achieve a specific distribution. EDIT: Downvotes and no comments, nice. You guys seem to be misunderstanding something. If asked to picked any number ("ra
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by djahng 16y ago
How do you be "better at picking random numbers"?
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by djahng 16y ago
Actually I'm sure most people that have PhDs will tell you that finishing a dissertation requires a large amount of determination, bordering on obsessiveness.
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by djahng 16y ago
I don't think this is what he meant. After all, PG does have a PhD. I think he's referring to those multiple-masters degrees grad students, or the 10+ year grad student and still no PhD...
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by djahng 16y ago
I believe Breakup Notifier was blocked due to too many api calls. Facebook hasn't really been commenting on the specifics as to why it was blocked. So why would they block Greplin specifically? Well the point is no one knows if/why/when
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by djahng 16y ago
It happened to Facebook Breakup Notifier recently. Facebook revoked API access without notification.
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by djahng 16y ago
No arguments from me, or Mark Twain.
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by djahng 16y ago
I think what Chrome really needs is the ability to watch HTML5 video in full screen (not just fill the browser window). At least this is Chrome's functionality on my Mac. I realize full screen video is not part of the HTML5 spec, it's lef
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Transphorm improves AC-DC conversion efficiency(news.cnet.com)
2 points by djahng 16y ago|0 comments
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by djahng 16y ago
At my last job we were allowed to spend the occasional day at home, but we were generally expected to be in the office. I have a few friends that work exclusively remotely, but they didn't begin that way. They worked for a few years at a
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Ask HN: Who works from home?
16 points by djahng 16y ago|10 comments
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by djahng 16y ago
Same here. Although I do find myself going to bars a lot more now.
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by djahng 16y ago
Yeah I saw that. I also asked this question before endlessvoid94 did.
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by djahng 16y ago
Where are the shirts being made? Are they made to order and drop-shipped like Cafe Press/Zazzle? Or are you building up inventory?
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by djahng 16y ago
price is what you pay. value is what you get.
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by djahng 16y ago
PhD from HST in itself is just a credential and doesn't mean much beyond that. I'm sure you've seen the commercials for "doctor recommended back-pain relief products" that are being endorsed by dentists...
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by djahng 16y ago
I'm curious as to why their "About us" page is empty. Beyond their manufacturing complications, I'm wondering what qualifies them to make statements and a device that claims to help people sleep/wake up better. It leaves the door open to
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Apple Cracking Down On Widgety and Desktop-y iPad Apps(techcrunch.com)
4 points by djahng 16y ago|0 comments
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by djahng 16y ago
these images were taken using the spitzer space telescope, which is an infrared telescope. so no, those aren't "true colors".
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by djahng 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duoHtJpo4GY
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by djahng 16y ago
i think the images were taken from spitzer. so yes, it is as seen from earth.
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by djahng 16y ago
on a related note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg
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by djahng 17y ago
Observing the red/blue (doppler) shift is in fact how retrograde orbits relative to a star's rotation is determined. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossiter–McLaughlin_effect You can't actually visibly see the planet travel across the star
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by djahng 17y ago
I'm not sure what he's complaining about with the Droid camera. It looks like it's just using a different white-balance setting than the iPhone.
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by djahng 17y ago
So the lesson is don't worry so much about authenticating the user, but focus on authenticating the transaction. It would have been a much more useful article if he actually described how (rather than just saying, "do it like the credit ca
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by djahng 17y ago
"'Bank of America spent $40,000,000 dollars on airplanes last year. We spent $40,000 to develop an iPhone application so you can check your balance from anywhere.' (Hmm, the iPhone app should cost like $2.99.)" I think he's misunderstandin
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by djahng 17y ago
You mean Paul Graham?

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