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by hoopism 12y ago
Techcrunches worst screw-ups: 1) Slideshows 2) Scrollbars on slideshows 3) Link baiting as a business
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by hoopism 12y ago
It's not like police are an inexhaustible resource. Resources allocated in one realm means a dip in another. Using bad stats to justify a reallocation should be alarming to local residents.
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by hoopism 12y ago
Doesn't appear to be any flawed math here... just flawed PR. Not like somebody missed a decimal point. Based on my comprehensive understanding (watched The Wire and read articles), made up stats and policing are old buddies.
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by hoopism 12y ago
Interesting. Was unaware of this company till I saw some backlash on Hackaday (and they call out HN for blocking this backlash). Neat stuff. http://hackaday.com/2014/11/18/thalmic-labs-shuts-down-free-... Ca
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by hoopism 12y ago
http://hackaday.com/2014/11/18/thalmic-labs-shuts-down-free-... I see what you did there...
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by hoopism 12y ago
No. Our pediatrician is not a developmental specialist but is of a similar mindset that there is just not enough evidence to support a lot of the mind/gut theories. Same goes for the metal toxicity and vaccination links. She's n
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by hoopism 12y ago
My daughter is 17 months and recently diagnosed with Autism. For the first few months everything was bout getting a diagnosis so that we could begin therapy asap. Since then I have spent more time trying to see what some of the research sug
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by hoopism 12y ago
They demo'd a few... non were more impressive than the front view. I agree some additional processing may make this a really cool tool... but for demo videos these accurately depict a really cool idea that in reality doesn't make
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by hoopism 12y ago
The expectation conceptually is so much greater than the results of this thing that I can't help but think that EVERYONE will be dissapointed... Just look at their example "extreme" videos... the 360 video is disorienting and
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by hoopism 12y ago
I cut the cord 3 years ago and regularly pay 2 dollars an episode for shows I want to watch. I own several rokus and pay for prime, hulu (occasionally) and netflix (occasionally). I have never been happier with my tv/media consumptio
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by hoopism 12y ago
It says this is chromecast enabled... so it's the same thing with more, no?
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by hoopism 12y ago
100% Challenge? Not sure what that means... but maybe this post is contributing to it?
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by hoopism 12y ago
"Smile!" is one config file away from putting his head on her body. It might be hilarious, but it's not AI. Citation of hilarity http://manbabies.com/
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by hoopism 12y ago
The washington post had an article that basically said the 80/20 rule applied to drinkers (20% consmed 80% of alcohol). http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/25/t... Base
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by hoopism 12y ago
It's definitely ambitious and the tech is to be applauded. Just think it's lazy and dangerous to have adults in public spaces running around pretending shooting one another with gun-like devices and sounds.
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by hoopism 12y ago
Jeff Koons was making Shapies a long time ago (WARNING NSFW) http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/10/28/kama-sutra-glass-scul...
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by hoopism 12y ago
Ditch the guns guys. It's unnecessary and introduces all sorts of liability and risk. Honestly, it seems irresponsible.
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by hoopism 12y ago
Reminds me of an art installation that worked like an ATM for your data. You plug in your cellphone and based on how much data it was able to scrape it would dispense money. Usually less than a buck. Was interesting to see how many peopl
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by hoopism 12y ago
Thank you. I think you are right. Felt like somehow what I said was inflammatory. If anything it's admission of ignorance... but one I thought was worth mentioning.
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by hoopism 12y ago
My comment was exactly that... Basically saying that as someone uneducated on foreign affairs my gut reaction to a death of a prominent Russian scientist is to suspect that the article is about suspicious conditions. Not sure why this got n
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by hoopism 12y ago
I read about him just now, admittedly was not aware of him prior. My first thought though given the location was "so what was this guy doing the government didn't like?".
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by hoopism 12y ago
"The reality is that it’s easier said than done! It’s actually very hard to make money in the stock market!" There should be a follow on sentence... It can be very difficult to make money in the stock market IN THE SHORT TERM. Yo
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by hoopism 12y ago
Don't discount this as a way of getting non-apple fanboys talking about apple. Hell, I didn't even know U2 was alive... now I am talking about them. I am sure it wasn't the intended purpose... but there's a lot of pub o
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by hoopism 12y ago
I'd venture to say nothing is "hastily" done at a company Apple's size but perhaps in this case it was... also seems to present consistently on multiple iProducts with no reactive crappola.
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by hoopism 12y ago
Stinks, they will only let me buy a max of 10. I wanted 100... guess I'll have to look for something else.
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by hoopism 12y ago
Hackaday has been all over this. They changed crowd fund sites to Tilt and have a new video. See here: http://hackaday.com/2014/09/04/scribble-and-the-failings-of-... Original kickstart discussion http:&#x2F
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Questionable Scribbler pen is back after getting booted from Kickstarter(drop-kicker.com)
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by hoopism 12y ago
You can get a barebones arduino for around 3-5 dollars. Shield (without any price comparison shopping whatsoever) is 49 bucks ( http://tronixlabs.com/arduino/shields/gsm/sim900-gsm-cellula... ). Siemens has an
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by hoopism 12y ago
So for those who may have seen the BTTN post (100 dollar cell network enabled button) you now know the dirty secret. You are this shield, and arduino and 60c away from building your own.
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by hoopism 12y ago
It can use cell network but SIM is not included... so no data plan for the 100 bucks. It's certainly interesting. I was having this discussion with someone the other day. So far the IoT seems to be 200 dollar Locks/Lightswitches,

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