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by hughes 9y ago
Iridium is in LEO, but the comms hardware itself is pretty slow (1 to 2+ seconds latency). The throughput is also very low (2 to 4 kbit/s). Iridium is a great low-cost, low-bandwidth network though.
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by hughes 9y ago
> Do we yet have an airplane yet that can come close to the efficiency of the most clumsiest of the birds? Regardless of efficiency, we have certainly exceeded the range, cargo capacity, top speed, and passenger space of most birds. Simi
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by hughes 10y ago
Actually an interesting idea. If the Starshot project [1] (which uses ground-based laser propulsion) gets off the ground, perhaps the system could be equally useful for de-orbiting space junk. Firing at orbital objects as they approach from
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by hughes 10y ago
Beamed energy is here!
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by hughes 10y ago
That's interesting. I grew up around there and would definitely consider moving back one day to be around family. What are the big tech names around there these days?
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by hughes 10y ago
The Club Penguin shutdown is a devastating blow to the Kelowna tech industry! (seriously, their headquarters are there)
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by hughes 10y ago
This article doesn't mention one of the major reasons for talent leaving Canada: if you work there, you need to stomach a 50% pay cut in average salaries vs the US. This is true pretty much across the board regardless of tech niche o
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by hughes 10y ago
Discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14133780
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by hughes 10y ago
I really don't understand the dependency on hours of the clock. Would a student struggling in an 8am class in Pacific time suddenly excel if they moved to the East coast and went to 11am classes starting at the same moment? Is there an
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by hughes 10y ago
Are document-specific replies part of current manual faxing technology? This seems like something that would depend on your own internal document management rather than the fax protocol itself.
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by hughes 10y ago
Ah, missed that. Thanks.
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by hughes 10y ago
What is K&R? It's referenced several times but not defined.
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by hughes 10y ago
This is quite an accurate overview of the surprisingly vast vocabulary of concepts a web developer needs to be familiar with. It certainly looks a bit daunting all laid out like this!
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by hughes 10y ago
What I like about the Lyft tipping model is that allows you to decide the (optional) tip after you have left the ride - when the driver says goodbye, they have no idea if you will or will not leave a tip. Removing the on-the-spot pressure o
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by hughes 10y ago
A perfect vacuum still displays activity in the form of "vacuum energy" - a counterintuitive property of the universe where particles apparently blink into existence for a short duration in otherwise empty space. https:/&#x2
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by hughes 10y ago
That was a joke about "April Fools", on April 1st.
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by hughes 10y ago
Well, the title of the tutorial is "Naked Tensor"...
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by hughes 10y ago
Can you mark the exact moment the ruling was made public? Could this image contain evidence of trading w/ insider knowledge of the SEC ruling?
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by hughes 10y ago
That's exactly correct. Consider the equation for kinetic energy: E = 1/2 m*v^2 The energy to go from 0-10 m/s is the difference in this value (for 1kg e.g.): dE = E1 - E0 = 1/2(10^2) - 1/2(0^2) = 50J
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by hughes 10y ago
100% agreed. Coming to LA from Toronto, the biggest disappointment was the bus frequency. Toronto transit has some big problems, but on most routes you can get a transfer within 5-10 minutes. When you need to transfer on the LA Metro, it&#x
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by hughes 10y ago
Does ability to solve brain-teasers correlate with a drop in "corporate retardation"?
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by hughes 10y ago
Ah, my bad. I thought the model was in reference to the current age of the star, not the expected duration of fusion.
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by hughes 10y ago
Are you saying that they don't orbit their star because some of them gravitationally influence each other? Or are you saying that nothing outside of our solar system can be a planet? Either way, NASA should schedule another press relea
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by hughes 10y ago
> trillions of years This is off by several orders of magnitude. Like estimating the age of your neighbor to be somewhere around 400,000 years old.
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by hughes 10y ago
It always makes me sad to see that the PuTTY download page is served over unsecure HTTP.
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by hughes 10y ago
Creating a business with the purpose of circumventing border control is unlikely to be appreciated or permitted by authorities in any country. Probably better off just leaving your smartphone at home and buying a device at your destination.
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by hughes 10y ago
The secret key can probably be used to generate the account key.
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by hughes 10y ago
Also, talk to your doctor before going 3 days without food.
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by hughes 10y ago
This looks interesting, but high-tech gardening communities almost always seem to turn into thinly-veiled DIY cannabis farmers.
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by hughes 10y ago
Reminds me heavily of mo.js[1], but for native apps. I was pretty impressed with how smooth the mo.js demos were. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13419665

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