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by olympus 12y ago
Are you implying that Elon Musk doesn't have any achievements? Co-founding PayPal and then following up with Tesla and SpaceX aren't too shabby, considering that all three of those companies are profitable. He's a little dr
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by olympus 12y ago
One of the stated goals of the RPi foundation is to keep the price as low as possible. Adding a few GB of NAND flash adds ~$5 to your BOM for the part, plus you have to redesign and solder that extra component to the PCB. All told, it wou
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by olympus 12y ago
No. Someone who can hold a wall sit for 30 seconds is hardly in "top shape." The recommended ability to start the P90X workout program is at least 1 minute (and that is considered a bare minimum to be able to do the workouts), a
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by olympus 12y ago
I played around with this project a few months ago, and it was cool, but with some limitations. The microphone I had to use didn't work from very far away (that was my fault for sourcing a crap microphone), and the voice recognition w
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by olympus 13y ago
He touches on it at the end with Singular Value Decomposition, but didn't mention that you can use SVD to get eigenvectors/values. He also doesn't cover how to do SVD. This could definitely be covered more in depth, but may
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by olympus 13y ago
These are all things I wasn't even thinking of. They would be great reward tiers. I would love to send a little data logger into space just so I could have my own personal data from space, kind of like the ArduSat Kickstarter. I&#x2
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by olympus 13y ago
RE (1): Sure there are a few people with extra money (judging from your HN profile you are one of their Bagaveev's ideal candidates), and it is really exciting to be involved in new projects. It's more exciting to be involved whi
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by olympus 13y ago
I'm not sure this is really a good fit for a Kickstarter project. I love rockets/space/science/etc and fully support researching cheaper launch methods, but for most people to invest, they want to get something back. T
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by olympus 13y ago
I read that, but for some reason it didn't register that the Dogecoin was already converted. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
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by olympus 13y ago
I'm not familiar with how much 26MM Dogecoin is in relation to the total amount of Dogecoin that's been mined, but it will be interesting to see what happens to the exchange rate as it gets converted into "real" money so
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by olympus 13y ago
Agreed. Really, middle/high school level algebra ought to be called "simplifying equations" or "solving for a variable" because real math majors know that a college level algebra course is worlds apart and middle&#
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by olympus 13y ago
A kid programming an iPhone app could be programming at a high level and doing neat stuff, but you clearly indicated that he is doing plain vanilla programming, so I'm going with the Algebra level. That's not to say your son is
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by olympus 13y ago
I don't want to get into an argument and you are certainly entitled to your own opinion, but the military is a pretty old profession and has dealt with this problem before. JTACs are basically radio/telephone operators, and often
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by olympus 13y ago
Funny how if you'd actually read the article you would have realized that Brandon feels a lot of regret over what he's done and clearly didn't refer to himself as a warrior. It's just a title created to sell magazines.
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by olympus 13y ago
Ballpark is around two seconds from making a control input (such as "begin orbiting around this point") and getting the feedback (like seeing the plane turning on your screen). You have to simultaneously stream full motion video
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by olympus 13y ago
It's not so much a latency issue but a field of view issue. Cars don't really go that fast and you'll see them coming way ahead of time as long as your camera is zoomed out far enough. There are procedures in place to reduc
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by olympus 13y ago
>someone could have a telephoto lens and take pictures of your dice rolls< Roll a braille octahedron in your bathroom with the door locked and the lights out. Type the bits on an offline computer so the keylogger can't report ba
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by olympus 13y ago
I applaud the author's idea, but let me share some of my experiences (both good and bad) since the DoD uses smart cards every day for a myriad of things including: document signing, document encryption, computer logins, website logins,
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by olympus 13y ago
This was on the front page less than a week ago. It's technically not a repost, but it feels the same. While I am more tolerant of reposts of things that never made it to the front page, stuff like this makes me feel bad for HN as it
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by olympus 13y ago
I'm not a HN etiquette stickler, and I'm not accusing anyone of any foul play, but the actual YouTube video was submitted 17 hours prior to this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6358080 This is just in c
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Thermal Cameras Are the Hottest View of Formula One(wired.com)
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by olympus 13y ago
It was just named that because it fell under square #51 on a map. It was totally arbitrary way to name it and doesn't imply the existance of Areas 0-51.
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by olympus 13y ago
Red Eagles? I'll second the "fun book" comment. I'd recommend it to anyone who has ever enjoyed a Tom Clancy novel.
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by olympus 13y ago
If we wanted to go down the conspiracy track, imagine if the NSA was behind it all. They are growing bitcoin large enough that tons of people rely on it, and also building up huge amounts of computing power in several large server farms.
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by olympus 13y ago
If you don't have health insurance it is practically impossible to make a doctor appointment, so lots of people just go to the emergency room.
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by olympus 13y ago
Not to make light of his work, but this is not that novel. Students have been "improving" the medical field using queuing theory and simulation software for years . I did it in my stochastics class when I got my master's de
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by olympus 13y ago
Just because something is closed source doesn't mean it's insecure. RdRand meets various standards for RNGs and the dieharder tests don't show anything of concern. While you can't be 100 percent sure of the reliability
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by olympus 13y ago
This is more or less correct, but I think the author exaggerated the "non-noteworthiness" of the USA in order to make a point. While the rest of the world may not care about an individual US citizen, they all pay close attention
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by olympus 13y ago
Everyone is so quick to try to assign cause to any phenomenon. I'm going to remind everyone that correlation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for causation, and there is often a significant time difference between the cause
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by olympus 13y ago
I'll go ahead and suggest the obvious: Wordpress. It has one of the largest ecosystems (if not the largest), and you can usually find multiple plugins to do whatever you want. You can self host, use their free hosting, or pay for thei

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