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by stevenrace 13y ago
I had hoped some HN'ers would end up purchasing it. There was a fairly long string of comments pledging funds [1]. I'm curious how that panned out - in both terms of informal croudsourcing and how one negotiates with AOL-TW. [1]
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by stevenrace 13y ago
Also on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOcrXzpA0W82rsJJKrmeBl...
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by stevenrace 13y ago
Additonally, bandwidth needs to be taken into account. Even military satellite uplinks are slow and in many cases feeds are being sent to a ground station and then converted into digital for uplink.
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by stevenrace 13y ago
You should look into flashing your ECU. In additon to substantial power increases, there is a dramatic improvement in MPG. I can cite 35 MPG in a E60 535i (+200lbs over an E90 335i) on highway trips when in 'fuel economy mode'.
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by stevenrace 13y ago
Compression ratio and operating RPM mostly. Compression ratio (the 'squish' in an engine's 'suck,squish,bang,blow' cycle) is >~14:1. Dynamic compression (once you factor in the compression of air caused by the t
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by stevenrace 13y ago
Additionally, the 'Spying on the Homefront' [1] episode in 2007 brought up FISA, domestic wiretaps, AT&T's 'Room 641A' [2], etc. [1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefro
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by stevenrace 13y ago
>>but a video... would have been better. Boeing released video earlier in the year [1]. Raytheon has had video of their's shooting mortars since 2008 [2] and drones in 2010 [3]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by stevenrace 13y ago
Another great read from the F-Secure folks. From the code snippet, it seems Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit.getScreensize() doesn't account for external monitors - only the primary display. Targeted malware you'd think would use getScr
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by stevenrace 13y ago
Given the rise of 'robotic-assisted surgery', it shouldn't come as much of a surprise. It's difficult to decouple the medical procedure from the hardware/software involved: robotic arms, the code behind it, machine
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by stevenrace 13y ago
There are a few that come to mind. 'Prelude'[1] and 'Graphene'[2] both serve as a sensible defaults for most folks. I had intended to link to the 'Emacs Starter Kit', but it seems that project has been abandon
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by stevenrace 13y ago
While I'm not aware of any that explicitly focus on conservation, there are established ways to get involved as a business. I'm in the sensor-networking space and spend a lot time following this domain. What follows is just gene
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by stevenrace 13y ago
Agreed. I wish the article was more clear what advances the Berkeley folks have come up with. They claim a theoretical 3 meter resolution compared to the 'next-gen' sensor package (VIIRS [1]) at 750 meters. [1] http://
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by stevenrace 13y ago
I had the same thought, but apparently the resolution is 'only' 1000 meters [1]. Additionally, it revolves the Earth in ~2 days - making early warning kinda hard. As for similar sensor packages - some 'Satellite-Derived Sea
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by stevenrace 13y ago
>> in order to decrypt the traffic one would need to print Cisco configs Which could be done legally via 'Cisco Service Independent Intercept (SII)' built into IOS to comply with CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law En
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by stevenrace 13y ago
They are likely both complicit in - as well as victims of - fiber tapping given GOOG now owns the building housing one of the largest peering exchanges on the Internet [1]. [1] 111 Eight Ave in NYC (housing Hiberia's trans-Atlantic cab
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by stevenrace 13y ago
In addition to the links below, Raytheon has deployed many 'Electronic Modular Enclosures' which house power/cooling/servers enclosed in a TEU'ish container. They've been in use since 2005'ish in the DoD
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by stevenrace 13y ago
While we're speculating on the meaning behind the name(s) RE:wind, remember that Google acquired Makani Power a while back. They build wind generated power systems using large kites. What better place to put them into production than
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by stevenrace 13y ago
Correct. The EZUHF is my preferred transmitter.
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by stevenrace 13y ago
Good eye ID'ing the distinctive DJI arms on the hexacopter. The convention seems to be 2.4Ghz for telemetry back the to base-station or radio display - and something lower in the UHF band like 433 or 900Mhz for actual control. Mainly b
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by stevenrace 13y ago
emacs + mu4e [1] Since it's within Emacs there's great GPG support, familiar keybindings, and less contextual shift than switching to a browser. It's also fully searchable, usable offline, and non-blocking to other emacs ope
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by stevenrace 13y ago
We have a few prints by Scott Hansen (of iso50.com & Tyco), an old Esso sign, and the cover of SICP under the glass of the workbench. I also built a screenprint station in hopes of making a few more prints. Motivation comes from all th
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by stevenrace 13y ago
Henkel/Loctite have XY(Z) offerings for industrial uses [1,2] as well as screen printing of UV curable glues. The ability to post cure using UV LEDs makes this much more reasonable, even given the short cure times for some cyanoacryla
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by stevenrace 13y ago
I had always presumed this was where NFC would gain adoption within $BrandName. One could easily and non-invasively (preserving packaging) check authenticity against $BrandName's website. It would cost less than printing UUIDs outside
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by stevenrace 13y ago
In 'Academia', researchers may not actually own the intellectual property resulting from their research.
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by stevenrace 13y ago
The number of exit nodes and bridges hasn't changed nearly as drastically [1]. I'd wager it's a mix of publicity post NSA debacle and more botnets coming online. [1] https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html
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by stevenrace 13y ago
It's always good to see cheaper hardware - our early 'proof of concept' hardware were based on an 'Arduino FIO' + 'XBee Pro' which came out to ~$60. Then quickly migrated to a TI MSP430 + CC2500(CC1100) w
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by stevenrace 13y ago
Agreed. This isn't going to form the 'alternate Internet' that some people are clamoring for. But there are tons of applications (machine->machine) where a basic serial/ssh is all that's required. We've ha
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by stevenrace 13y ago
I have a problem with spoken words, not 'noise'. I'm quickly removed from 'The Zone' when my brain starts to unconsciously process speech. Indistinct chatter, environmental noise, loud instrumental music, etc aren&
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by stevenrace 13y ago
Ah, thanks. It's interesting to see how the corporate alliances are shaking out. Bosch is supplying hardware for BMW and Daimler-Mercedes self driving efforts... not sure who is behind Volkswagen Audi Group's efforts, as Stanford
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by stevenrace 13y ago
It's been apparent for sometime now that the next step in monitoring/IoT will be: - CMOS UV laser diodes for spectroscopy - microfluidics + chemsensors Or so it seems from my view in the sensor network space... Anyway, since the p

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