stevenrace

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by stevenrace 14y ago
After my 13" MBP was stolen, I brought my CR-48 out of hibernation and have been using it as my primary machine for nearly 6 months. It is indeed a great computer, but I can't help thinking a used Macbook, Thinkpad, or the plethora of net
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Additionally, Volkswagen/Audi autonomous efforts go far beyond 'self parking. They partnered with Stanford AI Lab , won the Darpa Grand Challenge, climbed Pikes Peak, etc. The key issue being overlooked in these discussions of 'Autonomous v
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Neat. I suppose this uses the 'Security Slot/K-slot' and pushes it out of the foam receptacle (via a solenoid) when a purchase has been made? Returning would be reverse, checking continuity with the lock cable when it's inserted...and mayb
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by stevenrace 14y ago
As well as spices that vary with season, cocaine, etc [0] ... I'm curious as to how these tests are done. I'm guessing samples are drawn and then run through a IR-spectrography machine. I wonder at what depth, how close to sewage runoff,
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Extending into written text, the narrative of 'Infinite Jest' was modeled on a Serpenski Gasket [1]. I'd be interested to hear of other novels formed of fractals. [1] http://kottke.org/07/12/infinite-jest
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by stevenrace 14y ago
As an ardent DWM/dmenu user, I'm ashamed I didn't know about this earlier. To fellow ArchLinux users, it's worth noting the AUR package is broken. I have uploaded a working PKGBUILD here: https://gist.github.com/4417214
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by stevenrace 14y ago
FWIW, 'EMACS' referenced here is not the 'GNU Emacs' which we are familiar with today - but from Gosling/Unipress. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3427495
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Again, props on your keen eye for market opportunities. In regards to being 'eco-friendly' - any suggestions for environmentally friendly plastisol/immulsion? We've been screenprinting in house for a while (<10 shirt runs) - as we like
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Part of the success and 'feel' of LEGO are due to the close tolerances - ~.01mm. This is an order of magnitude (or two) greater than my RepRap Mendelmax on it's best day. However, it will be a great boon to the LEGO community - as they wil
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by stevenrace 14y ago
While perhaps some are offshore oil rigs [1] - many are arrays of lights used to attract bait fish, phytoplankton, and squid [2] in order to increase commercial fishing yields. [1] http://blogs.airspacemag.com/pettit/2012/03/mar-del-fuego/
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Sure, but even in the domain of animal tracking I imagine very few cases involve capturing the animals afterwards. That seems labor intensive (and prone to biting, scratching, etc). If 'afterwards' is when it hits a certain geofence or kno
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Yup, it operates on a new range of frequencies.
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by stevenrace 14y ago
So I've worked in this space before (realtime GPS tracking for a Fortune 100) - reducing GPS battery drain is great...but getting the signal back to 'The Cloud' (ie cellular) to be processed is what sucks. And if you do barf out the data vi
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by stevenrace 14y ago
NASA is set to launch in 2017 a rocket stage that was in part '3D printed' via a form of laser sintering. [1] Additionally, many aerospace parts (F22 air vents, for example) are produced in a similar fashion. There are a series of Google T
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Title should be corrected to 'ALMS/LeMans racecar' - not 'Indy 500'... The following video goes over some of the more interesting technical bits from one of the engineers (6m38s in): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_INdbXMqsw&t=6m38s
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by stevenrace 14y ago
To be clear, 'their book scanner' refers to a '20% project' by an employee - not the actual hardware behind Google Books.
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Perhaps 'intriguing' is the better term. I'd implore everyone to spend a few rainy weekends trudging through Mandelbrot's 'The Fractal Geometry of Nature'[1] and Wolfram's 'A New Kind of Science'[2]. Both are rather terse, but I found both
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by stevenrace 14y ago
So are the 'classic' sprites public domain? I'm sure the other characters are some minor variation of the original - but it leaves me wondering if copyright has a lower threshold/bound in terms of resolution? In a 7x7 grid theres still a l
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Previous discussions [Aug. 2011]: - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2895474 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2868498
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by stevenrace 14y ago
I think it's important to map our (in the Global sense) undersea conditions over time. We hear a great deal about Global Warming - yet it's only the timelapse satellite imagery that concretes it for dismissive minds. The same can be said f
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by stevenrace 14y ago
I've been transfixed with the idea of 'Digital Comparative Studies of Cities' (or some similar turn of phrase). With the advent of mapping projects (GoogleMaps, Openstreetmap, etc), environmental sensor networks (my startup's area), and che
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Correct, but NXP, TI (w/ WiLink[1]), Broadcom, Qualcom, Intel,... are shipping similar products. As someone working in the 'Internet of Things' space, I wasn't so much disappointed with the lack of NFC - as Zigbee/802.15.4. Again, thanks t
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Has Apple declared it doesn't have NFC? Couldn't this be a 'software enabled upgrade' in due time? A number of chipsets do 802.11ac + NFC/RFID + (wifi,etc) in the same package. I suppose we won't know until teardowns begin appearing...
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Well the last time (June 2010) #AntiSec released UUIDs of Apple devices - Weev went to jail. [1,2] The '#FuckFBIFriday' releases have shown the incompetence of the FBI in this realm. So I wouldn't be so quick to side with the FBI... [1] h
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by stevenrace 14y ago
In the Aerospace industry, special applicator guns exist to zip bundles of wire in a specified tension. [1] But the use of butchers twine and wax line in still rather common. A few more points: - Zip ties are also made of ABS plastic - whic
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by stevenrace 14y ago
The Cray-2 (1985) supercomputers featured 'liquid immersion' cooling - the cubes of processors were dropped into a bath of inert oil [1][2][3]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorinert [2] Seymore Cray speaking about liquid cooling ht
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Alternately, for my emac brethren: http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2011/02/keeping-your-secrets-se...
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by stevenrace 14y ago
https://crypto.cat/
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by stevenrace 14y ago
Moreover, it further points the blame at Senator Dodd (Current MPAA CEO and US Senator...parodied as 'Senator Rodd' in the video). From the website promoting the video ( http://www.political-prostitution.com/ ): "Kim Dotcom has publicly acc
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by stevenrace 14y ago
But it may be great detecting small drones, however. Filtering out all the noise, I suspect, is 'the hard part'. One would have to detect objects in a point cloud and determine if their paths are 'organic/random' such as animals - versus t

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