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by stingrae 9y ago
The difference is in a scatternet, each move between piconets had to create a new connection (1. master1 -> slave, 2. slave -> master2) The new mesh standard, I believe, is a flood mesh. There is no new connections required because al
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by stingrae 9y ago
Bluetooth Mesh is built on BLE. The proprietary meshes that existed before the standard was released also were flood mainly flood meshes on BLE.
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by stingrae 9y ago
Thank you. I find this blog post to not be worth the credibility of the HN front page.
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by stingrae 9y ago
I would argue that Ring is the primary consumer success that the VCs are looking at right now. Everything else is not looking good. Simplisafe raised the $57m in 2014 and seems to have been able to make a sustainable business without VC mon
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by stingrae 9y ago
It IPO'd at $24/share and is now $8/share. They are having a hard time releasing products and when they finally do make it out they are inferior to the competitors. (see karma drone)
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by stingrae 9y ago
Big corporations are ok with costs of creating a low margin hardware product because it is loss leader to other products and services with higher margins. Bringing a hardware product to market costs a minimum of $7m in the US. At Seed/
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by stingrae 9y ago
In 2014, there was piles of "success stories" for VCs to look at and the market was hot. Most of those successes have turned into down rounds or complete shutdowns in the last year.
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by stingrae 9y ago
The days of consumer hardware company's access to startup capital is over. With so many high profile VC backed (Fitbit, GoPro, Hello, Juicero, Coin, Pearl, ect.) and kickstarted (Lily.ai, Pebble) failures, no one is willing to risk it.
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by stingrae 9y ago
I stand corrected. That is an interesting concept.
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by stingrae 9y ago
Honestly, looking at the list and knowing how much people get paid at Google.(from personal experience) I found the salaries to be quite low in total compensation.
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by stingrae 9y ago
drivers could be helping make better maps, but I doubt that uber is able to use a cell phone to really create a usable training set for self driving. If every drivers car had cameras and lidar, that would be different.
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by stingrae 9y ago
Sure. Though there is a culture cost to an environment where you actually fire people without cause.
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by stingrae 9y ago
I am pretty sure firing requires much more than reporting by employees. It just gives them a place to look. Given the verbosity of the logging they collect on employee laptops, as seen in the Levandowski/Uber case, I am sure they can g
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by stingrae 9y ago
The driver can't see if you gave them a tip or not when they are rating you. Also it is not clear that the rider rating really matters too much.
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by stingrae 9y ago
Pre-breakup, Bell Labs produced a very large percentage of the scientific/engineering breakthroughs that power our modern world. The breakup arguably changed Bell Labs, hurting its ability to hire talent as well as its access to resour
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by stingrae 9y ago
I wonder what the Amazon strategy with this is, given they invested through the Alexa fund.
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Why Can't the Left Win?(theatlantic.com)
8 points by stingrae 9y ago|7 comments
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by stingrae 9y ago
Any app can do that without violating Apple's rules. They can tell whenever a user signs in to the app on a fresh install and the device model/software version is easily accessible. Usually I am not an uber defender, but in this c
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by stingrae 9y ago
I find this article's title to be clickbait. What Uber was doing by "fingerprinting" although supposedly breaking Apple's rules is definitely not what I would consider spying.
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by stingrae 9y ago
To me it seems like this is mischaracterized to make it sound worse than it is. Can someone explain why people are making a big deal about this practice?
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Uber denies Waymo theft claims on grounds it never used custom LiDAR(techcrunch.com)
61 points by stingrae 10y ago|55 comments
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Campaign to put science and tech leaders in public office(arstechnica.com)
1 points by stingrae 10y ago|0 comments
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by stingrae 10y ago
They have one at the San Francisco Ferry building, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1gKvyghHsk . They put it up in 2013. Apparently it weights 700 lbs.
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by stingrae 10y ago
I am not sure if it is the law. But there is a moral and ethical reason to report a crime if observed, depending on the severity and impact to the victims.
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by stingrae 10y ago
Europe is actually going to keep their 2G network around while they take down the 3G network and deploy 4G.
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by stingrae 10y ago
There is speculation based on how he structured facebook's stock as well as his new years resolution, to travel all over the US and talk to people about the issues they care about. It is the sort of step that someone would make before
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by stingrae 10y ago
I think the core discovery is when Shakespeare from Stratford gets linked to Shakespeare the player, making her think that these two are the same person. > "When “Shakespeare the Player” found himself on this list, his campaign for
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Motiv Ring, an Activity Tracker(mymotiv.com)
3 points by stingrae 10y ago|0 comments
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by stingrae 10y ago
Reading into this, I assume they just hit Proto for the device and are starting a process that will take ~6 months (in an ideal case) to ramp to a mass production ready design and production line. (given they follow the standard model, Prot
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by stingrae 10y ago
I think the point is that Kickstarter is not a sustainable way to build a hardware business. Despite kickstarter's own statement that it isn't a store, it really is. Would the majority of people on the site really back projects if

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