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by thesehands 10y ago
various inventions from the chindogu company to solve 'everyday' problems. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chindōgu
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by thesehands 10y ago
If online publications wanted genuine discourse under articles then I'm sure the die-hard commentators would pay a fee to engage in such, especially if the author were around to offer response. Seems this would provide enough of a barr
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by thesehands 11y ago
see also teller.io for the UK, Stevie gave a great talk on the same issue at a hackernews london meet up last year.
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by thesehands 11y ago
"we believe the contents of your iPhone are none of our business."
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by thesehands 11y ago
I'd also recommend Remember Remember by Ed Cooke ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Remember-Learn-Stuff-Thought-Never-e... ). Ed, one of the mental athletes that trained Josh, takes you through this process of creating loci to t
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by thesehands 11y ago
Exposing expoits prior to letting the vulnerable party know is a pretty poor way to go about things, but at what point should legal action be taken against VTech for not properly securing this info?
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by thesehands 11y ago
Its worth noting how well received this was. Fan sentiment seemed very high at the experiment, noting crystal clear quality and minimal buffer time. It was reported that all advertising spots had been sold too.
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by thesehands 11y ago
I'm aware of a scheme in the UK where Doctors got paid for signing the forms post death certifying a pacemaker is not present in the body. At the end of the week these doctors could collect their not insignificant (roughy £100 a body)
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by thesehands 11y ago
I was very glad to see this was genuinely about apples, and not a piece about Apple Inc. A great risk taken by Mr. Carter. To have the foresight that people would be so uncommittal 19 years hence that eating a whole apple would become a cha
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by thesehands 11y ago
Not sure this is entirely relevant to the core readers of HN. That aside, let's wait and watch spending in these areas rise in the lead up to the next general election, and the tories applaud themselves.
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by thesehands 11y ago
Another fine example of this is Cushion, where his running expenses are presented (without revenues) http://cushionapp.com/expenses
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by thesehands 11y ago
One of the Chaps that helped Josh was Ed Cooke who founded Memrise ( http://www.memrise.com )
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by thesehands 12y ago
Android is still an O/S built by a search engine company. If a phone manufacturer isn't making a build specific to their device and using the 'vanilla' version provided by Google then it is the device maker limiting free
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by thesehands 12y ago
The BBC produce quite a few intereting write ups of their R&D process alongside odd things they are hacking on here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd Well worth a read.
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by thesehands 12y ago
The Box by Marc Levinson gives a great history of the move of sea freight from bulk storage to containers, and the various companies and players instrumental in this change.
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by thesehands 12y ago
http://foundation.bz/ - Kevin Rose meets entrepreneurs https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-random-show-podcast/... - Kevin Rose & Tim Ferriss The Infinite Monkey Cage - http:/&#
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by thesehands 12y ago
presumably this could be done fairly easily using some RFID on the weights and sensor tracking in a wristband or ankleband to identify the activity.
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by thesehands 12y ago
Funny to read this, I was one of the 6-7 sommeliers that did these events (despite not being a sommelier). He was very quick to compliment all, and very friendly to chat to.
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by thesehands 12y ago
Think this is some spam...
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by thesehands 13y ago
There's a good Chrome extension called churnalism that alerts you when stories on news sites you read appear to be copy pasted from other news sources or wikipedia
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by thesehands 13y ago
I like the look of this, good work guys. I also enjoy the DRT website.
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by thesehands 13y ago
I really like that my carrier is hacking around odd tools and releasing them on github. That being said in this case, as soon as the iPhone supports html5 vibrate, I'll be turning it off as soon as I can. I fear advertisers will abuse
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by thesehands 13y ago
Another great checklist to consider when reading articles: Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation : http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html (found the link on HN a while back)