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by tisme 14y ago
Looks to me as if you're on the road to building a company the hard way, but if you persist I think you just might get there. Taking a few wrong turns doesn't need to be the end and you seem to have learned a number of valuable lessons.
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by tisme 14y ago
IBM is fantastic at using their research for PR, but it usually takes a very long time until these breakthrough announcements show up in products. The challenges on the road to competing with established tech for a completely new technology
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by tisme 14y ago
Storing data and using data are two completely different things. You can store all of FB and lots of other companies in a fairly small volume these days. But as soon as you want to access that data to process or update it the game changes r
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by tisme 14y ago
For the general case, all other parameters being equal (supply mode, quality and so on): bigger charger -> larger dead load. An iPad charger is not a 'large' charger, it's a fairly small step up from an iPhone charger, since you are rep
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by tisme 14y ago
The correct term is internal resistance, and you can calculate it easily using ohms laws. The internal resistance is easiest to think of as a series resistor in line with one of the output terminals.
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by tisme 14y ago
No, but it is inefficient. A larger charger will have a larger 'dead load', the internal consumption of the charger. So if you plug in a very small consumer into a such a charger then percentage wise you're losing a lot of energy to heat.
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by tisme 14y ago
Yes, but it is the flood of memes that allowed this person to get most of the exposure to begin with. The point I'm trying to - unsuccessfully it seems - make is that exposure is not enough. If it were then one hit wonders would not be one
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by tisme 14y ago
Given that she's aimed straight at the teenage demographic it looks like all this is is an attempt at doing a female re-run of Justin Bieber. The fact that she signed on with his manager and performs at his concerts, attempts to look 15 whe
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by tisme 14y ago
There is no new dynamic in play, this has been happening to just about every one hit wonder since recording was invented. Some stay, most go. The idea here is that follow-through has to be made by everybody, artist, label and so on to take
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by tisme 14y ago
(1) she's not dead (2) she's not entitled to a success (3) One hit wonders have always been a part of the music industry
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Hacker Takes Millions of SC Citizens' Personal Info(wltx.com)
1 points by tisme 14y ago|1 comments
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by tisme 14y ago
From a source such as HN on something targeted like this I'd expect it to be much lower (<50%) the rate observed may be due to slow load times or landing page design or some other factor. There definitely seems to be some disconnect b
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by tisme 14y ago
You should investigate those bounces, they're pretty high for traffic like this.
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by tisme 14y ago
American Superconductors has a rig to help solve these problems, it is expensive (probably more expensive than off-loading the excess to unwilling neighbours) but it works. http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/amsc/description From a descriptio
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by tisme 14y ago
They knuckled under much too soon then. If you came by your conclusions independently then they just lost their trade secret. Trade secrets only protection is that they're secret, and you have no innate right to that secrecy.
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by tisme 14y ago
A synology box with a slave unit would do 96T uncompressed with some room for redundancy in there based on 24 4T drives.
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by tisme 14y ago
I find it hard to believe I'm reading this comment on Hacker News, if there was any group of people where I would expect the value of such a trove of knowledge about the past to be estimated at close to its true value.
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by tisme 14y ago
The reason the Turing Test is interesting is not because Turing was famous or influential. It would have been interesting regardless of who proposed it because - right or wrong - it caused us to think about mind and computation as possibly
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by tisme 14y ago
Except that this is not about Zuckerberg. Regardless of what Zuckerberg has done or has not done this guy tried to defraud others to the tune of several billion bucks. It doesn't require any other elements than him and his actions.
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by tisme 14y ago
Possibly electroplating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery But without positive proof of a series connection I don't see how that is a sustainable theory. Wiring is a necessity.
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by tisme 14y ago
One of the major reasons to make something like this available is not research but to get the eggs in more than one basket. If archive.org ever went offline permanently that would be a pretty big disaster. A backup copy of the library of Al
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by tisme 14y ago
> She assures us she was going to turn her back. She did. It all happened so quickly you didn't notice!
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by tisme 14y ago
> Am I going crazy HN? That's very well possible but not because of this posting. Here is probably what you remember: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4611337
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by tisme 14y ago
Opto couplers will readily isolate your Raspberry Pi up to 5KV without too much trouble. Analog: http://uk.rs-online.com/mobile/p/optocoupler/2815422/ Digital: http://uk.rs-online.com/mobile/p/optocoupler/7085364/
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by tisme 14y ago
You can use the gpi bits to do A->D and D->A, you could use a USB sound device as analog input (but you are constrained in sample rate choices), in some cases if you strip the input capacitors you'll have level reading capability. O
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by tisme 14y ago
That's an earn-out, not a sale!
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by tisme 14y ago
Stop being a founder for a bit then and do some contracting or get a job. Being broke sucks but at least you have the skills to do something about it.
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by tisme 14y ago
2000 pictures per day doesn't sound like much (a bit more than 2 pictures on average per minute) but this really adds up even at the resolution of this camera, they claim about 1.5 TB / camera / year. Uploading and storing that much data
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by tisme 14y ago
That's absolutely true, but the discussion here centers on home-run style start-ups, which tend to be all or nothing affairs. One of the reasons for that is that very few start-ups are sustainable in the longer term without acquisition by a
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by tisme 14y ago
> who throw a party every time AWS has a visible outage. At the going rate they'll be AA members before long.

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