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by tlack 13y ago
Last time I went to the Microsoft store to get a replacement for my Surface keyboard, they were all sold out; so were all the Best Buy stores in South Florida except two far-flung ones. So people are definitely buying the Surface, at least
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by tlack 13y ago
This, along with the M7 motion co-processor in the new iPhone 5S, and Apple's pretty substantial investment in iBeacons, tells me that Apple sees the future of the iOS ecosystem as a series of experience-enhancing physically-aware ambi
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by tlack 13y ago
The AR Drone is the cheap, hackable way to do it. It's just a tiny PC running Linux hooked up to four weak motors. You can control it via wifi, or replace the flight software yourself if you are enterprising. Add their new GPS add-on,
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by tlack 13y ago
Major +1. I find it so much harder to grok the overall gestalt of a development environment than to just understand the classes and data types. Same goes for Angular, which I currently find maddeningly awkward. Have trees, need forest.
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by tlack 13y ago
My gut feeling is that if you have a group of committed potential customers -- i.e., people who trust you and are already interested in what you're building -- then it will probably work. But I'd be wary before you try to get peop
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by tlack 13y ago
If I was dealing with 40+ diverse services that I needed anywhere within various JavaScript apps, I'd probably write some kind of mediating service broker: var App = new YouNow(); var Bcast = App.Api('BroadcastService&#x27
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by tlack 13y ago
Let me know how accurate you can get your system. I was planning something similar but with the broad ranges offered by BluetoothLE/iBeacon I didn't expect to get much accuracy out of the system.
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by tlack 13y ago
Are you aware of any support boards or anything like that on which we could get resolution?
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by tlack 13y ago
Has anyone actually had any luck getting this working? Seems like such a revolutionary idea that I'm dying to try it, but no luck so far. It took me a few tries (and a couple hours) to get one of their preconfigured AMIs provisioned, e
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Silicon Valley Bank says no to Bitcoin businesses(bitcorati.com)
29 points by tlack 13y ago|23 comments
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by tlack 13y ago
I see why this is super useful, but won't this functionality make more sense at the iOS level, as part of their standard API and with full support in the XCode environment? All apps should be able to deep dive into other apps, with cer
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Ask HN: Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib because they asked?
194 points by tlack 13y ago|133 comments
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by tlack 13y ago
Perhaps you should provide an option to have the db itself running as a child process (via cluster), and CRUD statements are actually proxied to that process (via a Unix pipe or socket) instead of updating the data directly in the process&#
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by tlack 13y ago
I'm surprised they'd even consider the cloud, knowing what they must know about the NSA, and its abilities to snoop public infrastructure and cross agency boundaries
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by tlack 13y ago
I wonder if there might be some way to do secure, PK-encrypted, federated message-based services using Tent.io or similar?
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by tlack 13y ago
Do you have any more information about how viable this would be? It's a threat I hadn't considered before.
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How Paypal snuck Node.js into their aging stack(youtube.com)
1 points by tlack 13y ago|0 comments
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by tlack 13y ago
The well known and standard cluster module (see http://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html ) does exactly that; I wish the author had examined its performance in the article, because I am sure his native Windows solution would be faster, though I'
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by tlack 13y ago
Curious about this line from the article: "128bit encryption over Wi-Fi." Why only when using wifi? I'm not aware of too much bandwidth overhead involved in exchanging public keys and using AES in some kind of stream-emulation block mode. M
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by tlack 14y ago
It would be fantastic if this kind of stuff was embraced by the CoffeeScript people and something like Erlang's parse transforms was implemented: # mycode.coffee: "use parse_transform('observers.coffee')" class Gradebook
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by tlack 14y ago
Cool (and really fast) tool! I'd love to talk to you on behalf of the .CO TLD team.. can you drop me an email at tom+hn@go.co?
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by tlack 14y ago
Amen to that! You should consider putting together a little blog post about "the Node way." Way too many people are just porting their heavyweight frameworks from Ruby/PHP/Python and not realizing that successful Node apps are a series of t
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by tlack 14y ago
Can you share your Haskell vs. Erlang data?
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by tlack 14y ago
Anyone got the inside info on why they are waiting so long to release these in America? Should have been available unlocked at launch if they really wanted to regain the hearts and minds of the fickle American consumer.
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by tlack 14y ago
Getting it done right is the easy part. Any foodhackers have a technique to get the shell off easily?
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Vino: beginnings of JS client for undocumented Vine.co API(github.com)
3 points by tlack 14y ago|0 comments
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by tlack 14y ago
You think this would make for an interesting Roku channel?
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by tlack 14y ago
This project is definitely not dumb to me. I have many fond memories of TW2002 and I still can't find anything online that matches its level of involvement (fairly low with the turn limiting) and excitement. EVE is out of the question - it'
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by tlack 14y ago
If the client (your browser in this case) sends a hash of file chunks before it encrypts and uploads the data you could do deduplication without having the actual decrypted data.
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by tlack 14y ago
Like everything else in our business, it seems harder at first glance than it really is. It's a powerful language and like many powerful things it takes a while to learn. For instance here's my really rough I've-forgotten-most-of-K translat

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