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by tmuir 10y ago
You can prove this concept with mathematics. 1. Select an arbitrary NFL game being played in the first week of season. 2. Email a sufficiently large ( > 131,072) group of people, telling half of them that Team A will win. Tell the oth
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by tmuir 10y ago
The Washington Post, is a national media institution who has had their press credentials revoked by Trump. Therefore the organization, by definition, at a disadvantage, when it comes to gaining CONTEXT about the subject of their reporting.
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by tmuir 10y ago
You are describing a world in which all decisions made by all humans are informed by perfect logic. The beautiful paradox of such a world is that wouldn't require any government, or any other external system of control. Any external
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by tmuir 10y ago
Is there any form of marketing that encourages critical thinking?
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by tmuir 10y ago
Dealing with the average buyer on Craigslist is exhausting. "What's your best price?" and "Will you accept <10% asking>" are by far the most common queries.
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by tmuir 10y ago
One of the most egregious examples of fake news is the story from the nonexistent news organization, The Denver Guardian, about an FBI agent involved in the Clinton investigation being found dead in a suspected murder suicide. This article
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by tmuir 10y ago
Even if the electrical functionality doesn't change, the mechanical functionality has. With a flexible cable between, it will be far more cumbersome to hold the phone and reader, while swiping a card.
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by tmuir 10y ago
Maybe there were masses of unknowledgeable customers and too few knowledgeable and wealthy customers for a higher end market to be sustainable. High end bikes are a huge leap in price from casual bikes, at least today. A $300 bike is perfe
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by tmuir 10y ago
I found it fairly easy to get a live person on the phone, but nearly impossible to convince them of their error. I booked a room. Within seconds of each other, I got a confirmation, and a message from the host saying it was not available.
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by tmuir 10y ago
Both sparkfun and adafruit have tons of tutorials for both arduino and traditional microcontroller development. Both companies also sell all kinds of development boards, breakout boards, and prototyping tools and supplies.
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by tmuir 10y ago
Yup. Meat smoking is the perfect tinkerer's hobby. There is so much to control and optimize. Plus, the payoff is delicious meat.
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by tmuir 10y ago
I've read that credit unions which are not federally insured are not under the same restrictions, and can provide banking services to dispensaries. In Oregon, there are radio commercials for dispensaries, which say that they accept de
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by tmuir 10y ago
Those aren't normally solved with scripting. However, any language with the ability to issue arbitrary system commands can accomplish everything a command line can.
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by tmuir 10y ago
How many of the Santa Clara county layoffs were from Intel?
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by tmuir 10y ago
I think he was mostly interested in the mentoring and networking, in terms of what YC could offer his business. He mentioned in a comment that $20K was 3 weeks revenue.
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by tmuir 10y ago
Tons of services have "log in with Facebook" features. Last I checked, Tinder required a Facebook account. I wonder if those logins are included?
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by tmuir 10y ago
Even "i" can be changed to "index". My rule of thumb is this: If you wouldn't use the abbreviation when speaking, don't use it when coding. I don't understand why 'i' has been given a pass. Th
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by tmuir 10y ago
I wonder if this means that the NSA's definition of "collect" has conveniently reverted back to the widely accepted meaning. Their previous defense was that "collect" meant to actually inspect the information.
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by tmuir 10y ago
You're welcome. It's always a treat when HN wades into the embedded world, and I can be the expert for a second.
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by tmuir 10y ago
Well, there's certainly no requirement to adhere to in terms of access. Apple's HomeKit runs on BLE but has its own layers of pairing and encryption. I'll agree though that you are more likely to find compatibility on a deve
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by tmuir 10y ago
You can make custom services and characteristics. The nice thing about standard services is that 3rd party apps that know how to interact with those services can work out of the box.
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by tmuir 10y ago
You should seek out a primer of the general architecture. Its definitely a departure from IP networking. Here's a brief overview: Devices advertise their presence when they are not connected. The usual connection is one device to on
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by tmuir 10y ago
I do embedded development, and BLE is just another stack. It's actually very well documented in the official Bluetooth Core Specification. It's thousands of pages long, but it's a big stack with lots of layers and protocol.
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by tmuir 10y ago
The microcontroller on most arduinos is a normal atmel microcontroller. The build output of the arduino compiler is no different from traditional embedded compilers. It's still just machine instructions. It's sort of similar to
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by tmuir 10y ago
Arduino has become a generic term referring to anything that can be programmed by the arduino ide. It happens to be the largest development community in the world for 8 bit microcontrollers. It only makes sense that people who want to give
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by tmuir 11y ago
You could setup an IFTTT "Do" button [1] with the Maker Channel, which allows you to make an arbitrary web request. Then have a server running locally that can receive the request and trigger the recording. Nodered [2] would mak
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by tmuir 11y ago
To expand on your first statement, it's helpful to have a project you are interested in using once its operational. Learning something for its own sake isn't very motivating. But if learning the skill allows me to do something I
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by tmuir 11y ago
I don't think there are any valid use cases for a widely distributed network of any kind of personal item that make sense for consumers. Consumers don't continuously manage large repetitive processes. They don't own items t
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by tmuir 11y ago
I think another big reason is that, compared to desktop and web based software, embedded applications are almost always completely custom. There are common hardware specs on every PC, and three big operating systems. So you end up having
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by tmuir 11y ago
It's to the point that hardware features on their own aren't really selling points, at least in my opinion. You can have high speed, tons of ram, 10 different buses/ports, and sell it for $10. But if there isn't a healt

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