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by tmuir 11y ago
Where do the 42k and 126k numbers come from? Why do they define the middle class. Maybe it varies from page view to page view, but my very first recommended link at the bottom of the story had a breakdown of middle class bounds in 30 diffe
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by tmuir 11y ago
I've been wondering what I should do to keep busy in the next month between jobs. Looks like I've found it.
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Why would Samsung expend the effort to argue the seemingly obvious concept that if the verdict is overturned, the awarded damages should be returned? Apple's position appears to be standard, in claiming victory, and dismissing the pos
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I tried this for over two years at a job, which inevitably resulted in "well, John has 25 years of experience, and you have 5".
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by tmuir 11y ago
Is this somehow related to node-red? It looks nearly identical. I always wondered why things like this didn't gain much popularity. They essentially make it extremely easy to interface anything with anything. Hardware, Internet ser
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by tmuir 11y ago
The consumer sector of the Internet of things will still not have a killer app. Offerings will still be incremental, and will remain hammers looking for nails. Driverless cars will still not be available for use by consumers, as the flow o
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by tmuir 11y ago
I wonder if any hedge funds cashed in on last weeks 30% drop in VW stock as a result of this information being available for the last year and a half.
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Then what is preventing an open source implementation from exceeding the 60,000 ft and 999mph limits imposed by the US DoD?
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by tmuir 11y ago
If one of your neighbors is renting their house short term on a regular basis, you all of the sudden have a constant flow of new neighbors. The larger pool of neighbors increases the likelihood of bad neighbors. If other permanent neighbo
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by tmuir 11y ago
I would imagine that there will never be a fully open source gps, as this would allow anyone to bypass the "am I a missle?" test.
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Perhaps it allows them to trademark the name?
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You are being willfully ignorant of basic logic. The high number of short term residential rentals _is the problem_. Airbnb exclusively facilitated the overwhelming majority of these short term rentals. Ergo, Airbnb created this problem.
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No contortion of logic allows you to escape the fact that Airbnb has vastly increased the number of people renting out homes and apartments. The demand for short term vacation rentals certainly existed previously. Airbnb lowered the barri
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by tmuir 11y ago
This guy would be fired if he were objective. Of course he sees his opposition as unethical.
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Some towns don't have noise ordinances. Thus, lets assume someone rents out their house. The renters hire a band with a powerful PA system, and play from dusk til dawn. How will you deal with the tenants? You have precisely zero rec
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by tmuir 11y ago
The founder has said it would be on the order of a few hundred dollars, which is less than the cost of any of the add on packages.
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This doesn't change the huge red flag that should give prospective customers pause. The device will still operate only as long as Glowforge's servers stay up. If there are internet outages, or the company goes out of business, th
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by tmuir 11y ago
If you're looking to program this stuff yourself, node-red (nodered.org) is a good place to start. You can run it on raspberry pi or beaglebone, in addition to any desktop platform. Its a browser based programming environment that al
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by tmuir 11y ago
What kind of cycling do you do? I don't like riding near cars, so I do almost all of my riding in parks and forests. When I do ride around cars, I can never maintain a good pace. I'm constantly stopping for intersections. On th
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by tmuir 11y ago
A great place to start is Node-Red: http://nodered.org/ Its a node.js browser based programming environment that allows you to connect anything to anything. You can run it on any desktop platform, as well as Beaglebone, Ra
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by tmuir 11y ago
I do mostly embedded programming, which is overwhelmingly dominated by C. The reason I think C will probably never be replaced as the dominant low level language is inertia. Every microprocessor manufacturer knows they have to provide dri
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by tmuir 11y ago
These kinds of projects really highlight how awesome embedded linux really is. It's the marriage of everything small embedded systems can do (gpio, analog inputs, low level communication protocols, ability to run on batteries, etc) wi
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by tmuir 11y ago
It's pretty disingenuous to interpret this statement as the president giving a free pass to all twentysomething hackers.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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How are you creating your ramping? Most low end CNC controllers do constant-acceleration ramping. If you plot the velocity over time, it looks like a trapezoid. This is obviously easier computation for a microcontroller, but at the point
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by tmuir 11y ago
Are these in addition to, or in lieu of Ad Block Plus?
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Are there any extensions/add ons that exist for multiple browsers that allow you to actually measure browser performance on an arbitrary site? If you had such a thing, you could easily and quantitatively test the websites you visit mo
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Ask HN: How Do SpaceX's Stated Goals Make Financial Sense?
6 points by tmuir 11y ago|5 comments
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Isn't it the policy of most tech companies to force all new employees to sign an NDA as a condition of employment?
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How does an article simultaneously get upvoted to the front page, but universally destroyed in the comments?

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