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by xt00 7y ago
Interesting — what was their next product? I haven’t been following them recently.
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by xt00 7y ago
Robotic toys is a tough area. Higher than standard toy development costs, relatively limited market / higher cost products and similar challenges to being in a toy market. I mean — they probably could have pivoted to self driving car s
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by xt00 8y ago
How hard is it to fool the fitness tracker? Unless it has some robust detection of being taken off and being put back on it would seem like it could be fooled in a variety of ways.. not that it means she is guilty but fitness trackers being
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by xt00 8y ago
One way to think about the current state of hardware design is that we are super reliant upon chip vendors. But in this case the parts are poorly documented or require lots of manual work to get the most out of them, or the documentation is
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by xt00 8y ago
It’s not made up, Bloomberg acknowledges it. https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa... FTA: We asked Bloomberg about the practice. A company spokesperson acknowledged it. "It isn't news unle
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by xt00 8y ago
Yea this sounds like some random people back in huawei China were super curious about this robot and wanted to copy it so they didn’t need to buy from some company rather than some kind of broad company effort to steal super high tech stuff
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by xt00 8y ago
The article should be called “advice that didn’t end up being good in my case”. Power vacuums often are great times for people to find a new spot and a new opportunity. I’ve seen this happen many times at companies I’ve been at. For example
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by xt00 8y ago
Anything that would replace the back seat of the car that generates thrust downward I would expect would cut into area that would be allocated for battery. So less area for battery but a major demand for the battery being added? Sounds like
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by xt00 8y ago
I highly recommend that people try to have a board made before they go about trying to build the entire thing by hand in a home pcb factory. The cost has come down a ton over the years on using actual Quick turn fabs. Depending upon your tu
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by xt00 8y ago
Let’s say the workers unionize as the guy they interviewed suggests, what is the result? Basically they will push to change the system so that people don’t have to work as hard, it’s harder to fire people and have a seniority system. It’s q
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by xt00 8y ago
CSAIL vs SAIL..... Fight!
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by xt00 8y ago
I think the open question is how does Facebook make money and justify their expensive purchase of WhatsApp? It still seems to be an open question years after the acquisition.. i think it is fair to bring up that if Facebook wanted to maybe
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by xt00 8y ago
Not sure why you would say that tech hasn’t been kind to Seattle — nearly the entire history of Seattle and surrounding areas has been based upon 2 things: resources and technology. Resources like trees and salmon and otherwise don’t actual
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by xt00 8y ago
Yea I wonder if with modern telescopes that they do digital integration so effectively they just delete the errant frames from the recorded captures and carry on from there. In the old days with film capture the entire exposure would be toa
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by xt00 8y ago
I wonder if there is any consideration for high quantities of LEO satellites affecting ground based telescope operations? I guess one question would be "how many LEO objects are up there that are the size of say more than 1 cubic meter
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by xt00 8y ago
Build more housing only works if you actually build enough to satisfy the demand — so it would be cool if we knew a number of houses built vs people trying to buy houses type of thing. Maybe you are right just I don’t know the data on the s
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by xt00 8y ago
Candidate story for “Last week tonight”.. wow terrible..
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by xt00 8y ago
This will help with recruitment, but the sentiment that new workers will essentially get paid the same as older workers is going to immediately be a big sticking point. From watching the Boeing union strikes over many years, I get the sense
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by xt00 8y ago
I start listening: Nintendo wii.. hmm old.. Mario kart.. ok cool.. Speed running with short cuts.. hmm ok esoteric but sure I’ll give it a shot.. Interesting historical narrative about this random corner of the internet subculture.. hmm coo
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by xt00 8y ago
So fixing bitcoins energy consumption problem by shifting it to solar?? Hmm.. I mean probably 80% of people on HN were programming at age 10.. so “tech prodigy” sounds like a rather strong description?
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by xt00 8y ago
It took me forever to figure out that you can force push on a picture then swipe up to give me sharing options.. where as just pushing lightly and holding brings up a menu right away — or did before.. so it definitely felt like a solution l
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by xt00 8y ago
The thing looks pretty fragile -- one of the reasons why they use piezo based systems is they are pretty robust.. I guess I am not clear how this system equates to getting a $100 ultrasound machine.. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and
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by xt00 8y ago
I've been curious about how to pay people for their datasets.. I feel like research into that is really interesting.. what would be great would be if you could essentially pay known trustworthy sources for vetted data, and those source
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by xt00 8y ago
https://www.pcbzone.net/User/QuoteArea.aspx?type=cal check that out.. you can get say 5 PCB's that are 25mm x 25mm 4 layers for ~50 euros. yea maybe one day it'll be free shipping at $10 for one board. But un
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by xt00 8y ago
In the case of PCB's in most cases it takes hours to make stuff, and you need to buy components for the boards and pay for shipping, etc.. so I guess I understand not wanting to pay for something because we all wish it was free, but ma
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by xt00 8y ago
Yea check out pcbzone.net I’ve used a number of times for super fast boards. They are in New Zealand but you get stuff in like 3-5 days for even 4-6 layer boards for a very reasonable price. There are many companies like that now. If you ar
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by xt00 8y ago
One of the advantages of the way FR4 PCBs for example are made is the following: 1) you can deposit a thin layer using an electroless process 2) then now that you have a continuous conducting surface you can electoplate to make a thick laye
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by xt00 8y ago
Being able to make 2 stacked displays per eye that you can see through and made out of lightweight materials at a reasonable cost is quite challenging. Magic leap could have made the entire waveguide structure out of glass and probably made
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by xt00 8y ago
Sadly Magic Leap I think had to ship something so they could start up a new hype cycle and get more funding. Give it 3 months and they will be talking about how they didn’t expect to sell many of this first product anyway and now they are w
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by xt00 8y ago
The tone of the article is sort of being in awe that mark zuckerberg essentially had some scheme within early Facebook logs / code / database to save failed password attempt data and he just as a stroke of apparent genius decided

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