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It triggers for me on trains too, so I think it's just accelerometer + location

This is a really inspiring project and exactly the type of content I'm looking for on Hacker News. A bit surprising that so many people in the comments would rather see links to ch…

There has been a similar project developed in Poland already. ( https://en.media.pkobp.pl/78483-strategic-partnership-betwee... ) In practice it's not much more than government-bra…

Wouldn't it make more sense for them to just take over Hulu? They are going to have 60% equity quite soon anyway

Not a book, but you might like Dirty Money series on Netflix.

I totally agree with you on the mandatory part, I’d hope it would be widely accepted that opt-in is the way to go in such cases. Although I need to point out there’s a huge differe…

Transcriptions are not really the issue here, the cost of freelance transcribers is relatively low. It is privacy that makes it so hard, most of the call center calls need to have …

I’d say all of those examples show that you need to be first to the actual market, not just first or first to _some_ market

Having it learn on human games was just a way of speeding up the initialization process before running reinforcement learning, it didn't limit the state tree that was being searche…

Being a Pole, I wish more people understood that. :( We're in the process of dismantling our democracy by removing all of the checks you mentioned, while supporters of the ruling p…

Why Java only?

That's true, although I see no reason Elm couldn't be compiled to server-side JS running in Node. I'd love to see some full stack solution that would abstract away separation betwe…

Although it's meant to be sarcastic, I believe it nicely exposes typical things developers used to argue about back then, not that different from modern arguments about JS vs compi…

It's included in this collection: http://www.amazon.com/Imaginary-Magnitude-Stanislaw-Lem/dp/0...

That's far from true, I bought my FiftyThree Pencil at Apple Store.

According to this quiz, you can either have small guaranteed impact or bet on something bigger while accepting you might fail. I wonder what's their take on bootstrapped startups, …

It's like saying any information printed on paper is useless, because people hate flyers.

Think of it as of seeing URL printed on the wall (or hidden in QR-code), just easier to use if you actually want to. It's not spamming notification center. Whenever the beacon sign…

We're doing sensor-fusion trying to use as much data as possible coming from different sources, so besides RSSI from beacons there's also accelerometer, magnetometer, etc. Lots of …

I think I like your musical taste.

If you're curious about the Commodore 64 thing, the speaker is launching a series of screencasts as well: http://64bites.com/ (disclaimer: the author is my friend, but still highly…

I remember React devs saying they always remember about that, so the whole library is designed to be easily detachable from the DOM, or whatever renderer you might be using. They'r…