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I launched a high altitude balloon as part of a summer school program over a decade ago and we checked on edge cases. Off the shelf GPS are supposed to not work beyond a certain he…

Nijiya Market in Japantown has at least plain seaweed Onigiri in far right of the fridge near the entrance for $2.79. Unfortunately it was the same price as ones with filling.

> there was no depending on external services, which at the time put WebRTC out of the picture (all of the easy to use implementations required internet access to use existing sign…

At least according to Wikipedia references, BitTorrent Inc's own client had mainline DHT support since version 4.2 (~2005). uTorrent seems to have added support for mainline DHT so…

https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-dht

One of the team members had an excellent answer to this question a few days ago in a Reddit IAmA: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3bnjhe/hi_i_am_alan_s... >We’re limited in …

A coworker has has a small tool for accomplishing this: https://github.com/LesterTheTester/dfrnt It has been integrated with Travis CI and GitHub pull requests so that non-passing …

It doesn't look like ipfs has human friendly named pointers yet either? At least that's what I gather from their documentation: http://ipfs.io/docs/commands/#ipfs-name In answer to…

> I can audit it if I want to. Closed Source strips me of that option. Closed source does not strip you of the ability to audit. In the case of BitTorrent Sync you can use Wireshar…

Quoting Kos's reply: > The hashes cannot be used to obtain access to the folder; it is just a way to discover the IP addresses of devices with the same folder. It would seem that c…

Exactly. As a little more paranoid motorcycle rider I'd welcome being able to pull over and check my watch - instead of having to pull over, take off my gloves, unzip my jacket, an…

BitTorrent Sync has functionality for generating "encrypted secrets" using the developer API. It is possible to deliver a secret key to a peer which only allows for that peer to ac…

I suspect that you have specified a password in your BitTorrent Sync configuration file. Settings set in the configuration file will override settings set through the WebUI (after …

There are simple reagent test kits that are reasonably accurate and affordable.

One workaround is to detach the other sessions when you connect. tmux a -d

I would think that there could be some application of how genome sequencing is done? From what I understand chains of DNA are cut by restriction enzymes and these random chains are…

Certainly. I remember learning early on that RAID != backup, and an easy conceptualization of Sync is RAID 1 at the file/folder level. I'd recommend that someone using Sync for bac…

The "encryption secret" was implemented in version 1.2 of BitTorrent Sync: http://www.bittorrent.com/sync/developers/api - but for now you'll need an API key to generate them. Alte…

I highly suspect that is the case. On-demand (picking specific songs) has significantly higher royalties than radio. turntable.fm's model of picking a bunch of songs to be played b…

The mnemonic that I've ran across that has been helpful for this is feigning a horrible German accent and saying "eXtract Ze File!"

I think it may be something like the inverse of bitcoin days destroyed. See: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Days_Destroyed

See http://www.bittorrent.com/sync/technology under "Peer Discovery"

@tkkayali - I'm not sure what it showed for you when you did it, but this is what I see. http://screencast.com/t/nFNH23ECCYw