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The whole post feels like nonsense.

The 36 hour battery life also isn't a best-case scenario. According to apple.com "All-day battery life is based on the following use: 90 time checks, 90 notifications, 45 minutes o…

It can be that while US is playing world police, characterising Dotcom's MegaUpload and Mega as a fight against it not a fitting description of them. International crime can be a t…

Well written article and interesting results, thank you. I'm surprised that there has been input latency of tens of milliseconds with the said setup. How much are typical input lat…

If I would like to do quick lane change as an evasive manoeuvre, then how much would this lag affect at 80 km/h?

Can you give an example on the action items it creates, does it pick up too much or too little and how accurate it is?

Thanks, this simple sentence told me more than all of the texts on the site combined. I tend to skip introduction videos, so all my questions might have been answered there. The si…

It's all about how you value your time. These kind of quests are usually very valuable learning tool and fun. I have learned a lot with hobby projects which didn't create any value…

As this seems to be old news, was there a reason why you posted it? Edit: (2018) in the title would be in order.

45 minutes can be a lot if you keep it in hand over night for sleep tracking. You'd then need a to find a 45 minute slot every day to charge it and be consistent with it. With one …

While it might be interesting to know what it does in such cases, it shouldn't matter. You as a human should always take full control when encountering unusual activity on road. Re…

Well said though to clarify the reason why you wait 40 minutes at the gate is probably because you have to calculate some extra per each step leading to it. You can't be sure you'l…

I love it how we can do this complex stuff. Though being a 90s kid, I imagine doing a T9 based brain-computer interface would be easier and faster.

Could we realistically accelerate a space probe to faster speeds than what Voyagers and New Horizons are currently doing?

Keybase has created an inbox in your name which in turn creates a social contract on your behalf to check it. Existing users signed up for something different, so no wonder some of…

I like Slack but I'm bit hesitant to have it the ability to control my mouse and keyboard all the time. Slack is so popular that there are certainly lot attacks against it and that…

Evernote Employees Can Read Your Notes, and There's No Way to Opt-Out http://lifehacker.com/evernote-employees-can-read-your-notes... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13177971

I think it's the opposite: to me you sound like an IT guy since you know about cifs and file servers and you have hard time understanding the value because you are looking from a t…

Take at least one hour consecutive walk every day without any gadgets. It'll give your brain time to recover and your body exercise to releave stress.

"That makes it vaguely more egalitarian than a complex and bureaucratic mechanism that tends to favour bigger, more established software makers, who themselves have the staff and b…