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I once read the account of a student who gamed the bots sellers use to competitively price their products in order to get cheap textbooks. The person made a dummy seller account, setup a bot, and li…

SpaceX ran into this issue too. Off the shelf parts are rare and prohibitively expensive. Musk's biography goes into this a bit: "But how do you know if a $5,000 radio designed in-house is …

I recommend JVC's Marshmallow headphones. They are earplug earbuds. They are cheap, robust, and have a decent sound. I go through about two pairs a year but I am very hard on them.

You can get a ready to use Arduino shield for 250$. The service is 12$ a month. Not bad.

Heck, the leap in positioning accuracy 4.4k satellites would make gps obsolete. Civilian gps accuracy is low enough that you cannot distinguish between lanes on a highway.

Re question #2, Amazon uses UltraDNS as a backup and seemed to be relatively unaffected by today's attack. Re question #1, check out PagerDuty's reliability page here: https://www…

Reminds me of the cities that setup robocallers to cut down on illegal signs. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-07-19/news/os-litte... …

Someone did make this. It didn't go all that well. http://get.pressybutton.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/22zqao/the_pressy_.…

Does anyone have a ballpark guess as to what Thompson Reuters sells this list for? Here is their product page: https://risk.thomsonreuters.com/products/world-check …

I cut out sweeteners, real or artificial, over 5 years ago.

I wonder if using Amazon's fulfillment service would help prevent against this. It is possible to get merchandise directly delivered to a fulfillment center from the vendor? It would be pretty …

Wait time reporting is a mess right now. Some airports have wait time systems: http://www.atlanta-airport.com/Passenger/waittimes/ The TSA has a mobile ready site with wait …

Exactly. Presumably the TSA has been aware of this new system for a decade and it took an airline, concerned over customer satisfaction, to pay to get the ball rolling.

I am in no way an expert on the subject, but a bulk of the TSA/Flyer friction seems to come from bad customer service. The TSA basically only needs to work hard enough to not get fired. They ha…

That does not explain deleting all references to red cross blood donation. http://imgur.com/a/l3EZj

The market will sort out if some configuration of this tech is profitable. For me, the real value in researching and developing systems like this is the non-terrestrial applications. Mars is the exa…

The man is already a few steps ahead of you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_laws …

I did not realize the scope of this fire. The official Canadian disaster database lists the Great Ice Storm of 1998 as the costliest disaster in the nation's history. Adjusted for inflation, th…

I have a VM just for iTunes.

This reminds me of the Harvard Computers. The Memory Palace podcast did an amazing episode about them titled "400,000 Stars". http://thememorypalace.us/2014/03/400…

I wonder if this would be a good application for one of these tomato-potato grafted plants. http://www.territorialseed.com/product/grafted-tomtato-ketch... …

Probably someone in the marketing dept.

10 whole leds!

I went a step further and bought a .com that I setup with a catchall email forwarder. Most signups get a custom email at that domain. I still get Russian bride emails sent to oilchangeplace@

I hope everything works out with this test. B330, the larger variant, could be launched on a Falcon Heavy and add 35% to the volume of the ISS in one go.

"HACKER NEWS - A dataset that contains all stories and comments from Hacker News since its launch in 2006." I know what I'm doing this weekend.

For 50$ you can easily get a used phone off ebay/craigslist/a friend. Heck I have two droid bionics and two HTC M8s collecting dust.

There is a chance that they are using a new aerogel made from cellulose that is prized for its strength and flexibility. Article: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/07&#x…

Good idea. I would add on police contact info with a case number.