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by wxm 10y ago
I've known the developers behind Marty for years - and this is an incredibly well-engineered bipedal robot! With onboard WiFi or an RPi; and Python, Scratch, C++, ROS - it's a bit like the Turtlebot for humanoids. Fun fact, back i
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by wxm 12y ago
A friend of mine worked with Prof. Salter. He's an incredibly brilliant, smart and kind scientist. Unfortunately, much of his research was 'blocked' due to someone miscalculating the cost by twice the amount, starving the res
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“Family flight” – Five A350 XWBs together in flight(youtube.com)
2 points by wxm 12y ago|0 comments
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by wxm 12y ago
I'm afraid not. I've been searching as well and couldn't find it. I recall his process to be 1. secure the rights to the book (he knew the author personally/through family) 2. cut the book open and run it through a high
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by wxm 12y ago
Some companies buy up the rights to old/out of print books that created this original material. Then they cut it up and automatically digitise it. There was a post on HN quite some time back about somebody describing his process to do
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Google acquires Firebase(googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
9 points by wxm 12y ago|0 comments
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by wxm 12y ago
Go to the website of departments, research groups, and professors at your university and get a broad understanding of what they are up to. Maybe read (the abstract of or the entirety) of one of their recent papers or check out their public
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by wxm 12y ago
I've just finished doing the same for Edinburgh, UK and share many of the OP's frustrations. The monopoly that many letting agencies have in that they are also managing apartments adds to the shortage of accommodation in Europe&#x
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by wxm 12y ago
Won my first game. [Evidence: http://frupic.frubar.net/32232 ]
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Show HN: Mother's Day Gift supporting women entrepreneurs in Kenya(giftatreetoday.com)
1 points by wxm 12y ago|0 comments
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MySQL Unsanitized Input – INSERT INTO $_GET(github.com)
2 points by wxm 12y ago|0 comments
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by wxm 12y ago
It used to be free a few years ago too until it became 'premium' in early 2011. [1] Difference is that now Skype features more ads than in 2011, even if you have multiple monthly subscriptions (A no-ad version is now a considerabl
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MBP freezing after CVE2014-002 Update(discussions.apple.com)
1 points by wxm 12y ago|0 comments
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by wxm 12y ago
In what way would it be different from SoundCloud? No fancy commenting? Anonymous uploads?
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by wxm 12y ago
Wikipedia lists the F9R also as "Grasshopper v1.1" -- cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(rocket)#Grasshoppe...
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F9R First Flight Test(youtube.com)
15 points by wxm 12y ago|3 comments
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Career Choices When Life Is Short(blogs.hbr.org)
1 points by wxm 12y ago|0 comments
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Mac OS X Mavericks – No Sound after Wake-Up [Unresolved](discussions.apple.com)
1 points by wxm 13y ago|0 comments
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by wxm 13y ago
There are unconfirmed reports that the flight has made an emergency landing in [Naning/Nan Ming] -- but hours after it allegedly ran out of fuel (7.5h of fuel on board). Hope for the best.
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by wxm 13y ago
Solution on a late 2013 MBP for me (when the issue occurs no sound is playing anymore - no system sounds, no videos, no audio): Plugging in earphones and unplugging. Killing the coreaudio process as recommended at a few places online doesn&
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by wxm 13y ago
Funding tip for smart startups who recognise that their target demographic is shifting: Find investors in regions where your traction and growth figures peak. Having insight in SE Asia and Indonesia in particular, their familiarity, engagem
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What does the Unicorn say? [First Round Capital's Holiday Video](youtube.com)
1 points by wxm 13y ago|0 comments
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by wxm 13y ago
Great to see this project being completed after almost ten years. Several similar projects in Germany have failed (e.g. the parliament's attempt to converting to Linux) or Wienux in Vienna ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by wxm 13y ago
I used this (dokku on DigitalOcean as described) in production for several months for NodeJS - unfortunately some of the containers crashed every now and then and did NOT restart - a manual intervention was necessary. It does, however, work
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German Post/DHL testing package-delivering drones (similar to PrimeAir)(translate.google.com)
1 points by wxm 13y ago|0 comments
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On the State of Online Escrow Services for Freelancers(quora.com)
3 points by wxm 13y ago|0 comments
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How many programming languages can you recognise?(helloworldquiz.com)
4 points by wxm 13y ago|0 comments
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Spotify turns 5 - top 10 streamed songs & more(news.spotify.com)
2 points by wxm 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Inexpensive, small footprint Bluetooth 4.0 I/O?
1 points by wxm 13y ago|0 comments
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Daft Punk's Get Lucky in 16-bit(youtube.com)
5 points by wxm 13y ago|0 comments

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