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AaronNewcomeron Amazon and Ring create surveillance drone that flies around inside your house

I had never really considered anything by ring but this just looks super cool from a techy POV and would potentially make me look into their ecosystem.

AaronNewcomeron How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks

Grew up in Ohio. I pronounce pen and pin the same way unless I am purposely trying to not, then I think I try to make pin a little more nasally but still pretty much sounds the same.

Lent and lint always sound the same.

AaronNewcomeron Why aren’t you more serious?

In some ways I feel like I have the opposite problem. I like to occasionally write tech related articles but my blog mainly features information related to my hobby and that’s what most people follow my blog for. Now I feel weird if I want to post a tech related article because everyone will get notifications for it when they’re expecting hobby related posts

AaronNewcomeron I Made My First Sale and Made It to #7 on the App Store

I’ve been using Hack for awhile. Just looked and saw there is a bunch of option now in the App Store! Does yours, or is there one that collapses threads like the reddit app? So many times I upvote and star a post on Hack because that’s what the swipe does.

AaronNewcomeron “Adobe Flash is no longer supported in Safari”

How can one access a flash site after this? I pretty much only use Safari now when I have to use flash and chrome won’t let me. The French patent INPI website uses it for zoomifying their old Scanned in patents.

AaronNewcomeron $249 Gets You a 400MP Scanning Camera for Macro Photography and Panorama Images

So I do a lot of macro photography, have multiple macro lenses and am familiar with focus stacking/bracketing and have considered buying more professional 2d automated focusing rails (like StackShot) but have just never took the plunge.

So when I saw this heading I was instantly intrigued and went in with the idea that there was a very high likelihood I was going to back this.

However I left without backing it as I am completely unsure of what this is. It looks like it is 3 completely separate products. One maybe uses my own camera, but only if I can connect it to a Windows computer as a webcam? The others have their own camera? One is 2d or maybe 3d. One is 4d. 5d?

What software do I need? Zerene Stacker? Did you make a new software?

I am so lost to what exactly I would be getting and what would be the best option for my use-case; which is not paper, coins or bugs. What kind of image is the result? You show some 3D images but it looks like only a top down shot on 2 of the 3 products.

It’s just all very confusing and wish I was excited after watching both videos and reading everything as I was going into it.

AaronNewcomeron Ask HN: Mentors for Engineering Managers

I have been thinking about joining https://www.platohq.com/ which is specifically what you are looking for.

AaronNewcomeron Amazon is shipping expired food, customers say

It is different. This is talking about Amazon Marketplace sellers. It would be more similar to if Walmart set up a flea market with tents and stuff in its parking lot and let anyone rent a booth and sell whatever they wanted. Walmart would also provide a centralized cash register at the end of the parking lot where people could pay for the items they got from the individual sellers. Walmart would then settle up with the sellers at the end of the day for the sales they rang up for them, while keeping a cut to cover the cost of the transaction and logistics for setting up the tents and keeping security guards on site.

This would be an equivalent analogy. Does THAT seem different than going into Walmart and buying from inside Walmart?

AaronNewcomeron Is “Ass” the Most Complicated Word in English?

and I think he's done a version for "ass" as well

That's literally what the whole article is about.

AaronNewcomeron 20,000 Startup Ideas

Word Cloud: https://i.imgur.com/2Tjjo6S.png

AaronNewcomeron TP-82 Cosmonaut survival pistol

Here is a couple threads of discussion on the ammo:

https://forum.cartridgecollectors.org/t/space-shotgun-ammo/2...

https://forum.cartridgecollectors.org/t/russian-tp-82-surviv...

AaronNewcomeron FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon

https://supplychain.fedex.com Fedex does this. Also in regards to another comment of yours, they also rate shop and use usps and etc.

AaronNewcomeron Amazon announces 4th quarter sales

For my family it is probably the best thing I have bought.

Wife and even mother-in-law can just say "Hey Siri Play Disney Radio" or whatever and it always just works and the baby can dance around to music.

If they are watching Netflix or Hulu or Disney Jr or HBO or etc they just just say "Hey Siri Volume Up" or "Hey Siri Pause" even if the Apple TV remote has made its way under the couch.

When we walk downstairs in the morning we can just whisper (so to not wake the baby) "hey siri turn the downstairs lights on" and it always just works.

"Hey Siri what's the temperate in [the baby's name]'s room?" "Hey Siri raise the temperate a couple degrees"

It would be a BIG deal to remove this from our life right now as we use it for so many things.

AaronNewcomeron Ask HN: What awesome stuff have you come across lately?

Yeah. I collect the actual items talked about in them and having these just makes a neat extra element to a display or something.

AaronNewcomeron Ask HN: What awesome stuff have you come across lately?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithography

I am not an expert on this, but, if my understanding is correct, They would get the original drawings from the patentee's manuscript and redraw them using a Lithographic method.

This method is basically drawing it on metal/stone plate with a wax and then douse an acid over the plate which would essentially make a reverse-etching of the drawing. They then wash off the wax and have the drawing raised in relation to the rest of the plate.

Also these particular ones are neat because these really early ones are actually a linen paper. Some of the slightly later ones I have are regular paper.

AaronNewcomeron Ask HN: What awesome stuff have you come across lately?

I've been acquiring some early, 19th century British Printed Patents and using the very large flatbed scanner at the Cleveland Public Library to scan in the giant drawings. Ex: https://aaronnewcomer.smugmug.com/Cartridges/Pinfire-Manufac...

AaronNewcomeron Why we’re changing Flickr free accounts

It took me awhile to figure out my old Yahoo login for Flickr. But I finally found it! (had to dig way back into my gmail archives). I definitely will be switching my login when that is rolled out.

As a paid SmugMug user, is there is discount for signing up for a paid flickr account? I saw that there is a discount to become a SmugMug user listed on Flickr Pro Perks.

AaronNewcomeron Is There a List of Questioning URLs?

Just a stupid list I made to track some of these single serving sites that have a question as their URL.

AaronNewcomeron Amazon recalls eclipse glasses

This is incorrect, kind of. There are essentially 3 ways to sell on Amazon. 1. Amazon can buy your product wholesale and they sell it. The manufacturer still has a lot of control on pricing and listing and etc. But Amazon has more control. In this case Amazon uses the UPC (or equivalent) to come up with the ASIN. In this case any 3rd party seller can list the same item with the UPC and it will show up on the same listing. They can even sell it via FBA where it is labeled as prime and stocked in Amazon's warehouses and if priced cheaper then will often get the buy box. So you could have 1000 positive reviews for your product and then all of a sudden a counterfeiter ships Amazon a bunch of what they say is the exact same product with the same UPC and it gets listed on the same listing. They can even make these stand out more by making variations on the product that then show up (like a 2-pack) that maybe you never sold.

Secondly there is Fulfilled By Amazon (FBA) this is when you sell the products and Amazon takes a commission and all the fulfillment fees to store and ship the product for you. In this case the seller has MUCH MUCH more control over every aspect of the listing. They can choose to have the ASIN generated by the UPC which can result in the same problem as above OR they can choose to have the ASIN generated by a number and barcode that is unique to the particular seller. This is called a FNSKU. Even if you know the FNSKU number which would be on a barcode on the product, ONLY the particular seller can create /ship product to Amazon using it. So Only the seller can variate listing or sell the product.

And thirdly you can do seller fulfillment which works list the last option in terms of listing, just with your own warehousing and fulfillment.

AaronNewcomeron A Bot Is Posting Bizarre Cell Phone Covers on Amazon

Yes, Amazon now offers Seller Fulfilled Prime. https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/help.html/?itemID=2... (need to be logged into a seller account to see this page.

"Seller Fulfilled Prime allows you to list your products as Prime-eligible and handle the fulfillment yourself. You can display the Prime badge on the products you already ship directly to customers with 2-day shipping and free standard shipping. There is no fee to enroll in Seller Fulfilled Prime.

Before you can participate, you must satisfy performance requirements during a trial period to demonstrate that you can meet customers' service expectations. After successfully completing the trial, you're automatically enrolled in the program."

AaronNewcomeron Ask HN: Can't sign out from Gmail on desktop

https://mail.google.com/mail/logout?hl=en

AaronNewcomeron Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

FusionCharts would be a good one to add. But then you will have to add like 40 more graph types as well

http://www.fusioncharts.com/charts/