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hook··on Soekris Engineering, Inc. has suspended operations in the USA
You could get a USB network adapter as your second ethernet port.
hook··on Swole.me - The automatic diet planner
The recommended meal (4 eggs, 12 oz chicken breast) gives me 1100mg of cholesterol, which is more than 3 times the daily recommended maximum.

Great for Pfitzer (makers of Lipitor), not so great for your heart.

hook··on Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness on 1956 Episode of I’ve Got a Secret
I think Matt Damon has a time machine.
hook··on Strange object found during a sonar survey of the sea floor
An attempt at a viral marketing campaign for the movie Battleship?
hook··on Larry Page On Google+: Over 10 Million Users, 1 Billion Items Shared
Key difference: Facebook has 750 million active users. Google+ has 10 million users.
hook··on Anyone working at Facebook: what happening at Facebook on Google+?
This may just be my favourite HN comment of all time.
hook··on Massive Indestructible Botnet
So that's how some videos on youtube have millions of hits before anyone has heard of them...
hook··on "My current theory is that programming is quite literally writing."
Agreed. And here is an example where, without comment scores, it is impossible to know how many other people feel the same way.
hook··on The Dangerous Mr. Khan
It is a lot easier to write an essay critique than it is to sit down and fix the problem by recording your own set of video lectures that teach people what you know.
hook··on Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests
Actually, you wouldn't even need to have extra quadcopters for charging purposes: you would just need extra batteries.
hook··on Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests
Yep. You would need a) an iPhone app that you would use to place your order (it would send updated coordinates as you move around, and provide a perimeter within which you would have to stay) b) an army of quadcopters so that a subset of them could be charging while the others were making deliveries c) the quadcopters would have to be equipped with parachutes in case they malfunctioned so they wouldn't kill someone on the way down. d) The quadcopters would have to keep a persistent connection with the central server through wireless networks to keep in sync with your latest position and to send back their coordinates for you to see on your phone. e) there would have to be a mechanism in place to prevent mid-air collisions (buildings you could pre-encode, birds and other quadcopters you couldn`t) for bonus points, you generalize the whole thing and make it like an airbnb where people can exchange arbitrary goods and you just broker the deal and execute the deliveries for a fee that would be dynamically calculated based on distance and weight. DO IT. DO IT NOW.
hook··on Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests
It would be even cooler if a quadcopter delivered your grilled cheese sandwich within minutes no matter where you were. Why doesn't that exist yet?
hook··on Can libraries survive in a digital world?
Only as museums containing artifacts from an ancient age when people used to "print" information on physical sheets of wood pulp.
hook··on IPad 2 gets glasses-free 3D display using front-facing camera for head tracking
This is pretty amazing. I think that this coupled with multi-touch interactivity could be pretty revolutionary. It turns the iPad into an "iWindow".
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You can already easily do this using TubeMote (tubemote.com) without the need for all the hackery.
hook··on How to Make Money in 6 Easy Steps
- "It's all about which side of the money you're on"

- "it's all about practice"

- "it's all about passion"

It's all about overgeneralizing.

hook··on I want role models who are happy, not rich
The two don't have to be mutually exclusive.
hook··on Interest in 3D animation? Get Messiah Studio Pro for $40 ($1200 retail value)
There is a difference between value and price.
hook··on Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"
Is it obvious to everyone that he is preparing Nokia for a transition to Windows?
hook··on Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies
My friend's dad climbed k2. It's like rolling a tetrahedron.
hook··on Ask HN: What is the meaning of Apple's front page?
Thank you. More specifically, what I meant was: can anyone speculate on what will be announced?
hook··on Sailing dead downwind faster than the wind. Impossible, but they did it.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CcgmpBGSCI
hook··on Gravity simulator [flash] - try "Generate proto disk"
The force of gravity is not instantaneous. It "travels" at the speed of light. The Earth is not attracted to where the Sun is "now", it is attracted to where the Sun was approx. 8 minutes ago (the length of time it takes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth), and vice versa.
hook··on Gravity simulator [flash] - try "Generate proto disk"
Probably a stupid question, but does this take into account the speed of light?
hook··on Best Buy CEO: iPad is cannibalizing laptop sales by as much as 50%
Excellent point.
hook··on Best Buy CEO: iPad is cannibalizing laptop sales by as much as 50%
I think the proper term is "eating", not "cannibalizing". It would be called "cannibalizing" if the laptops were MacBooks, and if it were unintentional.