jonmrodriguez

Luna is the company linked to in the article. http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/12/03/lunas-moonlit-delivery...

The "Night time Delivery Service" sounds like it could be a big business. The trend in logistics lately is getting closer and closer to same-day shipping.

A "Night time Delivery Service" could help start in one city and expand to others. The existence of Luna in SF shouldn't dissuade anyone from starting the same thing in a different city, because it will take years for any one player to expand and colonize more locations. If anything, Luna is at a geographic disadvantage due to SF's high wages.

The way you use Luna seems very convenient, which is that the customer has the package shipped to Luna by any shipping service, and then once it arrives there, Luna does same-night last-mile delivery for $7. This is nice because it can interface with any existing shipping service without the need for Luna to win any contracts.

Eventually, once a company like this is starting to scale, they could aim to get a contract with UPS, FedEx, DHL, or USPS to pick up packages directly from the UPS/whatever warehouse, saving both time & money for all involved.

If the company wants to exit they could sell to Amazon.

The company might have to pay a wage premium because the work is at night, but then again, in this economy maybe the workers would just be happy to get a job (and the hours involved would make it a great 2nd job). Also, compared to daytime shipping services, the nighttime company would be more productive per hour due to its drivers facing less traffic.

Nice, that's good, right? Since it's as good as a dual pane window and also lets air through.

Thanks!

Epiphany's camera is visible in the production version. The site photo is a little outdated, here are newer pics where you can see the better aperture of the production model:

http://bestoftheweb.quora.com/Epiphany-Eyewear-smart-glasses...

http://instagram.com/p/gEi4OyP-40/

About Glass, while I agree that it's impressively miniaturized for today's technology, I don't think any display component available right now is up to the incredibly high standard of style that is required to be on a person's face. It's an uphill battle, and until some future date when a "holy grail" display component arises that can display images on a regular eyewear lens without any bulk, displays will not be stylish enough for people to feel comfortable wearing them.

That photo on the site isn't doing Epiphany justice.

Here is a better pic:

http://bestoftheweb.quora.com/Epiphany-Eyewear-smart-glasses...

This is Epiphany at New York Fashion Week being modeled on the runway by BCBGMAXAZRIA.

And thanks!

You describe exactly the use case for which my product Epiphany Eyewear is specialized.

Epiphany records wide-angle HD video (like a GoPro), has a full hour of battery life, and looks & feels like designer eyewear which hold your prescription. Please check it out, I put practically every waking hour of my life into manufacturing this:

http://epiphanyeyewear.com

We are now shipping consumer units, with approximate a 5-week backlog on orders placed right now.

I think msandford is thinking that you think that this system would charge-cycle a car more than once per day, and if you do think this, he's addressing it by pointing out that the car would be charge-cycled only once per day, or less given that the system wouldn't need to utilize every car on a given day. So this extra <= 1 charge cycle per day shouldn't "murder" the battery longevity (or at least murder is way too strong of a word) compared to normal daily driving.

It also probably doesn't help that the username "FuckFrankie" sounds aggressive / combative

Try the Mitsubishi NBSIJ–MU01 conductive ink for inkjet printers. Available here: http://www.k-mpm.com/agnano/agnano_ink.html

MSR published a paper where they tried using this ink and wrote about their results: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/201273/ubi1415-instant%20...

Thanks for your interest! If you order today (Dec 18), they will ship in February.

I'm not a lawyer but I do think that knowing the basics of day-to-day law like you said would actually be really nice. Maybe it would have helped people who were signing up for extremely risky mortgages around 2007 to better understand their real contractual obligations for re-payment, at a time when the banker they were dealing with was probably failing to highlight the fact that the payments would dramatically increase beyond the introductory period? I'm just speculating.

Oh it might be this syntax error on line 21 of index.js:

Is: query.ascending)(

Presumably should be: query.ascending();

I don't know if I'm just completely retarded or hitting a bug. How do I use the "Select a Procedure..." box? Typing into it does nothing. If I click on the box (or the down triangle), it brings up a menu with only one option, which says "Select a Procedure..." and does nothing. This is on Chrome on Windows. I'm in Los Angeles, if that matters.

Are there other types of drones other than traditional quadcopters, for example variable-pitch quadcopters [1], that can get more airspeed and thus cover more distance in 15 min?

What about using airplane-style drones (like traditional RC planes) + a parachute to land the package? And this way you could use nitro gas fuel to get better energy density (since you can use one big gas engine instead of having to use four tiny motors)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy5Ky50eGJs

Hope you guys enjoy the technology, my coworkers and I have been putting our hearts and souls into engineering and manufacturing these glasses for almost two years now! It's been a long but rewarding road and I've learned so much about manufacturing that I would definitely recommend hardware technology to anyone interested in the experience of starting a company. Just be ready to spend every waking hour on it!

Shameless plug: you can get your own Epiphany Eyewear at http://epiphanyeyewear.com

Hi Adam, I just looked up your position in the backers list, I believe your glasses will ship in January.

Thank you for your early support and I hope you will really enjoy your Epiphany Eyewear

Couldn't a language-bridge library use Java reflection to accomplish a lot of what's needed?

Didn't Facebook do the same?

Wow

Hurray, Dr. Endy, Monica, Jerome, and Pakpoom! :) I interned in this lab and it's really cool seeing their amazing work (especially using M13 for high-bandwidth communication) get the press it deserves

Let's also not forget Paul Jaschke! http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul_Jaschke/ He was able to design and produce a working refactored version of the PhiX174 bacteriophage.

Refactoring in bio has the typical CS connotation of cleaning up messy code -- The natural PhiX174 has some overlapping genes that cannot be edited in isolation -- The refactored version has no gene overlaps, so the genes can be editted individually in a more rational manner.

Hm, it was just a memory, probably either misremembered Wikipedia or maybe it's in "A Deepness in the Sky". Sorry

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EDIT: Found it. It was indeed from "A Deepness in the Sky", which is fiction. There's a sentence in chapter 17 that says "The Reprise reached ramcruise, 0.3 lightspeed, and sailed endlessly across the depths."

On the contrary, we could get to about 30% of the speed of light with a Bussard Ramjet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet

Combine that with life extension and you can travel the stars within one lifetime. Lots of nearby planetary systems would be within only a few decades of travel.

Read Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky" for a great sci-fi exploration of the culture that would arise around this form of travel.

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Also, if you believe your "soul" / "mind" is represented by a pattern of matter rather than the particular matter itself, you could travel at 100% of the speed of light by 3D scanning yourself to cell-level resolution, destroying the original body, and beaming the data to a biological 3D printer on the destination planet.

Lot's of people who text while driving think it's safe too. You can't take reckless drivers' own word for what's safe or not.

" Since 1982, between 40% and 50% of adults in the United States say they hold the creationist view that 'God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years'. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism

Epiphany Eyewear smart glasses: http://epiphanyeyewear.com

It's cool because these glasses are stylish enough that they are a fashion item, and have appeared on the runway at New York Fashion Week: https://yougen.tv/video/beddc3d4-784f-40ab-8066-652ac8e3f694...

It's cool because you can record two-handed activities such as kayaking: https://yougen.tv/video/9b406d41-8e68-43fc-904f-f12ce688f610...

It's cool because everyone from Miss California https://yougen.tv/video/db0c3dd0-846c-458c-8d53-cd2802b00534... to my barber https://yougen.tv/video/92f9308b-d6a9-46a4-95f9-39da0700f9cb... instantly sees the appeal of recording and sharing your memories with your friends

visakanv wrote this good comment: "This is correct. The better our flight technology gets, the more we push our planes to fly in rough weather, etc."

visavanv, it looks like you got hellbanned between 10~14 days ago, possibly because of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6548892

Like you said, it's all about having everything under one roof.

If you fab the PCBs yourself and pick and place the components yourself, you could make an electronics change in one day as long as you get the design right the first time and you had ordered the components in advance.

Changing the case shape would be harder to do fast, but could still happen in just 2-3 weeks if you have your tool-making and injection molding both in-house.

The reason anything takes longer for most companies is due to outsourcing, with all of its communications delays and shipping delays.

The robot still wouldn't want to shoot on auto. It might shoot as fast as auto, but it would want to decide & control when each round goes off, rather than rely on the fixed timing of the auto mechanism

Continuing the half-joke:

A safer idea is for people to build EMPs, since they have much less potential to be used to hurt humans compared to the heavy weapons you mention.

I don't know how effective it is, but I've heard that one way to get the high instantaneous power need for an EMP is to use a potato cannon to fire a very large cylindrical permanent magnet through a wire coiled thousands of times around the cannon barrel. I haven't seen any video proof of this idea though, so take it with a grain of salt.

I definitely agree that desktops can have a huge win in terms of immersion. In addition to the ideal desktop screen being very high-res and very large, I think they would also use Parallax Barrier technology to show 3D imagery without requiring you to wear shutter glasses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_barrier