Hacker News: justx1

New comment by justx1 in "Robot solving a rubik's cube in 1 second"

justx1 — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 20:53:09 +0000

Looks impressive, but it's too fast to follow the mechanical solving part.

I wish they had allocated more time for a slow motion replay of the most important one second of the 117 second video.

Maybe something for The Slow Mo Guys to pick up [1].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/user/theslowmoguys

New comment by justx1 in "Apple iBeacons"

justx1 — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:13:55 +0000

Here is a good article that describes some scenarios that provide a glimpse into iBeacon's potential:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9242393/Why_Apple_s_i...

New comment by justx1 in "No, John Sculley really doesn't want to be your friend on LinkedIn"

justx1 — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 08:21:23 +0000

"This incident reveals a gaping whole in the LinkedIn API that enables users to game the..."

Whole? Really, Forbes?

New comment by justx1 in "Honeywords: Making password-cracking detectable"

justx1 — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:17:12 +0000

That's what "Cheif [sic] Scientists" do

New comment by justx1 in "How I attacked a fellow student"

justx1 — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:31:04 +0000

Well played...

Missing to redact X.com's phone number allows "social engineering" of the company name, though.

New comment by justx1 in "What happens when you wring out a washcloth in space [video]"

justx1 — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:03:54 +0000

So it's the surface tension of water.

Here is what I am wondering:

Detergents break the surface tension.

What would happen if he'd add some detergent?

New comment by justx1 in "Show HN: Real-time Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock"

justx1 — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:43:13 +0000

I wanted to try it out but "find random opponent" never found a random opponent.

If there is no "random opponent" to be found within say 20 seconds, you could fake the "random oppenent" to be a program that is random-rpsls'ing with me.

Nice Spock intro animation!

New comment by justx1 in "How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency"

justx1 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:12:21 +0000

Stolen bicycles are another example of a drug currency: http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/30393216796/what-happens-t...

Interesting read about the "Economic Theory of Bike Crime": "...Using this risk-return framework for crime, it begins to be clear why there is so much bike theft. For all practical purposes, stealing a bike is risk-free crime. It turns out there is a near zero chance you will be caught stealing a bike (see here) and if you are, the consequences are minimal. "