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If you tailor the use-case to one a consumer 3D printer can't match, then you can certainly show that the materials science won't allow the consumer-grade machine to compete- the issue here is one of imagination and applicability. Like the other fellow here says, what you're saying has deep shades of the same "why would I even WANT a computer, green monochrome, blocky text, stupid games?" Arguments I had the misfortune to deal with personally, and the good fortune to avoid being swayed by. It's very much still a hobbyist's game, and just as it was then, when it would be substantially less time-consuming for most hobbyists to just, I dunno, modify their spreadsheets by hand and do calculations with a slide-rule than to program a computer to modify the order some little blinking lights came on.

So powerfully, we don't really disagree- I concur that my use case (replacement parts for toy robots) doesn't justify even a 500$ 3D printer- but the communal one we share at university was extremely valuable (did I mention the quotes from services like Shapeways for the part were in the 17-25 dollar range, where I was charged 3-4 bucks?). Moreso, the REAL value here is in all the crazy designs I've been concocting since then, like the adjustable desk I've been toying with building for ages, but always found my toolbox, workspace, and expertise somewhat short to make the gear setup- the portion of the project that intimidated me would be trivial and cheap with this 3D printer- and this printer, it's one of the ones that really sucks! This breaks that barrier right down, and that's all technology is really for, anyway- to help us make our visions into realities.

You obviously know more about materials than I do, but I think that your perspective is skewed by upper limits- you're trying to decide this technology by comparing it to other tech that it has zero need and zero business trying to compete with- when we DIY guys require materials that strong, then maybe we can talk (not saying it wouldn't be nice, and break down more barriers, I'm saying that it sounds like you're saying that unless it can compete with injection molded ABS plastic, it's not worthwhile, and I hotly contested that assertion), until then, you're trying to shortchange our moon rockets because they won't get us to Mars, and that's pretty silly, in my book, even if it's true.

So, indeed, hobbyists machine- someone purchasing this as an appliance like a refrigerator- meant for convenience and time-savings, I can agree that they'll be disappointed. In the meantime, hobbyists who only want to give the vision-to-reality ratio a boost are going to continue to be tickled pink at their 3D printers, and I suspect that their enthusiasm will drive enough interest and investment in the technology to maybe deliver some of those high-quality, cheap Laser sinterers you mentioned before- all possible as long as there's an enthusiast market to consume the hobbyist level iterations along the way! :D
For this launch, Orbcomm paid a pittance. They paid Falcon 1 prices for a Falcon 9 launch.
It's referred to as the monkey-mind.

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

Zen is where I encountered it.
why do users continue to buy them, year after year?

Let's consider phones. They're over 50% of Apple's revenue, so they're currently the biggest piece of Apple.

Early non-Apple phones were a craptastic fucking joke. E.g. my daughter had some cheapo phone (an LG I think). It was becoming slower and slower by the day. The local AT&T store couldn't fix it. They gave me the address of a special service center about 1/2 hr away. We had to drive there and wait while they attempted to restore the phone. In the end they gave up and gave us a new phone.

This wasn't a hardware problem. Under typical "stress" of a teenager using a phone to send text messages, etc., the phone software degraded itself into unusability.

That was typical "state of the art" before Apple came in and kicked ass with far superior products. Not flawless, but still superior.

Add to that the other typical problems with phones: 1) manufacturers allowing themselves to be the carriers' bitches, meaning phones come preloaded with tons of crapware apps, and 2) both carrier and manufacturer indifference to any sort of software updates, either to fix bugs or to update features, and the end result is:

Apple phones might have minor problems, but they suck a lot lot less than typical alternatives. And Apple's service (if you live close to an Apple store) is usually far superior to the competition.

Maybe there are good alternatives. But can I be sure they will survive? E.g. some people like Nexus. But I sure don't trust Google. Almost everything except search (and its concurrent advertising) is treated as a hobby by them. Why would I switch to Google? They routinely discontinue products on a whim.

Until a Google phone is considerably better than Apple, and I feel that it will remain better for a number of years, then I will continue to stay in the Apple ecosystem.

In short, Apple sucks the least of all the phone companies out there, and inertia will keep me with Apple until I'm convinced that a competitor is far superior.
Exactly. It can't

C makes you take the needed metadata to other parts of the program manually.

It's not about being low-level, it's about having "pretend types" (like string or array) that are only actually a pointer with a tiny bit of syntactic sugar.
Because government contractors are notoriously awful at technology being that they are selected via cronyism. This would be an expensive, proprietary label system requiring special proprietary ink and labels that would likely break after being used 50 times, and require an authorized repair contractor to fix it. A relative or friend of the executive at USPS who implemented this would receive the contract and just take the money.

It would also need to interface with their daily operations "out for delivery" db which likely is also proprietary and extremely expensive to modify, and already under an existing long term licensing contract they have no intention of changing.

Disclosure: this is how it worked at Postes Canada when I once worked there. All technology was long term licensed, through crony corps I had never heard of who only seemed to exist to receive money from CPC to sell extremely expensive systems that merely passed plain text to a db.
That's always true of the future, but the difficulty is continually self adjusting and pluggable and quantum proof algos exist so that'll be about the timeline no matter the power of future CPU's.
It depends how much time you have to burn, and how much traffic you handle. If you have trivial scaling needs or want to spend 10x the human time managing that setup, then go ahead. You use something like opentsdb when you have hundreds of thousands or millions of ops per second and don't have the time or desire to deal with a database that you have to build your own partitioning + resharding + failover + recovery systems on top of.

B+ trees are not optimized for the kinds of write-heavy workloads that you typically stick in HBase (LSM-tree).
I'm sorry you feel this way, as brudgers wrote, there is still a small link at the bottom to download without subscribing.

Getting some subscribers is very important to me because I make this tool in my free time, and the only way I can justify spending more time on it is if I have some users who care about the tool. If I shall burn in hell for this, then so be it.
> the events which caused the accusations against Product Hunt.

can you tell me more about this? I do have a PH account, I have hardly used it, so I don't know much.
There is progress. I see the 3D printers at TechShop making useful stuff now. TechShop has had filament-type 3D printers around for about five years, but few people got beyond the Yoda head. Now the newer units are producing useful parts. They also have access to services with better 3D printers.
That, and I want to see an Epic Rap Battle of History between Musk and Bezos some day. It will take a lot of competition and a lot of progress before they have enough dirt to throw at each other.
> How is iostream any better than *printf?
printing user-defined types?
Probably a force of habit plus the fact I am not constantly listening to newly released music.
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Lots of loans are "meant" to be repaid (that's a literal, not a scare quote).

But if it turns out that it cannot be, virtually all are dischargable in bankruptcy.

Student loans are a very, very rare exception. Also a rather recent one.
Ggplot2 version 2.0.0 released by Hadley Wickham
That's odd, can I ask what version of Windows you're running? How much RAM you got?

I only tested it on Win7 and had a friend test it on Win8 and Win10.
Extended release notes here[1] as well as an explanation of the new object system for extending it, ggproto, here[2]

[1] https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2/releases/tag/v2.0.0

[2] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggplot2/vignettes/ex...
He said it works worse on the new phone than the old one.
Sealing classes by default is troubling. I'm having a bad feeling about the future of Swift. I also think it's growing too big already.
It is of course good to be aware, but legacy Android versions shouldn't be a show stopper for modern TLS.

For general web browsing, I'd expect that both Chrome and Firefox are installable on Android 2.3 and bundle their own TLS libraries.

Other app developers can also vendor TLS libraries, like Bouncy Castle, to support modern encryption on legacy devices.
This is just a few lines of code and it would have been better as ycombinator upgrade. It works slow because of and additional server in the middle, data requests (API or parsing ?) ...

Also in this way it just look like domain-parking-advert-posting (without adverts for now but ...) thing ...

But again + for effort
They seem to have been suffering from poor product management for a long time. I guess product management and practicing humility is too menial to the geniuses at Google.
I noticed quite a change in mood when I started reintroducing foods with choline into my diet. Of course, some of those foods have some other nutrients that are harder to get. Eggs and beef were the main sources I targeted.

Obviously, overall diet, sleep, exercise, etc. etc. matters as well.
Culture and economics are strange. Is hazing the result of demanding discipline for high quality popular products? Or do popular products result in hazing since supply is bigger than demand?

What we can definitely say is sushi has become american standard and that without Japanese chefs, quality sushi would not always be available. Something I think about is sports. Winning doesnt always involve fun, sometimes its discipline, practicing endlessly and ensuring each member plays their part properly instead of give excuses and act solo.

Is hazing the problem? Or is not seeing hazings place in the world? Do we hate discipline ir just discipline at extremes? Why do we hit dogs to stop them from pooping inside and give them treets for listening to a name? I think there is grey area
But they're not just stopping maintaining it, they're deliberating removing features. So rather than simply doing nothing seems that they are taking an effort to make this archive useless.
Eh? Where do you get that idea? He repeats over and over again that this should not be taken as a sign that his kid is overly gifted, that it didn't work just because his kid is gifted, and that he is pretty sure most kids could accomplish the same thing if their parents tried.
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Clang's CFI implementation is documented here: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html

It's not a full CFI, but my understanding is that it does completely prevent vtable corruption with ~5% overhead (measured for Chromium).
Agreed. I initially thought he was referring to editors like Leo (http://leoeditor.com/) or Code Browser (http://tibleiz.net/code-browser/), but now I'm not sure.
Maybe this is why the European tech industry has been growing so much recently - most of our cities have great public transport :)
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That's because the customary cultural expectation in America seems to be that by the time you have any use for 3+ bedrooms, you'll buy a freestanding house in the suburbs. Accordingly, there's little demand for large apartments.

3+ BR apartments are fairly table stakes in central and Eastern Europe. It's still a culture shock to me to be unable to find one here in the US, and I've lived here since I was six!
You misunderstood him. He was talking about running a non-bitcoin program on that small computer.
There does seem to be an air of schadenfreude/witch hunt going on.
Nice! It actually was working better for me the on the first post. This one is going very slow --- 30-90 second page loads, then another similar wait for 'fetching data'.

I'm getting a few character encoding oddities using Opera on Mac. Looks like "â" is replacing a variety of other characters.

I presume you've seen http://hckrnews.com/? When combined with the browser extension, I find the counter for viewed and unviewed comments helpful.

Making the comments number a clickable link might be an easy improvement. There doesn't currently seem to be a way to go there directly for the non-Show-HN-type links.
You're right. I meant $6 million series A. Corrected.
As with my reply to monochromatic, I guess the issue here is the definition of the term "patent troll". People often use the term anytime a patent they don't like is asserted. However, studies suggest that patent trolls don't assert patents any worse or better than those that practicing entities assert. See for instance,
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1792442 for a limited by illustrative empirical study which also references several other related papers. This study also indicates that NPEs are probably a significant avenue for assertion of patents from individual inventors.

I will agree that there is a substantial patent quality problem, with a number of overly broad and poorly-defined patents being asserted by firms, non-practicing or otherwise. However, from my observation over almost a decade, I would also say that this problem is declining rapidly, as most of these patents were issued during a period when the PTO had no idea how to deal with them two decades ago.
I feel like that was addressed, in bits and pieces. If you're worried about your kid ending up "abnormal" or "out of place"... well, yeah, they will. But the author (and myself) have no problem with "abnormal". "Normal" is not necessarily good. He does say that he's worried about boredom (and again, I agree), but that is much more easily fixed by looking for teachers or special programs that can cater to the child's needs, maybe skipping grades... or, if that fails, continuing to enrich your child's education yourself.
For reference this is how Royal Mail does it in the uk:

Side 1 has the relevant info time/date/what/etc

http://cdn1.alphr.com/sites/alphr/files/images/blogs/wp-cont...

Side 2 has contact information for your nearest post depot. Note that date/time is simply changed to 'hours' which saves space.

Fees to pay is actually a separate form (it's rare for most people to get this, so why waste space on form 1?):

https://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/fee-to-pay-10-...

I think it's pretty clean and it's normally obvious what's happened/what you need to do. They follow a lot of the suggestions in the OP, for instance the who/what/where/when is obvious and at the top. Payment is another form, as above, and the options for getting your item are on the back. There's enough room for large entry boxes and nice whitespace/branding.

It seems like that the USPS form is trying to handle every single possibility in one form which leads to a mess.
Corporate Spam.
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Truth be told, our only saving grace is having documentation at the touch of a key. Remembering the API calls of a single framework is a monumental task.
Bezos and Musk should NOT be on twitter for their sake. Imagine for a few decades no one tells you "no" or "you're wrong" and you have thousands of peons to kick around. Megalomania is 100% going to happen. Best just contain that behind closed doors.
But wouldn't spaced repetition be useful to master C++?
The author has the same post office as me. I've never even managed to get something redelivered even when filling this form out, or filling it out online. That seems to be the bigger problem.

I would just make the form say, "You can get this thing at the post office tomorrow. If you don't pick it up by XXX, it will be crushed into a cube."
Hard to say, I feel it helped a little, as in, when I'm playing with my teacher (without MeloCraft), I more often get the feeling « oh, that doesn't quite sound right, I should move my fingers a little bit ». But that's N=1 and I didn't do any meaningful before/after tests.

That said, even if the tool doesn't help for the musical earing directly, it can still help to correct the position of your fingers, and that's very important for muscle memory. So instead of training for hours on the wrong finger position because I don't have a musical ear, I can correct myself and properly train my muscle memory correctly.

Well, you're very lucky to have a relative pitch, I think you can still train for it as an adult, but it may require more time and still might not be possible for everyone. Don't take my word for it thought, I don't recall any solid research on the subject.
Ugh, swype fail: I meant to say:

2: There's probably not much overlap in Google's patents and Oracle's technology.
You may want to make it clearer from the get-go that the two images at the top are your re-design and not the current form.
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Well I meant the "weak" version, which states language only influences thoughts and stuff. Which I would still say is a personality change. Thank you for links, though.
Usesnet is still alive, but mostly unused.
Its posts were not immediately displayed like Hacker News.
Imwas a user in 1990s.
I pretty much gave up on my "life" for this one for most of this year. Finally back teaching gym classes and singing in choir. Gotta have balance.
You won't be able to adjust thrust vector (and stabilize the landing booster) with just one engine.
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I think the problem is not the language standard per se, it's the education and historically sloppy compilers. It's a bit like W3Schools for javascript teaching everybody all the worst practices, that's not a problem with the javascript language itself.

I mean really, what are the most common cases of undefined behavior that cause real problems in the world? (Reading past array bounds or trying to dereference uninitialized variables are such obvious errors that i don't categorize them as 'unexpected undefined behavior', the later is caught by most compilers and static analyzers today anyway. Though i agree having the length known in arrays would greatly help.)

Any time i see some raging blog post about how undefined behavior ruined someones day it's 99% of the time because they one way or another were trying to cast a pointer of one type to a pointer of another type, like thinking they could read the first 16 bits of an int* by casting it to a short* first. The root cause of this is because people think that pointers are addresses to a sequential grid of NAND-gates on your DDR4-stick, when they in fact are abstract references to a variable that can carry a value. This comes from school, where the way teachers show you how pointers work is exactly like that. Tutorials on the internet also say that you can do smart tricks with pointers just to teach you and then people think that's how you should do it. When compiling in debug-mode this is how the memory is usually aligned so things still work anyway.

Historically compilers didn't warn about this either and things still worked so many people got used to writing things this way and today those people are the "experienced C gurus" in companies that pass down this misbehavior to their younger peers.

Overflow on signed arithmetic is another of the common pitfalls but that's life if you code for embedded, the alternative solution that "just works" would be to do all arithmetic in a BigInt type as python but that clearly isn't viable on embedded, or to do everything in floating point but that has its own pitfalls.
the new phone could have a bad microphone placement, or simply a microphone which works poorly with the algorithm
I love OpenTSDB, but I think it's highly unusual for people to have "absulutely no issues at all". I ran OpenTSDB at the hundreds of thousands to low millions of ops per second range for several years. OpenTSDB has historically crapped itself when you have writes hit it for rows that it already ran its all-columns-for-an-hour-into-a-single-column compaction on. Now it just drops data on reads.

If you have a large team of engineers writing data into it, they will sometimes abuse the schema by overloading single metrics with many tags. Every permutation of tag*value creates a new row per hour of data. This creates extremely hot shards when engineers inevitably do something like store a client IP address into a tag. When this happens, you may have to write some web-UI scraping code to figure out which regions are getting the most traffic (assuming you have "extremely high traffic setup" numbers of region servers), or script up something like misra-gries on a tcpdump of its inbound metrics to see where the hot shit is so you can get somebody's deploy reverted. I know of some companies that have forked OpenTSDB and prefixed each row with a hash such that it spreads overloaded metrics around the cluster much more evenly. KairosDB solves this by not using a lexicographically sharded database (Cassandra).

When run properly, it runs great. But that takes some really painful learning experiences to learn how to do, generally.
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You can also append a list of your domains here. You never know, someone here might be interested.
In the excellent A16Z podcast, dotcom veteran Martha Lane-Fox suggested that as England (and kind of UK) had same population as the Tokyo metro area, then we are less a country and more just a large Asian city / metro area.

This probably is a good way of looking at it.

Yes London and the South East are a form of black hole sucking all the people, investment etc from the rest of the U.K. However are we combating this with massive transport investments, with superb connectivity infrastructure and taxation policy.

No of course not. Because any attempt to fix this will cut the value of housing in the south east, impoverishing millions of registered voters.

(Overly cynical, yes. There are attempts to redress the balance but nothing like the scale needed)

Edit: actually I think are major hope lies not in making commute times shorter, but in massively pushing remote working as a viable option. Taxation and investment policy should focus on this. Everything from domestic housing regulations onwards should have this clear goal.
Good to know, I thought standard red-green color blindness is when you don't recognize these colors at all.
Feedback much appreciated - I'll make sure that's followed up and implemented. Thank you :)
Yeah, I have noticed that when people start to actually use the performing just goes right down the drain.... Ugh. I'm using gunicorn this shouldn't be happening.

Yeah, I am still noticing those little unicode errors too.

Yes, I was thinking about doing what hckrnews does with the unviewed.

Thank you for the suggestion, I will work on a button that will bring you to the post.
The patent itself is not about facial recognition. It's actually broader than that.