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What's the article did not talk about is Gree, the air conditioner company, actually had a robotics and precision machinery division since 2012 and they have just unveiled its first products including several industrial robots, a 3 axis CNC machine and a 5 axis CNC machine during a trade show in August of 2015.

She probably saw this as marketing opportunity to upset existing player in the field. Come to think of it, the ability to make a cheap precision ballpoint could also to translated to ball bearings, and that has a market orders of magnitudes bigger than ballpoint pens.
Kunstler has been writing about peak oil for ages, and is something of an expert in this area, despite being "crazy" - I mean, he definitely sounds crazy, but then again, there's a reasonable chance he could be right about the pending apocalypse, it's not like we're below the carrying capacity of the planet (given our resource usage) or anything.
Therein lies the problem:
New users pay the average price, but new capacity has to be built at the marginal cost.
Let's say that BigCity has a residential capacity of 1 million people, but 3 million people want to live there. Meanwhile, its suburbs have a capacity for 5 million people, and 6 million want to live in the suburbs. Even though more people want to live in the suburbs, prices will probably be higher in the city.
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Thailand's netizens are living in a climate of fear
I thought it was pretty public that they are making an amusement ride for rich tourists.
A scroll through google scholar seems to show it has no positive benefits. For instance, the abstract at http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=13608... gave kids reading lessons "delivered at 4, 12, 18, and 42 months" and concluded that it "provided neither the anticipated benefits to literacy and language nor enhanced uptake of literacy activities at 4 years of age, even when targeted to relatively disadvantaged areas."

Everything seems to show little to no effect, but as far as I can tell it's not inherently a bad thing to do. Kids just happen to learn to read at about the time they're intellectually ready for it.
Product Hunt faces a difficult challenge. Many people from the software/startup world are egalitarian, yet Product Hunt is a business. They must find a balance.

A more democratic approach to this would work much better than the insider model they've adopted. Hacker News isn't a business, Reddit is, yet both are egalitarian. There does exist a balance that works.

They've solved the problem of sorting good/curated products based on upvotes, but that is not the true problem.

The harder problem is ensuring new products can reach the front page fairly. Reddit would not be the amazing community it is today if there were a curation team at Reddit determining what should be on the front page. If I were PH, I would focus on this problem.

I would urge them to address the issues that the community is bringing up. His post does not seem to indicate any change will occur.
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I think that's probably true, it could be a mindset thing. I just hate having debt, it's like holding something over my head. I don't actually believe it to be inherently bad though, I just don't like it.
Might be a good idea to start specializing in controlling your costs. :P

Half-joking, but remember that there are two sides to financial security: your earning and your expenses. If you are making $200k but living paycheque-to-paycheque, you aren't much better off than living frugally on $75k. And the magic of compound interest means you are better off staving while you are young.
I wonder how this will compare with TitanDB?

http://thinkaurelius.github.io/titan/
Traffic is a compression wave. You brake, then the person behind you brakes, then the person behind them, etc. You accelerate, then the person behind you...

Highways that become automated-only will not have this problem. The cars can communicate with each other and change speed in unison. You don't even need to convert a whole highway, you can just reserve a single lane for automated cars and get most of the same benefits.
Report: Ford, Google to build self-driving cars together
Hope rekindled for abc proof
Yeah, that's not really the point. I meant something more like this:

https://hackaday.io/project/6799-smartee-the-smart-plug

I find it pretty incredible something like this doesn't already exist from a major manufacturer! I mean, I understand why Belkin/GE/etc want to lock you into their ecosystem, but it seems not that hard to build an open alternative - and eat their collective lunches.
Precision landings

http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/7949/why-does-the-s...
Some work super hard to cultivate sources because they like to be known as great hunters.
Some are contacted by companies/startups and offered to try things early...
Some post for their friends.
They're not excluding anybody. They're surfacing things that for the most part, have been proven to be liked by the community.
Oh come on! I had thought you are better than this! Another PR stunt?
The whole Bezos/BlueOrigin thing is kind of sad. They are nowhere near a "club" with SpaceX.

One of the huge differences (and there are many) is that Falcon 9 was doing 6,000 Km/hr (~4,000 mi/hr) when the first stage separated and turned around to come back.

The path was not straight up, but rather one to launch the second stage into orbital flight (which reached 26,000 Km/hr and 600 miles of altitude).

Then Falcon9's first stage FLEW a curved return path; fired three engines to slow down from holy-crap miles-per-hour, shut them down and then, at exactly the right moment in time, fired one engine to land.

The Bezos rocket went straight up to zero velocity and came straight back down.

It's like throwing a bottle straight up in the air compared to throwing one in a parabolic path to the top of the Empire State building and having that bottle then turn around, fly that same parabolic path to return and land at your feet.

Not sure why Bezos feels the need to try to imply his effort (which IS significant) is on the same league as SpaceX other than to potentially try to leverage the fabricated parity for publicity and external funding.
I for one think that giving credit where credit is due is an important thing.
I have a feeling people with high anxiety retreat from overtly social situations and into intellectual matters by reading, doing well in school, and so forth. There's already some studies linking sensitivity to stimulation with introversion.
you aren't truly considering the scale of the Internet if you believe that
We need both, but by neighborhood shops I mean little cafes, restaurants, galleries, markets, etc. that you can walk to for day to day needs, while still leaving the big box store for long-term and bulk purchases. The reduced density of suburbs wouldn't support very many of these shops, but if they're spaced well, they could serve as walkable gathering points for the community.
We see things differently.

And it's hard to argue that a guy fired from his job deserves respect. Shkreli deserves no respect (for example) and was recently fired. The coach who doesn't having a winning season gets no respect.

In my experience I found a huge difference in organizations with good leadership and those with poor leadership (and I've been in both!) And I've been both the engineer and the leader in my career.

You can imagine other organizational forms, but as you experience them you may find, as I did, that the people make the difference, not the form. And that every position has its advantages and challenges. The more senior you are, the more leverage you have in screwing things up. If a line manager makes a bad call, the schedule slips, if the CEO makes a bad call, the company can cease to exist and lose all those jobs. Sort of like in a Viking longboat the oarsmen do the work but if the guy on the tiller falls asleep they are all dead.

It took me a while to understand the roles everyone has to play in getting something done, and the stakes involved for everyone involved. Of course I've really only known organizations which have operated in the environment of US laws and customs, (of which SpaceX is one) but in those organizations I've found that people don't arbitrarily "get to the top", and understanding the difference between what it takes to operate at that level, versus at the level of getting the stuff done that you're told to do. There is a big gulf.

One of the more interesting things a CEO I respect and admire told me about being a senior leader was this, "Chuck the good thing about being in this role is you get to make some of the important decisions, the bad thing about being in this role is that you have to make the important decisions."

So we disagree on what is disproportionate and what is unjust. Perhaps one day we'll be more in agreement.
Was there previously a theory that there was a gap in time after ancient humans, whereafter modern humans just popped up one epoch?
"Next, the researchers would like to extract DNA from bones found in the cave. But because the thigh bone shows signs of having been burned, ancient human DNA may not have survived."

Killed them deliciously, possibly.
Meh.

This is a response to the traction openhunt is getting. Another version of "I'm sorry we got caught".

Ryan, maybe had good intentions at the beginning then got carried away with the "stardom" and of course, with $6 million in the bank, a bit of arrogance took hold.

His initial response to the Medium article was "lol", while that of the posse was "fuck the haters". He forgot his remit was building a massive community and not a small clique.

Competition is good. It makes people humble.

Product Hunt cannot change. It's "community" is vested in ensuring things remain the same. Just like fat cats.

Reminds me of a certain logo.

Coincidence?

Edited: $6million not $16 million series A
Device that creates a $10M daily 'loss' for the music industry
Unified communications as a service
Old companies don't want to reduce the cost - they like hundreds of millions of dollars per launch ;)
Wow. Interesting idea. I suspect it's not currently supported because web app developers are not expected to work at such a low level.

The closest thing I can think of is if your back-end is simply a JSON API, you can use a tool such as cURL or httpie to make requests from the command line.
What the hell is going on with scrolling on that site?
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RMS is wrong on this issue, and wrong in a very insulting way.

OSS programmers who disagree with him about license must not talk or (care) about freedom? Really? Jesus that's shitty.
So why didn't the old companies do it? They have the same access to technical and financial expertise as anyone, and deep pockets.
Modern sanitation helps a lot more than antibiotics. We don't throw our shit in the streets, we don't spend time around animals, people wash their hands and take showers, and we understand that sick people are contagious and can avoid them. The black plague spread through fleas on rats.
It's actually fairly similar in an idiomatic Redux app.

"Lets say you have a User. You want to display information about the user in three different places in the user interface. With Redux this is simple. You have a single User store and three different containers that each receive the source model as inputs, transform it using connect/reselect, and then passes it on, along with action creators to change the data, to the underlying components. Any change in the User model propagates down to through the containers to the components. If you edit the user from one component it updates the store and then the components. Changes then cascade back down so that all three containers update if needed. Very simple."

Sounds familiar, no? The big difference is that instead of editing the data you're passed directly, and having it magically update everywhere, you're passed an immutable User object and an updateUser() function, which you call to edit the object.

But the same distinction between your data, the view, and the intermediate layer that transforms the data for the view is very much present.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_mill ?
Yup, that's what I'm wondering too. How much variance is there from launch to launch, and to what degree is this reproducible?
The article is from Feb. 2015. Has the situation changed since then?
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There is no pending apocalypse. We'll hit peak oil around mid-century, and it's not like all of the oil just runs out at that point. We're investing heavily in research into renewables, and I figure that the politics of nuclear will improve in the next couple of decades.
As somebody whom gets anxiety, my assumption was always that more intelligent people aren't ignorant to the likes of science and such and therefore realize the gravity of possibly scenarios.

Few examples....I got a decent gash on my leg a few months ago. I was going out kayaking with some friends so I shaved my leg around the cut and wrapped it up nice and good with a duct tape bandage and water proof tape over that. I am not about to chance getting a flesh eating bacteria or something weird like that. Practically costs nothing to take a precaution. Another example, wearing a condom, even if you're in a relationship with the same person and you've both been tested. What if birth control doesn't work? What if she had unprotected sex with someone else? Not that I don't trust her, I do, but what if? I also get extreme FOMO when choosing what backend language to learn (still haven't chosen after a few months). Sometimes when looking at the documents for new libraries it takes me a few days to actually sit down to look at them from the anxiety that maybe I'll be too stupid to understand the docs. This leads to me sitting at the computer staring at the docs but not actually reading because my mind is just in one huge clusterfuck looping around these thoughts and thinking what if I follow the instructions wrong? I'll have to start over and would have wasted time. Finally when I actually start typing and doing stuff I have no problem. While I know I just have to learn how to use these things once and I'll know it 'forever' and that just sitting there is actually wasting more time than I would be if I had to stay over 50 times, I just can't help it.
We've reached the trough of the hype cycle for FDM 3d-printing. A new hype cycle is for different branches of 3d-printing will happen soon (CLIP, multi-color printing, etc.). Plateau of productivity is like ~8 years away I think, when someone finally comes out with a nice machine that makes it all possible elegantly in one machine.
RMS uses "freedom" to mean "the best thing you can have", kind of like, but also kind of opposite to, the way people use "freedom" to describe America. It's just propaganda, who cares. Many people view permissive licenses as more free, whatever, it's a buzzword.
Awesome alternate angle: https://vine.co/v/iKPTghqF0LA
Used to think that about just about anything. Shoes, clothing, electronics, and more. You can get car accessories and parts online too, depending on the automaker. It may not get delivered to your home, but it'll at least get delivered to the dealer, if not your home. Some automakers have sites where you can customize your car online, like mini.com.

If the trend continues, why just buy whole cars online too, especially if they're well-reviewed? What was unthinkable before surprisingly changes. I would not be surprised if buying cars became as easy as an Amazon Prime one-click in the future. Probably not for at least a decade though.
It was a sad day when Google shut down Deja News. Google's replacement was definitely inferior and ultimately turned me away from Usenet for good.
This comment breaks the HN guideline that says Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them. It has triggered a devolutionary cascade that so far has made it as low as "Wow, what an asshole" and "man who thinks sex with children should be legalized". Blasting craters in the threads like that damages this site. I'm sure you didn't mean to, but please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Kinda ironic that Google employs Vint Cerf who spends his time trying to raise awareness of bit rot - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/google-bos...
If you're counting little cafes, restaurants, galleries and markets among your day-to-day needs, you've already gentrified yourself out of the range of 90% of the population.
Hey I'm Matt and I created Trident App. Really happy to add GitHub support! If you have any questions I'm happy to help.
Used iPhones retain their value pretty well.

As a user of a second-hand iPhone 5c, I can say that I was quite impressed and am now fully converted from Android. As well, I'm tempted to just buy second-hand phones for the rest of my life now.
Its been fixed people...read the google groups thread....
Pretty bad clerk you had there, I can't believe the suggestion to take taxi from a rental car return to a terminal. But the comparison that the average traveler is ready to walk a mile from their parking spot to the terminal with all their luggage is a bit far-out.
Extreme speeds and loads. Parachutes don't scale.
I encourage everyone with unanswered questions to participate in Product Hunt's LIVE chat. If you feel like a point wasn't adequately covered, drop by and ask Product Hunt's team directly. (link is from the article)
https://www.producthunt.com/live/product-hunt-team
Flying to Silicon Valley bankrupt and returning with $1.2m
The usability of almost all Google products is on a baffling nosedive. Google search now reinterprets the words searches so thoroughly that my own keywords appear far from the top of the results. "Ok Google" worked amazingly well on my 2013 Moto X, but it's terrible on my 2015 Moto X. It misunderstands almost everything I say, and it doesn't tell me what I've just done the way it used to.

There are myriad small examples of this, and I think we've all seen the Google support forum posts where someone has suggested a seemingly obvious fix, and Google ignores it (even as the +1's number into the thousands).

It's incredibly frustrating to have my live absolutely saturated by a company that doesn't seem to care at all how usable their products are.

And don't even get me started on the worst usability disaster of the last 5 years: Material design.
Gahhh, can't wish enough that I got into this earlier. Graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering, worked for a year at a startup, took a year off to take the plunge into programming. Getting my feet wet with webdev right now. Plan is to get into C++ as it seems that's where the industry is heading with VR, AR, robotics, and web assembly.

I was actually wondering if you did something prior to programming thinking that it may have influenced your wife range of fields. I think coming from mech eng is probably the reason why I feel the need to understand how the whole system works.
I work and live in the city, and I barely use my car. There's no fighting for anything because I walk to work.
It's trivial to drill gently curved holes in wood using a Forstner bit or a suitably shaped spade bit. You can cut the workpiece in half, rout or mill a curved channel in both halves and fasten the two halves back together. You can use a curved electrode with electrochemical or electrical discharge machining. Of course, the best option is to design the part without a curved hole in the first place.
Seems like its more geared towards matching relatively small template-based subgraph patterns rather than doing arbitrary walks efficiently. From page 9 of the user manual:

> Below is an example query matching a triangle over the employee-client graph:

SELECT En1.Name, En2.Name, Cn.Name
FROM EmployeeNode AS En1, EmployeeNode AS En2, ClientNode AS Cn
MATCH En1-[Colleagues AS Cg]->En2-[Clients AS C1]->Cn,
En1-[Clients AS C2]->Cn
WHERE En1.Name = ‘Jane Doe’ AND C1.credit > 1000
Interesting discussion. Reminds me of the "why would I ever want a computer?" discussion I got from folks back when I was in High School when I showed them a computer I had assembled from a kit.

And realistically they didn't need a computer ever, they needed a smart phone. Although for a while they used a computer and complained bitterly that it required too much maintenance and had a steep learning curve.

So here we are in the 3D printer 'nadir', the period of time between hype and wide spread adoption. The thing is, 3D printers have gotten much better since the first rep raps were trying to print their own parts. And with that has come more applications, and with that more fun. A 3D printer is the ultimate expression of a Lego set these days.

Once I had internalized what I could do, which I could not do before, the number of things I started printing went up dramatically. And so much has been learned and developed in terms of how to best fabricate things in this way that what used to be hit or miss can now be rock solid. For example I doubt I will ever buy a project case for a gizmo ever again. Holders, jigs, struts and braces, all are "need one? print one" these days. But if you aren't a maker, if you didn't write any code on any laptop you owned, if you really just want someone else to do the fabrication, then yes they are not for you at this time, you'll still use a service. But that will change, I hope a bit faster than it has, the first 10 years have not moved along as fast I would have liked.
My experiences were similar in some ways. My parents taught me to read and basic math before and during my early school years.

I had some teachers that tailored the curriculum for students like me (special projects, more advanced literature) and then others that kind of just left us to our own devices. In my case, I ended up doing all my schoolwork before lunch. The second half of the day I'd tinker around on the old Apple PCs my school had, read through the limited selection of interesting books in the school library or help some of my classmates with their schoolwork. Some teachers encouraged a few of us to tutor/mentor some of our peers, but I don't think it was encouraged enough.

I can't directly relate that to where I am now, but I know overall it contributed to my ability to work/learn independently with minimal guidance. Might have also spurred my interest in problem solving and programming since I would be bored and become curious about how things worked around me.

If there was a negative, it made me think much of school was really boring the first 8-9 years. When I had a teacher that was too busy to adjust their curriculum for more advanced students, I assumed this was how school would always be. I didn't want to have a negative opinion of the education system, but it was hard at the time to have a positive one.

When I reached high school, I had to get out of the habit of thinking schoolwork (and homework) was some "busy work" chore I had to do in order to move onto the next grade. This was a bit harder in some courses than others--since I had to train myself to pay attention and actually take notes versus memorizing. Thankfully, I had some great high school teachers that helped me along the way. My high school education was overall a positive experience.

Do I think I would have been better off being home schooled or in a private school with more attention? Hard to say. Perhaps better in some ways, but not in others. Always a trade off.
Wine has Native JACK support. just install jack, and make pulsaudio its slave.
> But robots totally flip the market on head.

Yeah, as in people will be able to mod their existing cars to be self-driving and then rent them out AirBnB-style when they aren't using them. There's even a distributed storage system already built to handle that ... people's driveways and garages.
It's the main product this company is selling.
Links please
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