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> More broadly, it's kind of sad how little actually came of the "Maker Movement"

I'm not sure I agree. However I do believe the "Maker" movement was over sold by O'Reilly media and Dale Dougherty in particular. I stopped subscribing to Make Magazine few years back when it became apparent it was little more than a print version of Hackaday or Instructables.

Regardless of Maker. There is a plethora Robotics Competitions, existing Hacker spaces and STEM is huge.

The number of kids that were going to tinker at home is a fairly fixed. Where we'll really move the needle in terms of more people getting into engineering is in formal education (inc Robotics competitions).

Disclosure: I'm a little biased, I help design and build IDE's for some of these comps, e.g. http://zerorobotics.mit.edu/what-is-zr/ but I also have advocated and help implement "maker spaces" in my local school system. There is a sea-change, so I'll push back on the idea that little came of the 'maker movement'
What killed IMO and what will continue to kill these kinds of things for a long time is that nearly all 3D applications need massive amounts of custom optimization solutions. Stuff like X3D gets you a few cubes on the screen. Then you want to do GTA or Google Maps or Minecraft or pick your app and suddenly your generic scene graph just isn't good enough.
so /r/politics will be banned?
I didn't think so, but I didn't read the whole thing. Could have been formatted better and written more clearly and succinctly.
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Moreover, the whole 'smart bathroom' thing has already been pretty much solved in Japan - and more or less keeping in mind the principle that you describe. You can get your temperature, get a warm seat, turn on some ambient music to mask your own, more personal music, flush, bidet, whatever all in most toilets in your average department store.

You can get more complex offerings that do perform some more complicated tests if you really want to.

The 'bath room' itself is also typically a single, self contained unit, often in some kind of mold, and including the shower, accoutrements, and bath in a full space designed to get wet and save/share the clean water in the bath.

The 'bath room' usually has a waterproof, electronic control panel which allows you to set timers for filling the bath, set an ambient temperature to keep it at, set the preferred level of water, set different default temperatures for the shower and bath, and typically also access all these features from other places like the kitchen where a companion panel is installed. This is typical of your average house - I just described my wife's parents' place, which was built 10 years ago.

The whole design thing is completely solved there, and why that approach has not been adopted across the U.S. and Europe by now is completely beyond me.

But the killer thing there would be to bring the Japanese approach to the US and Europe and plug in some better smart access features. Or go to Japan and plug them in there, where the infrastructure and demand is already in place [well, Google is probably on it already but...]
The car also has record-setting 0-100mph times. And I'd argue for most uses, 0-45mph is more important, and all electric cars pretty much do awesome there.
> A correct answer is better than an answer someone is interested in. For example "Is Obama a Muslim?". Someone googling that might be interested in hearing something that reaffirms their preconceived notions, but we as a society would be better off if they were provided with correct information.

While I totally agree with the statement that it is better for society that people receive correct than reassuring information, I think the relevant question—not in terms of ethics, but in terms of what will happen—is whether Google feels it is better for them.

(It may also be fair to note that some questions don't have a correct answer, or that the answer isn't known, or that there is controversy, in which case I hope very much that Google doesn't get in the business of deciding what is the best answer, but simply neutrally points me to what is out there.)
3D Sports. 2005, in Austin one local theater showed the National Championship in 3D. To this day this was the best football viewing experience I've come across. During the game, I could see the holes open for running backs as they opened and later closed in a split second. I felt like I was actually on the field as a player as the game played out. At half time, everyone gathered in the lobby of the theater and there was just this feeling that this was the future of watching sports in talking to other people.

I was convinced at that time that 3D would eventually be the way that everyone watched sports and that this would eventually top the in game experience. I'm still surprised that theaters and sports networks haven't partnered to display more sporting events in this fashion.
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I don't think that's true at all. Frankly Twitter seems to have pretty relaxed judgments on hate speech when it comes to people associated with Trump.
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It's not idolatry, because 'idolatry' has a pretty strict definition. Worshipping anyone other than God is not Christian; worshipping a saint is not Christian; worshipping a relic is not Christian. But venerating a saint or a relic of a saint has a long tradition, and can be understood not to be idolatry.

If I keep a picture of my wife in my pocket, I'm not worshipping her. If I keep a lock of her hair in a locket around my neck, I'm not committing idolatry. If I worshipped the lock of her hair, that'd be idolatry.
Unforunately, the rise of streaming content services has kinda killed off the need for file sharing for most people.

Back in the day of mytunes on a school network, I had HDs full of mp3s. I actively browsed friends (and complete strangers) libraries to find new things, complete an artists discography... etc.

Now? Spotify Premium is probably the best value/$ of any purchase I make in a month.

Even if I wanted to go back to my old ways... its just not there any more. I believe iTunes patched out the features that made mytunes possible, and people don't have computers full of mp3s discoverable on a network anymore.
After the Vox music player changed from freeware to freemium, I searched for something like "best free flac player mac 2017". It took me a moment to realize that the featured result was one vendor's self-serving comparison with competitors.

I'm prepared for half of the results to a query like that to be littered with affiliate links, but I wasn't expecting a featured result like that.
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> The kind of person who would google something as obvious as that

Yes, no kid is ever gonna google that. While we are at it, let's show that earth is flat when someone google for image of earth's curvature because why would you search that. You obviously are a flat-earther.
I have to confess to not actually being a Rust user.
But, isn't for example std::io used by most Rust programs?
Perhaps V8 + baseline hardware performance pushed Electron over the threshold to usable.
Getting bored of naked politics on HN.

Can we have a special politics section so we can keep it separate? I guarantee I'm not the only one who thinks it is becoming disruptive to the technical, scientific, and business side of the site.
The screenshot shows their staging site: https://publishers-staging.basicattentiontoken.org/publisher...

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Diesel trucks with sleepers are not cheap, brand new they cost upwards of $150,000. If Tesla's price point is $250-300k I think it would be fair.
You'll note that I said that there was an 'apparent' double standard. If may not be apparent to you, but it certainly is to some. You seem like you spend more time on the political parts of Reddit than I, so I'm sure you're well equipped to investigate this yourself.
I'm confused. :( You think the hotrod will weigh the same as or more or less than the new roadster? I looked around and I couldn't find the roadster weight anywhere.
Are you joking? I can't tell.

Supposed as in... according to Marxism, or something? I don't get it.
Well ya, but he specifically asked about the next gen Model 3.
It's not just PayPal. I think Discover and American Express both had that feature but killed it off. Bank of America still has it and (IIRC) Chase does too.
On the whole I am very happy with Go, but this did bite me recently. We're using the X509 package which is returning an error on a handful of CA certificates due to characters that are not technically allowed in an ASN.1 PrintableString field (E.G `&`). Sure, fine, we've already forked the package so it's easy to make the change to be more lenient. Except errors don't contain any information about the origin of the error in source code, so it's been down to painful debugging and source code digging to find where this check is being made.

If anyone has a less painful way to do this, please halp.
E-Ink never took off because once it reached a profitable niche, it stopped being developed. And it's patent encumbered. I expect E-Ink development will resume around 2030 or so if it first appeared in 2010.
Because Tesla's real value is production scaling innovation itself.
Can you define "Islamophobia"? It's a serious question, I don't disagree that there's some prejudice against Islam on the western right.

However, a lot of the top posts are ultimately factual claims. Sweden has a rise in grenade attacks and sexual assaults, British police looked the other way when Muslim Men formed a pedophilia group, most terrorism is motivated by Islam, and there are Islamists whose purported goal is to destroy western civilization. Is it Islamaphobic to highlight these things?

Islamists are right wing themselves (or at least their views map better to right wing views than left wing views) so we need a better lens than "left vs right" to determine the boundaries of the conflict.
Google Glass. When I first saw it, I thought it would be the greatest tool every human should have.
It is possible that Google is hypocritical in that the public culture it projects doesn't match its actual corporate culture, but they would hardly be the first company for which that was the case.

But it's also possible that Damore wouldn't have been fired if the memo he published hadn't gone viral. I don't know one way or the other but that seemed to me to be more about damage control than suppression of political views.
Authors of widely successful but "buggy" software are now lottery winners? My point was that these "unqualified" engineers clearly have something that separates themselves from even "genius" engineers. Hustle (to name one trait) matters, sometimes more than qualification and academic credentials.
Because it was no longer worth throwing money after. Instead they're working to make sure Microsoft technologies - their accounts, their email, their Office products etc. - work well on iOS and Android devices. They're also working to enable cross-platform mobile development using Microsoft technologies (i.e. they bought Xamarin), which helps with getting app developers using (and paying for) Azure backend services because of course Microsoft provide solid .NET SDKs for Azure services.

I suspect they'll make another effort to break into the mobile device space in the future, but it probably won't be for a while. Where's the marketplace opportunity at the moment? At least until they can distance themselves from the current perception of their mobile experience.
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It would surprise me. Battery chemistry has already tried everything on the periodic table together, and storage remains expensive. Right now more solar leads to more natural gas to cover loads when the sun doesn't shine. Load shifting can only go so far.
But I trust Mozilla more with my privacy and I don't want to watch ads at all!
x86 and x64 are the only two that someone could be using on desktop, right?
There are two things that make this question very difficult to answer.

The first is that our genetic code is spaghetti code beyond the dreams of the most cowboy of the 70's cowboy assembly programmers. Our genes and proteins are reused in different ways at different times in different cells in ways that make it difficult to unequivocally call a gene "good" or "bad".

The second is that even evaluating along the simple "does it make things survive and reproduce better?" evolutionary metric, you still need to consider the exact, current environment a gene is being evaluated in; a gene can be harmful today and beneficial yesterday, or vice versa. Maybe the gene confers an immunity to a virulent, deadly, extinct disease; maybe it was necessary when another gene was present, a gene which has since changed.

Evolution isn't particularly fast, most of the time; any given organism will be adapted to a smear of their environments as they existed over the last few million years, and not perfectly adapted to any of them (unless their environment has remained static).
The problem I see is that ownership on the blockchain isn't going to be honored by the legal system (similar to deeds, liens, land title, etc), whereas a corporate entity with shares sold would be.
> and the organizers did nothing.

The organizers have given an apology to Sarkeesian for allowing a group that has dedicated itself to harassing her over the years to come and monopolize the front seats of that panel.

You would think someone so concerned about the harassment of a key figure supporting the GamerGate movement would actually report the situation in its entirety. It's almost as all of this might not be about ethics in video game journalism after all.
Oh you're not nearly pessimistic enough:

>>In the U.S., recording artists earn royalties amounting to 10%–25% (of the suggested retail price of the recording[37] depending on their popularity but such is before deductions for "packaging", "breakage", "promotion sales" and holdback for "returns", which act to significantly reduce net royalty incomes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalty_payment#Mechanical_roy...
Run away from Jonathan Blow, as of today he was full rant mode on language server and similar stuff including on people that think this is a acceptable stuff, notably Hacker News audience.

FYI, I 150% disagree with his useless rants.
Plan9 (or rather whole stack of P9/Alef/Inferno/Limbo). Seems so elegant, small, could run everywhere
Do you think it would work well for someone who sketches for a living? My wife is a fashion designer and her minimum setup of a MacBook Pro + Wacom is pretty unminimum.

[edit: Reviews I read said that the drawings are scalable vectors, but two posts below talk about poor resolution, so maybe not the right device for her]
Which ones do you have in mind? What left-wing sub is there advocating racism or misogyny?
In C# land, it also has yet to catch on. There is commercial backing right now, though.

https://bridge.net/
Downforce is more than the wing. You see those giant diffusers in the back? Those work as venturi tunnels, creating a sucking force, sticking the car down.

As a matter of fact, F1 cars in the 70s-80s were using venturi tunnels that extended the entire length of the vehicle. This is impractical in a modern gasoline-powered car.

Theu were even getting so good with their aerodynamics that they were rumoured to be generating more downforce with ground effects than from wings.

In an electric car, you could do what they were doing back then.
It's nothing to do with the browser — the same thing happens in Firefox. The site redirects to Apple when the referrer is HN.
It wasn't always prime real estate. In San Jose, they were on 2nd Street, which is a no man's land due to high crime. They got lots of concessions from the city to go there, but still couldn't make it.
In fairness, private transit (e.g. cars) is also extremely inefficient, with gas taxes only paying for roughly half of the cost of roads, signage, lighting, maintenance &c. And then there's the cost in land value of parking lots, the cost to society of car accidents (until very recently, more people died due to car accidents than to guns), the emotional cost of being stuck in a little vehicle for hours upon hours a week.

I do wish that public transit were nicer & cleaner. Something like PRT sounds just about perfect.
Well, who cares. There will be an "apparent" bias to some of these guys unless they delete everything but the red pill and The_Donald.
if everything happens with unvalidated documents, why we never hear about falsaries emptying bank accounts?

e.g. if I hide all my money in a trustee fund with an unregistered document, and I get it back by showing the bank the trust contract plus a signed document from the trust asignee, and none of those are registered anywhere (which the article calls secret documents), wouldn't it be trivial to falsify both of them, specially now that most accounts became public?
First off, the first amendment is specifically with respect to congress, and I don't understand why I have to say this so often.

Second, society has always been self censoring, but the internet has thrown a wrench into that by allowing people to escape into pockets of like minded individuals. And you might have noticed that hacker news is fairly heavily censored, and as a result has managed to avoid turning into a cesspool like much of reddit. I think that reddit is worried about advertising, yes, but I also think they are concerned about a decline in engaged usership.
If a group of users come together and upvote content they individually agree with, is it "an agenda", or is it "consensus"?

Unless I missed something, there's nothing inherent in /r/politics that requires it to be a dispassionate collection of links that represent all sides of the political spectrum. Don't get me wrong, it's a pit of human misery that I've long since removed from my subreddit list, but it's what users want it to be.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/business/china-cash-smart...

Several friends living in China tell me cash is basically embarrassing at this point. You'll be laughed at if you try to use cash (note: I'm taking their word for it)
The dream was that 3D printing would replace all manufacturing and distribution. That everyone was going to have a 3D printer in their home, and they would just be able to download patterns from the internet and get whatever they wanted, like replicators from Star Trek.
Hah, nothing to see here. ;)
Don't give up. I see FP growing every day. I saw a Haskell job listing yesterday for $180k/yrly. These skills are valuable and becoming more valued. I think the Xamarin purchase bodes well for F# which I have an intention of learning. My understanding is it is more popular in Europe btw.
Yes. And it actually goes further, hiding some things which privacy settings would let people see.

But there is a lot you can still do with it.
This is not super wide-spread but it's more popular than you think. In addition to a bunch of Patreon-backed people, there's the Erfworld webcomic getting almost $2k per full-page update https://login.erfworld.com/toolshed and Sluggy Freelance with 442 subscribers https://login.sluggy.com/defenders
abstaining from jokes about murdering people is usually a good rule. It is a joke, right?
A mishmash of stuff I have copied from various public "dotfiles" repos.

Quite a few gems in here: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles
It's not exactly one of my interests either but apparently enough folks are interested in this kind of stuff for it to hit the top so quickly.
>How can someone reject Christianity when they haven't done the due diligence of looking at __primary sources__ for the Christian position?

I find it incredibly unsurprising that a christian like yourself would assume you know everything about my understanding of religion based on a single snarky comment on an internet forum.

I also find it incredibly unsurprising that a christian like yourself assumes that your understanding of christianity is the one that's right, and most Christians agree with you.

>Don't speak on behalf of Christianity if you do not understand it. And let me tell you in case this isn't clear: You do not understand it.

Holy shit. Literally. There was no place in my statement that I claimed to be speaking on behalf of christianity. Go ahead and keep 'splaining away to that strawman you constructed.
How many cores? How big is each cache?
> I think the greatest barrier here is in verifying the real world house price at exit on the blockchain

Also, verifying any of the following on the blockchain:

- whether an exit has taken place

- whether the person claiming to own a house actually owns it

- whether the house even exists

- anything concerning the real world, really
I'm not sure if you are serious or joking...
Blockchain transactions just got a whole lot safer
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Quite a bit of nonsense in what you tell.

Of course it is cheaper for you to hire in Serbia than in France, it is a poorer country with lower cost of life. That's about it.

What does "harder to hire" in France even mean? You make a contract and someone starts working for you on the following day. Actually, you do not even need to make a written contract, just have him come to work and pay him, that's enough to define employment.

What is so risky about firing in France? If you fire someone with a good reason, you have to pay him the astounding, horrific, monstrous amount of... 1 week of pay per year of service. If you fire him for no good reason, that is not much worse, you risk (as in, that's if you really screw up (or get screwed)) a few months of pay and that's it.

You can make provision as much as you want, there is no way it is going to cost you more than the difference between 40k and 100k (I take your numbers, which are also off, but that's another problem). Let alone every year for every employee.

I am always amazed at the so much praised risk-taking entrepreneurship (which is prone to brag about its boldness and how it deserves to be rewarded for the huge risks it takes)... who hates nothing as much as the smallest existing risk. I've come to think that it is probably afraid of its own shadow when it walks down the street.

> since French companies aren't paying for health insurance

What? Of course they do. How do you think the health insurance and other services are funded? It is just fixed by law and not depending on the mood on the employer.

You can ramble on as much as you like, but your decision can be summed up as just "it is cheaper to hire someone in a poorer country", which is nothing new. You did not choose to avoid France to go to Germany or Switzerland, you chose an Eastern country, you chose Serbia where the average salary is 6 to 8 times lower!
He's a software developer which makes his opinion on any topic worth a lot more than regular people, for example mechanics who fix trucks for a living. Is this your first day on HN?
No, /r/politics_destroy_democrats and /r/politics_destroy_republicans would be
As I read it, the mismanagement is going broke before closing up shop. If the whole thing has been nonviable for a while, canceling insurance without notice and failing to issue final paychecks is a nasty thing to do.
This is happening all over. Twitter is banning/de-verifying mostly right-wing users, Shopify is stopping carrying stores for right wing people like Milo etc etc.
No, it means that Reddit has a left leaning bias.
Here's an idea: we should have a section for off-topic stuff like Ask and Show. That can include naked politics, entertainment, etc.

There should still be standards, but the standard should be a combination of interesting, relevant, well-written, and professional.
>Intellectual laziness. They just repeat what they see on reddit or sound-bytes they've heard from others who have no idea what they're talking about.

Wow that's incredibly judgemental from someone claiming to be a christian. I see you've learned the lessons from those books well and are applying them in your daily life.