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Gah, I posted a comment and HN ate it.

Here's the gist: I don't know all the legal details because my dad and I are not that close. The company sued for "unfair competition" or whatever the legal term is. Since my dad's shop had the full specs and customer list of the die maker, they were afraid the engineers would cut out the middle man, so to speak. The die maker wanted them to stop building models completely and dispose of the printer.

I can't say if the printer was the only factor, but they never had a problem with the hand-made models.
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the tech is implemented in native code, runs everywhere from tablets (iOS, android) to desktops (windows, mac, linux)

as Mathieu mentioned, the backend of this demo is done in Java which talks to our native code through JNI
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I suppose it would be inevitable that a site which promotes investment in Social Media companies would get so heavily involved in politics. If Reddit is a good example of the Vox populi, then the future we can look forward to is one of "VOTE UP IF YOU SUPPORT BILL 1780-1X". Mob rule, internet style, will be the future, given the proper backing by certain VC's and angel investors, of course.

Much, much better than SOPA.
Thanks for elaborating, that makes sense. Since I noticed in another one of your other comments that you're planning on a freemium model, I think Option A is a good enough starting point. Once you get the ball rolling, it would be interesting to test both options to see which actually converts better.

I may be the only person with this question, but if I use Twitter to sign up, will it have any impact on my timeline (like an automatic "I just signed up for Infogr.am" tweet)?
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But they were sued for not charging. So if they are actually charging... It just doesn't seem to make any sense at all.
Indeed, we don't support matrices yet but this is a feature we're currently adding, no eta though.
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It seems like a long road! The Ruby part I find manageable, but the Rails part really feels like a lot to get your head around.

Good luck to you!
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This is something I tried very hard to teach my kids, basically that everyone gets to choose how they are going to feel about something, and understanding what set of conditions lead up to the choice you made can help you understand yourself and the world around you.

The typical kid complaint is that someone 'makes fun' of something that they are passionate about and that makes them feel 'bad' (ashamed, angry, annoyed, Etc.) The weird thing is that if you look deeply at the feeling of feeling bad, its feeling bad that you feel good about something that someone else things you should feel bad about. How twisted is that? If you can change 'feeling bad' to feeling empathy for the person who doesn't understand how cool this thing is that you enjoy so much, you both don't lose your happiness, and you have a way to contextualize the other persons opinions that don't put your happiness at risk.

That being said, its never easy. Emotions never are. But I read a great article in Reader's Digest about a guy who was being rushed to the emergency room for a gunshot wound to his shoulder. Along the way a nurse was taking a medical history and she asked 'Allergies?'. His response was "Lead apparently, I got some in my shoulder and it hurts like hell!" Here is a guy going into emergency surgery cracking jokes, he has chosen not to be negative or angry, he has chosen to be happy. That really struck me, I don't think I could be so charitable after being shot.
Have we considered, that maybe the reason Asians need higher entrance scores, is because they end to have the same qualifications?

I'm going to be a little racist towards my own race here, and tell you what I've observed recently.

Most Chinese Females...
1. Play piano and/or violin
2. Take pictures of food
3. Probably applying to sciences

Most Chinese Males...
1. Plays a racket sport - probably badminton (myself included)
2. Only works out upper body
3. Probably applying to engineering

I never scored perfect SAT marks, and yet I still got my acceptances just fine, because I did so many things most Asians don't do. If the people doing these assessments actually spent time at elite campuses, they would understand better.

Filing a complaint for not being admitted with a 2400 SAT score is ridiculous. I wouldn't want that kind of person in my class, that's for sure.
It is absolutely awesome!

A few finer points are missing, but overall I can wholeheartedly recommend it. (missing: put last deletes in number registers)

There is also the free VsVim, though.
heh that exact reference was done in discussions in a danish newspaper too :)
Not spend the next 34% of your life working on something you don't love, for one. Even in our current technological state, a life of toil on things you don't love is the default state of a human being.
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Csikszentmihalyi is saying that Happiness is a self-made choice. The quote from the dying people supported and added context to the same idea.

The Steve Jobs quote is probably the most unrelated, you're right. I included it because I felt that it gave a good practical example of what it means to introspect, judge, and measure your own fulfillment. The overarching idea I'm trying to get across is to drop the social pressure to "keep your head down, don't make a lot of noise, and you'll get your paycheck every two weeks".
> given the quality of the discussion which was taking place.

I think you got it. I imagine many people flag topics when the discussions in them reach a certain low.

As for the features I mentioned, they are, certainly, the most trivial. But it's also surprising (baffling, actually) Microsoft allowed WP7 to reach the market without them and I'd be ashamed to list such basic features as improvements. It's like saying "now makes calls". And a more constructive approach would be to point out those are the least relevant features and that the others are much more interesting (and why).
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By that logic, anybody who invents something new that puts other people out of their jobs is also threatening them with death.

Also I don't like that logic of "they are the biggest player, so they must be guilty".
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This has been happening for at least 15 years. When I was in high school mid 1990's we had several Asian students with over a 4.2 GPA that were not accepted to local universities such as UCLA. There was not a specific rejection reason related to race, however several students with a GPA around 3.6 who were not Asian were accepted to UCLA.
This is the simplest way, in my opinion. So simple, that I remapped 'Y' to do exactly that (so it matches the functionality of 'D' and 'C').

map Y y$
I was inspired and agree with most of this article but when I got to these last few lines I thought, "Sure, I am getting money back for my investment, but that money is supporting my family - putting food on the table, gas in the car and a roof over our heads". That's not a bad investment. It's very hard to drop everything and seek what it is that makes you happy when you have a family depending on you.
All code is an exercise in living with imperfection. The trick is finding the sweet spots in the scale of imperfection vs. time, which aren't linearly correlated (eg. you can spend a lot of time gold-plating something and make only small gains in reducing imperfection, while on the other end of the spectrum, sometimes investing a little bit of extra time can yield large gains in reducing imperfection).

I'm sure some programming book somewhere has said that in a much more elegant fashion.
Left my job 6 months after coming in, because of this mindset. Couldn't imagine, spending any more time working in an environment I didn't want to be in.
TouchDevelop is powerful as hell. It's not VC++ by any means, but you can access all of the phones features and data, and develop quite complex applications without actually typing any code. Putting that into Windows 8 Desktop would be a great move, and allowing those scripts into the Marketplace (or someplace where they can be sold and marketed) would be even better. Right now there is a repository for the scripts, but it's sorely lacking in features compared to the Marketplace.
> The big winner will be an easy 3d modeler.

Oh, I agree 100%. I was thinking a phone could be ideal here. You'd just wave it through the air, drawing what you want, you could review what you've drawn in the screen and adjust parameters, and it could vibrate to give haptic feedback to help you draw in a straight line, or let you know when your path connects to another that you've drawn. Stuff like that.

Unfortunately, it looks like there's too much noise in the accelerometers to make the double integration to position meaningful. Something like Sensor Fusion[1] can make it more accurate by incorporating data from the gyroscope and compass, but even so it's not enough.

In any case, like you I hope someone develops something intuitive to really help 3D printing take off. The future should be interesting...

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7JQ7Rpwn2k
That was my exact thought too, when I read through it.

Watching politicians actually trying to defend this is infuriating as it is embarrassing.
Your point about kids made me think of this story (Found out about it through The Talent Code) > http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/learnmore/writings_tom.html
Can you share a little more information about your project? It seems there are plenty of HNers who would like to brainstorm with you.
I've had this problem too. Try appending "-o reconnect" flag, I haven't had a hang since.
MS may be prepared to deliver something like that, since they have the old Danger/Kin stuff which was based on what you would call a fat cache architecture. MS also appears to be moving to a single-runtime (WinRT) future, so the "same" app may be available on phones, tablets, and desktops.

The idea of migrating an app session between devices is going to be pretty difficult in most cases because people use different apps on different devices to access the same data; Twitter is an extreme example but there are plenty of others.
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It's extremely difficult to make that transparent, though.

Actually, that transparency is exactly what will make or break this scheme. If know you can't make it transparent, then you shouldn't try. But the companies that succeed (probably Apple and Google) would make billions.

At some point, old data is going to have to be pushed out of that cache, and if you don't make it clear to users they're never going to know what they can and can't run.

That's why it's a >fat< cache, as opposed to a thin client. If you have a big enough cache, then it won't happen too often. It doesn't work absolutely all the time, but if it works almost all of the time, customers will be happy.

And if it doesn't work, and your company also makes the hardware, then when the customer comes to the store, you tell them they need to buy a machine with more memory. Cha-ching.
Of course. But how does National Merit Scholar compare vs. 4-H club president, or 6 years of piano vs. 4 years of community theater musicals, or civilian parents vs. military parents, or 3 years of Japanese vs. 3 years of fine art instruction? A series of state academic decathlon medals vs. a prominent role in the state model legislature?. I knew both of these women very well, and they both have had fine lives so far, but I couldn't figure out what made one so much more desirable than the other. On paper, they look almost equivalent, except one had better grades. Maybe she was just a better interviewer.

I guess my point is that it is impossible for me to say if there is real prejudice in Ivy admissions, or if their processes are just nearly unfathomable to the outsider.
Maybe at the time but I'm sure they have cost thousands of dollars in dev hours later on that evened it out
Well there's stoicism or buddhism and the realisation that you can control your reaction to events.

And then there's clinical depression, where you realise this but the effort to think about trying is enough to make you want to cry.

I don't want to undercut the self-governance model because it can make someone a better person. But it has boundaries.
I'd honestly love to see some videos. I want to see how it is faster, what it could give me. If it is I'm all for jumping ship, I've honestly never seen a Vim/Emacs master at work. I have tried to find video examples before because I want to see if it is worth learning.

I am only pointing out that all the author's examples are achievable in most IDEs, you just have to learn. There's nothing special or magical there.

And IDEs have other advantages. The phenomenal amount of code completion VS does for me means I generally only ever have to write a variable, function or method name once and from then on the first 2 characters will pretty much finish it off for me as VS is totally context aware. Not in a file, but in an entire project, in an entire solution made up of many projects. For all the imported libraries. Contrast that to basic auto-completion which can only take you so far.

Snippets make anything boilerplate fairly trivial. Using statements are included at a ctrl-. enter as VS recognises the desired namespace. You can write function calls without them existing, ctrl-. enter, and VS will add them for you in the right file which you can then jump to after you've finished the line by pressing F12 and immediately start on the new function or object method, which already has the correct parameters.

Maybe Vim/Emacs can do all this too, but it's just demonstrating that you can pump out 100s of lines of code in very little time if you really want to. But it's rare for anyone to keep that up because that's not real coding. Maybe if you'd written the program before. Real coding is thinking or physically writing in a notepad for a while, then writing at most probably 20 lines and then pondering and then writing a few more lines, pondering some more, then maybe another big burst, then some more tweaking.

At least that's how it is for me.

For example the answer for VS to this video question of 'can your editor do this' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCiVCiku3cM is yes. It can. But how often do you actually do crap like that?

But there's no good videos I can find demonstrating the famed Vim or Emacs power that gushing articles like this profess which I've been able to find. And almost every single time with the examples these articles provide I find myself thinking 'but I can do that in the same number of key presses in VS'. Often even less key presses.

This time I thought I'd demonstrate exactly how.
Oh, nothing terribly important. I sometimes wonder if these posts are made either because the submitter found the comment interesting or because they wanted the karma. Both possibilities seem plausible, hence my off-handed remark.
It seemed like a very needless comparison, and a politically charged one at that.
I live in NYC and also wouldn't mind just stopping by and grabbing one if possible. :)
It will be cool if I can compare several cities.
Reducing consumption is, by definition, not recycling. I think what he was getting at was you will be able to make your waste into useful things, or set up a recycling shop to collect waste from others.

No need to turn into Al Gore from a lighthearted take on the future of 3D printing.
I don't believe the amount of people going in or out of the city is represented by the size of the target city.
This moment is akin to Microsoft creating a free antivirus (security essentials or something) for Windows users. An acknowledgement that a real problem exists. But good that google took a step before this was blown out of proportions.
Nope, the article mentions that.

"If all other credentials are equal, Asian-Americans need to score 140 points more than whites, 270 points higher than Hispanics, and 450 points above African-Americans out of a maximum 1600 on the math and reading SAT to have the same chance of admission to a private college, according to “No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal,” a 2009 book co-written by Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade."
Thanks for taking the time to explain the visualization (I didn't build this, but helped with some of the bugfixes). We're super interested in looking at this kind of data, and it's not quite the easiest to explain. There are a lot of small cases that would disappear if we were only looking at the net inbound/outbound, but adding it as a third mode is a good idea.

For reference, we also have a companion blog post to this visualization here:
http://insights.truliablog.com/2012/02/where-are-house-hunte...

And a longer post on an index based around that net inbound/outbound searching, what we're calling the Metro Movers Index:
http://insights.truliablog.com/2011/11/trulia-metro-movers-f...
I have an old peek and a charger. Do I already have what I need to start hacking away when the dev environment tools are available?
I wonder if Alexis has considered running for office himself? It's plausible he could be elected senator in California, though probably not on his first try.

Pressuring congress to do something (and actually achieving it) is great, but the odds will always be stacked against us as long as there are no people in congress actually representing us.
> no big pieces of google make it out, unless they are dead internally

Um, I know nothing about Google's internal goings on, but I would be surprised if a majority of V8, NaCl, Chromium, GWT, WebM, Go, Closure Tools and Android are dead internally.

http://code.google.com/opensource/projects.html
I'm definitely more in that target demographic than one for an Adam Sandler movie. It has a certain blandness about it, a comedy "uncanny valley". The general direction would've worked for me, but it lacks any kind of style. This looks like a corporate training video version of fun, something approved by the type of manager who likes to "liven up" his presentations by the occasional quip. This is like a joke told via Powerpoint.

It actually wouldn't need all that much to make it work. Make gmail-man a bit more creepy. Or aim for a certain style of musical (or era). And again, 'burning sensation' has to go.

(Can't believe I'm actually writing that much about what basically amounts to "meh".)
There absolutely is a finish line: as in, launch the product.

In fact, there are countless finish lines in business and product development. You're constantly running a new race every development cycle. Trends change, competitors change, the entire landscape can change. Sometimes you're going to find yourself flat footed, and you're going to have to start a whole new race to launch a radically altered product.

It'd be like saying there was no finish line for the iPhone version 1. Of course there was, they had to actually ship it. And every product iteration has a new race to run and a finish line to meet to put the product on a shelf somewhere to be purchased. The same is true with iterating software of any sort, whether you're talking a micro level finish line (adding a feature to Gmail or Firefox 10.1), or a macro level finish line (shipping a completely revamped Firefox version or launching a radically new email concept with GMail beta). Getting from point A (inspiration, idea, task) to point Z (task completed) = finish line.

Try never having a finish line on any task, product, business, etc, and see what happens.
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It's a fair point, but you need to consider the fact that the extra $20,000 a year could mean the difference between a big college loan and a smaller one (or no loan at all!), and the size of your college loan, which will in time become college debt, can have a profound psychological effect on what you want to do with your life.
I'm not sure I'd be confident in a start-up as opposed to a stable job if I had $20,000 more in debt looming over me.
How can android be a free OS when Microsoft is demanding as much as $15 for each device sold from the manufacturers?
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Yes, but Lisp machines didn't have the cloud. Back then, such an architecture, as elegant as it might be, would be an anchor and not a net gain. With the cloud, and a culture brought up on Facebook, such an architecture would provide an unparalleled level of convenience.
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Hmm, love the concept but $19/month if you want to keep up to 3 of your designs 'private'. So that's $228 a year. And no PC layout yet. If you buy something like Proteus [1] for $1000, it has a $250/yr service agreement (which is to say keeps you at the current release, gives you support, etc) and it does PC layouts and you can have unlimited private projects.

So in perspective the product is interesting, a collaborative tool. The pricing model seems a bit broken from an actual use case standpoint. Perhaps they could go to a 'price per private design' kind of thing.

[1] http://www.labcenter.com/index.cfm
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So they've described how American Apparel makes their $45 polo shirts. But they haven't described how $30 of materials becomes worth $155.
Ohanian feels the future is rosy because he imagines that internet activism will continue to be dominated by "our" kind. A few million people at best.

We are absolutely, utterly outnumbered by people unlike "us".

As the tools get better, the difficulty of mounting such campaigns will fall to the point where there will be massive campaigns to have Congress save soap operas, ban Brad and Angelina from divorcing and protecting us from mobile phone towers (the chosen-not-to-interact-with-water radiationz zomg!).
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Minecraft does have terminal velocity, though (it's obvious from the very first shot showing the pole while falling), therefore it does have some implementation of air resistance. So as soon as the video says "assuming air resistance to be negligible," it's oversimplifying, as Minecraft clearly does not have negligible air resistance.
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wow I didn't know you can multi-line highlight code like that in GitHub. Thanks for the tip!

(click on the second github link and you'll note multiple lines are highlighted. check the url for how it's done)
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