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They're even thinking about 3d printing on large scales. Here's 3d printing concrete for buildings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfbhdZKPHro

And on the consumer side, you're definitely seeing more and more products based around mass customization and 3d printing. See Nervous System (n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com) and all the excitement around the Makerbot.

My girlfriend and I actually recently launched a sideproject around this, http://meshu.io, letting people enter in locations to generate custom jewelry that can then be printed into silver or plastic, using Shapeways.com as our 3d printer.
I'm new here.

In my opinion HN has the most advanced online community control system that I know.
For example I cannot downvote. That's great. I didn't contribute enough to have that previlege yet, I'm still adapting to community standards. I don't want my mistakes to weaken the community standards, the same standards that made me want to join. If the core members don't think I'm contributing I agree that they should have the power to weaken me. Some control in one website is not censorship. It WAS MY CHOICE to join this community, I didn't create it. If I'm not happy at any moment I'm free to go. I'm just being banned from a community, I'm not being banned from internet, that would be censorship. There are still thousands of other communities to belong or even start a new one.

This is different from censorship in one country. There you have right to belong cause you borned there, it WASN'T YOUR CHOICE to join. You are already a core member. You have the same rights as everybody else to establish the standards. You need a place to exist.

edit: I think we can use this "logic" to analyze immigration problem.
I have a shelved idea (and domain -- teamstr.com ) for a sports league management webapp. Yours looks pretty slick.
google blockly isn't new. it was obviously inspired by www.waterbearlang.org
Having used both, Ardour has a long way to go before it's remotely close to Pro Tools, even SE.

I think you might see interest in the platform develop if there weren't dozens of distributions to worry about. The distributions hamper Linux development, because you have dozens of different variants to try on, all with different versions of things and different bugs. As another commenter said, I bet you could get something Pro Tools quality if there was a consistent Linux-based desktop, not four or five frontrunners all doing GNOME differently.
Here is a relevant groupon blog post: https://engineering.groupon.com/2012/javascript/looking-forw...

How about multiple backend support? Perhaps then someone could add a dart or NaCl backend.
Pretty much. The idea that a lone polymath experimenting in his basement, a la Ben Franklin or James Maxwell, could make a genuinely important scientific discovery, disappeared a long time ago. We're chasing the long tail of knowledge. Each increment will get harder, more complex and more expensive over time, and that's factoring in the technology that makes modern science so much easier and cheaper, or even possible.

If you wanted to sequence a piece of DNA in the 1980s (an entire genome was laughably out of the question), you would use Sanger's method and get a few hundred base pairs in a month. Maybe an entire gene in 3 months. Now we can sequence whole bacterial genomes or genotype a million SNPs in an afternoon, but gaining new, important knowledge is still much more expensive.
How is this implemented without effecting the battery life?
This is a conspiracy theory, but what if there are bugs in it that they can't find and so they're open sourcing it in the hope that someone else will fix it.
> do moral interpretations of history with today's dominating moral standards

I cannot upvote this enough. I feel sad when people forget that most of the history has been rewritten to suit newer regimes, newer philosophies. And the practice is still very dominant. Howsoever informed we may try to be about past, especially past that we haven't lived through but heard about in books or media or discussions, we are still aware of only part of the story. The part that survived, the part that dominated. And what is worse, we often tend to classify some leaders as well as their supporters who have failed and then replaced by their antitheses, to have this innate evil - while forgetting that they may very well be not 'evil' in their own morality; and hence ignorance not evilness causes their evil actions.
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You point out some obvious benefits of Heroku, but you're failing to see some of the truths:

There's no high upfront cost for physical machines. I paid no setup fees. I signed no long-term agreements.

I'm still using "cloud" monitoring solutions. In fact I'm running Scoutapp and it's extremely useful. In addition, I can actually access the machines and diagnose behavior. This is only limited with PaaS like Heroku of course

Very little time has been invested, and I invested much more trying to fit my problem into Heroku solutions, rather than the other way around.
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Sorry to hear about your family's health, it certainly is humbling as a human to hear that news.

My Mom was nearly diagnosed with lung cancer but it turned out to be scarring from pneumonia. My Dad may have lung cancer and does have IPF either of which will kill him in six month to a few years.

I don't think people realize that people who are critically ill don't care if it's "Big Pharma" or some weed from China, if it works they'll try it and hope it helps even to live a few more months.
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A good downvote is when a post/comment is abusive or pointless. A bad downvote is when the voter disagrees with the opinion expressed.

At least 1568 days ago, the site founder pg was of a different opinion. He wrote,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

"I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness.

"It only becomes abuse when people resort to karma bombing: downvoting a lot of comments by one user without reading them in order to subtract maximum karma. Fortunately we now have several levels of software to protect against that."

My own analysis of the issue is that if I receive a downvote, I'm curious about why I received it. I understand that not everyone shares all of my opinions, but perhaps if one of my comments is downvoted, I can learn something about how to express my opinions so that they are allowed to stand, without people feeling they have to go out of their way to vote them down. Any time I have a comment with negative karma (which is a rare occurrence), I look back on what I said, and think about what I can learn from the other comments in the same thread and how I might express myself better the next time. I try to learn from the people who disagree with me as well as from the people who agree with me.
I'm sorry, I now realize I didn't express that I was looking for a discussion, you seemed open to that.

1. I feel like you're conflating societies' notion of what people are allowed to do, which is what I'd understand "rules of society" to mean, and societies' notion of what counts as harmful, which I wouldn't consider to be the same thing.

2. I see...so what's your working definition of "directly harmful", and how do, say, littering and second-hand smoke fall into it?

3. I assume you meant "whether the ends justifies the means". So how does the reasonability, and whether the ends justifies the means, fit into your working definition?
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When reading that I felt like I was back in the early 1990s when "desktop publishing" was the big thing and people bragged about having colour or high resolution printers.

It's going to be interesting to see how this evolves, will we all have buckets of printing sand next to our computers for our 3D printers?
> Yes, but it doesn't take lots of experts and billions of dollars to build an API, I would think.

Refer (3) in my original top post. This is something they would prove remarkably adept at achieving.

> ...but where would they be without that knowledge and experience from NASA?

Exactly! A thousand times so! Releasing their knowledge and experience that only a government funded entity could have amassed (c.f. raw data), has sling-shot a private enterprise capable of rapid innovation. This is precisely why I think that releasing the raw data is the most beneficial outcome.
Just a thought. If you consider the site as kind of a model and example for films distribution, why can't you add a [Donate] button, and direct all the funds to the corresponding companies who produced the movies? They might even get a better idea that convenient service without any DRM junk brings them revenue. Without such option the site is questionable.
Are you suggesting that there are no political issues with Muslim integration in the Netherlands? That there are no power differences between that subculture and the majority culture? No tensions?

Facts are simple for people who choose their frames of reference. Reality, nothing is simple. When I read about the past of Mohammed Bouyeri, I see a displaced kid looking to find something solid to hang on to, to build his life around and gain respect. I think he was misguided and that he chose the wrong path. But I think religion is just a scapegoat; it's a convenient way for people to ignore the underlying social mechanics, to avoid dealing with the issue directly, dismissing a whole group on a prejudicial basis. And the irony is that this prejudicial approach will breed more violence, because it fosters the very alienation that caused this kid to feel like his identity was being attacked.
Startup CEOs, stop acting like victims.
HN probably slower than the others for the same reason that PostgreSQL seems to be perpetually getting better....

I think the decay you note is specific to communities who are not coming in with any sort of common self-interest at stake. In essence they are what I might call "intellectual entertainment" communities. People read and argue on Slashdot primarily because it's fun. People argue on PostgreSQL email lists because they all want PostgreSQL to be as good as it can be. In the former, a troll can stir up a lot of argument, but in the latter, the most that can be hoped for is a collegial discussion on the merits of a specific approach.

HN leans towards the former. I am betting most commenters are mostly interested in fun conversations. However, the fact is that it is also an integral part of a VC ecosystem and so presents an aspect of common economic interest as well.
That isn't a conspiracy, it's one of the major reasons that anyone open sources anything ever.
Sure, but my point is that I tried it without Steam running (most of the time seems spent on logging in to my account). I don't run Steam by default - it'll be updating, downloading patches, popping up notifications and all sorts interfering with my daily life.
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> Other companies use IQ-like tests in hiring and hope that no one sues (which is not what I would advise any company).

It's weird, as the actual policy was "requiring a high school education or passing of a standardized general intelligence test".

Surely there's a lot of African Americans with a high IQ, but no degree. Wouldn't this case mean that requiring a certain level of education is worse than requiring a high IQ?
I hadn't seen that blog post. Thanks for that.
If you have a couple people in a leadership role that you share power with, you can make sure everyone acts together and that sticky situations are discussed beforehand. That helps manage both the impression of abuse of power and issues in application.
I've never had page file activity "freezing applications regularly for seconds" since the late 90s. I'm not sure what's causing what you're talking about; it sounds like a dodgy hard drive.
In this context, "fool" is an action not an immutable nature - it's the action of talking about topics that are either well below the intellectual level of the ongoing discussion, or a distraction from it. It doesn't matter why a person does this, it matters that they do it at all. Up to a certain rate of inflow of well meaning fools, the group can absorb and socialize them. If there is a fire-hose of them, you get an Eternal September and the forum dies.
In the UK, until fairly recently, it was illegal to sell a product with a plug attached. Consumers had to wire their own plugs to their electrical devices before use.

Now that is inefficient!
A lecturer at my university became blind earlier in life. I completed an assignment for an audio-programming class of his that was to create a video game that had no visual component and was played by sound alone. It ended up fire-rescue game where the place was said to be full of smoke and you heard directional sounds from various fire sources and trapped people.
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A really good point!
Ubuntu is positioning itself for that possibility. They've been playing the long game, and it's still not finished, but they've broken from Gnome, broken from X.org, and with the Software Center, are really steering away from the terminal. Of course, they've pissed off a lot of Linux traditionalists, but that could be a net gain for the desktop market.
It will inevitably affect battery life to some degree, but if there's no new data to download, it's on par with checking for email. Because it uses a geofence, it won't check nearly as many times though, so it should be minimal.
While I agree 100% with your sentiment about copyright in general, from the article it seems that they are simply matching EU regulation.

Are you from the UK? Care to explain how this could potentially affect your country if you are? If not your opinion would still be highly valued. I'd like to know more.
"Should", yes. It's not in their interest to spend the time doing it. Realistically, how many of their users are going to bother to figure out who it is that just screwed them, so they can avoid being screwed by the same founders again in the future?

If you value your shit, don't store it in the cloud. If you value your shit, don't hand your only copy of it to people who have no business model. If you're not paying money, you're not the customer. Etc. Etc. This shouldn't even need to be said anymore.
Agreed. I think there's a way to add in a few features like this and still make it simple and user-friendly. One request when you do MPAA ratings is to not make it a slider bar, but just use checkboxes like you do for genres. Netflix tends to categorize lots of things as Unrated when you wouldn't normally expect it.
Sounds fascinating! Do you use centralized logging? If so how do you manage that?
What does that have to do with clinical trials? You're not being logically coherent. The FDA isn't going to approve a drug because someone makes a fake journal and publishes some results in it.
No, it's no wonder drug, it's not a cure, it's a treatment. Yes, it probably will become redundant eventually, but as cancer's a genetic thing, it'll be on a patient by patient basis, that means even if a patient's cancer start to develop an immunity to the drug, it'll take a very long time for that immunity to be spread by reproduction, especially as people tend to get cancer after having children (it's far more common in later life after all, or don't have them after they are diagnosed. That means that it'll be useful for a long period of time for the majority of people. In the meantime, that gives science a chance to continue to develop the "next step", whatever that may be. And it's not the only drug of its kind, we've got to the point of being able to target individual cancers, so perhaps the research from this will have uses elsewhere.

P.S. I'm not going overboard, cancer has done a damned good job of rampaging through my family, so I think I'm excused a little drama ;)
Yeah, I agree, and I hope most people make good use of the extra screen real estate -- Full screening a browser on 27 inches would be less than optimal except for when a website is designed to be used that way.

But, even at a reasonable window size, I find the Gmail compose box to be wider than ideal for encouraging succinct communication.
Ah, yes, abiraterone. In another life, when I did equity research, we covered Cougar Biotech (the owners of the drug before JNJ). Even then (years ago), it was clear this would be a successful drug. Glad to hear science and drug development are moving forward!
The reason that it's so unreliable is that my server's IP address gets banned by YC when the requests are to fast, and I have it hosted on a small cheap server. There are ways around this, but it just isn't worth the time or money.
I can't imagine in what context that would be considered "advanced" logic. Getting a working knowledge of classical[0] logic is very simple; the only thing that tends to surprise people is the notion of a vacuously true conditional.

[0]By which I mean, Boolean, true/false, the sort you can use truth tables for. I.e., classical logic as opposed to, say, constructive logic. I don't mean, like, ancient Greek logic or whatever, which I'm told actually is pretty limited. Maybe he was coming at it from that perspective?
Can you name a single widely used modern processor architecture that uses odd word sizes?

Microcontrollers are fair game.

I can't think of one.
I think he meant that unkempt gardens die. Well-kept gardens are curated or moderated.
Thanks, and the same to you, IPF isn't fun and neither is lung cancer.

That's one of the reasons something like this is important, it's a life extending drug that's from legitimate sources, which means it's thoroughly tested and isn't some weed from China. The extra time this will give to a lot of people shouldn't be overlooked.
In this case you could come up with a short name for it that doesn't refer to a person -- you could call it "logical duality", since, after all, it is both logical and a duality. But people know it as "DeMorgan", and in this context I think the most important thing is being understood. Those who don't know the law probably wouldn't recognize it if you called it "logical duality" either.
Exactly this, I'm a designer, and I like the look of ubuntu, but it's no macOS, it's hard to see an advantage that linux has over macs apart from the price - but designers need fast (expensive) machines anyway. No Adobe is the reason I can't even contemplate a switch.

I love blender though, my 3D tool of choice so at least 3D artists are well catered for.
I was visiting friends near the Mexican border in Arizona and we passed by a compound with literally hundreds of parked border patrol vehicles. I was amazed and said "In order to staff these, they must have thousands of field agents", to which the reply was "they have nothing of the sort - that compound is simply there for the TV cameras, to show 'how serious' they are about border patrol. Very few of those vehicles ever get driven"
It is the same general public that causes shit like this:

http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13392236

http://www.sharonlbegley.com/the-latest-trouble-with-racial-...

http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?291386-Nun-forcibl...
Hmm, the #2 Facebook Auto-Follow hack is interesting.

I wonder if any users had a friend follow them, then mention it to them in person and have the other person be like "Oh...I never followed you."
Sorry you feel that way. I try to keep the line between my work and myself pretty clear. If I didn't work for Iron, I'd still suggest he try the product, as I actually believe it may help. I use it in my own projects, and it helps me. If people ask me if they should use Iron and I don't actually believe it would help them, I tell them it's not a good fit for their product. If developers aren't happy using our products, they stop using them and we stop getting paid, so what's the point?

I think it's a bit unfair to say the point of the post was an advertisement, however. Considering I spent the entire post talking about the difference between cloud computing and PaaS and only mentioned the company I work for twice (once as a matter of disclosure), I'd think it a bit of a stretch to claim the point was to shill a product. Especially when I could've just spammed him on Twitter. As far as spamming goes, this is probably the least effective way I've ever heard of.
I'm skeptical that the bookmarklet was a major driver in Pinterest's growth. My wife was an early and avid Pinterest user and fairly tech savvy (though not a hacker). She had no clue about the bookmarklet–or what one is–until I showed her recently.

Thats anecdotal but I suspect accurate(unless you have data to prove otherwise).
Agreed, I nuked the flash player on all my osx/linux/windows machines (chrome deals with that decently enough) and now I can't view videos in steam.
Not anymore. All new receptacles in the US have a protection that will not allow you to insert anything into just one side.

You have to insert prongs into both sides of the outlet at the same time in order for it to release.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_5-15#Tamper-resistant_rece...
Thank you for quoting the comment more fully. I've seen it paraphrased too succinctly as "pg says downvotes can mean disagree."

Although pg hasn't implemented a change to this effect, I believe he would agree that -- "people feeling they have to go out of their way to vote them down" -- implies a downvote should be more work than an upvote.

I think a downvote should require a response to the parent comment that:

1. contains at least 15 English words, excluding quoted phrases

2. quotes at least min(25% of entire comment, 5 consecutive words) of the parent comment

3. meets current downvote requirements (karma and downvote bombing protections spring to mind immediately)

For the sake of argument, such a "required downvote comment" could contribute almost nothing -- but it would still reduce downvotes. An example of a really bad downvote comment on this comment might be:

> a change to this effect

This is HN, not reddit. Um, did you read the article? I down voted you.

The 15 English word requirement sort of requires some sort of explanation. Does anyone think this would help?
I'm reminded of a startup that was bought by HP to host photos. Eventually, there was nobody running the service. It was running, but just because the servers were stable and self-sufficient. Money was coming in, but nobody had time allocated to address the site beyond cashing checks. Someone was nice enough to post a note somewhere (showed up on HN) suggesting users get data out while they could.

The point is: when a service collapses to a certain level, it's done. Yes, great if someone can pitch in to help users recover the loss. In the example given and ranted at in the article, be thankful the service was still running and there was at least a "download" button.
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... and there you go doing it again.

There's not much room to joke about assassination and lynchings in a country that has a very recent history of assassinations and lynchings.

It's in bad taste, it can incite violence, and given your statements here, as well as those you've made elsewhere, I'm unsurprised that the law came down on you.
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No interesting implications, just the reaffirmation that real significance is more important than statistical significance.
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