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PLA only, and they don't mention head speed? (how fast it builds)

Replicator 1 was 40mm/s, which was slow at the time, and glacial now. (Tuned Prusa Mendels do 250mm/s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz56RY6OjM4 ORDbot does faster than that) If they're not talking about the head speed, then that means it'll be lower than 40mm/s.

That and they still use 1.75mm filament, which is 40% more expensive than 3mm filament, and offers only slightly better print quality, again, at the cost of print speed.

I also don't know why they're talking up the 100 micron layer height. Ultilimaker printers will do 50 micron layers pretty easily.
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There is no viral effect to our products.

You certainly know your market better than I do, but it seems to me that you are taking advantage of a viral effect. As people use Jira (for instance) and they move around from one company to another, they're likely to recommend using Jira at their new places when they get sick of Rational, Remedy, Bugzilla, etc.

People using Jira and realizing that there is a bug tracker that doesn't stink are very likely to bring that message to their next company. The word about a great product spreads... like a virus, albeit a slower moving one than pet rocks.
There have been studies showing that users don't notice the absence of cues like this.
My reasoning is not flawed. And the paper you pointed me on re tachyons, specifically states that we cannot use tachyons to transmit information via them.

I never stated that nothing can travel faster than light. Only that WE cannot travel faster than light, nor can we transmit information faster than light, without violating causality.

On the other hand, maybe we can violate causality.
The App Store crashes on my iPod Touch 4th gen whenever I conduct a search. I can barely flip past the first app before it crashes altogether.
FYI - You missed one occurrence of the domain.
What will likely happen is that Government entities/businesses and other large business organizations will apply for licenses to access the Internet for commercial use. This is purely an information control/censoring move.
This is why HN is great. Someone (me) posts some constructive criticism, albeit snarky, and within a short time the project founder is getting feedback from Mark Dotto.

I should have also said I think Divshot is pretty cool, even if I didn't like how many nested divs I saw.
It looks very nice, but there's a couple of things that bug me:

- Now "owning" a repo seems even more important. Regularly commit to someone else's repo? Not evident unless you go digging for it.

- The timeline bar-graph used to show blue for your own commits and grey for other people's. Now it either looks like you did all the work (your own repo), or someone else did it (forked repos).

Even if these two don't matter to you personally, I fear it'll help drive behaviour you see a lot in the Ruby community where, unless it's a huge project like Rails, people start their own versions in the hope of getting it popular and recognised. There's little status to be gotten from tinkering on "someone else's" repo.

(Think social startups except with code libraries.)
I still can't write a blurb about myself. I'd really like to see that, since (for a lot of people) Github is starting to be the geek resume.
Somewhere along the line, there will always be a password!
Tally up how many words you type into HN each day. Is it close to 3000?

I think he said at one point in the IM's to Zuckerberg Greenspan said that he writes stuff to vent. And Zuckerberg said he could understood the need for that, but kept such thoughts to himself. (See e.g. Greenspan's White Paper enronforkids.pdf)
I actually agree. While I wish it was more accessible to someone like me, I do feel like - for those who can afford it - it's an amazing purchase and well worth it. It's like when I was much younger and CD burners were released. I didn't have a job then, I was a kid, but had I had that kind of money I would have gladly purchased the CD burner and felt like I was paying a fair price for an amazing piece of technology. But, I still hoped they would make affordable models sooner than later.

I think after reading about the Kickstarter, where the gentleman was being praised by some and chastised by others for deliberately trying to undercut makerbots, and reading about some of the other less expensive options, that maybe Makerbot would be trying to start lowering costs with new models. It's great that instead they've scaled up quality and performance, but still disappointing to the kid in me waiting for a CD burner.

So maybe "budget model," is poor terminology? Perhaps what I'm hoping and waiting for is it to reach the diffusion point in technological change? It seems to have already begun, as there are less expensive options, but eventually I'd like to a reputable name like Makerbot putting out sturdy models most people can afford.
Sorry, I meant if I buy a new computer, can I continue to use the same Windows license.
Pay it forward: I'll hire you for a half-day of work to help you. When you get on your feet, do your best to help the next person. Also look at the Hacker News "Freelancers Wanted" postings. I'm mailing you now.
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Certainly matches my experience.
I know they have very close atomic weights but don't they have very different conductive properties?

Couldn't it be detected that way? Or does surface effect defeat that?
Legos are manufactured with surprisingly fine tolerances. You might be able to do it with the Replicator 2, I don't know.

They've also got a lot of 90 degree overhangs, which FDM machines don't like. (It's essentially a hot glue gun in a gantry. The plastic doesn't freeze instantly when it leaves the nozzle, it stays molten for quite some time. If you print over thin air, it'll droop.)

And if you could print it, the bottom layers might delaminate and break off every time you detached it from another brick.

As for a flowerpot, no way. PLA's made from corn. Keep it warm, wet and in contact with soil, and it'll turn into compost within a month.
How is it the official app? It's not made by Google but by Pixite (author of the OP): http://www.webalbumsapp.com/

Were they bought out or something? That page doesn't seem to indicate so.
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MakerBot 2 is also closed source.
And it's awful. I used to be able to see the description about a repository someone I follow had starred, and it was easily my best way to find out about interesting projects.

Now, all you see is username/repositoryname, which is damn near useless. They replaced actual content with...whitespace.

I don't know how they screwed this one up so badly, but they need to change it back to being socially useful again, and pronto.
Income tax = tax on income, from whatever source (i.e., work, investments, gambling/lottery, prizes, illegal sources, etc.)

Payroll tax = tax on wages earned (i.e., taxes paid by an employer to an employee) which go toward Medicare, SS, etc. Independent contractors do not receive wages (i.e., they are not on a payroll), so they make their Medicare/SS contributions through separate but similar taxes on their contracting income. As another commenter has pointed out, these Medicare/SS contributions are generally referred to as FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) taxes, after the act authorizing their collection.
I thought the same thing. As you see him listing the logs of every Zuckerberg login to houseSYSTEM in the pdf you think "Geez, this is a bit much." And then you consider that sort of snooping is Facebook's core business. They love this sort of information and their engineers have zero conscience about working with it. In fact their logs are probably much more detailed (device, geolocation, etc.) The irony is incredible.
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Will android app aplly too?
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PLA's a thermoplastic, not a resin. ;)

Resins fall apart (decompose, occasionally burst into fire) when you heat them up, thermoplastics melt. A FDM machine can't print thermoset plastics.
> This is a good thing. Object handles belong to the module that created them, and it is a good way to ensure a clean way to use accessor functions to deal with data.

No, it doesn't prevent anything. There is nothing stopping you from calling free() on a buffer returned from a function in a DLL, it just might crash. There is nothing inherently superior about adding an additional source of crashes which are not diagnosed by the compiler.
I like the new App Store layout. One of the first thing I look for in an app is how intrusive the ads are - and looking at the screenshots shows me exactly that. This new layout is perfect for this app search strategy.
Now that you mention it, "data scientist" is almost a tautology.
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How could there not be prior art for this? I know that patents are more specific than the title of the patent, but if the patent isn't general enough to cover prior cases of blocking common passwords, then the patent doesn't even protect anything for the patent's authors. If it is general, then it is surely an invalid patent, even by US patent office standards. Very confusing.
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Tell me what to know and where to go

.. I'll follow

Lead us to the lie

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... its up there

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When I search the app store I am not looking for a pretty app. I am looking for a very specific app.

But you are properly right. Apple doesn't get that functionality is so much more important than estethics.
Isn't this basically the same as saying tesla and spacex will fail because Elon Musk is a jackass?
Mapping is, for me, the single greatest boon of smartphones. Nothing else is appreciated in a pinch like a good map or routing - I could do away with everything else.

For Apple to cripple such a fantastic feature and leave themselves at the mercy of their arch-rival - whom they've been energetically suing - is baffling.
I run cloudcracker.com, which would have gotten this pretty quickly.

If you look at public password compromises, the components of this password "900", "gage", and "!@#" each appear pretty frequently. So using a data-driven approach to build context free grammars based on real-world passwords you've found or already cracked will get passwords like this every time.

Basically, everyone thinks they're clever when they choose a password, but for the most part people are all being "clever" in the same way. If you think up your password, chances are you've lost.
I haven't. I gave up because the experience was too much of a pain.

And that's part of my point: first impressions are the ones that last.
This 'ignore' argument is kind of silly. It would be just as easy for me to ignore this service as it would an email. If anything, I'd argue that I'm going to pay attention to something in my inbox far more than I would some service.

I think you're blowing the whole thing out of proportion. When there is an error on my site, I fix it. If there is a bunch of duplicates, I fix it faster since it shows me that something is broken.

My product is just a website. I don't need to implement this in 'every language' that I use. I have the backend email me when there is a problem and I have the frontend email me when there is a problem. Since I fix the problems quickly and I don't write crap code all the time, I generally don't have a lot of problems.

Problem, what problem?
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The article neglects to mention what is perhaps the most important element of this story: the hashing algorithm used.

Cracking a hashed algorithm computed in SHA-512 or even BCrypt is a different story from MD5.
heh. Google can't release a Maps app - mostly because that would be duplicating a service that Apple already provides, and apple hates competition !
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MS build their platform on being nice to decelopers. Apple has consistently fucked their developers over and over.

That tactic works as long as we can wipe our asses with 100 dollar bills from their sales. If that doesn't happen, we might as well go where we are wanted.
Github are absolutely killing it right now. Seems like everyday there's a new HN submission about a cool new Github feature or redesigned aspect. The new profile design is nice, but seems more emphasis has been placed on users who own repos as opposed to contributing to other repos.

Still needs a space to add in a brief bio though considering Github is considered to be the new age developer resume.
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Screenshots are submitted by the app developers. You expect them to include ads in those screenshots? Comical.
Given that the study was funded by the Swedish research council and by a Swedish professor from Lund, and that the participants were recruited randomly from people in a park (assuming one in Sweden) I would guess they were Swedish. I share your disappointment about the current cliquish political environment in US, but that may not be a good explanation of the results. It might well be that such behavior is universal, but that will need more substantiation/exploration.
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Because your botnet will generate more traffic than every iOS device in the world connecting to a wifi network?
and that is how the bible started...
Anyone who says, "just use the mobile web version!" has never actually used the Google Maps app (what do I even call this now?)

Not being able to visually see bus routes (without clicking on another link) and the directions, and then also compare them to walking times is a big feature missing in the mobile web version. It also suffers from a large "below the fold" problem where on my iPhone 4S I cannot see the directions because the inputs for the start and end location take up so much space. It took me a while before I realized that Google had already loaded my directions.

The only upside to mobile is having access to bike routes.
Thanks, I'm trying to find relevant ways to get that experience and working on some more sample code as well. What would you consider an "entry level" data science job?
Awesome... I was able to check it out once during the summer and it was really nice, but I expect I'll be spending more time there once my classes near there start up.

We'll see if I can afford the membership fee, or will have to salve my guilt with occasional donations.
Just imagine for a moment that Google only offered one result per page. Do you really think this is going to improve the user experience? How often do you click "I'm Feeling Lucky"?

The ability of Apple apologists to rationalize bad behavior is astounding.
I think Apple believes that their map app will eventually become as good as Google's.

Also, by doing this, Apple denies Google the information about what locations Apple's users are looking for and makes this available to only Apple.
> If you're about to release your first app on the app store you're not qualified to understand its dynamics. Sorry.

Possibly. But it does mean he's more qualified to view the App Store from a user's perspective, instead of a developer's. The App Store is designed for users, not for developers, which was his whole point.
Tessellated dragon skin fairing . . . just think about it.
While I personally dislike this style of c, you should know that j/k/apl style languages are focused around a very small number of operators. In this sense they are a mathematical notation (and in fact, APL was designed as a rationalized mathematical notation first, programming language later).

So the single character identifiers are not intended as something application specific, or mutable values. They are like +, *, %.

That said, I still think it's better to stick to the conventions of the implementation language when writing an interpreter, rather than attempt to contort it half way to your target language. If you want a self hosted implementation, just write a compiler.
You mean platform dependent results? If the person is accessing from Web then web apps, from Android then playstore results etc... Sounds nice actually!
The iOS 6 maps subsystem is the worst OS component regression Apple has shipped since Open Transport 1.0.

It is really bad, and if navigating a city is one of your key phone usage scenarios, this change makes Apple's arch-rival's devices significantly more attractive than they otherwise would be.

I carry around both the latest Apple phone and the latest Google phone, and this is one area where the Google phone was already significantly superior, even before this fairly astonishing regression in iOS 6. Now the gap is much wider.

Google could (mostly) fix that for Apple by releasing a Google maps app, but why should they?
They're under the reviews tab, but you won't see them at all until you've connected your Facebook account to iOS (in settings).
#1 cause: they don't make time for it.

Why isn't it fun?: it takes a while to get over the soreness hurdle, then, once you get past a certain fitness level, it becomes fun. But you have to make it through the pain stage first. Most people quit there.
The frontpage posts recently have been about site-wide GitHub outages (twice), plus their blog post about how it happened.

Not exactly "killing it", unless I misunderstood you...
My bet is that the end users aren't even going to notice. I switched my website maps from Google to OSM/Leaflet and absolutely no one noticed or cared enough to email me about it.

Disclaimer: I didn't use OSM's default/ugly color palette.
Disclaimer #2: I have used iOS 6 maps, and the most visible change (other than the color palette) is that subway markers are clickable and that Yelp is more tightly integrated into the pin details.
> You wouldn't change it because some asshole designer has some extra time on his hands and thinks he came up with something prettier. No. You'd change it because you have the data that tells you it's going to make you more money if you do

This is Apple we're talking about. They pride themselves on completely ignoring what "the market wants" for what they think is the best.
I definitely felt like the judging was rushed; given the pinch on time, I liked a lot of their choices though. Do you know if J.A.M. actually even worked? I really liked where they were going, but it didn't look like the app actually worked even close to as well as the other music transcribers out there, so I was pretty surprised when they won. Although I definitely thought they were moving in a cool direction, I don't know how the judges could tell if their app actually worked or not at all.

Loved http://snapsite.me !
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I get the whole big icon small icon thing for the feeds, and it looks great when they're in sequence with others of the same size, but when it's mixed it looks really bad IMHO. I'm no design pro so I dont know what a good solution would be but it throws things off
#4: for guys it's easy - I just imagine something that makes me mad,and work through the reps (or work off steam from work, family, whatever). as for running, after I pass the 4 mile mark, my runs provide an endorphin high - not boring at all
I'm not a network engineer but is this all that difficult to do? I imagine if you control the AS (autonomous system) then you can control all routes into and out of the country, so they can easily block anything out of the country unless it comes from some known IP (like the computers of the elite class).
"If I were Google, I wouldn’t launch a native Maps app for iOS 6 for at least six months, [...]"

If I were in Google's shoes, I wouldn't be launching a native Maps app. Period.

It's not like Maps is driving vast amounts of search revenue for Google. And with the degraded functionality of Apple's own Maps app, Google's Map app has become a reason for a buyer to consider switching to a Google-blessed Android phone.

And I say this as a long-time iPhone user - Maps was an important application for me. Now that it's become less functional, I'm going to actively look at Android and WP.
I live in NYC and use my phone to navigate subways everywhere. I'll notice.
We for sure had a ton of fun making http://buddyhack.com and it was a crazy adventure right before our demo to pivot to http://hackmyfacebook.com

The filepicker.io guy was an awesome mentor, along with many of the other mentors that were there(Rob from Twilio!).

Super awesome experience; Michigan Hackers looks forward to coming back with even more hackers in January(We rallied 20 hackers to go less than a week before the event).
You worked on Voyeur. Cool! I know the band that did (some of) the soundtrack. (http://www.karmacoda.com)

I always wish I had time to be involved in other peoples' film productions, specifically on the acting and the sound side. This was a very inspiring read.
The people of Iran will suffer the most, unfortunately.
This is exactly the OPPOSITE of why I'm intrigued and impressed by Google as a company. They just want people to have access to their services. They are not about authoritative control over who gets access and locking their users in a walled garden. Android is wonderful and Google's done a great job of integrating their services with it.. but why shouldn't iOS users have at least some of the same benefits (if Apple allows them of course)
They've also removed the "traffic" graph, that showed you how many people have viewed your project over the last 90 days or so (I can't remember the exact amount). That was a very useful way to gauge interest.

Honestly, IMO, GitHub has been getting worse, not better, since the spring. I have no idea why, but they're taking away features -- perhaps to speed up the site?

Anyway, I don't get it. They dropped their "social coding" motto awhile back, perhaps they're targeting other things now? Maybe they had to scale back features to raise that $100 million? It's a mystery.
Don't worry. The patent trolls only come after you earned a lot of money (who wants to sue a poor company) at which point you should be able to throw enough money at some lobbyist in dc to make the issue go away.
Ha, I should've guessed. I knew Cuba had a network like that, wasn't aware of North Korea's.
>"actually contribute to the society"

Facebook has created a vast amount of wealth for a huge number of people. If you believe in capitalism, then Facebook has benefited society greatly, by definition.
So you only judge a book by it's cover? Or an app by its icon and name?
From my experience, you will spend most your time finding, collecting and cleaning data. Doing anything super algorithmically interesting will be rare. Get familiar with the Unix shell + Python (or similar language). The shell will save you tons of code. awk/sed/cut and friends are very fast for cleaning data (in development time and runtime). And shell scripts are good for grabbing things from different systems.