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MYTH: 3D printers will never be able to print underwear

FACT: Wrong. Hard plastic underwear provides amazing protection and support

MYTH: 3D printers will never be able to print the Mona Lisa

FACT: Wrong again. Today you can download a 3D model for "rectangular hard plastic canvas" from the Internet, print it out using your Makerbot, and then paint the Mona Lisa on it

MYTH: 3D printers will never be able to print small, wobbly, leaky coffee cups that warp when hot beverages are poured into them, and that lacerate your lips when you attempt to drink from them

FACT: This is already possible on some of today's higher-end 3D printers

MYTH: 3D printers are useful in any way

FACT: It turns out this myth is true. Watching a 3D printer emit a hard plastic object in a color that nobody wants keeps nerds in a state of rapture that prevents them from engaging in more dangerous activities such as shooting heroin or starting actual businesses
OP is probably just a Gawker "journalist" and reporting you all for these comments to Anderson Cooper.
I suppose. At the level of high school football on public access cable, maybe. Single camera, single commentator, one devoted to the team. That has a certain appeal, I guess.
That was the most heartbreaking thing I heard. The VC should definitely be named and shamed, hope it worked out in the end for that startup...
I do like the shortcut `.uiji('p.greeting"Hello World!"')`, but what if I want to add two class names?
Here's a link to the survey: http://www.pewforum.org/Faith-in-Flux.aspx
Is there any data in support for < 300:1 contrast ratio causing eye strain?

Kindles have a contrast ratio of about 10:1 [1]. As I know, prints have contrast ratio in 10:1 to 15:1 range.

[1] http://www.best-ereaders.com/2010/09/02/eink-pearl-vs-eink-v...
This is very cool, and a good answer to a brainteaser interview quesion! But sailing? Not in the true sense. A sail is generally understood a fixed wing or other variant of airfoil (cloth sail, etc). This craft uses a variable pitch geared rotor assembly (as its wind-powered-propulsion system), and will only work with a wheeled vehicle form factor (from the looks of it).
I completely agree with the MVC thing. It always felt forced and unnatural for page-based web applications, so it was disconcerting to see controllers getting railed on as inappropriate to single-page apps because they were dragged down to the client from the server world.

However, while I think the incorrect history should be ripped out of the book (if for no other reason than there are people who will write off the book because of the inaccuracy), I've always felt that the controller part of MVC wasn't defined explicitly so much as surveyed to see what was left after the model and view, so I'm ok with the book not liking it.

It has surprised me for many years that we haven't found an architecture better than MVC for apps, because I've never been comfortable with any controller code in any app I've worked on.
I know for a fact there are animal cruelty laws on the books in many jurisdictions. If you go to the cops and courts and say, "but it's part of my religion, we do animal sacrifice" you then are at the mercy of the courts to decide which law takes precedence. the Constititional law saying the government shall not interfere with the establishment of any religion, or, the ability of states and local jurisdictions to enact laws regulating what citizens can and cannot do. If any given Constitutional clause or amendment was somehow always and without exception enforced, US society would be very different because individuals could make excuses left and right to excuse otherwise illegal behaviors as being protected by the Constitution. That doesn't happen. Therefore no provision (or most of them anyway) is absolute, either in a literal sense or in spirit. Heck look at the clause that says Congress must declare war -- yet the government has engaged in hundreds of military adventures across the world, without a declaration of war ever being made or even requested, by the Executive branch. The Constitution is truly "just words on paper" and the government effectively just does whatever it can get away with. That's what the historical record suggests anyway.
This article makes no sense.

I predict

1) TV will merge into the internet

2) Channels will go away, and there will be individual shows/event broadcasts that the viewers will choose to pay for.

3) There will be bundled packages of the best shows.

4) Most profits will go to the people who produce the shows, unlike now.

You can actually see it in action right now - look at the top Youtube channels (which should really be called "shows"), and multiply by $2 per 1000 video views.

http://socialblade.com/youtube/top/500
Only when the bugs are easy to find.

Edit: And you're as exceptional as Daeken. I'm a builder, not a breaker. I'm awful at security beyond knowing better than to do anything but a random token + short lifetime.
good point. and there are millions of other folks out here who've wondered the same.
file under: yet another piece about "the future of TV" as written by someone from the outside looking in. it's quite a different world from the other side...
It can be good money, but it can also be a big time sink; really just depends on the site. CCBill was super easy for me on the whole, but I've struggled with others: I only found 3 or 4 bugs in PayPal, never found anything in Facebook, etc.
Startup School is very public (space fitted 1700 attendees this year, no word about secrecy).

Too bad that Ben's talk wasn't broadcasted as it was really good and entertaining.
Why does it have to be a channel? For example, why can't I pay $30 for the next season of Game of Thrones, and get episodes as they come out? Sure, it's different from a monthly subscription, because I'm paying for 10 ~ 12 weeks of content (1 ep/week), but it seems like there's a model there somewhere.
I completely agree about the commercials. I watched all of the available seasons of breaking bad on netflix. When the new season started, I was super excited, and didn't want to wait the 24 it takes to show up online. So, I watched the first episode of the season at my girlfriends house on her TV, and... It was awful! I couldn't get past the interruptions -- and by the way, I thought they passed a law that required commercials to not be 105db louder than the tv shows, no? I digress..

It's an absolutely terrible way to watch a dramatic series. I could only stomach that first episode. For all the rest, I just waited till they popped up on amazon and paid the $2 so I could watch them without interruptions.
This is really cool. I feel like this would be a great "tech" piece for a personal site/portfolio.
I don't get what's so wrong about solitary confinement. Being left in peace for 23 hours a day sounds perfectly fine to me especially if they give you stuff to read. I'd probably hate 1 hour when I'm not left alone than 23 remaining ones.

Is there some part of monkey brain that is supposed to kick in and cause me some distress on some lower level?
As I said before, I live in what we would call the "Bible Belt" within the USA: Indiana.

I've read about, as well watched a few documentaries about Norway's penal system. It's humane and treats people as punished- but still people trying to do better. I remember discussion of a prison 'island' in which prisoners set up a village there. You had a job to learn a trade, and/or get schooling where they were lacking. You had people of all sorts of crimes around, many a time with heavy machinery. Yet one thing was certain: if you treat people like animals, they shall act like it. This 'experiment' proved the opposite: treat them like civilized humans who at one time erred, and they will act like civilized humans.

But I live in Indiana. Even despite the restriction of making laws towards or against another religion, this state makes rules that are undoubtedly "Christian". This type of "Christian" however, is bloodthirsty, vindictive, bigoted, and hypocritical. Christians speak of forgiveness, yet are the first here to demand payback and retribution. We have scads of politicians who denounce decent sentencing, and instead attack other politicians for being "Soft on crime".

I honestly cannot see when our state (let alone the country) will regain sanity about prison and rehabilitation. It really is that bad.
Very clever! How does this define "pronounceability"?
This is a great tool. However, of the two domains I've clicked on to buy so far, both have been purchased already by a new party since their expiration. It would be great if this list were filtered by what's still available.
while i agree the article is fairly off the mark, i also do not agree with your assumption that a traditional market will emerge.

producing the pilot of Game of Thrones cost $10M, before they knew it would be a hit. you can't make those gambles in an efficient market - ever. in the efficient market scenario, we'll end up with a lot more reality TV and mediocre sitcoms/drama.

the reality check is - the current system ain't so bad, and while I want "independent content" as much as you, I think we have a lot more of it in the current system than you outline... Workaholics? Portlandia? etc.
All research says people suffer greatly from this. You might be one of the very few sociopathic people who could stand it, I guess.
Not sure if I am overlooking something, but so far there is relatively little information on the project.

What I could see the most potential in is in syndicating the different pictures and videos that different guests make with their own devices, and create some form of app based on that data. Like some form of picture book, but just as an app.

On the one hand, this seems not that easy to scale, but on the other you could get wedding planners to include your product into their portfolio of services. This should allow you to demand higher fees and direct commission based sales channel.

But maybe I am just misunderstanding the whole idea. Shouldn't write comments being slightly intoxicated :)
It would be nice if people in the US cared about rehabilitation. Unfortunately, it just seems to be justice they (mostly) care about (and by justice, I mean vengeance and/or punishment).

And our political parties are so screwed up right now that trying to do anything about it would be a death sentence to a politician's career.
You could use

`.uiji('p.greeting.earthling"Hello World!"')
That phrasing is not, agreed. But it's pretty well known among serious historical scholars that it was a principle held in esteem by the Framers.

But let's go directly to the Constitution itself. To wit, the 1st Amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

Any reasonable person just can't believe this Amendment is truly and effectively the law of the land, as practiced, if you see all the references to the Judeo-Christian God in government documents, ceremonies, speeches and buildings. Also there are any number of religions, both actual and possible, whose free expression is prohibited by one or more other laws enforced by the government. The counter-argument is to say, well, the government honors this amendment by not explicitly forcing anyone to be Christian, and by not explicitly respecting Judaism/Christianity over others, and not explicitly and directly forbidding any given religion in particular, etc. But in effect, it clearly does these things, in effect, if not at a superficial level.

A better argument you could make is to say that the principle of the separation of Church and State, taken literally, is honored by the government. And taken very literally, it is. Because the government is not a religion and does not operate any churches. But the counter-argument there of course is that the US national government is a religion (there are hymns, myths, icons, rituals, blind obediance to external authority lest you be punished, patronization, you're forced to tithe, etc.) and that the government does operate churches (buildings you visit regularly, or feel obligated too out of moral/civic duty, with anachronistic architectural styling, icon imagery, rituals, tithing, authority submission, explainers of exotic and sometimes seemingly anachronistic and overly detailed codes of morality and punishment and how they apply to your life, etc.) Just because something isn't called a church, doesn't mean it isn't, goes this kind of argument. And I think it's a pretty enlightening one.

Any non-profit, that otherwise follows the rules, and is approved, can be tax-exempt. But you can't just create any arbitrary religion and have it recognized by the legal system and approved. The State has to approve your religion, else you don't get the tax exemption. And I'm not speaking as someone who personally wants to do that. The point of fact is important for understanding the relationship of the US government to religion, in actual reality. Not in theory, not in some ideal world of words. But in reality.
Just one comment - why GoDaddy? As everyone knows, there's a wide variety of reasons not to go with GoDaddy.
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Most of the domains I looked at are already re-purchased or were not actually expired in the first place. I bet this site is really just setup to drive traffic to the ads on it.
What moral right do creators have that they feel they can restrict music/movie/book/artwork as if the world still follows pure scarcity economics?

I also acknowledge that creators should be justly compensated for their works that I intend to use.
what algorithm did you use for this?
Which direction do you want to take this discussion?
Understanding JVM Internals, from Basic Structure to Java SE 7 Features
Thanks! I have been playing around with the script all night and getting some really neat results.
JVM performance optimization, Part 3: Garbage collection
Exactly.. Ads could be much more tailored or personalized to the individual. When your blasting out the same commercial to 60 million homes, you have to be bland, and generic, and figure a large percentage won't be watching, or not in your target demographic.. If you can only show your commercial to people you are actively trying to target, you would pay much more per impression for that ability.
You're wrong. If you step outside the narrow world of software for a minute and look at tangible product design, 3D printing is wonderfully useful. One benefit is that it allows you to develop functional prototypes without shelling out for evaluation tooling of injection molds. Second, it's faster. Third, it can produce structures that would be difficult or impossible to produce using conventional machining or casting methods.
I'll refrain from posting them here and from getting them myself because I don't want to encourage domain squatting, but there are some really good ones here. Maybe a few have been taken, but if you browse around enough I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to find something available and suitable for your yet-to-be-named or in-need-of-alias product...
> I also acknowledge that creators should be justly compensated for their works that I intend to use.

There are a fairly limited number of ways that that can work:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#The_free_rider_prob...
This is pretty amazing ! Kudos :)
So people coming here know: this is a 3x repost, this time I guess with some changes (?). The last discussion can be found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4667584
Badass!
Amazon is a perfect example of this. Their site is convenient, Prime is handy (even though their streaming is useless), but it's their customer service which made me 'loyal.' Over the years, I've had a few items arrive damaged, including a few very expensive ones. The customer service calls seem to take at most 5 minutes. For instance, I had a computer arrive completely destroyed. I called them, explained what happened, and the rep asked whether I wanted a refund or replacement. I said "replacement," and she replied "I'll have it to you by tomorrow."

That level of service, as a consumer, means so much to me.
Some of the ones it's suggesting look less than "100% pronounceable" to me. like... dyzyc.com or mmdyw.com?
Instead of generating markup on the server side, generate it on the client side. Why?

1) The client side knows more about the client (screen width, device, scroll position)
2) Save yourself an AJAX call
3) Make your code more modular by templating jQuery and HTML at the same time. I plan on writing a whole blog post about this, but currently writing web apps seems to follow 1)Create DOM, 2) find relevant DOM with jQuery, 3) apply jQuery. This will combine steps 1 and 3 into the same template, and make 2 unnecessary.
> in this context, it means without exception

That doesn't actually mean anything. Let me assume you're a seasoned programmer and ask you to postulate a society-modeling system and then define the First Amendment in terms of that system. What does "absolute" mean in that context?

> ouch. that comes off as rude. hopefully you didn't intend that.

I intended it about as much as you intended to come off as ignorant. You made a large number of vacuous claims that demonstrated a lack of understanding. Political philosophy is not a widely-studied subject; most people do not actually recall the details I offered when thinking about political matters. That's why they listen to Obama and Romney promising to do Congress's job and think that these are good reasons to vote for them.
Show HN: Geoground, get a map image based on user's IP
Avatar cost $200-300m dollars to produce and promote, all before they knew it was going to be a hit. $10m for a TV show is of course beyond the abilities of most independents, but there's no reason to believe that only small independents would be players in a new TV market.
> I know for a fact there are animal cruelty laws on the books in many jurisdictions.

If there are, they are a matter of public record and probably even online. You could provide citations.
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"Get hired...Once"

(joking)
HN is not reddit.
Awesome!! Feature suggestion: keyword search on top of it. e.g. I can search "call" to get all the domains that has "call" in them in order of pronounceability.
I recently started working on a small app that I wanted to look slightly personalized per user by showing a faded image of their city as a background.

I couldn't find a service that did this for me, so I made a stupidly simple one. Simply use http://g.jarqu.es/IP and it'll return an image of the city based on the IP address.
> So you would, I guess, also suggest that Sikhs should stop wearing turbans, Jews should stop wearing a kippah, nuns should stop wearing habits, pagans should stop wearing pentangles, etc.

Only if said individuals of the group are uncomfortable with their experience of discrimination. Others have thicker skins and ignore it, and some don't face any discrimination at all. Some want to rebel against society like a teenager and knowingly do stuff that gets them disapproval. My advice is an obvious solution to a specific problem, it does not generalize to "all members of X".
NameCheap is also offered as a registration option, if you prefer.
Defining A Growth Hacker: Growth Is Not A Marketing Strategy
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers".
He also was completely right at his time.
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me: "in this context, it means without exception"

you: "That doesn't actually mean anything."

me: It does mean something.

> I intended it about as much as you intended to come off as ignorant. You made a large number of vacuous claims that demonstrated a lack of understanding.

This is extremely rude.

To others:

The above is becoming all too common on HN. And a big reason why I don't participate in the comment threads here much anymore. I almost feel sorry for some of you when you don't understand how rude you act. Almost, but not quite. I sometimes wish PG went through the site every once in a while and just banned anyone that made comments such as these. The level of discourse and friendliness of atmosphere would improve greatly. Is anyone with me on this?

Anyway, I'll be over in G+ where I can block or mute anyone the instant they behave out of line. (A great feature I'd love to see HN get as well.)
Ask HN: OCD about idle times for long hours?
Has anybody else ever felt pressured to stay online on an IM system by a manager or cofounder? I work for a large company and my manager stays green for a long time ago after and seems to message me when I go idle. I am becoming exhausted from the anxiety of having to always be online.
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Really enjoyed Startup School but I agree. I've never felt the tech gender ratio as much as I did today.
I started using Mosh a month or two ago, and I can never, ever go back. The automatic connection resumption is pure gold! I can close my laptop at work, go home, open it back up and resume work. And if I switch between wifi and ethernet, that's no problem either. Flaky office network connections are no longer a bother.

I really can't say how much mosh has improved my work life. You owe it to yourself to give it a try.
"producing the pilot of Game of Thrones cost $10M, before they knew it would be a hit. you can't make those gambles in an efficient market - ever"

Why is that? Isn't it just like any other kind of investment that regularly gets made in an efficient market?
Just because a utility function can be defined for a given perspective doesn't mean that it automatically makes sense from within that perspective, given that defining a utility function is choosing to view things from an economic perspective and even in economics there is a difference of opinion of what that actually means, with some economists viewing it as something abstract that is only used to discuss more fundamental things and with others saying that utility functions are in themselves fundamental.

Saying that utility functions are the "what there is to life", is a bit like 42 being the answer to life, the universe and everything in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. What meaning you can draw depends totally on what question you are asking, or what perspective you are looking at it from.

For instance, if you are a squirrel, then an economist might be able to calculate a utility function for your behaviour, however the concept of utility functions themselves have no bearing (as far as we know) on "what there is to life" from the squirrel's perspective.
we need a site for matchmaking startup entrepreneurs
Scanning a list of dropped domains of certain character lengths on expireddomains.net is probably just as fast, is very up-to-date and even allows me to list words in various languages (like finnish!) if I prefer.

I am not connected with expireddomains.net, but I am addicted to it!
Was it Java to PHP? Seems like it's usually the other way around. This could also provide insight into their decision making procesd. http://www.quora.com/Friendster/What-were-the-key-mistakes-t...
Not really. I'm referring to the operating companies acting as cost centres, rather than profit centres. Avoiding taxes at the HoldCo is another ball game i.e. double Irish.
I don't know if you'd categorize it as "useful," but Laika used 3D printing to do some exceptional work on ParaNorman. But again, it required a lot of retouching and detail work. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/digital/visual-ef...
The current system IS so bad. You like that stuff I don't. For the NFL Network, local baseball and BBC that I watch (literally nothing else is watched on my TV) I have to pay for a huge cable subscription that's over a thousand dollars per year. That's not a system that's working well.