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I did not mean 3D printing (so why did I say it? Iphone, lack of time, stupidity take your pick)

I am making some assumptions: That pharma-drugs are manufactured almost entirely by machines, that there are several classes of process that use the same intermediate steps (keep at this temperature, grind evenly to ensure stable emulsion etc etc) and that those steps could or perhaps even are, amenable to being joined - ie you could pass product into one shiny metal machine, out into anohter and another till presto you have the final product.

And that these modularised mini manufactureing machines will be useful for commerical purposes - and subsequently for pro/amateur use - and I could concievably brew up my own MS cocktail at home for less than the price tag of a yearly supply.
I have all his SF novels. I think he is the most original and refreshing author I've seen in the past decade. I always looked forward for those thrilling weeks after he released a new book. It was one of the best parts of a year for me. Mr Banks inspired me to dream about the future and what wonderful culture we could become. Even though I never met him, I will really miss him for I cherished his writings and opinions. One thing I won't do is forget him because his work is the kind that ressurects genres and is timeless.
> Some people think that cryogenics is a better chance of resurrection than burying a body in dirt.

And some people think burying a body in dirt is the best chance of resurrection. These beliefs do not seem, at this point in time, differentially stupid or crazy.

It is quite all right to hold such beliefs, but bringing them up every time someone dies as if-only-they-had is rather insensitive.
Previous discussion just 3 days back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5468896

[This was for RC though]
There are just too many ways to implement a same thing in C++. It's becoming more and more complicated.

So I have a strange idea: pick only a small set of features of C++, and disable all others. Maybe call it C+. Ship it in a compiler that will give error if any disabled features are used, maybe call it g+-4.8.
Samsung is really making good use of the hacker community. They hired Cyanogenmod lead dev last year to collab on Android, too.
Minors cannot enter into binding contracts, so the parts of the terms of service that specify a code of conduct, waive liability, etc. are not enforceable. Minors are legally toxic because of this, and no self-interested American business would ever knowingly interact with a minor online.

Conveniently ignored in all the stories about teenage whiz-kids who make money off internet businesses is that they are invariably committing federal felonies. There is not a single payment processor that doesn't require its users to be 18. Apple's developer program also requires its users to be 18. So does AdSense. These services also require users to input a birthday, so the minors using them needn't worry about "hacking" charges - they've committed fraud.

Obviously we need to fix the legal situation that makes this necessary, but that's why. (And because my parents follow rules, I wasn't allowed to do anything vaguely entrepreneurial on the internet until I turned 18).
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Let's raise a toast to the launching of the GCU Fuck Cancer.
True, but I know about the potential of companies, and failing to reach that potential is a form of failure.

So you know all about the ultimate potential of every single company out there, formed and as-yet-unformed? Dude, if you're that prescient, forget this entrepreneurial thing and just buy lottery tickets, or go to the horse tracks.

All joking aside, I don't completely disagree with "True, but I know about the potential of companies, and failing to reach that potential is a form of failure", but I do disagree that you have any standing to mandate what everyone else should have as goals, or what their "success criteria" are.

I suppose if one were looking at it from the point of view of "the success of the company" as opposed to "the success of the founders" I could be more sympathetic to your position, but I didn't see anything in TFA that strongly suggested that that's where you were coming from.
I approach this with absolutely know special authority on the subject but it I were to offer an opinion on why Bitcoin is anti-democratic I would say that it is because fiat currencies are democratic. When a currency is supported by a government that government has some degree of control over that currency and that government, if it is democratic, can act on the currency based on the will of the people. (Obviously we could get into a big debate about oligarchs undermining democracy, etc, but let's skip that for now.)

If a currency like Bitcoin is adopted by too large a population of a given country and becomes a de facto currency it wrestles the fiat currency out of its position and eliminates any democratic control over currencies.

I understand that there are many, many hard-money libertarian types around here who see this and cry, "yes! freedom!" but my understanding of the scholarship on this sort of thing is that fiat currencies are very important for economic adjustments due to shocks. The Euro is showing us what a hard-money environment looks like as a natural experiment for Spain and Greece and it is not going well.

If I am an asset-holder I am a big fan of ensuring that devaluation can't take my riches away but if I am a technocrat trying to build a functioning economy for the long term that can deal will all sort of unexpected events and treat people without assets fairly I want a fiat currency. To me this is where the nihilism comes in, or at least Bitcoin represents an "I got mine Jack" view of the economy. That being said, now it is here and if it gain acceptance the world is going to need to deal with it. (A currency with a permanently tight supply sounds like a machine for creating constant recessions to me, but I'm no expert.)
This is my first web app. I would love to get your feedback on this.
You couldn't... All the money in the world wouldn't be enough to accomplish this.
Right and this is happening in ... Cyprus. So all the money coming in to the BTC economy at the moment is Cypriot? Really? The whole island went BTC crazy and kicked this off?

Horse-puckey!
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Recommended reading for you.

http://dashes.com/anil/2009/06/the-end-of-fail.html
SEC says companies may announce key data on social media
Put some money into the look of the site. It is too ugly to be interesting. Hire a designer, and re-launch. And stop feeling bad for yourself. Shit happens, you re-try. If anything, shoot me an email, I participate in a group that is full of people like you.
I may be interpreting them the wrong way, but whenever I see articles about wisdom accrued after X years programming where X < 10, I almost always come to the same conclusion. Wait another 5-10 years, and then see what you think.

What's the difference between an article like this and something by Carmack? The true veteran doesn't usually write pithy numbered lists to follow (and usually, they don't write articles at all, it's someone interviewing them). They teach by example. They explain a situation, what their problem was, and how they solved it. This allows the reader to really see why it was (or wasn't!) a better choice, and understand where it may or may not be appropriate in their own circumstances.

I guess it boils down to me thinking that anyone willing to write a list like this probably knows just enough to be dangerous (which items on this list could be, depending on how they are interpreted). So again, wait another 5-10 years and then see what you have to say on the subject.
Only in the US would I be considered a liberal. I have some conservative views, some liberal, some centrist. Sometimes I change my mind, even. I hope to continue doing so.

On the specific issue, they have to start with a narrow market and high cost. Classic crossing-the-chasm stuff, or Porter's differentiation strategy focusing on a different market segment than the Prius. They've changed the perception of EV's, making them desirable where alternatives were ugly tradeoffs that screamed "bunnyhugger". You couldn't get me into a Prius, but I'd really like a model S.

I suspect Mr Musk would have done just fine without government support, but I'm sure it's helped a lot.
There is an additional good information posted in the Cisco Blog today, the comments part explains good info's:
http://blogs.cisco.com/security/apache-darkleech-compromises...
Ask HN: Did your startup's domain name affect your reputation?
We're working on a product that targets corporates, but we're unsure if we have to go with a .com we don't like or with an .io that we like. I'm just curious to know if you've had difficulty in convincing people/corporates to try you out/ commit long term just because your startup ends in a .co or .io.

Is it okay to go with a .io/.co you like, or is it absolutely necessary to have a .com to be able to convince corporates?

Thanks
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What's in this madness for Samsung?
Great news! Even when it's overwrought and opinionated, Hofstadter's writing is never boring, Le Ton Beau de Marot is, I think, one of the best books on translation. There isn't too much (English) information on Emmanuel Sander (other than his homepage: http://paragraphe.crac.free.fr/articles.php?lng=en&pg=79, Google seriously needs a semantic clustering algorithm for results, btw, had to laboriously sift through results for Emmanuel Sanders).

Looking at the excerpt at Amazon, I learned that (i) Hofstadter married again (see them dancing here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeB-wu7aV0w) recently, which is totally irrelevant to the book, but was interesting to me since I was much moved from his heartfelt sorrow after his wife's death so eloquently expressed in Le Ton beau and (ii) there's a figure of speech called zeugma that I've never heard before (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma), mentioned on pg. 5.
What makes you think this is a marketing piece instead of a normal blog post by John?
Is there a way to short bitcoin?
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So. Confused.

I agree that "if you have to explain a joke, it isn't funny", but not only was I on-topic for the story -- but also for the specific thread.

The implied point was that the good people at Western Union aren't as dumb as the previous commenter stated, and probably are excited about a (possible) reinvention and embracing of bitcoin.

Forgive me for injecting some levity into an otherwise boring story, but my point was clear and remains valid.

I suppose I should have just called the previous poster a troll and stated "they're probably excited". Oops. I'll be more confrontational next time.

(Also, not on reddit, just would rather attempt to use humor to get a point across. Maybe I watched too much Monty Python as a kid...)
Build-your-own-Dropbox service AeroFS (YC S10) now open to the masses
only if it were possible to spend dollars on the silk road…

been using btc for the past 2 years, and will continue to do so because no(or very very small) processing fees :D

those who want to get caught up on speculation/hoarding will do so. those who appreciate and value the utility btc offers over cash/credit/debit will continue to use them.
I'm really no expert on finance, which is why I put up my question as that.

Your reply actually raised more questions than it answered. I get that high interest rates are bad for a market that is built mostly on credit and I can kinda-sorta see how that would slow down an economy. But I don't see how that completely eliminates investment.

At some point, people have to exchange goods. People have labor to provide and goods to sell and services that they need provided and goods to buy. How is credit the only thing that enables that? Or is the argument that only credit enables it at the level that we see in current day capitalism?
>I refuse to believe that my mother (met my father when she was 15, they are still married) or my grandmother (married my grandfather when she was 14, they are still married and VERY happy) were some sort of stupid children that did not knew what they were doing.

Your parents and grand parents grew up in a time when divorce wasn't culturally acceptable and likely just "toughed it out".

http://divorce.lovetoknow.com/Historical_Divorce_Rate_Statis...
Actually, I am trying to deliver value, not gain traction. "Growth hacking" must be done just after the product/market fit, and I still don't have it.

Not really. Through "growth hacking" you discover the different markets your product fits into. Though you started with the wrong step. You dont design a product and then search for a market. You search for a market and then do the product.
I am not well-versed in the browser designs, could you highlight what hard problems are you referring to?
It would solve it for many sites, but there are plenty that don't have full https support (and some that have none at all)
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I've used OKPay. The verification via photocopy is actually pretty common among those exchanges. MtGox has the same requirements. However the trip MtGox -> OKPay -> Btc-e is quite costly and there might be cheaper alternatives.
Why You Scared Off the Ninja
Immediately cancel your account and switch. If you are forced to use them as an ISP due to municipal/geographical regions complain to your city manager.

The only way to slap these companies back into line is with your wallet. If you can't do that then a couple complaints to the city manager can go a lot farther than you think, especially in smaller areas where there isn't a lot of support staff in city hall.
My guess is it may reduce their dependence on WebKit, which is mostly "controlled" (for want of a better word) by Apple and Google, their main competitors.
It was back in 2011. And he's already moved on: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/25/4144226/steve-cyanogen-kon...
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Higher interest rates will correlate to higher inflation.

So on the contrary, Bitcoins are a deflationary economy. Deposits will have a negative interest rate (ie: holding your money in a bitcoin bank will correlate to fees), and borrowing BTC means you only will have to return bits of it. (ie: if I borrow 100 BTC from you today, I only will have to repay you 75 BTC two months from now).

It is only fair, as people learn to expect BTC to keep growing in price.

I don't think its a very healthy economy to be in, but its a completely different endgame scenario than what you describe.
I am actually surprise this pieces was written by Brendan, given the way Mozilla has been moving lately with asm.js, PDF.js and Shumway which is like Flash.js; It wouldn't be surprise if their Next Goal were to built the Entire ( or Most of ) Browser with Javascript.

I am surprised that Samsung decide to help. Which basically reads to me as relationship with Google is going pretty bad or they are simply hedging their bet.

It was only earlier today I posted that Yahoo should also have a few engineers helping Mozilla to develop Servo.

And i really really hope Servo is licensed like Rust, Dual MIT + Apache 2.0
Researchers Build Sideline Diagnostic App for Concussions
I think big data is a bad term, the key issue is whether you're using data to drive your decision making, not how much of it you have or what storage technology your using. If you're Amazon or Facebook then, sure, you've got to crunch through many TB to get to an answer, if you're an insurance broker turning over $100m from 2000 customers then there's no way making a business decision should need more than a few SQL queries on relational databases. But saying you're into big data is now almost a shorthand for saying, we analyse our data and use that to drive our decision making.
R 3.0 Released
The language is still changing so fast that nearly every resource that you'll find will be outdated. Your best bet is likely the official tutorial,[1] which probably doesn't contain too many references to deprecated features.

[1] http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/tutorial.html
Hang on,so you cannot open a bank account before you are 18 in the US?
In most EU countries you need to be 13 to open your own bank account.
From reading the article, it seems that the claim is that most of the power is used in communicating with the rest of the system - and that is handled by only a part of the cube structure. The rest of the cube uses a lot less power, so would generate far less heat than normal DDRx chips.
AMS experiment measures antimatter excess in space
No, there is no need for .com. Just go for an option which sound better for the purpose (I don't understand why you like/don't like a domain). You could take any domain except free ones.
Nope. You can have access to an account with your name on it, but it needs to be held jointly with an adult (typically a parent) and they have to accompany you to the bank and give permission to open it.
If you search for the GIUD that's part of one of the URL's in the code, you can find other places online including someones "Top 404 pages" log. While not widespread (yet), it is indeed happening. This post was from last year, but this month Comcast bumped me up to 100Mbps so I will be purposefully reaching my 300GB limit to test if it's still in production.
Houses crumble, cars break down, money burns. Just as possible to be wiped into effectively nothing. Yet these things retain value.

I don't think that bitcoins are worth what people are willing to pay, but then I feel the same about diamonds.
> Banks and central banks are given an important job to do, are regulated and scrutinized, and can be held responsible for their actions.

If only.
"Make hockey stick growth a reality." Wow, great advice. I almost forgot to do that one.
The new thing is that this is the gate to hell which Strabo visited. And which also is situated close to a Pluto temple.
That doesn't help with portability though. Tizen apps and Firefox OS apps have to be constructed in such a way (by abstracting away the not-standard APIs) to make them portable. You don't get that for free.
Barry Mazur, a professor at Harvard, only has a PhD from Princeton. He attended MIT for undergrad and just never graduated.
Don't forget that bitcoin can be broken down into arbitrarily small fractions. It caps, but it can still grow by being traded in increasingly smaller values. Which I don't think we really have an economic model for.

And yeah, the author seems to miss a lot of the things in the bitcoin website. The whole thing presumes there are unforeseen consequences, that something will replace or complement it, and that it will be remarkably volatile for some time. It is first in breed and very well aware of that.
If for every news article, the price of BTC rises, then trading in Bitcoin simply for appreciation may not be such a bad idea...at least for the short term trader. Ain't nothing wrong with a little press-driven price action.
I find it ironic that the directions for installing FPM are

gem install fpm
They didn't mention it because it's not one of the "ridiculous assumptions" the article is about. That $940 per month cost at the end reflects the gas savings of $284 per month.
Hm, so back in 2000 I met a girl at Stanford whose senior thesis was based on the idea that metaphor is the core of all thought.

I remember giving the counterexample of a mathematical formula. In what way is e^i*pi = -1 a metaphor for anything? What role does analogy play in this idea?

Looking back, I am open to the fact that mathematicians use analogy to come up with their ideas (but perhaps not metaphor, which seems essentially literary) Mathematics is funny because it is presented in "reverse", i.e. not the way it was derived.

Anyway I will have to read it, although I am slightly skeptical of ideas that try to explain "everything". In retrospect Taleb's Antifragile had some of that flavor, although I thought it was very good.

EDIT: I think it's probably accurate to say that the brain is fundamentally an association machine. Analogies are a form of association, but not all associations are analogies. This very post is a great example of an association (not an analogy), because when I read "analogy is the core of all thought" it made me think of the disputed "metaphor is the core of all thought" idea I heard a long time ago.
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Here's the ticket regarding Servo's license, be sure to weigh in if you feel strongly about it:

https://github.com/mozilla/servo/issues/45
1) someone stealing physical dollars from a bank

A human being of machine transports paper and/or coins from one location to another.

2)the bank inventing new dollars through the practice of fractional reserve banking

No paper or coins are moved from one location to the other.

If you think fractional reserve banking in morally equal to stealing people's possessions then you know less about the banking system than you think you do. Fractional reserve banking is a practice that is something like 400 years old so if you want to trash it you have to think long and hard about how useful it must be to the economies of the world to have lasted this long.
.....nothing is going to surprise me about the US anymore.
I may have misunderstood the article, but hasn't it been determined in courts that the current version of the CFAA doesn't criminalize ToS breaches? I thought the article title was referring to a proposed change to the act.

Edit: when I posted the article, I added the word [Soon] to the title.
You can look for a natural short, attempting to reason something that is intrinsically linked. A good place to start would be the last bitcoin crisis and crash, and how did the gold market (for example) respond if at all.?

Most likely we have no good data and you'd be making educated guesses.
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It's difficult because bitcoin has to keep deflating in the long run, and with deflationary currency loans are less attractive - every BTC is worth more tomorrow than today so they are harder to pay back and you can make money just by sitting on them.
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This looks really nice but the plan structure is very weird.

Why do I need to know or care how many concurrent connections my querying or administration requires? Is this to stop people having more than one tab open? Why can't you just use connection pooling and probably not exceed more than 2 or 3 regardless?

The tiny limits on returned rows means many tasks are going to made tedious, simple stuff like pulling out every name/email subscribed to a mailing list is going to take multiple queries even on the pro plan.
The potential for a company is orders of magnitude greater, because a company can create endless products. If you're talented enough to build things that are useful to people, why not found a single legal entity that creates many things, mitigating per-thing risk and exploiting countless economies of scale?

Now that I totally agree with. And that's one of our goals at Fogbeam Labs. I'm absolutely down with the idea of building a large, sustainable, profitable company that branches out into many fields. I've joked with people that our goal is to be "the next Red Hat", but in a lot of ways, I could say that we want to be "the next IBM" or "the next GE" and it would be more on point.

The big part of TFA that I disagree with is the part where you presume to tell entrepreneurs what their ambition ought to be. That and what came off to me as a judgemental tone, but that probably had a lot to do with the title.