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You should check out contract manufacturing. Many of these types of small jobs can be handled by a CM in China. The problem with any physical device is cost--cost in materials, machining, tool building, assembly, etc. This means you'll probably need to get some form of financing. You may be able to do a small run for not too much (10's of $k), depending on the device. This is why I always opt for bits over atoms these days.
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Excellent points - wish I could vote it up twice.

Ultimately there is an economy of trust, and most people are poor economists. I share your regard for Gracian, despite being lamentably bad at such calculus. The best advice I ever received is to associate with successful people (however you define success) and be helpful when given the opportunity.

Owning your failures is always more satisfying than trying to assign them to someone else; sharing credit for your success is always more attractive than trying to hoard it. This kind of wealth is independent of your bank balance.
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This article is the most honest and accurate I've read and describes the mindset and habits of fundraisers and investors perfectly. As a serial entrepreneur and founder of several small startups in China, I have had some experience with fundraising too... and your insights are true even here in the Middle Kingdom.
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Ooops, sorry, I zipped that one off and didn't realize it was a gated article - not all of them are.
everyone says out their birthday in order of seating(randomly seated). If someone hears their birthday, they shout out of turn.

I guess you were expecting an algorithm faster than O(n)? That was the best we could do, given n processors with O(1) space each :-D
I love how reviewer 4 dismisses the paper because Kay did not provide sufficient flattery.

Additionally, I hate it when people presume that theirs is the One True Way in something like this; "to do Proper Computer Science one must ...". Such BS. I'm all for sensible formalization and following rules when they make sense, but so often these are mechanisms to dismiss unwanted contributions without having to level any real reasoning, and I almost instantly ignore people who speak with such hubris in such contexts.
apparently those where nicotine consumption is socially acceptable are winning

Nicotine consumption is at least as acceptable in poor or slowly developing countries as in well-developed ones. Lots of people smoke in Egypt, Greece, and France, but none of those countries is a trailblazing economy. France has many virtues, but is arguably excessively paternalistic.

Sure, you do have a point. I just had a cigarette, so I am in no position to argue :-) That said, at 38 I'm painfully aware of the deleterious effects of smoking for the last 2 decades and unable to be flippant about this. On a broader level, it's worth considering that something like 40-50% of tobacco sales in the US are made to mentally ill people, who find chemical relief therein, but aren't necessarily better off from doing so.

One might, with equal or greater historical basis, argue for the success of tea-drinking societies. Or marijuana. The bottom line is that the most productive people in society will find ways to leverage productivity out of drugs as much as anything else, while the least productive will substitute the feeling for the practice.
Hmm, I wonder if aquasocks could do the trick (they're fairly inexpensive), though durability comes to mind.
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I appreciate the concern which is been rose. The things need to be sorted out because it’s not about the individual but it can be with everyone.

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Twitter seems to me to have much more in common with IRC than Facebook or Myspace; the primary difference is the persistence of identity across the system.
You could end up using it for a lot more things than just a todo list, you could probably hack it up for using queues in a shell script or something. It's all about utility
I clicked the link and read a lively piece written by someone unfortunately burned by his own ignorance of the financial markets.

There's no such thing as a lottery ticket with guaranteed winnings, yet that's what millions of people throw their money away believing.

The truth is that your 401K and other investments are driven by you, not your broker (who owes you nothing morally), and you have to tend them as a gardener with a farmer's almanac under his arm.

It takes more than the simple expectation of wealth to make your -earnings- work for you when you are sleeping.

People spend more time laboring over Amazon user reviews of LCD televisions than understanding what retirement planning really means.
Its the other way round in my case

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If you read the article carefully, he also talks about shorter tunnels which would only go a few miles below the surface. Not necessarily through the core, although I believe the journalist got a little confused himself with the Moscow-Washington bit (716 miles depth != Earth core).

Anyway, it's nice to see he solved the pathfinding, but it's probably not the most challenging part of the problem!
0. Hack together a prototype.

1. Go get some users for which your device stops pain. Get them to sign NDA's if necessary, and pay them a small stipend for their time.

2. See if your design really works. You can tell this if they do not want to give the device back.

3. Iterate.

Once you have something that is really valuable then get the patent. We made the mistake of getting designs done way too early and it cost us heaps in terms of ability to iterate and money.

Customers don't care what it looks like as long as it works. We had the most "customer success" with a grey $2 box when prototyping. Iterate early.
At some point I ran 8 operating systems on 6 different processor architectures. Had to throw it all out, now I'm on XP and Slackware, on two different thinkpads (no desktop in my kingdom)
Twitter has more in common with instant messaging than it does IRC. Basically twitter is a disconnected version of AIM with an arbitrary message size limit.

IRC is an open standard, free to be implemented by anyone and interoperates with everyone. That's pretty much the anti-thesis of Twitter, which is a service, not a protocol.
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How is it different? The buyer specifies what they're looking for, and companies tell them how much they want to do the job. It's a common practice in any market.
The way I look at it is actually less AOP than it is event-driven SOA. All of your domain-specific event handlers are sort of like services.
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I've tried all these drugs at one point or another during college, and let me tell you from first hand experience that coffee is the hands down winner.

It's cheap, readily available, 100% legal, not regulated, delicious, and gives you motivation in addition to performance.

Furthermore, you can do it with other people in a social setting and you can do it fairly regularly (every morning and lunch) without completely wrecking your biological sleep cycles.

It warms you up on cold days, can cool you down on hot days, will refresh you on both, and there's a ton of cool paraphernalia associated with it that doesn't put you into creepy junkie territory.

The most important of all: you have perfect recollection afterwards of what you did while on it.
There's definitely enough likely customers ... and it addresses a pain point for me personally ... and I assume for others too
This article makes me feel tired.

This semester has worked me harder than I've ever worked in my life. It is scary how much I identify with the people mentioned in the article (minus the stimulants and the partying). After reading that so many people want to live the way I've been living for the past five months, I can't help but feel pity for the western world. Counter intuitively, working so hard makes me feel small, unimportant, and unhappy. None of the work I'm doing right now matters in the long run, but it forces me to abandon side projects that might be.

For people to want to live their lives in this way for more than a few months to achieve specific goals seems extremely shallow. There is little in life, save saving your own life, that would warrant this kind of constant grinding effort. We should be creative, happy creatures, not constantly constrained by time and energy. All these drugs allow us to do is become the epitome of a World of Warcraft player.

The marginal gains of these drugs(at the moment) do not appear to be worth it to me. A truly transformative neuroenhancer might be attractive, but it has yet to come.
For the drawings, its best to contract it out to a Industrial Designer/Mechanical Designer. Find a freelancer if you can or search through LinkedIn to find a good reference.

For production run the best bet is get the PCB's made, source the components yourself (try DigiKey) and then hand assemble and package them yourself or with your friends. There are some services provide PCB's in small quantity. I dont have the link handy but you should be able to Google it.

There are some electronic enthusiasts forums too where you can find some help.
I am not a lawyer but it is my understanding of patent law in America that if you sell an item that you want to patent the patent office might be able to deny your claim because of prior art. Let me know if this is off base.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art
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"The first two generation still have to make enough company to be called interesting."

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "make enough company", but a quick google search shows MySpace pulled in revenue of $800 million, with $10 million in profit. Facebook came in somewhere around ~$250 million (admittedly not profitable yet, but that's high revenue. Only a matter of time).

That's pretty damned interesting.

Somebody is willing to pay for services these companies provide; they must not be all hype. Twitter will likely find a revenue model as well (not as high as the other two, I would suspect, but still).

I'm sorry if it seems harsh, but these companies have had copious amounts of sweat and blood poured into them, and have grown into huge revenue generating machines. Calling them pure hype seems shockingly cavalier.
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Thanks for the link to the MIT paper. Wish I had seen it _before_ I wrote the blog post! I would have been much more coherent.

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Putting practical considerations aside, what might the effect on society be if we could be at any other place on earth in less than an hour?

Would tourism explode? What would that mean for the environment?

What about international business?

Would it be the end of remote workers? Or would it encourage even more distributed workplace?
And I let my subscription expire since I would just read it online....
It loosely translates into "quality". How you read it then depends on context. It could refer to class, behavoir, etc.
I disagree with point made in the article, that Americans are more tolerant to insecurity than europeans.
There in my point several points that have to be made.
1. America has horrible mass media, that does not even talk
about real issues, what is going on in the country.
2. Americans overall have not seen so many horrible things that Europe during it is own history - there is simply no collective idea what big problems may look like.

There are many other reasons, but majority of people here I beleive are Americans, I am not going to insult them.
What do you guys think government policy should be on this stuff?

I go back and forth. I generally think of myself as a civil libertarian, so my initial reaction is to say that "people can take care of themselves" and then to let things go, but I do think that the fact that concentration drugs provide significant competitive advantage in many fields of work and study (and the resulting pressure to use them to keep up) has the potential to be an enormous problem. I really don't want to live in a world where people have to choose between drugs and comparative failure.
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I imagine that some jobs could be tedious there, for example working at their call center. And I am sure a lot of other people would find that job tedious. But Zappos pays new employees $1000 to quit. That has to be at least 50x to 100x their hourly wage. About 10% take it. So Zappos does a fair amount to weed out the unmotivated.

If I was looking for a job, and the offer included 100x my hourly wage not to show up, I would think about it and make sure that the job was something I was passionate about.
I don't think that the article meant that Americans feel less insecurity than the Europeans. I think that statement should be understood in the context of the author's reaction to his situation: his self-described passivity.

In my experience, it is the case in many European countries that when there is perceived financial insecurity, or other threat to material well-being (eg. welfare changes), the insecurity people feel quickly turns into anger and then political protest - strikes, demonstrations etc.

The US, and to a lesser extent the UK, people engage in a lot of expression of all the same emotions in the media, but due to cultural differences that does not translate into the kind of civic protest seen on the old continent. Hence the populace in the US can be perceived as more tolerant.

That's how I understood what he said, anyway.
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I can help.

Depends on your project, but designing a couple iterations in 3D CAD is usually the first step. Life like renderings, stress testing can be performed on the models.

Prototypes can then be made directly from that via 3D printing, CNC machining, low run injection molding, laser cut sheet metal, etc...

Do a few iterations until you get a something functional, attractive and can be manufactured for a little as possible.

Then source a manufacturer either local or abroad - whatever is most cost effective.

In my experience, patents are a waste of time unless its absolutely necessary. Get it to market as fast as possible because there are 100 other people thinking the same thing and 5 may have the means to do it.

You can contact me here: casey (at) elevationlab.com

Good luck!

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I disagree. I think books are better researched and are far more useful in the long run than the vast vast majority of information online. Books may be irrelevant to public discussion as it's occurring right now, but when the dust settles, where do you look for a salient recap? Books.
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Most of the energy required to go from A to B is needed to overcome friction, not provide kinetic energy. That remains true whether you are above or below the surface. So burrowing down buys you virtually nothing. The amount of energy you'd need to pull yourself up the other side of the tunnel would be almost exactly the same as you would need to make the same trip at (almost) the same speed on the surface.
This ties in nicely with J. J. Abrams "Mystery Box" Ted Talk.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/j_j_abrams_mystery_box.ht...

In fact, the cover of wired uses the same design as his magic mystery box.
I read the article, watched some of the presentation, and I still don't know what this is supposed to be. I don't think they do, either.
I am not an investor nor do I play one on TV, but that would worry me, sure. First, there is the issue of burnout or escalating addiction or withdrawal or all the usual problems that could threaten the business. Secondly, many VCs see investing in a startup not so much as an investment in the business, but in the founder(s). Would you place your chips on a guy who can't organise his life without the aid of pills?

I view these kinds of mental stimulants the same way as I view make-up: you can't have it on all the time, it is a way of papering over problems, so why not learn to live your life without it?

One of the ways you achieve maturity in life is by learning how to triage when there is simply too much to do. Popping pills is to life skills is what bulimia is to healthy eating: you might achieve the same result (success or thinness respectively), but kind of defeats the whole point.
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Zappos publishes a 'culture book' every year. It's meant for employees, but you can also order it on their website. They only ship it to the US though, so since I live in Europe I emailed the CEO (got his email address from some presentation slides) and asked if they would ship it to me.

The result was quite amusing. Two assistants practically fought it out to ask for my address and mail me the book. Then the CEO replied and offered the same. Two days later, I received the book, sent by courier, for free.

They're really not kidding about customer service, especially considering that I can't even BE a customer because of where I live (also, I buy shoes every 2 years).
I think most people in the West do treat it as an end. That is the only way to explain the passion people put behind their support for Democracy. When discussing policies, "anti-democratic" is used as a synonym for "bad".
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Your comment is certainly applicable to me. I am interested in bioinformatics, but i have no idea how to get started in something like that.

What do you think?
They completely missed the point of Twitter, but you have to give them credit for making history. Nobody has ever posted to Twitter using a brain before. This could change everything.
It would more or less mean the end of nations.

In some parts of the world you can live on $5 a day, in others it's $100 - but with cheap travel, those earning lots would buy services in the cheaper places - increasing prices.

And those earning little would seek employment elsewhere, reducing wages.

The overall result would be to flatten the income disparity about nations. (But it would have no effect on the disparity within nations, since that is caused by differences in intelligence, and that won't change.)

Some places would of course "cut themself off the grid" (like North Korea), but the majority would not, and the world (or at least the connected places) would become much more similar.

And some counties would put up barriers (like those separating the US and mexico - if not for those the wages in the US and mexico would tend to equalize, but they don't because of the barrier).

All this assumes that the travel is cheap - if it's expensive, it doesn't much matter that it's fast.
Do they use those stand-up Anthro carts, or something else? I'm interested in standing desks. Winston Churchill used one, I think.
I'd also call myself libertarian, so lean towards 'people can take care of themselves' (which can also be translated as 'people can make their own mistakes').

In the artificial world of university, there may be an advantage to enhancers. Outside that world, there are some sectors where it may also be an advantage, probably within the same "twenty-four hour work cycle" paradigm the article mentioned. (Hacking constantly for your startup, perhaps)

But for most people, I doubt any advantage would last past college. If I started popping Adderall my clients would wonder why I was suddenly so intense, and my wife would wonder why we don't relax watching dvds much any more - there's no advantage in the life I want to lead.

But hey - if your startup is built on drugs and improves my life, go for it.
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The twitter comments make this sound like a pretty big deal:

* @pandemonial Quite impressed! This is sweet! Multiple domains, multiple langs, no question is going unanswered

* @csells OK, watching a live electrical circuit rendered and working in a C# file is pretty damn cool.

* @jolson Two words to say about the Electronics demo for Intentional Software: HOLY CRAPOLA. That's it, my brain has finally exploded.

* @gblock This is not about snazzy demos, this is about completely changing the world we know it.

* @twleung ok, the intellisense for the actuarial formulas is just awesome

* @lobrien This is like seeing a 100-mpg carburetor : OMG someone is going to buy this and put it in a vault!
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I guess it's the GSOC students/mentors who are upvoting this news.
This is an old presentation, not to be confused with the one Martin is talking about.
My understanding is that you have 1 year from the first time you publicize the invention to file your provisional. For international patents, though, this is not the case; you need to do it right away.

I am also not a lawyer.
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Superheated magma is not really much of a problem.

If you don't go too deep (a few thousand KM), the temperature is under 1000 degrees. We have plenty of materials than can handle that. For insulation use vacuum, or aerogel (which melts at 1,473 K) and is a phenomenal insulator. Add a large cold reservoir (liquid nitrogen) and you don't need a conventional A/C - it only has to last 42 minutes, and weight is not a problem.

The pressure is a much bigger problem. You can't bore a tunnel in the conventional sense since the rock is a liquid. You'd need some sort of wall, but I don't know if we have anything strong (and stable) enough. Most metals will oxidize and destroy themself at those temperatures.

Maybe a ceramic, or alumina coated metal. Perhaps a tungsten compound of some sort that is stable in oxygen at high temperature.

Another problem is the speed (reaching 1000 MPH), you'd need magnetic bearings (mag-lev), but magnets don't like being hot. The curie point of iron is 768 C, which is too low. Cobalt might work - but barely.
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Is this article in English? I don't have a clue what in the world they are talking about.

Why does everyone assume the whole world understands the hyper-specialized jargon of your little garden patch of intellectual pursuit?
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