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DIY 3D Printing Is Not Ready For Prime Time
I think the explanation here is much simpler that it needs to be.

Pre-agriculture, everyone's job #1 was getting food on the table. Post-agriculture, you had a surplus of food, so people began to specialize. Economic and market forces started to become more sophisticated, as people were secure enough that daily survival wasn't an issue.

So economically speaking, before the advent of modern farm machinery, what did a farmer need to prosper? Answer: Labor.

Where did this labor come from? Answer: Children.

Farm families are historically speaking very large. Much larger than what a hunter/gatherer could possible support.

A woman might have 12-15 children, and since you have a food supply, many of them will survive to adulthood. So if you have 15 term pregnancies, starting at age 15, you're talking about being almost continuously pregnant until age 30.

In primitive surroundings, pregnancy is deadly. Today, the lifetime risk of maternal death in sub-Saharan Africa is 1/16. (vs. 1/2800 in the developed world).
I often suffer of bad back pains and the only thing that fixed it (or greatly improved it) was the purchase of an Embody Chair http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/performance-wor...

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With a bit of research you can find it used or open box (like I did) and save some money.
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This is absolutely incredible. Thanks for putting together such an amazing resource!
Yes. And don't date someone unless you know you are going to marry them. ;-)

Job interviews are "dates" - you are checking each other out. If your date goes poorly, yes you probably won't get another date with that person - but you might with her sister.

In other words, the same manager probably won't hire you but it shouldn't keep you from being hired by another group in the same company. If you turn down a QA job you won't be blacklisted (that I'm aware of).
Clever, but what would you use it for?
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Following Best Development Practices Doesn't Always Mean Better Security
As a java dev for 14 years, I just would please ask,
Can SOMEONE PLEASE KILL THE JVM? I dont care how many languages can generate bytecode to run on it.

The JVM IS SHIT and SHOULD GO AWAY.
"not using humanism here opens the field for this radical crowd, who call themselves feminists"

Feminism is a specific application of humanism. Humanism is feminism.

Self-ascription means that anyone can call themselves a "feminist", so you'd be harping about all the women in "humanism" when they're supposed to be promoting HUMANS NOT WOMEN. You'd have something to complain about no matter what they called themselves.
Another popular office chair recommendation is the Steelcase Leap [1]. It may not have the same namedropping power at the Chadwick, but that's not important. I got mine off Craigslist for about $300, and it's the best chair I've ever had. It's also way better than the Herman Miller Reaction we have at my current office.

[1] http://www.steelcase.com/en/products/category/seating/task/l...
Strategic partnership signals new age of stratified medicine
good job

FYI: I did something similar... Sinatra+Resque+shell_scripts

https://github.com/binaryage/hookgun
Assuming it does work, this is really cool, but... $9 per month?

Not sure people are going to pay for this, it's possible though.
That's brilliant. Is there any way to get a wifi module like this on the Raspberry Pi? All the ones I've found require external power (i.e. a USB hub)...
It's gender-specific. Raising the status of women helps men.
Thanks Dan, I always enjoy your posts in these threads. Your second paragraph is exactly why this is a big deal and why I always grit my teeth when someone says women don't work in tech because they aren't interested in tech, just as some of the commenters on that article do.

My problem with this blog entry -- besides the fact that posts like these garner all sorts of self-pats-on-the-back from men who already outnumber women exponentially, thus making those dealing with these issues feel even smaller than they already do -- is that no one is asking for special treatment. They are just asking for the situations in your post to be out of the picture. I don't know where these phantom extremist tech feminists are that are going around telling people that we need to separate to coexist that people keep complaining about. What I know is that many women seek solace in private mailing lists and women-only coding clubs is because they've experienced enough frustration that they need an outlet to scream and a place to make sure that they're not being irrational or interpreting a situation wrong.

The author may be comfortable in her own skin, and she may be able to shake off any ill-will towards her, but not wanting to be treated like an idiot at your job is hardly gender-specific. Men are just as likely to be in that position, but their validation-over-time happens more quickly. They are able to bounce back. They are seen as confident and worthy when they ask for their raises and promotions, as opposed to how women are seen in the same situation.

At the end of the day, I think posts like these are just as destructive as ones like Shanley's (https://medium.com/women-and-work/405b2d12d213). Both speak to two sides of the same coin, but unfortunately they take the attitude that their experiences are the only experiences, and thus, here is a guilt-tripping one-size-fits-all solution.

A great post on the issue of trying to deal with not talking about gender inequality while dealing with gender inequality is by comedian Sara Schaefer, titled "Taco at the sausage party": https://medium.com/gender-justice-feminism/66fa6d700af2

Even if you attempt to ignore everything going on around you, it doesn't change what people are saying and doing about you. At some point, you crack, no matter how much you have been trying to avoid doing so. The attitude shift needs to happen across the board.
Collected Quotes of DPR, Founder of The Silk Road and Radical Libertarian
You can't really compare skate-boarding critics to 'nerds' behind a screen.

For 1, the reason we have so much of this is because of the anonymity of it all. It's quite easy to criticise others in an abusive manner when nobody/barely anybody knows who you are. In real life that wouldn't happen to such a degree.
I think there are still some proprietary closed-source bits in the Oracle Java SE releases though.

I'm no expert, but I thought I'd read something to this effect when looking this up recently. (Just in the past couple days.)
The beauty of evolution is that it not only produces a wide variety of human offspring (via sexual reproduction and sexual selection) but also a _homo_ _sapien_ family unit in which each individual (male + female(s), usually) has different strengths.

This surplus of skills has allowed humans to survive under a wide variety of circumstances and environments. Evolution does not guarantee long term survival of the fittest--it guarantees long term survival of the most adaptable.

In some environments, the female may be more critical to the success of the family (or extended clan, or tribe, or what have you). In others, it's the man. Sometimes it's equal. But just because a particular skill set isn't the most valuable at any point in time doesn't mean that the individuals with those skills should be second class citizens. Eventually, years or decades or millennia from now, or thousands of miles away, their time will come again.
> The hands free display is the only advantage and it's not worth it. If there were a market for hands free displays, there's nothing stopping us from having one for our smartphones just like Bluetooth earpieces.

Right, because the only reason things don't exist is because there's no market for it. Google spent several years iterating and trying to get the Glass into a workable size (it was originally basically a smartphone strapped to a pair of glasses), and there was no way it could be in a small enough package until very recently.

> Yes, by a small fringe element of idiots.

Most people seem to either want one, or are relatively apathetic, so either most people don't think it looks stupid or they think the penalty of looking stupid is worth it for the benefits.

> Why do you think all of the Google hype videos for Glass show the same exact thing over and over again; somebody doing something exciting and videoing it with Glass? Because that's the ONLY use case for it. I would assert that it's a terrible use case too, but even if I don't argue that point, that single use case is not enough for Glass to see widespread adoption.

Except for the videos with people doing mundane things like biking, playing in the park, or trying to catch a train? If you ignore 1 or 2 sky diving videos, almost all of the videos with Glass I've seen were situations I'm in daily or frequently enough that they aren't exceptional situations.
I see, that makes perfect sense. Looks like I was reading things backwards this morning. Thanks David!
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Yeah, maybe they'll invent a book full of text that answers all the most commonly asked questions.

...like a textbook, which obsoleted teachers over a century ago.

</sarcasm>
I know! I'm also surprised articles like this don't make the headlines.
A company culture could be aggressive, obnoxious, elitist, etc, but still hire women and promote them into positions of responsibility and/or leadership.
Yeah, it says Verdana: http://i.imgur.com/50Sx6c3.png

The '3' doesn't look any more different than other chars due to rendering difference, to me.

And KDE's font manager's take on Verdana: http://i.imgur.com/4c5cSe3.png

And Firefox on my system, just as a reference: http://i.imgur.com/a2yZ7UQ.png
Oslo is powering their city by putting black ash into the air, which absorbs heat from sunlight, slightly increasing the amount of energy in all of our environmental systems. The place is powered by externalities, just like China. This solution is no better than coal-generated electricity, and this feel-good article is no more useful than clean-coal articles.
The original title was "How government sites should be designed".
You're right, I didn't phrase that right. I should have written "what google expects you to think of", like you said. Still, isn't that the same as "if we divide people in groups based on what they think about topic A; what does the largest group think?" Which to me sounds the same as "what you're most likely to be thinking".

All the people who want the addicts dead, let's say they're 30% of all people who think seriously about drug addicts, will happily rally under "should be shot", while the ones who want them rehabilitated would form many smaller groups under specific kinds of rehabilitation programs, how those should be administered and really what is the best program for fixing these people. Though, when you look at it like that, you're really most likely to think "should be rehabilitated" or maybe "should... I don't really have an opinion one way or the other". But then, if google actually did high-level clustering; that is, extracting opinions that are all at the same level of specificity, would those suggestions be useful for a search engine?

I guess the really right way to put it is -- That's what the google crawler has seen written most frequently -- and assume it doesn't really mean what you or I think about things.
I bought my first iPhone in 2008 primarily because it gave me access to live bus arrival times and an interactive map. Other reasons that were far less important were the ability to look up random stuff on the internet, the fact that I hated the UI on my dumb phone, and the fact that I was carrying an iPod anyway so one device was more convenient than two. The main drivers addressed a real problem -- finding my way around when I don't have a computer nearby.

I have a feeling you may be right in the long term that Glass may prove successful, but I just don't see anything like the same benefits. My smart phone gave me fundamentally new capabilities. Glass seems to just make them more convenient.
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Developers Get Better With Age
I still think you're not quite grasping his point. "Out of A and B I don't like B so I would chose A" and "The only sane choice is A" are not logically equal in any interpretation of the english language.
Thanks for listing me, guys! [0]. I bet I've gotten a ton of watchers from it.

[0]: http://www.unheap.com/?s=dynamo
Shrug; again, very much not my experience over the course of several nvidia (and a couple of ati/amd and intel) cards.
There is a column labeled 'errors' for this, but basically only Lift and Phreeze had errors.
Not to mention that he assumes all the faster langs take more effort. What if you could have a lang that is a best performance and be highly productive- he assume this is not possible.

The Go code size is pretty small, in fact it might be smaller than the Rails code... I'm still trying to find all the Ruby files, Go is in one file...
Most of the university lecturers I've had wouldn't have done particularly well against that list.
> "The thought of the exact same social justice course being taught in various philosophy departments across the country is downright scary"

Which is why every professor writes their own books, right? It's be scary if lots of people across the country were learning from the same textbooks.
Writing An LRU Cache
An Arduino-based robot for people who don’t know how to build robots
The Commandments of Email & Newsletter Design
But users who perceive a site to be "pretty" will usually experience it as easier to use than an uglier site, even if the uglier site is easier to use structurally. "Pretty" often translates to "easy," because users trust the design more.
Ruby at GitHub
Intel chooses insider for top spot
Another UX widget page with its demo buried.

I don't care how sweet and lightweight your widget is if it doesn't do what I'm looking for, so put the demo up front!!

At least this one actually has a demo. Sorry for the rant, pet peeve of mine. Otherwise, looks nice.
China does not have a labor shortage, they have a problem with intentionally backwards government controlled farming.

China has retarded the progress of their farming industry on purpose to basically give hundreds of millions of workers something to do.

If Chinese farming matched the productivity of US farming, China would need to find something for a quarter of a billion people to do.

The US has 300 million people, with 2 million legal farm workers (and upwards of 2 to 3 million illegal).

"In 2010, there were 1,202,500 farmers, ranchers and other agricultural managers and an estimated 757,900 agricultural workers were legally employed in the US."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_the_United_State...

America has a substantial food surplus with less than 2% of its people working in farming. You could remove the illegal immigrant side of the farming industry, get it down to 1% of the population, and still meet US food needs (since we export vast quantities of food). Arguably in the near future these numbers will come down even further, as farming productivity skyrockets with robotics.

China has at least 300 million people working in farming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_China

That's 23% of their population.

Get that down to even just 5%, and they'd need to find jobs for almost a quarter of a billion people. The highly inefficient farming system in China is intentional, and that is the problem with their supposed labor shortage.

Here's a good note on the fact that South Korean farms are 40 times more productive than Chinese:

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-farmer-productivity-2...
I only claimed that this is a not a useful (representative) benchmark, not that there is no difference between Ruby or C.
Japan capable of producing weapons capable plutonium with new plant
I agree. Was interested enough to click through and start to read, stopped when I couldn't find a definition.
Hoeing to ploughing is a discontinuous function. Either you scratch the ground with your hoe or you plough it. There is no middle ground where your hoe gradually gets heavier and turn into a plough.
[Intel] need[s] to accept and embrace their destiny.
White men wearing Google glass
Show HN: Random Access Memories - Watch that CPU scream!
My hack from last night: a 6008 (I think) CPU actually computing, accompanied by a mediocre Daft Punk - Get Lucky remix.
Gödel had an unpublished ontological "proof" [1] that's fairly simple to understand. It hinges on two things: 1.) accepting a logical system in which possibly necessary truths are necessary; 2.) accepting his argument that it's possible for god to exist.

But I guess you said non-crazy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6dels_ontological_proof
Man, those 90° traces are uuuu-gly!

Still pretty darn cool though.
"Something else?"

Re-insurance.

That may stand in for a raft of domain expertise.

An insurance company doesn't stand alone. It is integrated into vast financial networks in the same way that a bank depends on being part of an industry from providers like appraisers to institutions like the Federal Reserve.

Insurance companies have to operate in ways that interface with the rest of that system. You can't set one up that goes bankrupt if the 1:1000 chance of four people getting cancer occurs - or rather doing so is not likely to be successful across common definitions of what it means to be a successful insurance company.

Insurance and the startup mentality of fail fast are keenly at odds.

Finally, Insurance is the wrong problem to work on. Healthcare is the problem, and one which might be disrupted. However, once you try to solve it with insurance you are neither disruptive nor likely to get something radically dissimilar to the current system.

Swapping buggy whips doesn't make a Model T.
Here are even more. There are tons of hidden gems here that surprise me every day :)

http://pineapple.io/
I wonder why I haven't thought about them...
thank you!
Why you should take hacked sites’ password assurances with a grain of salt
I'm noticing now that the link I provided requires mandatory registration, and their site is not even properly compatible with Chrome. (I was not required to sign up earlier on my iPad) Maybe that's why. I'll see if I can find a different link for the article
Honestly, Scala is far more expressive than Go and much more mature. Scala is more complex, but it's never really been an issue for me or my fellow devs. I'm not sure that "Native" vs "virtual" is a valid point of comparison. Scala uses the JVM which has a highly advanced JIT compiler.
Thanks! We were thinking it would be useful for people posting solutions to stackoverflow questions, and also maybe people doing remote-pair-programming, as a way of sharing code with an interactive terminal to work through ideas... Or perhaps for people writing tutorials...
Publish an implementable spec for high-performance opensource drivers and I'll change how I feel.
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Let me get this straight: you are looking for healthy, sensible meals at a place called THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY. Are you serious? Read that again and think about it: the name of the place is The Cheesecake Factory. You're trying to say that this restaurant is representative of a person's overall diet in the U.S.? Completely ignoring any other options that offer healthy food? Completely ignoring cooking at home? Completely ignoring the plethora of farmer's markets, grocery stores with amazing fresh produce and lean meats, the growing popularity of the Whole Foods and similar stores throughout the country?

Oh, I see, you don't like to think about these things, because it goes against the "AMERICA IS HORRIBLE" narrative that is so popular on the internet.
It's a shame you're being downvoted, hopefully constructive feed back will eventually bubble to the top. There was a similar submission yesterday where this occurred.

Clearly there are a group of elite web designers, UI and UX specialists that parade this site, who, unsurprisingly, have empty profiles. How else are we supposed to see their portfolio of exceptional work so we know what to aspire to?
but why this is happening? why people have that trait of behaving like this when they are confident about anonymity? probably it's consequence of problems in teenage-hood, or something. and adding to this topic, i'm also curious about reasons why people are 'trolling', especially when their 'trolling' is offensive, angry. and i have no clue what causes that behavior..
Bleach for clojure code
I'm at work right now, but off the top of my head I know that /r/twoxchromosomes and /r/genderegalitarian and even /r/girlgamers often have good discussions for gender. Race I can't really help you with, but I believe that the sidebars of those other subs will lead you to some related issues. Good luck!
Raw php also has to initialize connections, and it does really well, so I don't think that's it. To me, that points to overhead from initializing the objects as the bottleneck. I would have thought that with APC, this wouldn't be a major issue, though, so I wonder if that's still not it.
JRuby and Rails, AFAIK, have been able to run on the Java runtime for quite some time.
Has to be tethered. Bigger than Ray-Bans. Lame.
> "Let's not kid ourselves; administrators at the CSU are beginning a process of replacing faculty with cheap online education."

Sounds about right. Salaries are the number 1 expense, so it's a great place to cut.
I always thought burning garbage is really bad for the environment. Aren't there dangerous chemicals that are released if the garbage is not incinerated?
This is not any different than today (in terms of this problem) as far as I can tell. One part of creating the whole system is creating a unified font catalog in one font format.
Nice! Infinite scroll and sorting by github watchers would be useful too.
Scratching an itch: The story behind Timeless for iOS so far.
Correct this branding is all over Edinburgh, perhaps to hark back to some ancient celtic roots. I'm not a fan either.
I strongly suspect that this would, amongst other things, encourage some particularly sloppy library maintainers to ship 'fixes' or indeed first versions with many rules marked with !!!!!!!!!!important, to avoid just this. :/
I agree.

Making a statue in ancient times wasn't cheap or easy. Cheap in the aspect of always living on the edge of life, where a bad season could decimate a living group, and having time to do so. Easy in that tools weren't readily available to get it done quickly. I don't think anyone was just swinging in a hammock on a lazy Sunday - there were no lazy Sundays.

From that you can most likely assume that statues had purpose and significance. They weren't just put up for titillation which is really all modern porn is today.
Because it is slow. Compared to C/C++/langs without runtimes [albeit with JIT compilation, for long running applications this is becoming a non issue].

Compared to the current crop of dynamic language interpreters, waaaay more engineering time and talent has been poured into optimizing the jvm.

People I think forget that Java was a more user friendly C++; the price you paid was somewhat slower apps, but that's OK because you write more robust apps more easily. Rinse and repeat for Ruby/Python/Your Lang Here.
Older Programmers Can Keep Up
Quite a comprehensive write-up.