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I do see a lot of boutique micro-manufacturing in the future for electronics, just not for "everyone." In my mind, the trend is going towards enabling small-market, very "niche" products from fairly amateur inventors. This market still isn't being served well by the HMLV EMS houses. The size of an acceptable, affordable, EMS run should approach 1 in the not-so-distant future.

But, yeah, this is people writing about a trend - at least the OSHW writing as a whole is still less exasperated than the 3D printing articles, which mostly seem to boil down to: "OMG, you'll be able to make anything in 30 seconds at home for free!"
> just install android apps to do whatever you want.

Until there's a Chromecast receiver app for Android, they won't be able to do the one thing that people want to do with Chromecast sticks.
>By contrast, in a polylegal system with no central body issuing laws, people choose law firms with the set of laws the like the most voluntarily. If at some point they dislike how a firm does its business and protects its customers interests he may switch to a different firm (how conflicts are resolved between customers of two different firms is a more interesting question, which for the sake of brevity I'm gonna leave out for now).

The whole "how conflicts are resolved between customers of two different firms" is the core idea behind law enforcement! If the same rules do not apply to all (and you opt for rules from the law issuing body you want based on your preferences) then there's now "law" among citizens.

Oh, and those "private law --issuing-- firms"? They would also have to have the means to enforce that law. So even if some poor black or latino population could not afford to pay them, a rich white majority will very much afford. Would they be able to enforce those laws to the non participating poor?

The problem is that you try to mix to things that are not compatible, absolute individual choice (at the consumer level even) and law. Law is that which is above individual choice, for it is a trans-individual (social) agreement, and that's the only way it can make sense.

This whole notion is ill-thought. It's not like the government is the problem with prisons. That's the "all I have is the liberal hammer, all problems are governmental nails" notion.

For one, the US has the highest incarceration rate of the western world (or the world, period). That's a problem not due to government. All the other countries have government made laws too. Most don't even allow private prisons at all.

Others countries have so nice prisons that you could spend your vacations there -- and even less crime than the US does, while maintaining a highly competitive economy and even more equality (so less poor people and more vibrant middle class). E.g skandinavian states. So government is not at all incompatible with a perfectly good legal and prison system. If anything, it's the contrary.

>Then don't go to conservative states and don't become a client of such a conservative law firm. These laws may be brutal, but if some group of people voluntarily decides to live by them, not forcing me to leave by them to, why should I be against it?

For a lot of people their home state, and where they have their roots, home, family, property etc means a lot to them. You propose they jump state just so the racist majority (or the richer racist minority) can have the prison system it likes? Wasn't the civil war partly about putting an end to this crap?
The important part of my comment is such trivial cases ;)
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I think the biggest issue is that newspapers, just like magazines and cable, are bundled content and consumers hate being forced into bundled content. "I just want to read the one article that peaked my interest. Is that so hard?". The problem is the economic model then goes from paying steady dollars for the brand name of a good institution, to paying pennies per article (maybe based on sensational headlines and yellow journalism).
There are lots of countries without a "profit motive in policing". They have corrupt and bad policing too.
Flagging is for stuff that's inappropriate for this site, like political articles, the latest injustice, politics, news stories, conspiracy theories and so on.

For stuff like this that you may not happen to like, just don't vote for it, and ignore it. I tend not to vote up patio11's stuff these days even though it's good, just because it gets so much attention.

But it is 100% on topic for this site and does not deserve to be flagged.

How much time has patio11 spent giving free advice and information here? So what if he also sells some stuff? That's what businesses do, sheez!
I was thinking the other day that I have seldom seen the purpose of mankind discussed in public (beyond religious belief).

This list of ideas could be an interesting trigger of such discussion.
Basically double the specs of Chromecast with a USB expansion slot. That said this seems to just run android with wifi on your TV. I'm not an Android person so I'm not sure what the quality of streaming apps are to compare to Chromecast but they serve different purposes.

This is more like an Android version of AppleTV, and as an AppleTV owner I can say that navigating with a remote is horrible, I only use it for Airplay and XBMC. So there's the issue of how usable is Android stick (the pictures look cool but don't say much).
Steve Jobs in 2003 "We have no plans to make a tablet computer", meanwhile the iPhone itself was a spin out project from original iPad development efforts that I believe started at least a year earlier. Don't take things people say prima facie.
Actually this is still better than Chrome does.
If you run that, you are prompted for access to it. If you click "Allow" the next time the command is called, you will be prompted again.

If you "Allow" when Chrome prompts for access to a keychain item it then creates a new keychain item and gives itself "always allow" access.
> Wow, our sun is BIG...

Even bigger. The solar system you linked to is not even near to having the correct proportions.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Solar-sys...
> Or at worst, the following Monday.

For someone just starting out, having to wait the entire weekend that you planned to use for studying is pretty much a dead end.
Does having the shared folder for the DB (the -v switch you mentioned) minimize the security/isolation advantage of what Docker is supposed to be providing?
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This! You must become a user before you can become a contributor. Then the vacuous "What project can I contribute to?" question becomes more intelligible, "What software should I use?" That depends. What do you want to do?
The expensive one is signed in the bottom right, and also has some kind of red block print in the middle bottom.

It says it is a woodblock print, so these are the "originals". But print pricing is very dependent on external factors. An artist may produce 100 prints when he starts, but then when he gets famous (or after his peak when he needs $$$), someone gets him to create another 5000 prints from those same blocks. Both sets may look identical, but if someone can identify something that proves yours is 1 of 100 rather than 1 of 5000, it is much more valuable.

Also, as a practical matter, Dali prints are very often faked, so buying it from a real gallery who can provide a provenance is for the best.

Given all that, the details given on the Amazon Art page for this print are completely insufficient for anyone who is going to spend that much on a print. I would not buy one at a tenth that price without seeing it in person.
We are programmers here, let's not attribute simple tricks to sentience.
How would this even work?

At it's simplest: enable Airplane Mode, record a bunch of stuff, reconnect and transmit.

They'd have so many hoops to jump through to try and keep it on during Airplane Mode I think that it wouldn't be worth it.
Can't really be done effectively. Banks charge for using your card. If the cost of the transaction exceeds the cost of the content, then you can't make money doing it that way.

And since banks rely on maintaining a reserve they have no real motivation to allow you to make rapid transfers - especially since it would introduce people hunting for the best interest rates.

Could hold user's accounts until they've reached a certain threshold but that introduces risk on both ends of the transaction.
I always assumed the entire point of online wallets would be the ability to do off-chain transaction clearing.
I saw that thank you.
This is absolutely provably false. Anyone who has spent any time doing low latency systems in any language, knows that it needs to be allocation and lock free.

Regardless of whether it is C, C++, or a JVM language you are going to be reusing data structures, directly accessing memory, and in the case of JVM systems using off heap memory. If you are doing this correctly your JVM can be quite small and never GC (or more usually, GC right after initialization/configuration).
The number of $10,000+ art pieces is crazy.
I don't know what you're thinking.

Storing multiple encrypted passwords behind a single "master" password (in the case of Windows and OSX its usually the OS level User password) is a common way to provide convenience and security for users.
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If there was ever any remote chance of me visiting the US, this definitely kills the last remains of it.

Please, please fix your country. (Because I really do want to visit. Just not while it's this broken.)
A quick look at the language benchmark game, and Go varies between 7x slower than Java and approx. the same speed as Java (varies by test):
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...

I fail to see how Go being slower than Java relates to C being faster than Java.
As a word of advice -- you are almost certainly wasting your time writing a load balancer. There are close to zero cases where someone can legitimately justify such an exercise.

In any case, your benchmark is flawed (as virtually all benchmarks are). The reason Go the client is slower is because it tries to pervasively "thread" via the M:N scheduler -- every wait check causes it to yield the actual thread and switch goroutine, creating a large amount of overhead. The Scala cases, on the other hand, is dramatically more limited and will not yield this overhead.

The Go server does not have this fault, and is likely top performance. And aren't we talking about a server anyways?

Now as to the client, while we could naively criticize M:N scheduling based upon this, try giving it a more realistic workload (unless you seriously plan on load balancing pongs): Instead of ping/pong, return larger lengths of data preferably over actual network connections (not localhost) - e.g. 32KB.

The Go client will catch up if not shoot into the lead. M:N scheduling is optimal for most real-world workloads, though it is less optimal for spin-off-a-million-goroutines that do nothing type tests.

This is not a test of TCP overhead, or a realistic test, but instead demonstrates the small overhead of goroutines when you give each a minuscule amount of wait work.
I recommend monitoring third-party services automatically all the time, e.g. we do it using https://github.com/alphasights/open_nut.
I do agree reporting outages on HN is totally irrelevant
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If you would like to understand this question and accept the possibility that your assumptions and conlusions might be wrong, I suggest you start with this article "Law As A Private Good" http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Law_as_a_private_good... by David D. Friedman (he's an economist AND a law professor).
Mostly for vegetarians like me. If I knew that no animal had to be killed for my burger, I'd consider buying it.
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Some comments in this thread are completely surreal.
Yes, but you'll have to shake it upside down
That would assume an annual salary of > $216,000 or so.
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Black holes are capable of bending light back towards us:

http://rein.pk/gravitational-lensing-to-observe-ancient-eart...
I've worked for a string of online art retailers and publishers over the the last decade, and I'm a bit baffled by this move by Amazon.

I just don't think it's a very good way to browse for art. That said, if you know specifically what you want, it's a pretty good way to connect with galleries.
I'm not a web developer and I'm not scared of C, but I very frequently find that optimizing the JVM is much easier than writing a similar piece of code in C for my real world problems.

The short answer for me is all the great tooling that comes with a JVM solution as well as the simplicity of deployment. Getting a C/C++ native solution to play nice with a continuous integration environment is often very painful (especially compared to a system that is JVM only). Unit testing tools are better for the JVM, IDE/Debugger/Profiling support is better, etc.

All of these things (and the fact that good JVM code can be very close to C/C++ performance) means I don't roll with C because it's scary, rather because it's a pain.
You can usually override the current reading with a known good value to calibrate. But yes, most people care mainly about relative values, and that the hill they climbed was 1000'.
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I believe their Discrete optimization course is at least somewhat self-paced. [1] Also, not sure if all of the Stanford/edX courses are, but Medical Stats is, and it's been really helpful for keeping my attention.

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I've heard that argument before, but people much more knowledgeable on the issue than you or I (no offense) always seem to obsess on the time paradox issue, and to a lesser extent the radiation feedback loop that could be created from an expanded wormhole, as the only stopping blocks:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1269288/STEP...

I've never really heard that argument from any heavyweight physicists, but who knows, you could be right.
Quite a few of the detail-level problems in that post have indeed been fixed by now. Not all of them. In practice, i find using Hibernate pretty painless, but then i am the kind of person who actually reads documentation.

His final point still stands:

"If you're doing JPA, you still need to know databases and SQL. If you're using a Web application framework, you still need to know the servlets API and how HTTP works at least at a high level."

This is true of all sorts of ORM and noORM frameworks. You still need to understand how databases work.
At least you can mount the light bulb "the other way" with the bayonet mount while screw light bulbs are screwed
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If it makes you feel better the police can probably also break down your door on a no-knock warrant for the house next door and shoot you on your couch.
I would respectfully disagree. One of the ways that I assess whether to use a service is based on its reliability. There is not a great way to look at historical records for when a particular service was down to understand how this might impact me. Searching HN has been very useful to assess other people's experiences with services, so why not for uptime too?
If you don't have a huge budget, get a used Nexus One off of Craigslist for 2.3 compatibility, and either a Nexus 4 ($299) or a Nexus 7 ($229) for 4.3 compatibility. That will depend whether you need to test your app on tablets.

Another option for 2.3 if you want something new is the Samsung Galaxy Player - there's a whole line of these, but they have no phone functionality.
I had no idea NASA writes news on such a low level. How can they write about this without calling it even once the Schwabe-cycle, without mentioning that is in fact a 22 year Hale-cycle when the magnetic field switches back again? They don't even describe this cycle exists because the mass of the sun rotates faster at the equator than at the poles.

Unbelievable ..
I used to think the same, but with the new Intel chip, you can now get about 12 hours out of a macbook air.
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Though open source furniture is not at all a bad idea. I built a very location-specific wardrobe recently[1] that has a pretty unusual design, and would have loved to have a library of similar stuff somewhere that I could grab ideas and subassemblies from. In this case, all components except the custom-printed ones are straight from the hardware store, anyone who feels like it can build it, and it costs less and performs better (given the unusual location) than anything you can buy. It's exactly what I would want OSHW to be. I'll be happy to scan in and share my design sketch for it and the BOM if anyone is interested. It's technically GPL licensed because the rollers are derived from a GPL-licensed 3d printer extruder design, but I can't very easily distribute the resulting product.

[1] http://imgur.com/a/HLbWF
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Imagine you fall in coma and sleep long enough that all your body cells have been changed. Do you wake up a different person?

I believe you do. In fact I believe you are a different person moment-to-moment. The concept of 'you' is simply a mental convenience. This is exactly why Buddhists deny the 'self.' It's not that you don't exist- it's just that there is no single thing that remains unchanging, and the idea of a 'you' that exists through time is illusory.
Aren't "digital" and "quantum" two names for the same concept?

(But, no, quantum physics didn't settle on the quantization of all data.)
I still think that what I call "microsubscription" will fix this -- pay a subscription to a clearinghouse, who then pays out to publishers according to usage. If you read mostly WaPo this month, they get most of the money. If next month HN is the main activity, HN gets the lion's share.

I am not the first to this idea. Kachingle made a flashy start but fell to pieces first when they got into a crazy vendetta with the NYT and then afterwards when a business-method patent application fell through.

Readability tried but ran into the problem of holding money on trust for websites whose owners can't be identified. They also carried the overhead of running a proxy server. Not worth it for $5 a month.

(I don't include Flattr in this list. I still think that making people think about it is asking too much to make the model work.)

I stumbled on the same basic business model in 2008 and I've been chipping away at it ever since. My honours project at university was based on developing a secure mechanism to track users as they visited different sites. That scheme turned out to be broken. I developed a new tracking scheme, which is currently passing through the digestive system of IP Australia and the USPTO.

I guess the moral is: watch this space.

(Or: give me money, I promise to do smart things with it)
One case is a Raspberry Pi - they are undoubtedly a computer, but as far as I know most people don't refer to them as that when they own one, they just refer to it as "my Pi" or "my Raspberry Pi".
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Almost all the things on that list are better distributed and consumed via your phone than your Kindle.
Best response here. I spent weeks trying to get a go OpenFlow controller on par with Floodlight (java). I finally gave up on tcp performance and moved on when I realized scheduling was the problem.
She quotes calculating churn as 1/churn rate.. in this example she said her churn was 2.2% month meaning lifetime value of 45 months. But that doesn't make sense, since its compounding/exponential.. its really only 32 months (not 45). Then she talks about having to explain the math to the VC. Am I missing something here, because I find this fairly alarming coming from a successful company.
Securing web access - not as as easy as it sounds.
That's pretty easy, imagine the fun the NMR/MRI people are about to have. Those suckers are heavy.

Also my wife is a member of the "interior decoration means covering your fridge with magnets" tribe, so now I have to flip all of them over. Someone, please create a startup for online classes for interior decorating.
If you're into Japanese art check out John Resig's Ukiyo-e, some images have pretty high resolution: http://ukiyo-e.org/
> For a lot of people, unfortunately, this kind of link is NSFW in the same way as pornography.

This is the most ridiculous thing I've read here in a long time.
Git makes it pretty awkward to sync a branch via multiple paths. A globally-accessible repo that never goes down is the only easy way to transfer revisions.
Am I missing something about the terminology? This claims to be an "LLVM backend for Scala" which sounds wrong. Perhaps you want a backend that compiles LLVM AST to JVM bytecode. Or perhaps you want a Scala frontend that compiles Scala to LLVM AST.

Unless they really intend to compile LLVM AST into Scala ... and then what?