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Once trickle down makes these more cost-effective and once they can create things in metals as well as plastics, we are really going to start seeing some amazing changes in the way we operate as a society.
Steve Jobs only succeeded because he could really pitch his ideas. He could make people want his product ("reality distortion field"). Wolfram doesn't have that kind of charisma.
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I'm not saying that all legal advice is good advice-- that's why there are (occasionally) malpractice suits.

Similarly, not every surgery is successful-- but I'll take my chances on a Board Certified Surgeon over a random member of the public, anyday.

In this case, the downside of not having proper legal advice is substantial-- being a defendent in a patent infringment can't be much fun-- and the cost should be minimal.
As much as I believe in economic liberty, societies need social contracts that state what behaviors are considered unacceptable (murder, theft, etc.), a system to modify that contract, a method of enforcing that contract, and a way to pay for that enforcement.

What I just described are laws, lawmakers, law enforcement, and taxes - the fundamentals of a government. Living on a floating island nation isn't about living in anarchy, but about restricting government to its basic elements and allowing as much economic freedom as possible with said government.
> $3.27 trillion is about 2.1% of our ~$15 trillion GDP

Not to nitpick an otherwise excellent comment, but I think you slipped a decimal somewhere in there.

Either that or you were claiming the total cost will be $3.27 trillion over 10 years, which would imply dividing by $150 trillion (10 years of GDP), which would be 2.1%. If that is the case, you might want to clarify.
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I think the idea is that everyone is nervous right now and not spending (which means business is down which means layoffs happen which means people get more nervous and spend even less), so by starting off spending the gov't is trying to restart the engine. No one wants to jump off the diving board first so to speak. I'm not an economist though, so I'm sure it's a huge over simplification.
I don't believe that Friedman is pushing anarchy explicitly, at least not with his seasteading project. Instead, I see it as applying a startup model to governments, where people are free to form a government any way they please. It allows people to choose which government they prefer.

Theoretically, I like it. But it's a logistical nightmare.
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"weight of a" always seems to trigger the weight query. The problem is that it doesn't have general data for "elephant" and doesn't know to link it to "indian elephant."

It would be a lot easier if you could just browse the data. They could really have just used a good online retailer "drill-down" style interface ala newegg to make this easier.
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That's a misleading title if there ever was one, the output from the 3D printer is used to make molds, not car parts.

It's a tool in the chain, not a one-step scan-print have a usable car part process.

They could have sent out the original to make a mold of or they could have made a precise casting of it and then reversed that for a positive.

This looks like a great excuse to use a cool tool. Any competent machinist could turn out that nut in 1/2 the time it would take to scan/print it. And if you have access to a CNC rig (and most machine shops have 4 or 5 axis workcenters) you could make as many of them as you wanted once you had the shape programmed.

For a one-off a mold is a crazy process anyway, the only reason molds are used is if it is impossible to machine something (rarely) or to save cost in higher volumes (the most common case).

The reason "People say, “Why not just give the part to your machinist to make?” Well, if the machinist makes it wrong, you still have to pay for it." is absolute nuts, if you give a machinist (a competent one) a part to duplicate you'll be hard pressed to tell it from the original if you haven't marked it in some way.
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IKEA will have to adapt or be demolished. They could actually leverage this kind of tech.

I can picture all sorts of flat-pack furniture made by specialized machines to automatically rout and drill holes, with specialized parts made by 3D printers.

The whole back catalog would always be available. Designs are already modularized and extendable. I could also picture DIY one of a kind "custom closet" kits designed on a computer, with the parts bagged for you, and custom directions printed just for you.
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RTFA- He gave an example of plastic AC fittings made directly from his printer. He also uses an automated metal milling machine to make parts directly from 3D files.
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From the article

My EcoJet supercar needed air-conditioning ducts. We used plastic parts we designed, right out of the 3D copier. We didn’t have to make these scoops out of aluminum, plastic is what they use in a real car.

Yes the title doesn't mention that molds are made as well but I would say the title is correct.
Well said. Most of the money won't be spent for another two years and what has been spent hasn't been in the private sector. If you're going to propagandize Keynes, at least have the policy match the propaganda and let's see if it actually works.

Perhaps none of it matters. All of this assumes that Congress knows what it's voting for in the first place.

"If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes." --Stenny Hoyer, referring to a 1,500-page health-care reform bill coming up in the House (http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50...)

How can any of this giant, sweeping legislation be any good?
I've never read "Algorithms in C" before. I'm trying to track it down in Amazon, but it seems like there is a paperback called "Algorithms in C" by Sedgewick, as well as a 5-piece bundle also called "Algorithms in C, parts 1 - 5" by Sedgewick. Does anyone know if the former is just part 1 of the latter?
It would be awesome to be super rich like that and be able to say "oh yeah, I make car parts directly from my 3D printer as a hobby" when you really mean "I tell my full-time 3D modelling team that works on my cars what parts I want made as a hobby."

(At least that's what I assume is the truth- I didn't get the impression his hands actually ever touch a computer, cleaning up errant polygons from a 3D scan :-)
I believe the license says you have to run OSX on Apple-labeled hardware. So as long as you use a Mac Pro / Macbook... :)
LSD is also supposedly the most powerful migraine cure ever discovered. A single (sub-psychedelic) dose was found to cure some individuals for MONTHS.

Tylenol won't do that for you.

References:
http://www.clusterbusters.com/lsd.html

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A fine, honest article. The best part was "learning to read", and that happened recently in the author's cronology. One of my friends tells me that "if you can read, you can cook" to which I retort "then, if you can read, you can program". The answer to that is "no, not so". And I know that is not exactly what the article meant. But good reading habits are important.
I think the author has the subtlety and clarity of the Timecube guy, but I can't wait to see a Matasano writeup of NYSE protocols and security.
because all the people hang out on english speaking sites, like me on HN...
Yes, there were cutbacks, but they are continuing to support the neo.
Back when people bought CDs, I'd make several grand in the course of a week each time Nine Inch Nails album preorders went live on Amazon & I posted links on my (well-known among fans) website. Heck, I made $500 off MP3 downloads of the Ghosts album when that came out. This allowed me to get better hosting, and to send money to other people who've helped me with the site, as well as fund contests for readers.

The Amazon cookie persists for 24 hours, so if you click on that Kindle link today, but then tonight, go home and buy a defibrillator or 10 camcorders, the guy who slipped his affiliate link onto HN gets the commission on that.

I use those as examples because they're things people have bought after clicking through NIN mp3/pre-order links.

It's also worth noting that Amazon does a flat 10% rate on Kindle sales for affiliates... all other consumer electronics are a flat 4%.

Amazon Associates is like free money if you run a blog, and so long as you're up front about that, I think that's fine. Lots of people are going to Amazon anyway. Posting your own affiliate link to a site like this and not disclosing affiliation is a little skeezy.
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"The First Annual Seasteading Conference, held in October 2008, draws about 50 people to an Embassy Suites meeting room in Burlingame, California. Most but not all of the attendees are male libertarian Americans in the computer industry."

For some reason this made me smile.
It's a term that originated out of something of a malapropism by Gore Vidal at a Democratic National Convention, made speaking of William F Buckley Jr., meant to imply that he was a secret fascist.

If only cryptozoologists were secret zoologists.
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If you make ducts by milling you're doing something terribly wrong or you are in the aerospace business.

Leno has this thing about bashing 'machinists', I've heard him rant about that before.

At the end of the day a machinist can only make what you spec, if you spec it wrong you end up paying and you'll have to do it again. Measure twice, cut once.
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Not to mention that F = ma is just a simplification used in entry-level physics classes. The real formula is F = dp/dt, or F = m(dv/dt) + v(dm/dt), which is sometimes called the "rocket equation" (since rockets burn their fuel to accelerate, they don't have a constant mass).

And, he said it's the cornerstone of modern physics; not to be pedantic, but Newton's laws are usually called 'classical physics', while the term 'modern physics' is saved for quantum theory and relativity (check your local university's physics course catalog).

Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force#Newton.27s_second_law
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> The researchers caution, however, that using this drug to extend the lifespan of humans might be problematic because it suppresses the immune system — potentially making people who take it more susceptible to infectious diseases.

There's always a catch...
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The thing that amuses me about anarcho-capitalism is that the state seems vitally necessary for capitalism to work. Without a powerful government institutionalizing and enforcing property rights, markets don't work (cf. Hernando de Soto).

In anarchy, you might have one voluntary "enforcement agency" trying to enforce anarcho-capitalist property rights, but an entirely separate voluntary "enforcement agency" trying to enforce a socialist conception of property rights, and various other gangs just mucking shit up.

The only sustainable form of capitalism-in-the-large requires government. At this stage, it probably requires fiat currency, vast amounts of land, urbanization, and serious attention to environmental concerns as well. (By "sustainable" I mean in every sense: in terms of resources, ecology, economics, and technology.)

I used to be a libertarian. I'm still in favor of small governments and market economics, but I'm far more pragmatic about it. And I have no interest in trying to build some aquatic libertopia.

EDIT: Heh, some good parts.

"tight communal living can be stressful, but residents of places such as Antarctica stations already find a way to muddle through"

Tight communal living is a little collectivist for the target market here, eh?

"Why not just do it: build a version of the world you want to live in. Then you get to live in it, regardless of whether anyone else is convinced it’s proper or makes sense."

For most people, the world we want to live in has a lot more to do with weather, landscape, profession, and community than it has to do with politics. California's politics are pretty crap, but it's still a popular place to live because everything else is pretty nice.
I start caring about crypto (and security) when it gets deployed in the real world, so I can break it. We ship a product, but for the most part, I am myself a professional abuser of software. So there you go, re: homomorphic encryption.

As regards "street cred", look, you can assign whatever credibility you want to the guy. I'm telling you, from the trenches, you are often going to be worse off for basing decisions based on what he says. Sure, you'll say, you don't base decisions off what some random pundit on the Internet says, and I say to you, "good on ya". But lots of people do, and so taking the piss out of him is a noble enterprise in my view.

And I am all about the nobility.
Well, honestly, after going years trying to change myself with "decisions" or willpower, I eventually allowed myself to receive the graces that God has been offering. I put "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect" together with "ask and you shall receive".

Take this advice however you will. shrug
Wow! Thanks for that!

Not only was that a great read that I can empathize with, but I got a ton of great book suggestions out of it.

I'm assuming that was written by the same kragen that frequents here... Kragen, if you read this, well done!
I didn't know they could make assembled parts like that. Very interesting.
Psh. They do this for a lot less in Napoleon Dynamite....
milling != printing, pure & simple.

Printing is an additive process, milling is a subtractive process.

If the 'printer' would be used to directly make a functional car part (I don't care if it is made of some high grade plastic, as long as it is used directly in a load bearing situation) that would be revolutionary, this is just a rich guy playing with his toys bashing a profession that he hasn't a clue about.

Machinists the world over would cringe if someone said 'if they make the wrong part you still have to pay for it', that should read 'if you spec the wrong part you end up paying for it', there is a huge difference there.
F=dp/dt is true in quantum mechanics and relativity as well as classical mechanics.
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> If you make ducts by milling you're doing something terribly wrong or you are in the aerospace business.

To be fair, the car he made the duct for did have a jet engine :).
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I could see these having an impact in places like Africa and South Asia, as mobile phones are doing. It's depressing to hear about wells being dug but then going out of service because there's a part missing.

sure, it would be a lot cheaper to just ship bulk parts around than set up 3d printers in poor towns, but the rub is that you don't know what metal/plastic things people will need in advance.
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I kind of agree, but complexity is a relative concept. mv and cp doesn't exist on Windows. And you really don't have to use exotic commands to run into compatibility issues between bsd and linux.

Well, I have yet to see an application to span across Linux, BSD and wintendo at once. Such a setup obviously has much bigger problems than the deployment process ("broken beyond repair" comes to mind).

The real world deployments I have met were, at most, Linux/Solaris and even in these cases it was usually the cheapest to just scrap one (guess which) and move on. I have never seen a case where maintaining a mixed cluster could have possibly been worth the maintenance overhead.

Why would I prefer to write three different deployment scripts, if I could write one?

Because 3 simple scripts trump one that is gobbled up with conditionals.
this is exactly the wrong answer. i guess you are trolling.
I think when people refer to Match.com they say "Match.com" and when people refer to facebook they refer to "Facebook".
Amazing technology when you think about it. Sure it's clunky now, and material is limited and expensive, but it wont be long before we can print copies of the machine itself.

http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome

It's really going to be fun watching physical product manufactures complain when we start printing pirated copies of our favorite toys.
I liked this comment:

"I think it is tres interesante that you know how to read who hits your website. I am totally unschooled in such things and when I see what you find. Wow."

Most people have no idea how big their tracks are on the web. When you visit a web server it generally logs that you did and any information your browser supplies, which is often a surprising amount (useragent, referrer). That along with some decent GeoLocation on IP addresses and reverse lookups and you can tell a lot about a person. Add in a little Googling and that anonymous threat you left might just turn around on you.
The only change I'd recommend is quotation marks around the title.
> It’s a mystery to me why more organizations don’t hide what their people are doing online (ask any 12 year old computer enthusiast how this is done if you don’t know), but for whatever reason, many of them don’t.

I don't know, how?
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A good point. If the FF engine is so slow it needs this, then the engine needs help.

However I see no reason why you should not be able to indicate to firefox that for this page do not optimize the javascript, then vuala good debugging. The only catch is that the optimizations need to be proven to be correct in all cases.

Once we have Safari for Linux I will consider using it as the main browser...

Scratch that, once at work we officially support it ill consider it :)
3D printing vs injection moulding are 10000:1 cost wise right now, in the future this will come down but I doubt there will ever be parity.

The reason companies like IKEA standardize connectors, handles and all kinds of other bits and pieces is to maximize the use of these hard to design parts. Mold making is an art and molds are expensive, even for relatively simple parts. But once you have a mold the parts become absolutely dirt cheap.

Specialized woodworking machines exist, such as CNC rigs to create roof trusses straight from a customized CAD package.

One other nasty little gotcha about 'printed' 3d objects is that they are really 2 1/2 D printed objects, in other words the design is deposited layer by layer, this usually means that in at least one direct (the deposition direction) the material is not very strong.
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With some googling it appears that Zynga is a social games network(based on open social).

No link or anything in the article(and I had never heard of it before).
Lol, ok sorry I just had a someone is wrong on the internet moment. Which had nothing to you just the idea about the limits on what an OS could do. http://xkcd.com/386/

PS: I also just noticed that that was commic #386.
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White text on a black background is much easier on the eyes than black text on white background. And, as far as the fonts being too small, you can always enlarge them with CONTROL-+ in opera. I think firefox has a similar feature. Don't know about IE or the other browsers.
I guess you're not being critical, but I'm going to defend kirse anyway.

I think it's disingenuous to use affiliate links if someone said, "Hey, where can I buy a Kindle?" or "what's the best ebook reader I can buy online?". But in this case, if you saw this link and said "Oh crap! This is news to me and I've been waiting for a price drop" . . . then by all means kirse deserves an affiliate payout.
hehe, good point :)

Aerospace CNC work is amazing stuff, it's not rare to see a block of aluminum be reduced to less than 5% of its starting weight as a finished part, the rest is scrap.
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I believe the latter is just a later, expanded edition of the former. I do know that they are all part of a series that he has been revising for two decades, starting with "Algorithms" which was in Pascal, then branching out to have editions in C and Modula-3, then revisions in several volumes/parts. The first edition of Algorithms in C was just a single volume. The paperback you mention is probably just a copy of that edition - if I'm looking at the same one as you, it looks like a paperback of the hardcover I remember from fifteen years or so ago.
Isn't it ironic that the state as an enforcer of property rights is also a violator of property rights?

Why do you need fiat currencies? Gold has been around as a currency for longer than fiat currencies backed by nothing.
I just finished up a post talking about these types of things, citing an article where Metafilter reported >$6K in donations. That's currently an exception, but who says that can't be repeated?

http://blog.twixa.com/2009/07/donations-20-will-they-save-jo...

full disclosure - I'm working on a complementary (not competing system)
I like the concept of ideas and execution being multipliers, put forth by 37signals (and surely others).

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch06_Done.php

Of course, the reality is non-linear, and the exact shape of the idea/execution/expected-profit manifold is quite up for debate.
They also make a bunch of popular Facebook apps like Mafia Wars and Vampires.
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It's not very hackerish of me, but I'm feeling increasingly negative about anti-aging research. World population looks set to keep rising until it hits about 9 billion around 2050, while fuel depletion and environmental degradation are growing problems = pretty much a formula for resource wars.

Additionally, a greying population in the developed world means a much higher fiscal burden on younger people in the economy, even if governments begin raising the retirement age (which is probably political suicide).
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I suppose this is to compete with twitter which fulfills any realtime news needs I have.
What does "unofficial" iPhone tethering, a la the one-click carrier file change at TechCrunch, cost?

Whatever they want it to.

I'd be careful.
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People always talk about making caps lock a ctrl key, but I've found making right alt a ctrl is more comfortable. My thumb is far more dexterous than my pinky. Unfortunately on many keyboards the right alt key is unusable due to awkward positioning.
If this is true, my hope is that Apple takes this lack of good faith from AT&T as a good reason to not renew exclusivity after the contract ends sometime next year (2010).

Of course, it's also very likely that Apple and AT&T are playing US iPhone users as pawns in their negotiations. I personally witnessed Scott Forstall clearly playing the audience to boo AT&T at WWDC.
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