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> Prefab needs a factory to make the prefab sections.

Why do you think one or more significantly smaller printers couldn't be used as an on-site prefab factory? That seems like a much more reasonable way to approach this problem.
No, the idea is that orders are batched up and then crossed in an auction every second. You literally gain no advantage from being a millisecond (or several) ahead of somebody else as long as you're within a given second.

It's kind of like an opening cross, happening like a metronome every second of the day. (They also do these or similar crosses when a stock restarts after a halt, or during an IPO.)

Probably there would be some attempt to game the system by measuring open interest on either side up until the time the cross operates (i.e. when one second 'ticks' into the next). If such numbers were made available.
Could you elaborate on the Nest? I was considering getting one.
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The entire point of my comment was that the total price to society of the device can go well beyond the "$200 and a monthly $80 bill" that the individual pays to acquire it.

> How are we better off as a society if Apple, Google, Samsung don't put powerful, usable smartphones in the hands of a few hundred million people?

Respectfully, you're again arguing the merits of ends without discussing any means. Making the argument into "smartphone or no smartphone?" is like asking "candy or no candy?" Which do you think people will choose? But even free candy has costs; put the person who receives it on a scale a week later and you'll see them.

One can certainly point to societal costs that the information economy has imposed that go beyond the costs of individual products. When Marc Andreesen says that "software is eating the world," what he's saying is that it takes wealth that used to be held by people outside Silicon Valley -- travel agents, booksellers, and recording artists, to name a few -- and transferring it to people inside Silicon Valley. And since software requires no human intervention to do the same thing over and over again, the number of people who are on the receiving end of this wealth transfer is naturally much smaller than those who are on the other; once you've got an algorithm for picking the best airline flight, say, money that used to provide a living for tens of thousands of travel agents can all flow instead to one guy -- the guy who owns the algorithm. So that one guy becomes crazy rich, while the travel agents lose their livelihood.

Does the inegalitarian result of that wealth transfer outweigh the benefit to society at large that the algorithm provides? I'm guessing from your comments that you would say it does not, and I would probably agree with you on that. That's a more complicated question than whether or not people would prefer travel sites or no travel site, but it at least attempts to take into account the costs such sites create beyond what the individual user pays for them.
Samsung Electronics is only a subsidiary of Samsung Group which makes all those things. Samsung Electronics profits were $9.6 but that includes TVs and their semiconductor division. The actual mobile division had $6.3 in profits (about 20% growth from same time last year).
did you do the google search?

The top hits include:

"center for a stateless society"
"foundation for economic education"
"ReasonTV"

Hardly socialistic enterprises. The clear distinction between the two is mostly a self-identification that tends to emanate from libertarian and anarcho-capitalist groups.
That seem quite hypocritical since you write quite long rambling text yourself. At least show other people, who did upvote it, the respect of reading the article before you flag it.
the fact that the their top-post is negative make the history soo cool!!
That awkward dance video is no longer being shown on TV if I am not mistaken. Here is a new Surface ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OqzxB-cSW8
After Hours trading is volatile and not terribly important. Just last week you saw Netflix soar in AH trading and plummet almost instantly on open.

A 3% price move is nothing noteworthy, especially in AH trading. IMO the only seasoned way to view this is that the judgement of the markets of this ER is still pending.
It's working for me in FF 24.0.
I wish to God they'd had one of these for me when I was ten..
That's a shame, because some pre-fabricated houses are very high quality. See, for example the Huf Haus in an episode of the UK show "Grand Designs".

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs/episode-gui...

> Revisit: Walton, 2008

> Kevin revisits David and Greta Iredale, who replaced their original house which they designed and built themselves with a German built, precision engineered Huf Haus.

> Esher, 2004

> Kevin McCloud follows a couple who have built houses before, but never on this scale. Their new 'Huf Haus' is designed and made in Germany but delivered for assembly in Surrey.
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Obviously this technology isn't ready for prime-time yet. But there is no compelling reason why it shouldn't be able to compete with prefabbed housing. In any way, this 3D-printer collaborates with prefabbed parts, so you can combine custom or tricky bits with prefabbed parts for the easier portions.

Where I see additional advantages is complicated buildings, for example pig stables where you want hundreds of bays, and maybe special channels for herding pigs etc.

Also for larger settlements once the robot is on-site it can just keep on going while the logistics train is a lot simpler than if they had to coordinate all the different types of parts.
Actually, there is a formal measurement of a stocks volitiliy called it's beta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_(finance)
> What would make it growthist, is if the welfare is paid for by borrowing, which would require compounding interest to pay it off. That the payback requires interest (which compounds, i.e. grows) implies growth in the overall productivity of the system to continue functioning.

Strictly speaking, it requires growth in the overall rate of production, which is not the same as growth in productivity (which is production per unit of some input consumed, usually labor-hours.) If, for instance, the rate of population growth were greater than the interest rate on the debt, you could have constant productivity with employment levels without a problem.
The IIfx was released in 1990, but yeah, it was an amazing machine. Using expansion cards, it could drive 6 monitors!

By 1996, the time GP was talking about, Apple had released dual processor PowerMacs.
This is perhaps the most elaborate "fuck you" to asnine interview questions. Fizzbuzz was a great acid test but now a days people who can't solve `a = 1+2; a == ?` know fizzbuz somehow.
I think he's saying that he's replacing his free-tier use with other alternatives. In this case, he doesn't care that it's not safe from the NSA.
If you find a topic interesting, then you will enjoy reading the papers on it. You will enjoy thinking it through, just to get a strong grasp of the research that's already been done. In the course of turning it over in your head, you may have an idea and want to follow up on it. It might work and actually be novel. That's research. It's probably not the kind that fundamentally alters the field, or could win best paper awards, but if it hasn't been done before and it sheds new light on something that matters in any amount, it's real. In some fields you can post things to newsgroups and web boards where bona fide experts will see it, in lieu of publishing in a journal or conference.

You don't have to set out to achieve something worthy of research. If you learn about something you're interested in, and you have an inquisitive mind, you might incidentally have an idea that hasn't been thought of. I think it helps to at least have a B.S. in the subject, preferably at a strong research school where you can see research up close and even do some as an undergrad. Undergrads can take PhD courses as long as the professor approves it, or at least that was true for me.
The author asks an honest and important question:

Is capitalism failing at being the best possible means
of organizing human work, life, and play?

We've seen so many examples of market failure that it should be obvious that the market system is not a good answer to every problem.

And when other nations chart a different course and deliver better outcomes for their citizens, that should trigger some critical questions.

Failing to examine the beliefs and assumptions that public policy is built on, in the face of overwhelming evidence that those beliefs are false, really is magical thinking and cultish.
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Works great on my mid-2010 iMac with OS X 10.9 and Chrome 30.
> You think the Chinese who are suffocating in super-smog storms in Harbin right now aren't in favor of regulation?

China has massive regulation.

Of course, it may not be the regulation the people want, but that's an issue of system of government that is orthogonal to degree of regulation.
My point was that there's no need to assume any kind of "macro-level" direction at all. If the logic of the system drives individual "micro-level" actors inevitably toward growth, you'll get a macro-level orientation toward growth just from the aggregation of all those individual decisions.
Really great to be able to play with the source of this. Reminds of the 'uzu' app[1].

[1] http://uzumotion.com/
In one of those tweets he seems to think that beards are problematic because they are some sort of Muslim culture appropriation (bizarrely ignoring the long history of beards in Europe...). In the other tweet he isn't talking about cultural appropriation or referring to any sort of Muslim connection, he seems to be taking offense to beards on white people because he thinks the beards emphasis their whiteness.

The fundamental incompatibility between those comments leads me to believe that in neither case is he being sincere. He is just out to piss people off. He's 'trolling'.

(Also, I suspect that most people who both know the "dumb fucks" quote, and think that it is significant, do not use Facebook. Facebook users probably mostly consist of people who have never heard the quote, have heard the quote but don't believe it, or don't think that the quote is relevant to Facebook today. Personally, I trust Zuck, so when he says I'd have to be a dumb fuck to use Facebook, I believe him...)
>Strictly speaking, it requires growth in the overall rate of production

Fair point. I'm writing too quickly for my own good, it seems.
That's much better, but still terrible. Its a perfectly forgettable commercial, although I appreciate that they made an attempt to relate to scarf-wearing male fashion designers, an oft neglected demographic.
The statement "more optimized = less readable" isn't true across the entire curve. But it is generally pretty accurate at the limit. Maybe not for every problem, but for the majority of problems. No language can be expressive for anything but a tiny slice of the space of effective optimizations.
I looked it up. Nimrod has Erlang like actors, message passing and thread local GC. All with OS threads (not light weight threads like Erlang).

It is an intriguing combination.
Makes sense. People who use irons are the real global power brokers in every modern society. The laundry room is the ultimate prize. Even though it may cost $50 to manufacture an iron that has 200M WiFi range and sophisticated viral payloads, and sure irons are unplugged most of the time, and OK, you'd have to sell the irons at a steep loss, but still you will have amassed a network of thousands of irons spanning the globe, listening, waiting, and ironing.
- Someone on the internet says Americans are too sensitive.

- American is hurt so he writes a thousand lines comment trying to prove him wrong.

See the irony?
Foundation work won't change. You'll have to have digging equipment and lay concrete/masonry blocks for the base so this equipment can be used to print the rest of the house. The fun part of course will be how easy it is to position one of these house printers where you have a 7+% grade.

Another thing too. How does one recover if the printer screws up or worse yet the program loaded is the wrong one or somehow corrupted? That could generate a whole house's worth of concrete waste.
He was a huge fan of the Surface 1 when most other people were calling it terrible, so this is not in any way surprising and not an indication that Surface 2 is likely to do any better than Surface 1.
You should have added some text point to your website in that hot linked image. If they are hotlinking your stuff its ok to put some advertisment in it. Probably would not have saved the business. Thanks for your honest story
Yup. I want one now.
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True. But, well, for instance, all the finite simple groups are classified.

(Not in the sense of the NSA.)
Vonnegut's Player Piano also comes to mind: society is divided into a management class and an underclass. Nearly all jobs are performed by machines, so no one in the underclass has to work, but everyone is assigned a meaningless job. It's partially about the seductive nature of technology, and how human ingenuity is capable of engineering us into irrelevance.
I would agree, although I'd also say there's nothing particularly witty or clever about the one I posted.
I had difficulty parsing your first sentence, even though I was pretty sure I got its meaning. Perhaps some punctuation helps:

I am endlessly amused by people pointing to features that the socialists - who came up with the word "capitalism" to name the system they were criticizing - criticized capitalism for and saying "this isn't capitalism".
I've never thought about the surface's gaming ability outside of the touch games. Being able to plug in an xbox controller and play any compatible game that came out before like 3-4 years ago is amazing.
The algorithm described in the article is deterministic and linear time -- exactly what Blum was trying to disprove as possible
Good. I'd much rather see more sales and lower margins.
Is Google behind mystery barge?
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Here's another one: Build the Pinterest of 3D Printing where everyone posts their favorite designs.
I agree that Mike is not necessarily an indicator of overall market acceptance, but then again he isn't really representative of that.

I post these because, despite my own preference for Apple, he represents a very specific demographic of power users and his opinion is very well thought out.
Now it's a very long time since I did fractal geometry but as a simple countable set isn't the Hausdorf dimension 0 [zero]?
Rambling? Perhaps. But I would hardly say that tokenadult is known for "handwaving". Quite the opposite actually, his long posts are typically the best researched and cited posts on this site.
Apple is the top spender on R&D, as a percentage of its revenue. Second is Google. 3rd Samsung, 4th Amazon, 5th 3M. [1]

Xerox had about 10 years of glorious moon-shot type research. IBM is notoriously fickle about spending on R&D.

The only exception is Bell Labs, which succeeded due to a combination of a number of factors [2]. There wasn't any grand vision underlying it, just the interest to grab the best and the brightest, during a time when there was far less silo-ing and over-specialization than today.

[1] http://www.booz.com/global/home/what-we-think/global-innovat...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/books/review/the-idea-fact...
Have you any examples of bad ideas that received less sharp criticism? I think it's more that HN looks at every idea critically.
The beautiful part of CapitalismStan is that no one becomes rich unless they in turn enrich the lives of others. Aka they produce a good/service that consumers want to freely purchase.

He can rant about twisted incentives that government imposes on the free market but I can never understand why anyone can lambast capitalism when only people who produce value for everyone else make money. Billionaires would be celebrated as national heroes in CapitalismStan.

Lastly, this author lambasts our current capitalists for producing goods that make us "zombies" well they should look in the mirror because capitalism only are delivering the goods that the consumers want to buy.
CNBC's summary explains the negative reaction to the earnings:

Apple posted better than expected earnings and revenue for its fourth-quarter on Monday, but shares still took a hit in after-hours trading.

The tech giant posted $8.26 a share on $37.5 billion in revenue. The street estimated the company would post $7.96 a share on revenue of $36.93 billion. But investors were disappointed with guidance for gross margins.

During the current quarter, the company expects gross margins of 36.5 percent to 37.5 percent, which missed forecasts of 37.9 percent.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101149511
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Rural areas come with other benefits. Urban and suburban areas that are too car-centric are the worst of both worlds.
Would moving overseas help then? Winter in US is summer in downunder.
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The docs should be fixed now. Thanks for pointing out the problem. <:)

https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/compare/3a3ed20df078...4e...

The location API depends on having wifi measurements in our database, which is still tiny compared to big players.
The problem is that while Surface is an amazing device for people like him, there are very very few people like him to sell them to. "A mobile drawing machine I can also play games on" is just not a mass-market demand.
Its always frustrating to watch MS build solid devices with real use cases and then seemingly throw it away trying to market them like apple gadgets.

Its like watching Charlie Brown try to kick the football.
He's more of an average Joe than a power-user. Maybe my definition is wrong, but I think one of the qualifiers for being a power user is knowing how computers work. He admits in the review that he doesn't really know anything about computers unless it has to do with making awesome cartoons.

I'd argue that not being a power user is what makes him such a good spokesman for Microsoft.
I'm the exact same way: I need a physical medium when it comes to notes, etc.

I discussed it with a another friend of mine (a business guy) who similarly prefers notes/notebooks and we seemed to hone in on the fact that its superiority over non-physical mediums comes from its freeform nature. The freeform nature allows you to record things in a format that more accurately models the way your mind works. This makes it easier to come back to and have your brain go "Aha yes I have a memory stored for this data because I created this note". With a physical medium, you're never (or at least, much less so) forced into any format that was created by another person (to-do apps, etc.).
Most or all of what you mention is premature optimization and I would advise against it at this point. The bottlenecks are in connecting to back-end systems, not on the front-end.
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The advice people tend to give to build a successful startup is to solve problems you encounter yourself. But how do I come up with marketable solutions if I'm already an expert in solving problems in my own manner?
I've often thought Gravatars were less-noticed privacy violations. Nice to see that confirmed here. Of course, if the websites don't have SSL-always, then governments can listen between your ISP and the web host to get your cookie, and from there, get your email address or track your activity. This, obviously, is more open since anyone can view a gravatar, or even previously generated ones via archive.org.
The beautiful wonder that is Javascript. All the majesty of a killer whale piloting a single-engine supercruiser via a blue-tooth repeater connected 500m gallon tank in the Sahara. Think about how flexible such a system can be!
Thx for the feedback, I've fixed the example to have the right format and provided full URL's in the API docs.

The docs where written under the assumption of being reusable for anyone installed a ichnaea server and not just the specific instance we currently run. But that apparently isn't all too helpful right now :)
I think it's different for different people. I have tried fish for a while and then went back to bash because it just didn't feel worth it for me. I'm sure I'll come back to the new version, though.

But back in bash-land, _of course_ I alias "ll" to "ls -Flah". And when I'm on a system that doesn't have this alias, then, well, I just type "ls -la".

As others explained, just because I've customized my work environment doesn't mean I've forgotten to use the plain versions.
I really wish Apple would come out with something like this.

Imagine partnering with Wacom and making a portable OS X Cintiq...
I've read that, but thanks for sharing.
> What's bad is if growth is achieved by irrevocable destruction of the environment, or deterioration of the human condition. It's not growth itself that is the problem, for there are many kinds of growth.

Non sequitur. The notion of economic growth is tied to environmental and human labor exploitation, at fundamental levels.

A large portion of any nation's GDP comes from mining, pumping oil, cutting forests for crops, and activities that produce a lot of waste, on which the rest of the economy relies on. Another large portion comes from the financial sector, which profits on the disparity of income by providing credit. These activities are only profitable because the environmental and social costs are externalized. Without that, other endeavors wouldn't even make sense cost-wise, making economic growth grind to a halt.

> I'd analogize Capitalism to evolution in an ecosystem.

I realize many people think like that, and it's a fallacy. Capitalism is not some sort of natural law, it's entirely arbitrary human invention, and in practice it's nothing like this pure, theoretical meritocracy that allows the best solutions to strive. Quite the contrary: it fails to address many concrete, contemporary problems, like ever increasing economic disparity, social welfare, research funding and environmental destruction. And don't come tell me it's because we don't have enough capitalism, that markets are not free enough... this is the same argument used to explain why communism failed (it wasn't pure enough). If we keep looking at it as some theoretical ideal, we will never tackle it's shortcomings in practice.
Try the number keys, 0-9, etc. It's in the onkey function.
Beta is one of many measures of volatility. Since it's a normalized correlation between the stock's rate of return and that of the market, it only really has meaning in the context of a stock's performance over a long time or in relation to the market as a whole. A stock's performance post-earnings is about as market-independent as you can get, however.
I remember having a little fun in Florence with guessing passwords. Think I got on a restaurant or hotel wifi near a tourist spot using "12345678"

If they can't stop me, they ain't stopping dedicated terrorists.
Whenever I see Europeans complain about Americans smiling all the time, I wonder why I never hear the same complaint about Southeast Asians (i.e., Land of a Thousand Smiles). People always talk about it positively.

I'm American and SE Asian. Sorry Europeans, but my face rests smiling.
Might be a better experience than once the local script kids find your bidet. ;)
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1.comprehensive in terms of information.

I personally think that an online encyclopedia should err on the side of being, er, encyclopedic. If an article is clearly cited, the citations are valid, and the quality is sufficient, I don't see a reason to delete. It's not like disk space is prohibitively expensive.
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