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This is great, even with all the caveats around it.

Some people can't currently afford real prosthetics, and they're stuck with things like "Soda Bottle Prosthetics" which is a neat hack, but decidedly suboptimal.

http://blog.makezine.com/2009/02/05/plastic-soda-bottle-pros...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvev6shNvSg

Compare that to the teen who asked a Formula One team to help with a false arm (they didn't provide any money, but they helped with fundraising and engineering and now he has an amazing arm) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvev6shNvSg

Medical use of 3d printing is exciting. Even if it's a bit odd. Here's an advert which shows researchers looking at 3d printed proteins to understand protein folding better. The proteins look cute. They could probably sell a version of these as Mr Potato head style toys.

http://www.3dsystems.com/learning-center/case-studies/nation...

That same company do a bunch of medical 3d printers (http://www.3dsystems.com/3d-printers/professional/overview#h...) and they have an entry on Transmaterial about their printer than can use powders as fine as 3 microns. It can build layers of 10 microns. (http://transmaterial.net/phenix-px/)
Ok, so once again, how does any of this connect with asking the government to force businesses to do certain things?
Indeed! Or Org Mode[1].

1: http://orgmode.org/
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Also, that stock chart was ridiculous. At any given point on the x axis where the value was higher than the previous point, you could cut it off and say "look, we're at a peak!"
> Nokia doesn't have money any more to develop Android phones on their own. They don't even have money to continue with WP strategy on their own.

They actually do. If you were to check their quarterly reports you'd see they have plenty of cash...
This.

Management by catch-phrase, one-liner, pre-packaged "management methodology," etc. is about as good as code written in the same thought-free manner. As with code, good management requires deep consideration of the actual problem at hand.
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> > The government has shown that it, too, cannot be relied upon to solve it.

> You might want to provide evidence to support this claim.

The evidence is that it hasn't.
Me too. I really love the way vim manipulates text. But I really dislike vim as a dev environment. I currently run with a bunch of plugins (nerdtree, YouCompleteMe, vim-indent-guides, ctrlp.vim, etc etc) and they all roughly do what they intend to do. But at the end of the day, I find myself tweaking my vim config a lot just to get a decent experience.

Vim feels a lot like Linux to me. When I was young I loved Linux as I really enjoyed tweaking it and hacking on it. But now I just want my OS to work and get out of the way, so I use OSX. I want the "OSX of editors", which is probably Sublime. But man do I love vim's text manipulation.

When I was a .NET dev, Visual Studio+viemu was pretty much perfect. Text manipulation via vim, project management via VS. viemu is the only vi emulator I've found that is really well done.
Wow, it looks fantastic. I love your work and thank you for the free kits
So, this theoretical perfect time measurement won't work on or near any planet or other massive body (where "near" is relative and as your technology improves it will get bigger and "massive" is relative and as your technology improves it will get smaller). It also won't work in any accelerating frame of reference, such as spin-gravity.

So, this is "possible" only in the sense that if constrained to be useless it would theoretically be possible, but not practical.

Awesome, let's get right on that :-)
"One problem of a basic income is the iron law of wages and the private property on housing. Wages tend to balance to a point that they are barely enough to make ends needs. When wages climb, also housing costs and rental prices climb."

I think that's much less true with this kind of a system than in the situations we more frequently see, because this is not localized. When wages climb in, say, SF then people move to SF and drive up the price. When wages climb whether they're in SF or Troy, MI you don't see the same dynamic. You might even see housing prices fall if people decide it's easier to make a better life for themselves elsewhere, when their presence is pulling resources to regions with a low cost of living.
It's still the best vi emulator I've found. If you know of better ones, I'd love to hear about them.
This is pretty slick.

Any thoughts on leap motion and its acceptance into the consumer market? There seems to be a lot of hype surrounding it. Passing fad or legit disruptive tech? Something I'd like to research more before using this in future projects.
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What course of action would you suggest?
BlackBerry is to the Enterprise what Apple is to the Consumer. Neither knows the other market well enough, or has proven they can be successful in what isn't their expertise.

IMHO, BlackBerry can survive if it refocuses on what it does best; the Enterprise. I get it. The consumer business represents a massive market and even a small percentage of that market can be hugely rewarding. It also takes a toll on expenditure and thus margins.

Software and services! Focus on QNX acquisition, it hasn't been fully exploited as yet.
Hear, hear.

I believe your comment suggests some of the societal issues that I was at a loss for how to correct.

Thank you, and I wish people like you were not squeezed out of public education.
Has Dragos thought of getting a sound engineer to test out this hypothesis?
The number one factor affecting education outcomes isn't teacher salaries, tenure, or education budgets. It's parent involvement (see http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED375968 for an overview of some of the many studies showing this). Simply put, children whose parents take an active role on their education easily outperform children whose parents treat public education as free daycare. Thus, throwing more money at schools and teachers will at best solve only a few of the challenges public education faces. It would be better if some of that money and effort was redirected toward promoting more parental involvement in each child's education.
Forbes is heading that way too.
Looking at a listing[1], I notice that you provide email addresses to users and presumably act like a craiglists for anonymous messaging...

I'm just curious though, don't you find that you get spammed out if you do this?

I think providing email addresses to users on a marketplace is a great way of keeping discussions/messages boxed up in your platform, but showing the emails on the site must result in way too many spam emails?

[1] : http://42floors.com/ny/new-york/25-w-39th-st/3171
Also comes with IMPOSSIBLE TO READ AXES. Would not be accepted by sane editor.
That is the funniest (and truest) thing I've read in days. Well said.
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Another site with a major usability issue. The black banner over the top is not considered when you click the scroll bar, so as a result there may be text neither at the bottom of one page, nor at the top of the next. Instead, it's hidden under that black bar, and only visible if you click the line-by-line scroll function.

Do you do this? Are you aware of the problem?
> How do you reboot a company's culture?

Management declares it, which causes corrosive cynicism.
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That's some vile stuff, that is. He almost had a valid point when he was talking about self-esteem needing a rational basis, but then he ruined that argument by gender-loading everything. The rest is little more than the ramblings of a predator, sexualizing vulnerability in a way that flies in the face of even the historical attitudes he cites.
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>best phone (N9) and OS (Meego)

Best phone and OS according to who? The same folks who cheered on the OpenMoko? As Elop said, the market has turned from a battle of devices into a war of ecosystems. Meego would've ended up like BB10 running on QNX(remember how many folks on here salivated about a QNX based mobile OS?), critically appreciated but with no apps and sales.

Nokia recently became the fourth largest OEM in the US market.
http://pocketnow.com/2013/11/01/nokia-smartphone-sales
I doubt that given Nokia never really had a brand in the US for smartphones, it could've done so without Microsoft's support.
i am curious if 3d printing is up to the task of creating legs? There is a lot more stress on the leg replacements than a hand.

One area of price difference is, you don't have to go through safety checks or other regulations. Top that off by not having the built in costs against lawsuits.

Coworkers husband needs a new leg every very years because even the best ones don't last and the mounting area/pads have to occasionally be changed as he changes
Data? You mean small focused charter schools that are opt-in so inherently all the students at least have an advocate to fight for them are doing better than the regular classroom where there are students with and without advocates? There is huge bias in small, focused charter schools because you're dealing with kids who all have someone who cares enough for them to switch schools and their success is not an indication of anything.

There is a wide range of charter schools but just like the public education system a ton of them are terrible and even have huge scandals. There are a few bright spots, but it's overshadowed by the biases they hold, the excessive focus on useless tests, and financial corruption found in some schools.

Did not mean to be condescending I have a lot of friends at charter schools (teaching) and I just don't see this as any type of real solution.
That's the thing, though: environments are not the norm.

I'm writing a document. I want the default text entry to be that document. There's already a lot of noise in my Latex sources; I want less, not more. (And I recognize that we actually agree on this.)
I can absolutely guarantee you that they screwed you over on the conversion rate. $45 is just a fee to distract you from 3-5% they take on the bad rate.
I'm not actually sure that's how it worked, though I'm sure that's a common anarchist mythology. States arrived along with agriculture, but hunter-gatherers had very similar, and much smaller groups with their own structures of authority, control, and social norms. In-group and out-group dynamics were more prevalent as in-groups did not, by definition, exceed Dunbar's number. Things like in-group murder were undoubtedly discouraged and punished. And when resources grew thin, violence and warfare against other groups was prevalent.

Agriculture was generally borne of desperation and scarcity, and cultures that adopted agriculture also adopted government and notions of land ownership. It was still a pretty raw deal compared to being a hunter-gatherer though, especially since hunter-gatherers were still better at warfare than farmers so from time to time a group of hunter-gatherers might show up and take whatever they wanted from you.

But even among hunter-gatherers, there were no human rights. You had to work, you received your share, but only if the hunter-gatherers from around the way didn't run short on resources and showed up one day and killed all your men and captured all your women.
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Having to click on something is different from being able to click on something. Vim doesn't let you use one of the two primary input tools of your computer--Sublime lets you use both.

To borrow your situation, if you are already using the mouse it's distracting to have to use the keyboard.
VsVim's implementation is very complete. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3-...
Great story, thanks for sharing.

In a way, it was for the best, isn't it ?

It is clear that you weren't a good fit for their development team and their interpretation of "agile" software ...
Is there so much in your .vimrc that it couldn't be written in a new syntax, without that much effort? We're not talking about supporting an entire legacy software app here.
This is as cool or cooler as the tablet apps that replace thousand-dollar devices and allow even poor and uninsured autistic children to communicate. Congrats to the dad for being awesome.
Check out VsVim. It's pretty solid. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3-...
We used to expose the raw email address of the underlying user. Now it's a two-way email proxy, which is why the domain is "Floors.me" e.g. rich.farmey.31719@42floors.me

We do get spammed but we've been able to keep a handle on it. Mailgun's filters capture most of the spam and we have backup handlers in place to address the rest.
The authors argue that if a "selfish" mining pool of size above a certain threshold keeps newly discovered blocks secret, this pool will be able to build a private block chain that is temporarily longer than the public one, frequently enough to make the selfish strategy more profitable than the honest one (by revealing longer private chains just before the public one catches up), so in theory more and more rational miners will join the selfish pool, which will therefore quickly grow to control a majority of all nodes.

In theory. There are many complex and subtle issues that must be thoroughly analyzed before passing judgment on this paper. For example, what if other miners, instead of joining the selfish pool, decide to create their own competing selfish pools? Also, as nullc points out elsewhere on this thread[1] and the Bitcoin Forum[2], peering between miners is already so extensive that temporarily keeping blocks secret could be much costlier than assumed by the authors of the paper.

The Bitcoin community must go through this paper in detail, but IF the authors' logic and math prove correct, this could be a real vulnerability.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6669735

[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=324413.msg3476697#ms...

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Edits: moved paragraphs around and added sentence about and footnotes pointing to nullc's thoughts.
So, the only two companies doing well have pretty good control of their CPU and supply chain and only 1 is using Android. I think Samsung could switch to FireFox OS and not miss a beat. Android isn't the strong brand to most consumers.
Seems like a good idea in theory, but I know that my ISP sends you a threatening letter in the post if you have too much incoming traffic - and it's unbelievably slow anyway. I wish this project a whole lot of luck though, because I really wish for a future of the internet where you don't rely on products that bombard you with adverts.
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> People bitch about how hard it is to find good developers and yet hire talented developers but put them in shitty positions.

Notwithstanding the fact that the GSD mentality is often nonsense that comes from folks who don't know what they're doing, I would make the point that a lot of software jobs are "shitty" in the context of what many expect to find when they decide to become a developer. And that's life.

Even at many of the biggest names in tech, a lot of developers are performing mundane tasks that are not nearly as interesting or sexy as one would imagine. If even the biggest companies in tech, which deal with some of the biggest problems, can't create more "good" positions than "shitty" ones, it shouldn't come as a surprise that smaller companies and startups can't either.

Incidentally, it's like this in just about every profession that is glamorized in some fashion (i.e. investment banking, law, etc.).
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Well, the truth of it is this hand did not cost $1,000 or $2,000. In other words, if you started from not having an initial design and iterated through the many designs leading up to the latest the picture is quite different. Add-up engineering costs at a reasonable rate and the total cost of executing a design --even for a diy case-- is significantly higher.

Once you get to a commercial enterprise things are quite different. Even a small-is company is likely to have 5 to 20 employees, rent, equipment, computers, software and other variable and fixed costs. In addition to that they need to provide sales and post-sales support and stand behind their product for many years. Prototyping and testing alone could easily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per iteration.

Product Design and Development [0] is a fantastic book that provides insight into the development process for a wide range of products. I have a 1995 edition. It goes from a screwdriver through to engine parts and the mechanical trackball on Apple's old laptops. If you've never been exposed to professional product development and are interested in learning more I'd recommend picking up an older version of this book ($200 for the latest version).

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Product-Design-Development-Karl-Ulrich...
And he is wrong. Check out how Goldman ripped off Facebook investors on their IPO.
Yes but it can quite easily end up disaster. When you get a new job, what is the first thing they ask for? References.
There do seem to be things that Sublime does better, but some of us don't want chrome. I work mostly in terminals in ratpoison for a reason...
We need to invest in changing how we use and generate energy, so that we can bring it to everyone. Things like Malaria and Zuc's plan to internet the masses will take care of themselves once people have the energy required to lift themselves out of the mud. Please tell me if I'm wrong, but with all the money that gets spent on treating Malaria, why is it I don't see any of that going to empowering the people that need malaria treatments to treat their own malaria? Give them the means to provide themselves with the treatments they need, don't just build up a new dependency on drugs you provide.

@wmeredith Providing a man with all the intelligence in the world is a noble thought but if he does not have the power to use that intellect, it is again lost. That knowledge is useless without having the tools. "Teach a man to fish, but without a net he sits on the shore wrapped in sorrow watching the fish he knows he could catch swim past."
>... or aggressive home schooling are the only real ways I can see to truly revolutionize the state of education.

We live in a school district with very good schools (Florida), some of the highest rated elementary schools in the state. Still, we pulled our kids out because they kept complaining they weren'nt learning anything and some personal experiences while I was volunteering at the school and saw how (to me, granted) some basic elementary skills where ditched left and right. Teachers have to work harder to get the kids pass the tests, but the tests are not hard in and by themselves, there is just no academic culture in most homes and the schools waste a lot of time with coloring activities. Then they come home and do two hours of tough homework, no time to play outside - and at school get bullied. What's the point?

This weekend, we went to a chess tournament. Two random families talked to me about (secular) homeschooling for the exact same reasons we decided to homeschool. Academic disorientation of public schools. Both parents were very upset. The one couple, original European, very academic, had already homeschooled their kids for years. The other family kept their kid home for a few days to try it out and loved it. Compare that to the school program: Cursive: "oh they don't need that". Typing: "oh they won't need that either, computers can recognize their voice in the future", Multiplication: "Well, why should they memorize it. they can google it.." Multiplication two years later: "oh, well, it seems they can't do any math if they don't memorize it, let's try again", Fifth-grader: " write a story in five sentences" what? what about 5 pages of creative writing? Computer Lab: "Kids are so good with computers" What can they do? "Let's have them explore MS Word, then play minecraft" , the list goes on.. seriously?

And then a friend sent me this link:http://mag.newsweek.com/2012/01/29/why-urban-educated-parent...
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What do you already know and what's your goal? Find employment? (then in which country?)
For doing a project on your own?

PHP is more mature and more spread (most popular language), rails will get you faster to your goal :)
There are those who believe that projects don't need any management, just "doing/executing". . .and that when projects fail, it's because project management got in the way. . .which is true sometimes, but not usually.
Contact details would be nice here as well...:

m.katoen@pararius.nl
or phone:
+31 20 471 2111
I really hope so. I'm a diehard BlackBerry fan; wouldn't trade the Bold keyboard for anything else.

What BlackBerry needs to do is pull it's ass out of the touchscreen market. It entered late, and it shouldn't have entered at all trailing so far behind. Not only did it suck at touchscreen phones, it isolated the traditional BB fans.

For example, the BB Storm phone that came out few years ago was complete shit because the touchscreen didn't work 1/2 of the time. The new Z10 touchscreen phone is running on BB OS10, which no one develops for. The Q10 phone that's suppose to replace Bold, they took away the trackpad and the traditional BB buttons. WTF?

If I wanted a phone with touchscreen capability, I'd get an iPhone. I want my BlackBerry the way it's always been, but continue to update it and focus on the minimalist productivity features. BB users are conservative. You don't need to make drastic changes like releasing a new shitty touchscreen phone. Just do what you've always done, but do it better.
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I'd love to have a list automatically saved of HN posts I've read so I can come back to them to share easier. I hate not being able to find a memorable post with HNsearch.com or in my history.
Almost makes me want to cry to see the impact this can have on someones life. And at such an absurdly low cost. It allows an agile development process for advanced prosthetic limbs.

Of course, the inventors who came up with the design deserve a huge amount of the credit for WHY this is possible. Bravo everyone, what a great story.
The project plans to expand to other architectures (including VPSes) with a successful funding campaign, meaning that you don't have to host at home to get the same easy experience. So maybe that would be an option for you.

Thanks for your support!! :D
Money=rights? No.
Looking forwards to the day Google includes electronic component datasheets in its search results and puts all those stupid unusable SEO-gaming datasheet repository websites out of business.
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I'm thinking about it from the perspective of a TSA agent as a human being who may want to be able to defend themselves against attack like anyone else.