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Ask HN: How do you find a good manufacturer?
My wife and I are in the web design/development business (long time HNer) but we have a "side project" that requires us to manufacture a physical product. Without going into details and revealing our idea, it's essentially as complex as a "cereal bowl". The only requirement on material is that it be able to sustain hot temperatures (similar to a hot bowl of soup)

My question is, being a web hacker I don't know the first thing about finding manufacturers and effectively working with them on this product.

Is there a good online resource for finding manufacturers? Have any of your worked with good manufacturers on a small-ish scale?

We're not looking for Wal-Mart volumes, just a small affordable supplier that can work with us to make the best possible product.

Thanks HNers!
that's true now, but it wasn't at the time (1984).

apple didn't invent a lot of the technologies they're famous for - the mouse, the windowed GUI, postscript, desktop publishing, etc. they did, however, make it accessible. they took it from the research labs - PARC especially - and let us mere mortals use it.

i recall in the late 80s going in to my dad's engineering offices in middle school to type up papers and have them laser printed. that was revolutionary, a truly transformative moment in computing. it took MS quite some time to come to parity.
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I came to the conclusion last time I was visiting SV that Northern California actually has terrible weather, everyone there just calls it 'traffic.' ;)
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They may not be selling because Square is selling their SNES-era games for tens of dollars. In a marketplace where $5.99 is considered a premium/high price, it's just plain insulting.

20ish year old games with minor graphical enhancements are not worth $15.99
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I don't really see a problem here. You have copyright on the code but not on an idea. I think when Nintendo and the Tetris guys fight smart game developers in making games like Tetris or Super Mario it hurts me as a gamer much more than such kind of copycat.
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Exit Splash helps differentiate between those who are there to buy and those who are there just to mess around. Essentially this is what all business owners are looking for is something that can help us keep sales up instead of wondering if sales are going to go up and essentially waisting time doing that .
There's all these other "frameworks" on top of node you can use to emulate rails, of which Express is the most popular. But I am talking in terms of tools to use when I'm building a database backed REST app. Node.js was hot so I took some time building apps entirely using node--some with express, some with other "more advanced mvc" frameworks--but they're all mediocre at best compared to Rails. I am not comparing node with rails. I'm saying node is not good for building web apps because all you have is all these inferior web development frameworks. Either you need to write too much boilerplate code, or learn to use half baked frameworks that will get nowhere as much traction as rails
I never hear of it, i will give it a look. Thanks
> I don't know what the practicalities are of the Fed buying $1.3tn at short notice (e.g. whether they can simply create that many dollars out of thin air and credit them to their counterparties' accounts)

Ah. Yes. They can totally do that.

So the question is whether their extant open-market operations which aim for a particular interest rate on Treasuries will in fact buy the bonds quickly enough that substantial market turmoil would be avoided. And, if so, whether the increased supply of USD would have a higher velocity than it did when China was sitting on it, which could lead to a weaker dollar or substantial inflation.

(And of course, people could just generally freak out anyway, leading to turmoil.)
The DEA has also prohibited any armoured car cash pick up service, making these dispensaries wide open to robbery http://m.laweekly.com/los-angeles/blogs/Post?basename=mariju...

Meanwhile WA police lamenting the loss of all that stolen prohibition money they used to enjoy http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304...
Yesterday's discussion of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7109623
As others have pointed out, the 6.2 release is a tiny bug fix, and even 6.1 is a modest update since LT went open source.

The real story about Light Table since then is the growth of available plugins. Most look like early efforts, but the promise is there. There are early plugins for F#, Ruby, OCaml, Haskell, and others. There's even a plugin to play othello in the editor. https://github.com/eriksvedang/othello/
Searching HN I found this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=189879

Which brings up the idea of a "design" company and a "sourcing" company. Besides personal referrals, is there a marketplace to find these folks?

Also found this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=571884

Not a lot of helpful links, but some good discussion on the process.
Can one of you knowledgable HNers tell me how I, as a dude who owns some domains and occasionally uses DNS to point them somewhere can get on board with this? Or is something that can only be implemented if you're hosting your own DNS?
The reference I specifically remember (although I have read others) is in "Dark Sun" by Richard Rhodes. LeMay ordered overflights over the USSR and commented:

"Well, maybe if we do this overflight right, we can get World War III started."

I don't have my copy of Dark Sun handy, but there is a reference to the incident in this review:

http://www.geoffwisner.com/index.php/book_reviews/article/?t...

LeMay's belief in a "preventative" war was oddly rational - he believed that a conflict between the US and the USSR was inevitable and that therefore that US should strike before the USSR posed a strategic threat to the US (which it didn't really do until the mid 60s at the earliest).

Rhodes writes about the Cuban Missile Crisis:

"If John Kennedy had followed LeMay's advice, history would have forgotten the Nazis and their terrible Holocaust. Ours would have been the historic omnicide".
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This wasn't just an idea. This was a product close to launch. The implicit instruction from King was to clone what already existed, not "take their idea and make it".
But there's no gambling involved here. I agree with the parent poster, the last thing I want are out-of-touch politicians legislating more things they don't understand. That would be a worse outcome than all the scammy games in the world.
Snowden did a lot of things but I'd stop short of saying that the NSA has stifled American civil liberties in any meaningful sense.

What we have seen is the potential for abuse, but not any evidence of that actual abuse.

I'm a pragmatist. I don't believe that the people that work at the NSA have any interest in domestic affairs unless there is a real threat to the republic. Of course, that could change which is why we need to scale back their domestic surveillance. But I wouldn't expect miracles here.
Hah, the first time this happened to me I freaked out. Thought we were being kidnapped, considering the place we were taken to was some seedy bar hidden at the back of a carpark.
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I agree completely. I also think its a subtle(?) affirmation of Apple's commitment to the Mac and the Mac OS as a separate entity - separate from iOS, that is.

It is also really, really hard for those of you too young to have been there for the Mac's introduction/launch to understand just how amazing this piece of tech was in comparison with the popular alternatives at the time.

It was so unbelievably alien and so intimately familiar at the same time. I am a long time gadget/tech lover and there has been no single event that I remember with such vivid clarity.

Also, there is no single piece of tech that I have ever wanted to own so badly. I actually switched careers (design/illustration > programming) so that I could afford to buy one!

I think it's okay to have a moment like this for the faithful. Yes, it's a bit indulgent, but it will be over in a day or two.
Anyone have the table layouts they are using? I was going to attempt to run them through Visual Explain which is the tool I use on the iSeries which employs DB2.

A simple analysis over a very rotten table, doing a count(distinct) over a very varied field resulted in

Table Scan -> Temp Distinct Hash Table -> Hash Scan -> Final Results (330.022 ms) for a table with no keys and slightly over three million records.

I would love to do the same exact statements he is but need the table layout to replicate. I am curious if our analyzer would see a difference, it is really hard to "trick it" or beat it.
This seems to at least be a good start: http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Essay_-_Did_the_US...
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Already in 2008 one of the R creators, Ross Ikaha, talked about how R is fundamentally slow and has inefficient memory use. And that a "next gen R" would be needed, and he was considering Common Lisp for the underlying language on compiler. See the "Back to the Future: Lisp as a Base for a Statistical Computing System".

https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/?Papers_and_Talks

But now apparently Julia also fulfills Ihaka's requirements for the basis on the "new R" system, so I wonder is the need-for-speed part of the R community is considering a switch to Julia, instead of building a "new R" from scratch?
It's not crippled in terms of functionality, it just delays you slightly - whether it is getting friends to unlock the next level, or being stuck on the same level for 4 weeks as you won't pay for boosters.

TBH, the 5 life limit is a bit of a relief and helps prevent addition.
I think it does have something to do with technology, in the sense of how technology, which is a neutral toolset, is being used by the powerful.

For instance, Luddite's first paragraph in wikipedia:

> The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who protested against newly developed labour-saving machinery from 1811 to 1817. The stocking frames, spinning frames and power looms introduced during ^^the Industrial Revolution threatened to replace the artisans with less-skilled, low-wage labourers, leaving them without work.^^

Emphasis mine.

What we're seeing is another revolution. A technological/economical revolution that potentially threatens to replace most workers in general with automated machines on an unprecedented scale. I feel like their is a concern here, and that some people within the aggressive group would most likely identify with this concern.

Links regarding this potential revolution:
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21594264-previous-tec...
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/half-of-all-us-jobs...

I don't know what will be the case, whether we create new employment for people like in our history, or not, because we're treading in new territory. But regardless of what direction we take, ignoring the masses in terms of basic needs will be met with violence, death, loss of growth...

Another important factor to include regarding new technologies and industries are that normal people create them. This requires economic freedom to do, and stifling future generations with mandatory credentials and debt is not the most efficient way of doing this.
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"Insulting" might be the wrong word there. I would think it's more insulting to tell someone how to value their work. Perhaps, it's an unwise price if they're looking for millions of downloads, but I don't know. I think that in order to keep pushing the iPhone toward a real gaming platform instead these ADHD spin offs and in app purchases, we need more of the big boys to price things at a sustainable price tag.
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I love how it seems like any country but the US has relatively sane consumer protection laws.
There's a lot to love in Julia, but my biggest nitpick is the 1-based array index. I can see where it comes from, but it's not something I can praise. I use R on a daily basis, where the aim is mostly interactive analysis, and still I cannot see any reason to use 1-based indexes. For a language that is instead mostly oriented to programming, I would have not went for the "familiarity" argument.
Google's single identity policy is an obvious example.

Sharing that Google identity with other websites when that identity is logged into Google is a less obvious one.

Analytics, cookies, personalized search results, etc. take it to Google's very core.

Driving around collecting WiFi data, storing WiFi passwords, reading documents via Docs and email via Gmail, and just plain crawling the web don't embody any common language notion of privacy.

Instead security stands in for it. Two factor authentication for a Google account is an example. It keeps a person's account secure but does not enhance privacy because Google will still share and slice and analyze everything that can possibly be associated with that account.
It used to be possible to get HTTPS on Chrome, without warning, without getting certificates from CA, by using DNSSEC. Nobody used it so it was removed.

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/06/16/dnssecchrome.html
I asked the very same question about #1 on the Play store, and the developers did respond quite quickly: the network access is required to download new language packs. This makes perfect sense to me, as much as I'd like to see something like keyboards split off into two apps: the keyboard, with no/minimal permissions; and the 'helper' app, for settings, dictionary building/importing, downloading language packs, etc.

As far as reading my social information, I have no idea why it requests that. However, upon checking XPrivacy, I can see that it has never even attempted to access accounts, contacts, SMS/MMS, etc. Which would lead me to speculate that this is either a mechanism for recommendations, or used to build up dictionaries. (Edit: I never have the keyboard build up dictionaries, so I never told Minuum to try to do anything along those lines.)
Sorry, but by only considering early PCs you are ignoring most of the IT industry in that era. The PDP-11 came with full schematics, that was normal in the day, that was what "open" meant in the day to engineers. The early proprietary Unix systems, although they were proprietary and you couldn't share the code, they usually came with the source code. It was considered normal in that day to modify the kernel and recompile it.

The PC business guys reused the term as part of their strategy, but for engineers it always meant something else.
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There's nothing reasonable or sustainable about $16 for a 20 year old game. My immediate reaction is "Are these people serious?" followed by "What do they think they're going to sell me that a SNES emulator can't provide?"

It feels like they're insulting my intelligence, in other words.
I haven't tried it, but do answer this. does it support only pre-defined languages? What if my language isn't based on the roman alphabet, but i use them phonetically. Does it support that?
"Survival of the fittest" often challenges our notions of what constitutes "fit".
Interesting, I consider that a great feature. That always bugged me in Vim. When I open a file in a different location, most of the time I want to be in that CWD. I guess it depends on how people work.
I'm not sure. Imagining the current iOS autocorrect for instance working on french and english at the same time would be a mess. or a mass, or messe, or mers, or messes, or miss, or moss, or Messieurs. And now I feel like playing scrabble.

And most IMEs already work with several languages in a way, since they use the sentence context coupled with a system and user dictionary that contains the most common and some set of arbitrary words from any language you want/use regularly enough to have the IME remember the words.
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> On the other hand, this website was clearly vile.

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."

H.L. Mencken
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>It's just sad that there isn't a clone that costs $4.99 to buy and doesn't need more purchases.

Practically speaking, a lot of these freemium games just have a lot of money to spend on creating content. It's usually a better more polished game even if you don't spend money on it. That $5 clone has to come up with all the development budget up front, while the freemium version has constant cash flow.
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how exactly does matlab's approach fai? I haven't had that much experience with it, but i do vaguely remember that it supports n-dimensions
Your zones need to be either online-signed by the authoritative DNS servers for these zones or offline-signed (using e.g. OpenDNSSEC) and then pushed to the authoritative DNS servers. Offline-signing is obviously more secure but signatures need to be refreshed regularly, so it's not sufficient to sign the zone once and be done with it. The zone needs to be resigned and pushed out to the authoritative DNS servers continually. If that process fails somehow, the signatures will expire and your zones will no longer validate. It's like a self-inflicted DoS. Setting this up properly is a nightmare.

The ISP you're hosting your domains at needs to support this.
I first read your comment as being sarcastic, but then realized you're being serious. It's ridiculous how vastly different software engineer salary expectations are in Valey vs countries like Russia.
No, because the parent poster is right. Look into the history of Apple in the '90s, how Jobs came back, NeXT etc.
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> That may be true, but remember that if you have the right to host whatever legal content you wish, then the first step toward losing that right is to not defend it. Sometimes that requires defending scoundrels.

Making a UGC revenge porn site doesn't need to be defended by anyone. I feel like your comment is a troll. I shouldn't be arguing with a troll and I expect HN to not have them. I'll stop at that.
I was nodding along with the first page, but then the second page came out of left field. Hard to take this seriously - what does the ever-distant singularity have to do with dealing with mass economic displacement?

One of these is a real problem, and the other we'll deal with when we get there, if we get there. Hard to imagine intelligent machines taking over the world in an energy-constrained future. They have to get smart soon enough to build nuclear power for themselves with our remaining fossil fuel stocks. Or just plug humans into batteries which somehow works...?
King.com is ridiculous for sure. I do wish someone that has used the word candy in the title of their game before Candy Crush still sells/trades in significant volume. If so, they can still contact the USPTO and have the mark invalidated - process is lengthy, but exists.
Sure. The basic macroeconomics of IP: If ideas are not rivalrous or excludable, any company who tries to recoup upfront development costs will be out competed: someone who didn't pay upfront costs can afford to sell the innovation at a lower price. This will remove incentives for idea production.

The solution is broadly to introduce an element of idea exclusivity. Patents is one way to do this. Without patents, in my hypothetical world, we'd see some combination of other measures (eg. more trade secrets, private exclusivity deals, aggressive branding---note I don't hate trademarks) and we'd also see less ideas being produced.

This economy would then have to go on with less idea generation and more friction in protecting innovations. This is based on my best understanding of the issues.
I hate to be such a cynic here, but isn't this pretty much standard practice in the mobile gaming space? It seems to be the wild wild west as far as copyright goes.

I remember reading a piece on Zynga maybe a year or two ago that detailed the games that were ripped off (apart from the obvious scramble = boggle, words = scrabble) almost exactly from other existing but much less popular games in the app store.
This is really nice to look at.
PKGNG is the default (integrated) package managers in 10.0-RELEASE.
I don't get what angle your comment is coming from. Define what exercise addiction is to you and the negative effects.
I figured it might have existed previously and don't mean that he would have invented the idea. Although, I find it quite interesting that King launches a very similar game as the author who just turned down their offer. It just isn't possible for one person to compete in terms of marketing with a giant like King.
Similarly, is there a list of the TLDs that do support DNSSEC ?
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I'd gladly pay $16 for a NEW game of that quality but wrapping up an old game as a new product and trying to get that out of it? No, thanks. I love mobile gaming and I'm working on trying to build a company out of it but repackaging up old games for the new platforms does not advance them in the least.
DNSSEC basically has all the problems of SSL registrars with almost no user-facing of the benefits - it's still a centralized system that could be overridden by a registrar hack or state level strong-arming, and very few end user systems support actually doing anything when DNSSEC signed records don't verify.

If you think users are confused by SSL warnings now, how the heck would they understand similar errors at the DNS resolver level?

Also, there's no-in flight encryption, so it offers no privacy benefit. It also aggravates DNS amplification attacks.

The better technology to look into if you're concerned about individual user rights and privacy is DNSCurve: http://dnscurve.org

It's not comparable to DNSSEC other than "It uses crypto with DNS" - they have entirely different goals, but the goals it solves are much more relevant to end users (privacy, forgery, etc.).

Personally, I'd recommend people run both techs, as there's no technical reason that makes them incompatible.

I have no idea how to solve the UI problems. We've had 15+ years of SSL and there's been almost no progress on that.
And what in your opinion is the difference between "systematic approximations and best-guessig" and "knowing when shortcuts are good enough"?
For me engineering is using proven and tested solutions every time, even if the solution is not sexy, and art is just "swinging it" - just like using js for everything when they are better more mature solutions.
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