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So this man is spending 50K in molds alone and four people before he proves the viability of his business?.

You don't need to make molds, printrbot started without those, and you don't need four people for starting.

Another whining article:
http://www.3dprinterworld.com/article/can-we-get-wrench-crow...

A gem from it:"A suicidal price war has ensued, but unlike most price wars, this one does not necessarily benefit the consumer."

Of course it benefits the consumer, but does not for those selling cheap, like in any price war.

Companies already established have an advantage over new comers like in anything else. If you get late to the party, the party is gone.

I am engineer and entrepreneur, and I have designed my own 3D aluminum-steel printer from scratch in my spare time!! in less than a year. Most of the hard work is already done, a Prusa i3 structure is already designed and open. So are the extruder, hot ends, electronics.

If you create a new company, you need to provide value. Something unique that does not exist.

If you can't, just crying on Internet is useless. You are not entitled to have a business.
I have a wife and a son and we did fine on my salary of $21,000 last year.

There are a lot of parts of the country where that's a perfectly viable wage.
You can always ignore data that you have, but you can't use data that you don't have.
Great advice except that none of these things are quite like the other.

Ayahuasca (never tried it, do not intend to) is by all accounts a very strong psychotropic. It regularly induces nausea and I've only heard of it being used in semi-ritualistic settings. Also, it's a bitch to concoct apparently - i.e., you don't get this "off the shelf"

shrooms, um Magic Mushrooms, have a different psychoactive main ingredient (psylociyin?) to Ayahuasca and have a short shelf life (unless dried I think) and are seasonal.

LSD (Acid) is easily sourced, you have to trust that it's pure but you could find out from someone who's had part of a batch. LSD is easier to regulate than magic mushrooms (uh, 50 is about a dose? who knows...) because you can take half a tab to start with.

Do your own research, ignore the mysticism (it's so tedious), go have your own experience, and see for yourself.
Because they are passing the cost of the insurance on to the employee. The employer isn't paying you less because you have a family, just charging you more because it costs more.

Health insurance offered through your employer also costs more the older you get, but an employer can't just decided to pay you 10% less when you hit 50. Age is a protected class, but that has no impact on what an employer charges for health insurance.
Even if responsibility lands on the individual, rather than background circumstances, it's still reasonable to try to figure out how to break the cycle, isn't it? It's possible to hold someone guilty, and still have empathy.
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> From an European (Belgian, if you're interested)

That's certainly more interesting than just the generic European.

EDIT: I mean: saying that you are of a certain nationality is more specific, and therefore more interesting, than just saying that you are from somewhere on that continent!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/super-game-about-squares/id9...
ROTFL ... no...

The reason is on the "about us" link on the site ;).
we needed it, couldn't find it, so we we started working on it and launched a landing to test if this pain was only ours. apparently it's not. Posted it in a few italian startup groups and shared it with a few friends. It went by itself from there, we found ourselves on product hunt, than here in HN...it just...happened :)
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Apparently I need a cable subscription to stream it online? So, er, yeah, I guess I'll see when it hits .torrent?
I am going to be downvoted as hell, but what if by doing this, you are excluding some good elements?

My experience is there is a reason why the best hackers are fat white dudes with big glasses. You can't artifialy transform them into girls.

I also do believe in role models. But you can't make up fake ones.
Volunteers don't get paid anything at all, and many do quite a good job helping their communities.
I wasn't aware of that, cheers.

EDIT: This indicates that the original comment [0] is quite opaque.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8160323
Plenty – as I recall, the Glock was invented (in the garage, no less) by a guy whose passion for shooting things was on par with the iron-fisted cleverness of Woz and Jobs.

Things are pretty hackable, in a very different way from computers. It is amazing how far hobbyists can take their passion for the various technologies and physics – few of which ever have any need for electricity, and many of which evolved from the more gruesome acts in the annals of human history.

But like – you know how you can get rid of KDE and go Gnome? Similarly, you can also get a milled lower receiver for your AK-47 (exotic, as it was designed from stamped metal components), and if you do it right you can still use your favorite wooden furniture.

To extend the metaphor•, that's like being able to reuse all of your conf files and compiled binaries on a new processor architecture based on a different distro – as long as you're extra careful about `rm -rf` and you understand that mishandling powerful tools will kill you and your friends.

I don't have any interest in killing people, but I find guns fascinating in the same geeky way that compels me to like having opinions about various other dramatically complex systems whose histories are steeped in the bizarre slow-brewed lore that forms around the sort of stories geeks occasionally offhandedly tell in their few and far-between hours of not being furvorous (like e.g. when github is down).

• - quite beyond its utility, I am afraid, my apologies
So, this is what a patent on a naturally-occurring self-replicating compound looks like? Weird.
Aleph is massively overpriced. For the same money you could get a laptop, a knobby controller, and a copy of Max/MSP or Reaktor, or Reason. Or a bunch of Eurorack modules of similar capabilities, or [fill in one of many blanks]. I think it would have to get under $700 to sell well; further more the tiny form factor is actually a negative because it doesn't give you a whole lot of hands-on control, nor is it suitable for performance ergonomically. The reaction I've heard from other electronic musicians has been essentially 'a solution in search of a problem.'

While Monome were among the first to innovate in this area, the steep price premium isn't justified when you can get similar or better functionality for less than half the price for most of their offerings.
You were lucky enough to have parents who pushed through and made sacrifices. Not everyone is so lucky. That is exactly the point the article is making. You're blaming the children for having inadequate parents.
"the US doesn't run labor camps for political dissidents, or execute people who try to escape the country."

Hmmm. Are you sure about that ?
Maybe because its inventor is John Conway?

You know, "Conway's Game of Life", "Doomsday rule"... He's not into small names for the things he invented.
"I mean, do I really need to invest a couple hundred to a couple thousand dollars and hundreds of hours of my time to print off a low quality t-slot hinge when I could just stop off at my local home deport and pick up a high quality metal hinge for $2.95?"

If you find a 3D printing group, you will spend at most 5 hours to learn how to print something. Nowadays with automatic bed leveling is more like an hour or so.

But yeah, if you are not a tinkerer, then it is not for you.

But for those tinkering with the world, like architects, engineers, scientists... having a 3D printer is invaluable.

We build calibration systems for cameras and recognition that will cost us thousands of dollars each for basically nothing, thanks to 3d printers.

It is also amazing for sharing design work. We send a model over the Internet and someone in other country could understand how it works just printing in plastic, while the real piece will be aluminum, steel or carbon fiber.
> My experience is there is a reason why the best hackers are fat white dudes with big glasses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Ah in gallops tptacek on his trusty steed. Dead horse indeed.

As usual, any submission concerning improving the ratio of women to men in our industry immediately becomes a coatrack for digs about "radfem".

Just because they don't appear controversial to you doesn't make it so. And am I not allowed to take issue with the "table stakes"?
Which part of what they did, specifically, do you think would exclude fat white dudes? The Hellen Keller quote? Not having the foosball photo? A conference code of conduct?

Even granting your premise (which I don't agree with), I can't see where anyone is being excluded.
Dreadful article - as someone in the comments said, the only 'hack' here is the person named in the byline. Surprisingly, the writer completely overlooked the growing popularity of open source/open hardware instruments, ie fully formed devices with functionality equivalent to a commercial product that you can build yourself. If you're no good with a soldering iron it's easy to find people who'll help with the physical build. Here's a (very partial) list:

Meeblip - http://meeblip.com - a small but aggressive substractive synthesizer, very affordable as a starter project.

Sonic Potions - http://sonic-potions.com - the LXR has often been desribed as a 'poor man's machinedrum'

Midibox Seq - http://ucapps.de - probably the most advanced pattern-based hardware sequencer in existence other than the Cirklon, but commercial resale/licensing is extremely restrictive and the project owner's DIY ethic is so strong that kit options are fragmentary.

MIDIsizer - http://midisizer.com/ <- this guy is also lead engineer at Evernote. No word on whether you will be able to send emails with your guitar any time soon, though :-p

Mutable Instruments - http://mutable-instruments.net/ - a variety of instruments, without outstanding documentation and beautifully engineered source code.

Special mention ofr Bruno's Nord Modular G2 open source editor, which works a treat and provides access to several incomplete models that are not accessible from the official editor, like a modelling oscillator, as well as developing tablet implemtation: http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=48872&postord...
> But the essential starting point is empathy.

This is great, but even if it's not true, you can approach the issue from a completely selfish, cold-hearted point of view and still arrive at similar conclusions. Poverty is a drain on every aspect of society. If we (the privileged) can figure out how to minimize it, think how much better a place the world would be for ourselves and our children. How much safer would the streets be, how much less tax money would be sucked into prisons, law enforcement, medicare, or various other forms of welfare, how many fewer broken families and unwanted children there would be to contend with.
Why is it so hard to make a Java program appear native?
That honestly has fantastic results.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Google cache of the site if it's unavailable (I'm getting a database error).
Same here. I bought the app last year, but I can't use it without support for self-signed certs.
I don't know for sure, but I think it would be illegal to do that as well.
The problem is you're hijacking a thread about specific, quantifiable steps that one group took, and the results they achieved, in order to spin the kinds of hypotheticals that have a proven track record of spiraling off into wank.

Don't do it. Write a blog post or something. Call your mom.
Math Riddle: Find Optimal Amount of Fence for Farmer
The periodic calendar provides a map to this math: http://periodiccalendar.com/learn/
See: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/14/tech/innovation/music-hackers-...
No the real feminism, meaning a belief that all women are victims and all men are wannabe rapists who can barely contain themselves.

A no harassment policy is a red flag for me because it indicates a negative prejudice against men. But you'll welcome that, because every man who doesn't apply is good for the statistics, right?

But on a deeper note, I wondered if the quota was because of the bows to feminist propaganda or merely because of the advertising with women coder groups.
They simply eat the smaller hackers who can see.
That seems nuts to me. I significantly more than that, and it still feels like we're scraping by. Our location doesn't have a particularly high cost of living, either.
A conference code of conduct is an indicator of negative prejudice against men. I wouldn't feel welcome there.

Edit: I am not allowed to reply any further. But you all don't get my point. I don't find the rule off putting because I am worried about my right to harass people. I am not interested in harassing people. I am worried about the implied accusation of such a policy. But if you don't see it - fine! You are certainly entitled to your policy.

This has nothing to do with gay men or disabled men whatsoever.
Can you cite any examples of people who have been silenced or shamed by a conference harrassment code?

You mean besides the Adria Richard's example?

At a professional conference, it should not be that hard to control your behavior.

The conference organizers seem to disagree with you in this case.

a conference martyr
good one.
> A no harassment policy is a red flag for me because it indicates a negative prejudice against men.

If saying "no harassment!" feels like an attack against men, that's an indication that you have a horribly negative outlook towards men.
I would think the first few steps could be combined into one, faster step by using Handbrake to rip DVDs directly to MP4. But I also don't see why that stage takes hours on his machine, even on my 2006 rig it took less than the playtime of the DVD.
The message I get from these articles is if you have failed at life it wasn't because of your own decisions.

What motivation is there to do any better?

Because to me the real issue is if a person finds themselves in a less than ideal situation that they look for ways to improve rather than waiting on all of us to figure out how to change the system.
Thanks, that encyclopedia sounds interesting.
Wolfs community is very concerned about this. There is initiative from senior members to held conference about fighting for wolfs right to privacy.
can it have a different title?Not that its against any guidelines of sorts, but just that a different title might help newbies understand the topic better from its title.
I like my Lenovo X1 Carbon. It's nice and light but still quite capable for my needs (web development). Everything just worked for me, with the exception of an external display which I spent about 20 seconds trying to get to work. It could easily have been user error given my lack of experience with external displays.
some volunteers pay to do labor! That way you REALLY know it's voluntary.
Can he just stay in prison to wait for the trial? Why liquidate his portfolio to pay for a temporary bail?
Well I've never heard men cry for a no harassment policy. Of course it is an attack against men - it implies that men need such policies and firm authority from the organizers to keep their lower instincts in check.

But you know - I only tell you how I feel about it. You don't have to care. It's just my personal opinion that to me it would be a turn off. Just like men playing kicker is apparently a turn off to women.

Granted even independent of gender it would be a turn off to me, because I don't want to mingle with people who need to be reminded of basic decency.

Edit: I can not reply further. I don't think you understand my point at all.

But to roll with your example: imagine you read an advertisement for a coding retreat, and the first line says "NO MURDER ALLOWED". Would that make you feel more safe or less safe about attending? Since you are hell bent on disagreeing with me you'll probably claim "more safe", but I am pretty sure in general it would come across a bit weird.

You don't need a "don't murder" policy, because it is implied. So why isn't "no harassment" implied? By stating it, you imply that it is not implied, so you are effectively saying your attendants are prone to harass people.
Google does it the right way - they tell you "we think you mean x, not y, if you really mean y click here."
I wonder if Microsoft will adopt OpenGL ES for Windows Phone (and desktop Windows), too.
Yeah, absolutely, for custom pieces and prototyping, 3d printing is more or less essential these days.

I'm concerned about the hype that it gets though "download a car!" and the lack of understanding in the industry at the low end (among people who make 3d printers, investors and consumers) about what it is exactly that they do and how they work. There's a kind of weird hype that they're basically Star Trek replicators:

1) feed in plastic

2) download model from internet

3) print an entire household of goods for next to nothing

But with some very rare exceptions, usually in the very expensive SLS levels, final items aren't being produced and the quality, durability and complexity of what gets produced is not yet at what a normal consumer would expect.

Even among crap Chinese plastics junk I have all over my house, there's precious few items that a 3d printer can produce end-to-end -- even if I have to do some minor assembly. Nearly every item has some kind of metal spring or screw or lens or circuit board or something in it. There's no way for anybody right now to download a new remote control model and have it print off ready for batteries to go in.

The very large number of low-end 3d printer makers and the excited investors makes me think that people don't fundamentally understand these limitations yet.

The upside of this of course is that it's very hard for anti-piracy groups to make any kind of reasonable claim that 3d printing is going to put anybody out of business since a half hour looking into the technology reveals the limitations pretty quickly.
I'd highly suggest the Dell XPS 13 developer edition [1]. It's actually sold with Ubuntu pre-installed. High end machine, and it's actually cheaper than the Windows version with the exact same specs.

Another great option is the Acer Aspire S7. According to the Arch Wiki, everything just works [2].

[1] http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd

[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_S7-392
I'm doing nothing of the sort. The code of conduct was clearly cited as one of the steps taken. I have issue with that step. And I have as much right to comment here as you do. You're free to ignore me. Please do.
I've always been uncomfortable about the idea of addressing imbalance by focusing and targeting ONLY the minority. I like your analysis and process of reworking your site to be more appealing to everyone. In fact, I think I'll apply now :D
This is an excellent point. The posted harrassment policy is completely gender neutral. If it's an automatic red flag for you, then you're bringing in your own assumptions about how men behave.
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> Of course it is an attack against men - it implies that men need such policies and firm authority from the organizers to keep their lower instincts in check.

Are laws against murder similarly "attacks on men", who are disproportionately likely to commit them?

If you're not going to go around harassing people, you have little to fear from a no harassment policy. I don't personally need a "no murder" policy, but I'm fairly happy society has them.
So, what? Do you think the universe is deterministic (I'm guessing from your remark about brain-mind dualism)? Then doesn't that settle it - everything that happens to you is by chance, i.e. luck (if circumstances are fortunate)?
Oh, it works fine for me. The problem is with the average person who doesn't know or want to know what a self-signed certificate is.

"When you first connect, it will show you a popup with a long set of characters. Check if it ends with A4FE and if so, click yes" is the very maximum I might be able to squeeze out of them. Manually importing a certificate in the trust store and dealing with the scary warnings ("Someone is monitoring your connection!") it generates is a no go.
> men

I'm pretty sure there are some gay men, or men with disabilities, just to pick two examples, who would disagree with you.
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Not that I'm aware of, which makes everything we talk about highly speculative.
Absolutely! That's why I wasn't criticizing the missing country-wide tabulation of such data, but trying to reconcile its absence with the praise of the researcher at the beginning, and how she collects another kind of data on the ground.

Of course, that could just be stuff getting scrambled by the PR machine.

My main criticism was this: if you're going to calculate a living wage, wouldn't the number one question be "How are people currently living on their wages?" Even knowing how one family pulls it off would be tremendously informative, and from that point you could figure the cost of the missing amenities. In contrast, the researcher's approach is to assume they buy everything from some model budget (probably based indirectly on her team's own lives), but less of it.
It represents a realistic understanding of the modern definition of "zero tolerance".
That's a good point. Given that I seriously never use my TB port, I totally forgot that driver support is not great. Rumor has it that the existing patches (https://github.com/anoever/thunderbolt) will make it into the 3.17 mainline.

And I'll have to check out the X1. Thanks for the tip!
Will be on the look out for it :) You are doing great work!
What do you mean? What does that have to do with gay or disabled men?

@idlewords I can't reply further, but I think you have completely misunderstood my point.
The title is very misleading for me, I expected magic but it was kind of disappointing. They don't even OCR actual video, instead they just take a few screenshots.
The code of conduct is scrupulously gender neutral. It also covers race, religion and physical handicap. It boils down to "don't be a jerk".

The fact that you find this offputting is curious. The tingling feeling tells me the code of conduct is working.
Federal minimum wage is below the survival line (without children), as showed by Amy Glasmeier. So low, that corporations have to find what is the real lower bound for the survival of their workforce. (Not even reproduction of the workforce, just its survival) Isn't that absurd?

Let rise the federal minimum wage now.
tbh this is now basically how google handles acquihires
> Discrimination is only bad when it favors the more powerful group, or so the claim goes

The claim is not (or shouldn't be) that such discrimination can't be hurtful, can't be problematic, or isn't a legitimate target of criticism under some circumstances. The claim is that bigotry and bias in the "other" direction do not constitute structural "*ism."

What's the context of someone being rejected from a conference solely because he's a white male? If someone is rejected because the conference is trying to get broader representation then the rejection isn't just because he's a white male, it's because he's a white male AND white males were overrepresented.

It's unfortunate from a rhetorical standpoint that sexism easily seems like it could mean "any sex discrimination" but is also used to mean "the structural oppression of women."

I welcome the day when the objection is genuinely only about the arguable linguistic inconsistency, but I can't help but thinking the concept is the big hangup, not the word for it.