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now if they only removed google plus from youtube
You're being downvoted unfairly IMHO. I'm against the status quo, but the people in these organisations tend to believe they're doing the right thing. They're not scofflaws, but they are isolated and insulated.

There are a lot of legal exemptions for agencies, but they are well aware they're not above the law. The public scrutiny will create genuine headaches for them, and I can guarantee you right now that there are a lot of people whose sole job is to ensure that they meet directives.

They're not gonna change international agreements over it though.

I am surprised that people on HN aren't seeing this for the genuine victory it is; only law can bind these entities, and it's not a quick process. This is the process working, as well as it ever does (for ill and good).
It seems difficult to predict which direction product prices will go. How do you do that?
Cheap consumer 3d printing sucks. Keep in mind that if there is something cheap now like 3d printing, it's been around for 20+ years. And it has. Königsegg (The car company) 3d prints their turbos and doesn't do any machining to finish the impeller. Think of how accurate it has to be to spin to 100-150k rpm or more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNedUZxP8NU
It doesn't seem to work on my Nokia Lumia 710, Windows Phone 7.5 (7.10.8779.8), Internet Explorer.

But also, a lot of things don't work on my phone (not even Youtube I can watch on the browser, I have to use an app for that; a non-official one btw).
We built an Artificial Intelligence quantitative model derived from foreign exchange trading. It is able to decide whether a product is cheap or expensive to buy, generating a buy alert once it perceives that prices are set to rise eminently.
Harder, much more expensive and much more dangerous to operate. So that's why they're not more common. The last thing you want is for a machine like that to be run in a regular home without proper fume extraction. At the back of those machines you usually see a thing like a very thick vacuum hose connected to remove the (toxic!) vapors.

They also consume a lot of power, usually requiring industrial power hookups.

edit: here is a nice picture of such a setup

https://www.solidconcepts.com/content/images/repeatable-proc...

Those white tubes going up out of the machine are the extraction channels.
Terrible and completely misleading headline. The court ruled that the SHARING of surveillance data with NSA was unlawful until this past December. Its another meaningless verdict that effectively supports the gross invasion of individual privacy while claiming to oppose it.
Although exploiting such kind of bugs is often reason to lose the fun in the game I really love the idea of having a lemonade stand for money laundering reasons because in the garage behind your stand you print money instead of ad flyers.
3D printing reminds me so much of the early days of personal computing - it was an expensive hobby for techies, the equipment was hard to configure, and the everyday (practical) uses of the technology weren't immediately clear. But like personal computing, I have no doubt that 3D printing will become an essential part of our daily lives in the decades to come.
I wonder how different Lincoln's listening was from petitions.whitehouse.gov.
> To me, an IDE basically just means "an editor with a built-in debugger"

Yes, at least an integrated project support, debugger and compiler (but could be more, such as profiler, testing, designer). You are correct I use the large OO langs, and I agree that IDEs are only really useful for languages with strict types, large class libraries and large projects (so for example C++, and the JVM and .NET languages).

> write code, format code, run tests, run program

But isn't there a frustrating number of unnecessary roundtrips involved here? At least in go, which is strictly typed, if you misspell a type or function name, when will you notice? Can you configure Sublime so that you at least get compiler support (so a typo will be noticed when you make it rather than later?).
And can you make sublime help you with displaying documentation hints or with completing statements? If you have a compiler error, how do you navigate to where it is? Do you have to read the line number in the compiler output and then open the offending file/tab in Sublime and navigate manually to the line? At least for most langs in Emacs you get compiler message parsing so you can jump straight to the problem.

Coming from the IDE world, I'd just never get off the ground with a new language if I had to go from autocompletion and squigglies under typos, to having to remember type names and function names in my head (yes IDEs have basically done that to my head, I can no longer remember even the smallest bit of language trivia).
I'm working for a precision ag company that has done work reverse engineering hydraulic systems, as well as building variable rate tech. I'd be keen to have a chat, if your interested in discussing your experiences. fanquake @ google mail
You are assuming that users are making rational assessments of both their skill level and also of the difficulty of the modifications they are seeking to perform. Often the most overly optimistic people are some of the most unskilled. I dealt with these folks for years and unfortunately there are many scenarios when you just have to protect the user from himself for his own good. And no, slapping a "changing firmware voids the warranty" clause to the product sale will not protect you from legal liability when the users hacks your system and loses an arm. There are many real-world scenarios where the Silicon Valley motto of "fail fast, fail often" is just not acceptable.
I don't get why people criticise the game here. If I understand correctly it's not really a remake but a copy of an old game which was simply made available to us with all it's flaws, bugs and other happy memories.
In my iPhone 5, it seems to point exactly in the opposite direction. The included Compass app works perfectly. I don't know if this matters or not, but I'm in South America.
You could infer the heading by "simply" telling the user:

"Move in the way you look for about 50 meters."

If you walk a straight line and the Laptop knows where it is at any given time it can infer the heading.
The fumes especially are a good point, hadn't thought of that. SLS is also possible with plastic, though, in which case I guess the fumes are comparable to those produced by an extrusion printer.
You should make this appeal on the Google Group (https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/qilang) although based on the latest discussion (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qilang/qGHfX3Iimqk/PBQerwjM2...) that would be unlikely to sway the author, might even be highly unwelcome.
The cynic in me wonders if this is blog post was written solely to serve as positive PR for Verizon in the face of their horrible transit/peering infrastructure management (ie. letting links run hot so they can charge transit providers more money for each increase in commit or letting peering ports run very hot because they don't want to spend the few thousand to add another 10G because they'd rather be paid for transit) before the FCC vote.

Edgecast is owned by Verizon, so cynical-me is having a hard time believing this is not a plant.
"open source" has been in use as a term in tech for a long time. It means (essentially) the same thing as "free software". Licences that disallow derivations (or commerical derivations) would not fall under the defintion of "open source" that nearly everyone uses.

You are free to come up with your own defintion of popular, agreed up terms. But this will lead to problems when you're using a different definition from everyone else.
Well I suppose there is a way to disprove this: create an electron-positron pair, then annihilate the pair. This way we would get a closed loop, which would obviously not be a part of a giant knot spanning through the universe.
It seems that the screen oriantation API[1] isn't compatible with mobile IE, and is only supported by IE 11.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen.orie...
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There is nothing to do in space. Mining asteroids is the only economically useful thing that might qualify, but that's still way not worth it compared to just digging things out of the ground here on earth. When people bet on startups, they're betting that the startup will create enormous value by doing something very useful. Not just supporting a jobs program.
I guess extrusion printers need to become a widely used product so that companies look to make SLS more affordable to the public.
There's nothing wrong with doing that. Feel free to do whatever you want. But what you are talking about is not "Open Source". That term has a (different) meaning. If use "open source" for that, you will confused and trick people.
And for the people who find the closed source thing objectionable. You can still have most/all Sublime text advantages :

https://github.com/limetext/lime
I'd really like to know where specifically you disagree with Curtis or find his view less than credible.
I'd guess that whoever downvoted you thought this was a troll meant to start a flamewar with C++ vs. PHP and whether one or the other is more difficult (read "better" or "a real language").

It's interesting to note though, that Facebook does uses PHP and C++ extensively. And Facebook maintains a large a number of open source PHP and C++ projects. So I suppose that some Facebook engineers are more involved with PHP and some more involved with C++.

But more importantly, I don't think Facebook engineers are bound to a technology. They think about how to solve problems. If PHP is the best tool to solve a problem, they'll use that. If it's C++, they'll use that instead.
A compass isn't a heading indicator though...it's an orientation indicator.
As above, I'd really like to know where specifically you disagree with Curtis or find his view less than credible.
Well, almost. The SLS uses very fine grains as a base material, an extrusion printer uses a filament. The grains will vaporize much easier than filament but there is definitely a concentration of unhealthy particles in the air around an extrusion printer and I would not operate one without at least basic precautions (fume hood or something similar).
Also submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9008421
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The amazing thing is not to look at that it costs all of $2 and all of 7 hours but that it costs only $2 and only 7 hours.

This capability is useless if you're making mugs but it is priceless when you're prototyping.

Making mugs is entirely the wrong application.
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So, it now 404s which is a shame. I love these games. Does anyone know of a collection anywhere? Ideally, something I can download?
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No company is all bad. I'm sure there are plenty of techs at Verizon and its subsidiaries that are just trying to do the best job they possibly can and are excited and rightfully proud to diagnose and fix such a problem. Looks like they did some good detective work and deserve the bragging rights.

We see similar posts pop up once in a while with other such situations (CloudFlare springs to mind). It just happens to be Verizon in this case.
The main point of value types is that they're passed by value. As such, they have no concept of identity. The value 2 stored in variable x is the same as the value 2 stored in variable y. So, too, the value 2+3i, represented as the value type Complex { double r, i; }, is the same no matter where it is stored. Introducing mutation changes that. Values can now be destroyed. This is the conceptual reason.

The practical reason is that structs help you with speed when their size is no more than the size of the machine's cache line, i.e. up to 64 bytes. Beyond that, you incur an extra cache miss when accessing them (even below, if they're not aligned, but the smaller they are the smaller the chance), so you might as well use a pointer, and your copying costs are no longer negligible, so a pointer might be a better idea anyway.

So conceptually mutable "values" are a bad idea, and there's no reason to have them because beyond the cache line size they might cost you in performance more than they buy you, and below it mutation doesn't help as copying costs are very low.

The only benefit mutable structs might have is when you want to lay out a large number of objects, which you'll be accessing sequentially, consecutively in RAM. This way, the CPU's prefetcher will help you stream them into the cache. But the way HotSpot's allocator works, you're almost certain to get the same behavior with objects anyway, and if whatever tiny performance difference this might buy is that important to you, you might be better off using C, anyway.

The goal of the JVM is to get you the best performance for the least amount of work; not to let you work hard to squeeze out a few more performance improvement percentages. It sometimes certainly allows for that, but not at the cost of such a fundamental change, which is bound to do more harm than good.
This one is still on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9004133
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By "cross browser," it looks like the OP means the following minimum versions of mobile browsers which support the Screen Orientation API[1]:

- Chrome 39
- Firefox Mobile (with the moz prefix).

Apparently the API is also supported by the following Desktop browser versions...but I'm not sure this app takes advantage of it:

- Chrome 38
- Firefox (Gecko)
- IE 11
- Opera 25

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen.orie...
Consumer (and office) 2D printing is all about having the document on paper within 30 seconds of hitting "print" though. If it took 7 hours, most people would happily use the print shop.
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Hammurabi has been my go-to project to recreate in many of the languages I learn since the 80s. It's just complex enough that you can usefuly experiment with various features of a new language.

IMHO it's a case where the bugs are a feature. It's simple to implement but there are numerous small ways you can tweak it to make improvements. That make it a fantastic project for learning to program because completing the initial clone version is really just the starting point.
The #LeftShark would be classified as a useful article if it was a costume. I dont think it was the case. I mean, the designer made it to be printed as a toy or a costume?
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Including eyeballs. Using high-power lasers in crowded area seems even more dangerous than bullets - the latter at least don't reflect off surfaces.
As I understand it, that's what he did. He open sourced it and kept copyright on it. That would mean that everybody would be free to read it as posted but wouldn't be able to use it or distribute it without permission.
The typical wearable/IoT architecture has vendor-provided cloud storage, and some cloud-based processing as key elements. As with person-to-person communication, current encryption technology is hard to use in this context. Even though there's no second person involved, the cloud-based processing of your personal encrypted data makes securing it inconvenient. Vendors don't seem to be serious about making sensor data secure for individuals.
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I would argue that, well done as it is, it is not a documentary.
If you have the heading and a few locations then you can also infer where north/south/east/west is. Or am I wrong?
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Rather than controlling it remotely, you could programme in a destination and time and it could rely on GPS and a backup gyroscope for when GPS is unavailable. Fast forward a decade or two when the tech has improved a bit, and add a camera and facial recognition and let it rip on your target of choice. They get good at shooting them down? Make sure you send 50 of them instead of 1.

[edit] It seems inevitable to me that this will happen at some point in the next few decades. It also seems inevitable to me that countries will enact laws to try and prevent it. But that it will happen anyway. No matter what law is created.
Measure their mass first, too. If they don't match the mass of the ones that are part of the knot, then you know you've stumbled onto something big.
I've been looking for something like this, well sorta.

Many 'family' cars now come with the option of headrest ipad mounts for rear seat entertainment. This is great, but what about when my kids want to watch the same movie? Showing the same movie at the same exact time on two different ipads would be solve a tremendous pain point for me, and possible lots of other parents!
"Family farm" includes large family-owned businesses. Given that some of the largest businesses in the US are privately (largely family)-held, that's a pretty meaningless distinction. Koch Industries, Cargill, and the SAS Institute all come to mind.

Forbes has a list of the top 20:
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2011/21/private-companies-11_lan...

Far better to classify total land holdings by farm size.
The problem here is patents and the cost of R&D.

The only reason why 3D printing became main stream is because some patents expired and printers are being sold as kit instead of a product.
That's what I meant when I wrote:

"these are not straight-up documentaries. They're well-crafted opinion pieces"
Seems very legid and its free. If you ask me that site is a keeper, it sure is awesome. Looking forward to seeing your predictions!
No, but they follow ballistic trajectories and can ricochet. A laser is at least predictable, and given that most drones would fly above ground level for visibility, it would take a very unlucky reflection to injure someone on the ground.

A bullet is going to come down somewhere.
Don't expect to get much coding done.

Your success is now measured by your team's success and their failure is your failure.

Deflect praise from you to your team. Attract criticism of your team to yourself.

You will have to make decisions your team don't like. Get used to it.

Each team member is different. Listen, communicate and coach.
I'll not pretend to be a business genius, but I don't think your analogy is applicable in the farm machinery analytics business. I don't even think it ever will be commoditized to the degree that t-shirts are.
Well, assume that time loops back onto itself. Then the electron goes forward most of the time and you see multiple copies. ( This is of course ridiculous, everybody knows that all electrons are just pointers to one const particle structure. )
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When I need to make 10,000 cheap and fast, yes, I'll most likely be making a pilgrimage to Shenzen. Totally agree with your point. But not every startup (especially low-volume, high-price, high-touch b2b) needs to focus at the start on making 10,000 units cheap and fast.
This would be fine except that economists and politicians seem to imply that they are running thing "optimally" and they know what they are doing.
A billion dollars buys you a 20 year government protected monopoly. It might not be the most efficient system, but there are certainly lots of people willing to finance that trade.
I can speak from experience, getting things to look this nice in mobile browsers AND actually do something is really hard. Good work.

An interesting additional feature might be some means to indicate magnetic declination. Actually, if you also grab GPS location, you should be able to calculate it and correct magnetic north back to true north.

One note, usually it's the needle that moves with the orientation, not the dial.
I believe you are referring to velocity = distance/time. This is the non-relativistic view of velocity. It makes more sense when you define what distance is.

When you push something with your finger and move it, you do not change it's velocity. You change it's acceleration. It's a small but important distinction. Under relativity, the distance between two points in spacetime is defined by the minkowski metric:

d = sqrt( x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - (ct)^2 )

Notice time is negative/imaginary. The tl;dr of this is that an object at rest is still has a velocity along the time plane at the speed c, and any non rest velocity is relative to that (which affects d), which is where length contraction comes from. You're right in you can't define one without the other, so it's redefined around the constant c and the minkowski metric. It's why they call it spacetime.
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Lasers are slow to impact (unless using an obscene amount of power) and require precise tracking of the target over time (because they're slow).
Look how far printing came from 9-pin dot matrix printers in the 80's to $69 desktop Brother lasers and full-size 120 ppm lasers.
I think that's a really smart way to improve your coding. Recoding an old game is nothing too hard but offers enough challenges that you really need to use the features of the language you are learning.
And next come the probabilistic programming guys, I'd bet.
True.

If you're interested, here's an app that uses similar tech for long distance movie watching:
https://letsgaze.com/
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You sound incredulous as to how anyone could not be in complete agreement with him at all times. ;) I don't think such a person even exists for me.

Truth is I would rather not, because this would then have a certain potential to become an unrewarding political exchange of which I would like to see less on HN. Another reason is that, in order to give you any satisfying content to disagree with, I would have to take one or more of his movies and keep a log of my objections as the narrator goes on. There is very little I can object to systemically, it would be on a claim-by-claim basis.

I think there is no value in doing this. Anyone can watch the films and come to their own conclusions, and inducing thought is a real strength of the material.
We bought a Makerbot Replicator for $6,000 and it's been a huge disaster. I'm not sure if the people who bought it didn't read the Amazon reviews or what.

We were having the local college print things for us for $150/pop. For double what we paid we could have gotten a lightly used Stratasys which is the same printer the college uses.
Line of sight for rifles goes out to as much as 2,707 yards for .338 Lapua Magnum (in the very longest recorded sniper kill). 1,000 yards is a very standard range for long range target shooting.

What's more significant here is that people so exquisitely experienced just have no reason (today) to assassinate, and protection out to, oh, 500-600 yards is I suppose generally good enough.
Ok, the time dilation makes actually sense now. So like chemical reactions depend on temperature and pressure, physical reactions (if they can be called this way) are dependant on gravity and velocity (dependance on the last I can not quite get still). By physical reactions I mean the transitions between the ground states that time is defined by.