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"I first tried printing my design at school but the quality wasn’t high enough for such detailed work, so I sent my design to a 3-D printing company in London which used the incredible SLS printing method to create a strong, accurate and flexible print in nylon."

Could you mention the company, or printer they used?
Re: pricing -- good question I'm going going to test that.

Re: gigabyte seconds:
It's how much memory (RAM) you're using:

128mb RAM (lowest possible value) for 10s == 1 GB/s

1gb RAM for 1s == 1 GB/s

I think it's a pretty clever way to (somewhat) directly correlate compute cost with power (energy). If you remember what John McCarthy said when he imagined that computing would be a public utility one day (http://www.technologyreview.com/news/425623/the-cloud-impera...) I think this is about as close to that as we're going to get for a little while.
It is a matter of constitutional law and civil rights, not technology.

> .. "web" ..

This is an issue that is not merely limited to networks, much less simply "web".
Every other search engine is worse because they are simply following Google.

Every existing search engine that I'm aware of is essentially based on the PageRank algorithm, an innovation which Google created.

At the time it was created, it was not obvious that it was the best option - only that it was better than AltaVista's algorithm and Yahoo's curated portal model that were the options in 1999.

Why are search engines not innovating? Or, if they are, where are they?
Adam Smith might be wrong about the detailed history or might be oversimplifying the history. But I don't think he could be very wrong about how people thought about money in his time. One point of the article is that the exact amount of base metal was never really the point and the value of the coins was regulated by supply and demand for coins somewhat independently of the precious metal content. Which seems fair, but then one has to ask why make the coins out of gold etc. in the first place, and why make a big deal about how much is in there?
Are there any books for non-engineers, that go from basic concepts up to PCB design?

UPDATE: Not sure if it's going up to PCB design but apparently this one[1] seems to be the most praised on Amazon UK.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0071771336?psc=1&redirect...
Nobody is unemployable
I agree on the purpose of casinos, but I fail to see how it's evil to give people what they want and what they would seek out and do on the black market anyway if it wasn't legal. Just because they're legal doesn't mean that we can't focus on treatment or prevention. Keeping casinos legal removes a lot of the other problems that illegal gambling brings. Basically, by keeping gambling legal the damage that gambling does can be minimized and generally limited to the gambler. Once you make it illegal and bring in the black market, while gambling itself is a victimless crime, the industry that now supports it illegally is not. Same as any other industry that deals with highly addictive things that people have immense desire for.
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Thanks I get it now, nice reference :)
Yes, I saw that, but does "manufacturing partner" mean "factory"?
Which iOS game development companies are the most effective in driving this kind of behavior?
AlexeyBrin's 'second sentence' was really their first. The previous sentence was a quote from the person they were responding to. That person said "I find his accent heavy but tolerable"

AlexeyBrin was specifically referring to the parent's choice of stating they found an accent in a text (which is why they italicized 'his accent', which you neglected to quote). AlexeyBrin was also using the root word 'find' (albeit in an improper conjugation) to parallel the same use of that word that they were responding to.

I agree with your point about accent carrying over into text, but I think you misunderstood some of the intent of the person you were responding to.
The best days are when you delete more code than you write. If the only thing I did was delete code I'd be soooooo happy!
You're trying to understand the wrong thing. Understand the cost of a global trademark fight vs. the cost of rebranding.
Whether it is good or bad depends on the context. If your employer, team, or clients need something done but reinventing the wheel is consuming disproportionate resources, it's probably a bad thing.

On the other hand, if you're working on something as a hobby or something where you don't have the same constraints, then reinventing the wheel is a great way of learning. You can learn about things, how they work, and how they're designed, but unless you try to do it yourself, it's much harder to grasp why things are the way they are and not some other way.

Regardless of the context, it's important to make sure you limit the number of things you reinvent. Otherwise, you'll keep reinventing and never make any progress beyond what has already been done.
Well played, Genuino.
Considering that the state saying, "Sorry, you can only play games for fun, not money." will lead to the creation of a black market and a whole lot of actual crime in addition to the victimless crime of gambling, I think it's pretty clear what the only reasonable and sane option is here and history has proven it over and over again.
"Go not to the elves for counsel, for the will tell you both yea and nay." - Tokien

It's impossible to say if it's a good thing or a bad thing, since so much of it depends on the programmers, the business, and the libraries you are replacing.

Fun side project, maybe write your own.
You are Solo or tiny team, maybe write your own
You know why exsisting libraries have problems, write your own.
You have plenty of customers, and need to scale beyond what other people are doing, maybe write your own.
Those Adwords support folks make like $10 an hour and are employed by third parties.

I'm surprised you had a good resolution.
I've had an odd bug where upon waking from sleep, my desktop displays the start menu persistently, without the ability to interact with it.

My current workaround is to lock the computer and unlock it again. This seems to work but it's really annoying.

It only occurs on my desktop PC and not my Surface (which has issues of its own).

Any clue if there's anything I can do here or should I just wait?
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Indeed there are a lot of good optimization options for tries.

At a little bit of a speed penalty you can use a bitmap for navigation instead of pointers, which obliterates the memory footprint. In some use cases the result is actually smaller than the equivalent Bloom filter with a sane FP rate (though generally not smaller than a Golomb-compressed set or cuckoo filter).

A compromise between the speed and memory bloat of pointers is to use Radix/Patricia tries, which are a solid go-to option. In some cases they'll be slower than naive tries, but in others they'll be faster.

The fastest and most memory-efficient implementation I've seen, though, boiled each pattern in the trie down to its most unique dword or qword, and only attempted a full match after an initial hit. Locality of reference can work wonders here -- we got a 20x speedup over an already very fast naive trie this way.
> You could see the Law Merchant throughout Europe as one example

That is not an example of justice in the absence of the state. All the principal trading cities were governed, whether as city states (Venice), as quasi-independent city states within a federated league (Lubeck, Hamburg, and the other Hanseatic States) or as cities within national kingdoms (London, Ipswich and other cities under the English crown). It is an example of states agreeing to standardized laws to attract traders and provide a solid basis for ongoing trade.

From the Merchant of Venice:

The duke cannot deny the course of law.

For the commodity that strangers have

With us in Venice, if it be denied,

Will much impeach the justice of his state.

Since that the trade and profit of the city

Consisteth of all nations.

The presence of common merchant law does not mean the absense of a state.
One thing is to consider is where the business model of VCs themselves stands on the spectrum between disruption and status quo.
Agree. I agreed with the first few paragraphs of the article, but when they called autocomplete and Gmail retarded I could barely keep reading. They went on to defend content farms, claimed that they're useful, and noted that any sensible search engine algorithm should be able to avoid them. The article sounds as if it's written by someone who operates a link farm, uses AOL for email, and has no clue how web search works.

The imagery of Google as Fat Elvis is enough for a good chuckle, though.
> And yet, none of the contenders for the throne can deliver the same level of search quality.

YMMV, but I have been using Duckduckgo exclusively on my desktop and smartphone for half a year or so and the rare times I used Google (with "!g" prefix) during that time, I could not find better search results there either. So for all common purposes, DDG fully replaces Google for me (and I'm not a novice user who cannot tell, I've been using the web obsessively for ~20 years [and yes, AltaVista before Google]). Perhaps you should dare switch to DDG for a while and see if the illusion, that Google works better in some unspecified way, disappears.
This is why you want to get your trademarks and domains set up early.

arduino.cc - the original
arduinosrl.it - the rogue manufacturer. Uses same logo.
arduino.net - Poser porn
arduino.com - T-shirt store

The US trademark is owned by "ARDUINO, LLC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY MASSACHUSETTS", whoever they are.
I thought the "lol" was one of the first things that support guy did _right_. They demonstrated a disturbing lack of empathy with the rightful outrage of the client. The "lol" was the first point in that conversation where you see the support staff essentially saying: "I think you have a point".
Sexist stereotypes are not obvious, even when they're about men. Anyway, the parent comment said "were in charge", and didn't mention gender balance.
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Just double checked because I didn't believe what you said about the highest grossing game. The top grossing games on iPad varies by market but is one of Clash of Clans, Game of War: Fire Age, or Candy Crush Saga, except in Japan where it's Puzzles & Dragons. Doubledown Casino is high up there but it isn't the highest grossing game on the iPad. Clash of Clans and GoW:FA are making a multiplicative factor more than Doubledown Casino. I believe you about the slot machine mechanic though.
> If you pay a company over a million dollars in advertising fees, you'd expect a phone call prior to service cancellation. And you damn sure wouldn't expect a chat window analyst to say "lol" to you when you pointed out their own hypocrisy. I know they like young employees there, but are they staffing their customer support team with teenagers now?

The great thing about Google is that they don't just treat the end users with contempt - they treat the paying customers with the same contempt!

(seriously, try getting support for a paid-for GApps problem)
Nah. It's not like that theorem implies that we must square errors, based only on axioms which are facts of the natural world.

On the contrary, squared errors are part of the formulas taken as axioms from which to derive the theorem.

I wouldn't be surprised if we could derive a theorem whose essence is tantamount to the essence of the famous Central Limit Theorem, using some other arbitrary formula. Like error to the fourth power.
I learned a lot about the basics with "Getting started in Electronics" by Forrest M. Mims III, it's very (very) accessible and I find the drawings very amusing.

Or else you have the Bible of the trade, or "The Art of Electronics" by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill that just came out for a third edition. It's an incredibly comprehensive guide but you'd better have some free time ahead if you want to read through it all :)
Haha, I really like that idea - it would be great if you could somehow make similar colors match similar people, but I guess that's not really feasible.
I empathize with your frustration toward the gambling industry.

However, It's not only about the slot machines. You can find the underlying model in many other products, like freemium apps. There's much more subtlety than closing down casinos. Illegal businesses – which don't employ workers nor pay taxes – would likely exploit the new prohibition and its victims.

> "Sorry, you can only play games for fun, not money."

Addiction-prone individuals will still be unable to function normally in day-to-day life. That's why I believe that treatment, prevention and awareness trumps other obvious proposals.
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Pretty much, yes.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino#Legal_dispute

At the end of 2008, Gianluca Martino's company, Smart Projects,
registered the Arduino trademark in Italy and kept this a secret from the
other co-founders for about two years. This was revealed when the
Arduino company tried to register the trademark in other areas of the
world (they originally registered only in the US), and discovered that it
was already registered in Italy. Negotiations with Gianluca and his
company to bring the trademark under control of the original Arduino
company were not successful, and in 2014 Smart Projects began refusing to
pay royalties. Smart Projects appointed a new CEO, Mr. Musto, who
renamed the company to Arduino SRL and created a website named
arduino.org, copying the graphics and layout of the original Arduino.cc.
This resulted in a rift in the Arduino development team, and although all
Arduino boards are still available to consumers, and the designs are
open source, the implications of this are uncertain.
and that's the difference between someone good at the job and someone average.
Good article - I agree that Seymour Hersh is being treated unfairly by the corporate news media. Remember that almost all of the news sources in the USA are owned by just a few corporations. It is my opinion that they actually care less about truth (or even profit) than pushing an agenda supporting the elite class.
Smart Projects Srl actually trademarked Arduino back in... 2008 I think? Before the American organization claiming to be the real Arduino even existed, in any case, and they've publicly stated they knew about that trademark all along and chose not to fight it.
Same reason everyone stays on Facebook even though the experience is terrible. It's like there's only one bar in town and it's a hideous dump, but it's the only place you can be sure to catch people.
Gmail is an atrocity of a once great service, possibly the easiest component of Google to disrupt (all IMO of course)

I am on a 6 Mbps connection and I regularly have to kill my Gmail window or else it hogs the bandwidth, memory leaks until it crashes my browser (Firefox), or slows the entire browser to a crawl for any other window. I see no such issues with facebook, twitter, or any other web site I visit regularly. Then there's all the weird javascript idiosyncracies when one wants to reply to a message and the compose window won't appear unless I open a new tab. Sigh...

And don't even get me started on the abomination that Chrome has become, possibly IMO, because so much of its original team has long since left Google (ex-googler myself who knew many of them).
Perhaps I'm overly sensitive, but the tone seemed a bit over the top. E.g. I could have been something like "Given that you worked in a morally questionable field, does this weigh on your mind, and if not, why not?"

Some very random thoughts and (sorry to yell but I know someone is going to tell me how one of these doesn't justify things but...) NONE OF THESE ARE MEANT TO JUSTIFY ANYTHING:

1. I am just a dev and had never been to a casino in my life prior to developing the game. I just took the job since I wanted to go the high risk/hard reward route. I am fully cognizant of the "I was just the accountant at Auschwitz" counter argument. I just developed the thing and had fun, frustration, and huge amounts of stress learning about things like high concurrency and such.

2. I am guilty of compartmentalizing and avoid thinking about the effects.

3. I was under the understanding that for a a while at least we were cutting people off when they spent over a certain amount. I assume at some point we stopped doing this, but avoided asking when.

4. Due to political reasons, I was sidelined and didn't have any decision making clout. I was just a dev once we grew to a certain point.

5. I'm fairly far to the left politically, but found some of the more libertarian arguments persuasive in terms of adults are adults and should be able to smoke weed, drink beer, and play slots if they want to.

6. I tell myself that with the money earned, I can now do good things for the world and any projects I do from now on will be non-profitish. I have yet to do anything of the sort.

7. It was all very gradual. If an existing casino company had tried to hire me, I would likely have not worked for them. We started off with multiplayer games like Blackjack and Roulette and the focus was on social really more than casino. It's the kind of lobster boiling problem: Since it was so gradual, it was tough to see if/when a line was crossed.

8. Casino has a particularly bad reputation. Is working for J.P. Morgan any better? What about Starbucks, which has basically built their empire on a caffeine addiction?
I might be misreading this, but I think the factory is System Elettronica, owned by Ludovico Apruzzese. http://www.domusweb.it/en/design/2013/03/15/a-visit-to-the-a...
what an amazing way to pitch your service! Big thumbs up!
Oh wow, that's super dodgy.
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I so wish DuckDuckGo were a viable replacement for Google's search results because I love the concept, and you're right that it is for simple queries, but my main use case for google these days is naively pasting long error message sequences from compilations gone bad and reading the relevant stackoverflow questions that lead to the fix. DuckDuckGo chokes on this stuff.
Fake title. Actual title is "Silicon Valley Is Letting Go of Its Techie Island Fantasies".
"Even if you had no laws you would still be able to find investors willing to invest in an company, with the understanding that it could fail."

The problem is collecting if it succeeds. Shared ownership requires a legal structure. Without it, businesses are mostly owned by a single person, family operations, or one-shot high risk transactions.
I agree that LOC isn't an ideal metric. But there isn't really an ideal simplistic metric.

Out of curiosity, I thought I'd look at a recent productive day. In actual numbers, my 42 check-ins totaled 409 new lines of code compared with 213 lines deleted, so close to 50% (not counting check-ins with simple line changes).

At the end I had several new features implemented and a lot of code refactored to be cleaner.
The LA flag fits LA pretty well, what would you do differently?
> This is pretty evil, but it will continue happening as long as politicians can be bought to keep it legal.

You could make this exact same argument for liquor sales.

The top 10% of regular drinkers have 10 drinks a day. If they reduced their consumption to that of the next decile, total ethanol sales would fall by 60 percent.[1]

We tried banning alcohol sales. It didn't work very well.

[1] http://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/10/05/the-alcohol-...
I did a semi-clean upgrade. I bought the Mac Pro late last year and it stil had 10.9 on it. I upgrade to 10.10 before copying across my user files and software from my laptop running 10.9. I have been trying to figure out what the cause is by looking at the crash logs without any success. I do find that daily reboots lessens the risk, other than this there does not seem to be any rhyme or reason.

I have been using MacOS of various stripes since 1990 (I am a biologist by background and biologists were one of the few groups that stuck with macs through the late 90s). Other than 10.1 Yosemite is the buggiest OS 10 release to date in my experience.
Why would you need to do that? Just set DT_RUNPATH when you link the binary and use the $ORIGIN variable to set a relative path.
You have the correct interpretation of the English word "accent." An accent pertains to spoken language (e.g., pronunciation and prosody). It is only in a loose or figurative manner of speaking that you could talk about the accent of a text.
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http://dilbert.com/strip/1989-08-29
if any of this surprises anyone, they haven't been paying attention for decades.
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In all fairness, the Arduino name is itself originally take from the name of a bar in Italy where the project founders used to hang out. Think about how that bar owner would feel about this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino#History
This comparison is unfair.
In C# code it's using foreach loop over generic list which is ~4 time slower than for loop over array, but in C++ code it's using pointers (correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not a C++ ninja) which is fastest loop
Last message is "Peter Sankauskas Hello". I tried to send some message, and it's saying "Message sent to SNS successfully". But these message never show up in the page.
I don't think anyone working in this industry is morally responsible for the actions of others resulting from others' free will. The review you posted is sad in that it points out the reviewer's stupidity, not industry employees' immorality. The reviewer should have gotten a free game instead of wasting money on one that requires money. But that wouldn't be gambling and money is the difference between regular video games and slot machines--that's obvious.

This is how our economy and capitalism in general work. There is no room for morality in such a system (though that's not to say there shouldn't be). By your same logic, employees of health insurance companies should be held responsible for their companies actions leading to the preventable death of their customers. Employees working for aircraft companies should be held responsible for the deaths their armed fighters cause. And the guy making minimum wage at the gas station should further be held responsible for the actions of his parent company and the thousands of death they caused. These are all ridiculous things, as is expecting someone who has worked on gambling games to feel morally irresponsible for doing nothing wrong.
> The buttons will accompany sponsored—or paid—search results...

Big Fail! The retailers that pay Google for the listings have little chance of being the cheapest place to purchase. So this endeavor will degrade into providing either sales for services where prices are meaningless or sales for non-comparable high-markup items. Anyone remember Groupon?
I find that the options to the answers are ridiculous limited:

Question 1: "AT A PARTY YOU..."
Missing answer: "I don't go to parties".

The same applies to most of them. It seems like the author got some friends to write down possible answer, but didn't assume that there are people way more different than themselves. I can't answer honestly to most of them, so I can see how it'll fail horrible to find someone else like myself.
> Remember that almost all of the news sources in the USA are owned by just a few corporations.

Is this still true, with the explosion of Internet-based news publications? Also consider that, on the Internet, "in the USA" doesn't matter nearly as much. Americans can as easily read the Guardian, for example, as the Wall Street Journal.
Next question is how to go from final prototype into production... that can be pretty hard in practice.

Indeed, calling a prototype "final" before looking at the manufacturing side of things might not be wise.
I'm not really familiar with this field at all, but does this basically give the effect of an in-air 3d display?
It's also rather detailed for a flag
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9556082

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