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by tbenst 11y ago
I remember seeing an early alpha ~2 years ago that mainly consisted of pixel transformations using sliders. Amazing to see how far Figma has come since then, shrewdly moving from a browser implementation of a subset of Photoshop features to
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The Advertising Wizard Who Has Everyone Spellbound(slate.com.clonezone.link)
1 points by tbenst 11y ago|0 comments
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by tbenst 12y ago
One thing to clarify is that this is appears to be an insightful tweak on a popular form of 3D printing, rather than a new technology all together. This uses a standard vat photopolymerization process with a DLP projector. The key differenc
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Microsoft acquires Sunrise, the best calendar app for iOS and Android(theverge.com)
2 points by tbenst 12y ago|0 comments
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by tbenst 12y ago
> Most of the VC funded startups I'm aware of are founded by graduates of top US schools (Ivy or similar), where almost no one graduates with debt. Not true. Although not bad, students typically graduate with $15k in debt. Families
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by tbenst 12y ago
I'm currently in China. VPNs are very common and popular here. Many work very poorly unfortunately (Private Internet Access included). Astrill appears to be the most popular and best performing. A few high-end hotels that I've sta
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by tbenst 12y ago
Just answered my own question, I think: turned off the VPN and made this post which does not appear as [dead] to me. Can someone confirm? Also, anyway for my previous post to have [dead] removed?
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Ask HN: VPN causing post to be [dead]?
3 points by tbenst 12y ago|3 comments
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HP's 3D printer: the Untold Story(tylerbenster.com)
1 points by tbenst 12y ago|0 comments
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Why is iPhone 6 Plus Chrome failing to run Sunspider?
1 points by tbenst 12y ago|0 comments
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by tbenst 12y ago
I tested OpenCYC three years ago while working for a startup that did semantic tagging & recommendation of text-based content. Essentially, we would take something like: Gov. Rick Perry has said he will no longer wear cowboy boots, whic
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by tbenst 13y ago
Would you mind trying to explain your strategy? I have little intuition for this one :p
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by tbenst 13y ago
Here's the routine I've used to win multiple times in a row: 1. "tumbler" until 128 can move to the upper left corner (up right down left, repeat) 2. The highest number on the board is always in the upper left. Make the
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by tbenst 13y ago
Won on my first try after my original post! http://imgur.com/rnGYLY9 Here's the new routine: 1. "tumbler" until 128 can move to the upper left corner. 2. The highest number on the board is always in the upper
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by tbenst 13y ago
Made it to 1024: http://imgur.com/QQUXzCN . Here's my routine: 1. "tumbler" until 128: up right down left, repeat 2. Get 128 on the top in the middle two slots. Really any edge works, but I'll say top for
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by tbenst 13y ago
My submission: 3D Printing is a big data problem where the data is not being collected. Sensors in desktop 3D printers are usually restricted to simple limit switches on the axes. We would use Project Tango for a real-time feedback system f
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by tbenst 13y ago
I took CS019 with Shriram a few years back and immediately guessed the authors based on paradigms like making testing a natural part of the language and the encouragement to use annotations. In the class, we were taught a design process for
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by tbenst 13y ago
On first glance, I was shocked by how similar it looked to the electoral map from Presidential elections. 39/50 states in this chart are the correct color for the 2012 electoral map. For fun, I then took the correlation of the mortalit
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by tbenst 13y ago
They spin out developed technologies in new companies. For example, IV spin-out Kymeta just closed a $50 million series C: http://www.intellectualventures.com/insights/archives/kymeta...
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Google hypocrisy: patenting payment splitting while lobbying reform(blog.splitwise.com)
3 points by tbenst 13y ago|2 comments
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by tbenst 13y ago
Steve Jobs at the 2010 Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco: "We're going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard." People seem to forget how freq
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by tbenst 13y ago
The article glosses over that Invisalign already uses 3D printers! Thousands of jaws have been 3D printed as part of the Invisalign manufacturing process. The clear brace is molded on the 3D printed jaw.
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by tbenst 13y ago
Almost ten years ago I bought a Logitech keyboard with a fingerprint reader. People were saying that fingerprint readers would be the end of passwords. The keyboard came with a nice piece of software that automatically entered passwords on
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by tbenst 13y ago
Have used ZFS on Linux, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris for a few years now. Had a few startles with 'unrecoverable' zpool failures on both Linux & FreeBSD that were easily fixable with a OpenSolaris LiveCD. When operating a zpool, sh
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Desktop 3D printer prices will rise(tctmagazine.com)
1 points by tbenst 13y ago|1 comments
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by tbenst 14y ago
Some rebuttals: 1) CAD is genuinely difficult True, but this barrier is lowering rapidly. Anyone can make simple items using programs like Autodesk 123D with no training. Low-cost 3D scanners will also lower this barrier (see projects like
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by tbenst 14y ago
Best thing we can do is follow through on the article's call-to-action for emailing support@heroku.com: "After reading the following RapGenius article ( http://rapgenius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-lyrics ), we are reevaluating the
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by tbenst 14y ago
Phew, just restored equilibrium by upvoting only this submission
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by tbenst 14y ago
Student of Applied Mathematics - Economics here. I took a class with Oded Galor, the primary proponent of Unified growth theory [1], a single model that describes the transition from the Maltusian trap [2] to an era of rapid growth, and fin
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Own a 3D-printer? Help a student gather information
3 points by tbenst 14y ago|0 comments

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