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Engadget summary with videos: http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/29/hp-reveals-sprout/

"It's a unique machine that combines an all-in-one Windows 8 PC with a set of 3D scanning cameras, a giant tactile touchpad and a downward-facing projector (for displaying graphics on said touchpad). The design is built around a concept HP is calling "blended reality" that blends the 3D physical world with our 2D digital one. The obvious target audience is creative types. You know: makers, tinkerers, designers, etc... Rather than the traditional method of control built around mice and keyboards, Sprout focuses on touch and pen input. The 23-inch LCD serves as the primary display, but it's the bottom display, the 20-inch capacitive pad positioned under the camera and projector that serves as the primary point of interaction."

I assume they will.

It seems like a similar situation to Soylent- a spinoff of a ycombinator company, that is billed as a ycombinator company.

I assume something's wrong with him attending Stanford in 2000 (or being born in 1986).

He didn't go to college when he was 14/15, did he?

We really need this for Soylent, and I remember there was talk about this on the Soylent forums soon after they got going.

Does anyone know specifically what the issues are to creating a Soylent bot? Or is it in the works?

I just met with a local State Representative in Oregon and he was talking about Georgia as an example of a state with good higher education funding- he said any student with a B average or better would receive free college.

Is this true? Or is the funding situation good?

He thinks Oregon is not good for higher education funding.

What would be number one... does Ruby have any claim?

How does this work? I just tried clicking through and it returned a list of friends who added me.

If there was no list of people who deleted me, does that mean it hasn't happened? Was it working properly?

Does this apply even on mobile?

I'm interested in a password manager that works seamlessly on Android.

Yup.

I switched from iOS 6 months ago and podcasting was one of the initial problems I had. I trialed a handful of apps before properly purchasing pocketcasts. As good as the iOS app.

Respect from Oregon. I tell all my friends about you.

A huge barrier for many people is they have no understanding of what programming will enable, what it entails, and its varying difficulty levels.

I think there are so many "pre-med" college freshmen because everyone understands the role of a doctor. If programming were more tangible and widely understood, there would be far more people doing it (and luckily this is rapidly happening).

I don't think people know enough to be against it.

I'm a university student and within the last year I've talked to 20+ people about it (mostly students), and mostly people don't know what it is.

They can (and probably will) help the poor once they scale up their production and drive the marginal production cost down.

Low cost hinges on scaling up (and hopefully also being less strict about pseudo-"hypo-allergenic" properties).

I don't think the group of people is really small.

People I talk to about Soylent tend to think about it in a binary "all or nothing" way. Yes, there are few who would do use it for the majority of their meals.

There are many people, however, who appreciate the occasional healthy/quick/cheap meal.

Soylent might not yet be "cheap", but it will be big if it gets there.

What was the timing for the html5 vs native decisions and corrections?

I'm assuming you're talking about the mobile applications running slowly for the first few years. I uninstalled a year ago and haven't checked back. I'm curious how things run these days.

And is the debate mainly focused on when webapps will take over? Or is it debated if it will occur at all?

I think with mobile hardware gaining so quickly we should see webapps equaling native within five years.

Do they use open source libraries? And otherwise how do they differ from something like Angular?

Do you think noot could be created using Meteor?

I've been curious about learning Meteor and am wondering if a social flashcard app would be too much for it to handle.

I've wondered if Microsoft adopts a sort of "golden path" (a la Dune) strategy... intentionally make every other operating system unpopular in order to set the stage for their next version.

You need bad in order to see good.

I wish... he's famous to me.

He's speaking at my university soon (his book tour and more) and a top professor in our College of Business is helping arrange it and has set him up in one of our largest/nicest event halls.

Over a hundred confirmed attendees on facebook last I checked.

I don't know much about his origins, but surely that's not how he used his time when he was getting started, is it?

I'm guessing his work activities were far more conventional (though still well selected) and only after building wealth did his time allocation change.

Success comes from many sources. It's totally possible that a tactic employed by a successful company is not actually contributing to their success.

He doesn't say how to choose the right stocks. And I assume he's choosing them after the fact for his graph.

I'd be curious to see a random sampling of S&P 500 in autumn vs. spring. That would give a better idea of if it works.

BitCoin

Can you really quickly get a social security number?

Or that they lose money on the warranty and make up for the loss in other ways.

It's a necessary part of the package.

Did you realize you're replying to Paul Graham?

I thought it pretty funny telling pg about his program. Of course I understand there are many more readers of the comment, but it still seems directed at him.

Yes, people on r/nexus5 are saying they got LTE activated without much issue.

I'm planning to switch to ST when my AT&T contract expires.

Could this not be some large purchase with a bitcoin payment attached to a contract?

Could a contract enforce a bitcoin transfer?

What's the point?

Spreading the risk of loss by hack? And reducing their visibility as a target?

What are their ELO rating estimates?

I was a high school player and used to mess around with Rybka, but I haven't looked into computer chess in years.