skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easier just to not hang out with people you don't like. Then you can avoid getting accused of having poor social skills because they won't even know you.
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I have a 40W hobbyist laser cutter. It's fun, and a great tool for various projects, like making board games[1,2]. That said, sometimes materials inside the machine catch fire, and sometimes the beam reflects or dwells on a section of the metal enclosure. It's interesting that they've chosen to make the entire (?) enclosure out of plastic, itself a combustible material. I get why they went with plastic (cheaper to fabricate once you have the molds, lighter to ship, perhaps better dimensional accuracy than cheap sheet metal), but it does not seem particularly safe. The also seem to gloss over the need to ventilate the machine. Plastic fumes are nasty to breathe, glue-bonded wood (think thin plywood) can release formaldehyde fumes, leather may be dyed with heavy metals. What the laser doesn't cause to combust cleanly, it vaporizes. You don't want those emissions in your house of office, and you want them vented away from the optical components as quickly as possible so there is no deposition onto mirror or lens surfaces.

Another benefit of metal enclosures is shielding the power supplies of these things. High-voltage laser power supplies are noisy, and when you PWM them, they can cause quite a bit of interference. Metal enclosures at least help to attenuate RF emissions.

The "macro camera" is a clever addition for closed-loop optical control (if it is being used for that). Reminds me of attaching an optical mouse sensor the the lens sled.

1. https://igcdn-photos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t51.28...

2. Make your own Carcassonne tiles! http://dev.tia.io/carcassonne_shading/
From what I've read, most end users will get /56 blocks and larger organizations will be the ones to get a /48, so the potential end users is much higher than you've estimated.
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If you refused to ever play basketball, I WOULD say you have bad basketball skills. You can only have skills if you play.
(ceo/cofounder here)
There are lots of folks doing bathymetric maps with lasers; I don't know who was first to it. We generated ours from scratch from NOAA data, but owe them (or whoever did it first) a debt of inspiration.
> has well demonstrated ROI

Actually, that is not as clear cut as one might expect [1].

[1]: http://justinmrao.com/lewis_rao_nearimpossibility.pdf
> I make sure to make it clear that our offered restricted stock grants (that are between 0.1 - 0.25% at this point) are not replacements for compensation. They are instead bonus/retention plans that act as a bite of the apple if the company were to sell and they are still employed by us.

Your stock grants are not a bonus/retention plan simply because you believe your cash compensation is at or above market. Pre-IPO stock grants are a lottery ticket. Period.

Here's an exit scenario: your company sells for $50 million after four years[1]. Assuming no dilution and no liquidation preferences, an employee with 0.25% earns $125,000 pre-tax, the equivalent of a $31,250/year bonus that was never guaranteed and deferred for four years.

Why would you think this to be a strong driver of retention for in-demand employees with "realistic worldviews"? In today's market, your best employees can probably get 50-100% of that hypothetical annual bonus in real cash just by switching jobs.

[1] Your company isn't likely to have a liquidity event, but if it does exit, the value of the event is likely to be $50 million or under according to exit data in recent years.
>A bit of organizational sociology: most people silently group their employees into two categories

Is this from a book or research? If it is I'd love to know where I can go read more about it.
There is nothing wrong or pathological about people who want nuclear family having nuclear family; the question is, should people who aren't necessarily as interested in it be socially pressured to having one as well?
> People want communication, not noise. Irrelevant communication is noise.

Maybe I'm lucky that I have a good manager, but if this were my situation, I'd escalate things to him and explain that it's hurting my productivity, and likely the productivity of everyone else I work with.
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Is that corrected for gender of people walking around alone at night?
Think about Master Chef and Hell's Kitchen. Who would really want to see people cook something that they won't be able to taste? Viewers need to rely on the judges' opinions about the food and that's it. And yet a lot of people watch those shows, not only for the food, but for the 'process' involved in cooking. It's really the drama and emotions involved in the episodes that people crave and keep those shows alive.

How about America's Next Top Model? Or The Apprentice? Most viewers of these shows are neither models nor managers. Perhaps when coding has become as ubiquitous as cooking, business, or fashion (which will happen most likely), coding as a spectator sport will make more sense.
SELinux is open source, is there any validity to a claim that SELinux performs anything other than securing the local operating system?
I remember reading somewhere that 44% people think ads don't work on them.
Ok, I took a cursory look and I see that he uses executive orders less often than any other president (normalized per term served).

As for the first sentence, what are the examples of his orders that are shredding the constitution? Does SCOTUS (final authority on constitutional law) agrees with your assessment?
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The problem is that you, specifically, are only remembering the intrusive ads that have at one point negatively affected you.

Whenever there is a good branding ad, you're not thinking about or remembering how great of an ad experience you're having. There are exceptions, like Superbowl commercials, but it's still a cognitive bias.
Also, if you're a cheap basterd and a procrastinator,
having to pay will justify procrastinating.
Cargo culting
(cofounder/ceo here)
I don't remember which sample items we made on which model, but everything you see is printable on the basic model. For example, the monitor stand and dollhouse don't have pieces larger than 12x20.
Are you sure it didn't also have to do with the slew of bad press they received for a while, especially here? Do you actually have a memory of avoiding groupon and at that time remembering the ads, or are you now remembering avoiding groupon because you disliked them and now remembering the ads? (I ask because I find perceptions of past actions interesting, not because I specifically doubt you).
It's empty now.
I'm fairly sure L.Poettering got hired by RedHat several years after starting to write Avahi+PulseAudio.
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I just never came out. No issues here <twitch>
I've been using Pyramid for a few years: http://www.pylonsproject.org

It's a pretty thin WSGI wrapper around a bunch of best-in-breed Python libraries including SQLAlchemy.
Well that's the problem with local realism. All sorts of things do affect local conditions at a distance. If entanglement between particle pairs is not affected by any of the physical forces as described then whatever happens between them is just a matter of fact, but no where have I seen this mean we'll ever get ansibles or teleportation. It just means the universe as a substructure we're not fully able to grasp and that it may be just one of those things that connects everything despite the appearance of separation of objects and states.
During the early 1940s, if you were a young Russian male adult, the chance of living until 1946 was 2 in 3. Pretty strange time period. Each time you walked down the street, you could say "live, live, die, live, die, live, die, live, live" and be statistically correct.

It's true that a war isn't necessarily relevant
Pretend there is a Museum. It's free to the public with a suggested donation. You go there every weekend because of it's interesting collection of $thing. You never pay the suggested donation.

Is this ethical? It's not illegal. But that isn't the question.
These things.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/High-Precise-40W-CO2-Laser-Engraving...
> Women can bear children, men can't. This gives women the first choice to spend time with those children, and also gives them bargaining power in relationships.

Your second sentence doesn't follow from your first. There isn't anything inherent in the ability to give birth that gives mothers "first choice" of spending time with their children forevermore or more "bargaining power" in their romantic relationships than their partner. The only thing biologically inherent to childbirth is the ability to carry and birth children.
Nope. They've been allocating at least several /24's per day even since getting down to their last /8.
"it was code-named "Robin" for communication purposes, an intentional reference to the famous—or infamous—English outlaw Robin Hood"

Aw, dang, and I thought it was because the Saratoga was Batman.
A 100 unit break even point is incredible low. Have you read many of the write ups on product based Kickstarter campaigns. From what I have read most break even point are into the 1,000 plus units if you have to account for fabricating molds or dies. Then these mold and dies can only be used fro one project.
That is the beauty of 3D printing, laser etc. You have one tool that can be used to fab hundreds of designs or product with no tooling costs.
It is entirely possible for a $1B exit to leave you with literally $0.

Let's say your company has accepted $500 million in funding, with a 2x LP, at a $1 billion valuation. The company exits for $1 billion. Investors take a their 2x LP, for the entire $1 billion. Founders and employees get $0, despite a "billion dollar exit."

This is the trivial case. It is not even considering dilution, founders retention of "preferred" shares, the complicated ownership structures that can result from 3-5-10 rounds of funding, or lengthy employee lockouts after an IPO.
>> commercials(TV, radio, etc),

I don't watch them, at all. I have streaming services. My tv isn't actually even attached to an aerial at the moment. And I mostly listen to BBC radio stations (I'm in the UK).

>> billboards

We don't have quite so many of those in the UK as there are in the US, but yes, they are hard to avoid.

>> ads in magazine's/newspapers

I don't really read paper ads any more

>> but the mind of paranoia associated with the passive and active effects of ads is a joke considering this shit has been a common part of modern society for a long time.

It's not really paranoia, I just prefer to avoid being manipulated.

It's genuinely possible to avoid nearly all advertising now. I like this and I find life without the constant commercial intrusion and associated information overload quite good.
What's extreme about it? It's just a different definition.
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I had missed point 12 (air filter upgrade), and non of the pictures showed an exhaust tube...
(ceo/cofounder here)
You're right - it's the passthrough. CDRH is very strict about what could count as human access. We have some clever interlocks in place around the passthrough but if an examiner can place a mirror in the interior and measure laser output above the threshold without triggering the interlock, you're Class IV.
Good observation. MS is willing to pay a high price for market share.

For example, nobody wanted Windows Mobile, so they paid Nokia to install it. Failing that (<4% mkt share), they bought Nokia.

X-Box is another product they're paying customers to take, in exchange for living room share. It's lost billions overall since its beginning.
It's not just cloud connected, it's cloud dependent. It requires internet access and their cloud services to function at all. That's kind of disappointing.
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I wouldn't consume their contents if they are at a subscription fee. Most of the content creators on the internet know that their content wouldn't earn them a subscription, so they choose the advertisement model. If you make something worth paying money for, people will pay.

I mean, they're not making me sign a contract saying I wouldn't consume their content if the ads are off, so it's up to me to choose what I see on MY computer. There are also websites which detect adblockers and don't show their content at all. I'd just close their website not caring about their content, so at least I don't find it worth paying for.

Even I have blogs, videos which earn me ad money. I know had it not been ads, no one give a dime to see them :), and it's perfectly fine for me.
Apparently, but not necessarily.
With the exception of the fine Tea Party and their gatherings, we don't have those things.
Yes, people should not be disparaged for their choices, and in general we want to offer the ability to choose. The real problem is are people growing up in a society where they are being subconsciously funnelled towards a particular choice (to the point where they don't see other options as valid choices due to subconscious biases).

You just have to look at all of the crazy responses to Target (a US retailer) removing the gender-specific labelling of toys (from "Girl Toys" and "Boy Toys" to just "Toys") to see how as a society we are not at a point where "we" aren't trying to impose a particular ideal (e.g. "Barbies are girl toys") on children as they grow up.

> Two people in a partnership raising the children they love together using division of labour?

This is more generic than the "nuclear family" traditionally is viewed. If it was just two people dividing up labour, then the "nuclear family" could equally have the father as the homemaker and the mother as the breadwinner. When people typically refer to the "nuclear family" they are referring to some idealized Leave It To Beaver type setup.
A wise thing to do with sites like these is to procure the cheapest hosting you can (for a static or wordpress site, think $2 a month) and similarly cheap domain provision (although the prices don't vary so much for these). With the right provider the users will not think that the site is noticeably slower and you won't need such high monetisation targets to break even. Then, as the site gains traffic, simply scale the level of hosting accordingly.

I hope this is of use!
Sam
Well, I don't really watch ads so it's true I'm not thinking about how great an ad experience I'm having, because I'm not having them.

As a result I find nearly all advertising, when I do come across it, to be intrusive and annoying.
It's Brazil...

This would be a nightmare to make happen, you would need to bribe so many people to get a shipment here that your profit would be unworthy and also make you a criminal or you can run it by the lawn and never get the items or pay 100% taxes over them + their shipping costs making a machine like this cost U$5000,00
If you want an apples-to-apples comparison, why not look at the actual physical devices that Google is selling? To the extent that Google and VW are "competing for the same workforce", the folks writing code for the Nest, OnHub, or heck even Android are the ones you want to be thinking about anyway...

...And more importantly, the implications for the folks buying and installing these products are a hell of a lot closer to those pertaining to VW's ECUs.

If you're gonna argue for a level playing field, it probably helps to start with teams that are playing the same game, or at least one that's reasonably similar. Right now, you're arguing that Google's bobsled team would unfairly compete with VW's baseball players, ignoring that Google fields a cricket team as well...
Hey! This is kind of cool! I didn't know about this. It's like micropayments-in-a-box. I think I might do this (but have to think about the system).

However, I do have one thought. Google ads initially were incredibly popular because they weren't in your face asking for the monkey to be punched. Which is still pretty much the case.

The worst ads aren't being served by Google, they're being served by Tabooleh and the other bad-content farms.
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Aaaaand we're done here.
>> It installs a third party as a middleman... paying rent to Google...

I'm not sure that it is rent in the economic sense. They're providing one place to sign up and pay, and then distributing the money in a reasonably fair way. That's actually a valuable service.

I find that there are a lot of sites that I visit infrequently enough that I don't want/need to sign up for their service, but I still like to see the occasional article. For example, I read Economist articles when I see them linked. I don't want a full-on subscription, or even go through the hassle of creating an account, but if Google can throw them some cash on my behalf I'd be happy about that.

IIRC, the problem with a lot of micropayment schemes was that they never got big enough for critical mass. Perhaps Google has managed to do that by way of ads, and maybe they'll develop into what those schemes always wanted to be.
You really think they'll continue to make money when inevitably adblocker software on any browser becomes as ubiquitous as messenger or camera software on a phone? That's the whole issue. The current ad model isn't really sustainable in that light. There's no outrage they're not getting paid, there is concern that extrapolating current trends, they won't get paid a few years down the line and will either shut down or enforce changes that radically change the internet for the worse.

You can either get a closed market where every piece of content is paid for like Netflix and you start to see all kinds of lock-in effects that drive monopolies (if I switch from this vendor to a slightly better one I can't transfer my music/files/videos/articles etc, so I'd rather stay with what I have), as well as putting a price floor on information that used to be free with inconvenience for potentially hundreds of millions who can't afford the digital subscription, which radically changes the internet. Or you can get a different compensation model for content, like paying not to see ads without having to subscribe to a particular business's content, or buy their content pieces on their platform. This is what that is.

Or you simply believe that the rapid growth of ad blockers will taper off fairly quickly and never constitute a significant threat. Possible but I think pretty naive.
I'd love it if there was a way to run Contributor while still blocking doubleclick. I'll happily pay, but I'm not turning off adblock, and if I'm paying, I want that page space occupied by the article, not cat pictures.
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I wouldn't go that far. This is ODNI's General Counsel saying that they would prefer to defer public attacks -- er, debate -- on any specific plan until a crisis occurs, at which point opposition will be muted. They can then take advantage of the climate to go full court press with whatever strategy has been preselected. Whether "preparing to leverage" is worse than "hoping" is up for debate.
I think it is a great idea. I probably won't use it, I tend to just tolerate ads and don't mind them if they aren't obnoxious. I get a lot of Amazon ads, and they typically show things that I am very much in the market for, since they know what I've bought and looked at. I don't mind that kind of ad.

What's needed is for ad blockers to have a setting that lets these Contributor "ads" through and blocks the rest, with the setting preferably on by default. My opinion is that use of an ad blocker, while refusing to pay for something like this (especially if it is priced such that Google and the web site make the same amount of money as if you saw the ads), is not ethical, as you are being a freeloader.

All the arguments made by those defending ad blockers tend to fall away when something like this is available. If you don't like ads, and don't want to pay directly, you probably shouldn't be consuming the content.
Eh? My point wasn't specifically egalitarian, but to address this common allusion to "men" being oppressed when they're called out on something.

Calling each other out is how people keep each other in check. It sucks really bad until you're 15-25 years old and develop the self confidence to handle things in context.

I doubt the people being called out for being too risky are blogging about it.
Brain injury is not mental illness. It's brain injury.

(It might lead to intellectual disability but there's nothing in your linked document that talks about the severity of the TBI.)
> Ads is the old print way of getting paid.

> Now, just restrict access and require a subscription. Have trial periods.

Actually, subscriptions + trial periods was also a print way of getting paid. For much the same reasons as it doesn't work for most mass content on the web, it didn't work well as the primary source of income for mass print publications (though there were publications for which it replaced ads, for the most part, it just served to provide a paid circulation number which demonstrated to advertisers the size of the audience that was dedicated enough to a publication that they were willing to pay something for it, so it was a proxy measure for effective ad reach.)
I doubt that I'm 100% immune, I'm sure I do absorb all sorts of brand-growing crap all the time.

But I have managed to eliminate ads from my life to such a great extent now that they really do drive me up the wall when I get stuck seeing them. They're just not part of my daily landscape any more.
You can also get a membership to techshop.ws where they have cutters among MANY other items.

https://www.noisebridge.net/ hacker space on Mission in SF also had a fairly large 40W cutter... It was not setup for a while - but I think its working now... and you can use that one pretty much free (donate to the space though is a good idea)
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What unit do you have? I've been thinking about getting one.
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Only true if you have a laser and don't fully understand what's possible with a hammer.
That's also a good argument for holing up in a cave somewhere and never coming out. The whole of human culture and communication is full of subtle cues and plays on how our mind works, and has been for millennia.
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I don't think most people would view traditional society as being "the patriarchy". I've only ever heard that term even used in this context by fairly hardcore feminists.

I also think this statement is very extreme:

> Also, actually, there is still a cabal of men in America forcing women to behave in certain ways: The systematic, coordinated campaign against women's reproductive rights.

I don't think that's a mainstream view.
A clearer way to write this would be, pay-per-impression stopped being the default (or only) way of doing business sometime between 1999-2001. After a brief period where
ads were predominantly text-based, ad inflation brought
graphical ads and CPM back and nowadays can do CPC as well
as CPM or CPA (cost per acquisition) links:
https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2472725?hl=en&ref_...

But don't let your clear picture of ad spending make you ignore the fundamental fact: there's no basic relation between ad views and advertising spending. More buzzfeeds
mean that there will be more ads, but not more advertising
dollars, and quality/expensive sites suffer just as heavily
from the ad inflation driven by cheap content sites as they suffer from the 20-30% of people using ad blockers.