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I think the worry is that 3D printers themselves may become regulated, beyond the current state of copyright laws.

Consider the VCR as a historical example. It's illegal to use it to bootleg copyrighted movies, but legal to use it for your own materials. However, the copyright lobby tried to shut down VCR sales entirely, and this case made it all the way to the US Supreme Court before being decided in favor of VCRs.

I imagine some people are afraid that 3D printers might end up in a similar situation, perhaps with less favorable court rulings or legislators. Modern technology also opens up other options, such as requiring all 3D printers to include DRM technology.

I don't know how likely any of this is, but the worries don't seem completely out there.
Different kinds of optimizations. Timsort tries to collect runs and falls back on insertion sort for them; it exploits the fact that much real-world data is already partially sorted to reduce the number of comparisons made. This optimization exploits the fact that MapReduce keys are always strings in contiguous areas of memory, and are often fairly large, to compare them really quickly.
Condi Rice was the provost of Stanford and is now on the Dropbox board. Norcal has a surprising affinity for neocons...
Twitter makes humans look like bots
Kanboard[0] supports both LDAP authentication[1] and group management[2][3].

I've been using this in a professional context for the last four months or so. It's been pretty good. As well as a kanboard it supports a calendar view, task list view (similar to ToDoist) and a very basic Gantt view (no dependency tracking).

[0] http://kanboard.net/

[1] http://kanboard.net/documentation/ldap-authentication

[2] http://kanboard.net/documentation/groups

[3] http://kanboard.net/documentation/ldap-group-sync
There's biodegradable ABS [1] but it's not clear that it would degrade much in water.

[1] http://3dprintingindustry.com/2015/08/14/biodegradable-abs-f...
Ah, good. I'd initially written std::sort in the comment and then went back and edited it because I was like "Isn't std::sort usually mergesort? That wouldn't work here because it takes extra space." It's been a while since I've written C++.
If Tk was all I had, I'd probably sink the time (and it would be a lot of time) into learning how to fiddle with xrdb (for tk) and ttk's styling engine.

The lack of documentation, opaqueness, and complexity, all that stuff adds so much challenge, just to get to "pretty decent".

There are better options in 2016, both from a visual perspective (looks good out of the box) and a programmer-tweakable perspective (can I make changes?).

I said this elsewhere, but Tk brought something to the table a long time ago, when GUI programming was complicated. GUI programming just isn't hard, the way it used to be.

Hey, if you're used to it, great, I certainly don't want to take the option away from anyone, but it's misleading to offer it as competitive in any way with the other contemporary toolkits.
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What health-care did you require? It is hard to imagine a scenario where someone can "become better" without having an internal, personal, change. I don't believe psychiatrists can think for you (though they can certainly feed you thoughts).
My take from afar is that Silicon Valley is not a particularly easy place to be a student...which makes it more like most places in the US that are not college towns or Boston. Given the amount of opinion against college that comes from local elites, it may in fact be worse.

My standard advice about college is deciding where you want to spend the next few years learning what does and does not make sense for you. It may be the case that Silicon Valley does not actually provide what you need at this point in your life. Just because it works for someone else has no bearing on it working for you right now. Part of getting older is realizing that things I imagined were good weren't, things I imagined were bad, aren't, and things that I had never heard of exist...e.g. Python when I first started reading Hacker News.

Good luck.
Why fuses in the device?

Shouldn't you have RCCBs in your installation?
We edited the title to make that clearer.
Quite a perverse strawman from someone who just a second ago asserted what "this discussion is about".
> You are envisioning a world of ultra-rich capitalists (who own every mean of production, both in material and knowledge economy), occasionally giving "bread and circuses" to the rest of the world, who can't produce because their "jobs" are worthless.

And this is the future, at the rate we're going.
>> most wall circuits are 120v, 20 amp.

The circuits yes, but the outlets/plugs are generally 15a. There are many hospital/industrial grade plugs that are 20a non-continuous, but anything that requires a steady 20a will have a strange t-shaped plug you will never see in a residential setting. If you want 20a most go with twistlock plugs, which are standard in the film/tv/live entertainment industry.
Arch Linux's "pacman" is exactly what you're looking for in those regards (to some degree). The only problem is that using pacman repositories instead of the language builtin ones means you're going to have issues with global installation and so on and so forth.

But you raise some really good points. I have to ponder this further.
I went to East Africa for the first time in 2013 and was surprised to see British style plugs on Zanzibar. But how could it be otherwise, since electricity would have been installed under British rule in the first half of the 20th century...
Of all the examples they could have chosen to support their argument, this one made me chuckle:

"The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies, but rarely compose their own original scores."

Unlike, er, Mozart himself who had what we might today call a Tiger Father and yet seemed quite capable of creativity.
That would most probably be the case if people get enough to satisfy current demand for products and at the same time create a surplus of capital to increase demand. If you got your basics covered, just barely, I don't think demand would rise.
Thunderbird checks cert validity. Actually, it's gotten more difficult to use an invalid cert, since the core Gecko code changed the invalid cert dialog to remove the ability to easily import the certificate into the NSS database.

It's sometimes quite helpful to built on the codebase that invented SSL.
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We once (edit: still do) had round-pin 15 amp plugs that were even larger.

But then at the same time we had smaller 5 amp plugs with 3 pins and even 2 amp plugs with 2 pins.

Then there were the Bakelite Y adaptors you could pop into lamp sockets in the ceiling to power a radio or similar low current device - they were used in houses that only had light circuits, no ring main. Those houses would have started with DC circuits, and would have had gutta-percha insulation on solid copper in the ceiling voids.

So that many decades ago, you could have 3 different plug standards in one house AND still see the jets and taps for gas lamps!

My point being: we might get away with a smaller plug, but the transition would take a few decades. The full story is below. I'd forgotten about the 30A 3-phase plugs...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets:_Br...
Tesla Hires Jim Keller as Vice President of Autopilot Hardware Engineering
wrk[1] does appear to reuse a connection for each request.

[1] https://github.com/wg/wrk
The electronics factories we work with are empty: large buildings filled with (Japanese and German) machines and a handful of people 'operating' them. A few years ago there were many people doing that same work. So sure there are some people manning them but a lot of jobs gone. Automation does not have to replace all jobs but it will and does replace most repetiti ve ones. So sure professional jobs stay for a while yet but what % is that? That is really not what most people do or are able to do. Like the biggest employ in the US is truckdriving: you really think that exists in 50 years? And what can a truckdriver do instead generally?
"I wrote the original software on Apple 2."

How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch
http://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-wrote-basic-for-the-ori...

In case you were wondering why people in computing hated Bill Gates with an undying passion. He still won't stop taking credit for others' work, and using the legal system to give himself special privileges (copyright and such) because of it.
Your life is Tetris, stop playing it like chess
> And yea I am aware they don't sign off but the Bakers aren't exactly experts; they would have said yes if the bankers said yes and the numbers seem high enough for them.

What are you trying to say here? The whole crux of this case is about the Bakers ignoring GS' advice.

> the Bakers definitely should have gone with a smaller bank given the deal size

$500mm is right about the median deal size of GS sell-side M&A engagements (at least it was when I left several years ago).

> not much difference between board advisory and management advisory is there? Theirs is the deciding vote.

If you are in fact an investment banker, you should be familiar with the non-trivial differences in the bank's responsibilities to the BOD and management team, regardless of BOD makeup and/or management's ownership of Company.
This is the first time I've seen a "The Hacker News for X" where X could plausibly have its own Hacker News. Education is as broad and ill-defined as hacking.

An analogy to Product Hunt, though, probably makes a better elevator pitch opening line than one involving Hacker News.
>speech sounds I can make when my lips are in pout formation.

u (actually whole range from o to u), v/w, probably f.

Even "r" - http://www.avspeechtherapy.com/2014/02/06/tips-to-pronounce-...
That sounds like what I said--portability to every conceivable unix, including ones that people no longer use--that autotools is good for legacy support.

I'm trying to see what benefit there it to start a project in 2016 and wrestle with autotools, just so that you also gain access to unixes no one uses.
Agreed...I told my 4 children that their mother and I were guided by two principles:

1} That we wanted them to become a "good" person...we let them puzzle out what a "good" person was, to the extent possible, tried to model the behavior we hoped for, and pointed out obvious examples of good behavior in everyday life...

2} That we wished them a "happy" life...to that end we encouraged any interests they expressed, and did our best to share in the joys they discovered for themselves...

We exposed them to as many new opportunities and interests as possible, then let them choose which they would like to repeat...this part was by far the most difficult because of varied interests...

When there were disagreements between them--sibling rivalry--we encouraged them to solve problems themselves...can't count the number of times we said things like, "You both want to sit in that chair at the same time, but that's not possible...how can you solve this problem?"

Parenting is likely the most difficult job on the plant...so far everything seems to be on track...
"Microbeads" are generally from 10 micrometers to 1 millimeter in diameter. [0] Ultrafine particles are less than 100 nanometers in diameter. [1] So while there could be environmental effects from ultrafine particles, the analogy to microbeads isn't necessarily correct.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbead
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafine_particle
A link to the repository or better yet an online demo might elicit more feedback. It might also make for a good "Show HN."

Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Yes! I was a C student. I had it drummed into me that wasn't good enough. It took me many years to realise I am good enough and to work past all that negative re-enforcement that was thrown at me every day for several years. Now I have a great job, a lovely wife and two beautiful children. I live in a lovely house in west London. I am financially independent and I love going to work every morning. If that isn't "good enough" then god knows what is!
The university I go to requires giving root access to third party closed source apps to use most of their IT infrastructure. I don't do this of course so I end up having to use things as a "guest" and occasionally my email clients can't sync.
Yeah, I've been pushing them to use a lot more immutability / "versioning" of items. Have a mutable copy used for composing purposes, and spawn snapshots from that which are what the rest of the system uses.

The actual way the data is used isn't particularly high-performance or massively-parallel, so it's all about fencing-in crappy logic and avoiding zillion-phase commits.
Using camcorder tapes to back up files (2007)
I don't see many advantages over the Schuko plug, used in most of Europe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuko

The outlets are recessed, so you physically cannot touch any of the pins while they are engaged. For the same reason, ground is on the periphery of the plug and engages before the pins make contact. The Schuko plug and outlet are designed to prevent you from shocking yourself while still being a reasonable size and aesthetically pleasant. The safety shutters mentioned in the video are standard in Schuko outlets in some countries.

It's great that they thought about safety when standardizing the design, and interesting to see precisely which decisions were made and why. However, "Best On Earth" is a bit hyperbolic for a video that makes no mention of a more popular design that embodies all the same safety features (save for the in-plug fuse) in a more convenient form factor.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11006793 and marked it off-topic.
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The one liner is great to have. I love that homebrew does that. For a project that you host, to be able to install it super fast and just get on with it is a huge plus.

However I chose not run this because it's a compiled binary and the source is nowhere to be seen. I choose not to trust a binary that I found on a forum from the internets. :)

I'm much more likely to try something like Wekan and evaluate it seriously just because I know that me and my team can build whatever features we need and we can trust the code because we can read it.

So does the business model work in the environment you're in? Eg giving the source to people who pay for it? Maybe it would be better to do something like eg nginx or cassandra or gitlab - have an OSS version and some premium version or at least some support contract with gold support or similar. It's a tough space to be fighting in with mature products and free products. How can you separate yourself from these other guys in a way that will still make you money? If it's just a self hosted trello alternative, that space may already be cloudy with Wekan. You need some differentiating quality to sit beside trello and wekan I think.
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dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001719

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10958399
I'm using org-mode. I like that it is designed as an extensible platform and that it's non-commercial basis means that features aren't held back to monetize a slow release roadmap.

That it's free and includes email and a shell are just gravy on the noodles.
The NEMA 5-20 receptacles are readily available at home improvement stores. To the extent you don't see them in residences, it's because the electricians were cheap. There's scant other reason to not use them on say a dedicated 20A bathroom circuit.
I've been wanting tape backup for home use for a couple of years now but haven't been able to afford any yet. I recently bought a new battery and some new casette tapes for my old digital camcorder. Just now I came to think, perhaps I can put backups on these tapes? I did an internet search and found this. I have not yet had a chance to test the tools mentioned in this article since my current desktop computer is lacking any firewire ports.

It is not advisible to have this as the primary method of backup but I found it interesting still and will personally be doing this in the future just for the fun of it.
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One problem is "TLS" isn't just one thing to understand and test against. TLS involves dozens of optional cypher suites and each one has a unique performance profile.

Just for fun, add !kEDH to your server's list of allowed cyphers then see how your performance changes.

Another performance impact some people overlook: your key size is also computationally expensive. There's not much reason to have a key larger than 2048 bits, so if you made a 4096 bit key just for fun, roll it back to a 2048 bit key for better performance too (plus, your mobile viewers will thank you for not burning their battery life needlessly).
Janet Napolitano running UC, part of which is Berkeley, the birthplace of the free speech movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement

Condoleeza Rice on the board of Dropbox, a mainstream file sharing/synching service where some of our "papers and effects" are kept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_%28service%29#2014-201...

There's a thing called regulatory capture: "Regulatory capture is a form of political corruption that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

This seems like that in reverse. I wonder what kind of capture it should be called.
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It would help others use the library if the assumptions that
affect correctness were explicit. The danger of "good enough" is
when it isn't and without knowledge, there are latent bugs in
other people's code.

Dates are hard because of the corner cases. Let people know which ones it doesn't handle.
For a political story to be on topic here, it needs to be intellectually interesting, for example describing a significant new phenomenon. Political horse-race stories aren't that, so please don't post them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think there is a #mensrights or #gamergate group you need to get back to. kthxbye.
That's always true though and it has nothing to do with this situation in particular.
For those of you who didn't grow up in the US, touching the live ends of a partially plugged-in cord (and the corresponding sensation of having medium-voltage electricity rolling through your fingers) is an experience most people have had.
Not necessarily net zero, but net "a lot less than it looks like".

There are a lot of tax breaks that are designed to reduce the tax burden of the middle class -- things like mortgage interest deductions -- that could be eliminated in a "Basic Income" setting.
> The only problem with making this argument for Apple specifically is that their stock price seems to figure in revolutionizing an industry every few years.

Not really. http://financials.morningstar.com/valuation/price-ratio.html... - Apple's P/E ratio has never exceeded 20 during the years of peak iPhone growth.

Compare with say, Facebook, which has a ~85 P/E ratio currently. Do investors expect a 300B market cap company to expand at the rate of 2010 Apple?
> I don't believe psychiatrists can think for you (though they can certainly feed you thoughts).

Right... like I said, it takes A LOT of effort on the suffers part. It's none of you business, but I take an SSRI and do cognitive behavioral therapy for OCD. The behavioral therapy is for learning and developing good habits and the medication helps prevent intrusive and obsessive thoughts. Nobody is "thinking for me" (It saddens me that this is the prejudice you have). These professionals help me help myself, by giving me tools, information, and guidelines I would not have access to otherwise.

A college-level course on object oriented programming isn't going to magically make you a good Java developer, but it may help you learn in a more sophisticated way than a self-taught curriculum. Either way, you wouldn't shame someone for "not helping themselves" or "taking the easy way out" by enrolling in such a course.
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It sounds like particles may spread to the whole building then. A ventilation outlet close would be better.
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Let's not forget John Yoo, the lawyer for the Bush Administration who kindly wrote the legal memorandum providing justification for an official adoption of torture, who was hired on at Berkeley law. Not only did these criminals never pay for their crimes against humanity, they've been allowed to prosper. It's a shame.
Single page link: https://reason.com/archives/2016/01/31/the-bill-of-rights-re...

For those who prefer to read the article whole, instead of arbitrarily split into two pages.
Plus there is that whole cargo-cult thing that happens with psychology, wherein anyone can read a few books about it and suddenly know there is, really, to know about a subject that won't ever subject itself to qualification. Help can be had beyond the authoritarian social structures imposed by officiated academic pursuit of control over another persons mind.
Thoughtful, innovative and interesting writing takes a long time and has only niche appeal. Clickbait can be written quickly and is massively lucrative.

Buzzfeed are doing some of the best investigative journalism in the world, because they can afford it. Their mastery of clickbait allows them to cross-subsidise the kind of quality reporting that many newspapers can no longer afford.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/markschoofs/jaw-dropping-investigati...
If you had linked to an existing service, I would have signed up on impulse.
A question for the journalist, how long would you expect your culture and society and economy to survive if all 2000 were actually "revolutionary adult creators"?

Another good question is why smart people have to be slaves. If a smart person wants to spend their life meditating, or serving the poor, or in a religious vocation, the journalists unhappiness about their decision is sad for the journalist, but I'm not really seeing the problem for the person. I'd even double down, and in a culture that's strongly anti-intellectual, a smart dude might very well see that his best course thru life of maximized happiness and love, is a non- or less- intellectual career. Sort of an "Atlas Shrugged" attitude. A "winner takes all" system doesn't motivate everyone, much like the lottery, the winners are those who don't play.
I believe you are correct, for new construction.

Yes, thankfully we have the NFPA. Interestingly, I just attended a high-angle rescue course last week, taught by a highly trained firefighter with more than a few actual rescues under his belt. He explained that for he and his collegues, NFPA was generally agreed to be an acronym for No F*cking Practical Application.

Whenever practical, I avoid the tamper-resistant outlets. Many times just getting them to accept a plug is a challenge.