skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't owned a printer in probably 10 years and I'm not particularly young (32).

I get their usefulness in some aspects of business operations but I'm a bit at a loss as to why an individual would purchase one.

What are the use cases now? The only two I can think of are printing photos, which I get but it seems better handled either through a photo printer or an outside service or for printing 'offical' documents to fill out manually, but I've completed many such transactions by digitally filling out and signing a pdf.
You tried cheap consumer printers only, I suppose. Did you try Epson Workforce Pro series? Or Canon Maxify?
On the perhaps more reassuring side, it's possible for there to be an AI that takes into account human emotion, but does not have any of its own. Given power in the real world, it would do a better job of making people happy than a human with all their biases. It wouldn't assume that other people must like things it like, for example.

(Of course, making an AI that understands emotion isn't easy. And happiness by itself is an insufficient goal if we're building ourselves a benevolent overlord.)
Great find, thank you for sharing.
Reminds me of:

"I am going to spend the rest of my career focusing on the hard problems of computer science: printers, projectors, and screen sharing."

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A significant part of that milestone was achieved when the IBM Watson defeated humans in Jeopardy.
In the grand scheme of things, what is the point of humans repeating billion of times the same cycle?: born, grow, learn, achieve some things, have some fun, and die. It is awesome a few times. But it is worth to repeat and repeat that for ever? Not if there is a much better option: The singularity. It has the potential to enhance the human race in formidable ways. Yes,there is the risk that the AI may chose to destroy us. But in my opinion is a bet that we should take. Just try our best to not be destroyed in the way. But we shouldn't leave this opportunity unexplored. It would be the biggest achievement of humanity.
Sure you can. The difference is in usage pattern. If you use printer rarely, ink will dry out and you will have to clean the head (using lots of ink in process) or replace cartridge. On the other hand with the frequent usage laser printers become cheaper per page quickly. I once had Epson Stylus 800. Sucked big time. Replaced with HP 6L, never owned an inkjet again, never will.
> Does Vim require special font support

Not really, that's the terminal emulator's job. If you want to use unicode fuckery for pointless hipster icons, you just need to have the glyphs in any installed font, and the terminal should substitute it when needed, no matter what your configured default font is (unless said font also provides the glyphs).
Astronaut Scott Kelly fought off aliens in space with Microsoft's HoloLens
Found this to be pretty handy at times: [Devec](https://github.com/lindahua/Devectorize.jl).
What's the best way to run a debugger through Julia code? I value an interactive debugger much more for this kind of nitty gritty numerical programming than I do for lots of other tasks.
Pretty much this.
I agree. A lot of that is because no one has taken the lessons hard learned from every other numerical language and just replicated it (hardware acceleration,BLAS,ndarrays,..)

The JVM has a lot of matrix library fragmentation.
Not only that, but the age of consent in Texas is 17. It sounds like she met him "shortly after" being trafficked at age 15.
Presidents too are essentially chosen that way
I'm equally happy with our Brother HL-2150N. Already using the third cartridge in its fifth (?) year, but a very basic and cheap and capable laser printer.
i have a cheap brother b/w laser at home, and use slightly more expensive hp b/w lasers at work because they're faster.

at home i print things like movie and event tickets. i don't like fumbling around on my phone for tickets because sometimes there's no reception and the email or whatever isn't cached. occasionally i will have government paperwork or something to print from home also. i will also print out maps and lists when i know reception will be crappy.

basically, mandatory paperwork and shitty cell reception are my use cases.
> Not everyone however accepts an email with + in the name part.

It's beyond this. MOST email address forms won't accept a '+'. I had to change the extension character to '_' on my server because it's the only non-alphabetic character that everybody seems to accept.
I don’t know what kind of printers you buy, but the ones I had – from HP and Canon – solved all those issues:

(a) you can refill cartridges, you know that?

(b) printers will ask you "foreign cartridge detected, accept? yes/no", and it works

(c) refill ink goes for a few cents per liter

(d) the printer works fine without some cartridges, just press "yes" when it asks you "print with just black?"

(e) I print 400 pages university books on one set of cartridges once a semester usually, and have enough left to print another whole semester my homework.
Well the same thing was mentioned about Kos and game three showed that AlphaGo was very effective by both having few Ko threats and playing them when imperative. It also demonstrated effective gameplay as black with 4.4 & 4.3 opening.

Considering the large training data set, handicap games would certainly be included. It's a great way to test aggressiveness and the effectiveness to reduce the opponents' territory whilst building your own.

As an amateur, handicap games where you try to overcome 3 or 4 stones are some of the most educational experiences. It requires a lot more creative thinking and perseverance to come back from such a disadvantage.
Both sides of almost every political debate use fear to try to get their way. Anti-encryption folks talk about the parade of horribles that private communications could enable, anti-gun people talk about school shootings, pro-army/navy/air force groups talk up terrorists and foreign enemies, pro-social program partisans pretend that the rich make money by abusing the poor.

There is unfortunately nothing new, unique, or particular about a group using fear to persuade or dissuade people from supporting a measure.
Honest question: Why printers are so stuck in time? Why no great innovations? Why there is no product out there that "Just work" and won the Market?

I never heard of startups making printers, not even those dreamy kickstart projects.

Why we have this product that annoy People for ages and no one fix it? Anyone could give me any insight?
Lee Sedol didn't complain about this. In fact, even a few days before the match Lee Sedol was predicting a 5-0 win for him.

If someone is clearly better than you, you can study it's style all you want, it won't make a difference. You probably wouldn't even understand it's style.
Sometimes the ISP mandates the modem/router, it has to be the one they give you. And in my case, trying to change it is more trouble than it's worth. Before you ask, there isn't such a great choice in ISPs here either...
The lawsuit alleges he did these things. They shouldn't be stated as facts at this point.
If you trust openwhispersystems than on android it is guaranteed to be the same build that was uploaded. All builds are signed by developer unlike apple (where you sign builds to prove that this is your build to apple, not to user).
I think they sell the printers at a loss in order to make money from the cartridges.
See my post here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=11275071

We have this concept of a backend where we had net lib java and jblas, but both are horribly slow/limited and need some updating which is why we added our approach to this.

If a new matrix framework comes out, I will just write a backend for it and allow people to keep the same dsl.

Breeze also isn't usable from java:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27246348/using-breeze-fro...

FWIW, we also support both row and column major (you can specify the data as well as ordering) very similar to numpy.

If you come use nd4j, it will mainly be for a dsl that encourages vectorization just like any other numerical language.
'The electronic I Ching calculator was badly made. It had probably been manufactured in whichever of the South-East Asian countries was busy tooling up to do to South Korea what South Korea was busy doing to Japan. Glue technology had obviously not progressed in that country to the point where things could be successfully held together with it. Already the back had half fallen off and needed to be stuck back on with Sellotape.'

'It was much like an ordinary pocket calculator, except that the LCD screen was a little larger than usual, in order to accommodate the abridged judgments of King Wen on each of the sixty-four hexagrams, and also the commentaries of his son, the Duke of Chou, on each of the lines of the hexagram. These were unusual texts to see marching across the display of a pocket calculator, particularly as they had been translated from the Chinese via the Japanese and seemed to have enjoyed many adventures on the way.'

'The device also functioned as an ordinary calculator, but only to a limited degree. It could handle any calculation which returned an answer of anything up to "4".'

'"1 + 1" it could manage ("2"), and "1 + 2" ("3") and "2 + 2" ("4") or "tan 74" ("3.4874145"), but anything above "4" it represented merely as "A Suffusion of Yellow". Dirk was not certain if this was a programming error or an insight beyond his ability to fathom, but he was crazy about it anyway, enough to hand over £20 of ready cash for the thing.'
Not colour? Happy to refill yourself?

Have a look on the Open Printing site to see if there's a driver that can be used with CUPS. Then have a look on toner seller sites to see if the carts can be refilled cheaply.

The Open Printing site tends to list any problems some printers / mutli-function devices have.

http://www.openprinting.org/printers

Check the wider www too, because OpenPrinting is user generated and might not be up to date.

http://www.cups.org/

The Arch wiki has some nice documentation for CUPS: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS

So does FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/cups/
I only very lately learned that you could attempt some hackish head cleaning with warm purified water. By pouring it in place of colored ink, it's supposed to melt dried stuck ink clogging the head.

I had a Lexmark S605[1], unfortunately the black side of the head got clogged, making it almost useless, unless cheating by printing in blue.

[1] the best AIO wireless printer I had. Solid build, not noisy, consistent throughput. My mother had to buy a quick replacement, a HP envy4500, it's a cheap piece of crap. Even the motors sucks. Slow, noisy, random.
environment is an issue, but I think the overpopulation card is overplayed and controversial
> Is there a middle ground?

Look at how anti-drug-cartel and anti-terrorism laws have been applied in practice in the US. We've basically trained law enforcement and prosecutors that their jobs get magically easier by acquiring superpowers as long as they whisper the magic words "terrorism" and/or "drugs" (or "kiddieporn" ) three times. See civil forfeiture, for an instances of law enforcement routinely abusing superpowers it gains by whispering "drugs" three times before grabbing something. This sort of mission creep/misuse is a social problem that's immune to technical solutions. No matter how perfect key escrow is, it's in the career interests of law enforcement and prosecutors to socially engineer their way around the protections.

We're not intentionally creating a Super Stasi, but we're accidentally creating lots of mini Super Stasis by law interpretations that allow bulk collection at an unprecedented level and poorly thought out career incentives for law enforcement and prosecutors. When there are no consequences for admittedly leaking the identity of an active undercover CIA asset for political reasons[0], there will be no consequences for leaking anyone's personal information for political reasons.

The magic words used to include "communist", which allowed the FBI[1] way too much investigative power into the civil rights and feminist movements simply by whispering "communist, communist, communist.". The FBI's activities included actively interfering with the civil rights movement. There's also evidence that someone with access to the bug recordings from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s hotel room tried blackmailing him into committing suicide[1]. Hopefully that was just one or two rogue agents.

The inability of government agencies to secure their own systems, along with commercial pressures on companies, means that once these investigative powers are created, they're also available to any medium sized country. If you're on the political left, this means homosexuals in many countries are at risk. If you're on the political right, it means many Christians and other religious minorities in many countries are at risk.

So, the middle ground is not about trusting the current FBI and current US intelligence services. It's about trusting all current and future FBI's and the the intelligence and law enforcement agencies of all medium-sized countries from here forward.

As a minimum set of requirements, the middle ground would seem to require:

1. Not allowing a rogue US LEO to blackmail MLK by whispering "communist"/"terrorist" three times
2. Generally Technically solving the LEO/prosecutory social engineering problems of key escrow
3. Not putting sexual, religious, and political minorities in foreign countries at risk

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage_(politician)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

EDIT: Forgot to actually include footnote.
There is a recently developed vaccine for HPV which has turned out to be more successful than was expected. Currently it is recommended only for high risk groups, but is available for others who may be at risk for exposure.
Having done both Java and scientific programming I'd mostly say that the verbosity of Java really distracts away from the task of writing scientific code. An academic really doesn't usually care to learn about singletons and classes to write really fast for-loops. Also while the speed of Java now is awesome, floating point performance is key for those scientists who do know more systems level programming (memory management is a big issues). Actually GC in Julia can be a pain also.
And 99% carry traces of feces
Printers are my biggest IT nightmare. No piece of modern computer hardware fails so consistently, so ununderstandably or so frequently as a printer.
Is there room in the market for a 'prosumer' printer, something like the OnePlus of printers?

Along with non-apple laptops and notebooks, printers seem to be one of the things people complain about the most.
Epson - If its not chipped ink cartridges its vacuum tubes on their print-heads.

Canon, the print head or logic board dies and unless you replace one and it works or fails you don't know which - sorry.

HP - built like a tank - ink priced like mil-spec.

Dell/Lexmark shiny logo in place of compatibility.

Never buy a network printer without an LCD display to read error messages/input IP addresses.

Beware of printers that can't use card stock - at all (Yeah, Canon, you and your latest inkjets).

Might try Brother next.
Well, why can I print with just black ink on my canon and HP multifunction printers then?

(they also allow me to do high-res (4800dpi) scans of money without any issue, in hilarious contrast to photoshop, which refuses to open them)
Neither one are establishment candidates. They have too few ties/obligations to the powers-that-be and the media..
I just checked that type number online, to see whether that was possible (or a typo on your end): two-sided printing for that price. But you're right.

I'm (almost unfortunately) not in the market for a new laser printer. My current Brother HL-2150N still works like a (one-sided) charm.
Of course were limiting this to a 2d plane.
The concept is nice but the EcoTank printers themselves look like junk, in the store at least. Given how expensive they are, you'd have thought they'd make the design more durable-looking or used better materials. That said, I haven't seen the ET14000 or two-tray workforce in person, and maybe they work better than they look :)
Over the past few months:

* Printing tax forms (even if you do them electronically it is much easier to have a file folder of all your info should you get a query from the government)
* Printing homework or practice questions for my kids
* Printing registration forms for the many places that aren't computerized
* Faxed identification for various purposes
* Faxed contracts for real estate
* Scanned documents and identification for people that accept them over email
* Scanned expenses

And that's not including my wife's use of it, who is a student and will regularly print off stuff to mark up by hand.
I was crying by #18 and I got sick while reading #24. What in the actual fuck. I don't even know what to do right now, I'm just sitting here shaking in shock.

This is the most disgusting thing I've ever read in my entire god damn life.
Why bother? It's working with radically incomplete and imperfect information where the core of human intelligence actually lies.
You can recruit neurons within your own brain, not plug the equivalent of 4 brains into your brain and increase your cognitive abilities.

Now, while many people die and their ideas die with them, there are built in aspects of our brain that are hardwired. People eat animals because they are tasty, people follow the life of Kim Kardashian and waste money buying a rolex and wear fur just because the stupid way our social functions are hardwired in our brain.
I have the same printer and I too have had no issues in 5+ years of use.
What happened in the past is not an indication of what will happen in the future, past automation was trivial and small compared to the automation happening today. To continue to bury your head in the sand and proclaim "there will be new jobs" is utterly missing the point being made, no, there will not be a continual supply of new jobs to replace the old ones. Low skill jobs are going away permanently, not just shifted to new fields like in the past. The effect of machines on the economy (industrial revolution) is not going to be the same as the effect of intelligent machines on the economy; the past doesn't predict the future, it only occasionally rhymes with it. Intelligent machines aren't going to create enough new jobs to replace the ones they destroy, by design.
There are a few.

Tickets. Boarding Passes. Government forms that cannot be filed electronically. Carrying information you need where you don't want to reply on a phone whose battery could run out.

To read something in a focused way, with no internet to distract you.

I printed out a plane ticket today to fly in a country where waving your phone with the same ticket is apparently not satisfactory.
The original rationale for the JVM -- "write once, run anywhere" -- no longer exists since nobody downloads applets anymore.
The more sensible technology for making code run on multiple platforms still works quite well. It's called a compiler.
With all of the hype and excitement for 3d printers, I always have the many failings of 2d printers itching at the back of my brain...
to the extent that it doesn't it's not really life-based at all.

Obviously, because no MMOs have contrived mechanics, ever!
Even that bit has a lot of gravel deposits on the ORM.
I use the Number26 Master Card and it is completly free.
I'm sure I'm having a brain fart and missing something obvious, but why are inkjets cheaper than laser only at lower monthly page volumes?

Seems that your savings would just continue to increase the more you print. Or is there something else that affects the inkjet price per page at higher volumes?
Show HN: Yet another JS/CSS asset manager for Node.js
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No, there's plenty of reasons why you'd want more characters available. I use emoji for git diffs in my vim line number column, for showing battery status, audio levels, etc in tmux, and so on.
https://xkcd.com/925/

Teen pregnancies cause cell phones, duh! ;-)
This basic income idea has been popping up a lot lately. And there's some merit to it, but there's some major problems too.

The biggest problem I see is giving people cash. Why not instead give each adult a voucher for housing (just barely adequate for cheap housing) and each person $5/day food stamps (or something similar), regardless of income.

Everyone gets a lower stress level this way. The risk of being homeless or hungry go to near zero. It doesn't matter if you're unemployable, or starting a business, or between jobs. You know you're going to be okay.

While giving people cash seems to have the same effect, it doesn't. At least here in the US, money problems are (mostly) a money-management problem. Many people use any cash they get to pay for whatever seems the most pressing at the moment - whether it's rent or a big screen TV. People buy the TV when they have money and rent isn't due yet, then have a little unexpected expense and can't pay rent. The stress level hurts them, hurts their families, causes increased expenses (e.g. payday loan).

My parents were like this, in six-figure-income years and in dead-broke years. It hurt us quite a bit. And "loaning" them money NEVER helped - they'd pay the mortgage today and then buy the TV when the next payday came in. And there's LOTS of people like this, which is why there's a payday loan on every corner.

Now, we've taken care of my mom by covering her housing and utilities directly. And her stress level is down a lot. It works great. This would have also helped me a lot when I was a student. And it means more startups - since all startups would be "ramen profitable" by default. And in the US, we could fund this with about a 10% tax (probably less if we took some funds out of SS, disability, section 8, etc.).
What are you going to offer that the big printer manufacturers don't offer today?

Cheaper prices? I doubt it, you're not going to be at the same scale as the big players and will pay a ton more for parts. Not to mention you're going to have major upfront costs for tooling, molds, etc. unless this thing is going to look like an erector set.

Higher quality? Again doubtful, unless you've been researching inkjet technology for years and have some incredible breakthough. If you're asking how hard it is to make a printer I doubt you have some special tech ready to revolutionize the industry (no offense).

Cheaper ink? If you want to cheap out you can already refill ink cartridges or even buy recycled / dirt cheap ink for most printers. There are plenty of knockoff cartridges and even brick and mortar stores (look at any mall) that sell those cheap cartridges. Or just go laser and never worry about stupid cartridges again.

Better support? Not on a Kickstarter project budget. Have fun dealing with crazy customers freaking out that their 15 year old Windows 2000 box won't use your printer.