skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this would appeal to many more people if it were a machine the size of a Taig or Sherline. Although some of the concepts are transferable, there will be a lot of issues in building something this size which would not be relevant to a smaller machine.

Are there really that many people with the kind of space for this and the items it produces who want to build their own 5 axis mill?

I also wonder how many people need the parts produced by a 5 axis machine with its enormously greater hardware and software complexity. In most cases you could design what you need to be built on a 3 axis machine and assemble it. For under $2000, you can have a lot of fun by buying/assembling a Taig CNC mill with a 4th axis. 2 1/2D and 3D raster software is not crazy expensive or complicated.
Nice job. I would say to try to do some t-shirts (there are some places online doing this already but it is worth a shot)
I'm going to make a controversial blanket statement and say that any company which doesn't consider extracurricular experience to be meaningful is probably not a company you want to work for. The reason being that side projects, open source experience, etc. are all indicators of passion. A company which doesn't appreciate that experience is a company which either doesn't understand or doesn't value passion in its employees.
Actually, people cannot afford to be obese. They are massively subsidized by others in terms of health care expenses. Healthy people and other taxpayers are footing the bill.
I completely agree with you (and the article) that free weights are the way to go over machine weights.

However, I completely disagree that weights are more important for general fitness than cardio. This was one of the primary claims of the article, and it wasn't backed up in any meaningful way. The part I quoted was just one illustration of the the author's attitude. His entire focus is on strength, not fitness.
Ask HN: Angel List and fake profiles / investors
Hey guys,

I recently added my startup on Angel List and I am getting pitches from some investors, which is all good.

However, those investors do not look very real. All of them (that contacted me so far), had a free email account (gmail, gmx or yahoo) and had some companies in their linkedin profiles / twitter profiles that do not look real. In a few of them it looks like a fake identity was created only to be used on Angel List.

Have you guys noticed it before?

Am I being too paranoid?
Why the MIT Ecosystem and the $100K are important (why vwadhwa has no clue)
Does your IPhone Made in China count?
I'm curious...how are you differentiating from expensecloud or expensify? I've used both (and like both..in slightly different ways).

The other piece they have (which I like) is they integrate with credit card companies / banks...so I can do my expenses with a combination of iphone-snapped receipts (small stuff) along with cc receipts.
No particular mental effort beyond that needed to abstain from committing suicide due to the extreme monotony of a treadmill run.

That said, the treadmill can be a fine tool for training. It allows you to totally ignore weather conditions, and actually for speed workouts it can have the advantage of forcing you to stay on pace. A common rule of thumb is that a 1% incline on the treadmill compensates for the lack of wind resistance.

I can't stand the damn things myself, but there are runners, including some guys I know personally, who train exclusively using the treadmill and still do well in races up to marathon distance (I've never heard of any ultramarathoners who train exclusively on the treadmill).
I'm not sure the amount or willingness of sources has changed that much since the AOL acquisition though it is possible.

But there is definitely a huge selection bias of contributors. People love to disclose when they invested in the hot startup and neglect to mention their big mistakes retroactively.

I suspect the biggest reason for the drop is just a smaller team and less commitment like the OP said. There has been a lot of headcount flux at TC for awhile and even more so since the AOL deal.
>Place your mouse over any feature for more information

You have an iOS app so may I suggest that you make your website fully iOS compatible?
I went from being a vegetarian to the paleo diet (or, actually, the "primal" variant). I thought about making this really long, but instead, realize that primal/paleo people use the primitive human as a model, a "common sense" starting base, and then apply liberal amounts of scientific knowledge to get a working solution.

It has changed my life. When I follow the diet, it has been pretty impossible not to lose weight. That's with eating as many eggs, as much butter, and as much natural, delicious, other whole foods as I can stuff myself with.
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Speak for yourself. I'm a bit more evolved than that sort of attitude.
I love the philosopher that wrote this, John Perry. He wrote this other essay called "The Essential Indexical" that is about how we assign reference to the word "I" in different contexts. Read it if you want an example of what Paul Graham refered to in one of his essays, when he says the lesson of philosophy '...is that the concepts we use in everyday life are fuzzy, and break down if pushed too hard." You certainly should read "The Essential Indexical" if you think you understand that when you use the word "I" it unambiguously refers.
Posted about a very similar idea on our blog, http://blog.sparkmuse.com/nexpense-success-through-persevera... . You've got some competition, but I think there is some great opportunity in the market too.
Nice tool! It is the perfect addition to this AWS load time test: http://www.alertfox.com/Tools/LoadTime/
Yeah. I need my # sign.

#winning #tigerblood
EFF takes a look at the 2011 Patent Reform Act
Why not? Wouldn't it be better for the government's PR situation to let us know that they are catching real terrorists instead of just prodding and handholding incompetent fools?

Maybe I don't understand anti-terrorism... but why trot out these phony stings and make the public think that these are just a bunch of incompetent over-hyped organizations (and I mean terrorist and intelligence alike)? If we are supposed to be suspicious and wary, wouldn't it be beneficial to have something really scary to feed the public?
Myhrvold: $700M in licensing revenue in 2010, $2B to date
The normal google captcha is pretty damn hard, once I had to go through like 5 or 10 before I got it though lately it seems to have gotten a little bit easier (or I now know how to guess it better).
"the only similarity between Android and iPhone is the form factor"

Where form factor includes size, shape, interaction paradigm and user interface conventions, software delivery mechanism, full web browser, on screen keyboard, accelerometer as a key user input device, ... and probably many other things I am forgetting.

If you look at most "smart phones" today, they will be surprisingly similar to the original iPhone (or at least the iPhone version when the App Store appeared).
Renesys' always excellent coverage throws some more light. They say the routers are all still up, there haven't been any routes withdrawn, but packets are just stopping somewhere on the way into libya. Firewalled I'm guessing, so privileged parties can still communicate.

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/02/libyan-disconnect-1.shtm...

http://www.renesys.com/blog/assets_c/2011/03/latencies_Libya...

The second one is a plot of traceroutes into libya over 24 hours.
"#2 Since the iPad 2 wasn't shipping at all, its volume is 0 at the time this was said. That much is inarguable, full stop. Ergo it is a lie."

No, he said when it was going to ship. It's a prediction. It's only a lie if he has good reason to believe that the won't ship in volume .
Curious idea, clearly borrowing from managed runtimes with garbage collected stack frames.

Random idea (feasible only where address space is plentiful): why not let the operating system's virtual memory subsystem worry about allocating stack space (reserve a large stack with mmap(), let the page faults be responsible for actually allocating the memory and periodically munmap() and re-mmap() the upper part of the stack.
> 2) Lower the barrier to attending events, restaurants, etc in urban areas where parking is an issue. (if you car can go park itself a couple of miles away and you can phone it up when you want to go home, win)

It lowers the barrier on travel in another way too. Put a comfortable bed in the self driving car and anywhere within 8 hours drive is now a night's sleep away. Weekend tourism would be a lot more fun that way.
This reminds me of this Journeyman documentary subject on the plans of Chinese business-persons to develop a Swedish town into a large commercially thriving community - http://www.journeyman.tv/61449/documentaries/chinatown.html

Not poverty-reduction-related but does relate to the subject in a different way..
How many followers do these said investors have on Twitter or connections in their linkedin profiles?

You should be able to find a decent amount of hits by simply googling their name and their respected companies.
We have a special iOS-friendly template for most of the pages on the site. Or do you mean you want the option to skip that template?
Aristotle is very very disappointed with your logic, my friend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inference#Examples_of_deductive...
No, the point is who knows what types of apps will be deemed undesirable next?

IE. What if Apple decides that they'd rather have only the top 1 or two apps for a category? That having only one throwing physics game, or one tower defense game, is what customers really want? Sure, that's ridiculous, but it's not THAT far from Apple's history.

Or, maybe apps that let you play musical instruments compete too much with the new Garage Band.

The point is, there is no limit to what Apple can change.
Sure, they do weigh a lot more than I do. Isn't that part of the fair comparison? You don't give a cyclist or runner a backpack with weights in it because it's "unfair" that he weighs less than the other cyclist/runner. These guys were probably training pull ups every week at least, so it's on their home territory. Yet their training is less effective than running & cycling. For the vast majority of activities, performance relative to body weight is the interesting measure, not absolute weight lifted. I'm just saying that if lifting weights is so much better than other forms of training, why weren't they able to do pull ups much better?

My second point is that yes, this is an anecdote. So is the article. Don't take either as a scientific inquiry.
I think that's true for some folks, but not others. Lots of normals still buy expensive TVs at Best Buy, WalMart, etc. and get a paper receipt. Thanks for checking it out.
Sure it does. Why wouldn't it?
The community is amazing. I've been to groups for other languages, but they aren't as hands on or useful as the Ruby meetings. The Ruby group in my area does monthly 'hack nights' where experienced rubyists pair up with noobs and implement a small project. That kind of interaction keeps me motivated and lets me pickup standard practices and tools much faster.
That point can be made, with vitriol, without resorting to attacking other members of HN.
Interestingly enough some former USSR long distance runners used squats as a form of substitute during winter training (if it was too cold to do long outdoor runs).

Thing is that 5k is really really really short distance for a human. I honestly can not be bothered with gym anymore so I just run about 10k a day with longer weekend runs, 5 times a week.
Ah, I hadn't considered that reading of it. For what it's worth, I'd want a full stop period or even line break before the second punchline before I'd read it that way. In that way the joke is perhaps much more funny to people who read it that way and only slightly less funny to others.
Ask HN: How to hire freelancers specialized in continuous deployment?
Hi I am trying my hand in writing a SaaS application.

I have been reading blogs by Eric Ries and others. I am reading through Web Operations book by John Allspaw and I am determined to make sure I have Continuous Deployment for my SaaS.

Right now, I have a AWS EC2 instance running.

My SaaS application is 50% ready.

I use Git for Version Control and Capistrano to deploy though frankly I don't really grok the Capistrano script.

I hired a Linux expert from UK via elance to help me with installing multiple SSL certificates on a single AWS EC2 instance.

However, he is not that familiar with Capistrano and continuous deployment tools like Hudson, etc and he is unavailable for the next 2 weeks.

Searching through elance and oDesk using keywords like Hudson, Buildbot, Capistrano, Selenium, etc leads me nowhere.

Most providers on those websites specialized in software programming and not continuous deployment.

How do I hire a freelancer to help me in this area?

Note: I am based in Asia if that makes any difference.
What answer does it want?

I got "-6-7x7". Does it want proper order of operations applied, giving -6-49=-55? Or does it want it the silly way that most (I suspect) people are going to do it, left-to-right without respect to order of operations, -13x7=-91?

(oops, the asterisks give italics rather than multiplication!)
No, its was a 3gs.
Show HN: Pretty Girls at SxSW
Clickables below:
http://hot-spot.me/sxsw.php

A couple days ago, I posted a mashup I did of the SxSW panelist directory. I found it a lot easier to pick panels based on what companies people came from. I got no love from YC:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281104

So let's try this again. This time, pick the pretty people, and if you make it through all the pages, I'll give you a list of the "prettiest" panels based on everyone's votes.

When I conceived of this, I wondered how evil it was. But after testing it a bit, I'm pretty confident in saying that pretty people propose great panels! I'm sure a larger discussion could be had on this topic. Maybe a panel next year? Anyone pretty want to propose it?

And in my defense, against claims I'm being objectifying and mean, I'm not showing anyone's ratings and I'm only showing the 20 most popular panels for each gender. If your panel was not picked, you were probably #21 and missed it by a hair.
"Humans are no longer subject to natural selection."

What? Are you sure? Because we most certainly are subject to natural selection.
Pretty People:
http://hot-spot.me/sxsw.php

No Love:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281104
I believe it's not as big a deal now as it was when it first arrived. At that time the idea of an MVC web framework wasn't new. Django was also in development and PHP had several crap web frameworks available. So, there weren't very many web frameworks and what was out there wasn't very good. Rails hit the scene and brought the idea of web frameworks to the masses of web developers. Even today after all those years there are PHP frameworks which try to mimic Rails and fall short. The alternatives of today are largely good enough though, especially for more specialized cases.

I think you are a step behind. These days you should probably be asking "what's the big deal with Node.js?" ;)
That's funny. I wonder if that encourages people who otherwise wouldn't sign up. It obviously self selects your clientele.
I might need to implement a "2 trains leave" problem for my captcha.
With the people I've dealt with who aren't in the tech scene, modifying a computer is black magic. Openness is... not desired. What they want is a consumer appliance. Like a TV.

Didn't quite use to be that way. Computer users seemed to be at least a little geek, and wouldn't totally flip at installing a video card. At least in my experience.

So I say, screw the closed systems, I'll keep my PCs and read source code, I'll deep link to web sites from my blogs.
Hm, isn't that "random idea" the conventional way of assigning thread stacks? Just carve out a piece of virtual address space, and put the stack pointer there. OS maps in memory when the application actually touches the pages. This works great for 64 bit systems.
(the difference with your idea is that the memory is never unmapped / returned to the system unless the thread dies)
There is a way around it. Libyan activists, specially those in Tripoli are able to get the word out even if he powers down the whole country.

Fret not, all Gaddafi is doing is signal to those in areas under his control that he is losing control. Nothing could damage him now more than a mismanaged public image; that's why you see the cleaning crew sweeping streets and taking out garbage, to send strong signals of normalcy by attending to mundane chores. It's all poker bluffs; if a handful of generals understood he is out, and accepted it, he will be out.
Because John McCain said it? Let's hear it from some sources in the Middle East.
It is evolution, and it speeds up with higher populations. As for natural selection, consider that only small changes in allele frequencies add up quickly through the generations. Also, sexual selection is very much a force.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/33322719/Cochran-Gregory-10-000-ye...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/science/11gene.html
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/12/humans-evolving/
Great idea. I hate hate hate paper receipts, and have definitely lost the ability to return things because I couldn't find the receipt 8 months later.
The goal is to provide a lower-friction product and compete on ease of use. E.g. no special formats to follow, no pesky emails reminding you to update certain things - just upload and go (we're not quite there yet). In some cases that means we won't be a replacement for a service like expensify, and that's fine with us.
* It’s tougher to monetize on Android, which forces a scrappier corporate culture. *

This is a positive?
It's definitely curable. My hypothetical was based on the assumption that treatment was not given to show that we actually have not evolved defenses against the virus.
The comparison to current public transportation is unfair. First, imagine what public transportation would be like today if as much money had been invested as has been invested in cars. There are more licensed vehicles in the U.S. than there are licensed drivers.

Cars simply cannot beat public transportation in raw material use, operating cost or road space utilization. My car occupies 70 sq ft of road space. At most, it can fit 5 people. That's 14 sq ft per person. A typical bus uses half that (calculated from an MCI D series). Since raw material use is more dependent on the volume, the savings will be even greater there.

My car gets 30 miles per gallon. Fully loaded, that's 150 person-miles per gallon. A fully loaded bus beats that even if it only get 3 miles per gallon. However, since buses run standard routes, they can be wired directly to the power grid, eliminating the need for separate fuel and eliminating the need for the batteries than an electric car needs.

And this is with current technology, developed despite substantially more money being spent on cars and highways.

The reason your commute is faster with a car is that there aren't enough buses/trains. Vehicles with dedicated routes (such as trains and buses driving on bus-only roads) don't get caught in traffic. If they were comparably common, there's no way you could beat them on time either.
If you found it underwhelming, you're probably a pretty good programmer, knowledgable about best practices.

This is more for people who aren't (yet).
related - i just today published an interview with the creator of Dialyzer and he discusses 'success types'... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2288327
If he added running about 50k a week at least I would agree with him. Running is one of those base things that anyone can do, and it is almost free.
Do not fall for it.
One thing that's occurred to me -- there's obviously an asymmetry of effort in captchas. Reliable proof that someone is human is very hard. What about reliable proof that something is not human, but an automaton? Can we make this stronger, and make it reliable proof that something is a particular automaton?

It seems to me, the answer is Yes. This is actually very powerful and useful for security. (Even if you can only count on the first time it's answered.)
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Most probably not : http://www.quora.com/Can-http-bit-ly-and-others-using-Libya-...
When you send us a receipt, we store it, create an account for you, and send you a welcome email with all the info you need to upload more receipts and view them online.

Sorry you feel our tooltips are a gimmick - we used them because we felt it was the best way to convey the most information without crowding the screen with excessive copy.
Having travelled both Indonesia and Thailand I am surprised you mentioned Thailand as a good spot for Surfing. I just found a lot more surfers in Bali and on the Gili Islands.

Food was probably comparable in price, but a Bintang being slightly more expensive than an 80Baht Chang :)
Wouldn't it be fairly simple to run tests for awhile and give the thumbs up if the average, shall we say, carnage rate is lower than with human drivers? Seems like it would be a no-brainer.

And when there are inevitably problems (or even deaths) caused by the AI systems, it's not like car companies don't currently have liability for malfunctions in their designs. Seems it would be the same...
A great, if dated, start is The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants. PDF at http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop
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High-level mathematics is difficult for humans and provably impossible for computers.
Elvis Presley sent you 3 things in common

I would look at rewording, eg: Elvis Presley posted 3 things you have in common
I didn't see your first post, but I like this one. Your title was interesting, so I clicked through to the website. Once there I saw at least one pretty girl, so it was easy to get started and go through all the pages. You suckered me in!
Please forgive my fat iThumb.
I'm not arguing what "nature intended us to" do (the human body is more adaptable than what the advocates of the Paleo diet take into consideration). I'm referring more to certain people with health problems who eat mainly fast food or food from the box and barely eat an apple a week. I know a few people who are like this and they end up stressing themselves by sticking to some draconian diet to get healthy.

I'm saying there's no need to stick to some strict diet, just eat a wide variety of foods instead of just one subset. The whole "think like a primitive man thing" is just a helpful starting point to point you towards what kinds of food to look for, but I'm not advocating some strict following. I had three In and Out dinners this past week since I'm too short on time to hunt down a pigeon or pluck mysterious fruits from trees all day.
Great online curation of systems papers
Numerous studies (See the first chapter of "Why we get Fat, by Taubes) have shown that Obesity is a disease of poverty. The food that keeps you lean (protein/fats) is expensive. Carbs are cheap. Poor people eat carbs. Rich people eat steak, chicken, fish. There is no significant research that shows adding exercise to an overweight person's lifestyle will significantly reduce their weight - typically just increases their appetite.
and besides, I'm not entirely sure that these are "unbreakable" whatsoever. If you really want to break this, I'd do some math-specific OCR + WolframAlpha...
Is it Sheen Me dot me? Or Sheen Meme? Either one works.

I just went to check if AsSheenOnTV.com was taken. Apparently someone already had that idea.
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