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Cool, nice work. I think the "I do blah" can be awkward but I like the focus.

For fun, my friend and I made a similar site called http://threeabout.me (profile example: http://threeabout.me/max). It's centered around describing yourself with the three most important things you want people to know about you.

I think we both desire some kind of online profile that has limits, kind of like describing yourself in a tweet.
YouTube: 402 Payment Required
Hello folks,

the big YouTube conversion services around the world seem to have the same problem since about 24 hours: YouTube only responds with a 402 Payment Required status code on _every_ request made to youtube.com

Is anybody else having issues like that when trying to access YouTube from a server? (Maybe especially from the 85.17. IP range?)
Which is exactly why it goes on Hacker News. I would never in a lifetime recommend it to my mother.
You're right. I guess that our excitement took over and I kinda forgot the HN etiquette for a moment.
Interesting suggestion! Definitely something I'd love personally as well, it's firmly on the todo list. Thanks! :-)
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We're working on it. Main reason to launch US only was not to pull off a color.com type of #faillaunch. But expect LocalUncle to be available worldwide sooner than you think! Follow us at @localuncle on T to stay in the loop.
I almost bought one, but the smallest one is $ 40.91 + $ 19.99 (international shipping) = $ 60.90 a single cup. So I had to gave up.
Ask HN: Who designed your logo?
Been so disappointed by results of 99designs I wonder if YC's companies are sharing contact details of some talented logo designers.

Thanks in advance for sharing.
You do need the app. Do you think it would be possible to build it via 4sq messaging system? We were looking into different options, but came to the conclusion that this was the only way to build it.
It's less a factor of price for most things than just the material properties of the finished product and the fact that most things aren't a blob of material, but have circuit board, etc. that requires assembly.

That said - cups, jewelry, etc. that can be made at once don't have these material/assembly issues. Jewelry only costs $20 more to do using 3D printed patterned (as opposed to molded patterns), but with ceramic cups you're right: price is the biggest hang up currently.
Why, you can generate the next and next-next pages while reading the current one, right?
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Hey,

It's not aimed so much about having an online profile for yourself with constraints, but to inspire others and be inspired yourself. Three about me looks neat though, interesting to see how creative people can be when constrained in describing themselves.
Really cool idea. It's a lot of fun just randomly browsing around and reading peoples' stories.

Tiny annoyance: the line-height: 36px (application.css:23) makes wrapped section headings look strange. One simple fix is to replace that with margin-top: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px;.
One was put on http://Thingiverse.com, so I'm sure there are FDMed ones (RepRap, Makerbot, etc.) - but there are actually nice looking ceramic ones.
Alelo deveoped a multiplayer online language learning role-playing game (Mission to Senegal) that uses speech recognition for conversations with NPCs. There's no combat, but there are skills, intrigue, leveling-up, exploration, etc. Practicing your language skills through interactions with NPCs is a big component of gaining levels. Unity 3D was used and the game will be demonstrated at I/ITSEC later this month.

It's not an open world, but it's not entirely linear - the game is a 4-5 hour story-driven role-playing game in an immersive world designed to help teach French and the culture of Senegal. The game is intergrated with an online and social curriculum to learn French and is a supplement to the online course, not a complete replacement.

Mission to Senegal isn't Skyrim by any means. =) But it is fun and it does utilize gameplay.

Its actual effectiveness in helping players learning French is still being evaluated - the game is part of a research project - the Integrated System for Language Education and Training (ISLET) funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and performed by the Academic Consortium for Global Education (ACGE).

ISLET is being used in an active study with U.S. Navy and Marines to assess how they learn through the system. A goal of the research project was to assess learner behavior and how the game component might impact the learning process and motivation.

A brief article about the study's announcement is here:
http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=60581
This is not exactly breaking news. The need for space exploration became evident a good couple dozen million years ago, when the dinosaurs died without knowing what hit them, precisely because they didn't explore space.
There are many opportunities for practical learning at law schools. Yes, you can go through 3 years of school without learning out to draft a contract. You can also sign up for a clinic or internship or a drafting course.

For better or worse, law school forces students to take responsibility for their learning. Many professors just aren't good at teaching so students often end up teaching themselves a subject. Thus, the gigantic market in study aids. This all hits home when you have to absorb tons and tons of material to take the bar exam.
No, they don't. They are fully aware of what they are doing, the history behind it, and the possible consequences of their actions. They are doing it because it is the right thing to do. In a time such as this, where the only voice you are left with is protest, then protest is the right way to use your voice.
Your post is perfect for the HN crowd. But I think even among "techies", Jekyll/Octopress are the ideal solution for only a minority of people reading this.
Thanks! Well, we've only been featured for about 72h now. We're seeing that download rates are doubling daily. And on the first day we got over 1k downloads. You can do the math. People I talked to say that we can expect anywhere from 50k-100k downloads. Let's hope for the best!
Though not important to the essence of your post, I would like to point out that beer is sold until 20:00 on weekdays and 18:00 on Saturdays, not the other way around.
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Are you saying you're trying to make them hollow for a dewar effect? I'm not sure if they'll let you do a hollow wall as it's really annoying to get the excess powder out from enclosed volumes (via a small hole usually).

With 3D printing - you do get volume discounts, but Shapeways has always reached the max of these discounts. After this, the companies need to start dropping machine/material prices and engineering for less labor in the post-processing.
Thanks! Well, we've only been featured for about 72h now. We're seeing that download rates are doubling daily. And on the first day we got over 1k downloads. You can do the math. People I talked to say that we can expect anywhere from 50k-100k downloads. Let's hope for the best!

I'll definitely put up something on our blog blog.localuncle.com. Just follow us on twitter @localuncle to stay in the loop. Exciting times coming up!
Yup.
- We give you the ability to ask about areas. LocalMind doesn't
- We route your questions with some heavy tech in the background to the most adequate users on the system, in real-time. LocalMind doesn't have this intelligence in the background which means that at the end of the day, the experience on our system is way more relevant and simply better than on LocalMind.

Here's more info on what we do exactly http://blog.localuncle.com/2011/11/04/know-the-world-in-real...
PGMs don't get the same sexy treatment that ML and AI seem to get in pop science articles, so it may be worth stating explicitly that they're very much used in ML and are intellectually fascinating in their own right. A graphical model can fully describe the distribution and dependences of a model. Why this is important: a graphical model makes it very easy to give a computer your model, and there has been great success over the past two decades in doing just this [1].

Further, Daphne Koller is a serious force in the field, and seems to be a pretty good supervisor, so I'm guessing/hoping she is an interesting/engaging lecturer as well. Though, Stanford CS/Stats students are more able to comment on this last point.

[1] http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/winbugs/contents.shtml
I'd like a 'bullcup', a cup with two large bullhorns.

And a 'spongecup', where the inside of the cup is filled with a filament-like structure. Maybe impractical, because hard to clean.
Coffee is my weakness; I damn near bought the Kryptonite one.
For what its worth, for the people questioning the test, it is the current standard for measuring autistic-like traits (not for diagnosing any autism spectrum disorders). The test was constructed by one of the leading researchers in the field (Baron-Cohen).

I studied this test (and took it) recently as part of one of my psych units. I took it twice at different times and scored 37 and 40, which unsurprisingly was the highest in my psych class (I'm quite an outlier there).

The test is based on Baron-Cohen's (he's the cousin of Sacha - a bit of trivia) 'extreme male brain' theory of autism; that traits typical of male brains are seen in the extreme in people with ASDs. This in turn is based on the Empathizing-Systemizing theory, which you can read about at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathizing%E2%80%93systemizing...

I would expect that many of the folks here at HN score very highly on the systemizing quotient (SQ).

Remember, none of this is meant as diagnosis, the AQ is just a measure of the presents of certain traits, it does not measure how extreme they are.
The thing I don't get is, when we were growing up (I'm from this generation of college grads), we knew that a humanities degree was utterly useless. Didn't everyone?

We were always told that a humanities degree was just fluff, liberal arts degrees were real degrees but you could only work as a teacher with them, and science/professional (such as engineering, medicine, law, etc.) were the only degrees that would convert to money.

It's nothing new but reading this article, you'd think we only just discovered this?
It's only 25 days, or 4 weeks and 1 day. The payment part is just a percentage of what you earned the previous year. So the first year I start working after college I will not get paid during my holidays.

Parenting leaves are very important since it is assumed that women should work and not stay home with the children. We also have subsidized kindergartens.

Healthcare is fair. However we have pretty much no dental and you only get subsidized medication if you need medication for more than 3 months.

Pension is ok, however it's just an economical model where you deduct peoples salaries and force them to save money.

And yes, taxes are very high:

25% VAT

High income tax

Wealth tax and also housing tax
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Glad you like it!

Integrated your CSS change, many thanks :-)
Most of the designs don't look that great and certainly aren't worth the price. But I don't think the point of the project was to really sell any cups, rather than to show how far the technology and processes have improved.
It is worth noting that an alternative solution is to use the MySQL JSON UDFs which can be found at http://www.mysqludf.org/lib_mysqludf_json/

That way, you can simply invoke the function you require in the query, instead of processing it in PHP.
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Certainly. Hopefully my post will help them judge whether they are part of that minority or not.
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I agree that it's a system problem, but that doesn't really get the policeman off the hook. The policeman doesn't deserve any defense for what he did. He knew what he was doing and he did it. Blame the system, but blame the policeman, too.
To answer your last point, the constitution only protects from government restrictions on free speech, it says nothing about what private parties may require from their employees at work.
I'd like to cheer for Hawking's position, but I find the opposing view really convincing:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the-high...
It's cool, I remember chatting with you during Startup Weekend on Justin.tv (I think). Good product - congrats on the success!
Don't. Waste. Time.
If making money in your business isn?t EASY, you ain?t doing it right?
I don't recall Alabama being a major international hub and they certainly don't need any laws that appear xenophobic. Can't see how this will encourage diversity in a state where residents offered $50k for Jewish families to move in, http://articles.cnn.com/2008-09-24/us/jews.dothan_1_jewish-f....
Sure, but the styling has to be semantic or it will end up breaking. I am not sure most non-technical authors even know what the "style" drop-down does on their word processors.
I am waiting for the standalone one. Without using an iPhone.

Probably in less than one month will be available.
Pretty neat, nice work.
Don't forget that for useful household ceramics you need a lot more than just a 3D printer alone -- You'll need equipment and materials to glaze, and a ceramics kiln (which you can't fire in your kitchen).
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I suspect he means keyboard macros, as opposed to macros defined in emacs lisp using forms like defmacro. Keyboard macros allow you to record an arbitrary sequence of actions, whereas lisp macros allow you to perform arbitrary transformations on your code. I could be wrong though.

Still, keyboard macros could be amazingly useful in an IDE setting.
If you're only targeting a subset of browsers, like say ones released in the last 4 years, it's usually fine. Though if you need to handle older versions (not just IE, all the browsers have some oddities), then it's quite helpful to have jQuery normalize them.
See also this personal essay from Norm Stamper, chief of the Seattle Police Department during the WTO protests in 1999:

"The cop in me supported the decision to clear the intersection. But the chief in me should have vetoed it. And he certainly should have forbidden the indiscriminate use of tear gas to accomplish it, no matter how many warnings we barked through the bullhorn...

My support for a militaristic solution caused all hell to break loose..."

http://www.thenation.com/article/164501/paramilitary-policin...
Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to Occupy Wall Street
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doodoo/id479515479?l=zh&l...
These are unbelievably awesome. Christmas gift for that family member who has everything x2?
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Ask HN: What's the most appealing and effective homepage title/tagline font?
For the blog I started recently (http://1p1e1.tumblr.com/) I used - IM Fell DW Pica SC: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/IM+Fell+DW+Pica+SC I find it interesting choice for a blog, but probably not a good one for startup's website? What do you think? Is "less is more" valid for fonts as well? Is it overkill to pick a "fancy" font?

Suggestions and links with examples are welcome.
Absolutely. But if you look at exports, you will also see that Sweden produces a huge amount of stuff. Chemicals, machinery, transport, cars, telecomms etc. Its exports in those areas are almost the size of Norway's petro business. Norway has comparatively little manufacturing.
While that's not an inaccurate representation, I think "just" translating the math to Octave/MATLAB's pretty powerful vector algebra language isn't as trivial as you seem to find it. I've had some seriously epiphanic moments. For me, at least, this class is striking a pretty good balance.

Although I've been struck by the fact that they expect most people to do loop iteration until forced into vectorized concepts - I've been forcing myself to do it all as linear algebra from the start, as that's what I see as the point of the class.
This is inspirational. I'm going to try to reproduce some of these cups using traditional means: throwing on the potter's wheel, and some assembly when the clay is leather hard.

For example, the 'half cup' isn't hard to make, and a great joke cup for when you ask someone "Do you want another coffee?" and she answers: "Hmmmm, ok, a half one then".

The octocup is easy too, just attach 8 handles to a standard cup, but the effect is surprising. The 'double espresso cup' is the same, only two handles vertically stacked.

And a cup with two bullhorns ;-) What would be a nice name for that cup? A 'Texas Cup'?
I'm not saying it isn't true, but how do we know it was the better choice?
Tempting, isn't it?
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Apple will probably lock down the protocol if that happens. They're not Google, giving away search for free.
I find it strange that such a complaint about typography is done on a web-page I have hard time reading with my Chrome. The font is too small, and trying to enlarge it make the column narrower but the font size stay the same. When selecting text has some weird contours. There are some CSS tricks behind this, I guess. They seem to imply that the author is not fully aware of the number 1 rule of typography: it must be done according to the medium.

Books and newspapers don't have the same typographic rules. The web have other rules. Ebooks probably have other yet-to-be-invented rules.

But I agree with the claim: most of the books I have read on my Kindle have bad typography. It should be fixed on two sides: The reader's software can be improved[1], and ebooks have to be proofread and adapted to this medium.

[1] Oh I wish Amazon could iterate on the Kindle (I mean the real one, with e-ink), improve its reader software, its browser, etc., instead of running after iPad's success.
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Yahoo found that 40-60% of users were hitting the site with an empty cache at least once per day: http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/04/26/call-to-improve-...
The core of TeX is fast enough for any modern hardware, even tablets. For example, my laptop can compile the 494 page TeXbook (http://www.ctan.org/pkg/texbook) in about half a second.

What slows TeX down is that many packages use extremely elaborate abstractions, which all need to be evaluated using string expansion. These days you shouldn't be surprised if some package is using floating point emulation with TeX macros (https://github.com/latex3/svn-mirror/blob/master/l3kernel/l3...) behind your back. Handy yes, but certainly not fast.
It will be interesting to see if an aggregator like Yipit can succeed. I have used their services and they do help reduce the clutter that subscribing to multiple daily-deal sites tends to produce.
Uhm, running a Ruby script as root? No...

If you're running it on Linux, use iptables to redirect the port to something you can use without root: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-port-redirection-with-ipt...
One interesting artifact of 3D printing: no volume discounts

When you arrive at a design which is commercially feasible in larger volumes, you'd use the printed design for making plaster casting moulds, then use clay slip casting to produce the same cup over and over...
I don't think I've ever heard of anyone marking out for signal processing, but I'm liking it. I think we need to combine all of the terminology- 'Fourier was such a spotmonkey' or something.
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Love this one.
From what I can get from the applidium stuff, you only need an iPhone for the uids, for now.

Technically, I suppose they could be shared, but I guess Apple would find out and terminate the account pretty soon.
I'm not sure what you mean by this? Are you suggesting it's insecure?

I thought lots of uploads/cache folders on blogging platforms have 777? I'm a lay person, indulge me.
This is indeed minimalist, there's less code in it than I'd expected.

The idioms it introduces do clash with Python ones, but on the other hand, I've been learning Clojure lately and my Python code has more comprehensions than previously. I'm not sure what to think.
give it a break. sure, we should be pythonic when we're programming at work and our code is likely to be maintained by others. but there's absolutely nothing wrong with pushing boundaries and learning by exploring and even - shock - getting things wrong.

you made some good points (particularly the fact that you lose dispatch by instance), but you don't need to keep jabbering away about the same points.
> screen

Unless you only use GPL software, there's no reason to not use tmux these days. Well, maybe if you're on HP-UX or something.

http://tmux.sourceforge.net/
or start as root, bind to the port and then drop privileges, but it's easier said that done properly. i'm no ruby expert either.
Ditto, OP please change the title.
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This post and probably your comment will be in the results , gotta love that.
This nonsense that all companies exist to increase shareholder value, or that there's some legal imperative to, is total crap.

Who here started a company to increase shareholder value?

Companies exist to fulfil someone's dream. At some point they get corrupted. And then suddenly it's all about shareholder value.

And at that point you know they'll never produce another exciting product again.
!$ (short for !!:$)

Passes last argument on the command line. In general, the whole paragraph on HISTORY EXPANSION in the bash manual is a must read.

A few ones from the moreutils package:

- vipe : manually edit the data in the middle of a pipe.

- vidir : treat a directory and its files as a text file. Does renames and deletions.

- sponge : when you're doing modification on a file in a pipe, and want the output to be to this file (file will be scrambled without sponge).

It has others, very useful tools, but I won't spoil them all.
Perfectly-timed way to help people move out of Finance. A choice quote:

“If you ever read an article about an investment banker named Jim Moran cutting mega-deals for some finance firm somewhere, please come find me,” he told the man, “and shoot me.”
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I'm a presenter on an FM radio station and I read HN daily.

My work is in a medium many people here would consider to be irrelevant, or even dying.

I'm interested in the world outside my current narrow field of work, I'm interested in how the concepts and ideas discussed here can help my medium stay relevant in this age, and I'm interested in the careers of the future.

My current work won't last forever, I know that, and the more I know now, the better-prepared I'll be.
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I was told that arts and humanities degrees would demonstrate some sort of general intelligence and maturity to prospective employers, even if the subject matter wasn't directly applicable.

In reality, I think the boomers would have had an easy time getting jobs no matter what they did. I don't think employers ever cared about the degrees. But it was convenient to rationalize all that time spent in school as the reason you have that cushy desk job.
Wow! I knew about less.sh (aka vim less), but this seems even more powerful. Installing now!
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Author here.
In response to why not favicon:
I wanted to propose a standard for a vector format. Even 256x256 or 512x512 is too small for many applications. Also apple touch icons tend to have a specific look. I want to be able to provide a standard for original logo artwork.

In response to press page:
I think that can be helpful, but if there is a standard in place, it allows for easy automation, even if it's on a press page.