skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's when not if.

This is the same old romantization of the status quo that always occurs. Is TV really so fantastic today? For every gem that manages to squeek its way through the byzantine television production system there are a thousand bombs. Most television is horrific. Badly written. Badly premised. Badly executed. Badly acted. Bad.

Being cut loose from a ready stream of massive advertising revenue will affect some of the production values of video content, certainly, but will that be such a bad thing? Modern television is a product of committee and bureaucracy. And it shows. Bowdlerization is commonplace. Mediocrity is the norm.

A more democritized, more guerilla, more individual "television" landscape offers the possibility of raising the medium to a true art form.

Movies have been around for over a century, television for half that, but both mediums still have trouble grappling with serious subjects. Consider the fundamental difference in gravitas between an emmy, an oscar, and a pulitzer or nobel prize in literature. Why is that? I would contend that it's because up until now creating a movie or a tv show has been inhibited by being beholden to commercial interests and established publishing powers. Perhaps the brave new world of more individualized video production will result in a revitalization of that medium.
It shows me a blue field. Since it's not possible to zoom out, I cannot see which lake or sea it is.
I don't think you understood my comment/article. I'm not referring to tax loopholes/advantages, but running operating companies at a country level as cost centres.
Right. Plenty of market mechanisms exist for gauging risk, investing on it, and being rewarded for it. People invest in most things without being a bit. We're on a forum hosted by an institution whose very raison d'etre is investing in things before they know they'll be a hit.
The future of .NET
So you are saying that if you are uncomfortable with your experience of discrimination then you should change your appearance to appease your persecutor?

Do you make this crap up yourself, or does it get sent to you through the mail as part of your subscription to Batshit Monthly?
I find myself wishing ~/.ssh/config had include statements, so I could mix and match blocks which are only useful on certain networks / in certain contexts.
Production quality and artistic quality are not the same things.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was a low budget film, for example. It's budget was about 9% of the budget of Waterworld.
Plus if baseball, football, basketball etc. can own their customer through an app on their TV - a gateway they completely own - why would they sell content to ESPN anyway... ESPN becomes a much lesser product... merely news and highlights.
1080p, 10hr limit per video, youtube.
MYTH: MakerBot Desktop 3D Printers can only make things up to a certain size. BUSTED

This awesome photo shows the 29 unfinished blocks of the horse head before Cosmo went to work fusing them

So, not busted after all?
I use mosh from our office in Sydney to work on a server on in Vancouver. The character prediction makes this much easier, even if you do see the occasional literal character in a vim session before the server responds. It's so much better than the alternative!
Blue image means either IP didn't translate to city, or city didn't translate to a static mappable image.
Interesting, although the big problem with the FB datacenter ductless return is that the noise level from the RTU will be very loud. I suppose that might be mitigated somewhat by a) the noise from the servers themselves, and b) the center may bot be staffed all the time.
Afirma haber recibido cáncer de la red de radio (Sistema Tetra)
Internet providers to begin warning customers who pirate content
Enable Mac OS X style Two Finger Scrolling in Linux with Gnome | Pratik Sinha
So the key is get hired by Google in the bay area and "work from home" in Minneapolis! :-)

At both Sun and NetApp where I was familiar with the compensation practices there was a 'modifier' applied to bay area jobs which increased their compensation, but even with the modifier the 'net' take home pay was less than it was elsewhere.

That said, when I was at Google they had a really interesting pay practice for engineers which consists of a base salary and a 'bonus', the bonus was affected by a personal multiplier and a company multiplier. The system was designed to make it impossible to figure out what the multipliers were so basically is simplified to the old fashion 'tweak the folks we like' non-accountability that you got elsewhere but it certainly gave the impression to people that they were going to earn more money than they actually did. (And yes, it annoyed me, but Lazlo Bock the VP of HR didn't really care that it did :-) Perhaps when they did that whole 10% across the board thing they normalized things a bit (which would have been a good thing, the old system was causing good people to quit when it should have been rewarding them)
Eye movements could be next PC password
I really wish there were more screens like the Pixel Qi. If it was an option for my laptop I'd buy it right away.

Pixel Qi's big problem as I see it is that they can't seem to get their production up to speed.
The few (two?) options they have are so outdated they really only make sense on the OLPCs. Except of course that they are rather pricy at 275 USD.

And if you're going to use the screen entirely in monochrome anyway, what you really need is just the LCD stripped of the color filter and the backlight replaced with a simple mirror. Should be much cheaper than what PixelQi is doing.
I'm even tempted to try this as a DIY project at some point. That would be a nice monitor for coding on.
Did you find them?
I don't think anyone doubts that you can make amazing structures with 3D printers. This sectional technique is a nice extension to that. What I find annoying with the current 3D printing hype is that material properties are being completely overlooked. I can make a brake disk out of sponge cake about as easily as I could print one in plastic. Neither will work though.

There's some exciting work going on at Cambridge with 3D printing using metal powders and laser sintering, but these printers will be orders of magnitude pricier than desktop plastic printers for some time.

Perhaps a nice interim approach for the maker crowd would be to combine 3D printing with lost wax or sand casting. That way, you could still print an intricate part but then use it as a pattern to create something much stronger in metal.
Thanks. I totally see it. Will have a think on alternative designs.
I read this in the voice of an IBM mainframe sales person in about 1980, when confronted with an Apple II.

More seriously, today's 3D printers are mere toys compared to what a future atom-scale assembler could do. But they are clearly useful to some people and fun for other right now.

The Microcomputers of the '70s and '80s absolutely were toys back then too, by comparison with the bigger iron available at orders of magnitude higher prices. But they were useful, and they started us on the road to volume production that allows me to have a supercomputer in my pocket and a half-dozen supercomputer-class portable machines hanging around my home office. Not to mention all the audio gear I have built around processors ranging from a Z80 though modern microcontrollers to some very powerful DSPs.

Perhaps 3D printers are toys. But they are wonderful toys that will take us to interesting places.
I have seen hexagons used, like in a honeycomb.
Here's a summary I made with backspaces:

http://backspac.es/r/Xx8736cUap

also more at http://backspac.es/tag/sus2012
Imprisonment is the privation of your liberty/freedom. This is the ultimate recourse of the Law and should not be used for any reason.

When you are in a punitive system, prison is applied as a way to punish people from their wrongdoings, no matter what. When you are in a "reparation" kind of system, there is almost no need for prison as long as the offender is made to pay back/repair for the property he destroyed (with interests). That can be done without the loss of someone's freedom to move and do what they like.

The exception I mentioned is for those who are of immediate danger to others if put back in the streets. Prison can, in these particular cases, be an efficient way to remove the threat by excluding these people from society, but I think we would agree that this would be a very small minority of the currently imprisoned population.
I don't understand exactly how this works. You have an Python API for controlling the UI, great, but... can you use the full Python capabilities and expect your app to be portable? If yes, How it works? Is the app compiled to Dalvik bytecode when ported to Android for example? Are you restricted to pure Python modules or something?
They don't even treat convicted rapists this harsh...
Most likely they wanted to use the same scheme everywhere in the webapp, and for some reason decided that encrypted data proxied through the user was the best choice.

Assuming that the concept in general is sane, then it makes sense to not special case specific uses (less code where things can go wrong).
While a little snarky, all these points are completely valid. Plastic has limitations, _physical_ limitations, that prevent its use in real mechanical parts. 3D printing is great for desk toys or rapid prototyping, but we will never be printing cars or printing computers like everyone implies.

Computer chips are complicated. Engines have to sustain miniature explosions thousands of times a second. Plastics have limitations, and people need to realize this before hyping 3D printing too far
with CloudFlare spreads the load over loads of sites you need more then 1000GB/s to bring them down under an pure DDoS bandwidth exhaustion, they have loads of sites spread all over the world

computer resource exhaustion is more likely to work then bandwidth exhaustion on CloudFlare
iPad that sits on a table by the guest book

iPad as a guest book.

Someone make this, become rich, send me a $15,000 check as a consultation fee.
You'd still need quite a bit of artistic talent to make hard plastic look good. But would I want a super expensive and buggy 3D printer for Christmas? Yes please!!!

Btw, has anyone used 123D Catch (or any 123D software)? From what I gleaned from Autodesk's TOS, you inevitably end up granting them a irrevocable license to use your 3D models however they please. Perhaps that's why 123D remains a "hobbyist" software suite. I still haven't heard of anyone who uses it professionally.
Lossy compressions would probably be very annoying, imagine having slow-motion MPEG defects around everything that's updated :P
I'm not planning of taking money back to India at all, currently I'm only concerned about, if I can make money with my product at all.

I'll worry about that, why I actually have money in my bank account :)
My first thought on seeing the logo: http://i.imgur.com/FR6dx.png
Ask HN: Email management for Google Apps 
Hi

I'm looking to achieve this situation:

1) someone emails info@customdomain.com
2) that email is sent out to multiple staff with varying emails across different domains (e.g. bob@gmail.com, mary@foobar.com)
3) anyone can reply to that email as info@customdomain.com and all staff is made aware that a reply has been sent

I tried out the Google Groups collaborative inbox and that works well, but you can't reply to the initial email.

Also looked at a service called Grexit but I'm not sure it offers replying from the official domain

Any ideas?
They aren't valid at all -- 3D printing isn't limited to plastic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_sintering

http://www.solid-scape.com/products/solidscape-3d-wax-printe...

http://www.contourcrafting.org/

Also, plastic 3D printing is a low-part-order replacement for injection molding, and is significantly cheaper for short-run or prototyping. And it is not designed to be a one-stop solution, but simply part of a workflow that can be brought to small fabrication shops to permit them to construct a wider range of things.

That said, the biggest limitation of the Makerbot series of printers in my opinion is the lack of a soluble support material. The Dimension printers [1] allow you to fabricate models with both a structural plastic (ABS) and a support material (unknown) that will dissolve in a lye bath, meaning you can make complex mechanical components in one pass and then dissolve out the unnecessary sections.

[1]: http://www.dimensionprinting.com/
There's a distinction between carefully engineering something to be as cheap as possible, but still lasting for the full length of the warranty, or actively adding a feature to make something that would otherwise last for a lot longer break after the end of the warranty.

The former is just good engineering, the latter is bad.
If it succeeds, it doesn't automatically mean it's a "solution" to something as geographically varied, respectively massive, and fiscally complicated and regimented as subsidized public transit.

If it succeeds, it does mean it succeeded in the conditions of Detroit, as mass-transit is something so delicate it inherently must be optimized for the city in which it operates. That said, I do absolutely wish them luck living in a city with what I consider absolutely horrible public transit[1]

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[1] This is subjective, highly of course. And given the population boom taking place in Austin, Texas it's somewhat hard to fault CapMetro entirely for the woes of riding the bus. I will say though many will find themselves in agreement living here seeing CapMetro time and time again implement projects that utterly fail because they made no sense to begin with. Yep, I'm looking right at you Red line.
Times change; now, many of the roads _are_ just for cars
from the article:
The Due will continue to work with all Arduino shields [..] that conform to the official Arduino Revision 3 layout. However, the Due operates at 3.3V whereas AVR-based Arduinos operate at 5V, meaning some third-party shields that don’t follow the R3 specs to the letter may not be compatible [..]
> JS.everywhere() is an event focused

I stopped reading right there and closed the tab because I thought it was yet another framework.

I came back to it when I had clicked on too many other things. I'm glad its an conference/presentation "event!"

Though looking at the talks I'm sad that not a single one of them is on canvas.
Lisp Hackers: Faré Rideau on Lisp, cybernetics, ITA and Google
haha, nice! What a joke. This happens even on Windows 7. Granted, I have only had it happen on Windows XP/Vista-era machines, but yeah, I guess the point is that Ubuntu pulls it off without a hassle in most cases
Thanks, bpatrianakos.

We're indeed just treating this as a useful experiment. Games are just hard to compete in. We're not committed yet to staying in games, and hopefully the design/monetization/marketing lessons will give us a significant edge in smaller niches where the competition seems much less savvy, at least for now.
Thanks, Stripe and Braintree, have mandatory requirement for SSN it seems.

Do you know any payment processors, that are okay with tax identification number only.
>>You can, but you will only be able to show the ads that load on the first page.

Can you share some more detail on this one? And I'll look into DFP, thanks!
@sathishmanohar, Hello from Chenna!. :)

It is this specific case that we are solving for Indian startups along with a global billing solution at ChargeBee.

Regardless of whether you need ChargeBee or not, shoot me an email (in profile) and will be happy to share the options available.

Specific to your question: Without SSN even after incorporation in Delaware it is a struggle to get a merchant account. I have helped a few businesses in India get merchant account there and it is from my experience. I incorporated ChargeBee in Delaware, but thankfully I have SSN. Without revenue not many merchant account providers that claim to do this won't touch you; that is just reality.

My suggestion to startups is: use the easiest available options to get started - we do it with PayPal, 2Checkout etc., I know it is not anywhere near what you can do with Stripe or a BraintreePayments, but you can do with the available options, build traction and focus on the hardest problem - which is getting attention of your customers and get some early adopters. In the meantime, we can help you started with other options and seamlessly switch over for new signups. You will save $1k USD initially plus all the additional paper work, franchisee tax (even incorporating in October will entitle you to pay $440 USD in tax in March next year - delay it by couple of months you save that as well).

But, if you do want to go ahead with incorporation here are couple of blogs: Girish of Freshdesk wrote about this and I wrote a followup on payments as well.

You can read those here:

http://blog.freshdesk.com/how-to-incorporate-a-us-corporatio...

http://blog.chargebee.com/payment-integration-options-for-st...

We are also working with couple of Indian banks and in turn with Reserve Bank of India to solve it well. We should have something soon to avoid all this round about way of incorporating outside to do something straightforward.
This post turned out to be much more interesting than I initially thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be another post-mortem on why a particular startup failed, but this was in fact much more interesting.

The idea that this community bootstrapped itself, and self-evolved to the point of including things like trolls and "white knights" to me is extremely fascinating.

The other thing interesting is the idea that it was able to get 10k users without any effort. There was definitely a market for this particular app, but only because it's free. I'm curious how much a monetization attempt would have hurt the bootstrapping effort, and whether or not it would be translatable to things like Instagram or Pinterest, which has zero monetization but a lot of users.
you can't make those gambles in an efficient market - ever

This is not true. Look at silicon valley. $10MM is nothing. The issue is that markets are human. Humans are bad at predicting what will be successful art, untill its successful. Technology on the whole, is much easier landscape in which to invest in standalone projects (ie, startups). That is why movies are financed on a portfolio basis, and why you see so many sequels in large ticket entertainment (both games and Films). Its also why you see other projects financed in-house (ie, via hierarchy) as opposed to independently (ie, in a market).
An error has occurred when trying to login.

Do I absolutely have to authenticate with Facebook?
Install Unity on Arch Linux | Pratik Sinha
Metal-based laser sintering (SLS) has been used in high-end research and industry labs for the better part of 10 years (or more!). It's just the democratization provided by outfits like ShapeWays that is making it available to the masses.

People already use the casting solution you suggest. I remember the early Autom (robot) prototype used silicone casts [1]. I'm sure there are many other examples too...

[1] http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/11/22/building-robot-heads-u...
Has anyone considered that women just aren't as interested in tech entrepreneurship as men are?
It's amazing some of the situations people have survived. I once owned a book that collected documented cases of people surviving situations that should have been certain death.

Perhaps even more amazing, just for the sheer improbability, are cases where someone fell out of an airplane, and was saved by falling into another airplane. There is even at least one case where someone fell out of their open-cockpit plane, and the plane went into a dive and ended up below them, and they were able to get back into their own plane.
White House cybersecurity order calls Govt to share intel with businesses
Humor?
Dissecting The Sony Nexus X, The Fake That Launched A Thousand Stories
If you have a new enough ssh client, I'd personally recommend setting ControlPersist yes.

This fixes the UI wart where your first ssh connection to a server has to stay open for the duration of all your others (or your others all get forcibly disconnected).

It's not perfect. If the name of a server changes but you already have a control socket, it'll use the socket and connect to the old server. And it also takes it a while to pick up networking changes that break your connectivity, though I've hacked around that with a script I keep running in the background (Linux only, at the moment; requires gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0):

#!/usr/bin/python
import os
from gi.repository import GLib, NMClient
def active_connections_changed(*args):
for sock in os.listdir(os.path.expanduser('~/.ssh/sockets')):
os.unlink(os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~/.ssh/sockets'), sock))
c = NMClient.Client.new()
c.connect('notify::active-connections', active_connections_changed)
GLib.MainLoop().run()

There's some contention with my coworkers about whether ControlPersist is actually desirable given the tradeoffs, but I personally think it's a huge improvement.
First of all, just because someone spends 18 hours a day on a computer does not mean they're a "native netizen." That's not a real thing.

"Native netizen" is a real thing because I said it is. An existence proof only requires the existence of a single instance.

Secondly, it's not about the amount of time spent using a computer (18 hours a day?!), but a state of mind. The corner of my mind responsible for identifying locations perceives "online" as a distinct physical location. If you asked me where I'm from, I could say City A, but if you asked me where I grew up, I would say "the Internet." Answering anything else would feel like lying.

The location of one's body is independent of the perceived location of one's mind. When it comes to the Internet, the second is more important.
Anyone know of an opensource resource that would be similar.

The functionality whatever, just the prefab skeleton of a website and mobile app for iOS and Android for you to manipulate to fit your needs?
It is precisely equivalent to the kind of victim-blaming that goes on when women in short skirts are sexually harassed or groped, which is indeed correlated with what they wear.

If somebody is treated poorly for being who they are and all that comes out of your mouth is "hey victim, you should change" then yeah, you're effectively blaming the victim.

Suppose tomorrow I made a cheap pill that would make black people look white. By your logic, your position would be: "Hey, black people: Racism is hard to change, and it'd be much easier if you just stop being so darned black."

Can you see why that's obvious bullshit? And therefore your "Honey, stop looking so darned Muslim" is similarly bullshit?
I think most people are aware 3D printing is available in other materials. However, all personally affordable 3d printers use plastic, mostly producing low quality goods that has limited uses. Not everyone can afford a $150,000 SLS 3d printer.

Makerbot does sell a water soluble PLA filament that you can use with your normal PLA filament on the dual extruder replicator. It's less troublesome than a lye bath.
I believe it actually comes in Privileged Young White Dude Fortnightly.
Subtitle: "Most Americans now believe in human-caused global warming".

I am not quite sure if it is a good thing. Believe is such a loaded word, and does not feel quite like science.
Thank you. I just spent 2 hours trying to subscribe to awesome subreddits. I do think there is a substantial increase in quality in the non default subs vs the default subs.

Do you have any subreddit recommendations?
I saw it too, and I wish I had an answer. It definitely prompts feelings of "what am I even doing here?" that merely participating on the site does not.

The whole ethnicity balance was pretty far out there, too. Considering it was held in Silly Valley, I would have expected to see far more of a mix, but that didn't seem to happen, either.

I wonder, are both observations the same effect in action or something else entirely?