skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My company has over a dozen 3D printers in the our design office in SF and our manufacturing facility in Shenzhen. They range from $250K professional units to $1K consumer models. I've seen the progression from old 2001 models to the the state of the art models purchased this year.

12 years later, and the latest printers are good for 1 purpose.

PROTOTYPING

Sure, a hobbyist may find this tech somewhat useful. For example to print a case for his raspberry PI. Even that takes 4 hours to print, and if he drops it, it will shatter. Oh and finish is TERRIBLE. If a mass produced version is available it will always be better in every way.

I've never held any 3D printed part in my hand that compares to a nice soft touch painted part, or even an injected molded piece.

This tech is like where the semiconductor industry was in the 50s. 60 years from now, we'll be printing some cool shit. But in a few years time, we're not going to be printing out shoes, headphones, and furniture like people here are dreaming about here.
tl;dr: the US has a long and tragic history of half-hearted attempts to switch to metric, beginning in the mid-1800s (when metric was made an international standard, with the active participation of the US... one of the original seventeen signatory nations to the Metre Convention), and continuing on through today, where the US is one of three remaining countries (with Myanmar and Liberia) that has not adopted the International System of Units (SI) metric system as their official system of weights and measures.

Along the way we get sad stories like the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1998, where everyone except Lockheed Martin was using metric units in the parts and software written for the orbiter.

So come on, USA! Keep trying!
The Hacker School logo is a computer [1].

The logo you're seeing with a needle is one from Etsy [2], who by the way, were the driving force behind (and are the primary benefactors of) Hacker School's grants for women.

[1] https://www.hackerschool.com/assets/logo_140.png

[2] http://kongscreenprinting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Ets...
Yep, both cultures reinforce and stabilize themselves. That's why new cultural perspectives can be revolutionary. If Americans came to believe leadership should be based on superior personal virtue, then they might reject democracy, a la Plato and Confucius. If North Koreans came to believe that there is not a single "virtue" that makes a person superior at everything, that different people can be good or bad at different things, such as good at seeking power and bad at ruling justly, then they might demand institutions to protect themselves from the weaknesses of their leaders. They might decided that executive leadership is just a job that should be done by someone who is good at that particular thing, and that ordinary citizens are as qualified to choose their leaders as anyone else.
>If this is HTML, then why not take the source and make a cross-browser version?

Given that there's no apparent license agreement, this would presumably be copyright infringement.
Honestly, I'm also at the edge of my patience.

I mentioned it for completeness.
> BSD no longer uses CVS

Additional pedantry: This may be true of FreeBSD, but I believe both OpenBSD and NetBSD still use CVS. I think DragonFlyBSD uses git.
How can he promise to buy if he contacts several dealers? He would only buy from the first one, I suppose.
Just going to clarify a point made about the WHI Study of HRT in post-menopausal women.

The study did (relatively) conclusively (in a certain population of females with long term Rx) show that HRT can increase cardiovascular risk factors.

This is useful information as women have lower CVD risks than men up to menopause (Framingham study showed reduced CV risk for women still cycling over those of same age with menopause) and it is thought that oestrogen was the protective factor, therefore giving HRT would be protective.

The women studied were all post menopausal (many more than 1-2 years out) had varying risk factors for disease. I.e they had not just reached menopause, and thus represent a different population to that which would normally be prescribed HRT. Besides increased heart disease, stroke and VTE the study group also had reduced Colorectal cancer and Hip fractures that were statistically significant.

Subsequent to this study, the KEEPS study (which may not have been published yet) randomised women to placebo, transdermal HRT and oral HRT, and which selected patients more appropriately as they were going through menopause, is showing no significant difference in CV outcomes or stroke, blood pressure or cancers between all groups.

Another study, the DOPS study, a 10y follow up of 1000
Women over 50 on either HRT or placebo shows decreased CVD and no change in stroke or cancer risks.

This study overturned the notion that for the general female population, HRT would exert various cardiovascular benefits.

Nowadays it is established practice to only use HRT for severe symptoms of menopause (severe, lifestyle crimping hot flushes, mood changes etc) which in some women can last for many years. However treatment is meant to be reviewed regularly and tapered down.
I tried both CloudSigma and ElasticHosts and they seem to work fine with 8.x and 9.x.

(at least on 8.x I had to move kern.timecounter.hardware away from HPET)
a reality show being canned? my heart is broken.
I am missing something here, and I am genuinely curious what it is I'm missing.

If a capitalist starts a manufacturing business with the goal of making money, and if he then discovers that the business would run much more effectively by letting the skilled workers make the decisions than by hiring a layer of management ... then why wouldn't the capitalist go with the more effective approach?

TL;DR rephrase -- why would a business owner maintain a layer of management if that was truly a less effective way to go?

Is Chomsky (or Noble) claiming there's something like a "conspiracy" amongst the "managerial class" to create fake jobs for managers, merely to maintain class power? (Or, if not, what am I missing from his argument?)
In a bash session (bash 2.05 or later):

$ hash | sort -nr | less

shows usage counts and full paths of executed commands.
I'm very happy to see the new ZFS enhancements imported from illumos, but I am very sad to see nothing about DTrace.
Expanding the pie is more about:

1. calculating the total combined value all involved parties receive from making a deal
2. trying to increase this value above and beyond their BATNAs
3. then carving up and sharing this excess

So it's about focusing on specialized synergies and value creation. For a more in-depth read I'd recommend Co-Opetition by Brandenburger and Nalebuff (whose class on Negotiations I just completed): http://www.amazon.com/Co-Opetition-Revolution-Combines-Compe...
So far, my code tends to not use this at all. However, I've not written any applications that go beyond a few hundred lines of JS (interestingly, most of these programs would have been a few thousand lines of Java, if I even bothered to try at all. For UI, the libraries for JavaScript far outstrip anything available for Java!)

I do seem to be gravitating toward an organization scheme that centralizes my applications data into a single place such that all moving pieces of the application get a shot at dealing with inbound messages in an orderly fashion. This allows me to decompose the application into a very small number of function types, each of which has an explicit kind of responsibility.

The only time I've been tempted to go back to OOP has been to write (pure!) functions that seem to just beg for it - complex validation routines in particular. But using OOP for the app as a whole seems to not only be unnecessary, but positively undesirable.
This is an awesome terminal, and I think I'll just switch to it from urxvt.

Don't be deceived by its light-weightedness. It has very sensible features, it seems. Including full xft (anti-aliased fonts) and unicode support, and shortcuts to: zoom in, zoom out, and paste from clipboard. Typically, only very heavy-weight terminals (like gnome-terminal) would support these things.

I'm charmed. Great stuff.
Font-face rendering solution for chrome
http://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/15p2k0/xpost_f...

http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/
When I worked at Google I got to hear a number of "My friends site is being accused of hosting malware but I know these guys they don't do that!" and almost without exception, what had happened was that someone had compromised the web server, downloaded the images, re-compressed them with an image based exploit (sometimes changing them from gif to jpg in the process) and put them back on the site. To Grandma and her friends the site hadn't changed in years, except that now it was doing a drive by injection of malware.

I don't doubt for a minute that if someone figured out how to create a twitpic app that could inject malware into the images you shared, they would try really hard to get it on to your phone. How great a coup to have all eleventybillion followers check out your latest 'woah!' picture and spread the malware. Its a primo target.

I'm not defending Google here, I'm just saying that putting malware into images is a primary goal of any number of advanced persistent threat shops. Keep that in mind and make sure you keep an offline MD5 hash of every picture on your web site for validation.
Sure, I think there is an understanding the first dealer to give him the price will get his business.
> then why wouldn't the capitalist go with the more effective approach?

"Making money for me" and "making money for everyone" are not the same thing.

For example, if your business has 1MM in profits, and you own half, then you get 500k. If you ran that as a cooperative, you made 2MM in profits the next year, but you own 10%, you made $200k. Worse for you, better for everyone else and the group overall.
perhaps b/c it's much faster to make it in html5 than in Obj-C?
I won't speak for Thomas, but I used to teach "Politics and the English Language" in rhetoric and argumentation courses. There are two important things worth pointing out here:

1. Your understanding of the problem domain of language and politics, at least in this post, is incredibly naive. For a rigorous analysis of the subject, try something like Chaïm Perelman's Treatise on Argumentation or one of Ronald Dworkin's books.

2. Your comment being right and Thomas' comment being right aren't mutually exclusive. What he said is correct. What you said is also correct. Your attempt to make your point invalidate his is what's popularly called shifting the goalposts. It's what people do when they want to, as you put it, win points.

Also, as a point of order, your whole shtick of suggesting that someone has taken a position out of blind partisanship without really grasping what's at stake in it yadda yadda -- that's never a constructive way to approach a discussion. Everything you're accusing Thomas of, you're guilty of yourself. Whence Thomas' dismissal, which brings to mind Aristotle:

A man should not enter into discussion with everybody or practice dialectics with the first comer as reasoning always becomes embittered where some people are concerned. Indeed, when an adversary tries by every possible means to to wriggle out of a corner, it is legitimate to strive, by every possible means, to reach the conclusion; but this procedure lacks elegance. -- Topics 8.14.164b
Personally, I would like to see a good web browser that relies just on Xlib. Literally, the only reason I install GTK on my Arch box is for Firefox or Chrome.
I don't think the snarky checklist is necessary and am pretty saddened you've got upvotes for merely stating the obvious in such a derisive way.

We don't know the context in which the creator made this, and who is to say that just because something is written in HTML you have a God-given right to be able to run it in your desktop browser.

I hope more apps like this do appear and push e.g. Android to sort out their home screen/web app integration. We should be able to have the experience this app provides on iOS everywhere by now, here's hoping Android get this sorted soon.
It isn't formatted as a quote. It may be Noble's idea, but it's Chomsky saying it, in his own voice, so at the very least he agrees with it.

When you say a solution to the problem I raise, what do you mean? I don't regard it as a problem if the idea of overthrowing management only makes sense in some contexts and not in others.
chernevik, speaking as a neutral-but-technically-minded third party: between the two of you, Thomas comes off as as much more sensible and convincing.

Maybe your your argument is too smart for me, though.
> You haven't kicked out management, you've kicked out the guys who used to be management.

"Boss" and "worker" are social roles. You're not abolishing 'management' you're abolishing 'managers,' which is a subtle but important difference.

Autonomy over your own destiny is important to humans. How many people want to 'do a startup' because it allows them to 'be their own boss'? Same basic need here.
IMO the use of self as the name of the variable referencing to 'this' is a little dangerous, because in a function, if you miss the line var self = this, self is a valid reference to the window object, so you will not get an expected error for an undefined variable.
Is Google Concerned About Amazon Eating Their Lunch?
I'm pretty doubtful. Intel have been doing in-out dance for TV solutions for a few years. They don't have consumer product experience or media market experience. Would be stunned if this happened on a substantial scale.
Becoming a Manager
There's lots of research to support this: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html gets posted just about every other day, but it's worth repeating.
I shared this long time ago: http://blog.linz.im/2012/webapp-sun.html
Is the initial launch not simply comparable to downloading a native app from the app-store?
While you're right that both were old technologies. 3DP is noticeably slower in many variables. If we look at the "quality" of output from the mainframes -> Apple II, we see that the calculations would of course be the same and the programming largely the same - the discrete nature of programming being what it is.

However, the dimension of cost for 3DP (which is what the personal 3D printer movement is excited about) is only one dimension of many, and I'd argue not the biggest limitation.

3DP materials and process quality have certainly improved over time, but all of the current technologies are dead-ends in regards to competing with traditional processes - i.e. FDM/SLA/ProJet/PolyJet don't physically seem able, ever, to produce parts as nice as injection molding can for a myriad of reasons - even without cost as a concern. The situation for SLM/ProMetal processes is little better.

Perhaps the recent investment in 3DP will increase R&D spend on quality, but it doesn't seem to be the case if you look at the major or "maker" players.
What's the name of the dominant hotel photo provider? Any particular reason why they suck so terribly? Just curious to see if it might be an easy problem for a new player to solve.
It defaults to Celsius, so you'll have to change it to Fahrenheit.
OK, that makes sense but doesn't connect all the dots for me.

I am starting with the assumption that no one gets an ownership stake for free. You can start a business if you want, and you can either bootstrap it or take investment. Either way, the owners are not handed their ownership ... they "buy" it with what they put in.

Is this Chomsky/Noble point of view arguing that workers should be granted a degree of ownership by virtue of the work they do?
Because in general, the people with experience in the sectors he talks about will want a position of power, and aren't interested in working with their hands. Business owners want to hire these people (I won't place a judgement on the decision itself) and therefore need to have the open positions.

Things are changing though, at least in the tech sector.
Thanks.
Can't wait for "SMP-friendly pf firewall". Yay!
tl;dr It's nearly 2013, if you're still stuck at the byte/Unicode level you're doing it wrong: nowadays people are using programming languages which have abstraction for strings and characters.

I can't answer about parent about Go specifically but I may have the beginning of an answer.

Do you realize all your questions are really low-level details that are entirely taken care of by default APIs in quite some languages?

The whole byte/Unicode you keep insisting on is a strawman: at the right level of abstraction you're dealing with neither. You're dealing with "strings" made of "characters".

I don't remember when was the last time I had to manually read bytes / data and "convert" them using whatever character encoding.

You're questions just feel weird. As if the early nineties called and wanted their byte/UTF-8 encoders developers back or something.

I realize this may be a very true concern when working with languages that didn't deal correctly with the string/characters abstraction and which are still stuck in the byte/Unicode(byte or bytes) mindset but you have to realize that several languages and techniques allow to simply dodge these matters altogether.

For example, Java doesn't specify the encoding of Java source file: great, we mandate (and enforce with scripts/hooks) that all .java file contain only ASCII characters. We use properties file (whose encoding is defined) to contain our UTF-8 characters.

Wanna transmit text? Well, use a format which allows to specify the encoding of your text. It's really that simple and, on the other end of the wire, it's going to become automagically again "strings" and "characters".

Another "detail": Go is one the only language to specify that source file have to be encoded in UTF-8. This is a major win too. (if you've never seen ISO-Latin-1 / UTF-8 / MacRoman / etc. mismatch in source file then you've never worked in a diversified enough team / environment ; )
I installed it and all I see is a pink screen with my location and temp. Completely boring "app" google weather is far superior (in HTML and works on more than just my iPad)
Amazon is in a special position - in terms of accuracy, they know w-a-y more about their users than Google does about theirs. There is great value in knowing what people search for and what they are reading ... but any single person's interest on this level is pretty broad. It can be a good approximation for what they are interested in purchasing, but not nearly as good as what they ARE actually purchasing.
Slick presentation, but simply takes too long to display data and seems buggy - caused my phone to freeze.
I follow the btrfs development because I'd love to have at least the features of ZFS on Linux. However I would not dare (yet) to use it as a replacement for my current home fileserver (which owns ALL my data).

Does btrfs provide cifs export like ZFS ?

Edit:

from the btrfs wiki https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Is_btrfs_stable.... :

Is btrfs stable?
Short answer: No, it's still considered experimental.
I'd guess en passant is more surprising to neophytes than castling
Which homescreen integration would that be? With the exception of having the chrome (URL bar) hidden by default, Android can add webpages to the homescreen and treat the tile like a native app, already.

It isn't so much that we should be able to run it in our browser, it is that the author is intentionally looking for iOS, with the site added to your homescreen. Had the title been "HTML5 Homescreen App for iOS" I think people's expectations would be different.
If that's what's happening here, then the warning seems good for everyone.. except that the wording is defamatory.

Rather than accusing Twitpic of being "a known distributor of malware", it might be better if the message said something like "The site appears to be infected with malware. This warning will be remain in place until the malware has been removed."
Very interesting. Being from the UK, I've never listened to NPR before (aside from the Tiny Desk series), can anyone recommend some good weekly shows worth listening to?
It's their job to provide a good service to their users. Warning about malware seems to fit that bill.
> This is a good read, it is hard to find things written about the issue of medicine vs the business of medicine.

It's not just business concerns though. Many of the individuals doing medical research are just flat-out unqualified/untrained to design a study and manipulate and analyze data. I'm not a statistics guru like some on HN, but I'm pretty good at knowing what to do with a given set of data. I'm exposed to the research efforts of medical professionals through my social network and fiancée, and generally I find their methods/analyses to be either explicitly bad or misguided. Two easy examples would be a general lack of a correction for alpha-inflation and little attention paid to normality of data.

Yes, it's anecdotal experience, and that must be recognized. But, in my observation, it's pervasiveness is noteworthy.
The other big vector for tripping malware detection is 3rd party ad networks. When you have multiple parties outside your control that can inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript into your page, all it takes is one bad advertiser.
I was puzzled by this, particularly by the number of countries that were marked with "war". So, I did what any programmer might do, I wrote some code to check it out. Here it is:

https://gist.github.com/4416107

I just threw it together quickly. It's got some warts (not the best code for grabbing data from Wikipedia). Of course, feel free to do with it as you wish.

I only sampled a couple dozen countries or so. It seems that the author of the graphic decided to take a little license here and there rather than making strict use of the word with the most usage.

For example, if I didn't screw-up the code, in Canada the most frequent words are:

[ 143] books
[ 118] canadian
[ 95] british
[ 82] war

However, the author decided to use "british".

In Argentina:

[ 53] president
[ 50] argentine
[ 47] war
[ 46] military

Yet he used "war"

Brazil:

[ 28] military
[ 22] portuguese
[ 19] portugal
[ 16] first
[ 15] war

The choice was "military"

Saudi Arabia:

[ 114] saudi
[ 76] arabia
[ 37] king
[ 31] oil
[ 28] arab

Chosen: "oil"

I am not passing judgement at all, just pointing out what I learned from a very limited test. At some level It would be interesting to see data for all countries. At the same time, a better metric than single-page word frequency would probably be more interesting than this. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf
Show HN: RSpec results on a Novation Launchpad
Basically. And that's a good thing.
> "The text Chrome produces reads: [...]"

You actually get two slightly different warnings, depending upon whether the content is embedded or not. If you go to Twitpic directly you'll see "Google has blocked access to twitpic.com for now", a generally more gentle warning than the one you cite (which you'll see if you're viewing embedded content instead).

It's interesting there are two warnings, only one of which seems to be potentially libelous (if it was a false positive, which at this point is uncertain, especially if the content came in from an ad network).
Interestingly, if you try to load any page with Twitpic content embedded you get the same warning.

Try to load the founder's page on Twitter: http://twitter.com/noaheverett

"Danger: Malware Ahead!
Google Chrome has blocked access to this page on twitter.com.
Content from twitpic.com, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page."
Pinch and swipe, as it says.