skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Few things:

- 3D printer. I want to pay $150~ for the machine and no more than $20 for a spool of material to feed into it. I also want some kind of "market" where people can trade free and paid-for 3D models I can grab and print.

- Home circuit-board printer. Now obviously this thing wouldn't have very high density and couldn't do 3D/multi-dimensional circuits like the big boys can. I'm more thinking of being able to have a piece of metal and to "melt" away all the excess until you're left with the tracks and empty positions for you to slot in components by hand.

- A PC monitor which can display at 2880x1800 but which Windows thinks is displaying at 1400x900 so you get twice as many pixels per every element of the screen (e.g. text). Currently increasing resolution decreases the size of screen elements which is useless. 1920x1080 is almost too small to see.

- A replacement for the "gas lift" in office chairs which is of fixed length. I keep having the gas lift fail and the chair loses height very slowly throughout the day (even in $150+ chairs which claim they can support someone weight 350 pounds!). I want a bar the same size as a gas lift, you decide how high you want your chair, you buy the appropriate bar, you install it, and it never moves again. Or a twist-to-adjust height option.

- A comprehensive alternative to Skype. Video calling, VoIP<->telephone, better software than Skype, much better support. This alternative also has to be easy enough for "my mum" to use. No getting her to download three different suites of software and then configure them together (I'm look at you Open Source everything ever). I'd pay a fair bit for this, I already pay Skype a fair bit... I have two subscriptions, two numbers, and spend credit with them too.
do you care to respond to the argument or are you satisfied with simple ad hominem?
Well, actually, 2/3 of Americans are overweight and 75% are indebted in some fashion (though that could be "good debt"). And Americans have one of the most disturbing attitudes towards religion I've ever seen. American seculars turn entirely away from God while fundamentalists also turn entirely away from God... in the other direction.

So you get a country where service employees working on Christmas is considered totally normal, but fundamentalists crow on and on about the disrespect done to Christianity by deigning to acknowledge Hanukah and Kwanzaa. Which is ironic, because prior to Kwanzaa being invented from whole cloth and Hanukah morphing into Jewsmas, it really was solely and only the Christmas season.

Damned capitalist pigs ;-) (yes, I'm originally American).

Oh, and there are more guns than people in America, but those are mostly concentrated in rural states where guns are easier to obtain legally. The population of America has only recently tipped over from being mostly rural/suburban to mostly urban/suburban.
My bad: they are allowed in class extensions, which are similar to but not the same as categories.

Given how the new non-fragile ivars are implemented, it should be possible to add ivars anytime before the first instance is created (so load time should be OK), but that has apparently not been implemented, class extensions only work for code compiled together.

So I guess no dice, apart from associated objects or the old indexed-instance-variable tricks:

http://markmail.org/message/b5aqssv3iowcsw2i#query:+page:1+m...

Alas, those tricks break on bridged CF classes that have incorrect metadata:

http://markmail.org/message/yourm4nkghaf3bak#query:+page:1+m...

(Checked on 10.8, instance-size for CF objects still incorrect)
And synapse-core adds what functionality, exactly? I gave up trying to figure that out from the ppa site and Googled it instead:
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&tbo=d&...
I would be interested on a service like that
I guess you could hire someone on mechanical turk to write tailored survey questions?

It's mechanical turk all the way down!
Nope. Route 53 has to ALIAS to another RR in your own hosted zone. There's no way for Route 53 to return the A records/IP address RDATA that CloudFront uses to direct clients to the fastest site.

Other "ALIAS" providers can't do real CloudFront apex support either. Their intermediate resolvers end up caching the CloudFront records without varying per client subnet.
Interesting interface. With my almost 500 feeds, not sure yet if I'd like to use paid version, since Google one is free, but I'll take it for a test drive.

Some feedback:
- "Original" button definitely didn't do what I expected. It just closed everything and took me to the target site. Maybe it's just for some "unframeable" sites but that's how it worked.

- "Keep unread" and "Mark as unread" definitely missing. Sometimes after I start reading it turns out the item needs more time than I have now and I want to get back to it later. Not the same as "Save" which means I definitely want to keep it - here I just don't know yet.

- Clicking on triangle and gear in the feed display seems to do the same thing? Why there are two of them then?

- In feed stats for some sites, it says: "IF YOU WENT PREMIUM, THIS SITE WOULD UPDATE EVERY". That's it, nothing after that.

- Something weird going on with stories display - folder with no unread content shows yellow "27" and clicking on folder that shows no content at all opens set of stories that seem to be unread stories from elsewhere.
Sublime Text 2 for Mac and Notepad++ for Windows.
That's awesome. My only complaint was that the tts engine was okay, but it could be better. I would happily pay $10 a mo for this, but with better tts.
Anecdotal evidence: My father once saw me open the app switcher to force quit an app that was behaving badly. He thought it was easier, so he now checks it every single time he wants to switch an app. If it's not on the first row, he goes to the home screen and searches for it, which can take him up to a few minutes. He doesn't organise his apps in any way, and isn't interested in starting, even though he knows how to move them around.

He just likes the app switcher better.

But he never would have discovered it if not for him coincidentally paying attention when I pulled it up once.
Out of curiosity, how was the name chosen,... MariaMole?
Visual Studio (Javascript, C#, C++, etc).

I use Notepad++ for PHP but it is fairly bad. Eclipse for Java (Android) which is also fairly bad.

Never understood the appeal of using a console application for text editing (yes, I can use Vi fine). It is like tying one hand behind your back and then claiming it makes you "more efficient" once you learn how to do everything one-handed.
Can you write in which language/toolkit is MariaMole written? I think it's a fundamental information when asking people for help with the code.
I would like such a service, but don't know enough about what I find interesting to make use of it.

Most comp sci stuff bores me, though some is fascinating. Due to the nature of the field, it may be hard to set keywords to find things of interest.

Other fields, such as history, are different. Right now I'm writing a book about a certain region's history. I'd like to be able to set a geographical limit, like, "every new paper regarding history within such-and-such a region", and then get alerts. In addition, even better would be geographically matching foreign-language journals (I'm thinking China, eg. http://www.kaogu.cn/)

Another thought: disconnect your thinking/pitch from email, it's just one delivery option within phone/web/email/rss/sms/xmpp/facebook/twitter/whatever.
How do you buy stuff online?
The article is 1.5 years old so it's possible that the website doesn't exist anymore (the domain is still actively registered though).
i dont think it makes too much sense as the CPUs cant handle the throughput anyway. There are alot of older NAS with Gigabit ethernet that hardly come near those speeds because the CPUs are just too slow. I am not sure where the current ARM CPUs are performance wise in relation to that, but i dont think you would get much more than 100Mbit out of it anyway.
Is http://www.domainpolish.com/ down, or just me that can't access it?
Just as an entertaining aside - the British Airways registration page currently includes Viscountess amongst other titles. Even so it's relatively limited - in its early days it contained a bizarre list of titles including the, um, uniquely prestigious "pope". Presumably the result of over-enthusiastic data population of the DB from some authoritative resource.
Ask HN: How to evaluate a start-up idea and yet be sure no one 'borrows' it?
I have an idea for an internet service and would love to put this idea on HN and ask for opinions before I commence on it, but that would most likely be equal to losing it if it's a good one. So is there a safe way to evaluate a start-up idea on the internet?
And IE7, and IE8.
Cryptography and Security in Retroshare
Thanks for feedback. #twisted ppl were very helpful to me in the early days of me learning about network programming and python.

I'm impressed with the achievement of Twisted. For example, the way it offers support for both unix-way async (select, getabyte getabyte), and the Windows/AIX alternative where you can make a system call that says "get back to me when you have a complete message that I can consume in one hit". It'll be way faster and more polished than the stuff I write too.

Part of the reason there's so many objects in it is because it does so damn much - there's support for all sorts of existing protocols in twisted. And - a powerful framework can't entirely abstract away the layering. If it does, it stops being powerful.

It might be possible to use virutalenvs. I keep meaning to look into these. I am skeptical of frameworks though. You become vulnerable to version changes, you can't take knowledge to a new platform.

Very interested to see something from the python-ideas conversation in the standard library. I'll have a serious go at whatever they end up with, and wouldn't mind if it was a stripped down twisted but with composition rather than inheritance. It may be the feature that pushes python people to v3. I'll look over the links you sent regarding this.
Hot off the press! http://www.j1nx.nl/amlogic-8726-m3-f16ref-where-are-we-now/?...
I initially read that as "If I were to give a commencement speech..", which would probably make said speech quite a newsworthy event, despite being a very short speech.
Yes, trainers in a "Globo" gym are incentivized on membership sales, repeat personal sessions, and importantly: running classes. The more classes they are "trained" to run, the more valuable they are as an employee.
Don't worry, ideas are worthless anyway: http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
I'm in a middle of creating a web application, and my plan was to serve static files from S3. Based on your post, it seems like a really bad idea. If the problems are so apparent, I wonder why this is so generally accepted and recommended approach. One example, Heroku guide that praises putting static files on S3: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/s3
The biggest beef I have is that the site doesn't tell you how a car works. I clicked on "Transmission" hoping to see how an automatic transmission works, but the TOC only had information on checking, filling, and adjusting various things. Perhaps the fixingacar.com domain would be more appropriate for this content?
Well the fact that we're in worldwide recession despite being in a time of extreme productivity and technology, is perhaps a sign that the "real economists" and neo-liberals are fucking it all up. Elitism is counter-productive.

So, care to actually present a counterargument or are you content to be an obnoxious blowhard?
Good thing. Inability to communicate in a common language is a huge barrier for development, peace and understanding global issues.
Using debit cards. Ah wait, my Visa is technically a credit card with a 0 credit limit. So in a way, i have one. But i rarely use it, most time i make do with Visa Electron debit cards.
http://www.researchoninnovation.org/WordPress/?cat=4

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100421/1451179133.shtml

http://readwrite.com/2009/07/02/study_says_patents_hinder_in...

http://archive.mises.org/10217/yet-another-study-finds-paten...

http://www.healio.com/orthotics-prosthetics/development-fina...

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:_DA2suNYWFoJ:...

Skip to the conclusion in the last paper.
I'm not sure what the confusion is. I agree with what you've said above.

Basically: 1. "d" in French is pronounced "d". 2. "j" in French is pronounced "zh". 3. "dj" in French is pronounced as the same affricate you get by combining "d" and "zh". 4. This is a better explanation for the "dj" in Django rather than saying the "j" is an affricate and the "d" is silent.
This is one anecdote of many.

The thing is, if you work in a gym daily, I'd expect you to have intermediate knowledge of a lot of things: cycling, running, rowing, free weights, warm up exercises, safe stretching techniques, nutrition. The ability to perform assessments of form, fitness, give advice about contra-indicated exercises based on disclosed medical histories, and more.

It's when I see people completely incorrectly adjust their gym bikes, start stretching before they touch any equipment, etc. because their "trainer" told them. When I personally get "corrected" on my "bad" form by a gym trainer (at the time I was attending twice weekly sessions with a qualified amateur lifting trainer instructor), telling me to do the exact opposite of what I was taught. When I see trainers get on the rowing machine and demonstrate poor technique that could lead to repetitive strain back injuries... the list goes on, and it's depressing.
The main point I would take from that kind of advices is that all answers, no matter how fancy, should sound like you, and not like you're just reciting some self-help book on passing the job interviews.
Oh wow, I didn't even notice how old it was. Guess it was more of a hit a run thing. A shame really, though it was a nice use of Mechanical Turk.
That's why I'm hoping the next-gen Raspberry Pi will be 64-bit based on Cortex A53. They should skip the ARMv7 architecture and jump from ARMv6 to ARMV8. It should make things easier for the people maintaining the Raspbian OS,too, if they didn't have to support 3 architectures at once.
Startup Ideas: Some Pointers From Steve Jobs
I took over development of a fairly large Drupal site with Ubercart and multiple external API tie-ins. It took the original team nearly 2 years to develop it for a rather large client. Now I'm the only developer working on it making some interesting and sometimes complicated changes. I find this to be an ideal client.
>Posted on August 3, 2011
back when google apps for business was free, they had an option to redirect your naked domain to www under domains. then all you had to do was to point your A record to google dns and it would forward it to www.
Do you think I shouldn't care and just ask HN what they think about it?
It's not my project, but the source files are C++:

http://sourceforge.net/p/mariamole/code/2/tree/trunk/code/ma...
DIY Tesla coil synthesizer kit by MIT students
Lessons learned wrestling with Ubuntu fonts
> like no good way to represent 64 bit numbers

Yep, it only has strings either way.

> weak typing

Yep, it only has strings either way (also, "weak typing" does not mean jack shit, and talking about typing strength for a serialization format makes zero sense)

> barely any types in the first place

Yep, it only has one.
It's probably just a temporary bug.
IE8 (maybe IE7 as well, not sure anymore) will accept trailing commas in objects. All IE will also "accept" trailing commas in arrays, but they will create a final `undefined` element
Read Paul Graham's essay first, then decide. The one thing you should be afraid of should be others stealing your domain name or trademarks before you have registered them.
Nvidia intends to do that with Project Denver/Boulder (2014) with 64 bit chips, and supposedly a new Maxwell-based GPU. I think they will be making 16-core on die, but they'll also help their customers make 512-1024 core racks. They already did it with Tegra 3 with some customer from Barcelona.

Applied Micro also intends to introduce a 128 core SoC in 2014:

http://www.apm.com/products/x-gene
Minimalist web
Komodo Edit is pretty good too. Have you tried it?
Rather than going through Craigslist, at my last startup we used http://www.usertesting.com/ - $39 bucks and the user testing video is all yours. Pretty decent.
No, it really isn't a sign of anything. This is like blaming all professional plumbers for your bath tub leaking.

This is a cynical and knee jerk commentary that's emblematic of the sort of middle brow dismissals we've been working to limit on HN.

For all of the competing thoughts on economics, I don't think it's a stretch to say it's enormously complicated. Even on the most cursory examination it doesn't break down to "more productivity = better economy". "Real economists" and "neo-liberals" may in fact be fucking it all up, but I'm quite certain they'd have done no better if they modeled the economy like you have.

When your world view requires that millions of highly educated, trained, and experienced people - who have pursued a rigorous, academic field of study for decades - are all simultaneously out to lunch, possibly maliciously, the onus is perhaps on you to provide more substantiation than "they're fucking it all up".

Side note: At this point I'd be very happy with HN being refocused on strictly tech/startup related posts. Every time a more general or controversial topic comes up it ends up very much like this thread. Unsubstantiated knee-jerk ad hominem. Followed by equally unsubstantiated hyperbolic cynical equip.
Interesting! I was reading something in one of the FAQ's earlier that seemed to indicate that that works, but now digging further and reading through the forums, I see that you are totally right: you simply couldn't do build this use-case with pure-AWS (non-EC2) tools without having this new S3 static hosting redirection feature.

(As for non-Amazon DNS with server-side aliasing support, it wouldn't be that bad, for this kind of use case: you are already taking a latency hit by returning the 301, and direct links will never target these URLs as they will have the canonical www. hostname, so if you just end up with an edge node near a geo-ip DNS server near the original user, it will be approximately good enough.)
Worldwide recession? The only time the recession was global was for a short while during 2009.
Disappointing is to see this type of comment in a forum like this. Isn't this supposed to be Hacker News? Quit complaining, get the code, make it work, commit it back to the repo, write about it, and post here. That's the hacker way.

BTW, kudos to the OP for releasing this!
Rather than insulting you for committing the mortal HN sin of releasing on Windows, I'm going to say - great job. Looks fantastic and it is great to see how vibrant the Arduino community is these days. Keep up the good work and good luck with your search for contributors.
Hardware game controller support on Android (within MOAI) is not implemented, and would need to be done according to the ODK. Also, it very definitely needs to be tested ..
See also 'Manna' and 'Robotic Nation' that must be over a decade old by this point.
Copyright Vultures Circle As Court Green-Lights Anti-Piracy Scheme
Maybe they'd like to be using MOAI productively as well, and besides that: I'm not "a company" but rather an individual developer who is willing to contribute to the community - of Ouya developers, Ouya users, and MOAI developers. Understood?
Human Gene Patenting: Yes, Companies Can Own Your DNA
Ubuntu on Macbook Pro
Ask HN: Know any good password repository for teams
Hey, we've come to a point where we need to share passwords, API keys and other sensitive info among the whole team (people of 3). Sharing these over Skype or emails doesn't seem very productive or secure to me, so I'm looking for alternatives.

Thanx!
it might be a bit early to say "working" but still I admit I am one of those sceptics that believes ouya will be a huge disappointment for most people...I hope they will be able to prove me wrong.
How To Secure Your Website [pdf]
Quite fascinating.

There obviously isn't a lot of content in there at the moment but it is food for thought - we spend a lot of time glorifying failure but not enough time quantifying it and learning from it. While learning from success is more useful, if we had a fuller picture of what causes businesses to fail as well as succeed, it might help us do some legitimate inference work rather than the anecdotal guesswork that happens these days.
Yes, but what I was looking was a very different beast: Bindings with properties chains, declarative style when possible, typed models with auto-computed expressions, reusable components (controllers/presenters), separation of views from controllers (as little code as possible in views - in shape we have only html with bindings).
Our background was Flex with a MVVM framework we created. We tried to replicate it in HTML5 .
IF-less programming
No personal experience, just an idea - plain text file (or collection of files), created with encrypted text editor (like Password Pad - http://www.password-pad.com/ ) and synced with Dropbox (Google Drive, etc).
I think this article neatly sums up the problem. It is all about the 'financialisation' of the economy and yet it never mentions gold once ! Just like the film Margin Call. No gold at the base of the pyramid (i.e. capitalism without real always liquid capital) means that you can build a debt/derivatives pyramid to the moon. This monetary inflation only benefits the rich while creating the illusion of wealth below. However a return to gold would destroy big government too and this is why it can never be talked about. The reason interest on savings is so low is that the fed has had to rig rates at multi century lows to try and keep the debt party going. It has thus created the biggest bond bubble in all of financial history. The fed IS the bond market and can not exit without creating a crash.
Help Decide the Title for My New E-book on CTA Button Copy
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Space Is Big- See It All
Bug reveals 'deleted' Snapchat videos
You have the classical todo MVC on github. In the first days next year I will send to people managing the official todo project but if you get the project, put on a web server, you can quickly run the todo project.
When your squash partner 'endorses' your coding skills on LinkedIn…
I find honesty has worked on that latter one in the past - "I don't always ask colleagues for help if I'm stuck"
Which is true, I have a tendency to (occasionally) get bogged down and spend a day or two on solving a technical problem myself that may well be resolved with five minutes of chat around the coffee machine.

I've never not been offered a job after an interview with that line in it, though I think it's only come up twice.
Multi-Process Support For GTK's HTTP Back-End
The problem with all those board - except rapsberry pi is that there are no proper gpu hardware drivers for them - at least under linux. So one can't build linux based XBMC media centre on them to play HD movies :(
When it comes tocheap boards only r-pi can do this, other boards can only do this when you use Android on them :(
Encouraging the user to enter a value in an optional field
The only thing I'm really missing on linux is xcode.
Epidemiologists only now investigating the Pareto Principle?