skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The posted concept isn't just a copy--there have been decisions made based upon functionality.

To follow the analogy, one could use the Cowboys stadium as a precedent and then adapt it to the climate of Minneapolis.

This isn't a discussion about the codebase because the code can't solve the questions being discussed. There isn't anything in the concept that is out of the realm of feasibility. Critiques happen at all phase of design and development, and you seem like someone who's uncomfortable with ideas that aren't finalized.
Employee Turns Gaming Network Into Private Bitcoin Mine
Not necessarily the best strategy, but having ever implemented a parser for a compiler for any "ordinary" language makes lisps much clearer - you're just hand-writing the AST.
People have been building working models of these for over 50 years.. the theory is pretty well understood (Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) wind)
I answered 'yes' as we have one at work that we're welcome to use anytime we want.
You're assuming that writing the code in a different language immediately makes it performant. Would you still not perform the following: 1) Write app in Go 2) Identify hotspots 3) Improve/rework code of hotspot.
I have an Solidoodle 2 also (see my other comment.) Which extruder are you using? I still have the original on mine. What about the 618? Where do you get it?
Can you tell me which gems you're having problems with? I'll send a bunch of pull requests this evening.
To this end, did anyone suggest Heroku was a dying platform when they announced Python support? I sure didn't hear anything like that.
It seems companies other than people like 37signals and indie game studios don't want to be small and independent? I could be wrong about this analysis, but I find the aquihire trend somewhat depressing.
It was Larry Page.
A much debated topic around here as well! We decided to put our logo on the back of the card (small) with "from my iPad" underneath it. Thus far the response has been "oh, cool!" (with a hint of "interesting") rather than "oh - this is crappy and cheap"
I had sort of the opposite experience: my preferences aren't possible to indicate in the interface at all. I don't have "formal" preferences: I don't really care whether something is lamb or beef or chicken or pork or whatever. And I'm not interested in fad diets like Keto or Scientology or Paleo.

Instead, I want my food to taste good while fitting into nutritional/budget constraints. What "tastes good" means varies, but in my case, I like generally strong-flavored foods, like spicy foods or garlicky foods.

There are a whole pile of ways to satisfy that. I like Greek food, I like Mexican food, I like Arab food, I like Indian food, and several other styles besides. But I don't like bland food. Most of what this tool generates is weird bland stuff, and I can't find any way to tell it to stop doing that.
> The app will remain online for another 90 days before it’s shut down by Yahoo. In the meantime, it’s not accepting any new users.

Well, crap. Any migration path or alternatives? I don't even need 99% of Astrid's bells and whistles, just your basic "add entries and tick 'em off" todo list along the lines of what the Palm V used to do.
I wrote a post about this topic that I thought you might find useful.

http://blog.cubehero.com/2013/04/12/what-you-need-to-know-ab...
or "How I learned to stop worrying and love ruby."
Crypto performance improvements, briefly benched and blogged by jgc: http://blog.jgc.org/2013/04/update-on-go-11-crypto-performan...
Right, what about my level of knowledge of Javascript? Should I spend a few days hitting it really hard just to learn it or is it something I can pick up on the go if I have a background with Python/C++/Java?
Mother of God.

Can you imagine how awesome it would be if they actually supported this on GAE?
Zynga.org and NewSchools Venture Fund Announce Learning Games Accelerator
Your ancestors did just fine with salaries of a few dollars a year, once upon a time.
silicon valley; I'm in santa clara; my buddy is in mountain view.
Love the idea of having a personal "Chef" who cares about my health!

One feature idea : you could integrate with one these smart wifi scale and use my daily weight as input. This way you'll have a daily feedback loop.
I was at a local hackerspace and paid about $180 into a building class, but then it didn't work out and other things came up in my personal life and that of the person giving the classes. I think the $200-$300 range is where it's going to have to get to before 3d printers become wildly popular. Most people can overlook the low quality of the prints and the acetone wash if the cost of the printer is less than that of an iPad.

Not everyone is going to want to use a 3d printer, but I feel like those of us who do want them but don't have them just don't feel that the price justifies the quality of current printers.

The other barrier to ubiquitous 3d printer use is, in my opinion, a lack of cheap 3d scanning technology. Sure, you can use the laser line w/ turntable and camera scanner, but there are a number of issues, concavities and post-scan modeling work being the two largest I see. There are algorithms which can be used to take a webcam video feed and generate a 3d model from that, like proFORMA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOmzjImsVc
,but the source to that was never released. There are commercial products which can do this, but I think that until there is an open source/free option for this kind of scanning, it's going to be another barrier to people getting 3d printers.
Hacking conference ticket sales
The Netflix channel loads fairly quickly, within a 3-4 seconds, but then the retriving of your instant queue list and the downloading of all the images for the items in your instant queue (and the suggested groups) takes a bit longer (and loads visible items first). If it's not the first launch since a boot (or some internally defined timeout), it's faster since the images are cached, yielding a total time of ~4-5 seconds until the Channel is fully usable with all show images shown.

Then again, I'm almost never loading the channel, I just leave it in Netflix, since that's all I really use. The launch time is essentially NIL.
Thanks. I agree that it is a good lesson. Prior to these experiences, I always thought that HR goes like this:

1. Interview
2. Make offer
3. Candidate accepts offer
4. Signs employment contract
5. Done

Now, it seems that nothing is certain.
The difference is in turnaround time. With your own, the turnaround time is shorter by half or less, depending on the part. That said, it assumes you have a 3D printer that prints reliably without fail. The current generation of desktop 3D printers finally are pretty hands free operations for short runs.
Me too! And I love how well done the site is, both usability wise and conceptually.

Next step: not sure how the health metrics would change, but you can have "order from <restaurant>" or "buy from <grocery store>" button, so lazy people like me know where to get the food from.

Next next step: directions for recipe? Most of the dishes looks awesome, but (maybe because I was not raised in US) I don't know how to prepare/cook them.
While this is very interesting, the real problem here is not Linguist stuff, but the fact that it's crammed into the web app.

A web app involved in a site as complex as Github's should really contain only the parts required to service web pages. A service like language classification is clearly better designed as a standalone service.

Aside from working around GC overhead, compositing big app from many smaller apps have many advantages. You force yourself to encapsulate complexity with strictly focused, network-friendly APIs (we use REST ourselves), which changes the way you have to think about programs. Hiding the implementation behind an API also allows you to swap out the implementation without the client ever knowing. Since the client and server are separated, you have fine-grained control over how much resources you are willing to spend on which components. And so on.

Having done monolithic Rails apps for many years, it's a model I am not going to back. Today, our web apps contain only UI logic. No database, no models, no data logic, just UI all the way. Everything else is handled by specialized components.
There's also a little yellow bowtie in the footer that I haven't figured out yet. It's also some kind of marketing thing for Arrested Development.
Also note that there are a few more sophisticated PHP buildpacks contributed by Heroku users. Here's a good example that uses nginx for the web server and Composer for dependency management: https://github.com/iphoting/heroku-buildpack-php-Tyler/

To use:

heroku config:add BUILDPACK_URL=git://github.com/iphoting/heroku-buildpack-php-tyler.git
Thanks. How do you deal with this situation:

1. The candidate signed the 1. offer and 2. employment contract and backed out at the last minute
2. Rejection letters were sent to other applicants

Should employers always be on-guard of employees leaving at-will? On the slip-side, since employee can quit at anytime when a better offer shows up, should employer be able to fire any employee at-will when a better offer (cheaper and better candidate) shows up on the table?

I find this very tricky and lopsided. It appears that when company layoffs people to cut cost, they are labelled as evil. On the other hand, when employees jumpship when a better offer comes around, it becomes "it's the logical thing to do". This biased view doesn't seem to be very fair.
No mention about Skype? I'm stuck on this due to business associates and customers demanding it for the past 5 years.

Everything else is Messages.
AAH.... HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
FWIW, while the AWS Marketplace only lists cc1.4xlarge, cg1.4xlarge, cc2.8xlarge, and hi1.4xlarge, my native-HVM AMIs also run on cr1.8xlarge, hs1.8xlarge, m3.xlarge, and m3.2xlarge.

The only instance types where you need to pay the Windows tax are m1., m2., c1.*, and t1.micro (although in some regions the Windows tax for t1.micro is free). Unfortunately, this set includes all of the smallest/cheapest instance types, and thus the ones people want to use most often...
There's Now an API for We the People
+1, I try to only eat locally grown produce, which of course means that the offerings are dependent on the seasons. I’d love for the app to take into account my country of residence, what season it is there right now, and then use that information to determine what’s being grown there now.
This is an interesting concept. I would have first logically arrived at the conclusion that whistleblower protection would exist for anonymous releases of sensitive information. Makes sense though that these are put in place to protect people who come forward with information publicly.
What would you do with a 3d printer in your house? For manufacturing and business use, it kind of makes sense to me. But personal use? After you print off a few cups and toy soldier molds, what would you want to do with a 3d printer?
>>>>>>In a society that hates freedom, freedom dies. We live in that society.

Why do you think we have over 11 million illegal aliens living here and over a million people who gained citizenship last year?

Clearly, they must think that freedom is alive and well in the United States my friend.
This is a divergence, but it seems to ignore the value that comes from propagating the meme that building armament systems is unethical by refusing to participate in it.
I used Astrid for a while and just switched over to Google Keep a couple weeks ago. I highly recommend it for people who just want simple synced to-do/notes.

Yes, they could Google-Reader-it at any time, I suppose, but for something transient like todos I'm not too worried about it.
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IMHO 3d-printing is way overrated. We already have CNC machines that are reliable, faster, cheaper and more capable than 3d-printers, in that they can cheaply "print" in hard materials like metal with much better resolution. What are the advantages of 3d-printers? (except than being slightly more clean)
I use a Lawsy's Mark 4 extruder ( http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:47561 ). It's simpler, easier to maintain, and more durable by leaps and bounds than the stock extruder, in addition to being fewer pieces. If you're printing a replacement extruder, print several copies of the extruder parts in case you break one in assembly. Once you take apart the stock Solidoodle extruder, you won't want to put it back together. It breaks easily and is called "the jigsaw" for a reason.

I got my 618 from Octave Systems, but it's pretty common at most of the online printer suppliers now.

618 is a little iffy with the stock Solidoodle 2 hot end because the insulator is PTFE, which could start to decompose around the upper end of 618 extrusion temperatures. Thankfully, 618 has a wide range of temperatures at which it works (albeit with a bit less strength), so you can compromise and still get wonderful results.
Whenever I think of 3d printers, I think of this essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html

I'm not sure whether 3-d printing will result in my having more stuff or less. In the long run, I could see it working out either way, but with the technology in its current state, it would definitely result in a net increase in the amount of stuff I have.
as far as I know most exchanges and gambling sites pay out from a different wallet that you pay in to, so washing coins this way may be possible depending on how long each company keeps track of internal transactions.
Wrong. Malbolge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge
Exactly. I have almost-completed RepRap Wallace awaiting free weekend or two to finish assembling.
Just learn as you build. Its the best way.
They get pinged to integrate pretty often, and they're really busy guys. Don't feel bad, and don't give up!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine%27s_laws
To those that want to buy one: what would you make with it?

I have access to printers via our hackerspaces (shameless plug: Heatsync labs, Mesa AZ), but have only printed 1 thing that I can think of that was useful.

It was a bushing to mate two pieces of steel together. The other things I've printed have either been novelty (hey, I can print a pendant!) or have fallen apart.
Great service! Easily worth my $9/mo.
"I use the site myself" - Eating your own dog food? (Pun, Pun, Pun)
If the Internet were patented, I have no doubt that someone would have spawned their own version of it (perhaps with a few differences to prevent a lawsuit) and CERN's version would have failed much like Gopher did. The Internet is a perfect example of an instance where a patent would have stifled innovation not spurned it.
Thanks for the shout out. :) I still maintain the same stance. Many people look at the technology as it is now, or too far in the future, rather than where it's headed in the next year or three.

As for crowd labor market, there might be an application. 3D printers are slow compared to other types of manufacturing, and thus, to get any volume to sell, one needs to operate a printer farm, or try to do distributed 3D printing.

When people do operate printer farms, where they have racks of printers to print out parts that they sell. However, the current crop of 3D printers still requires manual labor in the beginning and the end of the print. There's no mechanism yet to automatically remove the piece and start a new job. This may be where labor can come in.

As for distributed printing, I do know of a guy that's trying this out as an experiment, since he doesn't have the capacity to print every piece he's selling, he pays others to help him print, and then it's shipped to him. So that is a possibility as well.
Lol? Anybody can make something pretty in Photoshop? I dare you to try and make something similar.

You know that there's a profession called UI Designer?
Allow me to LOL. Employees are hard to manage, and will follow your lead. If you are unstructured and disorganized so will they. Start by being your own best employee and then have people follow your lead. Then train them to work just like you do. And then leave them the fuck alone.

The hiring process is very hard, and is usually the thing that ends up burning most businesses out.
Impulsing off topic:
It looks like they do work, just nowhere near the efficiency of a HEPA filter. Ionic filters certainly work in principle, but they really can't compete with devices with higher surface area (any fibrous air filter) or higher power (a CRT screen). Or the humongous surface area of the furniture of the room.

Funnily, in the little clean room lab I worked in at college, we would occasionally run the vacuum cleaners for a few days because they had great HEPA filters, spot improving sensitive zones. Kinda noisy for home use, though.
GE Invests $105 Million into Internet of Things
LOL LOL LOL!!!! The list it gave me consisted of everything I'm alergic to AND my 2 least favorite foods on the planet: pickles and celery!!

However, this is pretty awesome, my first try was super funny, but I'll definitely check it out more.

I would think that it should also have some checkboxes for common allergies, a la nuts, and maybe even foods I really don't like to exclude... I'd love to see what it shows then.

EDIT: I did see the food options section, but it seems to go from SUPER EASY all the way to ridiculously complicated with the click of that 1 button. There's some fine tuning to be done on this site, but my guess is that he'll kick some ass with this system - especially once it's an APP.
How can I see if the issue[1] that caused GitHub tons of issue[2] was fixed on this RC?

[1] https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/9813

[2] https://github.com/blog/1440-today-s-email-incident
When 3D printers can print themselves. Game over.
Launching our startup today... we raised $1m and are releasing 2.0 of our product.

HybridCluster 2.0 is an integrated suite of storage, replication and web clustering software, and a drop-in replacement for the end-user control panel, too. Our mission is to make the lives of cloud service providers, hosting companies and sysadmins easier through smarter software — so that you can get a good night’s sleep.

Would love to get HN's take on this! Any questions give me a shout...

Cheers, Luke Marsden - CEO, HybridCluster
In my own experience, only at first. I started printing anything willy nilly, just to try it out. Then when I felt like I just had too much stuff, I became more selective with what I print. I keep all the discarded parts, objects, and failed prints in a box, since I'll be able to re-melt and reuse the plastic eventually.
The price/performance of 3D printers is improving very quickly. We're visiting Hong Kong + Shenzhen now and met with Makible who are focused on making low-cost 3D printers. Makibox will be sold as a kit for $200 later this year. http://www.hackthings.com/meet-the-most-affordable-3d-printe...
Continuous Delivery of Clojure Apps
Hah. You should have seen the look on the woman's face who did my taxes, it was priceless.
I use gtasks on Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dayup.gtas...

.. and Google Keep for notes.
I can see this breaching their ToS and would probably be shut down by them if brought to their attention. However, what law would you be breaking when you give a private company a fake name.
It does. Click on the "Meal Options" button to the right, scroll down to "Food and Recipe filters", deselect anything you don't want/like.
A much more interesting subject than how we can save journalism is whether journalism can save us.
"deliver by" would be even better
Maybe you want to have another option for people who don't own a 3d printer but have access to one?
Seeing what me and my friends already do with firearms and the like, i can say addons and mods. But thats just one application, i'm sure there are many others in other niches.
a little bit afraid? I'd probably have to look at the legal implications, but it's not right out, if that is what you are asking. I mean, it might be completely out on the support side of things; I don't go after 'adult content' but I don't actively prohibit it, (other than through having 2008-level bandwidth quotas, which actually dissuades pretty strongly) and even if I did, it would still pop up occasionally.

but even so, on the hardware side of things, you won't see any of that (and I do go through pains to avoid looking at my customer's stuff anyhow.) and certainly, for what I'm paying... meh.

But yeah. I'd need to talk with a lawyer, and I'd probably want to talk with the parents and have them see what I'm doing first (as I assume that's where problems would come from if there were problems.)
Hacker Dojo in Mountain View has a MakerBot for member use
If you use Evernote, make a notebook called Todo. Why use another app? (probably not what you want, but it works for me)
> If you constantly blow out of ketosis, you'll literally accomplish nothing with the diet.

Unless you also achieve a caloric deficit.

edit: opposite words day
Sure - so far I've had to update postgres_ext, rails_autolink, redis-rails (part of redis-store package), and marginalia.

I'm currently fighting with redis-rails in particular, as bundler doesn't seem to be seeing the dependency change in a nested gem.
The current article title ("Playing Tetris forever by exploiting the PRNG") is indeed misleading. It would be better titled "...by exploiting piece generation constraints in recent versions."
"nobody's trying to replace the USD with ... the Bitcoin"

That's blatantly false, it's been presented as a potential replacement since infancy.
I don't agree. The main obstacle for computers was cost and size, which naturally scale down as technology improves. Applications were already everywhere even decades ago.

3D printing on the other hand fundamentally has difficulty delivering many things people want it to do, and the things it actually can do are fairly niche. Mainly prototyping, to my knowledge.

If 3D printers could already print forged steel or 14nm transistors (but at great cost) I'd say the future is very bright, because cost and size naturally come down, but they can't do that yet.