skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are shapes you can achieve in 3D printing that you can't with CNC machines. Waste material is a significant problem if you were to have a machine on your desk or your living room.

Another advantage is that 3D printers actually have a community around it and people pushing its boundaries, as well as new companies forming in the space to push the tech forward. That's bound to make it better--or at the very least, explore what's possible. I don't see the same thing happening with CNC machines. No new CNC machine startups that I hear about.
I actually like the idea, but I think you ended up with something more 1998 internet than UNIX. I think you could take the idea and run with it and make something very cool though, an easy way to represent a combination of console commands, output, and comments on each, in a uniform way. Maybe adopt some of the popular techniques from technical books where they separate the code/output, the content, and the tips/notes, plus anything else that's useful.
It does, but he's right about the abundance of pecans and bacon. Adding more low carb options is one of my top priorities.
Yep.. sure do
Ask HN: Can you recommend a Rails ecommerce framework?
I don't have much Rails experience, but I'd like to build a customized ecommerce store. I thought Rails would be the way to go. I've looked into Spree Commerce. Does anyone have any experience with it or any other thoughts?
Word on the street in the reprap channel is that Makibox can't happen at that price.
None of the options given in the poll felt quite right for my feelings, so I figured I'd comment instead.

My girlfriend had one in our apartment until we moved it out to another space recently. She can still visit it there if need be and I assume I can tag along if I wanted to use that one. I also have access to another two printers at TechShop. Then there's also one at noisebridge and a wide range of other printers available at various places and online on a kind of pay per print system.

Given all that, I don't know why we'd want one in our apartment again. I'm certainly glad not to still be up at 2am because the printer's still loudly doing its best to print a part it started on hours and hours ago. Also the technology at the moment is fairly limited especially when it comes to the type of printers you see in the "personal at home printing" space / budgets, and I think it'd be awhile before I found a compelling one I'd want for myself. (They're also a little pricey for most people I think.) Also it's nice that for a lot of the printers I have access to, I'm not the one who has to fix them when they break. Which is a thing that happened a bunch to some of the early models and something I don't think is a whole lot of fun to deal with. Obviously some people think it's a blast to tinker with the things and those are the type of folks that'll probably get a decent amount out of having one. I just prefer to tinker with other things.
Sorry that's actually what I meant. "I will be more productive with X because it has Y feature". They still tend to underestimate though.

Don't get me wrong, i'm all for new technology but bleeding edge on new projects can be a recipe for failure most of the time.
The Copyright Lobotomy: How Intellectual Property Makes Us Pretend To Be Stupid
> Linux and BSD are not nearly the same thing. And I'm not even being overly pedantic here. They have 2 things in common:

> * They try (and arguably succeed at) cloning Unix.

No, the BSDs actually are Unix, in a genetic sense.
All youtube videos have zero dislikes. Google screw up?
It's also exploiting the highly controversial "hold" move.
Sorry, working offline is the one requirement I do have...
> The reviewer was so accustomed to their existing browser simply blocking pop-ups

Why didn't Chrome simply block the popups as well? (NB: I switched back to Firefox a year ago, so I don't know if popups are still a problem in Chrome.)
And FYI - the headline here is absolutely and totally off-base/inaccurate/scandalous/you-name-it. No need for that...
You want $20 for a product this ugly and with no demo? No freaking way.
Aggregators are the inevitable endgame for Warner Brothers, because nobody is going to sign up for their non-aggregated services. If it's not aggregators for them, it's nothing. Which may be what they choose, in the end.

Maybe HBO can make it on their own, but I doubt it. The money-per-show in this market is getting diluted, fast, as the past now competes with the present more than ever and creates an ever-larger supply. This tends to have only one effect on prices. If all video production stopped right now I could probably easily survive for another 3 or 4 years before I even really noticed.
As long as we have corporate tax rates, we will continue to see behavior like this. People who complain about corporations paying little to no tax would do well to examine the reasons why this sort of behavior occurs.
Sure, but don't kid yourself that you can use a cheap 3d printer to work with metal either.
I love AnyList. I needed a super-simple shared todo list (for groceries, actually), and it does the job perfectly. I only wish there was a web client.

Also, thanks for including a list of acknowledgements in the app. I track all of the ones I find at https://www.cocoacontrols.com/apps?o=date, but unfortunately a lot of people simply don't include any OSS acknowledgements.
That's a really nice mock.

I started prototyping something along these lines a couple months before Messages was announced. The idea was to make a (commercial) next-generation IM client for the Mac with a more modern UI. I stopped working on it when the first Messages beta was released, figuring that it added most of the UI things I wanted, and that if it shipped with OS X for free, few would want an alternative.

Now I wonder if dissatisfaction with Messages is high enough that there's an opportunity again?

If you're interested in this stuff and want to talk about it, drop me an email.
I'd say some people are in it to get absorbed sure, but there are also people who wanted to make it on their own but can't because of continual funding, the need to compete with free competitors, etc.
I don't think killer app is the way to think about it. Blogging has been a world changing technology (though ho hum by 2013 standards), and back in 1999 (when blogging was at its infancy), what would you have replied was the killer app of Blogging?
I have a video on youtube where is shows 15 likes and 1 dislike, while the page of the video shows 16 likes and 0 dislikes. Looks legit, all videos seems to have 0 dislikes.
Nice pivot. I had the same idea myself about two years ago, and saw swole.me but thought it looked way to focussed on weight training users for a general audience. This looks much more widely useful.
If the whole point is to disguise the effort spent, 'from my iPad' kills that premise.

You are essentially sacrificing your product's value for word of mouth.
This is not true "handwriting," it is a printing of handwriting. This sort of practice is usually imperfect, and the fact that the note is not written at all is generally pretty conspicuous.

Frankly, I think that most people would view this as disingenuous. The whole point of handwritten cards is that their supposed to be, uhhh, handwritten. A printout of something written seems sort of perfunctory, and isn't really better than simply sending a typed note. Indeed, the fact that one is attempting to forgo the work of writing a real card and instead using something like this will just dilute the sentiment of the gesture and appear lazy.
I'd prefer to see some proven recipes even if they slightly differ in calories and fats from settings. Having salmon, melon and celery in one meal (it generated this recipe) doesn't work, even if it's exactly the requested amount of calories, fats, etc. Otherwise - excellent idea.
> How do you deal with this situation:

You suck it up and move on.

> Should employers always be on-guard of employees leaving at-will? ... should employer be able to fire any employee at-will?

I live in Texas which is an at-will state. Of course we business owners are prepared and ideally so are the employees. Each state is different but, even if it's not an at-will state, you as a business owner need to prepare for replacing employees. Your comments imply that you think that the worse thing that could happen is that an employee decides to leave. That's crazy. What if you find out tomorrow that your employee has been posting source code on a P2P site? What happens if the employee has been found embezzling/stealing? Or what if said employee had a heart attack tomorrow? Or their spouse/child died and they needed an extended leave of absence? Those lost two are horrible situations, yes, but they are very real possibilities. You need to have training/policies/documentation in place to help with such. We spend no less than 2 hrs per month per person on maintaining/creating documentation.

See my other post in this thread for more details.
I can see that unlike a 3d-printer, it's impossible to have a CNC in your desktop because of the waste. But I don't buy the "community" argument. Community has given us things like the arduino, a horrible technology obsolete from the very start. I do not think a technology is better just because many people use it.
Did you keep in touch with Mr. Martin, or with anyone else at the company, after this?
Meet The Guy Who Helped Google Beat Apple's Siri – Interview with Jeff Dean
completely agreed.
My takeaways from our meeting with Brad Feld
The problem with headers that never leave is that you can't easily tell when you wind up scrolled 20% down a page. If you click on "Customize", you are scrolled below. If you click on "Meal Options" (or notice you are scrolled) you get to see it.

My point remains, putting that up front would be more useful. I came really close to ignoring it when I saw calories was the only thing that showed up front and center. I decided to dig deeper since it was a "Show HN".
Well, for one thing the "double up" option is not a part of standard poker. More conspicuously, physical poker involves a high degree of observation/manipulation/etc of human opponents and that is not a part of video poker.
Bitcoin ASIC Miner Manufacturer Butterfly Labs Begins Shipping
If this hooked up to Woolworths I'd pay way more than $9/mo!
Looks really cool and well developed. I'd use it but then I noticed I don't know home addresses of most people as an immigrant here. Most people I know are either my friends or colleagues whom I don't have home addresses of and thus I cannot use this.
I think he was implying that the functionality of Paper is far greater, not the visual similarity -- Freudian slip on your part I suppose ;)
I don't follow the logic in your statements. How is the end result of a union worse than a bad employer? The empirical evidence around unions is pretty clear - they result in better conditions, higher pay, etc etc. Fundamentally they reallocate the proceeds from the firm away from shareholders and management to the workers - which is something that drastically needs doing.
I admit that 3D printing is a long, long way off from this, but I'd argue that every item I bring into my home and every material purchase I make is a potential application of home/consumer 3D printing waiting for a solution.
do you really use lisp on a /(semi)?regular/ basis?!
Wow -- you've described my situation to a T. Except that you decided to do something about it.

I'm looking forward to trying this site and seeing if it works for me. Thanks!
It would, I started working on this a few days ago.
Agreed. Grocery Gateway here in Canada. Every week my food would appear at my door!
$9 seems quite excessive to mail a sheet of paper. I'm not sure whether or not people will be able to justify the inordinate price, and I'm of the opinion that it's simply too hight to be tenable.

As an aside, the site crashed upon closing the "learn more" dialog.
I agree wholeheartedly. My point was that 33% of fats in your diet isn’t hard to accomplish. Also, as far as ‘good’ vs ‘bad’ fats go, aforementioned recipe did quite alright. It’s transfat and saturated fats you have to watch — fat in and of itself is needed for our bodies to function.

However, I wouldn't just eat Tofu Scramble for breakfast. I need complex carbs not to feel hungry soon after. I can do without carbs for dinner, but not for breakfast or lunch. A typical breakfast for me consists of 0% fat Greek yogurt, mixed with oats, linseed, nuts and fresh fruit. That still has plenty of fats, but also carbs.
Google Keep has todo lists. I've taken to doing that since I can easily manage them on my desktop, then tick them off on my phone as I complete them.
I've found Toodledo (http://www.toodledo.com/) to be the only cross-platform service that supports Getting Things Done (GTD) well. It leaves some things to be desired, but I haven't seen anything else out there that both

1) Supports a GTD workflow

2) Works on both iOS and Android (but also has a web
interface).

Toodledo syncs well with apps like 2Do (available for both iOS and Android) and Pocket Informant.

If you (or anybody else) is interested in migrating to Toodledo, I wrote a Ruby client library for the Toodledo API that may be handy - ping me and I can send you the link.

And if anybody has other suggestions for services that fit both of the above requirements, I'd love to know.
ZenPayroll

UX Designer, Full Time, San Francisco - funded $6.1M

http://www.zenpayroll.com

jobs at zenpayroll.com

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We're building the future of payroll. We launched in 2012 (http://zenpayroll.com/press) and raised $6.1M in our first round of financing so we could focus on building a long term foundation for the company. Our investors include the CEOs of Dropbox, Yelp, Yammer, Box, among others, as well as Google Ventures and Salesforce (full list at http://zenpayroll.com/investors). We currently have a product that our customers love, and we're processing millions of dollars in payroll every month. Our founders are second time entrepreneurs from Stanford who have had two prior exits. We're hungry to build something truly great and we're in this for the long haul.

At ZenPayroll, you will:

(1) Be an owner of what you build.

(2) Conceptualize, design, and build product experiences that make users smile.

(3) Design a product that processes millions and millions of dollars in payroll.

(4) Understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch frequently.

(5) Design and build landing pages, email campaigns, icons, infographics, and application features.

If solving a real pain point for millions of people gets you excited, we'd love to speak with you.

To apply, send a note to jobs [at] zenpayroll [dot] com and include your (1) portfolio, LinkedIn, GitHub, resume, and/or any project/portfolio pages. (2) a note on why you are interested in ZenPayroll, and (3) share with us something you've done which you are most proud of and why.

This job is located in San Francisco, CA. You must be local or willing to relocate (we'll cover the cost).
In all seriousness though: Google does things their own way, and that's fine. But design policies (policies in general) tend to migrate between business domains.

Pointing out that you're personally not a fan of some particular policy (provided you do so politely and don't belabor the point) can be informative for incidental third parties as well as for the people currently writing the rules.

I know I for one appreciate it, for the same reason I appreciate Google's public programming style guides.
A total lack of portion control.
1. $6k gdp per capita.
2. Even in Canada people wait for cancer treatments 6 months +
They said in the article that they want to expand the classification data so my guess is they will be going well beyond 30k tokens.
Extending Chef Providers
Greplin, all over again?
As a suggestion for a next step or advanced functionality, if there was a way to put in my own recipes or ingredients?
First off, journalism is a multi-faceted problem that insiders think about in terms of their past relationship and outsiders think of with contempt. The above dynamics make it a very challenging problem to move from here to there.

The failure of legacy print publishing isn't about advertising. The failure of legacy digital publishing isn't about advertising. Information needs to be treated as you would any physical asset. The primary difference is that information is the most liquid asset in the world. Information has very few barriers to transmission, supply is almost entirely an artificial constraint and only a question of time and demand before a market for information is satisfied.

What that means is that print papers are slow transmission conduits with a relatively high artificial barrier on supply. Information follows diffusion principles in that it naturally wants to move from high to low states. Got secrets? ;)

Snazzy UIs, native readers and whatever kind of third-party aggregator everyone wants to build will be a failure. I know for fact that if I paid journalists anything, they would write on nwzPaper; no questions asked.

At a 13% proficient literacy rate in the US, and worse in most of the world, it's a challenge to cultivate a new journalism environment online, but it is absolutely a solvable problem.

Patch.com, Examiner.com and Yahoo's associated content have all but thrown in the towel. AOL has bet big on Armstrong and Patch and per their February job req, it looks like they want to double down!

The new journalism content and revenue model can only develop on top of the right platform. The stakes are quite high as the first winner will also win many adjacent markets as well!

I am biased, but I've got years of thinking and development into developing an actual platform solution that can efficiently scale global. Six months of beta knowledge and data and the next iteration coming soon.
Introducing Incognito+ for Google Chrome
This is the only reason I'm still developing for a Linux target. Unfortunately it is a compelling reason.
As a consultant, it's better to say "I worked 60h but am giving you a 50% discount", I think. Maybe it's different if you're hourly staff.
If only this option was available more in the gator browser bar heyday.
They're the internet equivalent of junk food.
i worked on an official tetris game, and so i've had the chance to pour over the official spec. it's been a while, but i believe the official rules for marathon don't allow you to play forever. so, in trying to play forever, you pass up higher scoring moves and then you're cut off at the end of level 19 (again, that's iirc). in multiplayer, trying to play forever is a great way to lose.

the official tetris rules are a thing to behold. i just wanted to throw in my 2 cents worth to keep people from thinking this is an exploit for such an amazingly refined game.

there are modes of tetris that i've played that go to level 20, which means the moment the piece is spawned it's on the floor. but because of that limited maneuverability, i don't think you'd be able to use this strategy very well.
IBM Research makes world's smallest movie using atoms
yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5636233

EDIT: wow has wired always been this bad? 16 trackers/ads according to ghostery, 20 according to disconnect
Looks promising, but the recommended lunch was chicken salad, 2 cups of yogurt, and celery. No carbs...plus that is a lot of yogurt.
I would do it now; it's not going to get easier later.

I personally have had good luck upgrading small apps very easily from 3.2->4.0. The main thing I've run into with larger apps is going from attr_accessible->strong_params, which I realize I could do simply by adding the gem, but I'd rather go whole hog on it.
I built one, used it, sold it.
HTML/CSS is like basic literacy. CSS preprocessing (SASS) is easy and essential to keep your projects flexible/maintainable, so definitely take a couple hours to learn that now if you haven't been using it already.

If I were you I'd focus on mastering javascript as a next big step. Javascript is great because it can be used on the frontend (e.g. jQuery) and backend (e.g. Node).

Most of all, no matter what you are studying, make sure you are producing things that you can show people as you learn. If you're not on github, get on github and upload your projects; ask anyone you can for feedback. Without degrees or work experience, a portfolio of projects you are proud of is what will help you stand out.
I mean we're definitely never making anything in the US again, that's for sure

That may be true, it may not. It's a topic that's actually the subject of intense debate right his minute. Many people contend that the US is in the midst of a "manufacturing renaissance" as manufacturing moves back here from China. Not everybody agrees that it's a meaningful trend, but it's certainly not a given that US manufacturing is dead.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/01/i...

https://mninews.marketnews.com/index.php/us-isms-derry-resho...

http://business.time.com/2013/03/28/is-the-u-s-manufacturing...

http://www.plasticstoday.com/blogs/reshoring-its-lot-hopeful...

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws...

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws...
This, plus compatibility for the low-cost non-defenestrated EC2 instances will finally provide a realistic alternative to the huge farms of Ubuntu currently haunting AWS.
I'd have one if I had space; since the Hacker Dojo space near YC is up for sublease, and is zoned industrial so you must have "lab" component, it would be really tempting to have a security lab... (but $5k/mo for the office space, I guess)
Lowercase for table names?
I think table names should be in PascalCase.

And I personally prefer the rest of SQL to be in lowercase, so it does not attract too much attention.
Usually in SQL table names and column names is the most important information.
Performance optimization and Dart
Editorial slant has long been a characteristic of the most successful newspapers, both in the Yellow Age and the Golden Age. The "golden age" was golden, not because media achieved that perfect state of neutrality, but because it was a time when newspapers merged and monopolized the print ad industry. The slant of a newspaper is very likely a minor factor compared to the major shift in advertising and information distribution caused by tech. But to think that media is reaping what they sowed for disagreeing with one's political beliefs is a more comforting, digestible explanation, like when a adulterer gets hit by a car as a purported act of God.
I would like to get one, for multiple reasons. One is for myself - it would be interesting and fun to play around with, and to use for some side hobby projects. The other (arguably more important) reason is to just have that creative outlet available for my kids to tinker on.

It is hard right now (for me) to justify the cost - just like I assume it was hard for my parents to justify the cost of an Apple ][+. But I am very glad they bought that luxury geek gadget when I was a kid, because it helped shape who I am today.

I don't know if 3D printing will be analogous to an Apple ][+ in terms of impact for my kids - probably not. But it can be hard to see if it will, when it is in its infancy. I wonder if I would have been fascinated with computers if I was a kid now, because they are so polished in so many ways. The Apple ][ (and our subsequent 286) were so... rough... and accessible, that it was all the more intriguing for a young curious tinkerer.

I think there is no doubt that the current hobby 3D printers are rough, and a bit unpolished (in a good way). (That may change some with Formlabs Form1, though... it looks pretty polished and slick).
Way cool. Only time I've said that on HN.

I'm a picky eater, and have been told dozens of times to make a grocery list. Thanks.