skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The day will come when every house has one of these built in. You can then install and run an app on your home computer/tablet/smartphone, then search/browse from hundreds of products. You choose a product, the app downloads it and sends it wirelessly to your home 3D printer, and a few minutes later out pops a new protective case for your smartphone. Or a new set of knobs for your kitchen drawers. Or a lamp for your newborn son's bedroom. When your son grows up, he may print you a mug on Father's day saying "World's #1 Dad".

That you can print a gun is simply a byproduct of the fact that you can print anything, and it makes for a more compelling story than "3D printing is still improving".
Could it be configured to only appear when SPDY is active rather than being greyed out on the rest of the web?
Read that again. They are thanked, nothing more.
I'm not saying the idea is good or bad. I say, just move on. Don't repeat yourself. Do new things. Don't get stuck. Don't get upset. Move on.
I built a basic pyramid and then tinkered w/ variations from that.
Wasn't there some breakthrough a few years ago in which some researchers discovered that an accepted "fact" in physics texts was wrong, and correcting it led to a huge improvement in solar-cell efficiency. It's a vague memory, but I think it was something like "electron gap". Anybody remember this? I haven't been able to find the original story.
Probably you'll like this post of mine with some good resources about logical fallacies:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/113250814961864918365/posts/XUa7...
You may as well be reading about a rock band here. This story does not and will not apply to you. This is the one in a thousand/million fairy-tale of the frivolous app dreamed up in coffee shops, fuelled by rapid investment and sold for vast sums to a tech giant without so much as a whiff of a business model.
Reading “Gatsby” in Beijing
For most popular TLDs, that is a breach of terms and may get your domain name terminated at any point. It seems like it would be better to just use the registrar's privacy service for this.
Well in any case I have a hard time imagining that the framework you're using is really the cause of your main problem, the lack of users.
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I can attest that it is a very cultural thing in India. Ethically, it becomes a question like everyone else is doing it, so it isn't cheating;
When I started with university, I had tried to make it a point to do my assignments by myself. Yet, it became the case that I spent more time and got worse grades that most people around. I continued with this for a while, until the point where I stopped giving a fuck about my grades; I have used someone else's work ever since. It is a lot like what Lance Armstrong said about the cycling doping scandal. It is wrong, but not unfair; Unfortunately, this is the way it works.
Ask HN: Use cases for BitCoin denominated Debit/Credit Card?
One of the biggest argument against BitCoins is it's lack of real-world utility. One of the way to bridge that is to provide a BitCoin-denominated card that can be used anywhere in real-world. (Probably prepaid or tied to a wallet for direct-debit, BTC-Credit would be quite disastrous i imagine)

Personally, I have a bunch of BitCoins, and I'd gladly use them to pay for my starbucks, esp on a day where the BTC/USD is high.

I would also like to carry this same card and use it worldwide if it can help me avoid the exorbitant FX spread my current USD card charges me.

But I wonder - if a BTC-denominated card is possible, are there bigger / more important use cases than that? What are the perils of a company trying to issue such a card? (FX risk? Regulations?)
Peripheral projected illusions (XBox 720)
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> If 10^6 people send you $0.001, you get $1k....

Is this sarcasm?

0.01US$ might be worth nothing in the US, but might be worth something in some poorer countries.
Good points all round, but this article make quite a few claims with no sources (e.g. "Then they will generally compare two or three options and view the full descriptions."). Is this based on user surveys or guesswork? AFAIK Apple doesn't release that kind of information.

Also, the text overlay in Documents to Go looks quite ugly to me. Perhaps not to the average user, though.
Putting controls on a printer may increase friction and thus slow down the number of people who have access to a 3d printed gun. This might help with deaths from violence - England is more violent than the US but you're more likely to die from violence in the US.

Some forms of DRM (XBOX360, for example) are tricky enough that it prevents a few people from bothering. Some forms of DRM are so obnoxious that they encourage people to pirate so they can make use of the content.

I can't see 3D-Printer-Controls being anything but cumbersome, easily circumvented, annoyances.

It's important to note that people who want guns can easily make bad guns already (or, with a bit of decent machinery, they can make good guns) or they can buy illegal guns.This is true even in the UK with our strict laws.

Controls on 3d printers may just shift the problem somewhere else. Scanners and photocopiers have controls about scanning / copying money. This makes it tricky to copy banknotes. A photocopied / laser printed bank note is a lousy forgery. It's really obviously fake. And criminals in England tend to forge £1 coins - about 2% of these coins are forged. Some of them are obvious slugs, coloured tin. Others are better quality - using the same planchets and thus they work in machines.
Can't wait to have an entire closet full of printed automatic rifles and machine guns. With printed bullets of course.
In the end the only important figure in solar energy is Watt-hours generated / $invested over the lifetime of the panel.

The most efficient commercial solar cells available today are (as far as I know) the Maxeon line and their rated efficiency is 24%, so even that claim holds no water.

What I find a bit annoying is that any news item that contains the words 'breakthrough, solar, efficiency' will automatically get wide distribution.

You can probably find one such announcement per month and it usually amounts to nothing once the dust has settled.
Israel confronts Chinese organ harvesting
Email Management done right.
Well, you missed the point widely.

In my sentence "Google's results are excellent for most people." I could have said "Modern web search engine results are excellent for most people" - I didn't because this is a discussion of how Google (and only Google) is failing for a number of people.
“...is now free to sue you for billions or trillions”

Do you really mean trillions, or was that a typo...?
Someone I know converted a model cannon to an actual cannon and loaded it with blackpowder from firecrackers and a marble. It worked very well and almost hit an unsuspecting passerby.

My uncle built a similar cannon from some pipe and shot holes through sheet metal with it.
I love a good anti-anecdote (antidote?) ;) Here's one potential problem with the selection criteria: "low bid, low GDP country". I might have been better to weight the bid with the GDP (I don't mean really crunch the numbers, just put your thumb on the scale).

But more to the point, if your friend didn't have a lot of experience with this sort of thing, he probably wasn't that good at picking a bad apple. Or he just got unlucky, maybe.
CNC machines do take skill to operate, but the amount of skill required to make a single-shot gun out of metal by conventional means is really low. It's something you can do with very rudimentary metalworking skills, using low-tech equipment.

Now if you can 3d-print a reliable rifle like an AK-47, that could get interesting.
Any new information on which language it is out yet?
For every Facebook-clone-for-200 dollars there's someone (several, actually) trying to solve some basic business problem or wanting to test out a product idea.
Yes, but I like fairy tales.
The portion you refer to is pocket change - it would not retain these employees outside Silicon Valley, where such caliber of employees are willing to give great weight to equity.

Read http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127882/Meet-OTHER-n... and it becomes clear that the 18 employees were recruited mostly with equity.

Hiring the quality of talent that we're talking about, in will1000's market, just doesn't happen using the kind of equity (e.g. 10% pool) that instagram was using, without enough cash in the bank to pay a large base salary to each of those extremely talented people.

Outside silicon valley that's what you would need to do something like this: a whole ton of cash, or lower your standard of employee. Only in Silicon Valley can equity be used for this kind of bargaining power, to retain 18 people who are of such a quality that they are able 36-handedly to build a company in 18 months that is worth $1Billion.

As a simple example: I could never get you to work for me part-time for $0 and 30% equity in our company: except in silicon valley, where I could do so extremely easily, just by showing a product that is near completion.

It's your fault. You're the one who doesn't want the riches and results. You're the one who doesn't want to change the future, by working for next to free for it, and having just equity.

There's a reason a couple of kids in silicon valley can build multibillion dollar companies while on a ramen diet, and you can't.

you (and the market you're in) just doesn't want to.
Thought is a dynamic and emergent property of the system, the combination of physiological state and stimulus. Perhaps a better way to phrase my original question would be: if the brain is a chaotic system, how do you distinguish between the emergent physiology and the factors which combined to cause it?
Doesn't D have the ability to do stuff on class initialization? Or does it not initialize classes lazily?

In Java, this is how a threadsafe Singleton looks like:

private static MySingleton instance = new MySingleton();

It will be initialized when the class is first used.

The whole double-checked locking and TLS thing is IMO a huge pointless smartassery contest in VM lawyering hinging on the eminently false premise that having singletons in a heavily multithreaded environment initialized sooner than they're used is a problem that anyone needs solved.

Whereas in reality, 90% of all applications don't need lazy loading, and for 90% of those that do, the above is lazy enough.
Steve Fraser: A Wall Street State of Mind
It’s the illusion of opulence, wealth that anyone can achieve, that drives the American psyche. You see, there is nothing characteristically or intrinsically different between Wall Street types and the rest of us. What drives Wall Street drives America.
The portion you refer to is pocket change.

Read http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127882/Meet-OTHER-n.... and it becomes clear that the 18 employees were recruited mostly with equity. Hiring the quality of talent that we're talking about, in will1000's market, just doesn't happen with the kind of equity (e.g. 10% pool) that instagram was using - outside of silicon valley that is.
The more mundane current variety (well, slightly advanced) make something of a showing in his 'Rule 34'[1] as well.

Doctorow's 'Makers'[2] is another, at a similar level.

Programmable molecular assemblers, if they're even possible (see: the various critics of Drexler), are so far beyond our current tech as to have almost unimaginable potential consequences, socially and otherwise.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Rule-34-Charles-Stross/dp/1937007669

[2] http://craphound.com/makers/
Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years
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"(Or SVG or hobbling together colored DOM elements to animate"

COBBLING together
Two common methods to store excess electricity from wind/solar is with hydroelectricity, and district heating.

It would be really interesting to see numbers on the maximum amount of excess power that could be stored if those two techniques was universal utilized for this purpose.
D does its own TLS implementation on OS X. But now that newer versions of OS X have native TLS, we'll be scrapping ours and using the native one.
The OP's link didn't work for me. Here's one with sound only, no video, no slides, no transcript.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2013/events/event_IAP15892
Dear Sir,

I kindly propose a two-phase project based on Test-Driven Development methodology, of which we are expert.

1. Specify and develop test harness.

2. Develop program that satisfy tests.
The problem with memory barriers is that they are slow. David's solution using TLS avoids them entirely for the usual case, hence it is much faster (as his benchmark results show).
> The portion you refer to is pocket change.

You're currently running a company with in excess of 18 talented engineers without a viable income stream?

And your payroll is 'pocket change'?

> Hiring the quality of talent that we're talking about, in will1000's market, just doesn't happen with the kind of equity (e.g. 10% pool) that instagram was using - outside of silicon valley that is.

Of course it does.

You make some outrageous statement, then fail to back it up, next you make a new outrageous statement which is even further from the truth.
Parts of Sparkup and UltiSnips are written in Python. I believe YouCompleteMe uses Python too.
A curated link of "interesting books" could be good. You need to throw in some kind of "serendipity". I remember noodling around early wikipedia and finding great articles. That's a bit harder now because there are so many tiny stub articles about towns or bus routes or inconsequential people or fictional characters.

Perhaps an "Ask HN: Books that are not programming" might turn up some handy hints?

I guess now you have this book you look on Amazon for other books that people have bought or looked at?

My recommendation: (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ancient-Inventions-Wonders-Peter-Jam...) - it's pop.sci but entertaining.
Call of Duty: Ghosts Masked Warriors Teaser Trailer
Activision have officially announced Call of Duty: Ghosts. Slated for a November 5th release the next game in the Call of Duty series come from the original Infinity Ward and will hit Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC in addition to being “available for next generation platforms.”
>According to the "fallacy" people? What? There is no fallacy standards body that arbitrates normative definitions of fallacies.

Only there is.

The fallacies are what they are because people listed them, gave them fancy latin names, put them up on the internet, and argue about them.

Average Joe doesn't use fallacy listings. Neither he maintains them. The "fallacy" thing is mostly confined in the "sceptic" / "more logical than thou" communities on the intertubes. (Of course the starting origin of the fallacies is in actual philosophers and logicians).

As for the "argument from authority", Wikipedia backs me up on this one (If I'm allowed to appeal to its authority):

>Fallacious arguments from authority often are the result of failing to meet at least one of the required two conditions (legitimate expertise and expert consensus) structurally required in the forms of a statistical syllogism.[1][2] First, when the inference fails to meet the first condition (inexpert authority), it is an appeal to inappropriate authority, which occurs when an inference relies upon a person or a group without relevant expertise or knowledge of the subject matter under discussion.

This is what I said exactly, that in that case you do have a fallacy, but it's actually "appeal to non-authority" (in Wikipedia: "to inappropriate authority").

>Second, because the argument from authority is an inductive-reasoning argument — wherein is implied that the truth of the conclusion cannot be guaranteed by the truth of the premises — it also is fallacious to assert that the conclusion must be true.[2] Such a determinative assertion is a logical non sequitur, because, although the inductive argument might have merit — either probabilistic or statistical — the conclusion does not follow unconditionally, in the sense of being logically necessary.

This is the gist of the other thing I said. Even if the criteria of expertise, non bias, consensus, etc, are met, it is still a fallacy to think that the appeal to authority necessary implies truth.

E.g in your example:
X is a doctor.
X is unbiased.
X believes Y on the matter.
The medical consensus is Y on the matter.
Therefore Y is true.

Is a fallacy. Consider how the medical community thought of a lot of BS in the past as true, which later was found wrong.
You can't 3D print the bullets. Thus I'd speculate that this development does not significantly impact the effectiveness of gun control laws nor does it accomplish the goals of the creator.
The overlooked bid in this case was by Vinay Deolalikar for $1000000 who simply said "I think I have done this." For background, Vinay was a researcher at HP Labs, Palo Alto who made a serious attempt at solving the problem (independently from this bid :P).
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That was part of my point that Instagram would be less likely to work out outside of SV. This article helps us on the outside looking in understand how many things you have to have going for you other than just talent and a good idea to achieve the level of success Instagram has.
People are Right Not to Share Scientific Code…
3D Printed Jewelry Finder
I agree with that, but that´s true anywhere in the world. In Spain if your company fails you may be personally liable of the debt. Recently a bank removed 3000€ from my grandmother account because of a debt dated from 1993 of my deceased grandfather´s company. My grandmother is 97 years old, and the funniest part is that debt was settled long ago. Also if you fail nobody is going to trust in you any more, you are done.

I know that SV is not the golden city that this articles paint, but it is way ahead when we speak of entrepreneurship and startups.
Now if you can 3d-print a reliable rifle like an AK-47,
that could get interesting.

The team that made this gun are already doing the most difficult bit from the AR-15, a semi-automatic rifle that has been used in several massacres in the west (including the one that sparked heavy gun regulation in Australia in the 90s).

That's why I thought this was news. First they made the lower-receiver of a powerful gun. Now they've also succeeded in producing all the parts of a not-powerful gun. As I see it, they've got a piece of string over the chasm and will iterate from here to build a bridge.

I expect the barrel will be difficult (need a big machine and the rifling is probably tricky as you get to the top). The gas-reloading mechanism will take some work. But the lower-receiver is where most of the pressures where you might have doubt that plastic would work, and that's the bit they've already done.

And that's just reimplementing an existing gun with a design that was optimised for metalwork. After that we'll see a bunch of development in designs that are optimised for plastics and printing. That'll be your AK-47 equivalent.
Belieb or Die
"bible" is often used to mean "authoritative work". It has often been used for programming languages. "The C++ Bible", etc.

Calling the DSM a "bible" just means it's the authoritative, definitive, work for many professionals.
The very first atomic cartoon
By knowing the circumstances, and how other people normally respond.
Greater programmers write (unit) testable code? For example using dependency injection.
That's cool. Why isn't HN available over IPv6 though? Softlayer (the hosting provider HN appears to use) has supported it natively since 2011.

It is pretty scummy that they charge for IPv6 allocations if you want more than the one address they give you though - I've never seen anyone else doing that - some providers even give you a /56 or /48 free or charge, but Softlayer charges $4 a month for a /64...
We had exactly the same frustrations with online outsourcing (being on both sides of the table), and now we have built https://codeable.io (focused only on WordPress for the time being) - 4 months after launch, we have more than 900 jobs posted, half of them completed, excellent reviews, more than $45k in revenue.

I'm very proud of what we achieved so far, because we eliminated the biggest "pains" of online outsourcing; There is no bidding, our (invited and reviewed) contractors form a single estimate which is then presented to the client. And we focus on sub-$500 tasks, because the margin for error is significantly smaller, so if a client comes in with a huge job, we help him break it down into smaller pieces. We also maintain client/contractor ratio, so there is no need for contractors to compete with one another, anyone who wants to work, can work.
indeed home made guns have a very long history. the serious gun violence that they fuel in Papua New Guinea has been known about for years.

extremely detailed paper: http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/B-Occasional-p...

for something a little less dry and with pics of the guns see: http://www.vice.com/read/port-moresbys-little-raskols

the 3d printer angle is interesting from a tec perspective, but i cant help feel that this is more about a guy building himself in to the linus of guns then gun policy.
Just watched this talk.. absolutely great material. I wish he was a slightly better/more confident speaker, but I got over it.

For someone who is the farthest thing from libertarian, is there any more literature on the idea of big planning, deterministic optimism, etc in a libertarian framework? His examples of the US as optimistic and deterministic were all "centrally planned", and done through government, not individuals or groups of individuals (corps, ngos, etc). Or at least that's how I perceived it.
There are many things your bank simply won't let you do.

Is that now the guiding principle for Bitcoin?
Unit tests are great, but they don't serve the same purpose as logging/tracing in my opinion. Both are needed, it's not one or the other.
I don't know enough about the subject to determine if Obamacare is any good or not, but I'm appalled that the US doesn't provide decent healthcare for all its citizens.

I follow a lot of writing blogs and I regularly see American writers putting out charity drives simply because they've fallen sick and can't afford the costs. Looked at from the perspective of Europe, it seems astonishing, and callous.

But every time there's a healthcare debate in America, there seem powerful forces out to quash any form of universal coverage. I don't know what's to be done, but my heart goes out to the poor people left behind.
Ask HN: How can intellects protect themselves against backstabbing?
Tesla, Turing, Oppenheimer.. great men, great scientists, great intellects - all harmed and some destroyed by the people they helped protect.

I've been reading the biographies of some of the greatest minds in science. I'm saddened with what I found. While intellects will protect other intellects, intellects have little power to protect themselves against the majority who control society. While those like Oppenheimer got off with a small beating - Tesla and Turner were destroyed by the ruthlessness of the world they lived in and ironically, gave a future to.

To those who say modern society has grown beyond that, I'll point to modern 21st century Massachusetts as just one example of how the iron fist the leaders with the support of the majority has controlled intellectualism there.

(Of course, all these examples are nothing compared to some counties who slaughtered all their intellectuals during a populist revolution. Their biographies, unfortunately, were never written.)

What options are there for an intellect to protect themselves while still allowing them to continue studying what they desire?
Filesharing is not (yet) against the law.