skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems as though it may require you to upload all G-code or .STL's to Pirate3D's server for printing. Question addressing the issue was just asked in the comments section.

IP questions as well as hardware behavior with spotty internet connection both jump up as potential issues in my mind. I would imagine this is for a standardized file preparation & troubleshooting service.

I wouldn't be interested in purchasing a 3D printer that I cannot directly feed G-code or STL's to without an internet connection or someone else's server getting involved.

[EDIT] I stand corrected, there is a 'backup' mode for printing without involving their servers or network connection.
Thanks. Everything is free for commercial and personal use.
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Can US customers buy games from the Russian Steam store?
We're getting a crash course in why people prefer non-radical changes to whatever benefits they gain from omg!1 flat design. Pay attention kids, there will be a pop quiz the Monday after next to see who retained the material. I'm fairly confident the top comment in every keynote thread will be criticizing them for not going far enough.
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Because others are replying with their futurist fantasies, here is mine:

[taken with a large pinch of salt...]

Humans are not trying to save the Giant Panda. They are using the fluffy harmless critter as a convenient smokescreen for the development and testing of large-scale genetic engineering to implement the (inevitable) eugenics program that will create the stratification required for a colonial species.

Systems incorporated into our world on the basis of "security", "healthcare" and "culture" will be used to analyse the population for weaknesses using social media databases, soft-tissue scanners, genetic screening and routine psychological testing. And as this conscious stratification continues, the human species will fracture and contract upon a few very highly advanced/specialised branches.

Essentially humans have gone from voracious, highly specialised, hunter, to a doe-eyed herd, to a full scale hive. The Internet is the persistent storage medium that humans use to transmit colonial orders, like ants use pheromones, and various testing grounds exist the world over to develop the next generation of technologies that will internalise our virtual world and extend our senses so that humans no longer understand a world without it.

Priority is being given to nano- and quantum-technology as this will allow humans to harness their genetic inheritance and use the natural world as they see fit - taking solutions developed over many millions of years through trial-and-error evolution and implementing them for intelligence driven engineering, improving on them and turning them to situations never before experienced in the physical universe.

This will begin with the advent of the Techological Conflagration, a war to make all previous aggression look like a fart in a hurricane. In this battle, nation states will effectively dissolve as they will be unable to adjust to the rapid pace of development of those super rich individuals capable of amassing a small private army with a weapons infrastructure built on intense iteration (I call this The Batman Hypothesis). I suspect the testing grounds for this future are already well known: places like North Korea and Afghanistan offer a sandbox environment where the powerful can play.

But the chilling part of this is that you have long ago sold yourselves down this river as Plutocracy has taken over the entire world and created a global hegemony that amorally seeks it's own stability and advancement. International consortia offer fronts for the production of infrastructure that will support the transition to this bleak view of our future (modern airports and stadiums are little more than vast crowd management systems and prisons are gulags in all but name) and people are constantly fed subliminal media that prepares them for the changes that are to come. It will begin with your military, but soon things will begin to be outsourced as more and more private entities flex their muscles.

More than likely Homo Sapiens will not survive and if it does it will be as an augmented slave species to the Meta Sapiens (no longer affiliating with the branch of humanity) that will have attained god-like powers...
I would love it if Google figured out a way to surface original content over pages that reference it.
Even with regulations, we have pharma companies behaving wantonly. Leave the markets unregulated and we will have worse behavior. Also, there is a lot of self regulation that the pharma companies are expected to do.
Please recommend some data mining / big data books and resources
I've written software which aggregates data from a bunch of different sources, and I would like to improve my knowledge and understanding of data mining techniques. Please recommend some textbooks and resources which you found useful. Thanks!
It's possible that the destruction of all driving-based livelihoods will take on symbolic importance in the public eye, too. It could come to represent the loss of blue collar and white collar jobs to everyone who doesn't have a career anymore, and that would really complicate the rollout.
Hah, fair enough. I just want to get my hands on it already! ;)
There is something to be said for pursuing things that have absolutely no practical application. There is nothing wrong with amusing one's self and perhaps even learning things along the way.

I don't agree with the "I'm older and smarter than you" and "you should travel the world drinking on exotic beaches" points. That's not everybody's bag. Though, I would tend to agree with about the value of one's time and energy.

The thing about this project is that you could just switch the language from Brainfuck to literally anything that isn't an academic gag. You would do the same work and gain the exact same experiences. In the end, in addition to simply the learning experience, you will have produced something that may likely be usable to many people. Of course you won't be able to get the same lulz as you would telling people that you spent a year of your life writing a Brainfuck interpreter.
Also, driving in the snow and ice safety is about 3 orders of magnitude more difficult to do than driving on dry pavement.

There also needs to be an indicator: "It's snowing, please wait until the road is warm and dry, or have the carbon unit take over".

But that's no good, we have to get to where we are going, so tens of thousands of people, who havn't been practicing driving AT ALL for about 8 months now dust off their glasses and try to remember what these symbols on the dashboard mean and which petal is the "make go faster" one.

Either humans must be required to drive 20% of the time, or else the humans will be stranded when ice is encountered.
'Gut Flora-dation'?

'Biome rotation'?

'Intestinal re-endowment'?
how 300GB is storage problem? I would understand if you say 300TB , but with 2TB HDD < 100$ and 0.5TB SSD < 400$ I can't really see that a major use case. And that is one time fixed payment.
How would they know that a zero-day that they discover is being actively exploited?
Food, Cedar Point, Lake Erie, cant really go wrong with Cleveland
Yes. Given that people also generally believe they drive safely, what is happening is that they are basically trying to hold them to the standard people believe (incorrectly) they are currently at.
> Society should not be arranged to give people a free pass just because they want to do something that requires money.

Why not?

I mean, if it works for that society and it's democratically passed, why shouldn't a society do whatever it wants?

Use of the word 'should' makes it sound like there's a moral imperative for us to not help each other. I don't think that's the case, and I think there's a good argument that in future we'll need to consider different types of society that deal with abundance rather than scarcity; for example, with universal living wages.
What Would it Look Like if Elon Musk Pitched a VC Today?
Is there any value in diversity for its own sake?

If I'm trying to build a rocket to go to Mars, give me the best people, not the people that would look best in a university recruiting photograph.
Low signal-to-noise ratio is an anonymizer, too. Just keep your head down and don't worry about it :P.
Those looking for stock images: google image has a creative commons filter. Trying to find free "stock images" is a road to hell. The key word is "creative commons".
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793948
Ooh this is embarrassing; the article was about click-through rates and not rankings. But maybe now is a good time to tell people how terrible the CTR data in WMT is.

Also, are you sure the site was hit by Penguin? This doesn't look like the typical Penguinized site. You would know, but have you checked?
Then, obviously, it's targeted at people who don't know "pretty basic UNIX stuff". Which to a few points of precision is everyone. And, guessing, a significant enough portion (to be interesting article) of HN readers.
> People are fucking idiots and need to be protected from themselves.

The only flaw there is the people doing the protecting tend to be ... well, you get the idea.
lets do it.
"The object of business is to keep your buddies working, even if they're fuckin' idiots."

--Roseanne Barr
What if you got around it by instead just registering a domain and pointing it to the heroku api's IP? I'm not sure if heroku's api would be ok with the mismatched Host header, but it would be less moving parts.
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They really should merge duplicate submissions under the first submission in these cases.
> Why do people on HN always jump to "vested interests?"

Because, while I fully agree with the rest of your post, it'd be equally as naive to think that those processes are NOT influenced by people with "vested interests".
But I am confident we'll somehow manage to shoot Khan and his henchmen into space in the end.
Not only is mosh great for latency, but it's also great for laptops because of IP roaming. These days I have a dedicated Terminal window with a permanent Mosh session to my Linode. The Mosh session never shuts down (unless I'm rebooting), no matter how often I put my laptop to sleep, or go between home and work.
Disconnecting a socket.io client socket server-side
"Perhaps Culture is Now the Counterculture": A Defense of the Humanities
I'd be extremely hesitant to trust these guys with a single cent right now. They requested $400k in their last Kickstarter and received over $3.3 million, but that project (now called Broken Age) is STILL overbudget and delayed [1]. They're funneling profits from other games into it already, and now they're asking for more money so they can work on a new game? Or is this just their way of getting a much needed cash infusion after all other avenues have failed, so they can fund their ailing project and then worry about this one later?

All this on top of the fact that their most recently released game, The Cave, was mediocre at best [2].

[1] http://www.gameinformer.com/games/broken_age/b/pc/archive/20...

> Broken Age was originally planned to be completed in April, but according to the documentary the schedule has been extended until September. The costs of a lengthened development have forced Double Fine to search for more money. Double Fine still welcomes supporters that missed the Kickstarter deadline, but in the documentary Isa Stamos, director of product development, affirms that the studio either has to dramatically increase funding or reduce the scope of the game. In Episode 8, Double Fine’s vice president of business development, Justin Bailey, reveals that profits from the release of Brütal Legend for PC will almost entirely feed into Broken Age.

> Despite the desire to stick within the confines of the Kickstarter money, Double Fine is facing the reality many developers face in the middle of production. Facing setbacks and asking publishers for more time or money is common in the video game industry, but possibly going over budget with loads of crowd-funded money is new territory.

[2] http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-cave
I think the developer took MVP to the extreme.

For legal reasons it's critical to fully explain the license on the photos available for download, and the terms for anybody submitting the photos. Unfortunately it's really not enough to just say: "Free hi-resolution photos for your website."
"I think only non-backers or very confused backers could "say something weird like it not being finished."

I backed it. I do not have a copy of the game to play.

That means it is not finished.

If I am wrong in that please do tell me how.
Would you mind throwing that up on the top of the page?

EDIT: Rather, making explicit that they are royalty-free images for both non-commercial and commercial use.
>So because Russ Cox didn't respond to some comments on his blog, the Go team is trying to shield users from generics because they think they're too complicated?

Yes. The whole "we'll do it when we find the perfect way" is bollocks. Generics are a solved problem and engineering is about compromise.

It's just that the compromise in favour of generics is not the one they wanted to take. But the official excuse is more of a way to shut people up about it, than truthful commitment to finding the best way to add them in Go.
I still have original install media for Wing Commander III, but bought it again just for the modern OS remastering.
They've added mac support for some games relatively recently (mostly via dosbox gui wrappers), give them some time.
> Why do people on HN always jump to "vested interests?" The NHTSA is conducting a study to determine whether a new kind of vehicle should be allowed on public roads. This is the prudent course of action, whether or not anyone stands to benefit from it.

Why do people on HN always make assumptions about other people's comments? I wasn't criticizing this particular NHTSA study, I was just saying that there will likely be a bloody political fight over allowing a technology that will take away a lot of blue collar jobs that can't be outsourced.
> no more worrying about serial codes or patches or losing the discs

So, Steam is better than the DRM you were used to before it. So much better that you prefer not to deal with the old DRM system at all...

That's not exactly a point against "DRM does always annoy the honest clients".
I'm not suggesting they should make saintly donations of money without anyone asking them. I'm saying they shouldn't find ways to weasel out of taxes that it's pretty clear they're intended to pay. That's what they were accused of.

I don't know what schemes Google has come up with, but Starbucks faced similar criticism recently, and I heard a bit about what they do. The Starbucks 'brand' is owned by a company somewhere with minimal taxes. Starbucks UK pays 'royalties' to that company which conveniently come to just about all of its profits. Then Starbucks UK tells the taxman that it's making almost no profit, and hence owes almost no tax. That's not just 'interpretation', that's an out-and-out loophole. They have found a way to disguise their profits (and they do call them profits to their investors). Given enough time, we can close that loophole, but not nearly as quickly as they find a new one. So I'll get angry with them, and hope that if enough people do, maybe they'll stop hunting for loopholes and pay their taxes.
Yes, and how you obtain things will be different when you can reliably make them at home. Yes, even stupid plastic trinkets (as if it'll really stop there anyways).

The point is, if you pretend a new tech will always be as lame as it is now you'll never see anything coming. And for most of the years computers have been around they did not revolutionize communication. That's a relatively late development.
> Waking Up and Sleep go together: Neural implants that reduce the amount of sleep needed drastically by stimulating the brain into REM sleep immediately, or by outright replacing parts of the brain (or body) that need the recuperation time.

Sleep routines like polyphasic sleep seem to work because it increases the percentage of time spent in REM, IIRC. The biggest downside is that you have to sleep about every four hours, which can get awkward for most peoples schedule.
It sounds like the regulators think that manufacturers are eager to sell unsafe self-driving cars to consumers. I highly doubt that is the case. Bad press and reactionary legislation early on in the life of self-driving cars could significantly slow their adoption and therefore manufacturers profits.
I think i was an involuntary early adopter of this process, my experience was that the ID upload kept failing and then broke the connection to my linkedin and facebook accounts. Support wasn't able to help, beyond suggesting I make a video.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5710284
You are an annoying pedant who takes everything way too literal and you should think long and hard about that but not wrong.
This is awesome, I've also felt the same about finding photos. I hope this changes that. Keep it up! I'll contribute when I learn some post processing so you can have more awesome photos.
Industry standard is to drive 10mph over the speed limit so unless self-driving cars are allowed to break the law they may make traffic even worse. Maybe they would be good for drunk drivers and emergencies but I can barely stand letting my wife drive so self-driving cars may be too agitating for me.
"I can't imagine doing all of it unless I was some criminal."

Perhaps if you ever get harrassed, stalked, or have your identity stolen based on information you revealed online you might change your mind.
Why do all of the photo's have Apple products in them?

I would recommend displaying the license in which these high resolution photos can be used, because "free" isn't a license.
Automated vehicles also potentially means automated plowing/sanding vehicles. Roombas for the roads basically.
The concept is now fully fleshed out. His idea is a Maglev train which uses ram-air and/or a lifting body to generate lift, and electromagnets for propulsion. It's actually an excellent idea, and I don't see why it wouldn't work. It would be very similar to current dedicated guide way rail systems (similar to Maglev) but much faster and far more efficient, as the electromagnets are used only for propulsion, and the lift is generated via the vehicle's speed.

The biggest challenge would be keeping the vehicle at a constant distance from the power rail, as aerodynamic disturbances (such as turbulent air) would destabilize the vehicle. I assume that his work in rocket control systems would come in handy for this.
If you were approached by one investment group, then there must be more who are interested. If you have more options the you can negotiate a better deal. I don't think letting the person, who believed in you initially, (even though with just money) should be just paid off & be forgotten.
Google launches HTC One with Nexus user experience
I'm a high-level office contractor, I work six-month contracts in corporate roles. Right now I'm an expediting officer, but I've been many things before that.
The Start Button wasn't a big issue to me, as I long ago moved to a keyboard-centric workflow -- using the Windows key, typing a few letters of whatever I wanted to open and hit ENTER.

The big problem here is that this no longer works in Windows 8. Now you hit the Windows key, type a few letters of whatever you want to open and you have to arrow or tab a few times to get to the actual item you cared about.

For those complaining about the cumbersomeness of getting to system settings, I agree. That's why I urge users to learning about the Windows key+x keyboard shortcut.

More excellent tips from Scott Hanselman at: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows8ProductivityWhoMovedMy...
The retina modifier is only useful when you request a smaller thumbnail than the original.

So your original may be 1000x1000px, you use a 128x128 thumbnail on your regular (non-retina) site, and you serve 256x256 thumbnail to your retina users.

If your original image is small then there is nothing to do.
Looks great, and it's an awesome idea. I'm not sure what your incentive to continue doing this will be, but please do. Also, I would much prefer quality over quantity. So, if one week you don't have time to create something great, just skip it. (My opinion of course)
What incentive do photographers have to submit to your site? At least on the 'majors' (istockphoto, dreamstrime, shutterstock et al) they earn something. And if you are the only one doing submissions, you can't possibly cover all categories so if I'm in search of a particular shot I am unlikely to come to your site. Not trying to be negative, just trying to understand what your plan is.
If you do not dare to post your opinion with an anonymous accounts at age 20 you should definitely not go into politics at age 40-50.
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Give me capable people from a wide array of backgrounds and watch them attack problems from their own unique angle.
Powering down
Windows XP+: Press power button, walk away
As a backer of Broken Age, I have similar fears. I do believe in their creative talent, but I wish this kickstarter was being done after Broken Age was delivered.
I'd like to see the data that the NHTSA used to conclude that the risk of a malfunction is higher than the risk of human error. Millions of crashes each year result in tens of thousands of deaths [1]. Humans drive while tired, drunk, or simply distracted, and of course, tend to have slower reflexes than computers.

Even if the technology isn't ready for mainstream adoption today, I bet we'll look back in horror at the period in our history during which humans careened unaided down highways at breakneck speeds, certified in their driving ability by nothing more than a test easily passed by your average teenager.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...
Yup. For command line work I usually don't mind but for text editing I find any perceptible latency incredibly grating. SSHFS is another solution that doesn't need anything special installed on the remote end. It's a pity Plan9 didn't take off, I think it hides this kind of pointless drudgery.
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Who uses power down anyway? Just close your lid or press the power button once. The type of power down can be configured for both these actions.

I maybe shut down fully or restart once every second month and then i actually don't mind if it takes one click more.
No, but Russian customers can buy games from the russian store and gift them to US customers. Or at least they could I don't know if Valve has changed that yet. There is/was a pretty big black/grey market doing that.

However Valve does consider it violating some ToS or something so if they think you're doing it as a business they'll take all your games and ban you for life.
> diversity of thought slows you down

What a fascinating idea. I suppose if you don't know whether you're going the right direction you might as well try to get there as fast a possible.

I worked for a while with a bunch of former video game developers at a non-game company. They got an amazing amount of work done, but they also just did what they wanted without discussing it. They just assumed that everybody would naturally agree with them so they didn't see any problem with sending a note to the rest of the team that said, "We've changed the signature of most of the UI method calls. The build now has 5,000 errors. Please make changes to your code."