skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not exactly. That's merely the output nozzle diameter. "Resolution" is a bit ambiguous here, but I think it would be fair to differentiate: Movement resolution is 0.1mm, while "dot size" is 0.4mm. You can perfectly well "draw" a 0.6mm long "line", but its minimum width is 0.4mm and you are restricted in prolonging this width by just a tiny bit.

"Height" is another matter, since some hobbyist printers sometimes intentionally "smear" a bit with the nozzle to smoothen flat layers.

That's the real art of 3D printing: bringing temperature, movement and filament drive into the perfect balance. Having a fine _drive_ resolution is important. But not only the resolution: You can drive stepper motors in various ways, so they will go "hard" or "soft" or even "bounce back" after movement a little bit. I've seen people doing hours, days and even weeks of tests after tests on hobbyist devices.
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Check your favorite language, it probably has this feature. Ruby, Haskell, tons of them.
I live in Mountain View and was getting 20 Mbps down on my iPhone 5 with Verizon. I'm now getting 35 Mbps after applying the carrier update.
> See, for example, the vast swaths of parking lots in much of the United States, and think how utterly unnecessary they'll be in a world of fully autonomous vehicles.

I don't know that it would make that much difference. Most people want to drive at the same time to get to work and few people seem likely to want to have their car do an extra commute so that it can park up at home. Couple that with the fact that a car tends to be a personal space - and you'd be giving that up if you started having to share (even if you were the only person re-using a hired vehicle)....

I just picture people using self-driving cars in more or less the way they use their normal car.
Yeah, I think you're partially right, here - but I think we're going to see a spread of price points, just as we have with, say, cameras. $500 for a small, decent printer. $1000 for a jumbo or deluxe model. $2000 for one that does this and that and the other thing, and then you move on to pro models. But it's good to have iterative hardware like this because it puts pressure on the manufacturers to keep on improving.
Sorry, I didn't mean to put words in your mouth. I was more using your post as a jumping-off point for my rant.
I love stuff like this - super simple solution to a common pain point.

http://placeit.breezi.com/ is a very similar service with CC images.
Do you have numbers to back that up? (Not doubting it, just curious - there's not much reporting on that issue)
A team is more than the sum of the players. An important part of doing good work on hard problems is avoiding thinking in circles. Diversity of thought, if not necessarily skin, is good for that.
I think you just discovered that when you apply the same line of reasoning to everything everywhere, you get nonsensical results.

That's usually why it is best to apply reasoning sensibly. For instance: Your programming example is missing the traditional loans from the cost-of-medical school. It is also missing the middle-man problem of insurance billing. It is also missing the incestuous role that pharmaceutical companies play in "helping" doctors to learn how to diagnose little-understood diseases such as UC.

It is better to apply the line of reasoning I gave above to situations where they apply.
Or have mailboxes stacked on top of each other. Has GP never visited a mail room?
The truth about code reviews
Of all pg's essays I just put the Java one down to a bad day at the office. He's obviously a. very smart guy (cf On Lisp) but some of his statements in that essay seem to be made out of genuine ignorance. Its fine to criticise the language but to criticise the users who at the time were mainly ex c++ many of whom built systems in their time that were elegant, reliable, scalable etc, was a mistake - I think.
Maybe a license-enforced watermark of the photographer's name.
They are not good old games anymore. They rebranded the site to simply GOG or GOG.com and nowhere in their site it says anything about good old games anymore. I remember TotalBiscuit talking about this in his video some time ago.
Show HN: My transit app TransitTimes+ now supports Christchurch, NZ
Pretty amazing how the city has rebounded since the devastating earthquakes 2 years ago. Although a small system, their offerings for developers are ahead of most cities (real-time estimates, API for ticket balance check)

They've only just made this data public and I've added it all to TransitTimes+ on Android and iOS (balance check coming to iOS next week)

http://transittimesapp.com
Please make that legally solid by going to (https://creativecommons.org/choose/) and making them the correct licence. Or state a legal licence under which they are distributed on your site as.

Unfortunately we live in a legal environment where the author stating "free for commercial and personal use" is not a licence strong enough to hold up under law.
It was good to read all the comments here before I decided to write this one. There is some good nuance in the back-and-forth among the comments on this interesting article. I especially like BorgHunter's second-level comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5794159

with its link to the official document related to this story.

Here in Minnesota, human driving is sufficiently lousy that I can't wait for self-driving cars to get on the roads here. I see people neglecting being aware of traffic to engage in cell phone conversations or texting conversations on every drive I take here, and even though we get snow every winter, the first few snowfalls of each winter always result in lots of crashes as people drive like they drive in summer on slippery roads until they adapt their driving habits. Bring on the self-driving cars here, I say. I'm glad that the government regulators are attempting to do empirical safety studies, but I urge them to be bold in rolling out self-driving technology as rapidly as it can come to market.
Doubt it, G+ is the passport for Google's services going forward I'm afraid...
Or at the very least: McPanda Burgers. Yum!
Twitter’s Mobile Crash Reporting Tool Crashlytics Arrives On Android
Awesome, really excited about this.

Just a thought: You should have a "tip jar" so people can show their appreciation where it counts.
You tread dangerous ground offering free images with logos and brands in them. Be careful in choosing a license.
Well that's simple politics. Type I errors are largely invisible, and most of the public wouldn't comprehend your argument anyway so the status quo is the only politically feasible solution.
They just raised a lot of cash from their Humble Bundle. I believe over $1m was raised, although I'm not sure how much of that went to Double Fine.
For those who confused this site with something related to the Lua programming language:

Lua is a digital communication and collaboration platform for mobile
workspaces. We help teams work better, together.

I really wish people would stop overloading the same names with wildly different meanings. Seeing Go (programming language) results when I'm looking for Go (board game) resources is bad enough. Now I have to deal with the same phenomenon with Lua as well?

EDIT: Reading the infographic, this is pretty blatant blogspam. I've flagged the link.
I'm heavily involved in the Overlanding community, which is all about traveling around the world in your own vehicle[1]

People constantly raise the question as to why people from the United States don't do this nearly as much as people from other countries. I've come to the conclusion that it's mostly related to this "contingency anxiety" you speak of. US citizens are so concerned about covering every possible situation they spend their time buying and building, but never actually go anywhere much. The few that do go have so much stuff their vehicles are huge and extremely heavy and they wind up having all manner of serious mechanical issues.

I drove Alaska->Argentina[2] in a dead-stock Jeep TJ with little more than camping gear[3] and didn't have a single issue the entire 2 years.

It's amazing how US Citizens will attack the "get out and go" approach by listing the 5000 things that could possibly go wrong. Before I left, I had people telling me (among other things) I'd die in an earthquake, get bitten by an exotic critter, catch H1-N1, get AIDS from a shoddy 3rd world blood transfusion, etc. etc. So much fear of the "what if"

[1] Details on Overlanding http://wikioverland.org/Overland_Frequently_Asked_Questions

[2] My blog http://theroadchoseme.com/

[3] The gear I took http://theroadchoseme.com/on-the-road
Sex sells....who knew??
When it comes to consumer-grade 3D printing, it seems like all the focus on developing a cheap machine and none of the focus is on figuring out something that people actually want to print.

So you can print a spoon and a bowl... great. But I actually already have one of those. If I ever have a need to print an endless supply of 1-inch square cubes, I guess 3D printing is just the ticket.

I'm not saying they need to be able to print out a Ferrari before I'm interested, but they need to be able to print something that is at least mildly useful or interesting.
Silicon Valley vs. Wall Street in talent war
I don't get why passwords are still not salted 100% of the time at these higher profile OS vendors. I was working on a clients Wordpress. And i never really touch it. To my amazement i found out I could simply md5 (new password) inside the users table to change my forgotten user pass. Wtf?
Replace int with long long on a 32-bit system, and the stance remains the same. But you are right, as written it is thread safe in the given context. :-)
I think that option #5 is ideal. I don't believe that DRM belongs in the HTML spec. I see the spec as more of a toolkit to support whatever it is you need done (video/audio APIs, canvas, etc). DRM features should exist at the user level, preferably in the browser (as you have pointed out) or as it currently stands in an external plugin.
This is one of those 'success has many parents'. Most of these stories are semi-made up after success.
I like the idea but this project badly needs all legalities fixed (license is missing, there is a person but no model release, maybe more).
This whole concept sounds like a South Park episode waiting to happen.
>I'm primarily a Java and Go coder and think that writing boring code to solve difficult problems requires much more intelligence and artistry than writing complicated code.

That is a false dichotomy, and a particularly dishonest one at that. The options are not write complicated code in a modern language vs write boring code in an obsolete language. Go is bad because it gives the programmer poor tools to write any kind of code to solve difficult problems, boring or otherwise. Basic simple functionality that has been established for decades is being ignored because people insist on pretending that having a good language is somehow a problem and makes code complicated.
I unconsciously ignore anything that isn't in the standard format that the normal results are presented in, a side-effect of so many "sponsored" links always being shoved to the top.

There's the "crap at the top" that is almost never what I'm looking for, and then there's the real results, which is what I scan for.
"...the pretense of morality on your part" Charming.
I wonder what part of this comment was a reason to slowban me?
Nice idea, but without a search/tagging system, how is someone supposed to find relevant images?
Agreed, as an "over target" development (now they've reached funding), I'd like to see a local network addon. I'm sure after months of IP takedown notices we will all regret the middleman servers decision.
This is nice, but there is however a little display problem with long labels.
"and a cookie management extension that deletes all non-whitelisted cookies after an hour"

Which extension is that? Sounds useful.
Regardless of how bad I or someone driving around me is, I would rather have complete control. If I'm going to relinquish that control, then the alternative better be superb. This is one of those paradigms where we need software engineering to be flawless, which history can tell us, is never the case.

Not disagreeing with you just offering an opinion which is more centered and cautious.
I think this is brilliant on the part of Tesla. If they can get their charging network big enough & fast enough, new comers to the electric vehicle market would be wise to just use (license?) some of the tech needed to also charge their cars on these stations. Depending on how this is structured, Tesla could come out of this getting a piece of every electric vehicle that gets sold using their chargers. Unless the tech here is nothing special.
The Battle of the Cloud Boxes Begins
Many repeat Kickstarters get very quick surges when they launch. They usually send a blast out to supporters of the first Kickstarter, so they have a captive list of hot leads ready to go. (This shows the power of email lists btw)

Also,I believe the media is more eager to cover them, as it is bigger news when a past KS success launches follow-up projects, as opposed to an unknown launching a new project.
As well as "selectively block/allow cookies".
So you took a couple of pictures (that appear to be Apple ads more than anything, as an aside)? I'm sorry if this sounds negative, but I find it completely disingenuous that you denigrate an entire industry and portray a pittance of images as the salvation.

When you pay for a stock image, as an aside, a part of the value of paying is economic scarcity: That the images that you choose aren't blanketing every Wordpress site, etc.
If you need a tutorial, you've already lost.
Hey, thanks for the comment. Looking to add something now. Apparently this is the most 'open' and least restrictive of the CC licenses: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US but it still says we would need to attribute the author which we don't require.
The prevalence of Javascript has nothing to do with the language itself and everything to do with the ecosystem.

The web has become our operating system, and Javascript is its language.
Humble Weekly Bundle: Telltale Games
It's worth watching the Advanced Go Concurrency talk from I/O before judging whether Go is designed for below-average developers. They throw up a plausible code sample near the beginning that has multiple tricky bugs. It's not a very forgiving language if you aren't meticulous about how you use it, which I've also found to be true of Ruby (perhaps this is true of expressive languages in general).

https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/332768653

You're absolutely right that it's an opinionated language, but having used both for production code, I don't at all see the parallel to Java.
Can someone smarter than me comment on the danger of having one of these next door to an apartment or office building? I assume that we're talking about lots of volts and amps here. Are these stations any more or less dangerous than a gas station?
but then it's crappy
it's hardly surprising that you send one packet, get one ack and then, when the shell wants to update the display sends a packet and then gets one ack. how should it be different? (leaving aside udp-protocols for similar functionality as mosh)
It's not that we don't know it's often that we don't care enough to do it.

If you have to expend 20% more effort to server the 2-3% of people with JS disabled then a simple C/B analysis kicks in.
Monetizing ideas:

-Advertising (pitch 3D printing, CAD software, or training companies?)

-Affiliate links to related products-same as above. Does shapeways or ponoko have a affiliate program? Perhaps you can add a link that says "Get a physical version" that sends the model off to a printer, and you get a cut

-Freemium. Perhaps offer 10 models stored to free users, paid users get more?

TinkerCAD got bought by Autodesk, so there's always possibility of getting acquired/aquihired.
I am wondering if under linux with its everything is a file ideology this may not be so impossible. After all a browser can upload and download a file so with proper rights you could just read/write the proper /dev/... yeah it will pain in the unmentionables but theoretically should be possible.
Comedy option: WTFPL.

(Use the CC stuff if you can.)
My grandpa and grandma bought a Win8 machine. Worst day of my life - trying to explain to them how EVERYTHING worked was/is impossible. They don't even understand basic navigation since they switched computers. I've been using computers for roughly 20 years and still haven't found an effective way to make use of Metro. I just go win+d and use keyboard commands.

Metro is okay on mobile devices but laptops and other computers should have the option to boot directly to desktop.
From the original bug report:

> Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.

If they were entirely honest, they would've set it to wontfix.
Is there a problem with that? I expect you would find that most baseball players don't find baseball boring, and most nascar drivers don't think that their sport is low-tech to a fault.

Outsiders may have suggestions for improvements, they may even be outsiders because they would like to see those suggestions realized, but when is that ever not the case?
There's also CC0 which puts the work into the public domain http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/
A government medical system that is a disaster for, say, 10% of the population, is a disaster overall.

Anecdotal evidence doesn't change that. And you were charged more than a penny in additional taxes. Government services are not a Free Lunch. The money has to come from somewhere and does.
Bans just happen, try not to ask yourself why. For example, I bet you will never see this comment!
Lately, Facebook has taken to begging me to Like things so it knows how to advertise to me.
Yup! Working on it now. Thanks for the comment.
Well this is great if you are looking for apple products displayed in a cafe environment with that natural wood feel. If not, I guess I'm out of luck.
Presumably self driving cars would lead to dirt cheap taxi and car sharing services, reducing the need for everyone to own a car. Yould even have things like letting your car be a taxi during the day while you work
Ask HN: How would you calculate a website's valuation/price?
What are the factors that contribute towards a website's valuation ? I am sure the revenue, content, no. of active users, page ranks etc. are some of the key attributes. Is there a better explanation of all this ?

Flippa has this on their blog. What else ?

http://flippa.com/blog/guest-post-5-ways-to-value-a-website/
This is one of the few Weekly Bundles with as much value as a typical Bundle. $4 for the entire Walking Dead game series is insane. (heck, it sells quickly at a $12.50 sale price!)

No separate Steam keys: just one for the normal Telltale Games, and one for Walking Dead when you beat the average.
Javascript Framework Popularity graphed by Github Archive
How long is Max Levchin going to milk the Paypal story. For crying out loud, it was 12 years ago - an eternity in the industry. How come all these great ideas didn't work for the next 12 years he has been trying to build other companies.
> I think the developer took MVP to the extreme.

Sorry to go off-topic, but MVPs are meant to be extreme! That's the whole point. Maybe OP has no idea about licenses or the necessity of them. Had they not posted this, all these lovely comments on the matter would have never been written!
I'd personally like to have complete control... but it's balanced by the fact that I'd rather most of the other drivers I encounter not have that control.
Double Robotics has started shipping its iPad-equipped telepresence robots
Stock photography is way more than Apple overpriced products and shot-at-f1.4 bokeh-powered pictures.
This may be dumb question, but can you use an open source license like the MIT license for something like this?
There's a long and sordid history of people being persecuted and discriminated against because of their political opinions.

Sexual orientation can also often be derived from data such as your movie viewing preferences (ala NetFlix). You are no doubt aware that people have been discriminated against based on their sexual orientation as well.

Other data that is collected on you could be used for harrassment, stalking, and identity theft.
this is an agency trying desperately to seem relevant
There's essentially no need to own a fully autonomous car for solely personal use. Big fleets of dispatched vehicles that you can order to show up at your door (with, this is key, low response times for on-demand service plus reliable scheduled service for your daily commute) would be a much better value proposition for most people, with superior economies of scale that you don't get with a dismal ~5% utilization that most private vehicles operate at. If such a dispatch service were done right and had a big enough variety of vehicle types and prompt enough service, it could easily supplant private car ownership for all but a relatively small group of individuals, because owning a car just wouldn't provide enough advantages to be worth the added cost and hassle.
This is my biggest fear with automated cars. Snow, ice, and animals are problematic and having the car drive all summer means poor winter driving[1]. I still worry about how it figures what is safe to push through versus what will cause an accident. The constant flurries / drifting is also going to be a huge sensor problem.

Car companies are pretty bad about winter driving as is[2][3], so I expect we will have a lot of problems.

1) it is bad enough on the first snow day in Minneapolis even though everyone was driving the day before

2) if the traction light actually informs you of a loss of traction, you shouldn't be driving anyway

3) heated seats, but a total lack of work on defrosting in all these years
>I don't think that anyone is expecting a PL research breakthrough to provide some generics panacea

That already happened. In 1976. There is simply no excuse for this disingenuous "oh but go is magic and special and can't do it the same way everyone else can" nonsense. If people want that argument to be taken seriously, then they need to start offering actual specific problems with parametric polymorphism as it would apply to go. Not just saying "we're special".
I've heard they only ban you from (any) trading/gifting, not from Steam itself. Although I'm not sure whenever this is true or not.
Mostly people look at self driving cars in the light of "Would I be better driving my vehicle?"

I like to look a it from the other direction "Would I be better if everyone had a self-driven car?"
FYI:
There are tons of DRM free games on Steam
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_drmfree_games_on_st...

The recently released, higly anticipated System Shock 2 is also DRM free.

Easy way to test a game:
Download it then close the Steam client. Run the game from the folder. If it starts = DRM free
If you have ever been a passenger in a car, you have given up that control to an entity which is likely far less safe than the software option. (still need to see the data this was based on)
Why so many people are moving to Texas
Which seems to be the same conclusion as those working on autonomous vehicles right now since no one has announced when they plan to make consumer models available.

The only real take away I got from this article is that the NHTSA is actively monitoring autonomous vehicles as they should be.
What makes you think computers will be worse than human drivers at driving in poor conditions? I'd think it'd be the other way around.
As does flickr.
FWIW, don't eat from 3d printed stuff. The extrusion process creates this wonderful internal maze for bacteria to thrive in.

A single use shot glass is probably ok. And, the ceramic prints you can get now are food grade. But any home made abs or pla will inevitably get you sick, because it can't be cleaned.
There are very few times when I feel acutely like "we're living in the future".

Reading this headline, however, is one of them :)