skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, I was serious in my idea. Maybe downvoters thought I was sarcastic.

I'd love to be able to experiment both the physical and digital world at the same time, discontinuing my hand/eyes as an interface with the computer.

I believe it will eventually happen. I'm not exactly sure of the current state of the art, but I've seen research replacing lost limbs with robotic arms that are solely controlled by thoughts. Seen also images induced into one's vision by stimulation of the brain.

Our brain evolved with I/O devices meant to match our physical environment. As far as I know[1], we don't have any I/O device meant to convey ideas in themselves. We need to serialize our thoughts into words, images and movements to get them deserialized into other's minds. All this process is lossy and has a limited bandwidth.

Anyway, I'm not talking about things I really know, so I won't elaborate further into this. I try to limit my opinions on HN to stuff that I actually know. You can't fool anyone around here; next thing I know, a brain researcher will come and break all my ideas apart in the comments.

[1]That's meant to exclude telepathy stuff
Great point.

It would be interesting to see a Hacker News Poll on how much people have and use 2D printers now even, let alone 3D.

It would be great to have access to a good 3D printer at a low price that was convenient at, say a Kinkos or something.

3D printers could well be more like good quality photo printers - something that is better used by lots of people at a shared facility.
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I don't know what you're talking about. I'm actually curious so could you elaborate?
I'm pretty sure in a fully honest world that would read "In the spirit of not risking running afoul of the security breach statutes in various states we do business in, we want to inform you of the issue".

Apple is great a lot of things but I don't think even their most ardent fans would argue that transparency is one of them.
Yep. I was just calling out the inconsistency - no judgement on Yahoo or Betabeat's employees!
Mozart began composing at the age of five. By the time he was 8 he had written around 16 pieces that survive to today, including a Symphony.
That's a great book -- all of Crowley's books are wonderful reads.
What use is the list without passwords?
> I know there are people here who probably have been in the start-up space for all of their working life, but never underestimate how piss poor architecture can be at big companies.

Systems that are over 5/10/etc years old and are part of a multi-million/billion dollar system even more so.

> who has done a stint at a large corporation has a horror story about terrible, awful architecture, outdated practices, and shoddy insecure software.

My god that rings so true. ;_;
The experience gracefully degraded (I had images, but they were all static, but everything else seemed to work) on my lousy stupid 3g dongle connection (which manages to break a disturbing amount of content) but some reconnections and it works now.

I tend to agree with your main point, especially when the bells and whistles are pointless frippery that don't actually do anything. In this case the use actually adds value to the page. I've spent a while on various websites learning more about the Silk Road history, and about the current geo-political stuff.
I totally agree. They're like advanced gifs. They really capture the atmosphere.
Is very hard to make that kind of judgement from low resolution online photographs of paintings.
There is still hope. we believe they are still alive and need help.
Except for Costco, which manages to pay it's employees a decent wage and still keep prices low.
Let's say rather that the least common denominator reason for living is that, well, death sucks. Yes, of course are positive reasons to live, and while those are nice to have, they aren't as universal a motivator, I think, as simple fear of death.
What are you talking about different? Have you opened your eyes and looked around you? You are the nearly the norm now. Go to any university or software organization (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc...) and what do you see? White men with Asian women. I'm now shocked to see a white couple with children. I have to assume that white women have just rejected white men completely (or won't commit to marriage and have children).

On my team, only one white man is married to a white woman, the rest of the white men are married to Asian women. White women are getting the bad end of the deal as the top performing men (not just in software) are now heavily marring Asian women.
Plan 9 was a great OS. And it did fix a lot of these problems (although I don't know if it fixed this particular one).

But it turns out that what we have is good enough, and it never gained traction.
I would imagine Apple would not trust the ability to bill its customers to a third party. They have touted their collection of CC numbers for quite a few years, it's treated as an asset to the company.
I suppose your AV free windows theory takes into account popular web sites infected with drive by exploit kits?
My personal opinion is that any mass consumer adoption will come some time after mass SME adoption: there are craftsmen and small businesses who have more frequent needs and can justify the investments more. They are currently used in prototyping labs or for niche hobbies, but not in most businesses who could use them.

I wouldn't expect consumer adoption soon if I don't yet see, say, small household electronics repair shops using a 3d printer to make spare plastic parts on the spot instead of keeping inventory or long waits for deliveries; or tacky accessory/imitation jewelry stores printing rings/whatever out of metallic substrates with custom sizes and coloring right after order, or stores that sell handheld items (any, from computer mice to firearms) offering to print custom grips to match your hand exactly.

If I'd want to do business with 3d printing, then I'd start with such B2B usecases; or wait for the "right time to swing" at consumer market after this professional market is already full.

By the way, "designing a 3d model" is out of pretty much any of these usecases, the model is either premade by others or generated by specific software from some scans/measurements; and there could be a lot of money in making this software or models for the many businesses that want to sell stuff, not design it. On the other hand, building stuff "on order" is speed sensitive as if you can do it with a waiting time comparable to, say, Starbucks, then you open up much more business models than if customers need to wait an hour for the printing.
Let's not confuse a bad implementation with a bad philosophy, as a lot of these comments seem to be doing.

Also, "everything is a file" is still true even when some files have additional operations possible on them. It's misleading to say otherwise.
Re: (1), it seems to me that, at least in my circle of friends (yuppies, basically), there is precious little narrative that gives rise to a shared sense of purpose. There are bonds of friendship, but between people of comparable social class and experience. There is nothing that binds me to the people in my neighborhoods, etc, at least nothing that compares to the depth of the ties my wife experiences in her religious community.

Re: (2), it is an interesting open question to me. I don't yearn for the spiritual aspect of religion. I don't fear death, I don't lack any sense of purpose, etc. I do lament not being able to participate in the communal aspect of religion. I haven't encountered any secular alternative. I'll give an example: my wife had our daughter dedicated in her church. I have encountered nothing like that in the secular realm. Maybe you can offer a baby shower as an example, but our baby shower would involve other upper middle class people, not a broad cross-section of the people who live near us.
I hate unions too...
List of Megaprojects
Poll: Do you print your instagram photos?
Just a quick view on how many people out there are printing their instagram pictures through websites like prinstagram
Farmers Markets, Meijer, Amazon
I think I would rather someone have my CC number than my home address (which would be the same as my mailing address).
Which makes the parent's handling of the money even more important, in case the novelty fades as he ages.

Reminds me of the sad story of Jackie Coogan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Coogan#Coogan_Bill
I am aware how crypto works. I was commenting on there being no source for a key in this situation, rendering it a fairly useless venture.
Spear phishing
Unsalted MD5 has been extremely easy to crack for years. Not sure why the claim would be impressive at this point.
It isn't, really. It's typical Bob Ross stuff that doesn't have any market outside of art fairs and repos for hotel chains.
"What happened to the 10,000 hour rule and all that saying that there are no real instant successes?"

Mozart.
Spamming them with something that may interest iOS developers.
Have you been inside a Wal Mart? It's different than many other large retailers. I'm not the OP, but I also take my business elsewhere.
> Relying on Neumanns Behemoth, which depicted modern capitalism as Nazisms main basis, they argued that the revitalization of German democracy depended on a socialist overhaul of the countrys economy, failing to anticipate the possibility of a fresh recalibration of capitalism with liberal democracy, along the lines that emerged after the war in the Federal Republic of Germany...

Huh? First off, Germany was divided in two after WWII, something almost no one anticipated. There was no German renewal because there was no Germany.

As far as the FRG being capitalism with liberal democracy...capitalism - the FRG was dominated by works councils, Mitbestimmungsgesetz and the like since World War II, and to some extent still is. How the economy worked in the FRG after World War II is closer to how it worked in Yugoslavia than how it worked in the United States. Although even in the US how the US economy ran under the New Deal/Square Deal/Great Society into the 1960s is different than how it is now.

As far as liberal democracy...the FRG reinstated the Nazi ban on voting for the communist party...some democracy - you're OK, as long as you vote for a pro-capitalist party. This was a time when French and Italian workers almost voted in communist governments, something American's today tend to forget. The FRG's federal Intelligence service was run by Reinhard Gehlen and his crew, the Confederation of German Employers' Associations and Confederation of German Employers' Association were run by former SS officer Hanns-Martin Schleyer (later kidnapped and killed by the Red Army Faction). Not all that much changed in western Germany after 1945.
Thanks Apple. Now what really happened?
You generally can, though. All the web servers, all the frameworks, all the packages. If I wanted to make a graphing calaculator in Python I wouldn't write a reverse polish calculator or do more complex string parsing on user input, I'd use numpy and sympy, with a qt gui, probably written in qml.

I see very few domain problems where the boatload majority of the work hasn't been done for you, and you just glue legos together. Network stack? Most languages have an httplib or you could get libftp or some such from a foss repository.

The only real problem is figuring out which api is easier to use, since there usually are competing choices on a lot of these drop in solutions. qt or boost? django or bottle? backbone or angular?
I don't know how much better Target is but that's one alternative. What do you usually purchase at Walmart that can't be purchased else where? I live in the Bay Area and getting to the closest Walmart is very difficult so I haven't been there in years.
Why don't you guys directly get in contact with the press?!
I downloaded the CRL for developer certificates [1] and quickly looked at it using grep:

grep -E "Revocation Date: Jul 17 .{8} 2013" wwdrccrl.txt | wc -l
3065
grep -E "Revocation Date: Jul 18 .{8} 2013" wwdrccrl.txt | wc -l
2289
grep -E "Revocation Date: Jul 19 .{8} 2013" wwdrccrl.txt | wc -l
2
grep -E "Revocation Date: Jul 20 .{8} 2013" wwdrccrl.txt | wc -l
0
grep -E "Revocation Date: Jul 21 .{8} 2013" wwdrccrl.txt | wc -l
0

These are the two certificates that were revoked on the 19th

grep -A 3 -B 1 -E "Revocation Date: Jul 19 .{8} 2013" wwdrccrl.txt
Serial Number: 2628C7F90970D227
Revocation Date: Jul 19 03:14:04 2013 GMT
CRL entry extensions:
X509v3 CRL Reason Code:
Key Compromise
--
Serial Number: 1A51ABFA4844BD45
Revocation Date: Jul 19 03:24:03 2013 GMT
CRL entry extensions:
X509v3 CRL Reason Code:
Key Compromise

To generate the wwdrccrl.txt file I used:

openssl crl -inform DER -text -noout -in wwdrca.crl > wwdrccrl.txt

Just to be clear -- every entry there I see lists the reason as Key Compromise, just interesting that they usually seem to revoke at least 2000 certificates a day but suddenly stopped on the 19th with just revoking 2.

[1]http://www.apple.com/certificateauthority/
It's great on my Nokia 920. I've never had it slip off the charger and I won't go back to wired charging with whatever I get next.
Irony, Hypocrisy? Eric Schmidt strives to hide his Open Marriage
I think immutability removes one of the reasons for encapsulation: controlling state change. With that gone, the disadvantages of encapsulation might outweigh its advantages in a lot of cases.
Your post basically amounts to a conspiracy theory.

"It took them 3 days to tell us something happened. Obviously this means they would have kept it secret if it were at all possible."

It takes time to figure out what happened in a breach. That doesn't mean that Apple is some evil company trying to hide the fact that there was a breach.
There's an idea I've been thinking about in the vein of the "create this" and api competition ideas (and the repo itself I suppose). I've found that on Stack Overflow questions of the form "Is there software that does x, y and x?" will often get locked. However, I think a site like SO for finding software could be really useful. And when you don't find it you've just identified a niche that hasn't been filled that someone could come along and make software for. It would be possible for developers to gauge demand by the number of up-votes/bounties a post gets. It could use many of the same mechanisms from SO like voting/comments/reputation/merging related posts, but perhaps adding some structured ways to describe ideas would facilitate better searching.
Prodigies are extremely rare but do legitimately happen: kids who on first touching a piano or other instrument, play complete tunes etc. Kieron Williamson is in a list of visual arts prodigies[0]. Nevertheless the maturity and use of sophisticated technique, esp. in the painting of the grandfather, is startling. The list of musical prodigies is longer.[1] W.A.Mozart made his performing debut at 4 and wrote compositions at age 5. [2]

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_prodigies#Visual_...
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_prodigies
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart
How exactly would that be harmful?

If a patent troller wants to find out who is behind an app, they would go through the legal system and use a subpoena.

Literally no reason whatsoever for them to hack a website to get it.
Ask Freelance Designers: Why not get a full time design job?
I'm creating a product in the space, for designers who've been doing freelance but would consider a full time gig if the right one popped up.

Could you shoot me an email or reply here?

I'd really love to email you a few questions - I'd be down to meet up in Palo Alto too.

cjbarber@stanford.edu
I'll wager that neither of us understands the market for impressionism.
Sounds like a recipe for Strange Loop http://thestrangeloop.com/sesssions !
so I think that in an abstract world of arbitrary reality, stating "everything is a file" is okay but we have a lot of evidence that implementing something where everything actually is a file is just too hard. If the philosophy is good, why do its adherents produce so much that is crap?
I'm not sure whether or not devices like this are good for Android in and of themselves, but they're an inevitable consequence of something that is great fit Android: that people can take the Android source and run with it in a variety of ways, whether Google wants them to or not.

For example, the first Android tablets pre-date the iPad by months and the first Google Android tablets by about a year. Or you could look at the variety of activity in the Android STB space, which has been substantially more interesting and successful than Google's official efforts, so far
> intruder attempted to secure personal information

haha "secure". Am so using that word next time my site gets hacked.
How is a developer's mailing address not a sensitive information for that developer? How does a tech company get away making a blanket assumption like that?
Comments with insights to the article, that don't ask people for favors, are not leeches. Your comment was a leech.
I don't think there's any correlation between the use of 2D and 3D printers - they don't have much in common other than the name. I expect the use of 2D printers to be declining as more and more things are done online, but custom fabrication of objects is another matter altogether.
Has Social Media made us anti-social?
"typical Bob Ross stuff that doesn't have any market outside of art fairs"

Well, you would seem on the face of it to be completely and utterly wrong on that score, at least according to the people buying his paintings.

Out of interest, do you paint much?
That's true. I certainly don't understand who it is that is buying these paintings.
I highly doubt the hackers plan was to get email addresses and try to brute force from there... just doesn't make sense.

If you search Google, people are all the time receiving password reset emails going back years, even repeated ones.

Email addresses are in the clear all the time, and I've never heard of them being considered sensitive before. You should assume everyone has your email address.
I'd really like though to be able to print a paperback for reading and then tear it down in the machine when I'm done so the material can be fully reused. That's the ebook revolution for me.

You can do that right now. Buy recycled paper, print a book, read it, and put it into the recycle bin. Just think of paper in the same way you think of ink.
That exact technique? Not in the least - it relies on indium/gallium/tin/whatever alloys that are liquid at room temperature and immediately form thick oxide skins on contact with air. Even when solidified, they'll have mechanical properties resembling wet toilet paper!

SLS/DMLS, however, can give quite a bit of control over the grain structure. The solidification rate of the melt-pool is generally very rapid, giving small and homogeneous grain structure, but there can be all sorts of problems with residual stresses in the part.
The db designer can handle that, just add an fk to a table that defines the values required for a particular problem domain.

In other words, don't succumb to the laziness of using nulls.
Making a Raspberry Pi into an unified retro peripheral
Snaplive 0.5 features overview video (my FOSS CMS)
Pakistan Fights for Ground in War on Polio
I'm from former Yugoslavia and I totally approve this message :).
I would ask this question. What do people buy today that could instead be 3d printed? Probably not that much. But if the question was what do people buy today that could be printed by a higher quality easier to use larger scale printer of the future, then there is an exciting opportunity. And because that is exciting, it is worth paying attention today.
Is there a database of intrusion attempts (and successful ones too) made at tech companies?
I'm not really wrong on that score, just look at some of the paintings in the article, and check out his website. Many of the examples given aren't even very good, especially the "winter landscape" image 7/8 in the article. I don't want to sound like I'm slagging some little kid, because it's great for a child of his age, but if he was even slightly older, say 11 or 12, he wouldn't be selling anything. There are loads of young painters this good in China, for example, and they aren't selling for 5 digits.

The interesting part of story is that the kid is actually selling the paintings for such amounts. If he was just painting them but not selling them, I'm not sure this would even make the news.
'Avengers 2' title revealed, plus 'Captain America' and 'Thor' sequels
I also would like to see stuff like this. I hope it only evolves to stuff more like when I can see the whole algorithm (not in code, but in process I guess) in my head versus thinking "okay brain, for loop starting at x == 0, while x is less than this array's count."
Hi Chuck - I'm one of the co-founders. It is definitely not the new normal. We are working diligently to ensure that all networking issues will be permanently fixed so that all customers will experience 100% uptime. We will not stop improving our network till this happens. I promise you.
Is someone who finds something enlightening qualified to say whether something is thorough?
Can you elaborate on why you equate this localtunnel to "removing all security" ?

I haven't tried it, but it seems to forward a single port that's running service X that I want to make available on the net.

Any way whatsoever of fulfilling that need (no matter if it's one button click or setting up a separate VM for that service) would involve making a hole in all relevant firewalls and making the (possibly buggy) service X available to everyone.

Is the user goal of "making service X available to everyone" bad in itself?
I like your last paragraph. I don't know what the future will bring but I totally agree that today's world works mostly under an old school, factory-style management regime, which is not efficient in industries like ours.

Having said that, I personally still see value in some of those old practices. As [lukatmyshu] mentioned in this thread:

Think of [PMs] as oil in an engine. The best ones know how to communicate extremely well, are paragons of organization, and know how to facilitate decision making.

Instead of getting in the way they make life easier for everybody. I do understand that's not the typical experience for most people in our line of work.
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The Race to the Bottom!
The study outcome is poverty has the bigger impact. Yet there is a lot of discussion about anything else like Alcohol etc. But think about the uncomfortable issue: What to do against poverty? Isn't it a hint that our concern should be "a human right to access minimum wealth" and how to enable it?
They said sensitive information is encrypted and can't be accessed, my interpretation of that is that the plain text can't be accessed but attackers may have the encrypted sensitive information (eg passwords). Depending on the strength of their encryption though, and the key used etc etc.. it might be perfectly accessible. In the absense of transparency on actual encryption details, you're probably better off assuming the data is compromised than not.
Apple Confirms That Its Dev Center Has Been Breached By Hackers
If you don't have a smartphone and want a cheap "tablet," then look into buying a used smartphone. Doing so is super cheap because you don't have to buy a data plan. Besides, phones tend to be more portable. I got a Droid2 for $30 on Amazon.
Working on that: http://noflojs.org/