skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he's referring to this - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appaholics...
From the product page: http://markforged.com/ (This HN submission is blogspam)

The incredible strength of carbon fiber comes from the
long, continuous strands that carry load down the entire
part. This is why space shuttles, rockets, and Formula 1
cars are constructed from continuous strand carbon. And
it’s how we print. Don’t settle for plastic with a dash of
chopped carbon fill. Longer is stronger.
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7mm x 3mm x 100mm. 3D Printed beam is packed with tens of
thousands of full length, continuous carbon fiber strands

Conventional thermoplastic FDM printing has a lot of design constraints: no overhangs, voids, etc. Looking at this, it seems like it takes those design constraints, and adds some more: the fibre is aligned in the direction of the print head! This is going to take some really tricky modelling work to get it to print what you want, with the direction of strength actually oriented in the direction you want.

And how do you even cure it? Is it just carbon fibre in a thermoplastic matrix?
I wish people would not misuse the term "operating system" so much.
This seems just a little too faith-in-technology for me.

I think that you are right about the tipping point between intelligence and natural selection. But given that we manage to share 20% or so of our genes with bananas, I would want to be very very sure of ourselves. I think the science needs to catch up with the commerce.

The general response most of us have to things like nuclear technology, bio-engineering is usually characterised by "gosh, that's an awfully big downside". To me that is a very rational response and a good understanding of the nature of risk.

Edit: bit less didactic
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Bitcoin executive resigns amid money-laundering investigation
If you need something for a couple of hours use a provider who supports that charge granularity. What is silly is criticising a firm for not doing something which they do not claim to do. I could just as justifiably call them silly for not selling ice cream.
> One road (the one I took) was a "good" one. The other would have allowed me to profit, sometimes much more than the other decision.

Wouldn't it have been more beneficial to society, in the long run, if you'd maximized profits by making those hard decisions?

In the end, that is, right now, you would be a powerhouse instead of a "family business," which would allow you greater positive influence on humanity
I tried building something similar with http://valleyanon.com/ but for whatever reason, it never caught on. I don't know if people _really_ care about anonymity enough to consider it as a separate service.
Yeah, the site couldn't find me for 2 of the 3 credit reporting companies.
Can you link to your source code? Have you given any thought to using the GNU Naming System to smooth over some of the usability problems with public keys? Are you familiar with unhosted.org, and their use of Oasis.js to partially solve the problem of running untrusted js in the browser?
Yes. Giving away designs for x86 racks and servers hurts Dell, HP, and IBM.
CoffeeScript 1.7 changes
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Amazement is related to awe, which has components of surprise and fear: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Plutchik-.... Fear will drive you to cognitive dissonance if you don't pay careful attention.

Your second statement makes no sense from a practical standpoint as there would be no way to transfer all personal values into any system en masse. This implies an unresolved argument is forming.

Your third statement confirms your fears and the reason for the argument.

Decentralized crypto currency technologies can also conceivably eliminate the need for the current government structure. Your comparison excludes this and limits Bitcoin to just the economy. Our founding fathers were mostly wealthy to begin with and their involvement in forming our government helped build that wealth further.

This is conjecture, but based on the fact we're seeing an unprecedented amount of sharing and giving going on in the alt coin ecosystem, I think any Bitcoin trillionaire/billionaire is going to turn out to be quite liquid with their funds, especially where building the ecosystem is involved. There's something to being able to trust whoever you choose to give funds to actually gets the funds without an intermediary getting involved. Add contracts to that, and you get massive intent initiated on a global scale for a given effort.
If we use analogy it would be like forcing the process to kill itself (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terminate) vs killing it (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kill).
Ah, that makes much more sense... especially considering the site. Thanks!
> Total cost for managing all my files ever: $65-$75 a month.

Lowest Newegg price for 1T external USB hd (2014-01-28): 69.99.

Buy one 1T USB drive from Newegg every 2 months (half the cost of $75/month).

Backup Windows 1T drive to each in turn.

After 1 year, have seven redundant copies of the data (1T drive in Windows machine, plus six redundant external HD copies, if each drive is refreshed every 2 months to include the full dataset at that time).

Half the cost per month (69.99/2 months vs. 75/month).
Even if not related to it and my get some downvoted for saying this. Something that strike me in this post is how cooler haskell code looks vs python.
Silicon Valley goes TV
I just noticed that both HBO and AMC are premiering TV shows about Silicon Valley. There have been already movies like The Social Network and Jobs but is Tech Scene finally becoming media sexy?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/
I Built a Social Network for Food and Here’s How I Did it
And once more the crowd asks, "who's going to use it?".

There is a very, very tiny competitive advantage to supporting Bitcoin. There is a catastrophic competitive disadvantage to not supporting the basic method of Internet transactions.
The Glyph looks interesting, but it only shows 1280x720 per eye.

I don't really understand how the 'virtual retinal display' will affect the viewing experience, but there are only 2 million pixels total, split between two eyes.

The consumer rift will be at least 1080p split between eyes, which is 960x1080 per eye — slightly more pixels per eye than the Glyph.
There's something really fishy with Level 3 (the Scala inverted index one). It passes locally, but is stuck at the "Waiting for servers to finish indexing" stage on the server.

Is there a size limit on the files you're able to write to the filesystems in the testing containers? Any way to debug this?

This, and Scala's slowness makes me wonder if I should have recoded this level from scratch in another language.

Thoughts from fellow Level 3 players?
I don't think so. For me, workplace is a lot about face to face communication. Oculus with its big black helmet does not exactly foster that. I hope we don't in the future sit all at home in our Oculus VR.

I have tried an Oculus and think it is awesome for gaming, and probably some special work environments, e.g. car designers. But as a general purpose workplace or for programming, I don't think it fits.
More apps, more devices. What's a developer to do?
Wouldn't #5 let attackers narrow you down to your city?
I wonder, is this sort of war good business for CCP, the Icelandic company running Eve? (Do they want more of them, or battles of a particular size/character?)

On the good side, I see:

• adds excitement/unpredictability/plot

• generates outside publicity

• ups demands for in-game goods

But on the bad side, perhaps:

• destroys long-cherished items/positions, weakening interest/attachment

• losing side feels sting of loss, faces upcoming grind of reattaining lost status: a likely quitting point

• winning side feels a sense of completion: also a likely quitting point

People who've quit: was it after some big reckoning battle, of either victory or defeat, triggering a re-evaluation of your participation? Or did big battles make you hungry for more?
I thought tor was assumed. I meant with an incognito/private browser while using tor.
Oh:

+ Don't do things that would cause confusion between you or your blog and a
+ person or company, like registering a deliberately confusing URL. Don't
+ impersonate anyone. While you're free to ridicule, parody, or marvel at the
+ alien beauty of Benedict Cumberbatch, you can't pretend to actually be
+ Benedict Cumberbatch.
Yo, I love the work that billg is doing with his foundation, but as a company CEO, he made plenty of dick moves, like trying to dilute Paul Allen out of his wealth, not to mention the whole Netscape-crushing kerfuffle that led to an anti-trust lawsuit and the near-dismantlement of the company...
Just search online. There are plenty of frustrated posts by Square users (some of them small-business owners) who've had their money held and been unable to get ahold of someone to resolve it.
"Free hosting plan" means it will cost zero (0.00000000) bitcoins.

All of them accept it.
The typical US bachelor's is 4 years, and 1-3 years for a master's, depending on the subject.
This would have been more welcome if there wasn't such jerkishness by Dustin at the launch/shortly after the launch of svbtle.
I worry about storage performance. Why use a DHT? Could you get away with using cloud storage to host the signed and encrypted data? Also, are you worried about Sybil attacks on the DHT?
You're absolutely right about that.
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Commented-out code is a "FIXME" to-do item that has no explanation of intent. If I comment out code, I always annotate it with a @todo marker and an explanation of why it is commented out. Otherwise, just delete it - commit message becomes the documentation.
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> The word selfie was meant to infer that we have a special camera tool that helps people take self progress pictures

Don't you just mean "camera"?
What about this should compel me to give all my content to someone else? I understand the argument that they're entering in to a crowded space, and I see how they believe that they're the best.

But really, I'm just going to put all my stuff on someone else's servers and wait for them to be acquired and shut down? It is 2014 after all. How many times has this happened?
Your ISP and law enforcement know what IP addresses are using Tor.

https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https

That's how the Harvard bomb threat guy got busted, because his Tor usage was a big flashing red light among non-Tor users.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18...

That's how law enforcement knows what haystacks to search.

And since the OP used his own IP address (didn't go to a coffee shop), that narrows the search by 3 or 4 orders of magnitude.
Well, OS X has such a framework built in for apps to use.
Yes, be a full-time source control maintainer instead of programming...
This isn't such a big problem as it may seem because unlike other countries, average prison terms in USA are extremely lengtly, and a lot of people with 50+ years terms, or even multiple life sentences die in prisons. So while a lot of people are in jail, not so many go there every year as in many countries, and even fewer come out, and many of those who do come out too old to be of a big problem.

In many other countries with much lower incarceration rates, the rate of people at large with prison history is much higher, which makes societies criminalized even down to the national character (see 'why Russians don't smile' - spoiler - smile is a sign of submission in prison).
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You won't be restricted to physical displays anymore - what if your alternate desktops floated off to the side / above / whatever your current "display"?
Read this book then. It's the best book about any programming language that I have read.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cbook/

The following is a link to some university course page that has the book as pdf

http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~buoni/cs16/The_C_Programming_Languag...
Hehe, as soon as I read the comment, I knew who it would be!
Headline should be "humans putting too many cows in one shed cause methane blast".
I'm posting this comment from a Chromebook. I'm imagining this could (I haven't gotten through all the marketing yet) be something very similar, which very much is an operating system.
Wasn't part of svbtle's appeal being one of the few people to "have a svbtle"? When it first came out - it was beautiful & part of the cache was that only a few people got in.

It was super popular for a few months - then fell off completely. Seems strange that the one main differentiator for the network has now been removed.
IPSEC/L2TP VPN on a Raspberry Pi running Arch Linux
bitc: ncurses based SPV bitcoin client, 100% C code
bitc is a thin SPV bitcoin client.

* 100% C code,
* support for linux and mac platforms,
* console based: uses ncurses,
* home grown async network i/o stack,
* home grown poll loop,
* home grown bitcoin engine,
* supports encrypted wallet,
* multi-threaded,
* valgrind clean.

WARNING: this app is under development and may contain critical bugs.
This is a really neat idea, more power to you for making this.

It's a little slow/choppy in Safari though. Maybe you can use transforms instead for supported browsers?
We're using the same terms in slightly different ways. You're talking about acknowledging that someone really is who they are, but being unwilling to extend them credit. I'm talking about not being willing to extend credit to the entity in question, whether they are who they say they are or not.

It's a genuine distinction, but perhaps it doesn't really matter. Perhaps it does, but regardless, we're not really disagreeing. Square is refusing to provide access to the individual because they claim it is risky to do so. They're saying it's because they can't confirm his identity, but it's still a refusal to extend "credit" to an "individual."
I guess this is the direct counter-argument to my comment in the thread about Svtle.

Is it true that people actually don't care about keeping ownership over their content? I find it so strange that these services which are pitched directly at people who consider themselves to be brilliant also become the archive for your stuff. It just seems like a conflict of interest when, yes, what exactly is their game plan?
Wow. Having tried to resolve in a friendly manner a bill in which Verizon charged me $150 for DSL service at an address to which they not only never provided service but at which they eventually noticed they can't provide service, period, due to its distance from their nearest central office -- and having had them respond by sending the bill to a collection agency -- this information will be of great use to me, and I thank you very kindly for it.
I'd amend 5 to use a Pringles wifi antenna, so you don't even have to go in the shop to use their wifi.

1, 2, 3 agree absolutely. As popular as computers are becoming, just keeping data in a physical form makes it a less obvious target, and easier to hide/dispose of.
Wanted dead by US officials, Snowden tells German TV
More than 2,000 Indian websites hacked
Is the platform open source?
No, it's a javascript app plus another app that runs outside the browser. It's similar to freenet.
Mozilla – We we put your privacy first
haha - yes it is the built-in camera, but added an overlay feature with adjustable opacity so people can line themselves up with past photos.
A more accurate headline would be "Eve Online sees the most expensive battle in its 10 year history"
I believe other European countries have something similar to Interact (a universal terminal for debit cards from different banks)
Nice, thanks!

Just for gossip, what's the worst one?
Just heard about this recently, bummed I've missed the past few years. We don't get many interesting tech conferences in Southern California, so I'm excited to attend. Prices are very reasonable too.
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A Different Approach to Protecting IP
Legally, I do have a middle name, and in the United States, it narrows things down to just me. But Square does not take it in their signup form.
I've edited it for clarity based upon my original comment. :) I actually rely on this behavior every day because the app I've built uses require.js to load values into the `App.` namespace dynamically.

That being said, now that you mention it, it seems far more likely that the issue was HTML vs HBS commenting. As an aside, what is the default behavior going to be for HTML comments inside of HTMLBars templates? That seems like a really weird edge case to decide how to handle (for developers).
If you're not a server admin, kill -9 probably won't mess up your own machine in a significant way. I'm by no means a veteran, but I've used Linux as my primary workstation for 4 years now and haven't yet had reason to regret using kill -9. And given the number of times I have used it, I prefer a single kill -9 as opposed to 2-3 more kills beforehand.
<- (downvote here) LOL
DragonflyBSD has ASLR too
I'd love to see blogs show a visually appealing diff when updates are made after the publishing date. Each diff linked by clicking on a timestamp.
At least you know the only named system in syndicate.
> Is it true that people actually don't care about keeping ownership over their content?

You comment here. Isn't that basically the same thing? What are comments if not for mini-blog posts sometimes.
It's in the official one: http://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/community
he wasn't behind bsd-games, which is a collection of old games originally created by various people - see

https://github.com/vattam/BSDGames/blob/master/AUTHORS
And my personal favourite:

$ cat << EOF > blog-post-n.html
<html>
<body>
My post here
</body>
</html>
EOF

$ scp blog-post-n.html myserver:public_html
And they're deprecating hot patching, which was one of the selling points of earlier releases. Guess it didn't work out -- I've seen enough problems with it using JRebel: for development it's just not worth the effort (and money) vs. hypothetical time saved.
Not quite the same, but in Travian a reliable newish player who can follow instruction and get up to speed can sit a big account and take on pretty big roles quite quickly. And then there is the background spying and account stealing, password stealing etc that is plain fantastic as background intrigue.
Think of Medium as a new age New York Times. Curation will be done by the general public rather than a paid editing team. Think of the shift of real time news to Twitter. It's basically the same idea for long form journalism. You may disagree at this point in time but given a few years it'll end up being just that.
It seems with the selfie because of the time taken for changes to show-up that people might get demotivated in the interim.

Have you considered doing the same for food instead ?

That is having people take photos of all their meals and automatically sharing with their friends, to encourage eating healthier (soft competition) and making people think more about what they eat because it'll be broadcast.

That would seem more conducive towards a "real-time" feedback loop.
Satire? ... not very witty.
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Some blame goes to javascript and the DOM (mouseover should not an event IMO), but this is a truly obnoxious feature.

I forgot why I don't click links to svbtle but thanks HN for reminding me why :)
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And now they're dropping skew-morphism, which demonstrates the point.
Based on my read through, I think the files themselves live in the bridges and the DHT is how they are found. So you could set up an Avatar bridge in the cloud and use that as your bridge (or put the bridge on your local device and tell _it_ to store/retrieve everything from a network folder).
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What a constructive comment!
We haven't released any source code yet because we first want to make sure our protocol designs are correct. Unhosted is a familiar project and we are currently evaluating multiple options to run unsecure code.
It actually does. Mind sharing Safari and OS version?
Lance Ulanoff Out As Editor Of Mashable
So 'acvte' is still up for grabs?

Also, did you really just index your citations by zero? :)
You take pride in stolen design? That's strange.
I miss Posterous. R.I.P.
That sounds like a flaw in HN moreso than the post.
One word - Adobe.

If Adobe had a creative suite on Linux, it would be a windfall for most of the developers I know. It's quite literally the only thing keeping them anchored to a Mac or Windows machine.

Even more frustrating is how Adobe see this issue:

"All the evidence says that the Linux market for (paying) desktop software is just too small.

Linux has to develop a real market, or at least lower the cost of entry (seriously: how long can they go without standardizing APIs?), to make it attactive to developers."

From an Adobe staffer on their forums Sept. 2013: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5484652
The first comment on the article is brilliant. Let's crowdsource helicopter rides to the beach for an all-day surf party.
> The strongest CF pieces are made of unidirectional CF, where all fibers are oriented in the direction of the main effort.

You're confusing issues even further! To anyone who wants to actually understand this:

Carbon fibre doesn't have a single "strength" value since it is virtually always anisotropic - its strength varies massively depending on which direction you stress it in.

GP is correct in that the carbon fibre weave with the best minimum strength is the 3D woven stuff which is very fancy and difficult to make, and not what this printer makes.

The most common carbon fibre is 2D woven cloth which is laminated together like plywood. It is strong in the directions of the fibres but can very easily delaminate (the layers become unstuck). It's a pretty big problem for things like the Boeing Dreamliner because the delaminations can be under the surface and impossible to see.

CFRP tubes are often made with the fibres all running along the axis of the tube, but it is then extremely weak in the circumferential direction and will tend to split like bamboo.
Beautiful car technology
i'll agree. but when you are that immersed in a story it almost doesn't matter what the story is. i guess it depends what you're looking to get out of it. i feel like immersion and direction are mutually exclusive and you give up one for the benefit of the other. sleep no more went pretty hard on the immersion front.

but this is kind of my point and i think we are saying the same thing. with enough going on in a virtual environment, you make your own story. that is the experience i'd look for in true VR. if that is exploring empty rooms so be it. this differs from film where there is strict direction.

there is room for something in the middle, like "Gone Home", but that experience is not the future of film, nor does it exploit the best aspects of VR/Rift.

the obtuse point from the article is right: Rift, VR, (and i'll extend it to AR) is cool for games, but what's cooler are the new types of art they will enable.
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Ask HN: Examples of default business processes for prepaid/postpaid orders?
I'm currently creating a statemachine driven checkout process for my startup. When I started to draw a business process for the events that can happen, it felt like I was trying to reinvent the wheel. Are there any good resources out there on standard business processes like payment including chargebacks, payment reminders etc.?

Bonus question: Can you integrate post-paid and pre-paid into one state machine or should you create two state machines and your order object decides which state machine to use?
Honest question: How does svbtle make money?
Hacker News comments don't require the blood, sweat, and tears involved in writing a 1,000-word well-edited essay.

Additionally, Hacker News comments aren't used by the owning website for potential profit. (Y Combinator as a brand is likely hurt by HN comments anyways)