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I really think one day the 3D printer will be commonplace. I know the
Physibles are pretty much useless now(the ones on that bad boy site), but once they start programming everyday stuff--like enclosures for spare hard drives, or a knob for my '54 chevy radio; more people will might take a second look at the technology. Yes--I used Physibles
because I think it's a good catch all word for the different types of files.(I am in now way comparing radio knobs to prosthetic hands.) I am so glad the medical community is embracing these printers. Happy Easter!
but then how would they phone home with automatic content recognition fingerprints so that samsung could tool up its secret tv-retargeting department? oh, wait...
Maybe smarter people are more able to afford chocolate.
The submitted link works for me.
You're right, perhaps I'm a bit more cynical than I should be. What would have been nice is a A/B comparison of a normal axe and then a Leveraxe, showing how the two perform differently with different types of logs.
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A cute 4-year-old 'rips' Spongebob's 'square' pants :)
I have to agree with the parent post, at least partially, current smart TVs are useless. But.. next gen? Maybe they'll get better.

Smart TVs that exposed ubiquitous hardware - like i386 did for desktops and laptops - where you can choose to run Windows/Linux/BSD would be ideal.. I'd choose a mix of Plex and XBMC given the choice... They provide real value atop the TV platform. Samsung and friends have a huge amount of catch-up to do before they are real contenders when it comes to having the best software (and even then .. Plex/XBMC need to double down on their "Mom" useability..)

(I have a Samsung TV, and recommend them, but always tell people to avoid the SmartTV gimmick. Plex and a Chromecast give a 1000x better experience for those who download, and Netflix etc + Chromecast cover those who don't)
Well, there are two issues here.

(1) Correct proportions of the distances between objects (namely the planets, planetoids, and the Sun), and
(2) the correct proportions of the objects themselves.

The links (A) http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ and (B) http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ show correct proportionality in DISTANCES BETWEEN OBJECTS but NOT the objects themselves.

For correct proportionality for both the distances and the objects themselves, see http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h...

The problem with http://codepen.io/juliangarnier/pen/idhuG is that both the distances between objects and the objects themselves are not proportionally correct.
Tell HN: Death of the cheap domain name...
Have any of you ever wondered what happened to the $2.95-$5.00 domain name?

When visiting a website like namecheap.com, I (ironically) find the cheapest old-school domain to be >$8.00.

I don't know why, but do any of you feel that a cheap domain is a useful thing for a side-project/OSS-project/(something you don't expect to make millions from) ?

All feedback and criticism welcome.
It only worked for me after 5 failures.
Why stop at just replacing human parts? Augmentation is the awesome possibility here.
Certainly much or his image in the 1930s was formed by propaganda. Khrushchev's leaked 1956 speech denouncing Stalin's crimes seems to be the dynamite that threw communists globally into despair for a time. Were they the "victors"?
Yes.

http://www.statschat.org.nz/2012/10/12/theres-nothing-like-a...
A bit lame maybe but here it goes:

The "Ready for Battle alarm clock". An alarm clock that wakes you up with your favourite quotes from video games or movies such as:

- Rise and shine, Mister Freeman. Rise and... shine. Not that I... wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one is more deserving of a rest, and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until... well, let's just say your hour has... come again. (or part of this one).

- It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all outta gum

This idea would work best when you always wear your Google Glass like device. Then the audio can be combined with a nice visual of for instance the G-Man.

For now, without the glass integration, it's easy to do make this with your own phone. A nice service could be to personalize the message, i.e. "Wake up Mr. Bootvis...".

The big problem here is that just copying these audio samples isn't allowed and so it will be hard to build a company out of this.
It's a myoelectric, so the BOM cost is likely higher than $50.

Also, as an FDA certified medical device, the rough rule of thumb (that I was taught while on an internship) is ~5-7 times mark up on BOM+assembly cost.

The -real- amazing thing about this is the idea that we can use far cheaper materials with much lower safety margins, since we can then just reprint individual components that break - remember the price of the materials isn't the bulk cost of material, its the price it takes to shape them, which is quite high for traditional methods, for low run parts like prostheses. What's going to be amazing is the combination of newer myoelectric devices, with these new manufacturing/design approaches, that -should- enable intermediately priced prosthetic.

Of course, the biggest cost saving comes from not being an FDA approved device at all.
> This is becoming less and less important.

That's fine and all, but it's very important today. There were file sharing services before Napster, but Napster became popular after cdrw started being put in desktops you could buy at the local computer store (yes, people went to those back then).

> Even then, my girlfriend could not care less about even having a TV. She watches everything on her computer and is perfectly happy.

Sure, and people have been watching DVDs on their computers for years as well, but is there any data that this trend has gone up to a significant degree, or that watching movies is not still done overwhelmingly on a television?
When I look at the best programmers I know, none have them have done any open source work whatsoever. This group of people ranges from IBM fellows who created some of the earliest minicomputers to IMO medalists who are unbelievably fast problem solvers. I'm not going to say that's a generalizeable statement. It's not, and that's the point -- it's a side effect of spending a career working in teams where people care more about playing with their kids or doing research or whatever than open source.

It's not even that they don't work on projects in their spare time. They do, but they're not part of open source culture, where people share things by default. They're satisfied with having made the thing itself, and they're not going to put their hardware or software project on github any sooner than they're going to make a website for the house they built from scratch.

If you work at an open source shop and hire with this attitude, all you're going to do is make sure that you have a monoculture in this dimension. That's not the worst thing in the world, but it filters out people who don't particularly care about open source, which is the majority of programmers. If that's a moral imperative for you, I don't have any objection to that. Otherwise, I don't see why you'd want to do this.
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>considering how much critical infrastructure, globally, depends on the internet working

This is the very bad idea.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7582482
I agree that Popcorn Time is an important milestone, I was disagreeing with the parent who said it was close to being the Napster of movies.

I think people are forgetting just how mainstream Napster was. People are forgetting how common burnt discs were at this time, full of music downloaded from Napster.
I'm curious, why "rightly"? I use all kinds of assistive devices. You probably know them by the names "metal tongs", "gloves", "ice axes", "crampons", "shoes", and so on.

I can see regulation as soon as you are penetrating the body - screwing something in, surgery to make an attachment point, and so on, but otherwise? Don't make people's lives even harder because you think you can think and make decisions better than they can.
I'm responsible for purchasing our computer equipment for our startup. Every time I make a purchase on our company (@MakeSpace) credit card, I have to remember to send an email to our accountants (record the purchase as an asset, depreciation for taxes, etc).

More importantly, it's hard to keep track of what equipment was given to each employee. I imagine at a larger company this would be handled by an IT department, but sub 50 people I'm doing this on a spreadsheet myself. Would love a simple web app to record serial # of machine, receipt (that I could upload PDF), date purchased, employee, etc.

Happily would pay monthly SaaS. Please message me if anyone knows of this type of product. I'd happily be your first customer if you want to build it.

edit: Happy Easter!
Ok I'll go first.

It's an "Imgur for audio files".

Now there's times when you record an audio and want to share it. What do you do? Uhh,, umm.... Yup. exactly. There's no reliable, easy-to-use app to share audio files (not music).

So, this is a web/mobile app for easily uploading and sharing audio files, and playing them. I don't have a full plan laid out, but I'll work on it for sure.

(If you'd like to be notified when it's done, let me know: http://eepurl.com/SRIPT)
Yeah, 240 sounds really convenient. But are you scared of it? How dangerous is it to get hit with that kind if voltage? Is everything over there GFIed?
I don't understand your comment. Google doesn't revoke keys. It revokes whole CAs.
> They are also (rightly) highly regulated. A next step is trying to figure out how to maintain quality and safety in these kinds of DIY projects.

I can see why medical devices like pacemakers or implanted replacement joints need more regulation, but I don't understand why a prosthetic needs more regulation than other consumer products like gloves or eyeglasses.
It seems more like systems architecture - is there a difference?

In any case it is not CS. CS is about algorithms and data structures - it's a theoretical discipline like math.
Again, you are underestimating how mainstream Napster was at it's heyday. Steam boxes are going to be a niche of a niche.
That's true, you can't hardcode certificate fingerprints for every site. Hence, TACK.
Idea: Git-story, a website that generates summary narratives from git commit histories and other github data.

Here's a brain-dump with some ideas for the specifics:

Use foreshadowing: "It all started with one person, X, spending months to gradually build what would one day become Y, a project forked by hundreds and starred by thousands."

When someone makes their first contribution to a project give them a brief introduction, like a shorter version of http://osrc.dfm.io/

Use sentiment analysis on commit messages to say things like "Frustrations mount as...", "the developers rejoice after..."

When people work on multiple concurrent branches use use phrases like: Meanwhile, X and Y toil away on the new Z feature.

Use the time between commits to chunk them into single sentences/paragraphs. Also, add comments if the project goes dormant, or if there is a spike in development.

Use keywords in commit messages like merge, revert, resolve to generate events in the story.

When bugs are resolved look for linked issues and use the age of the bug and number of comments to say thinks like "A finally fixed the controversial B bug"
I know first hand some other brands do.
This sounds like a horribly laborious way of tracking changes. The whole point is that you should be able to just look at the history for a file and see what people changed and why they changed it.

It's a horrible, proprietary and much more complicated way to achieve something that current VCS systems do with ease.
So just for fun I turned off the WAN connection on my router. Effectively, I had no internet access but I do have a wireless LAN with some local devices.

Safari on iOS did not tell me "you don't have internet connectivity", but it did say that servers were unreachable (not surprising) and it let me use local servers without issue. iOS seems to prefer WiFi to cellular when it's available as it didn't fall back during my limited test.

This is the behaviour that I'd expect from the Smart TV. Just because it can't get to Samsung doesn't mean it can't get to Netflix.
The little preface says that Wells was critisized for being too 'deferential' toward Stalin (Wells was a socialist, of course).

It is actually striking to me... today, one can imagine NO journalist engaging in as _confrontational_ an interview with ANY politician or person in political power. Politicians today don't even expect to talk about ideas, certainly not with journalists for publication, let alone to be challenged on ideas in such conversations.

It's also interesting to be reminded that Stalin was indeed a guy who could talk about ideas.
Current “Idea Sunday” thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616132 (14 points, 7 hours ago, 22 comments)
Seems to me that the link is wrong and the application doesn't do any checking and thus segfaults.
What I meant linking that:

According to that page the solar system's radius is ~6000000000km. Lets assume a 4096px wide desktop. Each pixel is ~1500000km. The Sun's radius is ~700000km, so definitely sub-pixel size.
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I agree that the engineers (a) probably understood it was a bad design, but (b) were told to do it that way and to ship it.

But it's still cravenly bad design. I'll bet twenty dollars that people are going to be doing regular DDOS attacks against that Samsung server now, and that Samsung will have a ton of trouble keeping their TVs functional. You're correct that data centers don't catch on fire very often (cable cuts are lots more frequent), but that's not the interesting failure mode now. Bored script kiddies and blackmail are going to be next.

A week of schedule slip (if that) is going to translate into a bunch of bad publicity and upset customers because of expedience. This may not be pretty.

[I'm wondering what the firmware update story for these TVs is. Is it secure? Is it reliable? Is it a crappy user experience? Can you update the firmware at all?]
Hold or fold
Folks seem to use SoundCloud for that. But its mostly music.
[YC Interview] Couch to crash – San Francisco
Hey guys,

I will be coming for YC interview next week, staying in San Francisco from 25.4. - 4.5. then leaving for TC Disrupt NY. Anybody who might have a spare couch to crash on between the dates given? Taking killer czech beers with me! Or any other advice where to check staying over other than CouchSurfing?

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PM: mrepetny@gmail.com
I tried running that code and for me it segfaulted at line 26 (plugin.get_num_ports() call)

Also, not sure if it's relevant but http://lv2plug.in/plugins/eg-amp returns a 404 for me...
tl;dr - should I be eating more chocolate?
I can sympathize with the fact that Smart TVs have a worse overall experience for you. The ads and crapware that you can't get rid of just mess up what was once a simple experience of turning on the TV. However I think smart TVs are a good idea because the way that people consume visual media is changing. More people are ditching cable and turning to services like Netflix. If HBO ever decouples itself from cable, I'd imagine this trend would increase more so. Why should I watch YouTube on my computer screen when I can watch it on a larger screen (and in a more comfortable room)?

I don't think the problem is with Smart TVs, I think it's just the current execution of the idea.
>The novelty of this particular famine, what made it so diabolical, is that it was the deliberate creation of a bureaucratic mind

As opposed to the Indian and Irish famines where strong state intervention would have saved the majority of the people but the sacrosanct ideas of free market capitalism did not allow that. The Ukrainian famine is neither unique nor that bad by world standards. The reason why it was shocking to the West is that it happened decades after most other major powers developed trade systems robust enough to deal with similar catastrophes in their own empires. Russia like always was lagging a decades behind the rest of the West. Much the same way the cultural revolution and great leap forward are shocking, they happened at the same time that men were circling the moon, but in a country which had much more in common with the England of the 1830's or the Russia of the 1910's than any other power then.
If the question is "chocolate", the answer is "yes".
In what way would it be different from SoundCloud? No fancy commenting? Anonymous uploads?
I'm not positive, but perhaps expensify would suit your needs?

https://www.expensify.com/
BBC/the UK government should stand up to Rupert Murdoch on this issue, rather than creating so-called "fair trading rules" which harm UK license payers.

Besides, Facebook and Twitter (external commercial websites) receive plenty of unfair promotion from the BBC.
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In other words, to answer the parent comment, "yes".
(Note: This is a comment of dang about the “Idea Sunday” posts in the last Sunday thread.)
I'd like it if the buyer could add a note to credit card purchases - that show up in the monthly bill. PO number is the most obvious thing to add. But for your typical customer you might also want to add "lunch with mom" or anything.
Au contraire. They know how to produce software, they just don't seem to get networking at all and that's an issue I've seen on my developers out there.
There's no part of capitalism that requires the oppression of others, except in maybe some metaphorical economic sense. In communism the ability to oppress is a necessary feature of the system (and if you don't think so, read Marx). The world has seen many implementations of capitalism that don't involve forcing large numbers of people to starve. The same cannot be said of communism.
It's not different from the current CA situation. That's my point.
I don't think it has to be open-source... you just need to release things.

And what's a great motivator for releasing things when working alone? It's having other people expect you to make progress on your projects. That's why I made a club that meets weekly to screenshare what we're working on.

It's the benefits of YCombinator weekly dinners, without the benefit of awesome speakers, great advice, or mentorship. But I'm there! If you want to get feedback on your projects and give feedback on other people's projects, then you should join my club.
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What on Earth makes people think a finnicky meshnet that requires a high density of nodes will survive a Sandy-like disaster? Doesn't seem like the most obvious use-case for meshnets, wouldn't people be better served getting ham licenses and learning how to improvise antennas in an emergency?
I agree, but we need proper technical and social solutions. Tracking will be done. Yes, it's disgusting that some of this is legal in the first place, but even if it were illegal there would be companies doing it and we would need solutions against these.
Idea: An internet quest board.

People can set up quests (read How Children Fail, join the flashmob on a cardboard arcade, complete a hard challenge on dailyprogrammer, make your own programming language) with rewards (reputation points, cash bounty, achievements/badges, etc.). Somewhere between BucketListly (real life achievements) and freelance websites or Fiverr (small jobs with fixed payments).
> I'd love it if there were some basic "dumb" software as well, like an RTSP/RTMP client.

No DLNA?
This is less about expense tracking than it is about actually keeping track of all the equipment we've purchased for our startup.
My wife finds the FuelBand so ugly she almost finds it offensive. She's a pretty normal woman, and I'm not suggesting all women feel that way, but it bears reminding that anything worn on a wrist is actually a fashion accessory for a lot of people.
I always found this video of Bill Nye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Ob0xR0Ut8 disturbing, in the sense that even our own star is incredibly tiny compared to the distances to its planets.

Bringing the solar system to a 1920px screen, I would assume that not even the sun would be visible...
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Idea: A paid, members-only app where people can post and discuss their ideas.
Do you mean http://lv2plug.in/plugins/eg-amp? That's just an identifier for the plugin, not a link as such.
From the article:

Certificates bind a public key and an identity (commonly a DNS name) together.

...when issuing certificates a CA validates ownership of a domain by sending an email, or looking for a specially formed page on the site.

So, if "DNSSEC secures DNS," as you say, why do we need certificates at all? Considering that the CA already depends on DNS to issue (many) certificates, why not cut out the middle man and simply publish the domain's public key in a DNS record? What actual value does a certificate offer other than that? I'm genuinely asking, because I'm curious if DNSSEC provides a way for a domain owner to establish trust in the domain's DNS records, that cannot be tampered with by the domain's registrar.
Yes. And a single use - upload and share. And SoundCloud is mostly for music, this is for random audio files only.

Also, I'd like to make the service free, ad free, and maybe add a very cheap pro option.
I might not have been clear enough. I was just trying to show how the current syntax fits in with `:`, and why your suggestions for `: mut` would not fit with that. All of these are valid Rust code:

let (mut x, ref y, &z): (int, int, &int) = (1, 2, &3);
let (mut x, ref y, &z): (_, _, &_) = (1, 2, &3);
let (mut x, ref y, &z) = (1, 2, &3);

The types are still the same in each case. No conversions or dynamic typing is happening in any of them - they are all statically typed.

Rust, like Haskell and ML, uses an advanced form of type reconstruction called Hindley-Milner[0] type inference. This is a constraint solving algorithm that can deduce types from very little information. Sometimes you do need to add some annotations though to help the inference along a little, but that is very rare (although more common in Rust than in Haskell or ML).

The grammar could be expressed as:

'let' <pattern> (':' <type>)? '=' <expr>

Where `<type>` is the type of the expression to the right of the `=`. As I said before: in practice it is very rare to explicitly annotate a `let` binding.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindley-Milner
No - my point (as I mention below) was that I was surprised that Wells didn't ask anything about it even though he almost certainly had seen reports. My criticism is directed at Wells in this case.

steve_benjamins points out below that this really wasn't that kind of interview, which is a good point.
Feeling smugly smart as I sit here easter morning eating chocolate with my kid for breakfast!
More along the lines of an application that would do inventory management:

http://www.businessbee.com/resources/technology/essential-el...

I've been googling but can't find anything
Right? Because destroying your liver and making an ass of yourself is too difficult and too expensive. So let's make an easily concealable, I'm guessing odor free version of idiot juice so that alcoholics can even more easily kill themselves.
Sort of. The 7 is A division and has no data, and the L is B division and has data.

Plus, who needs realtime train position data when you can just listen for those helpful manual announcements like "An uptown express train is approaching W 4th St."
1:1X dyno on Heroku is free, with a postgres server, and a free redis instance.

So even at $5/hr I can't justify doing this work myself at this point, since I can get the infrastructure for my minimum viable product going for free. I can and should spend my time focusing on developing the features.