skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I broad terms I agree that there's probably too much regulation on medical devices in general. There are a variety of areas where there can be considerable stream lining or reduction to the net benefit of all parties involved.

That said, the myoelectric device at a minimum falls under some level of regulation since it is a biopotential device. The moment you start measuring potentials on the human body, you add the risk of injecting current across the human body - obviously bad. If you wanted to ensure that the myoelectric device was safe, you would at a minimum ensure that a) sufficient isolation between the sensory and actuator circuits b) a safe sensory circuit. Now, while doing that is probably relatively trivial to actually design, you do need to verify it.

So, once again, I agree that there's probably too much regulation piled on, but there is a good reason to regulate/verify in some form or way at least the myoelectric device.

More generally, notice that the examples that you and sister component pointed out are relatively simple, especially compared to a prosthetic hand. Complexity in itself can cause the need for regulation.

Oh, and on the side, you may find this document with regards to impact resistant and safety glasses (http://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/deviceregulationandguidanc...) a fun read =P.
Reddit.

EDDIT: Re gamifying, karma does it.
Props to them for blogging about their open-source competitors.
I could build this in Rails in like, a day.
What would happen if suddenly, a very big number of developers (I really mean it... like thousands of developers) began to contribute to such a project. Would hollywood start to sue everyone? And what if some of them would be some "rockstar developers" (like very important for the software world)... yeah... I'm just dreaming, but it would be like the equivalent to a mass protest, that they just wouldn't be able to handle.
Why not just have something like pcpartpicker.com, where every time you select a component it only shows other components that are compatible with the ones you've already selected? I think that would be the most useful, so that way you could either start with the fish and it would show you what hardware you can get, or else you could start with the hardware and it would show you what fish you can get.
Why not unrar and untar using javascript as well?

https://github.com/varunmayya/bitjs
that would be cool, but wearing glasses while sleeping is not recommended.
We (App Academy) did a free iOS course in 2013. It was fun and helped kick-start our business. I hope you have the same experience!

We broke even because we were able to collect some placement fees from companies that hired students. Even if we hadn't, the financial risk was not super high, since our time was the biggest investment.

If people from the US are interested in a similar program, you might want to look at [App Academy](http://appacademy.io). Our class is no longer truly free, but beside a refundable deposit, we don't collect any tuition until a graduate finds a job (and none if they don't).
There's all manner of totalitarianism-lite in the US. This is not likely one of them. Its a safer bet that this was handled directly by mail/phone/email without involving an actual court. Legal threat under possibly enforceable law does not equal government action. We don't need to blame the government for this to be a bad thing.
https://flowplayer.org/ ?
'Most notably, they are portable, need to stand alone without other helper devices, function as complete computers, and are upgraded approximately every 1-2 years by most users. TVs possess none of these attributes.'

Each of these statements could equally apply to TVs (except, possibly, portability) and the fact that they haven't is merely circumstantial.

Yes, for the first 50 years of television's existence people tended to keep the same TV around for half a decade or more. But that's because fundamental changes happened between fifteen and thirty years apart - the switch from black and white to color, then the switch from broadcast to cable and satellite. The rate of innovation, and thus the turnover rate of individual devices, is increasing - just like with the telephone, which remained basically the same for the first several decades of its existence as well, until modern computer technology was invented.

Come to think of it the same thing is possibly true of desktop computers. My family was on the same computer between 1984/85 and 1993 - a Mac 512k. Then in 1994 or 95 we got a Performa 475. That lasted for about 5 years until I got a Mac clone - a Motorola Starmax 3000, which had a PowerPC processor. This laster about 2 -3 years. Then I built my first PC - that lasted for about two years. And each year since then I've used the same computer for 1 to 2 years at a time. The turnover period halved exponentially as computers got more and more sophisticated.
Ask HN:  Review my greeting card app.
Hello HN and Happy Easter,

Does anyone need to send a last minute greeting card?

I am working on a greeting card app, https://happyfnny.com, and would say I'm at the point where I could use some feedback. This is still very much a work in progress but thought at this point I could do a soft launch for easter.

About HappyFnny:

If your like me, aka single male, greeting cards and thank you notes are always high on the priority list but usually fall into the abyss of 'things I forgot to do'. If I do remember, I'm typically scrambling at the last second to purchase a card, buy a stamp and get to the post office. Unfortunately, I don't have a secretary or a girlfriend so ultimately this responsibility falls on me and I hoping to make it as easy, fun and functional as possible.

It's also a multi-merchant marketplace, so if other designers are interested they can open a store profile and sell their cards within the app. It's web based, and cards are sent via text message or email. You can also add a photo and personal message to every card before it is sent.

I'm using Braintree to process my payments and I just moved the app to Rackspace.

This is a small part of a bigger product idea, and hopefully in the next week or so I'll add a couple other features to make the cards more gift like in nature. Hopefully these features will help distinguish me from the other online greeting card apps already in existence.

Thanks for your time. Any feedback is much appreciated.

https://happyfnny.com
Legal / contract constraints may prevent people from publishing code written at work or even in their free time.
It's not scary in normal use but you don't want to stick you finger on a live wire - the shocks a bit nasty.
But then how could I monetize it? I don't think I could run adverts on someone else's service?
There's a clear gap in my mind between enterprise and SMB. I don't need the features of a Spiceworks (yet). Look at what Resumator did (big space but found the 'niche' to allow the CEO/COO to act like head of HR).

All the Features you mentioned, plus multi user access (for bookkeeper / accountants).

I'd pay $3-500 annually (maybe do something like $X per device > 5 devices).
Have some marking on the text box on the submission page to give a clue about where the 80 character limit is.

Or just chop titles at 80 chars.

I would find it easier to trim down characters and make replacements if I had a guide. Without the guide it is tempting to remove whole words and sometimes that becomes misleading or link baity.
Doesn't it seem like TF could simply create their own Repo, build it and start developing on it and see what comes out of the woodwork? Seems like its pretty easy to bait these mysterious forces.
please do! hit me up sam at makespace dot com. and i'd be the first to pay
EU Gini coefficient of equivalised disposable income: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&lang...
Airbnb, but paid with labor.

Many travelers are short on cash but would love to trade services for a night's stay. Me, I would be happy to host a guest for free provided they did my dishes or laundry.

Many homeowners, especially empty-nesters, have homes with plenty of space that they still have to maintain. This would provide benefits to both parties.
zipcar/uber: A service that delivers a car you drive to where you are when you want it. Maybe you call up an hour before or via an app. And/or the opposite: you have driven somewhere can don't want the car anymore - eg drinking.
It's a joke product sold as an empty can by some emergency supply stores for April Fools or white elephant gifts. But, that never stopped anybody from wondering how to make it real.
I think there's definitely a market for it. Before people go out and buy fish, they usually do some research first on what it will entail, so if this site can also become a really good source of fishkeeping info and shows up on page 1 when people search for something like 'fishkeeping' or 'fish tanks' then that could be good
What would be a good writeup for understanding term-rewriting? (My current background level: I understand most of what OP has listed in "actually useful" and "can run into", and "automata theory" from the third list.)
Web filter. I love F1 and there is a race today, so I can't look at 99% of the internet as they will show the result. I will watch the race later when the kids have gone to bed.

This problem is so big that i have to avoid facebook becaue they also show trending news.

So a filter that filters F1 or any selectable sports news. Then when i turn it off after watching the race the filter shows me a list of what news it found and filtered for me.

Added extra, while i'm watching the race it could show me tweets in real time, but back shifted so as to make sense with the race.

My football loving buddie also agrees he'd pay for this filter.
It's likely because Hollywood won't LET them "offer legitimate ways to purchase the content".

There's a device that will allow normal people to watch new theater movies at home, but it's $500 per viewing after buying the highly-secured $35000 Prima video server. There are also a bunch of requirements that the company checks in person before allowing someone to buy into the service.
That was my point, too: the theorized system already exists. I'm definitely not advocating its use.

Ultimately, the URL bar needs to go away. More fundamentally, the asymmetric relationship between very large organizations that authenticate their identity with browser CA certs, and individuals who authenticate their identity with passwords needs to change.

Cryptographically generated addressing schemes like Telehash can do the automate-able stuff better than the current CA situation. The problem (and solution) I'm struggling to articulate involves the fact that granular authorization systems and trust databases need better UI before we can really fix this.

I suspect cheaper hardware tokens will play a significant role.
Yeah that's exactly what I have in mind!
Let's hope he reads this and discovers the value of an "About me" sidebar on his blog.
The problem is that the company who's saying "Trust us, we have 128 bit encryption in our product" isn't giving you enough information to make an informed decision about how secure the device really is.

Choosing a keyboard because the box says "128 bit encryption" doesn't help if the manufacturer bakes in the same key on every device. Or a predictable key. Or really, any static session key even if it varies by device serial number or something like that. And a marketing or advertising guy doesn't know this, they just see a checkbox they can stick on the artwork. "Just get that 128 bit stuff in there so we aren't lying" is the most likely scenario for something like a keyboard, where competition is tough and margins are wafer thin.

Personally I'd use copper if I was at all worried, because the likelihood of some random firmware engineer getting a security protocol right is pretty slim.
Sounds a little like Elos: http://www.elos.eu/productlines/aquariums/index.html
Someone can sell/make you a tool for that however you can also do it yourself with a simple Google Docs spreadsheet. Your accountant will understand it as will anyone else that has to maintain it. You get versioning built in so you can see who has changed what. Plus you can make it read only.

Regarding the receipts, have a folder and just give the receipts a simple date-supplier-what-for filename. You could probably paste the hyperlinks into your spreadsheet if you could be bothered. If you can't then they are easy enough to find.
The interview is interesting from the perspective of economic history because it reveals the prevailing thinking of the era; namely that capitalism leads to "anarchy" in production. What Stalin and others did not appreciate is that the free market produces a "hidden order", which was understood by many 18th and 19th century economists. Another major error of the era was the belief that central planning of an economy - socialism - could replace capitalism. There was a major debate at the time, now known as the economic calculation debate[1], between socialist economists Harold Laski and Oscar Lange on the one hand and liberal economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek on the other. In the 20's Mises had made the stunning argument that allocation of capital was impossible without the price function that is inherent to the capitalist system[2]. Laski and Lange obviously disagreed and provided the socialist counter argument. It was many years later, after the fall of the Soviet Union, that socialist philosopher and historian Robert Heilbroner admitted in the New Yorker "It turns out, of course, that Mises was right. The Soviet system has long been dogged by a method of pricing that produced grotesque misallocations of effort".[3] Still, many do not understand or appreciate the importance of economic calculation and the price function in the rational allocation of capital, which has implications not only for states, but for corporations[4].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem

[2] https://mises.org/econcalc.asp

[3] Reflections after communism, Robert Heilbroner (apologies to those without a subscription) http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1990/09/10/1990_09_10_091_T...

[4] http://mises.org/journals/rae/pdf/rae9_2_1.pdf
You're forgetting the work that's needed to make it production (or at least more production) ready and the maintenance. A fix is often just made "good enough" for oneself in my experience. It's like sharing your dot files.
> What are these elementary requirements

Food, water, housing, clothing, healthcare, education. The list is long, but basic. I'm sure you can come up with the rest.

> and aren't they now satisfied?

Not for the vast majority of people living in the vast majority of countries. Even in your own, I'm sure imperialist country, huge masses of the population are in want.
A kind of task rabbit that will connect expats ( who don't speak the language) with locals. The idea is that the local will help the expat in small tasks like understanding an insurance policy, housing contract, employment receipt.
Something like Secret would do the trick no?
Asset tracking software is probably more along the lines of what you're looking for.
It'd so cool to use these printed boards to fit a laptop shell. So you could choose from a bunch of components, gps, extra cooling, ssd, hdd, video chips, and get them custom fit for a case.
Is this restricted to London residents?
I wouldn't recommend it as being as important as the OP claims, but if you must: http://www21.in.tum.de/~nipkow/TRaAT/
Google's problem is they decide which revocations are worth passing on to the browser. That's at least as broken by design.....

Believe me I am aware of the limits of soft-fail, but the answer cannot be even in the short-run to let a browser vendor tell us which revocations are worth knowing about.
RAID Arrays for online storage services.

So many services offer a free tier, maybe 5gb for free and then you pay after that. Some are much higher. Build sort of a proxy to these services so that you have a distributed and large free online storage system.

This was an idea my team had last year when we were looking closely at a photo organization and management startup. We had won a startup competition, had investors tender offers but in the end we decided not to pursue the idea primarily because the storage business absolutely sucks, and photo systems are inherently storage businesses. This idea of 'BYOS' (Bring your own storage) was one of the hacks we thought up to get around the problem but in the end customer discovery taught us that the idea had too much friction for most people. Tech folks loved it, 35 year old moms didn't.

You can simply start with a few of the larger players, use the service to connect your free DropBox, Google Drive and OneDrive accounts. There may even be a monetization option wherein as you approach saturation of the storage you push the user to sign up with a specific vendor for a discounted deal and that other vendor can be a partner company or your own storage medium.

It has to be simple and transparent though, you still want people to have that simply sync experience regardless of where the file is stored and they should be able to view all the files across all the services at one time, regardless of where they are physically stored.
"you can do it yourself with a simple Google Doc"

Isn't this how ZeroCater got started?

The features for this (act 2) make it very interesting. Imagine one slick sell to post to CL / Ebay.
But drug legalisation is a good thing?
Can you do this with a simple squid reverse proxy into which you simply add in the names of the 22 drivers, then set a cron job so that the reverse proxy only runs with the f1 deny list on race weekends? Sure the results won't affect the radio/tv but it just might work for f1.
I use the inverted method myself, but I found that the paper filter absorbs the oils. A Kaffeologie S filter [1] seems to help in that aspect.

[1] http://www.kaffeologie.com/shop/s-filter-for-aeropress-coffe...
My 12-yr-old had a similar idea of "snap chat audio" which he and a buddy published as an app [0]. Seems a bit different than what you're looking for, which is more like Soundcloud?

[0] http://snapradioapp.com
You might not want to base a conclusion on the statements of a single web page. That particular web page would have much greater impact if the claims it makes had a bit more evidence behind them, starting with some source material.
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.

I think the markup varies quite a bit more widely than that, probably along with device complexity. As someone who has been a member of the development teams for various complex FDA-regulated medical devices (think image-guided surgery), the markups I saw were more in the 10-15x range.
Evidence of what?

There are thousands of declassified soviet documents including death lists personally signed by Stalin himself.

I think the question is not weather they actually happened but if we can judge those events by modern moral code of 21st century. We are presented history as string of events and bullet points without much consideration for tradeoffs, alternatives and broader historical context.

In this particular example of Ukrainian famine, Stalin is potrayed as a maniac who starved millions without mentioning the global socio political climate of the time. Could russia have defeated Hitler had they not industrialized in that short span? Could they have done it without killing millions? Those are interesting questions to me.
What payment methods do you accept? I can only see an email field with a "Order the upgrade with 1€" button.
So from that XML, you seem to control the URLs the TV will grab. Just a few buffer overflows away from root on the TV, and of course you don't really own the hardware you bought until you have root, right?
Just checked Elos out - it seems to be just a normal 'order fish supplies online' kind of thing?
Being "Good" isn't the only way to go
Have any suggestions?
My fiancee is a runner and I recently purchased her a Garmin GPS watch as a gift. I had originally planned to buy a FitBit, but they're just not meant for the same thing as the Garmin watch. The Garmin is useful when you are actually running to figure out your pace, distance, etc. The FitBit is more of a logging device and you don't really look at it while running. The FitBit doesn't have a screen, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't have a GPS.
Soundcloud has a nice culture. I go there both to discover music and to listen to music I've liked. It's different than imgur but I think that partly is just due to the fact that it takes anywhere from 3 minutes to an hour to experience each 'piece' compared to an image which you can digest in a few seconds and flip through a bunch when you need to burn a minute or two.
DMCA implements two treaties from WIPO. These were also implemented by the EU as the Copyright Directive. Thus, circumventing a copyright control measure is not legal in some EU countries.

The point is not if what Popcorn Time is doing is illegal, but that there are plenty of well funded lawyers who will take money to make the argument that it is and will happily spend a long time in court arguing that point.
Well, if they were pointless Google wouldn't even hand you a subset of revoked certificates. The fact that they hand you a subset of revoked certificates from participating CA's makes their solution worse than the disease, frankly.

It might be ok if used in addition to checking revocation lists. However why should a bank get to have their certificate in the crlset but a saas provider not? Or do you really trust Google there?

Frankly Adam doesn't really believe revocation is pointless. If he did, he wouldn't even suggest that sending a valuable subset of certificates to the browser in a batch is any sort of solution at all. All that does, though, is create a two-class secure internet: those entities Google deems worth distributing revocation information for and those not. That isn't a solution to anything.
I don't have HBO, so filtering all Game of Thrones references every Sunday and Monday would be fantastic.

Not sure I'd pay for that service since it's probably easier to just pay for HBO and watch it "live" like everyone else.
I've used the tripadvisour app for this purpose. It can give you a list of attractions nearby.

That said there is definitely something that can be done in that space.
I am not talking about sci-fi either ... only giving a simple example about how it actually works.
Anyone with even basic knowledge in physics will know that you are wrong. Please research a little bit to see why you are wrong. An object can leave the earth's gravitational pull at ANY speed. I just googled the topic, one of the first results: https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200709040459...
Ask HN: Open source cannabis project?
Working on an open source cannabis project to help developers create awesome tools with dispensary & strain data. Just started throwing it together.. what do you think of the "concept"?

weedproject.org
I was actually hoping that I'd see some misbehaviour when I ran my little test, but on the surface it appears that Apple learned from that mistake.

The results might have been different if I had ran the test longer or turned WiFi off and back on or something.
I think he's well known enough that he can count on comments from sycophants like me to clear that up.
No, you cannot diaable or remove them

But if the OP article is correct, you can prevent the TV from phoning home in the first place by spoofing the other way -- say, configuring the DNS that the TV sees to automatically return "no answer" for www.samsung.com. The question is, will the TV still see your local network? If so, you can stream to it from a DLNA server, as someone else upthread pointed out.
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My friend created an app for digitally leaving comments, wasn't created with tourism in mind but it meets at least some of your criteria:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/footmarkz/id715107924?mt=8