skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks a bit sketchy on windows too, to be honest (I'm using Chrome 36). Aside from the feeling that "it's not scrolling fast enough", it's a bit jittery.

Aside from that, the dashboard looks really nice :)
Like you, I see many, many parallels between microcomputers in the 1970s and 3d printers now. I'm old enough to remember the magazines of the day (Kilobaud, Dr. Dobb's, Micro) being full of snake oil as well as genuine treasures.

There was always a guy wanting to sell his stock prediction software -- probably written in 1000 lines of BASIC -- for $500, another one who would mail you printouts of your own biorhythms (remember those?) made from your birth date by a REAL COMPUTER, so guaranteed to be accurate. There were teenagers rediscovering shell sort by themselves, and writing rambling, disconnected but nevertheless admirable articles about it.

As you said, 3D printers are a nerd thing. Nobody in their right mind would spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours to build a machine that can take hours to print a plastic spoon that you could buy for pocket change at a dollar store. It makes no sense. Yet all those people who would have soldered a Cosmac ELF in their garage in 1976 are now using their 3D printer to print gears for their next 3D printer.

The garden-shack hacker spirit of the "those magnificent men in their flying machines" variety (to be distinguished from academic hacking documented in Stephen Levy's _Hackers_) has moved on from CB radio, to computers, and now to what's called the Maker movement. And the big wheel keeps on turning.
Looks like we crashed the site. I'm ironically getting SSL errors trying to log in.
I do, but haven't noticed that issue. The main thing I notice is that when I first navigate to the page when I start to scroll it seems like there's a delay where it doesn't respond, but then it starts working. It scrolls normally after that point though until I navigate away and then come back, then once again there seems like there's a second or two delay before it starts scrolling again.

Maybe this is related to the so called "natural scrolling" feature on Mac? I don't use that because I find it completely unnatural and it drives me nuts, so maybe it only causes that issue if you have that feature enabled?
I think there's an important truth to learn from your comment: economics actually guides better approaches to development and design and helps to avoid premature/unnecessary optimization. There are probably many great solutions that can be invented, but unless you start thinking about economics of them, you're not working on making them truly remarkable.
Startups: Ready,Steady, Accelerate
It's not that using a low-level API isn't "required," it's that it's a lot more work -- a very prohibitive amount of work. Because on PC, you can have Nvidia cards, ATI cards, Intel on-board graphics... and of course it's not like an Nvidia Fermi-based card is the same as a Kepler-based card. What OpenGL or DirectX does is let you write to an abstraction of what the underlying graphics card does, and then every graphics card provides a driver that translates the OpenGL/DirectX calls into code that runs on that particular GPU. If you wanted to write a PC game that bypassed the API and ran like a console game, you'd have to write as many different code execution paths as there are graphics drivers available for PC. It's a logistic nightmare. And that doesn't even get into how you handle cards that haven't been released yet.

But on the console, the target is constant, and every Xbox One or every Playstation 4 is identical to every other of the same console on the market. The overhead of the OpenGL/DirectX driver reduces performance, and unlike in the PC market it's no longer solving a problem -- you can very easily support two to three consoles without resorting to abstraction layers, and new consoles only come out sometime between five and ten years, so you don't have to do a lot of churn to keep up with hardware revisions.

Valve isn't shipping consoles, they're shipping living room PCs -- with all the diversity of hardware that implies. Some Steam Boxes will use Nvidia, others Intel or ATI. Games designed to run on Steam Boxes need to support all of those. They need OpenGL. But current consoles don't, and no amount of OpenGL stumping by Valve will change that, because OpenGL solves a problem the consoles have never had.
For the servers I use a bash script utilizing TAR activated by a chron job. If I were going to go deeper I'd be looking at bacuppc

Beside the maintenance regularity on it, what's wrong with it?
This is my opinion, not fact - I personally don't think, even with over-provisioning, we can build enough wind/solar to make it our base load at a reasonable price unless we can make solar + wind much more efficient at generating (at least 2x more efficient than it is today). But even then there are technical challenges to a wind/solar grid that randomly changes at all times that not likely not cheap or easy to overcome.

I do agree with you - we must act in a sustainable way especially for the world of tomorrow. But, the mass market in the first world will likely not sacrifice stability for sustainability. Maybe they'll budge on price, but likely not on convenience.

I also agree we shouldn't be purely profit motivated, but that's a complicated situation - companies like GE have incentive to suppress more "efficient" technology adoption because it affects their bottom line unless it's their IP. When I say efficient, I mean technologies that could be used to enhance the efficiency of current machines in our infrastructure. So, yes, they will advance tech when they can own it, but not when they cannot acquire it. They'll only play defensively, which isn't always going to be in line with "moral responsibility"

To me, that is a more sane and likely cheaper starting point today, so that we can more safely take risks like this paper proposes tomorrow.
It's probably worth making the distinction that most people are exposed to "Carbon Fiber" as CRP[1], not "raw carbon fibers". And it is the ~aersolized bits raw carbon/dusts (the subject of this article) that are problematic.

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[1] The german title is "Bundeswehr warnt vor Krebs durch Carbonfasern", and From the German wikipedia page "Carbonfasern" ...

The fibers are mainly for the production of carbon fiber reinforced plastic used (CFRP = Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic). Derived from the English, the abbreviation CFRP (is english Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic) used.
"There's certainly a problem with harassment"

And that's where you are wrong - that's exactly the point of the policy, to support that narrative. In any case you don't need a policy to act against indecent behavior.
Inventor Entrepreneurs May Be The Rare Exception
I'm sure their database doesn't just store a series of checkmarks, but rather a series of "User liked", "User unliked", etc.
The Facebook app lets you take photos and videos to post on your feed. How else would they be able to do that without camera access?

Isn't the point of the Android app model of breaking everything up into Activities that you can call another Activity which does the video/photo recording, and then you just deal with the result?

(That's not a rhetorical question; I may be misunderstanding the intent of the design, or how people use the design in reality, or both.)
Smart Nest thermostat easily turned into spying device
Marc Andreessen, in March of this year, explains his perspective on journalism & BuzzFeed in the video below at 41:00 minute mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYYsXzt1VDc

He covers topics like:

- why objective journalism started due to monopolies

- technology in journalism

- content creation

This video should answer most of the questions in this thread as to why he'd make an investment.

Edit: formatting
Pi is a number. A picture is also a number (a very long one, just like any other file), including CP.
I'm not sure why the site isn't working, but the software is definitely for 3D objects, not just panoramas. Maybe your photos didn't have enough in common for it to work?
Thanks -after loosing Friday to reading about the Money Pit, I've now lost today reading about Voynich...

Feel someone should mention the Taman Shud Case [1] as another one of those preplexing mysteries.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case
I wouldn't be too worried. Gingerbread devices are something like <13% of all Android devices (out of something like 800 million). I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that people still running 2.3 are probably not people who will be buying apps anyways.
If something's been around for a long time, it must be somewhat sustainable.
According to the article, this is the actually “good” variant: Normally, the dust is getting caught in the nose and does not reach the lungs. However, these fibres break down during a fire at temperatures of 650°C and become much smaller. This smaller size allows them to enter the lungs and potentially cause havoc there.

Put another way, every “black speck” you found did not reach your lungs (although I doubt that this is particularly healthy, either…) :)
It's also comparable to GPL compliance too. The companies that do open source their code and comply are leaning on the FSF to make sure their competitors are also held to the same standard. If the FSF let them off, then why should anyone spend any effort complying?
Public feedback forms – good or bad? Your experience
Hey guys,

Trying to find some good reads on public feedback forms (like uservoice). What are the good and bad points. I cant find too many writups, if anyone has any links of good reads, let me know. Or if you have experience, maybe you started with them and moved away from them, or didnt have them and thought they were great when introduced. Cheers
Google Polluted Web with classified Info : Surveyor General of India
Essential Math for Game Programmers
I'm the author of the engine behind yournavigation.

If you want revolutionary progress, someone needs to "fund a team".

But evolutionary progress has a much smaller price tag: For example contribute to the routing mailing list and fund some hardware.
This article seems to conflate the limit on number of methods vs the amount of memory required for one of the dexopt steps.
Should be tiling.
Direct State Access is finally in the core spec. That might be the last missing piece of what OpenGL 3.0 was supposed to be.
The city demos remind me of the Blues Brothers' car chase scene in downtown Chicago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMagP52BWG8
Yeah, I noticed that too. I wonder how much of that is really an artifact of the lighting and (relatively) low resolution of the camera. Something shot with a better camera and lighting that reveals more terrain might give the algorithms something better to latch onto so the terrain models more cleanly.
Nice. This is the post I needed to read, as I am on one-week fasting from Facebook (in fact, I am fasting from all kinds of email/group, facebook interactions). It is hard work, but much needed. I tend to believe, as humans in this age and time, we are losing our fundamental ability to delay gratification.
I imagine the devs and management don't care much as they're going to migrate to ART soon, which I imagine does not have Dalvik's circa 2003 design decisions. Google hasn't been investing in Dalvik because its days are numbered.

edit: why is this being downvoted? Do we really think ART will have these limitations? Android has been hot to get off Dalvik for many reasons and they're finally doing it in L. This is very good news and makes Andy Rubin-era Android decisions, which made sense for a 2003 phone, replaced with more modern thinking.

edit2: Apparantly, I'm wrong. Looks like the 16 bit limitation in still there in the current version of ART. Maybe this will change in the final production version.
How do you know if someone deleted their Facebook account?

Don't worry, they'll tell you.
How to structure your Backbone app
FYI: The entire new 'Cosmos' series is now on Netflix
I binge-watched it all yesterday. This is what all educational media should be like.
It's Disneyland.
If you use your new found power over a thermostat to actually change something about the occupants environment your hack will be immediately detected and corrected. So you only get to use your power once.

For embedded systems that control a real life processes, security weaknesses are just another form of unreliability. In the end it doesn't really matter that someone, somewhere caused your pipes to burst. The real issue was that software was allowed to do that in the first place. No one cares that you made a funny display...
Halleleujah! –it's not just me then.

The fact that when I read the word "awesome" I always hear it in my head in a whiny nasal American teenager voice and pronounced like "Arse-Sum" makes it even more irritating.

Hence my oft-used comment on articles here, that I've bailed out of reading after hipster-speak overload kicked in:

"Stopped reading at Arse-Sum!"
By that logic you could make anything illegal, legal.
Tower 2 is Here
The sandbox is a feature afforded by the underlying OS and CPU architecture. I didn't quite understand your point.

With regards to game distribution, I don't see any particular advantage that a browser has over something like Steam. You don't need to download multiple gigabytes either. You could design a game to stream levels/assets/etc on-demand. In any case, even with webGL, a game would need to do that.
Looks good, but some of the physics are off. The objects aren't sliding or tipping upon impact.
One minor statistical problem is I googled around for mesothelioma and it looks like when tens of millions are exposed, roughly about thousands die per year, about 20-40 years after exposure. So if you have a population of maybe 1000 total drivers after thirty or so years you'll have maybe one die per year. Or so.

Another problem with the disease is the proverbial 18 year old apprentice steamfitter could die of lung cancer in his relatively young late 40s which is epidemiologically very interesting and easy to detect. There are some young 20-something F-1 drivers who are barely old enough to drink booze, but if a 40 year old driver finally today inhales "the" fiber that would kill him 40 years later, that is rather moot if he dies at 65 of a totally unrelated heart attack or 70 of an unrelated cancer.

So there are two problems: There are not many possible victims resulting in perhaps less than one cancer as a result, and some of the drivers are "really old" by SV programmer standards and the cancer is really slow to kill, so they'll die long before the cancer takes hold.

So... by analogy, if smoking pot will kill me from lung cancer in 30 years, that is rather motivational when told to 10 year olds, but I don't think it'll discourage many new social security recipients from taking up the pipe. In fact that sounds like a fun idea to me.
Wow, that is pretty awesome.
Building Web Apps Faster Using Angus
Pretty much my thoughts exactly. It's also nice to see Microsoft get a little press about something innovative/cool. :P
OpenGL is long overdue for a spring cleaning. A bit less than 10 years ago there was an initiative to create a new OpenGL API, code name "Longs Peak" which would have solved some of the obvious issues there are.

Right now there's a variety versions of OpenGL out there and they are incompatible in subtle ways. To write "portable" graphics code, you need both compile time and runtime version checks for a variety of features. Some restrictions in mobile versions make sense because of hardware requirements, others are just plain ridiculous.

And the versions of OpenGL that vendors ship is very diverse. For years, Nvidia and AMD have been the only ones to provide (at least almost) the latest version of OpenGL (but only on Windows and Linux, not Mac). Other vendors are lagging behind by several years.

I won't even start listing the obvious problems with the OpenGL API. Everyone who is working with it knows that the API is ridiculous.

I'd like to see an API clean up (ie. rewrite from scratch), a common shader compiler frontend, a common shader binary format and common tooling like benchmarking and profiling tools. Perhaps even a software emulated "gold standard" implementation.

At the moment, writing practical OpenGL applications is miserable. It's quite alright as long as you're working on a small project for your own enjoyment but once you have to start dealing with a variety of driver bugs from different vendors and whatnot, it takes a lot of time to actually ship an application.
Son Buys Mom Her Dream Car and Surprises Her With It
Some huge places were curiously enough unmapped in 2007!

https://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/#14/40.7274/-74.0024

The entirety of New York is missing in 2007, doesn't even have a correct coastline :) Completely populated now with some pretty darned good data.
I love the idea behind Ghost because they are building a proper next-gen blogging platform beyond the wasteland of all the blog/CMSs of the 2000's that saw Wordpress come out on top.

It's like they learned from all the mistakes of the past and are building something future-oriented minus the bloat that came with the iterative development of Wordpress
http://archive.j-mediaarts.jp/en/festival/2012/entertainment...
The quotes on that page feature the best job title I have ever seen: "Aras Pranckevičius, graphics plumber at Unity."
Wow, live inspection of running code without prior instrumentation is a great feature of Erlang which I always missed in Python. I used `rconsole` from rfoo package (https://code.google.com/p/rfoo/) before, but this looks like a cleaner solution because you don't have to include server spawning code in the code you want to inspect. Very nice.
Square bought BookFresh in February. http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/26/square-acquires-bookfresh-t...
Another thing to look at: what were you thinking when you wrote "eat more than you consume" and can that be expressed in a way which makes more sense?
Who cares about TC any more? Animated GIFs and “Matters of the Heart” made it into a rag for bored house wives and bored AOL employees.
HN sucks more time than FB for me :/
Just read this file: https://github.com/lmacken/pyrasite/blob/develop/pyrasite/in... it's rather straightforward.
Wikimedia releases first transparency report
You can still have bugs in parts of code that you use (or would use) given the right inputs. The problem is making your tests so diverse that they test every possible input.
It won't just be drivers though, anyone in the pits will be exposed to brake dust, maybe even the spectators.
YEP ;) ... ofcourse ;)
This is true in the United States (there is a very strong correlation between wealth and education level, but the correlation between parent's education level and child's education level is stronger than the correlation between parent's wealth and child's education level; IIRC, there still some evidence that the wealth plays some role independent of parent's education level in determining child's education level, but its a smaller role.)
My favorite tiling window manager for OS X
What's the story? Ruby Gem Glory
Quick example, I want to build a dynamic portfolio based on a subset of S&P 500, with no sectors exposure, no market exposure (delta and beta flat), no capitalisation exposure, and I want to avoid trading a stock from one week before until one week after their earning announcements.
This is a very simple example of a common portfolio universe but tools like quantopian and cloud9trader (even though the latter doesn't support stocks yet so they're out of scope here) just don't provide the required data. I can't find an index historical composition, security data doesn't include its market cap, its sector, the next earnings announcement date.
I can't even start working on my signals since I'm unable to select my stocks.
So if you like everything on Facebook, the result is political extremism and the most insipid pop culture trash. What frightens me is what if this has nothing to do with Facebook, but is instead about human nature? Does this also describe what happens to a person's life when they stop caring, when they are no longer motivated to put forth the effort to be discerning, when they give up trying to make anything but the easiest and most immediate choices?
Sounds like his gambling problem is the issue.
So the steps would be:

1) Obfuscate the private view by liking everything. This raises the signal-to-noise ratio exponentially and surely makes it hard(er) for "them" to characterize you. The longer you do this for, the more effective this strategy will be I would think.

2) Delete from public view.
No problem - I wasn't sure if this is something you're currently working on or just a demonstration. The script interpreter is a tricky beast that looks easy but has a lot of edge cases. If one client behaves slightly different, a blockchain fork could happen: https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2013-03-11-chain-fork
There are enough examples of men being ruined by female accusations. Most recent I remember from HN is the GitHub founder being fired. Then there was the guy who reverted the gendering comments on some open source project (was it NodeJS?) and received a shit storm. Another one I remember is the Ruby conference where an employee flirted with her boss at a restaurant (letting her colleagues drink from her navel) and then called rape when he ended up slow-dancing with her. Adria Richards is also a good example - why wasn't she expelled from the conference, what good is a policy if it isn't being enforced?

Your question is of course also absurd because you ask for examples of the absence of something. It doesn't create much publicy if somebody decides to skip a conference. I personally would think twice about going to a conference with such policies because I consider them insulting.
A gingerbread phone can by of any age. That's why google is moving towards a new contract for its gapps. Going forward you can only release the current Android or go as far as 2 versions back. So we're on 4.4 now, thus making 4.2 the oldest version for a phone released today (assuming the new contracts are in place).

A few manufacturers went a bit overboard mass producing GB-only phones lately because of how cheap their components are. I'm not sure what this means for the budget phone market now that they need to be 4.2 or higher on release date. From what I've seen, the new budget phone is the low-end Nokia Windows Phone with carriers like Cricket literally giving them away with rebates or charging next to nothing for them like $50, and that's on a no contract plan!

Getting Android out of the GB-era budget ghetto is a good thing. If the Moto E can handle 4.4 then so can everyone else. Supposedly 4.4 uses less ram than previous versions of the 4.x line. The head of google claimed that it can run on 512mb devices. They really, really want to kill GB. I imagine there will always be a android budget phone out there, just not no name junk running a near 4 year old OS.

The real question is how many more GB phones are there in the supply chain that will be sold this year and next? Millions? How long will these things be in play? It really does look like there is a real abandoned version of Android that can't survive fragmentation now. Many apps simply will not work. Shame really because I'm sure no one explained to the budget phone buyers that they were buying an ancient OS that can't be upgraded on that system with so little ram.