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centro··on Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas – for free, forever
This should obviously be illegal if it's not already. Hopefully case law directs the legal system towards the correct conclusion.
centro··on 3M to end 'forever chemicals' output
"Legal pressure over the damage caused by PFAS has increased. Last month, 3M and DuPont de Nemours Inc (DD.N) were among several companies sued by California's attorney general to recover clean-up costs." This sentence very clearly explains the main problem with late-stage capitalism. It externalizes real costs to humanity unless governments enforce dollar costs for the societal harms of corporate actions. Neither of these companies would've done anything about this issue on their own.
centro··on Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch
Maybe Rebble is a new brand that can start production of e-ink based smart watches that don't try do to everything.
centro··on Hacked Raspberry Pi turned into artificial pancreas
The github repo https://github.com/openaps/openaps includes a description of some of the things the project can do. One of them is "predict - Can make predictions about what should happen next."

All diabetics ever have is a rear facing indicator, fortunately it's not really true that you can't predict the future when it comes to blood glucose. The simple equation is `exercise + carbs + current blood glucose level + insulin on board` along with all the attributes that make your body respond to artificial insulin the way it will. The system doesn't really need to predict the future to be a massive improvement on where diabetics already are thanks to slow moving organizations like the FDA. With appropriately cautious buffers around when to shut the insulin pump off a huge majority of diabetics will rarely see a low blood sugar. The technology is here, we just have to summon up the will to move medicine forward.

centro··on The F-35 Can’t Fight at Long Range, Either
The F-35 is receiving so much scrutiny because of the exorbitant cost of the program and the very poor product that program produced for the american taxpayer.

Better fighters have been produced in far less time for far less money. I think it's receiving so much attention on HN because it's an example of poor engineering.

centro··on U.S. Air Force overstepped bounds in SpaceX certification: report
The Air Force grew a backbone and did not bend to political pressures, good on them. Space X needs to compete on Cost AND Quality.
centro··on Groupon – Gnome Update
Instead of offering to pick a different name, why doesn't Groupon just go ahead and pick a different name? What was the point of angering everyone?
centro··on Opera Mini 8 for iOS
As a side note if you haven't checked out Opera's Other Browser "Coast". I would really recommend playing around with it. It feels closer to the Web as OS concept than anything else I've seen.
centro··on Nobody. Understands. Punctuation.
I found this in the source of the page.

<!-- So this guy we just interviewed at my current job wrote this little script to see if a product update for some company had come out. Every 10 seconds the script urllib'ed the page, checked the length of the html - literally len(html) - against the length it was last time it checked. He wrote a blog post about this script. A freaking blog post. He also described himself as "something of a child prodigy" despite, in another post, saying he couldn't calculate the area of a slice of pizza because "area of a triangle with a curved edge is beyond my Google-less math skills." Seriously dude? I haven't taken geomtry in 20 years, and pi*r^2/8 seems pretty freaking obvious.

The script also called a ruby script to send him a tweet which another script was probably monitoring to text his phone so he could screenshot the text and post to facebook via instagram.

I think the "millenials" - who should be referred to as generation byte - get undeserved flak, as all generations do, for being younger and prettier and living in a different world.

But this kid calling himself a prodigy is a clear indication of way too many gold stars handed out for adequacy, so to ensure that no such abominable script ever does anything besides bomb somebody's twitter account, this comment shows up exactly 50% of the time, and I encourage others to do the same. -->

Found my new favorite blogger; s'cept for PG.

centro··on A Letter From Media Temple Founder
Those days when one of the worst companies buys one of the best...
centro··on Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
REST isn't enough.

To do it right use the HATEOAS constraint. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS

And use application/hal+json http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html

The more we follow these simple constraints the more we can start to build tooling to consume any API without having to know much about it ahead of time.

That said, well written article.

centro··on Just Because It’s Easier To Raise VC Money, That Doesn’t Mean You Should
Yes. A million times yes.
centro··on A new Light Table experience
Well don't keep it a secret. Where should we look?
centro··on A new Light Table experience
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centro··on Coinbase Is Now Selling Over $1M USD Of Bitcoin Per Month
Notice how their success is measured in USD.
centro··on Show HN: UrbanDesk - Combination Full Size Bed and Desk
This problem has already been solved. I wish people would do a little more searching before starting a kickstarter project.

http://bredacomponents.com/shop/hiddenbed.html

centro··on Blank Keyboards (Das)
I have two, one for home and one for the office. If you balk at the price thing about how much RSI surgery will cost. Best Keyboard Available!
centro··on Show HN: Tired of entering map directions on iPhone? I've streamlined it
My reaction: That's awesome, I wonder how much it co… (holy *@$!^&) hit download immediately. This is an elegant solution for a problem that should really be better taken care of at the OS level. Hopefully Apple has the decency to carve out a chunk of it's billions and buy this idea from you. Great work!
centro··on Startups - don´t outsource coding [video]
While these kids clearly don't understand what Philip Rosedale is building (or even the space they're entering) you still shouldn't blindly accept what Naval Ravikant is saying. They're obviously naive about how much their app should cost to build and are at a distinct disadvantage because of their naiveté, but outsourcing in the this way could allow you to iterate faster and more effectively than if you only relied on your smaller team alone. Believe me I am no fan of outsourcing in general, but blind generalizations like this are harmful and misinformed. I am a little disappointed that I am starting to see submissions like this on Hacker News.

Please go watch the Foundation Philip Rosedale interview and learn about his concept before you dismiss it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irF-V9RUuXo