skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I maintain a Drupal module, Honeypot (http://drupal.org/project/honeypot), that does this and also adds in a few more protections, like a minimum time limit for submission (exponentially increasing, along with integration with Drupal's flood control mechanism.

I've found it to work extremely well on even some websites specifically targeted by human/automated spammers.
Should only be temporary … I downloaded a new App just before this started happening to everyone. Now I can't get any more.
A wonderful video version - http://vimeo.com/44182484
Honestly this is exactly the type of site design we should be moving away from. Fully scripted, so can't be search engine indexed or read without scripting, doesn't even work on many browsers, takes longer to load because of the way the pages are designed, multiple columns so hard to zoom in if the text is too small on your screen, breaks the back button, and so on. This is nothing but a text based presentation, why not keep the page simple, without any extras, and let me read it like a normal web page?
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Good luck to them, Oracle has a major image problem to overcome before most people I know would be happy using them as a cloud provider.
Don't complain about traffic
It's not simple, it's so absurdly overcomplicated and obsessed with one of many possible renderings that they've made the content inaccessible to most browsers we've ever had, apparently including the default browser on most Android phones (ICS didn't bundle Chrome). Their own search engine can't preview or cache it properly. They should regard widespread authoring like this as an existential threat to the web of openly interoperable hypertext and discourage it however they can.
What is considered late there? If a train arrives within 6 minutes of schedule and departs within 11 it's considered 'on time' in my part of Australia.
I've been out of it for quite a while. It was somewhat unsettling to reflect back upon my experiences. Usually time softens the edges of a harsh experience, and you recall the "good times" far more frequently than the bad. Usually.
Are there any 3D printers that can print, amongst other substrates, conductive layers? It would open up a whole world of 3D chip design to amateurs.
Was because I own one now, so the question of where it has to fall is already answered.

I got in on the kickstarter for the printrbot and got it at $500, they sell in the store at $550 now [1][2]. Though apparently only the woodcut versions.

They do however have the [3] Jr version that's only $399 but I have NO idea how well it works.

[1] https://printrbot.com/shop/printrbot-lc/
[2] https://printrbot.com/shop/printrbot/
[3] https://printrbot.com/shop/printrbot-jr/
Count me in for before/after in nyc
Mattia DMed me about this earlier today asking if it could be included in the Bootstrap core. For the time being, I've decided against it as it's another custom form element and we're not implementing anything like that at this point.

That said, if any iOS style switches were done very well, we can explore adding them down the line. I'm not against them 100%, but custom form elements can get tricky. I'm not going to discourage their development—tons of folks have created their own implementation of this. I look forward to them improving over time.

Looking at this again, I'll try to shoot him some feedback so he can improve them and we can get closer to a solution that's fit for the Bootstrap core.
In my firefox 12.0, Linux OS

The train disappears after some time..
Persona is Mozilla's service that implements the BrowserID authentication scheme and polyfill. But yes, this was posted multiple times recently.
The really funny part is that the NYPOST has done far more of a disservice than the guy on eBay.

Now the entire internet has pictures of the profile of the key, simply buy some blanks, enlarge the photo til it prints the same size as the blank, and then file the blank to match the profile of the key.
This looks pretty cool, but by default it gives Obama a 100.00% chance of winning? Something seems off about that. With the more conservative settings that you list for stddev and sample size, it gives more reasonable results. Why didn't you pick those as default?
A Minimal ClojureScript Project
NYTimes run an article last year on "ego depletion", focusing on "decision making fatigue". Turns out sugar (M&Ms!) does play an important role in restoring the willpower and ability to make decisions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-fro...
When there isn't a typhoon on, they pretty much arrive on time to the second. Anything later than a few minutes results in the platform staff handing out notes to that effect so that employees can prove to their companies that the train was actually late.
I opened the source, and whole text is there, so at least it can be indexed.
Sorry, previous commenter said something along the lines of "Trains always on time to the second" which prompted my response.

I don't know the exact numbers they use for their statistics (I think it used to be 1 minute).

If a train is delayed by 10 minutes you can ask for a ticket to take to work to show your boss that being late was not your fault.

Don't get me wrong, the punctuality is much better than most European countries I have lived in and quite a lot of the time the are perfectly on time, but the west has raised the Japanese public transport system to near mythical status.
I want one food printer.
They make me tense. I look at the TheDailyBeast daily, and hate the carousel daily.
Can't wait! Thanks for admitting me, guys!
That's funny. My workplace has a lot of very very expensive gear, and I never got a key. The roller grill is the type you see in malls and arcades. Any small key will get me in, and once a small spoon did too.
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Effiecient market, as I understand it, means that the market would make the best possible desicions given the information it has available. Working with this definition, the market would need to solve NP-complete problems quickly. As I think is obvious, the market cannot (heck, at the speeds the market runs, I doubt it can even solve most P problems in time).

It seems like the definition of effiecent market you are using would mean the market makes the best decisions given the information and computational resources it has.

I would make an even weaker claim, saying the market makes the best possible decision, given the information, computational resources, and known algorithms to utilize the information and computational resources, and given players whose goal is not achieving an optimal outcome from the market.
Oh, sure, but IMO it's better to be disillusioned by money and have it, than dream of it an not have it. If only because, even if you're disillusioned, you are always fed etc.
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You.

To be more specific if snake oil really did solve the world's problems snake oil salesmen would still be snake oil salesmen. They are trying to get something by convincing others of a thing whether or not it is true.
He said no such thing. Can we talk about the article now?
Just having something (some form value) filled out by JavaScript will catch out a large number of bots. I haven't implemented that yet because the site has no javascript (other than ads and analytics).
Patents bring the following trade-off: inventor monopoly defendence vs. block of progress\future use cases utilizing patent. So patents both are enforcing and slowing innovation.

This could be fixed with with the following solution that will maximize public good. There're no good reason for 20 years patent periods in some industries with short cycle of product development, like software, mobile, cloud etc. Cleraly, after first 3-5 years patents start to be either completely useless or slowing down both patent holder's and external innovations. If company is defended by patent, there's no urgency for innovation. This is unfair advantage.
All the discussion, press, headlines- they are almost all predicated on the improvement of 3d printers to the degree of being able to print a quality replica of anything you can think of.
I agree they are definitely more on time than in other countries (in France the timings are a joke!) but they are still getting late quite often. Several times in a week at least.

It's not so much of a problem because there is a high frequency of trains anyway.
Looks nice, can you set their color and apperance using clases in the same way as normal Bootstrap buttons, e.g .btn .btn-primary, etc?
$1000.

But only when it can do metal.

Or at least much stronger/better surface finish plastic
I think the greatest use case isn't printing stand-alone objects, but rather replacement parts for existing products. Say, your laptop screen hinge breaks. Instead of ordering a new one from the manufacturer, you could print your own replacement at home.
No; oddly enough, the scaled-down image looks better than the actual rMPB does! This makes zero sense to me, but it is what it is.
I'm with you, but I have a cousin who makes a similar comment with a slight difference. He says if he could get one that could print very hard materials (for mechanical parts to be used in engines, I believe) he'd consider one around $500, just for convenience.

He tells me such printers that can do that definitely exist, but they're just too costly to bother with.

He's the kind of guy with a spare building out back full of broken things people give him. They collect for five months, and then in the span of one he realizes he's accumulated enough stuff to fix a few projects, and churns them out. It's funny how he'll have a hole in the wall of the building, a pontoon boat, and a car or two out there... And then a week later all the vehicles have been fixed, returned, and he's now got a new wall, paint job, refrigerator, and fan for his building.
As a hobbyist, your bigger problem is going to be accuracy, not capability. Unless someone comes up with some cool tricks (like the self-aligning gates in photolithography), you are going to need some fancy hardware to achieve chip-like printing resolutions.

Edit: apparently, photolithography has been applied to 3d printing. If the photolithography equipment is not expensive, this may be less of an issue.
The problem with that is that the current tech can't print anything with material that has any sort of reasonable mechanical properties - the stuff is quite fragile.
So, they're saying that the 3D printer is like the PC in that it's one big piracy box?

I'm disappointed, but I guess all the speculation about how the 3D printer will change our lives for the better has been covered by now.
Haskell 1.0 was released in 1990.
"It is not clear how such a high-security network could be penetrated. Such classified computer systems are protected by multiple levels of security and are among the most “hardened” systems against digital attack."

half a page up...

"An Obama administration national security official said: “This was a spear phishing attack against an unclassified network.”"

Seems pretty clear to me. People are usually the weakest leak in security.
In a word: Yes.

http://hackaday.com/2012/05/22/3d-printed-circuit-boards-usi...
Depends on what type of train I guess. Probably no bullet train (shinkansen) has even been more than 59 seconds late (under normal circumstances that is). Naturally any type of bad weather like blizzards, typhoons or earthquakes will cause delays but most likely due to a complete cancellation of service.

Local trains are more prone to delays, for example the Yamanote line in Tokyo being the most notorious due to ahem, being the preferred line used by Tokyoites to say bye-bye to this world.

For local city train lines a delay of more than 5 minutes will result in the driver profusely apologizing on and on, and the line to start issuing "certificates" that people can get to show their employers blaming the lateness on the train line.
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Same with me, except I get pretty flowers instead if mountains! I'm in Thailand do I guess Bing maps only works for the USA. Which makes Apple's recommendation if it as an alternative to Apple maps even more breathtaking. They've forgotten the rest if the world exists.
This is classic case of deceptive "negative option billing" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_option_billing). At BillGuard (http://billguard.com) we see 10's of thousands of people fall into these kind of shady business models and its our mission to end such deception and financial abuse. It's pretty amazing that this is still legal and that VCs are throwing money at it. Even the famed post transaction scam by Web Loyalty Group was backed by a very prominent VC. Money sells.
Comparing the iPhone to what we imagine Apple might do is just lazy and self indulgent.

Or you could instead compare it to the competition and realize Apple is leaving a lot of interesting and useful features on the table. The new hardware is nice but the software is either sitting still or actively regressing.

We don't have to imagine what a more innovative mobile UI would look like because they already exist.
The information was displayed and curated extremely well and the UI was perfect to me. Like reading a book: nothing to mess around with, just turn the pages.

On some browsers was it messy? That's web dev y'all. We always assume everything large companies publish will be perfect and cross-everything optimized, but being big doesn't mean the process for creating creative work is any different.

Fine with the bitching, good to see the issues people have (best kind of education) but can't we all at least be happy with having all these great statistics in one highly credible place?
That's very true. But for smaller parts or cosmetic parts 3D printers can already be used to print replacements, as evidenced in a recent HN post[1].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4589528
Go here for the full disclosure of what is being built.

http://theopenstartup.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-new-search-engi...
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I think similar questions were asked of the early PCs. Specifically 'personal' and 'home use' seemed absurd.

That being said, I have no idea what I'd do with a 3d printer.
It seems unlikely that something as complex as the behaviors associated with a test of intelligence would be determined by one specific gene. That we have found that multiple genes that have a negative effect on intelligence should be proof enough of that.
I use Opera on slow connections, huge fan. Chrome before Chrome in my opinion (but now we have Chrome so.....)

But yeah "best viewed on Internet Explorer" is always a treat isn't it! The word "update" was probably a little weak.
I'm vacationing in Copenhagen next week, drawn largely because it's one of the few places I've been that has anything approaching sane transportation. I'd love to get together with fellow hackers (I'm speaking at CopenhagenJS) on the 11th). I couldn't find your contact info. If you see this comment plz email me at jchris@couchbase.com thanks!
I'm high-school aged. I just turned 16. Don't attend school though.
"Inaccessible to most browsers we've ever had" does not move me. What about most browsers the likely readers are using now? That's what moves me.
Yes, cos it uses TomTom data. But try walking somewhere or using public transport, especially outside of the USA. Then you'll see the problems with Apple Maps.
How can I enumerate thee? Let me count the ways...
When computers first came out and you found out about the internet, you might have wanted one. And you could say, hey, that's awesome, but at most, I can chat and email with other nerds. I can't figure out what else I'd do with it. I don't think anyone could have predicted twitter, facebook, and wikipedia back in 1980's.

Same with mobile phones. I remember when they came out in the 90's, the common use case cited was that when you walked by, starbucks would message you a coupon based on your location based services, or that you can leave location based messages for people to discover, like a cache-box. Turns out, people want to instagram, foursquare, and uber.

I think it is the same with a 3D printer. People often cite that you can replace parts around your home. Or other people might say it's only for makers and tinkerers. I don't think that'll be the main use case. It's so new that we can only make analogies of what we'd do with it. But in actuality, it would probably enable new kinds of behavior.
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As far as I can figure out:

- various "cool looking art pieces" including interesting looking costume jewelry.

- "action figures" without moving parts/transformation. Possibly for series that don't have licenced models, or fan models or just being cheap.

- Useful things without moving parts such as phone/tablet stands, photo frames, food holders, etc.

- individual moving parts- such as centrifuges, cogs, perhaps for some sort of rube goldberg machines

I think a lot of people are hoping both that the technology improves to allow more types of creations and that a successful market for printers will lead to a healthy blueprint market which will think up new innovative uses.
"... Honest question: what can 'average people' use 3d printers for realistically? ..."

At the moment I'm guessing 3DPs are probably at 8088/DOS 1.0, so until we get to a point we have a box with a PC & commoditised "X", where "X" is 'cost | material | resolution | size | interface | network | software | foo'. 5-10 years?
It works while the device is locked. However, to save battery life, locations will be reported every 40-50 meters when app is in background. Thus no fog will be removed if you only move a few meters.
The examples don't work...
B5 was great. So was ST.I'm old enough to remember a few other great sci-fi series - where most of the cast members are dead now, like: Space 1999; UFO; V (the original), Dr. Who (the original - though I do love the current Dr. Who). Oh lets not forget Lexx and Farscape (these actors are still alive though - just thought I'd mention them).

Still B5 was amazing TV. One of those rare shows that I made sure I was in front of the TV for.
Thanks a lot for your kind reply. I'm going to fly there anyway. I will just take some loan from my credit card. Will be very happy to get connected with you though.
I like this one of the trains in Switzerland. http://simcity.vasile.ch/sbb/
Comparing with laptops isn't really a fair game, as they have stopped adding features for years and simply improve on speed. Smartphones are in the middle of a very strong development curve, where we find ourselves with portable computing platform we haven't yet figured out all possibilities of.

Clearly, other companies are prepared to ship with less preparation than Apple, but Apple would not have been where they are with the iPhone if their only reasoning was to "deliver a faster replacement phone at the end of contract". They innovated on iOS, app-marketplace, Siri (still being worked on...) and Airplay, to mention a few. All of them replacing similar too-early-too-crappy competitor innovations.

That the iPhone 5 did not add "one more thing" either means Apple does not think it's necessary (exposing themselves, like Nokia did, to the risk of the "next Apple" showing up with a great re-innovation), or because they couldn't get it done in time or with the technology available (which means they should invest more in R&D - they can afford it).

I'm very happy Apple both innovates and puts the bar high - I'd rather have good NFC from Apple than ok NFC from Google. It's good for users. For the time being, I will give them the benefit of the doubt that the new stuff - NFC, fingerprint, new batteries, etc - is simply not mature enough yet. But if Apple stops trying, they won't be able to sustain their curve. Android is already grabbing most new users - at which point will they start grabbing iPhone users?
You can do it in Google Earth, one of our users drew his track and exported them as GPX files. You can then import those GPX files back to the app.

We're also planning some new importing sources, including geo-tagged photos.
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I just recently wrote a paper on software patents. Although we could suggest a shorter patent term, there are many practicalities in the process of granting patents that makes it an inferior solution to abolish software patents altogether.

Even without patents, we still have copyrights, "dress trade" and other nuances of the legal system, before we really have a worry-free, innovative environment.

God and the compilers bless the brave man to embrace such noble cause.
> ... the software is either sitting still or actively regressing

The software isn't just bundled applications, you know. It's the OS APIs and what 3rd party application developers can do. iOS 5 and 6 are both great leaps for iOS. It still lacks many features, like "intents", but calling iOS 5 or 6 "actively regressing" is more than hyperbole.
How useful is Twitter sentiments analysis for stock market predictions?
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Perhaps I am deaf to the joke, but your email seems pretty trivially discoverable. The way you had phrased it, I went to your about page expecting a devious puzzle, and was disappointed.
So you have a problem with salesmen in general?
Opera is by far one of the best browsers for Android in my opinion. Firefox frustrated me considerably as every time I horizontally scrolled I would open a side bar for managing favourites sites / tabs. This may have been changed in newer versions of firefox for the Android unfortunately I can't run it as Firefox consistently crashes on CM10 (not sure if this is a bug on Firefox's behalf or CM 10)

(edit)I have a feeling quite a few people probably use Opera browser on their handsets...
Never?

Was your first email address @gmail.com, or something?
From the blog post:

"Although ending the patent system is a clean solution to all the problems induced by modern patenting, it clearly is not desirable given the importance of industries like the pharmaceutical industry. Since this industry spends on average hundreds of millions of dollars bringing to market a successful drug, pharmaceutical companies would not invest such large sums without the protection of patents (or without other benefits). Probably the best solution would be to maintain the patent system on drugs and a few other products that are expensive to innovate and cheap to copy, and eliminate patents on everything else. In particular, this means eliminating patents in the software industry, the source of much of the patent litigation and patent trolling."

I generally agree with this, but I think it's a little analytically lazy. I think the Supreme Court was right to recognize that we should not just categorically ban certain kinds of patents. Instead, we should articulate the distinctions between the two industries and reformulate the patent eligibility criterion in terms of this distinction.
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That won't be the case until 3D modeling tools get much easier to use. Current 3D modeling tools are either expensive, or hard to use. In addition, most average people aren't versed in thinking about objects in 3D in their minds. There are software like Matterport, where you can scan things, but until you can scan the broken parts, and "glue" it together in software easily, this won't happen.

It's like saying the greatest use case for computers is that you can program your own accounting program to do your own taxes. No. I went to the computer history museum, and they had a model of "easy to use" computer for moms in the kitchen. What was on the controls? Loading and unloading registers. They were completely off the mark on that one.

Chances are, it'll enable makers to offer services that have a real world component that other people can order easily, and enable new kinds of behavior.