skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. And this retroactive immunity for illegal (and in some cases criminal) activities, which Candidate Obama supported despite telling me ~six months earlier he would not:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9986716-38.html

"...voting to derail lawsuits against telecommunications companies that unlawfully opened their networks to the National Security Agency. Senators voted 69 to 28 for the bill, which would rewrite federal wiretap laws by granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies..."
Blogging is a better solution... to what though?

Is it possible Twitter is a solution to a problem you're not facing, or even aware of?
Swatch had a time system like that for a while:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

1000 beats in a day, 0 is midnight at UTC+1 but it doesn't adjust for time zones. It never took off and I think they scrapped it but it would be useful for coordinating between time zones. I'm sure people would fairly quickly adjust to it for their longitude but it'd be very confusing when you were travelling.
I second the economics vote. It can really help you with your entrepreneurial desires. If you are really wanting to go out there, try out some law classes and see what you think. Not necessarily for a minor but they help you think about problems and issues differently.
The PC is still alive, and Windows 8 hasn’t killed anything
> Peak their interests

Pique, "to excite or arouse" :)
"... of my class of 1400 graduates from Yale, forty percent took jobs in finance."

This reminds me of an interview with the President of Iceland, where they let their megabanks fail.

Speaking of the downside of having a huge banking sector, he said "... since then you have seen a great growth period in the Icelandic IT sector, the high-tech sector, the manufacturing sector, because they could suddenly get the engineers, the mathematicians, the computer scientists."

Really interesting interview. http://www.businessinsider.com/olafur-ragnur-grimsson-icelan...
Did you even look at my profile? I have no interest in this case, just calling it as I see it.

I am an HN regular with enough credibility, I think, to make those types of statements. Not sure where you got your facts from...but maybe you should actually look at the profile of the person you are responding to, before attempting to disparage my credibility.
Microsoft, BSA, others file briefs in support of Oracle's appeal against Google
Is there some reason to think a more "resilient" protocol is even possible?

I'm not a bitcoin researcher but the first thing I'd have to note is that so far it's holding up not bad at all. At non-trivial scale and under permanent attack. Not a small feat for the first impl of a global, cross-platform P2P crypto money system, don't you think? Just consider the history of infinitely simpler systems (e.g. twitter).

Furthermore there are various efforts underway (e.g. SolidCoin) to address the known weaknesses, even before we know whether any of them turns out to be a bigger problem than the issues that we take for granted in our current banking system (e.g. "too big to fail" or the perpetual banking crisis that has been going on for the past 10 years).

That aside, do you really think the government would not try to destroy Bitcoin even if it meant a new system replaced it?

Personally yes, I doubt any half-sane government will equate bitcoin with software piracy.

Bitcoin addresses one of the core mechanics of society (money exchange). That's not even in the same ballpark as people downloading vampire movies without paying for them.

just to disrupt the users of the system and pressure people to avoid them.

This is where I think the average government would be smarter than you.

You can't kill demand for something so useful unless you utterly convince a majority that it can not possibly work - here your piracy-analogy holds water again.

They may indeed pull a Napster (we've seen how that played out) but I think it's much more likely they would try a very long-term, elaborate stealth attack to erode trust in p2p money systems as a whole.

But just as with piracy this seems like a losing proposition. Unless a truly insurmountable flaw is discovered that renders any system with the features of bitcoin infeasible.
> > If your job depends on receiving income then you can appreciate why it also depends on other people spending money.

> Well the point is prices adjust. If people aren't spending money, then prices just fall until the people that are spending money can afford it.

But remember that the reason the prices are dropping is because no one is spending money. This is a positive feedback loop: the only reason that sellers are dropping prices is because they are under extreme pressure to make some income somehow. So they drop prices and receive a bit of income. So these businesses are then unable to pay their suppliers, who are forced to either drop their prices or suffer default, and so on straight up the chain.

So it's not that deflation itself is hazardous per se, but that it tends to amplify its own effect. If you reach the "flashover" point the whole economy goes to crap, much as what happened when the mortgage failure rate finally got high enough with the sub-prime mortgage derivatives.

> Exporting more things isn't necessarily a good thing. Ideally we could import everything we need and not have to actually work to produce things to export.

That would perhaps be ideal, but it can't possibly occur that every country only imports and doesn't export. Someone has to lose in that transaction. Is that ethos really what we want to base a global financial system on?
This is really not true.

A histogram is considered (by statisticians) to be a non-parametric density estimator. Kernel density estimation is also considered a non-parametric density estimator.

The kernel function you use does not depend on the distribution of your data. If you have normal data, you can use an equation to provide the 'optimal' bandwidth in that case, but this is about bandwidth selection and not the kernel itself.

You can also, say, fit a spline to a univariate dataset. We can also call this non-parametric in the sense that the number of knot parameters, etc., can grow with the data size. This doesn't use any probabalistic machinery until you actually 'fit' the spline.

My takeaway from the original post is that you should probably be aware of how things work if you use them, or the defaults might bite you. I like histograms but I don't like bin-size/position optimization algorithms and just use lots of bins, I like kernel density estimates with the data points lightly shown, and in either case you're gonna fool yourself a couple times.
I haven't said that. I'm sure there is a fallacy that matches what you said.
Oh man. As someone just getting started with Clojure and ClojureScript. I am super excited to work with LightTable (looks like I need to update my IOS though :p) And super excited about it being open sourced. Not sure if this is mentioned anywhere, but what is light table written in?
Given that you are currently getting lots of traffic, the best time to test is right now. A .5% improvement could translate into quite a good amount of money.
How do 3/4 of my points presume an industrial setting? (1) Specifically says otherwise, and why would quickly getting something in hand have anything to do with your setting?
I suppose (2) varies from person to person, but I've definitely done a heck of a lot of hardware browsing where I ended up with some crappy part from china that was the only thing they had that fit what I wanted. And then it broke, and then I went back and returned it, etc., etc., etc. There is something to be said about designing your hardware to fit your job, not the other way around.

(3) Also doesn't presume anything. Yes, most people do not have CNC machines (although I know several who do), but you might surprised how many people have wood/metal shops in their garages or basements. One of the other comments on this very story has someone talking about how having a buddy with a metal shop and a dump is just as good a FDM machine.

Again, (4) has absolutely nothing to do with setting. How does being able to cheaply whip off multiple variations of a model having anything to do with industry? Aside from the fact that such methods are often used in industry, because it's a smarter way to do things. Most home-hacking happens one part at a time for exactly the reason I mention.
Does anyone here know the tool or technique to convert the printer format on his website to human readable format on screen?

Edit:

So far I've discovered I can go to http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/TRUMPETS for example to download a file. Trying to figure out how to read the format at the moment.

Edit #2:

Looks like it is PCL format. I'm trying to find a decent Mac OS X program for converting PCL to image.

Edit #3:

Managed to generate this: http://i.imgur.com/AL9mSLr.jpg The quality is horrible though. I see now that some other people have already linked rendered versions in high quality, though.

It was fun trying to figure it out though. :)
This is plain bullying. Most promoted apps did not pay AppGratis advertising to be in the app. Some did, and they were described as "Sponsored". How do you describe Google Business model then?
One alternative is to limit CISPA to law enforcement receiving the information rather than the National Security Agency and other arms of the defense-intelligence apparatus. But that amendment failed by a 4-14 vote this week.

May I assume that you'll publicly oppose CISPA if it continues to advance without that amendment? :)

Also, regarding your claims that person-specific data can't be handed over, a separate amendment requiring that failed by a 4-16 vote. So it will be able to be shared with the NSA.

BTW, I'm not arguing that there are not real problems arising from attacks that large companies, and even smaller companies, face. The question is what to do about it, and whether CISPA remains the best vehicle.
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> You are just pushing the complexity somewhere else. It might make computer programming a bit easier, but everything else would be harder.

It would make communicating times easier and less prone to confusion.

> And people still sleep at night, so you would still need to know when they are awake, when they work.

Right, you would need to know when the particular people you are dealing with would be available, but when communicating times to coordinate an event, the numbers used would have the same meaning. I don't see where any complexity is being added to compensate for that that is being lost.
>Unlike Bitcoin, stock in a company has meaning beyond the stock market

Or at least that's what we like to think.
A doomed financial farce can still be fascinating, and can still be a huge milestone in mankind's history. In fact, I would say a huge percentage of our history is made up of doomed farces. The more spectacular the failure, the bigger the impact. Bitcoin, doomed or not, is starting to become pretty spectacular.
In URLs, and especially user-visible URLs, file suffixes at all should be considered an only occasionally necessary evil. They’re ugly, redundant, brittle, and generally a headache.

TBL wrote about this in 1998: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html#remove
New York cops testing Big Brother crime-data Android app
Well, if you don't feel that at least some people and organizations find twitter useful, I'm not sure what I can say to that.
Pros: You get to travel. Overseas human resources tend to be less expensive if you are outsourcing to a developing country.

Cons: You still have to pay taxes if you're a US citizen. If you really want to avoid tax, you might have to give up your US citizenship.
Wallet/address to owner is potentially traceable when you sell coins for cash, as that money has to go to a real account somewhere. I think that's the point the author is making when he says none of the stolen coins have been spent yet. I'm wondering though, if there's anyone watching these stolen coins to see when they change hands. It seems like it would be fairly simple to flag certain addresses as "in possession of stolen goods" and ban them from trades on major hubs.
Many of us seem to be in our 20s. :)
Is there anything I need to get this to work? It doesn't work for me in OS X on Chrome 23
“in three blocks” or “at the next light” rather than “in 0.3 miles”?
Why I Haven’t Hired a Single Developer in Canada
In a business sense: Marketing and product releases.

And in a general sense: posting about how your life is so awful or how this song was so good or how x programming language is better than y programming language is not as good as z programming language, but n programming language has features that neither x, y, or z has and it's the END OF THE WORLD.
As much as I hate recommending the USPS for anything, they actually provide an official search tool for this on their site:
https://www.usps.com/locator/ (collection boxes > Blue Boxes)
It's not Google's problem, or Facebook's or Microsoft's or anyone else's. The problem is architectural. With NAT and firewalls we have created a net that does not permit easy lateral communication. As a result, all communication must go through something in the "cloud" -- some third party. This is inherently favorable to monopolies for several reasons.

IPv6 and killing the in-network firewall would change things immensely.
Except that Aaron Swartz was not charged with unauthorized access "solely" because of his violation of a TOU or EULA.

Mind you, I'm not saying the previous poster's claim is the best argument against CISPA, but that your claim of "directly contradicted" is false.
Almost entirely ClojureScript: http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/01/24/the-ide-as-data/
That's correct. That's why it is pseudonymous. You just have to make sure that any addresses you use can't be traced back to you.
On FreeBSD 9x it was Ctrl + Shift + i, so I inferred that what I initially thought was a lower case "L" was actually an upper case "I." (the Shift)
The post title should use the word 'complement' instead of 'compliment'. If answered literally, it would be something like an English major/minor complimenting a CS degree for being practical.
Ask HN:What should I do with a huge amount of weird traffic?
I bought a domain a long time ago, and a couple of years ago I pointed it at another site as a joke. I figured that it had gone viral when I started getting lots of emails from people who had tracked me down through the Whois.

I didn't actually know how much traffic I was getting until yesterday when I finally did the redirect through bitly instead of through my registrar. I'm getting around 5k per day, with about 75% being direct links. I doubt any of them ever come back so it's all unique. None of them stay for any length of time either.

So I ask you... What would you do with a domain that is getting a huge amount of this weird type of traffic?
This is advice Tim Ferriss actually gives in his first book. I generally agree with your sentiment.
> Guys, we have the canonical way all Rust code should look from the Rust compiler itself.

The Rust compiler is in many different 'dialects' of Rust, since it's been around for so long. Parts of it haven't been touched in a while.

We're working on a general style guide here: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-style-guide
Looks much like printer escape sequences.
as lcampbell said, the point of mining is actually to keep and confirm legitimate transactions. Mining needs to be a 'difficult' (but otherwise useless) problem like cryptographic hashing in order to make it difficult to fake transactions. Computations which might be useful in some other way are too easy - only cryptographic hashing is 'difficult' enough to stop the fakes.

It's kind of like captchas - a seemingly pointless pain in the ass on purpose to weed out the spam.
I made a gem that turns markdown files into impress.js presentations: https://github.com/egonschiele/mdpress
http://css-ig.net/articles/test-webp-021
Google has never "backed" CIPSA. Facebook and Microsoft previously backed CISPA but then distanced themselves. See: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57579012-38/privacy-protec...

Trade associations tend to remain silent when a good portion of their members oppose legislation. But Google/Facebook/Microsoft aren't opposing CISPA, last I checked. It's more like they're just remaining neutral.
That color burns my eyes.
Not perfect, but it exists:

$ cat > hello.rs
fn main() { core::io::println("Hello");

}

$ rustc hello.rs --pretty normal
fn main() {
core::io::println("Hello");

}
These sort of things are scary to me, I am planning on starting a business, using money from my own pocket and the fact that random companies are going to sue me just cuz they they can makes me not want to start one which just lowers then innovation that takes place.
I majored in CS and did Business Administration as a minor. I would say all courses were very helpful especially if you consider having your own startup. But if that isn't the case then may be applied math or stats would be a better fit. My honest advice is to go with something you like and enjoy other than CS(your major) but you didn't have the time for it.
GhostPCL: http://www.ghostscript.com/download/gpcldnld.html
It does get talked about, but mostly in the depths of 3D printing forums, rather than on blogs. ABS fumes seem to affect different people differently. Some people are rather unaffected, and others get slight headaches. PLA fumes smell more pleasant (some say like popcorn) by comparison, but that doesn't mean it's good for you.

http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,40296,40355,quote=1

On the forums, there are links to toxicology datasheets if you like to look into it.

I always print in a well-ventilated space. Do you think it'd help if I added a section on this?
> Public Print Queue SPOOL/DESOLEE	2013-01-06T08:21Z SPOOL/TRUMPETS	2013-04-12T19:43Z SPOOL/SOLICIT	2013-04-12T20:10Z

Amen, brother.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5540426

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5540482
Mathapedia
That is news to me.
This is what China does. All time there is specified as UTC +08:00.

I studied abroad in Beijing--the time felt "normal" there as the sun would rise around 7 AM and set around 5 PM in the winter. When visiting Lhasa, those times were shifted to 8:30 AM and 7 PM. It felt somewhat disorienting.
"When you’d rather have someone shit on your face than go to work, it’s probably time to leave." What's unfortunate is that money is capable of convincing people to stay around in situations where they may even come close to such a state of mind.

While I'd like to say that I'd leave well before, everybody has a price, and it sounds like Wall Street is willing to pay it.
investments must be weak.

" 'The investments are weak.' The fucking investments are weak? You're weak. I've been in this business fifteen years... "
Dropbox for Business Arrives, Bringing Single Sign-On
It's HP-PCL. I tried using http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ps/pcl2ps, but all I get is a rectangle with the top edge missing.
13 Spills. 30 Days. Nearly 1.2 Million Toxic Gallons
I was too annoyed to reply to this yesterday, but it's one of the most ignorant, foolish, self-serving arguments I've ever seen on HN. Virtually every sentence in this screed is fallacious, and I really, really think you need to spend some time studying the history of contemporary music.
In short, build bike lanes like the dutch. [1] Big, physically separated, omnipresent bike lines. Ensure that bikes are first class citizens on intersections. Compare the 2-stage turn with the dutch design [2]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlApbxLz6pA
Here is the previous HN post detailing the previous printouts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5015087
yayyyy!let's meet in Warsaw and make the land better!
Exciting! Thanks.
No, I was responding to the "unauthorized access" point in the parent comment. Since you can't be charged with a crime under CISPA at all, I'm not sure how your comment isn't a non sequitur.
Interesting but it looks pretty useless until they can figure out a solution to spam trades (people accepting their own fake trades and impacting the value of the currency), something that doesn't exist yet for now unfortunately, as they admit https://github.com/macourtney/Dark-Exchange/wiki/FAQ
If anybody else is wondering how this is possible:

https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/co...
Being very much interested in something is a pretty damn good reason to study it.
I have my personal domain email forwarded to my gmail account, from which I can also reply via that personal account. Gmail rocks, I just prefer to use my own domain address.
I wonder how long it'll take before desktop DMLS machines become viable?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMLS
Works also in Firefox with Firebug (but not yet in native Firefox console). See [1] for a blog entry from Jan Odvarko.

[1] http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug/firebug-tip-style...
Yes, and look at how dire the asian music scene is, in general.
>(although I don't know where to find the actual text of the amendments).

This¹ site lists the amendments and has a PDF for each. I'm not sure if it's all of them or contains the ones you mention. The PDFs are dated and some are Feb-April 2013. This PDF² seems to be the current bill with the amendments accounted for in the text ("H.R. 624 as Amended").

edit: I just noticed that ² has a date of Feb. 2013 while some of the amendments have April 2013 dates, so I don't think it's the most current version.

¹ http://intelligence.house.gov/hr-624-bill-and-amendments

² http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/f...
Do you really need a college degree to get a job?
>>>>> How'd I find it? A bartender recommended it to me once, I tried it, liked it, and that was it.

This is the angle social media attempts to replicate. Leveraging respect levels between you and your social "circle". Sometimes it works with great effectiveness, but a majority of the time, I believe this approach fails.
Oracle also makes great Software and Hardware products work together perfectly. There is a reason why they have been #1 in their field.
Couple of points:

Paid links are black hat SEO. If you sell links you should be putting rel="nofollow" on them.

Also Google does do a pretty rigorous job of combatting paid ad spam. They have many ad text and landing page policies designed to weed out sneaky affiliate deals and the like. They also reward advertisers that provide more popular user experiences through their quality score mechanism which is a direct (and very significant) factor in cost per click.

It could be AppGratis was just as rigorous in their evaluation of offers - I also don't think its a very valid analogy nor do I disagree with you generally save for those 2 points.
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