skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>while I will be free to change my surroundings as often as I feel like.

Except you can't afford to live in high-cost cities if your savings is only 1 mil and you want to retire on that in your thirties.
Thanks :-)

I'm going to finish grad school soon and the job I'm going to will be pretty rich with data analysis, hopefully will lead to more blog posts.
That's to be expected from a person that moved to panama solely to maximize his salary/col ratio.
Winamp.com and associated web services

Associated web services sounds a lot like Shoutcast.

AOL wants to double down on stupid journalism. Winamp is a distraction.
Well considering people charge a lot for logo design, and apparently it does take expertise and effort (remember the Yahoo logo debacle?), so shouldn't it be a crime that some logo designer charges a huge sum of money and just copy pastes some other designer's hard work as his own? How would you feel if someone is making money off of your hard work?

Btw I am not entirely sure if the original artist is pressing charges against the copies, but by law, you should have an option to.

I support you in the fight against patent trolls, but this is just out right theft :/
I agree about Times New Roman. Yuck. I use Georgia for a programming font, and it's much more readable.

Yes, it is a proportional font too. But I can assure you that I am in my right mind and am not trolling you.
Here are a couple more demos using the engine that we wrote. Some use a slightly older version of the engine, but they illustrate the things we imagined would be possible. I'm giving links to the actual demos.

Pool of water:
http://vl.kamibu.com/cool/water/

Traveling in stone tunnel screen saver:
http://vl.kamibu.com/cool/tunnel/

Bone animation (maybe the most impressive of the three):
http://petros.kamibu.com/files/bone-animation/
Are there any compelling reasons to put money into a Google Wallet account to spend? If the only way to put money in is to have a bank account to transfer from, presumably you'd already have a debit card from that bank.
Pretty brilliant. Paid to practice logo design with basically zero responsibility.
Does anyone know how long use of this instrument persisted? Wikipedia says that a similar instrument was built in 1575.

I expected to hear period pieces, but instead the performer played Baroque and Classical era music.
Can anyone tell me why the designer thought all those extra hooks and loops were a good idea? (Check out the i, g, and k.)

To my eyes, they're just visual noise. Do they confer any benefit in long-term use, or are they just whimsy?
yea man there is certainly money to be made in it i'm not denying that (though i DO believe the value may crash soon... the recent upswing is a simple bidding war because of new markets & publicity).

personally i won't buy any because i think it's immoral but if you don't have qualms like that sure go for it just PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't spend significant time/energy on it & pretend to everyone that you are some sort of economist because you read the lit on "bitcoinhypesite.com". learn guitar instead, and don't play acoustic at parties. play electric, in your basement & unleash it when you're a demon at it
Video of Shia Labeouf saying that an FBI consultant played a recording of one of his phone calls from 2 years prior to working on a film in 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ux1hpLvqMw

And here we are 7 years after one of his voice calls was recorded.
I don't see how a debit card makes them creepy. In fact, it's really a natural progression for Google Wallet to have meatspace access.

Also, this product will be killed in two years.
Its pretty trivial to climb/jump over a stopped turnstile.

Its a lot harder to do that from a locked room.
The idea is that if someone sends you money via Gmail, you can withdraw it at an ATM rather than waiting for an ACH transfer to your bank account. In fact, I don't think you ever even need a bank account, if you choose to use the card to get at your money.
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I love how fast your website loads! It feels much more responsive than other, compareably minimalistic sites. How did you do it?
You're right.

Two alternatives possible, whether to add a '--password' global option allowing you to provide your password at runtime, or to implement https://github.com/tmc/keyring.

What do you think?
Any other alternatives to suggest?
Theoretically it's acting as a layer of security on top of your real debit card. If someone clones your debit card your bank account is directly accessible. If someone clones your Google Wallet debit card, it's a bad situation but not terrible. Of course Google probably won't have the customer service manpower available to deal with such a situation (or you'll end up in email hell) so you're likely still fucked. It's better to just get a credit card.
Boeing doesn't advertise because it doesn't sell to consumers. It sells to airlines.

I don't "worship" Musk. But I am cognizant of the fact that he is one of a kind. Do you know of anyone else who simultaneously runs two equally ambitious tech companies, and, against all odds, does it successfully?
Nothing special, as far as I know. Our nginx config is public [1]. We serve static files directly through nginx and proxy to a gunicorn server for dynamic content. We're a single virtual private server on AWS (soon to be a single dedicated server on Voxility).

[1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/blob/master/config/...
That's how the NFC app works, but not how the plastic card works. It can only spend money already sitting in your Wallet balance, funded in advance. You can't overspend that balance and automatically charge a linked card.

http://www.google.com/wallet/faq.html#tab=faq-card
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The go language regular expressions engine uses the Thompson NFA algorithm. It provides amazing performances.

I was thinking to implement some basic search features to trousseau using it.

Would it fit with your needs?
Oh, sure. Except when they change review scores as it suits them and "editors" defend game publisher lies and berate users on twitter.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/13/polygons-simcity-review-is...

https://twitter.com/aegies/status/310282795564015616

https://twitter.com/aegies/status/313370778013954048
>To answer your ramblings: you are wrong, currencies have to be compared to other currencies to estimate their worth. The Euro is compared to the US dollar. The Japanese Yen is compared to the British Pound. Etc. So it is normal to compare Bitcoin to other currencies.

No it's not. As a user of a currency, you should have to compare it to other currencies to know how much it's worth. You know how much it's worth by what goods and services it buys you. Don't believe me? Next time ask someone on the street how many Japanese Yen a USD is worth. Unless they frequent Japan or trade currencies, they will have no clue.

The fact that a value of bitcoin has to be derived from an exchange rate means it's not a good currency yet, it's just a speculative financial investment.
trousseau wasn't built with performance in mind: not at all. The store file is encrypted/decrypted at each operations; at least until I implement some kind of pipeline.
It is not racist to call someone racist.
Machine learning on that corpus would be extremely difficult task. This is what engineers don't really get about patent applications. We see the underlying technology or specifications and say, same thing-identical.

IP Lawyers, patent clerks look at the claims and see difference. Claims have two functions. Public notice and kind of a "patent scope" of applicability. It's all very obtuse and would not be very easy I think to attach semantics via ML alone.

There have been some crowdsource attempts: http://peertopatent.org https://www.articleonepartners.com
But its not your next door neighbour

Well, if you live in the Washington DC area, the chance substantially increases. ;-)

Though, if you have ever been in a position to gain a glimpse into strangers' behavior, be it what bars/pubs they frequent, how they make income on the side, what stocks they trade, or any number of not widely publicized tricks-of-a-trade, I can guarantee you that you would use that knowledge for your own gain and/or entertainment. Your use of that information is untraceable, and in the very worst case can be plausibly denied.
I've asked bintray to add support for subkeys some weeks ago. No news since then, but they told me they were working on it. Problem right now is that you have to put your master gpg key on bintray to be able to sign: I wouldn't.

As soon as the subkeys are available on bintray, packages from the repo will be signed though :)
the leap motion is a good demo, but not practical to use.
I spent a boring weekend looking for interesting stuff on old FTP servers. There are a few sweet Chinese ones that were not touched since 2001.
It's sad the ZZT community is almost completely dead. Not sure if the sad part is "dead" or "almost".

An end of an era.
AHAHAHHAHA I just read the article you linked to!!!!

And it's not even math or programming theory or really... anything!! It's just pseudo-intellectual libertarian propaganda written by some 14 yr old girl.

lololololololololololololololol talking smack to you greedy bitcoiners is gonna get me kicked off this site for sure. it's too irresistible and i don't feel guilty for it in the least
Totally agree. For playing games, it's a pretty cool experience. But for flipping channels, it's actually quite tiresome.
Related project:
http://www.newsdiffs.org
First, you're always going to need to evaluate supervised models on some data you didn't train on. No method will ever relieve the need for that.

Second, I never use cross-fold if I can help it. It's a last resort if the data's really small. Otherwise, use two held-out sets, one for development, and another for testing. Cross-fold actually really sucks!

The small problem is that cross-validation has you repeating everything N times, when your experiment iteration cycle is going to be a big bottleneck. Second, it can introduce a lot of subtle bugs.

Let's say you need to read over your data to build some sort of dictionary of possible labels for the instances, given one of the attributes. This can save you a lot of time. But if you're cross-validating, you can forget to do these pre-processes cross-validated too, and so perform a subtle type of cheating. Coding that stuff correctly often has you writing code into the run-time about the cross-fold validation. Nasty.

With held-out data, you can ensure your run-time never has access to the labels. It writes out the predictions, and a separate evaluation script is run. This way, you know your system is "clean".

Finally, when you're done developing, you can do a last run on a test set.

Bonus example of cross-fold problems: Sometimes your method assumes independence between examples, even of this isn't strictly true. For instance, if you're doing part-of-speech tagging, you might assume that sentences in your documents are independent of each other (i.e. you don't have any cross-sentence features). But they're not _actually_ independent! If you cross-fold, and get to evaluate on sentences from the same documents you've trained on, you might do much better than in a realistic evaluation, where you have to evaluate on fresh documents.
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Alignment is the problem here, not the proportional font.

I gave up alignment in my code many years ago, back when I was still using monospaced fonts. I gave it up because I was really tired of fiddling with spaces when I changed a name in code like this:

myType someFunctionName(someType someVariable,
someOtherType someOtherVariable,
int foo) {
...
}

So I started doing this instead:

myType someFunctionName(
someType someVariable,
someOtherType someOtherVariable,
int foo
) {
...
}

I found that I just didn't care that "someVariable" and "someOtherVariable" weren't lined up one above the other. In fact, I actually liked the fact that the variable names and types were closer together, so my eyes didn't have to keep scanning across a sea of whitespace to match things up. And I really liked not having to add and remove spaces every time I changed a name.

As a bonus, the overall width of my code was often much less, as in this example.

Later I discovered that using this style, my code looked the same in a proportional font as it did in a monospaced font. So I switched to a proportional font and never looked back. But the code is still just as readable in a monospaced font.
I love these kinds of posts. Repeated bad arguments against Bitcoin are a stronger signal that good arguments for bitcoin
The wording of the article suggests it has never been played to an audience until this year. I suspect it was never built until now.
How do I word it?

As of November 11th, 2013, neither MediaCrush nor its admins have ever received any sort of warrant, or any other kind of notice or request, from the government of any country.

Additionally, we do not store anything about a user who visits our site. Here's an example from the HTTP log:

[21/Nov/2013:06:59:36 +0000] "GET /static/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 16958 "-" 0.000

When you upload a file, your IP address is run though bcrypt (12 rounds) and saved with the file information in redis. Reversing bcrypt is infeasible with modern technology (and probably for many years to come). We store nothing else about you.
All property is a legal fiction, is it not?
Whoops, traffic's overloading the site...
I've been using Georgia for years and really like it. Much better than Times New Roman, both for coding and for general reading.

Georgia is a pretty hardcore proportional font, though. Even the numbers are proportional, where most proportional fonts have monspaced numbers.
Looks like they also experiment with the QUIC protocol on their sites (on YouTube too) because there is a HTTP header called:
Alternate-Protocol	443:quic
in their requests.
QUIC isn't enabled by default in Chrome but you can enable it in chrome://flags and then you can also check chrome://net-internals/#events to see if there are any "QUIC SESSION" when you load a page.
Benchmark shows they still have to work on it: http://www.connectify.me/taking-google-quic-for-a-test-drive...
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ugh thank goddddddd. finally someone who gets me.

another way i've thought about this -- say i tell you a bicycle is worth $1,000. you would laugh and say "hell no" but then if the next day you saw someone buying a bicycle for $1,200 then later that week 3,000 you might think "god damn i gotta get me on of them bicycles. the darn things multiply their value all the time". then you look out your window & realize..... nobody is riding bicycles, it's just the big price stickers at the stores are changing so much that people BELIEVE there is a demand when they can see with their own eyes that bicycles have not taken the commuter world by storm. they are just sitting in people's garages and occasionally some are bought/sold because now they're considered value stores. but when are they ever gonna get used as bicycles...

and since bitcoiners say "but you can use it as moneyyyy" let's add in that "some stores start accepting bicycles as payment for things like food, assuming that they in turn can later sell those bicycles since obviously they will never depreciate in value, right?"

o and let's not forget like half the bicycle supply is sitting in warehouses owned by the bicycle manufacturers, who buy and sell them to themselves to create the illusion of greater transaction volume :)
That's very helpful. Thank you so much.
Tangential, but it's fun to see which sites are actually delivering you content over SPDY.

FF SPDY indicator: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/spdy-indicato...

Chrome SPDY indicator: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spdy-indicator/mpb...

In my little sphere of internet usage: Big sites like Google, Facebook, and Twitter appear to almost always use SPDY. HN uses SPDY. And very few other sites. (I think wikipedia is a surprising non-user, but I'm not a web guy, so what do I know.)
If TSA wants to "secure" people I don't think they need evil magic robot doors to do that. But because this is HN, of course, I can't win that argument.
Yes it is. Ask any forex trader how they evaluate the worth of a currency. Exchange rates. This idea that Bitcoin's exchange rate should not be looked at to evaluate its worth is ludicrous.

(What you can buy with a currency is merely an indirect derivative of exchange rates, in a modern economy running on global trade.)
Oh the site is run on NSFN. Nice! I am using it as well for forwarding some emails.
This isn't even a java applet. It's java server side code. There is absolutely no reason for the former poster to boycott this aside from ignorant pig-headedness (and this is coming from someone who isn't exactly a fan of java himself)
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Having used Winamp for over a decade, I switched to MusicBee and never looked back. The level of customization, fluidity and smoothness were all I was looking in a media player. While it's not as lightweight as foobar it feels a lot more polished.

Sad to see the old folk go though.
Is there a reason a complete IP address rainbow-table wouldn't defeat this?
What's the USB speed when you're three miles from home?
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Winamp was very popular back in the days. When I was in 6, 7th grade I would use it every day! Sad to see this going down.
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it's very very cool, but i'm gonna be honest, i just want to pick it apart. as a string musician of many years, it sounds to me like a shitty viola that can play more notes at once. no offense to ol' da vinci.. but i think it could be improved. i say this because a huge amount of the skill in playing a bowed instrument is controlling changes of bow direction and the beginnings of bowings. if you aren't skilled enough, your bow transitions and beginnings are jarring, rather than the liquid sound of a skilled string player.

the reason this machine sounds so bad to me is that its design removes a lot of the variables that are important for nuanced tone quality. bowed instruments simply have a lot more variables involved than struck instruments such as pianos or harpsichords. in a violin, viola, or cello, the bow has uneven tension along its length, allowing for many different articulations - it also means that when you start the bowstroke at the top or bottom of the bow, the hair tension is higher at those points. so, given an even downward bow pressure, the start of the stroke at either end of the bow has less friction and therefore less volume than the higher-friction middle, creating a naturally smooth attack as you draw the bow. this says nothing of the ability of the musician to change the bow pressure along the bowstroke, another variable.

the viola organista, on the other hand, presses a metal string to a rotating bow of even tension with constant force. since the string and bow are both evenly tense along their length in this design, there is no possibility of controlling the attack and release of a note, giving a binary, on/off, jerky sound with less continuity between notes.

but theres even more to this. a traditional bowed instrument not only has uneven tension in the X-axis (the bow axis), but also has uneven tension in the string axis. violins, violas, and cellos all have a bridge. the bridge not only transmits the vibration to the soundboard, it creates a tension differential just like the bow. but the resonant property of the bridge means that the string tension corresponds to resonance. the closer you bow to the bridge, the louder, fuller, and more resonant the tone. but also, the closer you bow to the bridge, the less the tension of the string is affected by the downward bow pressure (since the string is higher tension). so, bowing closer to the bridge, the resonance is large and doesn't change very much with differing bow pressure, while bowing further away from the bridge, the resonance is relatively less but is also affected more by bow pressure (since the string is less tense, so increased downward pressure by the bow pushes the string down and raises its tension).

the point of all this shit is to say that traditional bowed string instruments are incredibly complex dynamic systems and a lot of their dynamism has been thrown away in this design, yielding something that offers less tonal control with no tangible benefits beyond being able to bow more strings at once. sorry da vinci.
bcrypt is designed to thwart rainbow-table attacks. It salts the hashes and it takes a while (1/3 of a second on my machine) to compute a single hash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt
I would argue that TSA agents are more likely to abuse their power while benefiting from a power imbalance. Stopping someone physically is much harder than locking them in a box they have to walk through to get out of a terminal.

I don't believe you can't win the argument because this is Hacker News; you can't win the argument because of the TSA's track record (and to a greater extent, the results of unchecked power on humans).
So the question is whether BTC jumping from 200 USD to 600 USD in under two weeks is a bubble or if BTC finally found its calling in China.
> It's mentioned no where on the google wallet site

That's only true if you ignore the main (Overview) page [1], the Shop in Stores page [2], and the Stay Safe [3] page.

[1] http://www.google.com/wallet/ or http://www.google.com/wallet/index.html

[2] http://www.google.com/wallet/shop-in-stores/

[3] http://www.google.com/wallet/stay-safe/
No worries, they might win again the following week!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6202...
ask any forex trader how many of them work in a medium without basic protections against market manipulation...

You have a cargo cult mentality. If a little kid puts on his dad's pants, is he now his dad?

If I told you that each word in the dictionary was now worth $700/USD would you respect the dictionary as a viable form of currency because it has "an exchange rate"? Not unless you could use it to buy things at the supermarket -- that's what the commenter above you was pointing out. Any currency that buys you 1 apple on Monday vs 100 apples on Friday is not a successful currency at all. Bitcoin is going to crash before it reaches a point where it's viable as a transactional currency. Right now those exchange rates just mean "the current value you rubes think these coins hold!!"

Anyway I just recommend people get a job instead of playing with these stupid digital coins. Even if you're on the winning end, do you want your legacy to the world to be that you took advantage of a global ponzi scheme? Try to cure cancer instead.
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