skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was in ~2003...

There were islands in Palawan fro sale at the time that were uttery perfect for ~$35,000 USD - large enough for a house, had a really nice beach etc...

The problem was that in the northern part of Palawan, you either need to ship from Manilla, or fly stuff in.

The islands were too small/rocky to be able to have a well, so water was an issue - as was power - you'd need to basically have solar/wind/generator (which meant boating in fuel regularly).

So - I don't have exact numbers - but it made buying an Island for ~35K really mean that you'd need ~$250K+ to really accomplish something.
For people who are confused:

A widowmaker is a dead tree that could fall, and kill somebody [in the namesake a probably-male logger]; thereby creating a widow.
Reddit is a business, despite so many trying to convince themselves otherwise. Businesses don't like negative publicity. This is not new information.

After the Boston bonanza Reddit is going to squash anything that looks even remotely like it.
"Dice" is actually the plural form of "die."
There are tools to test the quality of your random generator. But I forgot the name.
>if the government defaults no-one will lend to it

The federal government cannot default.
I'm trying to convey the fact that you need something like JACK in order to do real time audio DSP, while in Windows/Mac, it just works. More importantly, in 2013, per-application volume control should be a given. It's possible under Pulse AFAIK, just not under ALSA.

It may not represent the typical Linux users, but while audio processing also doesn't represent the typical PC user, it works under mainstream operating systems. Until such a simple thing also "just works", I won't be happy with sound on Linux.

Basically, I'm from the group of people who want things to work on Linux for the same use cases they work on mainstream OSs before I state that it "just works". I believe saying things "just work" only because it works for most of my needs is detrimental, as it gives a wrong image and may frustrate people trying to do something different , as it has happened to me in the past, I've caught myself trying to do non-standard things a lot (read: most) of the time.
You could probably let a lot of kids (college students) have a lot of fun surveying it. I would seriously consider approaching a local college or university if you'd want.

Bonus is that you'll get some good maps out of it:)
That's news to me (I live in Canada, although in Ontario).
You are right, that is what I meant. Something a person fairly new to Linux can use.
Not particularly.

I'm not a "real" gamer anyway so none of it really matters to me anyway, I just find the notion of the future of "real" gaming being touch based low-powered "Surface-like" devices to be very silly. Whether the future of PC gaming is on Windows 8 or Linux, it will look very similar to how looks right now: beefy machines chewing up somewhere around half a kilowatt of power, controlled by keyboard/mice and game controllers.

The most change I consider plausible/viable is in display tech. Either high-dpi screens, or next-generation "Rift-like" displays could complement PC gaming. Input and power are here to stay though.

Also I find it bizarre that so many people seem so invested in being sure that Microsoft's App Store presents the largest threat to Steam. It doesn't currently, clearly, and I rather doubt it will in the future. Origin on the other hand does, but nobody here seems to be interested in them. Origin is a real and current threat, not some sort of hypothetical threat. Maybe there just aren't many EA shareholders/employees on HN...
I still don't get why people use these form helper gems.

We recently rewrote the views for one of our Rails apps and we used SimpleForm with its Bootstrap wrappers. We compared some of the new form views to the old views, and the new views had around 80% less code.

we've spent more time fighting them in complex cases

A form builder need not be used for every form. Most of our forms use SimpleForm, but not all of them do.
I went to AngelHack Austin earlier this year and I thought there were a number of things that could be improved upon. The group I went with (all devs) had a terrible time. Sounds like they've realized this too.

At the ATX event, there were no demos. Not even a public presentation to the rest of the participants, we were just grilled in a closed-room session by their panel on a bunch of business questions.

The only way to get a T-Shirt was to listen to a sales pitch by one of their sponsors.

Everyone was absolutely crammed in their space. I really hope they find a new venue for Austin.

Maybe this event just went poorly but everyone I went with was really soured on AngelHack after that.
Other databases can't drop columns either. In most cases (row-based databases such as the default storage on pgsql, microsoft, oracle, mysql etc), dropping a column, if that syntax is available, internally rebuilds the table with the column omitted.

The data are stored in row-major order (they are in sqlite too) and to drop a column, you need to effectively rewrite every existing row (at least, all the ones where that column is non-null)
I tried to address this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6393680

Almost all technology is 'dual use', even a hammer. It is probably a lot harder to find something that does not benefit the CIA/NSA/Bogeyman than something that does.

The tricky part is that three letter agencies are now toxic in a way they weren't before and that could easily hurt perfectly good entrepreneurs that took their money in good faith, if only because other entrepreneurs took such money in bad faith. Especially palantir will have a hard time with such associations.
"Making money from the idea will not be a factor. Winners will be audited before winning to ensure hacks were created during the weekend."

This is great! The last angelhack I went to was the exact opposite and it was pretty demoralizing getting a bunch of negative feedback from VC-ish judges even though it was 100% working and 100% built from scratch by myself in 24hrs (which was blatantly obvious most weren't via simple Google search) and it looked good and was using pretty advanced real time web technology[1]. It actually kinda bummed me out on hackathons for a while.

[1] Heres the app if you're interested http://whereyouat.meteor.com
>"Runaway inflation has not resulted"

Runaway inflation has not occurred because something like $3TT in wealth evaporated from the balance sheets of (mostly) the shadow banking system during 2007/2008. That's massively deflationary. The printing of money has filled that void.
It's probably worth mentioning that demand for Linux support on Kickstarter played a huge role in getting Unity ported over.
It's not necessarily a harm for redditors to collate photos or other information. The harm comes when some fool acts on that information (especially when the info turns out to be false).
I believe the pre iOS 7 era will be remembered as the golden age of skeumorphic design. An era that will be remembered for buttons so delicios you would like to lick them. No it"s time to move on to a more simplified Byzanthine style that replaces the old classic design. When looking at Quips flattened design, the future looks like a bright and fun place.
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This is a known issue. And it has been exploited for kinda sorta these reasons. One was an Intel product where the boot roms hosted their own system management product. Basically you could do anything though that code including reflashing the BIOS on the mother board, all by plugging in a simple Intel NIC. Later it became this : http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/server-management/int...

It gets worse if you can load custom firmware on a disk drive. (which anyone can do). Then you load your firmware which says its the firmware that the drive had on it when it was shipped, except it has some features for diddling bits in the read cache if certain conditions are met.

Not sure where it ends.
I got one for filing tax report. Is there a way for an non-expert like me to tell whether the one I have is vulnerable to attack?
They did their part...

Council members at the time — Maryann Mahaffey, Barbara-Rose Collins, Sharon McPhail and JoAnn Watson — blocked the original pension certificates deal for months. They warned it was too risky because of the stock market’s volatility and accused Kilpatrick of political gamesmanship.

The Free Press editorial page in February 2005 also applied pressure, calling the reluctant council members “heads-in-the-sand” politicians who “have become a threat to the stability of the community.” The editorial described the transaction as a “sound deal” that was “akin to refinancing a mortgage.”
> It all depends on the actual situation but the chances are rather against it.

Not really. It's a matter of drilling carefully:

http://geography.about.com/library/misc/ucghyben.htm

"On low, small islands that are largely composed of coral or other porous materials, salt water intrusion into the underlying interior is quite common. The drilling or digging of wells on these islands and especially on along the shoreline must be done with care [emphasis added]."

Notice that the author didn't say "pointless."

Most reasonably-sized islands have a subsurface fresh water source. The presence of salt-intolerant trees tells you there's fresh water available beneath the surface.

> ... assuming you can get at it in a useful quantities, will need a lot of processing before you can use it.

If that were true, it would kill the trees. I know a number of locations in Alaska near salt water where, because of geological changes resulting from the 1964 earthquake, even though the surface is dry there's no subsurface fresh water at all, and all the trees promptly died. Those locations are rare.

It's not nearly as simple as drilling a well far from salt water, but it can be done.
Essentially, ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN is just syntactic sugar, you can do the operation equally efficiently (albeit with more complexity) with other statements.

In any case, sqlite CAN at least drop indexes, which is something that some versions of MySQL did quite badly (without a table rebuild)
Well you'll have to show me what Ubuntu has that Debian does not. Kubuntu, I suspect, is only named because it was originally sponsored by Canonical. Nothing more.
First of all, owning an island sounds awesome. Congrats on making the leap.

I don't know how much knowledge you have about desalinators, but here is a FAQ by the company that makes the reverse osmosis unit that I use at work: http://www.searecovery.com/marine/src_faqs.html Being so close to land, you will need a way to sterilize the water. A UV attachment should work.

I also recommend taking a course in Wilderness First Aid. I took a 70 Hour Wilderness First Responder course by Wilderness Medical Associates. It was an excellent course.
Graphene makes light work of optical signals
Thanks, I actually appreciate your initial comment. Luckily I live up on the highest hill in town!
You can like from within your feed without visiting their page. I think this is what happens a lot (misclick or deception) within the in-feed ads.
Some anecdotal evidence - our university is running free Linux VM's for research purposes (so, non-graphical remote servers), people can choose what they want, and the majority seem to choose Ubuntu; with CentOS being second place.
Please don't. The problem isn't that there aren't a good exercise plan out there, the problem is that there are too many. Your ebook, rather than try to help that problem, you are only making it worse.
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"That last point is very important, given that IE8 is still the world’s most popular browser."

Note that this is really not true. If you look at various[1] global browsers stats pages, you'll notice that NetApplications (where the author is getting his's numbers from) is the only one that puts IE at the top. If you look at the other, and based on my own stats, this just isnn't the case, and IE8 is not the most popular browser in the world, not by far.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sum...
Finally, actual data: Series A crunch to kill 1,000 cos., $1B in angel money
it's a miracle humans managed to survive the first few million years...
Canada may be a big winner from climate change but it won't be because of permafrost. Melted permafrost is essentially swamp land, development is generally much easier when it is in the frozen state. Oil companies go so far as to install passive cooling radiators on oil pipelines to keep the ground they are built on frozen.
TSMC isn't supposed to hit 20nm wide production until later in 2014 last I heard. Haven't seen anything about Apple using those chips, but that could be the case. Expect most of the performance gain to be from increased memory instead of actual CPU.

But it isn't just a matter of raw size. The performance you are getting out of it at a given size is an issue too.

ARM may take the world of smartphones by storm, but it really hasn't made significant inroads into areas where performance matters.

Much in the same way that mobile/social gaming didn't displace "hardcore" gaming, ARM hasn't displaced Intel. It just found another audience with different priorities.
Looks cool. I've always thought sleeping in a Hammock would be nice, but as a stomach sleeper I wonder if it would really be possible. Are things flat and taught enough that you can stomach sleep on them?
Copyright assignment.
As much as he's done great things, there's a bit of "O'Reilly promotes neoliberalism and business as the only answer," the kind of thing that should ideally go away at some point in free/open/participatory society.
Unfair maybe, but valid. The pro-gun lobby considers guns to be a tool and in no way a contributing factor to the escalation of violence ergo manufacturers have no responsibility.

Websites are commonly blamed for the activities of their users, when in fact all it is is a tool for communication.
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Completely unrelated: I zoomed out on your Google Maps link and saw a suspiciously circular lake formation:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=cap+chat+quebec&hl=en&ie=UTF8...

Yep, it's the 4th most powerful known meteor impact: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9-Levasseur_Island

I love Wikipedia.
Looking back, I regret not having pursued a degree in Physics or Mathematics. I took the "easy way out" and pursued a liberal arts degree just to be done with college and move on.

In retrospect, it would have been great to have majored in something that, perhaps, may have been more difficult but more rewarding in the long run.

Therefore I suggest that, if you have the opportunity to do so, pursue your PhD. You never know when older age will sneak up on you and you will no longer have enough time to do so :)
i know a guy who did the same thing a few years ago but when the tooth reached the tooth fairy (no such thing really, it's more like a consortium of fairies), he was told that he still had to wait in the queue because priority is based on exact date-time at which the loss of tooth occurred--so you can't really expedite reimbursement by jumping the queue. nice try though
Where on earth are you supposed to sit?
Do you mind if I ask how you are able to use Twitter to keep on top of stuff? I only really have HN and Reddit to keep up with work related news. I've never been able to figure out how to use Twitter for anything useful. It's total gibberish to me.
I never really considered dancing exercise - I just find it fun, but I am so bad at following rythm than I gave it up.
Done, thanks. And good luck to you guys.
Interesting, you talk about the competition, breaking in, monitoring unanswered questions so you can answer first, etc... - What's the motivation behind it?

I guess it is not just contributing to the common knowledge, but maybe to show off your profile to potential employers or similar?
There was an article on a similar phenomenon, which I swear made it to the front page here but I can't find the discussion:

http://readwrite.com/2012/12/11/why-are-dead-people-liking-s...
You must be drunk or something.... I for example.owned a machine.where audio only worked after I installed OSS4 in the kernel. AND removed PA and Alsa so they stopped crashing some Wine stuff.
Although that area is typically serviced by hovercraft and close to civilization, having first aid skills are certainly essential.
If anything, I see RT as likely to accelerate the adoption of platform agnostic web apps in enterprise. It was already headed in that direction, but the lack of legacy support and the fact that MS has given IT departments no good way to centrally manage devices kind of throws the advantages they had in that market segment out the window.

If apps are going to have to be rewritten to run on mobile devices, why tie yourself down to the Metro platform when end users are wanting to run their LOB apps on their iPads anyway?
In-Q-Tel's own site list's their portfolio:
https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/
Newell has the ulterior motive of killing Microsoft's app store, which he clearly sees as a direct threat to Steam. If it takes off, indeed it will be! I remain unconvinced that Linux has passed the tipping point and is on it's way to becoming the home entertainment OS of the future though. I use it on my work laptop and love it, but Win8 runs my HTPC.

1. A home entertainment box does more than play games these days. Windows is still the only OS with acceptable bluray support. OSX is as out in the cold as Linux on this score even though Apple is a member of the bluray consortium! Some may be tempted to scoff at physical media, but it's still alive and well, especially with the audio/video-phile crowd.

2. If games have to be rewritten to operate on Linux, most existing games never will. Most games, once their sales have ceased bringing in cash, are abandoned and never updated again. Legacy gaming support is important. A lot of people have beloved games that are years or decades old that they still occasionally play. If switching to Linux means they have to abandon those, they won't.

If Newell is serious about his Steam boxes succeeding, he needs to support work that will let older games run on Linux without modification and he needs to support development of a bluray support package for Linux, plus any future formats. No open source software will ever legally support bluray. I like open source and I'm sure some fanatics will be tempted to blast me for calling for more closed-source software on Linux, but that's precisely what Newell is doing. He's bringing closed source, non-free software to Linux. If you want to see Steam on Linux succeed, you're demanding something free, open-source software has yet to deliver.
If it wasn't discussed explicitly I'd be happy to read that as that it wasn't discussed if I were the recipient of this money. Either there is a paper trail or it did not happen.
>"But when you print money you de-value it"

So are you arguing that the amount of money in an economy should remain constant over time?
Good point. I hadn't really thought about it from the point of view of relative advantage of platform. More just my own personal desire to game where I work I guess!

Having said that, I do still find Linux to be a much more stable and high performance platform. One of the reasons I dread dual-booting is that it takes about 5-10 minutes after booting for my Windows installation to be properly responsive to commands. I know I can re-format, but I don't feel I should have to. I've been running the same Arch install for longer than I have Win 7 and haven't had to resort to massively drastic tactics like that yet.

I guess it all comes down to lowering the barriers to entry. Ultimately the mass-market will use what is installed on their computer when they buy it. This gives the major manufacturers one more reason to try the Linux experiment and cut the Windows license costs. It's a pretty good reason too. Gaming was one of the very few things that couldn't be fixed easily through some other means like Wine or VMs.
they've already tried (and flubbed) this once. Not to mention that they already have a unified authentication platform in place. They just flubbed the 'seamless' part.
> No, they really don't have to to do any of those.

I agree, I should have said they aggressively act against those things as matter of public relations, not because of legal requirements. I edited the original post to reflect this.

> A "reasonable" interpretation of advice given from an unauthenticated source (ie. not a real, living breathing doctor with their MD behind them) is that you shouldn't follow it.

True, but it seems many people don't know this. Interestingly, outside of a book (protected by freedom of the press), if a non-MD dispenses, or appears to be dispensing, medical advice, in most times and places he can be prosecuted.
So you're saying Wilson thought Mir would allow a clean code base a few days ago when he accepted a Mir patch and now he doesn't, despite not giving any technical reasons for the change in opinion? (Me - complete outside but the turn of events sure sounds fishy).
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It actually does have code to support XWayland, the analogue to XMir: <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/log...

This code is an optimization, not a strict requirement, as you're right that in theory XWayland or XMir could be supported in a hardware-agnostic manner. For XWayland this is the (formerly "wlshm") xf86-video-wayland X driver: <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-wayland/>, but it is much slower than the hardware-specific options (which also exist for the radeon and nouveau X drivers). I don't know if there's an equivalent hardware-agnostic X driver for Mir, but in no case would a production-quality windowing server have that as its only method of compatibility for an important hardware segment--both Wayland and Mir developers expect X-dependent applications to stick around for quite some time, so they must perform as well as possible.

For what it's worth, my hat is firmly in the Wayland camp; its design is simpler, its development more open, and its motivations more clear than those of Mir. Canonical does a bad job of software stewardship and I'd hate to see them in control of the dominant graphics solution for Linux.
That is for income. To be in the top 1% for wealth you need about $9,000,000

What do you think the net worth of the people he is describing is?
The Fed does not own a helicopter. Congress does, but they're keeping it grounded.

Your example is ridiculous and contrived, but if there is enough massage capability because everyone has the free time to do so and everyone decided that's what they wanted to spend on, then yes.
Most of them didn't.
Barring such a leak this is really just speculative. But such a leak would definitely shine a different light on all the other investments. So until then this amounts to a big fat '0'.
For this specific case checking the key length would be the first step. In the study afaik only 1024bit keys were found to be broken.
It's not about freedom, and I'm a bit sick of that Orwellian categorization (War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength). Unlike other open source licenses which outline your rights, the GPL is a document that is filled with taking rights away. It's also ridiculously complicated, to the point where no one is completely clear on what is or isn't allowed (and the LGPL is even worse).

It's not practical and it's not free. That's why I'd never consider releasing software under it.
Judging by the Stanley Cup riots in Vancouver a few years ago, they are worse.
Should you apply to Hacker School?