skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Even on longer train rides (3+ days) I've never wished that I was carrying more than a book or two at most. A novel or two of adequate length and complexity is more than enough, unless you plan to be reading literally the entire time.

Sure, maybe an e-reader is superior for those 14-day treks, but the vast majority of people don't make those kinds of trips anymore considering that most of the world is reachable within a day at most.
David Heinemeier Hansson gives talk on "Remote" at Bitmaker Labs
In a climate where Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer doubles down on working at the office, David Heinemeier Hansson goes the other way and pushes for freedom from geographic locations for his employees. In a short 45 minutes, he explains his thoughts, approaches and tactical implementation to remote working, and speaks very candidly on the issues that he sees plaguing the tech industry.
It's only 96% similar to other bacteria we know of. Which is greater than the difference of most mammals to each other. But still pretty similar and not entirely radical in its genetic makeup (in the grand scheme of things).
Consider the ACA model (even minus the subsidy aspect), which uses (1) purchase mandates, (2) minimum standards, and (3) state exchanges through which private insurance can be purchased.

This applies most of the the large-purchaser effect of a social program, but isn't a traditional social benefit program (sure, the actual ACA, which has subsidies for some purchasers, includes a traditional social benefit program as a component, but there is no reason that the rest couldn't be maintained with similar benefits without the subsidy in a BI system.)
I like the idea a lot! I was trying to sign up but when I noticed the password as clear text that could be read by people around me in big fonts[1], it deterred me from going forward. Others may think similarly. Otherwise, the site is pretty cool, best of luck.

[1] http://tinypic.com/r/29mow12/5
My recommended Windows software of 2013.
> Stuff in Octane is code that is intended to be optimized for, by definition. So recursive code, numerical computation code, asm.js code, Mandreel code, functional code, etc. etc.

Yep. Now look at the list of these things. Do you see what it is in the sum? In the sum it is real-world JavaScript. Which is precisely reveals the goal: JavaScript should run fast.

I think we are looping about this issue because we see different connotations in the sentence "optimize for asm.js". I see connotation "optimize for asm.js as described by it's specification (with AOT and stuff)", while what actually happens is that underlying JavaScript that serves as foundation for asm.js specification is being optimized. That is why I always prefer to say "asm.js-style code".

> Likewise GC tests that pretty much require a generational GC to be fast

Actually with Splay it is easier to be fast if you don't have a moving generational GC :-)
Enlightened wealthy elites read from authors like like Adam Smith, who said, "Till there be property there can be no government, the very end of which is to secure wealth, and to defend the rich from the poor." (http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=s...) Pretty much what the previous poster explained.

After all, "your money & property" are purely social relations requiring a state. The state literally prints money, and enforces "rights to property" using people with sticks.
Again, the question is what you mean by "specifically".

The v8 team look at asm.js benchmarks and make changes in v8 to make those benchmarks run faster, that's clear from their announcements. At the same time, those optimizations can also make other code faster, as they try to make them general optimizations as much as possible.

So it's not true it's a "side-effect", since some of the time they literally start the process by looking at asm.js code, and finding how to make it run faster on v8. So asm.js is in a sense directly responsible for the optimization, and asm.js is sped up by it. But at the same time, the optimization added is - unlike Firefox's approach - relatively general, and helps other code too.

In the end, I don't think there is any disagreement between us here.
Will people please stop replying to this otherwise HN's 'flame war' and controversy detectors will kick in and bury the posting.
I think an assessment of how Windows would perform here is appropriate.
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I agree that currently this is the case. But why should it be any harder to flip between bookmarks in an ebook than switch tabs in a browser?
Link https://www.openshift.com/blogs/learning-30-technologies-in-...
In this case I would better say that IE6 was a motivational example that caused me to find a performance bottleneck affecting all sites. I optimized bottleneck away.
What incentive would he have to lie about any of this?
>Why would you care if you can carry thousands of books at once?

Because you don't always know what you'll want to read next, especially while traveling.

Additionally, most eBook users don't just read books on their devices, but also newspapers, magazines, blogs, and articles from services like Instapaper and Pocket. (And for what it's worth, you can lend most eBooks.)
NaCl is disabled for the web. Chrome will not load NaCl modules from the web. [0] I don't know how I can be any more clear.

[0] Except perhaps plus.google.com? I haven't heard of this before, waiting for more from pcwalton about this.
Bitcoin cannot be fractionally loaned out - if a bank has BTC in reserve and loans it, the transaction goes through and the bank has that much less in reserve. Say they have 100BTC in reserve, and I want a 10BTC loan: they can't just issue a piece of paper saying "here's 10BTC" and only reserve 1BTC (10%) to cover it, they have to transfer the actual amount. So, they can't loan out 10x what they have and profit from the multiplier when collecting interest. They can't pyramid-scheme their way into a major financial bubble. I love this aspect of bitcoin, it neuters the parasites.
I agree, after reading it again it could be interpreted in that way as well.
This age group includes college students, but do we know whether the surveys filtered out textbooks when polling physical vs. ebook preferences? I didn't see that mentioned in the article, and it would have a significant impact on the results.
BTC-E, Bitfinex, litecoinlocal.org, vircurex, crypto-trade, cryptsy, coinmtk, there are a few others. All I believe aren't located within the United States, so there is risk involved other than LTC being worth $0.

I only suggest BTC-E based on it being one of the higher volume LTC exchanges.
Congrats Kenneth Kuan. If I ever meet you in person I'd buy you a beer and tell you it isn't always like this.

Realistically PA needs at least two hires here. One ops guy responsible for IT/Sysadmin, and one dev. Both can crossover as much as needed. They can share the on-call duties. Either decide to reel-in the expectations on this position or hire two people to do it right.
One of my favourites is Boo.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com
I guess it depends on the type of book. There are books that aren't narrative-driven that would benefit from hyperlinks to other documents.
Alas yes—except for some of the very best, like this one:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/
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"More control, if you need it" - Learn more link leads to a 404. Not really confident about this.
Since this is in Europe, it's probably better to refer to the European legislation.

However, it looks like the UK implementation of the WEEE[1] is fairly narrow in scope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Electrical_and_Electronic...
Wearable Computing Will Become MainStream, Here's Why I hope it Doesn't.
Strange. Chrome indents those characters into a >-shaped "flock formation", but Firefox renders them as a vertical column.
In a nutshell, he has described one of the fundamental problems of the gaming industry. Companies know people want to work in games so badly that they can pay them low wages and work them to the bone. In some cases, people are laid off as soon as the game ships. The company gets to pump up the balance sheets and the employees just take it until they're forced out of the industry to be replaced by another crop of fresh meat.

In pure capitalistic terms what these companies are doing is profiting from an imbalance in the labor pool. But what they are also doing is creating a vicious cycle where a whole swath of smart people avoid the industry altogether, and experienced employees eventually get burned out and leave. This in effect embeds all sorts of idiotic behaviors in the game industry.

As a pure business move, if someone agrees to be paid far less than they're worth, that's an easy way to make more money. But it is unethical and ultimatley counterproductive in my book.
It's partially so that if we do in fact discover life in space, we're not "discovering" something that we actually brought up there with us.
This article is mostly written from a European language perspective. For Indian scripts, storing combining characters as a separate code points is the right thing to do.

For example, कि (ki) is composed of क and ि When I'm writing this in an editor, say, I typed ku (कु) instead of ki (कि) and I press backspace, I indeed want to see क rather than deleting the whole "कि".
>45% of those surveyed don’t own a device that can read ebooks – this includes both e-readers and smartphones.

Completely anecdotal evidence here, but as someone who works at a university and sees a lot of people age 16-24, noses in their tablets/smartphones/laptops, I have serious doubts about the accuracy of this number.

First of all, "a device that can read ebooks" could be anything from a desktop PC to a smartphone. I find it highly unlikely that in 2013, 45% of people ages 16-24 don't own ANY devices like this. Even if that number is accurate, it's misleading, as many teenagers perhaps don't OWN a device, but have access to a shared PC or the like.

Second, I'm curious about how the survey was conducted. Did they just ask a random sample of people in this group if they have a device that reads ebooks? How many of those people own a capable device and are simply unaware of it, I wonder?
If you think about it though, you're absolutely right. Not killing me is just something you should do by default. I shouldn't have to pay you to do that. If I do pay to not kill me, does that mean you can justify killing me if I stop paying you? After all, you're desperate and hungry.

Oh wait, what if you waste your stipend on drugs or "loose it" or someone steals it from you because you weren't being responsible with what was basically free money? Do you get more money to waste, or do you get to kill me now for food?
If ARC could be implemented in an efficient manner, it would. I'm guessing integrating these algorithms into existing kernel code is no small feat though.

Also, ARC may need to be tweaked so that its cost doesn't become prohibitive. That's one reason why the current memory manager isn't using LRU, but an approximation of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_replacement_algorithm#Leas...
I recently switched to a job where I deal mainly in bound paper documents. I have to say, I forgot how much more awesome paper is than computers. For processing complex documents, there is no technology that matches a big desk strewn with printed documents. It's like having dozens of lightweight flexible high resolution 13" displays. Marking up a piece of paper with post it notes, pencil marks, and highlighter is a tactile experience that even the best styluses simply can't match. The lack of "UI" between you and the annotations helps tremendously with processing and retention.[1]

It's a shame that so few companies are exploring the synergies of paper and digital. I keep trying the livescribe, but the company can't write decent software to save their lives. I want to be able to print a document from my ipad onto dot paper, and have my markup automagically show up in the pdf copy. It can't be hard.

[1] In school, I found the low tech approach of carrying around heavy case books to be the most effective. My pop psychology explanation for this is that computers don't take advantage of our spatial memory. I can go back and visualize myself highlighting something in specific physical book, but on a screen it all just blends together in my memory.
I used to think this as well, until I moved across an ocean. I'm a big fan of packing light nowadays.
This is my primary concern with the proposal, but if Walmart and McDonalds were deprived of that cheap workforce, how many of those jobs would they finally figure out how to automate?
You have precisely no reason for believing that the growth pattern is exponential or an open-ended cycle. In fact the cardinal rule of economics ("things go on until they can't") suggests they will arrive in a steady state.

In order to figure out a likely steady state you'd have to look at the composition of spending and employment by people around or under the proposed income, and try to estimate shifts if there was an effective employer-of-last-resort in the form of a basic income. It gets complicated fast if you want to do a good job. Hand-waving about inflationary spirals is, on the other hand, easy.
Unicode is a standard. It says how to act in these circumstances. Calling out incorrect unicode implementations is useful. You shouldn't have to worry about inconsistent behavior between different languages that purport to support unicode strings. That's the point of a standard.
No, no, and no.

I think this depends on how much you read. If reading books is just a past-time, maybe those responses make sense? But if you're a heavy reader, there's just no competition.

- The physical feeling of a book is nice until you need to carry it around. Or more than one, if you're reading more than one book at a time. I'll take my nexus 7 over a mid-sized paperback (or 4) any day of the week.

- Bookstores in my home town were filled with "Network Marketing" people who just walked around there all day with paper planners, trying to get people into their pyramid schemes.

- E-readers are getting better at note-taking. And you can search your notes, and search the text. I wish there was better math support, obviously, but I also don't get constrained by how much margin space there is in the book.

Still, my daughter's getting a bunch of paper Dr. Suess (&etc) books for some time :-)
Probably. Friedman's negative income tax proposal was the opposite of regressive.
Yeah, I've really been liking what I've seen from Rails so far. It seems like there is a lot of support for a lot of functions/features that you just generally need which is awesome.
Tom Forbes: investigator, judge, jury, and executioner.

Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to notify law enforcement?
He's already set up a wallet to receive donations.
Imaginary internet points.
Exposure.
> So yeah. I wiped all his emails from all his accounts and he hasn't bothered us since. Pro tip: If you are going to steal peoples money at least use a different password for all your accounts.

Pro-tip: you did a great job wiping a great deal of evidence.

Disclaimer: I am someone who actually deals with this as a part of his line of work.
Show HN: Mashup of Amazon.com's wish list and Balanced Payments
This has been fixed. Now the password field is obscuring the characters. Sorry about that.

The thought about making it in just clear text was to make easier to detect a typo on the registration page. This wasn't the case of the login page, obscured since the beginning.
As someone who lived on $800/month (rent was $235 for my share), I'm wondering what would have happened if all of us had 3x that amount to live on each month. I imagine rent would have gone up substantially as would other expenses if it was understood that we could afford double or triple that amount.

My guess is that the people barely making ends meet on a minimum wage job would barely make ends meet on a basic income + minimum wage job, regardless of actual amounts. Is anyone familiar enough with the economists arguments to explain this?
Ideological response: Police are the thugs that rich people buy to defend themselves from the poor.

Actually, basic income / negative income tax is a very good idea, much better than welfare schemes of almost all kinds - it has almost no administration overhead. Charity, like you advocate, has huge amounts of overhead. Milton Friedman was an advocate, for example, and he was hardly a socialist.

And the idea that charity comes from goodness? That is utter bullshit. It's 95% social signalling. Altruism doesn't exist.
These programs are not largely insurance. People don't pay into them proportionally to their actuarial costs.

I.e., the guy who drifts between jobs, getting fired every few months doesn't pay more for unemployment insurance than the guy who has been stably employed for the past 10 years.

The disparity between rich and poor in the US has grown enormously in the past 20 years. And it's all because the average joe has bought a line

Nope. The disparity in the US has moved more or less lockstep with the disparity in the rest of the world (with one exception in 1986 when a change in tax law caused income to be shifted from corporate to individual returns). If policy caused it, it's a policy that basically every nation has adopted.

http://www.scottwinship.com/1/post/2011/03/what-would-it-mea...
Shouldn't this be a requirement for all patents?
Don't buy them, mine them.
Lets just remove pay from the equation; because everyone should be paid appropriately for their work.

There seems to be a disconnect here between the amount of income/profit of a company and the size of the company. It doesn't sound like there is enough work for 4 people full time. There might not even be enough work 2 people full time all the time.

And while you might be right that I'm probably not as good as someone focusing on a single job that's irrelevant. I was competent enough to get the job done.
Banks lend money they don't have, they cannot do that with Bitcoin because math. Usually their reserves cover a fraction of the loans they give, and they get a massive multiplier benefit. Fortunately, the blockchain won't accept pieces of paper with IOU written on them.
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I've been spending a lot of time in the "PHP ecosystem" and honestly it's a disaster. It's comparable to a country like Brazil.

In some areas people are very well off, they have developer tools, they have best practices, they produce useful, workable code. Yet they're the elite minority.

Most people have nothing, get by with scraps of code scavenged from message boards or obsolete technical books, and bang together applications that are the code equivalent of a barrio. The level of ignorance about even the most rudimentary things like SQL escaping or string concatenation vs. interpolation is staggering.

Let me be honest, I don't care if I'm insulting. I'm not saying these things to make friends or win karma. I'm saying them because PHP has problems and I don't see a lot of effort being made to reach out to the average developer learning PHP who's stumbling along, all wrong if only because they don't know better and nobody's telling them otherwise.

I'm not going to suggest that other communities don't have problems, Ruby has a standard library that's embarrassingly bad, Python has a version schism they're at a loss to resolve, NodeJS is being held back by the crippling limitations of the V8 engine, but PHP is all that and more.

For example, if you're working on a complicated C++ application and need a simple script to emit some templated files you could roll this in Python, Ruby or even Perl and a seasoned developer would be okay with that. If you wrote it in PHP, though, they'd have reservations. Why, of all the scripting languages out there, would you pick that one? Why is PHP such an albatross?

I spent a lot of time in the Perl community back when it was still a thing and witnessed what happened to a language when people didn't complain or, as you say, insult it enough. Unconditional love isn't a bad thing when dealing with people, I'm all for things being civilized, but it's toxic when applied to programming languages.

You love your pet language too much and you'll smother it, every time. Smalltalk suffered greatly because of this attitude, people pretty much loved it to death.

You want your favorite language to evolve? Be its worst enemy. Find things about it you hate so much you can't stand to endure them any more and fix them. Bitch about things that aren't right, take a stand, and be the squeaky wheel.

Every time I get into one of these discussions about PHP with someone who seems to be a big supporter of the language, I ask for one thing: Don't just tell me PHP is great, show me. Is there a guide to PHP better than PHP the Right Way (http://phptherightway.com/) that encourages people to do things correctly so they can have an experience like yours?
Each miner includes their own address and a nonce value in the work they are doing. Most of the work that goes into mining is generating failed hashes and is discarded by the client. Assuming a lack of mathematical attacks on sha 256, there isn't really anything nefarious to do with the published blocks.
I have a Nook but I don't really use it that much and still buy lots of printed books. I don't know how to explain it, but every physical book has a sort of personality (size, color, font) that goes with it and with the nook all books are the same. I only ever buy books online if they are hard to obtain or are digital only.

Ebooks are also very expensive, often as expensive as a phyisical copy and until the publishers start to bundle every printed book with it's digital copy I don't see myself spending more money on them.
> As they currently exist both asm.js and PNaCl frontends are LLVM (...)

I don't think it's fair to call LLVM a frontend for asm.js just because LLVM can compile to asm.js. By that logic LLVM is also a frontend for x86. That doesn't mean anything. Asm.js is a platform, LLVM is a compiler, it's expected that LLVM can target it asm.js, so can other compilers. Hopefully both asm.js and PNaCl will be targeted by multiple compilers not using LLVM.

> It is definitely possible to implement a non LLVM back end for PNaCl.

Anything's possible. Reimplementing PNaCl from scratch (custom everything) obviously will take much more work than implementing it on top of LLVM. However i honestly think that there would be a large chasm between PNaCl on top of LLVM and PNaCl on top of any other virtual machine. And this is a problem.

EDIT:

I think i'm too focused on LLVM, sorry about that. What I should have written but didn't: PNaCl is hard to reimplement, and not only because it's a large project. For example iirc Chrome doesn't explicitly support the asm.js pragma and doesn't try to be compliant, but it already performs many of the optimizations from the its spec and the Chrome team appears receptive of changes that make this sorta support better. If things continue that way, soon it won't matter if Chrome supports the pragma or not. I.e. right now Chrome supports (say) 10% asm.js and eventually it could support up to 90% with no problems. On the other hand can Firefox implement PNaCl piecemally? What would a 10% reimplementation of PNaCl look like? I think even a 90% or anything else short of a full implementation will not be interoperable.
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Agreed. I hope I never have to type http://kodak.photography.
If it is in the cache, why is the CDN needed anyways?