skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A soccer / football pitch has an area of about 7140 square metres.

They say the drive could be "3 or 4 feet deep" - let's just call that one metre. So it's only 7140 cubic metres to search.

Admittedly, that's 7140 cubic metres of foul trash. It will include soiled babies diapers, rotting food, female sanitary products, tins, bottles, etc etc.

Assuming you could find the drive at a cost of one million. (roughly £140 per cubic metre) That'd give you 6 million to share between you and the council.

I guess you could add some environmental fixing thing in there (removing any electronics that are found, recycling any glass or metals vent methane, etc, and give them £2m, and keep the rest?
Can you make it til tomorrow? Are those 0.02BTC all you have?

If you're sure you're going to buy a pizza with BTC tomorrow, why not buy the BTC today, or five days ago? The prices have been pretty consistently going up. Yeah, there's a chance that pizza will have been 5% cheaper if you bought the coin to pay for it yesterday, or if you wait til tomorrow.

So, why wouldn't you just take all of your USD savings and convert them to BTC? Wait, you mean to tell me you _only have_ that 0.02BTC? (Wait, you mean to tell me you only have that $20 in the bank?)

I have way more USD value of BTC than I ever planned on having. It started as $50 and when that performed well, I put some more in, and bought some mining equipment, and put some more in, and now it has significantly more than eclipsed my USD cash savings at this point. It is for this reason that I would love to spend BTC, in fact it's a karmic imperative for me to try to spend BTC, since I've done so well with it so far.

I can always replace it at the market rate at Coinbase. If you're spending the bitcoins and you're valuing them lower than it costs you to replace them, you're getting screwed. If things keep moving the way they are moving, you're going to have a talk with your vendor that accepts bitcoins. (It's always fun to get to ask, "Tell me why am I paying you extra?")

I make more hoarding a few meager bitcoins in the midst of this bubble than riding a desk at my dayjob. So you can see why I am in your corner.

Still, I don't think there has been a bad day to buy BTC in the last (how long has bitcoin existed so far?). I recognize that I would be a fool to keep less actual fungible cash than I need for groceries, rent, etc, and when I can use a Bitcoin in an actual transaction with a person (rather than trading it for cash at an exchange), I feel that it's probably a good idea to use some of that cash I saved to offset the impact to my BTC portfolio.

All that being said, when I watched the price take a minor tumble the other day, from 850 to 785, I got nervous and went to SatoshiDice to recoup my perceived losses in an even riskier way.

Nobody will take my bitcoins in exchange for anything I need (I can't spend them on rent, I can't pay taxes with them, I can't leave them at the grocery store or at the restaurant or the bar), apart from the exchange site (which will give me cash, that I do need)... but I have all of the cash I need for the moment and it doesn't do any fun tricks like these BTC.

So why am I buying pizza again?

I don't know if all that's a sign of a healthy market, but I don't think so. Still, you weigh the facts, you pick your horses and you take your chances.
> or just as a ligature in rendering phase and stored as 'ss'.

Probably.

> to save significant amount of collective effort

I've seen this kind of suggestion a number of times on HN, and I find it highly amusing. When confronted with a difficult challenge in representing the world on a computer, apparently the answer is to instead change the world.

OK, but then how are you going to handle hundreds of years of legacy texts?
MVP. If they had went for bells and whistles, it would never be released.
I'll add one to your n - For me, the mental image of where on a page something was, as well as physically, where in the book that page exists helps. I can get something similar from audiobooks by picturing where I was when I heard something (I typically listen to audiobooks when running or driving). E-books are a difficult case.
Most popular uses I've seen for hashtags, in order.

1. Jokes / irony

2. Abortive attempts to astroturf by advertisers

3. Everyone's at an event and they've been told to use a particular hashtag
Any job where one is required to be "plugged" into the internet 24/7 is a red flag. He goes on and mentions that being able to take a hike in the mountains is out of the question. If your life is work...
I'm curious if we ever will see the most popular JS/CSS frameworks/libraries integrated into the browser itself, and a simple attribute in the tag would allow loading the internal version, but still allow failover to the hosted one.

This could even prevent man-in-the-middle attacks on scripts that otherwise would never expire anyway like described here:
http://thejh.net/written-stuff/want-to-use-my-wifi
Judge orders Sriracha hot sauce plant partly closed over odors
How Many Batteries Would It Take to Cook a Turkey? - Wired Science
The .plumbing domain is, in fact, a series of tubes.
I believe strings are mutable in Ruby.
"Thousands" is a bit hyperbolic, for sure.

But 2-3 is a far more typical use case, and even at that scale, the carry weight matters. Plus people are carrying phones (and increasingly, tablets) around these days, in any case. So that's where the value proposition kicks in.
The case for hyperlinks in APIs
Detecting anomalous senators
For your pre-thanksgiving entertainment.:)
> but ebooks are the only way I can keep up with the amount I read - which is usually one book every few weeks, possibly 30 books a year or more.

This was one of the reasons I've seriously contemplated getting a ebook.

Then I found the ireward card(http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/irewards/)... Now I save more than a kindle's price every year.

Okay, maybe I solved a wrong problem.
I completely agree, it's interesting how many people love to jump to economic theorizing about how people will act, and how few people look at the actual cost to implement.

I read through a breakdown in one of the Basic Income books, of what it would cost just to get a $10,000/year basic income. Here's just some of the changes that would be needed:

* cut military spending by a third;
* get rid of ethanol subsidies;
* get rid of mortgage interest tax breaks;
* get rid of "married filing jointly/separately" filing status, make everyone file just for themselves

And that's just the ones that jumped out at me. Virtually all tax loopholes would have to be gotten rid of, and more. All for just the $10K/year basic income level.

So, just as a question of the political cost to implement, Basic Income seems like a laughable non-starter.
Yes, I was answering the question "I always wondered why Jolla is getting so little love from HN." Until today, it has been vaporware. In fact, it's still vaporware as far as I can see; there isn't a "buy" button, there's a "sign up to be emailed when it's ready", though it looks like they are launching in Finland today and the rest of the world later.
Nursie, you are to be commended for understanding my argument, it gets tiring arguing against people who don't understand.

OK, now SOMEBODY has to have economic power- So it can't be people who have earned money (as it is with bitcoin) and it can't be the owners of the printing presses (apparently I'm not allowed to say that)...

...so who's left? Should we create a currency that immediately bursts in flames unless it is provably handed to another person within 24 hours? Wouldn't that still be deflationary without printing presses?

EDIT: Maybe you want all the economic power to be with cryptocurrency miners, via an inflating cryptocurrency? So now we're back to giving the power to those who own the presses (the miners, in this case)
I wonder if they could have worked around the issue by doing a mmap() on the first file followed by reading it in, then letting the workload on it finish, followed by calling madvise(..., ..., MADV_DONTNEED) and then doing the same for the second file afterwards.

Obviously the kernel fix is the right thing to do but until that's vetted may be something like the above can help.
IIRC, Twitter is also concerned about this, and recently proposed a hash-based validation for externally included resources (though I can't seem to find their proposal right now …).
Assuming there's not too much iron and steel in the land fill, it's might be possible he could find it with a sensitive enough magnetometer at 1 meter, maybe more so if you built a motor to move it around rapidly. I think the field strength at 1 meter might be something like 1 milliGauss, which should definitely be detectable. Walking the field and recording the magnetic fields might be possible, you'd at least know the range you needed. Secondly, any recent dated arial photos could maybe be used to determine a better approximation of depth, i.e. looking for a marker in the actual photo, then going to dig to find that marker, record the depth.
Need some career advice
I'm working on maintaining a legacy application written in C++. But I'm not really interested in what I'm doing right now. I'm having absolutely no scope for learning here.
There is only stress instead of challenges.

I'm interested in being a part of something nice, working on projects that requires using my intelligence. But if you ask me what I want to do, I don't really have an answer.
Need some help/advice to figure out my true calling.

PS: I love programming. Learning ROR from 'Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial'
Fraud will probably be quite a problem, but nice concept.
Python <3.3 uses UCS2 or UCS4, depending on the build

Ruby >1.8 lets you choose the encoding

.NET UCS2/UTF-16 (I know the difference, imho if the stdlib has a .size, .length or .count that works on code units instead of code points it's broken... thus I'll mention only UCS2 from now on)

Java UCS2

Clojure UCS2

Scala UCS2

QT UCS2

Haskell String UCS4

Haskell Data.Text UTF-16 (yes, not a naive UCS-2)

Rust UCS4 (last time I checked)

Javascript UCS2

Dart UCS2

PHP Unicode-oblivious

Vala UCS4

Go UTF-8 (but it lets you call len() on strings, and it doesn't return the length of the string, but its size in bytes)

I can't really think of another language that uses UTF-8 internally, are you sure?
I have never used my smartphone to try and read a book, I think most people around me would agree that it would not be a fun experience (most people around me have older smartphones with small screes).

I do own a Kindle, though, but my point is that I think many people don't consider their smartphone a "reading device".
If this startup succeeds, you'll only need to charge your phone once a week
I think this was more sub ed mangling
Of course they are not selling open software but a hardware product (which may or may not be locked down).
No. They are still there, accounted to that address in the blockchain. In the rare event that someone discovers the private key used to derive that address: happy days. In the near term, practically speaking, you can negate them from circulation. It's a very low probability that it'll be spent.
Not only is flipping back and forth much easier in a math/technical book, but, for some reason, I find I actually learn better.

Something about associating a piece of information with a physical location on a real object makes everything "snap" together better in my head ("Oh, I remember this concept, it was about a third of the way through Dummit & Foote. Yep, it's all coming back now.").

I can still pick up my calculus textbook from a class I took 5 years ago and open more or less in the right section of what I'm looking for. I've associated that object, it's weight, feel, and size, with the information it contains.

I can't say the same about any of the dozens of pdf's I have on my tablet. I'd probably have trouble opening the right file, let alone where inside that file the information is!

If it matters or is long-term knowledge, I always get the book. (Even if given the insane pricing of textbooks, I wish this didn't have to be the case...)
Can you correct it, or only the admins?
Minus any (totally valid) concerns about DRM, I find eBooks to be completely superior to their dead tree versions. As a heavy reader the benefits are enormous:

My kindle weighs less than a pound making reading large books a snap
I haven't purchased a paper book since I got the kindle and I'm always pairing down my collection, yet still moving my paper books to a new apartment is an incredibly heavy task
A few people have pointed out that "eReaders can hold thousands of books" is silly, until your on a vacation and you finish your current book

I guess I lack the sentimentality of proudly displaying a full bookshelf of my "trophies" with their creased spines. No one seems to lament the sentimentality of the passing of the VHS...
>User-replaceable battery

OH. GOD. YES!
Open News Manifest for startup news and blogs
Didn't N900 run Maemo? Also, I'm not even sure N9 ran Meego. If it did, then it was Meego + Nokia's own UI.
A giant collection of FUD, essentially. "You'll no longer need a crowbar and screwdriver, just access to the computer plugins under the hood or dash." ... and how do you propose getting that access, good sir author, given that the hood is typically released from inside the car, and "under the dash" is also inside the car?
This tells you which devices support which Unicode characters. By what is meant by "support"? Does it mean that the user will see a correct glyph image with the default installation, or something more?
Want a futuristic navigation HUD on your windshield? Check out Sygic's GPS app
We're doing this now one way or another, I mean in terms of dollars spent.

The problem is, its 14+ different programs doing it - if we make ONE program, we've just cut how many administrators and bureaucrats out of the loop saving however many dollars in overhead - plus all sorts of different infrastructure systems to administer and pay it all.

It's logical common sense this program would work more cheaply (and possibly better) just thru overhead savings. Means tested welfare is wasteful.
you pick up another book there.
Open Electrons Debuts Second Wildly Popular Raspberry Pi Project
Hydrogen Power Flexes Muscles At LA Auto Show
Fuzz Testing
No we are not. It might be rough while the dad gets a job, but people don't go from startup founder to homeless.
Microsoft Brings Xbox Video To The Web Ahead Of Windows Phone
I prefer paper to computers in most cases. I prefer reading fiction on an ereader because it's easier to pickup where I left off and switch between devices. Anything I'd read cover to cover I prefer ebooks for. Reference materials in the form of books I much prefer paper because I find it easier to reference back, but I buy them almost exclusively in ebook format because it's much cheaper. Notes I prefer paper, just because of the much more precise doodling/handwriting ability. If I could use a tablet with the same precision and feeling that I could get from paper, I'd switch notes too. But technologies not there yet.
Amazon is infamous for being a terrible place to work that drives people away in a few years (notice how everyone works there for 2-4 years?). Saying "this is no worse than amazon" is about as damning as you can get.
Depends on what you mean by "impact", as Stalin and Mao were both responsible for more famine, torture, and death than even Hitler. On the other hand Hitler's "impact" was probably more relevant to Time's audience (in the USA and Great Britain).
>It's clearly not as simple as that, since there is such a thing as tyranny and perversion of justice.

It would be helpful if you tied in statements like that to the main discussion thread so that I could respond in a meaningful way. As is stands you're not really making an argument so I can't respond to anything without guessing at the logical connection.
This service is awesome. I can earn passive money from getting stupid recruiter mails. Awesome!

To be honest:
1) adding another layer between me and my employer makes no sense
2) recruiters pay for mailing me? Good luck with this. Every recruiter paying money to tech guys for mailing them are not the kind of recruiter which I would like to use.
What do you mean nothing worthwhile? Isn't that exactly what it is? A phone with an OS that isn't Android/iOS/Windows/Ubuntu/Firefox? What other description are you expecting?
A list of the top 10 from CNET http://www.cnet.com/1990-11136_1-6278387-1.html
Whatever rich law firm buys california.lawyer will probably do well in your google search.
I guess if you had a number of stolen credit cards you could set up a wishlist item, then use them to contribute. I imagine the final Amazon purchase would be on record as coming from WishListGranted and the item is gifted to you so that might be one layer of separation between you getting an item and the use of stolen cards.

Perhaps you could elaborate on what types of fraud you think would happen?
It may depend on what you can afford.

Pick up a smattering of modern web technologies (python, node.js, ruby is a nice idea) and join a small company / start up.
This can be a shot in the arm; you'll have to wear many hats, and you might find one of these inspiring you better than the others. In a smaller company you might find yourself blogging for the company, writing copy for the website, doing a bit of design, a bit of requirements analysis, all sorts...

But this is only available to you if you're prepared to take a hit to salary - a start up that's prepared to take on someone switching paradigms won't pay as well as a C++ developer job.
It was very painful to listen to. I don't get how you can "dance" to that
Can you explain what's so different about the next 5 years from the previous 5 years that'll result in hyper inflation?
Puerto Rico's very own open data API engine now on PyPI
I'm very pro-paper. Flipping back and forth in a book (is there any other way to read a textbook?) is just a much better experience than swiping madly or spamming PgDwn. I feel trapped inside that little rectangle of a viewport, waiting for pixels to change.

>computers don't take advantage of our spatial memory. I can go back and visualize

I still remember the page of my linear algebra textbook that related rowspace, nullspace, transpose. It seemed terribly confusing at the time so I was staring more than reading. I remember the layout on the page, the red lines. I don't recall the exact formula, so it's not magic, but the memory is so unusually sticky I can't help but agree.

>It's a shame that so few companies are exploring the synergies of paper and digital.

If there's a (cheap) way to use a whiteboard and not resort to A) writing down the novel bits, B) taking a picture, I am all ears. Putting the tech in the board is probably too expensive.. perhaps a marker attachment would be more realistic. Once it's digitized, OCR / vector drawings can be tried & improved. I like the idea of the Evernote/Moleskine duo, but I just don't use moleskines like that.

Random tidbit: in the Mad Men-styled issue of TIME (2012?), there was a very good full-page ad on the real benefits of reading/using paper. Might have it somewhere.
2 Raspberry Pi kits at Bitcoinin.

VPN services at PIA.

Donation to LibreOffice.
Many designers use

abbr{
text-transform:lowercase;
font-variant:small-caps;
letter-spacing:.1em;
}

To make acronyms like HTML and CSS look better on the page. To support i18n, HTML allows setting the language on a per-document or even per-element basis. That way the upper- or lower-casing can be done following the rules of the language.
There's a great quote from Warren Buffett -- something like "I want to give my kids enough money that they can do something, but not so much that they can do nothing."

The clear implication is, having a little bit of money to fall back on helps people build their lives.
It's essentially the same as throwing out holiday or birthday cards with a cash gift inside (if it's a check it could be recoverable by contacting the sender). Shit happens and people forget about things.
I think it would be more accurate to say "as most of the people who wish they met this skill set". I don't know anyone who approaching meeting those requirements who thinks anything better than "meh, they made a couple funny comics over the years" about PA.

You'll notice the PA guys themselves are technologically illiterate. Most of their fan base is too. They appeal to people who want to be labeled as gamers more so than they appeal to people who play games.
Anyone can learn anything. How well can they learn it? That's the question.
You give poor people a basic sum of money so they don't climb over the fence and kill you in your sleep.

You don't think that this is a poor model of crime? There are plenty of empirical counterexamples. During the great depression in the US, crime rates went to an all-time low. The gap between the rich and the poor in the US is at an all-time high; yet the crime rate is again at a low.
Report linking Bitcoin and Silk Road retracted
But I was wrong and it's actually by grapheme, as danbruc correctly notes.
The issue is not any particular language but the platforms. Asm.js is an assembly language that gives native-code performance to browsers that's theoretically on-par with the JVMs' JITs.

You can think of asm.js as a bytecode (like JVM bytecode) that all browsers can interpret. Some browsers are now getting JITs for this "bytecode".

You don't write asm.js in the same way that you don't write assembly or JVM bytecode by hand. You write Java or Clojure or Scala or C or Haskell. Your compiler then turns that into either JVM bytecodes or asm.js assembly. And your JVM or browser will JIT that bytecode into native code.

The real issue now is that the JVM is currently a more capable platform, but the browser has broader penetration and arguably better security. Raw performance is becoming a non-issue with asm.js.
I weep for the rampant explosion of the use of the word "creepy" in the last decade. Someone leering at your ass, or asking if you want to go back to their room to watch fetish porn, is not the same thing as being socially awkward.

It's as if people have collectively realized that awkwardness can be a little like figurative social 'death', but then instead of promoting discourse about how to forgive this triviality, everybody says 'No, it might signal something! It's death! We must avoid death!'
The other big advantage of PNaCl is that you have the option of distributing it as a signed application that the user downloads once. This is critical for doing in-browser encryption or manipulating sensitive data. You need there to be a trusted runtime that makes this possible, but this can't be done in pure Javascript (where it's too easy to insert malicious code that leaks your keys). It's not enough to simply use a crypto API in the browser either---you don't want the Javascript to touch the data at all (otherwise, it could leak the plaintext). Moreover, unlike Java and Flash, PNaCl code is compiled in such a way that the browser can do just-in-time static analysis to verify that the code cannot escape the runtime. These two features---signed code that's trust-on-first-use and JIT static analysis---make PNaCl a much more desirable runtime than asm.js in my opinion.
A common use case for stolen cards is to do small transactions and see if they are successful or not to let you know if the card you found/bought actually works or does not. This site would be a great way to do that.
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