skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but even more key than that is that this is a question about perception, which can potentially be overcome with education.

How many of the people who say they prefer a physical book have read a complete book using a modern e-reader? How many of them have learned about a book, gone to their e-reader, bought it, and started reading, all within 5 minutes, while sitting in their pajamas, at 11pm? How many have purchased enough e-books that they feel they are carrying a small library in their bag, even though it still only weighs less than a pound.

There are compelling reasons to like an e-reader even if you still really prefer a physical book.
What's wrong with the URL? I see %EF%BB%BF when I cut and paste out of Chrome, which appears to be a Byte Order Mark. I have heard of this before (related to: how to remove the byte order mark) but I've never seen one in the wild.

http://owenou.com/2013/11/27/writing-build-tasks-in-go-with-...
Embeds Return To New Google Maps, Will Soon Include Ads
http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/04/04/part-2-the-gener...
Rails 4 Multiple File Uploads, Paperclip, Amazon S3, S3_direct_upload
The second half of the 19th century the US was in deflation, yet economy boomed and unemployment wasn't high at all.
Ok, then I think we do understand each other. The only question then is what words to use to avoid confusion. So you are fully ok with the phrase "optimize for asm.js-style code"?

I didn't mean splay necessarily ;) It is easy to make a benchmark that relies heavily on GGC or escape analysis.
yui official cdn?
What data (if any) would convince you that the idea of the lazy poor is not a myth?
NSA spied on porn, online sexual habits to discredit “radicalizers”
Yes and no: The high transaction fee is just a side effect of the fact that bitcoin is so popular now that this high fee is needed to keep the size of the blockchain manageable.
They are pretty much lost, unless a plurality of miners decide to change the rules.
Assembling a dev team in the age of mobile
Does anyone have any statistics or articles about the price differential between ebooks and print? I use my kindle for things like biographies and novels, and exclusively print for things like technical books, mostly due to the poor experience I've had with technical books on e-readers.

More and more though, I've been buying print books simply because, in my own experience, the last couple of books I've purchased have BARELY been cheaper in ebook format than in print. I don't have any data to support me, but I can't help but feel like over the last few years, the gap between prices of ebooks and print books has closed, and with it, one of the big selling points (for me at least) for ebooks.

I'm curious to see if this is actually the case, or just my own personal experience.
I consulted some people who work in eForensics and they told me that nothing would be done. Notifying law enforcement wouldn't stop the masses of chargebacks we were having to both deal with and pay for.

Cybercrime is pretty rampant and there are many bigger players than this, plus I doubt any of the details I found were genuine. Realistically what would the law enforcement do?
This has been tried. Brazil. South Africa. China. India. The list goes on. These are countries where the wealthy can't walk around freely on the streets without substantial protections, where quality of life is simultaneously high and low.

Instead of enjoying your wealth on your own terms, now you're in a cycle of vetting your drivers, your nannies, and anyone else who comes within physical vicinity of you. Your physical movements are restricted to routes and destinations that are vetted and secured.

And as the wealth gap increases, the threat to your life increases also. Kidnapping a millionaire may not be worth risking your life - but what about kidnapping a billionaire? As inequality rises the lengths people will go to to harm you increases also, resulting in ever-higher fences, ever more advanced security, and a non-stop arms race between you and the poor.

This is already reality in a lot of places. I for one don't want it to become the reality here.
also, if it was not... now the malicious one is. forever.
Or they don't really consider smartphones or PCs suitable devices for reading ebooks. I know I'll read an ebook on my smartphone from time to time but if that were all I had, I certainly wouldn't buy ebooks for it. Of course, I think it's also entirely possible that at least some respondents just answered whether they had an ebook reader or not--however the actual question was worded.
Nothing is really deleted, the NSA already has a backup copy and I'm pretty sure Google would be able to retrieve this from archive should it be required from law enforcement.

But agree, he could have just snooped around to gather whatever info he needed and also notified law enforcement.
I don't know...I did paste the right link. Thanks for posting the right link here again.
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But the government is already subsidizing the base salary. Everything that Walmart gives is in addition to that which would probably reduce their costs.

Also not everything is in the function of pay. Once people have enough for living, the deciding factor like having an enjoyable and meaningful job also do count. It's then up to Walmart to transform themselves to become that place and attract employees.
What was the atmosphere like in your opinion?
The downvoter of the parent comment probably didn't notice that it's an anagram for "I see what you did there".
"Yol-la" probably confers the intended spelling in English. The word Jolla is Finnish and means a small boat. It's a reference to the famous burning platform memo.

P.S. I was one of the 450 guys who got their phone today. Got it literally 20 minutes ago.
For millions of pounds, it might be worth using an electron microscope to try to pull the bits off if the platters can be recovered.
That's what Kindle Matchbook is: https://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/ep-landing-page?ie=UTF8&*V...
He's innovating.
It's nice to see Reason, the voice of mainstream American libertarianism, getting behind this idea. I think it's possible to win over significant elements of the left as well (although you'd probably have to fight labor and others that benefit from the current political structure). I've thought for a while that a libertarian/liberal alliance makes far more sense and could shake the American political system far more effectively than the current structure where the libertarians are unhappy puppets of the Republicans. This is the issue that could make it work.
Thanks for the feedback!

1) Anything in particular that seems off with the design?
2) We've launched about a month ago, and we did receive some coverage already. but you're right - not all of this pertains directly to Quistic. The other coverage is for our CEO, who was doing career coaching before she co-launched this business. That needs clarification.
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Hard drives are fairly robust when unpowered and can take quite heavy shocks and still be fine. The drive itself might be fucked but so long as the platters are in one piece there's a decent hope a good data recovery co could retrieve the data. The danger is it got bent or crushed, and that'd be what I'd guess has happened.
> Massive deflation discourages spending, and encourages more speculation

It encourages a lower PERCENTAGE of spending, but has no impact on real value of the bitcoins being spent (i.e. how many eggs/houses/etc the coins in circulation could buy)
Which is why you look at market depth indicators. http://bitcoinity.org/markets or http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD_depth.html for example.
Actually, the European model isn't "free money" but subsidized education, healthcare and housing. Actually, the European model is the opposite of "free money". People here are not paid to leave the rich alone but to enhance their prospects using their own resources. The libertarian dream - free money and free dope - would be a nightmare for the target groups: expelled from society with an apanage without hope to ever come back.
You might be surprised. A friend of mine who is a very smart guy got laid of from his job with a bunch of redundancy money. All he did was sit and play WoW until the money started to run out and then went out and got another job.

If you can do whatever you want, you will probably want to do stuff that makes you happy. One of those things will probably not be reporting to a boss or person to whom you are accountable but that accountability is an essential part of the economic feedback loop that tells you that what you are doing is a good use of time.
I think it's based on referrer, not where you actually do the upvote.

I.e. if you get to the article page from the main page, then that's fine. But if you arrive there with no referrer or from somewhere else, then it isn't counted, since quite possibly someone sent you the specific article just to upvote it.

At least that's how I understand it...
I have to say that it feels great to help someone, you should try it.
Nokia now controls 90% of the Windows Phone 8 market
A piece of processed wood should not be preferred over a notebook sized device capable of storing over 3000 books and capable of wireless connection basically removing the size limit.

Nostalgia is great, but so is our environment.
Did I suggest that the USA was founded on the premise of snake oil sales? No. You're misconstruing what I plainly said just so it's easy to dismiss it.

I don't mind a government oversight as a matter of openness and standardization. I do mind government exercising power for its own sake, ordering a business to cease & desist when the service is using new technology to help people be better informed (WITH clear caveats that the information is suggestive, not authoritative).

I worked with your examples (website, consumer victimization, etc) and observed that government is equally as guilty as you construe private business is, and from there questioned why you respect one and demonize the other.

So long as 23AM makes clear their offering is not to be construed as actionable medical advice (suggestive, but not definitive by any means), the FDA should not be ordering them to stop service under threat of penalty/arrest.
is it possible to buy a physical title on amazon, and have access to the kindle version until the physical copy arrives?

if not, why not?
Right, and looking at stats like murder rates, incarceration numbers, etc. the US system is clearly working and superior.

I can walk any street at 2am in Vienna without looking over my shoulder.

Oakland? Philly?

A personal gun doesn't stop anyone. Fantasy from lala land.
I find keeping track of "context" is much easier with a real book. For example, I know that I saw an equation 3 or 4 pages ago on the top left, so I can quickly flip back and find it, whereas on a digital form a would have to PGUP a couple of times and be presented with a "blur" of pixels and try to catch the same equation.

Then again, I'm not sure what UI modern eBook readers have for setting and going to bookmarks.
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Just look at the children today who have parents that are wealthy enough to support their children through adulthood. Most of them, I suspect, go through college and then work, either in the family business, some business of their own (possibly a boutique business that can never earn a profit but still pays rent and tax and maybe some salaries), or in some kind of charity/fundraising business.

With mincome, more children whose parents couldn't give them that kind of support would probably behave this way. And that would probably be a good thing.

There are also the brats of the super-rich which do nothing but throw away money, but even they are throwing their money towards people who can make better use of it. So maybe we'd have middle-income brats living off mincome and throwing it all away without doing productive work, but so what? They're not going to hoard the money, they're going to spend it, and that will drive the economy and put the money into the hands of people who are working productively.
I fail to see the problem when humanity reaps the rewards of automation.
I'm calling bullshit. They are selling a product, namely the survey. Here's the Buy link if anyone is so inclined. http://pul.ly/b/85744

If you want to make claims like this, perform a proper scientific study. Document your steps thoroughly, verify your questions aren't leading, use a control group, then publish somewhere appropriate (preferably an open access journal) and let other sociologists attempt to replicate your results.

I can't tell if that was done here because they want hundreds of pounds to find out.
> I go to parties with about the same crew most of the time, so replay value is not too desirable

I'd say then it's even more desirable.

I lost count on how many parties I've played Munchkin.
Ask the JQuery devs, Chrome causes them more troubles than all other modern browsers combined (IE9+, FF, Safari, etc).

I am well aware of the history and I hate IE < 10 too. I use FF as main development browser, and beside others of course Chrome and IE 11. The trouble comes when people only test their website with Chrome. I am using IE 11 as I have to at my workplace and it has by far the best UX (IMHO). FF still uses only one process and cannot handle my habit of using dozens or even hundreds of tabs in an optimal way.
But what about when you're at the location you traveled to?
Hi,

The data is based on Pingdom, yes. Recently we made sure each CDN is monitored from the same group of servers.

It's probably not ideal. It definitely would be great if we could provide some alternative metrics. Ideas are welcome. :)
No, I mean forking the software to start a whole new blockchain.

What distinguishes one blockchain from another? Nothing, they're just numbers.

What distinguishes gold from silver? Nature.
It is possible for it to have evolved in the last few decades, but really unlikely. The stated figure of less than 5% DNA commonality implies a really extensive divergence. Given the low energy environment it grows it, the bacteria likely reproduces at a very slow rate, making the divergence over the last few decades very unlikely.

That said, its probable that the strains discovered are probably some slight "modification" from the "wildtype" bacteria.

As for what they eat in a clean room, there are a couple options. A) They might be driven mostly by alcohol metabolism and feeding off residual alcohol from the containimation. Or might likely B) they're feeding off the skin flakes coming off the "unshielded" areas of the workers, and that they are just very very slow.
Of course I made copies of all the emails. It's a shame I can't read Portuguese.

The guy resides in Brazil (the other side of the world to me). Realistically what would have happened if I had contacted the Brazilian police about such an issue? Do you honestly think they would spend any resources on such a small player in the Cybercrime world? I contacted all the other companies he was renting from instead, which I thought was much more proactive.
Because titles aren't written by journalists, they're written by sub editors, and so tend to be totally out of step with the rest of the article.
You bring up a good point. For stuff like this where the resource is plausibly already loaded before the user ever even visits your site you may want to look at what version of this library your users are most likely to have preloaded.

You probably want to devise a scoring function based on likelihood that the resource is loaded already and cost if it is not and rank your CDN options based on that.
Ask HN: What are you thankful for? (HN edition)
People, technology & ideas that made a hacker-based positive impact over the last 12 months.
* If you want to work 80 or more hours
* Prepare to have a laptop and some way of connecting to the internet with you at all times. Want to go on a hike somewhere there's no reception? Sorry, you can't.
* They pushed out the launch, came and visited me in the hospital, brought me delicious Asian snacks and lent me a Vita to help pass the time.

So 80 hours of work a week -- or more.
Inability to travel or enjoy wilderness or even visit family if they don't have reception.
And if you're in the hospital, maybe they will visit and lend you something relatively cheap that you can return later.
Amazon's started offering it on some titles - https://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/ep-landing-page?ie=UTF8&*V...

But it doesn't seem to have much support from the big publishers, who aren't exactly known for their customer friendliness.
I don't have the numbers for Google, but companies like Microsoft host e-mail archives regardless of deletion for something like a year. AOL claims that it hosts it indefinitely, but it would be nice to know what Google does.

I wrote on this years ago:

https://afreak.ca/blog/a-look-at-data-retention-and-law-enfo...

He should have left the e-mail account alone or at the very least made an offline archive if he truly wanted to look at the data for research reasons.
It's pretty easy to directly search those sites with DuckDuckGo. They all should have !bang shortcuts.
Laptop drives just aren't as useful as desktop drives (most towers can take 3-5 3.5" drives, most laptops can take exactly 1x 2.5"), and this particular platter was probably only 64-256GB?
I was going to say exactly this. After two cross-city moves and one cross-country move, my wife and I converted our sizable (~100-150) book collection completely over to e-books before moving overseas. The most annoying thing about physical books is that they are so dense. Movers (especially long-distance movers) will charge on both weight and space, so even though it may not seem like you have a lot of stuff, the added cost of moving a couple dozen books can quickly eclipse the expense of replacing them electronically.
but how does the browser interpret a hidden window like the one shown? maybe it even sends out that the page is in view... and even if not... how long until the malware coerce it to say so?

and you are the only one here in the right track. the ad ecosystem IS moving to a bill per viewability model. though for the wrong reasons (drive advertiser expending down, like they did artificially with paying for click instead of display)
I wonder how many hard drives are retrieved and then somehow rescued - which may no longer power up so expert help to recover data off the platters is required. Rinse. Repeat.
Much social bonding is accomplished by gently making fun of one another. If you strip that out, you lose a valuable social tool.
edit: I could see this being just a good general approach to development. Like a concrete how-to on doing continuous delivery from day one.

I've even started using grunt with a C++ project I'm working on, and if I make sure that from day one I can start up from a new machine:

% grunt init

... my life is better.

It's interesting, grunt is a nice "automation layer", as opposed to a build tool. I'm now using it to automate my build setup. Having that extra thing to bring it all together into one command makes it all so much easier.
Not it is not.
A lot of basic metadata is cached and quickly accessible.
The funny thing is that I do have some experience with auto repair, HVAC, and carpentry. My Dad is a general contractor and every summer I would usually go help him with jobs. I've helped build a house, work on a custom deck for a pool, and quite a few other things. We have worked on my truck and car together. Being in Houston isn't the best for doing that stuff. Being in an attic where it's 90+ out isn't very fun. Thanks for the advice though!
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It was a bug in the decoding: it raised an unexpected exception, nothing that couldn't be worked around with a check (afaik it didn't crash the interpreter)

and it has been fixed since more than 1 month, just 2 days after it was reported

http://bugs.python.org/issue19279

Let's avoid spreading fud, shall we? :)
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So, you're right, it hasn't been entirely vaporware. The N800, N900 and N9 did ship, and were pretty impressive.

But when the N900 shipped with Maemo, they then announced that they were changing a large portion of the stack, from GTK to Qt, from dpkg to rpm, from Maemo to MeeGo. So the software stack was pretty much obsolete as soon as it shipped. Then the N9 was released after Nokia had cancelled development on MeeGo, so it was pretty unclear if the platform had any future at all.

Now it's been two more years, and I've heard a lot about Tizen and Mer and Sailfish and Plasma Active and so on, but I haven't actually seen any hardware running them that's generally available.

So yeah, it's pretty impressive what they've done with the resources they have, but I really don't want to invest time and money into a platform that's going to disappear or be reinvented in another year.
When asked if I prefer physical or digital books, I always want to say that I prefer paper. The truth is, while I switch back and forth pretty regularly, I find paper is pretty annoying.

I'm reading The Wheel of Time series right now, entirely on paperback, and I'm constantly aware of how it is physically more annoying to read. I have to constantly switch positions depending on lighting, or which side of the page I am on.

While reading on my kindle, I get to sit still in a comfortable position and not worry about flopping around to catch the light differently on a each side of the book.
Don't be a 'Digital Social Liability'
Wow, that's a big comment with great insights. I know it's not perfect, but as the phrase says "if you're not embarrassed by the 1st version, you've launched too late". I want to add some of the UI improvements you mention.

I didn't let the seller specify a minimum amount he's willing to accept because a)the listing could stay 1 year and the price will be dropping b) she just need to scan the 1st offers, ordered by offered amount.

Yes, it will be some spammy customer trying to buy iPads for $1, but every offer cost a credit, I hope that will discourage most of them.

Again, thanks for all your comments.
It really seems to me it depends on the book and the circumstances. A nice, reasonably sized paperback or hardcover is great for reading; it's less great for carrying around with you or storing. On the other hand, a 1000+ page monster is much easier to read as an e-book. (Though it might look beautiful on your bookshelf.) And the convenience of having 5000+ pages of reading material on my phone is completely unbeatable.

The great thing is, there's absolutely no reason not to do both. Usually at any time I'm reading two or three physical books and two or three e-books.
The best advice I've ever heard: when you get to a party, look for any group of two people and approach them. Either they both know each other, in which case they probably know that they should be meeting other people but they're not, or they don't, and so you're probably not interrupting anything terribly important (and you give one or both of them an opportunity to escape a conversation if they want).
Redefining Necessities
The whole post made me think of someone defending an abusive spouse. 'Yeah I'm not allowed to go anywhere ever, but he takes care of me. I probably wouldn't even meet the requirements for the job, I'm sure lucky he chose me.'
Police are assigned to serve all, protecting poor as well.

If welfare is going to be provided to such a large scale as we do, then yes I'd rather the BI approach just to keep things simple and efficient - and to reveal the veiled problems a complex welfare system conceals.

And no, charity is not utter bullshit. What I do isn't signaling anything to anyone, as I keep it as low-profile & anonymous as possible. Altruism exists, and the nature of it means you don't know much about that of others precisely because its nature is to be low-profile & anonymous.