skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work 45+ hours because I love what I do and have little desire to do anything else.
£4m in bitcoin today might just be £40 tomorrow
Only if you look at the generated binary. But the source code which created this binary can be compiled to a myriad of other platforms with only minimal changes. You can compile the (mostly) same source code to JS+WebGL, iOS, Android, OSX, Linux (SteamOS), even Windows (but not Windows Store apps), ... The differences between these platforms is about 1% or 2% of lines of code in a typical 3D game. Compared to porting a game to, say the Xbox One or WiiU this is "peanuts".
I think another key factor is genre. Maintaining a large collection of technical books takes up a lot of space and many of the books become outdated quickly. Ebooks have the advantage of being "upgraded" at a lower price.

However, books with many illustrations, photos, or even novels, do seem to feel better in their physical form.
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For the simple wc example we used in the blog post, that could have worked. (We used this wc example to reduce the problem to its simplest form.)

In practice tough, we use PostgreSQL, and we don't have any control over how Postgres reads its pages. So for our customers, we'd still have this problem.
They're paying them in tickets to the event.

They are 'volunteers' in the sense they are not an event staff handled some company. Penny Arcade decided they wanted some event staff made up of people that were interested in making the event a success because they were also part of it.
This actually will be very useful for following products/news/webcomics/etc online if they develop a convention for using a hashtag on a new release.

Obviously Twitter is a poor-man's RSS, but it's better than nothing.
One-click listing™
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I'm a recent fan of Daniel Shiffman. I just finished "The Nature of Code" the other day and can say that it was the first programming book that I didn't want to end. Glad to see him doing more teaching.
A for-profit enterprise should feel free to ask for volunteers whenever they feel like it, and would-be volunteers should feel free to ignore them if it's a bad deal.

Why do you hate freedom? Think someone's going to steal your job? Are you one of those union members who freak out if someone is setting up at a convention center and plugs in their own laptop or moves their own chair? :P

(Now if they're fraudulent and misrepresent the volunteering, that's another matter.)
Drone crew caught attempting to deliver smokes to prison inmates
I'm pretty confident that in the future it will be possible to break abandoned wallets.
Pretty sure Yahoo uses Google. Maybe you meant Bing?
Police arrest guy with headache because he said "exploding" over the phone
> Pot. Kettle. Black.

My favorite variation of that is, "Pot, meet Kettle."
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Yeah well try comparing BSD package manager and pacman :-) You'll see what I mean. Especially AUR ^_^
Why would this be an administrative nightmare? I can see how deciding which JS/CSS libraries should be included can cause dispute, but apart from that, why not?

I actually even always wondered why the default css applied to elements isn't standardised, so pages not containing reset.css or normalize.css-sheets render differently or how certain Javascript methods differ from browser to browser.

But I guess that is a rather different discussion.
I really wish that they would update that FAQ. :/
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Well any product links could be his affiliate link to amazon - it won't be millions but if the site gets popular it can add up.
Regional hashtags seem to be the only ones that actually work "as intended". They're still flooded with the "coupon-pack" local businesses generating chatter, but that's at least vaguely related to the intent of the hashtag.
One thing that would be interesting is "Latency from where". Yandex seems to do pretty badly, but is that also true if you're in Russia?
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Bitcoin worth $1000 each
The inflationary cycle only exists if you don't do the math.

If we take a universe where there are 3 people, one guy makes $100, another makes $300 a year, another makes $1000 a year. We'll assume that everyone spends all their money every year.

Suddenly the gov't decides to give everyone basic income, a stipend of about $100 a year.

Suddenly the bottom guy gets enough money to live and quits his job at Walmart. Walmart finds out that people are willing to work for double the old salary though($200). So they multiply the price of goods by 2. The guy from before starts working again.

Guy 1 now has $300 a year, Guy 2 $400, Guy 3 $1100

but prices have doubled right? so in PPP the totals are:
Guy 1 has $150, Guy 2 $200 , Guy 3 $550

Guy 1 still ends up richer in the end.

This universe had 0% unemployment and Walmart made no profits. Basic income doesn't destroy wealth, it transfers wealth just like pretty much any gov't scheme. And richer people will end up paying for it (oh no!).

But on the bright side, people at the bottom will end up richer (because the higher wages end up going to someone), and will be able to live in respectable conditions (Which leads to all sorts of good things like being able to keep themselves and their children healthy, lowering the incentive for crime, etc). And it doesn't have the moral judgements attached to a lot of welfare.

I haven't formalised the calculation, but I'm fairly certain that by the continuity of the universe of economics, and the fact that someone with $0 revenue now will always be richer with basic income, there are winners in the system, and so it doesn't turn into some inflationary spiral.
For the record, Racket gets the "baﬄe" example right:

racket@> (string-upcase "baﬄe")
"BAFFLE"

It also passes all of the author's other tests (except for the ones involving combining diacritics, but racket includes built-in functions for normalizing such strings so you can work with them)
One of the things I like about physical books, when you are done, you can just give it away to a friend or a local library.
A poor guy with an "exploding headache" talked over the phone and the police thought he was a terrorist
Automate something (my favorite advice), or analyze something. Find a task that has a lot of manual steps (copy a file here, copy a string from there, etc) and automate whatever you can.

Pick something apart and analyze it programatically. Email is great as there are protocols and libraries to do this with. Find a/the IMAP library for your language of choice, copy a bunch of messages to some place where you won't harm the originals, and start picking apart the folders and messages. See what you can know about what's in a folder and list it. See what you can know about a message, and list that all out.

You could do the same with a bare html document, there are really good libraries to pick apart an html doc. Beyond that, learn the DOM and pick it apart from that angle.
iOS is really hot right now. Maybe parlay your C++ skills into learning Objective C and make some demo iOS apps.
By using SHA-2?
I think this is the key thing here. This guy came on and grew into the job. He's obviously skilled and motivated, and because he built the systems from the ground up, can keep them maintained with way less effort than someone coming in will be able to.

Even if they find someone who's just as skilled and motivated, that person won't have the key experience of "I built all this" and will have to spend a much larger fraction of time on maintenance/extension.

Ultimately PA will have to hire multiple people to do all this stuff. If they're smart they'll recognize it now, rather than when the smart, motivated person they do hire starts to fail.
If you say "private def methodname(args); end",

the "private" keyword already takes a symbol for a method name to privatize, so in this case the return of "def methodname(args); end" is ":methodname" which then gets passed to "private" and everything magically works.
I like to think that programmers are better than most at seeing the assumptions behind ideas, and testing them where possible (or taking the ideas less seriously if not.)

Did you go out of your way to test the assumptions behind this idea before taking it seriously?
but with fractional banking and the like the amount of money actually in the system is always increasing, so the inflation isn't actually "destroying" anything, it's basically just the equivalent to a flat tax that goes out to banks to help fund loans

At one point I had the impression that inflation is supposed to encourage spending, but thinking about it, it probably punishes the poor (who have pretty much no savings) more than anything
Searching for millionshort on millionshort gives you... millionshort.com
A mobile web app (https://treycent.com) that lets you create voice-enabled question answering sites by tagging internet or intranet content with spoken questions. After a while you end up with a private Siri: a site capable of answering questions relevant to your team. Also working on a companion Google Glass app.
>I agree that only using UTF-8 would be the right thing, but only if you don't want to have "array of codepoints"

Then we agree entirely. I want all strings to be UTF-8. Period. What I said about an array of codepoints was that I would create one seperately from the string if I ever had a requirement to access individual code point positions repeatedly in a tight loop.

>the problem is: every language, and every developer expect to be able to have random access to codepoints in their strings

If by random access you mean constant time access then those developers would be very disappointed to learn that they cannot do that in Java, C#, C++, JavaScript or Python, unless they happen to know that their string cannot possibly contain any characters outside the ASCII or BMP range.

>would you prefer to have O(n) indexing and slicing of strings

I would leave indexing/slicing operators in place and make sure everyone knows that it works with bytes not codepoints. In addition to that I would provide an O(n) function to access the nth codepoint as part of the standard library.
Nice point. We've been planning a map based visualization. That would definitely help in this regard.
Four kids under 6... I envy you man. My wife and I are working toward that but it will be a few years. Hang in there. You're in my prayers.
Would you be willing to bet that it would still be worth as much when you find it? It's not gold, it's bitcoins.

This sounds like it would be an incredibly unwise and risky investment, even if you pretend that you will definitely find the hdd.
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That talk capture the feeling of the entire conference so well. If only more conferences were as good as that one.
Indeed, the first part (search that filters out site with ads, including affiliate links and the like) is something I wish for frequently. It isn't that I mind seeing ads (I can use AdBlock for that, and sometimes do), it's that I don't want to wade through spam sites when looking for info, and sites with ads seems like an obvious hard filter. Maybe DDG or the like could implement filter.
No. Blockchain.info indexes the block chain by address. bitcoind indexes the block chain by transaction IDs (if you enable it). You'd still have to index the data you get from RPC calls by address if you want to track the movement of certain coins.

It's a lot easier to just get it from blockchain.info.
Just found this page: https://sailfishos.org/about-technology.html

They use Qt 5.
Now this is fricken awesome. I can imagine all sorts of instances where this is applicable. What about as a replacement for a notary public in some cases? Very nice work, and a genius idea.
Wishlists are so impersonal. Donating funds to someone's wishlist takes just a few minutes, and you don't even have to speak with the recipient. If the point of gift giving is to strengthen social bonds and show regard for one another, how do wishlists achieve this?

That said, if wishlists are your choice, this is an efficient way to handle it.
My question was about Herschel, for which planetary protection is irrelevant because its not visiting any planets.
The main question for a site like this is: how are you collecting your data? CDNs have dozens of nodes and the performance a user sees will depend on what the network looks like between them and the nearest one. For example, if all your measurements were from an EC2 instance in us-east you'd only be measuring a tiny and easily-gamed slice of CDN performance.

On their about page they write that they're "grateful to Pingdom for providing access to their data" but I can't find anything more about which and how many places they're measuring from or how they combine measurements from different places.

Disclaimer: I work for Google on mod_pagespeed and ngx_pagespeed, and I sit near the people who handle developers.google.com/speed/libraries/ But I don't know anything about how they serve the hosted library traffic.
It is standardized but as many things in the web pre-HTML5 not all vendors agreed with the standards.
I think it's mostly just weird because the fixed header doesn't have a border or anything along the bottom to let you know where it ends and the content begins. I see no reason for it to be fixed at all to be honest, the content isn't extremely useful. I also wish more sites would do min-height media queries before fixing elements to my screen. The header and footer here are pretty greedy with the spacing on this site.
My first impression, thought Jolla is a user interface skin build on top of Sailfish OS due to the highlight of "gesture based".
for a second I thought this was indestructible bacteria accidentally brought back from a trip to outer-space and was momentarily terrified.
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The problem: even if you find the derive after spending all that money, there is a very good chance it is completely unreadable after spending months in a landfill.
How The US Media Would Cover Thanksgiving If It Were In Another Country
The actual story was sourced entirely from this reddit post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rilcj/as_a_person_...

Which was sourced entirely from "someone in the IRC channel".

Whether it's true or not is one thing, but if it is then the reddit source also says:

> He went to the "recycling centre" and they showed him around.

This makes some sense, I've 'recycled' before at places like this: http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/spacewaye

You go along, separate your stuff into several different piles. Pay fees for things like fridges, CRTs, etc. Then you leave.

The thing is... I don't actually believe that electrical equipment is really recycled. Stuff like monitors may have the most toxic bits removed, but I strongly suspect that all other electrical equipment is just put into landfill as-is.

If the story is all true then the facility in question is this one:
http://www.newport.gov.uk/_dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=wasterecy...

Which is advertised as a recycling centre.

Which means the guy has done all that he could to get it recycled, and that it's the authorities and government services themselves who are just dumping stuff in landfill even when it was delivered as recycling.

All that said... if it was recycled as advertised, then the chances of it still existing would be closer to zero than the current scenario.
Ah yes, i was wondering if that was the same Nick Collins who wrote the awesome books on Handmade Electronic Music :)

I wonder how the author of the article missed that, heh.

Anyway, obviously, this live-coding is not "The Future" any more than anything else is, nor is it 100% new; There have been experiments since the beginning of computer music trying to make live compositions---

NEVERTHELESS, I think this article is great because it documents and celebrates how much technology we've leveraged w/r/t to music. We can now analyze and compose with great effect and detail. I mean, there are over 160 APIs for music on the web alone now:
http://www.programmableweb.com/apitag/music

Now that understanding of parsing and programming and algorithms is growing, we should expect to see our knowledge reflected in the field of music! Yay!
Well, it's much easier to see someone's skin color than it is their poverty.
Meanwhile, many of those languages with accented characters have no use for letters like z.

It's not really worth mentioning the alphabet when talking about unique features of English.
"Just because you can get something done, that doesn't mean you did it by writing well-thought-out, sanely structured, maintainable, readable, useful code."

At no point did I claim to 'just get things done'. YOU said that. What I wrote was that I have years of experience building mission critical applications (which, of course, I would not claim if I could not prove).

It's not hard to prove or disprove if someone knows what they are talking about. I view 'coding challenges' as a sign that the company is not confident in their ability to assess people. It's a red flag to me. It's an amateur move. It tells me a LOT about the company from the inside, and it's not good.

'Coding challenges' are for companies who don't understand the skill set they are hiring for. I've hired plenty of devs over the years as well - we've had some bad ass programmers who worked for us, and I never needed a coding challenge to figure out who to hire.
Damn dude, you're really nice. Props. Also, hope everything turns around for you, themanthatfell.
That is correct, but strongmen in your example exist exclusively to extract money (the ultimate common denominator in almost all societies) from weaker people/tribes. That is my position. Without government, you are obligated to pay your own private security force, driving on your own private roads, paying for your own private healthcare. My position is that you would probably pay a similar percentage of your income to provide these services for yourself than if most everybody contributed to a pot of money to provide these services for the greater good.
What makes grunt better than the alternatives?
Except we have the highest incarceration rate in the world and I read we pay somewhere around 80k per prisoner per year.
Come to Houston, where most of the departments operating here earn lots of income from neighborhoods. Your HOA pays the departments to guarantee periodic patrols or even guarantee an officer present somewhere inside 24/7.

This is not the same as off-duty police being hired; they pay the department toward officer salaries. Just because they're sworn to protect doesn't mean they can't prefer to protect certain areas.
Citation please (sounds interesting, but yeah), and does it get exchanged at the speed that this stuff does, or does it take thousands^x years to arrive?

Not that I disagree. Just wondering if there are a few orders of magnitude that need to be considered.
This is a good real-world example and the response is an armchair programmer informing you that you are doing it wrong. The internet is rife with know-it-alls. "Just do X." Well, I cannot because I am contractually obligated to write the software as specified and not cowboy up and do whatever I like.

Maybe someone decided 100 characters was a reasonable cutoff and that field is not important enough to reject (read: increase bounce rate) on if someone manages to send too much.

Maybe the 100 characters is a short string generated from an unrestricted long string and cached on a separate server.
My comment only was that parent's account age should have nothing to do with the content of the comment.
Java's greatest sin for the web was not having the JVM have access to the DOM like javascript.
I was thinking along similar lines today, but geared more towards proof of title.
I have a 50 BTC wallet encrypted with a password I can't remember.

Been meaning to figure out how to script something to run through variations on the type of password I would have used.
1. I believe penalties for polluting our externalities should be greater, yes. As evidence I cite the fact that people keep polluting with existing penalties/enforcement. The tragedy of the commons is a very real thing.

2. I wasn't recommending that be the legal penalty. But if karma decides to be a bitch to this guy, hey I ain't complainin'.

3. I was exaggerating for effect. Seemed for a good cause: We human beings are total bastards towards the environment.
Zimbabwe had hyper-inflation, which made currency worthless as soon as it was printed. Bitcoins have the opposite "problem".
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Using a centralized cdn would increase the chance of a cache hit.
Social Security generally requires that your fracture hasn't healed for least six months and a doctor's opinion that it is unlikely to heal for a total of at least 12 months.

So I guess it is technically true, and the advice to someone who breaks their leg is to make sure that it is a horrific fracture that won't heal for a year. Sounds like a comprehensive safety net after all, people with the typical recovery time of only three months are just ineffective and don't want to use the safety net.
Because for the price of the case you can get a flash drive with similar capacity than a 5 year old laptop drive, and much nicer, smaller and more portable?
Totally understandable - pricing is not 100% certain yet, so I'm not really featuring it. I'll make a note to add it more prominently once I make up my mind a bit better!
There are some people who believe a realistic value for bitcoin in the success scenario could be circa 1 million dollars (if it were to partially supplant gold or USD).

As a thought experiment, if I google for landfill prices, I see prices like 40 million dollars for a landfill. So if you can mine one hard drive in that scenario, landfills should be massively more valuable.
i'll add that the most recent paperwhite has a really great display, much better than anything before it.
People throw away money all the time. I used to do landfill design. Summers were spent on sites doing inspections. My former boss tells the story someone came looking for trash from a specific location. They ask, did anyone see metal box? They went to look for it and couldn't find it. Asked what was in the box, the response was "Money, a lot of money..."

If you throw something away by mistake your only chance is to get to the landfill before the truck does and hope they'll dump in a separate area you can pick through.
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You're doing good. Keep on doing that.

Good to have a job related to what you're doing, always good to be able to bring in money.

Good decision on CC to Uni. When you're in University you could look in to interning somewhere during the summer, and/or just getting a somewhat better part time job.

A good long term goal is to become independently wealthy, or a reasonable approximation, by sometime in your thirties. Even if you don't become independent, or it takes longer than your thirties, you'll be far better off from the attempt than otherwise.

So learn what that would take, and start executing on that as the backdrop to whatever you're doing in the foreground from year to year. It's not just maxing your salary, it's smart and minimal spending, saving, investing and opportunities. Pay attention to your finances.
Talk to these guys, they're highly regarded in r/bitcoin and you can do it without compromising access to the coins: http://www.walletrecoveryservices.com/
Actually asm.js is possible to AOT compile, not just JIT.
Steam Autumn Sale (interesting design at bottom)
I think it's part of the same discussion. It makes total logical sense for default CSS to be standardised. Why isn't it? Because coordination between browser manufacturers is extremely patchy.

So, different browsers would have different libraries included depending on who made them. Possibly different versions too. It would just be very messy, with little reward.