skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You need electricity for that"

You're extremely close to the correct answer there. This topic suffers from the same fixation as digital archivists, how do we abandon something for 10K years yet find it "working" in 10K years? Oh that's easy, don't abandon it.

So you need a way to maintain the site, with some level of continuity. Well, I'm guessing in the middle of a desert, watermelon farms and recreational waterparks and aquaculture aren't going to work. How about the worlds largest solar power plant?

That would provide a reason for staffing and monitoring the site and a reason not to dig it up, or at least not to dig far enough down to get the bad stuff. If you build it "tough" and "reliable" there's no reason to think it would ever be decommissioned. You don't even technically need to run a profit, just need to generate enough KWh that it'll always be able to support, however minimally, some kind of onsite staff to keep it under control and keep things "civil".

Perhaps put a giant military base on it. With the idea that when civilizations collapse, the army seems to be the last entity to go. Of course that makes it a strategic target, but if the bad stuff is buried 3 miles down, or maybe nearby but not underneath, its still OK.

The other fixation is the 10K years. Trust me, if you run the math, its not magically turned into organic applesauce at year 10001... Much as the radiation exponentially decays, so does the need to "protect" and "document" the site. Somebody cracking it open in 500 years is a lot bigger problem than 5000 years or 50000 years, so we need to focus on 500 yrs problems a lot more than 50000000 years.

By far, the biggest danger the site poses is 500 yrs from now someone with a bit of ambition is going to point out that with centuries of "used" fuel with burnup ratios like 1%, that means 99% is unburned and with a bit of refining, we could run the worlds reactors for 99% of a couple centuries. Of course refining has some environmental risks, and the only thing worse than a local getting the bright idea, is someone "far away and upwind" being owed a favor and not particularly caring what happens downwind. The most likely environmental disaster failure mode isn't ignorant savages from the intro scene of the 2001 movie trying to make a hammer out of nuke waste, but some kind of economic collapse in a couple decades and Saudi Arabia is willing to trade U235 for their atomic powered desal plants in exchange for crude oil. Or maybe trading with Canada to get food, whatever.

Finally it doesn't really matter anyway. The fixation on nuke waste is its only dangerous for "awhile". We have much larger stockpiles of ore refining waste, coal ash waste, organic chemical waste, all of which lasts forever, and no one cares about that, although in practice its a much bigger problem.
I doubt it changed the search behavior of "Joe User" at all.
Game about squares
Yes, this behavior is spelled out in detail in the Python Language Reference [1], in particular section 6.14 Evaluation Order. It explicitly states that the order of evaluation is left to right with the right hand side of assignments being executed before the left hand side. It further gives this example where expressions are evaluated in the order of their suffixes:

expr3, expr4 = expr1, expr2

Although evaluation order is handled differently by different programming languages, it seems that Python is behaving logically here.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.4/reference/expressions.html#evalu...
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Los falsos mitos de los juegos de azar
More history etc at http://www.nordpoolspot.com/
HOPE X – Snowden
What would your salary be if you just got a normal software engineering job with an established company?
If you're trying to prevent a burglar, it's overkill. They'll just use a crowbar.
> Interfering to suppress spam or a flamewar is reasonable but interfering to suppress things which contain ideas you personally disagree with is not.

By "what makes up worthwhile discussion" I was referring to a content-neutral or viewpoint-neutral notion of the idea. (The general category of "Not written for the reader's sake" encompasses most of the badness.)
La más fácil, la imitación; la más amarga
Remember this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_Ar...

By these guys?

http://www.corba.org/

Whatever happened to that?
In the UK I'd be very surprised if they got a valuation of that size, UK market is very conservative when it comes to valuation - the only way I see them getting a valuation like that is if investors were taking debt and equity - in which case the "valuation" is much harder to quantify as they will be paying with both debt and equity got the investment.

Either way, that's a pretty low starting salary. £44k is good but get it in writing before you accept the job or I can see that offer evaporating.
American doctor, working in Liberia, contracts Ebola
Yes. The UI equivalent of automotive tail fins is expensive. That's the sole point of it.

At some point in the "near" future it'll be energetically a net positive to snap a pix on the cam, analyze the eye pupils and accelerometers and recent eyeball movements, and if you're not looking at that part of the screen, its not going to waste energy displaying it. Could even see this happening with backlighting. Watching other people use their phones is likely to get very distracting for 3rd parties.
Is ~£1.4k/month before or after taxes? I would say it is very low in either case, even for the UK (I've heard about a lot stories of poor salaries in the UK, especially in games).

Plus take into account most startups don't work out in the end, so the 2% is unlikely to amount to anything.

Good luck anyway.

EDIT: I only saw the 44k thing after posting. That would get to a basic livable salary, so that's good. As someone else suggests, get it in writing and also consider requiring it in less than 12 months or so. You may be looking at 2 yrs work before significant funding can be found (and they're unlikely to pay 44k salary to you if they only raise 150k in the short term).
This is my first iPhone app. I would love any feedback!
Bah, ridiculous! Clearly you haven't received the memo, all Javascript libraries are named exclusively by dart-board now.
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Is the salary enough to live comfortably on in the area whee the employee lives? Do the co-founders seem like they'd be good people to work with? Does the product/work sound appealing to work on for 2+ years? Is there an opportunity to learn a lot?

I think these are the things that will matter day to day more than any 'fairness'.
triggers infinite tabs in Firefox for me
You avoid a lawsuit that destroys your company.
Yes, of course many drivers will always try to cheat no matter what, but many more will cheat if they feel they have been wronged. My point is that the latter subset would be eliminated if most people used zipper merging.
It's a cool tool of course, but I have an interesting set of spurs to filter out, and they're quite close to the carrier in some places, over quite a large frequency range. I have a set of fixed filters that mostly works, but the next design will need to more completely suppress these spurs over the entire range.
They would send a few expendable soldiers and later on observe the effects of radiation sickness.

Then they would try using the stuff as a weapon and discover you can't clean up after throwing it at the enemy.

A couple of cities would become uninhabitable and everyone will learn that when the sign says "do not touch", we actually mean it.
Pity, but it's a little surprise. They couldn't compile even their soft for Linux@x86_64 for several years.
Indeed, many forfeiture victims never get their property back, nor are charges ever filed, without which they don't have standing to sue for return of their property.

It's the new Jim Crow.
How Not to Ruin Your Startup’s American Dream
I'd imagine somewhere in the region of ~£40k. A quick browse through http://www.glassdoor.com supports this figure.
I know its usual for people to take a salary hit when joining a startup but £16,800 a year is nothing. You're asking for someone to have either a lot of passion and belief in what you're doing or a lot of naivete. If they have the passion, belief, experience and willing to take that kind of salary, they'll most likely be looking for third co-founder, not first employee and thus a MUCH higher percentage.

Decent developers will get co-founder offers all the time, i'm an at best, average developer (i have other skills), but i have a good portfolio and experience, and i get at least 1 company a month asking me to become involved with their company on an equity basis.

I'd say the company should be looking for their last co-founder, not their first employee. If its an employee they're looking for, the wage should be in-line with market wages and the 2% is great, but lets face it, might be worth nothing.
It propably at least changed the search behavior of the Bad Guys.
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Very nice. Especially good job on making a nice page detailing how everything works.

You might be interested in a similar boilerplate that I put together, which using Require.js to structure the application: https://github.com/felixpalmer/amd-three.js

One pain point that my setup solves that I haven't seen many THREE.js boilerplates tackle is the ease of writing GLSL for creating custom shaders. Here I've supplied a Require.js plugin which allows you to pull your GLSL code in as dependancies and provides some basic pre-processing like #import and modifying #defines from JavaScript.
"I just ordered Malcolm X's biography."

Not on a Kindle, I'm sure. I checked. Aside from the main story, this is another example of the problems of copyright. The most recent release is from the mid 80s (admittedly on the bazzilionth printing) and for political or whatever reasons it'll probably never be released again, including in electronic format. Which is too bad.

Just another 68 years until the copyright expires on the 80's version paperback, and then people will be able to read this again. Assuming they're allowed to, and the copyright laws aren't changed again (LOL)

Its a pity, its a good book.
FRP == Monads gone wild
Yes, Reps are seeing an increasing number of emails from us alone. So much so that they are consistently calling our office. In terms of verification, currently our verification is on par with anything else they are getting from either individuals submitting letters or any other method. That is, they are verified by having entered their address which is in the reps district.

We will soon take on the task of true verification though. Which means, bouncing your registration details against a voter id database.
Crowdfunding Sought for 'Ghost-Detecting' Computer Program
The full bill text is usually available through the site. If in this case it is not, just wait a few days, it will get posted. Sometimes it takes a few days for the sponsor to post the actual text when the intro a bill
Then maybe look for someone in Central or Eastern Europe? This salary would be decent there.
It does not sound like an offer which will attract an outstanding talent if that is what is desired and the $3 million dollar estimated valuation is meaningless. With no product or assets, it would liquidate for less or nothing.
That's an interesting angle I hadn't considered. Thanks.

The company is UK-based, but are focusing on the US-market (I believe). Would $3-4m sound reasonable for the US market?
I might be dense, but all I see is a square with a triangle in it and a circle, and can't seem to make it do anything. It is throwing a 408 timeout though, so maybe its just under load?
£1,400 per month is £16,800 per year.

16800 / 52 (weeks per year) / 40 (hours per week) is £8.08 per hour.

Current minimum wage is £6.31 per hour. That would be £13,124.80 per year.

I would want:

1) Rock solid in-writing offer of the 44k

2) excellent working conditions

I'd also want to know what happens if they don't get the funding.

EDIT: Remote work: are they paying for the Internet connection? Or electricity used? Or helping guide you through the tax / insurance complications? (See, eg, http://www.voa.gov.uk/corporate/Publications/workingFromHome... )

EDIT2: Not that this means much, but £16,800 is $28520. The figure is probably gross, before tax and national insurance.

EDIT3: After tax, maybe £14,378.72 per year, £1,198.23 per month, £276.51 per week. From http://www.listentotaxman.com/index.php
I wanted to do something similar but was worried about users putting negative stuff on other people's reputation as a way to harass them.
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"being both electronic and obfuscated / proprietary, isn't as easy to clone."

Cloners can be bought from underground websites, the same sites that sell credit cards etc. Look around on Youtube, it's a bit scary how easy it is.
Your comment is extremely bizarre. The paper seems exceptionally clear and well-written! It's rather short. It gives the necessary background and states its assumptions, it is very easy reading.

Can you quote a paragraph you didn't like? Is your main issue that the data descriptor is defined elsewhere (as opposed to a date range)? I don't think the descriptor itself is emotional at all.

By the way, I thought based on the abstract that the effect would be rather large. For anyone who downloads the PDF, go to the graphs - the effect is actually a very small difference even on search terms rated to get people in trouble with their governmetn, as well as on personal-privacy related search terms.

The effect is clearly there but rather small compared to what I was expecting.

Granted I only spent a few minutes with the PDF and could be misinterpreting.
A = [1, 2, 4, 5, 7]
A_s = sorted(A)
b = A_s[0]
for a in A_s[1:]:
if a - b > 1:
print b + 1
break
else:
b = a
else:
print 'No missing element'

Trying to be more Pythonic:

def test(l):
l_s = sorted(l)
print [l0 + 1 for l1, l0 in zip(l_s[1:], l_s[:-1]) if l1 - l0 > 1]
> Does that mean each generation has to practically rebuild the houses of its parents?

Yes. In part its disposable consumerism but also its likely that something built in a period of rapid change (as suburbanism often builds houses on fields) may also be required to change itself after some time. In my area its common to see inter-war single-storey cottages rebuilt anew (knocked down completely with a new structure built from scratch), subdivided into two lots or amalgamated with others to build a block of apartments.

> Don't several story buildings pay for themselves

I mean dead-flat as in no steps in the ground floor within your building. Not as in 'single storey'.
That's a great point. It's fascinating to think where he would have ended up after 20 or 40 more years of study and contemplation.
I'm sure I'm missing something here, but why can't we drill down in a geologically stable area (like Australia) far below any water table and bury it?

I'm imagining a bored out cylinder in solid bedrock just wide enough to stack barrels made of some kind of space-age material, like 15,000' down.

I don't know much about the drilling tech, so it might be totally impossible.
I hadn't really considered foveated rendering on mobile, but that's a very interesting idea.
A nice pressed disc using a metal that doesn't corrode isn't going to go anywhere for a long time.
You have to move the squares on the circle by clicking on the square.
> by contrast most suburban homes have a ~40 year lifecycle

Does that mean each generation has to practically rebuild the houses of its parents?

It might seem wasteful, but it's not so bad when you have plenty of space and the preferred living locations change over time. There are many houses in Detroit that were in a sense "overbuilt". Actually 40 years is pretty pessimistic even for crappy American stud-and-drywall construction. Recently I saw the home where my mother grew up. It's ready for tear-down, but it's over 100 years old. (Technically it's lathe and mud rather than stud and drywall, but they amount to the same thing.) I'm not convinced that it should be rebuilt any stronger than before, or indeed whether it should be rebuilt. (It's in a really sketchy section of Toledo OH.)
interesting - its working in firefox but not in chrome 36.
I wonder just how out-of-date those numbers are, since a 397-bit key was factored a little over twenty one years ago in less than 3 months[1]. On current hardware, this is probably less than a day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_numbers#RSA-120
I agree, it was pretty much buzzword fest.
Here : I think the Android framework (Java + Android APIs + Android dev tools) should evolve towards something less verbose.
Let's say I want to add a new type of selector in my ListView (for example for the active entry of the navigation drawer). I need to declare it in attrs.xml, use it in my layout and also to write custom versions of all the views that are going to use that selector in order to override onCreateDrawableState and inject it there, not to mention all the plumbing in different classes in order to get & set that state..
Ideally, I should be able to simply declare that state in my layout selectors and simply set it in the corresponding adapter.

There are many, many other examples where I need to modify many classes in order to do something relatively common.
There are also issues with some java aspects like the enums that are syntactically very nice to use but not that good for your performances. I also feel like a caveman each time I have to write a bitfield.
I should have a construct built into the language (or at least the IDE, I don't really care which one) that gives me the flexibility and type safety of enums while performing like a bitfield.

I don't know if getting rid of java is the answer here. I would not mind to, but it would be very traumatic for the Android ecosystem.
I hope that these pain points will be fixed (I/O 2015 ? ^^). I don't think that Google will ever use C#. However nice it is, it is controlled by Microsoft, which is probably reason enough for Google to avoid it.
There are other options though, Dart, Rust, Go, an entirely new language, ...
So they're paying

1.4 * 12 = £16.8k a year

Minimum wage for the 21+ group at seven hours a week 365 is

6.31 * 7 * 365 = £16,122.05 a year

They're not quite paying the minimum they can legally get away with paying you, and holidays will further slant that disparity. But it's close, it's damned close, to the same they'd have to pay a cleaner or a receptionist.

That's not skilled labour rates.

As for the equity... Hah! Equity is what happens when it's easier to get the money out of an employee's potential wages than it is to convince the investors to give you the money to hire someone with a decent wage up front. It's a way of transferring risk onto someone who doesn't have the same information, experience and risk management means as investors do. As an employee, you should take the fact that investors won't stump up more money for your wages as some evidence of how they've assessed the company. I'd disregard the equity unless you know their industry very well and have some reason to believe they're a really good bet.

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I wouldn't take the offer, not unless there are other points that you really want and can negotiate for. In monetary terms, it's terrible.
Working on Chrome 36 here.
This article[1] points to some of the worst, systematic abuses of forfeiture. Most frustrating is that any amount of cash holdings on your person in excess of a hundred dollars or so is often twisted as evidence that you MUST have committed some crime.

In fact, forfeiture is often used as bribery - let us keep your stuff and we won't make your life even harder, which even short-time readers of HN know, if the law wants to get after you, it will find something to charge you with. Often, taking away your kids is threatened if you don't let us keep your car.

I'm not going to toss myself out there as Rand Paul's biggest supporter, but he gets my absolute support (and my phoning of my representatives urging their support) of this bill.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/taken
I can't say I understand the difference between "a preponderance of evidence" and "clear and convincing evidence". Who judges these terms now? Does the accused get a defense? Appeal? I don't understand why forfeiture isn't one of the natural penalties of a conviction in a criminal trial. I do like changing the financial incentives, however.

edit: A number of people point out forfeiture can occur without a conviction or even a crime being charged. This reform doesn't change that. It changes the burden of proof from preponderance of evidence to clear and convincing evidence (and addresses some of the perverse financial incentives). These are both less strict than "beyond a reasonable doubt", which applies in criminal proceedings. (See
watwut's link to Burden of Proof below.)

What I'm saying is this reform is weak, and it would be better to treat forfeiture like any other criminal penalty.
Or he could possibly check the GPS location list for 'Home' or the GPS trace if this data is stored.
Not working with the mouse on chrome 36. My laptop has a touch screen though and that's working
You are right. I think we would all appreciate making more stuff that we do automatable and outsourceable. I guess where I was trying to go with the comment is that it would be nice if there were similar tools for design and analysis. Oh automated paper writing would also be much appreciated.
I work on collecting (ETL) data of European power data sources and supply them to clients via web service (in almost real time). For the client i work on - wrote cloud based distributed ETL system to collect data from approx 100 importers and exporters of power, gas, wind, nuclear. Its quiet possible to collect this data in real time as EU regulations asks each of them to provide data on their websites. For some of the websites - i use selenium which is much better than using webrequest via http/s
But it is! Try stacking the red and dark blue colors up in order and pushing them with the light blue block.

I got stuck on 21, and that's enough for me for now. Good puzzle game!
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I am on 36.0.1985.125 m (Windows 8.1) and it works for me.
Preponderance of the evidence is balance of probabilities. E.g. if it is 51% likely that you did it, it is assumed you did it. Clear and convincing evidence means that it must be highly and substantially more probable that you are guilty in order to be assumed so. E.g. 51% would not do it.

In any case, forfeiture was done to people who were not even charged with anything, much less convinced of a crime.

Both are legal definitions. Convenient wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_burden_of_proof
> Although the design questions are fascinating, the bigger issue that we need somewhere to store all of the nuclear waste. It's actually sitting in a variety of temporary facilities right now that aren't as safe as WIPP or Yucca mountain simply because it's very hard to get politicians to agree whose backyard gets to be the forever home for our spent fuel rods.

An other direction would be to store it more safely but still accessible and work on techniques to reprocess the waste, especially that with long half-live. Of course that would mean we'd have to admit that nuclear energy is far more expensive than regenerative energy sources in the long run and nobody would want that...

[Edit: Please excuse the polemics. The topic is the source for a lot of heated debates in my social surroundings.]