skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making predictions grounded in supremely well-tested physics is not egotistical. Making specific predictions about the content of as-yet undiscovered science without any evidence is egotistical. http://lesswrong.com/lw/gq/the_proper_use_of_humility/
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You pay taxes on value earned in USD. You could have been paid in ice or bitcoin but it's your job to pay the government in USD.

PS: The IRS has made an exception for currency's earned in games unless real world goods exchange hands.
You are correct in that a database file may contain more rich data that CSV. I think it is open to debate, however, whether a closed format like MDB is easier for the end user, over something open like SQLite.
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This is not a filesystem's job.
Huh, I did not know that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barter#Tax_implications.
As mentioned in the post "Of course we would have preferred it if the solution would have been perfect, but at least we had the chance to give it a try"...
You're also assuming that this hypothetical Human Spirit is immune to E. O. Wilson's biophilia hypothesis:

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

(Otherwise it's not just human colonization you're talking about -- it's Terrestrial biosphere colonization, which is a vastly more complex matter than most people seem to be willing to contemplate.)
"I use Linux mainly because of its ease of use in terms of development. I would be interested in hearing your arguments for the Mac."

I used linux on a Thinkpad T41 for years.

The problems are not so much the real development stuff, more about the things that you have to do apart from that, like cinerama mode for an external screen (took me several attempts with the configuration file), make beamers work, wireless (cough), permanent fan noise you want to get rid of but the power management did not work, kde that tries to copy windows ("you have old files on your destop", "miranda apeared in skype" while you try to give a presentation ) and thus is not usable IMHO (I used window maker which is fine), no decent office suite (open office is a copy of MS office but 10 years behind), software you just want to try, but have to compile, shared libraries problems, no bootable backup, no first class image manipulating software (gimp just sucks compared to photoshop), ... Is that sufficient?

Well, of course, this is all fixed in the latest version ;O) and everything has been solved by someone - get the point?

Linux is a very stable and reliable system though, once you have installed an configured it properly. But Mac OS is that too, and configuring it is quick and easy.

I am much more concerned about Apples latest iCloud stuff and about privacy on Macs. Thought already about using linux again. But productivity is certainly much higher on Macs.
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What would you think they’re supposed to do, wait till all the devs succumb?

Now as Apple’s a defendant, win or lose, it doesn’t matter.
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And all of these ways are longer and less clear than the original. Better to write code like Hemingway than like Proust.
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And how is that not failing?
I had the same conclusion initially and called it the horizont of space reachability principle. There is a limit to the travel distance defined by the energy consumption. Reducing the energy consumption to the minimum would allow to extend this horizont limit. Pushing this reasonning to its limit I noticed that we have plenty of examples on earth of live forms able to extend this limit to infinity by mean of seeds or spores form. In such form the organism is totally passive and consumes no energy. It has a trigger which induces reactivation of life and development that may be activated by external energy and appropriate condition.

So it is possible for a life form, human or extraterrestrial, to build such a civilization seed which contains enough energy reserve and machinery to sustain life activity restoration and live form rebirth. Throw such civilization seed vessel like a bullet toward a distant solar system so that the energy of the target can be used to trigger start of development and we have our space travel capacity.

This is not how we'd naturally imagine interstellar travel, but the important point is that this proves that it is possible without relying on exotic or hazardous hypothesis. We should also keep in mind that there is still the possibility to tap into the dark matter as source of energy. While this is still very uncertain, it should be known and well accepted By now that interstellar travel and space colonization is possible.

I would like to add to this that if human life is a result of a natural process, there is a very high likelyhood that we are not alone in the univers and that other entities are likely to have started colonization already a long time ago. As we can see from earth civilization history a key factor to perserve its liberty and life autodetermination is the mastering of science and technology, intelligence and defense capacity. While there is still a need to protect ourselves from oher humans, in which we spend and waste a lot of ressource, the clock is ticking, and other civilizations may be developping much faster and efficiently than humans. It is no hard to see what it all implies.
I'd estimate that 90% of the Windows computers out there that are used for 'everyday' work have Access on them. For those users, opening the file is basically double-clicking it.

For that to work with sqlite databases, one still needs to install a GUI tool first, hope that it associates the right extension with the sqlite file you have, and then get over the database-centric user interface that all of them have.

Look, I'm not saying that mdb is better than sqlite. But I am saying that the notion that the 'openness' of sqlite somehow makes it easier for regular users to open them is a crock.

Or maybe we can talk about if using sqlite databases in simple, 'script-like' applications is easier than doing the same with mdb/Access databases. That is more nuanced and depends on what environment you want to talk from etc. But that goes far beyond the definition of a 'user' as in the use case of the OP (a large student body to whom exam results need to be communicated).
When you fall you've failed at walking. But we all know that this is part of learning to walk. We can focus on the fail or on the process or learning. You obviously only see the fail.
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This is why I believe the .tel TLD is so important - DNS for people, no more carrier or service provider lock-in, stupid fast, and resilient.

I have about a dozen services defined under my name, some of which are private, which I can prioritise, or even change to a different profile depending on time/location.

Mobile operators are starting to adopt it, despite the fact it undermines their phone number lock-in, because it makes it much easier for them to roll out new data-driven services, e.g. China Mobile (600m subscribers) will use it for mobile payments.

It could be even more interesting if device manufacturers ever manage to persuade mobile operators to use virtual SIMs - imagine being able to subscribe to new networks on-the-fly!
I wonder if this is also the point where Foxconn is actually becoming better at high-tech manufacturing than US companies, not just cheaper. Or maybe we've long passed that point.
You're correct, but we do need to evaluate what society's role is in dealing with this recent bust. The fact that we can suddenly be as productive as 3 years ago but with 7 million fewer jobs says quite a number of things, but the fact remains that 7 million people who were previously productive contributing members of society suddenly aren't, mostly through no direct fault of their own. What, if anything, should we be doing for these people? Retraining? Handouts?
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Can I ask what problem your app solves? Why would I want to add my location to an sms? Good job anyway, sounds interesting.
Failure is not just a setback. A doctor has no problem saying if a child failed to learn X by Y age there may be a problem. That said there are ranges of failure, and handing money back to investors before you completely run out is a better option than running a company into the ground with nothing to show for it.
Given that several Stross novels deal with uploaded intelligence, I was surprised that no mention of this was made. In Accelerando, for instance, his characters travel three light years in a coke-can sized spaceship powered by a laser stationed around Jupiter.

It seems unlikely at best that we'll ever attempt interstellar travel in our current organic bodies. The idea of taking along an atmosphere, food, water, and enough space to move around just seems ridiculous when you could stuff a human consciousness into a volume that, at worst, is the size of a melon, and at best considerably smaller. You'd also be able to add error correcting and redundancy to make the ship robust from radiation damage.

I suspect that any future spaceship will consist of perhaps 100 tons of computer and memory, designed with considerable redundancy and error correction. Perhaps 200,000 tons of shielding/fuel will be required, sufficient to protect the core computers and memory from interstellar particles, but also from the radiation from the ship's drive. Finally, you'd have a 1 million ton black hole sitting at the tail end of the ship, sufficiently large not to explode, but sufficiently small to have hardly any gravity. This would be fed by taking matter from the shielding to keep the black hole stable.

For further redundancy the ships might travel in small fleets, each acting as a backup store for each of the others. If one ship gets taken out by a stray piece of matter, at least you'd have a few more containing the same colonists.
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The way in which the failed product was handled is impressive, but I'm left wondering if there are any more details on the approach that failed?

Sharing why a given approach doesn't work could save others with the same technical idea from wasting time and money trying to turn the same idea into a product.
Nope you don't. Its my personal choice you can have difference of opinion.
I see that it's free. What's the catch? Ads? Does it spam my friends? Anything else that I might not think of?
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Behind every piece of technology is a human.

> “You don’t have to train machines,” Mr. Mishek observes.

This is such an overgeneralized comment. What specific business processes are these "machines" replacing? Where's the ROI comparison?

I'm taking this article with a grain of salt.
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It could be worse than a regular barter transaction, because the IRS could be looking for capital gains on your bitcoins as well.
Any time I set up an new virtual machine with some variety of Linux, I have to install some stuff to allow the VMWare extension to build. The exact requirements change from version to version, but it never worked out of the box (and I am not only talking about kernel headers here).
Actually, the latest version of Ubuntu seems to include that extension out of the box, which is friggin awesome!

By the way, I think that this is not a problem at all. I'd prefer a clean, lean system to Windows any day.
...the fact remains that 7 million people who were previously productive contributing members of society suddenly aren't...

I don't see how this is a fact. It's one interpretation of the facts we see (productivity is up, employment is not).

Another interpretation of the facts is that 7 million people were on payroll but were not productive, and employer/producers have now corrected this mistake.
Do you have to enter your location manually on each text? If not, how does it know where you are? If yes, how is this better than just typing it in yourself?

I think answering this point on the website is crucial.
I'm not sure if Penn Penn Jillette has done any programming, I do know he uses Linux, wrote for PC/Computing and was in Hackers, so there is a good chance he has at least written a shell script.
I cared much more about figuring out what to do with my life (1) than grades. Never had good grades, never hurt me, seemingly. Then again, it's hard to say.

(1) and girls
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Some do neither, too. Or at best, not enough of either.
possible, but still voting up, just because it looks nice :)
your "if it's so obvious why didn't they predict it?" question is a result of the way that the article is written which, in turn, is a consequence of the dependency of nasa (and astronomy and space research in general) on public goodwill to motivate funding.

this isn't so exciting, and it isn't so shocking.

it's a standing joke in astronomy / astrophysics that magnetic fields are complicated and misunderstood. whenever something can't be explained it's attributed to tangled magnetic fields. so complexity in the magnetic field - this "foam" - would not be a great shock.

i have a phd in astronomy. one reason i left the field (apart from the small matter of being a pretty crappy astronomer) was that i felt it was a fraud. sure, it wastes much less money than the arms program and, yes, we do have non-stick pans now, but everything you see from the field is presented in a sexed-up, over-sold, exaggerated way to get more funding.
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Actually, the article touches on the truth a bit: Phone numbers in general aren't tied to a device and carrier. Only certain ones are.

I have a Skype number that I can log into from almost every computer-ish device I own. I could get a SIP number also. I have a Google Voice number that rings all my other numbers.

The only number tied to a device is my cellphone number.

As for being tied to a carrier, it's not. And certainly not more than an email address is. I can switch my phone number to another provider just as easily as moving my email server to a new host. Unless, of course, I use GMail or some third-party email... And then I'm even more locked in than phone numbers are. (Not that I'm complaining, actually... I like having Google handle it all for me.)
On your website you say "Our landmark database is the most accurate in terms of quality, coverage and updates ".
That's a pretty big claim. What's so special about it? Where does the data come from?

As for the app, I don't know, maybe I'm missing something but doesn't sounds too exciting. In all cases when I would like to put a "landmark" in my message I would do it myself.
While your critic is interesting, let me just point out how this way of doing democracy is far superior to any western country.
You used the word "productive" twice in your posting, once in the economic sense, once in the sense that most people feel "productive" when they go to work every day. Therein lays the problem - so many pre-recession jobs were simply unnecessary.

The US now has to come to terms with structural unemployment, which is something European nations have been struggling with for decades.
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It's true, but feel-good nonsense is sometimes a tool to get up and try again. It's hacking your own motivation, to use a popular (or maybe by now 'cliche') analogy.

I'm not usually a fan of 'self-help speak', but since I had some good experiences where it helped me, I'm not as negative as I once was.
I work at a company that implements medical IT solutions for hospitals and anything with the NHS takes 3-5 times longer than in the US and other parts of Europe.
The most important thing for us is to spread the understanding of our landmark concept. As such the idea is almost trivial: we have coordinates and names for point-of-interest etc. However we think that with highly optimized data those can be a really effective way to communicate location. We have the global landmark database already, and a sustainable business for it, but now we are looking for new ways to utilize it.

There's ads when viewing a menu ("Landmark" button in compose view), not so much for the money but to study if that might work. I think the ads need to be very unobstructive in any app like this that we expect the user to use a lot, so we are not counting on that.

It definitely does not spam your friends.
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How is this "revolutionary" other than it revolutionarily cuts down on the remaining characters to send?

And it's not really revolutionary in the way that BBM or iMessages is (i.e. taking sms away from the carriers).
Because a lot of times you want to tell people where you are, or where to meet. So this app does that for you, automatically. In a way that the recipient will understand.

¤ Gecko Landmarks EU HQ, Turku, Finland :)
The TV Licencing system in Britain is quite widely publicized, but it isn't unique. See:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Television_li...

For example, France, Germany and Japan all have a flat rate licence fee to pay for their national broadcasters. Greece goes one step further and includes a surcharge on domestic electricity bills for this purpose.
I managed to resolve my depression/anxiety with magnesium, 5-HTP and Rhodiola Rosea. I've also had huge realisations about how simple most mental health problems are, when approached from the perspective of removing the cause as opposed to treating the symptoms.

The pharma industry is likely lobbying against these simple treatments because they are not patentable. No single company stands to profit from them. Capitalism provides a rather ugly way of dealing with this issue (and yet people still insist that it's the best system we have). I really do think that the lack of real solutions in the mainstream are a result of economical and political idiocy.
>(Not that I'm complaining, actually... I like having Google handle it all for me.)

This is a lot of what makes Google Apps so great to me. I still get a me@mydomain.com email address that's portable if I need it to be, but I let Google deal with the overhead of actually managing it since I have better things to do than administer an e-mail server.
Sorry, but you've failed and it's much more productive to accept that.
That seems like a non-sequitur. Based on the article, LightSquare isn't an application of GPS. It's a wireless broadband network that just (unfortunately) happens to f with GPS signals.
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The idea that only the 7 million unproductive people where cut is absurd. Over the last few years several companies have failed and even their most productive workers where temporarily out of a job. It's a real issue that being productive and finding a job are not all that related skills.
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In military terms, there are two separate wars going on at the same time:

Apple wanted to use its domination in the tablet market to force publishers to share their profits they get from subscribers.
For Apple, this was not about publishers (at least yet), but about the fact that they want to dominate the mobile publishing segment of the market, one of the fastest growing segments in the next years.
That is what plenty of earth life forms are already doing.
The civilization seed could be conceived to minimize the hazard of the environment.
I guess the answer is two folded:

1. To get your location (as in coordinates), it uses the default Android APIs that utilize GPS, cellid and WLAN.

2. To make these two numbers human-readable and instantly understandable, it uses our landmark database to look up the nearest landmark.

So that's how we go from

37.422,-122.084

to

at Googleplex Headquarters, Mountain View, Sta. Clara, US

You can naturally select another landmark manually if you want to, or edit the landmark text.

Do you think the text we have on Android Market fails to explain this "magic"? What would you add there?

(update: formatting, added question)
Culling the résumés takes three days. Then he must make time to interview applicants, and spend $150 for each drug test.

I can think of a way that this company could save $150 per interviewed applicant. Can anyone else spot it?

What does recreational drug use outside of work have to do with plastics manufacture? Do the plastics feel different if the engineer had a joint two weeks earlier?