skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find you oddly humorous and I'm not saying that's a bad thing. Letterpest is aw3som3!
Not the battery, the battery is glued on to the case with a good amount of adhesive which requires a lot of prying.

Source: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+4+Teardown/11781/2
> as clearly nobody here has any real idea to what extent there will be exports from Mars within the next 30 years.

Conditional on there being a Mars colony in 30 years, then there will almost certainly be mineral and food exports from Mars to the rest of the solar system other than Earth in another 10.
T-Mobile is turning on LTE in 2013. It looks like the Nexus 4 was designed to be ready for it.
found it. step 4 where you confirm your order you can apply a code. click the apply code link.
I would also suggest taking into account other cloud options. Amazon is very often not the cheapest option. Just compare it here: http://www.cloudorado.com/
> I'm not an expert on alternative economies (sorry)

You don't have to be an expert, but you did assert that is was possible. That usually implies some level of empirical evidence.

> but I can name a capitalist consumer-driven society that is controlled by fear of their government.

So can I, but luckily correlation doesn't imply causation.
These things don't occur in a vacuum. Taxi's are more highly regulated because people demanded that "somebody do something" because things were pretty bad.

I definitely agree a better regulatory system is possible but pretending it would be easy or simple is silly.
It's actually a pretty cool experiment... is it not?
Automatic gitnore files using your gitignore fork
Everyone is talking about PR yet no one has mentioned our problem with consumerism. See the #buynothing campaign if you haven't. It's an interesting perspective:

http://www.storyofstuff.org/blackfriday/

I pledge to skip the mall and stay home with friends and family this Black Friday. Instead of spending money on things I don't need, I will spend my time with the people that I love.
Are they? They're certainly hated by various subgroups but I don't think this is terribly wide-spread. I get the feeling more people think the security theater is for real and is stopping actual atacks.
How do you organize The Library of Babel?
Suppose you come across a digital copy of The Library of Babel, as described by Jorge Luis Borges. Your computer can instantly sort the vast data.

Q: How do you optimize a process to find truth-containing volumes? If you find the Authentic Volume, how do you organize the information it contains?

Though the majority of the books in this universe are pure gibberish, the library also must contain, somewhere, every coherent book ever written, or that might ever be written, and every possible permutation or slightly erroneous version of every one of those books. The narrator notes that the library must contain all useful information, including predictions of the future, biographies of any person, and translations of every book in all languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
A lot has changed in 2 years. There have been a lot of updates with a major architectural ones just a few days ago. As well as 5 star ratings from developers who have seen the project grow.

I tried opencart a while back and I just didn't get it. There's theme templates in multiple folders, it's over kill for a store with just 4 or 5 products, and its design and layout was too set in stone. I never found a theme I liked. I wanted something that I could install, strip down to the core, and build my really simple, really minimal store from. Open cart wasn't flexible or minimal in that sense. The user has to click, click, click, to get anywhere. It felt like all the products where categorized and tucked away and the user has to find them. Maybe it's possible to change via heavy template modification but I haven't seen any template actually do that.

It's easier for me to start with something minimal like wp e-commerce and build it up with modules, than to start with something overly templated and featureful and try to tear it down to simplicity.
My guess is that major version upgrades are free for a year, while all minor (e.g. 1.x) changes and bug fixes are free forever.
"The answer is "maybe not", but the followup is that there is absolutely no moral compass on which is would be even remotely acceptable to take even the smallest step to prevent the global poor to become as rich as we are."

The argument -- as far as I have witnessed it -- is not about preventing the poor from becoming rich. The argument is should richer people need to suffer to effect the enrichment of the poor. Acting to prevent is not the same thing as not acting to effect.
When I worked in procurement at <large engineering corp> I was really happy that we ran QA and H&S checks on all suppliers, but environmental standards literally weren't a factor in deciding whose bid to go with. Wasn't encouraging. I think the QA and H&S checks were a legal requirement, I am certain that your proposal for environmental standards to be upheld would do much to alleviate the problem.
Why are you stating that Capitalism must not be restricted or impeded if the wealth of a nation is to increase?
Do you have any data to support that statement? You are going to need a pretty massive data set and significant argument to demonstrate both the cause and the negative aspect of the effect.
There are bucketloads of empirical evidence for "one of the main avenues for the poor to leave poverty is through capitalistic action". GP didn't appear to argue against any and all restriction on capitalism, but that those (like AdBusters and Occupy[1]) who argue broadly against capitalism (rather than specific shortcomings), implicitly (and probably involuntarily) argue against "opportunities to leave behind poverty".

1: At least many of them
Yeah, they've hired people and had a lot of fixes and upgrades. They're updating it constantly now. Just in the last 2 weeks it had 2 updates, one being a major update.
This is why a tax on carbon is better than subsidies. Then that 7 fossile fuel Joules to 1 biofuel Joule would be a huge loss. Incentivize what you actually want to optimize.
We are not disagreeing. My position is that liquid hydrocarbon fuel is always going to have a specialist niche. I also think the bulk of transportation should be electric, ultimately deriving power from the sun. There's no reason to be dogmatically absolutist about energy storage technology. I say we use what works in whatever context it works. This way, we're never stuck by the disadvantages of a particular technology.
That's the real key, black paint is really cheap and really good at converting most of the spectrum to heat, combined with the fact that mirrors are orders of magnitude cheaper than solar panels and you've got a winning combination.

It's also really cheap to store energy as heat and we've got two centuries of knowledge around turning heat into mechanical energy.

It's also really easy to apply heat and pressure to most organic material and directly convert long chain hydrocarbons to short chain hydrocarbons.

Also if you can generate steam you can just inject it into the ground and recover the oil in bitumen, your friendly neighbours to the north have like a trillion barrels of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization
I think I'd have used a bloom filter for something like Letterpress.
I was always afraid that by putting my profile on StackOverflow Careers, prospective employers would see us as individuals liable to spend company time solving other peoples' problems online and therefore be less likely to hire us.
Oh yes, I completely understand the political arguments for needing oil guaranteed at a certain supply and a certain price. Hell, a huge percentage of food production depends on cheap and plentiful oil.

Still, even with good practical reasons: ethically indistinguishable from oppressing those people yourself.

> Right now, it seems more to be in a "let's finish what we started and regroup" state of affairs

I agree that's the spin, I'm not convinced that it's actually true. It's confused by the fairly large effects that a shift to drone based war is having but the number of countries that the United States is unofficially at war (remember declared legal wars? how quaint) with is growing, and growing quickly, rather than shrinking. Actions point to a very different foreign policy than the stated one.
Can I ask what they slamed WP e-commerce for? Stability? Features? And how long ago was it?

(MarketPress has digital downloads out of the box now, I just tried it 3 days ago)
It sounds like you want

http://www.tldrlegal.com/license/CC-NC
> He's talking about the fact they are able to track where the students are "roughly" in the school

Isn't that exactly what schools have always tried to do?

> and that the RFID badges hold some personal information in them

Isn't that exactly the information schools have always had?
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I could see this replacing my bootstrap icons once this gets a CSS file.
It's the interesting problem -- letter recognition, dictionary search, constrained ranking -- that likely motivates the author(s). The practical use in helping cheaters is just a bonus for bringing added attention to the engineering achievement.

Still, the Letterpress board is so fixed in its layout/fonts that I'm surprised they need a 'neural network' recognizer, and prefer a certain color scheme.

Advanced assignment: calculate whether any given board is a 'solved' game, with a predictable outcome given two 'perfect' players. (My guess is that all boards are, given the advantage of moving first in biasing the score balance in your direction.)
I think it depends on:
a) potential number of users you are going to have in your table
b) number of times you use that data in joins etc.

I think in the majority of cases you can have that data in one table (although you will most likely require normalization for some other types of info - address, contacts, etc.). I would only think about moving some columns out of users table if they are too heavy and I have many millions of users.
I buy plenty of things to make me happy.

I don't need the internet. Either do you. I also don't need to eat anything other than bean tortillas, but I will. I could probably get through my life wiping with single ply, but I'd rather have double.

If that makes me a bad guy in your eyes, ah well. I'm sure a few of the beers I went out my way to purchase will ease the pain.
Plant based biofuels are only problematic if you imagine replacing all transportation energy needs with them. Cut that out! Develop all technologies and let the market decide. I predict that there will be specialist niche applications for biofuels, and that most of transportation will be electric. For a cheap, robust means of storing lots of energy, it's really hard to compete with a metal tank of hydrocarbon fuel, but this doesn't doom us to run everything this way.
The criticism is: economic liberty, mobility blah blah, you need discipline at the individual level to balance that. Good education from parents and the eco-system you take part in, but i guess that is under your "certainly not sufficient" bit, but i believe that discipline takes you farther even in a not so ripe economic situation, i've seen joyful people in poor conditions, i've seen people bettering themselves in no to ripe conditions

i think this is the classic problem of people trying to fix their situations from the outside in, instead of from the inside out, ex: better economic situation = better people, but that is clearly faulty logic, i think it should be more like better people = way better economic situation

but then again why would a system that depends on its economy so much enforce such an idea: "better people", better people doesn't make enough money as it stands for them, that is why they don't put that in their ads instead of "buy this because of (some bullshit reason here) messaging" because "buy this because of this fucked up reason we created for you" makes more money, period,

politicians don't give a fuck about you and me man, they care about numbers, because of their vantage point, the ones that do end up getting wiped out, as we have seen throughout history, just like this new awesome movie lincoln shows "man wants people of all races to be free" get asassinated because of people with no self-discipline and no fucking compassion that were mostly focused on themselves

history really explains a lot about us, and so far it looks like we really haven't learnt too much

i wonder to think, what would the world be like if people in current power positions would actually be altruistic, sounds like a pipe dream to me
I think that this girl can tell electronic components from magic perfectly well. It is you, who is unable to understand what she is saying.

Yes, she is using language with religious roots and very expressive 'mark of the beast' phrase. But these are just words, part of the language and culture. Fact that she uses them doesn't make her stupid or insane.
Your argument from incredulity is ignoring the mechanisms of health damage from the physical dispersal of materials with long half-lives.

Don't complain about fact poor reporting by countering with your own.
NIPS 2012 (top ML conference) papers available online
Another idea could be giving visas for people who are accepted by accredited accelerators.
If PG, for example, believes in someone's ability to make a business why should government officials worry?
(that's similar to the original Startup Visa idea but with another investor qualification mechanism and without 100 000 dollars barrier)
That's not very different. It implies a level of wealth that can't be made available to the poor, regardless of the fact that we have in our selflessness given it up.

The answer to "we can't afford it" is the same to many other scenarios where you can't afford something but need to get it anyway: Figure out how to make it work. Inventing non-fossil liquid fuels would make a very good start.
I don't think the crowd willing to sell all their assets and buy a one-way ticket to a planet where the odds of dying of old age are astonishingly small is large enough to collapse an economy.

Don't get me wrong - I'd love to go to Mars myself, but I wouldn't like to make such a long-term commitment without a good chance not to die there. And that doesn't even include my family.
Good point, I find it kind of unnatural to transform a developer community into a recruiting platform. I think it's just companies searching for a solution to solve the resume problem.
re "solved game" http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/11/letterpress-solved-gam...
Very unlikely for one reason: If someone is looking for employees on StackOverflow Careers, they have already decided that they want someone who is solving problems for others. If they were against the idea of StackOverflow Careers, there is no way they would find your profile on there to begin with.

The problem might come if a company you apply to using a different method Googles your name and finds the stackoverflow profile, and then decides not to hire you based off of that. Feels a bit unlikely and I'd doubt any HR would understand the issue enough to do that at this stage. I'm not involved in HR and don't fully understand how their illogic works though - some do make hiring decisions based off of Facebook. laughs You probably don't want to work for a company doing that kind of thing to begin with though.
If you're at the stage in your career where this is a good book, then this is A Good Book, coupon or not.

Just sayin'.
Nice, looks pretty similar to Rails or Sequel migrations. Having used a bunch of these systems, both on a large team and just by myself, I would recommend using a timestamp instead of a sequence number. A timestamp ensures that different team members making migrations at the same time don't stomp on each other's version numbers and cause merge conflicts.
alembic from SQLAlchemy author does half of that. Now the cool thing about this one is it has the gui overview.
hmm, I feel really dumb. Step 4 for me is billing details and then step 5 is where I enter card information and at the bottom it says process your order. Is it after this? This seems like the last step so I don't want them to charge my card.
He's only expecting 1 in 100,000 to make the trip.

He never said that most fortysomethings had $500k lying around. He said most fortysomethings in developed economies -could- pull the money together (to me, that implies if they really put their mind to it). He's only assuming that 1 in 100,000 -will- do it. Sure we could quibble about just exactly how hard for a given person to pull the money together, but I don't think there's a lot of argument that 1 in 100,000 would be able to do it.
I think we should be very conscious of our material privileges as rich westerners before we start demanding that people in third world countries live up to the same safety and environmental standards that we hold ourselves to. $1000 in safety equipment isn't a big deal in the US, but it could be more than a third world-worker makes in entire year.

And if you complain that the problem is that we aren't paying third world worker enough, that's because they don't have enough capital to be as productive as workers in developed nations. You would need a really massive transfer of wealth from the developed world to the third world for their adopting western labor standards to not result in mass starvation. Safety conditions in third world factories might be bad, but third world farms are actually much more dangerous.

All of this isn't to say that the specific behavior in the article is acceptable, it's obviously going beyond the pale and ought to be stopped. It's just that your proposed solution is entirely unworkable.
Interesting. As someone eluded to in the post's comments, the "horizontal" can almost be thought of as a platform in some ways, where "vertical" are the individual product(s).

So, if the "platform" does not exist yet, it may need to be built first, but I suspect many of them already exist. It's interesting to think of what horizontal platforms are being developed, or are becoming more popular, and how you could target a vertical area on top of (or within) it.

I've seen a few discussions recently on Google Glass and the work Microsoft is doing augmented reality area as well, and wonder what vertical products could stem from that over the long term.
I've read many books on the early development of aircraft. The Wrights certainly invented powered, controlled flight. They were about 5 years ahead of the others. So I'd say the max effect of the Wrights never existing would be about a 5 year delay.

Was Apple ahead of the others? Sure. By a decade or two? No way. The most generous you could say would be a year.
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Didn't Curiosity recently show that radiation on Mars was pretty much the same as on the ISS because the atmosphere of Mars thickens during the day?
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That's what the startup visa in it current advocacy states: if an entrepreneur has raised 250k then so be it.

So yes, valid idea. But again, not what I' saying: if I want to start a business, it should not be a requirement that I have to raise money or go into an incubator. Those are factors that should accelerate an application, not determine it.
I have a similar system for a lab notebook / to do list, but without encryption. I use a light weight wiki, Zim http://zim-wiki.org, and setup the directory in my Dropbox folder. That way I'm able to use the full wiki on my desktop, laptop, and work desktop. Because the pages are plaintext with simple wiki markup, I can also view and edit them on my phone.

Zim is also nice for me in supporting LaTeX equations (via a plugin) and being written in Python, I've made a couple of custom tweeks.
> It's virtually free to export software to Earth while it would cost millions to export anything physical.

I don't think this will remain true. We have materials today that are strong enough to build space elevators on Mars. Heck, there are mountains on Mars that poke up above its atmosphere. We could just build linear accelerators on top of those and voila, we're free of the rocket equation when exporting to Earth and the rest of the solar system.
Presumably, since the n4 has no a antenna for late, your reception is going to be bad, so it may end up pinging towers all day and killing your battery.
No, there will be more chapters! We are just releasing the first 9 to start.
jotux said age and 100% employment, so specifically said that "other factors may be in play." BTW, some 17.6% of the US population between 15 and 24 are unemployed.
> wouldn't have nearly as many distractions

I was going to explain how this is wildly wrong, but you do it yourself a little later.

> you'd probably spend most of your time just trying to survive on Mars

Death being a larger distraction than all the Starbucks combined.
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Yes and yes. I see the issue she's having with the RFID but I also don't understand why she is having such a problem. Her phone tracks her, facebook tracks her, google, etc... it's a problem yes, but I can't do anything about it other than complain.

I think the family just wanted to get a quick window of fame and be able to tell people "Ya, we forced the HS to get rid of those RFIDs."
Jesus, this is a dangerous and slippery slope. Yes the various tweets e.g. by Monbiot were suggestive or perhaps insinuating something, but they did not actually allege Lord M was guilty of any crime.

If this goes ahead then Twitter may as well just shut down as any errant or flippant comment about a politician or celebrity could lead to a lawsuit.
It's very hard for a startup to create a platform without a main popular product. It may be proven wrong, but in my opinion (and experience), it's better starting vertical and then horizontally expanding. Existing companies with revenues can afford wasting resources for a while and trying to attack each market individually.. but a startup?
The other technologies you listed can't be used to track people in realtime.
Ask HN: How Do I Inspire College/High-School Students To Work With Me?
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Im from a very LOW ECONOMIC & TECHNOLOGY skill level community in NC and I want that to change.

I've acquired different funding for projects in order for students to work with me and therefore bring technology skills and money to the community, but nobody is interested.

Like why is that the case? especially when presently many people don't have jobs.

I know many of them are in debt and many of them are at a poor level in technology, but no one is interested. But what is so funny is that these are the same people that complain about how our government is unfair to them and how they've been given a bad hand.

I would think that, they would be more interested.

Back then when I was in college, if somebody had offered me a work/job where I can gain money and experience (in a field Im interested in), I would've jumped at the opportunity.

Am I targeting wrong students? Is it a mental or psychological issue? or Am I the problem?
I agree, I think potential customers are going to contact him for customized icons. Win win for him and some of us without the money or creative ability.
Not sure, but it would probably involve a request for donations from Jimmy Wales.
Android could have based itself on a BSD, or even xnu, and done just fine.