skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought you weren't an expert on alternative economies?

First, market socialism is socialism with elements from capitalism, so the particular mechanism (ad-hoc black markets) is a capitalist one, regardless of where it came from.

Second, in market socialism, the market is legal and "white". In North Korea, they are very much not legal - thus, "black".

Interestingly, the resilience of markets to pop up anywhere there's a need, regardless of legality or formal training in how to run them, tells us something about capitalism and it's inherent compatibility with human nature.
> The technique has only been used on turkeys since 2006

Saying that putting salt on a turkey a couple days ahead has "only been used on turkeys since 2006" is made up, and it's stupid.

Which surprises me, because you're smart.
As a foreigner, I was shocked to see kids recite the pledge of allegiance when I first came to America.
Just make all banking on Mars electronic. If you don't pay your bills, you flat-out don't have money. This even works in a Free market version, as banks will probably cooperate on debtors even while they're competing everywhere else.
Create your own 3D worlds from NASA models
>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.

Noone is forced to use a mobile phone nor Facebook nor Google.

>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."

Or they could, you know, care about the issues.
This is interesting; my site provides something sort of similar, but with JIRA integration. I've been considering a pivot where the data is stored on the local server. Rather than using JIRA credentials, you'd define your own TODO list, and log 15-30 minute intervals with notes on what you've done. The hard part is creating the reporting faculties; there's lots of those for JIRA already.

If anyone's interested in something like this (structured time-tracking and task-based note taking), drop me an email and I'll let you know when I get to that point.
It's also an incentive for developers to earn karma as it may reflects on a career opportunity. Other popular developer websites, such as github, also have a way to differentiate /popular/ or strong developers (number of stars/fork). Personally, I prefer the github as a developer and a manager mostly because I'd feel more comfortable working with an employee that crack lots of code rather than one who spend lots of time answering questions.
If you take a good hard look at the engineering, the Wrights were about 5 years ahead of the others. Unique to the Wrights were:

1. The first propeller theory, yielding propellers that were twice as efficient as others. This translates into needing half the power that other rivals needed.

2. The first aviation engine. The Wrights designed and built their own engine, because nothing else available had near the power/weight they needed.

3. The first wing shape based on wind tunnel tests. The Wrights discovered that the lift/drag tables existing were wrong by a factor of two. Much more power and lifting area was needed than anyone else realized.

4. The first 3 axis control system. Other experimenters had not even realized they needed one. Years later, when the Wrights demo'd their flyer in europe, they could literally fly rings around the others. The other planes could do little more than fly straight and level, making wide, clumsy, skidding turns.

5. The Wrights had the first, so far as I know, directed research and development program. They built a series of prototypes, each designed to validate a particular principle. The other experimenters just "winged" it with whatever they thought looked good.

And, of course, the Wrights documented their flight with photographs that are undeniable, and their airplane still exists. Exact replicas of their flyer have been built, they fly, and they fly in a way matching the Wrights' descriptions. The Wrights also built followup aircraft with improvements.

All modern aircraft can trace their design elements in an unbroken line back to the Wright Flyer, and no other.
Just have two capsules separated by a tether. No need for a torus of huge radius.
5 Years of Black Friday Emails from Amazon (Different yet Consistent)
It'll be interesting to see how they will handle scaling. Selling T-Shirts is easy - what happens when other factors come in? Neck sizes, different size standardization (UK vs US), measurements, units/scales, suits, pants, female vs male. It's a whole can of worms and there are startups dedicated just to solve this measurement issue for clothing.
I never made that statement. I did, however, claim that a major cause of the increase in the wealth of nations is capitalism. I made this claim because I have studied economics and history and I have read and heard multiple compelling arguments supporting this claim.
"I can't think of a situation where there is nothing at fault besides the servers. The chillers should be able to keep up with 1Us like that, and it's likely there was something else going on.

...

Maybe somebody with more experience than me can explain why cooling 1Us would ever be a legitimate problem?"

The situation in server labs, hardware and infrastructure-wise was much worse seven years ago. Is it that hard to imagine?
This is rad!

I built a platform for building games (or apps) that use a smart phone or tablet browser as a controller for a desktop browser.

Check it out here: https://github.com/mrmch/browser-gt

It's pretty buggy still, and my BomberMan demo is hokey, but it's designed to be multiplayer out of the box.
I can't second that recommendation enough. Any db migration project that uses sequence numbers to label/sort migrations is badly broken for any team larger than 1.

I've used enough of these migration systems now that I'm convinced any system using sequence numbers likely has other, less noticeable problems since the problem space is complex and this is a known best practice of which the developers somehow remained ignorant.
Awesome, thanks for the sure. Looks great.
Black Friday? No, Hack Friday. Buy Less, Make More
If that we're a wish, it would be in adequately specified. For example, it includes being tossed broken from the wreckage in a torn spacesuit and dying while your dissolved gasses boil your blood.
Here is space invaders on the desktop controlled by your smartphone from the browser http://www.webdigi.co.uk/fun/space/
Any installation instructions that advice you to do "chmod -R 777 data" I skip.
Packages are mostly just declarations of how you want a package to be built/installed, but sometimes they require additional logic or computation. Using python would require a separate file format to put definitions into (e.g, YAML), and those definitions would need a rigid schema and versioning system. Some existing package managers take this approach, but what happens when you need a feature that doesn't exist in the declarative schema? You would need to extend the YAML format and bump the version numbers to allow your new features.

On the other hand, a LISP does not need a distinction between a declarative format and the computation language itself - it does both in a consistent syntax. (Homoiconicity is the term). It makes it much simpler to mix your declarations and computations, alleviating much of the need for a rigid specification on package definitions.

If you look at places where the former system is used, you'll find they usually age pretty quickly - or have many version increments because the original design omitted features people wanted in their package definitions. In effect, this leads to standards proliferation, because people invent new systems when the existing ones don't do what they need. Rather than trying to second guess the features people might need, it can be easier to just give them the ability to add them when they want.

A recent example of the former system is this project from GNOME: https://live.gnome.org/BuilDj. If you look at what it's trying to do, it really just wants to reinvent makefiles in YAML. A clear example of NIH, which will fail because as soon as someone needs to do something which their YAML schema doesn't support, it's a useless tool.
Elon said it, not me.
Interesting, never knew too much about Bloom filters. Let me flip the question, then: is there any reason you wouldn't use a Bloom filter over tries for a dictionary?
This is crap reasoning, sorry jmduke. You might as well say that you need to read the writing of a racist while keeping in mind that he is a racist, so you should not worry too much when he makes racist statements.

The criticisms that people are positing here are exactly criticisms of the agenda of Adbusters. The whole thing is about keeping their context in mind and objecting to it.
Correction: that's a 12 year tax break, not 12 months.
An efficient modern wind turbine uses at least 82kg of neodymium. Older designs use much more.

http://www.vestas.com/en/about-vestas/sustainability/sustain...

http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2011/5094/pdf/sir2011-5094.pdf
If I recall, truth was indistinguishable from gibberish (a matter of interpretation), therefore; it's all gibberish and organizing gibberish is a fruitless endeavor
Silicon Valley Transhumanists plan "Resurrection Groups"
Nice work!

Small bug: "Q" is getting recognized as "O" on a few boards I've tested.
Well if "Google hard-codes DNS values for Google analytics servers into Chrome", your precious ShareMeNot is as useless as my suggestion.

But you do admit my suggestion currently works.
then... it won't work? Alternatively, you could make it group writable by yourself and whatever the webserver is running as. Or, if you are using suPHP (http://www.suphp.org/Home.html), you won't need to chmod anything.
Perhaps it doesnt matter, if this provides a large enough software base, then fedora, arch, gentoo etc would perhaps just write a guix->(dpkg|rpm|...) converter to keep their distribution up to date.
Not sure if it would be possible but moving work upstream where more detailed and in-depth knowledge is available might be a good thing.
It's actually a very nice product-- I just bought it and tried it out, and it seems to work very well.

The one issue that came up (which isn't technically a bug in your app) is when designing buttons with a default and hover state, you do manually have to tweak the CSS, since the "hover" button won't override all properties of the default one.
We already know that we can make bricks out of Martian soil. Build arched and domed buildings out of those and bury them with lots of Martian soil. This gives you radiation-proof buildings that can also be pressurized. Combine this with local teleoperation, you can stretch the 2-3 year long habitation span to a 15 to 20 year working span, followed by retirement to indoor underground habitations.
Foxconn have a strong incentive to avoid employing employees likely to commit suicide, or alternatively to sack at-risk employees.

So suicide rate can't be used as a proxy for measuring employee conditions.

I was going to suggest that the lower rate could be due to having more female workers, since far more men then women commit suicide BUT it turns out that in China this is not the case (in US studies they measure that women try a lot but don't succeed at the same rate - cause of that is contentious argument - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_and_suicide).

To answer main thread, the article does include a bunch of bollocks (my favorite bit is where they try to shock us with the half-life of Uranium), but the core of the article seems to be probably valid.

Aside: why is it so common that eco-articles (or eco-movies) ruin their core theme by adding outrageous bollocks?
A Bloom filter is subject to false positives. A trie isn't.
If Elon Musk achieves everything he has set out to do, his name will surely be etched into the history books. And, it seems, those history books will be read by humans further into the future than perhaps otherwise, BECAUSE his name is in them.
Keep that man away from djinn!
SmartOS and the Global Zone
Will be a great way to explain why their graph didn't have a crazy holiday spike... but feels like a missed opportunity to me, since they aren't collecting emails or doing much to market the bigger idea behind Everlane on this page. People are fickle, at least capture enough info to get them to come back.
Ask HN: Midwest hardware startup (data storage) visiting SF. Meet for coffee?
We'll will be bumming around the Bay Area all of next week. We're from St. Louis and looking to co-locate in San Francisco.

The CEO Andrew has an interesting story as a 19 year old founder and hardware inventor. Network World did a nice write-up on his back-story though the FB rumor was false and we've since dispelled it:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/110612-evtron-263983.html

Anyone with interest in high-capacity, high-efficiency data storage at a lower cost, feel free to email me at ivicars [at] evtron.com. I'd love to take you out for coffee or drinks so we can talk shop. Otherwise, we'll be taking in the sites or working our butts off at Startup Embassy.

Thank you to everyone in this community. As a non-Valley startup-type, I still feel connected to the Bay Area because of HN.
The gravitational field in the low earth orbit is quite large compared to what you would encounter in outer space.

The ISS is at a distance less than 5% the distance between us and the moon.
Going by linkedin employee count the ten biggest YC companies have 1500 employees between them (heavily dominated by 845 at Airbnb).

Doing a back of the envelope estimate based upon some sampling, companies 10-50 have about 500 combined, and the long tail is probably another 500 (inclusive of founders).
The remainder of the voyage to Mars was quiet aboard the USS HNterprise after Captain Graham threatened to "turn this rocket ship around if you two don't stop fighting".
I'm not seeing how a bloom filter would help you here. The only application of a bloom filter that I can see is checking whether or not the word candidate you generated is in a dictionary. All n-choose-k sets is enormous and you'd spend a very long time just generating the candidates.

A prefix trie, as the GP mentioned, seems like a very good and obvious approach. You avoid most of the work generating non-words because all paths lead to complete words unless you run out of letters and you're not on a terminal.

What do you gain from the bloom filter?
> Supporting local/small businesses is always a good idea!

Why?
Exactly.

The whole global economics is currently based on shifting inconveniences around to other countries. Cheaper countries are simply countries that are not charging the social/environmental cost. That, in turn, favors corrupt governments.

That's why BRIC will never have true democracies or truly good HDI. If people in these countries make money and consume in the same level of Europe and US, there won't be cheap workers and corrupt governments to turn the economy wheel.
Honestly, for a typical Hacker Newser, not much.

The people I've seen using a tablet most expansively are some combination of:

A. people never fully comfortable with a full laptop (meaning they effectively aren't losing much functionality by switching), in fact are gaining from the simplification of features they never really got

B. People doing field work, where a tablet's weight and form factor is strongly superior to a laptop (lighter, can operate standing up easily, etc.)

C. People who like to surf the web in bad, but find using the form factor of a laptop too awkward and a smartphone screen too small
Out of a million people, 17 suicides isn’t much—indeed, American college students kill themselves at four times that rate.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_joelinchina/

I think US college students is a socioeconomically appropriate group to compare with.
Scientists Get A New Look At Einstein's Brain
Just to be clear, your argument is entirely over a word, and not about anything in reality -- right? Words are pointers to concepts. When you say "architect", you mean something different from what most people mean when they say "architect".

You resent this?
The #1 export from Mars will certainly be "data about Mars, in digital form" for a long time. Maybe some software directly developed for that which then turns out to have other uses. Art would probably be part of this.

People might want to go to Mars for non-economic reasons and then continue to do software development, too. (I'd happily pay $500k to go to Mars if it looked like doing so wouldn't rule out life extension technology, either because life extension was stalled or because it would also be available on Mars. The only thing I wouldn't give up for Mars is a good chance at immortality.)
Well, I think it most likely that the actual work that has to be done on Mars would be done by the people there for free, because if they don't do it, they'll die...

Even in the longer run, I think it implausible that anybody on Mars would be doing anything at all that people on Earth would be interested in, once the initial excitement has worn off. And I think it more implausible yet that the Earth people will be interested in paying for it! Transporting physical materials would be impractical, even if you were prepared for the gargantuan expense, and while you could have some kind of remote working outpost, it's unclear how much use this would be to anybody. It's hard enough when people are only the other side of the world! - it's not going to be any easier if they're 50,000,000km away, with no phone connection, no postal service, and a ping time of at least 5 minutes.

As always, events may yet prove me wrong... but I don't expect them to.
This is why LetterPress needs a Lighting Press mode, where games have to be completed in five minutes, for instance. The ability to outright cheat, or troll around dictionaries and the Internet for words is not possible if you need to complete a move in 20 seconds.
This should be of interest as well:

https://developers.google.com/mobile/articles/fast_buttons
My DB migration system Phinx (http://phinx.org) uses timestamps. I had too many problems with using sequence numbers in the past.
Irrelevant for what, to whom? Everything is a tiny fraction of something -- are you saying that value is purely a function of popularity?
Why do the mobile devices not implement this by default?
I guess moderation in peoples consumption levels and the types of consumption are relative, but i'm sure there is a line where they become dangerous for the rest of the people living on the planet, but we in the 1st world really don't understand where that line is since we are not faced with the issues other people in the world are, so we look down and say who cares that i have enough while you don't, that's just how things are, hurry up and get over here too so you can have this too, what happens when all the people do? what then?

We will just wait for someone else to figure it out while we comment on hacker news and have a beer and use the internet all at the same time and eat 1st world burritos and post on facebook with our 9 billion cell phones, all at the same time, hopefully we can all do this all at the same time, and in the process of figuring it out some of us are just unlucky to be born in a different vantage point, where we don't have cell phones, barely can carry water to drink to our families, try to fish in waters that are not polluted, education is scarce, all this because the ones born into the more favorable vantage point wait for others to fix the problems while they fat on their couches and complain that obesity is a problem because the corporations feed us fat food, and to think that we can actually help those people if we just want to? if we just approached the problem with the same vigor as we approach securing our oil-reserves, but who gives a fuck, all we do is just sit here on hacker news and complain and bitch and comment and feel good because we get points and we are on the main page but it all equates to nothing and i am guilty for it, so i'm going to go out and get breakfast at one of the many places available to me, happy thanksgiving
You know that Mars atmosphere don't capture oxygen right? [1]

No way to grow food there unless you export a whole lot of greenhouses and set up an artificial biosphere, but without the conditions that we take for granted on earth.

This is already hard to do in deserts or in the Polar regions, where we have plenty of oxygen and free moisture flowing in the atmosphere.

[1]: http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast121/lectures/lec14.html for a good explanation.
Agreed, and my comment was not meant to suggest that startups should build the horizontal platforms, but rather to look at what platforms are developing (i.e. being built by others), and look for new verticals within that. So, I think we are saying the same thing.
Yes actually, I found a good employee using StackOverflow Careers. I may use it again but it is kind of pricey. It does beat going through a recruiter though.
A timer alone wouldn't help much. One could still take a screenshot of the game board during the first turn, upload it here, then have a list of good words to use for the rest of the game.
Biofuels are of course nonsense from energy efficiency standpoint. Biogas is produced for a different purpose: it results in storable energy, which is theoretically supposed to balance energy produced by intermittent sources. Overally, biofuels are not supposed to be energy-efficient or net energy positive. If we can one day produce oil from nothing spending 2x the energy the resulting oil will contain it will be a great achievement, even a holy grail of all renewable energy work: storable, high density renewable energy good for peak loads and for transport (worst case: airplanes).
'I Am Thankful For...'
The only way? I can conceive freedom without any buying and selling of things.
The internet killed the GPL? Tell that to my home servers.
>At the current rate we won't be leaving much resources for our grandchildren. [citation needed]
I worked at a lab that studied the effects of non-standard gravities on early development, and the results were not encouraging.

Has anyone encountered research on how we might be able to have children in non-standard gravity environments?
Craigslist is the epitome of the "worse is better".
A built in delay is making sure that you actually want to tap, and not swipe or double tap.
Show HN: Helpshift,The embedded support desk for native apps
It wasn't YC. It was the most commonly featured in the "YC or this new up and coming fund/accelerator" argument, if you can extrapolate from that. I don't feel comfortable saying the name because ultimately they convinced us to pivot, or to say it another way, rejected us and it feels weird and name-droppy to say "yeah, had three talks with this big accelerator" when you got rejected.
thanks! will work on that