skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
General Petraeus is still in the military. He's just retired -- he didn't resign his commission. The distinction between the two is that Petraeus continues to earn military pay, may be recalled to active duty, and is legally still an officer in the Army at the same permanent rank (four-star General) that he retired at. This is also the case for almost any living retired general you can think of, including Colin Powell, Anthony Zinni, Norman Schwarzkopf, and Tommy Franks. Anyone who has served in the military for 20 years is eligible for retirement, though, it's not just for generals.

Actually leaving the military, if you're an officer, requires resigning your commission. For enlisted, one generally signs up for a limited term of enlistment, and is out of the military at the end of that enlistment unless they choose to reenlist. Once an enlisted servicemember reaches 20 years of service, they become eligible to retire at their current rank as well.
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> But I think you're getting irate about a sub-text rather than the game at hand so let's discuss what's really bothering you.

In simple language: The inability of some people, all of whom I strongly suspect are from stable First World democracies of the type Freedom House ranks highly, being unable to see any difference between, as I said, Churchill and Mao, or George W. Bush and Robert Mugabe.

Every single thing they disagree with is exactly equivalent, making their arguments a massive exercise in the False Dilemma: You agree with them or you're morally supporting the Great Leap Forwards, Rwandan Genocide, and female genital mutilation, even if the actual topic is tax policy.

In short, they're just annoying idiots who have no real perspective trying to sound like they know something. Their use of 'racism' claims as a convenient dodge is just the icing on the cake.
Wait til motherjones finds out that their servers are just as dirty as Apple's iPhone. Rare Earths are essential to all electronics, not just smart phones.
But he's publicly admitted to having an affair. So we know he had an affair. Because he told us.
market can't solve the current CO2 problem - it assumes the price of emissions is zero, when it clearly isn't. belief that it'll fix biofuels is naive at best. carbon and other products of burning fuel need to be taxed to have a price; musk also talks about it.
Whoops, blunder. The move piqued my curiosity, I signed up.. got a 'confirm email address' email, but the confirm link was redirected to the anti-black-friday page...
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Considering that it's right next to it an identically rendered element that IS a button, it definitely appears to be a button itself. The example page should be changed to prompt the user to disconnect in another manner so that visitors don't get confused.
Just quick web design/usability notes:

* I like the "Best 3 Ultrabooks" page and that there are many photos on the site

1. the search options are a waste of space at top of the page, hide them until needed

2. I don't like the images of the netbooks. the crazy drop shadows go all different directions. some don't have shadows and other are still life photos

3. In the US, the currency symbol belongs before the numbers. Not like this: 849.99$

4. May add some variety to your typography, the pages kinds feel like a wall of text

5. The rasterized letters look bad in your logo

6. add a 'print page' option with special css for printing

7. add a 'share this page' option to email links

8. the blue font color when text is on the blue background in your page footers is low contrast and a pet peive of mine in general
"Employers who do this are being just as antisocial and psychopathic as this school district"

Because using rfid badges to unlock doors at an office building/control and log access to server rooms, etc is a psychopathic and antisocial thing to do
common sense didn't fail you here, you're basically describing what happened last couple of years.
>There is value to slow charging

Only to a point. The provided charger tends to be well within this limit (no benefit to using USB).
Yworld announces $500 Puzzle Challenge winner
I would think it'd be closer to a mast/NJP (non-judicial punishment) where you basically get yelled at, get some sort of grunt duty (cleaning the latrine for a month?), maybe have a note in your file if the CO deems it severe enough.
> Rare Earths are essential to all electronics

The article says that.
This seems way off topic but too fun not to discuss

Even in a world with replicators someone gets the penthouse, someone else gets the first floor. Someone gets the 1br apartment in Detroit. Someone else gets the beachfront mansion.

That's just one example of the things a replicator will not make less scarce.

Another is people's time. Want 200 people to make assets for the next Call of Duty game? Want them to all be talented? You're going to have to give them something. Probably money so they can try to get one of the more desirable living spaces.
HN links aside, you almost certainly wouldn't arrive at everlane.com without any context or understanding.

Most first-time visitors probably come from something social, and thus have a pretty good idea that Everlane is some kind of retail.

Knowing this, the folks at Everlane opted to optimize the band experience for registered users and those who haven't registered but are familiar with the company. This is a great example of leveraging a point-of-view into a statement about your brand, rather than watering-down the messaging to appeal to even the smallest subset of users.
Is this specific to pypy or is the HTM buffer too small for most languages? Are there any languages that will be able to use Haswell's HTM?
Ask PG: How many jobs have YC companies created in total?
Fark. Apparently landing on HN at 1800 on a friday is a fast way to kill your server :D Think it's fixed now... though it might not be a speed demon...
Wait, have they just patented a HUD?
True enough, I concede the point... politicians are probably just as corrupt anywhere you go.
It's even freer to leave the programmer here and not have to export at all....

There's no way a guy on Mars could compete on costs.

I think you're also underestimating how much of a premium bandwidth will be too.
A comment below mentions subsidies - that's certainly part of the answer. In addition, for mobile applications, not all energy sources are equal. Transportability (stability, energy density, etc.) also contribute to liquid hydrocarbon Joules being more valuable than methane, coal or sunshine.
Perhaps it's time the school district brought back the flag salute to better illustrate the relation it wishes to create between citizens and their state.
Now imagine they killed our families and razed our crops and burned our villages - leaving desolation and famine in their wake!

We can imagine any kind of nightmarish scenario we like, but that doesn't mean we should ignore all the people who are doing better. Imagine if our social policy was to only help people who had escaped war-torn famine, and tell everyone else to suck it up!

So the protagonist in the story could be in a much worse place, but it still sucks for him. You have to be pretty callous not to have some empathy for him.
When I've heard Elon talk about this before, his idea is that people interested in moving to Mars would actually sell their house and Earthly possessions in order to pay for the ride. They won't be needing all that junk anymore anyway. Once you're prepared to sell all of your assets, then having a net worth of $500k is essentially the same as being able to afford $500k.
> What makes Mars so great for producing software that would cover the added expense of firing a programmer all the way there in a rocket?

I'm not sure if you're asking this question rhetorically or not, but one answer might be that you wouldn't have nearly as many distractions as on earth. No commuting, no Starbucks, no phone calls (from earth, anyway), no going for a walk or a bike ride, no going to the beach - you get the idea. In fact, spending a lot of time working in some kind of virtual, computerized environment might be the only way to keep from going nuts up there.

What's sort of interesting, though, about being on Mars when it comes to an economy is that exporting stuff to Earth might be somewhat questionable. With the exception of digital goods like software and entertainment, the only stuff worth buying on Earth is stuff that can be transported to you, and that would be so costly that your exports better be extremely valuable. While on Mars, if I wrote a program and sold it to you on Earth for $1 million, what good is that $1 million to me?

So other than basic bartering among your fellow settlers, I imagine that you'd probably spend most of your time just trying to survive on Mars itself, without exporting much of anything at all. You also can't trade with the native populations, since there aren't any, which is another major departure from most earthbound settlements.

I think any attempt to settle on Mars would experience many of the same sort of risks that ultimately doomed the Norse settlement of Greenland between AD 985 to approx 1500.
>£9.60 a month for a rolling 30 day sim only contract with unlimited data

how? link/info please?

AFAIK the best they offered was £6.90/mo base + £3/mo for unlimited data. And that was 12month contract where you had to call up to add on the data. ?
Hey Kaj,

Nice work on the interface. It's definitely promising but you'll need a bunch more real life feedback.

You're playing with a lot of variables and I'm pretty sure some of them are interesting improvements, but some of them also don't work well and altogether it's not yet a better solution.

The main practical piece of advice I can give now is that having each new initial comment go horizontally doesn't seem to work well.

The other piece of advice is to keep going. ;) Good UX (which this is all about) is everything these days...
He's talking about corn. Generalizing this to "plant-derived ethanols" is a stretch

But yes, Corn ethanol is not good for a series of reasons. Other plant based ethanols may not suffer from the same problems.

Ok, I read the article, typical "only oil is good" atitude.

And by the way: efficiency with respect to sunlight doesn't matter because sunlight is free. (enough) free * anything -> free (It matters in respect to other processes)
Not just "an inefficient way". In the best case, biofuels are 2 orders of magnitude less efficient than solar. That said we could theoretically produce around our current energy needs with a perfect biofuel. (Existing biofuels are much, much worse than this theoretical fuel.) We'd just need to convert all land we currently use for agriculture to that purpose. (And then what would we eat?)

If his numbers are correct - and I see no reason to doubt it - biofuels have to be a dead end.
A large amount of the "bulldozers and heavy equipment at sites outside of fully established infrastructure" are the giant machines used to pull oil and natural gas from remote locations (tar sands, arctic and offshore oil rigs) and transport them the large distances to places inside fully established infrastructure. The need for hydrocarbons is compounding.

Similarly with biofuels, even if we are to genetically engineer more efficient plants to grow fuel, it still must be grown in a remote location, processed, and transported to places with existing established infrastructure.

In comparison, most places where people need energy already have the electric infrastructure to support it. We should be using liquid fuels in cases where it is truly necessary, not just for the short distances and minor wants of most.
But it's a magnet school which means the student is choosing to be there. She could attend the public school that does not have RFID readers.
UK didnt even acknowledge the existing of GCHQ or the Cipher Schools at Bletchley until 70's and 80's.
There is an article in French http://chrishrmnn.blogduwebdesign.com/blog/articles/741
The link to the French question page is not working
http://repon.se
No specific date, just that they are working on it. It does currently support checkout-via-post though, so it wouldn't take much php (or whatever) to make it work.
Add NFC to anything - Flomio open serial interface to NFC reader
The LTE radio is a ~~7-band radio~~. Edit: I'm finding a bit of contradicting info here, let me look harder.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6474/nexus-4-includes-support-...
Show HN: Create Beautiful Typography
This doesn't change the legal issue in dispute -- whether someone can be compelled to give up a basic civil right in exchange for attending the school she wants to attend.
So? I replied to a comment about Pale Moon (not Firefox, which I'm obviously using), so you might wanna take your downvote back.

From their website: "A custom-built and optimized Firefox-based browser for Windows"
> Walk down the aisles of your local Best Buy and you'll be hard-pressed to find a phone, laptop, or TV that doesn't contain at least one of the rare earths. The elements are also key to all kinds of green technology: Neodymium is found in wind turbines; hybrid and electric cars often contain as many as nine different rare earths. Yttrium can form phosphors that make light in LED displays and compact fluorescent lightbulbs. Rare earths are also crucial for defense technology—radar and sonar systems, tank engines, smart bombs.

From the second page of the article.

Nobody is denying whether or not they're essential. The issue is that they're produced in poor countries so that the refiners can offload most of the cost of refining rare earth metals in the form of environmental damage.
The placement is awful. I didn't even see it the first time, and only after reading your comment did I reopen the page to actively search for it. It still took me several seconds to locate it, and that's when I knew what I was looking for.
'White space' technology to launch in late 2013
Funny that this is so high up on Hacker News. The first quote on the page:

“Today, humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.”

There won't be too many startup accelerators or funding rounds when we ditch capitalism, folks. Funny how there was none of this talk on iPhone Launch Day, either...
Not to split hairs, but that would be "free markets".

Free markets are neither necessary nor sufficient condition for capitalism. Compare the US in its heyday vs. the present day "state capitalism" in Europe and China.
>The extra profit from pre-emptive upgrades is probably cancelled out by the increased cost of warranty repairs.

This is exactly the calculation apple has done; they now deem RAM to be reliable enough to not have a significant impact on warranty claim expenses. This is why they did not solder the (much less mature tech) SSD.

>I think it's more so a side-effect of the relentless push for smaller, thinner devices.

I think this is naive, personally. The extra 3d space of a RAM module on a laptop is minute. The size is a nice bonus. Also i'd bet a very significant chunk of macbook Pro owners upgraded their RAM.
Taken to the extreme, yes. In practicality, the term is reserved for the kind that can be made in quite a bit less than millions of years.

Compare "natural materials" and "natural ingredients". In the end, it's all made from naturally occurring atoms, right?
You know, my understanding is that when the form of our modern US school system was imported from Prussia many of the people advocating it were praising it's ability to turn out the sort of regimented, disciplined people required to staff factories.
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Best efficiency in conversion solar -> energy: Solar thermal.

And doesn't require expensive equipment for that.

My money is on that.
Hi Dreen. I work in CSS Hat, so I will write more info about it.

You get CSS code Instantly In Photoshop with CSS Hat, No Waiting, No ADs. You can choose from 6 CSS formats and CSS Hat has beautiful and easy installation.

It truly speed up your workflow tremendously and users love CSS Hat for that! :-)
The kind of large-scale agriculture most often used today relies on a huge amount of hydrocarbons. As I mentioned above, the need for hydrocarbons would still be compounding -- the more biofuels grown, the more biofuels required to grow them -- unlike capturing and transporting electricity on the already-existing infrastructure.

I would love to see large-scale sustainable agriculture that doesn't require such a staggering amount of resources. There are many smart people working on this problem. Unfortunately I don't see those advances outpacing the advances being made in electricity storage and transport.
* imagines trying to push to github from mars
Ah, apologies. For some reason my brain isn't working too well tonight.

I had it in my head that my contract was costing me £9.60 per month while it's actually costing me £12.90 per month. Doh.
This article isn't very good. It starts by mentioning some information about Foxconn. Suicides, for example, are less common at Foxconn than in the general population. So things are a bit more complicated than this article portrays.[1]

The article talks about the radioactive waste products. That's normally thorium. But the Lynas site (Mount Weld) has high concentrations of rare earths, is a huge site, and has low levels of thorium contamination. People are rightly concerned about radioactive waste being left in Malaysia. Lynas wanted to ship the radioactive waste back to Australia for processing, but they are forbidden from doing so by Australian law.

Some people are suggesting that Lynas is using Malaysia to avoid environmental laws thus cutting costs. But Malaysia gave them a 12 month tax break, and was already cheaper than Australia, so environmental laws don't appear to be the main motivator. (Although cheaper costs because of less strict environmental protections is probably an important factor.)

It is frustrating that all reporting about this is emotive or otherwise sub-optimal.

[1] I think that conditions at Foxconn are appalling and need to be improved.
css3ps.com is also great, but it does not instantly provide the code inside of Photoshop like csshat. A web browser launches and you have to wait twenty seconds before code appears.
Code Found on Pigeon Baffles British Cryptographers
I use it for production code. Works great.
Are you more Right or Left Brain? - Optical Illusion Test
Introducing pkgcloud
Great marketing tactic to get people to buy and consume more later on.
Hi Sergiotapia,

there are reviews:
MacAppStorm: http://mac.appstorm.net/reviews/web-dev-review/css-hat-turn-...

The Next Web: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/06/28/sweet-css-hat-turns-ph...

Design Hack: http://designshack.net/articles/css/css-hat-a-magic-button-t...

Or you can watch video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=...

+ you can still read what CSS Hat users says about it on Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%22csshat%22%20OR%20%22css%20ha...

Hope it helps in decision process :-)
very cool, but to nitpick, the email validation is, like most, wrong. A "+" is perfectly valid in email addresses.
Think about it, the first people that colonize mars have a tremendous amount of work they need to do once they get there. It's not like everything is going to be setup perfectly and they're going to have all this free time to program.

Things are going to be very difficult. They will be needing the support of Earth just to survive - forget about making an income.
Linux Foundation UEFI Secure Boot key for Windows 8 PCs delays explained
How is the waste radioactive? Doesn't that mean that the original materials were also radioactive?
Uber to Raise Minimum Charge for a Ride to $75
> Compared with other wireless technologies, such as Bluetooth or WiFi, the radio waves used by white space devices can travel for much larger distances and easily pass through walls. This is because they use lower frequencies reserved for TV signals.

I stopped at this sentence, because the author doesn't know what he's talking about. The radio waves under discussion cannot travel a greater distance and are not better at passing through walls. There is a line-of-sight issue, but the author clearly doesn't understand that or how it ties into his argument. Suffice it to say that the claim as stated above is false.

If these wavelengths have so many advantages, one is compelled to ask why they've been abandoned in favor of others. The reasons are excellent, but a a bit too complex to go into here.
There was a discussion on HN a while back on maintaining a programming journal except this one advocated a pen-and-paper approach. Might be a good place to get ideas on the what and how-to aspects of maintaining a journal.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4448361