skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are able to provide cheaper pricing by avoiding the costs associated with physical retail outlets. That is their pitch, anyway.

Everlane model: Cost to make shirt + profit for everlane + shipping -> total cost

Conventional clothing model: Cost to make shirt + profit for manufacturer + shipping + cost of operating retail outlet + profit for retail outlet -> total cost

They are still outsourcing their manufacturing so the above isn't completely accurate, but it's close.

This is the future of the clothing business and I for one am very happy about it.
Sugarcane.

There are still problems with any plant-based biofuels, but they're problems with scaling, crop rotation, pesticides, and the current state of the art of ag in countries where sugarcane is grown.

But the energy return of sugarcane ethanol is high enough to make it non-silly.
Anyone else getting this error?
"Coupon 'turkey' doesn't apply to anything in your cart."
I have "1x The Pragmatic Programmer (eBook) - Andrew Hunt and David Thomas" in my cart.
Ah, but that's the issue. That list is huge. It's incredibly intimidating for a non-programmer (at least, for the non-programmers I've talked to). The matrix approach is much better in terms of "OK, here's where you start", though it also has flaws ("says who?" "what if I already know a bit of ..." "what if I want to ..." etc etc. True personalisation would be the next step!)
John Taylor Gatto has written extensively on this in his books "Dumbing Us Down" and "The Underground History of American Education". For a synopsis, see e.g. this transcript of a speech he gave:

http://4brevard.com/choice/Public_Education.htm
Yeah right!!! Nice spin on it dude. Increasing their standard of living while being subject to poor environmental conditions because of their corrupt officials who are pushed to be corrupt by our corrupt politicians, and so on. It's easy for you to say that while living in the land of the plenty and the so called free. Why dont you focus exclusively on startups with a whole-world(env-friendly) minded approach, because you my friend are in a position to impact the world for the good more than other people. Im sure the over consumption could be regulated a bit by a buy nothing day, its no different than a turn off your lights day, it's actually better than that, it forces us to ask why do we buy? And if your answer to that is "to be happy" oh man you have swallowed the wrong pill when given the choice. -a person that will never kiss your ass
"It's called moderation."

If moderation was the natural state of things, we wouldn't have to argue for it.
As long as it is available I will buy physical media.
Just bought this. Wow, this is going to save so much time. No more digging around to determine border radius or font-sizes. I totally recommend this, especially at $12. It will easily save me 20%-40% of the time I spend working inside of Photoshop when converting PSD to HTML.

Not perfect for some complex layers (such as shapes) but amazing for the repetitive determining of shadows, sizes, radius, font-face, etc. I would love to see this tool have a tool to automatically cut and clip layers into separate images.
Actually, if you compare to that age group specifically, it would seem to make the number even "better". In America, suicides in the age group of 15 to 24 are the third leading cause of death, with 4000 suicides in 2004 [1] (whereas if you compare to the general population here it is the 11th leading cause of death).

Of course, its difficult comparing suicide rates in different countries, and other factors may be at play, but this just goes to show that suicides are not a good metric to make this otherwise perfectly valid point (when more teenagers kill themselves here than in foxconn plants, the argument becomes more difficult that everyone is killing themselves because things are so terrible). Suicide itself is an incredibly complex topic that should probably not be trivialized. This is of course not to say conditions there are in any way good, they're not. I just think its better to rely on the other much more ample and obvious evidence.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_suicide_in_the_United_S...
Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece
And then you get the notification that you're not allowed to purchase this series :N

Think outside the box for people that only get access to these series after months or sometimes even years...
True, however she and her parents signed the forms that the school district sent out about the RFID tags and agreed to the terms. Only after the fact did they start to protest it. Why didn't they protest it from the beginning?

Anyways, there is a magnet school literally right next to Taft HS that she could apply to that doesn't have the RFID tags. In fact, she is going to a school that is further away from where she lives and she should be going to the magnet school Comm Arts

I live in the area that this is talking about. I don't necessarily agree with the RFID tags, but claiming religion is a load of crap.
According to the site:

The coupon is valid for the entire contents of an order
(excluding books we do not publish such as The Pragmatic
Programmer and a handful of other titles) but does not
affect shipping costs.
Isn't a trie structure the data structure you'd always go for with a dictionary-based project?

EDIT: Title just changed and doesn't mention it (as a feature) anymore.
Well there actually are ways of making money on Mars, even though they rely on the wealth of the Earth until Mars actually has an economy. Mainly advertising. I can imagine a human on Mars having a "blog" that would be fairly captivating to a lot of humans. Those humans could see advertising and the price would probably fall around American Super Bowl levels. Think about it, having 1/2 Billion humans checking up on one person on mars is actually pretty reasonable. Those same eyeballs can hear a message and that message can be sold to the highest bidder, making the whole venture a success. Similar to how past adventurers would sell their stories upon return to cities.

That's just one possible job. Never mind the actual work that needs to be done by humans on Mars. Those people would be paid by humans on Earth. Just like astronauts of today. If I was a rich man I would certainly pay a human on Mars to explore.
I was pleased to see a recent PETA campaign advocating for the use of controlled atmosphere killing of poultry. Rather than their typical sensationalist approach (ex. http://www.peta.org/features/would-you-eat-a-chickens-period...) that appeal only to the faithful. They made economic arguments:

Typical slaughterhouse practices are stressful for workers and lead to damaged product.

Improving worker conditions decreases employee turn over and boosts yield.

It's probably wishful thinking to take this as a signal they're transitioning to become a serious advocacy organization.
You were trying to tell HN that basements are better for us nerds than Mars. That's absurd and I will not just chill back and let that attitude prevail, as it undermines my very existence. It's insulting and it's offensive. Not only that, but it undermines the whole human enterprise of exploration of the unknown.

I completely agree with you that software will not be a major export. Nothing will be a major export. But that's completely irrelevant to everything I've said; I'm a programmer, and I will be able to afford a $500,000 house or a trip to Mars in my mid-40s. If I go, I will be unlikely to work a job purely Mars-based, and it makes sense that I would continue with my work as I do here on Earth: writing software.

Your suggestions that Earth basements are better for that life is...well, I don't really have words for how offensive that is. I'm not offended by your disagreement with me, I'm offended at your attitude that nerds should stay in Earth basements and not go to amazing places like Mars.
Gonna snag it. Read about it over the summer, decided to wait for reviews, glad it popped back up again.

Note: Under 'What You Get', anyone know what's the difference between:

Free lifetime updates and bug fixes.
vs
Free upgrades for 1 year.
You shouldn't talk about Ruby learning resources without referencing Why's poignant guide (yes it is still maintained):

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
As others have pointed out, Chernobyl is a terribly example for the point you're trying to make.

Growth can probably be too fast - China has some problems in this regard, infrastructure, basic services, environmental concerns, the political system etc. can't quite keep up with the reasonable demands of a rapidly growing new middle class.

The growth rates attainable for the US and Europe, however, are unlikely to be dangerous.
It's a lot of stuff, including psd's and Photoshop related items. They're only usefull if you re-save (and slice) for web. I think he just doesn't want anyone else hosting these files. The required email? TenminuteMail does the job just fine. 30 mb's? Could be but i don't know why anyone clicking on a link to 5 gig would care about 30 mb ;-)
I agree that I would like the courts to decide on this. We're all armchair observers just making our commentary the way we see it.

I'm not certain that the Civil Rights Act comes into play here, though. The problem there is that the government were mandating that people had to go to different schools just based on their skin color. On the other hand, magnet schools are inherently and legally discriminatory; they discriminate on talent. You're legally required to attend school, but you can qualify for attendance in a magnet school. They're not telling the girl to go back to the girl's school, or back to the black person's school, they're telling her to go back to the same school everyone else goes to, the normal school, the regular school, the legally mandated school. High school is not an alternative school, magnet high schools are. It's not discrimination to make someone go to a school everyone else goes to. Not everyone gets into a magnet high school; she did, and now she's been disqualified. Magnet high schools are not a right.
You are right that externalities need to be captured and charged.
You can say that about anything in the school system, be it ID numbers, ID cards, parking passes, library computers with porn blockers, or even having to show up every day. Why single out RFID badges as magical antichrist technology when they're just a high-tech way of taking attendance and restricting access to school facilities?
Haha mommy when i grow up i want to be the perfect consumer, just like you!
Will you guys please stop this?
That was an ad hominem response to the question of can we continue using resources at an ever increasing rate. That includes asking if the world can afford to bring the poor up to western living standards. They are ugly questions but it doesn't make sense to burry our heads in the sand about them.
Did you just try to argue that CCTVs actually cause more crime because "cctv records more crimes so crimes go up".

I don't particularly like CCTVs but this is terribly weak reasoning however you try to twist it. This is akin to me arguing a new cancer test actually causes cancer because we now detect more cases of cancer.
Radioacitivy in the ore is dilute, but during processing there is a step where you separate the daughter nuclides from thorium decay, mainly radium-228. Those wastes have real danger potential.
I'm not an expert on alternative economies (sorry) but I can name a capitalist consumer-driven society that is controlled by fear of their government.
Pray tell, what civil rights are violated by carrying RFID badges?
I get no option to enter a coupon. When do you enter it?
Their off-time work is contractually owned by the company? Is this true for most game development companies?

It depends. If you live in California, you are protected by the California Code, section 2870.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab...

It's a bit difficult to summarize, but basically something you do on your own time, without using any equipment supplied by your employer, that is not related to something your employer is planning on doing, and doesn't use any trade secrets, can be yours even if you are a salaried employee. The "trade secrets" clause is probably the hardest to meet, since it's easy to claim that something was a trade secret in retrospect. If you work for a megacorp, the "planning on doing" bit may be problematic as well.

You almost certainly cannot use these protections to work on games in your spare time if you are a game developer. But it can be helpful for working on unrelated projects, including open source ones. If you really want to do your own thing, contracting provides strong protections.

If you live in another state, you probably are bound by whatever pound-me-in-the-ass contract your employer drew up, which almost certainly assigns copyright and patent of everything you do to them.
Pretty much the same as a home-grown system we're using at workplace :-)

The only difference I could find is they use sprintf("%d", $nr) file naming schema, while we use sprintf("%03d-%s", $nr, $login) -- the $login part is to have natural explicit ordering, to avoid duplicate numbers, and the %03d is to have natural ordering in directory listing.
> True, however she and her parents signed the forms that the school district sent out about the RFID tags and agreed to the terms.

Doesn't matter -- it doesn't matter whether there is a signed agreement, only whether the agreement does or doesn't include provisions that violate civil rights. If this were not so, the South could have gone around and gotten all the poor black people to sign an agreement to attend inferior schools or give up the right to vote. They didn't even try this tactic, because they knew it wouldn't make any difference.

The tl;dr: Civil rights can't be signed away.
Edit your hosts file.
PR Achievement Unlocked!
Sure. Sorry Paul.
I'm pretty sure that's all this is.
We should question the idea of "growth" especially if its leaving a net negative on other aspects of humanity.
Career military men are military men for life, so what they think in their head and what their military friends and colleagues think is going to remain important regardless of the nuances of their service status.
No, that's closer to market socialism than capitalism.
GNU Hurd?
I don't understand your criticism.
Many third-party programs can also take PSD's. What are you trying to use?
When the news first broke, redditors did a pretty impressive analysis: http://en.reddit.com/r/cryptography/comments/12jipi/ww2_pige...

I'd place my money on this comment: "Poem code with AOAKN being the indicator group, 27 representing the block count and 1525/6 being a page or line number."
I understand that, but you also need to realize Jay HS is one of the worst, underfunded schools in the district. They NEED the money from attendance and that is the only way they get money.

If the govt. would start rewarding schools money not based on attendance alone, this would be a totally different thing.
I don't really understand this - has someone really gone to all this trouble to help people cheat at a free word game?
Doing the work you describe will probably be lucrative in itself. The laws of supply and demand will force wages on Mars well into 6 figures.
I mentioned it in my post (http://www.zappable.com/2012/11/learning-ruby-and-rails/), but I think the Humble Ruby Book is clearer to actually learn how to code.
Your imagination can't extend my example to something more private? You can't envision an NFC-based OpenID authentication connecting to your private server containing the information you wish to bring up on the screen? You can't imagine a Diaspora-style open source kiosk? You can't imagine even bringing up Chrome in Incognito Mode and feeding it data from your personal KeePass?

I was using an example I figured everyone around here would be familiar enough with to extrapolate the possibilities. If it actually existed, we wouldn't be wishing for it to happen. The whole point is that it's *not" "magical", it's completely possible, yet it doesn't actually exist.
"A more poignant campaign would revolve around convincing people not to buy certain unnecessary things at all, ever."

Which is not at odds with Buy Nothing Day and the associated movement. They're not just suggesting you delay purchases, but to buy from independent/local crafters or make your own gifts.

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

I haven't followed the philosophy to a T, but I've avoided the malls and chain stores fully, giving more personal gifts from Etsy sellers, local craft-meetups, handwritten cards, and baked gifts than ever this year. Supporting local/small businesses is always a good idea!
He's talking about the fact they are able to track where the students are "roughly" in the school, and that the RFID badges hold some personal information in them. To which, I'm not sure what kind of personally identifying information is on them other than a UUID. All speculation and snake oil
If a company is smaller than 10 people I can't be bothered with formal processes and HR people. When I get people applying that call themselves engineers I just think of comp-sci graduates who have no practical skill or someone trying to play up their ego with a fancy title. When it comes down to it, its the code you produce. I never give out résumés. At the end of the day its what you can produce.
That only works until FB (or Google or whoever) starts using IP addresses in their CDN URLs, or Google hard-codes DNS values for Google analytics servers into Chrome, or whatever. ShareMeNot prevents the browser from even trying to fetch the content.
No, that just made it worse. He was subject to personal character standards.
well, if that's the case where the $500,000 comes in much later, and there's ways to make a decent living on Mars, then it's certainly possible. But again, I still think people need loans, they don't have $500k sitting around. And lenders will only give out loans if there is a good chance of paying it back. If someone takes out a loan, goes to Mars, and refuses to pay, what is the lender gonna do? It costs $500k just to go to mars, it's not like they're gonna send a bill collector after them.
+1 for VimWiki; I don't use it like this author, but it is one of my favorite Vim plugins.
Upvote on the "you need a less stupid company."

It's terrible to have a manager who is really a frustrated top-level coder, put there by other managers to reward his or her success.

It's true that you need good people skills to advance beyond a certain level of being a coder monkey. Try to find a place that respects technical leadership as a separate entity from people leadership.

(For what it's worth, "architects" who don't code are some of the most useless tech people I know of, and I've generally been less than impressed -- in one case, absolutely horrified -- at the result of not keeping ones fingers in the code).
Ask HN: Best way to handle user profile data?
Almost every web application now allows you to setup a basic profile (Even Stack Exchange does). The question is how should you be storing the data in your database?

Should you just add more columns to your users database table, or should you setup another table called user_profiles that has a foreign key of user_id?
Weird, I made something exactly like this about a year ago [1]. I think theirs is more complete by now. I also made a package.json generator to go along with it [2], though that is more specifically for front-end javascript packages, so it doesn't have all the fields.

[1] http://jspkg.com/package_json

[2] http://jspkg.com/generator
I don't think anyone is burying their heads over this. 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.
Web.py is arguably an example of shoddy engineering in explosive software startups that did not become a medical experiment.

"The results show that foremost among the causes of growth in U.S., German and Japanese manufacturing value added is electric power consumption."[1] Now I wouldn't pay too much attention to the word "causes" in there, but...

Define your terms too precisely and there would be nothing to think about.

[1]"Engineering and Economic Growth"
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0954349X04...
PaintCode is 50% off today (the vector drawing app that generates Objective-C)
Not everyone is trying to optimize every little action for the maximum rate of return.
Have had a pleasant experience shopping there in the past. Above average quality for the price but very limited selection and styles even.
One man's concision is another man's line noise:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/13l9vj/getting_star...
Neuroscience: Under Attack
"Will you guys please stop this?"

Absolutely, sorry.

The nerd thing was a joke. I thought the assumption here was that we're all nerds?

Edit: because I put things in the wrong place.
> 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?

You have to consider this in the context of a solar system wide civilization. It's going to be a whole lot cheaper to ship things to and from Mars than from Earth. Orbital mechanics, Martian mineral resources, and the favorability of Mars for large scale agriculture will make it the hub of the solar-system's civilization. Settling Mars won't be like settling Greenland. It will be like establishing colonies in Massachusetts and Virginia. Eventually, the civilization-state of China and the western powers will realize this, and they will pay handsomely anyone who helps with their colonization projects.
I've never even eaten a taco.

You seriously need to fix this.
Wow, that's impressive. My results weren't nearly as good - maybe 5-8% or so, but I'm at ~5.4s load time on an app that takes almost 30 sec on vanilla MRI, so that's not too bad.

It is indeed a shame the defaults aren't better. I wonder if there's a reason that it's not default. If not, maybe a pull request is warranted.
Demo of a WebGL multiplayer in-game chat system
> I think I may just have to stop by my local Wal-Mart and take advantage of some of those deals

Yeah, that's the spirit. Head on over and contribute to the problem [1][2][3]

1. http://robertreich.org/post/36219730368

2. http://www.thenation.com/blog/171389/worker-group-alleges-wa...

3. http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/support-...
What relation would you say ego has to scratching one's own itch?
Has anyone had a good experience hiring via StackOverflow Careers? I've found it to be expensive, and it doesn't necessarily provide more or better candidates than craiglist, Indeed or LinkedIn.
Arch and Gentoo are still tiny fractions of the linux install base (which is itself a tiny fraction of users), and are mostly irrelevant.
ITU and the End of Crypto
Hacked Go Daddy sites infecting users with ransomware
Are you randomly guessing words based on their first character or is there any actual logic behind it?
We are talking about different things. I am not talking about class mobility. I am talking about the wealth of nations.
Well, it opens him up to blackmail, and I'm sure that the directory of the CIA would be a juicy target if an opposing spy agency had this info (prior to it becoming public).
Do you have very old records, old books, etc? Are you glad you can still enjoy them?

I don't worry so much about walled gardens as long as I can make backups to Ogg Vorbis (etc.) formats from iTunes purchases.

I am a happy customer of Amazon but I make permanent copies in open formats of a small percentage of Kindle books I buy that I might want in 10 years.

I have a lot of family and friends who are not techies. I advise them (and help) to save stuff they buy.
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