skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is another deposit in Nevada called Kings Valley that is in feasibility. It's about 300,000 tonnes LCE, and fairly likely to go into production.

If the Wyoming deposit it real (their numbers wouldn't float for a listed company and they're short on details), it's probably 10+ years away from production. Neat discovery, but very speculative.

http://www.westernlithium.com/project/ is the Kings Valley project.
I imagine this might be (more) useful on a silicon-wafer scale. Generate/move magnetic fields using a chip - a new way to get highly intense/focussed disk read/write heads?
All the meal replacement shakes explicitly state that they are NOT full replacements but only as a part of a balanced diet.

What I'm wondering is if that means that they are not trying to include 100% all nutrients, or is it just a legal claim to pretect them, since noone knows 100% all necessary nutrients.
Of course. "Stop being fat, it's easy, look at me how fit I am" is pretty much the same "Stop being poor, it's easy, look at how rich I am."
Is this a coping mechanism for dealing with burnout for you?
I agree with pretty much everything you're saying. I wish maven could learn from leiningen and make base maven work like it does. It's so easy with leiningen to create a new project and start coding.

With maven, I pretty much need a multi-module project for even simple things (mostly because I code Java using eclipse and eclipse needs a workspace above my projects generally speaking) and doing that is a lot of incantation to get up and running.
That was a talent deal top to bottom. This isn't.
Right. And unlike almost every other Kickstarter 'art' project, it doesn't propose sharing the result with the folks funding it.

I think the guy might consider just taking a loan or whatever, to fund for-profit ventures in the future.
We also do full-text search for Pro users, and you can sync with Pocket. http://kippt.com
Even, say, tendencies to sociopathy and violence are also partially genetic - if you have a genetic propensity towards obesity, it doesn't reduce your responsibility by a single inch, it simply means that you have to pay more attention and seriousness to avoid mangling your life.
May I ask specifically which meal replacement shake are you using? Which brand or are you making it or something?
You're paying for the brand, that's true, but not $25k of that is the brand. You have to consider the materials, manufacturing process of individual pieces, labor, marketing expenses, service, etc.

Generally: Companies try to give you the best for the money.
Druiid, do you mind testing our instructions here? http://github.com/zippykid/nginx/ ?
Thanks, I was wondering exactly the same thing. "Meet demand for how long?" I thought it might be a single year since it never specified, but 228k tons seemed a bit high.

Sounds like it'll be a while before we know exactly how much of it we can mine.
Congrats to the team for being the third-biggest exit to date of a company to come from a seed accelerator. http://www.seed-db.com/companies/funding?value=exit

[edited; originally said FB bought OMGPOP but it was Zynga. Sorry I was wrong, it's past midnight here]

Looks like they're making Ignition Partners happy... I'd guess around a 4x return. But making a lot of other angels/funds happy, too. (Garry Tan, Google Ventures, David Rusenko amongst others). Details here: http://www.seed-db.com/companies/view?companyid=102025
Buddy Cup: When two people toast, they become friends on Facebook.
these days they're all young and fit and well endowed. but the camera is never focused on them or their faces, like in the old days.

the ron jeremy days are long gone.
No guarantee's there, but I can say that it works both ways. Xenophobia and these sorts of biases exist and are normal parts of being a human being.

I would say, it's better to accept that these biases exist, so that you can take them into account when reasoning - rather than trying to delude yourself into thinking you are in entire control of all that is going on in your mind (and body).
Bummer. Can I ask why this changed your mind? At FB, we're quite serious about finding ways to gift third party developers with APIs, tools, open source, platforms, whatever we can do to help. I think Parse is pretty awesome and is likely to become more so at Facebook. That's a useless opinion if it's not shared by the wider community, though.

So: feedback taken seriously - we're listening. Fire away.
Parse is an amazing product. Facebook just killed it on this acquisition if they can find a way to leverage Parse's ability to provide quicker deployment and their position as a great platform for rapid distribution.
Devops is like obscenity: you know it when you see it. It's an attitude...
prostate cancer can usually be left alone and never kill or impact the patient at all

I upvoted your comment because it is largely correct. Most cases of prostate cancer can be responded to by "watchful waiting" with no particular treatment. However, I will note for the record that the cause of death of my late father-in-law in Taiwan, who had good medical care under that country's single-payer national health insurance program, was metastasized prostate cancer. He had successful heart surgery and other treatments that prolonged his life into his eighties until the prostate cancer got him.
Let me add that there is a huge difference between PhD and Masters admissions. Masters admissions is typically FAR easier and less research and less rec-letter dependent. Strong work experience is sometimes all that's needed to get into a good Masters program.

For example, a school like Stanford is notorious for having a Masters program that is easier to get into than the undergrad program and is generally not terribly difficult to get into as long as you can pay.
Actually, it doesn't sound odd in the slightest if you read the whole thread, including the two people at the end complaining about the lack of support. Reading the article, it sounds like Instapaper was just too big for Marco to support on his own, and has partnered with BetaWorks to help him make the product better, probably by giving it support.

It seems incredibly cut and dry from that perspective.
Morning Bell: Beware the Internet Sales Tax
I agree the wording is not super approachable. We have plans to change that :)
There's backlift [https://www.backlift.com/] that connects to Dropbox.
Government and multiple platforms. That's cute. I guess you've never worked an IT job in the government before.
With the early traction you are getting are you considering dropping the side from the project and go at it full time.
> If corporations are people, this is definitely a violation of the 3rd amendment.

How so? I don't see anything in either the actual CISPA nor the imaginary CISPAs that much of the internet thinks exist that would raise a 3rd Amendment issue.
Thanks :) Make sure to +1 requests that you want to see next, so we can prioritize accordingly!
Amazon Coins - Virtual Currency for App and In-App Purchases
At least there's not a lot of nitrogen involved.
This might help. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/python...

and/or this: http://lahserpatent.com/another-company-trademarked-my-busin...
Congrats to the Parse team. I am a bit bummed. I was very happy to compete with them. Hopefully the founders stay and keep bringing it on.
C'mon, that tweet from Steve is exactly the kind of thing Marco would post if Pocket or any of his other competitors were getting bad press.
Expect it to be introduced on a Friday night and quickly, quietly passed with no notice.
There are even some awesome 2d games like 'Battle for Wesnoth' (open source) that will happily run on most netbooks.
'tzs is being dry, so, just so you know: the 3rd Amendment is the one that says you can't quarter soldiers in people's houses.
It is. Isn't it?
This comes hot off the heels of the ACLU filing a FTC complaint about lack of security: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/aclu-files-f... Interesting that where the market and the FTC fails to act, the Navy finds it necessary to pick up the slack.
You can make moral judgments all you want, that is of course your capability. That doesn't absolve you of racism.

Let me make an observation. The average Chinese person has much less real 'wealth' than the average American, and when you hold 'wealth' equal, American's are just as likely to lie, cheat and steal, because lying cheating and stealing have little to do with morality below a certain socio-economic level. You just can't generalize a result of poverty to an entire class of people, and then try and make a comparison to another class that doesn't live in poverty.

And if we really want to get down to it. Average Americans have more of their basic needs fulfilled, and so less excuses for 'degraded morality' and yet it is they, and not the 'immoral chinese' who waste more food per capita when people in their own country and the world are starving, it is they who waste more water when over a 1 billion people don't have access to clean drinking water. It is they who through their political power and free-information ( certainly more than the average Chinese person ) choose to directly and indirectly support a government which subjugates not only millions of people directly around the world through its military empire, but also uses its preferential status as the world super-power to drive political and commercial entities in those same countries to commit terrible atrocities on their own people. All for the sake of maintaining the lifestyle of the Average American, who is so moral. and I'm sure if the chinese were afforded the same privileged position they would behave the same as the americans. But you do not recognize this, and feel it necessary to make a false equivalence and assert the moral superiority of one v the other. And it is this moral superiority complex that you seem to have, and which you seem to apply so liberally to Americans, but not Chinese who are evil and bad for stealing and lying and reacting to poverty, nevermind the people in poverty in the US who do the same thing, which makes your observation racist.

As to your selection bias for evaluating elite morality. I would first indicate that the US has a much better and more vigilant news apparatus than China's. And that from a US perspective you haven't been 'informed' on all the bad things the chinese gov't does to its own people. Like how many people died as a direct result of flooding and displacement from the three gorges dam project, how many continue to die for lack of an EPA in beijing and other cities? All people are equally corrupt, regardless of nationality or socio-economic status ( above a certain level, below which 'morality' ceases to be relevant ). The reason why it appears the elite are more so is that their status as elite gives them much greater impact and reach than the average corrupt person.

I don't have a problem with you giving an opinion or observation or even stating your moral position, I have a problem with the assumptions behind it, and the moral superiority you are displaying which I believe to be racist.
Have you checked out this? http://bumblebee-project.org/
I mean, what caused you to believe they were sabotaging you based on looks?
I'm sure there are all kinds of odd reasons why somebody might do that, but it seems like an odd one to assume unless there's a reason for it.
Yep. 60W incandescent bulbs do not all have the same lumen output, which leads to LED makers claiming "60W equivalent" when they really mean "equivalent to a lousy 60W bulb".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Jevons Paradox attempted to show that (for example) coal prices didn't go down when we learned to get more energy from the same coal. It would NOT apply to increased efficiency in coal MINING.

The Jevons Paradox - in my understanding - applies to our use of a resource, not its collection. I'm sure our demand for lithium will go up, but again that's not the Jevons Paradox - that's basic supply and demand.
You mean the one next to ToGo's?
You may have electrical problems (or any number of other problems) that may effect your judgement of CFLs.

I was just saying: An "instant" on and off light will affect your vision differently than one that (for example) dims slowly for a few seconds after turning it off. If this isn't "by design" and it takes minutes, than that's a serious problem.
Seems like it makes a lot of sense to do this. They don't want to become a de-facto mirror for the content, they want to provide it only to people who are actually their users. I'd rather have that, along with a bias towards sharing the original link, than a lot of sharing of the reflowed content.
They aren't. They're the provider of the service.
So true. Maven is the PostgreSQL of build tools.
I found it interesting that they specifically called out use on Virginia-class submarines. As a former submarine officer myself, there certainly are some applications on board where this would certainly make sense. (Not in the engine room operationally, but in other areas definitely.)
I actually did build all of my company's push stuff for iOS in an afternoon. It's a very simple TCP protocol that's well documented. If you know anything about basic networking it's cake.
Isn't that how it is supposed to work? There is pretty widespread agreement even among opponents of CISPA in its current form that the problems it is trying to address are real, serious, and need to be addressed, and I believe that there is even wide agreement that CISPA addresses them. The objections are that it needs some tweaking to prevent abuse (e.g., tighten up some definitions). Why should it not come back after those tweaks are made?
The odd thing is that he already hired an editor for The Magazine so it's not like be needs to work full time on it.

Maybe he has another idea for a new project. He has definitely "seen the light" about a product producing monthly revenues instead of a one time purchase price.
I thought Zynga bought OMGPOP?
Going to tack on:

5) Quantitative portfolio management. This usually involves managing a portfolio of stocks, either long-only or long-short. People usually come into this from either a heavy math/tech background or from doing academic finance research. Skills include portfolio optimization using linear/quadratic/etc. programming, machine learning, simulation and backtesting. Some companies that do this include:

- Acadian Asset Management
- AQR Capital
- Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- Janus InTech
- MDT Advisers (discl: I work there)
- Renaissance Technologies Institutional Equities Fund
I have been using it for about an hour on my x64 desktop. I was using Ubuntu 12.04 beforehand. The 12.04 is still on one of my disk partitions.

Canonical is apparently going more in the way of pre-installed crapware. There was an Amazon icon on my Launcher, which I removed. People have also been warning the Ubuntu Dash sends your searches to Amazon, I went to System Settings -> Privacy and removed that.

Haven't noticed that much. It may be a little faster, although my Ubuntu desktop usually runs faster when I reboot it, so I can't tell if it will stay this way yet. Doing horizontal resizing of windows seems a little more difficult, some setting must have changed. Firefox's plugin service seems hosed right now, maybe due to all the new Ubuntu installs. The Firefox edit window is acting a little odd as well. It has crapped out a few times in terms of display.

There were no workspaces until I turned them on in settings, they seem down on workspaces - something I had without a problem since fvwm back in the mid-1990s. Hopefully there will still be workspaces in the next Ubuntu version.

It seems like they've added a little more customization ability for the launcher, sizing the launcher, hiding the launcher etc. Or at least made it more obvious. It doesn't work that well but at least it's there.

I noticed they changed other things...grub now just says Ubuntu on top, and has simplified options under that. I guess I'll bump into more things as I go on.
I haven't used the official Twitter app in a long time, so my memory could be failing me, but I'm pretty sure I remember seeing sponsored tweets even on the old version. I thought that was the reason I stopped using it.
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You're going from "destroy" to "reducing the openness"? I don't claim to have a solution that doesn't somehow "reduce the openness", or, in other words, apply some rules or mechanisms that are not in place now. I'm not interested in destroying or even significantly hampering the internet. But I also don't want the internet to destroy the ability of people to make a living from their creative work.
>>Here, here on having sympathy for those out of work today.

Minor nitpick: the correct phrase is actually "hear, hear." :)
Well, one of bottom guys is the editor of Arment's magazine, so only one of them is asking for support. I just find it odd that people saying things mostly proven by this sale (Instapaper isn't Arment's top priority, it is hard to run Instapaper alone) gets a somewhat chastising response saying "it isn't true at all".
Zynga bought OMGPOP :)
I'd like to think my comment was an invitation to provide details if possible. Asking specific questions is hard when the situation described is so vague. :)
Missing Student at Brown Is Found Dead
Yes, thank you.

We don't have the actual data but whatever the previous results were we can normalize them so the average score is 50%. We also don't know how many students there are, let's call it 100, so 97 pack students and 3 lone wolves.

We have 20% better results for the pack which received a uniform score. Let's say that's the 70th percentile. (This is a simplification we'll have to make do with until the author publishes the actual score data.)

One lone wolf scored at that 70th point, one below, one above.

The 70th percentile represents the best work that the pack of 97 could agree on. Out of the lone wolves, 2/3 of them did as well as this or better.

It is not hard to imagine that there was better potential work than 70th percentile among at least some of the 97 individuals in the pack than what was chosen through committee, work that will never be manifest because a committee is always a compromise.

It is also not hard to imagine how it is that the average went up given that the half of student population who previously scored in the 0 to 50th percentile are suddenly cast into the 70th percentile simply by choosing to join the pack, even though their contribution, insight and understanding remains exactly the same as before.

It is not hard to imagine a scenario where the failing students who have learned nothing and acquired no advancement in their understanding and yet who just scored 70% instead of 0-50% still have no insight. It is not hard to imagine that the really excellent possible work was suppressed by the groupthink of the crowd. Yet the "average" score is now 20% higher.

We don't even have to consider that this single question essay exam was almost certainly graded in a completely subjective manner and thus the percentages don't mean anything objective at all.
Gandhi said "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated."

I guess Gandhi forgot that cows in India really do have it pretty good. Unfortunately, we, the people of india, haven't been able to pass a vital measure of moral progress: how do we treat our women. The woman taking a walk, travelling on public transit or the countless other examples that the author cites, should serve as a reminder of how spectacularly we have failed as a society. I wouldn't be surprised if we have actually regressed significantly [2].

It's hard to be optimistic about India, but hopefully these shocking incidents would stir up enough Indians to take notice and try to do something about it. For example, education(including sex ed. by the way) is a start. I am not sure how literacy rates have been affected by the RTE [1] act that came into effect in 2010, but I am hopeful that in the longer run, it'll improve our society.

[1] Right to Education Act: http://mhrd.gov.in/rte

[2] An interview from the former king of Travancore (read the last question, the one about matriarchs): http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Chunk-HT-UI-ViewsSec...
It wasn't directed at Marco. There actually were [1] tweets prior to this one where Instapaper users talked about switching to Pocket because of the news. Marketing to people using competing products is everyday business.

Ex 1: https://twitter.com/SocialJerm/status/327547885308739584
What are alternatives to Parse?

This acquisition just created a better opportunity for a new player. I for one cannot trust Facebook's handling of their data- let alone my apps data.
Way, way too soon to declare G+ a miserable failure. It's the lynchpin to their long term strategy for maintaining their dominance and relevance in Search, which in turn is how their Golden Goose of ad revenue lays its eggs.

Whether us schmuck users like or dislike it is irrelevant. At some point, G+ will be mandatory, as someone in Slate (i think, or maybe on quora somewhere) recently wrote...
Our modern world... invented by comic books.
There was a police department that rejected people with high IQs, and the discrimination case went to a high court.
> descriptive name obscuring what the code is actually doing.

Sorry but descriptive names are clarifying what the code is doing, or are not descriptive.
The author makes a good point in that what is perfectly safe for one person may be deadly to another. Off the top of my head, one example of this is how some people are congenital 'super-absorbers' of iron. These people can develop iron overload from ingesting levels of iron that have no effect on ordinary people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_overload
I can't zoom on this page with my phone and, due to that, can't read it at all except with the "Reader" function.
For RF, line-of-sight often isn't enough, one needs to worry about the Fresnel zone as well:
http://www.zytrax.com/tech/wireless/fresnel.htm

Links will work until something changes in the zone (trees grow, get wet, &c), then it might get unreliable.
This is:
1. spam, albeit targeted
2. intentionally deceptive
3. effective (because of #2 though)

Twitter may:
1. shut you down
2. offer you a job
3. give you nothing
4. see no benefit in letting you use their API. But depends on whether your idea for it adds value.

OP:
1. is innovative
2. probably didn't expect it to work so well
3. realizes as soon as they notice, he is toast
4. is trying to offer an olive branch
5. is likely doing some good, despite the deception

My advice to OP:
1. Use your innovation to subvert something that harms the public good, thereby making the world a better place. If you are really clever, you will figure out how to do this and make money too.
2. Keep thinking about this problem, and how you can do it in a honest way, which won't lead to abuse or dilute the value of the platform (any platform, not just Twitter).
Give it away to someone who really needs it.
There weren't 1000 developers working on GTA IV, certainly not full-time. More like 1000 people who once had at least one small task related to the development, sales or promotion of the title.

Having said that, 8 level designers making 300+ dungeons is extremely impressive.
What type of deluded nonsense is this ? Since when did adoption by the US government decide who will win the mobile platform 'war'.

And I was under the impression that Apps 4 Army was built for iOS first. Does that mean iOS will now 'win' ?
It doesn't make sense to test farseer on anything but Windows. I would be curious to see how .NET stands these days with relation to Java and native.
If you want to control your own data, we are building a synchronizing database for mobile https://github.com/couchbase/mobile

This isn't a full backend as a service, but for data storage we are hoping to hit a good 80% point where folks can use Couchbase Lite and pretty much just rely on their mobile app chops / not have to worry about the backend.