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Obligatory link to Manna (sci-fi story about robots and bots impact on humans) - http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
2) Erase Text option menu location Using version 0.7.2, the "Erase Text" option is displayed under the "Translate" section (certainly not where I would ever intentionally look for it).
3) Select Text -> Right-click changes selection After selecting my text, when I right-click the selected text often (almost always) changes. For example, with the kitten text, I selected both paragraphs, but when I right-clicked to go to Translate->Erase the first paragraph ceased to be highlighted. After erasing the second paragraph I tried in vain to select and erase the first paragraph, but everytime I'd right-click the selected paragraph only a single word would still be highlighted. I eventually tried erasing text while only one word was highlighted and the entire first paragraph was erased.
4) I really appreciate the Security & Privacy section of the project page.
5) I would love to see a Firefox version of Project Naptha!
In no particular order, I suggest:
Check out makezine.com.
Find a local makerspace[1]
Work through tutorials and references for beginners (great hands on electronics book [2], more in-depth info to augment an electronics tutorial [3], arduino [4])
[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=makerspace
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Learning-Through-Disc...
[3] http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-...
[4] http://www.amazon.com/Arduino-Workshop-Hands--Introduction-P...
>This extra day added to the last month was outside of the days of the week cycle, and so the first of a month was always a Monday. On leap years, an additional festival day (also outside the week cycle), to celebrate holy women, would join the memorial day of the dead.
Which to me reads that the extra day/s are not one of the 7 weekdays. Hence these days would fall between a Sunday and Monday, but would not be refereed to by any of our current weekday names. So, each year there would be the forth Sunday of Bichat, followed by the The Festival of All the Dead epagomenal day, followed by the first Monday of Moses.
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re: deleted comments should still count toward karma
>The other day I saw a user making comments that struck me as factually questionable. I'm not an expert in that field, so I asked for an explanation. The user had an avg over 5, so there was reason to believe the user might have known something I didn't. All of a sudden, the user's comments on that topic started getting downvoted. Despite the initial downvotes one of the comments was still at the top of the thread (my understanding is that a user's avg impacts the comment ordering). The user never responded to requests for more information or reputable sources, and then all of a sudden, all of his/her comments on that thread were deleted.
>Curious, I went and looked up the user's previous comments. In multiple fields this person put on an air of expertise. Maybe he/she is and then again, maybe not. But the comments were almost all disparaging, with this air of expertise. So, the user makes definitive claims that come across like an expert, if their comments start getting downvoted, they delete the comment and don't get penalized. Otherwise, they reap in the upvotes and have an avg that appears to the world to justify their expertise.
Not only does it require a bit more overhead on the downvoter's part, but the reasons can be used by the algorithm.
I also think that some sort of feedback for the comment's poster could really help comment quality.
edit to add: It also reduces the possibility for 'accidental' downvotes, which I see on a regular basis.
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On a related note, deleted comments should still count toward a user's Karma and avg.
The other day I saw a user making comments that struck me as factually questionable. I'm not an expert in that field, so I asked for an explanation. The user had an avg over 5, so there was reason to believe the user might have known something I didn't. All of a sudden, the user's comments on that topic started getting downvoted. Despite the initial downvotes one of the comments was still at the top of the thread (my understanding is that a user's avg impacts the comment ordering). The user never responded to requests for more information or reputable sources, and then all of a sudden, all of his/her comments on that thread were deleted.
Curious, I went and looked up the user's previous comments. In multiple fields this person put on an air of expertise. Maybe he/she is and then again, maybe not. But the comments were almost all disparaging, with this air of expertise. So, the user makes definitive claims that come across like an expert, if their comments start getting downvoted, they delete the comment and don't get penalized. Otherwise, they reap in the upvotes and have an avg that appears to the world to justify their expertise.
[1] http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-trick-to-recognizing-...
>Update coming today -- starter kits scheduled to start shipping by Friday, first Soylent shipments will be next week, though probably wed/thurs rather than Monday.
- http://discourse.soylent.me/t/soylent-update-4-8/12022/95
So the first shipments should be rolling out of the dock by Apr. 24th. Still no word on speed of delivery, but I'd expect the first shipments to start arriving the week of Apr. 28th - May 3rd.
>I don't know anything about marketing or branding but I'm a big fan of underpromising and overdelivering. You're right it doesn't sound that amazing, but it is to me.
>Soylent is supposed to disrupt the food that is all marketing and nutritionally disastrous. I'd like to differentiate by being honest and up front. Most food sold is all branding and taste. I feel there's a wealth of science and chemistry to food and nutrition that is largely ignored by the main players in the industry. They just make what they know people recognize and want. Fatty, salty food is sold because that's what people demand. There is a serious gap in the market for cheap, convenient, healthy food.
>The name kind of fades in to the background after you say it enough too. My brain has become accustomed to a positive association with the word 'soylent'. If I've had 'real' food for two meals in a row my mouth waters at the mention of the word soylent. Your body learns. The stomach is connected to the brain. Think about 'coffee'. That's a terrible name. It sounds like 'coffin' or 'coughing'. But no one notices because it's become its own idea and most people have formed an association with it, good or bad.
>I own the trademark. It could be sold under a different name in addition to soylent for marketing purposes. That's pretty common. Some conservative people may never be able to get past the name. I considered the name 'manna' but it's heavily trademarked, and a little cheesy. I'm open to suggestion.
- http://discourse.soylent.me/t/changing-the-name-to-something...
- ntrtyLt (I'm mostly confident)
- tmincrw (I'm really confident)
- rrnmtht (I'm not at all confident of my answer, but I'm really confident that r's, n's, and m's should be prohibited next to each other in captchas like this!)
- MCruncy (I'm really confident of my interpretation, but are capital letters supposed to be reported as capitals on this captcha system, or is this one of the systems that we're only supposed to submit lower case characters even when the character that we're viewing is upper case?)
I think the 'story' behind the furniture needs to be more prominent (i.e., why are "reclaimed" and "hand-crafted" the selling points), and then organizing the site so that the custom height and free shipping are easily found (e.g., specific answers on a FAQ page, or simply bullet points below the front-page 'story') would go a very long way.
- "To ensure the proper height, we will contact you after your order to get your height."
- "We are currently offering FREE SHIPPING to the lower 48 states."
Based on the site and their password requirements I pick one of the three base passwords. I then algorithmically modify the password based on the site's url. For example, the first and last letter of the main portion of the url. Thus, using the medium password for hackernews and gmail I end up with "yEg4mRk4r" and "gEg4mRk4l", respectively.
[1] Strangely github.io pages bookmark just fine.
I'm a guy who had the opportunity to attend a Women's College [1]. As a result I'm more aware then most men of things like only including men in a medical study. Since HN is predominantly male, I feel a personal responsibility to highlight such things, because things like gender and ethnic heritage do matter in medical conditions, even conditions that may look very generic in nature (e.g. heart disease or paralysis).
To be clear, my original comment didn't say this particular study should have been conducted with a different sample, I said simply that "it'd be really nice to hear about generalizable research being inclusive of minorities (e.g., 4 Chicana women instead of 4 Caucasian men) earlier in the research process."
[1] Only women were admitted as residential students. There were a myriad of reasons that guys could attend classes. But we were still very outnumbered!
[2] For more than a decade my grandmother complained of what turned out to be primarily female symptoms of heart disease, but her GPs were only aware of the primarily male symptoms. It was only when she visited a emergency room and was treated by a doctor that was cognizant of the differences that she got a proper diagnosis. In the end she died of heart disease, who knows how much longer she would have been with us if heart disease research had been more inclusive earlier on or her doctors were made aware of more recent research.
[1] http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Medical-research-has-fo...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1761670/
[3] http://www.bidmc.org/CentersandDepartments/Departments/Medic... /HeartDiseaseDifferencesBetweenMenandWomen.aspx
[4] http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/fill-gender-gap-in-medical...
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I understand the statistical reasons for having commonality among such a small sample, but I'm willing to bet that it was four Caucasian men, and it'd be really nice to hear about generalizable research being inclusive of minorities (e.g., 4 Chicana women instead of 4 Caucasian men) earlier in the research process.
Regardless, it's pretty amazing research and I hope they can overcome the current limitations soon!
So the hardware may support hacking, but their software isn't designed to be hacked (e.g., requiring licenses).
I don't mind (and on occasion actually enjoy) paying to help develop or maintain software, ditto to help develop, maintain, or manufacture hardware. But something like this should be fully hackable, and these days I won't pay for anything less.
Other than it being loosely related to the technology of money and shopping, what does your question have to do with, "A Revolution in Money"? Specifically, what does the recency of an individual's interaction with a self-checkout machine have to do with the article?
My grandfather had an idea about how to improving HVAC systems (he was in the business). He discussed it with his assistant - someone he considered a friend and protege. The kid went and patented the idea (my grandfather was opposed to patents and thought all knowledge and ideas should be free), started his own company, and became my grandfather's chief competitor in the area. My grandfather died a short time later (a few days after my birth, so I've only heard about this second-hand from my grandmother, who served as the bookkeeper, my mother, and my father, who served as the subsequent assistant).
My father worked for a small company that approached a large company (large enough that I can guarantee any American has at least heard of said company) about an idea. NDA's were signed before discussing any details. The big company kept saying that they were trying to get enough details to determine whether to buy out my dad's company or simply pay a flat fee for the idea. For over a year they pumped my dad's company for details, all while working the idea covertly. My dad's company continued to pursue the idea and actually did take their version to market. The way my dad's company found out that big company had stolen the idea was when employees started seeing big company's version of the product on store shelves. 30 years later and I still see the big company's product on a regular basis, my dad's company went out of business (spent too much on development and then were beat to the national market by big company).
In both cases, if the idea hadn't been shared, it couldn't have been acted on in bad faith and the actual idea-generators would have had a chance to market or complete their implementations.
BUT I'd still like to compete, is there anyway someone can unofficially compete?
2) turn right
3) merge (merge current piece into facing piece, with corresponding shift in all rows/columns)
4) swap (jump viewpoint from current piece to facing piece)
5) flyover (view whole board)
In my dream I actually played it several times, some times there was a flyover option and sometimes there wasn't. It was way more difficult without the flyover option!
The merge was the best part! It was sort of like a 1960's movie style drug/Batman/fireworks visual event.