jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"The animal parts used for pet food may include damaged carcass parts, bones, and cheek meat, and organs such as intestines, kidneys, liver, lungs, udders, spleen, and stomach tissue"[1].

These are all byproducts of the meat industry for humans. Humans don't eat any of these animal parts. Pets are doing us a favor by eating all these things that would otherwise simply be thrown away, with a great deal of pollution involved. Eating our leftovers is, in fact, the traditional role that dogs have played in human societies.

Reduction in meat consumption has to come from humans, because we actually have a choice. We can (and do) also control pet populations with spaying and neutering programs.

1. http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Pet-Food.html#ixzz662tVEXrH
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Regardless of my agreement or disagreement with your points otherwise.)
Maybe, but some are exceptionally bad. Why did Allo exist at all for example? And the merging, demerging involved with Messages, Hangouts, and Voice have been a complete mess. There's more there than just trying some ideas, as some of the ideas actively damaged older ideas.
Yes, it depends on what benchmarks you ran though. Example:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-is-insanely-fast...
I've experienced this a lot while going to Dubstep parties, there are a lot of DJs that indeed have those special ocassion records laying around.

First party I went to a DJ called Skream played a track, later I found out it's one that he would never release and has a bit of a legendary status on the boards etc surrounding Dubstep. It was indeed amazing to experience it.
I struggled to find "the very rich or very successful ones are not happy" in the article
Sure you can. To give an example outside of Mormonism, you can say that the Oracle at Delphi had a prophetic / visionary role within ancient Greek culture, without having to believe in the Oracle's prophetic visions.
Haha, that's always the first thing I check for. :)

http://sitekite.com/my-kickass-website-m0uAPw
That's a great way to phrase it.

The wealthy are a minority class with extreme views.
> Because it was wrong.

...and once again you've failed to specify why it was wrong. Simply stating something to be wrong is a worthless comment. Provide an reason; or citation if it's necessary. I'm open to correction if you can provide a counter argument.

Though on this occasion I can say with certainty that I'm right about Comic Sans being non-free (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=35) and that @font-face allows you to include custom fonts into webpages (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face).

> It's not a penalty, it's just a downvote. Penalty would be flagging.

It deducts points from my karma; it's a penalty.

> Honestly sometimes I wish people had to justify upvotes...

I agree with that too. However that's not the issue here.
It might be available, but you might not be able to open a bank account for it. You can store cash of course, but that has a different set of problems.
WooConmerce runs like garbage and slows the site speed down to a crawl though.
I would strongly urge, if going with half-height arrow keys, to make the side arrows half height as well, rather than full height. This helps with both finding the key cluster and using it. Consider leaving a small gap to the left of the cluster as well, which in this case could conveniently be done by making the keys a bit narrower—they look unreasonably wide as it is. Ideally I’d also say shift them lower, breaking out of the rectangle and allowing taller arrows (even ⅔ or ¾ height would be a good improvement), but I can imagine that may fall afoul of manufacturing practicalities.

Another nice feature for keyboard design is small gaps between Esc and F1, F4 and F5, F8 and F9, and F12 and what’s to its right, as desktop keyboards have always done; this helps fingers to blindly find the right place. Not very many laptops do this; the main ones I’ve noticed doing it in my recent research is ASUS ROG laptops, which do seem to put more thought than most into these sorts of details. In the pictures shown here, the Escape and especially Delete keys look to be unnecessarily wide so that you could reduce their widths a bit to provide this space perhaps without shrinking anything else.
I think he is referring to proprietary firmware/driver blobs that come with many CPUs and GPUs. Purism has focused on this issue and provide fully FOSS hardware [1].

1. https://puri.sm/learn/blobs/
Very interesting, thank you for the insight.
Sea level rise happens over centuries. I don’t think Florida will have any serious problems before 2060. But Florida is almost completely going under water over 2100 - 2200. It’s understandable that some exaggeration in the urgency is needed else people will not care at all.

And if that sounds hypothetical it means your kids or grand kids have no hope of living in or inheriting any property there. Once the reality hits around 2070 or so property values will drop drastically and there will be a mass refugee style exodus from such areas to others which could lead to stuff like “Build a wall to keep the Floridans out”
> "Bernie Madoff didn't think he was doing anything wrong either."

Do you have a source for that? I would have expected that he knew that what he was doing was wrong, but did not care because he was greedy. Disagreeing with a law and disregarding the law are two separate concepts. People often do one without doing the other.

His apology that he delivered before sentencing suggests that he knew it was wrong. Of course it would be incredibly foolish to take such an apology at face value, but it would be interesting if there are any statements made by him at other times that contradict this.
This is also on the "at some point" list. :-)

Concolic testing is quite hard in Python because of its extremely flexible semantics. I will probably look into doing something with z3 at some point when I need an interesting problem to entertain me, but I don't hold out a massive amount of hope for it being useful.
Plenty of sites use URLs like http://example.com/sd8n9g9g rather than require logins for private / semi-private material. What's wrong with that?
Some of the success of the Quadro should be attributed to the driver Walter Röhrl (and of course his copilot). Before he changed to the Audi Team, he did win lots of rallyes with an Opel Ascona 400, which was not exactly overpowered compared to the other rallye cars of this time.
Is this account actually maintained by Bundestag (or other actual piece of state administration), or is it just a mirror? Also, either German law is really mature and stable, or this repository is unmaintained: last commit oin master is Jan 2013.

I'd love to see such a repository for the acts in my country, by the way, but the official source is a PDF, and most of the published acts are actually patches to existing (already heavily "patched"), like "In the section II, item 13a, change words 'foo and bar' to 'foo, baz and quux'". This mess untangled into an actual, highlighted, unified text is an actual product, and lawyers happily pay the subscription. I imagine it is similar in other countries.
> I don't ask my dog permission when I take him outside,

I hope that you don't feel the dog-to-child comparison is 100% accurate. Running your house like a pack of dogs (or frankly a boot camp) might not be the best way to raise children. You don't want to raise children that: 1) can't think for their own b/c they only know how to memorize/regurgitate or 2) will instantly rebel and 'go wild' when control is released (i.e. university/college).

> My father was the boss, it was an undebatable fact and I experienced very little drama in my childhood. I never got grounded, and I rarely got disciplined because if I ever did something wrong I simply had to be told not to do it again.

This evidence is just as anecdotal as the people that say, "My computer runs Windows and I've never seen a BSOD so therefore anyone that experiences a BSOD must have been asking for it." Also, read the comment (currently) above this thread that refers to further information that was cut from the final draft of the article at Alex's request. It adds more context to the story.

On the other hand, there is some evidence for having a strong father figure. e.g. Ted Nugent has stated that it was his up-bringing that kept him out of drugs and alcohol even while hanging out with notorious drug users like Jimi Hendrix. (Though many people might not see the 'Motor City Madman' as a role model to aspire too; I don't share a lot of his views on politics, etc)
The startup that I work for started out as a video upload site. On a whim one of the developers added the ability to use an embed code instead of uploading a video from your computer. When that became popular, it got promoted more and more until now, where there isn't even the option of uploading your own videos anymore. I always thought that was a hell of a pivot.
> It could be some test gone wrong... Or maybe [misdirection]

There's a MITM injecting malicious javascript causing a prolonged DDoS for several days now. There have been times in the past where BGP "misconfigurations" have redirected large amounts of internet traffic, and we used to think, oh, Hanlon's razor, now we know better.

What convinces me this is not Hanlon is the precisely targeted nature and significant duration of the attack. Whoever controls these servers and routers knows this is happening and wants it to happen.
For those that find this doesn't work (like me), just go to google and type the name of the article.
How do you collect rent on an open platform?
Running "make -p" is running a full parser which someone else wrote. Grep is not extracting the targets from a makefile there, it's extracting the targets from an intermediate representation of a makefile.
Wunderlist everywhere.

https://www.wunderlist.com/
I use Anki for a lot of things: Everything programming, sysadmin related, foreign words, facts I want to remember.

It's a tool for repetitive learning, but you can also use it as a snippet store, much like nvalt. The browser is excellent, it's cross platform, syncing is simple (You only need an ankiweb account).
>synchronizing chats between clients,

The Carbons XEP[0] is now fairly widely supported and does exactly this.

>user-friendly mobile clients.

Conversations[1] is excellent and is free software.

>push notifications

The centralized system of push notifactions on Android and iOS is not yet supported, it's true, but XMPP with its extensions has pretty good support for battery-constrained devices with intermittent network connections.

I use XMPP across multiple devices with my own server to communicate to other people running their own server and it works great.
Setting up your own server is extremely easy ("apt-get install prosody" works out of the box on Debian; stay away from ejabberd which is a pain) and I highly recommend it.

[0] http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0280.html

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conve...
Doesn't matter to us Chinese people because WSJ is evil and we are protected by the mighty GFW from it too. [sarcasm sign]
This is almost certainly using the same protocol.

The DevTools team did the work a while back to pull everything they needed out of process and establish the devtools protocol to enable remote debugging.

What the author has done is to take the Chrome DevTools (which is already basically a standalone web app), and package it up with Node-webkit as a standalone app.

I think this is cool, not from a technical perspective necessarily (since the engineering work was mostly already done by the DevTools team for remote debugging), but rather from a usability perspective. Slight tweak to the UX and it changes the mental framing people have of what the chrome DevTools actually is.
We've really got to stop the sob story for use case 2. Just because you produce something that doesn't mean you deserve to get paid. Ask my aunt who make pine-cone christmas decorations. Nobody buys those, but she makes them. With the way people talk about "stealing" content you'd think she deserves to make a living because she's "working" and depends on the income. NOPE.

It's quite simple for most things physical. They wont give me the object unless I pay their agreed price. Digital has a little wrinkle in that for most things, I can buy it then give it away to a friend (or millions of strangers) for free.

This means the "payment" part has to be different for digital goods. To me, it looks like the best way is getting paid up front, like Kickstarter. Or maybe subscriptions to a movie studio or something (Netflix). Time will tell.
The number of fires has indeed fallen dramatically. However, until the day when there is zero risk of there being a house fire (and we're a _long_ way from that), you still need to maintain a staffing level that can get the job done.
Reminds of how NFL coaches are so frequently fired when their teams do poorly. It makes for good press, but the teams usually do the same under the next coach.
Not just that. Disco also provides a distributed storage service for locality of reference when doing Map-Reduce.

This, in turn, might be something you'd use to build a tailored distributed system where you'd call out to Python (and its ecosystem, like Pandas, etc.) to do your own data processing.

My personal interest in it is that it uses LISP Flavored Erlang (lfe.io) and might therefore be nice to use with Hy (hylang.org)
Here's the last list I got from polling HN recommendations. This is ordered according to the way I would go about it.

http://www.hn-books.com/#B0=41&B1=14&B2=97&B3=89...

I've included a JQuery book because in my opinion JQuery is quickly becoming a de facto part of Javascript.
From the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: http://www.iihs.org/research/topics/roundabouts.html

This study* found:
39% overall decrease in crashes and a 76% decrease in injury-producing crashes.
Collisions involving fatal or incapacitating injuries fell as much as 90%.

* http://www.iihs.org/sr/pdfs/sr3505.pdf
I liked the overall idea. Give the search box a prominent position.
You can use the universal "repeat last action" command: just hit . You can hit . as many times as you like and it will keep indenting.
This is a great idea. A few months back I was telling a friend that I would love to make an index based on Senator's stock picks (since it's all public info), but I don't have the first clue on making an ETF/index. Are there any plans to reward people who create popular indexes? As I understand, currently index funds & ETFs can make a lot of money off fees
This was possible before Twitter. I remember back in the phpBB days, I was in a group where people were discussing the work of the philosopher Daniel Dennett and I had just read his book and didn't think people were reading him correctly. Instead of immediately taking to the "submit" button to tell them what I thought, I just emailed Daniel Dennett and asked him. He was head of the Tufts University Cognitive Science center and his email was publicly listed. He answered pretty quickly.

I wonder if he still would or if the amount of spam hitting public figures from every direction is so overwhelming that they can't possibly respond to it all. And I wonder how much of the "responses" you get from blue checks on Twitter is really them and how much is a hired social media manager running their account.
Most that I talk to do - but it's similar to how they care about the national debt.

There's nothing they can do, they have no realistic expertise or control, and they vote with what - dollars once every phone purchase?
If you spend a lot of time in China, then you should already know that Chinese has similar expressions.
I was thinking the same thing, but couldn't you just look at a popular index and replicate it for free?
When you say "mail.app" do you mean on a Mac?

Because I have some pretty large mailboxes on my Mac, and Mail.app searches/indexes them like a champ. The search, in fact, is what KEEPS me on Mail.app -- it would be way more convenient for me professionally to surrender to Outlook, and Mac Outlook is really not bad, but holy hell is Outlook's search GARBAGE compared to the Mac client.
A perfectly neutral and objective journalism hasn't existed, but the aspiration toward neutrality and objectivity have existed and even been mainstream at points in our history. In my lifetime, it's a relatively recent phenomena that media outlets were openly biased, viewing their function as "activism" rather than truth-seeking.
That may have happened and have been possible in 1900, but I grew up in a farming family and there is no way any farming people who wish to be profitable and have a good business do this today.

Today it's more like you have a job for year round income like hardwood flooring or whatever and then in the Summer you have 2 jobs: whatever job you have year round and then your additional farming work.
More comments on pg's thread.

As an experiment; let's upvote chaosmachines comment to 5 add 1 comment, leave mine get mine to 3 & add 3 comments.
She did, but I hadn't been super-specific about what I'd been working on.
Personally, deep object ontologies make my eyes glaze over. Its not like these objects evolved in the wild and their ancestry is somehow interesting. Give me interface definitions any day. ECS is nicer for that.
> There are many ways of transferring money across the internet.

Only through a centralized intermediary (e.g. PayPal), which may block the transfer, freeze funds, deny access, go bankrupt, etc. Bitcoin allows direct peer-to-peer money transfers (a bit like cash but digital).

> Why is Bitcoin special if that’s the reason for its value?

Personally, I feel that the censorship resistant and pseudonymous p2p money transfer is a nice feature but the killer feature is that it's a money that can't be manipulated by any one entity. Its rules are pretty much set in stone. Since it is politically neutral, it is well suited for becoming an internationally accepted store of value / currency.
Without much planning, I happened to end up in Ethiopia in 2018, just a few months after Abiy was elected prime minister. It was an unusual experience.

In Addis Ababa the feeling was.. electric. People were so hopeful and happy. Everyone was talking to me about Abiy and how everything was changing.

Then I traveled around the country, further and further north. I visited Tigray - not the place where the massacre happened, but very close by. Not the church in the articles, but many like it.

And then (long story) I had an opportunity to visit a military camp at the Ethiopia/Eritrea border... and then you start to realize how complicated everything is. Ethiopia has a border on Google Maps, but that doesn't mean the people in the north see things the same was as in Addis Ababa.

What is a national border anyway if you define yourself more by your tribe than your so called nation?

The people in Ethiopia are fantastic and I hope some peace can come eventually.
Yes, and ownership with authenticity proof.
Putin & company have done the same and more, and their money is still more than welcome in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
If it was a honeypot, then why block it inside of China? Now they have to break a VPN on top of breaking a voice chat protocol in order to get the real identities of people inside of China.
Well it's not a rumor anymore, AMD announced it.
That's relatively new, but I was glad when they changed it. To be clear, it's not "outside the US", that's Canada -- the point is that prices are now listed in local currency, including in the US.

Back to the point: while I'm pretty comfortable with translating Canadian dollars, British Pounds, or Euros to US dollars, that's about as much as I can do in my head. I'm much happier seeing ~US$1.17 than ¥99, and I'm much more likely to buy the app.

So while I can see your point, I think it was definitely a change for the better, and it probably resulted in increased sales.
Not at all.

It's completely symmetric. If you want someone with years of experience, who knows how to build technology products and maintain them, and can get it done, it's not too much to ask that you have years of experience building companies, and know how to get it done. It so happens that an engineer who 'knows how to get it done' will have plenty of examples of things they have done in the past, and the same goes for a business person. It also so happens that a business person who has 'got it done' will have the things I listed in their toolkit. Not having those things is a really strong signal that they are full of shit.
Except you practically can't edit it unless it's some really fringe topic.
There are tens of us!
Likely referring to high-pressure room temperature superconductivity, which is about as practical as the low temperature versions (if not even less so)
Very valuable perspective for someone like me who is on the verge of drastically changing their environment.
The interesting part to me is the mental gymnastics and tests around what constitutes "lewd or lascivious" without nudity, and naturally that veers well into: "I know it when I see it".
To paraphrase: "The editorial direction in this video is terrible and punishable as crimes."
But also what a gross rabbit hole to go down. I am so sad that I clicked the link and wondered what this case might be about.
It's also worth keeping in mind that a good chunk of MBAs come from engineering and other technical backgrounds. In fact, they comprise a full 40% of the latest HBS class (according to http://www.hbs.edu/about/facts-and-figures/Pages/mba-statist...).
I've already mentioned that the director of talent acquisition was part of my interview process. She gleefully told me stories of firing people. It was not "We monitor performance and those that do not meet our required level are fired" it was more like "I overheard an engineer say something and fired him on the spot." As well as "we had people doing job X because they were the best at X. Once that project was finished, we fired them."

The last story I mention is especially concerning since, at least in NY, if a company has a single project they need completed, they hire consultants. Consultants are paid very well (much more than even Netflix will pay) as compensation for the risk of being a consultant (i.e., no health insurance, no implicit or explicit agreement that the work will continue for more than a single project).
The official story told often at big companies is that the interview process should be tilted towards false negatives over false positives.

The truth of the matter is you could probably get statistically similar results from a voodoo witch doctor reading chicken entrails.

Ok, maybe not, but I really get the feeling that most hiring systems are arbitrary and are less "tilted toward false negatives" and more just plain random. In the cases such as Google, they also tend to create a monoculture which probably feels right at the moment but I think really hurts the company in the long term.
Yup.

Having strict moderation standards is SO's business. I may or may not agree, but it seems to work for them.

Leaving closed questions, particularly those without answers, on their site sucking up google juice and deceptively appearing in my search results is scummy. If they don't want it on their site, they should ask google not to crawl it. And that goes squared when the question doesn't have an answer.