skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great example of moving the goal post.

Go down the list, as each on is stricken off the supporters will say "it was never about X, it was always about Y".

I'm constantly hearing about how organic food is: Healthier, tastier, or better for the environment. The scientific literature just doesn't hold up with any of those claims. [1]

On top of that, if there was some aspect of organic food that actually did make it better for the environment, then let's just use that with normal farming. Why create an arbitrary new category of food based on a fallacy? [2]

[1] http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/organic-food-pe...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
Incredible, but it also shows just how damn polished commercial games are.

Brilliant work.
Colin here for Suave.ly. Thanks for the questions and feedback - we'll take it into consideration (with a grain of salt since as you say, as a married man for 17 some years, you're not in the market).

We've found most people find it natural since meeting through friends & acquaintances is the top way to meet offline. We are targeting people in their 20s, though.

Cheers!
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Re: "General inflammation in the body" -- genuinely curious, do you have a source available for this? Not implying this is wrong, merely this seems rather strange to me and out of the mainstream (similar to the claim that autism is caused by inflammation).

Again, I am not claiming this wrong -- merely I've yet to hear any actual RSI suffers, MDs, or ergo specialists bring up this theory.

I can see some indirect link, e.g., high calorie diet and great deal of processed carbs leading to type diabetes-II which leads to general aches and pains, however.
Feds Seek Prison Time For Obama "Hope" Artist
Will add that soon!
Great logic. One Sherlock award for you :)
Reader Mode in Firefox Beta for Android
You're right, you can see a simple transition here: http://jsfiddle.net/Fqbym/

You'd need to setup the Trigger.io build / test environment to see the full example code from the post used in a mobile app. Maybe next time we can show that to you in a screencast, we'll work on it.
Do you polish your life like you polish your work?
Save their reticence, that site is all about subjective gossipy stuff. It looks like they have aspirations, but I wouldn't call them credible. If enough other people ran the story they would too.
I can understand why people are going after the location based social thing, as foursquare is lame and there is nothing much better. But to tie it into such a specific area is insane.
"25 Billion Apps Later, Things Have Changed"

I love how the App's store's success is used against it here. You've been so successful with your approach you need to totally turn your back on it and be more like these relatively unsuccessful stores!

Huh, or maybe that success is partly because they curate and decided not to turn their device's third party app economy over to pirates and spammers.
A measure of character? Jeez... I hope we don't have too many people measuring a person's character based on the thickness of their wallet.
In my experience, locally grown farmers market produce is significantly tastier than store-bought produce from Canada and Mexico (and in the bay area, it's frequently cheaper too). That doesn't seem like it ought to be a surprise given the former was likely picked a day or two before I bought it and the latter up to several weeks beforehand. The local farmers here tend to grow organic because that's what their market demands.

Similarly, I spent some time in Vietnam recently eating the local poultry and the stark difference in taste and texture between it and American agro-chicken is astounding.

And finally, what good reason exists to O.D. poultry and livestock on the same antibiotics we depend on to avert bacterial pandemics just to increase yield?
>> Why create an arbitrary new category of food based on a fallacy?

I thought organic food was bringing back an old category of food that just happened to have a new name. Just like how people like to add the word "artisanal" to foods. It's a newish word (marketing wise) to describe doing things the old way.
You're not groking the grammar correctly. "Today" references the breaking of the story, not necessarily that the entire series of events all happened today.
My sense is that it's a false flag operation precisely to cast doubt on the credibility of any tax returns purported to be his.
That's easy: googleapis.com and facebook.com use 1024 bit RSA keys, github uses 2048 bit. So the initial handshake is slower and the performance on your end is probably the main bottleneck.

(by the way, RSA labs deprecated the use of 1024 bit keys in 2003(!), so one could say that googleapis and fb use snake oil rather than ssl ...)
Animating how the Mandelbrot maps onto itself, by "stirring"
I love this about designers - they are so passionate and so convinced about the latest design fad, when in reality the only constant is change.

People just like "new" things ... one season its faux leather, another season its gray Helvetica on stark white.
QikShare – Sharing and Managing Your Dropbox Files Is Just a Bump Away
It's a bad sentence regardless.
Can anyone repost the info for those of us who can't (or prefer not to) visit 4chan at work?
But a floppy disk is not a metaphor. The metaphor is a "file" as a description for a series of electromagetic charges on a floppy disk.

It is indeed interesting that children may likely interact with email before postal mail. But postal mail shows no signs of disappearing anytime soon. Probably not during your lifetime and the lifetime of your startup while you're acquiring a critical mass of users.

Do you think it will be possible to conduct 100% of your affairs in life without ever sending or receiving postal mail? That postal mail will never be used by anyone you transact with?

No doubt we may someday reach a "paperless" world where all your affairs can be handled without every using postal mail. And where people never ever use postal mail and have no reason to even know of its existence. Maybe your children may see this come to pass.

But for the purposes of your startup, is that day something you should be concerned about? Is your target market toddlers? Or people old enough to have credit cards, today? People who know how to use email.
Cool article, thanks for the insight into your stack. One thing that threw me out of the gate, though, was lumping in Backbone.js in with Meteor & Ember.
Backbone at it's heart is just a way of providing some structure to your JS models - it doesn't really have anywhere near the level of complexity that Ember, Meteor, and some of the other frameworks have, and it still doesn't provide anything for server-side persistence, synchronization, access control, etc, so transitioning away from Rails to Backbone wouldn't really be an option. :)

Big thanks for dropping the link to cache_digests too, not sure how I've managed to miss out on that so far!
Not very credible.
This is how they keep an eye out for slow pages. This isn't how they keep the site fast. :(
Heres something that worked for me recently - walked into the dealership 15 minutes before closing time on the last day of the month after confirming on their website that they had the color / accessories combination I was looking at. I had a fairly good idea of what I wanted to pay, and they were eager to close the deal and to go home, the whole deal including the test drive was done in under 30 minutes.
Does everything need to be a conspiracy?

The easiest explanation is that this is just some guy hoping for free bitcoins.
Is there a particular reason (that you're aware of) for this decision? I'm certainly no expert on the matter, but it seems risky to store everything like that, especially unsalted. LinkedIn, anyone?
NOT a hoax, GOP confirmed they received a copy:

http://google.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnashvillecit...

Of course that data could be fake. But something in meatspace is happening.
You're making a critical logical error. Locally grown produce which qualifies as organic, does not represent all produce sold under the organic label.

The tomatoes I grew on my porch this summer were the best tomatoes I ever had. They would qualify as organic; should I then attempt to apply that anecdote to this discussion, holding it forth as proof that organics are better?
I just got finished reading his biography and I am nearly 100% sure he meant this literally.
Stephen here from Apptiv Games. Thanks for tuning in and for your support! I certainly agree with you... We could use coaching and mentoring. We're learning as we go and a lot of this is new for us!

It was a marathon of an experience, let me tell ya! Sometimes you felt like you had to talk for a long time to fill the dead space.
New Attack Uses SSL/TLS Information Leak to Hijack HTTPS Sessions
My #1 abuse is xargs -n1.

A lot of people like writing bash for loops, I will try and avoid that as much as possible, xargs -n1 is the bash equivalent of a call to 'map' in a functional language.

For instance, let's say you want to create thumbnails of a bunch of jpegs:

find images -name "*.jpg" | xargs -n1 -IF echo F F | sed -e 's/.jpg$/_thumb.jpg/' | xargs -n2 echo convert -geometry 200x

Additionally, it's fully parallelizable as xargs supports something akin to pmap.
[2] Just try to get agro-business to accept lower yields on poultry and livestock in exchange for halting the use of antibiotics in their feed. Good luck with that one. Doesn't seem like an appeal to nature whatsoever - it just seems like a practice that should be considered harmful.

But beyond my belief that produce and livestock that have been bred for flavor instead of yield/shelf-life taste better, and that the same people doing the former tend to farm organic in my biased experience, we're otherwise in agreement.
It all depends. I don't know how Boomerang is implemented, but it's possible that with an account your size it's hitting some degenerate condition.

One of our support folks should be emailing you and they'll help debug where the slowness lies, on our side or through some other interaction. If it's a bug, we'll fix it up shortly.
This situation appears to be no more than an attempt to scam money off frenzied people. But it does sound like an entertaining book/movie plot.
Just a quick heads-up in case any LayerVault peeps are reading: the post rather badly misspells "David Heinemeier Hansson".
Ditto. The community, 40,000+ posts, the idea, the talks that's what matters sometimes. There might be 10x more powerful devices in a year or less for the same price, yet they have to gain the same momentum as Pi. And nothing stops the Pi folks from concentrating on these. My understanding is that they (Pi) are not doing it for the money, they simply want kids to learn programming as many of us did back in our Apple ][ prompt, or BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, etc.

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Every thread will be available as JSON.
Hip is also a synonym for cool in some circles.
Yes. I am fairly sure that most people do not want a taller iPhone. They want a wider one, as evidenced by the success of the S3 and other larger smartphones... to say nothing of design principles based on aesthetic proportions that go all the way back to the ancient Greeks.

I have no idea what I would do with a taller iPhone 4S, other than complain about how I still have to spin it around to orient it properly 75% of the time when I pull it out of my pocket, and about how its display is still too narrow to be used safely for navigation and music playback in my car.

If I'm wrong, and there is a huge unmet market demand for an iPhone that is taller than a 4/4S but no wider, it will mean that I have no insight or understanding of the smartphone market as a whole, no product-design sensibility to speak of, and that I need to STFU and stop complaining. Nobody likes to be confronted with their own poor judgment, right?
Then I was being unclear - I tend to buy organic because I buy from farmers who breed for flavor and there's a strong correlation between that and organic farming in my experience.

Does that clear it up?

My only strong belief against conventional farming is the bat guano insane (IMO) use of antibiotics to increase yield.
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Brilliant (albeit a bit complicated) way to find n random rows in postgresql
"it" is BS.
After signing up:
"Thanks! I'll send you an email once the book is released."

How about sharing vim tips every week as you are writing the book? If you write me one email 8 months from now, I'll probably forget who you are.
Congrats guys! I'm really pleased with the openness about your hardware and configuration. Not a whole lot of providers who openly disclose (or tout) their uplink stats and brand of equipment, even when it's good stuff. I need to visit with you about the hybrid cloud experience since it sounds like you've been deploying to that for a while now. Any notable hiccups?
US Visa: My first app for iPhone
Maybe not:

http://google.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnashvillecit...
When do you expect to launch the book?
Not all NAS applications require a gigabit LAN.
My personal experience suggests you're paying attention to the wrong indicator; rather than "organic", "local" is probably a better clue.
Hmm, I don't want to be spammy, but this could be a good idea. Anyone else have thoughts on this?
So you're saying your comment was off-topic? The article is about organic farming, not local farming.

The fact that you like local produce says nothing about organic food.
Coincidentally, it would be thirty hundred thousand times the amount I would pay to a local Cambodian corrupt cop to get that dude's ass on jail. With little variance. Point is, Swedish readers, you should vote me for chief prosecutor of your country.

No, seriously. TorrentFreak here wants us to believe that Cambodia got 40G$ for arresting someone who is not precisely Pablo Escobar reincarnate. Do they seriously want us to believe that the Swedish Minister of Justice is that incompetent? I mean, some calls, an Interpol red notice... I could get it done for less than a million, my fees included. So vote me.
I don't think you're being fair calling it a "moving goalpost". The "organic movement", if that's even a thing, is about a lot of things to lots of different people. It's about supporting local economies, safety and jobs for field workers, a reaction to the decline of rural culture and the rise of agribusiness, getting more fruits and vegetables and less corn byproducts into children, etc. It's also a movement with a long history and lots of different players pushing different agendas, co-opting a single word to relay their message.

It's like reading an article in Wired called "The Rise of the Geeks" or "Silicon Valley Rebels" depending on the time and context it could mean 1,000 different things.

When someone says "organic" they could mean "organic" in the sense the USDA means it, or the could mean: biodynamic, local, home grown, etc.
And yet he's selling it. So he obviously does care somewhat - otherwise it would be just a video of it working and maybe some assembly instructions. (Something my grandfather did with the Williamson Amplifier: He published how to create it in Wireless World rather than patenting it and making tons of money from it.)

The point is: he built a business, whatever his intentions before he started, his intentions are now in selling.
As soon as the author wrote "socket.io" the gears in my brain ground to a stop.

Use observers, pusher, and a client side MVC. Don't serialize records deeply, your client side controller or framework should handle the updates nicely. IMO use `after_commit` http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/695-use-after_commit . Just let that data flow, brawhlings.
What is auto backup software and do you need it?
If their goal is to harm Romney, blackmailing implies that the taxes are very very heinous, even without releasing them. It also extends the story through many more news cycles.

If they just released the taxes people would quickly find out that Romney does what most very rich guys do: minimize their taxes through legal shenanigans. The story would be out of mind come November.

By letting people's imaginations run wild about what is in there, each individual will create his or her own bogeyman. It's definitely below the belt, but may not be a bad strategy.
Good start, but it'd be nicer if the swipe gesture was tracked live and the transition performed once the touch point was released (taking velocity into account for bonus points). This'd be more like the iOS home screen switch gesture (imagine if that didn't track live!).
Chick-lit star snubs Menshn.com password flaw alert
Thanks for the link but I think you're still missing it slightly. I'd like a url I can point my phone at to see the demo app running.

Not a screencast as I can't gauge lag from that, but a functioning demo to play with.

I want to be able to test on my phone to see it's "simple and fast" from the UX perspective before I'll investigate further.
That sounds nice and I hope you are right. But I can certainly see a scenario where one of these walled-gardens gets big enough to where most people communicate using this platform and email ends up being like usenet or irc. Email can never be disabled (right?) so we'll still be able to use it technically, but it could cease to be practical for everyday business and personal correspondence.
As soon as packaged apps gets green light. Not sure if commercial, but sure an installable webapp with some improvements. I guess I'll recode the whole thing :P
NeXT went on to go broke and sell their factories for pennies on the dollar, becoming synonymous in silicon valley with excess where it isn't required

edit: for those that don't know, that jobs quote is in reference to why they put so much effort into their factories, which really were ridiculous.... jobs went on to just outsource everything after his return to apple
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Interesting comparison, but it should be noted that DMD uses pretty much the simplest possible GC (non-generational conservative mark-sweep).
I would not view that as spammy at all.
That's an interesting use of the word "propaganda".
Good UI Design: It's all about Context
>I really think the hypothesis "We hate everything the US do and all their close friends" fits better as an explanation for the left's double standards.

Shrug. It's possible. Obviously as someone who takes quite a lot of the leftist view I don't like that explanation.

>The left seriously argue against both the existence of game theory

Interestingly criminals tend not to take a rational approach to evaluating the risk of punishment (or else, their utility function is rather skewed). There's a wealth of evidence that longer prison sentences don't deter crime any more than short ones, and while the threat of prison has some deterrent effect, it's less efficient overall than e.g. community service (which has far better reoffending rates)

>and the existence of uncurable psychopaths?

While such people exist, a) they make up a tiny proportion of the current prison population b) prison, and "punishment" in general, is not really an appropriate way to deal with them. Some people genuinely do need to be kept out of society, but we can deal with those cases as a medical matter rather than crime and punishment.

>Is the left really aware of that many crime victims gets their lives destroyed?

You'll find a lot less sympathy for violent criminals than property crimes. Certainly the leftist position would be that, considering their overall life, a typical burglar is more in need of help from society than their typical victim, but I don't think that's so unreasonable. Certainly going by the obvious financial measure it's true.
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Really love what Nokia has done with the Lumia line. Definitely the best handsets running Windows Phone, and if I weren't so enchanted by Apple's walled garden, I'd probably consider it over the next iPhone.

The Lumia 920 is the uniPhone in all the right ways. Reminds me very much of what Palm tried to do with webOS and the Pre — Microsoft and Nokia are just in a better position all around to pull it off.

Having said that, very much bummed by an announcement of what seems like a great product that doesn't include pricing and/or ship dates. As to why they were announced before the new iPhone, it seems obvious to me that if they aren't ready to ship, you'd at least want some mindshare to stem the tide of the looming iPhone launch. I bet at least some people will wait to upgrade.
Olimex is working on an A10 design, and is already shipping A13 based board. This would be quite doable for another small team.

http://olimex.wordpress.com/ or http://goo.gl/5v26a to the post.

Allwinner will reduce minimum shipping quantities for open hardware projects. Closed development OEMs have a 100k minimum order quantity.
This article brought up something I haven't seen in any of the articles about the Hugo incident:

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Later that weekend, I saw a story in my Twitter feed regarding the copyright infringement issues that marred the Hugo Awards over in the USA, and the subsequent fallout in the tech press. Chastened by the story, I thanked my lucky stars that our plucky Development Manager, Dan Cryer, had insisted in upgrading our stream to a premium, ad-free service after the show started. Apparently, this 'white-lists' us against any shonky DRM issues.

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Was the Hugo Awards not using the premium service? Using a consumer oriented free service for a professional broadcast seems unwise to me.
I just become a customer. Their service is terrific!
There's way more than you can imagine (or at least, that I can).

Another interesting point is that in general, the more specific the sub-reddit, the less it is infected with the type of "reddit culture" that gets so much bad rep here on HN (although occasionally it always gets some, cause Reddit has a shared culture--I personally don't mind, really).
I'd really like to see this process banned. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's proper or just.
How do you spread billing across multiple providers if you don't yourself have PCI compliance to retain billing information? I guess you could seed it to multiple systems when the customer first provides it, but that's tricky without momentarily holding the billing information yourself, too. (I mean, you can cheat...) You can't really do paypal + google checkout + a real payment option all transparently to the user, though; you have to give them a way to pick and they may need to re-enter details.

The only way I've seen this done was segmenting by cohort or product -- i.e. recurring billing on one platform and one off billing on another.

I have seem multiple payment providers where you capture billing information each time, or where you are PCI compliant and keep the billing information yourself.
I lived in Bangladesh until I was 5. I grew up eating chickens that were "local" in the sense that they were purchased live at the market down the street. The taste and texture is completely different. When we moved to the US, I couldn't even eat chicken for six months because it tasted so weird.
Garbage dump? /b/ is bad, but 4chan as a whole has some pretty good content.
Done! Mashape looks really beautiful! Exploring more now.
Looks like HN strips out the quotes needed to make this query work. Here: http://goo.gl/zMUQY
That's why MVPs were invented- define a minimum set of features and stick to the plan and get something out of the door, then build upon it.

I find that some of the longest product-related discussions occur over features/edge cases that very few users may need/will seldom occur.
Management (including Dotcom) also emailed each other about downloading infringing material from their own service. And while they did better with DMCA notices than the likes of Oron, they were still pretty slack.