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Coincidentally, the CISPA is up for debate again in the House.

However you feel about such surveillance, it legal scope and extent is being democratically debated now.

You can contact your Representative using this site: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

Speak your mind to your Rep. It's how Representative Democracy works.
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I think capability to feel pain is the wrong criteria. Following that line of thinking, would it be OK to kill someone while they were anesthetized? They wouldn't feel pain.

It's the destroying of a genetically unique individual human that is the issue. No matter how far along the continuum of development they are.
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For a million reasons. Why would you care? Sites go down all the time.
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The design looks great. But after I got my first Thinkpad I started to use the physical mouse buttons with the touchpad, and even disabled all the point-and-click stuff and after that you can use it almost as good as a separate mouse. I would hate to go back to push-and-lick actions.

To the media keys being default, that is not an problem, you can change them back in BIOS to work as regular F-keys.

Thinner and sleeker is always a good thing if the build quality is what it used to be, and I believe it is.

Keyboard backlight is also a great thing if you just can change the level to be very minimal to barely see the keys in the dark.

All in all, this very well may be my next laptop.

And to you guys you whine about not enough usb-ports or the lack of CD-drive, I'm sure there is a Thinkpad coming with the new design that gives you all that and more.

The fact is, people very rarely need CD-drive and tons of ports, this machine will suit really big part of the population and like me, im happy to sacrifice CD-drive and few ports for a lighter machine that I carry around daily.

(sorry for the bad english, it is not my native language)
Yep ^ that's the link.

Those books are default sorted in order with my top recommendations at the top. A little blurb on each, then detailed notes inside.
I see your point.

Some similarities though are that we need to speak out for the people and animals who can't defend themselves and the opposing sides on of each issue tend to talk "past" each other.
Why is anyone talking about bitcoins? You can put your money into bitcoins but you can't actually take any reasonable amount of money "out".

It is a simple Ponzi scheme created by anonymous hackers to take people's money.

Look at the largest "exchange". How much do they let you convert into actual money? The main one limits you to $1K per day or $10K per month.

But you know what? They don't have to convert anything for you if they don't want to. There are no laws, nothing. One day, your bitcoins will be completely and totally worthless. There is no government to back it up as a store of value.

There are a bunch of anonymous hackers who manipulate the price to get more people to give them actual money while they give them worthless virtual numbers.

And everyone thinks they are making money as the price goes up and up. But try and take any of that money out. Guess what, it won't be there.

The exchanges will close and poof, you have nothing.

Some of you are really, really gullible.
I am a Ruby developer, and I am an atheist. Are you?
Why stop there and not say that any viable egg is the issue?

And your definition would allow the abortion, or even adult slaughter, of a twin, or two of a triple. That is an interesting opinion.
An anesthetized person has a mind with which to experience suffering. It's just not currently engaged.

Genetically unique? So it's ok to kill an identical twin?
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At some point you have to ask yourself if it's more likely that everyone else in the entire world is crazy, or that you might be mistaken.

People are not shocked by horrible crimes because of the likelihood of re-offense. They are shocked by horrible crimes because there are things worse than simple murder, at least to most people. The idea that every murder is completely equal in every way is just plain silly.

Torturing someone to death is worse than shooting them in the back of the head. Rape-and-murder is worse than murder. These are things that most people can see pretty clearly. Here's why: just ask yourself which you would prefer to have happen to you (assume that you won't be able to escape your fate no matter what happens). I'd take the bullet every single time, and there's a reason for that.
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There's a bigger thing around this too. One thing I've noticed visiting a lot of companies is that memories of good times can negatively impact assessments of the present.

People with very good work conditions may always long for that time when their favorite manager was there, or when the company was riding a wave of success. Their conditions may be objectively better than many other companies but because they had a great situation at one point, everything else pales in comparison. It can take years for that to change.
One thing I love about Highcharts is that the documentation is heavily linked to examples on jsfiddle. Your documentation looks really nice and you have lots of nice examples, but I can't play with them.

edit: I meant to say that I can't play with them as far as I can tell. Is there a way that I'm missing?
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Reminds me of my logic class in college, very well laid out and it serves as a reminder to watch our yourself and others while falling for one of these fallacies.
I thought blogspam was not allowed on HN?
Until you wrote something worth following :)
I think the debate stems mostly from the imperfections of our spoken language.

What is a human? Is it any biological organism that is genetically identifiable as homo sapiens? Is it our bodies? Our minds, hearts and 'souls'? When asked to draw a "human", a man will sketch a head, a torso, a pair of legs, two arms. On the most basic level we see this shape everyday in our lives - that is what we all subconsciously equate the word "human" with.

Is it all there is to it? Shouldn't we be focusing on what makes us human as the philosophers would see it? Creativity, spontaneity, our thoughts and dreams - everything that goes on in our brains? Consciousness?

There will be more and more debate in the coming years as the concept of what is "human" will come under fire. Technological advancements, medical innovations and strong AI will throw our preconceptions under a train and force us as a species to reconsider, for better or for worse.

Do you see how the abortion debate stems from different understanding of the same concept? There is no right and wrong.

Dictionaries rule over our minds.
Yes, I contemplate about the same and it drives me nuts! Lol, speaking of which I keep wondering if we were meant to simply eat fruits and nuts. I keep wondering how many I kill every time I walk or when you dig for building a house for instance. Someday if I found roadkill, I might consider eating it.

I agree that if you can kill the animal humanely and eliminate (?) suffering, it might be a good alternative.

One of these days I'm hoping to experiment in our lab on a project growing meat from stem cells. Wonder if it would be ok to eat that?
Do not like: no screen latch and no more physical buttons.

Luckily I buy a laptop for a few years and I run Linux, so I don't have to upgrade any time soon. Maybe by then they will make decent laptops again.
What about destroying sperm cells or preventing an ovum from implanting or being released?
This is exactly what you do in ThreeJS.

THREE.GeometryUtils.merge

does that.
I dislike and refuse to support any Apple product because they want to take away my option to choose what I want in a free market. Their frivolous, anticompetitive and innovation-stiffling lawsuits have cost them all credibility as a real tech company. They are now no better than a patent troll.

They have absolutely zero cool.

That and I don't appreciate locked in ecosystems. Plus iOS has been a daft, stale platform for the last 3 years or more.
But it's 10% lighter than the T430s!!
Phelps is really in a class a part, as their speech serves no purpose except to harm people. Harm is not a collateral damage that must be tolerated, but the direct intent of their actions, to no greater purpose even from their own point of view.
I don't think it's possible to build a system without human intervention that keeps the bad content out and promotes interesting discussions. What I'm essentially saying is that the Reddit staff should pick a few thousand people by hand that they think embodies what they want the perfect redditor to be like. Everybody else starts out with minuscule influence. Now those ambassadors will go out and up-vote other good users and down-vote bad ones and will in that way spread their influence to other people. Some users might even have negative influence. Can you imagine a user who keeps up-voting cat pictures that is in effect down-voting those submissions without realizing it? It would be beautiful. Obviously it would be important to keep users' influence a secret.

In essence, it would give the Reddit staff much needed control of the content and discourse. If they one day wanted to steer the site towards only cat pictures, they can easily do that by selecting those users to be the ambassadors.

Right now it seems that Reddit is suffering from Eternal September x 1000, and they're at the mercy of the masses. But the geeky, thoughtful content that brought people to the site to begin with is nowhere to be found anymore. It's being drowned in memes and cat pictures.
Is that really abuse? Play is one of those behaviors that animals exhibit to prepare for dangerous encounters. Arguably, that is just as important to their species survival.
You seem to agree with me that there is a continuum of horrific treatment, a bolt to the head and hung up by a leg being worse than being "put down". I agree with that.

I also agree that eating meat and claiming to be in favor of animal rights involves a certain amount of hypocrisy. I accept that, and I am still coming to terms with it personally (I have noted to friends, only half-jokingly, that I'm only about one PETA video away from becoming a vegetarian, and so I try to avoid them).

That being said, and given that there is a continuum of mistreatment, I still think it is acceptable to eat meat and attempt to encourage more humane treatment of the animals. The hypocrisy is still there, but surely less cruelty is an improvement even if the treatment is still cruel. Of course at some point you will reach a minimum viable level of cruelty, at which point people will have some uncomfortable choices to make, but that's a good thing in my mind.
The argument is that the videos provide economic support for the underlying activity that is harder to police. See also: pornography.
Exactly. I see attempting to draw lines as the issue. Even as considered as they might be, any criteria we set will end up being relative and at least somewhat arbitrary. I don't think you can be "partially" human.
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Yes, I did bash Miguel's work a few times, given his inclination to bring Microsoft based technologies to the UNIX world.

But I have to acknowledge that he has made a very good work with Mono and although I prefer to use C++ on my hobby Android projects, Xamarin's tools are a great approach for many developers.
That is some serious tenacity - love it!
Yes, you are right. My wife keeps saying the same and I can't do anything about it. I can at least raise him vegetarian for as long as I can.
Or to condense it even further: Like a MacBook Air but with a trackpoint.
Maybe you think you and others are a target of 'whimsical retorts' not because you are the target of 'whimsical retorts' but because you have a poor grasp of what legitimate rhetoric is.

Your claim is that there is manipulation of reddit. Manipulation implies that there is a 'non organic' illegitimate entity or group of entities working to exert their influence - a conspiracy to influence reddit. You are asserting that there are conspiracies to influence reddit and therefore you have a conspiracy theory and therefore you are a conspiracy theorist.

I could go on from here and tear down the other ridiculous accusation that I am maliciously 'shifting' the discussion, but this should be sufficient enough to encourage you to reconsider your position.

And yes, reddit is left of center and the left tends to be anti-Israel. What of it? Does that imply that there are no members of reddit that are not left of center? Does that imply that there are no people who are left of center that also are not anti-Israel? Does that imply that all rhetoric that does not strictly echo traditional left of center views is illegitimate?

More things to think about.
Counterpoint: the "bum fight" phenomenon, and also dog fighting (Michael Vick)
Capable of experiencing suffering or will experience suffering. That's an interesting distinction. What are your thoughts on it.

Edit: Also, what is suffering and is it different from pain?

I had two qualifiers in there: unique and individual. Each twin is its own individual.
"Ceasar"?

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An installed application can potentially do a lot more than a cookie. For example, open files on the filesystem, read text messages & phone numbers and upload these to a third party server and sometimes even modify or install other software.

The same issues exist with desktop applications of course, for example various spyware toolbars etc so you always have to make some judgement call.

The main difference seems to be that when you access a website on your desktop you are much less likely to get some popup nagging you to download a desktop app to consume the content vs a smartphone app.

I guess because most desktops are fast enough that you can get reasonable performance from just HTML5 or flash.
I would assume that's covered under existing animal cruelty laws. (not that I'm advocating we ban the speech in this case)
That math doesn't seem to work out. 5000 subscribers * 24 (dollars/year)/subscriber = $120,000/year.
HTML is for documents, period.

People trying to force it to work otherwise is just the 21st century version of VT100 terminals.

Every time I have the possibility to choose between a native and a web application on my consulting projects, I take the native approach.

I get a rich experience, better integration with the operating system and overall user experience.

Sadly many MBA's try to cram desktop expectations into what is a document format.
>especially on iOS because Apple deliberately hampers performance for web apps

They do nothing of the sort. This is total BS.

On the contrary they have had (and still have) the speediest and more feature complete web engine.

And for many years the Android built-in browser was a total joke compared to Mobile Safari.

Chrome for mobile (on Android) is better than the Android browser (Browser?), but nothing to write home about compared to Mobile Safari.
What does "land literally dying" mean??
> You keep making the same tangential point over and over.

So the scientific standing of cancer research is "tangential"? Your claim has been that scientists know that people are sometimes cured of cancer. This is false -- only religious zealots believe that. Scientists know better.

> Just because a person gets cancer there's not necessarily any reason to believe they're predisposed to it.

Dubious for an individual, true for a population. But I can see there's no point to this -- you don't have the required scientific background or appreciation for statistics.
Incidentally, the author is pretty active on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=camz

> I didn't realise Forbes let you blog under their brand now

In fact that's been their exact business model for a while. Good March 2012 article on that:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/173743/what-t...
> what web-apps offer me, as a user, is peace of mind in terms of security

Are you sure?

The browser also has security exploits, being coded in C/C++.

With JavaScript you can also do something similar to fork bombs.

And lets not forget the plugins as well or the JavaScript APIs to access your data.
Quinoa is destroying the Peruvian economy due to political problems.

Soy gets unhealthy inarge quantities.

Mix in some nuts and beans and seitan.
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No dispute on the last four points, but honestly... as a Thinkpad user for 7 years, I honestly prefer the current keyboard on the Carbon X1. It feels much better than the other shitty keyboards that exist, especially on most ultrabooks, and the keys don't ever get stuck compared to the old keyboard version. In fact, I think it takes the cake for favorite laptop keyboard I've ever used.
I don't think it's legal to distribute dog fighting videos (in the UK at least) though I'm not sure.

I remember bum fights being controversial back in the day, not sure I would call it a phenomenon though. At least there the fighting was somewhat consensual such as with boxing etc.
Such as Cows? Pigs? Chickens? Ducks? Sheep? Goats? Horses? Fish?
Absolutely. "Content discovery" says "vague, fuzzy, incomplete, inconsistent, not under user control."

There's a market for such a thing, certainly, but it's not the same thing as an RSS reader, and if you need the latter, the former isn't going to do the job.
Never again. I was a Thinkpad loyalist, and used it exclusively for 12 years. Last year I got a new one and the screen backlight died within 5 months. Lenovo shat on the brand, and I'm not going back.

After sampling a few different products, I got myself a $400(!) Asus X501A. Beautiful piece. Light as a feather. And has 3x the battery life of my Thinkpad.
This isn't in direct response to you, but more so a resource for anyone that happens to be reading this thread.

A good blog on the ethics and nutrition of meat-eating.

http://letthemeatmeat.com/
get rich or die trying... good luck
or just work hard and go home, nothing's wrong with that
Go to a Tranactional Analysis therapist. The will help you figure out how you stop your self from succeeding. Your language is a clue. The term try, psychologically speaking means "Permission to fail". TA is simple and quick. I am a therapist and I can vouch for their model being easy to understand, effective and quick. Your own desire and clarity will be very useful to help speed your learnings along. Good luck in your quest.
Assuming that the feed implementer bothered... many news CMSs don't bother. The world of RSS is a horrorshow of standards noncompliance; Atom only somewhat better. (My experience is, admittedly,a couple of years out of date, but feed generation tends to be a minimum spend item for news organisations.)
Bio 101: Sperm and ova each carry only 1/2 the genetic material.[1]

Once the egg is fertilized and becomes a zygote it is genetically unique.

(An ovum wouldn't implant. That would be a zygote.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermatozoon
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Resources such as what?
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> But I think it's ridiculous to have an equivalent level of empathy for people and animals.

"An equivalent level of empathy"? Do you really think that a person whose empathy for human beings stops at "I shouldn't kill and eat them" would be considered highly ethical? You might not agree with vegetarians' ideology, but I don't think they are exactly setting a very high bar.
Free range isn't BS. Current labelling standards are BS.
I never before wanted to reach through the tubes and slap a reviewer like I did when I read 'still an ethernet port'. I work in the heart of the city, and there are something like 20-30 wifi networks that pop up when you look. I've never bothered counting. But compare only having that connection versus having wifi for when you want it plus having a wired gigE connection.
Don't worry, habitat destruction rids the world of large predators. And the numbers don't compare to human activities anyway.
I have the T430s (predecessor model of the article). It is almost a perfect machine - I have a fast CPU, 16GB of RAM, both 500GB HDD and a 250GB SSD, thunderbolt, fingerprint reader, a DVD drive I replaced with a battery etc. It weighs 1.8kg which is fine. This is an excellent mobile powerhouse. (I have a Nexus 10 for light fluffy stuff.)

But then the screen is 1600x900, 16:9 and there is a massive bezel (4.5cm vertically and 3.2cm horizontally). I want more dpi, I want a more sensible aspect ratio and I'll take a larger screen (unfortunately the 15" T530 plus wide bezel was just too large).

The screen is the thing they made no effort to fix.
i would say there's a huge difference between a web browser that happens to have an exploit vs willfully surrendering your own privacy to an app designed to harvest your data. i'll take the former any day of the week.
I turn your attention to such organisations as the Jewish Internet Defence Force which has a [twitter feed](https://twitter.com/JIDF) listing reddit posts. This is lifted straight from their about page.

>r ACTION ALERTS are now well known throughout the Jewish and Israel advocacy world, and by our many enemies, as they have led to the removal of thousands of antisemitic and jihadist pages online. Whether it's an antisemitic Facebook page with millions of members, or a YouTube video promoting global jihad, our team is on it, monitoring it, and urging companies to adhere to their own rules.

If that isn't a non organic entity working to exert influence on reddit I don't know what is!
I have an X201 and it's also a great machine... except for the terrible screen. Why they skimp on the screen is beyond me. I can be sitting square in front of it and still dark colours in videos are off, the viewing angle is that narrow.
It's not entirely BS. Yes iDevices do have the best in the breed browser but it is still far from expected level. Especially when you're comparing HTML5 websites with natively installed applications.

I totally agree that Android browsers are a joke even today.
Is China one of the "twenty most tyrannical countries of the world"? If so, there are more than one billion people currently taking on the real adventure of living there.
Agree, while MONO is controversial i believe that in the end its a good thing. I believe its more Microsofts fault for not making the C# platform open, they would have probably squashed Java by now.

That aside, mostly i care about the best tool for the job and in this case thats my choice.
Blood can be removed completely painlessly from an unconscious creature. For example, human surgery is painless.