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> Seems like there's a need for a cloud infrastructure/language independent packaging format, to build a "github of installable applications"

I think Chef and Puppet try to fill that role, somewhat

Edit: actually, this recent HN discussion looks promising
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5392041
I wonder how much of your problem is hardware vs network speed. How much bandwidth do you have? I typically use hardware for many years (~5), but in the last few years things have plateaued to the point where I don't see nearly as much difference between hardware from today compared to five years ago.
>For what it is worth, people who are interested in animal rights are generally the only ones who watch animal abuse videos, which creates a demand for said videos. They, naturally, have little motive to see an end to the production of like content being the consumer.

I fail to see how it "naturally" follows that animal rights activists don't want to see an end to the production of "like content." They would be the ones most eager to end the conditions uncovered by these kinds of undercover investigations.
Ever heard of the term 'bread and circus'?
I too am interested, esp what goes into Mongo and what into Postgres (assuming Redis is a form of cache?)

I suppose I could also look at the source ;)
I built something similar. Basic bash script to modularize my dotfiles and sync them between my machines with Dropbox.

Link: https://github.com/kanemathers/dotdrop/
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Heaven forbid that the mere peons have some kind of freedom in investing and creating things. We neo-feudalists can't have that now can we.
I think this is a very interesting question. My impression of NeXT is that they nearly priced themselves out of their own market. I am not sure they would have survived without being bought by Apple. Beyond that anything could be speculated. Maybe he would have abandoned computing and gone straight for media, what with Pixar's success.
My wife and I take an in-between approach to this: we eat small amounts of fish and are otherwise vegetarians. This makes in easy to get enough protein (you have to work a little to get enough protein with vegetarian or vegan diets) and we can avoid eating animals that like it when you scratch them behind their ears.
Depends on your definition of "suffering" -

if it's

>Physical suffering or discomfort caused by illness or injury

it has to be communicated to you, which in the case of animals is quite hard.

On the other hand, if you define "suffering" as

>an unpleasant situation causing signs of distress that is avoided by the sufferer,

then you can make better predictions, because "avoidance" or "distress" are easier to measure.
From a utilitarian standpoint, lets suppose that a human can feel +/- 100 utils, a pig can feel +/- 50 utils, and a chicken can feel +/- 20 utils. Even with these anthropocentric weightings, factory farming might be causing enough suffering to switch life on earth from net positive happiness to net negative.
Ignorance is a poor excuse for moral blindness.

If I am about to demolish a house, it is my moral duty to ensure that the house contains no occupants. It is not sufficient to claim "as far as I know the house is empty, therefore I needn't check".

Similarly, if you make any moral claim predicated on the assumption that animals do not experience pain (or experience it to a lesser degree than humans), the burden is on you to demonstrate as much.

If you do not take religion or the supernatural as an axiom, you face a very difficult proof due to the physiological and evolutionary similarities between humans and other animals.
OPENSTEP Enterprise ran on Windows NT. It's an interesting thought experiment.
Exactly right. And there are uncomfortable parallels with our situation and the last 100 or so years of the Roman Empire.
I have it slightly worse than the OP. I don't drink, smoke or eat non-vegetarian food. Which basically means no partying and almost no socializing beyond saying hello.

Which also means I have a lot more time to do the things I really want to do. My parents drink, by the way, and I've seen their behavior after a couple. No way I'd go down that lane.
I wouldn't mind going to the west coast, but my family hates moving. Do you know of any similar organizations in the DC/MD/VA area? I'm sure the government has a bunch, but I'd eventually like to get out of the gov side of things.
The problem with attempting to create ethical arguments against all eating of meat (even with human slaughter practices) is that it leads inexorably to the conclusion that we should exterminate all predators to prevent the cruelty they inflict on herbivores.

While these things are horrific, it's not much more horrific than what continuously goes on in the animal kingdom.
The free-range and grass-fed stuff is far too nuanced (and expensive) by itself to put an end to or even reduce the rivers of blood and mountains of skulls that are the output of industrial factory farms. What will stop it? environmental legislation? Ending farm subsidies?
up / down arrows to go to next story sucks too, fwiw.
Ah, that's why all I saw was a black page. They don't even bother to do notification of errors these days.
But does your thinking the jokes between two friends are tacky warrant their private info (photos) being posted online?
Nicer URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
what web-apps offer me, as a user, is peace of mind in terms of security - something i dont get with native apps that ask for broad, overreaching permissions. there are many many native apps i refuse to install simply based on those grounds.

if facebook ditches their mobile site, that will be the end of facebook on my phone for me.
lions aren't building large scale slaughterhouses.
> I wish

There it is. Certainly doesn't warrant people having their privacy violated.
It's more or less the pagerank algorithm except with karma. I think it'd work. Pagerank is totally game-able and yet big G has managed to keep the upper hand year after year.
What a coincidence that the author of this article is the founder of "a company that automates taxes for small & mid-size businesses." ( the quote comes directly from his Forbes profile).

To me there is no doubt that the article was published intentionally and solely for the purpose of promoting his business and the problems it is trying to address.
If you're interested in this kind of thing, try reading the book Hacking Healthcare.

From what I gather so far (haven't quite finished), there are large costs that are incurred by dealing with insurance. The USA's billing system -- matching diagnoses to codes, and codes to billable amounts -- seems like it makes sense on the face of it, but once you start digging in, its a rat's nest.

There are several disparate coding ontologies, many of which are proprietary. Different insurance companies accept different ontologies, meaning clinics need to pay for access several times over.

The ontologies don't necessarily match up one to one with diagnoses, and clinicians often don't care to match them up themselves. So, clinicians diagnose a patient, and then back-office staff need to go through and match those diagnoses to codes.

The insurance companies will reject anything that doesn't match their own data. So, if an payment request comes through for John Q. Bloggs, they won't issue payment if the name they have on file is Jonathan Q. Bloggs. So, you need more back-office staff to deal with the rejections, marry the data up properly, and send it again (in order to save time and money, there are apparently clearing houses now; middle-men between the clinics and the insurance company who can advise staff more cheaply if a given request will be rejected for invalid data, or unbillable codes).

Then, they can reject certain codes that a patient doesn't have insurance for, even if its covered by some other code. So, again, the back-office staff need to go through and retry the payment request with more relevant codes (which are now further from the diagnosis, but hey, whatever).

Finally, once it's all been hashed out, insurance companies often won't pay the full amount anyway -- so the patients sometimes need to be chased up for the remaining payment.

Wrapped around all that are all the requirements for dealing with fraud, auditing, etc. which make it all the more difficult.

It's massively inefficient, and somewhat self-fulfilling: the complexity of it requires more staff, which drives costs up. There's no direct way to bill for staff time, so charges to patients go up (hence the $10 aspirin or whatever the famous example is). Which leads to more complexity in billing, which leads to more staff, and on and on.
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> it's not much more horrific than what continuously goes on in the animal kingdom.

Where's your evidence for this?

In the animal kingdom, isn't death due to predators rather quick?

In factory farms, the animal's entire lifetime is one of outrageous torture, e.g. feeding cows a corn diet that shreds their stomach wall, and forcing them to stay alive through the pain with massive courses of antibotics. Or keeping chickens in cages so small they can't even turn around.
Regardless of one's stance on animal rights, this seems like a clear case of corruption. It makes me angry and ashamed that these politicians appear to have been bought and paid for. I can't think of any arguments that could convince me that "less information" here is a good idea or a defense of democracy.
You mean so as to remember where you were last reading are on the page? But if you use the mouse to switch browser tabs, that arrow moves up to the top of the page, and if you use any of the controls at the bottom, it moves down. I guess one could very carefully leave the window at a specific place so as to preserve that arrow's position, but it's not an obvious thing to do. How are you using this feature that makes it an improvement over just letting your pointer itself mark the current reading position?
Really nice work! Where can we see more examples?
If i understood the numbers correctly, newsblur has went from 1500 paying/50000 free users to 6500 paying/110000 free users?
One quick tip: Edit the title of your post to "Ask HN: ...". It will make your post more visible, because how it looks like a blog as opposed to some asking for help on HN.

Good luck.
I am really sorry, you are obviously very distressed. You can't really tell us much, which is OK.

For start you should see to give it a few days for things to cool off, you are obviously still very upset over whatever happened.

Secondly, use linkedin, if you think MS has jobs you would like to do, hit people from MS. Don't limit yourself too much, don't complain, just tell them you would like to work and listen to what they might say.

If you really focus on that, I believe things can happen.

Best of luck.
Anything like this for windows?
very powerful piece!
well, first of all meat used to be different. the us has really created one mad food culture, and has been pushing it - quite efficiently - globally.

second, people tend to replace meat with soy. can you even imagine how horrible soy mass plantations are for the environment? do you even know how many organisms get cleansed when gmo crops are used? when I was in highschool, that's now over 12 years ago, there was a huge problem with land literally dying from the way it's being farmed. that problem has only got worse.
This is beautiful. Well done, looking forward to using it.
You're not the only one noticing that. Every time I mention it (in a non-confrontational way) I get spammed with downvotes.

I honestly don't care about Reddit any more.
Your question misses the point. Animals may not have the rights we grant a human, some would argue that they have no rights. But that does not mean that we then have the right to treat that creature with arbitrary cruelty. In fact, we don't allow arbitrary violence to be performed on inanimate objects, for instance you might get in trouble for damaging the Statue of Liberty. We decide what we will allow based on our own convictions, morals, customs, religion, etc. Many, likely most, people would agree that torturing animals,even those destined for slaughter, is wrong.
The Mac mini 1.5Ghz, a 7 year old model, is the only modern Mac with a single core Intel CPU. The PowerBook line had PowerPC microprocessors, and the MacBook Pro series never had single core CPUs. Apple did however release MacBook Pros with Core Duo CPUs -- OS X 10.7 requires at least Core 2 Duo. by 2007, all models had Core 2 Duo CPUs.
I can understand vegetarians who boycott meat because the animals are being treated inhumanely in captivity. But in my ethics, killing an animal quickly isn't inhumane. It's not like the other cows sit around all day worried about whether Bessy's fate could befall them.
Apple's slowly strangling the life out of their golden goose with their capricious and heavy-handed control of their platforms. Their app stores are full of crap already and Apple is just increasingly in the way of developers' and users' best interests.

I really like Apple's technologies but I absolutely despise their idiotic policies.
We endowed it upon them.

These rights apply only in human - animal relations and not animal - animal relations. Carnivorous animals and other plants are free to do as they like to their fellow beings.
But, from what I know animals rarely abuse other animals for no reason. Usually there is a good reason for them to attack another animal like food, territory, self defense or if they are ill( elephants in musth, rabid dogs and wolves).

What am trying to say is that animals get rights from the same place that we get rights, laws and social norms.

Animals are farmed and killed for us to eat, the least we can do is to treat them with respect while they are alive.

I am sleepy.
Try thinking harder.

You're missing the key concepts of (a) the inability of non-human predators to reason about morality, (b) the inability of non-human predators to survive on a plant-based diet, and (c) the moral cost of performing such a genocide.
Aha. It somehow hadn't occurred to me to click on that triangle. I'm still not sure it's a useful-to-me feature, but it at least makes a little more sense now. It's less annoying once locked down, anyway. Maybe it should default to being locked down somewhere and only unlock the first time you click on it, rather than default to floating around freely.
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wow thanks for the link.. i watched the highlights of the Ironman 2010 where she won despite recovering from a recent horrid bike crash.. amazing..
> So if you eat meat you can't be against pit bull-fighting?

Correct? Well you can but you'd be a bigot thinking you're beliefs are better than someone else's.

>Extrapolate it further, we shouldn't, then, be more appalled by a gruesome murder (of a human) than a gunshot to the back of the head.

Correct. Again a no brainer. There is however evidence that a person who commits a gruesome crime might be more likely to re-offend. This should be taken into account for sentencing/rehabilitation. But no, you should not be more 'appalled'

> Since that is untrue for virtually everyone, you either have to claim that nearly every human on earth is a logically inconsistent dunce, or perhaps there is, in fact, a violence gradient of some sort.

??? Do I even need to answer that? 80% of India is Hindu. 80% of America is Christian. You think people aren't logically inconsistent?
This article isn't actually about mobile sites, it's referring to tools that compile HTML5 into native code like Phonegap.

But yes, when you're giving all kinds of permissions to strangers, chances are somebody is using your data maliciously.
Well, once you've explicitly excluded the quarter of Europe that counts as "rich" and "social democracy" as special cases, of course you won't have examples available that suggest that being an economically successful social democracy is possible.

That doesn't even touch on the UK or France. Which, although certainly having their problems, also aren't the same kind of basket cases PIGS are. I excluded them initially because although they seem to have more severe problems than, say, Germany, they're still pretty economically successful and stable. By the time any of them get to a hypothetical debt crisis, the PIGS will have long-since imploded, and it'll be a totally different ballgame anyway that resists prediction.
I tried the app out of the other day. I'm not sure if its still in beta, but the app lacks a lot of polish. And as of typing this it just crashed.

Definitely has potential though, but I might wait a little while to I consider using it again.
I walked into a high school CS class, again without any advance notice. The class was working on the assignment below (partially translated by their teacher for my benefit afterwards). Given a data file describing a maze with diagonal walls, count the number of enclosed areas, and measure the size of the largest one.

What the OP was seeing is probably a special class in a high school for gifted students. Since winning national and international student competition is kind of a big deal in Vietnam, most major cities and provinces have such a school, but it's not easy to apply to them. All schools require applicants to take some tough and competitive entrance test that may have math problems harder than those in SAT or even GRE. As a result, the students who get in are usually the best of their ages, and they will be trained rigorously and restlessly for three years with the sole goal of winning a major programming contest such as IOI. That means they are the exception, not the norm. Most high school and even university students in the country can't tell what a loop is, let alone solving algorithmic problems.
So by that rationale I take it is ok to kill lonely people too? What about animals that do remember their dead relatives (e.g. elephants)?
It beggars belief you can think a animal can 'feel' then think it's ok to kill it.
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If that happens, it could make it easier to identify them. Reddit already has quite sophisticated spam detection algorithms.
I was curious to know how much that printer costs, and how much the objects printed with it. I suspect the answers to both of these questions would not be terribly attractive right now.

Still, there’s always a good chance that today’s high end products will be tomorrow’s consumer grade products.
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>Why is this on HN?

Because it is in our industry - and people on HN often follow all aspects of issues and stories related to our industry.

(Our industry being high-tech and computers in general - get the fark off your "only-hacker"-related-news-that-exactly-matches-my-ego-should-actually-be-posted-here horse)
Apple isn't losing a war of words, it's getting its ass kicked in software. Just about everybody agrees that Android is now evolving faster than iOS. Many of their recent app releases have been mediocre or downright bad, and they still haven't really figured out how to run robust and reliable cloud services. Crucial new iOS APIs like AutoLayout are an absolute design-by-committee trainwreck.

Their hardware is still excellent if perhaps too conservative but I'm bearish on Apple mainly because I just don't see any evidence of the kind of software engineering discipline that's necessary to compete with Google.
The same place we do, natural law, note that under natural law we can do whatever we please. The underpinnings of non-fiat social contract is the idea that we give up certain rights to the state, namely the right to commit violence against others, in exchange for protection of the remaining rights.

In all honesty though we get our rights from wherever we can convince others that we have those rights, for example in the UK if you're born to the right parents you have the right to live in buckingham palace. They claim those people get those rights from God.
I second Francione. He's definitely an impassioned proponent of true rights.
That's a very common misbelief, getting protein as a vegetarian is not hard really, particularly if you have soy or quinoa in your diet, the latter being the preferable option. Cooking quinoa with kombu is delicious, super easy and can yield a wide variety of dishes.
I do? Why?
Sorry if I was not exactly clear. Animal rights activists have an interest in stopping what is enacted in the videos, of course, but stopping the production of the content itself would be against their own interests. How can you see that the problem remains if there is nobody investigating and reporting?
Yep, if you take nothing else from the Tao Te Ching, the first verse is the most powerful concept. The Tao is personal, nobody can tell you what it is, and thereby have power over you.
So glad someone made this, fantastic work!
Everyone knows animals think and feel, but that's no reason not to deny our need to eat animals. I think animal cruelty is bad because it shows disregard and they have a propensity to do the same to people. But I think it's ridiculous to have an equivalent level of empathy for people and animals.

Your over-concern with animals and enlightenment as a teenager is only made possible by the advanced state of our civilization.
Your from Switzerland who's in one of the most financially rewarding industries of the modern age. Sorry but reeks of too much 1stworldproblem for me.

Plus you're a male, I assume, so you don't have menopause. Stop worrying about your age.
Perhaps more interesting is Hatetris http://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html which is programmed to always give you the worst possible piece. Just try to clear a line!
Just out of curiosity, what did you use to put together that amazing documentation?
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Seconded on the point about MS. You just apply to a job based in the US and if they want you they'll sponsor an H1B for you (october).

You could also try other companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon, etc.
That is absolutely absurd, but I hope your suggestion is genuine. This is a matter of economic damages to farmers, plain and simple.
Ah yes there is 'flood' of pro-Israel comments so it must be a conspiracy.

And what about the 'flood' of anti-Israel comments?

How very reddit of you.
Nobody and nothing gives you rights. You are born with them, and its up to you to assert them for yourself.

Nobody is obligated to protect your rights for you (and vice versa), but they can do so voluntarily.

Looking at it like this, it makes animal rights a matter of morality.

An animal cannot defend its own rights, so they depend on humans to voluntarily defend their rights for them. Nobody is obligated to do so, but its reasonable to believe the world would be a better place if we treated animals better.
DanielRibeiro's suggestions are spot on.

Also, mobile is really hot when it comes to freelancing. Are you sure you can't at least find work on Elance/oDesk? It's always better to work through referrals, but those sites are okay for filling in gaps/transitions.
Of course web apps aren't ever going to be as fast as a native application (especially on iOS because Apple deliberately hampers performance for web apps) but they're by no means a hopeless cause. A HTML5 web app might take a little while longer to develop, but it'll work out cheaper than building an iOS application. LinkedIn to this day remain the perfect example of how to build a straight-up HTML5 mobile app that performs beautifully.
The "Terminator Edition" prototype looks like crap - Thinkpads' rubber finish is what gives them their distinctive look, and changing that would be a horrible, horrible mistake.
Seconded. It's common knowledge that businesses pay for news coverage. Yeah, they're mob-like, but then most Chinese business with government affiliation is mob-like.
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