skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that. But you should understand that, since you don't think morality exists, you can't call the guy who murders your family wrong. You can't call Hitler wrong. You can only say they're people who happen to have a different value system from you, which in absolute terms makes them no more right or wrong than anyone else.
Very cool indeed, especially because the concept is not something astonishingly complex.

Check out NightMode and Exsistential Crisis

I consider the latter one to be the crown of this concept.

It looks even better and you have to memorize the structures laid, which makes it more interesting (especially since once you've grasped the original idea, the normal mode is not that hard at all)
Very cool indeed, especially because the concept is not something astonishingly complex.

Check out NightMode and Exsistential Crisis

I consider the latter one to be the crown of this concept.

It looks even better and you have to memorize the structures laid, which makes it more interesting (especially since once you've grasped the original idea, the normal mode is not that hard at all)

EDIT: first person mario https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBb9wFP7uZM
I once thought about making a proxy server that would randomly change HTTP request headers (user agent etc...) enough to make you appear to be a different person with each request.

But I suspect service providers (Facebook etc...) would find a way to adapt and it would just result in an arms race that would leave HTTP in a state of disarray.
> deny our need to eat animals.

That we "need to eat animals" is not a supportable position, speaking nutritionally or economically.

> Your over-concern with animals and enlightenment as a teenager is only made possible by the advanced state of our civilization.

I'm sure you have some rational reason for stating that, but given the large number of people in both the dirt-poor, subsistence-farming developing world and the much wealthier world don't eat meat - and given that this has been the case a long time - whatever correlation you think you've identified doesn't exist.
This thread is about animal rights. If you want to start a thread about abortion feel free but this one isn't it.
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A tad off topic, but I'm hoping the fastest way to get an answer: How does one move or delete multiple feeds at once in newsblur? There must be a way to do this, right? Say I import 100 feeds from an OPML file, then realize I actually want them all in a folder. At the moment the only way I can figure out how to do that is to click on each feed, click move to folder, click the folder dropdown box, click the folder I want, click save. Times 100. Or I can save one click each by deleting them all then re-importing. But there must be a faster way. (In Google Reader settings, one could filter all folders with a keyword pattern, and bulk move.)
The Matrix as a Webcam Packet Dump
Ask HN: What would make you buy a Windows RT device?
If you were in the market for a tablet, what would make you want to buy a Windows RT-powered device?<p>A) Great features for a lower price - screen res, keyboard included, etc.
B) Ability to run x86 apps built-in, albeit slower
C) A & B
D) I have a better reason, and it is ...
The human learning system has a major flaw. The first 5 years of human learnings are based on emotion, and contain most of the automatic emotional response system used thruout the rest of your life. Many of the instructions you learned were meant as momentary instructions, but were highly emotional as well, and as a result are remembered as important and therefore used over and over again thruout the rest of your life time. These emotional reactions are known as Injunctions. These are often intended to limit your behavior and they will continue to limit your behavior in particular ways until you change them. Your conscious mind will not become aware of these limiting behaviors because the fact that the limit of consciousness is only 5 to 7 chunks of data at any one time. In addition, your conscious mind works to achieve the unconscious goals of your early emotional learnings, unless you make conscious goals to direct the activities of the unconscious.

So the bottom line is you have two methods of thinking. Emotional and Cognitive and they are not aware of one another due to the evolutionary nature of our brains development process. This means that the learnings of childhood run the show based on reactions learned very early and they are often not functional as an adult. Fixing them is the task of trained therapists. I recommend Transactional Analysis. it deals with teasing out the old, dis functional, emotional, irrational behavior and the decisions which describe their reasoning, which will be discovered to be childlike. New decisions supported by current adult observations will correct the limiting behavior and replace it with more resourceful reprogramming.

This is quick and instantly gratifying and is goal directed by the Patient/customer. The only function of the therapist is to insure the fastest and most helpful changes, along with permission and protection for the client during the change process. Good luck
Wow, not a single screenshot in the article...
General consensus is an iOS zero day exploit is worth around $250-750k, increasing in recent months. Expensive, but not exactly unaffordable for an intelligence agency.

To me, the commenter who suggests this is happening because Apple isn't spending their ad budget with CCTV seems rather more plausible.
This is what a webcam packet dump looks like on a black console with green text: http://bluesmoon.livejournal.com/32581.html
> Just about everybody agrees that Android is now evolving
> faster than iOS

I don't. But with some selective picking you can argue anything you want.

> Many of their recent app releases have been mediocre or downright bad,

Like? Maps,and… maps? And even maps are OK.

> and they still haven't really figured out how to run robust and
> reliable cloud services

iCloud works just fine.

> Crucial new iOS APIs like AutoLayout are an absolute
> design-by-committee trainwreck

Since when AutoLayout is crucial? And what makes it trainwreck?

> 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

You just hate Apple, I was able to guess the author of the comment without looking at the name.
And Apple competes with Google just fine.
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Reasonable people can debate when the latest legal abortion should be. The parent comment simply referred to abortion. Generally those opposed to abortion believe that abortion should be illegal from egg fertilization, or even prior to this by restricting birth control.

I might tend to agree with you that 24 weeks is too late based on a quick look around:

"By 22 weeks, your baby's nervous system completely 'connects'. The vital link between their brain and spinal cord (the brain stem) now matures and many nerve cells make vigorous connections. When this happens your baby becomes capable of recognising warmth, light, sound and pain. While primitive brain waves have been detected in unborn babies as early as 7 weeks, it is not until 22 weeks that sustained patterns can definitely be recorded. Some women will now notice that their baby 'jumps' with a loud sound. "

http://www.birth.com.au/Pregnancy-week-by-week/Weeks-21-22

If no brainwaves have been detected prior to 7 weeks, I'd probably set that as the lower bound for when abortion should be legal.
If you're going to presuppose that abortion is killing someone, then your conclusion is logically apparent and uncontroversial. Clearly the issue in the abortion debate is whether it's killing or not, and you're begging that question here in order to seem somewhat smarter and superior, or to start a flame war.

This sort of post is absolutely unintellectual and unacceptable for Hacker News.
Question: Does Collections expose any developer interfaces? I can imagine a whole ecosystem of apps/plugins that build on it: alternate visual presentations, data mining, sync, bulk transfer, backup, advanced search, etc.
I've had a T61p for 4 or 5 years. 1920x1280 screen. A Core 2 Duo that doesn't feel dated. I dread the day that something happens and I need to get a new laptop. I think other fans will know what I mean when I say this one is perfect.
I found quite a few existing SVG based graphing libraries based off d3 or Raphael, and wanted to create something a bit more lightweight - canvas sacrifices interactivity for raw speed.

I wanted Chart.js to be dependency free, which has led to a footprint of only ~4.4kb when minified and gzipped, d3 is a lot more complex, and has a gzipped size of about 10x that.

It'll have to be up to you whether canvas is the right solution in your use case over SVG!
> Hence, eating meat is now a choice, and no longer a necessity.

It was never, ever a necessity. If it were the Hindus would have died out, back when their vegetarianism was a dictate rather than a still very common preference.

I wonder if you think it was necessary because of nutrition (nonsense) or because of some subtler point about agriculture?
It's ad-hominems all the way down. He may be going for irony, but that snarky "In case you didn't know..." line kills it and veers back to targeting the person. (I know who JLG is. I just don't care.)
JavaScript Patterns Collection
Your comment is a perfect example of irrational hate based on flawed arguments.
That strikes me as a tad hyperbolic, but what do I know? I guess if I eat meat I must literally be a Nazi!

I don't recall saying that morality doesn't exist, though I am still intrigued by this standard for morality you mentioned earlier. Obviously this isn't something ISO dabbles in; who then shall I consult if I want to learn about it? Are there books? Or perhaps shamans on mountaintops I should consult?
Never do a PhD for the money. Ever. It's not worth it, compared to using your skills to get a good education BSc / MSc and then start your career. You miss so many years of good income, plus income growth and will always stand out as the theoretical type.

That being said: it's all about curiosity and people. So if you're curious and have the time / money... go for a PhD!
How does this compare to Flot?
you won't be able to tell if they do. only the loudest dogs bark. if you cannot use a feature how can you know if you really need it. vice versa, if it does not exist, how do you know you don't "need" it. life was fine without smartphones and Facebook too.
Most sexually reproducing organisms are genetically unique. That's hardly a basis for a moral judgement.

Ethics and morality in philosophy are generally based on minimizing the experience and perception of suffering, not promoting diversity - though diversity can certainly help reduce suffering.
It gave me the dizzies.
Why would you feel bad about it?
> This doesn't mean that all women will have this problem, it just means that not everyone can go meat-free and have no quality-of-life issues.

What it really means is that anecdotes aren't data.

Kidding! What it REALLY means is that "tertiary education in biology" causes listlessness.
We are treating humans differently, too. I love my children more than someone I meet on the streets.
Generally, our society considers it still ethically ok to have different amounts of empathy for different people and treat them differently.
However, there are some things that are absolutely not ok for humans to do: kill someone, eat them, etc.
To me, treating animals differently than humans in general does not logically imply that killing them is ok.
An ad hominem is a fallacious argument that someone's thesis is wrong because of some particular bad thing one can say about that person. I never questioned anyone's thesis, let alone on the grounds of an ad hominem argument. Please learn what logical fallacies actually are before running around accusing people of them.
>>> Those progressive people are generally thinking beings who have morality. They think about things rather than accepting an arbitrary criteria such as whether someone is born or not. For most it is whether the bundle of cells is a sentient being capable of experiencing, something a zygote most certainly is not.

It doesn't seem that way.

Most efforts to legalise abortion are based on the argument 1) that women have a right to do what they want with their own body, or 2) that abortion has social benefits. And since the progressive side of politics is making no real effort to stop abortion after the embryo has become a foetus and developed a nervous system it's probably safe to assume that women's rights and social benefits are far more important to them than whether an foetus is 'sentient being capable of experiencing'.
Right now I cannot think of the company I hate. I do like Apple, I am OK with Google even I strongly dislike everything-is-ad-based.

What I hate is "walled-garden" arguments.
I was unimpressed when Apple removed their 'refresh' button in iPhone 'Mail' and replaced it with a pull-down gesture. How would a someone who has never before used a touch-screen device know how to refresh the list?
I can't help but think of politicians while reading these.
Anything one human can do another can do as well. Only the time to master the skills might differ. it is the pattern of thought which enables the completion of mental tasks. Learning them takes time and persistence and the motivation to stick with the task. Sometimes one or the other of these requirements are missing in a persons background due to faulty instructions during childhood. Defining which tasks are missing and correcting the behavior will result in success or an emotionally created stuck spot in the strategy. This can be fixed by thinking carefully about how the person achieves the failure and replacing that strategy with a successful one. One method of doing the discovery is to simply type out the internal dialog verbatim and correcting that dialog, or the conclusions of the dialog, which will be the limiting instruction.
Looks like a great idea. I have a few questions about it:

1. How does this work if you're using it in a ListAdapter? Should it even be used there?

2. It seems like it would play nice with jackson, as jackson will only call your setters and getters if they're there, anyway. Are you using it alongside any serialization libraries or ORMs?
It might be that the parent actually meant what they said.
While I agree with you in general, your comment implies that you know better than the parent what is ethical with regard to eating meat.
Supposedly, pigs are a good way to dispose of a dead body.
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same /w Bret Victor. likely no coincidence.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5392118
I never said JLG was wrong, either. Please read for comprehension.
Scientists Resurrect Extinct Frog That Gives Birth Through Its Mouth
Jesus what a fucking troll. I can't believe you've garnered so many responses, and not a one is stopping to point out that you're using circular logic.

Gee, how come nobody thinks murdering people is wrong?

Fucking jackass.

If you find I've been combative, it's only because your comment insults the intelligence of anyone who reads it.
You forgot the part about JavaScript APIs to your data.
Doesn't it mostly matter that the aggregate ratings for each driver will rank them relative to their peers? Thus the threshold for which drivers are let go is arbitrary and only really correlates with the demand Uber has for drivers. In other words, over time the highest rated drivers will remain employed, the worst won't.
> We are treating humans differently, too.

Absolutely. Anyone who suggests that vegetarians treat animals an humans the same is just being inflammatory. That clearly is not the case.

> To me, treating animals differently than humans in general does not logically imply that killing them is ok.

Of course, you are absolutely correct.

Similarly, having empathy for animals / treating animals ethically does not logically imply that killing them is not okay. For some people it means exactly that, and for others it does not.
I actually wanted to build something similar, since I spread things through bookmarks, files in my Downloads folder & links in my emails. I'm a very hectic person and needed something like this!

However, it just doesn't work here it seems. Shift+cmd+c'ed a webpage, and Collections did mention it put that item into my inbox. However, when I went to my inbox, nothing was there. Tried again, same problem. Clicking on the plus button at the bottom of the app didn't do anything either, I was hoping I could add something manually instead... Running on 1.8.3 here. :(
1. I don't think ListAdapters can be bound because ListViews recycle views. I don't think you can bind 1 view to many objects.
Not true, they claim to be warning people about "the wrath to come".
Unrestricted boot, so I can install the OS of my choice without hassles.
Are passwords stored in memory safe?
Well Explained.

Some Doubts
* What is the default position of body tag? Static or relative ?

* In absolute position "the position context can be changed by giving the parent container a non-static position"
So the parent should be immediate parent or any parent will work ?
It wouldn't be too hard to implement your 1st person tetris because once you rotate to the left, right and upward, simply paint the user a blank screen because the block can no longer see anything. :D
So the official term for this kind of occupation is "breaker"?
OP here.

1. Instead of using a ListAdapter, I've provided a "BoundCollectionAdapter": http://depoll.github.com/bindroid/docs/com/bindroid/ui/Bound... If you use a TrackableCollection (or any other list), this adapter will track the changes to that collection.

2. I don't know a huge amount about Jackson -- I've used my own libraries for JSON serialization within my apps since they need to interoperate across Windows Phone, Android, and iOS. Taking a quick look at the tutorials there, it looks like it should play very nicely with Bindroid.
Not having to run a shop.
2 Killed As Private Jet Crashes Into 3 Indiana Homes
A private jet apparently experiencing mechanical trouble crashed Sunday in a northern Indiana neighborhood, hitting three homes and killing two people aboard the plane, authorities said.The crash injured two other people aboard the Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet and one person on the ground, South Bend Assistant Fire Chief John Corthier said late Sunday. Corthier said officials believe everyone connected with the damaged...
At least virtualisation for x86(_64). I'm not sure if a keyboard is a must... I'd like to have a bluetooth keyboard for my Galaxy Note II (connecting my pc's USB keyboard kinda sucks and is too large to take with me), but mostly tablets are not meant for productive work anyway.

Of course a lower price with identical or more features will attract more sales, that's a moot point. The question is whether it will increase profits.
Wow there is so much wrong with your viewpoint and understanding of Apple and it's vision.

I don't want to waste time addressing everything I think you're wrong about since you don't seem to be open to another viewpoint.

However, I would like to say that the frivolous lawsuits are literally ALL OVER THE INDUSTRY. Seriously, just take a look around. Do you think Amazon is a terrible company also, since they patented One-Click buying?

When you grow to be a company worth billions of dollars, you have the best legal team available at your disposal and as a BUSINESS you should use it to cover your ass wherever possible. They're not running a charity. Now I agree that being too aggressive without innovating or using such patents is what defines a patent troll, but Apple consistently innovates AND uses its own patents, so I'd say they're far from patent trolling. Aggressive? Certainly. Trolling? Hardly.

The issue remains to be solved by REGULATION by the government. It's not Apple's fault for taking advantage of a clearly broken system (since you know, they're a business and all). It's the government's job to prevent such things like that.
Fuck that. The UltraNav is gone. Looks like I won't have the 3 trackpad buttons under my thumbs on the next gen. No more opening links in a new tab with a single button click. Ughh. I guess people just don't want to pay for nice things anymore...

The previous generation of Thinkpads lost their IPS displays and switched to el-cheapo "short screens", the current generation of Thinkpads lost the proper keyboard and switched to shitty chiclet style calculator keyboards, and the next one is going to lose the UltraNav.

Consumerization of computers sucks. They used to be tools for professionals, now everyone is optimizing for disposable facebook terminals. I hope that at some point the tablets and phones are going to completely take over the consumer market and someone will start making usable laptops again.
Some of his examples are just... awful. Apparently the genius minds at Domino's Pizza's marketing department came up with "in a one-off test our Pizza arrived one minute faster than one of our competitors", Costo came up with "look at the financial record our company set" (something shoppers always think about when deciding where to shop), and Mountain Dew wanted potential customers to know their drink was created to hide the taste of Moonshine.
Well congratulations, your first noteworty achievement:
You just made the frontpage of Hacker News, gained a serious amount of replies and (most importantly) connected Wieth thousands of people around the world :) Now get your head up buddy
Closures and plain anonymous functions solve different problems. Using one when you wanted the other is a good way to cause problems you don't how to solve if you don't know the difference.

The SO thread has some good examples. A common one is using some closed-over value like it lives inside the function's scope and not the parent scope that's shared between the closures, which is wrong if you return another copy of the function and expect a different copy of that value.

var problems = [];
function ProblemFactory() {
this.causeProblem = function(name) {
problems.push(name);
};
}

new ProblemFactory().causeProblem('isolation');
new ProblemFactory().causeProblem('failure');
problems.length === 2; // true

Edits: clarity, example code.
Same paragraph:

> I did not expect it to come this soon.
The story reminded me of the Planet Money about coke being 5 cents for 70 years.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/11/15/165143816/why-coke...
It's a complex issue at the intersection of science, ethics, and law. Quite a common combination on HN.
Yes I'm currently in Hanoi for now. I have my address in HN profile page (not sure if you can see it?).
Really? That makes me sad.
Thank you. If you happen to visit our country don't forget to ring me ;)
> I don't have too much time left. My 20ies are gone

Sorry, but that made me laugh. You just turned 30. Talk to anyone over 40, 50, or 60, and ask them whether they wouldn't love to be 30 again, just to have so much time ahead of them.

Point being, you have plenty of time left. Time is not your problem -- motivation and focus are.
Maybe they're experimenting with a Buffer for incoming e-mails.
A CS PhD student doesn't generally take out any student loans; at most universities, students are funded by research and/or teaching assistant appointments and internal/external fellowships.
revenue, not income - he's going to have high server costs now and if he wants to keep this scaling up, i suspect he'll need to bring on another person soon. at the very least, a customer service rep.

still should easily net him a nice recurring six figure salary.
The short answer is yes.

The long answer is a bit more complicated by it will result in the same answer. Companies in EU can send data over to NA to have it "processed". Once there, the data is outside the protection of EU law, and can be sold without hindrance.