skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, vegetarianism is not synonymous with soy eating.

Second, the majority of soy is used to feed food animals (even grass-fed, which generally does not count how the animals are "finished").

Fourth, free range is a joke. Sure there are some farmers that give their animals a decent life. But labels like free range and cage free are not well regulated and give you no real guarantee of anything. Please do some research on what is actually involved in these kinds of claims, which are essentially marketing.

Finally, jayfuerstenberg said he/she was moving closer to vegetarianism due to the mistreatment of animals. Don't reply to that by saying vegetarianism is not the answer because it is in this case.
Unfortunately these numbers come out with a significant lag. EIA released the revised 2010 numbers on December 11th of last year. We get the initial version of the 2011 data in August.

As of 2010 wind supplied less than 1% of US energy consumption while solar and geothermal combined supplied less than 0.5%.

The latest report is linked below. Figure 1 might come as a bit of a shock but sadly this is where we are. And all the politics and complex business interest involved just make it more confusing.

http://www.eia.gov/renewable/annual/trends/
I think you meant to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5391963
It's funny too since I actually find Sparkle updates far less intrusive than App Store updates (I'm tired of logging in and out of iTunes over and over and over again).
Having additional strong portfolio pieces definitely helps, and yes quality over quantity. Whether it will be enough for Google & Co, I don't know. Usually these companies require more experience, if you want to work as a UX designer for them. But don't let that discourage you - definitely work on your sideprojects - you never know.

Also, it wasn't clear from your post what you want to focus on initially as a designer - more on this topic here: https://medium.com/design-ux/3623c3243aa6

Again, judging from your portfolio only, it looks like you should maybe focus on UI design first, as this seems to be your strong point and find a job in a UX specific agency, so you can see and learn what other UX practioners do, learn more about UCD etc.

I'm sure there must be UX only agencies in Australia or startups - a quick Google search came back with

http://www.stamfordinteractive.com.au/join-our-team/

http://www.lbi.com/au/

If you could work for LBi for example, you could maybe transfer more easily to the US at a later stage.

Other tips:

* Get on Dribbble (that's how some UI designers get hired / headhunted)

* Start blogging about design, what you're passionate about etc - helps later on when recruiters review your portfolio

Anyway, keep us updated...
Reboot: Change Your Operating System With Derek Sivers
crap sorry I meant to upvote you but misclicked and downvoted you. I'll go upvote a random different post of yours to compensate.

I'll also add that animals can feel 'pain'. The world is a better place with less overall pain.
The New Kid in CSS Town: Cascade Framework
That's a tricky question. Start with a different, and probably easier (for many people) question: where do humans get rights? There are many possible answers. Some people think our rights come from God (or gods), others take different approaches. Ultimately it's just a matter of deciding what is important and "true". You have to invent your own axioms in some sense, I think. So, once you've done that, you can use those axioms to decide whether or not animals have rights.
The author's underlying point, that crowdfunding is not the godsend that many think it to be, was lost in a poorly chosen post title and a poorly formulated rant.

Simply put - investors via crowdfunding need to recognize the risk they are assuming. Likewise, companies choosing to raise funding from non-accredited investors need to recognize the costs and extra steps associated with IRS and SEC compliance.

The author's "quick overview of basic problems that investment crowdfunding faces", interestingly makes no mention of the implications of crowdfunding on companies that would previously be deemed by professional investors as non-fundable.

At this point, it's too early to write off crowd-funding simply as a bad idea - especially without any inkling as to how the SEC even plans to address it. Personally, I hope Mr. Kang ends up eating his hat. But time will tell...
To answer your question, first you'll have to tell us where you think humans get their rights from. For me, I'd say that animals, humans and the general respect for all life comes from (not so)common decency and/or religion.
Indeed - If you want true animal rights read Gary Francione's books, essays and blog.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...
Can't even call it a Chinese wall...
mobile (iOS, Android, J2ME), C++, C, C#, some other rare skills I cannot specify (because will identify me)
The points made in the article may be legitimate (although the language is somewhat sensationalistic), but if someone chooses to invest in these companies, ignorant or not of the risks involved, they are the only ones who are hurt. This is much better than only allowing Wall St investors who are using other people's money and skimming significant commissions off the top to do the same thing, costing retirees their pensions in the process. Eventually people will learn, and most smart investors will stay away from sites such as these. Many regulars to HN are excited about the JOBS act because it means additional access to capital, but I think it also means more freedom in the investment world, which means more closely tying the risks to the rewards of investment, which seems to have been misplaced in the investment world today.
Thanks! Just updated the subtitle for the footer download button to reflect that. Our next short term goal is to make the app Lion-compatible.
I agree with you, but I only intend this as an introduction, a jumping off point. Regardless of the utilitarianism, the idea of extending our ethical frameworks to animals because they suffer, then considering evidence that they suffer, is a compelling proposition.
Cody, you're dealing with a coward that created an anon throw-away
account just to troll with offensive remarks. I'm actually surprised
how restrained Thomas has been with this jerk.
Maybe he can start with the techcrunch spam of announced yc companies.
<blockquote>The inevitable file descriptor limits on Linux means that for every database connection you make, you use up one of the 1,024 file descriptors that are allocated to your process by default. Changing these limits is not only non-trivial, but they don’t tend to stick.</blockquote>

You're clearly a talented programmer, but perhaps employee #2 should be a sysadmin.
Great advice. I'd also recommend the Compilers course on Coursera. Although it is already underway, you can take the self paced version. https://www.coursera.org/course/compilers
I don't think that the "animal rights" movement "promotes clean killing as an ethical good". Sometimes these videos are released with the intent of persuading people to stop consuming meat (and perhaps even eggs and dairy). But even if the videos are only intended to change certain abusive practices within the meat industry, I think many people would agree that abuse followed by killing is worse than killing alone.
My guess... DO offers hardware in 60 seconds. Also cheaper/faster than EC2.
I really do not understand how people can stand to eat meat.

I try not to be sanctimonious about it but the idea of eating animals has put me off since I grew conscious as a teenager. I don't even consider myself vegetarian, I drink milk and eat products that have eggs (not eggs directly)

Just the smell of meat turns my stomach.

I assure you, it's very possible to live a well-fed life without any meat.
So if you eat meat you can't be against pit bull-fighting? That seems like a pretty bad philosophy to me. 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. 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.
Thanks! We used to support nested collections and 'single item - multiple collections' in the intermediate versions, but decided to disable it for the overall simplicity of the v1. We'll bring it back when/if many users really want it.
here is a link to mine: https://www.dropbox.com/s/afksdrwxc1f0thq/subscriptions.xml
Off topic, but those messages are sure a lot longer than 140 characters in translated form. I suppose that if app.net wants to know whether its longer character count limit is a good idea, it can just look to China.
Risks of Predictive Analytics
Possible, maybe.

Delicious? Certainly not.
Having CS as a "core" thing that everyone must learn might actually be very unfair and destructive. Even at the collage level where people choose to go into computer science we have a very high failure rate and people still aren't sure why. I doubt there are enough teachers up to the task, also anyone that is qualified to teach CS is also capable of making twice as much money by not teaching CS.
>>I really do not understand how people can stand to eat meat.

You realize we're omnivores and evolved to eat both meat and vegetables, right?

This is not to say that everyone MUST eat meat. But you have to understand that finding meat delicious is pretty much the default evolutionary state of human beings.
Thats actually a really good idea.

I wonder what would be next? Most of Yahoo's properties seem be be neglected at the moment, but what about Google? Google News perhaps?
Appreciate the thoughts. If you want a knock off; it's your own business. However, most sellers are advertising their items as authentic when they aren't. This results in someone purchasing an item for hundreds if not thousands of dollars for something that they did not expect. Our site caters to those who want the real deal. :)
why was the op's comment killed?
The moral uncertainty of a P = NP world
Welcome to Slashdot circa, I dunno, ancient times. I still wonder why no one has bothered cloning their moderation system - in my mind it's the best one I've ever seen on a major website.

An extra perk is that upvotes can be categorized (and downvotes) that add context. On Reddit all too often the top comment in a thread is a quick and easy joke, and the real insight gets buried. On Slashdot these two types of posts would coexist and be flagged as such.
Yes but it's easy as creatures with intelligence, to realize other creatures think and feel, for us to stop that consumption.

There are MANY things our animal cousins do that we do not do, because we can think.

I don't have any fantasies that meat consumption will disappear entirely, I'd just like to see it go down as society evolves, just like slowly increasing the mpg requirements for cars cuts fuel use dramatically over time.

If meat consumption was cut in half, maybe we'd have the time, money and resources to treat livestock much better.
The trouble is that android doesn't support hover-events the way iOS does. On iOS taps automatically turn into hovers when there is a hover behaviour, on android a tap is always a click.
Jesus H. Christ that article was terrible. I didn't realise Forbes let you blog under their brand now. What a terrible way to dilute it...

Anyway. Kickstarter is not a "lay-away" or "presale" website.

> It constantly boggles my mind that people are funding
> projects on a platform or company on the internet that has
> a policy of “No Refunds.”

Want to know why, mate? Because you're not "ordering" anything. The rewards are an admittedly nice bonus; the real reason is to see something that you wish existed come into being. To give products/creations a chance to be made, that might not have the mass appeal that would be required to hit the mainstream market.

Absolute crap.

> Please let me know your thoughts! If you think I’m wrong, then publicly
> flog me for my ignorance and I will fully accept the err in my ways.

Oh, and he's an arrogant S.O.B. too.

Apologies for the anger, everyone. This really pissed me off.
DON'T BELIEVE EITHER OF THEM! THEY ATE THE FUNGUS!
Does Vegetation (in cities) Reduce Crime?
Google Keep coming soon to Drive?
>"Reading lots of books. Lots of non-fiction books. Particularly a lot about psychology, behavioural economics, studies of happiness"

Mind sharing your top picks from that crop, sivers?
>Yes, if the person has a predisposition to cancer. The evidence? They got cancer in the first place.

It's odd you can make that assumption and then breezily mention the correlation/causality problem in the very next paragraph. Just because a person gets cancer there's not necessarily any reason to believe they're predisposed to it. We know a wide range of environmental factors cause genetic damage.

>You aren't bothering to read what I've posted.

I can tell based on the snippets you're posting they're not relevant to the conversation. You keep making the same tangential point over and over. Yes, okay, I understand an oncologist won't ever tell you your cancer is cured.
> Regulations, through the use of lobbyists, serve incumbents whom which to defend their business models with the durable advantage of higher fees, more rules and more paperwork. They may also naturally be against anything which would threaten their oligopolic hegemony.

You're talking about "regulations" but you're really describing regulatory capture, which is the dark side of regulations. Regulations do actually serve their desired purpose, sometimes.
> "Where I find a job outside my country?"

Yeah, might not be a bad question for HN.

> "can someone help me get a job like this?"

Might be a bad question for HN.
And that's what makes it great. Crowdfund a videogame or product and the dev screws up? Or runs away with the money?

Even if they "escape", their reputation is obliterated.

The threat of that notoriety seems to be a good replacement for investor overbearance so far.
Ask HN: Ambitious Startup Seeks Cable Industry Guru
I and the stealth startup are looking for a cable industry guru to help the startup in either a full-time or advisor position. Areas of interest include cable provider negotiations and/or ad sales.

I can be reached at vossjens1@gmail.com for further details and/or to discuss the startup and the position.
It's not the anon that I care about, it's that someone is being an asshole in public to people I consider to be friends, and using my (and nbpoole's) name to do it. I'm not fond of that.
>My biggest fear would be having the novelty wear off and coming to the realization that I just moved to a trailer park.. on mars.

The problem with trailer parks is not the trailers; it's the other people

and the ownership model. It's a terrible ownership model, really; you usually own a (not actually mobile) manufactured home, but you rent the land.

The screwed up thing is that when the rent goes up in the park, the value of your mobile home drops, making moving even harder.

I'd be happy to live in one of the bay-area mobile home parks if the ownership model of the land was more like the condo ownership model, where the tenants own the common areas, well, in common.

But yeah. "who else is on the trip" would certainly be my first question, but I would imagine that you'd mostly get interesting people.
The first time I saw this was in 2010. Ah, those were the days.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052389
Guess no one's interested? :P
While perhaps a return may some day be possible, the point is people are being recruited without that promise. So that, e.g. they realize that if they get sick, or seriously injured, or even just change their mind, there is no way to get back.
Obama’s ‘Confession’ Uncovered By Forensic Profiler
Anatomy Of A Snitch
It's definitely appropriate if you're talking about the practice itself; slightly less so if you're using it metaphorically. But you know what? The boundaries of what's appropriate and not are culturally constructed, you should be able to use the word "belgium" in a serious screenplay if the intent is artistic enough.
Amy’s Game of Life
The initial mistake certainly was the software author's but that's hardly the most important point.

There are at least three key issues brought out by the original post, IMHO:

1) By moving to the App Store distribution from a previous, independent distribution system, publishers have clearly taken a step backwards in terms of being able to push out bug fixes. This is a huge issue and it's irrespective of what other platforms have to live with. It's a clear downgrade of a valuable feature for end-users and that's a problem – particularly because it's largely driven by policy and not technical requirements.

2A) Even worse, Apple's gatekeeping is horribly broken – approval is so opaque as to almost seem arbitrary and therefore cannot be relied upon. This is not the author's fault.

2B) The standards for gatekeeping, such as they are, are not constant. It seems clear that features that were previously acceptable can become no longer acceptable if Apple deems them to be competitive with Apple products. Or, worse, if Apple alters their products in such a way as to overlap with the existing features of a product in the App Store, a program may no longer be approved – essentially without warning and with no grandfathering due to prior approvals.

So, yes, this story says a lot about the controlled environment of a walled garden ecosystem.
Man. Think of the latency. 8 light minutes. We'd need to bring back uucp, read content offline. Caching would be essential.

Heh. It sounds like a lot of fun, really. I mean, in 2022, I'll be 42; I mean, I'd need more information, (and I might be disqualified just for not being immediately ready to jump, but eh.) but it does sound like an incredible way to spend the second half of my life, even if it ends up making that second half, uh, significantly shorter.
What a wonderfully worded website and poster. Wit and humor and intelligence are a powerful combination.
WOW. I'm not usually the type for self-help-guru-personal-development stuff at all --really-- but THIS interview knocked me outa my flip-flops. Must-read!

Great stuff @sivers, cheers from Phnom Penh :)
A lot of people genuinely treat Kickstarter for hardware projects as a pre-sale website. He's wrong on other stuff, but on that point essentially right.
Did not expect this to be picked up by HN. I watched the 820 drama on weibo live, it never surprises me how low-class CCTV can be.

As of the reason why CCTV is suddenly after Apple, I saw this chart[1] on weibo, which could shed some lights on the situation. It reveals a detailed breakdown of Apple's TV advertising spending in China. It seems Apple put the lion share of their budget on provincial TV channels (the blue area on the pie charts) instead of CCTV - the supposedly most watched TV channel in the country.

Also, I would like to offer some knowledge of CCTV's mob-like operations.

CCTV has been falling out of favor for both viewers and advertisers. It failed to innovate and offer shows/programs people care to watch; when it falls behind in the marketplace, the state sponsored monopoly would wield its political power and paint competitions politically incorrect labels (Eg. accusing other channels' shows being 'vulgar', 'reactionary' etc..). This has happened a few times with popular shows on provincial channels.

Typically, CCTV do not organize similar massive campaigns to defame its clients; but there's always an exception once a year: the 3-15 annual gala. Every March 15th, CCTV points fingers to companies 'who severely violates consumer rights', exposing industry scandals and unethical businesses. The 3-15 show has its popularity, as consumers frequently fall victim to the wide range of unethical (sometimes outright illegal) behaviors prevailing the Chinese corporate world. CCTV is the only media outlet who has the political capital to make such nationwide accusations without fearing consequences.

Therefore, it is not surprising CCTV leverages this show to send a warning message to its current and potential clients: "we can easily make you or break you, do your advertising with us or watch your brand destroyed next year." It has been a known fact that CCTV uses 3-15 as a tool to punish the 'not-so-well-behaved' advertisers and hold Chinese companies at their hostage to maximize their advertising revenue.

Clearly, Apple has been categorized as one of those bad boys this year, and CCTV decided it needed a lesson.

[1]http://photo.weibo.com/1401318455/wbphotos/large/photo_id/35...
I've been making a ton of d3/html5 charts lately, and I've been terribly dissappointed by the open source offerings of graphs that are both beautiful(tons on dribbble, few even in html) and functional. Was going to work on one, but this actually looks really good!

edit: any reason you decided not to use D3 for this?
But the judgement process is different. You can only tell which brand is better if you've heard of the brands. It's an external judgement, internalized. But you can make an aesthetic judgement even if you've been living under a rock.
It bothers me too.
Is something like this what you were looking for? http://www.3dtris.de/
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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.

Farmers, on the other hand, have a lot to lose by people being abusive towards animals. An animal that is sick and hurting produces far less. Margins are already incredibly slim in agriculture. You cannot afford to have animals in pain. Not to mention the embarrassment of people thinking you are abusive towards animals just by being a part of the industry.

Or maybe you are absolutely right, but I don't think it is anywhere near being clear cut just by looking at the initiator.
I thought it was fun to just hear the original music again...
Take a look at not Tetris 2[1]. From its description:

Not Tetris 2 is the spiritual successor of the classic Tetris mixed with physics. The result is a fun spinoff in which blocks are no longer bound to the usual grid. Blocks can be rotated and placed at any angle, resulting in a complete mess if not careful. And with the newest cutting edge technology, Not tetris 2 allows line clears when the lines are sufficiently filled.

[1] http://stabyourself.net/nottetris2/
old... but cool :)
No apologies necessary. I couldn't even stomach reading halfway into the first page.
I guess that is somewhat true, however KS have deliberately attempted to move away from that idea for hardware goods lately. Whether they've been successful in doing so, I guess not.
Another bigger problem is cultural norms, that moment where your the only vegetarian at a table sucks because now sharing food with friends / SO become so much harder. I mean obviously less of an issue when you cook at home but still.
Religion is a great hinderence to human and animal rights in my view - too much personal responsibility is passed off.
I'm currently on H1B so I'm coming from another country, but honestly I'm not sure what you're looking for here?

Looking for a job by posting ? Just go on the website of the companies you're interested in and apply that's pretty much it.

People can recommend you but really no one would/should do it unless they know you and even with that that doesn't make you any special, you have the same recruitment process (at least that's how it is in my company: a big AV company).

May be I'm not understanding, can you be more specific how can we help you ?