skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is, is that you can't really kill anything humanely if you intend on consuming it. These animals aren't "put down" they are usually given a bolt gun to the head, hung by a leg and then have their throats slit so the blood drains out. Lets not forget that the animal is alive during this horrific process because their heart has to keep beating to pump out all the blood that they have. These animals experience this so that you can have meat that tastes better. Do you really feel good about that?

Lets take the "bacon fad" for a ride down fallacy lane. So everyone loves their dog, right? Nobody in the US would ever dream of eating dog, its even used as a racial stigma against other cultures that have a history for eating them.
However, "lesser animals" something that you would think isn't as intelligent as a dog it's ok to slaughter mercilessly for the sole purpose of mass consumption. But the fact of the matter is a pig is smarter than your pet dog. So think if it was your dog going through this, being born, raised in horrible conditions and then slaughtered. It bothers most people to think about that, so why does killing a pig not?

Dont even get me started on the environmental issues that we all pretend to care about. Given that factory farming is a main source of pollution.....
Several years ago I ported and tweaked Bastet to Flash. http://blahg.res0l.net/2009/01/bastet-bastard-tetris/
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reading through this, it all sounds familiar. then it hits me. this is like trying to get a grant reviewed by the NIH!
Superb, just what I were looking for.
I think in most cases the abuses are happening at the processing facilities, not at the farms.
The best approach to job-hunting I've ever found is described in the book Ask The Headhunter.

Being on an H-1B will make your search more difficult, and the book doesn't address visa specifics.

But when you do get interviews, it gives you the tools to make yourself very attractive to any hiring manager, by showing you how to understand their (business) problem, and how to present yourself as the solver of that problem.

Check out the book, and good luck.
Here's what I got from the article.

- Island style backlit keyboard

- No more physical buttons for the touchpad or pointing stick

- Function keys now default to Media keys

- "Thinner and sleeker" is more important than anything else.

In other words, the machine is getting more and more similar to standard mass-market notebooks. I don't know why they'd ditch exactly what sets them apart from the competition.
This video provides many strong and true points in regards to the education system in America. I agree with you 100%.
Reminds me of David Foster Wallace's classic "Consider the Lobster" piece on the morality of eating animals, interesting read - http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_l...
the pic you posted requires login, this is the direct link

http://ww2.sinaimg.cn/large/53866c37jw1e2qvbu5qsnj.jpg
From the looks, it seems like a well thought out machine. Clean but still distinctive design. If the innards and workings are as well thought out, it'll be a great laptop.
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ok sunshine. how about this. watch this video:
http://www.peta.org/tv/videos/celebrities-skins/119802007000...

and tell me that it's "as far as you know" then.

WARNING: graphic. extremely graphic. i honestly don't understand how anyone could treat another living creature like that.
You guys are all great; honestly, though, I think we're the only ones reading this part of the thread, and I was owed some kind of karmic retribution for turning Cody's post into a Matasano hiring thread.

I'm surprised none of you think I'm devious enough to have planted that anonymous commenter, though. "What, you're saying you test ALL the form inputs? What are you, some kind of atomic superman?"
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So it's impossible for people to find that little factoid about Mountain Dew genuinely interesting and therefore it must be a corporate conspiracy that it reached the front page of /r/TIL?

Absolute pure insanity. And why then is reddit's obsession with Neil DeGrasse Tyson not an orchestrated conspiracy by NDT's publicist or book publisher to sell more books? Oh, because you like NDT and therefore support for him is organic and genuine?

Supreme narcissism.
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Based on the Github page, I would imagine Redis as a cache, MongoDB to store the 'non-relational data' (quoted from the GH page - I'm guessing the actual articles and such) and Postgres for the other application stuff - accounts, preferences, subs, etc.
From the Perl 6 author:

Chinese Twitter users live in a density 2x to 8x their English counterparts; here's why

http://pugs.blogs.com/audrey/2009/10/our-paroqial-fermament-...
Phonegap doesn't compile HTML5 to native. It uses web views (HTML5 embedded in native code).
You're still dreaming. Get the 9-5 and do this on the side. Most businesses fail, and most of the ones that do succeed were inherited from a family member. The odds are against you are terrible, especially for somone intimidated by pointers--that's the cold hard reality.
Surprisingly, this is not entirely a joke. It is actually possible to clear lines. And apparently 36 lines is the high score.
Awesome, thanks! Can't wait to use it!
I don't make a habit of persuading people to change their preferences, but a couple of questions:

1. Don't web apps need cookies enabled in your browser, so technically they can still track your browsing history and behavior, at least to some extent? How is that different from your privacy concerns with native apps?

2. How do you think about installing applications on your desktop/laptop computer then, since doing so grants them certain permissions, and not doing so prevents you from doing certain things?

3. More of a comment, than a question. I don't think Facebook will ever ditch their mobile site. Mobile sites are a replacement of the "desktop" site instead of the native app. It's just accessing Facebook via the browser but with a mobile-friendly UI.
You can do this currently. My feeds were quickly ingested and everything worked great.
How do you know animals are born with such rights (or if humans are, for that matter), and if they want to exercise them the way you exercise what you believe to be yours? A somewhat facetious take on it from Chesterton:

But what do we mean by making things better? Most modern talk on this matter is a mere argument in a circle -- that circle which we have already made the symbol of madness and of mere rationalism. Evolution is only good if it produces good; good is only good if it helps evolution. The elephant stands on the tortoise, and the tortoise on the elephant.

Obviously, it will not do to take our ideal from the principle in nature; for the simple reason that (except for some human or divine theory), there is no principle in nature. For instance, the cheap anti-democrat of to-day will tell you solemnly that there is no equality in nature. He is right, but he does not see the logical addendum. There is no equality in nature; also there is no inequality in nature. Inequality, as much as equality, implies a standard of value. To read aristocracy into the anarchy of animals is just as sentimental as to read democracy into it. Both aristocracy and democracy are human ideals: the one saying that all men are valuable, the other that some men are more valuable. But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first. Or he might feel that he had actually inflicted frightful punishment on the cat by keeping him alive. Just as a microbe might feel proud of spreading a pestilence, so the pessimistic mouse might exult to think that he was renewing in the cat the torture of conscious existence. It all depends on the philosophy of the mouse. You cannot even say that there is victory or superiority in nature unless you have some doctrine about what things are superior. You cannot even say that the cat scores unless there is a system of scoring. You cannot even say that the cat gets the best of it unless there is some best to be got.
And I'll be the 4th.
Because that would make karma worth something.

As long as karma is only for vanity, they don't really have to worry about people gaming the system or not -- it doesn't do anything.
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I still don't think most devs know what to do with the 'hamburger button'. Although some follow Brichter and use it as a handle to slide a side panel out, I've also seen it used strictly as a toggle to slide the same pannel out (OSX 10.8, OrderAhead). In other cases, I've seen it used to just reveal a popup options menu (Chrome) or act as a handle to reorganize lists (iOS).

Some consistency here would be nice.
Exactly. This guy has no chance!
Which is why it was the third alternative, and not the first. :-)
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I've been saying it since 2005, navigation on websites is often counterproductive because the vast majority of people are using a search engine to find the pages/information they want. All you have to do is look at your stats to see this is true. People may say they want navigation but the metrics say otherwise.

Meanwhile, according to Matt Cutts, Google has been penalizing websites with "bad navigation" (which is totally subjective, but I digress) meanwhile I'm nudging Google, "You guys are in the search business, don't you want people SEARCHING for pages instead of navigating to them?"

People want to search for pages. So why is Google discouraging them from searching and encouraging them to navigate, when first and foremost they are a search engine?
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Scrivener is awesome, yes!
Oh cuil, they took away tactile feedback from clicking and will probably require a binary blob just to make the trackpoint "buttons" work. And no more dedicated buttons for volume control (they probably took away the mixer hardware behind those, too. it was nice to not be at software's mercy). Although I guess these things aren't as bad as every new laptop having a shortscreen, sigh.

It's articles like this that are the problem, with phrases such as "still an Ethernet port" and "change too little, and your rivals maintain the edge in design". You don't compete by following Apple - the people who want buttonless sealed-up devices still won't choose you. You've got to stick to your strengths.
> So you have to run 10 processes in parallel, and that's already beyond the capabilities of most single machines.

Er... really? My laptop is three years old and I run 150 threads on it every time I launch the server I'm working on (dozens of times a day). No problems at all.

It's in Java, in case it matters.
I always tell my customers if they want a laptop that will last to get a Thinkpad T series. As long as they don't compromise the build quality I'll be happy.
But on the other hand, SVG is infinitely more useful if you want to extract chart data from the page.
With most big companies, what others have said is correct -- just apply.

If you are interested in MS in particular, drop me a note -- my username @ gmail. I'm more on the Skype side of the house though.
Well, the name is very apt. I did manage to clear 1 line after quite a bit torment.
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As a now grain farmer who grew up on a dairy farm, what I find more concerning is all of the crazy synthetic and mined resources we have to pour onto the fields in the absence of animals in order to be able to meet the world's demand for food.

Our production of "vegetarian food" grew up with the idea of having animals as part of rotation, but with the decline in demand for most meat varieties, economics do not allow those animals to be part of the cycle anymore.

Vegetarianism may be a solution for the long term society, but it seems like we have a lot of technical challenges to overcome in the meantime. Right now it looks like we are just trading one problem for another.
The key is making sure that the regulated and the regulators are different people.

Americans seem to believe that the best people to regulate corporations are the lobbyists of those same corporations.

This would be a lot funnier if these same corporations weren't currently guaranteeing that most major cities on earth will soon be flooded by the oceans. The most important regulators on the planet have spoken: scientific facts ain't real.
loren gave a great talk at stanford. it was a while back but still interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zd3iNOXTow
I'm glad he talked about the difference in funding in SF and Austin. I'm from the Austin area and absolutely love the city, but I've always wondered how Austin was so friendly to start ups when there doesn't appear to be a huge finance scene. I'm a finance guy (not a VC or anything, will be a lowly analyst at a tech company upon graduation)and SF is one of the biggest finance hubs in America. It would seem that gaining exposure for a startup seeking funding would be a lot harder in Austin.
https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/apps/rss_...

It looks like MongoDB is being used for fetch/push history, feed icon data, and article data. It's also being used for some other stuff: https://github.com/search?l=Python&q=%22mongo.Document%2...
How is Apple deliberately hampering performance for web apps? What evidence is there for this?
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I don't think that investigating and reporting is the problem here, after all we don't generally argue that news reporting about wars causes wars. Stopping the production of the content wouldn't be against their own interests unless they had some other motive to produce it. They would probably switch to shooting content about something else.
Apply in amazon. They are currently recruiting.
Forget the lawyer-talk and economist-talk. To 90% of all depositors, they have a simple contract with the bank: I give you my money and you can use it to make more money (loaning it out at interest, etc) on one condition: you keep it absolutely safe and give it back when I ask.

That's it, that's the deal as far as almost all depositors care. And if they think for one microsecond that the bank might welch on the deal, they want out, now. Not tomorrow, n.o.w.

This is an brazen raid on personal deposits: a new, unexpected tax on funds people thought had already been through taxation and were safe. People will hate it. And they'll see the banks as both having breached their understood contract and being the cause of an unfair tax.

If the government puts in rules restricting withdrawals, they'll just take it out at whatever rate is allowed and send it elsewhere, or invest it in tangibles like gold or gems and put those in private lockboxes.

The net result over the next year will be a steady flight of small-investor capital out of every country that is even slightly suspected of this scam. A lot of it will just disappear from the economy. This will depress those economies for years if not decades.
In your example, what is the effect? A beer company gets a little bit of free exposure for a clever pic? Whoop-de-freaking-doo!

The cleverness is probably what's getting upvoted, FYI.
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And let me state the obvious: most of the time search is faster than navigation. Several clicks and realizing your information is not available or not where it should be or not comprehensive enough vs. search which takes you directly to the most relevant result.
I love NewsBlur but I found it a bit busy in the UI. It seemed like a lot for what it really needed to do. That being said, Feedly's minimalistic UI was far better. However, Feedly is a bit slower when there are tons of stories on the screen.

Overall I found Feedly to be better.
You're a disgusting person.
I wish they'd just upgrade the screen and leave everything else alone.
Did you know that we do more than one thing at a time? It is a strange and abnormal thing, but it is true.
If Wall Street doesn't get a cut, it's an immoral business practice!

By bypassing Wall Street, you're actually stealing profit from the too-big-to-fail investment banks. This threatens those banks with failure, and their failure will result in a crash of the global economy and require another bailout by the taxpayers. Therefore engaging in crowd funding is a threat to America and clearly a form of economic terrorism.
tl;dr

* horrible chiclet keyboard

* tap to click (no physical trackpad buttons)

* very few USB ports

* no CD/DVD drive

* no screen latch
Try 37signals' job board: http://jobs.37signals.com/

Also, StackOverflow's Careers 2.0, though that is invite-only after you've accumulated enough upvotes.
Finally I took out a $50 tech ticket and after a week the engineer explained that the review team's tool for checking API usage was broken and it had nothing to do with my app.

Did Apple at least refund your $50 when they discovered it was a bug in their own software?
Can we agree, as a community, that Forbes is linkbait and not up vote these articles?

*funny, i wrote this three weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272564)
>> There is at least one English-only class at most schools. Some schools do Vietnamese in the mornings and English-only classes in the afternoon, while at other schools every class except Vietnamese Studies is taught in English.

Those are international schools. Their tuition are usually very high, and way out of the price range for most families in Vietnam. Normal schools where I live (Hanoi) only teach in Vietnamese.

We do have English class once or twice a week where we learn the basics of the language. But it does not provide us enough exposure to the language. To improve our language skills, we usually have to take extra classes after school.
Web apps suck. It's like going back to 1980's lowest common denominator level of functionality.[1] I'd rather see something like PNACL offer easy distribution of native apps over the internet, but we'll probably just see more web apps (http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/worse-is-worse.pdf).

[1] Honestly, that's an insult to the 1980's. Word Perfect 5.x was pretty damn functional, lack of GUI aside.
I guess in order to install a heroku.json'ified project, you first need to install the plugin as well, right?

So basicly:

heroku plugins:install ...
heroku bootstrap
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Got it the first time you posted on this story ;)
From what I recall there are definitely cases of animal animal abuse - as in one animal torturing another for amusement. For the life of me I can't remember the exact incident. I do know of 1 monkey which decided to tease the ever living daylights out of a tiger/lion though.
Well, plus, Austin, your weather sucks. And, you're in Texas. You're the best that Texas has, sure, but still, you're in Texas.
Very nice.

I'm curious as to how you're searching YouTube, if you are. Is there a method to specify a long time besides the 'long' param or are you mainly scraping the links from twitter/reddit.

Really neat work. On the lol side, you just make the life's of the copyright claimer easier. Don't let that stop you though.
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Luckily we figured out how to produce war scenes without actually having to go to war. We are definitely still producing the content to fill the demand though. Considerable amounts of it.

Like I mentioned before, we do use this exact argument towards child porn, however. You cannot hurt a child by simply watching a video of child abuse. But we realized that watching the video gives incentive for people to create more, which in turn harms future children. That is a good enough reason to attempt to cease the incentive for production to prevent future occurrences.

PETA has been accused of staging content in the past, so it is not completely out of the realm of possibility that it is happening.
Ascii does not include Chinese characters. It doesn't even include European alphabets. You might be talking about unicode?

> I'm no expert but doesn't chinese have single symbols/words that when translated turn into multiple words.

Often more like one Chinese character per Chinese word. But you also have compound words of multiple characters, I believe. And then, translation to English isn't word for word, either.
"This garbage is what's wrong with blog news sites, a complete lack of journalistic integrity."

Newspapers really aren't much better, they're mainly better at appearing to have integrity. The only real benefit of most newspapers is that the lack of integrity is somewhat consistent according to a particular slant of the paper. So you can expect The New Yorker to lack their integrity in a fairly consistent way, whereas Washington Post lacks integrity in a different but consistent way.

Reddit's curation is biased toward lowest common denominator dopamine shots that are provided in as little as time as is possible after clicking the "hit me" link.
That's been the case all along that HTML5/CSS/Javascript is much harder to develop for when targeting mobile devices. You have to build for an array of screen sizes and your assets need to work in the dizzying amount of screen DPIs.

However, the freedom you gain in designing a common UI across all mobile devices you will now lose with having to build discreet applications for each platform.

iOS applications have a really high bar for slick UI and subtle animations. (If they are going to be featured and successful.)

Android applications also have a really high bar for system wide integration. Plus, UI that works on iOS will most likely need to be rethought on Android, though not always.

Then for Windows 8/WP8 devices you're in for a world of hurt. The UI and strict guidelines are so different from anything common in iOS & Android that to include them will require what could likely result in an entire different design team.
I wonder how it will work on their own Goobuntu.
or display the same chart somewhere other than a web page, eg: a PDF or IOS app.
I realize other creates think and feel, but I have great appreciation for the meat I take on my own whenever I shoot a deer, elk or turkey. I gutted, skinned and butchered my first deer that I hunted because I wanted to better learn and appreciate the adventure, process and amount of food I then acquired.

There is a writer/hunter who better explains what I'm trying to say, and he currently hosts The Meat Eater on Sportsman's channel (he also host the Wild Within on A&E for one season). Here is a short debate he had with a vegan, warning: it's a very level-headed and rational dialogue:
http://youtu.be/J2N0Utg7KYE
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Ask HN: Why was HN just down?
For several minutes the site was down, and towards the end it showed a page explaining how to show nginx logs.

Regular maintenance or something else?
H1B applications need to be submitted in two weeks - there is very little chance you will be able to 1/find a job 2/ accept an offer letter 3/get through the H1B application in just two weeks. It can be done, but it is highly unlikely. Also, an H1B will not get you a job before October 1.
If you want to come to the US, there might be other visa options as well....or you can freelance, especially if you are good on mobile.
Could you send me a portfolio/github account/resume whatever you have to plevyg at gmail?
thanks
How is that more useful than a link to the source data in a format appropriate to the data?