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At least one of the practices mentioned, de-beaking [0], is nowhere near out of the ordinary at factory hatcheries. One of the quoted lobbyists even makes the point that some of the behavior recorded is the norm, not the exception:

The videos may seem troubling to someone unfamiliar with farming, said
Kelli Ludlum, the group’s director of Congressional relations, but
they can be like seeing open-heart surgery for the first time.

“They could be performing a perfect procedure, but you would consider
it abhorrent that they were cutting a person open,” she said.

While some of the abuses may be unusual, I suspect the truth is that they would prefer no one tape the regular day-to-day goings on at factory farms either.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debeaking
Mac users, by necessity, find all sorts of ways to work around missing features.
> By that logic, don't we already have an enormous apparatus of laws that exist to protect the property owner? What would these bills add?
they rewrote it into a browser based app, looks identically, just a bit more shiny.
I have MacBook 11 and dual-boot with Linux Mint 14. It runs great, much prefer it over OS X. If there was one thing I could steal from OS X though it would be the trackpad and multitouch implementation. On all the distros I have installed it sucks, it is truly awful. This is the only real deal breaker holding me back from using Linux primarily on the Air at the moment, I am not going to carry a mouse around.
Margaret Thatcher - an inspirational life in pictures
Margaret Thatcher today died - here are some of her most inspiring comments and her most famous pictures http://www.getinspired365.com/20130408. Rest in Peace.
It's hard, but it's been done. The nice side effect is that fitness functions evaluate quickly.
"Wygrało" would be incorrect (it should be "Wygrałoś" in this case, and even then it's only grammaticaly correct if you communicate with small kid, and sounds very weird even then).

You can also say this using "person" - "Osobo używająca ten program - wygrałaś" ("To person, who is using this software - you have won"), "Osoba" is always female, and can mean anybody. But this is very formal and weird, too.
Anyone else having trouble viewing this? I just get:

"We're sorry, but you have sent too many requests to us recently. Please try again later."
I wonder how the tech community would respond if undercover reporters were breaking into offices and documenting the "incomprehensible" C that managers are forcing down on employees when they could be purportedly writing software in English, and people stopped using software to help free the abused employees who are stuffed in a small cubicle to write nonsensical gibberish day-in, day-out?

That is what this situation seems like. Animal cruelty is definitely not okay, but I have noticed a growing trend of reporting best practices, that attempt to minimize animal suffering as much as possible, as animal cruelty. And the solutions people are coming up with to improve on those best practices are as non-sensical as a non-industry expert suggesting that we write software in English. In a perfect world, sure, but the real world has real constraints.

I would like to see real awareness, not people who feel they are experts on all rural affair matters after watching a two hour documentary and a YouTube clip or two. A video ban is definitely not the way to do that, but I can see the other side. Google isn't going to be too happy if you go around filming their datacenter, lamenting that you could do the same with a server in your closet at home, either.
what I usually do before pasting insecure clipboard content to a terminal is that I start with a double quotes character "
Once I see the real output, I just have to remove the quotes (<ctrl-a> <del><return>)
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I have to disagree with the filters. Sure, it's convenient at first glance, but it turns into a nightmare. The filter functionality in WordPress leads to spaghetti code at it's worst. I don't want to think about how many times I've had to comb through a dozen plugins on a WordPress install trying to find some obscure, poorly written filter that breaks something in a very peculiar way.

I think the problem is that you're altering some global state with no knowledge of how others may be altering the same data, and the code itself becomes an entangled mess of callbacks.
Not that this is really relevant to the topic at hand, but are you actually drawing an equivalency between people who get paid to write code for a living and an animal being slaughtered? I don't think the analogy works at all.
Actually no. I prefer shows from the UK.
I picked up Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature the other day† and I have to say that it allows me to view this whole episode quite clearly.

Pinker documents the increasing ratcheting down of violence in humanity, perhaps not in absolute terms but certainly in percentage of population terms. Take modern Western Europe, it has statistically the lowest homicide rate compared to anywhere and any time.

The decrease in violence has occurred with what Pinker calls Rights Revolutions at two points in history, around about the time of the American and French revolution and mid-twentieth century onwards. So we have people asserting the rights of man in general leading to the abolition of chattel slavery, the rights of woman in particular, gay rights, the rights of children, and recently the rights of animals. In England the last blood sport (fox hunting) was recently outlawed in the teeth of much protest from the good old boys that think cruelty to animals is A OK.

These rights revolutions stem from ideas born out the Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment which led most famously the amendments to the US constitution but which have there parallel in most of the Western world. Forces that work against these ideas are thus called counter-enlightenment forces. Getting back to the issue at hand (I've got a point I tells ya!) these laws represent a back-sliding and we should take these counter-enlightenment forces very seriously - we are talking about a centuries long struggle to eliminate violence (of whatever type) from our societies. I guarantee you that future generations will look back at our times and recoil in horror at the way we treat animals in much the same way that systemic torture, bear-baiting, corporal punishment, domestic abuse and so on leave most of us (apart from the odd sadist and sociopathic outlier) sickened nowadays.

† I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Here it is on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1455883115
"That is what they are paid for."

I have no doubt that he's been given a strong talking to for diverting a plane and costing the airline no small expense on such a ridiculous over-reaction. They're paid to be sensible risk-evaluators and decision-makers, and this one is clearly rubbish at it.
To add to the other response(s), there's a sense of artificialness to homework and the way it's drip fed.

The deadline is just so the setter has a schedule to assess it, and the next one will be coming at some point in the future.

With work it's usually all coming now. If you're not doing task a, you could be doing task b, c, d or e instead. Of course good planning and management will mean time is organised between all the tasks to get them done one at a time (or as close to) and it's not a daunting pressure, but I find there's always a sense that there's lots to do.

In the cases I've had where there doesn't seem like a lot to do, that's when I tend to procrastinate with what I'm meant to be doing, looking at this and that other interesting thing we could be doing.

[Edit] Also, money always helps ;)
Ask HN: What programming language should I learn when relocating to SF?
I currently live in Australia, but I'm looking to relocate to San Fran late this year.

I'm a bit of a generalist, but a developer at the core. I've been developing in PHP for years. I'm currently a Co-Founder / CTO at a 10 person company and have built several startups from the ground up, so have the whole breadth of Product Management, UX, design, marketing & ...janitorial experience that comes with that kind of role.

I'm a bit worried that most of my experience has been with PHP. I love the language, but feel like it might make it hard to me to get an exciting job in San Fran. I've still got a few months before I can move, so I'm looking for advice.

Does anyone have a suggestion or what language is best for me to spend my time learning to help when looking for a job at an early stage SF startup? Thanks!
I just pasted this quote elsewhere in this thread but I'm going to paste it here again because it's so bold-faced.

The videos may seem troubling to someone unfamiliar with farming, said
Kelli Ludlum, the group’s director of Congressional relations, but
they can be like seeing open-heart surgery for the first time.

“They could be performing a perfect procedure, but you would consider
it abhorrent that they were cutting a person open,” she said.

Some of the behavior filmed is standard operating procedures, and they don't want that viewed by the otherwise ignorant public.
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Genesis does what Nintendon't. Sega was the system for 'hardcore' console gamers of the 90s. Just take a look at this ad: http://www.eidolons-inn.net/segabase/G-32XPromoAd1.jpg

The gaming industry has /always marketed to that crowd, it's not something Microsoft invented.
Everyone seems to be missing the obviously snarky title here... As in, there is not strong support at all.
I still don't understand why anyone wants to waste screen real-estate with a left pane. First thing I do on a new system is configure whatever file manager I have to live with to be as sparse as possible. I miss the Amiga Workbench coupled with DiskMaster II (Norton style dual-file-list, though configurable to as many file list windows as you like)
The reason these abuses go un-checked is because only the "little people" have to put up with it. Anyone who is anybody flies in their own chartered jet. In the GA terminal there is no TSA in sight and your pilot also acts as a concierge, booking a car service to take you to a restaurant reservation he also made for you while in flight.
How does this make the front page?
Am I the only one who finds those "trending keywords" creepy? Email isn't public like Twitter, after all.
Well written and inspiring.
It's not used to detect lies, it's used to measure how a person reacts under pressure. It's a low-level torture device meant to intimidate.

The fact that police services can use it to extract confessions is just a nice bonus, and it's really a really cheap alternative to conducting a complete and thorough investigation. Police policy has for a long time favored confessions over investigations.
And yet, in contrast, we have surgeons posting their videos for all to see on YouTube because they are proud of the work that they do and they want people to see what goes on in the OR.
No. I'm saying people who do not understand technology could be lead to believe such things if people started reporting it. Nobody is going to take the time to realize that people actually enjoy writing software using programming languages.

And I'm not suggesting animals enjoy being slaughtered, but if it is going to happen, do you not support doing it the most humane way possible?
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Criminal trials, in much of Europe, are protected by privacy of justice laws, until the proceedings are complete. Then, the information is free.

I view that as a good thing, as it prevents mob justice on the media. Let the courts decide, on their own timing, we can analyse the result later; instead of condemning someone in the public view, only to find out later she is an innocent with a forever tarnished reputation.
Well is it not the truth? The US has the world's most heavily armed police forces. Their military makes others look quaint. They have military actions going on today right now all over the world. They always need more $ to continue the violence. Yet they claim that violence is wrong. It's really no wonder we're like a bunch of crazy people.

The simple fact is uncle sam solves every problem with violence so I'm not surprised when it's citizens act the same way.
The armchair neuroscientist
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For the same reason we can't require videocameras to be installed in your home to make sure you don't beat your kids. Presumption of innocence, due process, those sorts of things. That's not saying there aren't some severe shortcomings, just answering your question.
Clicky http://www.getinspired365.com/20130408.
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It helps that "victims" of successful surgeries end up playing catch with their kids, and not in a clearance bin in a supermarket.
People value units of money because of their expected purchasing power; money will allow people to receive real goods and services in the future, and hence people are willing to give up real goods and services now in order to attain cash balances. Thus the expected future purchasing power of money explains its current purchasing power.

http://mises.org/daily/1333

From a theoretical perspective, this is been the clearest elucidation to me. The reason the value of bitcoins is going up is because people who buy bitcoins expect that others will pay a higher price for it in the future.

Like I tell people: people who buy and sell bitcoins don't care that you don't want to participate. They just want anyone else who will participate.
Fake Facebook girlfriends: what's not to like?
I apologize for making my point in the form of a rhetorical question. What I should have said is that, based on the construction of your comment, your comment draws an equivalency between programmers and these animals being slaughtered.
Wygrałoś

Wow, that's a completely new form to me! Do you know any examples of where I can find it - or even a description - as my usual online sources are failing me :)

I like your word-hack using Osoba! I'm loving learning Polish, it's a real eye-opener about how languages can work.
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Jesse's a very active member of the Python community, has published remarkably informative and helpful blog posts that have got us OS X users out of a jam far too many times to count, recently chaired PyCon 2013 and last, but not least, an all-around nice guy.
"I have one apple" = "Mam jedno jabłko" vs "I don't have apple" = "Nie mam jednego jabłka"

Heh, this one of my favourite rules to show off with, as it appears more complicated than it is. If you're negating a sentence with this structure, you always use the genitive case, hence jednego jabłka. Or, as I was briefly annoyed to be told this lunchtime, nie ma żadnego makaronu. (Although maybe my memory's already failing me - would it be żadnych makaronów?)

Nobody expects software to get it right.

But it'd feel so good to get it right! :)

(one of these days, I will manage to decline a sentence of more than five words correctly!)
"And employees who do something beyond the scope of their jobs could be charged with criminal trespass."

So say an employee that's not an animal rights activist sees something deplorable and records it as evidence. Only then are they considered to have trespassed - flying in the face of whistle-blower protections that have been in-place in countless other industries for decades.

If what's happening is a crime - and I believe animal cruelty still qualifies (even if it occurs on a farm) - at what point does someone that chooses to look the other way become a co-conspirator?
How do you get this data? and will you post the source of the website on GitHub or something similar so we can see how it works?
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Cash needs more security than credit cards because transactions are irreversible. Say his mother has a significant part of her savings in cash, and they get stolen. What's she gonna do then?

Answer: let a bank deal with it. Banks can be insured.
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The economist Professor Frank Hahn also passed away recently this year. He was the instigator of the famous letter to her, signed by 364 economists, saying that her policies have no basis in economics and will deepen the recession.

He did redeem himself many years later when he signed a letter sympathising with her resistance against joining the EU monetary union. This was also the issue that was a big part of her downfall, while it now appears that her concerns showed much foresight.
In most countries you can say what you like if no one can listen to it (imagine a desert or the largeness of the taiga). If the commercial enterprise is the only way that people can hear you, and those oligopolies censor you with a peep or take down your website for commercial reasons, it doesn't matter your government is strong on freedom of speech.
ahhhh the oldest argument on the internet "If you stop supporting their browser, they'll upgrade". no, they won't, they'll just stop using your service and go else where. And yes, this would hurt your bottom line.
Does anyone know the CFAA implications here? My system is a "protected" system, this would clearly be unauthorized access.
Chrome crashes constantly, you can view the webpage for a couple of seconds and then get "ow snap"... Maybe it's time I got a real browser.
I love you, schwa.
I like to think of them as tags rather than labels: you can have more than one.
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Ask HN: What authentication methods are banks using besides chip & pin?
Hi guys,

Just wondered what authentication methods banks in America/rest of the world are using?

In the UK we use chip and pin to authenticate a customer. Just wondered if we were behind the curve and if there was a new, easier, way of doing it?

thanks
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When this first came out a few days back I said this had the chance to be a much bigger problem than the NY Times piece:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5482963

Ok, now I got "how smart am I" out of the way. Tesla can have stumbles as a product and we can forgive them because they're blazing a trail and early adopters understand that comes with the territory. I for one did not care too much about the NY Times article. It was such an extreme use case (traveling all that distance in freezing cold) that would solve itself within 18 - 36 months. It would not have impacted my buying decision. The response from Elon gave me more pause. "Wow, there's such a defensive attack response from this company. What happens to me if I buy one and it's a lemon? It can happen. Do I feel like they'd be supportive or blame me for everything that went wrong?" More troubling than it needed to be.

This now takes them into entirely new territory. This goes to the one feature that's critical to the success: credibility and trust. Carandriver says it best when they basically say "Why are they pulling these shenanigans? They don't need to. It's an awesome car"

What really matters is if I were in the market for a new car in the next 12 months up until pre NYTimes Tesla would have been my top choice. Post NYTimes I would have asked a lot more questions if I was going through the buying process. Now I would not buy a Tesla for at least 12 months as I want more proof points around what exactly is the culture of this company.

Elon will publicly apologize for this within 30 days is my best guess.
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Apple and Microsoft do not try to extort petty cash from small developers (at least not by way of patents, amirite?). Outside of that, I don't think HN has ever been congratulatory of their patent shenanigans either (perhaps except when they have to eat their own BS).
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I bought a Canon scanner in 1996. It had a one click email button on it.
I hooked my computer to the net so... does this mean I should really hold the patent?
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If Moore's Law—which described the growth of computing power in the 20th century—has a corollary in the 21st century, it could be that Big Data keeps getting bigger. (If I were confident no one else has already said this, and if I were more proprietary, I'd call that Tozzi's Law—but I'm a modest guy.) And the channel is reacting, as a new partnership between Pentaho and Think Big Analytics highlights.
Sure, it's a silly law, sure, it probably won't survive constitutional review, and most definitely, true cruelty to animals is a crime.

But this is also a rather predictable backlash against groups who aren't looking to correct occasional violations of regulations in the meatpacking industry, but shut down the industry as a whole - devastating local communities by getting rid of a ton of low-skilled jobs. Since we're not exactly making more low-skilled jobs these days, many of the people affected will be impoverished for life, taking their towns with them.

Given that, it's not at all surprising that employees, employers, and local politicians are responding very aggressively. Any industry under the same threat would respond the same way.
I think the software was called canoscan.
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As despicable as it may be, you will be jailed in Germany for espousing anti-Semitic views or denying the Holocaust etc, and in Britain you can be jailed for "hate speech" e.g. making racist statements. Personally I think it is insane that you can literally be jailed over speech, regardless of how unsavory it is. Canada has the hate-speech law as well.
That's assuming you paid $0 for hardware, and your time is worth nothing.
Yeah I know that it is to aid in the computation of intractable inference, I should have been more careful in my wording. I am not saying it works by generating correlated samples, I'm saying because of how it works it will exhibit autocorrelation. Essentially, MCMC will generate samples that are near each other which will tend to be positively correlated. This property is why one needs to tune the variance of the proposal, do burn in and test for convergence. However, due to the nature of markov chains, large enough samples will have you sampling from P(x). The idea is to approximate the density of P(x) while trying to reject as little as possible. Hence less wasteful. But unlike simpler rejection methods samples will not be i.i.d.

I've also read the actual paper now, which I should have done in the first place. I see how they make use of MCMC. And looking at it, I think my suspicion that what they have is very close to annealing (sans Temp) is accurate since they emulate density with cost and proposal with local edits. The particulars of the more general (though less generally applicable) MCMC as I understand it involve actual distributions. I'm not sure why the blog emphasizes searching sparsely instead of sampling.
I use Bettertouchtool's window arrangement functions which you can set to (nearly) any custom shortcut you want. I use these on all applications not just Finder (in some it will not work) and I use these all the time.

my laptop:

- fn + left middle double tap -> position/maximize window to half left screen

- fn + right middle doubletap -> position/maximize window to half right screen

- fn + top middle doubletap -> maximize window

on my desktop workstations I use keyboard shortcuts.
Is modern life making us lonely?