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I'm the author of umshade (http://umshade.it), which aims to bring a chrome extension that provides proof-of-concept grade text-encryption to any website. Obviously I like what you did a lot. How much further are you taking it? What other approaches to UI/flows did you consider?
For many, the concept "boycott meat" is even more ridiculous than the concept "animal rights". We have a very long way to go.
That is pretty amazing. I don't know the demo scene. Is it real-time or does the 4k do rendering that is viewed with a movie player?
In addition to the new job: lower property taxes, lower cost of living, and cheaper housing. Sounds like the right move.
It's not necessarily impossible to detect that there is a message - there are plenty of ways to detect them. The challenge is being able to extract the message without access to the steganography algorithme used, and the passphrase (which could be bruce forced once you have access to the method used to hide/extract - which is a whole other challenge).
Sensational, useless.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but BTC banks can be attacked just like normal banks by the very central authorities we are trying to be safe from. Eg: "Oh noes, our economy is doing terrible, so much public debt. Let's just steal from the people.". Sure, they can't use inflation, but that's not the only way.
Most people will do whatever they are told, and eat whatever they are sold. I will believe human beings are truly interested in eating meat once they carry out the necessary steps themselves, instead of importing workers from other countries to commit these atrocities in their name (Fast Food Nation is a recommended movie to watch in this regard.)

If we are talking about today we should recognize that mass enslavement and slaughter of animals, mechanized and automated, is immoral and wrong, and act to bring an end to it.
I suspect it was the technical challenge involved. If he did it for other clients or email, he may not have had to support JPEG re-compression which is both technically difficult and necessary for Facebook compatibility.
I can live with IE8, it's not pretty but it can at least be worked with and then there is Chromeframe which makes it render exactly like Chrome.

Since XP has a year left to live and then probably another year or two of stubborn folks after that, IE8 will be with us well through 2015.
| biased reporting

Animal rights activists may be biased towards their cause, but it's not like farmers aren't biased towards their livelihood. If they were to admit that what they were doing was wrong, they would have to own up to everything they had done up to that point, in addition to changing professions.
Add to that Kevin Smith for being too fat.
I replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5511715
2nd point first: Even if a piece of data is in the public, there is no guarantee of provenance for the data without an official statement. How do you know wikileaks or someone else hasn't inserted specific, falsified records into the document trove? It may or may not be classified or secret data. Anybody can slap 'secret' on a document.

By not saying anything (neither confirm nor deny), folks with a clearance have to assume it's classified, and they have signed many NDAs and other bits of paper agreeing to not seek access to classified data without the 'need to know'.
While that's true, you can equally say that the FA saw any objections as acts of aggression and in the cold light of day, the FA's had panicked for no reason.

It's certainly quite believable that FA's would behave this way: their lives are at risk and they have the power to be "cautious" (read: chuck their aggressors off the plain). They also work long hours and tiredness doesn't help with anxiety. Plus there might even be a little of the Stanford Prison Experiment at play here (they have absolute control so are psychological motivated to enforce it).

But even if you're right and those accounts are hugely biased, one question still remains: just how far are you allowed to push a complaint before you're considered a terrorist? Even in the worst case of scenarios, I couldn't see a father of 2 saying anything along the lines of "I'm going to blow this plane up" in front of his own kids when the whole reason for the disagreement was about wanting to shield them from a violent movie. So even with raised voices, why were they considered a threat.
Returns aren't proportional to spending. Most of the studies have shown that increasing spending has little to no impact on student outcomes, nor does decreasing class size. Of course, there's a minimum level of spending required, but that's been reached a long time ago.
Look up who has the power to nominate:

• Members of national assemblies and governments of states

• Members of international courts

• University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes

• Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

• Board members of organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

• Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (proposals by members of the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first meeting of the Committee after February 1)

• Former advisers to the Norwegian Nobel Committee

Finding someone in one of those categories who is willing to nominate any given person isn't very hard. Especially someone like Manning who has substantial sympathy from a lot of people and where it's down to finding someone in one of these categories willing to nominate him either as a sign of support or as a big "fuck you" to the US.

Being nominated doesn't really say much.
Sounds more like you are defending hypocrites/unprincipled people. By your argument, it's more ok for me to hurt you (from whom I am distanced by the fact that we have never met) than my girlfriend.

It's a question of rights, not convenience or qualifications.
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WA put in the same bucket as TX, that's a bit wrong. Washington has decent public schools, Texas is notorious for how bad it's schools are...
At least codeclimate is free[0] for open source projects. Would love to see an open source version of code climate though.

[0] https://codeclimate.com/pricing
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Reminds me of http://panic.com/transmit/
Licensing requirements frequently require access to the facility by inspectors. Video access would be a new stretch but if food inspectors aren't a violation of the meat packing plants rights, I'm not sure that video camera's would be deemed to be so.

Of course the legislative trend in this area is quite obviously in the opposite direction, and away from, not towards, tighter regulation of such facilities.
Did anyone else have trouble hitting the back button after that article? I find that equally skeezy.

Edit: It seems they've mapped command-back-arrow to a non-default action. Not cool.
As of a couple of years ago, the average job tenure of an employee working in a slaughterhouse was 6 months. Many people lasted half a day to three days. The emotional stress and trauma of witnessing living animals being put through the kind of things factory farming does to them is emotionally overwhelming to even the most hardened people.

The people who have to witness that day in and day out frequently end up with extreme emotional turmoil/psychological trauma similar to PTSD and it is these traumatized employees who end enacting much of the crueler practices talked about in these videos.

It's very challenging for a person to witness what goes on in a slaughterhouse and to maintain their sanity. Trying to keep the idea that these are living creatures with rights but also that it is perfectly fine for them to suffer the horrible treatment they are subjected to requires a tenuous mental gymnastics that apparently seems to break down after only a couple of months of exposure.
Thank you for posting this here 🍺
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Even in the most extreme of cases, I don't see how claiming that A.L.F. even is a 'terrorist' organisation. Sure they 'liberate' the animals from their owners, but you don't call a burglar a terrorist. Seems these days like "breaking the law in the furtherance of a political cause" is the new definition of terrorism (rather than using violence to sow the seeds to terror), and we're creating more laws to make more terrorists. Gotta fuel the War on Terror somehow I guess...
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The discrepancy compared to other countries is because the piracy of XP in China is staggering.

Sources: http://bradweikel.com/software-piracy-china-why-ie6-will-not...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chinese-Pirates-Choose-Window...
Ridiculous. Are you implying I have the same legislative power as the agriculture lobbies?
That version still tries loading resources from the down domain. Adding the parameter 'strip=1' (or following the 'text only' link) does not.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5Jcrt8T...
If I'm doing something with the files, then I know where "I am" on both panes, that's part of what I'm doing right now.

If I'm not doing something, and want to start, then I just reset to a 'known-good' location with a key or mouse shortcut.
The problem with always assuming stupidity before malice is that it makes premeditated maliciousness trivial to get away with.
If you prefer a book on the subject of assembly on Linux, Programming from the Ground Up (2004)[1] is freely downloadable and still relevant.

[1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/
> Isn't a currency fundamentally a perfectly liquid asset?

I'd say the defining property of a currency is that it's in wide use as a medium of exchange.

> its deflationary nature is good for the uptake of the currency, because, provided more people start using it

Except that the deflationary nature makes people hoard it, not use it.

For Bitcoin to succeed in the long run, the most important influence has to come from normal businesses accepting it as payment, not from speculators attracted by its skyrocketing market price.
Given the maturity of the tool, the breadth of functionality, plugins, scriptability, etc. these are petty money for what IDA Pro has to offer to a professional that has to do Reverse Engineering for a living.

I do agree that for a tool used for a hobby it is expensive, but for hobbyists there are other, simpler tools that could be used.
Ask HN: I am getting invited to write books, what terms I should request?
Hello!

I am getting invited repeatedly (it was not only one instance) to write books about programming, specially related to Lua.

Upon reading the contracts that I was offered, clearly all of them have the intention that the author haggle his way, or get a horrible contract if they don't, in plain words the contracts I get offered are always:

You hand the publisher all your rights (including copyrights, and moral rights).

If the publisher get sued because of your content, it is your fault.

I am not a experienced writer, in the sense I have no books published, although I am the person being invited, I cannot behave like if I was Bjarne Stroustrup, but what is reasonable to demand of a publisher?
My livelihood comes from being a software developer, but have spent enough time in barns to understand how they function, so hopefully I can come as unbiased as possible. I'm curious to know more about what you think that is being done is wrong?
Certainly, but I said nothing about boycotting meat. I said boycott factory farmed meat. Meat can be done "humanely." Seek it out and support it if you wish but it is not to be found in factory farms. Vote with your wallet.
I'd argue they are 19th century, since they were the first in a long line of democratic (r)evolutions. But they are still outdated.

<Insert the Thomas Jefferson quote about having a new constitution every generation>
I disagree. I think we are trending in the opposite direction, and these kinds of bills are the "bad guys" fighting back against that progress. The Internet and computing generally have really opened the flood gates on freedom of information. We have to fight to keep making progress, but I honestly believe we're trending forward on this.

It's easy to draw an analogy to another fight dear to me, gay rights in the United States. 40 years ago, there were no anti-gay constitutional amendments. Today we're seeing many states pass anti-gay constitutional amendments. Is that because we're going backwards on gay rights, or because the "bad guys" are fighting progress? I think it's clearly the latter.

Don't get discouraged by losing a battle when you're winning the war :) Keep up the fight.
Depends!

In some cases, you can make the claim that a certain law is so broad and clearly unconstitutional that it affects everyone and should be struck down. The courts may accept such a case or they may say, "no, doesn't look like that to us, wait until you have someone prosecuted under this law and then come back and argue about the specific case".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_challenge
The top-level comment is proposing using journalism as a defense against prosecution, not trying to secure press passes to go into the farms and film. A press pass is not a license.

Of the court cases I remember, most used a number of factors to determine whether or not the defendant qualified as a journalist.
I agree, this is a simple site displaying information in a very simple way. It should be very easy to fallback onto other ways of displaying this info.
There is a paper that discusses this issue in more detail,
"Principles for Resolving Conflicts Between Trade Secrets and the First Amendment" by P. Samuelson:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=925056

Upholding contracts and preventing trespassing (or other "wrongful conduct") are usually fair game for restrictions on 1A. But "Trade secret law is grounded in unfair competition principles, ... [so] First Amendment defenses to trade secret claims are most likely to succeed as to those who did not participate in misappropriating the information, who acquired the information lawfully, and who seek to make public disclosures as to matters of public concern. In exceptional cases, preliminary injunctions may impinge on First Amendment rights even when defendants are in privity or have wrongfully acquired the information."

This isn't just "what's your secret method for cheaply polishing ball bearings." It's clearly a "matter of public concern," and that does help enormously. But your first amendment claims would improve even more if the person distributing the information neither trespassed nor broke an employment contract.

Also note that the California Supreme Court has made it a jurisdiction least likely to apply first amendment to trump trade secret law, thanks to DVD Copy Control v. Bunner.

It would be advisable for any prospective documentarians to pass off any collected information to a local news station (rather than just youtube). Don't tell the network how you got it or develop any long term relationship with them. Make sure they have media liability insurance. Then maybe lay low while they fight the case, which they'll probably have to appeal all the way up. That'd set up the model case and the money to fund it.

Even short of that, though, as a "matter of public concern," this may be one of those "exceptional cases" alluded to above. It'd be interesting to see it argued.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20130407...
Yesterdays' stats from the spreadsheet download:

China	4.59
Cuba	2.75
Iran	1.2
Solomon Islands	1.18
Swaziland	1.05

No other country is rounding above 0.00%
| factory farming

Slaughterhouses aren't just for 'factory farming.' It's mandated by law that only licensed/register abattoir can kill animals used for meat, so even the animals coming from 'humane' farms go through the same process.

Also, I remember reading some statistics about how domestic violence is higher among slaughterhouse workers. Too lazy to look it up, but IIRC it was after they started working there (not necessarily that violent people were attracted to the trade).
"It's easy to just assume that the pilot is an incompetent decision maker, but it's way more likely that he or she just overreacted"

Overreaction is incompetent decision making.
Here's a tip for travelers. Once you go to the airport, you become a prisoner of the system until they "release you" at your final destination. You have no expectation of privacy, security in your person or belongings, and they can and will do ugly things to you if you piss them off. Even if you don't piss them off.

That's why I hate commercial air travel.

I exaggerate, but for a reason. If you have this attitude, you will not be surprised at the random hassles you have to go through. If, however, you expect some kind of "fair deal", you're guaranteed to be disappointed.

So yes, they can remove you from a flight for polite disagreement. They can remove you for just about any reason they choose -- especially once you're in the air.
I look forward to you boiling the ocean. (Sadly, the only reason I know about this Homebrew stuff at all is that the APT-based Fink, for MacOS, is not very popular.)
I wonder if anyone at Tesla considered the idea of guaranteeing the gas savings? At it's simplest the buyer just gets some money back if the cost of gas goes way down.

Tesla could use futures to fund the guarantee at possibly a low cost?
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D'oh! You're totally right, I forgot the greater than filter in the grep.

my @large_orders = sort { $a->{items} <=> $b->{items} } grep { $_->{total} > 100 } @orders;

Embarrassing.
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This only works if you are committed to trying out the idea and then JUNKING YOUR CRAP CODE. By the nature of coding problems, the bigger the codebase gets the worse bad decisions fester, so if you approach the early rounds as "trial and error time" and then commit to a big refactor once you DO plan out the bulk of the project, this can work. Otherwise it is easy to end up with a patchy mess.
Architecture: The Lost Years is a fantastic talk by Robert Martin http://www.confreaks.com/videos/759-rubymidwest2011-keynote-...
Actually my interpretation is that actual good intentions and hard work are indistinguishable from corruption and incompetence when seen in aggregation from afar in an environment of conflicting interests.

That, and reporting bias.
Imagine how much less lonely many elderly today could be with a cheap laptop, skype and social networks. Is the pain of learning new technology really so much greater than the pain of loneliness? Is there something else at work?
With Amazon's KDP, if you self publish, you get to keep 70% of the profits, if your book sells between 3 and 10 USD - otherwise 35%. Naturally, you'd need to handle all of the editing and other stuff, so it's not like there's no benefit to traditional publishing.
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Asking if someone can be consulted is not the same as asking to talk to them yourself.
The tab join looks weird(aesthetically) and the separator is too thin. I want one side in focus. But all these things have to do with taste. The screenshot you attached looks probably great to you, but I prefer the side by side windows.
Is Microsoft pushing Skype onto carriers via windows-phone?
I am doing this. It is difficult. And it makes restaurants suck.

And let's be real, SF, Portland, etc might one day reach 50% humane meat... maybe. What's the plan for telling the "average" American that a dozen eggs cost $12? And some of them are weird colors?
To answer your question, no, a currency is not fundamentally a perfectly liquid asset. "Currency" is a really, really big word, but at its heart, currency is any medium of exchange. There are myriad microcurrencies that are out on the market now, of which Bitcoin is just one.

However, the difference is that Bitcoin has been primarily commoditized. People aren't using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange, by and large. They're trading dollars for Bitcoins in a hope to get more dollars back in the future. That's an investment in an asset, not a currency trade.

Now, to confuse things further, there is a FOREX market which allows you to (if you so chose) speculate on currency. By and large, these currencies fluctuate within the FOREX based on their respective purchasing power at that time (there's a lot that goes into this--I'm simplifying). The thing that makes the FOREX unique is that you can trade any currency with any currency in it. It's not a commodity market, wherein you need to sell your commodity to trade for another one.

Bitcoin wants to be a currency, but is a commodity. Until it becomes a viable (viable in the sense of macro-level use and acceptance) medium of exchange, it will only be a commodity. In one transaction, anything can look like a currency, and anything can look like an asset. But when you throw those words around, realize that at a mirco level, they're nigh meaningless.
It's a simplification but Netapplications count users and Statcounter counts usage.

People using IE6 are unlikely to be heavy web surfers so they are more heavily weighted on the Net application numbers (which ironically Microsoft generally prefers, as it makes IE look more important.)
Why does the breaking of an employment contract need to turn into criminal charges, and get labelled as 'terrorism?'
> China strangely at 26%...

Not that strange given the rampant using of pirated Windows XP and the lack of skill and/or will to upgrade.
That's precisely why we need to change this sort of thing. When good people do bad things, there might be a bigger problem. Perhaps meat is not meant to be cheap.
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Its worse because it trivialises actual terrorists and the people that gave their lives to protect us from them.
Writing a quine[0] is always a fun starting project when picking up a new language... :)

[0] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?QuineProgram
The value of bitcoins goes up because the entire system is a
store of value. When bitcions are bought, people are
transfering "real" value (USD or any other government backed
currency) into the Bitcoin system where the value is being
held. When they sell Bitcoins they are removing value from the
system. Due to supply (limited) and demand (increasing), the
amount real currency needed to purchase a unit of Bitcoin is
going up. This transfer of value can be due to hopes of
appreciation (speculative investment, possibly causing a bubble)
or lack of faith in a base currency (hedging wealth, as is
happening in Europe).

Since our monetary systems are now based on little more than
unbacked faith and look to be failing in various ways, people are
looking to put their wealth into something they feel they can
trust and that might have more of a future than current fiat
systems. Given the decentralized lack of control of Bitcoin and
the rise in the current lack of trust in the offical financial
systems, the rise of Bitcoin makes as much sense as the present
rise in the value of gold, a traditional hedge of value and
original currency backer. Now that people are now used to storing
value in non-backed, faith based monetary systems, Bitcoin is the
first fiat monetary system that has no ruler, and people are
transfering their government backed faith based store of value
into it. It can be thought of a democratic store of value, and as
more people believe in it the more value it will have.
and certainly not for "terrorism"
Also, any code that isn't pushed to a remote doesn't exist. Or, it won't when your hard drive unexpectedly fails and your feature branch disappears. =)
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