skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice note about the meat-orientated culture. To add to that, though, historically (and I find this, as you pointed out, a mostly Western thing, since coming from a southern Chinese culture I know that meats aren't elevated above other foods, ever) I'm pretty sure the role of meat in the dish's name is simply because every time anyone around the Renaissance era--foundation of Western cooking--would have made a huge deal about slaughtering a cow, and such names of dishes simply stuck with us since then.

I wonder how meat came to be so dominant though. Funnily enough, when the Old World found the New World they found a land so plentiful in meat, instead of jumping up in joy certain parts of society actually started to find meat disgusting. So maybe it's not really just a Western thing, but meat's dominance is mostly a New World thing: According to http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/06/27/155527365/visual..., USA, Canada, Australia and NZ are far ahead of everyone else in per-capita meat consumption. And it doesn't seem to be correlated with per-capita GDP either. This might also means that meat's dominance is also very recent, and not universal even in modern Western culture. Maybe it's simply a matter of who has an older history of eating traditions, traditions that are responsible for toning down the meat-mania?
As an aside being deprived of language does occur to a very small number of children which does present some observational data. Chomsky talks about this in one of his recent lectures.
On most devices, you’ll be using the PPTP or the L2TP protocol (the more secure option). However, the most secure option is to run OpenVPN on Android

Oh really? OpenVPN is more secure than L2TP? Since when?
I don't have much faith in the patent or global food system to create something with "ineffable 'quality'". Once the local food conglomerates are able to produce this, it's all about a price point and most frequently that price point is so low that anything you'd describe as high quality is not available. Think Salisbury steak. What will end up happening is a stratification of meat. Those with higher disposable incomes will eat dead things and the impoverished will get the poor economies of scale.

You may find my lack of faith disturbing.

Edited for Vader.
> They are good but not significantly better than Apple's built in ones.

I guess I'll agree to disagree here. Apple's first party apps significantly behind Google's in my opinion.

> Unfortunately Apple just doesn't give third party apps any room to expand beyond its tiny little sandbox.

This is unfortunate, but it looks like Google is working hard to make its own applications interop nicely and directly, even with the limited capability iOS provides for this.
Actually, "turtles all the way down" isn't a programming joke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down). But I suppose you're referencing Logo?
Show HN: What would you improve before promoting this?
>>that the 'publicly funded' part of our education system (that is K-12) should strive to make you generally employable, and that higher learning institutions should help you explore your interests regardless of the applicability of those interests to employment.

Sorry, but... what?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but why should society pay for your exploration of your interests regardless of their applicability to employment?

We use employment as a means of converting skills into economic value. This is why when you work for a company or a government institution, you are given money in exchange for the value you produce. This value is determined by consumer and citizen demand for goods and services. What this means is that you need to produce something other people want, as opposed to what you want. Otherwise you won't have a job, because nobody will need your skills and knowledge.

Public education is a contract between the citizen and the (state) government. The citizen pays taxes to fund it, and in return his/her child gets a subsidized education. But that is where the contract ends. If the kid wants a job after that, they better make sure they are making the most use of the education by learning how to fulfill consumer and citizen demand in the economy. They can pursue their interest in botanics or cultural studies in their spare time, as hobbies.
Haha isn't the normal word for mother, you only use it when talking about your own mother to someone else in a formal setting. Mama has the most casual sound to it. Okaasan (or one of its derivatives) is slightly more formal. Depending on the family, you might use either when talking to your mother.
I don't understand it. Are you trying to compete with Google?
http://www.google.com/webhp#q=%42%54%57%2c%20%74%68%65%20%6e...
swoon him with beer and ruby. i recommend it.
I've travelled cross-country with Apple maps without issue. I didn't even have Google maps or printed maps as a backup. I must be nuts. Got any more cute little anecdotes for us?
I do seem to remember a fair bit of hand-wringing over "heroku fucking console" though.
> They've had some major screwups with hardware like the Google TV

AFAIK Google has never released their own hardware for Google TV. Hopefully this changes but it's probably not fair to lump the shitpool that is Google TV hardware in with Google's hardware faults (of which the Nexus Q really seems to be the only one, maybe the Xoom as well?).
Seconded on offloading the work to bit.ly (or at least an option to). I'd rather click a box to give me a bit.ly link back since you're not /truly/ running without a server here.

And/or throw the url to a hidden box on the screen that will automatically copy when I hit cmd/ctrl C. Fun trick otherwise.
I use Tomboy (open source, C#, Windows and Mono):
http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/
So? Cannibalism of euthanized elders doesn't seem immoral. It is not an accepted practice in most human cultures, because of emotional ties. Cannibalism itself was a prevalent phenomenon throughout human history. Although, my view of ethics mostly aligns with Peter Singer.
Automation is destroying the middle class, not the Internet. But I guess it sounds cooler to say 'Internet' though, doesn't it?
NASA Built the First iWatch in 1991
Agreed. But though I'm a vim user, in day-to-day coding, my colleagues using say sublime don't see to suffer all that much. I occasionally see them doing something a bit inefficient with the mouse that could have been a few keystrokes in vim, but it's not that big of a deal really. Now, there are definitely a lot of things I could do in vim with macros and such that would be impossible to do efficiently in sublime. But I rarely have to do such complex text manipulation, so does it matter all that much?

As far as scripting your editor, most IDEs have some sort of plugin system, which you may not use yourself, but you'd use to find something that already roughly does what you want. To be honest, that's pretty much what I personally do with vim myself, relying on others' vimscripts to get me the functionality I so crave, whether it be indentation-based text objects, or in-editor s-expression evaluation.
Only if you define "good" and "bad" user interfaces by discoverability. I would argue that Vim is a tool that explicitly trades off discoverability in favor of enhancing the productivity of an experienced user. And I would argue that in the case of Vim, this is a good tradeoff. It's not a good tradeoff for a microwave or VCR.
In comparison to Google, of course. It's considered the gold standard in mapping. And it's what iPhone users used to have before Apple did the switch to control their own maps.

Google has had years to perfect their technology and update their maps from all kinds of sources. Apple, even with the data it bought, is nowhere near that level of accuracy. They are, quite literally, years behind. Whether it takes them years to catch up, though, is another story.
Reminds me of http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic....
> killing off a valuable service,

Which valuable service is being killed off here? I'd never heard of this before. Doesn't look like it is used very much.
You have the computer look at it. Brett Slatkin of Google Consumer Surveys has a great talk on using perceptual diffs for this:

https://air.mozilla.org/continuous-delivery-at-google/
Ask HN: My Dog is About to Die... How Can I Preserve Her DNA??
My dog has cancer and probably won't make it through the week. I know just about everyone feels this way about their pets, but she really is an exceptional dog.

I would like to preserve her DNA in order to keep open the possibility of cloning her some day. The majority of cloning sample preservation services require anesthesia and a biopsy, which I simply won't do to her at this point. Also, for older dogs, my impression is that the skin cell samples that would be preserved might not be of a great quality.

To be clear, I would never dream of moving forward with existing cloning technologies. It would clearly be unethical at this stage.

However, I think there's a very good chance that in the coming decades the safety concerns will be resolved, and the technologies will advance to the point where a healthy clone could be created from just DNA samples, and not require a biopsied skin sample.

So far, I've used a couple of DNA banking services to keep some samples:

http://www.genetrackus.com/tests/dna-banking

http://www.vetdnacenter.com/canine-dna-banking.html

http://www.fluffy2.com

I'd like to get any knowledgeable opinions on how I might be able to preserve some viable samples on my own as a failsafe, because I'm not entirely comfortable relying on these services for a decade or more. I'm thinking some fur samples with follicles intact, sealed in airtight plastic, and maybe placed in the freezer?

Also, just to hopefully ease one concern I might hear about, I donate generously to the Humane Society and other animal focused charities, and plan on donating the equivalent of whatever I spend on cloning services in the future. Assuming the technology advances to where there wouldn't be any health concerns, I don't view this as anything worse than ordering a dog from a breeder.
I'm pretty sure you're allowed to say "classy" if you're talking about fake moustaches and top-hats, a la reddit. That's firmly tongue-in-cheek though.

Also, replying to GP, I'm pretty sure swearing is less "low-class" and more "not middle-class".
Hydroponic gardens produce some of the most amazing-tasting vegetables. I can't imagine how good a chemically-perfect chuck roast would taste. Edit: and getting veal, good goose liver, etc without any animal cruelty is good too :)
Ultimately I'll program the site to allow purchases. I hadn't gotten around to it, but given the interest the site's gotten recently I'm kind of kicking myself.

If there's a design you'd like on a tshirt, let me know and we can make it happen via RedBubble: http://www.redbubble.com/explore/geometee
Had a quick glance, will play with it ater in the week (time pending though on my impressed must look at list).

From my quick loaded page glance the question and improvement I would add is company password encryption of content as copanies will be using it to discuss there secret squirrel idea's and be paranoid about them being leaked of stolen.

As said was quick load the page glance (sorry time) and that was what hit me as a area of concern some may have or will be mooted at some stage.

Beyond that on my list of things to definitly look into more and initial impresion was of a well polished idea/site/people, in other words my gut says you have done something really good.
It'd be great to see what you came up with! I programmed this site in my spare time and haven't really seen what others have made with it.
Oh yes, PhotoShop has way too many modes. Adobe should kill them all. When you drag a line across an image, PhotoShop should utilize its psychic power to figure out your real intention.
I read that start to finish, since I'll generally read anything you tell me to, and the conclusion I drew from it is that if that piece is representative of your feelings about direct action violence (or "violence"), it's probably best you & I don't talk about the morality of violence.

But that aside: I didn't ask the question because I wanted to condem Occupy Oakland.

I asked because the thread started with the suppression of the assiduously nonviolent (or "nonviolent") Zucotti Park protests.

But if our friends in Oakland are reporting those protests accurately, there was little chance of the Oakland protests not meeting a violent police response; Occupy Oakland was breaking windows, throwing bricks, destroying ATMs, and assaulting residents.
IE URL character limit = 2,083

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427
Yes, Logo was actually what I was referencing. I knew about the expression, but it was interesting that the author of the article would use that specific catchphrase, probably knowing that turtle graphics is commonly used to teach programming to newbies.
Using Google Analytics To Track WeMo Switch + Motion
Maybe this?

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz
Show HN: Kids-friendly videos
I built this small app (www.kidsfriend.ly) for my friends and their kids. It comes with iOS apps as well but hasn't been put onto the appstore. Here I'd like to share it with you and get some suggestions/comments.
A sample playlist:
http://www.kidsfriend.ly/playlists/28c99bf8-2314-41b8-a53b-8ce809157d8f
Name it something that doesn't sound like /r/spacedicks.
Just turn on Gmail's Priority Inbox feature and be done with it.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into an alternative control that's more intuitive. This kind of knob control is common in a lot of audio applications and is really quite nice to use once you're used to it, but I want geometee to be a fun discovery for people, and this sounds like it caused you (and others) some confusion and frustration.
Good, but there is a limit.
I once made this on same principle http://motyar.info/quotes
I've played with that for contact management. Like it!
clickable links: http://www.kidsfriend.ly and http://www.kidsfriend.ly/playlists/28c99bf8-2314-41b8-a53b-8...
The 5 Books that made me a better Product Manager
Yes. You might as well just send a gzip'd file directly. It will be higher compression than Deflate (or if not, use BZip or 7zip), won't have the Base64 overhead, and (gasp) won't depend on a web service to decode. It also has the distinct advantage of not being really friggin annoying.

In other words, this is entirely useless, except as an amusement. Because it's funny how useless it is.
Lol so much hate. I wish the article could provide the points that he was making.
For those interested in Krokodil, there's an excellent, harrowing and very NSFW documentary on it by Alison Severs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsUH8llvTZo
Yeah that one can really kill your computer. In a proper desktop app the developer gets a lot more control over processing of tasks like this, but in the browser the best I can do is limit the number of branches or the depth, and hope your computer/tablet is fast enough to not get too slow. Thanks for the feedback!
WAY off-topic, but I think this is the first mobile-theme I've seen that renders the site completely unusable on a mobile device. (iPhone 4s - doesn't scroll at all)
I'm addicted to being awake 16 hours a day and asleep for 8 hours a day. If I don't drink several glasses of water a day, I'll go into withdrawal and die!
I think the best is a combination of acesulfame potassium (Ace-K) and sucralose (Splenda). It doesn't taste like sugar, but it's nice and sweet and they cover each others' aftertaste pretty well. Jone's Soda uses it for their diet drinks.
Most modern IDE's I've worked with are easily extendable. At least, as easily as learning to use something like vim script and extending that way.
Speed is the key to email management. The Email Game (http://emailga.me/) accomplishes this very well.
Google's new mission statement: "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful for a few years."
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I've found that far and away the most satisfying long term activity that I can do is to learn, grow my skills and produce things that have value to me and others.
I can't even begin to empathise with what heroin withdrawal must feel like.

Back when I was going through a really rough spot, I sought solace in food and became quite the, uh, chunky chap. When I realised the destructive path I was headed down, I decided to quit junk food cold turkey. There were many, many days when I would lay on my bed trembling and gripping the sheets tightly to prevent myself from dialling out for pizza or chicken. I swear it did feel as if even my knees and toes wanted to eat, eat, EAT!
I'm with you on the whole enslavement and false idea that the purpose of life is to work, my personal pet peeve is how "passion" is used as a word that means "slavish devotion to enriching a company"

However, we live in an imperfect world and the career disruptions that can ensue from a devotion to TCH reduce people's quality of life in no uncertain terms.
God says...

8:8 And there was great joy in that city.

8:9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the
same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving
out that himself was some great one: 8:10 To whom they all gave heed,
from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of
God.

8:11 And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had
bewitched them with sorceries.

8:12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the
kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both
men and women.

8:13 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he
continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs
which were done.

God says...
son's obeyed interrupt fruit fervently treasure-house unsought
overflowed deeper cold student fruit-trees dissolvest
readily exceedingly wear assuring re-collected reform
pierced
And cosmologists.
If you're going to allow anyone without a pilots license to drive/fly one, they would need to make it impossible to manually fly it (i.e. no flight controls whatsoever). Then the problem is that people like us would hack it.
That is a damn nice radio. Unfortunately it'd be well over $1000AUD once I got it here - is there another product you know of that's a step above the Realtek TV card hack? I'm starting to get beyond its' capabilities (decoding P25 broadcasts)
Because these are not the problems, just the symptoms. The problem is a deep class divide between the haves and have-nots. Those who climb out of poverty never look back. Those who are already rich feed on people staying poor, uneducated and miserable. That's the vote bank easiest to manipulate.

I am not from India, but neighbouring Pakistan. We just had our national elections and the only hope, Imran Khan's PTI lost. Nearly everyone I know in Pakistan has voted for PTI, but through a combination of election rigging and a mass of poverty-stricken people being coerced into voting for the wrong guy resulted in the status quo being maintained.
Bitcoin Network Speed 8 Times Faster than Top 500 Supercomputers Combined
That line was absolute garbage; conjecture based on lies and myth.
The trick is to imagine the same scenario but with a billion doors. You choose a door, and then the moderator closes every single door except for yours and one other door. Then it's much easier to see why it's better to go with the other door.
I would argue that most of these aren't "good" reasons.

a) "Throwing good money after bad", see also "Sunk Cost Fallacy"

b) If the functionality the user wants is "Read the fucking article in piece without having to deal with app stores and downloads and installing and finding my article again once I've got the app installed", then the only reason your site is not functional is 'cause you're pushing the app.

c) This one is probably an acceptable reason if you don't care about the people who are driven away from your site by the stupid pop-ups, and only about the small percentage who download your app and actually start using it instead of better sites that just give you the information you need. It may make business sense, but it's still sketchy.

d) Point D is actually the biggest issue for me: I have a limited quantity mental space, and I don't want sites I don't give a fuck about to take it up. No-one but you cares about your "brand". Be good at answering my questions and I'll prefer your results in my searches. Nag me to install an app, and I'll avoid you.
I tried that but found that this worked much better for me personally. Also I had emails in very different levels of "response required" - email lists (don't need to look at vs response required immediately).

Also a big plus of this approach is feeling like you are "done" with email. I know it seems a bit complicated but its actually quite simple - most of the setup is a one time upfront cost of about 20 min. Try it out and let me know what you think about this strategy!
Unfortunately, this is the first thing I thought of too. Around half of my coworkers are redditors and they probably wouldn't get past the name enough to give it a fighting chance.

Edit: if you don't know what it is, don't look it up. Seriously.
I was hoping it wasn't just me. I'm using a galaxy s3 and I'm experiencing the same issues.
It's not like there was any evolutionary pressure for animals to optimize for tastiness.
IRS was used to intimidate political opposition in the US
wow, wtf.
Yep, Galaxy Nexus here and it is completely unresponsive to any interaction whatsoever.
Flash is just a cpu hog in general...and any time I watch a flash video my laptop really starts to heat up.
I was/am a big fan and a power user. I think it's worth pointing out around two weeks ago Streak automatically put a signature file into any Streak based email without asking you to opt in. I thought suddenly dropping "Lovingly managed by Streak" as a new signature file without permission showed poor judgement or desperation.
Some would say that the entrenched agricultural lobby would not be happy to see funding go to this work, since it ultimately eliminates farming livestock and farming for livestock feed (which is a huge fraction of all farming).
What is the best way to run node.js as a service?
No 1 result on goolge is:
http://blog.nodejitsu.com/keep-a-nodejs-server-up-with-forever

Is that the current way people do it or is there a better way to do it now days?
This is really awesome. But please -- save this as a note for some other time for your mother. As a dad, it'd be heartbreaking to get a "it's time to let go" note on Father's day. It would crush me. Even the most amicable divorce is tough.

Give your mom some flowers and, heck, draw something for her. Or use your talent to express your appreciation for her. But don't give her a goodbye letter on Mother's day.
Does someone has a vision on what will be possible to do with Grimwire OS?
The #1 thing that has helped me to keep emails organized is taking advantage of the + notation that gmail allows... Every store or website I give my email address to, I simply append (emailaddress+storename@gmail.com) to my email address, which allows for easy filtering later. It also shows me who has been giving out my email address :)
If you are so inclined, you could try being a weekday vegetarian - http://www.ted.com/talks/graham_hill_weekday_vegetarian.html. For me, the two hardest things, when finally quitting eating meat a year ago, were convincing everybody around me that was serious about it, and finding alternative foods. I still occasionally eat fish. I try to justify it to myself as fish being of lesser intelligence and sentience.