skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't really about factory farms or anything specific. It's a broader issue of people thinking with their gut without calibrating their gut first. If you get chills about things that are irrational to be averse to, and don't get chills about things that make sense to be averse to, then you need to either figure out how to bring your instincts in line with reality, or learn when to ignore your instincts.
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That is 40 years for a single crime. These individuals are charged with multiple crimes. Hence, the theoretical maximum increases significantly. However, in practice sentences for multiple crimes are either imposed concurrently or, if imposed sequentially, are substantially reduced to be more reasonable (but not necessarily completely fair) when compared to other felonies.
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It's meant to track how your customers perceive all interactions with your company. So, how did that checkout experience make them feel? Was their interaction w/ the support staff a positive or negative one? Are they happy with the selection of products in your store?

It measures those things over time...so you can tell when you're doing better (or worse) on a micro level across your company/product.
> The hilarity is that if the surveillance is so good, then why do they need to close 21 embassies? They apparently received a "specific threat" specifically involving over 20 embassies? Doesn't sound too specific to me.

It could be a specific threat regarding a plan of coordinated attacks on all of those targets.

Not that I think that it is, however.
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Sure, it could be on by default but easy to turn off if you wanted to.

Thinking about it again probably it'd be best as a per-repro flag that made a little button appear somewhere saying 'security', 'code police' or something similar, leading to more info. Obviously it'd take a bit of work and generate some false-positives, but I could see a system like this being really handy if they accepted open contributions for filters, even if it was opt-in it would probably still help a lot of people.

Re dirty hacks, I guess I wouldn't publish things like that to github, I'd keep them in a local or private repo, as they're not for sharing. If they are for sharing in spite of vulnerabilities, turning off a warning shouldn't be too much hardship for you, and it could actually help others looking at the code quickly tell it wasn't to be used in production as it would mark it as unsafe.
I suspect this is a key insight. There is a colloquialism for a company of people all trying to be 'the boss' called "Too many Chiefs, not enough Indians" (in reference to the tribal organization of Native American tribes, where in fact there was exactly one Chief who was the final arbiter) but another spin on this is "Too many Medicine men, not enough Indians."

The "fantasy" life of a startup founder is that they see things others don't (vision) and lead people who make those visions real (workers). Except you can't really lead someone with a vision if you don't know yourself how to make that vision real.

The challenges of startups are that you have to be able to "do it all" in order to know what "doing it" actually entails, then you can bring people in who can do a part of it (that you were previously doing) and know if they are doing it well or not. Folks who are visionary in their thinking but can't break that down into actionable steps toward that vision, and then break those steps into problem assignments, aren't really going to be an asset for your startup until you already have a product and a revenue stream.

Even then, there is nothing more irritating to folks than a clueless visionary. Someone who says something like "The underlying problem is energy dependence, so our goal should be to provide an unlimited energy source to break that dependence, let's get some smart people working on that!" Accurate vision, but ultimately clueless, they just slow people down who have to explain the 2nd law of thermodynamics to them (if they are patient enough).
So, by "memory", you mean internal storage, not RAM?

They are two different things, with their own problems,so it is better to try to be precise.
Mind blowing lack of sense of right and wrong from govt agents who think laundering the trail of their investigation is the right thing to do. We really are living in post-constitutional USA.
Lab grown meat scales much more. If you cracking it, suddenly you can attack the whole meat industry.
Nice writeup, here is my input on the points OP makes.

The flickering UI

A quick fix would be to extract the problematic markup, place in a separate template file and leverage ngInclude[1].

If you find yourself having many instances where this is a problem, chances are you aren't doing a good enough job of breaking up your application into controllers, page components, directives, etc.

jQuery and Angular

In my opinion the example is little weak in terms of demonstrating a pitfall of AngularJS.

Based on AngularJS best practices you'll find yourself only doing any sort of DOM manipulation in the context of a directive (much like your example). Bringing jQuery into your Angular app for the sake of using .hide here probably won't make much sense. Chances are pretty good you'll leveraging directives such as ngShow[2], ngHide[3], ngIf[4] (version 1.1.5). No need to bring jQuery in for that.

If there is indeed a valid reason to bring jQuery into the project, I'd say the responsibility lies more so on the developer ensuring the dependency is met.

Minification

With the addition of ngmin[5], this isn't necessarily a pitfall just something to consider in your workflow. There is a ngmin grunt task[6] that works as advertised! I've been using it for quite some time now and never an issue.

My thought overall though is if you've conceded minification is a step in your project workflow, you'll be using tooling to make that easier. Bring ngmin into the mix and all is well.

Directives are never 'done'

I would suggest looking into using $watch[7] within the scope of that directive or making use of compile post linking over the linking used in the example. Check out the compile section [8] of the directive guide for more information there.

[1] http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:ngInclude

[2] http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:ngShow

[3] http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:ngHide

[4] http://code.angularjs.org/1.1.5/docs/api/ng.directive:ngIf

[5] https://github.com/btford/ngmin

[6] https://github.com/btford/grunt-ngmin

[7] http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.$rootScope.Scope#$watch

[8] http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive
There is a correlation between startup success and "founding teams" therefore investors often use the existence of a team as a proxy for a higher probability of success.

Teams can have convexity or concavity effects - that is, they have the opportunity to make you a lot more successful or a lot more unsuccessful.

Since it's hard to tell the difference between a good team and a bad team there's a lot of room for people to to create inauthentic signals by bundling together impressive-looking people that form bad teams. Therefore the heuristic of "a founding team exists" is easily gamed [0] to the point that it's losing its utility. However, since in a few cases it's exceedingly important to the success of the startup, and because of information asymmetry faced by investors it's one of the only good signals for success.

On a generalised individual startup level it was probably always more harmful than it was profitable.

In practice ask yourself:

Do you feel this person will help your company to succeed or are you just adding them because you've been told that this makes a startup more investable? If it's truly the former then take the risk; otherwise be careful, work hard and increase your exposure to suitable co-founders.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_Law
It's good enough to make people aware that you are watching their every move :)
While the headline talks about Android fragmentation he is only discussing Android phone fragmentation. If you want/need to support tablets the problem gets a lot harder.
Attackers wield Firefox exploit to uncloak anonymous Tor users
Sweden has a growing problem with crime in an immigrant population[1] that does not feel it is part of Swedish culture[2]. Soon, the Swedish will have the same governance problems as America stemming from a multicultural society.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime#Sweden

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/world/europe/swedens-riots...
Absolutely. I only used physical proximity because it's a clear example; even relationships don't even need physical proximity at all times. I myself have spent most of the year away from my long(est)-term partner, because we explicitly agreed to pursue other goals over proximity.
It actually isn't built on Rails but I'm in the middle of a rewrite which is using Rails. Thanks for the compliment!
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Can you link to a study or two that at-least suggest that infants can be raised vegan?
I was excited to see this story being broken by Reuters instead of the Guardian. The US press have been sleeping on the job, but this article gives me hope. I'm sure it doesn't hurt that the Guardian have been openly bragging about the amount of traffic they've gotten from covering the NSA scandal.
I'm not saying that there aren't some fairly well-settled substantive principles of international law that aren't just arbitrary and capricious, I'm just saying that you don't find any of them illustrated by the decision of where to locate the Lockerbie bombing trial.

(OTOH, even where there are well-established principles of international law, the absence of consistent enforcement and application leads to them not being inviolate.)
May totally be "snobbish" but CNU is a weird place for him to have gone, from a variety of perspectives.
It's an extreme political over-reaction to the massive political attacks over benghazi.

BTW Benghazi turns out to be just a CIA front and not an embassy at all.

If the terrorists haven't figured it out already, they now know they can cause mass panic and hysteria by just talking about terrorism without lifting a finger.
More details would be nice. As the article notes, tritium itself is almost innocuous (its decay is via a weak beta particle emission, about the only way it could hurt you is if you ingested a lot of it).

Either way the problem with radioactive materials relates to the concentration in solution of radioactive materials more than the binary "radioactiveness" of the material. After all the human body itself is 'radioactive' if only from the K-40 and C-14 that are present.

Without knowing the concentration of radioactive contaminants like Co-60 and radiocesium that might leak into the sea it's hard to know how much of an 'emergency' we'd be looking at. All we'd know for sure is that TEPCO is incompetent... but then what else is new?
No apps are really useful if they crash on startup...
Have you tried using mysqli's implementation of parameterized queries in real, live code?

I mean, sure, it works, but it's ugly and inconvenient. PDO does it much, much better.
additional dependencies / more moving parts.

as a node developer, i am guaranteed to have a working node install. I don't need to integrate and managing a working ruby install into my production/deployment pipeline.
"The image is sliced into small areas and a probabilistic matcher finds other areas that are similar."

"Whenever there's a probability less than 1, there's a complementary event with a probability larger than 0."

If that alone is reason for why JBIG2 is in no way secure for document processing, archiving or whatsoever - then I've got some bad news for you. Because if that's the case you really shouldn't be using a computer for, well, anything.
I don't have an answer, but I love the website idea! Have you tried engaging local communities and photographer forums? I once heard AdWords described as lighter fluid: once you have a fire going, it can really help you take off and explode. But it's much less useful when you lack that initial traction, which takes a lot more hustling, often in-person, to get.

Also, I don't know if it's a result of the traffic from this post, but your site is pretty slow right now.
Context: https://www.google.com/search?q=if+you.understand+this+get+a...
Shouldn't This Be Easier?
I think this is true for most new tech. Being an early adopter means that you will encounter SOME problems that will be fixed later on.
Great idea and great execution; beautiful landing page.

I think it would be nice to have the option of putting the tab on the sides (left and right) of a page, too. I've seen this on some customer feedback apps.

I didn't check it on a mobile device, but it's a good idea to show how it looks/works on a smartphone too.

There's no link for support in the home page, though it appears on the other pages (FAQ, ideas, plans...). Is this intentional?
Good catch. Although in line with my comment, some entrepreneurs are looking for complimentary co-founders. :)
How is it not technically possible to collect information from consumer devices that are connected to the Internet and where the vendors cooperate to provide backdoors (as they do with cell phones)? As for politically feasible, it isn't politically feasible for them to collect everyone's communication via PRISM, yet they are doing it.

Preventing government abuses means paying attention to not just what they've already proven to have done, but also attempting to discourage them from taking likely next steps.
Well, once they get the technology for proper fat inclusion in the meat, they can make it taste however they want.

But your (and by extension, the public's) mental "cringe" is probably going to be a much bigger hurdle for them to jump over than the technology was.
Of course not.

But you do know why this is a terrible point, right?

This is exactly why we have courts; to deliver justice over vengeance, having proven guilt.

Victims and offenders are extremes. Victims want maximum sentencing for vengeance and punishment, offenders want maximum mercy. Neither is likely to be fair to the other. Courts are there to moderate and hand out fair rulings based on societies agreed laws. (yes I know many have problems with laws, but thats a totally different discussion)

Your point relies on the notion that because as a victim we would want maximum punishment for vengeance, that is how the law and justice system should be. Well, no, it is the exact opposite. You must have heard the opposite argument : What if you and your family were starving, would you steal to eat? Would you kill to steal so that your child might eat? Exact same logic, just opposite. Now we can argue for a very lenient justice system, right? Well, the justice system sits squarely int he middle of both. Its must give out fair punishment. Its must be fair to BOTH sides.

This type of point is as bad and manipulative as the "what have you got to hide" routine. IMHO, its an abuse of language and the people its used against. It is politician talk.
Thanks for the kind words and great feedback!

Lack of support link on home page isn't intentional. Just still working on a better "page" (instead of a simple email link).
You still have the problem of distinguishing real changes in "happiness" with noise in your measurements, so the statistical techniques underlying A/B testing are still useful and relevant.

The question I want answered is how well this metric will correlate with other metrics I care about (like Customer Lifetime Value). If it's not predictive of business success it's of no use.
Where are you getting "foreign intelligence" from, not only in the article - but in relation to what I am talking about?

>a DEA supervisor intervened and revealed that the tip had actually come through the SOD and from an NSA intercept.

So how is my point wrong? This is trying to prove that the secret use of NSA data to catch baddies is an important function of the program.
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"Liveness detection" is an active area of research within the community. I know you can enable this check on Android and it works moderately well.
There is no demographic group in the US as large as 7% that is not "descended from Europeans". If that is incorrect, then I need more hints, or perhaps you could be courageous enough to name it. We almost all have significant European ancestry, and every human is descended from Africans.
It would have been interesting to see this problem solved in many different languages. But I guess that would kill the question on Stackoverflow.
Just fewer pieces to move around. If you have a Node install, no need to maintain a Ruby install just for your preprocessor, etc.
from the page:

"End-User Features:
...
* Remove clang’s reliance on the system linker"

Very good news! full independency :)
i was planning to embed clang in custom c/c++ compiler tools
but the lack of a full linker library was odd, and in platforms where you dont know if theres a linker as in windows, it means you would have to distribute a vc redistributable with it, and rely on executing a batch operation for the linking process

Not to mention whatever optimizations that guys will be able to get their hands into in the linking process.

Nice work!
If a thing exists, and is widespread, and you keep subjecting people to the environment in which it occurs without making substantial efforts to stop it from occurring, it demonstrates acceptance.

And if those circumstances and the fact that the government isd doing that is widely known by the public and there is no substantial political demand for change of government action, that demonstrates public acceptance, as well.
Plus, addressing this threat likely reveals surveillance methods to terrorists. Why would they blow this for such a vague threat and then publicize it? But hey, nothing will happen and they can say they stopped a terrorist attack!
Given the low margins on restaurants they could clearly benefit economically by having a 'cost' reserved table, which is to say for $x you can sit down right now vs wait in the regular queue. Of course it would be interesting to plot tips from people who paid extra for rapid seating vs those who waited.
How did your site make me feel? Intrigued and frustrated.

I love looking at screenshots of apps and services to see how they work, what sort of information they expose, and what sort of value I can get from it. The screenshots you've got in your carousel look interesting, but they scroll past too damned fast. There's no time for me to investigate the screen to pick out details.

I'd love to see manual paging through those screenshots with some words describing what I'm looking at, but I'd settle for a pause button!

One other thought: have you experimented with reversing the order of the faces, so it goes happy-meh-sad? I feel like I'm drawn to the sad face most, though that could be because the colour of it contrasts with your very green header.
Is this really that bad? They used a clever exploit to reveal the identity of people attempting to be anonymous on a server that hosted a boatload of illegal content.
They seem to be making a concerted effort to make Go Chinese friendly https://code.google.com/p/go-zh/
Not just prison rape, but torture in the form of solitary confinement and outright slavery. The 13th Amendment only outlaws involuntary servitude for non-criminals.

See what the recent CA prisoners on hunger strike are demanding.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-five-most-impo...

Good general overview of prison labor:

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/04/04/prison-labor....

More detailed account of prison labor in Nevada regarding casinos and construction.

http://vltp.net/casinos-prison-labor-strange-bedfellows/

The slave market:

http://www.unicor.gov/

You can even get slave labor to operate your call center:

http://www.unicor.gov/services/contact_helpdesk/
Important? Maybe. Legitimate? No. Legitim-izing? Absolutely not. Today's revelations make the NSA's programs even less legitimate.
Do you actually think the US government would engage in false flag attacks against its embassies in the Middle East because they're concerned about a nascent anti-surveillance movement, or are you just saying that for effect?

I cannot even begin to describe how ridiculous I think this is. Alex Jones-esque tinfoil hat fear-mongering should have no place on HN.
The news stories have said that nothing more specific than 'chatter' has been picked up.

It could certainly be a government over-reaction, but it could also be AQ deliberately 'chattering' to induce that over-reaction.

After all, what will you say if the next 2 months go by and not a single Western outpost is attacked by AQ anywhere? We'll say the government is making political hay out of all this as that is exactly what it will look like, whether that 'chatter' was actually detected or not.

In fact that was the most striking aspect I noted: some of the politician and intelligence agency types expressed surprise that AQ would "deliberately break OPSEC" by discussing their big plans in this manner.

But what if we're not understanding the reason they broke OPSEC? It could be a feint to draw this response, or it could be because they are now completely confident in the success of their plan no matter what action the government takes to prepare.
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Unless you can convince me that those multiple crimes are worth more than twice the sentence you get for murdering somebody, I don't really see why it matters.

I understand that he's facing 95 years because the sentences potentially add together. Well, that's part of the problem.
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>Bitmasks are nicer than arrays of string constants.

Well, arrays of string constants are categorically the wrong tool for the job if you're talking about the function of a bitmask. You want a set for that, not an array. And it's not a bad idea to go ahead and use a dictionary since you can get the same functionality, and that will let you seamlessly add in non-boolean options down the line.

Except in tightly optimized code, I really think that using bitmasks is an antipattern. It's way harder to inspect a bitmask than a set or dictionary when debugging, and code dealing with them tends to be less readable. In addition, bitmasks sometimes have a tendency to encourage developers to be "clever" and do manipulations with them beyond simple &s and |s. Maintaining such code is, of course, a nightmare.
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."

-John Adams
Google is on track to see a $14 bil pre-tax profit for 2013.

If they spent 15% of that ($2.1 bil) on support, with say a mix of 2/3 low pay ($100k/yr cost) and 1/3 high pay ($150k/yr cost) people... they could hire 18,000 additional support staff and still show a great profit.

That works out to 30 mil support hours assuming 1680 hrs/yr (35 hrs * 48 weeks) actually spent on support. They could probably hire twice that many people by hiring some people in less expensive areas.

To sum up, Google puts making a more money ahead of better support. It's their right to do so, but it not "unrealistic" for them to provide much better support.
The site is down now, congratudolences. :)

I have some experience building a market, although not with consumer goods. Reading about AirBnB's initial work, and also from talking to investors at Rover, getting one side or other of the market together is always where the work is.

For AirBnB, apparently, it was listings. For you, that might be the case as well. Seems like the next step might be to hustle, hustle, hustle and figure out how to get a lot more equipment listed. I know for sure I'd rent a Mamiya 7 or a Leaf or a Leica M-Monochrom in an instant if it were out there.