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Codecademy Releases Its First Educational App, A.K.A. My New Subway Time Killer
Was not able to find what was the framework used. Any ideas on what was used to package the code into ios app?

Previous interviews mentioned they used Chromebook and Nitrious.IO to work and develop the project but seems like something else needed to package the javascript or rails code into the ios app? Or maybe I am missing something
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Have a group of folks interested in learning to code (bootcamp style). Anyone interested in teaching them for 3 months?
Wow :D

I've seen quite a few outbursts brought on by cognitive dissonance, but yours definitely takes the cake. Maybe you'll eventually wake the fuck up in some kind of gulag near Seattle.
No, killing an animal for food is not as morally wrong as slavery or murdering a person. Are you joking?

Animals all over the planet kill each other for food. It's part of life. Farm animals are not people and never will be. It's silly to think they deserve the rights of people or to be on the same moral high grounds as people.
.. Or you could give the freeloaders the special edition for free which happens to contain random passages from Alice in Wonderland, pointless diagrams, and lengthy rants about your neighbors inexplicably weaved into the original work.
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Totally tangential point:

I sometimes draw an analogy between veganism and the extreme anti-force / volitionalist stance of radical libertarians. In both cases is may be radically moral, but the problem with the libertarian case is similar to what you just said.

Government force is just so easy. Is there some systemic social ill that manifests in an emergent fashion from the market? Pass a law and force it to change. Wealth redistribution by force improves the lives of the vast majority of people too.

There may be force-free alternatives to these mechanisms, but it's clear that if they exist they are more difficult. Thus most people are willing to sacrifice some of their (and their neighbors) freedom and autonomy for free health care, free retirement, easy fixes to emergent problems and tragedies of the commons, etc.

I can't say I'm different. I would prefer to have a "softened" market in which some wealth is redistributed by force to me and my middle class contemporaries (as well as to those less fortunate than me) even if it is less moral according to a radical moral theory.
For me personally FF 26 adds a major feature, specifically h.264 video playback in Linux. Finally I'll stop needing Flash to view videos on Vimeo (and a few other sites).
To use Plex, you need to have a plexpass subscription (I believe this subscription is not required to use Plex on Roku)
I tried to eat only expensive meat to reduce the chances that the animals it comes from are bred in conditions such as those described in the article. The idea was that naturally this would reduce the amount of meat I ate as the cost of the meal went up.

Found it wasn't possible.

- There were no expensive ready meal options at my local supermarket
- Labeling contains no information about what kind of environment animals are brought up in

Solution:
- Enforce labeling about environment animals are kept in
- More NGOs need to take initiative to make it easier to access information - e.g. packaging should tell me name of factory meat was made in. I should be able to go online and view (ideally) live webcams for welfare and if not at least periodic photos of all areas where animals are 'processed'

Ultimately I wish I had the will power to turn fully vegetarian but my issue isn't with eating meat as such - more that I don't want to be a part of any operation that kills animals en masse and I hate words like 'processed' being associated with my food and live animals.

Working post, feel free to build on it.
> Actually, it's brainwashing that forces people into making up connections between these dots.

> Wake up.
How do you know there are vegans on HN? Post anything about eating critters or dietary subjects.

I'm about 1 more story from just flagging these from HN because the discourse on these subjects is as predictable and brain dead as a Daring Fireball discussion.
Q: How do you know if someone is a vegan?

A: THEY'LL TELL YOU.

(full disclosure: married to a vegan, I couldn't resist)
You might want to note that I was replying to a comment, and not the website.
> If Google didn't buckle like a house of cards on this. I wonder where we'd be?

Content providers weren't jumping to more double their storage costs or deal with another immature toolchain so I rather suspect we'd be where we are now: Flash got an extra couple years reprieve until everyone accepts reality and implements H.264. This is particularly true since no matter WebM's merits it was going to be worse when transcoded from the H.264 almost everyone is actually uploading.

The real fight needs to be over the next generation of codecs. If H.265 has serious competition there's a lot more reason to believe things will go differently, as they did with e.g. Opus where the open solution was also better in addition to being free.
Nature is full of similar cruelty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPzPjOR9lc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk
Yes, it's intrinsically useful. See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Where_does_the_value_of_Bitco... for a longer reply.
I agree that we're having an educated and civil discussion.

And I agree with the sentiment of using the right tool for the job, in principle.

However, I disagree that we're in full agreement :). I actually do think that there is a choice here that is inherently more natural for the sufficient majority of general-purpose tasks. The main arguments I'm aware of against it are arguments purely from human convention, which I find are not always as "natural" as one might hope.
This has been my experience almost exactly (s/Yukon/Alberta/). I now hunt yearly and basically don't any meat that I didn't kill myself. One deer is enough for a couple for a year.

I found the experience it very self-illuminating, the hypocrisy of will-not-kill-but-will-eat-from-store became much more focused.

The experience of hunting wildly varies. I've had one or two gut-wrenching bad shots, hitting the animal in the leg then having to track it down and end it. Most of the time, the animal is dead before the sound of the shot reaches them, before which they were blissfully grazing.

Regardless of the experience, you reflect on what you've just done far more than when you buy meat on a shelf.
No, there's no middle ground. Killing is killing.

Would it be moral to kill you if I'd let you live in a decent, stress-free environment before your death?

Would it be moral to raise human children, give them a nice childhood and then kill them before they reach adulthood because they're super tasty then?

I'm not saying I agree (or don't) with GP, just noting that you missed his point.
Good article! Worth to read it!
Sometimes I see it on my own as well. I run two e-stores both with different target groups.

The problem I think is, people are on facebook to have fun and experience something new. When we shared long articles and asked difficult questions nobody responded to us. So we started to post short news and nice pictures as well as videos and and it seems people are more interested.

Marketers should find out, what find of fresh and funny content can help them promote their services.
This is a good reply to the argument that I hear used a lot:

"You just need to educate yourself. Read this website and watch this video: you'll never want to eat meat again!"

What if I'm educated, have read the books, the websites, and still choose meat?
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Wolfenstein definitely started it but Doom was so much better. Modem to modem connections was great. OT: Comcast is having some real issues today.
Bank accounts require an opening deposit, and to preempt any attempt to suggest that's not what was meant, active bank accounts may be overdrawn making the choice of analogy even less justified.

Likewise, stocks first come to market with an initial price And a stock with a price of zero or zero shares is for all practical purposes in the first case and existentially in the second case, not a stock.

And while yes there might be zero NSA agents in the bushes, that means that the list or set of NSA agents in the bushes is empty, I.e. that there is no first agent, and the value at index of the first agent is the same as the value at the second - nil, void, undefined or an error...and hopefully not the latter since there are more than enough of them already.
I think the way it should make you feel is,

Clearly, the patches are silly and I don't know why I care so much about this
> [Good Guy John Carmack]

Your reddit is leaking.
So the answer to "is Bitcoin useful" is "Bitcoins have value because they are useful"? You need a better link to make that point.
Everything in moderation my friend. Your same analogy can be used with all sorts of non-meat things.
I just download youtube videos[1]. It has many advantages over youtube.com. Hardware acceleration is one but also no stalling when skipping ahead, no disappearing videos that you planned to watch later, no need to sign in.

Actually, youtube as a repository of material for download works much better than youtube as a streaming site.

[1] http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
Useful only to those who have faith in the powers that manipulate it. Same could be said for bitcoin.
Pokemon Snakewood - A hacked version of Pokemon Ruby, with zombie trainers
PC life cycles are lengthening as Moore's Law stops delivering improvements that matter to everyday use. The OS must have matching life cycles or the disconnect will be unpleasant to say the least. Microsoft is already losing the consumer to tablets and such, they shouldn't piss off their corporate clients too.
The chromecast already let's you directly stream the contents of a chrome tab. He's looking for something less clunky.
Yahoo Mail finally requires SSL, doesnt tell anybody for hours.
If eating meat is just as wrong as slavery, surely it must also be wrong to fail to intervene in nature when animals eat each other. And the very existence of purely carnivorous species is immoral.
It's telling that I could tell exactly what the story is about without clicking the link. And it's disappointing that the story, after clicking the link, didn't add anything else.

I'm wondering if this is a false-flag article to make bitcoin proponents look clueless and gullible...
Animals are only moral actors when we're the ones causing them harm. When they're causing other animals harm, they're not moral actors, just animals doing what they do.
I think this feature will protect users on websites where java applets load inconspicuously.
With this feature user wouldn't click on the blocked plugin/applet because they don't have a use for it. This is not the solution that will end all our problems but hey this is one step closer and I'll take that!
I was inclined to disagree due to the author's strong arguments and precise use of language, but after re-reading the part around Dr. Richard's comments, I do think the author made a bit of a logical leap.

It went from "I'm Dr. Richard, and BCPL supports pointer arithmetic starting from zero" to "I'm the author, and the IBM 7094 handles all the pointer arithmetic during compile time, and time is limited; therefore, Dr Richard added zero-based indexing to speed up compile time." When really, his intentions are assumed by the author. Dr. Richard sounds like a very pure computer scientist. He may have added that feature without consideration of when pointer arithmetic is calculated simply because he wanted it in his BCPL language.

Really, Dr. Richard seems to sum up the issue nicely, "I can see no sensible reason why the first element of a BCPL array should have subscript one."

Also, wasn't the original question why zero vs one, not, why we started using pointer arithmetic at all?
G.M. Names First Female Chief Executive
You mean the ones caused by sugars, flours and vegetable oils?
Predictable Random Numbers in Python
Um, no, his question was not "is bitcoin useful" but "does it have any intrinsic value"...
Firefox for Android in 2013
Nice suggestion - I agree it would be more elegant if I didn't need to invoke Python. I haven't been using Require.js for that long, so wasn't aware of the plugin functionality.

However, in the future I think it'd be nice if I could also have the GLSL code linted/compiled or minified, and this is probably out of the scope of what a Require.js plugin could do. Or am I wrong?
Animals are not usually described as having immoral / moral actions. However, to foolishly continue your strawman: by allowing the animals to kill one another, are their keepers acting immorally?
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Not all of America falls into the category of being completely ignorant to where their food comes from, or eat food that was raised in factory farms.

Many Americans (in the fly-over states) have access to local butchers that can drive you to the actual field where the animal lived.

We recently bought a side of beef for the family from one of these shops. There are eight within a day's driving distance to me (midwest Illinois). I know the first name of the young man that bottle fed and raised the hamburgers I eat.

A majority of individuals in the communities near my home purchase their meat (beef and pork at least) this way. There are other options for people, they are just more expensive, or are perceived as being more expensive.

Please don't lump the entire country into one box. Do you realize how many people there are in the US, or how very large this country is?
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Hm, do you mean etanazir was asking about the USD? Then I might have misread the comment.

Edit: Btw, the USD is mostly has value because it's being used (useful), so yes, that's what currencies have going for them. The USD just has it so much easier as it's backed by a government.
Would the US actually be able to enforce a court decision beyond injunction against a foreign business located abroad?
I really really don't want to grammar-nitpick (this looks like an amazing product) but 'less bugs' kind of hints at low quality. If I were you (and I'm not) I would replace that with 'fewer bugs' or whatever.
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Meat persists not because it's "cheap", but because it's an ingrained part of society. Consider the feed conversion ratio. [1] There's an high cost to feeding livestock in the form of wasted food calories that could be avoided if humans consumed that "feed" directly.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio
Thanks,

Our servers handle the 3rd party communication. We use read only tokens (or manual web hook integration) wherever possible, which today is everything but Github.

Github's oAuth permissions requires full write privileges to add a webhook. Hopefully that changes, but we're also adding manual integration shortly, for those that don't want to give oAuth access.
> Killing animals may still be acceptable in western society, but it's wrong. It's wrong just as slavery in the United States in the 18th and 19th century was once acceptable but wrong. Just as hanging, drawing and quartering to an audience of thousands in Europe was acceptable but wrong.

Wow, wait until you watch an animal kingdom video. Your mind is about to be blown but the amount of animal on animal violence you'll see.

I mean blue whales will eat litterally 10 of thousands of shrimp in one meal.

Lions will attack and pick on the weakest of the gazelles. nature must have really gotten it wrong.

Look, you just can't come out and state that eating meat is wrong without providing some sort of rational around it. Just claiming its morally wrong doesn't really make an impressive argument at all.

The biggest problem you make is to lump together the poor treatment of animals and the eating of meat. Many farms treat animals in ways that are considered by the vast majority of people to be fair and proper.

Many people who eat meat have educated themselves and consider you to be wrong about the ethics of eating meat.

TD/DR, you just can't take your own beliefs, state them as fact and then state that they are the correct moral thing to do and any one who dares disagree with your narrow beliefs is just wrong.
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This essay answers the question amazingly well: http://paulgraham.com/gba.html

What is sad here is not that those subjects are discussed but the sometimes fearful and shrill tone in which they are discussed. Sadder still is that there are a lot of comments on HN that seem just as afraid of hacks like Soylent or Bitcoin or AirBnb.
I think it'll play out like the XP-->Win7 transition: consumers are almost all on Win7+, because XP hasn't been sold bundled on a PC in over 3 years. Businesses are still on XP (they have "downgrade rights" to install XP) and are dragging their feet because it's a painful migration.

So I think businesses will be on Win7 for a LONG time, until commercial support expires. That would mean at least thru 2017 or 2018. And businesses will pressure MS to maintain support even longer, because they "just switched" to Win7.

I don't see this being a big win for Linux or Mac though either. The drag on upgrades in businesses is because of compatibility and training issues. A switch to Linux / Mac is 100x more disruptive to a business than a switch from XP --> Win 7.

The real disruption isn't linux or mac, it's iOS and Android. I'm convinced that it'll be easier for tablets to grow a keyboard and some multitasking, than for PCs to "slim down" while maintaining compatibility with normal Windows applications.
> The problem with such systems is that is generally quite difficult to have confidence that they are not subject to attacks that may starve the system of entropy or trick the entropy estimator into thinking it has any when it has none.

That's why you give up on estimating entropy. It's just not possible in the general case.

Mix multiple sources of potential entropy in a secure fashion (e.g. with a crypographically-secure hashing function). Recover over time from a compromise.

> Really it seems that the best approach is to take a wide range of flexible entropy sources and to learn to trust our mixing pools and trapdoor functions.

Yup, you're exactly right. Now we just need to convince Ted T'so to replace Linux's hacky /dev/random with a Fortuna-based one.
> companies that are only just now finally upgrading or decommissioning RHEL4

RHEL 4 is supported until 2015. Starting it's replacement now is pretty normal.
So, but, that's just ignoring the reality of the world.

Fact is: people eat meat. People will continue to eat meat, that's not something that's going to change (in the short term, anyway). Given that, how can we improve the treatment of these animals?

I feel that equating eating meat with murder is just sacrificing the good for the perfect.

Lets find a way to give consumers better choice. We should be aware of the treatment of the meat we consume (and articles like these are helpful in that sense), and we should be able to make purchasing choices on that basis. We should be able to buy ethically raised / humanely slaughtered meats at the grocery store.
I do the same. The one disadvantage is you lose the ability to click on overlayed links to related videos that some people often put at the end of their videos.
Shoot me a message on twitter, I may know some people who can help out.

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Clever article, for those that bother to read and understand it.
It's much easier to make the first version 100 times slower and then comment the offending line in the new version :-)
The all new Trello for Android with tablet support is here
Firefox has support for a bunch of them and that's been steadily improving – i.e. the input type=range landed in (IIRC) FF 23.

You can see the current status for just about everything here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344614 As you can see from reading some of the linked tickets not all of the remaining work is trivial – there are questions about the spec, compatibility with webkit, etc:

type=color: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547004
type=number: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344616
type=date: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446510
I think here: http://goo.gl/cRJfVu
Deployed military (any nation) or other people with slow or no internet connection would really like to stream movies locally[1] to several screens. They probably bought the movies too. Sure, chromecast can do this via tab sharing, but an app would be nice. Why the obsession for streaming over the internet?

[1] http://www.theonion.com/articles/pentagon-loses-hard-drive-w...
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People have been clamoring for this type of feature ever since the CC and its SDK were announced.

There was a hackathon this weekend for the SDK and people hoped this would finally be when the SDK would be open for everyone but nope :(
FWIW I mentioned it because the conversation is about eating meat, not because I need you to think I'm awesome. In fact, I think the joke has some very relevant truth to it. I think heralding veganism is a ridiculous mission from a practical standpoint, and lots of people and organizations are spinning their wheels converting a tiny fraction of the population to a totally meatless diet when instead it makes so much more sense to focus on even mildly reducing meat consumption (or waste) from a much broader segment of the population.
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Vegan propagandism; meat is not inherently unhealthy so as to cause those issues when consumed in moderation and as part of a balanced diet.
No serious investor questions the intrinsic value of Bitcoin; but currency with an infinite supply is very curious. Particularly a 'closed book' currency where the creators can apportion themselves unlimited amounts and users would be unaware.
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Insane prediction of the year: Microsoft will merge with Apple
For what task? There are things I use Python for; others I use C.

That said...I'd never use PHP for anything I had a say in.
Clever?

It depends on a single substitution premise that is neither that funny or original (Onion does it all the time) nor very informative (it doesn't provide any real insight, just a false sense of seeing an equivalency between dollar/bitcoin forgeting that there are actually huge differences in areas that actually matter).
We didn't record and share the conversations we've had with users. Nor is this the full design process where we discussed the overall interaction design and way the product should work.

This is a very specific flow, reviewing the visual and interaction design. In the process, other issues were brought up.

Having built a half dozen products that all have this stage, I'm really not sure what your nitpick is about. It's a 20 minute video not showing weeks worth of other discussions.
> the NSA and its British counterpart defeat encryption technologies by working with chipmakers to insert backdoors, or cryptographic weaknesses, in their products.

I had already started to forget about that...

From that other report (september):

> They reveal a highly classified program codenamed Bullrun, which according to the reports relied on a combination of "supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders, and behind-the-scenes persuasion" to undermine basic staples of Internet privacy, including virtual private networks (VPNs) and the widely used secure sockets layer (SSL) and transport layer security (TLS) protocols.
Personally I think it's rather silly, or, if you prefer, funny. Anyway, seems like enough people flagged it as it disappeared from the front page after a few seconds.