skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's refreshing to come across such an open minded person in discussions on this topic (people generally feel extremely defensive when it comes to meat eating, on all sides of the argument, I'm not sure why this specific topic strikes people's nerves so much). It really is a surprisingly complicated topic, I have my doubts about some aspects too.

I was never much fond of killing animals for food, but what ultimately compelled me to go vegetarian was an article similar to this[0] I have read many years ago. I always “knew” this is what's happening in the animal derived food industry, but somehow reading that with all the depictions stuck some cord in the emotional and moral part of my mind and I decided to simply stop eating meat from that moment on. It was remarkably easy for me once I had that moment of “illumination” (for a lack of a better word), I've never had any desire to try meat since then (although I've tried one small piece of meat several years ago just to see what will happen--nothing, complete indifference). But, I haven't gone further, I haven't even tried being vegan. Although I understand the vegan argument, and agree with it in principle on an intellectual level, but that emotional part of the experience leading to moral commitment, that spark is missing (there's also the practicality angle, I live in a culture that's not really conductive to being vegetarian, let alone vegan, eating out can be a bit complicated sometimes).

So there, I just wanted to share my experience of learning (and I still am). I understand what you're saying when it comes to changing perspectives.

[0] In a magnificent anarchist magazine, The Match, self printed (non digital, on a Linotype machine IIRC) and published by Fred Woodworth[1], a great anarchist and an amazing individual in general. I had to take this opportunity to mention The Match (I consider it a form of community service to HN, a lot of people here might like to know of this) because it's severely disproportionally unknown in comparison to its quality (in large part because of some of Fred's uncompromising stances on publishing and printing).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Woodworth
You might prefer Mozilla's Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release). ESR is targeted at large organizations that want to deploy a stable browser that will continue to receive security updates. Mozilla supports ESR for 12 months. The current version is based on Firefox 24; the previous was Firefox 17.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html
Uruguay legalises the production and sale of marijuana
You have Portugal as a reference already: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/evaluating-drug-d...

Edit: yes decriminalization is not legalization. But whole point of illegality has ostensibly been to "protect people from themselves." This shows that it's not necessary.
The 25 Most Popular Destinations for Facebook Check-Ins in 2013
Could we use these observations to increase storage density of data?
What is this thing you call privacy?
My first software product I launched on the side 5 years ago still makes quite a bit more than $1k/m (and that's in non-recurring revenue). Its best month was more than $15k while I was working full time. I was able to quit my corporate job back in February to focus on some new products.
Perhaps I will build my own template files then.

I feel like there ought to be a vector design tool that makes it easy to just drop UI elements into a predefined display space—preferably even dynamic elements. (And while I'm dreaming, one that makes documentation easy.)

Either I'm missing it, or there just isn't an ideal tool for UI designers right now.
Are new users (even those with less than 25k monthly) being converted to the new free tier?
Seattle: Looking for SDETs, Devs (full stack), DevOps
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We have several dev, test, devops, pm positions that we need to fill immediately. If you are interested to learn more, please email prasad@evidence.com

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H1-Bs OK.
While I'm sorry about what happened to your family member, that doesn't mean the same thing is happening here.

I think McConlogue's point is that homeless people aren't all stupid, stoned-out losers. And that some are capable of learning pretty complex stuff. Sure, plenty of homeless are screwed up, some hopelessly so, but we can't blanket them all with that label.

Here's a guy who's acting locally. And it takes some guts to do something risky. McConlogue may not be thinking globally, but he's doing what he can. Which is far more than a lot of us can claim.
Xen also uses QEMU, in pretty much the same manner as KVM.
What kills me is that they want copyrights to be extended again. Copyrights are already last too long as it is.
Interesting idea. Here's a twist: what if the committer could set the value of their commit instead? Social pressure would dictate that most people would not overreach. Then those who make small but useful commits could recognize in advance their minor nature. This is essentially a kind of honour system.
That's decrim, not legalization. Big difference.
Sorry.. but Americans privacy is more important than non-Americans when we are talking about the US government. They aren't collecting the data for entertainment. They can very easily round up anyone they please on US soil.

At least you have your own government to protect you (assuming you aren't important enough to start a war over).
The unspoilt countryside can certainly be pleasant, at least for the few that are well-off retired, or don't need access to an urban center to make a decent living, and don't mind driving an hour to do anything.

Start putting McMansions and Applebees in the countryside, and it becomes spoiled rather quickly.
So, basically, Google's location history is NSA's HAPPYFOOT data aggregator.

https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/
Darwin itself uses very little BSD code. It's built on Mach. OS X does however import much of the BSD userland, but I don't even know if much of that makes it into iOS.

I think it'd be a fair guess to say that iOS likely contains very little BSD Unix code.
Their real goal is for copyrights to last forever, but this annoying thing called the constitution forbids that.
The arrow navigations don't work for me at all in safari on ios7.

None of the photos would load, only the first, the captions worked no problems tho, and would scroll through them all as they should.

No other browsers on iOS (that I have installed) work either. Pretty poor showing from a company that promotes openness and interoperability.
The Unity DE for Ubuntu hides the frame when it's maximized, and integrates the menus into the global bar...
Startup Founder. Married. 2 kids. We live in Mableton, and our office is in midtown. I know both areas well.

Cost of "home" in Midtown, $500k: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/847-Myrtle-St-NE-Atlanta-G...

Cost of "home" in Mableton, $200k: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4582-Somerset-Rd-SW-Smyrna...

Midtown, local elementary school is a 2/10 on GreatSchools. Mableton, 7/10. If you want to live anywhere near midtown and have a decent public school, tack on another $150k and you lose most of the touted walkability.

It's strange to build Mableton up as the straw man for Atlanta suburbs since it's only 10 miles from midtown and a ~25 minute commute to several of Atlanta's job centers, and is probably more diverse both racially and economically than midtown. A place like Kennesaw, 20 miles out, 45+ minute commute, and less diverse would be a smarter target.

So much of these discussions seem to be single people arguing against places they've never lived, trying to convince people whose lifestyles they don't understand.
Well, I can tell you for sure that most of Europe (Spain, France, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Italy, Austria, probably more) at least as it is now, is great for raising kids and living a normal life without a constant fear of the police in the back of your head.
The only issue I have with youtube-dl is that there's nothing stopping Google from playing hardball and blocking youtube-dl completely.

That said, I'd love a Firefox plugin that dumps the YT url directly to youtube-dl.
NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
That's really valuable feeback, thank you for taking the time to look at my stuff!

UX, for me, is a very upfront strategy role, which culminates in static or prototype wireframes, but doesn't involve visual design or coding. User research and testing are also big parts of it.

Of course, roles are fluid and I might answer differently in a year.

I think UX is a role that's often misunderstood in startups, as it's often most prevalent in larger corporate teams. I've been trying to find ways to make it more accessible for everyone, though.

Thanks again for the feedback, it's been a while since I updated my own portfolio, and I will take your advice.
The time scale in fact can go the other direction and still favor cars. It's about cost per use.

If you drive every day like many Americans, it's cheaper to own a car than to use a cab. The number of people that fly enough to need their own plane is effectively zero.
Just the other day I got my hair cut in a poor white neighborhood, and the barber spent the whole time telling me about "that bitch" who was the mother of his children.

Hm. My barber talks that way too, in fact that could easily be a direct quote. And his shop is in a very liberal, progressive university town. Maybe that's just the way guys talk when there's no women around?
Why the choice is between exploitation vs. do-nothing? Why not the old-school approach? Interview experienced professionals in the area (people who actually work with homeless people) and then interview homeless people in order to find out what are the problems they face, then design a repeatable and sustainable plan and implement it.

I'm not accusing McConlogue to throw Leo under the bus. I am accusing McConlogue to throw technology professionals under the bus: People who believe in the cause of technology for social development and environmental change. People who make real sacrifices and take their job seriously instead of making up little games. People who would not call a homeless person "unjustly homeless" as if others were "justly homeless".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communication_t...
>At least one person who is not the author seems to have liked this book, so I challenge the assumption that it "appears to be a bad book".

Do you know why user reviews exist?

>If you have enough time to reply to my dumb comments on HN, you must certainly have the time to start reading the book for 30 minutes and decide if it's worth continuing or not :)

That would be valid if it were me considering reading the book and if it took me 30 minutes to reply to the comment.
'far lower that any developer (even junior) would consider an offensive offer for a mobile app'

I don't think you have the story straight. Patrick didn't get free labor, he taught Grand so he could create his own app (and maybe profit).
This might sound obvious - but he was really teaching the man to catch fish, rather than feed him with it. He might turn out to be good, or bad fishermen, but at least he's trying.

I leave money to homeless people, but I do it since it makes me feel good. I do it for me first (to be honest), then for them. I wish I have the dedication to do what this young man did, because I often think how cool it would be, but I end up just giving money. huh...
That is AWESOME... back in 2000, I was writing a vertical app for an oil company using Object Pascal/Borland Delphi (it was still Borland... and Kylix... at that point) It got me using Interbase/Firebird/FirebirdSQL for a couple of years. Glad to hear it's still around.
I lived most of my life in Los Angeles, having a car was a right of passage. I moved three years ago to New York City and I sold my car (finally) last year. It's amazing how liberating it is, no insurance, parking, gas, maintenance. These things eat into your life and you really don't see it until it's gone.. I'd be glad to never own another car, but if I move again to a place that doesn't support it I guess I'll buy another chunk of metal and watch the quarters fly out the tail pipe..
> Anyway you are probably kidding.

Yep! Well, mostly. I'd say 95%.
We use Sentry at Trak.io and love it :)
How easy is to detect off-by-one errors looking at assembly?
Let me know how accurate you can get your system. I was planning something similar but with the broad ranges offered by BluetoothLE/iBeacon I didn't expect to get much accuracy out of the system.
Exercise early enough that the spread between your strike price and the value is small. :)
>it's not appropriate to publicize your strategy for defending Belgium in case the Germans roll through on the way to France.

The strategy for defending Belgium in both world wars and the strategy for defending the average citizen against corporate interests seem to be the same in this case: Do nothing, leave them to the wolves.
>The existing 'good' entropy could be known by the hardware PRNG.

That's a different threat model that doesn't exist here. These devices don't have free access to wander around main memory.
Sounds like something Ubuntu has been castigated for trying to do.

Don't work on open source, unless you do everything each person wants (and these may be conflicting) then someone will decide it isn't open enough regardless of the actual license.
Interesting post. I pretty much agree on all points and don't see solutions either.

It's not always so easy to peg down where we're at though. I grew up with a Fishtown income and family life but got the Belmont education. I've been wedged in between both groups my whole life and don't really feel a belonging to either. I know very well how both live.

There are a lot of problems; class divide is rapidly getting worse. It looks like this is something that a lot of people are worried about too, so some large change in either direction might be on the horizon. I'd like to hope that change is the right one, but I can't.
I've asked and been told, and, when the next round closed, the whole company was told.
Does it? Genuine question, as I'm not really educated on the US Constitution.
Yup! Customers with <25k monthly visits won't be charged anymore.
Uraguay is actually the second current nation to legalize this. North Korea being the first. Cannabis is not regulated as a drug at all in North Korea.
(I'm gunna respond even though I'm getting downvoted b/c hopefully someone gets something out of this.. but keep it coming! =) )

There is nothing inherently evil in surveillance. In and of itself it's a neutral thing. It's what you do with it that is evil or good.

First I'd say that I don't really see how the NAZIs gain power because of surveillance. Hitler didn't seize power because the SA had some intricate intelligence apparatus. Nor was it the case for the the fascists in Italy, nor Spain. I would argue it was for them simply a tool for the consolidation of power and their fight against subversion.

Just like - in la-la land - if the US government were to turn evil, they would use surveillance to oppress the people. But at that point it's "too-late". The oppression comes first, and then the surveillance to back it up.

"I think it's rather more that the history of states turning fascist..."

I think maybe the larger issues is that the "cyclicality" of history is really more about people seeing patterns where there are none (and historians justifying their jobs). Virtually all the examples we return too are from the beginning of the 20th century. Somehow because of how horrible WW2 was we feel that this may happen again if we aren't careful.

But in reality, history doesn't really "repeat itself" as the old says goes. The NAZI arose during a period of extreme nationalism. There is no reason to believe that this will necessarily happen again. For instance it didn't happen before the end of the 19th century since nationalism is a relatively new concept. And we don't for examples anticipate the return of communism, or disco.

I think at this point in our cultural evolution a return to tyranny is simply impossible. We have so much precedent of the success of democracy and our thinking on human rights has evolved to a point where this is simply unsustainable

to close with some data:

http://thediplomat.com/2013/02/13/5-ways-china-could-become-....

"Statistical analysis shows that authoritarian regimes become progressively more unstable (and democratic transitions more likely) once income rises above $1,000 (PPP) per capita. When per capita income goes above $4,000 (PPP), the likelihood of democratic transitions increases more dramatically. Few authoritarian regimes, unless they rule in oil-producing countries, can survive once per capita income hits more than $6,000 (PPP)."
It's not checkmate. It's a completely unreasonable threat model. How would the processor know where the entropy pool used by the operating system is?

How would the processor even know it's performing crypto operations that it should swap numbers for?
Everyone knows coupling is bad. Why couple the laws of such disparate cultures into one big ball of mud?
Ask HN: Security for Saas Startups
I have been looking around for tutorials or advice on securing our web app, but unfortunately there doesnt seem to be any good resources that I could find. Is there any good book on security for startups or rather just security for web applications?
This post by evernote CTO was very helpful, but I am look for something more instructional(http://firstround.com/article/Evernotes-CTO-on-Your-Biggest-...).
Will we crack such jokes if disease hits, say, Berlin? Or there is a reprise of 9/11? No, we won't, because it isn't some third-world country full of "colored people."

What a disgrace.
New York Asks Cellphone Carriers to Explain Why They Rejected Antitheft Switch
If she's interested in doing translation work, one of the best ways is develop a specialty. General translation pays pennies compared to specialty translation, like medical specialties, law specialties (which can pay around 180/hr! for contract checking), even culinary specialties.

Cookpad, for example, has a contract translation position open now.
The world's most powerful selfie
I think you should apologize for making this post. There are a lot of important things that aren't mathematically rigorous but are nevertheless worth understanding.
>The processor could recognize that it is in common key generation code

This is very unrealistic. It would mean that processors have to be shipped with every crypto library implementation baked into the hardware. Any update would immediately break it.
None of the guys I'm around, nor myself, think that's okay just because women aren't present.
Calculating Bitcoin Arbitrage Profit
My bet is just a lab test for Monsanto's GM cannabis. We're already a big exporter of GM soy
I think you are mistaken. FundersClub curates the investments it brokers but the money comes from a (typically very large) group of independent investors.

From the FundersClub FAQ:

FundersClub lets its members who are accredited investors invest in startup venture funds online... FundersClub manages the funds and provides value-add benefits to the startup companies we invest in, as well as the investors in our funds.

No mention of kicking in their own funds. Perhaps there's a relatively trivial amount contributed by the FundersClub team from time to time but it's not the basis of their operation (Naval participates in some AngelList investments too). This is extremely similar to AngelList apart from the curation.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=slave&allowed_in_fr...

Slavery was turned into "owning another human" by abolitionists who wanted to play up its squick factor. It was previously just a state of submission and would be interchangeable with "servant".

The sense jseliger is using it is in the sense attested from the 1550s: that a car owner has lost resistance to a habit or vice; in this case, the "habit or vice" is the acceptance of car infrastructure in city design and the habit of looking at the world through the needs of one's car, namely to find parking, to calculate finances based on a car's needs.
>Median household income in SF in 2011 was $72,947.

You just proved my point.
Uruguay approves first national market for legal marijuana
I'm all for legalization, but my concern would be that now gangs will grow pot in Uruguay to export to neighboring countries. This may spark turf wars and the like...

Given the limits on how much you can buy at have, hopefully they can still tackle large operations

EDIT: Let me expand, because I think people are missing the point. There are drug gangs in the region that grow pot. After this law comes in to effect it suddenly becomes easier to do business in Uruguay. Wouldn't that be an incentive to move shop to Uruguay? It seems like if all the local countries don't sign up, then you're signing yourself up for trouble.
FYI, Strang's textbook is commonly used in linear algebra courses.
> For shame!

You're the one making BS grammar claims and refusing to own up to it when you're called on it.
If he thinks the split is bad now, he'd have loved the 1830's!
Which just happens to be a German company :)

We have it in Toronto and it's super useful sometimes to quickly get somewhere within the downtown when transit would be slower and cabs more expensive.
Love the idea of this. Perhaps instead of "little feedback", which could leave people new to the app with no-one to carpool with, you could restrict results to those who have verified a Facebook profile.

The idea being that friends can confirm users are who/what they say they are
As soon as there's a powerful mobile device that comes with a Terminal as a first class citizen and lets me compile/run Go programs, I'm ditching my iOS device and getting that.
Part of the issue with government is that you ultimately have much less recourse against the government than against anyone else. This exacerbates the potential damage the government could do with any given technology.
I am no sociologist, but I think it would be rather safe to say that to it is going to take a lot for this to change. We've clearly adapted to the divide between the mega-rich and the "middle" class, so I am not sure it is a matter of survival so much as a matter of principle.

I think it would take a lot of people collectively thinking and acting differently than we do now. I am just one person, but it is my goal to live my life with the intent of turning this situation around. I believe the spirit of entrepreneurship, which is generally well-supported on HN, is a piece of this - designing and building the next generation of companies who choose to conduct business in ways that support (rather than exploit) the middle class. Hence, I am an entrepreneur.
Yes, it grants congress the power to grant copyright protections for a "limited time." Although a limited time could conceivably be "any finite period of time," a set of which "1 million years" is a member, if one chose to interpret it that way.

EDIT: I hope no one ever interprets it that way.
For those thinking this is so far down the slippery slope as to be ridiculous: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10...
When the Earth reaches peak human occupancy, it's likely nobody will feel the need to do anything about it. Whatever reproduction rate we're at at equilibrium will then be perceived as completely normal.
I like you, you are well mannered and incredibly reasonable. I think it being or not being new coursework is a matter of location there were definitely no programming in my elementary school. I though I did start taking them in high school.

I think we look at computer programming much differently in terms of our world view and should probably leave it at that. Thanks for making some great comments and being a cool person.