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Well, nothing. Everyone has different balances of desire and empathy.

In my country there's a huge deal about rhino poaching for their horns. Pictures of dead rhinos with only their horns chopped off generally horrify us and most can't imagine why someone would kill a rhino for its horn. However, I recently read something about how these pictures have no impact on foreign purchasers of rhino horn - the desire for the commodity far outweighs any feeling for the animal, despite it being endangered.

So you might care about the rhino, but not about your food. Some might care about orphans, but not rhinos or food. Others might care about everything but vegetables. Who is correct? I don't know, but I think it's important to at least engage with the issue so our decisions are conscious. The end result isn't as important as simply having gone through the process.
Outsourcing (some of) your creative tasks.
> What's bothersome is that a police department is allowed to do this.

Well, that's not too surprising. Every party along the chain that has the power to say Yes or No, from the weapon manufacturers, to the US legislature awarding funding, to the DoD, to the state legislatures, to the local police departments, have an obvious incentive to say Yes. The party that has the incentive to say No is the civilian population, but you're fooling yourself if you think they actually have political power. Maybe they should vote harder next time.
'danegeld' - what a wonderful word. I didn't realized the vikings invented trolling.
Not a vegan, and I can say yes - I perform the mental disconnect in my mind that I think happens with most people when they eat meat that I don't really think about where it comes from. If I did/when I do think about it, I generally don't eat it.
I Remember reading "Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution" and they had a pretty section on Doom.

I remember them quoting Romero when he said Carmack was a beast at programming. He just kept him fed with pizza and diet coke and he would just hammer out code for hours on end.

Still crazy to think these guys were in a kind of heyday for video games. Sure, it's bigger now, but that was when it was in its infancy and they changed an entire industry with one game.

Makes you wonder what 3D Realms could have done had they had the focus these guys had.
The MozCast Feature Graph - Tracking Google's Landscape
These things look insurmountable from the outset, but tastes and food craving are actually a very malleable, and change based on what you eat - just at a time frame that is too long for us to be aware of: a matter of weeks and months, rather than days.

If you genuinely feel bad about what you are doing, I would suggest a two pronged approach: try and incorporate more kinds of vegan foods in your diet over time and educate yourself on a visceral level on the nastiness that is the food industry: watch the videos made inside slaughter houses and feedlots. Having options will make you want those options, and seeing the unhappiness that is actually going into your sausage will make you >feel< differently about the sausage, rather than just knowing that it's wrong.

I was vegetarian for 10 years before going vegan (vegan for 10, now), so I'm the last person to point fingers at people taking the slower road. That said, the selections and choices available (at least in western countries) today were inconceivable back when I became vegan ten years ago. It's the promised land!

The social part (ie, people being shitty, every dinner conversation revolving around what I just ordered, etc,etc) is always the hardest, still as hard today as it was then. Sure, people are more tolerant of dietary differences, but for the same reasons, they are also more full of dietary scientism (Soy gives you man boobs. Wheat gluten is a radioactive GMO byproduct. By eating locally, no cows were harmed in the creation of this steak.)
On the handful of times I've been in Canada, I've enjoyed the experience. The people were friendly and the scenery breathtaking. There's a lot to like about America's neighbor to the north.

But some of their speech-restricting activities are disturbing: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/free-speech-eh-why-is-canada-pr...
Flag a view you disagree with? How original and insightful. Well researched long form journalism is something HN discussion desperately needs more of.

Whatever your opinion on eating animals is, where our food comes from is a discussion that needs to be had. We need less of Stallman and Bitcoin.
Ah, thanks! That was nicely hidden.
fun tin foil time: I know that you are generally very well informed and keep a sound perspective on things, but I personally think that you, and the Americans who "widely" hold the view that the military and intel community is fully delineating between the "us"==US citizenry and a "them"==Our 'Enemies' is now proven to be both outdated and naive.

I believe there was a rather long coup of the US by the CIA starting with the Kennedy assassination where we saw the cabal surrounding GHW Bush, largely starting in the 70s, with Bush, Rumsfeld Cheney and many others in their circle which have been in unquestionable power for nearly 40 years now. The NSA, CIA, NRO are tools of this group, where there is effectively an "inner circle" of the intelligence community which has far more insidious motives and methods for maintaining their position of control, which allows them to direct world wide warfare and economic matters for the benefit of themselves.

The "military" is an exceptionally well manipulated tool for this end.

I am posting from my phone so I'd like to go more I detail when I get to a machine.

Cheney is largely the architect of the current government/military/contractor system where he worked from the position of sec. Of defense under Bush to change how the military was structured to make it a larger profit center for a small number of connected contracting companies.

The Clinton's are CIA assets controlled through their Mena Ar drug running activities and as such was "allowed" to run as the democratic figure head because the back end wasn't going to change.

So, if you think that there is not a nefarious group at the center of the current architecture of the military industrial complex striving to control everything, then you may have not been paying close enough attention to the action of these groups, and individuals, and been listening too much to the programming of your "news" sources.

This is not to say that the US military is all "bad" but you'd be completely nave to see it as anything more than a tool used by a very specific interest. Just look at the false "intelligence" lies that they tried to use to profit from attacking Syria. And the "punishment" they exacted by shutting down the government when they were stood up to.
Real names help keep people honest :)

You're totally right. People reading this should know that there is a lot more than what we're showing.
Well, it certainly made me close the tab
Really? For your savings? Bitcoin is many things, but a low-risk investment is not one of them.
And also more secure than traditional payment methods since it is prepaid and the merchant is guaranteed not to be frauded.

What merchants don't want, typically, is added customer convenience to payment methods IF it adds additional risk for fraud. EMV Chip has been a huge success, and NFC is kind of a step backward because anyone can steal a NFC chip card and make small purchases, which means merchants still need to dispute fraud charges.
Unlocking the potential of Playstation4 [pdf]
Makes me wonder, though... if the government forces intel to sell everyone defective products does that violate our 4th amendment rights? Do I, as an individual, have standing to sue the federal government because they intentionally weakened a product I purchased, potentially exposing me to other kinds of threats?

What about someone who has actually been victimized by an exploit of a backdoor that was ordered installed by the government? Would they have standing to sue for damages that resulted?

I only ask because I know "standing" has been an important issue in many of the cases related to these abuses. Most of the suits have failed because the plaintiffs were found to lack standing for one reason or another.
Because a monad is also a functor, but a set failed to be a functor.
The most clever ones I've seen make it look like a PDF of employee comp was accidentally sent to the wrong recipient from your payroll company or from the Finance department.

Think about the human element in that for a minute...
you're confusing me in your attempt to interfere with my karma whoring (or possibly contribute to it LOL).

if you are aware of the externality you're creating, but continuing with the activity because of even greater positive externalities, and/or exercising your rights consistent with how you would expect others to exercise them, then you're not ignoring the externality, you're taking it into account in your social calculations.

If you were ignoring it, and acting for your own benefit regardless of any externalities to others, that would be antisocial.

In TFA, it sort of seems like he is aware of the negative impact on neighbors and illegalities, but feels inexplicably entitled regardless.
It's not trying to target power users. They would learn VBA.

It's not trying to target data processing. People who care enough would use a library like xlrd/xlwt.

It's not trying to go after big industries like finance. It's easy to interop outside of excel and from within VBA, and most hedge funds and banks have their own solutions already.

This is specifically targeted to the casual people who want to do some in-Excel scripting but don't want to learn VBA. In that light, the product seems way over-priced (and probably should be in the $5-10 range) and unlikely to ever be used in a production setting.
tap done.

No handing cards, picking up terminals, signing receipts, checking signatures or any other nonsense.

It's also secure--tapping is chip compliant.

You can also have more than one card on your phone.
Congrats Estimotes! I have their beacons sitting on my desk. I can't speak for the capabilities yet – but the design is gorgeous
One of the underpinnings of the U.S. Constitution is the Bill Of Rights, one of which states "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

People go bouncing off the wall around this issue as if it were one having solely to do with owning guns, but the real purpose is arranging the real power in the government. The people reserve and are ultimately responsible for the use of lethal force in the United States. They can delegate that power to the government for certain things, like a defense department or law enforcement, but at the end of the day, it's everybody carrying guns that are responsible for social order. At least that's the way it was set up.

As we've drifted away from that principle, by assigning more and more powers to the defense department and police agencies, (gun control is part of this but not the only part), those folks have quite naturally started viewing themselves as the privileged few to hold the power to make things go boom. Then we got rid of the volunteer military, further separating the mass of the population from the things carrying lethal force.

So nowadays, if you want to become a specialist in the application of power tools to destroy people and things, you pick one of a few different career paths and become one of the chosen few. This is a VERY recent development. Not 50 years ago it was commonplace to know people who could operate machine guns, explosives, and drive tanks around. To those folks, cops were just another working Joe like them except they wore a badge. On the other side, cops viewed the population as a trained asset to have and use in time of crisis. It was not unusual to consider gathering up as many armed men as necessary from an area to conduct police operations.

But the professionals got involved, and having that kind of power was viewed as a terribly complicated responsibility that the average guy couldn't handle. This created a wall in society. On both sides now, it's us against them. We need MRAPS because, hell, anything can happen, and there's just a few of us cops in this county. We are no longer all in it together. It's not like if AQ comes knocking we can knock on doors and ask for help.

This is a self-fulfilling feedback loop: as the police arm themselves more and more with special gear, the average person really can't operate it. So even more specialized training is required. Same goes for military gear, where this divide originated.

I would suggest that what we need is some sort of ready reserve system where everybody is trained at reaching 18 on how to safely use most all common forms of police and military gear. I'd further suggest that local police departments be required to have a certain percentage of their patrols as civilian ride-alongs.

There are a lot of things that can be done here, and we don't have to argue gun control to make progress. But I think we do need an understanding of how we got here in the first place. This is a trend that has been a long time coming. The War On Terror just exacerbated it.
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Violent gun-related crime dropped about 50% from 1993-2009. Thru the same period, gun ownership increased about 50%.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-...
No, I do buy and sell and I profit from Bitcoin, but just like during DotCom many thought they get the stock market (while it was only going up) and invested all their money into it and then they lost everything, don't put more than 10% of your assets as otherwise you're gonna get hurt! I know many who lost millions and their homes during DotCom, so, greed gets you killed! Also, the future of Bitcoin cannot be only in the hands of people who bought it cheap! If you think somebody will buy it at $1,000 and won't mind when it drops down to $0? The higher the price and the more uncertainty there is, the less incentive to buy will there be and we saw this happening when price exceeded $1,000 - volume dropped significantly, nobody wanted to buy. We're getting close to $1,000 again and you see volumes are dropping already.
This is a continuation of the military industrial complex. There aren't enough wars, but companies that supply the military still need to make money. So they make so much equipment that the DoD needs to give their completely usable equipment away for free.

This page should make any U.S. taxpayer sick and any non-U.S. citizen worried:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...
Appropriate, seeing as how Kent State is in Ohio, too. Clearly, they learned their lessons in Ohio: shoot students first, ask questions later.
Mars One Plans First Private Robotic Mission to the Red Planet
Haha, and the perfect example is the top controversial of all time: "Can reddit keep this post at equilibrium?"

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/e3eoj/can_reddit...
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Angel - Ride Out ft. Iyanya
A lot of software is developed via some sort of agile software process these days. This means a new version of the software quite regularly, released on a time basis rather than a feature basis. This is what made version numbers meaningless. There are three common solutions:

time based: Ubuntu 12.04

increment the major number: Chrome 31

increment the minor number, never or rarely changing the major numbers: Linux 2.6.39

None of these solutions work well.
Growth Hacking the Enterprise
I don't know when you were a virus writer (the heyday of the virus writers I knew was the mid-1990s, and the virus writers I was aware of post-2000 had more knowledge of WinAPI than of x86), but: the state of the art for disassembly and reverse engineering has progressed dramatically in the past 10 years.

In particular, reverse engineering is no longer the specialty of virus authors the way it used to be; a totally mainstream application of reverse engineering, practiced by most major security companies, is reverse engineering patches to find the underlying security flaws they fix so they can be weaponized.

It is easy to hide flaws in any code. Assembly doesn't make it much easier.
Dangerously close to DOXing there, buddy. There's a reason why HN has handles and not real names.

EDIT: Thank you, ivankirigan—much appreciate the switch to my handle.
France and Germany do it all the time against Google/MS.
Note that Manjaro (http://www.manjaro.org/) is a "user-friendly" distro based on Arch. I tried it briefly via a liveCD from a British Linux magazine, and it looked promising.
Fair enough. I disagree with your position, but I can see that it is entirely consistent with your starting assumptions.
Rebound Spring Animations for Android
This fix has been made. Please let me know if any other errors are spotted.
Is this operated with some sort of commit hook or done manually by the project maintainers or what?

Edit: At present this is obviously an MVP that is probably being completely "faked" on the back-end, so I suppose my question should be "What is the intended design?"
Npm install -g strong-cli: Announcing a New Distribution Model
This seems like an accidental perverse incentive. While you only get the top if your commit is accepted, I would be worried the maintainers will just end up with a bunch of low effort trivial patches.
Public Ouster in North Korea Unsettles China
There are many manipulative articles. The higher the price of Bitcoin is, the more people will be willing to sell and less willing to buy.
Coursera iOS app released
Walkable neighborhoods are like environmentally friendly homes... people won't usually pay as much more than what they cost as they will for McMansions, so builder's don't want to build them. I live on a cul de sac and my kids play games on the street with the neighbor kids, but we are the only family on the block that walks to the local park just outside of our neighborhood. We do walk to that park, but drive to the indoor play/swimming complex 2 miles away. So the rules of thumb in this article apply to my family, but not the others on my block.
> Heck you can say the same thing about the current US omnivorous diet. Most omnivores have problem getting sufficient nutrition (in the form of fruits, veg and Vit.D) in their diet. It's not that they can't get it, it's just that they are a little lazy.

Pretty much agree, but the kinds of nutrition omnivores lack are absurdly easy to get even by accident.

But then again, you had to put a nutritional tip in your post which is a perfect exemplar of what I was talking about. Considering how small a percent of the population Vegans are (1-3% I believe), the amount of nutritional advice available and needed by the average vegan to sustain such a diet is...voluminous to put it mildly.

Socially, it's also highly irritating to be around. Since most Vegans are converts to the life-style, it's like any other recent convert to a chosen life-style (religion, fitness, chosen computer platform, etc.), endlessly inserting it into every conversation and constant moral chastisement to self-justify the difficulties of their chosen life-style to those that honestly don't care in the least and have better things to do with their time.
I agree with the substance and that's why I said "I think the greater and more meaningful challenge would just be to get more people to think about what they're eating at all, regardless of what it is." I don't know and have never heard of anyone who was "accidentally vegan" - it's a choice brought about largely by an awareness, just like a Crossfitter, or anyone who makes being conscious of what they're eating a cornerstone of their lifestyle.
NoteShred v2 Is Out Now With Note Management and User Accounts
Words of different languages are often suggested for a ban, but fail the real-world test.

Countless languages borrow words from one another, especially names. For example, some people argue that calling Marie Skłodowska-Curie simply Curie misrepresents her character naïvely, as her name and country of birth were important to her. You could, of course, latinize it, but that gets you into trouble with the Turks and the Koreans and essentially all languages that had writing before the industrial age.
Microsoft "nmake" is unrelated to the AT&T-originated Unix "nmake", which you may be thinking of.

(people rarely even attempt nontrivial Makefiles that are portable between BSD and GNU makes though...)
What do you mean "patents we're generally forbidden to read"?

Patents are public domain.
The mayor is busy making speeches about how he's tough on crime. Things are gerrymandered enough that its a one party system where I live, so any speeches are a bit extreme, hoping to rise up in the party ranks, not appeal to anyone but extremists.

My little city has one of those tanks and used it down the street from my home a couple years ago. Couple broke up, guy goes out, gets drunk, comes home, mostly but not entirely passed out on couch, refuses to leave. There exists a deer hunting rifle in the closet, which never left the closet so far as I know, but she wanted him punished for his marriage transgression, so report goes out he's in the house, and there's a gun in the house. Next thing you know there's a swat team with a tank in the front lawn. Never turn down a good safe PR opportunity. Needless to say he's not leaving the house, he's not too happy about getting dumped and he's way too drunk to stand up anyway. They wait a couple hours until he passes out, then smash open the doors and windows and taze him repeatedly, pretty much just for fun, to be the bullies they are. Not the most inhumane thing imaginable but still pretty stomach churning to listen to his screams on the scanner. Those brave warriors sure had their "fun" with a semi-conscious unarmed drunk guy that day. Plenty of speeches later about defending the public and being tough on crime. This is not Detroit by the way... this is the second wealthiest suburb of what used to be the tenth largest city in the country (well, tenth largest a long time ago).

In the old days, the drunk driving would have been washed over, maybe, maybe not, and he'd cool off in the drunk tank overnight at jail. Probably a disturbing the peace ticket, unsure if the soon to be ex-wifey had a restraining order or not at that time. The modern way involves militaristic force and judge jury executioner style punishment. In all fairness the wifey got some punishment too as the cops smashed in "her" houses windows, and those aren't cheap.

I've also seen the tank used around town when serving warrants. It costs a lot to maintain, you need to use it as much as possible for budget justification. So here's your summons for skipping jury duty, delivered by APC. And I'm not kidding.

Its mostly an intimidation tool.
Show HN: Visual Product Roadmaps
Chromecast is still not available outside of the US. Come on, why no love for friendly Canada? :)
This is interesting and I always love urban planning discussions, but I feel there is something a little off about this. It seems to be suggesting that that reason people in non-urban areas are overweight / drive is because of dendritic street patterns, but those exist and are emblematic of a lower population density.

If you took my grandfather's fully rural town in the middle of Nebraska, there isn't much in the way of cul-de-sacs but people still drive everywhere because of - what seems to me - the more dominant issue of population density.
one of the few beauties of our government is that it is near impossible to pass laws with a divided congress. I'm a pretty passionate libertarian/conservative but having the dems control one house of congress isn't all that bad of a thing (from my viewpoint)