Wow, this might be one of the best and most promising projects I've seen here on HN. I like the design and the simplicity and I can really see me using it. Good luck with the project!
Ok, sorry if this question seems amateurish, but I don't quite understand this exploit. I went to my twitter page and it automatically posted a tweet, tried to send DMs etc. A lot of weird stuff was going on so I closed the tab immediately and looked for information on this.
Does it mean my account is somehow affected or is it just someone in my timeline who posted this exploit?
Edit: Maybe 'affected' is the wrong term. After reading the article again, I think this code just has to be in my timeline to work. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
download any non-web client (i suppose even mobile one will work, but non-javascript one), and remove all the messages that were posted by that script.
use non-web clients for reading and posting tweets for next day or two.
to be on a safe side, avoid using web version of client for several days, at least until it all gets figured out by twitter guys.
I wouldn't call it an "Apple PR centre". Most of the Apple related submissions recently are of critical nature (e.g. antenna issues, restrictions of the iPhone SDK). I agree, sometimes the Apple related share of stories on the front page is overwhelming, but you should also consider how many startups/developers depend on things happening around Apple.
For me it's not about getting the Apple news from HN, but following the (high level) discussions about them.
I would say Teambox is a twitter-like approach to project management. You can either refer your message to a specific conversation/task or just make a status update like "Working on xy". I have used Basecamp for years, and the main difference is, that Teambox is (in my opinion) better to stay on top of conversations. I've often found myself losing track of conversations in Basecamp because of new threads being opened and older threads moving to another page.
A few weeks ago, German newscasts aired some footage secretly recorded from a poultry farm that was a major supplier of one of the biggest (and well-known) meat processors in Germany.
The material really was disgusting: workers beating animals to death, throwing transportation boxes (thus, breaking the animals' bones) etc.
I'm not a hardliner-PETA-animal-rights-activist, but I think there is good reason to not naively believe those statements of companies like Smithfield.
I became a vegetarian before reading this book, but reading it only made me more convinced that to stop eating meat and fish was one of the best decisions in my life.
Factory farming is terrible. I would recommend that anyone interested in this find some local farmers and talk to them about how the raise their animals.
I can get local grass-fed beef for $4.50/lb that is from very happy cows. Expensive as hell but pretty much an ideal food.
Federal regulations play a role in this too. Anybody other than a factory farmer is at an immense disadvantage when it comes to meeting the often arbitrary and pointless regulations.
Check out "Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front" by Joe Salatin if you're interested.
Over here in Uruguay we have 18 million grass-fed cows (they live better than many persons!), probably as healthy as any you have ever eaten.
Yet, we have quotas on selling to the US, because they have to maintain the subsidies on farming (it doesn't make sense if growing cattle in the US is so much more expensive). And the EU is way worse than the US in its subsidies - I've seen cattle in Austria, it is VERY expensive to raise it there - of course you want to maintain some local livestock for strategic purposes if nothing else, but it is still extremely inefficient.
And I pay about U$ 1/lb for very good grass-fed beef :)
Tell me about it. I'm reading all these comments about 'expensive' beef at $5 pr lbs and simply shaking my head. Here in Sweden I have to pay double that, and that's for the lower end. If you want a really nice cut, double or triple it again.
In Australia, I regularly pay AUD30-35/kg for a decent cut of beef. I think that's about USD12/lb or more. I'd love to be able to get good stuff for $4.50/lb!
Perhaps they're treated better than humans, but in South America, the business of raising cattle has destroyed the rainforests specifically to sell cheap cattle to the US and the EU.
The whole book is informative and very depressing at the same time. However, I think we need to face reality and stop denying the wrongness of today's meat processing practices (at least those of factory farming).
As Paul McCartney puts it: "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."
Maybe I missed the point, but I thought that McCartney's point had to do with witnessing the distress (and the killing) of the animals, not with the specific practices.
So I thought that if you're willing to kill the animal yourself, then maybe you're able to condone the slaughterhouses even if you see them through a glass wall
(maybe it will diminish your appetite, though :P - I wouldn't want to see it while eating!).
I'm in the very exact situation like you. I also do not have a programming background and started to learn to program (Ruby) last fall. "Learn to Program" was also my starting point. Like you said in your blog, it is a decent book, but didn't get me very far. Being involved in a Rails project, the ultimate goal is to master Rails in a way that I can work on small features for our project. Right now, I'm kind of cross-reading "Heads First Rails" and "Beginning Ruby". "_why's poignant guide to Ruby" is also on my reading list, but more because of my fascination for _why.
One advice (from beginner to beginner) is to find yourself a good mentor. I've got to know a Rails programmer and he is helping me to get into Rails and giving me advice on good ways to work (using the command line etc) and how to solve problems in Rails.
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html