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All of us share this planet and it's resources. Particularly the atmosphere and climate. There is a finite capacity of the atmosphere to absorb greenhouse gases. As the concentration of greenhouse gases rises in the atmosphere, our planet's climate patterns destabilize with the increased energy trapped on Earth leading to rising temperatures. The number one way to avoid this is to tax carbon emissions such as burning rainforests and fossil fuels. The revenues from this tax can act as subsidies to entities that choose to protect forests and preserve resources. Reimbursements could be disbursed to countries like Indonesia whose rainforests have an important impact on carbon fixation. This type of market on pricing of greenhouse gases would help get emissions out of the atmosphere and back into sentient organisms like trees and plants, from there the animals that depend on them.

Palm oil should be taxed per the burn. We can calculate the aggregate impacts of this burning. Why not quantify a cost on these industries for abusing our common good? We all share this planet. The destabilization of it due to climate change from carbon emissions in unjust to all citizens of Earth, regardless of country. We should take a stand and push for a price on carbon, a price to burn.
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Bloomberg is a really targeted news institution on which people rely for not comedy but financial information. It's reflected in the fees you pay to get access to their terminals, it's reflected in their promos, and even the corporations who select to advertise with them know they're trying to hit a target reader. Usually, that reader is not someone looking for a comic laugh.

Imagine pulling up a Linux news site and seeing something that's funny to someone who is in marketing because of some wacky antics. You went there to see what sort of critical patches need to be administered, but instead you saw "What happened when I tried to install Linux on my leather shoes!".

I'm upset because context is important. Especially for news outlets which are called the fourth estate for a reason. When I turn on PBS Newshour I don't want 50 minutes of Paris Hilton. If they re-oriented an entire episode to cover Paris Hilton just to get more viewers (equivalent of click-bait), I'd be equally upset. I'm not calling anyone here stupid, but this clearly is not news.

"This post was entertaining" -- that's my whole problem. Bloomberg is a news outlet. Jon Stewart went on the O'Reilly factor and eloquently articulated the problem with select subsets of media (oversimplified to "to fill 24 hours of content, some outlets have resorted to silly antics to increase/retain viewership rather, rather than do what they're supposed to -- report the news). This article was under "News" not "Op/ed".

RE: parties, again, context. I don't engage in pedantry there, because one can generally categorize that form of interaction as "social" rather than "news/informative". At which point, I politely engage in small talk until I find something they like which I find interesting (whether its model aircrafts or modern farming, I can find something interesting to talk about with anyone generally).
What's a "natural rate of progress"? I think that's a strawman. Massive deforestation is not a new thing, nor is hunting and destroying the habitats of species to extinction. Nor does it necessarily have anything to do with Western civilization.

Like I said, obviously, colonialism is bad, m'kay. But, if you're going to impose a colonial administration, you can't just pull up stakes and remove the bulk of the machinery and personnel of the old administration, and expect things to work out well. I think we have at this point plenty of evidence that turning the keys over to a former colonial population that hasn't nurtured parliamentary ideals and institutions is as likely to end in warlordism, genocide, rampant corruption and repression, as a functioning, liberal state.

Also, the administration of V.O.C. and subsequent Dutch colony had as long a continuous existence as any of the petty sultanates and warlords that exploited the area before them. It's not like it was a bed of roses for the common man or woman living under the rule of the pre-colonial native kingdoms.
They do mention it. They suggest that those types of ailments are increasing, but not at a pace that would explain these deaths.

"...the study clearly shows they are not the result of diseases such as lung cancer or diabetes, which are declining and increasing slowly, respectively."
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/709422/another-woman-killed-in-...

China can't even make an escalator or elevator safe. I'm ethnically chinese, but I wouldn't set a foot on a chinese plane.
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>but hell, you wouldn't claim your country has no beggar if there's someone in the streets picking up cardboard and begging for money, would you?

Yes, they would.
> A direct competitor exploited the free OSS version, hurting our bottom line.

It's not "exploiting" to use the license as offered.

Why not use a FOSS license that prevents this? For instance, why not use GPL, at which point you could sell licenses for use in proprietary apps? With the right licensing structure, you wouldn't even need a CLA.
They are examining trends in morbidity data. Presumably, those causes of death did not show the same rise that is shown in the causes of death that they are calling attention to.

That is, the paper would mention it if the population in question had seen an unusual rise in deaths from cardiovascular diseases and cancers.
> "Statically generated JSON resources" implies client-side rendering, and I suspect you'd find some disagreement over whether that's really static.

> If the JS running on the client has to fetch many such resources and stitch them together, then it's functionally equivalent to a standard dynamic website and shares many of its drawbacks.

Whilst you're talking about extremes (e.g. rendering a page using Javascript), it seems to me that the most abundant use for AJAX-style approaches on static sites is when there are a few "value added" parts which rely on a DB. For example, a static blog with Disqus comments.

As other commenters have noted, the ability to push bits and pieces of functionality into JS has tipped the balance in many cases, e.g. from "if you want comments, it'll all have to be done in PHP" to "there's no point rendering this on demand, we can do the dynamic bits in JS".
I don't believe "rational" should be conflated with "ideal." Some people have pain inflicted upon them for longer and harder than their tolerance for pain allows. It is not irrational for those poor souls, if all other possible options have been exhausted, to consider and then execute suicide.

In my mind, the people who chose to jump out of windows of the Twin Towers, instead of being engulfed by rapidly encroaching flames, made the only rational choice available at the time.
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Exactly.

There's a spectrum of evaluation strategies from eager to lazy. Programs may mix various flavors.

Lazy evaluation combined with memoization is a sexy and elegant approach to some problems, as are dynamic web sites. On the other hand, whenever possible to do so, it's hard to beat the speed and simplicity of handing over a precomputed answer like "42".

A (very loose) analogy:

Static generation of HTML is roughly like using Lisp macros to evaluate some things before runtime (at "expand time" or "compile time").

The resulting transformed code could be a simple literal like "<html> ... </html>". Or the code might need further evaluation at runtime -- which is roughly like the precomputed HTML containing JavaScript to do things at runtime.
What one should do, if one was a politician with the power to do so, is less.
Agreed, but a lot of this is just arguing over what "diet" means.

Short-term dietary changes (sometimes just called "diets") do not work -- at least not for a long time. Long-term dietary changes (i.e. changes to your "diet") work for a long time.
Oh. I stand corrected! Sorry about that.
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Post-Colonial Institutions are the perfect successor of Colonial Administrations.

The nature of the beast is often misunderstood.

The main horror of colonialism was not foreign control.
The main horror of colonialism was its absolute authoritarianism and the administrative rule that was used to enforce it.

It's really odd to think any human being with that level of absolute authority could be somehow begnin.
And the author doesn't even have to write the book for free. They could perfectly use a distribution platform focused on self-publishing (I mentioned GitBook and Leanpub in a different comment). A good strategy would be to start writing the book and make it available in pre-order/beta for whatever amount ($20 maybe). It would probably take longer than 3 months to write since the author would have to work on the side, but so what? I'm not aware of a programming focused author who can actually cover their living expenses simply by writing.
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Larry may be right on some points, but given his past support for and architecting of deregulation of the U.S financial system (including the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act) while he was in the Clinton admin., along with support for the disastrous privatization of the economies of the Post-Soviet states that's lead to massive human suffering and political failure, as well as gambling with Harvard's endowment and losing the school $1.8 billion, triggering layoffs and budget slashing, I think we'd do well to find advice from those with a less predictable and disastrous track record.
Anyone remember Noah Grey's "Grey Matter"?

It was an inspiration to what became WordPress

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greymatter_(software)
Airbus is based in France, but it's actually an European consortium, with manufacturing facilities across the continent (and in China).
Nobody is going to sue a single farmer for doing 10$ worth of damage spread across the entire globe.
If Apple really believed in their customers' privacy, the could:

- Just stop selling the phones in the UK.

- Sell breakable phones in the UK, but explicitly mention that they are no as private as iPhones sold elsewhere in the world, and that "we really don't think you should buy these."
I once took a university course called "Chemical Equilibrium" which required some lab time. The labs were about examining solutions with unknown ions and figuring out what they were. A common tool in doing so is by bubbling hydrogen sulfide gas through the solution, which will cause the precipation of certain cations.

Needless to say, we were warned about the dangers of H2S, and told that if it ever escaped the fume hood we would know immediately by the smell and should evacuate the premises before we succumbed to olfactory fatigue and poisoned ourselves. Another fun gas used in the same course was HCN. All in all, A very solid lesson in not fooling around outside the fume hood, and from the anecdote above a possibly life saving lesson which can't be said for most university courses...

For those who do not know, H2S is also a key part of the vile smell in flatulence, so strictly speaking it's a rather common substance in nature albeit in "safe" concentrations.
Surprisingly, wheaty foods. I was not a very nice person in the mornings for decades, because my face hurt. I thought that is what being tired felt like. My old roommate still mentions that I'm a grumpy morning person because that is all she ever knew.

Then I stopped eating wheat and I stopped feeling like someone punched me in the front side of the head. It was truly bizarre. I had no idea.
Seems promising!
I wonder how long would it take to be available in other countries as well ..
Heh, I meant from a technical perspective :)
that is so not true. the benefits of globalization and such benefit all. the cost in hours of work you to buy most common goods continue to go down. even many services have dropped in real hours cost for people because the equipment needed and supply chain over all has seen reduced cost.

that trite line is great for politics but not for anyone who thinks for themselves
Because vigilante justice is usually defined as people taking legal authority for themselves because they feel the government's authority or response is lacking. If there is no government to define this by, then it is not vigilante justice and starts to delve more into natural rights. Think of a remote village with no semblance of what we would describe as a modern government, they still deal with problems in their own way. You wouldn't call them vigilantes.
If you're looking for a static site generator that's as easy to use as Wordpress, you could consider using Wordpress. Wordpress caching plugins can generate static HTML which then gets served to visitors directly by Apache or Nginx, without hitting PHP at all.
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Perhaps instead of giving cheap money to the banks so they can make a profit at our expense, we could give the money to the people so they can use it the 'best' way for them (save, spend, pay off debt etc)
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I appreciate your post!

I do agree that awk, grep etc. are extremely good tools, and you rarely run into real annoyances with them (actual scientific software is a completely different bag of problems that suffers from different problems). Still, there's lots of room for improvement even in the good tools [1] and I feel like it's easy to stop thinking about the problem space, and shut out others who don't immediately grok what's going and why you've now run "apt-get update" instead of "apt-get upgrade". Many posts in this thread show that attitude.

I do think at some point we'll get easier systems - git has now overtaken cvs in popularity so these tools aren't set in stone, even though both aren't easy to understand for beginners, git is just more powerful. I see people write tiny Python scripts instead of using bash-tools to manipulate folders and files, I think that is a case of taking up a tool because it's easier to use. Are there other tools that are slowly fading out? I feel like awk is on the way out but that may be my echo-chamber.

>We do our industry a grave disservice by not teaching this stuff somewhere in our education system.

I fully agree - I think that some hands-on programming, understanding and refactoring experience is much more important than knowing how to write the code to keep a b-tree balanced. The first is something you have to do every few weeks - the latter is something you do only once or twice, if ever (even though it's a cool application of recursive thought). The first will make you a more valuable member of the workforce.

[1] One example: when I teach people git I struggle to show the man-pages because nothing in there makes sense until you've truly understood how git works under the hood
Search for the word Go on the internet is next to impossible.

Using the label gogame or baduk I think are adequate solutions. Also a go board is referred to as a goban.
If only they had oil...
Forgot to say that these numbers are rarely ever mentioned by the mainstream media (MSM), not to spoil the back-slapping narrative of politicians and their sycophants "See? We stabilized the economy and saved you from a depression" (at the cost of $1T new debt/year).
I wrote a maven plugin to put all the markdown files together. I use iA Writer as the UI.
The problem is centralisation. As most email users move to the 3 or 4 large providers, the incentives for those providers to care about email delivery to the smaller players is reduced.

Having run my own mail server for about 20 years now, I can absolutely confirm that this is a big problem and getting worse all the time.

Gmail is in my experience the worst. And my IP is on no blacklists as far as I can tell. Mail just gets silently dropped, and I only find out about it when my sister gets confused when I ask her why she hasn't responded to my mail.
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Painful to read. Addiction lives in a gray area of free will. Although people make bad decisions and we all need to own our mistakes, there is a good chance that most of the time you were just along for the same crappy ride as your family and friends. You are in the unfortunate position of having to bear the brunt of the guilt.
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Demo in Firefox 42 didn't identify a single site as "probably visited," so I'm not sure what to make of that. Did it work for anyone else?
When Healthcare.gov was first built, before the "enroll in insurance" feature launched and failed, it was a static site managed by a Github-based editor called Prose.io.

https://developmentseed.org/blog/new-healthcare-gov-is-open-...

https://developmentseed.org/blog/2012/june/25/prose-a-conten...

I have not used prose.io, but the company that built it, Development Seed, is strong. You might have heard of one of their other projects: Mapbox.

I have no idea if prose.io is being currently maintained. Development Seed was in the middle of transitioning to doing Mapbox full time, and Healthcare.gov was their "one last" consulting project. By all accounts their work on the static part of the site was great, but was totally overshadowed by the failure of the enrollment feature.
Taking issue with a book he wrote two decades ago doesn't mean hating him. He's one of my favorite thinkers.
github is the way to go. You will get more users and contributors if you do.
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I like to think that some day when the main currency is energy rather than money, one of the primary things it is exchanged for is attention. Seems to me that these are the most fundamental scarce resources that need to be managed sustainably.

Attention bonds would combine perfectly with cryptocurrencies to provide a general basis for contracts. Perhaps it could make for an honest ad business!
I originally thought this was a bad idea, then changed my mind. I was going to contribute to the fork but decided not to. What sealed it was several competitors to RoboVM emailed me directly after seeing my posts in the RoboVM fork message boards begging me to help them. No one wants to pay for anything anymore. RoboVM made the right decision.
The only rational argument to promote both suicide prevention for some and suicide assistance for others, is that simply the lives of some people are more valuable than the lives of others.

While in certain 'lifeboat scenarios' that brutal calculus must be undertaken, in general I am uncomfortable telling a class of people the should want to die and another class they should not.
It's just a bad logo. And why did they not use their Twitter avatar in their Google consumer survey? The image they used does not look like underpants.
I use MiddleMan as a static site generator for a page hosted on my raspberry pi: http://pi.tafkas.net

As I am more of a python guy I wonder if there is a similar (as in not primarily for blogging) generator for python?
I love the people from Phusion and their products. Building an open source business involves many tradeoffs and it is great to see them articulated. I know that they are watching HN so feel free to leave questions in the comments.
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I mean no disrespect here when I say that I have tried IRC anywhere and it is quite good, but as I'm sure you're aware the code maintainability is limited at best. There are workarounds, hacks and shortcuts taken here and there. Im not saying a full rework would be required but there are some of the fundamental issues to be taken care of.

If a team was willing to take it over (should the current owner allow), it would require a substantial investment of time.

Would the current owner // maintainer be open to the possibility of monetisation of a particular feature set // plugin system ? Something like own-cloud, whereby you could purchase a monetisation version to which you could have paying clients on your deployment.

While the free version would not have this particular feature.

Thoughts ?

Edit: The paid feature may also have the associated mobile app also etc. You'd be surprised the interest and community you would accumulate with a financial incentive.
Totally agreed. Hence the comparison with graduate school: you often have to work other jobs to support the effort, you've got a dream you'll make it big, you realize the toll it's taking on your life, and you probably stop doing it eventually. Even if you "make it," you're probably not a top model (a prof at Princeton) but instead a commercial model (prof at directional state U or small Midwestern religious school). Below the top tier, the work is not what you were sold on in grad school, but you do get to make money doing something you kind of or really like. (Please quit if you don't like it at all.)

Even American literature has way better job security and pension prospects than modeling, though.
those areas are much emptier.
and I guess the fact SEA is mostly islands doesn't help either.
I think the original point was that suicide is not always a sign of mental illness.
> ... playing host to a herd of feral cats.

A group of cats is called a clowder... or a glaring :)
Agreed entirely. It's not impossible for the media outlets to obliquely admit this (either via articles like the OP or other "wow this economy sucks" style articles) but getting an article which synthesizes both the cause and the effect into one package is hard because it's perceived as pessimistic and contrary to the "the US economy is strong" propaganda.

People feel that things were better 10 years ago. They were still getting squeezed then, too, but it wasn't nearly as bad as today. I predict that suicide/mental illness rates for people entering their 30s are quite poor right now as well, given the student loan burden and lack of traction regarding jobs or wealth generation.
That makes sense, thanks for the explanation!
My OCD now wants an aircraft manufacturer starting with a D.

Airbus-Boeing-Comac-D????-Embraer.

Who wants the D?
I think this is a rather significant change.
Whereas before a favorite was the equivalent of a bookmark now it is more in line with the Facebook like or Instagram 'heart'.
This is a clear push for more engagement.
I personally like it. But I would still like to keep an option for bookmarking/read later (i.e. how I use the favorite button now).
Also in Spain, Vauxhall motors tried to sell the Nova model which was popular in the UK.

... until someone local pointed out that 'nova' means 'doesn't go' in Spanish (roughly).
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Someone has to maintain the blacklist, I don't think it matters whether they do so using free software or not.

The other issue, not raised by this article (probably because the author hasn't hit that problem yet) is that some providers like gmail seem to flag things as spam just because the sending server is unknown. At least, I have mail being put into spam folders for gmail users even though my servers are on no blacklists. And no, I don't make a habit of sending enticing offers for "FREE V1agr4!!1"
"There is no excuse for not testing something as significant as a new logo on a large, global audience"

There is one excuse. When you are small it makes more sense to ship something and fix it later, than invest time and money in surveying everything. Especially if your "market research " won't be done on a property representative group anyway.

Edit: it's an interesting read though.
> Go should just be labeled Gogame in contrast to Golang.

At the same time, there's something amusing about the idea that a six year-old programming language should cause a 2000 year old game to change its name.
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What else influences your intent to purchase? Peer referrals? User Guides? Infographics?