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You care so little that you felt compelled to comment on HackerNews about how little you cared? I find this level of vitriol (spite?) toward someone else's free service fascinating... as if no one else, ever, might find it valuable?
It's important to realize this is written from the perspective of an employer. For an employer, it is much more important that someone can easily take up the reins if something happens to you. From a companies perspective, it is best if their employees are easily replaceable. Employees that can't easily be replaced are expensive. They have the ability to command a higher salary and can force companies to do things they wouldn't otherwise do.

From the perspective of an employee, the company is forcing you to stagnate and become someone that is easily replaced. I don't blame anyone for being insulted by this. The company is advancing their own interests at the cost of their own.

Nobody enjoys being forced to do something. So while an employee forced to work in a certain way can be expected to be bent out of shape, so can an employer whose hand has been forced by an employee. The adage 'shit flows downhill' is true, and the intractable employee will soon find themselves swimming in it.

A company may decide to cut their losses early if you are actively making your position harder to fill. From their perspective, the longer they wait, the more deeply entrenched you become. Companies value reliability. They want someone they can count on. The same goes for people. If your manager doesn't feel they can trust you, if they are consistently afraid that you will embarrass them, then you are a liability to them. If you aren't outright fired, you will be kept on a very short leash.

There are a lot of benefits to toeing the company line, insulting as it may seem. Should you find yourself in the good graces of your manager (and by extension, the good graces of the company), you will enjoy a remarkable amount of autonomy. By being dependable (if not predictable), you gain job security and autonomy. You will find your suggestions are taken more seriously, as nobody is left to wonder what trick you have up your sleeve.

I totally understand where you are coming from. I am always looking for better tools for the job at hand. Companies move slow, and technology moves fast, and it's easy to be left behind if you move at the speed of the company. Ingratiating yourself to your company takes time too. It could be years before you get to use a new technology, at which point an even better tool shows up.

The company has the upper hand in this situation. Changes probably won't come quickly. If you find yourself in a position where you aren't happy with the way you are allowed to do your job, oftentimes the easiest way to solve the problem is to find a new job.
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Cameron's eagerness to seal the TTIP deal is rather unsurprising given that he'd likely sell his own mother for a pat on the back from the US. It's nice to see Obama keep his integrity on this one.

As for Hollande, I'm guessing he's attempting to appeal to France's strong cultural protectionism, in a last ditch effort to improve his ratings, as this is an unusually strong stance coming from him ("Flanby").

In either case, the TTIP deal seems like more of a political excuse than an actual effort to consider the deal thoroughly.

That said, I'm glad somebody is standing up to it, even if the motivation is questionable. France isn't the most corporate-friendly country, so it'll be interesting to see what changes are proposed, if any.
I'm not sure about the bounds sanitiser, but the address sanitiser is not meant to be used as a hardening mechanism and allows trivial exploits:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/363
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I didn't hold it up as an ideal. I held up the middle class experience there as an example of what happens when labor isn't scarce.

You seem to think I'm endorsing having very few goods and services. I'm not. On the contrary, I oppose policies like BI which will reduce goods and services available.
Don't forget about taxes. Interest on that 6% loan get's deducted from your income which is an arguable subsidy. Alternatively, you also avoid paying taxes on your S&P returns.

In many cases solar is really close to a no brainier. Which is why Florida Utility's have tried so hard to block residential adoption.
> Mice don't play soccer, compose symphonies, do crosswords, watch TV, etc. In other words, we're considerably better filling our leisure time than they are.

Yup, all those bored teens and violent criminals are going to be playing crossword puzzles and composing symphonies all day now that their rent is paid and bellies are full.

I gotta get out of this thread. I may be bitter and pessimistic about humans, but you people are beyond delusional if you think free money solves more social problems than it creates.

Edit: Don't forget that all those bored inner-city teens, who no longer have a reason to go to school (they're gonna get a lifetime of free money and free stuff, after all), now have zero education. We can't keep half of them in school today, what's going to make them stop in the free money future? And they're going to breed even dumber kids. A few generations of this and you have caused devolution and lost everything human civilization has worked to achieve. Bad, bad, bad. Collapse-worthy bad.
Right, because your growth as an engineer trumps the company's concerns over having a stable code base.

I can't count the number of times I've had to give some variation on this speech to junior engineers of one stripe or another: The company does not exist to give you cool things to hack on. The company exists to provide a product or service to its customers, from whom it collects revenue, in order to repay its investors, pay its employees and suppliers, and hopefully also make a profit. To the extent playing with cool, new, whiz-bang furthers those goals, it will happen, but whiz-bang is neither necessary nor sufficient for those goals. In fact, whiz-bang for its own sake can often be inimical to those goals.

Also, nice false dichotomy.
Chuck's sibling reply is spot on, but something else you must realize is that both renewables and energy storage are only going to get cheaper.

This means if utilities attempt to squeeze people with solar on their roof, they will simply move to batteries eventually. This already makes sense, today, in Hawaii (where the local utility was stalling on additional grid tie capacity, and with their per kwh rates so high, is was cheaper to go off grid). The more people who move off grid, the less people the utility can spread its costs across, increasing the rates for those remaining (which then rapidly incentives those people to move off grid).

This is called "the utility death spiral". Its a very real possible outcome, and utilities are aware of it. [+]

[+] http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/this-is-what-the...
Three issues - in the winter the days are shorter, the weather is cloudy and it's cold at night. So maybe you could do something with storage heaters, but I'm not feeling optimistic.
Web browsers use modern C++ and still have security issues. It's a step forward, but not a panacea.
Took me a second, but now I get what you're saying. :)
And that's something that you can use as a JavaScript engine in Rails, thanks to ExecJS (https://github.com/rails/execjs) and Duktape.rb (https://github.com/judofyr/duktape.rb).
I think the author meant that electric cars won't pollute the immediate neighborhood in which they are being driven
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He is, which is a concern about the project's livability!
I'm afraid that based on what you said, it only made it clearer that this wasn't an issue with the ecosystem but with that particular developer. I don't really see how you can extrapolate that this was the node ecosystem's fault, when you have a developer that is trying to implement SQL on top of NoSQL and pull in a gigabyte of dependencies for an embedded platform. If a C++ developer was trying to implement the app on top of MongoDB's source code, that says more about the developer then about C++ and its ecosystem.

I might concede that the node ecosystem does have a disproportionate number of people with this mindset though :)

By the way, cross-compilation is also an option, although I haven't personally tried it:

https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3/issues/249

A plus would be that only native modules have to be compiled, and only once. After that its possible to set up downloading them as binary blobs.

You got me curious about the application, by the way. If you let me know what it does, it might be fun to try and implement a prototype in node (with sane dependencies and easy to deploy on a RPi)
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How does something generating revenue automatically make it immoral or unacceptable?

Pharmaceutical companies generate their revenue from selling drugs. That doesn't make selling drugs illegal.

Nobody is getting tricked by ABP. For one thing, their homepage literally says "unobtrusive ads aren't being blocked in order to support websites" right above the install button. [0] Moreover, even if a user were to install it and still saw ads they would realize that it's not in fact blocking all ads.

Since you apparently hate capitalism, I'm curious how you're paid.

[0] https://adblockplus.org/
For Gtk3 apps it works reasonably well (it scales text, but not buttons, widgets, etc). There's nothing you can do with Gtk2, Qt4 apps though (other than changing font size).
Another fuzzer, quite amazing one actually (it managed to create PNG/JPEG images from fuzzing).

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
Well it's about as "logical" as saying it's okay to kill people while in the army, so it must be okay to kill people in any other situation too.
With the exception of my London address.
It's so hard for me to suggest people get a chromebook. I've had mine for close to two years and still find myself avoiding using it at all costs.

It's fine for writing on but that's really it.
Fair point.

There's some background here which might be relevant. Another extension, AdBlock, used to have a policy against "acceptable ads." The author sought donations to keep development going, but later sold the business (and the users!) to an entity that immediately started allowing such ads through.

Maybe the author of uBlock Origin wants to make it clear that this can't happen here.
It was not originally in the title.
How much did it run?
But even then i would get a 4K external monitor and save the GPU/CPU cycles and battery life on the laptop. Being hunched over a laptop all day is probably a lot worse than having a lower res display in the end, so if we are talking ergonomics, better get a external 4K screen.
> No advertising, anywhere, at any time, under any circumstances, regardless of the content, or how badly a site depends on it, is acceptable to users of ad blockers.

I'm a user of an ad blocker (ABP). Don't put words in my mouth.

I believe in compensating creators for their content and would rather compensate them with my time than my money.

Don't lump everyone into your political agenda.
The UK press likes to sprinkle its satire around fairly liberally & TheRegister goes for the full bore approach: Every article there is partially satire.
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Since I don't have retina experience beyond cellphones, my 22" 1920x1080 is tolerable - on Windows. On Linux, oh boy..
Not sure, we tried Firechat among friends and family on the last aftermath of an earthquake and some had problems installing or activating it. Also, it just drains the battery. However, I agree with you, the technology to circumvent centralized and censored communications is already there, it just needs adoption and improvement. But we need to think bigger, not only chats, we need a free Internet.
The developer position is more of an "we are always looking for good developers" rather than a specific job posting, but send me your resume anyway if you are interested.
But the cost of subsidies are spread out across all taxpayers, while carbon taxes mostly affect polluters, who will lobby against it.

I think you're right, but one option is politically easier than the other.
> In many cases solar is really close to a no brainier. Which is why Florida Utility's have tried so hard to block residential adoption.

This is actually turning into a hollow victory for Florida utilities. To bring people up to speed, Florida outlawed homeowner PPAs [1] (which locks out firms like Solar City, who install the panels and sell you power; no out of pocket cost for you, and you get solar immediately).

With the rapid decrease in panel costs, and the uptick in firms who are providing extremely cheap (or even zero percent loans in some programs!) financing for solar, Solar City (and other installers) are moving towards a financing model, which kills Florida's efforts to stop the spread of distributed rooftop solar.

Disclaimer: I did some volunteer work for the non-profit who attempted to fight utility legislation in this space [2].

[1] http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/jan/16/flo...

[2] http://www.flsolarchoice.org/
It's unfortunate that most the public isn't aware of how important forest fires are. Humans suppressing forest fires cause more damage in the long run.

As far as I understand, fires essentially burn up the dead bits on the ground. When it happens naturally, the fires don't hurt the trees. But humans stop areas from burning and the dead bits build up and burn hotter, setting the trees ablaze and then we get these crazy forest fires. We just need to let them burn on their own, it'll sort itself out.

I hear this all the time from people I work with, Forestry department at a University.
The core learning method in biological neurons is believed to be something like STDP (Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity). Basically, the arrival time of a spike at the post-synaptic end of a neuron is compared to the arrival time of a spike at the pre-synaptic end. The sign and scale of the difference of arrival times will cause a change in the respective synaptic strengths.

It has similarities to backprop, and depends on backpropagated signals but backprop is simpler, faster and can exploit knowledge about the loss function (as far as we know STDP cannot). The downside (?) to backprop is that it cannot exploit temporal information like STDP but several recurrent models have found ways around that.
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Look at the fun that Gawker [0] has had. Granted they're not as highbrow as the New York Times or Wall Street Journal. I haven't heard of recent stories of the NYT or WSJ backing down, but they are now very corporate, and make P&L decisions.

There was a time when newspapers took higher moral stands, but now it's more about P&L decisions.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/02/media/hulk-hogan-gawker-seco...
I don't know of any good books, sorry! There's plenty of helpful stuff on the web, though it can be hard to sift through. Personally I think just trying to write the code is the best way to learn.
"new money" is not, or ever, given to anyone. Banks included. The U.S. gov basically sells promissory notes (treasuries) to an independent, non governmental organization (The Federal reserve...which is not "federal" in the least bit..) on behalf of the American people. Although the fed is more or less offering a note at x price and the U.S. Treasury just buys it...

Anybody is allowed to buy bonds from the U.S. Treasury. In exchange, you get the "new money" as you call it. At no one point is anything given to the banks or asset holders.

The interest rate is determined by the rate the fed sets and buys these notes from the US T. This is the key and primary tool at which a PRIVATE, non-governmental organization, determines interest rates. However..you can also buy these notes directly from the Fed. China does all the time along with many other countries. Yes...other countries hold the "debt" of the American people... If that's not crazy enough...it gets better. This organization..the Fed...gets to tell banks how much to hold in required reserves. Another primary tool they use to control inflation.
The news is how badly HP is gasping for air.
She mentions this directly- trying to find schedule appropriate projects that allow for prototyping and exploration.
Not without having fuzzy text. I explained it once on reddit:

> Is there any difference between FHD monitor and WQHD in FullHD mode?

Yes, there is. WQHD is 2560x1440 pixels. If you set your resolution to half that (in width and height) it is 1280x720 (2560/1280=2, 1440/720=2). In that case every software pixel is represented by 4 physical pixels (2x2) and we are fine. If you set resolution to 1920x1080 (FHD): 2560/1920 = 1.33, 1440/1080=1.33 . And we know there is no 1.33 physical pixel! So the image becomes distorted and looks bad.
She notes that she has a tendency to require that the solution work her way when coding.

I wonder if she realizes she's doing the same when working with people's problems? Almost all of those solutions end with, "do it my way or get out."

Not a collaborative coder? No room for you here. Not a people person? No room for you here. Want to use the latest technologies? No room for you here.

For someone who wrote an entire blogpost about the benefits of troublemakers and how to integrate them, she doesn't seem very willing to actually work with them, just to make them work for her.
There are a lot of good replies here regarding the economics, but they've all missed a rather simple and glaring cause of the disparate price: a house was a far simpler construction back then. In 1300, most houses were single story, single room buildings. The walls were simple wattle and daub (i.e. mud and sticks) supported by a frame consisting of a few rough hewn beams of timber. Metal tools were scarce and expensive, so the timber would be split using wedges and sunk directly into the ground (no foundations or basement). There were no chimneys or fireplaces, perhaps only a hole in the thatched roof above a simple stone hearth. The floors would be packed dirt covered in rushes.

A house like that wouldn't meet any of the minimum legal requirements for fire code or habitability in any modern society. Not by a long shot. They're much less comfortable, safe, fire resistant, well lit, large, insulated, private, secure against intruders, and hygienic than modern homes. There's no plumbing or electricity.

All of the raw materials were freely available from the land within half a day's walk of the house. No need to mine iron ore from Australia, ship it to China to refine into steel and shape into hinges. Just tie a rough board over the doorway with a leather thong. And this kind of house could be thrown up in a day or two by a relatively small group of laborers who wouldn't need any specialized skills not generally shared by all members of the peasant classes.

They would also hold up less well to harsh weather, requiring more frequent repair and replacement than a modern house. You could expect near total depreciation on the order of 5-10 years, much more comparable to a modern car than a modern home.

Lastly, demand for urban housing and land was significantly lower in the 14th century. This era far precedes the development of native British textile manufacturing, the first urbanized large scale industry in England that created a demand for centralized labor pools. Most large cities were cathedral or market towns, meaning they were centers for intermittent trading or religious activities, not fixed industrial production areas requiring large warehouses or factory buildings or large labor pools. Thus the populations were extremely small, only amounting to perhaps 10% of the total population of medieval England. York, for example, had a population of around 20,000 in 1300. Land and housing was correspondingly cheaper.

So: (1) significantly lower quality product, (2) much lower raw material and labor costs, (3) faster depreciation of value, and (4) lower demand all contributed to a significantly lower price than in the modern era.

You may hate this world, but believe me, if you knew how people lived in 1300 in York, you wouldn't want to buy a house there.
Power stations are much much more efficient than that tiny ICE engine in a gas car... even including transmission losses.

Furthermore, decoupling the (potentially) pollution production of energy with the emissions at the tailpipe allow situations where power production can be slowly transitioned to cleaner while gaining an immediate pollution reduction local to the vehicles (in city center).
Presumably those laws were put in place because somebody benefits from them. Possibly somebody who makes campaign donations.

In that case, the government may technically be able to solve the problem in a way that's better for everyone, but not willing to, as the politicians who make the change could lose their campaign donations or their seats.
Really? Do you code for a living? I ask because I am a technical marketer at a startup (i.e., I have to read some code, but mostly my work is done inside Gmail and Google Docs) and could totally work fine on a low-end Chromebook when my Thinkpad was out for a week in repair.
My bet is that Gavin was payed for his statement.
> it doesn't make any sense that Satoshi wouldn't reveal his own identity in the first place

If I were disrupting the banking industry, I wouldn't be too eager to forgo anonymity either. That's a lot of money that stands to be lost for some already very rich people.
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Well a very large percentage of Londoners aren't permitted to have contact with dogs so I think you should reconsider what you're trying to subliminally say.
That's the idea with the Power Wall, https://www.teslamotors.com/powerwall
Unless that's what you're pointing out
hey! Creator of gratefulness here!

haha sorry about the glitch. not sure what's going on.

But as to what this whole gratitude thing is: I initially put this together for my little cousin who's been having a really rough go of it over the past few years. We'd been talking about how to stay mindful of the things we're grateful for. I offered up the idea of a gratitude journal but that didn't stick.

So I told him I'd put together a quick app that would text him every morning. He could respond to the text and I'd store it (privately!) for him. At the end of the week, I'd email him a recap of that weeks gratitude comments.

That worked much better for him! I sent it out to family and friends and over the past 5 weeks or so, we've been getting some positive responses.

In short, it's just a simple gratitude journal to help stay grateful!