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A couple of stories about about toxic sites have hit the front page this weekend, both associated with metal mining operations.

Makes me wonder what the environment is like around the mines producing metals for batteries in the so-called "green" hybrid and electric vehicles.
Just to clarify: I have lived in GB before, and I wasn't expressing my opinion based on my experience with IBM. I do not work as a consultant in IBM, nor do I know particularly well how they do business (or their rates) in that department.
I'm aware of Firefox mobile, but it isn't installed on my devices. How does Mozilla expect to gain users (and search revenue) on these platforms if they can't even convince power users like me? This time they're competing against built-in browsers that are as competent and secure as what they're offering.
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I came to write this. It's a nice experiment anyways.
No, it's not. The core of why we disagree is your bizarre double standard. There are no circumstances under which I would find a corporation's proprietary use of BSD code more socially acceptable than a GPL project's open-source use of BSD code.

This is a fundamental disagreement of principles, not a disagreement about proper enforcement mechanisms. You and I have utterly different views of what the "OSS social contract" is even about, much less says.
This was done as a student project and I would leave to get some feedback. There is also an android app here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mathisonian.androi...
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Google Voice Search has been around well before Siri, it's not news that Google is moving in that direction and voice search has been available on my phones for a long time now (not only from Google).
Just because Apple markets yet another technology as new and unprecedented doesn't mean it is, sorry.

Just for you to know: https://market.android.com/search?q=voice+search&so=1...
Most of the apps there are older than Siri.

Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGbYVvU0Z5s from what i can tell (i neither use voice search nor have an iphone), this looks essentially the same ..
Tempest in a teacup. The mascot of one of the largest Catholic universities in the world, DePaul, is a blue demon. Unlike FreeBSD, the Catholic school teams are actually called The Blue Demons.

There's nothing you can do about stupid people. They're always going to find something to object to.
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Very interesting story. Even so many of the tales might be misrepresented it is still fascinating how winners and looser try to construct different narratives of the same "facts".
Are you really intending to imply that the majority of religious people would support eliminating the BSD daemon logo? Because that's obviously not true.

There are ~300MM in the US. If just 0.1% of them are nutty enough to pitch a fit over a cartoon character, that's still three hundred thousand nuts we have to deal with.

Meanwhile, the majority of US adults self-report as Christian. Most of these people are not nuts about depictions of demons, as evidenced by the fact that they aren't protesting DePaul (the largest Catholic university in the country) for naming their sports team "The Blue Demons".
I understand that Hubot is more framework than finished product. My point is that when I am evaluating whether to implement it fir the company I work for vs spending time and resources on some other side project, I am having a hard time making a case for this particular framework.

As for production vs dev: Hubit is either your tool for deploying code or it is not. If there are many ways to deploy the same piece of code you are doing it wrong. Now consider being the Ops guy who has to deploy a critical security fix and Hubot took a cigarette break because it never started properly or some other bug in the code caused it to fail.
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Marsh, there are evangelical Christian families who happily dress their kids up as devils for Halloween. This simply isn't about religion; it's about the fact that in a society of 300 million people, even a teeny tiny percentage of crazy people is still a lot of people, and you're bound to run into some of them.
Ryanair is good for on time travel (advertising 90%+ on time flights last year, which, according to them beats all other carriers) but nothing more.

Their staff will give you bullshit for anything over the limit, be it size or weight, no matter how minor. They actually walk around the line with carton boxes and put bags in to see if they fit. Their up-sale tactics are ugly too, if you forget your earphones during the flights - be prepared to listen to advertisements which start while you're still on the ground and continue every couple of minutes.

The planes - Boeing 737-800 are shit compared to, for example Airbus A320 (which another cheap flight firm operates, called wizzair). Massive difference in cabin noise and air pressure support - you don't feel a thing in your ears when landing with A320, head exploding every time I take the 737. Please note this is not a comparison of plane manufacturers, I believe these two plane models are fairly different in their age and technologies used to manufacture - I'm merely stating that Ryanair uses worse planes than other cheap flight firms.
I'd think it's typically not the land itself that they really want, it's the resources. If a Seastead were to become established and wealthy, you can bet it would eventually come under threat of attack.
Agreed. I was thinking of an object store where you get to index properties of objects and perform arbitrary queries. New, old,etc is not a concern.
I've never run into this issue and have booked many tickets (on the northeast line).
To give a data point: I'm doing only remote work (except 12 days on site this year) and I'm really, really north £300 (my usual daily rate is 900€).

(see http://www.logeek.fr/ if you're curious about the kind of work I do)

My opinion is that it's not a matter of money, but rather a matter of finding companies that work remotely and do it well.
I was confused about the dates as well. It might be that this specific collaboration is new, but I don't really follow HIV in particular.
Understandable. But surely you would have a fall back way to deploy given your main way doesn't work? I can deploy my apps via Hubot, but I can also deploy them without Hubot because I have an abstraction that Hubot uses to deploy my apps. And as far as I know GitHub have also something similar in place.

A bug in any piece of software is going to cause issues, Hubot isn't an exception.
Siri isn't voice search. It's capable of it "Google [insert keywords here]", but that's not its main selling point, nor its main use case.

Siri is unprecedented (in a mass market product, anyways) because it combines NLP with actually doing things, and moves away from the awkward "memorize these bunch of keywords in this order" voice control systems of the past.

"Schedule my dentist appointment next Monday at 1." is a much better way of input than the previous status quo of "Calendar. Add Event. Description. Dentist Appointment. Date. December 12. Time. One P.M."

It's weird that people consistently harps on Apple for "marketing yet another technology as new and unprecedented" when it isn't - and then bring up a completely different product to "prove" their point.
You don't seem to appreciate the amount of forethought she not only felt she had to commit to, but self-control to execute her communication that way, and that it still didn't work. Only an idiot would provide "evidence" to a subordinate that they were trying to push them out, in any case. Discrimination is very hard to prove, and it's easier to just "get away".
So there is a total of just about ~50-80 sellers?
I guess most bigger cities have far more drug sellers than Silk Road.
But I would love to see more timeline based developments, i.e. if the market is shrinking or expanding etc. Otherwise great weekend project!
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That is the purpose of the government but you do agree that certain policies can make accomplishing that purpose much much harder, maybe even impossible?

A nice car is not a good analogy since 1) buying one is a matter of choice and 2) kidnapping someone for a nice car is not likely to get someone seriously injured or killed (as long as one agrees to the kidnapper's demands) whereas kidnapping for organ donation is completely different.
The former Enron people in the article claim the company had great, hardworking people in it and ready-to-implement software.

I see no inherent contradiction between a company having fraudulent, criminal leadership and hardworking, well-meaning people in it. Nor in a company having sellable products and a bankrupt business plan to implement it.

I doubt anyone has any problems acknowledging Enron had tens of thousands of well-meaning, hardworking employees, ignorant of the disaster its decision-makers were fomenting. Everyone knew the company had salt-of-the-earth employees among the criminals -- they were the ones who lost their retirements.

The article didn't change my opinion of Enron.
Tender was built with that exact situation in mind. You can attach any number of support issues to one Lighthouse ticket and get bi-directional notification. This is a nice way to notify n support requests that the problem has been fixed once it's shipped. Alas, it only works with Lighthouse still.

But I do wish more support systems worked this way.
Agreed. And besides Voice Search, Google has been adding AI functionality; for example, if you search for "Where was Einstein born?", it gives you Ulm, Germany without the user having to open any website. "Where are the UN Headquarters?" works too.

Google Search and Siri are simply different approaches to achieve the same goal, which was defined long before any of these projects began, particularly by Sci-fi.
I perfectly agree. It has less to do with voice control than it does with artificial intelligence.
Why do you have teams "entirely of junior programmers"? Maybe that's the problem to be addressed, not running them.
For companies like Mint, it'd be helpful if the article would explain _which_ Mint they're talking about. There are multiple companies with the same name.
Nice list! That is pretty much what I am expecting of myself and other more senior developers.

I guess, I am not a super good "drill" sergeant, though. All I can do is leading by example, mainly doing a lot of pairing. But that is time consuming, so I might try to develop more of a sergeant attitude.
Please refer to the book linked to above, the seasteaders are pretty good at anticipating every possible critique and presenting the counterargument, which is often pretty well thought out.

Off the top of my mind, I would say the pirate attacks wouldn't be a big deal. Advanced detection and defense systems could be put in place to warn of uninvited vessels approaching. Remember piracy is a big deal precisely in those places least likely to have seasteads (why would someone build a resort, hospital, or tech incubator off the shores of Somalia?).

Natural disaster is of course and issue, but I don't know if the probability of natural disaster would be any higher on a seastead versus on land. Natural disasters frequently aren't natural at all, at least the consequences aren't. Just compare the consequences of the Haiti earthquake versus Fukushima. When there are incentives to protect property, it will be protected. The probability of a disaster is uncontrollable anywhere you live, the extent of devastation is controllable.
Hi HN,

I'd love some feedback with fresh eyes on my new company website (single page).

Any feedback is most welcome.
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... stay away from those "seasteads", they have Exocet anti-ship missiles and Aegis missile defense systems, as well as conventional artillery and gun defenses and an army employed from Blackwater.
(ignoring the translation to a representation a machine can understand) asking when the best time to sow crops requires domain knowledge and lots of analysis, asking to be called upon a certain event is simply implementing a rule.

Sure, something like Siri could be incredibly useful in the future if we can architect it properly, but comparing the current "personal assistant" to a knowledge engine that can answer any possible question is like comparing a Wright Brothers plane to a modern fighter jet.

TLDR: author goes far overboard with his conclusion, nothing new ...
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Yeah, as someone who will be moving into the 'married & family' stage in the next few years, I am getting concerned about the paces I will be expected to put in. I am not going to be working until 11 at night on my kid's big event. I'm going to be there for my kid.
And I guess I belong to a group who partied too much during their twenties. I am now mid-40's and finally have a game plan that should have me independently wealthy by about 55.

At first I felt impatient about that result, until I stopped and looked around and realized how many of my peers were probably never going to be independently wealthy...
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What does "you are all easily replaceable" have to do with gender? It sounds like the president is just a bean counting jerk, no gender involved.
I didn't downvote you but I find it a little amusing that people in Europe can get worked up over an $8 ticketing fee on a $0.02 ticket. In the US, it can cost as much as $500 one-way to fly from Pittsburgh, PA to Philadelphia, PA. $79 one-way Chicago-Atlanta is considered so spectacularly cheap that the offer consumes most of the above-the-fold real estate on Southwest Airlines' website.
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Well the code is on github - fork it and update it!
I'm not sure what you're saying here. People who are discriminating against women avoid given evidence of that fact, so a lack of evidence of discrimination is evidence of discrimination?
I would not be running it on Heroku

Redis requirement seemed to be strickt based on the docs when Hubot first hit HN

Agreed on ranting, but docs are not OK. Docs talk about how awesome it is, but not about how to get it running

Those docs were not there AFAIK when it first hit HN.

Just because something has unit tests does not mean its paradigm is sound or that it scales or is reliable.

This "fork" is not great either by the criteria I use. On top of that both are simply for fun projects not billed as bullet proof battle hardened pieces of software. However, I can see the OP's point of view: Hubot is over-engineered, with a convoluted deploy process outside of Heroku and other design shortcomings. The OP attempted to improve on the idea with a different design, and arguably failed.
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Actually the first time I used an iPad I was blown away by the smoothness of scrolling in web pages, and it still holds up really well today IMO
... as well as your bosses.
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No, it's not. The core of why we disagree is your bizarre double standard.

It's not a double standard. The purpose of the BSD license to encourage widespread adoption which will hopefully lead to widespread contribution, under the assumption that the best way to encourage adoption and contribution is to not enforce it.

If a commercial vendor uses BSD licensed code for a proprietary product, they can and do still donate code back. If they fail to do so immediately, they might do so in the future -- this often occurs as vendors build larger systems on top of a BSD licensed code base.

The GPL, however, is purpose-built to break the social mechanisms by which BSD licensed code propagates by implementing an irreversibly viral one-way licensing OSS ecosystem. RMS has stated repeatedly that he won't be happy until all software is GPL and it's simply not possible to compete with GPL software due to the network effects of large, interconnected GPL-only software stack.

Finally, legal codification of behavior often has large unintended consequences. Choosing to use social pressure to discourage certain uses of your software while not legally forbidding it does not create a double standard.
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It's USA Today. I think this is a story that began its life as a hook ("let's find someone to stick up for the worst corporation ever") and backfilled it with whatever crap they could find.

I didn't flag it because personally I find it interesting that the worst corporation ever also tried to start a CDN that many people in the industry found credible at the time. But it's a terrible news story nonetheless.
Ok. First, I will point out that my appreciation of her effort has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that her conclusion - that the manager or company in question is actively trying trying to force her to quit due to her gender - has zero support.

I can claim that my business partners are space aliens who read my thoughts and are plotting to colonize the planet all day long, but as long as there's no shred of evidence of this, the fact that nobody appreciates the lengths I go to wear tinfoil hats and research anti-alien combat techniques is meaningless.

Second, it "didn't work" likely because many extroverted bubbly manager types tend to perceive purely factual means of communication to be hostile. In fact, most human beings do this. This is the primary reason nerds with low or no psychological affect have a difficult time making friends, and are labeled "assholes" despite their lack of intention to actually be mean.
Yes, that's a good point. The advantage of seasteads is you can control the geography.

Another advantage is that you don't have a large native citizen population that you have to deal with. For example, on Bermuda the big reinsurers have to comply with local laws around hiring citizens (really how many genius level actuaries can an island nation produce - answer not many, you're going to have to bring in outside talent).

Yet another advantage is that it provides you choice. This is the biggest advantage of all. Even if all the current tax havens change their laws, groups of entrepreneurs can always create another one.
Yes. And I agree that any piece of software in you stack can ahve bugs that make life difficult. My issue is that (1) Hubot is supposed to be central to your ecosystem and (2) when I looked at the code at first I saw a style of deployment and docs that made me think that running it would be more trouble than it's worth.
This narrative is probably orthogonal to the corruption narrative.
Could you point to where it is explicitly stated that this is so, remembering that this is performing music for profit.

Is this covering the US copyright position too?

In the UK, if they're performing on the street they'd need a street performance license (local authority) and a music license to cover the copyright of the writers (from PRS). You might need a second license if you were imitating a particular performance (from PPL).
The entire web is based off linking. If they don't want linking, then they shouldn't use HTML and HTTP. "HT" stands for Hypertext https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext
I guess you didn't read the article:

""We live in a world designed around cars. Because world population has grown five-fold during the age of cars, we will be stuck with their legacy in roads and low-density metro configurations for at least the next century. This realization is a difficult one. I set out to start a company that could radically transform transportation. But neither the physics nor economics work out, and in fact will not work out until population density is much higher.

It is the ubiquity of roads, more than the greatness of cars that is difficult to defeat. And so, the future of transportation is, perhaps disappointingly, simply better cars. Our abstract criterion for the perfect transportation system is one that is fast, ubiquitous, has on-demand departure, and is quiet, private, and safe. The solution to all of these is a self-driving car.

It is clear that a maglev based personal rapid transit elevated track system should not be pursued as a business.""
12-13 on some days - I work full-time and then spend a few hours working on an open source project. I don't intend to always do this but right now I have a reason I'm working on the open source project (Specific goal) so am doing it for now. When I first started I would literally spend 15 hours some days because I was trying to cram a lot of learning into a small period of time.

The personal project time is much more productive, the 8 hours of work, I guess, is questionable as to whether its "Writing code" as a lot is wasted wrangling with the legacy app I have to deal with, debugging old legacy code, etc but even though its writing less code I find it far more stressful than working on my own project where I am mainly writing code.

I don't advocate anyone work for an employer by spending more than 8 hours a day working unless you're being paid really well but when you work full time and want to get stuff done outside of work its inevitable that you have to spend extra time coding.
Sure, but the super computer crowd had long separated most of the physical hardware and even data center that something runs on in 00. Compared to that even EC2 is still a crappy service that forces you to micromanage things. There are plenty of awesome services are built on top of EC2, but 'modern' cloud computing infrastructure still sucks from both a cost and stability standpoint.
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Definitely a good point. Thanks!
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> The author, without any evidence, concludes that the manager said this because she is a woman, and is hellbent on "pushing [her] out" of the team.

Well, without any evidence that she presented. She's been working with this particular group, and we haven't. It's not unbelievable that there have been numerous other minor instances of some form of preferential treatment or sexism. She did, after all, consult with friends, with some foresight of what was coming. While some amount of skepticism on our part might be prudent, there's also no reason to outright disbelieve her, either.

> The reality is that thin-skinned managers and managers overly sensitive to maintaining office decorum exist everywhere, and they don't do this based on your sex.

Woah. That's a lot of certainty right there. How are you able to be so assertively positive that managers -- indeed, in this context, no managers anywhere -- do this based on gender? Even subconsciously? Even without meaning to maintain a tight-knit good ol' boys drinking group?

This is what never fails to amaze me, that enough people are so certain that there's no such thing as sexism in the technology industry. Meanwhile, someone else on Reddit or elsewhere posts a picture of a co-worker and the majority of the comments are, "she's hot, you bang her yet?"