skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The whole point is those companies in the primary sector, which are the backbone of the global economy, would be operating at a loss if they weren't offloading costs to future generations or this generation's poor - and in the other hand, economy as it stands today would be unsustainable if they were taxed proportionally.

The study says that the majority of those costs are CO2 (38%) and water (25%). Can you prove that it is impossible to run those 100 companies any more efficiently, that sustainable energy and efficient use of water can never be made profitable?

Your original assertion was "The notion of economic growth is tied to environmental and human labor exploitation, at fundamental levels." You have fundamentally not proven that assertion with this evidence, that it is impossible to have economic growth in a sustainable way. What you have done is point out our current inefficiencies, not that the laws of physics preclude it.

>It has worked out great so far right? I don't think the US, which is a highly functional democracy, optimizes for those problems (environmental, social) rather than accumulation of wealth.

Right, because you have evidence of problems in the current system, it means it is irrevocably broken? To be replaced with what? What is your alternative than, Marxism? This sounds a lot like the rhetoric of the right who point to government failures and then make a logical leap that government can't be improved.

>The problem is that a government's primary objective turns into maintaining economic growth, at all costs, even by use of force. This is the core of the criticism in the article.

The government's primary objective is to stay in power. If it's primary purpose was purely economic growth, they'd be going crazy on Keynesian spending, as many eastern countries do to prop up growth. The US government hasn't done much at all in the last 6 years to prop who growth at any cost (unless you count grid lock and inaction as "at all costs"). And European nations wouldn't be implementing austerity policies if their goals were growth at any cost. This is a vast simplification of the motivations of the political. If you want to see "growth at any cost" look at Chinese domestic spending.

The Western electorate is far more sensitive to unemployment, inflation, or benefit cuts than it is to abstract notions of "growth". Throughout most of the "great recession", GDP growth has been positive, yet no one is happy, because voters don't vote based on quarterly GDP growth, and attempts to maximize that variable hurt others that politicians care about.

That's why the Federal Reserve is now doing nomimal unemployment targeting instead of only fighting inflation.

I mean, I fail to understand what your primary philosophy is. Growth is bad? We are doomed? We should give up our modern lifestyle because you think it is impossible to sustain it? That technology and politics can't save us?
Direct execution of a Database schema
Are there any known attempts to run/execute/interpret a "blocks-and-lines" DB schema? All I can google out are Architecture Description Language with attempts to generate some code. Asking because I've occasionally built such an interpretor "running" slightly modified DB schemas, well 25K lines of code. Kind of instant RIAs builder. What do I do now ?
20-ton attack drone under development in Russia
Commuting's Hidden Cost
Things I noticed going through your comment history:

Your race.

What car you drive.

Hints at your political ideology.

Where you grew up/that you're not originally from the United States/wherever you live now.

You've undergone an IQ test in a professional environment.

You've probably donated to Lavabit's legal fund.

What OS you use, when you last bought a new computer.

Since you talk about a computer engineering class with 250+ people, you've probably been to college. (Scratch that, you've definitely been to college.)

You have a first church of atheism near you, and are probably a member.

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That seems like enough to uniquely ID you.
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It's actually worse. A non-compete has to do with work after you leave a given company's employment, and like you say are non-enforceable in California and some other states. A no side work agreement, or a no side work without approval, or a we own the IP of your side work unless waived, are all much more widely enforceable and I would think would be violated by this kind of set up.
Fair enough. But even in negotiated transactions, the seller sets the final price that they will or won't accept.
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This article actual shows that the author doesn't really get the framework, although I suppose he's blaming it on the doc...
Ubuntu's not the only choice, though.

Apple has a hard time matching the speed and flexibility of a lightweight GNU/Linux distro (presumably because OS X's focus on polish, integration and aesthetics means they want to tip the scale of compromises back in that direction, and that's fine). Some of us don't mind not having drop shadows and pervasive "cloud" integration if it means we can have full control over our own computers :)
That's good news.

I'm not sure which scares me more. Marketers amassing surveillance data or the government. At least with the government, we might reign in the practice. Private industry seems to have some blessing from the public to do anything and everything profitable.
Concur. I have steadily migrated from rvm to rbenv to chruby because the relative invasiveness of each solution has simplified my development life.

I have not yet been in a position to choose something for deployment, but I would lean heavily toward chruby (-ish; there's no need for it if you pay attention to how little it does, but it helps in development) and chgems (-ish; same reason) with bundler.

RVM should definitely not be used in production. I would generally argue against using rbenv in production at this point, too, as all you need to know is the right environment variables to have set for your application to make sure everything else is clean.
I suppose the idea is that "sissy little girl" is intrinsically violent, and the best way to respond with violence is, of course, more violence
They didnt get a permit. Is that Google saying they can do whatever they want, and then have government look retarded for blocking their "make the world a better place" ways.

They should be subject to the same rules and checks that everyone else is, even if they make self-driving cars.
I remember when i used a beer crate (what's milk?) as a TV stand. And when it finally broke I decided to buy one to replace it. It was 4x more expensive than an Ikea furniture 3x the size of it.
It's also a miniature version of literate programming. You can go through all the commits and get an explanation of how the program evolved -- not just the actual lines changed.
My (expensive) IIci of 1992 or so ran Prince of Persia (and other games like Spectre VR) in full color (256 color) at high resolution (640x480, high at the time), which the PC was nowhere near having yet. Not to mention full digitized sound was present in even the very first Mac, which PC's did not even have reliably working (soundblaster support, IRQ/DMA conflicts prevented much from actually working all of the time) until Windows 98 or so.
Haters gonna hate. I live in a work environment where I am micromanaged like crazy. Drives me nuts, doesn't let me do long runs on single projects, etc. This product seems like it would provide the information my bosses are looking for without interrupting my work nearly as much.

If people are upset at the idea of micromanaging, fine. Unfortunately though, it exists, and likely always will. If this lets the employee suffer less for it, I'm a fan.
Well, except in the case of Gruber, he buys the iPhones that he keeps. My guess is that Gabe is going to get to keep that Surface-Pro.

I'm fine with that, as long as the person doing the writeup makes it clear he was comped gear. The ATP (Marco/Casey/Siracusa) crew recently scored some synology gear, and I, while I'm sure it impacted their objectivity, it was still interesting hearing about how they were using it / configuring it.

Anyways - nobody who reads Gruber frequently would suggest he isn't partisan, and he doesn't pretend otherwise.
I generally don't like SEO and I'd agree with you if I didn't know so many clueless small business owners (I mean that in the least offensive way possible -- marketing is just not their strong suit).

So many people have something really cool to offer but their message is unfocused or overly complicated or just not elegant. Keywords offered a relatively simple and cheap way to see what people who might be interested in what they have to say/sell are looking for and hone their shop window to the world.

Now they get to pay Google for the privilege.

It is nice that Google is trying to get rid of the disease I just hope they don't take too much of the good flesh with it.
Take a look at the site's JS files and the proud developers stamping their names all over it. Google their name and you will see the dev work was outsourced offshore.

It feels like there was no one overseeing engineering quality across any of these government sites. Quality doesn't have to be QA but best practice standards in both software design and testing. Few unit & automation tests and peer reviews would have gone a long way to releasing decent software.
> I haven't previously heard about any wifi problems on iOS 7,

FYI the wifi problem with iOS7 has existed and gone ignored since September: http://www.zdnet.com/apple-censors-lawrence-lessig-over-warr...
So how do you go to the start/end of lines then?
Ask HN: Best time of the year to fundraise in the bay area?
I have 6 months to stay in the area, what is the best time to visit? (if any)
I draw the line at "loving my enemy." For example, some of my students are in ROTC. I do my best to teach them even though they are my "enemies" on this particular issue. The line is definitely pretty fuzzy though.
Or have a capable team. No feat is impossible with the right team and leadership. I know easier said than done but the fish always rots from the head.
Hell, I'm interested in using one with Linux (if they've got the wacom issues sorted out, that is).
Curious: any advantage to using a (greater than first degree) Runge Kutta [1] in a sim like this instead of Euler's method?

[1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runge%E2%80%93Kutta_methods
My parents still have our old Mac Plus. And it still works. It is a gorgeous relic. I can't believe you just left it at a dumpster. Do you realize how much that thing costed, new?
Angular used to be its own startup. The founders were acquhired by Google.
No CMS option?
Ember is still changing a lot, and some of the later changes are cleared inspired by Angular.

Ember-data looks much better than anything in Angular. Ember has a bit too much "convention over configuration" to my taste but the project is evolving well; I would not say it is production-ready but is getting close, so keep it under the radar.
I'm a U.S. citizen. Do I count as an ally?
End up wasting hours and hours choosing the right colour scheme for the website... in the end the side project ends up getting put on hold while I work out the best framework to use for the website.

edit: wait until I have to choose the 'right' font...
Governments have an exclusive sanction to employ violence. Private entities do not.
This offers some real perspective, but it's still hard to tell how much confidence, or the lack of, factored into everything. If you don't appear to be confident about something it can be a turn off. I'm mention that not to deny sexism but to say that you should always exude confidence.
We're a smallish agency who switched (when I came on board) to git last year.

Currently we have 67 repositories through bitbucket, and all free as we haven't reached the developer cap yet.

If you are going to have quite a few repositories, bitbucket wins out massively compared to per repository pricing that github offers which is good for small companies who are working on a single project.
Codeschool and/or Treehouse + reference books will help out most.
As I said elsethread, I haven't yet considered production, but I just switched to chruby for my development environment rather than rbenv. I still use ruby-build when I need (I just needed a version not supported by ruby-install), but I have switched wholesale to chruby, and having found chgems in researching a different answer, I may look at using that as well.

chruby really is the simplest possible thing you can do to solve this problem, and in combinations with chgems, it solves isolation better than RVM does without the brittleness of the shims that rbenv has (ultimately why I moved away from rbenv). Installs are substantially easier with ruby-install and/or ruby-build, although RVM is probably better at this part in general. Extract that out from RVM and I'd consider using it.
The way I have made personal peace with this is that I consider myself a better programmer than the median statistician and better in statistics and machine learning than a median programmer. Whether this is a useful spot to be in I have to find out. I can see that depending on the times this can either be an asset or a liability.
The trick here is to discourage older people / people with family to join the company. Clever trick :)
Yer not getting it. The point is to take notes in a format useful the user, which frequently is not computer-friendly. I know at the office we frequently take smartphone photos of whiteboards. Same usecase.
Yeah, marketing is bad right? Google is evil unless it takes something from marketers, then its good. The fact that startups use the same data, who cares? Actually, I think it will fuel some interesting innovation on traffic sources attribution, but I just can't comprehend this hate for "marketers".
Marketing Your Personal Projects [video]
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Did having the visibility of search keywords ever really help people "optimise" their page text for increased business?

I am far from an expert in this, but wouldn't you only get to see the search queries of people who found the site already? How do you get from that to knowing what to change? :)

I did always enjoy looking at the AWStats output for my old web pages to see what hilarious pornographic keywords people were using to accidentally find me.
Use a content management system
Lol. So true. I spent maybe 40 hours making a website that has a grey theme and only 5 static HTML pages: https://machinepublishers.com

I also ditched the whole idea of a front-end framework. If I need a backend I'll just generate the HTML manually server-side.

Do designers get faster at this I guess?
Check out Facebook/Instagram's React: http://facebook.github.io/react/

Simpler, and fast. I haven't messed with Angular enough to give an honest comparison, but I'm a fan of React's general design - it maintains its own model of the DOM, and user interactions change that model, then it diffs the new DOM back to the browser DOM.

Fwiw this idea seems to slowly be catching on. There are at least two other frameworks that use a similar model - theGuardian.co.uk recently open-sourced their frontend JS framework Ractive, and the Lift web framework impllements a similar model on the server side (been around since 2007, just now the idea seems to be making its way to the frontend).
The bootstrap for RVM 2.0 is something we're thinking about very seriously, to make sure it's handled properly and isn't brittle. As an rvm maintainer, one of the most frustrating things about working on it is how untestable and how brittle the installation (rvm + all build deps required to get a ruby built locally) can be.

It's a known problem and one of the current big design issues, especially because rvm is so complex today in what it's capable of on the user's behalf, so we plan to get that right first time as much as we can.

I agree with you on both of your points: the BountySource page is a bit hand wavy, although there's only so much room to spell out what we think our benefits are; that rvm can make life more complicated, not simpler.

I come to the project late in its life and I'm well aware it's a bit of a beast in many ways, so I can at least say that I'll be pushing Michal towards simplicity. It's one of the reasons 2.0 exists, rather than us heading towards 1.3 instead. It's just too hard to make large changes to 1.2 now, mostly because of the complexity inherent to being a shell program that works (mostly!) portably on the myriad OSes we now support.
This is true, but not really. Governments only have sanction to enforce the law. Anyone can behave illegally or unethically. Increasing your surface area is not street smart.

Just the opposite is true. People that live in large cities (and subject to random crime) adopt a strategy of blending in, not one of "sticking out and relying on their lawyers"...
Hah, that's the funniest part of this.

Back when I was watching CSPAN during all of the initial revelations Feinstein was totally into all of this horrible shit that is going on.. now that the rest of the world is upset she's suddenly up in arms about it.
apart from actual coding, suggest a foundation like in CS 101. ie algorithm books (eg O(n) binary/sort) kind of things, perhaps Design Patterns. for lower level, Kernighan and Ritchie c language is a bible. structured and functional (eg python) type programming are good to understand. there are tonnes of cookbooks on the technologies you decide. LAMP and thin b'ends seem effective for most web systems initially anyhow.

rails an phython are sometimes thought of as next generation languages. Java/C+ suffer greatly from the amount of scaffolding to do something simple like have a object used between layers. Python and I believe rails, says it will do stuff like setter/getters (scafolding), you concentrate on the logic. php also has some great use, they are untyped languages. typing for java/c++ can be argued as not as necessary as one may think, thats where python, php, and I believe perhaps Rails (dont quote me on that) say again, concentrate on whats needed and not having to type everything. if the web results in a string, then no need to declare that throughout your stack.

anyhow, my 2 cents. not the fastest path necessarily, but over time you may want to have good code, useable by others and designed reasonably so its not as hard to get to next steps like scale...
Most of what they 'demo' in the video are nonlinear sources, they'll need a lot more processing smarts than a simple FFT to sort that out.
Well said. Do you use a 10K LUX lamp to help with the winter blues/seasonal depression? I find it helps me. 1 hour of it in the morning while I read a book and I'm good to go.
It looks like they just enabled SSL for all users, which is defnitely a GOOD thing. These SEO people are confused because I guess it limits some data they would've normally got, but it's a byproduct of them turning on SSL. It's not some campaign by Google to limit SEO data except insofar as it gets limited by SSL being on.
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A company I used to work for made bible software. You could browse different bible versions side-by-side, collect verses etc., designed for people seriously into it (like priests composing their sermon).

But some of these people would still copy the software instead of ordering the disk from us. We didn't really detect that, but the boss added a screen that just randomly pops up reminding the user that if you are running a copy now, remember that copying is WRONG.

We would get repenting phone calls from users begging to be forgiven.
This is one of the major problems I have with NSA advocates.

They constantly define the news/public as "the enemy" then are surprised when we are hostile towards them.
EFF: Seeking Staff Technologist
yes, indeed. It's easy to forget the terror and brutality of survival that is a daily given for most animals and a certain percentage of humans when you live in the "developed" world. Amazing how quickly we get accustomed to a safe and routine life when all it takes is a month in a jungle - or Calcutta for that matter - to re-appreciate how far we have come using reason, stepping beyond what could be classified as "natural".
I am primarily a python hacker and not a professional designer but to answer your question, I made http://getquicksite.com in 14 hours this weekend. Of course, having a framework like Bootstrap to start with helps.
Wait so if the only real way I made money was by theft, then that would make it "essential"?
"...but US citizens are just fine"
If statistics as a whole has a bad rep, there is surely a reason for that, and shouldn't we work on solving that underlying cause rather than hiding it under a rug by renaming?
My hiring secret is disqualifying those who would agree to a Trial Week.
"If a website is accessed from a HTTP Secure (HTTPS) connection and a link points to anywhere except another secure location, then the referrer field is not sent." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer whose source is "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1: Encoding Sensitive Information in URI's (RFC 2616 § 15.1.3)". IETF. June 1999. Retrieved 2013-03-20. "Clients SHOULD NOT include a Referer[sic] header field in a (non-secure) HTTP request if the referring page was transferred with a secure protocol" [1]

Easy fix: Enable SSL everyone, stop "freaking out".

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-15.1.3

Edit: I see comments further up indicating that Google redirects from SSL to non-SSL, thereby obfuscating the referrer and that this is new. If so, I'll have to take back this statement, sigh.
Good ol Twitter Bootstrap, Jekyll, and S3. Even an incompetent like me can put up website:

http://www.smalldatajournalism.com/
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I can totally relate to "they just keep adding things on top of it to keep BC as much as possible which is why it feels so dirty at times. I too get (extremely) frustrated with Angular at times "
Er.. I've tried most of them :)

For the latest one I bought a template from ThemeForest. (so I voted that)

The one before that was a Bootstrap (the framework) effort, which ended up not very nice.

Before that, I tried Joomla.

And before that, I had a very basic HTML page :)

I've realized I'm really bad at the "design" part, I'm better off doing the backend stuff.
Very clever.

I wonder if you could make this official with something like this on the home page:

"If you are interested in our product but you can't afford it, please send us an email explaining why you can't afford it and we will give you a free license".

That's it, no conditions ("at least two paragraphs, and it has to feel real!"), no lecturing, just asking people who can't spend money on the product to spend some time instead.

I wonder if the extra thoughts that would-be pirates would have to put into writing that email would be enough to make them reconsider and actually buy the product they would have otherwise pirated...
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My little finger tells me you would have received less calls if the company sold video games, or pornography, for example.
And that doesn't reimburse you for the forced vacation you have to spend. It also may be impossible depending on the contract, as it would be a breach of my current one.

Even if it weren't the case, you're still giving up a significant amount in a form you cannot get back. Paid vacation is not easily come by, and the company is asking the people to work during that time? It is a process biased against those who do not have the luxury of taking a week off on a whim.