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How did "tree-hugger" become an insult?

> “The education system should be like this, every kid should be asked to plant two trees,” Payeng says.

Damn straight! That idea works in so many ways I can't believe we don't inscribe it on every school building.
Use the text input instead of the url.
You are so very, very wrong. They make money off of interchange fees and carried balances.

These "rewards" are rewards for the consumer if you:
1) Never carry a balance
2) Pay the same price as cash and the merchant eats the fees [as most merchants do!]

Its perfectly rational if you make fewer mistakes on average. So far, in the 10 years of using credit cards, I've recovered about 2% of every dollar I've ever spent and never carried a balance. This amounts to half a paycheck.

Its perfectly rational to assume that my rate of 'error' will remain roughly the same as it has been historically and that I want to continue to use credit cards and force merchants to effectively give me a larger discount that they would otherwise.
I'm not necessarily talking about HN, but about people I have known in person - classmates in college, people I knew socially afterwards, and (this probably has skewed my judgement somewhat) an ex-boyfriend. I also personally suspect that the phenomena may even be making some hard-to-trace contribution (through reduced opportunities to practice communication skills, limited peer groups, and less time spent studying human diversity and other cultures in general) to the headlines which keep popping up about how sexist the technology field is. I know that concern may sound extreme, and I really hope that it can be proven wrong. Obviously (and thankfully) none of that can be generalized, but the original poster's example was so shocking to me that I felt compelled to say something warning people that the situation is in some cases possible.

I also don't know what you mean when you say that people with technical knowledge (which I have some of) are "more rational about their opinions and conclusions" - I sincerely believe that taking a literary theory class and learning about often-vilified (perhaps not here) ideas such as postmodernism and deconstruction improved my decision-making ability by allowing me to better understand both sides of an issue.
Aaaaand there goes my productivity.
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Ask HN: Looking for a tech cofounder, working on a new webinar software product
Hey guys,

I'm a web guy myself and also have a background in marketing. I've been looking for a tech cofounder to help me develop webinar software that can help an individual broadcast to prospects.

I don't want the software to be like a hangout, and I also don't want the software to be a meetings application either. I can provide more details about what makes it different from everything on the market and what I think could work to influence the industry and drive some sales.

I'm really good at the front end aspects, with some back end experience, and I might be able to get us our first 1-2 customers to shape the product around and pilot.

I'd love to work with a cofounder who has experience working with video/streaming codecs or has made a similar product before.

You can check out my linkedin here:
ca.linkedin.com/pub/bakz-awan/56/142/508/

Feel free to email me too, my address is is my profile.

All the best!
Walter Burley Griffin did this - it's Australia's capital city Canberra.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Burley_Griffin

These turn of the century architects lived at the birth of the affordable motor vehicle. To them the motor car was no doubt a symbol of the future and of marvelous connection with the world around them not unlike how I feel about the way I have seen the internet grow in my lifetime.

Canberra today - whilst still a beautiful city is too big for itself even with only a 0.5mil populous. The city is now too large in area and choked with congestion relying on buses as the only form of public transport. There is no longer anyway the city could feasibly afford to install any supplementary public transport like light rail.

The idea of a a dispersed city is idealistic, but a dense city is functional.
For non-full disk I just make AES encrypted files using 7zip. Considering just about everyone has 7zip installed its actually less of a pain in the ass that you'd think.

The only downside I see is that 7zip seems to be almost abandonware at this point. The installer linked at the top of their page is almost 4 years old and there's a recent beta but they haven't moved a beta to stable in a very long time.
That's rather radical move in the face of the audit currenlty being conducted. If the bug is so dramatic, it will be revealed by the audit with high probability rendering this move practically useless.
Now here's a glimpse of what's possible when it's an organized effort: http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Macedonia_plants_three_mil...

3 million trees in 1 day.
I set this up two days ago. Haven't learned APL yet, but your mode will help, thanks!
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Well I am British and his work seems largely American although Wikipedia mentions a few buildings in Japan. I did like the Guggenheim when I visited NY over 20 years ago but didn't know/remember the artist's name.

If you asked me to name a few architects I would probably have come up with Wren, Mackintosh, Gaudi and Norman Foster. I'm sure that there are a few others that I would go "ohh yeah" to.

Architecture isn't really my thing on the liberal arts side of things, I'm more an Economics and Politics man.
I think the gains are huge, but it depends on your preferred workflow. I know some traditional Xcode developers who kick and scream at the idea of loosing their IDE, whereas I prefer to live in the terminal.

Workflow is one thing, but then writing Ruby code is so fluid. Notice that there's not a lot of preamble (imports and such) that you need to take care of in the Ruby code, I think that's great. But, again, language and workflow are very personal, and I think every tends to "think they're right" ;-)
Wow, his friends created houses for themselves. He created a forest for everyone...
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it is lost on me why Skylon would be noticeably better than a Mach 5-6 plane boosting a second stage. Such 2 stage system would have obviously less trade-offs and thus would be easier/cheaper to design and build.
Thanks for sharing this technique. Are you aware of any existing open source implementations?
DoB and marital status are not part of modern CVs. They are irrelevant cruft. The employer is legally not allowed to take them into consideration so there is no point in including them on your CV.
When I read "long production cycles" - I was wondering if the OP was talking about the time that the chemical reactions took, or whether they were talking about how long it takes to write up research results - without getting any formal acknowledgment (such as in a published paper in a journal) of your results.
I guess that's as good a place as any to ask some more general (and naive) question : how come Bayesian methods still haven't taken over the testing market given their (as perceived by my narrow understanding) advantages?
Hi James, it's mostly my fault that your PR hasn't been merged. We tend to focus a lot on the compiler, and less on the Rake commands, but I'll try and get these PRs taken care of soon.
> > I would hypothesize that this is false.

> Citation required.

You may want to Google the meaning of "hypothesis"...
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As proud as I am of America's part in winning the war, and my father's contribution, it really pales in comparison with what the Soviets went through. They were under supplied, and their leadership was decimated and hampered by demands of political reliability. What they had going for them was huge numbers of artillery pieces, and the T-34 tank.

Watch "Enemy at the Gates" sometime, especially the first part.
City of New York to require looking at FOSS before proprietary software
What a creative job advertisement.
You say that the merchant "eats the fees," but what actually happens is that they price their goods higher to compensate for the fees.

What's worse, because the vast majority of merchants charge you the same price whether you're paying cash or credit, people who pay cash are, in effect, charged these hidden fees as well.

If people stopped using rewards cards, and the merchants didn't have to deal with the associated fees, the cost of the merchandise would arguably drop by the same percentage as what you're getting back in rewards.
Eddy Cue says Apple's 2014 product pipeline is the best he's seen in 25 years
This not an area so big, but it is good for those who think that only the government can preserve the environment (while, well, the government mostly destroys it).
I have to say that recently I have found quite a few really excellent articles in Aljazeera. Still fewer than I find in the New York Times, but more than I find from the vast majority of mainstream US news sources.
Link didn't work for me. Should be this:

http://www.sideprojectprofit.com/create-semi-professional-in...
In true BBC-style: other brands of spaceplane are available. http://bristolspaceplanes.com/company/
The USSR, at the official level, was never free of animosity towards us. Just a few things from what I'm studying right now, plus one big one:

They didn't shut down the Comintern, their official organization for subverting and destroying us, until 2 years minus about 5 weeks after Operation Barbarossa (the Nazi invasion), while we (the US) started supplying them with equipment on credit ~3 months after (for gold and minerals before, while the first arrangement was hammered out).

They refused to supply us with meteorological info, which seriously hindered our campaign against Japan.

They seized all the B-29s that were forced to land on their territory (was later copied as the Tupolev Tu-4); while this was consistent with their need to maintain their neutrality towards Japan after some engagements in Manchuria (where they owned the Japanese, but they really needed those troops; Georgy Zhukov earned his spurs and vital experience there), holding the crews was not, I think. They were "allowed to escape into American-occupied Iran" per Wikipedia and e.g. Tillman's Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945 (http://www.amazon.com/Whirlwind-The-Against-Japan-1942-1945/...).

This of course says absolutely nothing about how the two peoples felt about each other, and our mutual gratitude for what the other did in terminating Nazi Germany with extreme prejudice.

Was your visit during the Cold War?
Level 4 has a bug. Entering a string in the text box for the timer solves the problem, but putting that string directly as the get parameter in the URL doesn't. Anyone know how to report this?
Or just build cerberus into your ROM and use the authorised SIM feature.

It will take a pic and send me an email of its location if another SIM is put in.
I also find Al Jazeera pretty good. It's definitely good that we have multiple sources of information. As far as Al Jazeera'a future is concerned, I wouldn't worry that it's not so popular in US, I think its future doesn't depend on that, they are well funded by the House of Thani, see the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera
> African Americans (12% of pop.) make up 80% of NBA players". I am pro-diversity and I have no problem with this. I don't want to change this that 80%. That 80% is based on their ability. Which just so happens to be gifted to people of their race. Good for them.

Thanks white person for explaining what black people are good at. Nope, no blatant racism here at all.
And if people stopped using rewards cards and the merchants lowered their prices, I'd stop using credit cards.

However, I'm not going to fall on my sword and give up 2% in the hope that that will happen.

You even admit in your post it would cost me money to stop at present :/
If you already have a comfortable work flow, I would not encourage you to migrate just for the sake of it, but having the option to write a native app in Ruby is very compelling to a lot of people who might otherwise not be interested in writing a native mobile app.

RubyMotion supports xib files, storyboards, xcdatamodel files, and Android XML files (and localization files, etc), so if you ARE interested in switching, you don't have to stop using those if you're already used to them.
1. It's like saying "I don't need auto insurance because I never have accidents." That may be true, so far, and you may be a careful driver, but it's still irrational (that's why they call them accidents, after all.) Insurance against low-probability, high-cost events is rational. (In this case, it's even worse than insuring yourself because insurers make money when you don't have an accident, banks make money when you do, so the incentives are totally misaligned: banks actively try to make it hard for you not to screw up.)

2. If you have a couple of thousand dollars in the bank and you're getting an extra 0.5% on your interest, that's $10 per year. That's far less than the time-cost of just reading your bank's fee schedule every time they change it.

The fact is, retail banks make most of their money by charging fees which come as a surprise to the people who pay them. Those people would avoid these fees if they could do so in a reasonable way. Comments that imply that this is not so have to be either misleading, irrational, or just not generally applicable. I went with irrational as the most charitable reason.
Nonsense, he can get a prepaid card that comes with a bank account with no fees, and even a full fledged account - many banks (Capital One and Fifth Third for sure) offer accounts with no overdraft and no monthly fees.
Hacker is a bit of an unfortunate term when talking about trees.
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i can recommend Urbanized. a documentary about urban city planning. it covers lots of current ideas, and has interviews with many leading architects and urban planners.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1701976/
http://urbanizedfilm.com/
Smug: smugly superior to wikis
Bringing up quotas is a complete non-sequitur. They didn't mention quotas or any form of favoritism towards minority candidates.

What they did mention is trying to improve the quality of CS education available to minorities. For instance, helping Howard, a predominately black college, improve its CS program.
I'm not familiar with his highway plan, but unless he figured out a way to transcend limitations of spacetime, providing transportation to an insane land use of one acre per person would be intractable. The common wisdom is that, due to latent demand, you can't really build your way out of congestion. That would be extra problematic under the land use you mention, as you'd be forcing everyone to drive everywhere (mass transit and walking are difficult when populations are diffuse and distances are vast).

So, yeah, this strikes me as being a utopian vision by a talented architect dabbling in something outside his expertise.
Haters need to look closely at the add again.

The bottles are not "opened" by the action of placing two caps together and twisting.

What appears to happen is that a spinning cap placed over the normal cap can be forced to jam against the bottle drip ring by being pushed against a similar cap. Twisting that, breaks the spinner and allows it to be removed. So the drinker can now access the real cap underneath.

Still a dumb idea though!
The UK isn't supporting Skylon "for the hell of it", either. Their taxpayers would likely be pretty happy to have the next Boeing/Airbus live on their soil.
I'd like to acknowledge the courage of Gosia to put something like this online. (Original post: http://ineedmorehobbies.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/so-a-female... )

It frustrates and angers me knowing the article will almost certainly draw asinine comments and threats that are wholly inappropriate.

It takes a kind of bravery I'm not sure I have, and I can't tell if I do because it isn't required when I write.

The reasons it's needed aside, the signal of this blog that this is a safe place for women to work is important.

To the author, well done, and know that support is out there.
Thanks for the comment. We do look at comparing proportions in two samples (have a look at our calculator: http://developers.lyst.com/bayesian-calculator/). The way we do this is by constructing a posterior distribution of differences between the two proportions through taking samples from the proportion posterior distributions and taking their difference. But yes, we should have made it more obvious in the post!
Yes, XML based layouts work just like they do in traditional Android development.

And to chrisdevereux's point, we've already got some Android support in MotionKit.
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A quality education is a quality education. I'm sure he takes into consideration more than just the major and letter grade achieved though (obviously getting a B avg in MIT's CS program would not be the same as getting an A avg in Auburn's).

Anyway I'm of the opinion that it doesn't really matter what someone's academic focus is. Smart, impassioned people can excel at any field that they take the time to become educated in. Not to mention that programming and computer engineering is much more about experience than we'd like to admit.
Thank you very much for the Youtube link. I was unaware it was made into an animated movie. It's a great story.
Wow, I had no idea it was that much.

Sorry for the naive question, but any ideas on why it costs so much? Wouldn't putting 100-200 top engineers on it for a few years be enough? What do they need 300 million for?
I would change that to a garden. Kids should understand where their food comes from,how to grow healthy food (including animals), and how to prepare it. Either way, it's about the importance of being in touch with the growing planet. I fully believe the farm-to-table movement could do incredible things for the environmental movement.

"Tree hugger", as a pejorative, typically implies a person who appears to have lost a sense of balance in the environmental discussion. People aren't going to move back intro thatched roofed, dirt floored huts, and, when used as a pejorative, that is the inference being made. It's a case of using extremists to invalidate large groups of people. Typical human.
It's kinda sad that we're now going backwards on nuclear, abandoned mainstream supersonic flight altogether, only had one moon landing and still don't have a strong fiber coverage...
The reverse is true too. If a fresh graduate is moaning about us not using GIT directly in the interview, I may wonder how that guy will turn out. Not even a single day of work under his belt and he already is either afraid to move out of his comfort zone, or has already made up his mind about what technologies must be used.

Thankfully, being cocky is somewhat tolerated even expected from overeager graduates. However, that eagerness turn into zealotry and, later on, obsolescence/cluelessness for a significant part of them. You know those guys, since they cause you the most problems at work. They built their reputation by embracing new stuff and now prevent everybody to move on.
neither did Simon when he wrote it.
I agree with you, and would like to add to it. The parent said git gets in the way ... I couldn't disagree more with that. More than any other version control software, git stays out of my way and my workflow until I need it. Rename a file? No big deal, take care of it before I commit, for now rename it and keep working. Need these changes to go on a branch? As you said, "git checkout -b <branchname>" and BAM! I'm on a branch (most unlike SVN branching). Contrast that with something like perforce (and I know the parent was comparing to SVN) where it intrudes into my workflow whether I want it to or not. p4 edit? pshaw! I have been using the "git p4" module for a few years now in my corporate p4 environment. It ain't native git, but it's better than p4 IMO.

EDIT: Come on. If you disagree with me, don't downvote, reply so you can contribute to the conversation. Coward.
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Honestly I was expecting a little more meat in the article, and it turned out not to be primarily an article.

On the other hand, I'd love to work with female programmers more. The one I had the pleasure to work with had good insight, took care of legacy code like only a mother can, and documented every wtf line tenfold.

There might be tasks men are genetically more suited to, but women could also bring a lot to the table.
Real Time Video Dating Platform Secures $150k in Seed Funding
"TRESOR is a technique that keeps the volume key strictly in the CPU registers and not in RAM. This completely prevents RAM freezing and related attacks."

Until an interrupt happens, and the handler saves the registers on the stack. (sad trombone)
Yes, good news for sure. They're eager to show another view from inside countries. Often a troublesome view. (A view the mainstream media often neglect). It does make me wonder: Would they be allowed to show the same view of Quatar, their owner?
Could you explain why the * works in there?
It's not that you can't learn rigor and critical thinking skills as an English major, it's that it's not all that hard to complete an English degree without learning those things. Hence the word "signals".
> 3. Request features that will help you take better advantage of Learning Paths.

Some way of keeping track of what I've done. A simple checkbox next to each topic/material would do.
First comment to the article by @skeptomycin sums up entire article. Not worth the time to read it really.

>>I cannot believe how the actual statements by Bock were distorted and taken out of context by Prof. Raffa. It is beyond appalling.
Socially stunted 30+ year-olds apparently.
Because Bayesian probability is not intuitive as we (as a society) currently approach statistics. If we start teaching Bayesian probability in grade school then maybe the next generation will "get it" sufficiently to make mainstream applications possible.
> change to workflow

The only change to my workflow coming from a little bit of SVN and a whole ton of CVS was pull and push. Other than that, you can work exactly as you did in CVS and SVN if you want to. Sure the commands are a bit different, but the workflow can be the same.
First month at the previous gig was spent writing an SVN-based implementation of SCCS because their workflow required SCCS locking etc. and they wanted to move the backend to SVN for the eventual "moving the developers to not all working in the same directory" project.

It was a very tearful month.
From Matt Green's twitter. "This is Truecrypt's advice on creating an encrypted Mac disk image. Encryption: none."

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/47199831543788339...
what you refer to is also known as oxygen bleach.

I have been using oxygen bleach in the kitchen and on my tile floors for many years. it is good stuff, but makes cotton washrags wear out and come apart much faster -- maybe ten times faster.

in the kitchen, I solve this problem by using nylon microfiber rags, but clothing made of nylon is uncomfortable.

so, although I put oxygen bleach in my washer periodically (to kill germs that persist between washer loads) I do it only when I am running the washer without any cotton clothing in it.
I'm pretty sure they use it for the "search by picture" function in their mobile apps. Not sure if they directly use it for anything else.
I guess it's just a pet peeve of mine when people call a private, profitable financial arrangement a subsidy.

I complain about the usage for cell phones too.
While I wouldn't necessarily want to cross NYC in its entirety by bike on a frequent basis, remember that most trips are three miles or less--a perfectly cromulent distance for a bike. Most people don't need to cross an entire city all the time. Also, mass transit works rather well when paired with walking and biking.