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Genuine question here: I keep finding conflicting information about how much environmental impact a car's manufacturing has, relative to its lifetime use. I took a very good math-based sustainable design class as an undergraduate, and we were constantly shown numbers that indicated a car was a "20/80" product (20% or less of its impact comes from manufacturing, as opposed to "80/20" products). But I'm certainly willing to believe the information I learned in that class was mistaken or outdated.

The research paper linked to from one of the linked articles (I followed the rabbit hole down a ways... http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.... it's the Norwegian study mentioned in http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/unclean-at-any-sp...) says " vehicle production is not insignificant, contributing on the order of 10% to the life cycle GWP."

However, the article, and the statement from Maureen Cropper (who presumably knows what she's talking about) says that the majority of the impact comes from the manufacture of the vehicle.

Am I confused? Are people talking about two separate measures of impact, or is there something I'm missing? Having trouble reconciling all of this info.
> dattebayo, mostly famous for their Naruto releases. Their public attitude was as unprofessional as you could get.

I'll never forget the time I tried to download a Naruto movie from Dattebayo, and instead got a film called "Gay Niggers From Outer Space".

Wikipedia says the leader of dattebayo is also the president of the GNAA, which is actually listed as a cyberterrorist organization.

Looking back on my childhood, using the internet from '95-'05 really felt like a crazy fantasia on the wild west.
What? Blast “the American Nation”, this is pure revisionism. Lying history out of existence because it's not hip at the moment. Apple's obsession with political-correctness-gone-wrong is unbelievable.
If there is no opensource/free software with the same quality, what then? What are you using as an OCR server side system on Linux? I'm sure not good enough to write my own OCR better than Abbyy.
Their stance makes perfect sense. The App Store is not a commons, it is the private property of Apple, in which they curate the works of others at their convenience. But unlike a book store or a music store, they can closely associate what they stock with the brand becaues the "App" medium is so new.

It's pretty similar to a local coffee shop maintaining a few book cases for customers to borrow or buy, but being pretty strict about what books can be put in their selection.

Ultimately, I suspect they are more controlling about apps than about books or music because apps are (or were) a new medium that, for both financial and marketing reasons, they wanted to think about differently. Apple probably feared (and/or hoped) that Apps would have a more intimate connection to their brand than e.g., the tracks in iTunes.

(edit: 1. Not saying I agree; 2. this post is a descriptive conjecture about why/how Apple treats apps differently, not an advocacy that they continue to do so. Jeesh.)
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Political correctness has gone mainstream, turning American culture into a Neo-Puritan age where everyone is elbowing past others to demonstrate how righteous and socially conscious he or she is.
Er, no. It isn't. NoSQL solutions have exactly the same problems. Most just don't have query planners or statistics capable of understanding how to properly deal with the ever-changing data (and also frequently don't even have the indexing capabilities required to do much more than a single get or set efficiently, anyway--these problems tend to come up with larger queries).
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From Mississippi's Declaration of Secession:

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. "

The Confederate flag represents the desire to maintain slavery and oppression. The Confederate flag represents a the desire by white Southerners to maintain dominance of another race. Over 600,000 people died in the U.S. Civil War as a result of what the Confederate flag represents. No where near this many Americans have died at the hands of 'crazies in that religion (Islam)'.

Removing the Confederate flag and what it represents is an actually important issue to many. Especially those of that race of people who alone can bear exposure to the tropical sun.
Java is pretty fast. Not sure how saying "Y is worse" is particularly meaningful.
IIRC, Joel once wrote that he started coding FogBugz to learn some VBScript. Once you start a project in a language, there is a mighty amount of inertia to overcome to move to a different language...
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Especially when "the first stage of our selection process is a 90 minute online coding test".

You expect me to do that when I know very little about the job and don't even know what I am going to be paid?
What the German courts are doing is enforcing the taboo on swastikas and anything else H*tler-related. I can understand why they are doing it and would like them to continue.
If you would take the strain to read the article's title you might get a clue.
Your simile is completely off. It's not like a local coffee shop with book cases, it's like a (fictitious) company that has a monopoly on stocking the book cases in all coffee shops nation-wide. Your cellphone is the coffee shop.
That's true as far as it goes, but you can write beautiful code in most languages too, even Java. The point I was making is just that "able to write bad code" is a poor metric for a philosophy. And also that "bad unix-style pipe hackery with script glue" has the advantage of actually working more often than bad code produced by other disciplines.
Do color or contrast bring more conversion?
Oh, absolutely agree. I worked with Neal when he was an intern at Matasano, and yes he is very good.

And I worked with Chris Rolf, who is frighteningly good.
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> I .. empathize with Taxis anyway, even though it's hard to justify violence of that kind (beatings, fires).

Welcome to French leftism! It's a bit of a unique brand, as France has been culturally skeptical of movements like international communism (to say nothing of the globalization economy), and it has a distinctive nationalistic style. This sort of protest is, beyond its immediate targets, an exercise in patriotism, and par for the course - if I recall correctly, some strikes a while back were even taking management hostage (Goodyear, 3M, etc).

Fortunately France moved on from guillotines quite some time ago. :P
I'm in the US, and the biggest appeal for me and many people that I know is having entire TV series. There are also big movies that come and go. Sometimes just before a big sequel comes out the previous movie will show up for a while.
>> : by buying into the wonderful MS ecosystem

Remember the age of Fogbugz. It was initially released in 2000.

MS Windows was by far the dominant operating system. Virtualization was still in its early stages, and mostly at the desktop level. Linux was still growing in the server market but not dominant as it is today.

And what is exactly is wrong with the MS ecosystem if you're targeting enterprise? There are still a lot of businesses that work exclusively with Windows servers with IT managers that don't want the headache of having Linux servers.

Enterprise software tends to be a notch or two below consumer software in the "it just works department", and my experience with deploying Java based enterprise software was pretty negative. In 2000, not a lot of people were using Ruby, Python or Perl for enterprise web apps. It was mostly ASP and JSP back then.
It's the flag that is terrorizing people, or people doing it? Will the terrorizing be better if it happens under a different flag? I have a hard time believing the flag is at fault and not the people, or that removing a flag will stop people from doing the same acts.
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I imagine this is just fraud. The government official's brother buys 10,000 of these for $5 and sells them for $5,000. He and the politician enjoy the spoils. Many autocratic and corrupt nations do this trick. Usually not this painfully obvious, but it just sounds like a typical mark-up scam.

Security forces probably love this thing because it gives them leeway into searching and stopping anyone for any reason.

This device is perfect for corrupt politicians and corrupt cops. From a purely amoral perspective its genius. It gives the politicians what they want (graft) and the police what they want (arbitrary searches).
I am sure the fact that Joel was a product manager at MS influences their choice to stay in the MS ecosystem
You're mis-remembering, from the horse's mouth:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FogBugzIII.html

So Thistle, the transpiler, was written either summer 2003 or summer 2004 (it's not entirely clear if he employed the intern that summer or the next) and Wasabi came later (so 2005 is probably correct).
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I took part in Gumroad's Small Product Lab challenge, and after 10 days came up with a new newsletter called Off The Charts.

It comes out twice per month, and focuses on finding the best, undiscovered, helpful and fun apps for iOS devices. I'm trying to give in depth information on apps as well, and try to give tips and tricks on how to use certain apps to make your life easier.

Eventually I'd like to get app developer interviews. I'm not sure how long the newsletter will last, but I'm doing it right now because I love writing about this type of stuff and have so much fun interacting with this community.

Hope you like it!
The stance doesn't make sense because it prevents a particular type of symbol in media they sell - it doesn't make sense because they treat Books, Music and Movies as somehow different - perhaps they consider it a higher form of art - from Games and Apps.
That visualization seems all kinds of messed up. Why did they split up the "operations emissions" and the other two into separate "bars" (or obnoxious cute images of cars and smoke stacks...) How far are they assuming the vehicles travel over their lives? It's hard to tell what the actual numbers are.
> “object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.” - Rob Pike

Which is weird because Pike's Rule 4 is one of the fundamental principles of OO design.
Surviving is not the same thing as actively seeking food.

I'm guessing it still sucks for them.
I'm all for threading and pipelining when appropriate, but I don't find these any easier to read. The nested example in particular is harder to follow.

This is in sharp contrast to Python list comprehensions, which are very straight forward and understandable.
Part of releasing any game to a set of hardware should address the question "what type of systems are actually in the hands of our users?" and making the game run well at all of the settings the game supposedly offered. GTA IV failed at scaling down to the minimum (or even "medium") requirements they listed.

If you're releasing a game that only works well for next-generation specs but advertising current generation support, you get the reputation you deserve.
Actually, it's not ad hominem at all.

Ad homimen would be "people named Eric cannot be trusted".

This is calling into question ESR's general credibility, based on his record. That's a character judgement.

I'm also not saying ESR is wrong in all things -- a consistently wrong indicator is useful (read the opposite of what it says). An inconsistently wrong one is maddening: you've got to pay close attention to what its doing and determine the pattern to its errors. That's the taxing part.
I hope it does. The idea I had behind HazeOver is that I don't want to manage windows at all. I just want them to get out of the way.
For anyone with an interest in the rise of digital over film in the movies, watch "Side by Side" (http://sidebysidethemovie.com/). It's on Netflix streaming. It's an excellent documentary that interviews many different directors (some who prefer digital, some who prefer film), explains the technology behind both, gives a history of the rise of digital and in general just gives you a greater appreciation for movies.

And it just might make you respect Keanu Reeves.
Ooh, thank you.
Except it's not historical, the south didn't actually fly that flag at Gettysburg.
Right, I used government to broadly. Nevertheless that games are not art is the opinion of that agency. As you already mentioned there interpretation of the law is somewhat shaky here.

Nevertheless to my understanding if a publisher were to get a game censored by the OLJB due to forbidden symbols, the publisher could go to court and I think they would have a decent chance at winning such a case.
They've publicly said that: "The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us."

http://gizmodo.com/5980103/netflix-the-goal-is-to-become-hbo...
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Handsome. My unshielded speakers do something similar.
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Very believable; how does the math work out?
I love listening to the oral arguments, there's a lot of absurd arguments in a lot of these. Helps to illuminate a lot of rulings that seem out of touch at first glance.
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Unfortunately, there's a difference between the "official policy" and the way shadowbans and recent community bans are actually handed out. It leads me to believe they're not sticking to that definition at all, and are using the definition of harassment that includes "saying things I don't like".

Lots of officious nonsense posted by bot accounts, but the entire admin staff over there refuses to answer direct questions, despite them being posted every time one of them shows up in a thread.

Not exactly the mark of people who are acting in good faith. If they were, I'd expect them to be falling over themselves to answer questions...
Sure but that one time cost has a 10 year depreciation. A lifetime of chalk is endless mining because you go through it so quickly. You're constantly buying chalk. You're not constantly buying projectors.

>that I'm willing to bet a computer is the equivalent of hundreds of years worth of a blackboard with chalk.

As someone who grew up near a limestone mine, I think you greatly underestimate how much work it takes to get rocks from the earth. I've seen some of the largest machines in the world working there. Its an huge operation.
Thank you. Funny thing is that initially I planned to create this app for Windows, but then I switched to Mac.
"You just crossed the Poe's Law boundary for me."

Actually, all of the other comments to my post did it for me. I'm curious why seemingly intelligent people can be so easily manipulated by biased studies. Maybe it's the fire and brimstone articles.

Al gore knew this and is now a Billionaire because of it. He even tried to get the government to force entire industries to buy carbon credits from his companies. Nobody cared about this. Not even in the scientific community.

He was the one that championed the idea of "Global warming" and the scientific community followed it..even when he said foolish things like the science is "settled". I've heard this repeated over and over again. It's not..and if you say this, it's not science.

Even here on HN, anything said against him was down voted. If bullshit like this can be passed off as the truth, it again should make everyone question it.
I'd hardly consider virtualenv with virtualenvwrapper "overkill". It's a pretty elegant and incredibly easy solution to conflicting dependencies that is capable of being used on almost any other environment easily.
Are you thinking of sleet? Hail is associated with severe thunderstorms,[1] which definitely occur in areas with mosquito populations.

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You're being extremely vague to the point of making your comment a non-sequitur.

Are you agreeing with the law exactly as it is written? (I am.) Are you agreeing with the interpretation of the law as it applies to computer games? (I don't.) Do you think computer games should never be allowed to contain historical symbols of forbidden groups? (I don't.) Do you think computer games should be allowed the usage if the usage serves the art? (I do.)
I am with you. If you want to work like a dog for a small chance at fabulous riches, bless your heart. I might have been interested in this 15 years ago, but now am interested in having a life.
That's a fair enough comment, job application processes are getting longer and more time consuming - sometimes out of need for getting the right people.

Any ideas as to why salaries might be left as something broad like 'competitive'?
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In practice, the client has zero friction in firing you (legally or from HR). Especially if contractors are working remotely, firing one is as simple as filing an IT ticket to cut off privileges/pay. As a worker you get none of the tax benefits or freedom of contracting, and you're even more disposable than a normal employee.
Their stance makes very little sense (arbitrarily dividing games away from books or films), but there it is.

US society has moved past moral panic over books and music. We're still in the thick of it with software (Brown vs. EMA was decided in 2011). Apple already chose to make themselves a certifying authority for software on other axes, so I don't find it surprising they sanitize content in the US-flavor of "family friendly" similar to other game consoles.
I agree with the latter paragraph and stated so (implicitly) here in the last sentence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9778113
Whether you like it or not, the description of being nice has a connotation of being clueless. Obviously the word can be applied to people who are not clueless, but it still has that vibe about it.

I didn't make up that the definition is as such. Go find a dictionary that has not been revised to "match" the way people tend to use the word lately. ( such as a dictionary made 10 years ago ) You will find that is the actual definition.

Respect is a two way street. Those deserving of respect also need to give it and treat the people "beneath" them well. I do not give respect to people who are abusive to everyone around them.

You state that people who write articles are trying to bring benefit into the world, but that is really wishful thinking. If you look clearly at the motivations of the people crafting articles and the actual quality of the content they have created, you will find that the motivations are quite a bit less wonderful. The most common motivation is to get attention.

I am unsure why I should be offended if you state that people attending church on a regular basis tend to be arrogant and narrow minded. I should say that is simply a true statement. If people are offended by that then fuck them. If you stated "People who attend church are a bunch of dumb hicks" then that would be offensive. You didn't state it that way. You just made a rather defensible observation; a controversial one obviously, but I think it has weight.

I don't even follow your second example statement. It doesn't make sense.

You still haven't responded to the actual point of the observation heard in church. You seem to be deliberately ignoring the idea.
Defining your salary as "competitive" is worthless since everyone does it (although I saw a job description with "salary: decent" once :) ).

Clearly, being open about the salary gives you a big advantage, applicants know what they can expect and are more willing to spend time going through your interview process. When dealing with recruiters, I only answer their cold email if the salary is listed (among location, company name, tech stack).

One note of caution: if you advertise a range (e.g. 90k to 120k) you should have clear criteria in mind to decided what to offer in your range. As a candidate, I would want to understand why I'm offered 95k instead of 110k for example.
Or Syncthing, which does very much the same thing as BTSync -- multi-way sync of one or more directories between several computers you own/control. Syncthing is free software, and offers better security guarantees than BTSync, but as a result it's slightly harder to set up a folder on each client.

Or there's also OwnCloud, which gives you a very simple user experience; you just need to have a centralized storage server set up.
> The only itch Uber is scratching is the libertarian itch to circumvent consumer protection, environmental protection and labour laws.

A coworker of mine has an amusing tale to illustrate how well consumer-protection laws protected him when his NYC taxi driver, driving on an illegally-borrowed medallion, demanded cash (instead of credit) to keep the transaction off the books, briefly holding him hostage and threatening to steal his luggage.
Cold isn't required for hailstorms. The ice forms at altitude. We have a lot of hailstorms in the spring and summer in Colorado, and while it isn't the mosquitoiest place I've ever lived, there are mosquitoes.
Even if it is impossible for automated testing, that doesn't account for QA and other manual testing. Obviously the bugs aren't too hard to find for most of the people playing it.
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When I was a contractor I had more control of my hours. Employers preferred 40 hours, but would accept less depending on their situation. Other than that, I worked alongside internal people and did the same work.
There are some flagrant examples. Peter Duesberg, the UC Berkely molecular biologist prof who thinks that the HIV/AIDS link is bogus, comes to mind.

There are also those who tend to know their limits and note when they're out of their depth or area(s) of expertise. So no, that's not a universal guide either.
Just tested the App and I really loved it.

I was searching for something like this for quite sometime, as I tend to have a lot of windows open and this app helps me to focus on only one at a time.

Simple and efficient =)

Thanks !
Here is part of Mississippi's Declaration of Secession:

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product, which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. "

It astounds me that there are large numbers of whites in this country who think the Civil War was about anything other than slavery. The Confederate flag represents and evil institution and represents the evil intent of white Southern power brokers 155 years ago.

I don't have an opinion as such on Apple's decision but let's not pretend that the Confederate flag is anything other than a symbol of overt racism.
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First thing I checked was Wolfenstein 3D - and it's still there.

The messaging on this is really bad. You can't feign outrage at symbols of slavery without doing the same for symbols of genocide.
That's how I'd do it.