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Mozilla's mission is to promote openness on the web. It is both easy to articulate and easy to understand.

Their mission is not to build a web browser for the sake of building a web browser. They build a browser to protect the web and you.

This project fits in with that mission too.

I doubt it will help, but just on the off chance that it does, you should read these:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-...

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-par...

Fuck you and your mediaeval misogynistic bullshit.

The fact that you can't form healthy relationships with other human beings (man or woman), doesn't mean the rest of us don't or can't have healthly mutual relationships.

Despite all of that, i'll grant part your point.

Subsuming your identity entirely into someone else isn't healthy. Have your interests. Find a significant other who supports you in your interests and support them in theirs (if monogamy is your thing). But most of all treat them as a person who has their own interests and capabilities to make their own decisions.

Well the hilarious part is that AirBnB now requires guests to prove who they are by posting a passport.

It wouldn't be rocket science to require hosts to prove that they have ownership or approval to let out their flats (i mean, you can look up property ownership info online for most US cities). Especially since, from the host's perspective it's not a 1 time transaction.

They're just skirting the law because it's convenient.

I'm unclear on why supercritical steam is important for electrical generation. Anybody happen to know?

Reading through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical_steam_generator indicates that Benson boilers are more fuel efficient (and perhaps less prone to explosion), but reduction in amount of fossil fuels used to turn a turbine seems to be sort of a moot point here.

Would super critical steam generation mean a solar plant can produce more electricity? Or that a supercritical steam generating solar plant is cheaper to operate?

Unfortunately one of the skills experts develop is the ability to detect bullshit arguments. It is difficult to convey skepticism to a lay audience.

One of the red flags this Rutan thing immediately sets off is that it is INCREDIBLY long, and despite that, doesn't provide any sense of what the structure of the argument it is providing will be.

Does he dispute the data that scientists have collected? Does he dispute the analyses? On what basis? Can he attribute the effects the scientists are pointing to to other causes? Does he simply think that the effects don't matter?

The main thing that's clear from all of his graphs is that he thinks that there's a lot of "scare tactics" going on.

But the fact that this thing is 100 pages long and doesn't appear to have any structure should trigger alarm bells by itself.

Hey look, another climate change denialist who doesn't mention the fact that we are measurably acidifying the oceans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification

Humans are releasing enough CO2 into the atmosphere that is being absorbed by the oceans as carbonic acid and killing ocean life.

(sorry accidentally hit the downvote button, so commenting to give you the karma back. hmm that used to work afaik, doesn't seem like it helped.)

Mike Bostock pointed out that he had already extracted D3's DSV parsing into it's own repo when i expressed my disappointment i couldn't use d3's w/o rewriting parts of D3's DSV parser.

It lives here: https://github.com/mbostock/dsv

ps it properly scans & tokenizes CSVs and handles quoted fields fine as a consequence

Yep, i think that part was a clarification added after the bulletin was posted to HN.

And clearly your life will never change and you are certain to always feel like this.

As a post script: it's also worth noting that this was merely a bulletin that Steve was departing, not a manifesto about work-life balance (which you'll note is not the reason he's citing for leaving SF).

Let me offer you an alternative hypothesis.

Steve remains at work, rather than being pulled to other alluring things, because he he finds SF so draining and obnoxious. A change of scenery can definitely help with that sort of problem.

Having talked to Steve over a range of diverse topics I can tell you, Steve has many interests outside of work and in many other contexts has obviously maintained a work/life balance that has allowed him to do many interesting things both professionally and personally.

Buzzfeed has spent the past 6 months standing up a really great investigative team. They hired Mark Schoofs (a Pulitzer winner) from ProPublica as the head of their investigative team (http://jimromenesko.com/2013/10/21/mark-schoofs-leaves-propu... ), and recently were joined by 2014's Pulitzer winner for investigative reporting, Chris Hamby (http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/04/8543804/... ), and they've hired several really awesome people to fill out data/developer roles on the investigative team like Jeremy Singer-Vine (http://www.jsvine.com/ ).

Buzzfeed appears to be making a real go at the investigative journalism thing and it'll be interesting to see what they do.

The ocean is another place where climate change is really really obvious, but also largely unknown by the public.

The ocean functions as a huge reservoir for absorbing & trapping CO2. But absorption of CO2 turns into carbonic acid, and humans are producing so much CO2 that we are measurably changing the pH of the ocean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification

Having been through open sourcing an app platform repo (https://github.com/documentcloud/documentcloud ) that wasn't explicitly created w/ open sourcing in mind, moot has my deepest sympathies.

Moot left out the most sensible response to Mistake #5:

I went through a rushed 8hr rebase to remove all of our keys, certificates, cookie secrets and the like before DocumentCloud's platform was opened. Two days after, a friend asked me why I hadn't simply revoked and replaced all of our secrets to the sound of me facepalming repeatedly.

It is always much easier just to revoke and replace your secrets. Doing so should always be relatively easy for you to execute, and having a chance to practice that is also always good.

It looks like they're serving off something called "rc":

   $ curl -I harmful.cat-v.org
   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
   Content-Type: text/html
   Server: rc-httpd
   Connection: close

It is ironically listed in the "Less harmful alternatives" and links to a page hosted on itself: http://rc.cat-v.org/

Edit:

Sorry my bad, `rc` appears to be part of Plan9 (see: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Mc7xQBU... ).

Here's the cache link to rc-httpd which seems to be the thing that's buckling under the load:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3ahE0vd...

I am incredibly unimpressed with Kris Hammond's hype machine (although i think that what Narrative Science does is cool).

But this isn't the first bot that the LA Times has operated either. Folks like Ben Welsh (who works at the LA Times, and did this awesome lightning talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP-On8PzEy8 ) and Matt Waite (who won a Pulitzer Prize for Politifact & now teaches at University of Nebraska Lincoln) have also been writing bots to help with the reporting process (and yes in some case actually generate copy) for years.

Narrative Science certainly was not the first or only group to do this.

The way this article is written makes way more sense if you imagine the author were a time traveler not of our era.

This is an incredibly uncharitable reading of what @steveklabnik wrote.

His intention is clearly that people should get rid of the claim that we live in an equal society. Not to get rid of people.

There are indeed many administrative rulings that are not made by judges, but instead by executives in government.

That internet service providers are not common carriers is just one example of an administrative FCC ruling.

Administrative rulings matter a great deal to the daily operation of government and how citizens interface with their services.

It has been and continues to be a major cost in terms of time, effort and resources for news organizations to drag every administrative ruling in front of a judge.

Only if bets are placed as charitable giving :)

What relevance does the credit crisis have?

Pointing out that markets require liquidity has nothing to do with the fact that there needs to be some sort of real economic value to sustain jobs.

It's not just rich people handing out jobs and deciding whether or not we should keep factories or companies open or not.

Capital is part of markets (granted a vital part). It's not the only, nor the most important part.

As a point of note, there's research on this topic. Comments influence/bias how people feel/think about the content they read: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/...

You're not just getting landscape, you're getting the messy human battlefield of human opinion (sometimes for better, often for worse).

Personally i wish there were a plugin that would prevent voting until you've opened the link and spent at least a minute on page :P

Actually why not?

Why not 'bot' pages?

This post really is less of a rebuttal and more of a DoS attack.

The tl;dr amounts to:

* author agrees with Stross that bitcoin is energy intensive.

* author says there have been improvements to carbon footprint (as if that some how address the issue of theft of other people's electricity/CPU cycles being more efficient than spending your own electricity)

* An argument about deflation that amounts to "there's no consensus in economics so it's fine if we run speculative experiments with economies"

* A non-argument assertion that bitcoin is somehow no worse than cash as a vehicle for illegal/unethical behavior.

Somehow this is suppose to amount to a take down of a dude who wrote literally an entire book about how algorithmically mediated systems which do not depend on human judgement are inherently inhuman and unconcerned about human ethical concerns.

"It’s hard to believe that an author who wrote about algorithmically run 2.0 economies and trading exchanges for personal reputations can fail to see the precursors of that tech in the real world."

wat.

Seems like the author seems to be the primary source of misunderstanding.

None of the complaints in this thread consider the utility of creating sharable checklists.

The ability to quickly slam a checklist into a gist and share it with others is very handy.

Let me disclaim this with the fact that i think Heifer International seems like it does good work, and the interviews i've heard with their people have left me with a good impression. Okay, that said:

Why shouldn't we skeptically evaluate non-profits and charities the way we evaluate the ethics and responsibility of for-profits? There are piiiiiiles of truly awful charities who take money in the name of doing good only to enrich themselves and let their ersatz causes languish unattended (see: http://cironline.org/americasworstcharities ).

I think it's awesome that Bill Gates donated to Heifer International on this woman's behalf. But I think maybe it's better if people spent more time learning more about Heifer and donating on its merits, than just because Bill Gates donated to it.

So, actually, i don't agree that advertising for charities and for-profits is that different :)

It's awesome that Bill Gates decided to participate in the gift exchange.

This is also quite assuredly one of the best ways he could have possibly advertised for Heifer International.

So, yeah, he's a regular dude in a lot of ways. He's also still a ruthless billionaire who created a company that was known for crushing its competitors.

People are complicated, and just because he can be nice doesn't mean that he's not other things too.

I'd be super uncomfortable with anybody asserting that conclusion.

What the quote in the original article says is that they have data that in a preliminary fashion supports the hypothesis that being cold (and trying to keep warm) suppresses a mouse's ability to fight off tumor growth.

That is very different from saying cold/stress causes tumors.

So you're posting your hypothetical anecdote because you're upset that the LA Times didn't interview you?

What unrepresented party to this story do you think you belong to? People who are upset that uber isn't around to serve them? Again, this is entirely dependent on circumstances that you haven't made clear. Maybe Uber and their pro-market pricing think that you're in a region they can't make a profit in, and therefor will never be an option for you anyway.

Are you just in the class of people who are upset that taxis aren't available in bad weather in your area? Again, do you live up on the top of a mountain? Are you hard to get to? Again, it's not clear.

It just sounds like you're unhappy with your local taxis, and support unrestrained market policies, which frankly, isn't interesting or relevant to stories about Uber, their places in existing market places, and whether they're serving their customers well with surge pricing.