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We do that already. But then you're the host and expected to eat/converse at length. You also don't get paid (I least I'm not going to charge my friends).
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Yeah, I worked at a largish government agency that ran Hummingbird. We had a mix of AIX servers and Windows clients and Hummingbird was critical for a handful of things. Can't say I have many fond memories about that whole architecture, but it was part of a complex web of software that let us anachronistically hold out against adopting Active Directory.
I see it like this: 1) let the user handle the security updates of the JVM; 2) push out security updates in a centralised, controlled fashion.

IMHO, in a corporate solution like that described in the OP, 2) makes a lot more sense.
Indeed. The biggest "problem" right now is storage, but anyone saying it's too big of a problem that won't be overcome soon would be as foolish as saying solar can't take off 6 years ago...which is apparently what the International Energy Agency did say then, and its estimates were overshot by 9x.

> At that point the International Energy Agency (IEA) was still predicting that solar power would struggle to reach 20 gigawatts by now. Few could have foretold that it would in fact explode to 180 gigawatts.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11958916/Paris-...

Battery storage for solar power plants and even homes is going to explode over the next 5 years.
This specific talk I feel he panders too much. The British surveys, for example, seem to have been made to take advantage of the anchoring effect to elicit more wrong answers, to the delight of the giggling audience.
They're not maintained by the same team though.
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I would say your friends are just as financially motivated to cut corners as a restaurant. They have to spend (and save) money making food too.
It presents the same conceptual UI as Darcs (it's patch-based, not snapshot-based), but provides the performance of Git and Mercurial. It does that by changing the internal storage of how patches work compared to Darcs. If you know Darcs, that's your entire sales pitch: Darcs, but now performant.

For everyone else: In Git and Mercurial (and Bazaar, Monotone, Subversion, tla, Fossil, TFS2, and others I'm forgetting), the state is always represented conceptually as a snapshot of the current revision and a pointer to the snapshot of previous revision or revisions, so if you identify that you're at "snapshot 590", and I'm also at "snapshot 590", we're both at the same thing, and both have exactly the same history of how we got there.

In a patch-based system, like Pijul or Darcs, that's not true. The state is instead represented by the set of applied patches. These usually have an implicit ordering, but you and I can theoretically have the same patches applied and have a different ordering. (We also can briefly have different resolutions to merge conflicts that result from that, and Darcs' historical inability to deal efficiently with you and me resolving conflicts differently is a major reason it doesn't scale well.)

That sounds weird, but can have major benefits. For example, I can now sanely cherry-pick a bug fix from you regardless of the history of that bugfix--and, unlike in Git and Mercurial, Darcs/Pijul will know that the patch I cherry-picked from you is the exact same one that you have on your branch. No duplication, Cherry-Pick: messages, or merge collisions will result if I later pull in your whole branch (or vice-versa). You can also do things like have a patch that has all of your security settings, but always simply not push that when you push out to a public server. (N.B., giving this as an example, not best-practice.)

If Pijul works, and can provide Darcs' model in an efficient way, it'd be really awesome. I'm not sure whether it'd be better than Mercurial or Git's model at scale, but it's been really hard to answer that question historically when Darcs itself didn't scale well. Pijul could change that.
Yes, I wasn't saying that it's not going to happen, it's just that it's taking an incredible amount of time. Once cell phones took off there was an arms race to build a supercomputer in your pocket. That R&D will carry over to wearables, which will fuel more R&D.

Solar seems to be on its own little island without anything to drive it into the mainstream. If some sort of affordable consumer product existed, that could drive research.
I first heard about Nellie Bly via the early West Wing episode.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745595/quotes?item=qt0297998

I hadn't realised that she had also done a Jules Verne around the world.
About a year and a half ago I started piecing together what I needed to know to get a job as a Front end dev. Spent tons of time spinning my wheels. Looking at this now that I have my first job, it would have helped a lot as far as knowing what I had to learn and how it all relates.
I'm looking at my itunes 12 window right now and it looks quite a bit different to my eye (most music players have basically the same form of 'controls on top and a big list of songs').
Could this just be survivorship bias? We don't hear about all the non-ad-blockers that got rejected by Apple or Google for the same reasons. If they wanted to ban apps like this, they would likely just ban them, instead of stirring the pot by taking them down and then putting them back online.
> He should be required to assist the innocent man ...

The state should be required. It can optionally pursue compensation from the lawyer/judge.
Are you referring to Intel's recent change to start ignoring the hint prefix opcodes? I thought at least ARM and PowerPC still honor them in latest chips (and have them as bit flags in branch instruction encoding, instead of verbose prefix bytes).
He didn't want to report a bug, he wanted to contribute to the project. I can think of a few reasons why. They lost a new potential committer by "being pragmatic" about it, but ignoring inter-personal relationships, like so often.
We didn't have to. We had a slick way to find out without tipping off the ID holder.

It went something like this:

As I'm asking the kid the details on his ID, I make a hand gesture to the waitress that works the rear bar near the door. She would then have the manager call the phone at the front desk where we were. As I was talking to the kid, I would show Bouncer #2 the city and as I was talking to the kid, Bouncer #2 would ask the manager the area code over the phone in a simple coded manner.

The bouncer would give the city and state initials to the manager. So if it was Phoneix, AZ. He would say, "Yeah, its a PH, AZ." The manager would then confirm he had the right city and then relate the area code. After a few months, I had memorized a lot of the shorthand we had for cities so that it only took a few seconds to confirm. Considering most fakes come from the same states and cities, it wasn't a long list to learn.

By the time I got down stalling, the other bouncer would then ask him the question, already knowing the answer.
SHA-1 and 32-bit time for a new project in 2015?
While I'm sure there are antecedents, going as far back as Heinlein in the '50s, making use of the firehouse of information being produced by academics and researchers has been identified as a big problem. If Academia.edu can help with this, without doing objectively evil stuff, more power to them.
It took humans from 1903 to 1947 to break the sound barrier. That's a little more than 15 years.
I work in solar, and here's some quick facts:

1. 1 out of 78 jobs created in the U.S. last year were solar jobs[1].

2. There are more solar employees in California than utility employees[2].

3. Soft costs (non-hardware) are 64% of the installed cost of solar[3].

4. Solar is expected to reach a load defection point (i.e. cheaper to leave the grid) in most places in the next 10-15 years[4].

Like OP's article states, this industry's hardware has gotten so good, the software in the industry hasn't kept up. So much so, in fact, that an entire startup accelerator program in the bay area, Powerhouse[5], has been created to try and attract tech entrepreneurs into the solar industry to make the next generation of solar software. My startup recently went through the program, and being a part of this industry is one of the most empowering and rewarding things I've ever done. It's one of those extremely rare instances where you can have a solid business model and a positive impact on the world.

And we need all the help it can get. Solar expected to grow 100-200x over the next 25 years[6], but it won't happen if smart people don't join in. If you're a tech entrepreneur, and want to do something that matters, please please please consider doing a startup in solar.

[1]: http://energy.gov/eere/articles/1-78-new-jobs-america-solar-...

[2]: http://www.calseia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...

[3]: http://energy.gov/eere/sunshot/reducing-non-hardware-costs

[4]: http://blog.rmi.org/blog_2015_04_07_report_release_the_econo...

[5]: https://powerhouse.solar/

[6]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-23/the-way-hu...
>Aaron Cheung, I would appreciate it if you didn't taint YC's brand with your questionable business practices.

You could say the same about bigger "success" stories (let's say Airbnb). They're actively ignoring laws that make their business look better. Regardless of how you feel about whether the laws are just or not, how does that reflect on YC to have one of their biggest success stories blatantly ignoring laws?
Yes, thanks. I should have said "courts".
And like ABnB/Uber the industry is ripe for disruption because of the over-regulation that exists in many places. When people are motivated to make money and realize that the best way to do that is not to cut corners, but to have satisfied customers there is no need for regulation by a bloated and inefficient bureaucracy that usually operates primarily in its own interest.
Most of my developer colleagues indeed are using OSX, and have for years already. Using Stetson-Harrison method, we have 80% OSX / 10% Linux / 10% Windows.
A frank discussion of where our national priorities are versus where they should be would include the data point in the article.

We spend trillions killing Muslims across the ocean for the privilege of "safety" at home, where we are killed by the police in greater frequency than the Muslims ever did.
> If that were the law of the land, then a lot of prosecutors would quit and go into private practice.

That's an interesting situation. If a lot of prosecutors quit, then there's less bandwidth to prosecute, resulting in less demand for (I presume) defense lawyers.
On one occasion, when I was in Jr High School, I was sent to the Principal's office.

The assistant Principal started discussing my punishment and I chimed in that I didn't do what I was accused of doing.

He said that the teacher wouldn't have used her time to send me to the office if I hadn't done what she said I did.

I said that the reason we have trials is because sometimes the authorities make mistakes.

He looked at me as if I had spoken to him in a foreign language.
The problem is the people are going to look at this the wrong way. Its not that you should be scared of police; its that you shouldn't be scared of terrorists.
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I think he just means that, while many Git users may indeed be familiar with blobs, trees, commits, packs, refs, remote refs, and so on, most Mercurial users just know that they have changesets. Most Mercurial users do not know what filelogs are, how they work, what the manifest is, and so on.

That said, I find the original claim, that users of snapshot systems have to know the internals, a bit idiotic. Subversion users definitely didn't, nor did most CVS users. Git seems to just be a very loud exception. Whether this is by necessity due to Git's UI, or whether it's simply that Git's data structures are more visible and discoverable, is a debate I'm not touching. (I'd note that there's a direct 1:1 correspondence for all core Git and Mercurial internal structures, so it's definitely not inherent in the snapshot model. There are even very nearly 1:1 analogs to older DVCSes, like BitKeeper and Monotone. Git users just tend to know more about the internals of their tooling.)
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"Overgeneration" is not a problem with photovoltaic panels. You simply open circuit the panel and let it sit. In my own off grid solar installation I routinely fill my batteries, and after doing any high power tasks, like vacuum the rugs, the panels just go idle.

To a grid connected system it means you can't sell your power during the solar peaks, but it also means that you have enough capacity to sell more power during the edges of the solar periods.

Certainly any business which invests in long lived capital equipment would like to operate it at 100% capacity all the time, but most industries realize this doesn't happen. Solar will adjust.

For off grid people "excess" capacity means getting by better on partly cloudy days. I'll probably double my capacity next spring for just this reason.
Past experience makes me pretty confident of what I'll find this time.
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You are both ignoring the threats he made to extract a plea bargain, and the lack of serious consequences for prosecutorial misconduct. He acted like a thug, and should be sentenced like one. He ought to die in prison and see his family impoverished to compensate his victim.
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>If that were the law of the land, then a lot of prosecutors would quit and go into private practice.

You present that almost like it would be a bad thing.
Anderson is a real piece of work. He tried everything to fight Morton's appeals, his own sanction. It is also a huge embarrassment for the State Bar; since they previously awarded him "Prosecutor of the Year".
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This is bad, which is the opposite of good.
I think they are more likely to enforce two-child policy, by "encouraging" married couples to have more-than-one-and-less-than-three children.
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I disagree. Having maintained a massive system that had to go deep into Git's internal data structures, I will tell you that, regardless of what Git's docs might tell you, the actual documentation for most of Git's file formats is, "Whatever the Git commands actually output." This is part of why a perfectly legal Git repository (as far as Git itself is concerned) can sometimes crash libgit2 and JGit.

By the Pijul team forcing themselves to have two different implementations in lockstep, they will probably do a very good job avoiding that problem.
I did. And thank you - you hit the nail on the head with "It's tough to feel like you've fallen short, even when you realize the goal was unrealistic or that others would have been happier for you not to try."

As for the rest, simply thank you - and yeah, I shouldn't be reading the comments ;)
About 20 years ago, when I was a grad student, I attended a colloquium where the speaker (a physicist, for better or worse) had computed the number of people that the planet could support if everyone consumed natural resources at the rate that Americans do. His number was 2 billion. I don't remember who the speaker was and I don't know what assumptions he made -- I don't know how much error there might be in his result or how improvements in technology might change it. If his number is even close to being right, "global populations will peak in my lifetime" isn't even close to being adequate unless you expect the bulk of the population to be satisfied with remaining poor while a small proportion of the population devours the planet.
"The BLS reports the median annual salary for high school teachers was $55,360 in 2013. The best-paid 10 percent in the field made approximately $86,720, while the bottom 10 percent made $37,230. Compensation is typically based on years of experience and educational level." [0]

This ($57k) is right around the median household income in the US. Note that is per household, which may include multiple earners.

Tough to look at teacher salaries, which are above the median, and say that's garbage.

Yes, they have a tough job, balancing between students, administrators, and (especially) parents. But lots of people do want to do the job, and get paid an OK salary, and get lots of time off during the year.

[0] http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/high-school-teache...
Personally I'd be quite excited to see a bug I reported fixed the same-day - of course people's expectations are different it's not always easy to balance these things.
>More importantly, this is gratuitously personal. Stalking expeditions are not welcome on Hacker News, whatever one's opinion of the story at hand. Please don't do this on this site.

I agree with your point that they are weird things to bring up, but how is that "stalking"? It's looking at 3 very public profile pages, which requires almost no effort to look at. Unless you've edited the post to remove information, that seems entirely benign. There's absolutely 0 expectation of privacy with those pages, and almost by definition were created to allow access for the general public to that information.
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60% means not sure beyond a reasonable doubt. Not guilty.
>Call me a food safety nit, but the idea of eating food prepared by unlicensed strangers does not seem appealing.

I'm germophobic nut. At public bathrooms, I'll take one last paper towel to wrap around the door handle and open it as I leave because in my mind, the door and faucets have more germs than the toilet seat.

That said, I have no fear of eating meals cooked by strangers. That sort of thing happens all the time. The last-minute party crashing at unknown host during college. Or coworkers (many strangers, not all friends) bring potluck to the office party. I've worked the kitchens at restaurants and I don't hold the government licensing and regular inspections as something that puts my mind at ease.

I'm not discounting your opinion or apprehensiveness about the underground restaurant model. However, I'm fascinated that we assign different degrees of risk to it.
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True, but who do people interact with and see much more? The cops are visible and aggressive whereas terrorists are abstract.
It's the first time it's ever happened. While it may not be justice to the man who served 25 years for a crime he didn't commit, it is a step forward and will serve as a ruling for future trials with similar circumstance.
I agree, but I fell for it anyway. You are the better man. the article says basically "No", and is a junky advertisement that doesn't belong on HN in the first place.
http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-p...

This is the video. It has some nice visualizations of population related statistics.
This is ignoring black swan events. There is no chance that police officers will kill 10 million people tomorrow, but there is a non-zero chance that terrorists will.
Actually atheism is on the rise (or rather, religiosity is on the decline, yes worldwide, too), and urbanisation has been and still is on the rise (recently passing the 50/50 line, with now the majority of people living in cities), and no, rural populations don't impose their culture on cities, rather they seem to get integrated or even further, assimilated by the city culture.

As for an increase in non-white population, absolutely. But you seem to say it as some kind of issue. I don't care about skin color. A concern may be preserving a western culture, absolutely, but there the world has indeed westernised tremendously and shows few signs of slowing down.

I don't really share the sense of concern I interpreted (perhaps wrongfully) in your post.

> Truth of the matter is that there isn't much any political movement in either Europe or America can do.

The answer has always been obvious. It's a long-term answer, one not chosen for centuries. And it's called genuine cooperation and the desire for the rest of the world to rise up, become wealthy, prosperous and sensible, for us to yield some so the rest of the world can rise. Migrants have no interest in moving to where you do, if their own country is great. They have no interest in attacking you, if they're not oppressed or exploited by you. They've no interest in fanaticism if they have something to lose, and no enemy in sight, and an open hand shown to them. They have no need to bear 5 or 6 children if their healthcare system ensures all of them live. The world needs to do everything in its power to help developing countries if you ask me. Every country that has raised living standards has seen population growth decline. And the correlation between living standards and war/religiosity/fanaticism is negative, too. It's a moral imperative to help others, and research shows it helps ourselves, too. It's exactly the same principle why it makes sense for rich people to pay taxes to help the poor in their own country, because it improves their lives when the poor do better, when crime is reduced, and schools improve and roads are safe to drive on and homelessness is reduced and teenage pregnancies drop and schools get better etc etc. Imagine the rich in the US got private armies and lived in gated communities like in some areas in Brazil and walled off their tiny society, the US'd be a terrible country for all, same applies to Europe. Instead we build social democracies. Somehow we don't apply that beyond our borders much, at least not in the past few centuries, instead close our borders, sometimes exploit others beyond our borders, and when we see populations boom and signs of ill will towards us and see populations cling to a different culture than our own, we act surprised. We shouldn't be, it's the logical outcome of our foreign policy.
> - Toggle layout.css.visited_links_enabled to False

Firefox lies[0] to scripts that try to access the style-state of visited links. You probably don't need to set this.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Privacy_and...
I don't understand why the punishment is not much tougher. People like prosecutors, cops and judges are entrusted by society with power over people's lives. Illegal behavior in such a role should be viewed much more severely. A government can't work if it doesn't operate to the highest standards.
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Excuse me but fuck the authorities. They're not stopping a terror, in the US they are running it. They need a lesson in humility.