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Ok, let me try to clarify, because lots of nonsense have been spoken here already.

Mexico's Supreme Court has no right to say a thing with regards to US law, US policy or US Constitution. The article is talking (very briefly) about Mexican Constitution. One would think that was obvious, but apparently even at Hacker News, gringo's arrogance knows no limit. We do have our own laws and institutions in other countries in case you never have bothered to notice.

Second, it is a very interesting legal case which the article does no justice to (it rather gets lost reporting on the war on drugs, and the posture of conservative elements in society). There is this group of activists (SMART) that made a request to COFEPRIS - a branch of Mexican Government that is roughly equivalent to NIST - so that cannabis can be produced, stored and consumed with no profit motive. This request was obviously rejected, which is what SMART intended.

Since there was a decision of the government that affected their interests, it was possible under Mexican law to demand a "Jucio de Amparo" which can be roughly translated as a "Sanctuary Trial" and it similar to suing the government but not quite. IANAL, but the bottom line as far as I know is that you can demand the court to evaluate and interject decisions from other branches of government if you think your rights are being violated. The SMART activist group did win that trial.

What you are seeing talked about is the last appeal to that trial, which was ruled by the highest court in the country, and which the activists won again. The end result is not legalization, but undermining of the Mexican Government - and in particular law enforcement - ability to crack down on marijuana users with possession charges. If is of course open to debate whether that will benefit society at large or just some interest groups, or who those interest groups might be.

In the long term, this also creates a precedent that might or might not result in the legalization of soft drugs... but it is too early to tell at this point. At the very least the subject, which was taboo not that long ago, is being openly discussed now.
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Ok, so, the digraph runes are the sticking point, for me, trying to read hoon code, so far (caveats very definitely necessary). I love the tall form indentation system, and I actually do know what $() is from reading the hidduc-posmeg stuff ('recur' is common sugar for a lisp continuation-based recurse-into-somewhere-often-the-current-function - please don't confuse that with me thinking it's plain recursion) - but, well, other than ?: which fits the hook operator thing (and ? and ?? which seem pretty clear), I've not got a good way to hang memories off the rest. Some sort of set of mnemonics, even very silly mnemonics, ala 'perldoc perlvar', might make things a lot easier for me.

Can you invent a just so story that explains why % is for apply, and : is for making tuples? It doesn't have to be particularly real, I could just do with something to hang the liveware memory structures off.

(note that I am -trying- to get my head around this stuff, but I've not quite got far enough in terms of reading code for creating an installation to seem worth the effort ... but I want to, so I'm trying to find constructive ideas that'll help other people trying to learn and incidentally also me as well ;)
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> I have to force myself to "code-switch" when speaking to the uninitiated, even in a technical context that has nothing to do with Urbit.

That's one of many reasons I wouldn't want to switch even if it was more efficient, for much the same reason that I have no plans to learn Esperanto or switch to Colemak. That's also precisely why I suggested it was much like requiring a custom keyboard.

I can say "x mod equal y" to almost anyone technical, and they'll immediately understand it as "x %= y". One syllable for understandability. And considering how rarely I actually speak exact syntax aloud, that seems well worth it. (It occurs to me that someone designing and using a new programming language seems far more likely than average to have to communicate syntax verbally.)
Shameless plug, I wrote this small being-bored-at-a-conference tool to show you the licenses of packages installed in your Python environment:
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It's pretty rough but gets the job done for separating free and open source requirements.
Very interesting, I tried to theorized the Christ idea, but never thought of it as a safety valve. So far all I got was the 'took our sins' as quick path to an everloving alter ego that can empathize with anybody since he sinned too.

ps: Achever clausewitz sounds like a bad portemanteau. I guess on purpose.
A couple points that have been missed in the comments. #1 Amazon is just now starting to turn a profit. That's 20 years of losses. #2 Amazon seller's fees are huge, especially for items less than $10. I can sell Samsung 18650 batteries in my online store for less than Samsung sells the same battery for on Amazon. Customer demand is only one side of the coin, there is also vendor demand to consider.
You're right that not everything is zero-sum. But I suspect an overwhelming majority of the issues that come up for argument are very close to zero-sum.
That is pretty funny solution, but it might just work sometimes. How much has that worked for you?
Yet their diagram shows that putting a signed file in the webroot of your domain is what's needed to prove you own the domain.
My advice would be to think hard about your requirements and pick something which meets them. Don't fret about the "best" solution - you and your team have more important problems to solve. If something works for you then you have made the right choice. All the solutions you would pick today will still be around tomorrow.
That's a really good idea! I've had to deal with API limits countless times and it sucks.

For some projects I had to geocode with multiple providers. Bing seems to be better than Google at geocoding in some parts of the county. I esp. noticed it in the Midwest / Illinois.
The author wrote followup article in which he estimates costs for a more reasonable system that is sized for winter production rather than annual storage:

A Potential Solution to the Problem of Storing Solar Energy – Don’t Store It.

http://euanmearns.com/a-potential-solution-to-the-problem-of...

As commenters here and on the blog suggest, this is a much more cost effective approach (although still prohibitively expensive in extreme latitudes).
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We have a Python codebase, it just wasn't relevant to the couple of questions I've asked on #stripe, so didn't even mention it.

The Stripe Python library + Stripe's API docs are pretty good, and never really had any issues on that level.
If he had the option of not opening a door and just opening the one the contestant picked immediately, then that makes it a rather different problem from the mathematical one. And AIUI that was how the gameshow worked: sometimes Monty would reveal a goat and offer you the chance to switch doors, and sometimes he wouldn't.
We should abolish DST while we are at it.
I would agree the level of automation which the tool currently exerts (and the potential for resultant chaos) is definitely a good reason to require root privs by design.

I'm sure that they do not feel like the level of automation imposed by the tool is somehow a necessary component of the validation before they will generate a certificate. Certainly, there is no cryptographic value, because their tool doesn't do anything special, so there's no proof or requirement you actually run this particular tool. On their side they make the request for the validation file on the domain root on port 80, but the particular machine being controlled may be, in turn, replying to a request on a higher port.

The pair of bash scripts I would want to use each simply create a file in the CWD, so they cannot possibly cause chaos, and therefore I think most would agree can be shipped without imposing (artificially or not) a sudo requirement.
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Heartland of Darkness: mortality of white non-hispanic Americans on a sharp rise
Second Spectrum's Shanghai office is also looking for full stack, frontend and backend engineers as well as devops and a compositor/rotoscope lead artist.

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Perhaps we could adjust leap seconds once every 10 or 15 years. A 5 second change is unlikely to be disruptive if there is a common, semirare schedule.
Volume vs. profit margin. Somewhere around 20 million people in the US use marijuana, which is a pretty damned big market.
Oh they are produced on a massive scale, and they are cheap - in Shenzhen, it's easier to find them now than the ordinary ones. Every other vendor has them stacked up to the roof.
Girard was an important scholar of mimetic rivalry, sacrifice, and violence in the ancient world. For a great place to start, I recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/See-Satan-Fall-Like-Lightning/dp/15707...
The biggest risk doing this on a botnet that I can see is that there's a chance some researcher looks at what you're doing and alarms the world before you get a result. There's no big risk of that on EC2.

Using a botnet for compute has opportunity cost attached to it. However, I have no idea about the usual prices when they are rented.
To be fair, QC pass stickers are going to be sold like that just because you'll need a lot of them if your only way of identifying pass/fail is via a sticker. I don't see why you wouldn't buy those en masse, and use them on a real assembly line -- especially in a country where most plastic goods are produced.
Going just by the title, it's obvious. I was really amazed when I learned that use of illegal drugs is prohibited (punishable offense) in US. It makes absolutely no sense in a civilized society.
It will be less wasteful and you'll get better results by placing your eggs in some water with ice cubes.

5 minutes appears low, but until reading this article I was starting my eggs in cold water so I don't have any reference.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10495966
You use the battery to offset the times when the sun does not shine so more solar power does not work. You don't use batteries to offset the summer/winter cycle, you use them to offset the day/night cycle and to store a bit more in case the next couple of days are overcast.

The whole winter/summer storage thing is nonsense, nobody sizes a PV system like that.
Misleading (and not original) title. The 'economic environment' has not changed, the prevailing economic environment is that if you're an incumbent, sooner or later someone fitter comes along and eats your lunch. Which is also pretty much the tl;dr of TFA.
So they want to switch to what would be to de facto a non-fixed prime meridian (from time counting point of view) just because developers of time-critical systems are too lazy to use TAI or GPS time for internal time calculations...
Why would you recommend See Satan Fall Like Lightening over Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World as a starting place?
The OP does not have a single clue about actually using solar. His price per KWH is about 1 order of magnitude off (and then some).

I've used 100% solar for the past 2 years and there has not been a single day that I needed a second source of power.

Also my system is quite modest. Just 500W of panels and about 600Wh of lithium ion battery (lifepo4) energy storage.

The 500W of panels is plenty. Most days I charge my batteries fully before noon.

The 600Wh of batteries is enough to get me through 3 days of heavy cloud weather ( you get about 10% of your maximum generation on a heavily clouded day ).

This system is for two people using our computers and 3g wireless for the entire day. LED lights at night which are bright and warm, water pump, food processor, stereo, iPad, hella gadgets, raspberry pi backup server, etc etc

If I changed something, I'd double the batteries that I use.. going to 24V. You get more of the rated power of the solar panel when using a 24V system. I am considering getting an electric bike & storing extra power there.

The total cost of the system was about $800.

In the summer I can generate about 2 kWh / sunny day -- I only need about 400Wh / day though. You do the math for the cost per kWh. It's damn cheap.
Have you planned for group chat as well ?
Let's Encrypt / ISRG ED here.

The official client is intended to have a simple mode as well as a "full-service" mode. That said, our client is never going to be ideal for everyone. We'd be happy to see others create clients that work well for them!

We'd also like to see support for Let's Encrypt built in to servers, so a separate client isn't necessary. That would really allow for the best, most seamless user experience.
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Just to note, with large GPU farms the cost of the power to run them will exceed the hardware cost in a matter of weeks.
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RCDevs is a Luxembourgish software development company that sells authentication software and services around network security. We have business around the world with all kinds of clients. We tend to focus on good engineering and the quality of our customer support. You can find us at https://www.rcdevs.com .

Your job will consist in:

- integrating our product into the infrastructure of clients who are trying out,
installing or maintaining our main product,
- consult for local clients that ask for additional services around our product.
This usually involves network security topics and some system administration,
- program and write documentation during downtime.

All this is mostly done in English, so a certain level of fluency in the language is mandatory.

If you are a recent graduate, we expect you to:

- know your way around Linux (having played with Ubuntu in a VM is not enough),
- know how to troubleshoot common TCP/IP problems,
- prove that you are dedicated to your discipline. A small project
demonstrating your ability would be best. (A small AWS network, a
script for an interesting puzzle...)

If you are more seasoned, we are interested, in addition to the former listing, in any experience you have with the stuff we usually deal with:

RADIUS, LDAP, Web services, EAP, OpenID, SAML, OAuth, PHP, C and Linux system programming, Linux administration, the X.509 PKI, SSL/TLS, HTTP, Active Directory, AD FS and network security.

Most of the office speaks french, although we do not require you to know the language. (But if you want to learn, all the better!)

If you want to know more about the company, the job, or to apply, send us an informal email at jobs@rcdevs.com.
I used ledger-cli, but as I constantly deal with several currencies, I can't rely on it. Unfortunately, none of the open source accounting system I know support multi-currency accounting well.
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Some languages are so disconnected from programmer needs and real life usefulness that they make me say "I'd rather learn assembler".
> Doesn't your example contradict your claim? Putting numbers into the Drake equation doesn't really make it more useful than just thinking about it abstractly.

No? The way you (or at least I) use it is to plug numbers in (I mean, what else can you do with it?). "I think this factor is somewhere between 1 and 10,000, and this one's about 1,000,000, so... huh. My model can't be right."

> I wonder if the discussion of that article would have gone differently if it had been about (internally) reasoning about uncertain things as 51/49 choices

In a 51/49 scenario there's no point spending a lot of time evaluating. But unfortunately we often naturally assume a scenario is 51/49 when it's not.

> made it clear that it isn't really useful to communicate using the made up numbers (except maybe if the whole hypothetical case is explicitly communicated).

A number calculated from made up numbers is probably more accurate than a gut feeling, and we communicate those all the time.
Relevant bit from the latest season of the Startup podcast: https://youtu.be/qfpdzPnElVU?t=738
*spoiler alert - this is toward the end of the season, in case you'd rather listen to the podcast in order
> The OP does not have a single clue about actually using solar.

Exactly. It's a total nonsense proposition to offset seasonal swing using battery power. Running a PV system is about conservation first and foremost and some planning second. Your battery is for the day/night cycle and overcast days, not for seasonal variations. Maybe he should run a PV system for a while before writing articles like these.
if you can't get 80 columns in your viewport you need to go back to 1974 and start using 80c wide punchcards.
Indecision is sometimes the best way to decide (2014)
Ledger deals with multiple currencies quite well in my experience, especially using a custom prices.db file. What is the problem you are having?
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You can think of double entry accounting as unit tests for your financial books. It definitely does help in making sure that you don't make mistakes when you enter the data, but where it really shines is analysis after the fact.

In Japan, the government actually gives me concessions for submitting my documents for income tax as double entry accounting. This is because it saves them huge amounts of money. So, if I document an expense that I want to get a deduction for, they can easily check that there is a corresponding withdrawal from the bank account to pay that expense. Especially for complicated areas, like my payroll, where I have up to 5 bank accounts in play (some of them off shore), it's absolutely the only way they can go back and understand what the heck is going on.

Similarly, for me, I have sometimes gone back and discovered that I got an exchange rate wrong. Fixing that mistake is a nightmare (especially if you have to pay capital gains tax in a LIFO or FIFO manner -- you have to record the capital gains or losses for each "lot" of currency that you purchased). Double entry accounting will totally save your butt as you ripple through all your transactions changing the exchange rate for the foreign currency. If you get it wrong (i.e. over or underspend a particular "lot"), the numbers won't balance at the end.

Is it necessary for your average person? Obviously not. As your finances become more complicated it kind of goes like this: intellectually interesting -> super cool -> crap, how did I get by without this? -> there is absolutely no other way to do it and not get arrested for tax evasion.
> gringo's arrogance knows no limit

Your first two paragraphs are a seriously unfair characterization of this thread. Obviously Mexico's Supreme Court is ruling about Mexico's constitution.

The remainder of your comment is factual and fine.
After currency exchange transactions it doesn't balance.
A simple solution would be penalising managers who use the platform as a lead generation tool through search rankings and /or fees.
For beginners, you might want to check out the previous article (Kernel 101) first [0].

[0] http://arjunsreedharan.org/post/82710718100/kernel-101-lets-...
I ran an off-the-grid fairly normal house in Northern Canada, solar was > 70% of our power. Seasonal variations are not leveled by batteries but by properly dimensioning the system and reduced consumption. So off the grid solar is very realistic in higher latitudes, especially if you take into consideration that panels will generate a lot more power when they're cold than when they are warm. The most power I ever saw generated instantaneously was on a terribly cold day in February (but that was exceptional). Sure the days are shorter but you adapt to the reduced energy budget fairly easily.

Off the grid solar is unpractical the world over if you don't adapt your consumption.
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I do something similar, although I name my receipts/documents with yyyymmdd-friendlyname.pdf for ease of lookup.

For my IT consulting business, I also wrote a wrapper that rejects entries that don't have a receipt tag which allows me to catch any entries that I haven't complied 100% with my practices (and tax office won't get upset in an audit).

I also autogenerate the ledger entries from the receipt name (and prompt for description/expense account/$$ with logic for handling common items like fuel etc).

I've played with PDF metadata so my entire receipt scanning => ledger is automated from just the PDF document but haven't reached a satisfactory setup there.
Big fan of Kenji's food lab work. I like his trial and error methods of finding the facts. From him I've learned to steam my eggs, bash and brine my chicken, and the right way to cook a steak, not that I eat much red meat anymore - too expensive!.
I don't really get what the proposed alternative is here. To just let the time of day drift away from the time on the clock?

Then way not abolish leap years as well?
And the only way to read 35GB of data at 60GB/s is to have it all in RAM in the first place. That's a lot of RAM to have.
I deal with multiple currencies in Ledger as well. Feel free to email me or join their IRC channel for some help! :)