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Yes, we cook with gas. If this were a more permanent home (we live in a 20 foot camper, currently in Morocco), then I'd look into replacing the fridge and the stove with electric versions.

The fridge would probably double our power requirements. Add in a stove and we may need 3x our requirements.

The total bill would still be pretty cheap, but I may be running out of roof space on a camper this size.
Any announcement/mailing list link regarding that ?

Edit: Found that: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-11/msg00...
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"too many warnings" is a very vague condition.

For a similar example: The D compiler gives very few warnings and some people want to remove those as well. The argument is that the compiler should not do the job of static analysis tools, just because it is convenient or easy. A compiler should either generate code or give an error.

If something is for developers only, make it debug-level.

However, in the server environment, there is also the IT/sysadmin role between user and developer. It makes sense to provide a level specifically for them. "warning" mostly fits that.
Thanks, I will try. Can you drop me an email, so I will share my results or other ideas I have about this later?
Looks like times have changed in France, since Thomas Piketty had no problem working there and writing his "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" which went on to have millions of copies sold?
A descriptive English article on this was posted yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10504662
> In the past four weeks, there were 45,000 new apps submitted to the iOS App Store alone.

That's...staggering. If I tried to guess I would have been an order of magnitude out.
Sure, here's the full verse: "So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world."

If you use this quote to title your book, how are you not identifying with the "prophet"?

Matthew 13 ends with this: "Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. [...] Where then did this man get all these things? [they asked] And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.”

It seems pretty obvious to me, by using this quote taken from this context, that Girard is referencing himself and seeing himself as Jesus, regretting that he's a prophet but in his own country...
Yes, it would be for software upgrades, db, hardware maintenance etc. The product is built in this way, I agree life would be simpler if it was more robust
There may not be a manual simply because every situation is different (and it's a personal thing too), but there is a huge community of renewable energy enthusiasts at http://www.otherpower.com/ , they have a discussion board at http://www.fieldlines.com/ . Collectively they have a huge amount of knowledge about anything related to renewables and anybody considering going off grid could do a lot worse than to become a member and to start reading forum threads. They range all the way from people interested but not actually doing anything to people operating fair sized solar and wind farms and everything in between.
Oops, yes. Edited & corrected. Thank you.
If I'm understanding you correctly you expected to see a line item in your balance report stating your losses due to the change in the exchange rate between USD and EUR? Ledger definitely supports that, you just need to make sure to arrange your accounts and transactions accordingly to capture that information. See the "Currency Trading Accounts" method:

https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki/Currency-trading-accou...
There's an idea by the writer, almost lost in the article, that I thought is brilliant:

"When he was in hospital without any documents or ID I came up with the idea of medical bracelets for homeless people. I bought about 100 waterproof USB wristbands which can hold important information and I've given away about 60 so far."

There are any number of people made homeless through mental illness. They are often lost in the system when they become critically ill, and such an identifier would help medical professionals to reunite these people with their families.
I agree. I tend to use warnings for assumptions that are violated at runtime, such as "this can never happen" events. Errors are for errors, such as unreachable backends.
I really liked the article - it will be interesting to see it updated every 5-10 years as Battery Technology (slowly) improves.

In reality, what most people (today) who want to live off grid end up doing is hybrid-systems. Natural Gas/Propane for heating, cooking, cooling, and Solar for electrical use. (computer, lights)
There are already implementations in different languages, including one in Go: https://github.com/xenolf/lego
I think another aspect is, that the mexican cartels can grow the marijuana themselves and gain full profit off it, while cocaine or coca plants/paste have to be imported from south america.
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already posted yesterday. exact same story, same title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10509355
I've documented how I got it working for my site last night (using manual mode to explicitely specify the domain names), including the dhparams step you'll need to get the A+ rating with ssllabs:
https://gist.github.com/cecilemuller/6d70cb4f463d8a391db1
After every entry, your total system balances to 0. Of course you have to enter all your entries, and not use the 'auto balancing' and unit conversion things that ledger recommends because they don't make sense. If you use ledger just as a, well, ledger, you can do what you want, of course after specifying exchange rates, just like you'd do in a real accounting system.
Agree with you. Girard is anti-scientific. It is the typical kind of guy who finds a pseudo-key (mimetics) and applies it to everything and everyone. And if you ever dare to disagree you are also doing that because of mimetism. His theory is simplistic, not very novel, and cannot explain everything.

One very big "hole" in his thinking is that for him no civilization can be accomplished without the Christ and its revelation. So, well, all those incredibly advanced East Asian civilisations? Thrown overboard! Never existed!

Really solid thinkers like Paul Ricœur are a dozen levels higher and deeper than Girard.

And, as HN is not a necrology website, I think it is a very good occasion to criticize a guy's theory the day his death is announced, why not?
I'm not exactly sure what you mean...
One nice thing about having such outsized concentration of wealth is that once the rest of us get totally fed up with this shit, it is much easier to confiscate.
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The definitions you present uses dubious logic. For example you say Republican Rome didn't have rule of law, since they (after lasting 450 years) turned into a dictatorship. And Iceland wasn't rule of law since the ended up being conquered by Norway. This means that if Britain at some point - however long into the future - turns into a dictatorship or is conquered by foreign power, then not only will this end the rule of law, it would mean that it never had rule of law in the first place, and some other nations must be designated as the inventor of rule-of-law! That is an ahistorical way of explaining history - I think the technical term is "whiggish history".

Also you are using a lot of "no true scotsman"-logic. Cromwell wasn't a true dictator since he still had to struggle with parliament. But the same is the case with the Roman emperors. There was an ongoing struggle between the senate and the emperor, and for example the senate deposed Nero, which shows he wasn't a sovereign dictator.
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Saw this on the BBC last night. This is taking the idea of re-purposing to a new level.
I know one person who grows their own weed. But I live in the city. In any case, marijuana and possession generally are a small part of the federal drug war.
I was about to comment about the same thing, it's really brilliant since the medical professionals could also access their medical history in case they land up at a hospital, so that could potentially save lives for a few dollars.
As evmar already mentioned, lots of projects don't support parallel make.
I really thought the article was interesting - it highlighted precisely the fact that you are trying to make, which is you need a hybrid approach of energy sources, or focus on conserving, and that it's not feasible (today) to live your "typical" western life year-round using Solar+Battery. Plus, the author put quite a bit of work into using real data over multiple latitudes.
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He's not clueless, he's intentionally writing propaganda to undermine solar power, to help boost his hobby-horse of nuclear. He has no genuine interest in answering the question posed in the headline.
Not everyone is reading on the computer all the time.

Try using phone and you will get his point.
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You say that like there's a sane and safe alternative.
Yea, you're right. I just wonder what society will look like without all the oral literature, mythology, folklore, fact-- for some, becomes really fashionable? I just don't think human beings are born moral, and I've met more than a few individuals who should spend a Sunday in church, and leave the filthy lookers club--just for a few Sundays. Just kidding with the lookers; not kidding about dudes who pride themself's on making it to the top of the shit pile, at any cost. And I've meet too many of those guys lately. I don't find them clever, cool, or hip.

I sometimes visualize a Roman Emperor, like Constantine, looking over society, and thinking, 'I need to control the debachery that's getting out of hand.' (Just found out that Emperor Constantine had nothing to do with the formation of the canon. I always though he did?)
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Very cool, I love it but one point though is that the rain drops look to me like they're being observed from some point (vantage point) outside in the rain and not from inside behind the glass.

Any of you guys have noticed this or it's just me?
I guess a genset doesn't add much to the final bill?
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I've known a lot of people who've lived off grid. None of them had a generator. Now that I think of it, a good portion of them didn't use electricity either.

I think you are misconstruing the author's objective here - they were simply trying to do the analysis of what it would take to live 24x7x365 on solar + batteries as a replacement for grid electricity. They weren't trying to provide practical advice.
> I'm not kidding. They believe it keeps everyone grounded or keeps everyone familiar with the product or some other malarkey.

This is a good idea and I'd recommend it. Perhaps not as a mandatory forced rotation, but as something that everyone on a team is encouraged to contribute to.

Understanding the customer experience, and their problems and day-to-day frustration, are extremely valuable for informing product development and business priorities generally. That said, if software engineers are doing it and it's not their primary job function, then I'd suggest that only where there's no SLA. Full time support is probably necessary for things that have an SLA (probably only an unpaid forums / IRC type of thing). Meeting a fast SLA while giving high quality responses is difficult, especially under high growth, and requires the attention of dedicated people who can be measured on it.

But yes I've found involvement in the day to day customer experience to be beneficial and enlightening even for roles that don't directly interact with customers routinely. It helps you understand your customers. The best team will be one where everyone has a connection to and understands the customers, their problems, how the business helps them, and where it can improve.
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It's quite handy that the 30 year old keyboard controller subsystem is still present. If it wasn't and you had to enumerate USB first that would be a whole lot more work.
No, plenty of things have value even though you can't use them to pay taxes. The kiwi fruit has value. Why? Because people want them, yet kiwis are not strictly speaking NEEDED.

Again, what gives value to things is that people want them, no matter what the reason.
You should start with Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World. It's a great summary of Girard's theory, and it's easy to read.
A list of project management apps with time tracking feature:

http://www.eduhub.io/b/project-management-software/t/time-tr...
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I fully agree. His books are among the most influential things I've ever read.
Kenji is awesome, and probably the best reason to read seriouseats. But for anyone who enjoys food science, you really have to start with Harold McGee's classic "On Food and Cooking":

http://smile.amazon.com/Food-Cooking-Science-Lore-Kitchen/dp...

(Sorry for the enormous URL.)

Also, I binge-listen to Dave Arnold's podcast, "Cooking Issues" on Heritage Radio network. A treasure trove of food science facts, going well beyond eggs: sous vide meat, hydrocolloids, liquid nitrogen cocktails, etc.

http://heritageradionetwork.org/series/cooking-issues/

(You really have to give the show a chance, though -- it's very conversational, and less... polished than your typical show.)

Also, anyone interested in food science should really consider an iSi whipper for booze infusion and other experimentation. No really, please do it, your life will be better (or at least boozier):

http://www.cookingissues.com/index.html%3Fp=4463.html

(Arnold has progressed the technique a lot since then, but this primer is pretty good nonetheless. The FCI blog is basically dead; the podcast and Twitter are his current outlets.)

But yeah, I screw around in the kitchen a lot (though cook less useful food than my wife does). Pressure cooker, weird enzymes, hydrocolloids... but the iSi whipper booze-infusion technique is my all-time favorite kitchen hack. You can drink toasted hazelnut bourbon in a Manhattan like, six minutes from now! (I hope it's nighttime when you read this.) Four minutes to microwave toast the nuts, plus two minutes to nitrous-infuse them. You might want to chop them in between and filter through a coffee filter after.

Sorry, my nerd is showing. I hate eggs, especially boiled eggs, but this post hit a fun nerve for me.
Actually - it depends.

Climate Change is intensifying the summers and winters in canada.

Notice the increased number of forest fires per year.

And the winters will also be worse.
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Thanks for your support, I seem to really need it!! ;-)

Completely agree with your observation that it's ludicrous to argue that Christianity is consubstantial with human civilization; what about ancient Greece, for starters...?!?

Some very original and deep thought about Christianity, as well as what it means to be "modern", can be found in another French author, Jacques Ellul, who like Girard is more well known in the US than in France (but didn't achieve rockstar status; he died in 1994).
Just to nit pick the 80 richest people own as much as the poorest 50%, not half the world's wealth. Having said this Marx is looking more like a prophet and less like a fool every day.
Of course the example is wrong because for most of the places it is resolved by simply having a larger PV array so that even winter generation is sufficient. That will probably not work for 60N, but easily for 40N: an array about the size calculated for 60N, used at 40N, will not require any seasonal storage.

And of course, nobody uses storage like that. Off-grid system must combine solar and wind, wind typically gets stronger in winter, plus about 24 hour worth of energy consumption in storage (a couple Tesla systems), and finally a diesel generator for a few percent of the total generation for the unlucky days when sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow.
I'd love to see a citation. All I recall people saying when the Tesla Batteries came out was, "How can they sell the system for so little money?" and that "There was nothing out there at that price point"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2015/05/05/why-tesla...
One small caveat as someone in the same boat. If you have to declare capital gains on transactions from multiple currencies, the "currency account" system that ledger uses is a bit strange for some accountants. I do my own book keeping, but I have an accountant who deals with the government ;-) He calculates capital gains in a way that I would say is arguably wrong. However, I trust that his way will be accepted by the government, which is all that matters ;-)
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There's another open source project worth checking out called BeanCount. The author, Martin Blais, originally wrote it in Python to serve similar double entry bookkeeping needs as those from the ledger-cli community. He seems to be continuing development of it, or at least porting portions of it (plugins?) to a variety of languages.

homepage: http://furius.ca/beancount/
source: https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/overview
In an optimally operating power grid, household storage should be pointless. If it makes economic sense for you to deploy batteries then you're probably dealing with a poorly regulated, or underperforming grid.

The latter may simply be a matter of geography, but even then unless you live in a cabin in the woods then I believe e.g. in Australia some utilities are creating solar/battery/genset microgrids for remote communities, rather than try to maintain long power lines from the main grid.
A small one is better than nothing in a pinch and a 2 KW gas powered genset is a few hundred bucks. I went the overkill route (diesel, 6.5 KW) but I also had a machineshop attached to the house and it was nice to run the mill or the lathe without draining the battery in a couple of hours.
Apparently, they have a pretty large stream of real-time price updates, powered by F# on Azure. Hanselminutes had an episode with (one of?) their senior software engineers recently[1]. According to the podcast, they're calculating prices based on a lot of factors, then sending them so fast to Google (Shopping, I suppose?) that Google's API was the bottleneck.

[1] http://hanselminutes.com/494/jetcom-scales-with-azure-f-and-...
I would say , its still not that high and good apps will have "a feasible chance" to stand out ... above number means 1600 apps each day .. if you further divide by country it will be less .
Got this book as well, it's fun to read through and I can impress friends with simple yet tasty recipes. Bought it mostly because I'm a huge fan of seriouseats and Kenji's posts especially, so I try to show my support.
People living off the grid tend to use wood for heating. Outdoor woodstoves are the thing, and for cooling they open two windows ;).
I like to think of it more as a Ninth Amendment issue:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights,
shall not be construed to deny or disparage others
retained by the people

Just because a "right to the free development of personality" isn't specifically listed doesn't mean we don't have it.
45000 apps per month...
Maybe I should release my mobile game on desktop instead.
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If anything, I consider that a positive sign, that Trudeau is focussing on meritocratic rather than purely political concerns. One of the worries about him was that he would bend to political correctness, and make a hash of everything.

Well, he still might - but being a bit practical minded is pretty good. And his new Minister of Defense looks pretty Bad Ass. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/harjit-sajjan...
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The "turn off server while it generates certificates" was indeed the one surprise in the process for me (while the rest was quite straightforward, kudos on that).

What I wonder is why it has to be port 80, not another port ?
A good example is when you're dealing with third party APIs. They break, a lot, without you really knowing why and often not really knowing how they're going to fall over (even google's, one of our reports using the Adwords API fell over last week because it was returning 500s for an hour or so and then just worked again).

So say you're doing an hourly sync, and it falls over, you want to log a warning. It happens, no need to send out the fire engines.

If you're getting a warning every hour, that's "too many warnings".
You could also see it as a chance to "train" female junior ministers and will allow them in a couple of years to have a more important portfolio.

This is assuming that the current distribution has been based mostly on experience and nothing else, which is probably not the case of course.
I would.

(I would, however, be looking to other sources of approval. Take Daraprim, the infamous $750 pill - at the time of the price hike, it was trivially available from perfectly safe foreign suppliers at <$1, just not with the FDAs approval. It's only available in the US now at that price because some people found a regulatory loophole that allowed them to sell it without the FDAs approval.)
Nice simple CRUD app, good job
Humans are not born moral because morality is a human intellectual construct and is taught. Nature, without humanity, is neither moral nor amoral, it is just nature.

I agree with Girards postulation that sameness begets violence because there is always non-uniformity, and those who seek to control and organise want uniformity (sometimes violently). I do wonder if there would be less violence not with the abolishment of all religion, but with the abolishment of all but one.
You wouldn't get Apple doing this for third party lightening cables .. yeah I know it would be like them giving away their own lunch, but it further underlines that lightening is just a money-spinner not any real technical advance.
Dave Cheney is not exactly a junior developer. He's a prominent member in the Go community, often considered a member of the core Go team.

I disagree with his post, too, but to brush it off as (or even relate it to) inexperience and junior devs is slightly out of place.
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