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Voting YES would be safer, not that cramming random crap into the constitution is pretty. Net metering will bankrupt the power companies, leading to a bailout. It'll make Enron look minor. Here is why:

1. Some people install grid-connected solar. This being Florida, they cover 100% of their average electrical usage via the solar. This causes their power bill to go to zero, so they no longer contribute to the cost of maintaining the power lines that they benefit from.

2. The cost of grid maintenance is shifted to the non-solar customers. With the rising cost of power for consumers, more people install solar. Prices for consumers continue to rise.

3. Eventually there are very few people actually paying for power, even though everybody remains connected to the grid and expecting to get power at night. The power company is forced to buy daytime power that goes unused -- they need to burn it off somehow! The few paying customers have to cover the cost of that, plus the entire cost of the grid.

4. At some point, non-solar people are forced to disconnect. If they can't install solar, they will just have to move away. They can't afford to support everybody else and the grid.

5. There is no revenue. Costs are crazy high. The power company can not pay for employees or fuel. They start to let stuff break and shut down. The grid-connected solar users find that power is often unavailable during the night.

6. The state government issues an emergency order to take control of the power company in some way. There is a huge bailout.
I followed the 2 day summit and I am impressed both about what happened with angular.dart and flutter for the web and mobile. Its obivious what google thinks how web and mobile apps can be done in the future and even doing it already internaly. tracking Dart from time to time I thought, that it "somewhat died" and never got traction... it still seems so, but seeing what google is doing is encouraging. Its clear that if google thinks that webapps have to be done the angular.dart way, they will do it for the next 8 years or so; if the rest of us thinks that JS thing is the thing, googles way might be the same.

For flutter it might be different if Android gets expanded with flutter.

I used GWT a few years ago and still have a GWT app in production (which I hope never has to change until decommission).

Its not a coincidence that the mentioned GWT app should get replaced with a complete rewrite and we are at the point where we lay out the options to do that. GWT is marked clearly as "dead" for new developments within the clients infrastructure. Angular an reactjs are the recommended frameworks, even node.js and plain JS is a "allowed" option.

I do not have preferences for any plain JS or not typesafe languages personaly; but with the history of GWT, Dart or Angular.dart is a hard sell in this situation. Taking the Dart way is similar as we took GWT a few years ago, but even more a lockin into something the rest of us isn't doing (that does not mean the best is what others do, but you know what I mean eh?) because Dart is a new language and framework, from where one couldn't get away easy. The same applies to GWT; that code gets not compiled without gwt tools after you opted into GWT.

I hope Dart is making its way to (perhaps) replace Java in Android or make it into an alternative to the default.

For Dart as a Language for the web I don't know yet what happens(who knows). 2x productivity improvements for an App as mentioned in the summit talks is really great, and I think google doesn't advertise that if not true. Even more impressive is, that google choosed Dart to rebuild one of the most business critical WebApps; a thing you won't do if the technology is not rock solid.

So next for us is to recommend and prove whats the way to go for this old GWT app (that runs every day flawlessly) but is a hurt to maintain...
Ah, yeah, didn't even realise I was cheating a bit there.
Creating a checklist for my morning routine has been such a great time-saver and anxiety-reducer for me. I have everything on there, even the most obvious items such as "eat breakfast", and all I need to do once I wake up is tick things off from start to finish. I haven't forgotten to take my umbrella or laptop charger since, and it's relieving knowing that - because I've checked everything off - there's nothing left for me to do. No more worrying about having forgotten something.
If a national ID (like your SSN) were implemented correctly with multiple verification steps, identity theft wouldn't be a problem. I know that's a fantasy that will never happen, but identity theft shouldn't have to be something people have to worry about. I shouldn't have to think about identity theft protection. Heck, it shouldn't even be a thing. If someone steals my identity, all they did was convince a clerk they were me. That's the business' fault, not mine.
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I would take Eich at his word

I'm an Eich fan, so what I DO trust is that he's doing everything he can to make this happen. I do trust that whatever he says is an attempt to help the web platform become the best it can be, meaning he's trying to help me.

I'll remain a bit skeptical about the literal correctness of those words until I hear what Apple has to say, but I'm encouraged by some of the other comments I see here.
That makes this one even worse, if anything. The disclosure in question wasn't even two weeks in.
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Microsoft has produced several successful operating systems without POSIX compatibility.
Elon develops solar and rocket tech with a company named after an inventor known for wireless power transmission.

Alright, fine, how long until Tesla launches satellite power systems?
The number of dads and moms that leave work early to pick up their kids at 3pm who then have to catch up on work in the evening in the family room (on the couch, at the dinner table) with their kids riding the dog around the aforementioned couch or dinner table is huge.
I'm British which I think qualifies me to say it very much was. He had a few inflections of the period, but there's no mistaking it.
The intr mount option has been a no-op for 8 years.

/bin/umount does an fstat before the umount syscall, so if an NFS mount is broken, it will probably hang forever instead of unmounting it! You can invoke the syscall directly to get the behavior you need.
The two have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
Thanks much for yalls work and vision on this!! Looking forward to the possibilities this opens up!
In response to your other (dead) comment, "SPF" records actually are TXT records.

In the past, there was an SPF RR type but that's been deprecated.
I agree that this is a huge mess, and I appreciate you looking into it further!

I think the Sun Sentinel editorial might do a better job of summarizing what's going on [1]. Net metering was put in place in 2008, but this Amendment 1 would change the wording of the constitution, opening the possibility for a challenge to the 2008 law on grounds it conflicts with the phrasing in the amendment.

To the question of whether net-metering is a de-facto subsidy... Many states, including Vermont [2], Nevada [3], Mississippi [4], Minnesota [5], and Maine [6], have independently found that net-metering provides a benefit to all ratepayers.

I hope this helps clarify your questions - please consider voting no on Amendment 1 and throwing your support behind Floridians for Solar Choice, who are trying to legalize solar leasing arrangements like the ones sold by Solar City/Tesla. [7]

[1] http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/editorials/fl-editorial-...

[2] http://www.leg.state.vt.us/reports/2013ExternalReports/28558...

[3] http://puc.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/pucnvgov/Content/About/Media...

[4] http://www.synapse-energy.com/sites/default/files/Net%20Mete...

[5] http://ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/MN-Value-of-Solar...

[6] http://www.nrcm.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/MPUCValueofSo...

[7] http://www.flsolarchoice.org/
I ran calculations recently on solar panels on electric cars. Taking Tesla's numbers, I figure it about .3 kwh per mile. A car is 5 feet wide, there are about 5 feet on the hood, 3 feet on the roof, and 2 feet on the trunk. So 50 sq feet, at 10 watts per sq foot, is 500 watts total. So 4 kwh per 8 hours, gives you 13 miles range. Or more likely, about 10 miles, once you count charging efficiencies.
ok, a receipt. How is this supposed to facilitate a recount? Not all voters will retain their receipts.
Not all voters will retained receipts will re-present them in the event of the need of a recount.

Are you saying a recount will be unnecessary if E2E is done properly?

I read the linked article but didn't get it.
Also fairly common for teenager's car to be stored dormant in the driveway while she's in college and then put to use again after graduation.
No real surprise there. Most things are harder when you're black. Getting a job, getting an airbnb, getting a fair trial, getting an education, getting a lease on a house, getting a homeloan etc etc.

The only thing thats really easier is going to jail.
that's bananas, in Australia replacing a roof is really uncommon. much like the poster above in the UK it's usually either corrugated "tin" (actual metal varies) or Terracotta/concrete tiles.

We don't really have any of the "shingle" type stuff. The "Tuscan" glass tile from the Tesla event is the closest looks to the most common tiles here.
Firms envision ways for New York to absorb 9M residents
If you're cherry-picking 1916, almost any year would be a better year to be alive than then. WW1 is close in the running for the greatest display of collective human stupidity.
Won't those competitors hit a wall as well? Seems like Intel doesn't need to be fast, just faster than the competition. I imagine the rate of change will slow for the whole industry.
Spot on. I'm all for subsidizing industries to incentivize the behaviour we want, but I'm not sure the people who can afford these homes, or $100,000 cars, need it.
snapchat & blockchain(?)

the rest (crispr, higgs, deep learning) are not even american, let alone obama-age
Hopefully the OP already knows this but (just in case) an MX is not required. An A RR will be tried if an MX doesn't exist.
Related: a detailed 50-minute talk about using Consul at scale (for service-discovery) at DataDog, by Darron Froese. (The talk was given at SREcon16, on 04/08/16.)

We had many VMs in AWS - were ingesting millions of metrics per second - and were having pain around service discovery and quick configuration changes. This is the story of how we integrated Consul into our environment, what it helped us with, mistakes we made and some tips for successful implementation in your own environment. 10 months later, our growing cluster was using Consul to facilitate 60 second cluster-wide configuration changes and make service discovery simpler and more flexible.

Video (and audio):

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon16/program/presentat...

Slides and code:

https://blog.froese.org/2016/04/08/srecon-running-consul-at-...
Thanks for the feedback, very interesting.

1. So the web idea syncs with the distributed filesystem before any commits are made. We plan to sync the filesystem of the application development container to both your local filesystem and to another container that runs the web idea. That would allow for the same effect, or not?

2. Pretty cool it has operational transformations (OT). We looked at this but it seemed that you either have to pick someone with OT or something that works well with code. We're not doing distributed building but we're considering distributed testing https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19267

3. Yeah, this would work on your local GitLab instance, no third party needed.
The downvotes but no reply to your comment is telling.

Engage in discussion people. Downvotes are for quality, not disagreement.
Incidentally this reminds me, I recall that Angular 1.x was banned from Firefox add-ons... Was the vulnerability ever made public?
> Hopefully, someone will figure out how to answer this question definitively, so academics can start arguing about something else.

The reason academics argue about citation counts isn't necessarily that they care, but that, at many institutions, citation counts are directly tied to hiring decisions.
Can't this be fixed simply by separating the electricity usage charge and "supply charge".

We have this in Australia where we are charged a daily rate just to be connected to the grid.
Very interesting. The Pax Brittanica looks pretty good
Will hybrid applications benefit from this? In terms of performance.
This is funny because you are quoting, almost exactly, the death-spiral fear mongering that the parent article debunks.
If we presume that the promoters of the idea are intelligent and understand the consequences, then why is it not reasonable to think that the ability to affect elections or otherwise weaken the electoral system is the gain they seek?
I have the feeling that people want to build online IDE's and that management thinks it is a good idea. I've not encountered many developers that like to use it fulltime. One counter example is https://community.nitrous.io/posts/nitrous-io-stories-yehuda...
No, there's a reason he said new products and markets. Because his existing product does not work. And it will not work as designed.

Hotz's product vision was naive and doomed to failure. But instead of being man enough to admit that, he blamed other people and ran away. It's pathetic.
Unfortunately powerpc will probably be removed from sid/unstable just like sparc recently was. The binaries are generated by extensive architecture that is a lot of work to maintain and needs enthusiastic developers to keep everything running and if that were the case then they wouldn't have removed it as a release arch.

It may be added to debian-ports which is simultaneously the nursery for new debian archs and the nursing home for the abandoned which still have some support. ppc64 is there, sparc didn't make it. The attention has shifted to sparc64.

I was a Debian/powerpc user for many years and I helped fix builds and ported new packages. But all my macs died and the limitations of the machines available make it harder to justify replacing them from ebay. I imagine many other devs had similar experiences.
Webkit won't support it?
I worked with Keith at WebTV and besides being a fabulously smart person to work with, he was also a super nice and gentle soul. Rest In Peace Keith.
Do you have a plan for users whose mail server does greylisting?

Having to wait 20 minutes to receive an e-mail so that i can login would be a real PITA.

Also, "recipient verification" (which some others have managed) isn't a good long-term solution.
>Really? So, tell me then, why are we here? What is the purpose of our life, if there is one? What happens after we die? Or are these mysteries not still left?

Meaning of life? Who said there is one? You seem to be switching gods to suit your argument. A meaning to life implies a god that cares, not the non interfering prime mover you seem to be arguing for elsewhere.

As for an afterlife, there isn't one sorry. There is precisely zero evidence of any sort of afterlife. There is no physical explanation of how it may be possible.

> Yes, that's right. But saying that, "Since we then cannot answer the question of where God came from, God must not exist" is not logical. The existence of another turtle does not disprove the previous turtle. By your logic, since we cannot explain what created the universe, the universe must not exist.

The point is it doesn't explain anything. It's either infinite regress or you have to accept the universe or god was created spontaneously. At that point Occam's razor eliminates god.
With your dignity intact? The guy basically lost all his credibility with this action.

Walking away with dignity intact would be replying to NHTSA, "Dear Government, we've found out we are unable to provide the information you asked for because the product is nowhere near mature enough. Therefore we are officially abandoning all public tests and sales effort, and are going back to the drawing board until such time that we are able to get back to you with the answers you requested."
I agree that something like Atom (javascript IDE run locally) might be the best of both worlds. I think GitHub will lead the innovation with that.
Why is that? Does this will provide full access to the phone hardware?
Actually, that is a very humanistic point of view. There are third-world countrys where a margin of life-loss is considered "acceptable".

And sorry, but Teslas approach, seems to be a similar hacky "Wing-it with PR-Guns blazing".
What did you find interesting about it? (I'll confess, I skimmed.)
>Trump is a man whose platform consists of removing the rights of large cross sections of the American public (Mexican-Americans, Muslims, women, etc.)

You cannot be serious.
In my experience there's two ways to do it: (1) use the house style (and standard auxiliary packages) of whatever publication you are writing for and/or (2) develop your own style files that use the subset of the 'thousands' of available packages that suit your needs and uses. I've got a small set of .sty files that I've been developing for decades to suit my own needs. When I needed a pseudocode notation for some papers on algorithms, I played with a half-dozen or so of the top contenders before settling on one, integrating it into my other macros, and writing a few of my own to make it easier to work with. No-one should learn LaTeX for a single paper, or only a few. That's like learning C for a single program:- sure, you can do it, but it seems a lot of work for small result. I treat LaTeX as the environment in which I develop my own ideosyncratic publishing style (that can now be shared with others), not as a giant garden that everyone is supposed to be simultaneously using all of.
Looks like you can purchase a USB drive with the OS X El Capitan installer[0] from SanDisk(?) via Amazon.

You can purchase Snow Leopard[0], Lion[1], and Mountain Lion[2] directly from the Apple Store, but Snow Leopard looks like a DVD and Lion and Mountain Lion look like Mac App Store codes, and you'd need an existing macOS installation in that case.

You can also purchase an OS X Lion USB installation drive[4] from Apple via Amazon.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Capitan-10-11-Mac-Instruction-Include...

[1]: http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow...

[2]: http://www.apple.com/shop/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion

[3]: http://www.apple.com/shop/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lio...

[4]: https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Thumb-Drive-Model-A1384/dp/B006...
They were trying to trick you, which is shady, but that doesn't make the result bad. Without this, we're headed to a huge bailout. In the long term, net metering will force power companies into hopeless bankruptcy. Hawaii has already approached this, stopped only by a state-wide moratorium on new installs.
Doesn't "If they want it you should build it" already assume "if you build it they will come"?

If you don't think they will come, why are you doing it?
If they aren't a generation ahead as they have been then I think it ceases to be a competitive advantage. Then they would have to start asking questions like "Why not fab Intel chips at TSMC or Samsung if they offer better pricing?"

They've already decided they're going to fab ARM chips, so I think they've already come to this conclusion.
Not ought but must. It's a fundamental concept in system security known as as Kerckhoffs's Principle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

The rationale is to allow anybody to audit the system, so that soundness of the design can be proven against an adversary with perfect knowledge of it.

And yet Americans let companies enforce intellectual property rights over systems whose security (flaws) could change your vote...

update: Bruce Schneier on security of electronic voting: https://www.opendemocracy.net/media-voting/article_2213.jsp
If your in the apple ecosystem then you aren't worried about over priced products.
You've got to be kidding!!! Just look at those ugly solar panels on roofs, and it becomes obvious that someone is going to make solar shingles.

I've been joking with my family that someone will come out with solar shingles in the next few years.

Obvious!
Who owns the intellectual property though?
Yup, can't agree more. If you're in the space you had to know these type of questions were coming and you'd have to deal with it.

There's a long road from a working prototype to a shipping product.
uMatrix gives even more control.
Ask HN: Which area of programming should I learn?
Hi HN,

I have no experience programming nor working with tech. I'm looking for an area of programming that has a lot of job opportunities, as well as being profitable.

Now I only know that there is mobile (iOS & Android), and there is web. I've been thinking of learning Swift, and going the iOS route, but I'd like to be aware of other possibilities. What other areas are there that a novice wouldn't know?

The key factors, once again, are job opportunities and salary.

Thanks.
I recommended Nitrous in my book 'Learn Ruby on Rails.' The service is ideal for beginners who have difficulty installing Rails on their local machines. It's a useful service but I presume they don't make money with the beginner/educational market. It didn't help that they dropped their free tier snd then brought it back months later. Sorry to see them go.
Thank you for saying "coordinated disclosure" instead of the misnomer, "responsible disclosure".

n.b. https://adamcaudill.com/2015/11/19/responsible-disclosure-is...
Not just the web, year or so ago tried importing a dxf file (old autodesk export/import format) on a newer CAD program. Used up 2gb of ram and then died. Opened it in an old moldy gerber viewer, displayed instantly. Turned out it had about 10000 elements. If I deleted half then the CAD program would display it after a while. Far as I could tell each element in the dxf was consuming about 300-500k of RAM.

Reminds me of the Tom Waits song: What's he building in there.
I flat out refuse to have a giphy trigger in any chat-thing that I administer, and I argue strongly and vehemently against it in any that I'm a member of. My arguments are often backed up by the fact that 90% of the /giphy results are unrelated garbage.

So far, four out of five slacks no longer have giphy integration, and my work Hipchat rooms (on- and off-topic) don't have it either. The other slack rarely uses it, because of the 90%-garbage rule, so I'm content to not harp on it too much.

Stand up against giphy garbage.
An earlier example of this accent is the 1921 recording of William Jennings Bryan reading his famous 1896 "Cross of Gold" speech.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UV2wRCcWJa8
You have redundant integrity checks involving cryptography and independent, human professionals built into the compilation/deployment/testing process.
Mermaid infiltration style? Colour me also more than slightly intrigued by this idea of being from the "actual Mid-Atlantic"- which was an ocean last time anybody checked.