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>Are you talking about headlights?

No, scuba diving. Tech divers who operate at extreme depths or in overhead environments need powerful flashlights. They need to be reliable and redundant, because you really don't want to be stuck in a cave system or a shipwreck with no source of light.

HID was the gold standard of dive lighting for many years. The thermal issues that accompany HID lighting practically disappear underwater, because you're floating about in the world's biggest watercooling system.

As gaius said, LEDs suddenly overtook HID lighting a few years ago. The brightness, light quality and beam shape of LED lights matched HID, at which point the changeover was inevitable. LEDs don't explode if you drop them on the dive boat, they turn on instantly, they have consistent color temperature and they're efficient and easily dimmable. HID and HMI still have a role in underwater photography, but it's a shrinking niche.
True in the sense that pure MDMA cannot be pressed into a solid tablet alone. It needs to be mixed with fillers/binders to be pressed into a pill and stick together.

However, you can find Ecstasy pills that contain nothing but MDMA and inactive fillers/binders.
> What animals are fed soy beans, hopefully only pigs and not ruminants (grasses/seeds eaters)?

50% of worlds meat is raised using intensive animal agriculture. liquified soy for the chickens, fishmeal and soymeal for growth and finishing of livestock.

brazilian beef which is practically their biggest export, along with soy, eats it in ridiculous amounts, so long amazon rainforest.

IMO raising 60 billion land animals for food, given our current technological, moral and materialistic status is highly irrational, irresponsible, inefficient and ridiculous.
you're missing the importance of techniques that allow backprop along very deep nets. that's related to, but distinct from, the amount of computation required to train a model.
I'm vehemently against this legislation - but I also did not sign the official petition. One reason was that, yes I might end up on some list. I believe that risk is very small but the reward potential of signing the petition is effectively zero so why bother taking the risk? The bill had no real opposition so what use is a debate going to be, especially when all it now requires is royal assent (Edit: Just saw that happened yesterday, fuck). A debate would have been useful 12 months ago.

At this stage the important thing is to have it go through the courts and have them stop it. Hopefully, as long as we're still in the EU, the ECJ can do something to at least water this bill down. At the very least I would like to see the requirement for Internet Connection Records to be held for everyone to be removed. I don't like the ability for 12 months of data to be collected with a warrant but at least there is some process there and some oversight.
Yeah, not sure what all the fervour is about. I've found the biggest hurdle to advancing is knowing what to study next; this helps solve that.
Social technology is an important concept: http://thefutureprimaeval.net/social-technology-and-anarcho-...

This is not a situation limited to solar energy. In India we have the social technology to organize men and build large projects. The US had this technology 100 years ago, but we've lost it.

Trains

Delhi metro, phase 2: 77 miles of track, 85 stations, $2.9B, 3 years.

Hudson Yards NYC: 1 mile of track, 1 station, $2.5B, 9 years.

Green line expansion, Boston: 4 miles of track, 4 stations, $3.1B, 7 years (if all goes according to plan).

Space exploration

Mangalyaan mission to mars: $74M.

A movie about Matt Damon getting stuck on mars: $108M.
or an even better assumption is correlation doesn't prove causation. Of course, without jumping to conclusions it's hard to produce click bait.
The Svelte compiler uses some ES2015 features (for...of, etc) that aren't currently supported in all browsers. It's designed primarily for use in Node.
What can people do about it?

Go on a huge demonstration (like this one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2765041.stm) and be ignored.

Sign a petition (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38130344) and be ignored.

Write to your MP and be ignored.

Refuse to implement it and be sacked.
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At least one SNP MP, Joanna Cherry, argued vociferously against the IPB during the parliamentary debate[1]

[1] http://ianopolous.github.io/privacy/Snoopers
I might be way off base in saying this, but I don't find it is simply convenient that FBI played what appears to have been a significant role in getting Trump elected, and will subsequently benefit greatly because of it.
One of many UK expats in the Netherlands here, definitely recommend joining us. You don't even need to know Dutch before you move here (some people never learn it).
It certainly is in Mexico.
"Desert Sunlight received a federal loan of nearly $1.5 billion" http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/02/10/worlds-largest... .. ie. total cost >1.5B
I have a bit of an armchair interest, although by no means am I an industry expert. The term I started off searching for was for "embodied energy" cost and "eroi" (energy return on investment).

Here's one of the top results of a search I just did, which seems like a good start for those interested: A Comparative Analysis of Energy Costs of Photovoltaic, Solar Thermal, and Wind Electricity Generation Technologies [1] - this is a 2013 meta-analysis of life-cycle assessments (LCA) and life-cycle energy costs (LCEC) in kWhe/Wp and kWhe/We - these are split into both capex and opex.

Here's another study from 2012, The Energy Return on Energy Investment (EROI) of Photovoltaics: Methodology and Comparisons with Fossil Fuel Life Cycles [2] that gives a chart w/ comparison to coal & oil energy - looks like plants w/ all PV types have better EROI than oil-fired electricity, and the best performing PV has EROI of about 12, on par w/ the worst performing coal-fired electricity (an EROI of 1 is breakeven btw).

Ah, just find this 2015 review: Energy payback time (EPBT) and energy return on energy invested (EROI) of solar photovoltaic systems: A systematic review
and meta-analysis [3] which actually might be the best paper I've seen yet. It looks like EROI for solar is actually growing tremendously as volume/learning rate advancements are applied.

If I'm reading the chart correctly, EPBT (energy payback time) for mono-Si is approaching 2 years (the time of which has been decreasing with each newer study) as more panels/plants are getting built.

(Interesting, this paper [4] from 2000 seems to correctly project payback times: "At present the energy payback time for PV systems is in the range 8 to 11 years, compared with typical system lifetimes of around 30 years. About 60% of the embodied energy is due to the silicon wafers. As the PV industry reduces production costs and moves to the use of thin film solar cells the energy payback time will decline to about two years.")

[1] PDF: http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/3/2/325/pdf

[2] PDF: http://www.clca.columbia.edu/241_Raugei_EROI_EP_revised_II_2...

[3] PDF: http://astro1.panet.utoledo.edu/~relling2/PDF/pubs/life_cycl...

[4] http://www.ecotopia.com/apollo2/pvepbtoz.htm
As far as I understand, ReactJS is a tightly weaved 40kB chunk of code which will be delivered to the browser no matter how ferociously you shake the tree.
They are very annoying. I have several layers of electrical tape over most of my electronics--one layer is usually not enough!
The article also references traffic violations - "Minor driving offences were incorrectly appearing as serious felonies"
Why is that safe to say?
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There have also been instances of misdemeanours appearing as serious felonies in the system, according to the article.
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> The FBI, National Security Agency and CIA are likely to gain expanded surveillance powers under President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress, a prospect that has privacy advocates and some lawmakers trying to mobilize opposition.

Why didn't these arsehats do anything the past EIGHT YEARS as Obama expanded surveillance!!!???
Extrapolating a few graphs I found via a quick google search, you don't get a 5x drop in costs due to cheaper solar panels.

http://solarcellcentral.com/images/module_prices.jpg http://www.data360.org/temp/dsg605_500_350.jpg http://costofsolar.com/management/uploads/2013/12/solar-pv-c...
Ah yes that makes sense. Thanks!
Labour costs and safety levels are going to be a huge part of this discrepancy. As are things like legal safeguards on eminent domain and environmental impact.
This is verbatim from the wiki summary:

"According to Polybius, who has the most fully developed version of the cycle, it rotates through the three basic forms of government, democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy"

The version you describe is the Anacyclosis, which is equally valid IMO but not what I linked.
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I bought one last year, and quite hate it, compared to my other (10 years old) alarm. While the waking up by light is nice, the UI is terrible, the clock doesn't even keep the time right, it doesn't have weekend mode (so it woke me twice when I could sleep in). Its almost surprising how much they could mess this up, and its not cheap at $100 for an alarm clock.
It depends on your threat model: what do you want to hide and from who? If you simply want to avoid someone reading your messages (payload), using https everywhere, end-to-end encrypted chat clients (ie. Signal), encrypted mail (ie. PGP), maybe disk encryption (ie. VeraCrypt) should be enough to defend against non-targeted attacks and government dragnets. If you want to hide your "meta-data" from non-targeted government snooping (browsing history and who do you contact with) it gets more complicated -- in this case you also need VPN and/or Tor. Defending against targeted attacks is next to impossible, but you should not be worried about these anyway, unless you are on FBI's top list or smth. Using open-source tools and avoiding highly centralized services (Google, Facebook etc.) is generally a good idea for a privacy minded individual as well.
I love the ideas.

The only other thing I like is CSS scoping, though. I think that CSS scoping is a problem in React, and current ideas on how to implement that in React are absolutely horrible IMHO.

Two-way binding is a step back I think, I don't love the name (lots of people will judge a new technology by its name), and the thought of introducing yet another framework is a nightmare.

I'd personally go with Polymer if you like scoped CSS, since it's already established and it's a good project.

I wonder if these ideas can be somehow applied to React, doing precompiling on React components, so that one can continue taking advantage of all freely available React components out there, and keep using Redux.
Can you lay out how everything else follows, or how consent is a recent innovation? Neither is not obvious to me.

The line of reasoning I've heard is that intersex marriages produce families, which societies value.

Same-sex marriages do not produce children, as a simple result of biology. I don't deny that a same-sex marriage can form an effective family through adoption or surrogates, nor that an intersex marriage can fail to produce children, but the default result is children in intersex marriages and no children in same-sex marriages.

If society wants to encourage children and families (for obvious reasons), one simple route is to encourage intersex marriage. Same-sex marriage is, in this supposed society, 'discriminated against' because it doesn't produce the same result as intersex marriage, in the same way that you can't marry yourself, or 'donate' your income to buy a new car for yourself instead of to a charity and expect a tax break, or spend your retirement savings tax-free before retirement.

I also don't deny that this simple route of encouraging the raising of children by encouraging intersex marriage isn't perfect, and the imperfections cause harm. But it's kind of baked into our culture and legal system. Suggestions that simply extend the encouragement to same-sex marriages to eliminate the harm without fixing the encouragement are also incoherent, failing to see the reasoning for the fence. I wish you good luck if you want to take away the benefits from childless intersex marriages, or not extend them to childless same-sex marriages. And a lot of the noise around the issue is based on emotional, theological or incoherent reasoning, which makes sensible communication difficult.
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> The best LEDs are now remarkably close to the theoretical maximum luminous efficacy.

Do you have any pointers/references where I could read up on this? I'm designing home lighting with power leds and finding that despite all the hype, it's quite difficult to beat the efficiency of TL5 HE fluorescent tubes with LEDs. I also noticed that while the output in lm/W has been increasing, it seems to increase very slowly these last few years.
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> # Getting started

> Normally, this is the part where the instructions would tell you to add a <script> tag to your page or install something from npm. But because Svelte runs at build time, it works a little bit differently.

> First, install the CLI:

> npm install -g svelte-cli

They might want to change their opening
Ah, well. At least I skimmed the article. Was worried system admins were getting arrested about automatic updates and such.
Tyler Technologies acknowledged in a statement that the upgrade process had been “challenging” - but said poor training was to blame for bad inputting of data and integration with third-party applications that often introduce glitches into the system.

People writing software need to take responsibility for how the software is used, especially when it can impact people's lives to this degree. You can't just blame third party software or the people entering data.
Lots of elderly programmers might want to check out Svelte.
I don't know bot any fire there. When did it happen?
What the world needs is easier ability to compare true impact of building, and running our stuff. Without all the hidden externalities and hidden subsidies.

Yeah. I tried to create a (potential) transaction-oriented economic 'markup' system a few years ago... http://www.ifex-project.org/our-proposals/ifex ... despite some early interest via the IRTF, it never received any other developers and my then-employer asked me to focus elsewhere. The idea was basically that you built a risk model and then formally described enough properties of a potential transaction to enable automated routing of transactions even across multi-hop, multi-settlement-system, multi-asset topologies. I'd be willing to pick it up again as a group if anyone wanted to combine efforts.

I came around to the area because we were building a crypto-currency exchange (Kraken) and the availability (24x7x365) and risk management (re: gray settlement periods, exchange rate exposure, per-transaction and/or per-subsystem critical failure scenarios) profiles were therefore fairly extreme. It occurred to me that a decently generic solution in this space was not limited to conventional or digital assets and could apply with equal utility to physical goods and services.

Everything I've done since I have always regretted not finishing that project because I felt it would have been useful. This strongly suggests to me that there really is an opportunity to produce something in this space for wide adoption.
I am not dismissing the NSA or mass surveillance. I'm dismissing the title, which implies that specific new powers are about to be implemented. In fact, nothing has even been proposed yet; the author just speculates about what might be proposed in the indefinite future. A better title might be, eg., "Trump Appointees Might Propose More NSA Surveillance", or "Some Powers The NSA Might Gain Under Trump".
The point is, don't take things to the extreme :)

It's not that people said "Everything is bad, do assembly". It's just that people identified 2WB as problematic and you just shouldn't do that one thing.
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I don't think you're too far off base. Seems as though it's politics as usual these days.

However, I do believe surveillance would have continued to expand under HRC, also.
Yup. From reddit comment by lhorie:

I tried peeking at the EachBlock example and it came out at 7.5kb uncompressed. Copying and pasting the loop a few times makes that grow fairly quickly. Four copies of that example code is enough to make it grow over 22kb. For comparison, the render method in Mithril.js is about 21kb uncompressed. I imagine you would only need another 20 or 30 times more code to reach the size of React (~140kb).

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/5fcwhz/svelte_t...
i like your sources :)
Performance, easy concurrency, and because the language itself is very "straightforward".
The issue that I have with this (and probably a good number of other people share this concern) is it seems to ignore these two things:

A. Linode has gotten hacked atleast once before

B. They were suffering from those constant DDoS attacks for a week or two a while back

Those two, and their resulting responses to those events have permanently made me have reservations about using their services.
Not really, there is plenty of land which is not suitable for other things. The solar power to cover all the worlds need could fit in a large desert.

And it's much cheaper and easier to install a ton of panels at once, then one and one on rooftops with varying size and design. It' also easier and cheaper to keep them clean.

But one does not rule out the other. The world should probably invest massively in both kinds of solar, since solar at rooftops with battery storage can help reduce the burden on the grid (especially when people start to need electricity to charge cars).
checkout css-modules!
https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules
Yes, just seemed a bit CSS-heavy, when I had the feeling in my dev-career that CSS isn't a big thing when using a CSS framework.
I couldn't understand that either. The thought of getting on a watchlist didn't even cross my mind, which might be naive although I'm cynical enough to at least entertain the possibility now it's been brought up. Ultimately though I'll keep acting like we're a free democracy, signing petitions against laws I don't agree with etc., until proven otherwise.
No need for any tinfoil hats:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lew...

"
A whistleblower, Peter Francis, has revealed that police compiled secret files on the political activities of Corbyn and nine other MPs, even after they had been elected to the House of Commons.

Francis disclosed that he had read the files on the 10 MPs while he worked for the Metropolitan Police’s special branch.

He added that he had personally collected information on Corbyn, and two other MPs, while he was working undercover infiltrating anti-racist groups in the 1990s. Read this and this for more details of his revelations that were made in March this year."

I don't doubt that the same people who ordered the monitoring of "subversive" anti-racist groups are the same people who are calling him an anti-semite.
Interesting comparison. It's been a while since I did a shootout but I was really surprised and the huge differences between the different providers. We run a little Ruby thing and we tried benchmarks on like 10 different places 2 years ago and found Softlayer was the best performance for what we do for the money. That is to say we could run X apps on an X sized server that costs $X per month at Softlayer while it costs $X+$N everywhere else to get the same performance.
> It's basically as fast as vanilla JS, which makes sense because it is vanilla JS – just vanilla JS that you didn't have to write.

What kind of logic are they using here? Isn't any javascript just vanilla JS?
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We want to launch a website and an app to help you to travel in a cost effective way.

Our application will be able to connect you with local guides in any country. Thanks to this solution, everyone can share its culture, discover a new environment, new habits according to its centers of interest, in a cost-effective way.

This service will be based on the UBER model, because the guides could be professionnal or not. It could be students, active people, retired persons, ...

We want to target the students with a low budget, the families, and retired person (in couple or in group)

What do you think about this idea?
Thank you! I imagined it was this one and bought it last Monday.
My opinion:

Drugs should be taxed at a level where their cost is roughly the same as they are on the black market - This is actually a huge tax. Cocaine would be similarly priced to coffee if it was controlled in the same way*

The taxes earned should mostly go towards treatment and education.

Also, legalization doesn't mean completely uncontrolled. Potentially some drugs could only be legal with medical supervision, or not in public places, or not in certain places, etc

edit: * just checked and it's not actually true, it would still be around 100x more expensive
It's true, in the US we have protectionism for white people laws ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%E2%80%93Bacon_Act ) still on the books which radically drive up labor costs. We have union work rules that slow down production and drive up costs further.

This is what I'm referring to with the term "social technology". India has the ability to organize men and get the job done, the US does not.
Yep. That's the beauty of Signal App or WhatsApp use of Signal Protocol. You a making it much easier to meet the person-at-risk on a platform where they already are. As opposed to tasking to use something like Pidgin.
Very good. The Israeli government is light years away from the private sector - most of their sites still require IE < 9 to provide data to citizens legibly. I wouldn't trust them with my biometric data if my life depended on it, and it could...
Interesting... but I find it really amusing that my propositions are to reverse-engineer the secure boot system in order to take advantage of it, and also the fact that the reverse-engineering process won't be that hard. For what I assume is a security-by-obscurity design... reverse-engineering should by definition be really hard I would think, at least at face value.