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You either do this via dictatorship, which is problematic (highly unlikely to remain committed to environmental agenda in long run), or via democracy, but if via democracy, then it's pointless. If people are willing to do this, they're willing to cut carbon. The problem with those denialists is that we keep electing them!
Blizzard hints Nintendo Switch may not be powerful enough for Overwatch
>Population control would have to begin with the US, [because opinions]

I don't think there's a rule for that. Is it in the Scripture (because I know that less well)?
I use quite a bit of Supermicro hardware and have to conclude that it's just good stuff (tm). Recently had to work with an Intel server board, ick... no comparison at all.
Apart from every article you see on Tesla Motors and Elon Musk...
Your sense of "temporary" is clearly much longer than mine.

No matter, I'm not sure why we're comparing Chernobyl against these and other environmental disasters when they should be lumped together--these are all sins of our species.
> In this particular case, a file was preallocated in JCL to use N extents starting on a specific cylinder. Fixed size.

Sounds like a z/VSE system (formerly known as VSE/ESA, VSE/SP, DOS/VSE, DOS/VS, DOS/360). In DOS JCL (which is a different syntax to z/OS / OS/390 / MVS / OS/VS2 / OS/360 JCL), you manually allocate files to disk locations using the EXTENT statement. By contrast, in z/OS the operating system decides where on disk to locate your file (or dataset, to use mainframe terminology). (You don't have to manually allocate files any more in z/VSE – you can use VSAM, or store your files in libraries, and in both cases the OS decides on disk locations for you – but, originally, neither VSAM nor libraries existed, so you had to manually assign locations to all the files on disk.) It is very primitive, but remember it was designed in the 1960s to run on machines with only 16KB of memory–plus, humans could design a disk layout to maximise performance, by placing frequently used files on faster areas of the disk. Nowadays, the OS can do a better job of locating files on disks than humans can do, but this capability is kept for backward compatibility.
something like this is interesting http://napkinlaf.sourceforge.net/ I basically suggesting a terminal app as an alternative to napkin look and feel
Well, when I asked before, people said that hydraulic or pneumatic systems are not apt analogies; because there is water, oil or water actually flowing. Now it's not the water that is the energy, it's the movement thereof, or the pressure. That's where the analogy starts to break down.

For reference, the first time I asked was here: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/2188/does-electri... (7 years ago - time does fly). There is a bunch of discussion there (also going into at what point a water analogy breaks down), and I'm not sure they agree with each other. I mean, another way of looking at it: you can encode n bits by charging (or not charging) capacitors. Does a series of capacitors encoding '0' have a lower mass than a series encoding '255'?

So yeah I don't really understand, still not after all those years. It's probably (in part) because I have not formulated one single yes/no question that is unambiguous or does not need any interpretation to be answered. Or maybe I'm just stupid.
Yes, but this is Google. Now it matters. You know when it will matter even more? When Apple does the same. And even more more?! When Elon does it! :D
I think comparing it to alcohol is incorrect. It's more analogous to cigarettes. You start and it's very hard to stop. You increase your intake and it's very hard to even reduce it. Honestly, I think the internet is much more addictive than cigarettes and more comparable to very hard, addictive drugs.
"decent free baseline healthcare with contraception included...One of the main obstacles to the latter is US religious conservatives."

I should imagine Catholic church's condemnation of birth control is the larger political issue in countries that are not US.
There's already a system to do so: it's called DNS.

You can check for timeouts using XHR already and if a server doesn't respond then having it send a new IP wouldn't work anyway.

The problem with using DNS that way is the usual 30 second time out. On the other hand lower values than 30 seconds can cause problems for many users with slow or mobile connections.

Honestly I can't think of a reason why the HTTP specifications should contain anything about IP addresses.
Fact checking:

— May 2015 Tesla announced: 38,000 Pre-orders for the Powerwall and 2,500 pre-orders for the Powerpack, which would equate to 25,000 Powerwall http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8561931/tesla-38000-powerwa...

— According to your PR Tesla installed until October 2016 300 MW.

(38,000 + 25,000) by 7kW = 441MW (I know a rough calculation)

That means, the pre-orders where received in 1 week. All the pre-orders fulfilled means, they never sold anything in addition to those first movers _AND_ they did not sold/installed any Powerpack.

But as they installed also some large scale Powerpacks, that means they did not even fulfilled their pre-orders (or a significant amount got cancelled) _and_ they did not sold any Powerwall besides the pre-orders.

Just a nice reminder, do your own research and double check numbers. Don't believe in PR only.

EDIT: corrected the numbers
Ask HN: Why doesn't IT staff just dial 911?
I've seen many IT employees getting abused/exploited/sexually harassed in their work place. They'll
1. Silently suffer
2. Quit the job

But never dial 911.
Uhm, what exactly is crashplan doing with all that memory?
As far as I know, this issue is not comparable to our carbon economy, I.e. Natural gas extraction, coal mining, oil, etc. Key difference is that agriculture is a closed cycle, animals produce a lot of green house gas, but it's gas that's already a part of our ecosystem. When we did stuff from the ground we add new carbon to the ecosystem, and this feat is what's destabilizing the environment. I heard this argument from an interview Elon Musk did about agriculture after someone posted a tweet at him about the documentary "Cowspiracy".
Congrats to the Deis team! I was an early adopter and the team was just fantastic at answering questions, implementing feature requests and resolving issues on GitHub.

PS: I'll take this opportunity to shamelessly promote my web based Deis UI: http://github.com/olalonde/deisdash
You are describing USA
Definitely. Would have helped me during my most recent travels.
I rebuilt my home NAS a few months ago. Former one was a huge Debian tower box with one system+temp storage disk plus 3 soft RAID1 pairs. It worked well for about 6 years, save for a partial failure due to bad disk connectors (SATA connectors are among the worst junk ever designed by a human). CPU was a low power Celeron more than enough for the task.
When building the new one I wanted to reduce to the minimum both power consumption and hardware maintenance hassles so I got on Ebay a used server 2U rack box including a good quality PSU, then a Mini ITX industrial Atom main board with 4 SATA ports.
Not being that familiar with BSD and derivatives, initially I wanted to stay with Linux, but this time I didn't want to fiddle with mdadm and other stuff so I gave Openmediavault a try; I probably did something wrong, but the experience was frustrating, from menus taking forever to appear to errors that shouldn't be there in a self contained system, so in the end I turned my attention to NAS4Free and never looked back. The only problem being the much greater RAM requirements of ZFS, which makes the maximum RAM on that board (4GB) barely enough, but in the end it works flawlessly as I keep running services to the minimum (NFS, SMB, Transmission).
Total expense was very low as everything was purchased used, save of course the 4x3GB WD RED disks. The system boots off a USB key which is plugged directly on an internal USB port, so there are no dongles attached to the case.
The message I"m getting is not that I have to prepare for something or change energy sources, it's that "our lifestyle is killing the planet much faster than we thought".

CO2 levels is just one of a myriad of indicators that are off the scale now.

By lifestyle I mean supermarkets and restaurants and iPhones and planes ... all the stuff that we're so proud of as a society.

Winning, getting ahead, being number one, outcompeting, etc. All those ego-centric values that are the basis of our socio-economic systems - focused on disconnecting the `self` from `other` - are wrong on a fundamental level.

Ultimately it is the lack of spirituality in people that's killing the planet. Religions, Inc are a major part of the problem, not a solution.

By 'spirituality' I mean the deep realisation of the larger context in bio-space and bio-time that I as a creature exist in:

My body is just a cell of a larger organism - Earth - and my life is a drop in the river of life that's been flowing for billions of years - the constant unfolding and re-merging of the DNA molecule.

`I` am the privileged observer of this Process and my ultimate mission is to leave it in better shape than I found it.

Well, most of us are failing at it.
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Most of the territory affected by those fires was peat bogs.

Those are modern analog of those carboniferous-period forests.

While some people consider peat as renewable, the renew rate is very slow. Until burned, there was a lot of carbon stored for quite some time.
People are going to hate me for this, as it's not a Linux solution... but after trying various *nix NAS distros and being disappointed, I settled on letting Windows do it for me:

- Get a generic small tower box with 3-4 year old hardware in it via eBay (or a business IT clearance site)

- If it's not got Windows on it, find a dirt cheap copy of Windows Server 2008 (again eBay etc).

- If there's no SATA RAID on the motherboard (unlikely), get a 4 to 8 port PCIe RAID card.

- Thrown in a bunch of identical disks of your preferred size

- For Raid 1: In Windows mount them all, and create Mirrored sets in software (via Diskmgmt)

- For Raid 5: Either do it via the BIOS (if supported) or via Diskmgmt (however RAID 5 in software is quite slow).

- Create file shares (SMB/CIFS/FTP etc).

- Job done.

I have this as my main File Server, and unless I'm hammering the box from multiple clients simultaneously I get max Gigabit throughput on all file transfers.

Also, and this is the big bonus for me, Software RAID 1 in Windows doesn't create funny disk volumes, so you can break the mirror and still access all your data from the remaining drive(s) - I've seen horror stories of bespoke partitioning in commercial NASs, and people losing data when the motherboards die - I don't want that ever happening to me.

Finally - Windows Server also supports iSCSI, so you can just keep adding new boxes with disks in, all presented via the same File Server.
On the issue of global warming, I highly recommend this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w6ruZ_5nPE
I think since he wrote 'pays extremely well' it could mean 800k+
Do you accept that even if governments do take action every person will still need to live within a carbon allowance or else global warming will still happen? If so even if you convince governments you'll still have to fly less and live in smaller houses and eat more locally sourced food.
I use Sophos on my Macbook. I'm on Sierra.
I'm a few months into the no-facebook game and it certainly is strange to realize how vacant most of our interactions on the platform were.

In some ways it feels like I've never been this lonely before. It makes me realize just how superficial most of my connections really were. I moved around a lot and had a sizable group of friends I would interact with on facebook, but now that it's gone... only three of them still make the effort to text or call me at least once a week to catch up. Sure, I have more friends who are simply indisposed and busy, but because they have social media they don't seek much interaction outside of it and so we don't talk.

It honestly hurts and the last two nights I've actually broken into long crying fits over how lonely I feel, because I feel like I don't connect with anyone, even the people I do talk to. I know facebook wasn't providing that level of connection I desired, but I realized it had tricked me into thinking it did. I realized that in the past, when I felt this kind of loneliness-induced depression creeping up, I would get on social media just to look at other human beings and remind me I'm not on a rock by myself and other people are dealing with the same emotions. Decent short-term solution for getting rid of the symptoms, but it did nothing to address the problem itself.

Incentivised social media like Facebook is really not healthy for the developing psyche. It's shaped the way I think and feel, and what triggers my brain's reward systems, and now I'm suffering for it.
I could wax lyrical about Agile all day long. If you google 'Agile Bullshit', a comment I wrote on HN a few years ago is usually in the top three results, and because of that I get an email once a month from someone driven to despair by said 'Agile Bullshit' who feels compelled to get in touch with me and vent a little. I enjoy the emails, and I think they've given me a much broader perspective on agile than my own experience alone could offer.

I've been writing an article about Agile for years now, that I can never finish. But here's what I consider to the be the two biggest problems with Agile.

1. Agile can never work in an agency, where the client has control over budgets, deadlines, and features. There is simply no incentive for the client to compromise when your agency has made some pretty ridiculous promises and put themselves on the hook to deliver.

2. There are some teams that deliver well under agile (as per the metrics that the business has defined), and some that don't. In my experience, the ones that deliver well produce the worst work because they won't push back on a design or a feature that's incomplete, nonsensical, or plain impossible. They do what they're told and add no value to the overall output. This is especially true of offshore development teams.

The teams that produce the better software do push back, but the Agile process as implemented everywhere on earth does not support them. Instead, animosity grows between the developers who push back, and the product-owners|BA's|designers who can't or wont understand the problems with their own work.

But! Some process is better than no process. And I've worked in some companies that take Agile very seriously and are willing to put in the hard work to make it work. And I suppose that' the secret sauce that's missing from most organisations that are "Agile", they think it's a trick, a hack, a cheat, a short cut.

It's not. Like everything else worth doing, it's hard work.
One of the reasons SCRUM wasn't very popular in our team was that we realized it meant having a lot more meetings than we were having before.
I think if you go by the numbers, standard scrum has you spending nearly 20% in your time in developer meetings.

Stand ups didn't really work for us either as we are doing our own thing most of the time, so there is little to coordinate, and when there is a need, we usually just work closely together.
I enjoyed your comment. The rush to formally define and implement "agile" is pretty hysterical on a fundamental level.
No, I'm not referring specifically to Liberal housing policies. I'm not aware of any aspects of the NDP platform that would improve the housing affordability problem in BC, but I'd be interested to know about them if they exist. Might make my choice even easier. Their website just calls for "strong action", but doesn't specify what it should be: https://www.bcndp.ca/housing-speculation

As far as NDP policies I find questionable, a few are

-Remove tolls on lower mainland bridges. - this just seems like blatant vote-buying. It will worsen congestion and pollution, and reduce provincial revenue, while benefiting a small segment of the provincial population.

-(Further) delay acceptance of ride-sharing companies (Uber, etc.) - The NDP has always been the "workers' party," so I assume their interests align with the taxi drivers' union here. The policy seems poor though, from both environmental and fiscal perspectives (again). Also seems unwise politically, and I get nervous about a party when they do something that's both unwise and unpopular.

-Significantly increase minimum wage. - I support initiatives to reduce inequality. However, I don't agree that increasing minimum wage from $10.85 to $15 is the best approach. I expect it will have a significant impact on both businesses and minimum-wage employees. (Positive for some; negative for those who can no longer find work.) I believe there are better ways to help people, and that minimum wage tends to be chosen because it doesn't have a direct impact on the provincial deficit, so it's a 'free' promise. Increasing minimum wage with inflation is one thing, but a ~40% jump is another.

Those are a few things. Many of their other positions I agree with in theory, but there are few details presented so far. (Full platform is yet to be released.) Unfortunately the details that they have put forward, like those above, I find worrisome. That said, I will still likely vote NDP (or possibly Green if my riding doesn't look competitive) since I do expect they will be better for the environment (removal of tolls and blocking of ride-share notwithstanding), and I support most of their goals, even if I don't expect they'll be entirely competent in achieving them.
This diet will work of course, as it is just a variant of the "eat less" diet. My own heuristic is to not eat after dinner, which typically lowers the window of eating to maybe 10 hours a day for me. I eat as much as I can (tending towards vegetables and maybe 40% of calories from the fat in healthy oils), but I don't consume any sweetened drinks or much packaged food.
As you can do it in Chromebook with your android devices or with Mac and iOS devices...

MS was the last to implement it though...
It's not weird if you think of computers that handle data byte by byte

Think of building a DB on an C64 and that will probably be more like it

But of course if you still have to worry how your data will be serialized to disk in 2017 that's your problem right there
You missed Hedge funds
Hey dang! I'd like to lodge a protest :)

The original title was "The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face". I believe that it better represents the actual content than your version ("The Fourier transform, a widely applicable mathematical discovery").

There is nothing "clickbait-y" about the author/editor's chosen title, unless this derisive label has become to mean any title that is not entirely devoid of humour, metaphors, or imagination. Trying, and succeeding, to generate interest isn't evil. Otherwise, please rename "hacker news" to "social content discovery platform for mostly white American males aged 18 to 40 employed in IT"(.ycombinator.com).

The original title is better suited to communicate the style and substance of the article. Reading it, it is immediately obvious that is an attempt at a pop-science treatment of Fourier trans. That is exactly what you get, the minor nitpick about the Simpsons being dragged into it somewhat arbitrarily nonwithstanding.

I'd add that the title of an article is as much part of the creation as the article itself. Of course, everyone has every legal right to use whatever words they want when linking to it. But, considering that titles are artistic expressions, I believe it would be appropriate to consider–at least in marginal cases–to respect the original work and its creator. To that effect, it may be worthwhile exploring ways to indicate when a title is not the original, or to maybe always keep original titles, but, where necessary, add add a subtitle with the 10-word summary people seem to be craving.
They won't be able to.

How does a wild animal feed his family if he can't catch any food? He gets out-competed by more effective individuals.

Given finite resources and unbounded population growth, population must grow to the point where there are not enough resources to support everybody, and then some people have to start dying.
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Electrek.co states they're indeed from Panasonic https://electrek.co/2017/04/09/tesla-solar-panel-panasonic/
You're right. Household CO2 emissions are nothing compared to commercial / transport.

Just look at airlines. As a random example, Qantas Airlines, in the 2015 financial year, burned $3.9 billion AUD worth fuel! (About $3 billion in USD).

Source: page 15 of their annual report: http://www.qantas.com.au/infodetail/about/corporateGovernanc...
Interesting question. Thank you. The answer is maybe. Personally I have a very hard time with people in general that are unable to sort the fundamental things needed to control their life without resorting to this type of drastic behavior (unless there is a proven medical reason). I think a large number of people in the last 2 generations have a hard time with being discipline. I was born in the early 70s.

Also you are right the story was a bit on the "do this now side" of things..

So sure my reaction is a bit of how it was written along with own personal view point.

But you know it could just be me screaming "get off my lawn!"
I think you have the same misconception about the first rule that many people do (forgive me if I'm wrong).

> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

This does not mean that you minimise process and tools. This means that individuals and interactions trump processes and tools. So if you have a process that doesn't fit the people on your team, then you change the process, not the team. Similarly, you try to encourage interactions through as many avenues as you can. You don't say, "You must use this tool and only this tool to communicate".

But it's a mistake to think that you want to remove process. That's not "agile". That's "ad hoc". There is nothing particularly wrong with ad hoc processes if you are successful, but the "we'll just use common sense" approach that many teams attempt is usually anything but successful.

Process is there to support individuals. When I am coaching a team, I never go in with the idea of introducing any particular process. Of course, I am more skilled with some processes than others, but imposing my skill on a team I am coaching is not going to be successful. Instead, I watch what people are doing and write it down. That is the process. At that point I start looking at problems that we can solve. I look for places where the process is not consistent, or where people are struggling because they don't know what to do. Then I try to extend the existing processes so that it is consistent across the team. Finally, I start introducing things that I'm skillful in where I am sure it will make a difference. At this point the team is already delivering with their process and we are just looking at ways to optimise.

There is a lot more to it that this, of course. However, for me this is the minimum thing that you need to do to coach a team. I've tried other approaches (when forced to by upper management), but I've never been successful.
> Many times, I can feel the data going on the wire, and the emotion it carries.

That's easy to prove. Have people send certain kinds of data and then name the emotion. You could upend several sciences and also be rich.

So why don't you?
You should look at the various official blogs around Azure, they're much more down-to-earth and buzzword free than the formal docs.