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If the cars are mostly charged overnight, it won't be a big deal. The biggest strain on the power grid and generation capacity comes in the late afternoon, when people's air conditioners are cranking at full blast. That's when the most expensive and dirtiest energy is generated (coal energy is great at ramping up to meet peaks in demand, and power companies will obviously keep their most expensive generators in reserve for peak loads). Adding more consumption at night is actually a great thing, because it lets power companies get more use out of the big capital expenditure on their power plants. Obviously this depends on people actually charging at night, but that can be handled through financial incentives.

And, of course, centralizing the generation of emissions can be a good thing in that you just need to upgrade a few generators to improve efficiency/reduce emissions vs upgrading millions of cars.
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> Capitalizing the first word of a sentence can also lose information.

Only if you are using a lousy keyboard layout for your language. I'm a native French speaker, and my layout (Bépo) let me type ÉÈÊÀÆŒ without having to remember any weird combination.

I can't think of significant loss of information besides diacritics.
http://qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-london-2011/slides/GregoryColl... is about this exactly. He explains why Haskell's green threads are better than Node's callback driven model.
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Capitalizing the first word of a sentence can also lose information.

I've never heard this, but are you talking about proper nouns that override regular words?

It's also helpful to identify people who focus on the trivial.

Would you say the same thing about txt spk, or does that cross the line for you?

edit: s/pronouns/proper nouns/
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So, is it known for sure that Amazon did not cut him a special deal? It might be rational to incent a "hot" author to offer up a good deal on an exclusive in the Kindle marketplace. Perhaps he got to keep a much higher percentage?
The HIPAA data security requirements are tiny and largely boil down to "data should be encrypted in transit and at rest and require access control".

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And they have killed FCP Server. Good news for us I suppose, we offer migration and integration with our asset management system.
i don't think anyone thinks it's a solution to the general problem of concurrency. it's an evented framework, much like django is an MVC web framework. use of either library is pretty pedestrian.

twisted made a few innovations (Deferred, @inlineCallbacks, push/pull producer API) but all in all select loops are not new technology.

node is getting way too much credit if you ask me, but i think it's mostly because it's exposed a generally naive class of programmers (javascript coders) to a different paradigm. C programmers have known about select() for the last 30 years.
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In English, it can make a big difference in meaning if something is a proper noun or not.
Couldn't agree more. I had a non-malignant "tumor"--essentially a jaw cyst that got me denied individual coverage. Once that happens, you are blacklisted in the MIB (insurance database) and will never be able to obtain individual coverage.

I was lucky that I had an opportunity to start a cash flow positive company with 3 people so we could qualify for group coverage. Only problem is, I always have to be aware that that's my only option.
Yes, but actually typing it is beyond the ability of most users: you have to read the presentation screen before hitting a key, and you have to guess that "C" means "the control key".
This is a flawed argument, the problems that higher level languages solve are those of organisation and program structure.
You just wrote out the business model of over 500 forex brokerage firms.
Which, while true, is about as helpful as answering "Yes." to the question "Do you know what time it is?".
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Bad title.

The man robbed a bank for health care. He only loses if they don't find him guilty.
Sure. However, in the US, no new nuclear power plants have been built since the 70s and no new ones are planned. Here, the relatively clean sources of electricity (nuclear and hydro) make up less than 20% of the total production [1]. And once again, the amount of energy that goes into the production of the batteries I bet far outweighs the energy used to drive the car for a few years (have not done the actual numbers). Yes, if we start adding cogeneration capabilities [2] to our coal-fired power plants, we may come out somewhat ahead. However, almost nobody does it currently, except small universities.

As for attaching solar panels to the roof of your house, you might break even assuming you get a full subsidy from your state and the panels outlast their expected lifetime. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source for more fun facts.

Fun fact: I once calculated that adding cogeneration to one average sized coal power plant would more than make up for all the energy spent making and recycling plastic grocery bags. There are thousands of these plants in the US.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogeneration
Right under bullet four there are two images--the one on the left is portrait mode.

There's not a lot of whitespace between the images, so I could see someone mistaking it for being just one wide image.
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I'm glad that someone demonstrated Microsoft's FUD and their double-standards for security with a simple bit of code.

Microsoft's reply is at the top of the comments to the article and reads:

"DoS mitigations are implemented in current internal builds and will ship with Silverlight 5 RTM."

I get that the anti-Microsoft droids are out in full force after the article from that Google employee, but come on, a little reading goes a long way.
"Customers hit the Whirlpool forums to complain that Distribute.IT had not adequately responded with information about the break-in and that the hack 'has probably killed my business'."

I'm sorry for people when their web sites are disrupted. I am astonished when it 'kills their business.' One would think that in this day and age one would 'restore from the last backup' and move on.

So is there a web opportunity to add a value "over" AWS/S3 which is the equivalent of managing a strip mall property in the real world?
I agree. I didn't mean that your evaluation of the current state of things is wrong, but rather that the current state of things is unfortunate.
By the same token, any problem that can be solved in javascript can also be solved in CSS3+HTML or brainfuck.

...time to get to work on that framework...
I don't think that's really true. I though coal is quite slow at ramp-up. Gas (sorry, UK English, I mean gaseous hydrocarbons like propane) is much more responsive. Coal is cheap (especially if you already have the infrastructure, built when labor was cheaper), that's its advantage.

Anyway, even coal is more efficient than car engines. IIRC, coal is something like 60% efficient (and it really can't get better, due to the laws of physics), cars are more like 30% efficient. OK, coal power still needs to be distributed and then there's some loss in the electric engine, but it's minimal, and petrol also needs distribution. Thus, coal creates less carbon emissions than petrol.
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Ofcourse, there's no blame on pinboard, they handled it amazing! And the webhosting company was around for 7 years if I googled it correctly - but I do think there's a big difference between webhosting company's.

Suppose DigitalOne rents space in a datacenter and has no one on-site (exept for staff from the datacenter). I can imagine that if the FBI enters there "we need servers from IP x.x.x.x and y.y.y.y immediately - that the people from the datacenter just point to the servers from DigitalOne "oh that's in their range"..

Ofcourse that's just speculation if you don't know how it really went down - never the less, I would chose webhosting carefully if your business depends on it:)
Lulz major player caught?
_The fact that they can recognize a high number of password change emails arriving as an indicator_

They do not. Mt. Gox contacted google and gave them all the gmail accounts that were leaked.
Text editing is something that consumes so much of a programmer's time that ease of learning is only relevant if you're switching every couple of months. If I was forced to switch from my current editor to a new one, I would honestly not give two shits how easy it was to learn. Why would I care how bad the first month would be? I'd be using it for many years to come. (If I couldn't count on that, it would be the wrong editor anyway.) The only kind of text editor that can tempt me to use it for a few months knowing I'll never be completely comfortable with it is a full-blown IDE with enough functionality to make up for the awkwardness of not being able to slice and dice text efficiently.

Besides, what does it mean for a novice to be able to use an editor right out of the gate? Will a novice know the keystrokes to jump to the beginning of a line, jump to the end of a line, indent the current line, forward incremental search, backwards incremental search, delete to the end of the line, regex search and replace, display and hide the list of open windows, jump to the previous window, jump to an open window by filename, reload the current file from disk, diff two files, run Make (or Maven or what-not), or do any of the others things that a programmer does dozens of times a day when he's writing code? Obviously he won't, and he'll be working a little slower until he figures all those things out (or, for beginning and end of line, he'll be learning where the Home and End keys are on each different keyboard he uses.)

Even if you know how to cut and paste in a new editor, you still don't know 10% of what you need to know to use it productively.
Wow, I'd better avoid all the hosting companies that repeatedly fly my data through TSA!

Just because the government has the legitimate right to conduct warrantless searches under conditions {x,y,z} doesn't mean they have rights to conduct warrantless searches under any other condition, or under all conditions.
Also, you're talking about counterparties cooperating because they do many transactions together at the institutional level. That's different from the exchange itself voiding the transaction.
> And wouldn't we just end up shifting where waste comes from (from Cars to power plants)

That's something you want to do. Dealing with a big stationary waste source (often that you can locate at a place of your choosing) is a lot easier than dealing with millions of small, mobile waste sources.
Did any of the Microsoft-bashers here even read the article? Microsoft responds in the comments and says the issue is already fixed in internal builds and will ship with Silverlight 5 RTM.
The metaphor falls apart a bit: the cops can search 4B for drugs without bothering me in 2A, but when everybody's data is on one disk...

I would, however, imagine that the police would need a warrant to search any other virtual disk.

But the seizure of those disks raises an interesting legal question. Any lawyers know the answer?
From the article:

"DoS mitigations are implemented in current internal builds and will ship with Silverlight 5 RTM." - Microsoft

This issue is already addressed. It's a non-issue being drummed up by Microsoft competitors. Even John Carmack agrees with Microsoft about WebGL.
That's actually a great point. I suppose my fear is not the patent, but rather the salience of the technology - something which Apple is adept at.
I don't get it, this software (Silverlight 5) is still in development. It's not meant to be used in production. If there is a flaw it should be reported. I would too have thought Microsoft Connect was the right place to report it. I don't see why it has to be hidden. ContextIS released their Firefox image stealing bug in public and it was quickly fixed by Mozilla within a week. I think this worked pretty well as far a security release goes. And this was for software already released to the public.
To be fair, I can't say that I wouldn't have downloaded it if I hadn't stumbled across it. I don't know if we're accepting your immediate decision that it's a bad game on what we should all know as "common sense," or if you're just giving your opinion. Either way, it doesn't answer what I think is a pretty interesting question: How do you effectively market a mobile app?

I at least agree with the understanding that quality is an effective marketing tool. I just can't say that his app lacks quality without trying it.

And the answer to the question of marketing doesn't stop there anyway. Plenty of crappy things have sold well due to good marketing.

That said, I'm by no means a marketing expert, so I'd be interested in hearing others tips / suggestions.

Edit: I guess I just wanted to add, that regardless of whether or not his game is good, an iterative feedback/dev cycle is obviously a good idea in (almost) every case. :)
The repro was a crash, which by itself, is not an exploit and it was reported against a beta software that is not deployed widely. There is no end-user installable silverlight 5 plugin and in fact a developer would be breaking Silverlight 5 license if he put a Silverlight 5 app on a publicly accessible web page (http://drc.ideablade.com/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/code-s..., see "go live" terms).

At the risk of generalizing a bit, what bothers me about your comments specifically and security people in general, is that once something gets labeled with "security issue" label it apparently becomes a black-and-white issue (and I apologize to security people who don't do that).

WebGL shouldn't be implemented. Reporting non-exploit crash in software that is not available except to developers that don't run other people's code gets put (implicitly) into the same bucket as 0-day exploit for widely deployed software.

As a security person you know damn well that not every crash report deserves following security disclosure protocol, especially given that addressable target is effectively null in this case. Chrome's security guidelines explicitly spell out a difference between a crash and a security bug: http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/reporting-sec... and they don't consider every crash a security issue http://www.chromium.org/for-testers/bug-reporting-guidelines...

The severity of problem exposed is nowhere close to what security disclosure protocols are designed for i.e. it's not an exploit.

But you're content with labeling it a "security flaw" and not doing any further analysis of severity or impact and your condemnation of that particular bug report is based on this binary mislabeling.
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That's true as far as it goes, but this gets very tricky to analyze, because if you don't buy the used car, someone else will. If you do buy it, what would the other buyer have done instead? (Bought a new car? Kept running their old car?)

Assuming it's not a gross polluter, keeping a car on the road longer than it would have been otherwise is probably a win, since that extends the average lifetime of the fleet and reduces demand for new cars. But that has more to do with good maintenance over the life of the car, rather than what transactions happened along the way.
In Australia I've found that businesses are still scared about having their websites hosted overseas.
It looks like google has reimplemented VB6 for javascript.
Two different hosts separated by a border would be better.
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I wonder if the law enforcement folks look at the "collateral damage", i.e., all the innocent servers (virtual or otherwise), as a windfall of extra data to mine. If my neighbor gets his house raided by the SWAT team they do not have access to my house only his, but with hosting this is not necessarily true. Further, I at least know who my neighbors are and can choose to not live in a bad neighborhood or even move away if I want, however with hosting this is not the case.
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Well, sure.

But the police have a well designed chain of custody system to at least reduce the possibility of tampering. Not everybody in the office can tamper with evidence behind lock and key with seals -- of course it still happens, but the goal is to reduce the possibility.

This falls apart when the evidence in question is data that can be copied, altered, etc.

And of course we can likely come up with clever cryptographic answers to this problem, but in the end, it's far easier and a more understood procedure for the police just to grab hardware and seal it up.
I agree, but I don't care about "until 2000". That was 11 years ago.
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Must be a perception thing. One way isn't "long" in the sense that its only 300 miles. Its 'long' to drive SF to Las Vegas. Basically any drive over about 480 miles of freeway starts getting long.

That being said, the 'long trip' scenario is somewhat of red herring. If you regularly travel several hundred miles a day then an all electric car is probably unlikely to meet your vehicle requirements. If its an occasional (once a year) kind of thing then creative solutions might arise to address it.

Were the Tesla guys willing to put a high power plug in the back I could imagine a 'trailer' which held a generator and a gas tank and provided power all the way there.
I don't think it does answer the question, though. The data is the evidence rather than the medium it exists on. What guarantee is made that the disk wasn't tampered with that cannot be made by a cryptographic signature...

...or is the answer that the law has no adequate treatment of abstract evidence?
Aren't Rails and Django competing? I'd hope so...
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the question was: why people post obscure job postings. My answer was 'to preserve their secrets', supposedly to obtain a large market share before the competition arrives, and to possibly patent any ideas before anyone can even come in, thus ensuring your firm to have an advantage in the long run. Secrecy wouldn't be their only tool, it's just one of the tools start-ups can use to keep their

Furthermore, yes my business idea is easily replicable, but my knowledge and expertise in my field makes me better than others. Say, if i was in the "ice cream" business, well, anyone can make "ice cream", but i use the best damn "ingredients" while selling my "ice cream" at a higher, yet reasonable price for the increase in quality. Now, that would be a reason why others would want to acquire me, even more so if I had a patent on my "ice cream" making ideas.
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Suddenly, the PCI compliance requirement to encrypt all sensitive "data at rest" makes a lot more sense. Probably not the case with Pinboard, but interesting nontheless.
I think they just asked for a server on an IP and the datacenter staff (!= not the DigitalOne staff) said the IP was in the range of DigitalOne - so the FBI took them all. I think the datacenter will rent IP ranges to their clients.

I can imagine in an Amazone datacenter they would be able to point to the exact server they're looking for.
In 2009, the FBI seized an entire data centre in Dallas. Not a server. Not a rack. Not a cage. [1]

Everything.

Moving rack after rack into waiting trucks makes for excellent TV.

Somewhere in the FBI, right now, is a man or woman powerful enough and ignorant enough to order such a seizure. It's pretty much inevitable.

[1] The original link is broken, but I discussed it at the time here: http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/04/05/on-a-risk-i-had-not-cons...
I'm missing some point here. Isn't a new car more environment friendly?
probably, but the FBI could also round up all the data center employees for questioning.
1) There is a literal syntax for Java:

entries = new ArrayList<Integer>() {{
add(3);
add(4);
}}

But yes, certainly not as elegant as Scala. Having said that, you don't encounter literal collections very often (except maybe in tests).

6) Named parameters are pretty easy to emulate:

new Window().width(100).height(50)

although the builder pattern is safer:

Window w = new Window.Builder().width(100).height(50).build();

7) No more checked exceptions: celebrating this is like saying that your code is shorter because you no longer bother checking for errors.

8) You can only omit parenthese in Scala when there is exactly one parameter:

x.foo a <-- legal

x.foo a b <-- illegal

x.foo(a, b) <-- legal

One of the many syntactic quirks that Scala suffers from

9) Comprehensions are neat but they suffer from a crippled performance limitation that forces you to revert to imperative loops, even in optimized mode. This technical problem is serious and there is no solution in sight at the moment.

There are genuine reasons to be excited about Scala but this article makes me think that the author just discovered Scala and they haven't really dug very deep yet. When you do, you start realizing that Scala's nice features are offset by quite a few annoying limitations that will probably doom this language to a niche.
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Electric cars doesn't solve the problem if we are using oil to produce electricity. That is, we need to solve that problem first. Actually, by replacing oil with some sort of renewable energy or safe-to-use nuclear energy is already a step to reducing oil consumption.

I'm not here saying that Tesla cars are useless. I didn't try them, but from the design, speed and mileage they seem pretty decent. They are the future, but it's important to look at the energy that runs them and get to solve that problem first.