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Yes, but it's not really a good idea in this kind of environment.

Generally they'd run 200-500KW diesel generators in a unit generator farm, then run power cabling (3 phase) out to PDUs in clusters of tents, with single-phase runs to standard military ECUs (air conditioners) attached to each tent. They also need electricity INSIDE the tents, for computers, lighting, etc.

Generators are noisy, need to be serviced and fueled, and the small ones (~10KW) that you'd want to run on an HVAC are less efficient (especially for diesel), loud, etc. You also don't want fuel tankage near tents which might be hit by incoming mortars...especially mogas (gasoline) tankage...JP8/Jet-A/diesel is a fair bit less bad.

Over time, they moved to a "prime power" system for the larger bases, with a big farm of 2MW gensets run by a contractor, and an on-base power distribution system, sort of like towns in Alaska, islands, etc.

Using an engine to directly run HVAC is done on reefers (insulated/refrigerated shipping containers), but even those are moving more and more to electrical hookups (so when they're in a big storage area, they can all be connected to cheaper power).

Some of this power was for things like a 20 x 20 grid of 16-man tents, each with HVAC.

I still think the primary consumer of liquid fuels was aviation -- fighters taking off on afterburner, big cargo aircraft transporting tens of tons per load, helicopters, etc.
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Silver Lake won't care. PE firms are used to being called locusts, pump and dump schemers, or worse, and they don't need to be liked to do what they do.

Andreessen Horowitz will, though, not be happy about what happens to their reputation in Silicon Valley.
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Fog of War: Former Sec of Defence talking about war
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"This tendency reached the height of comedy inside the strategies division, where some of the quants published academic papers on the more theoretical aspects of their work. If an author quit Goldman though, his name would be removed from the official version of the publication. It got to the point that some papers had no authors, and had apparently written themselves. So it goes. No longer with the firm."

I suspect he plagiarized this whole anecdode from the autobiography "My Life as a Quant", in which Emanuel Derman is talking about his experience at Salomon Brothers, rather than GS:

http://www.ederman.com/new/docs/my_life-excerpt.html

"The level of fear that permeated Salomon was more evident, too. Friends of mine who wanted to leave the firm were semi paranoid that their bosses would discover that they were interviewing elsewhere and then fire them before they left. I never heard anyone at Goldman speak this way; despite the natural tension between employer and employee, most Goldman workers never imagined that exercising their right to look at other jobs would naturally lead to being fired.

There were other signs of Salomon's take-no-prisoners culture. In the 1980s, the Bond Portfolio Analysis (BPA) group had written a series of renowned reports for clients on valuing swaps and other recently invented derivatives contracts. Each report's distinctive light brown cover bore the names of its authors printed in a darker brown. Then, over the years, as one or more of the original authors left the firm for other banks or trading houses, BPA would reprint the report, having removed the departed authors' names. Eventually there were old but popular reports still being distributed that apparently had no author at all. This Orwellian rewriting of history struck me as particularly petty and ineffective, an affront to the notion of research."

From "My Life as a Quant"...

If so, what else did he make up? Did he directly experience any of this during his brief stay as a junior member of GS? Or is it all just a bunch of crap he's been reading in books like "Liar's Poker"?
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I wish obama did something like this so reasonable people on both sides could really do something, but otherwise politics as usual.

Is it normal for them to offer to show up-to-date books to the unions? on that would they even be able to do anything with it?
>There's no such thing as a "one time password".

Some people call the code generated by the authenticator a one-time password, because it can't be reused.
We have people scrambling to reduce power density in data centers. That, apparently, is the easy part. Our industry (online services of all kinds) obviously needs to tackle power consumption on customer premises too. Otherwise we risk a user revolt. This problem, unlike many environmental and cost problems, is actually solvable.

Let's get to it!
Looking at the commit:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/2af378ef814c#l8.33

... they're only dropping the trailing slash if it corresponds to the root path. i.e. "www.google.com/" will become "www.google.com", but "www.google.com/webmasters/" will be untouched.
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And oh god i had to install it from floppies. I think windows NT was 20 of them.
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This error condition (my choice of language) was in place from 2011-04-09 through 2011-06-22, give or take a day.

looks like it's a bug that's been fixed?
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Might be a bit off topic, but when did you start applying/sending those resumes?
It's obviously not copy-paste and why would it be so hard to believe that both Goldman and Salomon had the same practices of removing authors names from papers?
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In my opinion, physicians are no different from any other profession. They feel that input from those outside the profession on matters of the profession are irrelevant, and in most cases this is probably true. There is a push in the evidence-based medicine movement, however, to recognize the influential power physicians have in the doctor-patient relationship and the ways this influence might effectively ignore the patient and their right to dictate their own treatment path. It's called "Informed Patient Choice," and is something I personally believe should be emphasized much more than it is today, because the truth is for most diseases there are multiple treatment routes, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. The job of the physician should be to, without bias, present these options to the patient and ultimately allow them to choose.

As for dismissing alternate treatments, I feel it's perfectly acceptable to dismiss treatments that lack basic scientific validity (Mind you, I include in this bunch treatments prescribed by physicians today that lack proper evidence, of which there are more than a few). There are an increasing number of physicians interested in CAM, however; some hope to discover new medical treatments hidden within; some use them as a rich source of evidence related to the placebo effect; or, as was mentioned earlier in this discussion by another poster, some seek to stake their share in the increasingly lucrative market of quackery.

The truth is, quackery is even more lucrative than medicine. All that is needed is invention of a treatment that doesn't hurt people, at least not immediately (Think water soluble vitamins, fruits, vegetables, etc...), and clever marketing. No grants need to be written to conduct the basic science research. No costly clinical trials need to be conducted. The FDA doesn't regulate "alternative therapy" because most are categorized as supplements, and so efficacy data does not need to be provided. All of that costs a great deal of money, which of course eats into profit. In addition, as proponents of CAM can't point to a single treatment that has been effectively "taken off the market" due to lacking efficacy, it's quite clear that not only are these treatments 100% quackery, but they hold amazing long-term revenue potential, Potential that exists because patients are taken advantage of and claims are made by peddlers that aren't supported by a shred of evidence.
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A little late to the conversation, but none the less...

You could use the TurnKey Hub for easy deployment of a pre-configured Django appliance to Amazon EC2. If you prefer the command line you can use the Hub's API or CLI, for example:

$ hub-launch django [-options]

If you've enabled TKLBAM (encrypted backups of changes to files, databases, package management state, even users and groups), you can launch a new cloud server which will be automatically restored upon boot:

$ hub-launch $BACKUP_ID

Take that a step further and say you're developing your Django app in a local VM. When you're ready to deploy to the cloud you just trigger a backup, then launch it in the cloud.
Not very surprising. I used to vote based on "does the comment have a fair number of points", so a comment with 100 points would very rarely get an upvote from me - whereas now I don't have that information, so I can only use "do I like this comment/do I want to see more like it".

Similarly for negative votes, of course...

I'm installing the extension.
Offtopic, but ex-British journalist here. Every styleguide I've seen over here says 'companies are singular'.
Once the deal goes through, they will be Microsoft employees. Until then, certainly this will hurt their image, but I doubt that no one would work for Skype (of course, I wouldn't).
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Installed...anyone else in?
Oh man. Are you really saying that corner cases are a priori negligible? That seems like a dangerous road to start down when you're discussing basic protocols!
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Can you explain the first line a bit more? I am a NY fan and maintain electronic contacts with many people there, but it's nothing compared to being there in person in my opinion.
"I have this heresy" was your original statment which does not parse.

Heresay is, as I understand it, the correct spelling (at least in a legal sense).
Ah yes, NPR, where the Jewish offspring of war profiteers go to pose as serious journalists, but only after daddy donates enough of his war profits to secure them the post.

Fascism is alive and doing rather well thank you.
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It's not by foreigners for foreigners. Our attendees, and our volunteers, are about half expat, half local. Appsterdam will be a benefit to App Makers around the world, and also a tremendous boon to the Netherlands.
The similarity between the stories struck me: particularly that they both stressed the point about reports being circulated with no authors at all... OK it doesn't prove that he made it all up, but I would be willing to bet some money on it.
You're right! That would be the rich way and would be of course totally awesome. You have to be really successful before to be able to do that though ;) That would just make 99% of the readers feel miserable as a result...
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Oh yeah, LA to Sydney would be a good fit for a sub-orbital airliner. Maybe in 16 years?
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This represents about the nicest apartment in Amsterdam. Things get cheaper the further you move from the center. And what "most rental agencies" require doesn't affect us. We have our own agency.
Can't we all just be nice and wait for the lawsuit?
It looks like this should be (at least partially) dealt with at the OS level especially if the OS in question is a mobile one.
If anyone finds real solar powered A/C systems, please posts it here or email me, I'd like to import them into Israel.
I can't find the meaning of heresay. Maybe my grammatical usage of heresy in the sentence is incorrect, but I do mean it in this way - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/heresy

(Sorry, my initial Google search automatically replaced "heresay" with "hearsay" in my search. I hate that Google has started doing this, instead of the old "did you mean x?")
My first thought was "This thing reads like stereo instructions."

He says a lot of really simple things, then tries to make them mean something really complicated by inference:

"But this is just the essence of software; it is what software does anyway. Software engineering aims at clarity and fluidity because these are what software essentially and distinctively is about. A bit is precisely 0 or 1, and easily changeable between them. Software is clarity and fluidity."

He also says some things as if they are different, but they aren't:

"It is not, really, exactly, about better means of abstraction, but more like better means of changing abstractions."

You can't have "better" without "change". It's a requirement. "Change", however, could be better or worse. So "better" is a better way to say it.
Of course. That's what separates good entrepreneurs from "no so good" ones. I think his advice applies to businesses in general as much as startups, its just that established businesses creating new products have more resources to work with. That doesn't change the fact that one of the most important abilities of someone in business is dealing with uncertainty and making decisions without enough information.
Both were excellent talks. The SocketStream one is a bit long, but still quite interesting. The talk by Andrew from Tribesports was also good - very exciting and fun startup.
Then do a startup in Eindoven. On the international scale of things, Eindhoven is a suburb of Amsterdam. Or the other way around.

People don't live in SF and work in San Jose much, either.

That said, my underbelly feeling is that Eindhoven is getting a nice startup scene, slowly swelling, though mostly focused on devices and not so much on software. But in all honesty I don't think there's much of a difference. Whether my startup buddies make html5 apps or the next revolution in fitness machinery, we face much of the same kinds of problems.
> a real "the future is now!" moment to me would be man walking on Mars or being able to fly from LA to Paris in 45 minutes.

But these ideas are not unimaginably far from what we presently can do.

Previous sci-fi ideas were unbelievable. I'd like to hear some ideas which are unbelievable again. Everything I heard so far just seems quite sensible and achievable.
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If anyone wants to partner to invent one, I'd also be interested in raising the money and doing marketing.
That's were relative URLs without a scheme come in handy, e.g. "//www.example.com/example_file.js"

If the current page is served over https, it will load scripts using https. If it's served over http, it will use http.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/550038/is-it-valid-to-rep...
Using only ~20% of my quad-core CPU to emulate a game that was made for the 8-bit 8MHz Gameboy color...
> Once the deal goes through, they will be Microsoft employees

My two cents: Microsoft is known for being unethical with its competitors, but never with its employees. Right now, Microsoft is in a position it can take a stand for what's right and refuse to complete the acquisition unless Skype aligns its HR policies with the company making the acquisition.

Microsoft is not paying 8.5B for the code. They are buying the Skype brand and the loyalty of its customers (at least the ones running Windows). What Skype is doing - and that's something that's hitting mainstream press soon - will damage the brand - and possibly customer loyalty - irreparably.

And, by provoking a diaspora of the talented people, they are creating dozens of competitors.
To be fair to Michael (the founder of Phoronix) - he did spend a large amount of time and resources building out the PTS and integrating it with power-measurement devices that let him automatically narrow down this commit.

Personally, if it helps me wring more battery life out of my laptop, I would considered the ads (or the donation) well-suffered.
I'm a college student still.

Apply for internships in my first three years, I typically applied to 20~30 companies, and would get 5-10 interviews, leading to 2-5 offers.

In my senior year, (now), I applied to 4 (Google, Mozilla, Facebook, Inkling). Interviewed at all of them, and got two offers and one "come back next year". I hope the one I accepted could potentially lead to a full time position when I graduate next year.
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There were plenty of wireless-optimized TCP replacements proposed back in the days when WAP and XHTML Mobile were the hottest things around, but none took root as operators, web servers and browsers needed to adopt them in tandem.

Now that smartphone apps are widespread and someone developing a service can control both sides of the connection, there's definitely room for someone to devise a really good TCP replacement (layered on top of UDP) with an iOS library, an Android library, and an Apache mod.
I think his P.S. line says more than anything else.
You can reduce the cost by a factor of 10, if you make the tents "underground".
Well, we do have our jet packs http://martinjetpack.com/ and flying cars http://www.moller.com/ Maybe we just need a successor to concrete to start a new age of huge civil engineering feats -- I'm still hoping for the space elevator.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127535359014939&w...

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 17:39 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>> On 05/31/2010 05:19 PM, Alex Buell wrote:
>> > http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=14976
>> >
>> > Question: Why?
>>
>> Good question.. I guess it would too much to ask of them to try to
>> figure out what area the problem lies in (even to the point of figuring
>> out if it's a CPU or IO-bound problem), or try to bisect, or at least
>> report it to LKML before going to the trouble of creating 5 pages of
>> graphs.. Given the 20x slowdown in some of the benchmarks you'd think it
>> wouldn't be too hard to narrow down.
>
> What I really don't get is why they didn't talk to people on
> linux-kernel before posting those claims on phoronix. :S

Well thats kinda obvious, its "journalism" in the days of google
adwords. They make revenue by making people click on their website,
they don't make money being useful or interacting with others.
Phoronix in all the years I've been dealing with them as the only
place doing any reporting on graphics, have never once confirmed a
source, asked for information directly or anything you'd expect from
real journalists, again because that doesn't drive page hits, whereas
sensationalist useless headlines are the main point of the site.

Dave.
Addendum: I think Eindhoven might have near virgin hiring grounds. Thousands of brilliant people currently work at a small number of high-tech BigCo's, spending a week on fixing two bugs in 30M lines of unmaintainable C code (I'm talking to you, ASML). Some of these must know, deep inside, that things can be better.

I think that a startup that grows a fair bit past ramen profitability has a lot to offer to these kinds of people. The biggest problem is how to get the word out.
Very interesting and sheds some light on the weird latency issues I see here in Rwanda, where 3G issues aren't limited to being on moving trains. Sometimes pinging shows crazy return times of 30000-60000ms. Other times they're only 200-400ms but every other ping packet times out, i.e. one packet through, next one drops, and so on. Still trying to figure out exactly what's happening then.
Why do my teeth grind whenever a CEO says "I know you're gonna be mad about salary cutbacks but, just to remind you, I'm not taking a salary."
This seems to be a re-posted (and maybe re-written) Ars article, namely http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/06/static-electrici.... I find it amusing that Wired is "popularizing" content from Ars.
I dunno if WSJ is the same way, but:

"The NYT's paywall requires you to sign up once you've clicked your 21st article in one month."

... If you're reading 22 articles in a month, you really should consider paying for it. You're obviously receiving a benefit.
Very well communicated and presented by Mr Branson. At times of crisis, its important to be level headed about things and objectively look at both sides of the story. I also like his transparency approach, i think it will work extremely well in his favour, or at least i hope so.
I am honestly wondering what the average temperature in a Bedouin or Mongolian (sorry, for lack of better term) tent is and how one could apply this to troop tents in the desert in general and ultimately save on A/C and fuel because many generations of men have proven to successfully survive in the desert long before fuel and a/c has been invented.
A paid provider would be more likely to listen to you.
Tell that to gyms..
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You'd be lucky to have that 25 watt solar panel power a fan much less an AC unit. Most in-window a/c units take about 600 - 1200 watts. They also run on A/C power, not DC which is what you get from solar panels. Getting enough amperage from a solar panel is going to be difficult.

You would probably need about 4 of these:
http://www.ecodirect.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Cana...

Then maybe you could start talking about powering something like a 5,000 BTU air conditioner.
I'd consider an evaporation cooler/swamp cooler to be a "solar powered A/C system" -- these are widespread and cheap. Add a solar powered fan for circulation and it could be 100% solar.
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The condescending tone towards Andrej Bauer is unwarranted, who is from the Dana Scott PhD stable and who has a well-thought out attitude towards constructivism and realist foundations of mathematics.

Nelson is respected but not what I would call very influential. I took this to be the point of Bauer's jibe about ultrafinistists. Note that, AFAICS, Nelson does not call himself an ultrafinitist, but rather a (radical) predicativist.

I don't get the point about the cavalier attitude to truth: constructivist rejection of PEM comes from worries that some propositions are not sharp enough to be determinately true or false, the classical Brouwerian examples coming from topology. This stance more deserves to be called pernickety than cavalier.