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No. The article is a coded call for subsidies of solar through "improved" financing. Subsidizing a specific activity means the government picks the technology. A carbon tax would bring all the same benefits and would not have the government deciding which technology to favor. For example there is a competing technology called "smaller houses". A carbon tax would promote that and leave the choice in private hands.
Usually my best hours are spent in the mornings just after I wake up. I'll sit down, check on a bug and start hammering away at home before heading to the office several hours later. The main benefit for me is I can approach problems with a clear mind that I likely don't have the rest of the day.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3499023
Current mainstream economic theories underfit like crazy, that's their virtue. The problem is, they aren't based on knowledge of what actually happens, but on either a 19th century armchair philosopher's guess at what happens, or principles which have been chosen in order to create an under-fitting model.

So while they don't overfit, they also are't based on any real knowledge of the system.

It seems the other extreme is elaborate overfitting models.

Steve Keen uses fairly simple models, but tries to base them on actual reality (i.e. broad money is created by the banks, not the government, while Ben Bernanke's explanation of the Great Depression apparently focuses on M0, as he accuses the government of not minting enough coins with the gold they had in reserves, with the implicit assumption that the money would be multiplied if the government would only print it. In reality, the money was not multiplied, because the banks didn't feel like lending.)
It's funny you mention that - that book has been making its way around at work, and I've got it sitting on my desk to read right now.

I think the author is right on, though I bet we'll see some significant incremental progress in the next couple years. I also think, based on the blurbs I've seen, that he's missing out on one key part of the equation that a lot of non-energy startups can go after - intelligence in the system. We'll be building the distribution, storage and generation side, and the smart grid will continue to plug into more and more devices, but it's the smarts of the system at scale, doing things like we've all been working on in the social space for a few years now, that will take those raw materials to the next level, and do something really clever that none of us have thought about yet.
I need a habit like this, maybe I can be more productive on morning than nights (who knows), also some days can go to do exercise, yeah, everything sounds great but the getting up is so painful.
I believe that was a problem with Google but I couldn't find an article.
Are you going to be running your own mail then? (I don't recall linode offering mail hosting as a service..)
...it's not a true representation of reality to suggest that taking $84 million out of the bank will result in the cancellation of $84 million in business loans...

Again, the issue is spending, not loans. Consider two possible uses for the money:

a) You can hire a programmer to do maintenance on the welfare administration system.

b) You can hire a programmer to build Fred Wilson's new venture.

By taxing the money, you devote it to welfare admin apps. By leaving it untaxed, you devote that programmer's labor to Fred Wilson's venture.

The relevant question: is purpose a) or b) a more valuable use of that programmer's labor?
Hmm, concentrate power into a single company? And you thought Holywood was bad?
Thats not really true. When your working as part of another company there are abstractions around you created by others that protect you.
You dont have to deal with a lot of stuff because a lot has been abstracted away.
In the startup world, either you pay for the abstraction or you deal with the real word.

Lots of people say things like "I could code that in a day" but when its for a startup, that one thing could take a month to do right.

Its completely different when its your own startup. Completely.
Clever. Reminds me of OpenBSD's rfork bug:

http://www.openbsd.org/advisories/rfork.txt
My daughter just pointed me at Black March[1]. I'm ready to give my attention and dollars to people who aren't trying to take away my liberties.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3499120
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Interesting that this is posted today as I woke up 45m ago and decided to code on a side project. It's not voluntary but because I've got some time difference issues.

Everything about the benefits is true, and since I'm not forcing myself to do it, I have almost none of the side-effects. The biggest problem with it is that it's incompatible dancing in clubs.
Easier, yes, but that has the disadvantage of forcing the receiver to do an extra HTTP request for each tweet. I guess it depends on the maximum URL size supported; if they're like tinyURL that supports at least 256KB[1], it's a much better choice, yes.

[1]: https://breakingcode.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/having-fun-wit...
They both help reduce climate change? Not sure. Without a carbon tax you could burn 100 tons of coal to make a "green device" and nobody would know the exact figure. With it, you don't even need to do the calculation. It's in the price.
Another advantage: the first two hours of exerting your programming mojo each day are likely to be the most potent. Applying this potency to your own products and initiatives is a beautiful thing.
It occurred to me that you could even prefix it like so http://decode.it/BATMAN.avi.part1/<chunkofbase64data>; and have a service there that decodes and passes the data back to the browser as a binary download- even better if you can work out a way to get twitter to shorten data: urls.
I enjoyed this as well after seeing it at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3493364. My favorite quote:

A novel is usually much, much too long to adapt to a film, with too many characters, too many parts. When you first read the novel, put good notes in it the first time, right on the book, write down everything you feel, underline every sensation that you felt was strong. Those first notes are very valuable. Then, when you finish the book, you will see that some pages are filled with underlined notes and some are blank.

In theatre, there’s something called a prompt book. The prompt book is what the stage manager has, usually a loose-leaf book with all the lighting cues. I make a prompt book out of the novel. I break the novel, and I glue the pages in a loose-leaf, usually with the square cutout so I can see both sides.

In the case of “Apocalypse,” there was a script written by the great John Milius, but, I must say, what I really made the film from was the little green copy of Heart of Darkness that I had done all those lines in. Whenever I would do a scene, I would check that and see what can I give the movie from Conrad.
Video showing the rodents in action http://www.newsy.com/mobile/video/study-rats-show-each-other...
The bad guys I've known were could be very charming when it mattered or to the right people. It took several months (sometimes a year) for people to compare notes and realize they were basically jerks. One of the nicest guys I've ever met I later found out verbally abused (and sometimes physically abused) his wife, often stole money from her purse to go get high, left his kids in a seedy part of town because he was too high to remember where they were, and spread many horrible, demonstrably false rumors when they separated. Maybe some of the people you helped because you thought they were nice, many years from now, you will realized they are sociopaths.
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Oh, I don't mean to imply that solar and wind are entirely unpredictable (I was hoping my comments about hydro would cover that), but they aren't always predictable when and where you need it. One of the problems for BIG infrastructure (say, hospitals and apartment buildings), is that they often have their peak demand almost instantaneously in the morning - often before the sun comes up. For solar, that means you can't directly address this peak demand without some way of shifting that generation capacity. But, as you say, unlike some of the arguments over the years trying to prove that solar is untenable, I think it's predictability, combined with additional advances elsewhere, will indeed push us toward a better future, at least until that "fusion" stuff gets around to being feasible :)
Yulp >=2.6.39 :-)
I tried waking up early to exercise, but I can't motivate myself to get out of bed to exercise.

I could motivate myself to get up if I were working on my own projects. I'll have to try this.
This is very true, but I feel that the group think isn't so much mediated by style as it is by what people are actually saying; this is a harder problem to solve. :-(

Respectful discussion prevents people from flying off the handle and getting distracted from the main topic. Me-too'ers and yes-men are too agreeable, but still on topic. I wonder if it's possible to analyze a paragraph for agreeableness and automatically reduce its visibility if it's too extreme on either end. That might force people to post a more balanced view (assuming that the people gaming the system are down-voted by human moderators).

This actually seems like something a machine could reasonably do. Agreeableness is vague enough that it wouldn't need domain knowledge of the conversation, and there are probably enough key words and phrases to train it.

I wonder what effect that would have?
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Here is a list of the 50 best films of 2011: http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2011/12/the-50-best...

Here are Roger Ebert's 20 best films of 2011: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/12/the_best_films_of_20...

Here is the AV Clubs 15 best films of 2011: http://www.avclub.com/articles/best-films-of-2011,66423/

Saying that 'all Hollywood is shit and should be destroyed' based on mass market crap is as purposefully naive as saying that the entire music industry is only producing the content you hear on Top 40 Radio.
Prospective employers want your current salary so they can get a bead on what the negotiating floor is. Most prospective employers hear "$80k" and immediately assume "we can get this person for $88k". You might be worth $90k, $95k, or $110k, but once you said "$80k", you gave the prospective employer's HR team an excuse to play hardball: they know they're not going to insult you, even if their opening offer is $20k lower than what they expected to pay the role.

Don't tell people your current salary unless you know it's going to help you, and be wary of taking negotiating advice from anyone who thinks you should disclose it as a matter of course.

Your current salary has nothing to do with how much you are worth to a new employer.
I have been slacking for quite some time; want to do it but have been postponing it.

I guess its high time to just make a start. Thank you for the blog.
I believe that current rulings indicate US Constitutional rights do not apply to non-citizens outside US borders.

Quote:

Citing Yick Wo v. Hopkins, the Court, in the case of Wong Wing v. US, further applied the citizenship-blind nature of the Constitution to the 5th and 6th amendments, stating ". . . it must be concluded that all persons within the territory of the United States are entitled to the protection guaranteed by those amendments,

(Note "within the territory of the United States")

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/rightsandfreedoms/a/illegalrig...
If you can use public transportation, you should definitely try it. I'm a student, but I also work part time in San Francisco; there is about a 30 minute commute. I am actually surprisingly productive while on the train working on my random side-projects. Having something to do stops the commute being a boring waste of time.

The one problem is crowding--if there are too many people, you might not get a seat or otherwise be uncomfortable. I avoid this problem by travelling at off-peak times, but this may not be an option. You should try it out and see how it goes.
I don't like the website, the way that all the icons are listed without any sort of indication to how far I'm scrolling through the set. Also, icons are sorted by tags but to find tags I must either search and hope there is a tag or find a tag via specific icons pages, why is there no directory? Feels like the focus was look pretty over efficiently store a large collection of icons. Nice icons though.
They're reasons why women are not participating— not reasons why "women are different from men in ways that make them poorly suited to a role in computing". There is a huge difference.

No one is saying a class on algorithms is discrimination. Are you intentionally misconstruing her article or are you truly this confused?
Audio conference calls as just as bad. I noticed a long time ago that a lot of my co-workers, especially executives, never bother to set passwords on their conference calls, check who's on a call, or drop all the lines between back-to-back calls. It would be trivial for almost any employee to dial into some sensitive calls. Or heck, ex-employees. Not that I would do that but it's clearly a security issue.
That is what I am saying. On the net, people will download the copy for free but it is a small minority. Make ipods, there will be knockoffs. Make hand bags, there will be knockoffs. Make cars, yes cars, there will be knockoffs. It is part of business. Make a unique site and get funded by VCs, there will be copycats funded by other VCs. Welcome to the world of business. But largely, if the movie is good there are soo many LEGAL distribution points. Focus your energy on those.

As much as I hate piracy, it really might have the opposite effect for indie artists. It might make her more popular since indie artists DO NOT have massive marketing budgets.
On #2, no it doesn't. Not for US citizens. Well, it DOES in practice, but not in terms of our constitutional rights, imho.
Awesome, yeah, actually I'm planning to move to the SF Bay Area soon, I'm from northern California originally and want to get back there, I think living further out and using BART to get into SF would be fine as it would give me some time to work on things, or even just to use my tablet and read up on things, do research, etc. Just being able to relax and not have to watch the road for the hour commute would be a lot better IMO.
Was curious about how many HTTP requests were used to load all the Icons, but found that those are not separate 'images', instead SVG is being used to 'draw' them, thus just taking one HTTP request to load a bunch of icons.

Impressive work.
Wikiquotes has a segment on this quote.[1] It's uncertain whether Stalin said it to Truman at the Potsdam conference, or whether the quote was actually said by someone else and misattributed to Stalin, but it is certain that the game designers didn't make it up for C&C: Red Alert.

[1] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Misattributed
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Even really cheap in-ear ones are actually very good. You can listen to music quietly and still make it out.
I guess that depends a bit of your view of the market. If you think the "customers" are the "bums on seats in cinemas", then perhaps it's not a product. If you're thinking more B2B and view the movie distributors as the "customers" perhaps it is.
I can't speak to overall strategy, as that's above my pay grade, but I can say that I HAVE worked in that area and I think everybody here is really interested in getting into that.

At my last startup, we had a prototype going at my house where we had a specialized smart meter with relays attached to the hot water heater, and an internet enabled thermostat. We could monitor, control and schedule peak load over the course of the day pretty easily. It was pretty labor intensive to set everything up (it was mainly the tapping of the mains and running the relays to the hot water heater), but actually worked well based on some simple schedules. I estimated that I saved about 15 to 20% of my power bill once it was in place.

The great thing about all of this, is that like most internet applications, the benefits become more pronounced and easier to achieve at scale. The more you can feed into a system, from both the supply side and the demand side, the better you can get at predicting and controlling the nature of the grid. And that transitions into some pretty serious effects on the economics of the situation, without really needing any major technology breakthroughs.
This actually isn't something I made. Just thought it was cool. :)

I use Photoshop 7 for image editing. I look for color inspiration on sites like cssmania.com and dribbble.com. I've used Adobe Kuler a few times. For design, gedit or EditPad Pro. The designs are from scratch but inspiration comes from the sites I mentioned. Sometimes I do rough mockups in Photoshop before I start writing the layout.
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I'm not the one saying there's another realistic explanation. You should direct those questions at someone who is.
A famous example was Jay Leno detailed in "Late Shift" and mentioned in this article http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2008/12/jay-leno-reve...
Depends on what you understand by "aggressive". Energetic, active, pushing for opportunities and so on? Or being cruel, damaging to others and not caring about side effects for the sake of the goal?
very nice project. congrats on getting so much support from kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tnp/building-a-free-coll...
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It's not universal though. I find (sometimes) late morning and (usually) late afternoon are my most productive or potent times. I suspect everyone is different. It seems that this idea though has the added benefit of bringing more focus (due to less of the normal distractions.) For me, I think, that would be the major difference .
I'm not going to continue to discuss this with you, because I realize now that I've been pointing in a specific direction, while you've had your own agenda all along and simply decided to engage me with no regard to what the discussion was actually about.

About Lara Croft and Samus Aran (which btw, were only introduced to the conversation to make the point that male/female protagonists have nothing to do with gameplay), I'd simply like to point out that I don't see what distinguish them so much from the Madonnas and other Britney Spears.
I don't expect them to give anything away for free. I also don't think they should be granted laws to guarantee they receive income. What I want is a rational argument.

The "every copy pirated is a penny out of my bank account" is too simplistic. Note that the argument wasn't even the more reasonable, but still too simplistic, "every copy pirated is a penny not put in my account".

I'm not asking anybody to give their creative works away for free. I love good content, and I'm willing to pay. I also am willing to not watch what I can't get legally and (by my consumer definition) reasonably. But framing this argument as "pirates are stealing out of my bank account" has allowed large media companies to shove insane, unconstitutional crap through congress.

As a result, when I see those simplistic arguments, I'm going to ask for a little more thought out of them. If a content creator is willing to at least talk through the complexities (better would be an honest analysis), I'm willing to listen. Anything else, IMO, is repeated propaganda from an evil source (the studios being the source, that is).
No, opposite of passive is active. What does it have to do with aggressive?
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But do these rights even apply to citizens outside of the US? I don't actually know.
A question. Your job takes 11 hours out of your day roughly. I assume you only work 7.5 or 8 hours like is standard. Does that mean you have a 1,5 hours each way commute (3 hours total)?

So you spend 15 hours a week, or 70 hours a month commuting?

Maybe you should move closer to work? Or work from home a few days a week if your job allows. I have a 5 minutes each way commute. I don't understand the voluntary 1.5 hour commute.
The film industry has this, often financed by major studios. Usually they consist of giving promising young producers budgets of $200k per project, and letting them loose to choose almost anything they want. They in turn look to develop projects that are potentially viable in both old and new spaces, ie TV and the web. So far the people I know who do this have survived all of the budget cuts simply because the studios have no other idea what to fund.
> moral and legal obligation

One thing I've learned about HN, through the school of hard knocks is that the word "moral" is probably the most reviled word on this forum, in any context, except maybe customer service (see: AirBnB).

So, which that very sympathetic entry, let me say that I very seriously doubt they have either moral or legal obligations to fight piracy. The studios, distributors, et al, have fiduciary obligations.

Also, it's interesting to look at the alternatives. Here's an independent film by a good friend, http://severny.com/on/SYNCHRONICITY.html.
I'm someone who had such an upbringing and my male model (my father) was a jerk (the rest of the world called him an asshole). He was very successful in business and I always wanted to model that success for myself. The funny thing is, I actually turned out exactly opposite of him and it was because of his jerk-ness that it happened. Though he tried to make me in his image his fatal mistake was treating me like the rest of the world. Instead of learning how to be the boss like him I learned how to fear the boss and be passive, nice, agreeable, and generally like a door mat.

So I may have misunderstood what you were trying to say but what I thought you meant to say was that those who have been brought up by assholes end up being assholes themselves. I disagree and I'm living proof. The person being brought up like that wants to develop those "jerk" traits that make their parent(s) successful but they end up getting developing habits like pleasing people and following orders without question that get in the way of what they want to do.
> They want people to either abstain from using their product (not ideal) or pay them for the use of it. This is what every business on the planet wants.

I'm pretty sure a content business does not see the first scenario as an option at all, not just "not ideal".

> the two best things you can do are stop pirating things you didn't pay for, and start contributing ideas and solutions to the issue of piracy that have as few unintended consequences as possible.

Make it more convenient for somebody to purchase your product at a saleable price than to steal it. Torrenting et al are far from frictionless, see Netflix for example. If you cannot produce and sell your product for a price that the market will bear, you will (and arguably should) fail.

As an aside, I see no evidence quality film production will cease to exist with the current studios, so it's not like this is an all or nothing thing.
Computers and systems built on top of them are so complex there is almost always a way through.