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Buying solar power from residential users is usually a loss to the utility (hence other ratepayers). Especially when they want to sell at retail electricity rates rather than wholesale -- which is what net metering essentially does.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/business/solar-payments-se...
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I wonder if the necessary consequence of this is to get involved with lobbyists. Not necessarily to lobby, just to pay them for an understanding of how the local politics work.

This would also be a big bonus to YC, if they managed to provide domain knowledge in this respect. Because what the hell are you supposed to do in a situation like that as a fledgling start-up?
I'll completely accept that some specific unions, almost always in concert with bits of government, get captured by organised crime in some places and then the market is then manipulated to serve neither the members of the union, or people represented by the government. This depends completely on the union and the government we are discussing however.

I would also accept that this may be partly the case in this instance, given the behaviour. [edit] Though I find it less likely after having read eli's brief comment on the matter.

That does not mean that unionism itself is the problem, but rather the culture of certain unions. In the same way that just because certain companies act badly doesn't mean that all do.
Libertarians do not support right-to-work laws... they interfere with the freedom of contract between an employer and a worker.
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It was a stump soap box speech. :P
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Was going to add a rebuttal to the linked article but no need :-) I really liked Warren Ellis' take on it.
If it does change the way we speak then illiteracy rates will likely increase. Take for example words that can be pronounced multiple ways and have two different meanings. I have yet to hear Siri correctly pronounce the word "record" in the context of something that recalls or relates past events.
But the malpractice lawyers are terrible! Tort reform!
I did a double take over the name as well, certainly not the connotations he was probably going for.
It would be interesting to see stats compared between 'socialized' systems (we call it the public system) and private systems. When everyone has the same boss (Minister of Health) and is working within the same rules and guidelines it must do something to the stats.
We do have a private healthcare service, but its basically restricted to simpler day stay (or slightly longer stays) surgery and less complex procedures. There are no private emergency healthcare hospitals here that I know of. New Zealand is the country. The system is far from perfect here, but I'm yet to learn of a system I'd prefer.
But.... this was in my verbal presentation - move that @compilestatic benchmark to the first test - it'll be different. There's something about running it after the other two which is adding to the benefit - caching maybe? Moving it to the first one gives me 18-20ms generally. Try it :)
I don't understand why you're making such a big fuss about this rather inconsequental point. All I'm saying is that you should generally use apt-get and not the lower level tool dpkg. I used an incorrect justification for that (removing doesn't lead to an inconsistent state), but you still should preferrably use apt-get. Let's get back to debating more interesting stuff now.
I find taxis revolting. The ones I've been are in unprofessional, unclean, and noisy.

Uber costs more, and people are using it. This meas that the service provided by the current taxi system is inadequate.

How would you propose that the quality that Uber provides come into existence without some kind of disruption/free-market/'rule-breakers'?
To bring the discussion back to the actual topic, how do you apply those thoughts to the situation at hand?

What are your thoughts on this particular case? I'm not really interested in what you think about libertarians in general. (Frankly I think the libertarian angle here is misplaced, though I still find attempts to slow Uber's growth to be very unfortunate)
It's right there in my comment:

> the point of apt-get being better than dpkg for this still stands.
No, I think you're missing my point.

Uber is doing this expecting the cities and existing players to get pissed off and try to stop them. And then they publicize the anti-competetive nature of it.

That's their strategy. Get local news to write about how the city & cabbies are trying to shut them down. It's great marketing.

And it benefits Uber not to talk to local government prior to launching as long as they follow the letter of the law.

This is a genius strategy. But if I were the CEO, it would cause me stress that all of my drivers in a given city might be forced to not work indefinitely because I'm not getting the OK first. Maybe that won't happen.
Well that was completely unnecessary.

Apple Maps works great for me because in terms of quality of data it matches Google. Remember that there are lots of cities in this world and not all of them will be missing lots of data.
Sounds good, and you're welcome.
The IMEI can be obtained dialing *#06# on most phones, so anyone that has physical access to your phone once can use it to access your whatsapp account anytime.
It's ending right about now

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/science/a-robot-with-a-del...

http://arxivindex.blogspot.ca/2012/09/new-form-of-universal-...

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/nanoelectronics-and-tissu...
If this is an important part of the user experience, why can't Canonical provide an "Advertisements" or "Amazon" settings UI that can turn these features on and off by a checkbox?

My guess is because they know if they make it too easy to turn off, and the ads aren't actually improving their users' lives (ads for books when you search for apps?! Might make sense for technical books I guess...) everyone will just turn off the ads.

Making it this hard to turn off a new feature because you don't trust it will help the users... must be heartbreaking to sell out your users like that.
There's something beautiful about simple low tech solutions that require cooperation or blunt force - even if it doesn't work.

I once dropped a car into a creek in a third world country and it was deep down a ravine off a cow path. In America, that thing would still be rusting away. But a couple trucks, some super winches and two big guys working for four hours moving it inch by inch by leveraging trees and rocks later and... Thing came out with hardly a scratch.

Again, don't know if it will work, but love these types of solutions as a first line of attack before some over architected solve. Im sure there are some good engineering analogs as well.
That is an inaccurate blanket statement. Some libertarians, such as myself, actually can be pragmatic. (I can't say I like right to work laws, but I think they are necessary so long as unions, which I think are natural and legitimate market phenomenons, are weak)

Edit: Right-to-work laws are not what I thought they were. What I meant to convey is that I am opposed to At-will Employment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment)so long as unions are weak.
Uber actually lets you request a licensed cab from the app in NYC now too.
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"Lots of my patients have poor medical literacy"

I mean this is obviously true for the larger population. Studies show that 90 million Americans can't even understand the directions on their prescriptions. But that recommendation was meant for the HN readers, most of whom can at least read and understand trade books.

"What's the recommendation then? Stay at home the next time something happens to your health?"

No, but I but I think the least you can do is to try to get in and out in a timely manner, rather than dawdling around for an extra day or two.

Also, if you actually learn to manage your health conditions you shouldn't need to be in the ER very often in the first place, unless you break your leg or something and you clearly need to go.

Also, hospitals are starting to be required to report some basic data now so consumers can make more educated decisions about where to go.

And lastly, you can look up the statistics about how good hospitals are at treating different things in general. For example, according to the Commonwealth Fund report from last year ("Why Not The Best?"), hospitals have gotten much better at treating heart attacks in the last five years. Granted, you'd still need to go to the ER if you were having a heart attack anyway, but at least you know now that you have a 96% chance of getting evidence based medicine going in.

"Hospitals aren't great, so therefore they're death camps."

Well I mean it's not like I'm making this up, it's what the IOM and the AMA are saying. As well as the Commonwealth Fund, the NEJM, and basically every other credible source.

Having read How Doctors Think and other similar books, I realize that much of medicine is very difficult, and there are good reasons for why things go wrong sometimes. But at the same time, doctors really shouldn't be cutting off the wrong limbs and giving people the wrong dosages of medicine on a daily basis.
It's amazing how easy it is for tiny mistakes to result in serious consequences.

I have a medical condition that took over two years to officially diagnose. During one of my hospital stays toward the beginning of that ordeal, a doctor had decided that my issue required major surgery involving the removal of an organ. Less than one day before the scheduled surgery, the doctor decided to do "one more test" for an easily treatable condition. As it turned out, he had misread a previous doctor's note suggesting a possible diagnosis, as a dismissal of the diagnosis.

I'll never know whether the confusion was due to poor handwriting or poor attention to detail, but I feel lucky that the error was caught in time. I met multiple people during my numerous, lengthy visits whom I suspect were not as lucky.
So you admit that you're not an expert in evaluating companies and think that analysts are only qualified to evaluate brick and mortar retail companies, and on that basis $15 per share sounds too low?

Let me give you a tip: Professional investors absolutely understand the value of pageveiws and engagement and all that fun stuff. It's why facebook was able to basically name their multiple with the IPO underwriters and it was the biggest offering in history.

However, when the rubber meets the road, it is simply not the most important metric nor is it any guarantee of long-term future profits (forget about current profitability for the sake of argument.)

Is a TV channel with the highest ratings automatically the best investment? What if their costs are insane? What if they're about to lose some great shows or the popularity of them is waning. Hey, it's the most popular station, so it has to be worth the most, right?? To say otherwise isn't an issue of not "getting it," it's a matter of understanding that business is business whether we're talking websites, widgets, or retail.
Also try doing animations using jquery once you append the list of links with new links, like making the new links come to top, it will help in finding the location of the new links, once the list gets big.
You're reading too much of your own POV into another person.

Compare this essay with a random earlier one I selected (I just scrolled down and clicked a title that would seem ripe to disprove you)

http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html

Morality is rife within it, justice, monopolies, boss-employee relations.

He may have changed but all of his essays aren't amoral.
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Whoa, you should at least steelman libertarian beliefs before you assault a strawman position.

Anyway, government is also responsible for creating cartels and monopolies, some of which lot of people justify. For example, patents should be granted to people for the purpose of encouraging innovation. However, it's more like granting a legal weapon to beat competitors into submission. The AT&T for example, wages war against the telephone independents using their patents.

How do you prevent governments from simply becoming the lackeys of rent-seeking corporations? I had no fricking clues. Those libertarians seem to think elimination is the answer.
Very clean design and targets the niche nicely. One of my pet peeves is broken wordcounts though. A single space registers on your site as 1 word. Can I suggest checking out my post about javascript wordcounts? http://drewschrauf.com/blog/2012/06/13/javascript-wordcount-...
But we already have socialized medicine. It's just that you have to pay for it.
Certainly employees should be able to freely associate into unions, however like many groups unions have both positive and negative results.

Some people feel that the positives outweigh the negatives and some feel the negatives outweigh the positives. I feel that unions have historically been very positive.

In more recent years I think they've hindered progress for example in Vancouver up until the 80s it was required that every container was unloaded and reloaded simply to ensure jobs rather than letting consumers enjoy the efficiencies created by gantry cranes and containerized shipping.

Like anyone else unions use their power for both good and bad. From the perspective of their members I can understand how reloading containers would be a good thing, but from the perspective of anyone who bought goods that were shipped through the port of Vancouver I would see it as wasteful.

I see nothing wrong with bashing unions for the things they do which are destructive to society at large. I'm not sure what I'd think of a person who thought that unions had never done anything bad.
a far cry from the good old days of the brawny man commercials:

http://www.youtube.com/results?q=brawny+man+commercials
You missed the "edit screenshot in photo editor to highlight and black out info" part. Having used this internally, I can say yes, this tool flows very well. I don't know if we do this, but you could imagine clustering feedback by the highlight pattern to automatically gauge the frequency of similiar complaints.
While those things are rightfully illegal, they are nevertheless a lot more prevalent than most people are comfortable recognizing. Any service which takes pains to eliminate the possibility of discrimination, not merely forbid it, is a welcome addition to the industry as far as I am concerned.
I gotta say, "a company designed to grow fast" is not only more concise, but broader and more on point than Steve Blanks' definition

I would prefer just to say that the definitions are "different" :-)

Blank's focus is on startups that are discovering their business model. PG's focus is on startups that are designed to grow fast. Those two groups of organisation overlap, but are not identical.
'fade in' effect will be a good choice, to make the user see for the change in his list.
OPSEC for hackers: because jail is for wuftpd
Every piece of feedback is analyzed (if it passes a spam test) by a team dedicated to that product's feedback
When you regress to an extremely short list of recent supported hardware and abandon features like package dependency management and high-performing remote display, shipping a BSD fork is no longer that hard.
There's a lot of data pointing to the idea that even 'natural monopolies' benefit from competition. IIRC, Lubbock Texas has two hydro companies and Lubbock and other residents of two hydro company towns enjoy on average 20% lower rates.
My startup never uses no-reply and someone reads pretty much every reply.

But note that this is not zero cost. The time your support staff spends deleting out of office replies and spam is time they aren't helping real people.
That's exactly how I feel whenever I look at my tablet. It's a piece of glass that does things! If that isn't magic, I don't know what is.
Or, in short, when familiarity stops breeding contempt. Don't hold your breath.
Just because there is a lot of attention paid to the instagrams of the world does not mean there is nobody tackling big problems.

Then the internet happened and everything got put on hold for a generation.”

The ability for everyday man to broadcast is as big a revolution as the printing press.

Typed from my glowing sheet of glass, from my couch, to be shared with the world.
Thank you Apple
True, lots of ideas dont seem to scale. It is still worth trying, though, especially if you are well before the situation that would make this approach break. I write personalized thank you notes in my subscription service and it is one of the favorite parts for my subscribers.
Features of GridFS - Introduction to MongoBD - Part 15
No other business has to ask the city if the city is planning on changing the laws to shut them down. Why do you expect Uber needs to do that? The fact that changes to laws are being proposed in order to shut Uber down proves that Uber is perfectly legal under the current laws, which means Uber is well within its rights to open up shop without asking permission. In fact, if Uber were public and I was a shareholder, I'd be pretty pissed-off if Uber actually asked for permission first, because that's just asking to be shut down.

Any sort of disruptive business will get lots of pushback and anticompetitive pressures from the existing incumbents. There's no reason why Uber needs to make it easier for someone else to block them from operating.
Backup and Restore - Introduction to MongoBD - Part 17
It would certainly empty out the public water towers or cisterns in a hurry.
Well, when you're doing things that violate the spirit of the law (if not the letter), I think it's probably wise to invest in some lawyers and lobbyists.
So if I illegally speed does that make me a criminal.

Yes. Speeding endangers other people so that you can get somewhere slightly faster.
Show HN: VintageLines - Relative Line Numbers for Sublime Text's Vintage Package
I think it's fair to say libertarians do not support right-to-work laws on principle, because the freedom of contract is used to justify dozens of other positions in their ideology. You cannot logically be a libertarian and support right-to-work laws.

Can you find a single local libertarian party or recognized libertarian organization that supports right-to-work laws? Can you find enough to challenge my "blanket statement"?
I can't say I like right to work laws, but I think they are necessary so long as unions, which I think are natural and legitimate market phenomenons, are weak

I think you're confusing right-to-work laws with something else. Those prohibit private contracts which require union membership. In effect, they limit the monopoly power of large unions. (?)
Why should they be expected to "talk to local government" before starting? What other businesses have that expectation?

And what good could it possibly do? As far as I can tell, giving prior notice (though I think the idea that Uber could move in "stealthily" is kind of silly. They are hiring professional drivers from those cities, surely that hiring process attracts some attention.) could only harm them.
This is a horrible suggestion.

Stop being careless with your users' bandwidth. Assuming that every client should get the highest-resolution (and thus highest-bandwidth and highest-memory-cost) assets is just lazy.

Use Javascript. Something like https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill works beautifully and results in only one request per asset, with a noscript fallback. It's more markup, which is kind of a pain in the ass, but it means that the right clients get the right assets and you don't end up destroying your poor EDGE and 3G customers because you decided they needed a 2400x1200 splash image. Let's not forget that a "retina" image imposes a 4x memory cost on the client - image data has to be decompressed to be displayed. So, your user on their mobile phone with 512mb of RAM is going to have a terrible experience when your website is using 4x more of their precious RAM on images that don't actually provide them with any visual benefit.

Double-pixel displays are still, by a massive margin, the exception. Unless you're specifically serving a Retina Macbook-targeted audience, you're going to incur a lot of overhead for no appreciable benefit for the majority of your audience.
They did, in fact, talk to DC government several times before the first attempt to ban them (this is take 3):

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/14/ubercommissioner/
I suspect most users would consider this a useful thing rather than an intrusive feature.
Monitoring - Introduction to MongoDB - Part 18
For one thing, it's just plain wrong about Diffie-Hellman's susceptibility to a man-in-the-middle attack.

The author claims there is a potential if an attacker obtains the intermediate values, but then later explains the problem as if the attacker had intercepted the private values (which are never exchanged).

There is the potential for man-in-the-middle if the attacker intercepts and modifies the intermediate values during the exchange, but that is not mentioned here.

It is, of course, vital to keep those privately generated values secret, and if an attacker learns those, then the communication isn't secure. Various communication protocols are vulnerable to brute force, or eavesdropping, or man-in-the-middle. Confusing these things and passing it off as an authoritative explanation is bad for everyone.
You are correct.

I confused right-to-work laws with whatever the opposite "at-will employment" laws are.
Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, you and others. You're sick in the head and immoral. Anybody that believes in freedom hates you.
There is Hackerspaces (http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/) but its not focused on kids. I think Khan Academy is doing a good job with the basics of Computer Science, specially geared towards kids. They also organize a summer camp for kids.
You're commenting on a piece from Barron's -a widely regarded financial newspaper since 1921- not something from a blogmill.

So the better question is this: why do any of the professional journalists covering finance and capital markets do it when they could be participants instead? Maybe they like reporting more. It's kind of like asking why aren't all astronomers astronauts?
Here's the thing: DC taxi drivers aren't unionized.
Double image dimensions don't mean double file sizes, but they do mean larger file sizes.

If you've figured out how to display the same non-vector images at full quality at arbitrary file dimensions with the same filesize, then you're going to be very, very rich.
> And Apple is not going to trade battery life for an SD slot few people (let alone clients) care for (let alone want).
I don't want to beat a dead horse, but iPhones lack SD/MicroSD slots because Apple wants to make more money off higher capacity models, not because users don't want them or to save space (MicroSDs and the associated hardware are astounding tiny, all these years later).

64 GiB Class 10 MicroSDs are available on Amazon for about $55. You can get an equivalent amount of storage for even less by purchasing multiple smaller capacity MicroSDs. Apple currently gets away with charging a $200 premium for only 48 extra GiB of storage in their most expensive model (64 GiB vs. 16 GiB in the standard model). Why would they want to give that premium away?
Was thinking about this. If I ran a union for taxi drivers and Uber came to my city, I would just make sure that the union was open for sedan drivers to join as well.