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>But I've seen too much politics to bring myself to believe that it could get passed just like that, with no loopholes, pork, or other corruption.

There is a natural law that applies to politics as much as anything: If you think you can't do it, you don't try. And you can't do it if you don't try.

>You could structure it as a 95% of payments in go out to renewables producers. But the problem there is it doesn't provide any kind of stable payment structure for the renewables folks to structure their 10-50 year financing on.

I don't see how the volatility there would be any worse than the normal volatility in the energy market -- if anything it's a hedge against it because the primary method that could cause the subsidy to be reduced would be as a result of renewables rapidly supplanting fossil fuels, and in that scenario the renewables market is booming and the subsidy is less important.
In theory what prison you go to depends on perceived public safety risks presented by the inmate. It also depends on how much the inmate needs to be protected from other prisoners.

If the uncle of a high profile terrorist was arrested and put in jail, I'd expect there to be a high perceived risk to the public, and also a good chance that the prisoner would be attacked by other prisoners. For both reasons you'd want a high security jail.
Any music (beats are must), anywhere (bed or desk or couch), Mac Air, sitting, preferably in company of other coders(& friends). And I am a big time night person 11pm to 4am works the best for me.
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See map here:

http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger

They're located between major cities so you can make a road trip, not in them because the idea is when you're home you just plug them into your wall at night.
SemanticMerge now speaks Java
It is very rare to get products right on the first try. There is a reason Google products launch as beta. Most companies go for limited launch of initial versions. Microsoft generally does a mass launch; that is probably the reason for the perception.
So in the middle of a war a foreign company is going to sell war materials to the enemy because of a contract?
In the frictionless vacuum of a message board debate, you can imagine there being several portions of the US Constitution that could be placed into conflict with the Declaration of Independence. Perhaps we don't have to pay income tax after all!
Our Life’s Work
You should include which country's laws that you are concerned about.
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> I usually hear nice things about Arch

That's because you're hanging out with too many Gentoo users.

The Arch Way[1] is stupid. Less broadly, it's a poor, knee-jerk reaction to Debian maintainers' over-zealous patching of software. Trusting upstream software maintainers to properly tag "stable" releases (which means something different for everyone) and to work with the rest of the software in the system is a mistake. Also, that's the entire point of package maintainers maintaining repositories.

But that's OK. Something went wrong (again)? Just downgrade[2]!

1. Hope that the old package is in your cache

2. Hope that some repo mirror is out of date

3. Profit???

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way

[2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrading_Packages#Fi...
We're so used to standard gasoline cars that it can be hard to remember that you never visit a charging station in normal use. You charge your electric car overnight at home.
This article doesn't address the CFC effect relative to the effect of CO2 emissions fallout landing on the glaciers and polar ice caps, which changes the albedo of the ice, resulting in melting them. More and more ice melts every year, and less re-freezes, raising the sea level, altering the salinity, changing the worldwide currents, resulting in massive change to the ocean biomes. Does that result in less climate change than CFCs eroding the ozone layer over the poles?
It hasn't broken down yet at the taste receptors. That happens in the duodenum, doesn't it?
I thought of that, but it seems to have far too many sarcastic overtones.
My eyes are pretty messed up. Red and green look the same and I can't definitively tell dark blue from grey from purple. However I have no trouble with the default bootstrap buttons.

That said, I find the most helpful thing people can do is add icons or other effects completely different from colors. Because of my difficulty with colors, even ones I can "see" I have to concentrate on. Icons let me skip that.
I've mentioned before my comments were suddenly messed up.

I could see my comments made from my Android phone when on my phone using Chrome (v 18.0.1025469) but I couldn't see them from home on OS X 10.7-ish and Win 8 both using Chrome (v 27.0.1453.94 on Win 8) . It was as if I had two separate accounts.

Recently the comments seemed to sync up but this odd comment segregation had been going on for weeks if not months.
> His statements about persecution have to be taken with some grains of salt.

In the fight between the National Security State and the individual, I always give the individual the benefit of the doubt. Then again, I always back the underdog.
Anatomy of a Logo: Star Wars
At age 32 I sold those that had still had any resale value. Recycled most of the rest, and hung on to three with nostalgic value.
Quick searches turn up slow compile times as a definite issue with generics. Which means papsosouid's premise is wrong: there IS an issue, and it's one of the ones the Go team considers important. EDIT: read name wrong.
Why Tim Schafer Has A Second Kickstarter
It all depends on what data set you look at.

The best data sets that we have for the whole globe indicate continued heat absorption, with a high absorption of that heat by the oceans. However data sets taken from land do not show a clear warming trend. So, of course, that is what this particular researcher uses.

The discrepancy between global absorption of heat and global temperature becomes very understandable when you note that a lot of that absorption of heat takes the form of melting ice. And when you melt ice you both absorb a lot of heat energy, and flood the environment around you with cold water that cools it off.

(It is worth noting that this particular absorption pattern cannot continue forever. For instance see http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/28/arctic_s... for information about how quickly we're losing the arctic ice cover.)
New tool for complex project management
To the article's author: I think you could go much deeper, and get into the discussion of what can be indexed and what can't, eg timestamp with or without timezone, and how indexability of a column or a function affect the design of the schema itself.

One solution I found after many struggles was to require all event tables to have a timestamp with timezone column, index its date() and require all queries attacking these tables to be selective on the date.
+1 just because of "I would personally prefer to tinker with a Brainfuck implementation than spend any amount of time in any bar"
Thanks for the feedback. There were a couple other problems with those example files but it's fixed and pushed now.
Is the heating really even enough for that to work? Just from my experience heating viscous soups and the like, I'd expect there to be some spots that never get all that hot, leaving lots of surviving bacteria.
I am not making a false accusation. I understand that you believe I have, but we both know I don't agree with that. You and I also both know why I haven't delved into whatever specific points you think need delving-into.

You introduced your name into the discussion, presumably because you're confident enough to sign your name to your opinions and arguments, which is admirable. It is thus not a valid argument to suggest that acknowledging your (public) name is a malicious act. But the obvious invalidity of the argument clearly didn't stop 'lawnchair_larry from making it!

If it helps you any, you can peruse the rest of my comments on HN. Whenever it's reasonable, I try not to use nicks and handles; I call 'patio11 "Patrick", I call Paul Graham "Graham" (I don't know him in person), &c.

Have you noticed how, despite you repeatedly insinuating that I'm knowingly making false statements about you, I'm not huffing and puffing about it? That's because the huffing and puffing is dreadfully boring and teaches us nothing about anything whatsoever. I think we can all agree this nitpicky little subthread isn't teaching anything either, so I'll concede it to you and 'lawnchair_larry, and respond to you elsewhere on the substantial points.
I wrote a parenthetical about weak references. I wonder why I deleted it. In short: weakrefs are unlikely to appear any time soon in ES, as they open up all kinds of fun around cross-origin objects (being able to detect their approximate life-time, and that's a fairly major side-channel attack) in some lovely edge-cases.
I see empty pages on my normal connection. But I can comment when I VPN.

Edit: Back to normal now
Your central argument rests on anthropogenic, CO2-caused global warming being irrefutably true. This statement is not yet known to be certain, and the reality is that the economic effect of such an infinitely-increasing tax must be weighed against the risk of that statement being wrong.

Your proposition is example of exactly the extremist control scheme I was talking about.
How to approach first passionate users?
Hi, I'm passionate programmer and I implemented a photo gallery ( http://www.memoarc.com ) which is kind of mix between photo gallery, mini travel blog and good tool when collecting photos from friends and watching photos with friends. Now I would like to attract some first passionate users that can help me build/share my project. Could you please pinpoint me to some good articles about low budget marketing/approach about how to get first passionate users? Is it every time totally ad-hoc? Thanks
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Check this website too: https://www.kaggle.com/
They have data mining, Machine learning competitions(possibly with prizes)
Place: I like changing my environment frequently (bedroom, office, coffee shops, bookstores etc.. Working in the same place every day is exhausting; for some reason and slows creativity and drains my energy.

Temperature: Cool/Cozy.. as long as i'm not sweating bullets it's all good.

Time: I work best at night. For some strange reason I am most focused when the rest of the world is sleeping ~10pm - 5am. Maybe it's because i'm certain that no one will interrupt me OR maybe it's because there's really nothing else to do at that time (i'm not missing anything). I might have DSPS. lol
>Aristotle thought the universe was infinite in age

If we're going to nit-pick, this was the scientific "consensus" until a Catholic priest postulated the big bang.
Why Michael O'Hare left Babylon 5
Distributing the Edit History of Wikipedia Infoboxes
> of CO2 emissions fallout

The what? Did you typo? If you didn't, then the article did not address it because there is no such thing.
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Please, I'm trying, I just don't know how...

http://i.imgur.com/5WdTPna.png

X_X
There's definitely a lot deeper I can go on this, this is largely a test of a series which could go quite deep. My initial post yesterday simply highlighted one method of indexing and out of that came many of the questions in here. In general Postgres is pretty flexible with what you can index with not many limitations, its impact on the rest of the schema aren't always so simple so would love to hear what you have in mind as impact. Please feel free to drop me a line and would love to turn more of that into a deeper post.
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How about show your fellow human beings a modicum of respect. They aren't your lab rats. Maybe if your upper-class, power-heavy minority would reevaluate all the patronizing aspects of their philanthropic efforts, poor folks wouldn't have learned helplessness from the futility of their situation, and would actually have the energy to lift themselves up.

Drug dealing, crime, and prostitution are sometimes seemingly the only way to actually move up in the world anymore.
I am well aware of that...why make ethanol from corn, or sugar , when you can use switch grass, which is cheaper, requires less energy to grow, is more resistant to adverse weather than your other cash crops. Or when you can take a byproduct of an existing industry such as from saw mills or cotton gins. Sugar Cane and Corn is very expensive compared to these options.
Not So Anonymous: Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Tightens Identity Requirement
You would think it would be easier to find peanut butter with less ingredients. I'm a peanut butter fiend, I love it so much I eat it with a spoon. The first time I had peanut butter without sugar was a few months ago, and it was like a miracle. So delicious!
I've used Stevia a few times, but am not a fan. While it's definitely sweet, it's a very different sweet compared to sugar. When drinking something (like coffee) with Stevia, I notice that it's sweet on a different part of my tongue, and it's a latent sweet - initially the drink tastes completely unsweetened until it reaches the back of my mouth.

This is just my experience, maybe I'm weird.
I try not to blame players - although it might not show I've already done quite a bit of user testing (esp. with non-coders to make sure it's relatively easy to follow.

In this case, the 'numans' part was the last one I added, in a hurry, and only had 2-3 iterations on this part of the dialog/instructions.

Which goes to show: testing matters, iterations makes things better.

Thanks for the feedback!
I am still trying to understand Alex's post well, but it reminds me of a Warren Buffett quote: "Bad things are not obvious when times are good".
> But the energy density of natural gas is a lot less than coal, so you are burning more gas to get the same energy output.

No you aren't, and no it isn't. Not if you measure by weight. By weight natural gas is 2 or 3 times more dense.
One tiny bit of my MSc thesis was based on Google Prediction API and it worked fine, apart the non-conventional URLs used that caused problems with .NET networking.

Even in a project where ML is more important, I think it's usable...
Took a few tries but I managed to finish it.
I'd suggest removing the riddle parts since they can be pretty frustrating and aren't directly programming related. Or maybe give increasingly helpful hints and eventually the full answer.
I wouldn't use a term at all. There isn't a convenient description for a group of people whose opinions vary from "God promised he wouldn't drown the Earth, and that's why he creates rainbows" to "we think that CFC levels correlate better with climate data than CO2 levels".

Terms like "denier" or "warmist" are only useful if you want to shut down reasoned debate.
He created something that apparently a lot of people on HN find interesting (it wouldn't be on the front page otherwise). Personally, I make iOS apps so it could be useful in the future. On top of that, anyone who gives stuff away for free that took them a measure of effort gets my attention.

Also, he had an idea and executed it and released it, so he gets points for that as well.
From Receptionist to CEO
Having a plain text option is definitely an important part of email marketing. I still enjoy receiving HTML emails from certain companies and people - its usually an interesting web design niche and there are some cool designs out there.

To each his own, but HTML email marketing is still a BIG business.
>Your central argument rests on anthropogenic, CO2-caused global warming being irrefutably true.

Nonsense. There is in any event finitely much petroleum in the ground. Even if CO2-caused global warming is complete rubbish, it is still preferable to transition to renewable energy in a gradual fashion rather than hitting a global price spike that would induce an enormous economic catastrophe when a supply panic occurs at a time when all the world's infrastructure is still tooled for fossil fuels.
The way it's portrayed is extremely misleading. The headline misses the point -- actually, the article didn't really have a point. It sounds like they didn't get the results they wanted from the project, but tried to make the best of it by highlighting what they did get, which is a jumble of facts that are incoherent and self-contradictory. It's sort of interesting to read, because they did honest research, asked good questions and followed the data, and there is plenty of value in negative results.

The way I read the outcome, NUMA seems to do what it's supposed to. The premise was that remote memory accesses are a performance killer, and forcing threads onto fewer cpus should be a big win. But NUMA came out looking pretty good. Leaving it alone looks like an excellent policy. Consider that google brought in a team of experts for the sole purpose of figuring out how to beat the default behavior of NUMA.
I believe the general consensus is that there is no statistical increase in temperature over the past decade. However, that source isn't exactly reliable considering the existence of global warming is, in a large part, key to his business model.
Yes except this thing has no speaker for the sound to come out of. So the phone should just pump the sound into the "headphones" and all will be well.
Acting even more patronizing towards the poor is not the answer.
Ask HN: What is your company architecture?
The company I work for is going through some big shifts right now.
Changing of department heads and structures, etc.

It is a web development agency, with client services, project management, development, and some office admins.
I am curious what structures you guys have experience with.

What works well?
What doesn't work?
How many managers are there, what are their jobs?
What is the reporting structure like, who reports to who?
Who is accountable for what?
Processes that work? Scrum, agile, sprints, Kanban, JIT, etc?

Other thoughts welcome!
I really like the site. I remember checking it out from your original Show HN and being really impressed. It seems like from the comments there is a need for a better place to buy and sell, but it seems like it goes away from the elegant portfolio look and feel of hoverboard.
Thanks for saying this. I'm an early twenty's kid who's decided to forgo the fashionable startup scene in favor of an extremely well-paid (given my age) position in a top-ten tech giant. I have a hunch that it would be more sensible to sharpen my skills when I'm young, and focus on becoming a happy and fulfilled person, only to emerge as a powerhouse of compounded experience and technical and social skill.

As someone who's already emerged on the other side of that process, can you speak to one's capability to capitalize on that experience and personal growth throughout one's life? Does middle age have to be a time of complacency and conservatism?
I'm actually not convinced that he's reaching out to catch the falling mic. To me it looks more like Paul McCartney is running by, touching him and he reaches out as a reaction to that touch. The mic then just happens to fall into his arm. But that's just my interpretation.

Also, a life music concert is incredibly loud. I think even for a trained man it would be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to hear the falling microphone. I find the cane against curb example much more realistic.
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Is that perception based on his public speech or on his actions?
I still wouldn't call this "news" as I've heard this pointed out by numerous individuals before, but I think what he's commenting on is fundamentally different from Apple Maps. Maps' first release sucked, and they're obviously now working to improve it. On the other hand, other Apple products almost always "just get better", as do most other projects that come to mind. Sure, there are occasional bugs and gripes, growing pains, etc. but even when I used to be a big fan of Windows I noticed that they seemed to alternate between big wins and big fails. ME? Fail. XP? Win. Vista? Fail. 7? Win. 8? Fail. I'm less familiar with previous versions, but I suspect the general trend would continue fairly predictably. I'm less familiar with things like Office, so I can't speak from personal experience much there, but my point is just that Microsoft does seem to have a very strong alternation between fails and wins, which is different from simply a bad first-release.
But are there software companies that consistently deliver projects of the scale and complexity of Windows without hiccups?
You're 100% correct. He was really just pondering ways to put self-help books into a more patronizing form, for all the poor dummies out there.
If it helps you understand the objection I have to this whole exercise: I think the whole contest was weaselly. You designed a challenge that stipulated away the simplest and most reasonable attacks on the system, and created an objective for the contest that would have been equally annoying to achieve had you used repeated-key XOR as your cipher instead of AES, and suggested in your promotion for the contest that its intent was to demonstrate something about cryptography. I think the commenter who parodied the exercise with a contest about a post-it on his computer hit the nail on the head.

But, since I didn't take the contest seriously, I didn't take the time to verify that you'd actually set up your server properly. Moxie, on the other hand, did. If I put $1000 on the line, I might have taken the time to ensure that the SSL connectivity I had set up for my server actually worked. You didn't; you left a vulnerability on your server that any security audit of any SSL-only service would have flagged as "MUST FIX". Moxie not only flagged the vulnerability but explained it to you and provided exact steps to reproduce it for you.

Here is is worth noting that $1000 probably does not buy enough of Moxie Marlinspike's time to compose the emails he seems to have sent you.

Instead of conceding the point --- that, in setting up a contest that obviously depended on your SSL/TLS connectivity actually working, you had made a material error that made the contest easy to win --- you raised an arbitrary objection: the judge of the contest was permitted to take arbitrary steps to verify in exacting detail which SSL certificate was presented, at least on the first connection if not on subsequent connections (as you note, Moxie didn't get that far with you). The same objection would have worked if you'd used a self-signed certificate; Moxie would have said, "any MITM could interpose a new certificate" and you'd have said "oh, but I would check the fingerprint of the certificate against the certificate pinning list I maintain in my head". Here, for obvious reasons, Moxie gave up.

Nobody cares about your money. The problem is that in "staking" $1000 on this contest, you've created a perception, exclusively among people who don't know much about cryptography, I'd add, that SJCL stapled to a web form is a viable mechanism for building a secure system (or at least, something more secure than just HTTPS). This perception is wrong, and it's aggravating that the $1000 gimmick reinforces it among precisely the people who most need to be made aware of how wrong it is.

I don't think you're a dishonest person, in the sense of, "I would avoid doing business with you". I don't know you at all, and certainly not well enough to judge your character. I do think you've fallen victim to message- board- lawyering, something (uh) many of us have problems with, and are reluctant to concede any point that harms your argument. That, sorry to say, is weaselly behavior. If it helps you any to hear it, I'm sure someone could find someplace on HN where I too have been weaselly in debates.