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Escribanos feel EXTREMELY threatened by technology. When a digital signature bill passed, which gives legal equivalency to some forms of digital signatures to escribano witnessing (the only way to give legal legitimacy to some contracts in my country, absurd as it may seem), they protested strenuously.
So restricting yourself to a common subset of Python 2/3 and adding compatibility helpers in your code is the preferred approach now a days?

I'm still not convinced about the whole Python 2 to 3 conversion being worth it (asides from the fact that not porting means your project is seen as not being actively maintained). It has led to added complexity in code so that it works on both versions, increased difficulty in packaging/distribution, having to test/debug on both versions, obsolescencing vast amounts of code that will never be ported, confusion among new users, untold man-hours being spent, ...

I don't mean to be sound so down on Python 3, but it has caused me nothing but additional work and frustration. The supposed benefits of Python 3 are still years away.
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Collapse how?
If they don't have to decrypt known encrypted contents why would they have to give up unknown encrypted contents?
They don't tend to destroy national parks though, just old cars and maybe the odd building that was condemned anyway.
Did you really have to write all of that, instead of just "gimme tldr plz"? I will never get those 12 minutes back.
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I think it looks nice. The only thing Firefox misses for me(OSX user) is the character menu you get on a long keypress.
Sure. When calculating the CO2 output, it happens too often that not the real numbers are used. Nuclear energy shines in that regard when focussing only on the power generation itself. But if you count it all together: Mining uranium, building the power plant, transporting to the uranium to the plant, operating the powerplant (from workers who drive to that plant) and in the end, shipping the nuclear waste to an endlager which needs to be build as well (which germany doesn't have, so that one is open ended), the costs as well as the CO2-output of nuclear energy are very high.

Add the CO2 used for disaster prevention and management and from decomissioning the power plants.
My comments from inbound.org (co-founded by Rand Fishkin) keep getting deleted... and I'm following their guidelines, too.

So I've been taking screengrabs - here's the latest:

http://oi40.tinypic.com/2uyrluu.jpg

TAGFEE? What a sad joke.
For many life is getting worse. Witness the increasing poverty rate in America to record highs in some categories.

The poverty line is not a fixed measure of wealth. People below the poverty line are richer than the middle class of the past.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/01/understandi...

You have yet to demonstrate life getting worse for anyone.

As a result, we now have a rapidly growing class of so-called "working poor".

Over 10 years it rose from 2.3% to 3.4% of the population. (The "working poor" are still a small fraction of the total poor. Most poor choose not to work - as of 2010, only 15% of the poor attempted to work full time at least 50 weeks/year.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2000.htm
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2010.pdf

That [the fact that many poor/middle class have not contributed to growth of the economy] is a patently false right-wing generalization...Further, there are also those poor who are unemployed due to these structural reasons.

You contradict yourself. People unemployed due to structural reasons are people who have nothing to contribute to the modern economy. That's what structural unemployment means.
As long as te app won't "break" by the user navigating away, anything that avoids the "loading" modal is a great UX improvement. Ajax errors can also be sent to the button with "error" icon, BTW.
Are you sure you are arguing with the parent post? I think he's expressing a pro-nuclear sentiment similar to yours.
I have a personal theory, that I haven't really been able to confirm or deny. Here it is.

After Hiroshima and during the cold war nuclear energy was associated with death and destruction. Hiroshima for obvious reasons, and the cold war because the population of the western world was constantly reminded how The Soviet Union had thousands of missiles with nuclear bombs pointing at us, ready to go. Western governments used nuclear weapons to picture the threat and to terrify populations into spending more on defense against the Soviets. There were scary videos of mushroom clouds, scary instructions on how to survive a nuclear blast, and scary stories of how a nuclear winter would pan out.

This, obviously, made people scared of nuclear bombs, and nuclear energy in general. Through decades the population was told by the government that nuclear radiation was the evil silent killer.

The byproduct of all this cold war propoganda was that people are now irrationally scared of nuclear radiation from power plants.

If you look at the numbers you'll see that nuclear energy is the safest and cleanest scalable energy source we've got. It's the energy source that has the fewest deaths per MWH produced, it doesn't produce CO2, etc. etc. Yet we think of it as getting power from the devil.

I blame the cold war propoganda for our irrational fear of nuclear energy.

Here's one of the old propaganda videos from the US, "Duck and cover" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4MVJIU0gFk
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> How exactly did Tesla earn an "A" up to that point?

Business plan, business model, customer research, advances already made, further along, ... There are dozens of possible reasons to loan $500M to Tesla, but not to another company.

There are dozens of possible reasons why you would loan $1000 to one friend, but not to another. Someone else wouldn't know those reasons, but if the friend complained about you being unfair, you would be quite miffed if someone went on the internet complaining how unfair you were, based on treating two people differently, without considering that maybe these people actually are different.

These companies may be alike in trying to sell an electric car. That does not make them comparable for the purposes of giving them a loan.
It would be interesting to have some kind of statistical information about startup names. There's definitely trends, the "missing vowel" is basically Web 2.0's metal umlaut. But while that might appear trendy at one time, it might almost be a death knell once that style is passé. Coming back to people's names, probably the equivalent of "upper class names" becoming lower class.

Are we back to "John" and "Michael" company/product names again, or is the "Aidan" and "Teagan" phase still going strong?
None dead, because it doesn't matter how many decontamination workers die from leukemia or heart problems, it is never officially related to radiation.

None sick, because the increase in cancer that even the article mentions means nothing.

The thyroid cancer rate of Fukushima children is 79 times higher than usual. But "none sick". Yeah, whatever.
"Decommissioning is a general term for a formal process to remove something from active status."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decommissioning
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Clojure basically borrowed the multiple dispatch from Common lisp. So, they have been in existence since past 20+ years now.
Problem is: a $50 ticket means nothing for the rich but leaves the poor without bread.
So the ticket treats them the same but the result doesn't.
The problem seems to be that some platforms were build on the bank of the creek with no erosion control, meaning that a good rain storm or two might cause it to collapse into the creek which presumably would block it.

There's certainly, let's call it "journalistic excess" in the story (OMG! Google busses!) but I think real damage was done. Weird that neither Parker or the owner had the sense to think that they should clean up afterwards. The specifically sought out the place because of its ecological beauty.
But Unix did, specifically from hard lessons learned from the failure of Multics. Sure, we now know some aspects of Unix to be suboptimal design, but that's with further decades of collective experience and even today the right answers are not yet entirely clear.
How does having the page title in the title bar help with that, though? It only shows the full title of the currently selected tab, but can't you usually tell which tab that is from its content?
Don't worry, because this didn't come remotely close to "destroying a national park". I realize that Northern California is the natural habitat of the insane tree hugger, and that many joints have been smoked while pondering Sean Parker's evil deforestation plot. But that report found no evidence of actual, permanent damage to anything. It asserted that activities of this general nature, carried to extremes, carry the possibility of some amount of damage. His temporary, aesthetic changes did nothing and no fine should have been levied - certainly not $2.5 million that will be used to perpetuate this particular brand of insanity.
> We don't need to do [AC/DC conversion] all that often, and the flywheel is lossy too. And you can get 96% efficient...

Sure, even looking at that page 10-15% does seem a regular rule of thumb though. Many devices in the home (computers, displays, etc.) require DC. Photovoltaics produce DC, but not necessarily at a level suitable for variable, direct load by devices. So in a sustainable source powered situation, you have to pay for this loss somewhere: either in storage or inversion or both. It would seem that the 1979 author was refering to the flywheel's potential toremove the 'double tax' for storage and inversion. The listed 'motor generator' benefits (load and spike isolation, etc.) would also seem to apply.

> this one is high profile and recent

Beacon are often referenced. It seems they were revived and the major facility they built is still in operation. They cited a combination of DOE policy and 'the current political environment' as their cause of temporary bankruptcy.
Hmmm... not quite a flashback. If it were a flashback, you would have written "C" instead of "Haskell", and would have been thinking of assembly language rather than C or C++.

You have the same problems no matter what; the question is whether you want a tool that helps with them, or one that doesn't.
the unclickability is also an accessibility issue imo. I know which problem it solves, but creates another when the site becomes unresponsive due to connection loss etc.
I'm always afraid when such UI changes are announced for Firefox. Thing is, I love how I currently configure Firefox and I don't want to loose the ability to do it.

So wathever new defaults you choose for Firefox, please always provide a way to revert to what we prefere (even if that requires to use about:config).

Here's my current Firefox setup : http://i.imgur.com/PwiPeDM.png . I'd like to be able to keep it that way. I seriously don't care about round corners and stuff like that if that means I loose some control over how I can configure Firefox the way I like.
Nice! Although the loading gif looks a bit dodgy on retina screen. I'd suggest playing with CSS and making that loading bit a pure css shape.
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The article reads as if it was commissioned by Tepco directly. Nuclear power is not risk-free. Plants need to be operated with competent designs under the watchful eyes of competent engineers. None of which was the case at Fukushima. The argument that nuclear reactors are safer than coal is correct but misleading: it doesn't mean people get to ignore the dangers.

Contrary to what the article tries to evoke, the Fukushima meltdowns were a huge catastrophe that severely impacted a whole region. Ask the people who live(d) there if they think the impact of this thing was overstated in the media - they're likely to tell you if anything consequences were buried not exposed. Even if these very first statistics are true, there is likely to be more impact further down the road. There will be shortened lifespans as a result of exposure. There is massive economic damage as well. People's lives were severely affected. And let's not forget the destroyed reactors still aren't safe. There are very likely huge unpleasant surprises yet to be revealed.

I don't get why everything related to nuclear power gets discussed with this much emotion and propaganda. Let's not overreact, but let's also not underreact. Somewhere here there is a middle ground supported by facts and scientific judgement.
And now I really want to try sailing a hydrofoil just to experience the "pop".
Although I have feelings about how I would like the case to be decided, I suspect that it will be precedence in 10 years to be forced to hand over passwords. I see the similarities that it has with a safe, the only difference being that you can memorize the key. You are not actually admitting to wrongdoing when saying the key, so it might not even be covered under the fifth amendment.
But fines are imposed for an offense. If someone who gets a fine for $50 and cannot buy bread, probably in this example should not speed.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/06/12-fukushima-children-dia...
"Honda, Toyota, BMW, Mercedes, or smaller ones like Think, BYD, Tango, or Venturi"

"smaller" was in reference to Honda, Toyota, BMW, and Mercedes. You can substitute Bright Automotive if you wish.
http://enenews.com/kyodo-27-fukushima-minors-with-confirmed-...
The "cost" of decommissioning is in the destruction of production capacity. If you decommission a plant that has 20 years at 800MW lifetime yet, it's not the fixed amount to actually demolish the plant that's the problem (this money is, as you correctly say, already set aside for this purpose), it's the cost of getting those 20y x 800MW from somewhere else, both in purely financial terms, but also environmental: The only way Germany can replace their nuclear capacity is with coal and gas.
"He is also selling millions of mobile phones that look a lot like iPhones [...] his company sold seven million mobile phones last year by using designs that mimic the look and feel of the iPhone and using marketing that seems right out of Apple’s playbook."

A bit like the Samsung Galaxy S3/S4 are resembling the iPhone. The Xiaomi M1/M2 are far from copycat GooPhone and the like, while the specification of the latest device from Xiaomi are matching or surpassing the Android competition (checking for yourself the different review on the internet) and the price is one of the lowest for this type of high end hand held device (we are talking about ~300 USD here).

I can not remember as well when Apple played so well on scarcity of supply for a new product, like Xiaomi and their flash sales.
It also has a nice client-server structure too:

I think there's a vim or emacs python extension that connects to an ipython kernel to run execute python snippets.
Not really. I think you try to shift who has to give sources for what, evading to try to disprove my articulated doubt of your citation with another source, like by citing which numbers were used.
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> Rich, poor, [...] all should be treated the same

They aren't and for a reason. Otherwise the rich would pay the same (small) amount of tax as the poor.
And as a physicist reduced an abstract concept to geometry, a million mathematicians cried out in terror.
> If the coffee shop is crowded/busy, then you will probably find it difficult to focus.

That really depends. I have been working from home for 5 years now. And the fact that I'm in a room with no view from the window and no human interaction drives me crazy, so the solution that works for me is to usually go to a coffee shop and work from there. I actually found that I need all the noise and crowd in order to focus, I can get a lot more done in that 1 hour at the coffee shop than the whole day working at home.
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It is not that difficult to prove that a hidden volume exists. The TrueCrypt implementation of hidden volumes means that the "hidden" partition is all allocated at the end of the visible partition. If you have a 20G TC volume with a 4G hidden volume, the file system in the non-hidden volume will never allocate a block beyond 16G. This shows up as very anomalous file system layouts at the block level. Simple visualization of the block allocations will show a clear delineation where the hidden partition starts. The TC implementation of hidden volumes is definitely not robust as plausible deniablility.

The police forensics investigators know to look for this already. It is in their recommended best practices for how to handle TrueCrypt volumes.

The safest way to use a TrueCrypt hidden volume is:

* Create the largest regular volume that you can.
* Create the smallest hidden volume that you can.
* Never mount the hidden volume as "protected"

The idea is that your sparsely populated cover volume won't create enough block allocations to have an obvious "end", and additionally, that those blocks will have a low likelihood of being allocated inside your hidden volume and overwriting your secret data.
(Duch person here, commenting on the "Double Irish With A Dutch Sandwich" Tax). I'm always amazed how easily people select the wrong target for their "anger". Apple is not breaking any laws. Apple did not create these laws. They were (and are) made by Irish and Dutch politicians. And certainly not for the benefit of their own citizens. If you wish to really change these laws, look at your/our own parlement.
In countries which their language is based in Chinese, there's a whole branch of theory on how different names affect people's lives. The meaning and sound of each characters and even how many strokes it take to write each character are taken into account.
What you did is very novel (I had a similar solution in my head that involved using qirc hosts for IRC bootstrapping like in Bitcoin) but I was targeting a different point.

What I was referring to was the lack of any API for signalling over already obtained network information (such as IP) rather than using a server for the initial signalling when you could use direct communications immediately after NAT has been traversed.
You don't need to be fair to incumbent manufacturers. They're the incumbents, they already have a bajillion advantages.

Aren't the incumbent manufacturers the ones who lobbied for those dealership laws in the first place, to raise the bar for entry into the market place? (And if not, haven't they had year with piles of cash beyond our wildest dreams to buy off legislators and get the law changed?)

I am perfectly happy to have the federal government give out loans to startups to disrupt stagnent industries. Can you imagine how our ISP industry would be doing if, instead of passing laws which make it impossible to disrupt, the US government was occasionally throwing half a billion at people who wanted to try? Granted, Elon Musk wasn't exactly at the 'rags' phase of a rags-to-riches story when he got his loan...
Are u serious???
have you forgotten how the government bailed out all the major car manufacturers?
here is the link to remind
http://useconomy.about.com/od/criticalssues/a/auto_bailout.h...
tesla got only 500mln while others got BILLIONS
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I am a distance runner and for years after I graduated running was my time to work through daily issues and contemplate project ideas and solutions to the harder problems that take some time to think through.

It was amazing how an half hour to an hour of just thinking to myself let me step back from the keyboard and let me architect solutions and ideas. Same thing applied to my relationships (work, personal and romantic).

Unfortunately I discovered audiobooks and podcasts, but I have been fighting to get back the motivation to just disconnect and think while exercising. I just got back from an 7 or 8 mile run totally disconnected and it felt great!
I think the point of TrueCrypt is simply "plausible deniability". They can suspect with a very high degree of confidence that there's an hidden volume, but how do they prove it?
The point Elon is raising is important. Dealerships (or middlemen) that we can exist without are lowering our $ purchase power. Sure, it's a small amount. But think about it in the long run, and at larger scales.

It just happens that Elon faced this problem now. That's why he's speaking, and it's good that's he's willing to fight them.

There is lot of sh*t going around. Like government not doing their job. It's time people are aware of their rights and speak out. It's these tiny wins that are going to make the change in the future.
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Overload. Specifically Czech and Polish grids suffer from this because they're old and can't deal with the fluctuations. For more info see for instance: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-25/windmills-overload-...
I wrote a similar library last year, called kommissar.
The code is running in production in several node.js apps.

If somebody is interested in the code, you can have a look at the github project.

https://github.com/mren/kommissar
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Can you, or anyone else for that matter, prove that installing a few temporary platforms and fake ruins WILL NOT cause actual damage to a waterway?

If you can't see that these regulations are there specifically to protect precious natural reserves from unanticipated damage, you are a moron.

The penalty for such barefaced contempt of the law should be death. As a billionaire with an army of lawyers, Sean Parker has no excuse for flaunting the general will of the public in this way. This isn't an innocent mistake made in a drunken moment of passion. This is calculated, premeditated contempt for the laws of our society. If Sean Parker has so little respect for our laws he should have his wealth stripped and be excommunicated from the state. He should feel lucky to escape this kind of crime with his life.

Obviously American society is degenerate and borderline non-existent when this kind of conspicuous contempt for society receives apologies by supposedly well-educated people.
The energy costs you are talking about are laughably small compared to nuclear plant's power capacity.

You need quote some good sources to convince me that a nuclear plant wouldn't be able to power uranium mines, transportation trains and all its supporting infrastructure by itself and still have over 99% of its capacity left for other purposes.

And BTW, wikipedia claims [1] that California has plans to use up to 180 square miles to generate 7.3GW of energy. This is slightly less power than capacity planned for Fukushima after building two new reactors in 2016 and slightly more area than has been permanently closed after Fukushima plant failure.

So you can take area intended for a solar plant, build a nuclear plant instead, cover the rest with forest and have:

1. Higher power output.

2. Probably negative CO₂ balance, thanks to big forest.

3. No evacuation even in case of Fukushima-size disaster.

4. You can even allow tourists to use this forest for recreation as long as the plant hasn't failed, and most plants have never faled in their history. Try letting tourist into a solar plant.

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