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I don't understand why there is so much controversy and disagreement surrounding this question. Electric cars are a requirement for a sustainable energy economy. Where the energy comes from, doesn't really matter in the short term as long as it comes from renewable or nuclear energy in the long term.

Regardless, people claiming that electric cars aren't green because the electrical power is often produced from fossil sources, conveniently forget that a lot of fossil fuels are spent producing petroleum fuels. You don't just stick a straw into the ground and have gasoline pour automatically into every gas station in the world.

First, you have to have survey teams (often offshore) find oil. Then you have to build the production infrastructure to get it out of the ground. Then you have to add water injection and other tricks to get it out of the ground. Then you have to transport it to a refinery. Then you have to refine it. Then you have to transport it to gas stations. So it's not as easy as some of the naysayers claim.
Does hacker news slow down incredibly when logged in?
I find that every request takes an inordinate ammount of time when logged in including submissions and requesting additional pages of content. Is this the behavior experienced by all users?
Thank you for the comment. I was just wondering... "70% seems high, does anyone have first hand experience?"
Most people would consider violence an acceptable response to defending yourself against violence.

If people who abuse antibiotics will lead to us having no good antibiotics, then they will inflict extreme violence on the entire human race.
More water vapor, which is also a greenhouse gas. It's quite a bit more potent of one than CO2, in fact.
My economic beliefs are based on observation of reality. I don't know how you want to define "ideological" and "axiom," but I would not call them either. Certainly, they are not "axioms."

> Markets fail, they do not always work well naturally, and government is not always the problem.

Markets always work well eventually, and physical force (which is typically weilded by governments) is the only thing that can arrest that process. In the short term, certainly, there can be market disruptions. There are all kinds of ways to deal with those so they don't have to be problematic.
Freon and CFC's were easier to replace.
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I wonder if they will say the same about Object Orientation or the "cloud" in ten years time innocent smile
I asked if they can make notebooks the size of a normal Moleskine (3.5 x 5.5") or, even better, A7 sized (about 2.7" x 4.2"). Unfortunately, they said that they'll "probably eventually expand to more size options if this goes well," which implies that a smaller size isn't on the table at the moment.

Nonetheless I think it's a cool idea and "backed" the project.
How does security work in a system like this. If this is used in a shared hosting system, can a user inject false messages into Serf with for example PHP?
I recommend checking out go-qml.

https://github.com/niemeyer/qml

It is a different approach to using Qt GUI programming in Go where you use qml to define your UIs and keep the interface surface between Qt and Go fairly small instead of trying to expose the whole of Qt (which is very difficult to do in a maintainable manner because of the C++ API).

The license is LGPLv3 instead of the usual MIT-style Go license but it includes a linking exception that makes it viable for just about any use.
Thinking about the ideas you bring up.. it seems we humans have been playing on the same level as the bacteria upto now. Greedy algorithm vs greedy algorithm. Could we perhaps use certain antibiotics that will force bacteria to evolve in a way that opens up a certain weak spot which we will then allow to spread through their population before we step in and wipe them out using this forced back-door? This simple 1-2 plan seems enough to really cause evolution a problem if humans can coordinate enough to pull it off (and a plausible plan appears, details..).
Ignoring the snark (of the parent comment), I've often wondered why it was bad to use anti-bacterial soap (and antibiotics in general), but not regular soap, since both leave some amount of bacteria behind, which presumably have genetics making them more resistant to the pressure. I think part of the answer is that its just not possible to evolve resistance to any amount of soap and hand washing, unlike resistance to the targeted mechanisms of an antibacterial compound.
From a legal standpoint, I'd love to get involved just because it is a kind of frontier.
I also tried every sort of SaaS signup process (CC-first, every type of free-trial, etc) with my app (https://carelogger.com).

I actually agree CC upfront is better overall than not. Depending on the audience of course (some business users don't have access to CC's without approval from finance dept).

That being said. I found a higher conversion rate via what I call "resource-based" trials. One's not based on time ('14-days') but resources/services your app provides.

For example, in our app users can create 10 free entries with no time restriction. This sounds like a good deal to the user. But what makes it effective is the type of user who ends up paying for our app, was always creating 10 entries the first day already. So it was essentially getting them to commit and signup for free, then give us their CC the same day.

I've been meaning to blog about this for about 2 years now :P
How do they inject their info into the iPhone mail app ?
No it can't, more than it is already at least. I'd definitely put Paper by 53 in the top spot for drawing feel on the iPad though by a fairly wide margin - second to Sketchology :D - I might have a slight bias though.

The way Paper implemented their tools is pretty interesting. I'd put the #1 feeling difference as due to their automatic layering system. (The most recent line you draw in Paper is not always on top.) This goes a long ways to creating interesting effects but isn't a direction that Sketchology went in for a bunch of reasons.

There's also other tradeoffs ex:
- I'd say Paper's watercolor tool is better than Sketchology's for intra-line interactions. (i.e. keep your finger down and draw for a while) However Sketchology's is better for building up layers of watercolor (lots of lines.)
- Drawing responsiveness is one or two input frames faster on Sketchology than Paper, but Paper will do slightly more shaping in that time.

There's also different design requirements, as an example Sketchology needs line shaping algorithms that work across a wide variety of brush sizes, and the ability for them to look consistent across zoom sizes. A lot of my early work on shaping algorithms would look great at one size but not another.

I've a really high opinion of Paper, the drawing feel they achieved is bounds ahead of everyone else. (Except Sketchology, again in my biased opinion.) Ultimately though after getting used to the ability to just move drawing around in Sketchology though I couldn't go back. Then again I wrote Sketchology so there'd be a problem if that wasn't the case... :)
Cut the caffeine and sleep when you're tired!
150 hours seems very little for a book. (3 weeks of intense focus) Any idea on how you got to be so efficient? Were there hours hidden in other activities? Or had you done all the thinking in advance, and it was just putting pen to paper? Or did you just have a very fast routine?

Thanks for sharing your experience, and for your participation in the original article.
Yes, they can. In the general case its not an issue because usually your nodes are inaccessible by the public, but if you're using a shared hosting environment, this is entirely possible.

We're addressing this in the next release by signing/encrypting gossiped messages. See the roadmap: http://www.serfdom.io/docs/roadmap.html
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I have been moving more-and-more toward designing in code because CSS3 has replaced a lot of assets I use to create in PS. I purchased Pixelmator a few months back b/c PS was honestly too expensive for what I needed. It does take a little while to get use to all the new icons, but overall, I am pretty happy with it. It is easy to manipulate and re-size photos, and there are some nice built-in filters to quickly touch photos.
> Why has no one developed a disinfectant spray that hospitals can apply ad-nauseum (pun intended, the smell ideally wouldn't make people nauseous) all over the hospital?

We have robots that do that now.

http://loyolamedicine.org/newswire/news/uv-light-robots-kill...
I've been playing around with slime, but it is always the problem for coming up with some interesting project. The common-lisp support (for iPython) seems like interesting challenge to try (and fail).
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Of course, because if we make feeding antibiotics to livestock illegal, it can only be enforced by lynch mobs.

C'mon. Do you really think every food regulation is being watched by military police who will come and beat you up if you break said regulation?
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Germany: Chancellor Merkel's phone possibly targeted by NSA
Does 'trial account' mean that it's free only for a limited duration?
Occam's razor.

Either Microsoft is incompetent or promoting/retirement of APIs is more profitable.
Sounds like they act as an e-mail proxy. You give them login info to your account and they resend a new e-mail with the extra info.

https://intro.linkedin.com/micro/faq
I don't think that's a good idea. If the director didn't intend for a work to have these immersive lights as part of their work, then you are adding a dimension to it that could change the work's meaning.

E.g. What if you used this with the crazy freakout scene at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey and it totally changed the meaning of the film? Wouldn't that diminish the purpose of the work?
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MPP (Master of Public Policy)
That's a good question.

I have no credentials or background to know the answer, but I wonder if this is something where the use of antibiotics decimates most the bacteria population so that it's easier for the resistant ones to thrive, as opposed to cohabitate and possibly be overtaken by the non-resistant ones. I'm thinking of it like Conway's Game of Life where a cell dies if surrounded by more than 3 cells. With antibiotics, you limit the number of living cells around and are more likely to keep others living.

Or maybe the non-resistant ones would have another trait that make them thrive more than the resistant ones if both are mixed?
People often speak of the axioms in maths when they describe how, "elegant," and, "consistent," it is. I'm not a mathematician but I've read Gödel's "proof" and know enough that there are no guarantees. It matters what system of axioms you use and requires the reader to recognize the limits of those axioms in defining the system of logic they they imply. Or some such.

Point being that there is no system that is complete. There are large bodies of mathematics these days that have specialized their notations and axioms to their domains. It is incredibly difficult to maintain a masterful knowledge of all of their idiosyncrasies and notations.
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Yes this site gets a looot of traffic.
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He's dumbing it down a little bit for the audience, what a crime!
You're conflating their target functions. etcd is all about configuration distribution. Serf seems more like its about member discovery. So you might have a service you run in multiple clusters. Each cluster has a different configuration (etcd), and each instance in a cluster needs to know about the others in the same cluster because they talk to each other (Serf). You could make etcd handle all this, but it probably wouldn't do it as well (Serf has heart beats and recognizes dead nodes, etcd won't do that except for etcd nodes themselves).
I worked at NASA (AMES) on a project to put small mobile robots on the moon. Our biggest goal was to create a tele-operated mode where from earth we could actively roam around the moon. The hardest part was that factoring in a 4 second delay from our commands to the network stacks to the rover on the moon, and then that video from the moon back to our computers and then creating good judgement. A 4 second delay seems insignificant but is in fact detrimental to intuitive controlling.
> That's nice in theory, but in practice another dev really should be running the code and doing some manual testing.

Why? If they are reviewing the code including the unit tests, shouldn't they instead be suggesting any missing unit tests, which then become permanent and reusable rather than "doing some manual testing"?

> CI may run the tests, but that assumes your tests have captured every possible edge case. It may be the intention of tests to be comprehensive and cover everything under the sun, but that is rarely the case in reality.

Insofar as the other dev doing code review can address this with their own testing, isn't it better for this to be done-once and preserved by adding automated tests rather than done-and-lost by doing manual tests?
We use Plivo at 7 Cups of Tea. They are great and I highly recommend them.
The one thing that feels lacking to me, and maybe there's just something I don't get, is the ability to tag nodes with metadata. From the docs it seems like what you're expected to do is fire an event for a node to, eg., declare itself a webserver, but this seems prone to failure in the long run. If I bring a new load balancer online how does it find out what's a webserver already?
Yes, that page helped me, but the front page should be the hook and it left me none the wiser.
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I think its (a) because MS has earned decent amount of ire for decades of FUD-tastic practices and (b) like Blackberry, no one is really terribly interested (by comparison to Android/iOS) more than marginally.
Thanks Glen for the kind words :)
"If the problem space doesn't contain a solution that can be climbed toward without sacrificing fitness in the short term, it is unlikely that it will ever be found by evolution."

This is a stunning visual - thank you. I see a multi-dimensional space of possible organism "configurations". Each dimension is a set of related alleles, spaced by the amount of energy it would take to shift from one to the other, i.e. the likelihood of switching that allele independently. Angles between dimensions indicate correlation, or more fundamentally the cost of holding similarly positioned alleles simultaneously. Each organism is a point in that space with a species being a cloud.

When one shines a "light", i.e. an antibiotic, on the space it lights up with warmer colours signifying configurations which take less energy for the organism to survive as (are more favourable) and cooler colours denoting deadlier configurations.

Thus, antibiotics become a game of chess. Humans try to box the organism into coolly coloured regions. That way, the amount of energy it would take to "tunnel" through the wall would be high. The organism, on the other hand, is trying to find warm "tunnels" by which to escape regions which are being boxed in. Advantage to the organism is it can build new dimensions.
If you had to write code for a platform and the only compiler available was C89 compatible, you better know what syntax the C89 standard says is legal and not legal. Its simply called knowing the language. By your implied definition I see every single thing that anyone reads/learns as a 'factoid'. In my mind factoids imply some useless disconnected fact like the number of restricted keywords or the number of pages in the standard or the preferred wine of the standardization committee(its called beer I think :P). I guess we have a difference of opinion on that.

Also the difference in syntax and translation unit/linker behavior is not a random fact. Its the culmination of the thought process that goes into designing the language and also knowing a bit of the theory behind classical compilers/linkers.
MoCoSpace... MobileCommunitySpace.

I was an early user, and when I failed to login for some period of time (6 months? 8?) my account was still active, but all of my precious images and videos were deleted.

Not too much pain, but losing the video of my late dog saying "Wow!" on command was enough to make me build my own website, which was a mild failure, which further encouraged me to build better websites, some of which became mildly successful for a fleeting moment (in web-time.)

That said, I enjoyed the article, as well as my telecommuting gig.

Aloha!
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Based on looking at the docs it seems serf and etcd are both trying to solve service discovery but are attacking it using slightly different approaches. Which is pretty cool!

Serf looks to be eventually consistent and event driven. So you can figure out who is up and send events to members. This gives you a lot of utility for the use cases of propagating information to DNS, load balancers, etc.

But, you couldn't use serf for something like master election or locks and would need etcd or Zookeeper for that. Serf and etcd aren't mutually exclusive systems in any sense just solving different problems in different ways.

They have a nice write-up on the page here: http://www.serfdom.io/intro/vs-zookeeper.html
I hear you on the Flash stigma, but you have to figure an open source library written in a widely used language to interact with an open standard that is largely adopted won't make you suffer the same as Flash?
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Free trial is for life :)
It says only that he admitted to copying something.
You don't directly address the resistance question, but I think that issue comes down to the "escalation ladder", which you do bring up. You can increase the effective of handwashing (or ultraviolet or whatever) in a way that just isn't possible with antibiotics.
Another possibility that's not discussed:

Get the CC number up front, but still require an 'opt in' after trial expiration to begin charging. You won't start automatically charging, you'll require the user to do something -- but the 'something' is just clicking a single 'yes, start charging me' button, with no need to enter the CC at that point, cause they entered it up front.

I have no idea if that will work to get the conversions he's getting with, well, automatic conversion. But I can't help but think products where a free trial automatically starts charging your CC on a certain calendar date if you don't opt out -- are getting conversions via trickery, and is not going to build a sustainable customer relationship.
Could this be why they had a lot of downtime today?
Also check out NovoEd; Stanford's Venture Lab was merged there:

https://novoed.com/
Another cloud service to never use. Thanks for the warning.
It has both, but the short options are more compact when you're doing multiple transformations at once.
This is not quite correct. libev is a wrapper around the best available of select/epoll/kqueue (the same syscalls libuv uses), and it provides nice timers, thread wake (eventfd/pipe), etc.

What it doesn't provide that libuv does is high-level support for asynchronous filesystem I/O, a built-in asynchronous DNS resolver, process management abstractions and more high-level cross platform goodies for writing asynchronous apps. libev also doesn't have very good support on windows.

So, the main improvements provided by libuv are a more extensive high-level API and good windows support. I doubt speed (or deterministic latency or scalability.. etc) was a goal, as libev is very, very fast. Just lower-level.
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This library really looks great; I was wondering if charts (financial, statistics,...) are supported, for example, by connecting to data sources in JSON, etc
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"Desire" implies that the bacteria is acting purposefully and planning ahead. This isn't what's happening unless you attribute the bacteria's activity to some sort of intelligence.

On the contrary, we eliminated smallpox which was one of the most devastating diseases in history so this fatalism is basically disproved. More depressingly, we've also made extinct thousands of species who have not evolved to resist us.
Kyle and crew are a top tier laser focused team who consistently sets the bar with their products. I couldn't be more excited for them!
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Google translate + own improvments:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel may have been the target of U.S. intelligence agencies over year. Serious indications have led Merkel to complain directly to U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday.

This evidence suggests that U.S. intelligence agencies have declared Merkel's cell phone as a target. In the telephone conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama, Angela Merkel asked for a comprehensive clarification of the allegations.

The Chancellor has made ​​clear "that if the information should materialize such practices clearly disapproved of and sees as completely unacceptable ," said her spokesman Steffen Seibert . "This would be a serious breach of trust. Such practices should be stopped immediately."

The cause of this unusually sharp reaction of the federal government is a recent SPIEGEL investigation. Following a review by the Federal Intelligence Service and the Federal Office for Security in Information Technology, the government found the allegations for plausible enough to confront the U.S. government so that.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel requested in the call with President Obama, the expectation "that the U.S. authorities will clarify about the possible overall scope of such monitoring practices against Germany and thus answer questions, which had been made several months ago," Seibert said.

"As a close ally of the United States of America, the Federal Government expects for the future a clear contractual basis on the activities of the services and their cooperation . "

A spokeswoman for the National Security Council of the United States declared to the reproaches told SPIEGEL : "The president has assured the Chancellor that the United States does not monitor their communications and not also be monitored."

The spokeswoman did not say to SPIEGEL, whether this also applies to the past. This point was noted on Wednesday evening in Berlin government circles.
It may not work for graphic novel length works, but have you looked into patreon[0] at all? For comics (or any recurring works) it seems like it might be a better business model than repeated KicksStarter campaigns.

[0] - http://www.patreon.com/