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Which renewables have proven themselves to be remotely as efficient, practical and cost-effective as nuclear plants? I'm not aware of any unless you live around relatively special geography (e.g. there are places where hydro, geothermal or even wind power are strong contenders, but it doesn't seem like it can be generalized).
Looks like my job in this thread is to drop in Language Log links. Here's some information on vocal fry (another phenomenon perennially trotted out as coming back or expanding):

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3626
Google invests in a weather forecasting firm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Climate_Corporation); combined with Nest data, Google could lead the utility energy management space.
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So perhaps like ribbing people in a tongue-in-cheek fashion for using the "wrong" text editor?

I think that sort of thing is fine and generally accepted, provided you don't become hurtful or vicious with it.
I don't think it qualifies as Poe; it's too clearly intentionally exaggerated for humor.
Probably not in a restaurant, though.

Dragging the subthread back on topic, while I don't doubt Ms. Roizen or anyone else who describes having encountered such abhorrent behavior, it amazes me every time I hear about it, and not so much because it's sexual assault as because I have such a hard time believing any man, indeed anyone of any sex or gender, could be so incredibly déclassé.

I don't know -- maybe it's because I'm gay, or because I gravitate toward the company of people who deport themselves with something which at least vaguely resembles good taste, or I don't know what all, but honestly? Who actually does something like that? Who can even contemplate doing something like that without shriveling in well-deserved shame?
Well, Sir Thomas More certainly felt that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(book)
Technically, nuclear is safer than solar.

But who needs logic.
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For the most part, yes.

Cops chasing people is for the most part stupid, record their plate, send them a ticket. High speed police chases represent serious dangers to the public for little benefit. Many modern police departments have policies in place to discourage police chases because of the danger posed to the officers, public, and the suspects themselves.

In the broader sense of justice it would have been very prudent for the unproductive war on drugs to have ended years ago as the costs to society outweigh the benefits to society.

Fiat justitia ruat caelum, like an eye for an eye, is actually a pretty stupid policy.
Simply magic :)
I generally agree with the parent and I upvoted it, but I did so in spite of having a visceral negative reaction to buzzwords like "allies" (implies that I'm somehow taking a risk/taking sides in a war) and "patriarchy" (vague and ill-defined to the point of meaninglessness).
Yes. If you're speaking from able-bodied, neurotypical, straight, cis, white, male privilege, your opinion on how hurtful 'trolling' is to people who don't share your privilege carries no weight.
I would love to write "It’s Different for Boys", not as a rebuttal, but to explain how two-sided this problem is from a man's perspective.

That sexual harassment and the weirdly dysfunctional sexual culture of business is perpetuated on men as well as women.

I arrived on the scene in the Bay Area start-up culture ~5 years ago from a very different industry / cultural perspective.

I was in LOVE with the idea of the Bay Area tech-start-up culture - it's incredibly magnetic.

Within a month I'd closed a major deal with a new client - they'd just raised tens-of-millions in venture money from prominent VCs, the CEO was very visible in the SF bay start-up culture, etc.

I was living the dream - everything in their office was just as I imagined, the people were all hip and fresh and liberal-earthy-but-wise-and-techie just as I'd hoped.

Then the work day ended and I was invited out to drinks to celebrate our deal with the "boys" from the office.

Drinks led to more drinks, led to a strip club, led to the CEO literally going home with a hooker (and he was dating another prominent valley founder at the time no less).

And nobody batted an eye.

Like the author I don't quite know how to wind this up other than to say this is a two way street.

And the more time I spend with rich and powerful SV men, the more I see a "women as toys" culture perpetuated.

Yes, we're all human susceptible to our very human flaws and needs, but it's insane how completely acceptable sexualized behavior is behind the scenes.
Right - I also find it helpful to judge them for their actions in general, and not just for one stupid thing they may say.
You just described how Nest is using their data and how utilities are trying to use Time Of Data metering to signal pricing to consumers (using smart meters).

Also, most if not all industrial electricity users have load shedding agreements with utilities; in the event of demand spikes, those industrial users are required to curb their power use within X number of minutes.
I use SQLAlchemy for just about everything won't suffer too much from the expected ORM overhead. I've found it to be powerful, intuitive, and well suited to larger projects.

Are there many other Python developers working directly with libpqxx though? I've recently started exploring the idea of moving some of my relatively stable, postgres-specific code into a dedicated library and would be grateful for tips or words of caution. My hope is that this approach will wind up being useful in cases where I'm coding against a large body of pre-existing stored procedures.
exactly why it is ironic!

they are the only one solving the privacy-while-showing-ads issue by using safeframes. then they drop DNT because it is a fallacy for the most part.

but they write that announcement in the worst possible way and everyone goes crazy.
The sandbox sounds great. I haven't been able to get Cabal 1.8 to install on a Mac, but I'd love to try it.
My music teacher at school called conductors "meat sequencers". After reading this, perhaps it was a little bit of an understatement!
Nuclear has the lowest cost per kWh of any option on the market given their lifespans.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I've worked with the ICANN DNS people enough and am aware of their practices enough (ex. https://www.iana.org/dnssec/icann-dps.txt ) that I don't see how the root zone could be compromised without people knowing.

Separately, DNScurve is interesting, but really solves a different problem than DNSSEC. I find this a useful comparison: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/45770/if-dnssec-...
> I feel obligated to point out that you guys are discussing the exact issue that the case will hopefully set some precedent for: that is, what constitutes an acceptable delay.

We're really not, we're discussing what the suit actually says. What is actually an acceptable delay is a separate question.
Judging others by their intentions seems like good advice in general, not just for offensive speech.

Goodness knows I've been judging myself by intention more than deed for over 40 years. It's probably a courtesy I could extend to others more often.
Incredibly classy of her to not name & shame the bad guys but to accent the good ones. Kudos. Also, the behavior of some of those guys is absolutely shocking, I'm sorry to say I never suspected it to be this bad at that level. Call me naive.
All over $25k? Doesn't that seem much too low to be worth the AG's time? The top reward tier was only $93.

It's hard to imagine a person can even mount a defense against a state AG for less than $25k...

Yes, they f'ed up. But unless it was malicious, this seems like an excessive response. I suspect an AG is trying to make a name for him or herself.
They already do that. There just isn't any industry that can singlehandedly soak up all the excess power (subject to constraints of proximity to power plants, distance from cities, etc). There's a chance electric cars will change this.
Hardly anyone refrains from lying altogether, and some people report lying up to twelve times within that time span. I might open a conversation, for instance, by saying how nice it is to meet someone—when I’m really not at all happy about it. I might go on to say that I grew up in Boston—a lie, technically, since I really grew up in a small town about forty minutes outside the city. I could say that the person’s work sounds fascinating, when it’s no such thing, or compliment him on his (drab) tie or his (awful) shirt. And if the person mentions loving a certain downtown restaurant where I’ve had a terrible experience? I’m likely to just smile and nod and say, Yes, great place. Trust me: we often lie without giving it so much as a second thought.

Is this an American trait? I think it's the opposite in Eastern Europe. People would stop you to tell you they've had a bad experience at the restaurant, usually don't compliment and interrupt you immediately to tell you what they think about your line of work.
"Believe your eyes over your ears," so to speak. It's a good rule of thumb.
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I would think anyone would make mistakes recounted what happened the night of the 15th (or whenever) last month.
I'll be honest: Rust is kind of losing me with these changes. I started following/tracking the language about a year ago, and I thought the syntax looked really succinct and easily readable back then, but with changes like this, [T] => Vec<T>, the region/lifetime syntax, together with the propensity to abbreviate almost everything, code is quickly starting to look kind of soupy to me.

I get the arguments, and they're logically sound, but in the end it's beginnning to read like C++03.

On the one hand, the Rust community's generalising a lot of stuff, which sounds great, but then adding a bunch of macros (I know, this ain't yo daddy's C macros) to replace first-class citizens ([1, 2, 3] => vec!(1, 2, 3) for example), and I worry how IDEs will be able to handle macros from an autocomplete/intellisense standpoint, not just checking/displaying type information when using them, but also writing new ones.

I guess it's a language primarily by and for text editor users, and I'm beyond that point these days.

As I said, I started following the language daily a year ago, and a couple of months ago I was thinking of jumping in around this point in time, but right now I feel like I want to wait another year to see if the syntax has become more readily intelligible.

I still think it's a fantastic effort, and kudos for all the hard work.
Yes, Yes, and more yes. This is awesome. for someone who likes to roughly map out routes before trips, being able to see "Do locals ride this road or this one" is huge. Might convince me to create a new strava account (lost my old one when I quit facebook a year ago)
Yep! And iOS...
we already beat that horse to death. it is not enable by default. it is SHOWN to the user to chose. and the checkbox is enabled by default, because, let's agree on this, microsoft did their homework and that is the best choice to recomend to their users.

it is never enabled against the user knowledge. it is just the correct default when it is presented to them.

and again, by no-one, you mean YOU. you are pissed off that everyone is not disabled on DNT and not even shown the option, and only you and other tech savvy people can benefit.
This is not a productive avenue for making progress IMHO.

As Roizen points out in her article, while she believes that things have improved, she's still often the only woman in the room. Other women, like Shanley Kane, believe that working within the system and ignoring or brushing off sexist behavior when it's experienced merely propagates the (unacceptable) status quo. They're different ways of looking at the problem from people who actually experiencing it, and they're both valid perspectives. Listening to the perspectives of women and trying to understand where they're coming from, even if it makes you uncomfortable, is literally the first step towards making progress.
Male example: VICE Correspondent Hamilton Morris - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fRTk9F9FGU#t=103
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I don't see how that would be a rebuttal, but from what you say it could be interesting to read.
Why extension if you can disable the local shared objects (LSO cookies) entirely from the flash settings?

Or just use click to play to activate flash on your browser, at least then they can't be set anywhere in the background.
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I heard horror stories of Japanese salarymen living in monotonous apartment blocks, returning to the wrong apartment by accident if they didn't pay attention. But American suburbs are just like that: block after block of identical houses, the same 1-n designs on the same lot plans, with the same front yards. In many neighborhoods it's even frowned upon to decorate your house so that it looks differently from the rest of the cookie-cutter houses. No shops or anything to break up the monotony, and when you do drive to the closest strip mall it's just a bunch of franchises and chain stores. No wonder we don't walk in the U.S. -- everything is too far apart, and it all looks the same anyway!

I lived in Japan in my twenties after growing up in a California suburb. I loved walking around there. In most places there simply was no grid; in places with a grid it was often broken up by geography. Many places had been inhabited continuously for hundreds of years. It's an incredibly visually rich environment.
Good point, edited my first sentence.
She did not seem to interpret the joke the way in the way that you are doing here. As with most humor, we can assume that a lot of the meaning had to do with tone and body language, and she describes the "borrow mine" comment as something which defused the tension created by an earlier remark.
I'm not, actually, but that rarely seems to make a difference to how much weight my opinion carries with people who don't share that opinion. If nothing else, the facts that I only tick one, maybe two, of the boxes you listed, and that I loathe identity politics games in general, almost always outweigh the substance of what I actually happen to be saying.
(Is there a Hacker News Strava group?)
Solar power has been growing at an exponential rate for the last several years. The interesting thing about exponential growth is that it isn't actually all that fast in its first stages, and easy to dismiss as meaningless. Once adoption really gets going, solar will become very large very fast.
I'm replying to this because I can't reply to ForHackernews's comment, but this really needs to be said: "patriarchy" is most certainly NOT "vague and ill-defined to the point of meaninglessness". To say that is to dismiss decades of feminist work. If you are genuinely curious about this, the book Feminism is for Everybody (by bell hooks) is a great, accessible introduction to feminism and the (admittedly esoteric and ivory-towery) language you need to talk about it.
I've shown Shanley's post to quite a few women in technology (including some diversity experts) and they all think her concrete suggestions are excellent. [As do I.] So I strongly suggest any guys who really want to help read it and act on the suggestions even if they would prefer a different framing.

And specifically, which of her points do you disagree with? Are you saying that men don't need to work with each other on their sexism? Or, are you saying that instead of men taking a responsibility to address sexism or overcome their discomfort with this issue they should instead lean on women?
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mostly that shanley (the blogger linked in the first post) tends to be a polarising figure
> some other non-professional runner can run a 5:37 mile over a hilly span that takes you 7:30-8:00 is humbling

Another big Strava user here. I suppose it's somewhat inspiring and certainly fascinating, but it doesn't really strike a chord with me. I've also don't really connect with the "crush your friends!!" narrative they have as the main thrust of their marketing.

I'm sure it's 'pops' more than "make long-term and measurable, and improvements to your fitness and mental outlook through exercise and a personal training log".
There's some subtle things going on in that anecdote that are easy to miss.

The meeting they were in was a very stressful one, in a very stressful era. The person who looked nervously at her to see her response was new to the group. Guessing based on his concern, he hadn't yet been "initiated" into a more casual relationship with the others in the room. He was still on a somewhat formal ground.

The person who made the comment was cutting through the unspoken fog underlying the meeting, and no doubt was intentionally using blunt language to assist in that.

She responded with mildly crude humor of her own to indicate not only that she wasn't taking offense, she appreciated the attempt to break through the unspoken fog. She was also bringing the new guy into the circle a bit.

The speaker continued with crude humor to sort of close the scene out. What a screenwriter would call a "button". It also emphasized his original point- "Let's get past this posturing we've been doing. We know what the game really is here, we're normal people and we've been fighting for our own interests."

That would be the end of that line of humor, since it had now served its purpose.

The same approach would usually (but not always) be inappropriate in a meeting of new acquaintances, but this was a different case.

This was an inner circle in a time of stress, bringing a new member a little closer in.
In line with http://xkcd.com/1138/, i'd request this map be adjusted by the population density in the mapped areas, so be to be able to get more data than "a lot of people live here" and "a lot of Strava users live here".
I see what you are saying but I simply disagree. Depending on the age, specific region, and various other social contexts of the participants, not to mention the context of their existing relationship, that joke can be just fine and the story implied it was, in that case.

I don't agree that the comment underscored the power differential, rather than wryly acknowledging the reality that the expression didn't work well in a mixed gender group.

It is also worth bearing in mind, that when people aren't offended by a sexual suggestion, they tend to be complimented. Because the majority of people, regardless of gender, like to feel attractive. This is one reason why the area is so hard to navigate, the line between compliment and offense can be so hard to locate, but compliments are one of the primary ways we smooth over social awkwardness and bond.

I personally feel people should make a distinction between what makes them feel bad, and what constitutes someone else being wrong.

If I feel I am being treated disrespectfully, it is enough, and I will act accordingly. I don't need the disrespectful person to be "wrong." I just need to not experience that behavior any longer. Maybe I'm wrong. Who cares. I'm not going to embrace a situation which feels bad, regardless of objective "wrong." Whether I handle it by asking for clarification, leaving the room, firing something back, this is situational. But in any event, my feelings are my feelings, not someone else's responsibility.
Your distaste for identity politics doesn't obviate other people's legitimate concerns about them.
Exactly. Things may take a completely different meaning depending on the people you're with.

I remember a conversation from a while ago when young me called a gf of mine the "prettiest black girl ever."

When she asked me, "why not just prettiest girl ever?" I was completely dumbfounded because while that's what I had meant, I realized that I no idea what a simple qualifier could do to the meaning of the phrase for someone.

I learned a valuable lesson that day that I won't ever forget. I don't considered myself 'censored' since then, just significantly more tactful in social situations.
I agree. Syntax should be descriptive first and concise second.
I use Shanley's work, and it's effective as hell. As a man, "What about the menz!?" is of zero interest to me. I can buy all the kleenexes to wipe my tears with the money boost I get from male supremacy.

Obviously Shanley is unpopular among dudebros. If she weren't (and god forbid hit the top of HN) it's a sign she's doing something wrong.
I will suggest that some women, having been beaten and raped (edit: by men, in case I need to spell that out), have good reasons why they can't bring themselves to laugh off some kinds of jokes.

I don't entirely disagree with some of your points but I certainly don't entirely agree with them either.
A good sci-fi book on this topic is the Earth Abides:

http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Abides-George-R-Stewart/dp/03454...

From one of the reviews:

One thing that disturbs people about Earth Abides is its incredible humbling realism about the human condition. People who read it come away profoundly unnerved by the idea that civilization is not something guaranteed to come into existence if we lose it and that it requires an enormous convergence of many different kinds of stimulus to create the energies needed within a race of men to bring it into being. Even the most gifted races of people on the Earth can barely hold it together in the best of times, George Stewart shows us how easily it can all fall apart and remain in a primeval condition for untold generations.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3L6EVT6CXOAFM/ref=cm_cr_dp_tit...
Looking at Iowa, it is pretty cool to see how many bikers do ragbrai - the 2013 route is what connects Omaha and Des Moines, 2012 is to the north of that.
That some of us don't find these resources that useful or relevant?
What a constructive and helpful addition to the debate.
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1) that joke was sexist, and Brad Feld's follow up after she called him out was more sexist. She may have a relationship with Brad which supersedes the joke itself and that makes it okay in the narrow context of their relationship, but that was a sexist joke.

2) I don't view men as oppressors, but I do think we as men have privilege and that is why we need to work with each other on the issue of sexism. I do not find her language condemning, but I have been working on issues of gender for several years now.

In all honesty, I would love to hear more about why Shanley's language does not work for you as I think her core points are excellent and I would love to know what language to help share this with others.
How is this a rebuttal? If anything, this furthers the author's case.

EDIT: nevermind, the language was fixed.
That's really nice. Some labeling for buttons would be appreciated. (am on Chrome on a Mac)
I'm getting an odd vibe from your comment. Almost as if you try to be some heroic anarchist who has swallowed the red pill, except a rather juvenile one.

Indeed, I'm curious how your being a male lets you do "no end of wonderful things that have an immediate impact". Either you're in a high socioeconomic position, or you're overstating your abilities significantly. "Attacking the patriarchy" doesn't mean much, and the latter sounds like it comes straight out of a parodic parable.

Finally, that colorful interpretation of Avatar was interesting, though not particularly innovative.