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If the monthly burn wasn't too bad, I'd consider taking it on.
>... said Tim Newell, SolarCity’s vice president for financial products.

>“By expanding the pool of people who can participate in financing solar with us, we’re diversifying our sources of capital,” said Mr. Newell, who was president and chief executive of Common Assets, an investment platform developer that SolarCity bought this year. “That also makes us more resilient in any economic environment and over time should help us be able to have the lowest cost of capital.”

Looks like it was a startup they bought/acquihired.
Tragically misled might even be an understatement. The US Government is probably going to end up having killed hundreds of thousands of people through dangerously bad dietary guidelines and the impact they have across the culture over a generation.

Their recommendation for consuming 5-12 servings of breads, cereals, pasta, 'whole grains' per day is like telling people they need to drink more soda.
> I don't quite get the point of discussing or arguing about what the framers "meant".

It's pretty important to one extremely common justification for the government's authority, that being the "social contract." As the justification goes, the reason that authority is legitimate is that we have agreed to it. When you point out that, no, in fact no living person has agreed to any such thing or even been given the opportunity to do so, the response is that people in the past agreed explicitly to the Constitution, via their elected representatives in each state that ratified it.

If you accept this justification (you can probably tell by my tone that I don't), it ought to be pretty important what was agreed to, and the only remotely plausible way to interpret the terms of a supposed contract is as the parties to the contract intended.
Isn't angle of attack also pretty important to how wings work?
In fact smoking marijuana causes extremely harmful effects in the brain:

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2013/12/marij...

"Teens who were heavy marijuana users -- smoking it daily for about three years -- had abnormal changes in their brain structures related to working memory and performed poorly on memory tasks, reports a new Northwestern Medicine® study."

"The brain abnormalities and memory problems were observed during the individuals’ early twenties, two years after they stopped smoking marijuana, which could indicate the long-term effects of chronic use. Memory-related structures in their brains appeared to shrink and collapse inward, possibly reflecting a decrease in neurons."
Of course, if you work in an open-plan office -- and let's face it, despite the evidence that it's an unforgivably stupid way to set things up, most of us do -- you can't control the light.

And if you're using a laptop outside of a home/personal office environment (which laptops are presumably built for), you don't have control over lighting either.

For tablets and mobile devices which generally aren't used for working at long stretches, I guess I can see the appeal. But it's really strange to me that glossy is popular on machines people do use for long-stretch work -- and often in high-glare overhead lighting open-plan offices.

(And not only popular, but increasingly the only available option.)
So we've finally gotten to the point where Snow Crash is going to become a reality. That's fun.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT200553
Shoptiques (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Back-End Engineer in New York
These days I use VMWare, but I've got co-workers with Parallels installed and all day everyday they have random kernel panics and crashes. Uninstall Parallels and most likely all of that stuff will go away...
Yup, tried various manual -I includes, CFLAGS etc.. I'll figure it out.
"Imagine three types of wealthy people. One guy is putting his capital into building his business. Then there’s a woman who’s giving most of her wealth to charity. A third person is mostly consuming, spending a lot of money on things like a yacht and plane. While it’s true that the wealth of all three people is contributing to inequality, I would argue that the first two are delivering more value to society than the third."

Of course buying yourself things you don't need delivers less value to society than commerce or philanthropy. Of course. Absolutely.

But maybe...

Maybe buying yourself things gives you the chance to have unique experiences. Maybe hitting golf balls into the ocean from the deck of your megayacht gives you the relaxing moment you need to figure out how to boost profits by 300%. Maybe doing a ton of blow and driving a Jaguar give you the necessary experiences to write awesome rock tunes that inspire millions. Maybe if Galileo Galilei hadn't bought himself a lump of clear glass in 1609 we wouldn't know about space.
Ehh, not really. I owned a 335i and holy fuel pump issues (among others). Finally sold it and bought a Lexus. Couldn't be happier.
On PC you download random software from the software makers website, not from a Google or Apple site. Now, if you are downloading something from the Google play store, that implies some form of responsibility by Google. Google is being careful to stop some people from saying "I got a virus from Google!!! They are evil!!!", and similar things.
I agree. The whole "retina" idea of cramming pixels till they're too small to see adds very little if anything to a display. I'd much rather have a 32" or 36" display that's 5k where I can actually use all those pixels to place windows and such and still read the text than have the software scale down graphics and essentially give me a display I already have (1440p).
Not for nothing, but my old office overlooked the Port of Charleston in good ol' South Carolina. There were an awful lot of BMW X5s being shipped out of that port on a daily basis. To underscore that, my German professor, a former VP at several German multinationals would always trot out that one in five jobs in the state comes either directly or indirectly from German corporations running factories and operations out of the state. I'm sure it isn't out of the goodness of their Teutonic hearts.
surprising that no one mentioned erlang in this context. the view that you don't need to program defensively at all. programs can terminate for a variety of reasons, and as long as a monitoring process / program can take corrective action it's all good.
Ok - so just an arbitrary old machine you picked. Somehow I thought there was more logic to the choice of benchmark that I was missing.
Virtual machines behaves best with as much ram as a normal machine. Assuming you have 3 machines running, osx host and windows+linux vms and you want to give them 12gb each you are already at 30+. Might sound like a crazy setup but some times a compiler is only supported on one platform and then you want a replica of your clients server in one VM etc etc.
This seems pretty neat. Are you considering turning this into a startup, then? X for Y pitch of "machine learning for personal health"? I say go for it. :D
This is wrong. The Coanda effect is about fluid jets; this is how blown flaps work. However an airfoil is in a free-moving fluid not a jet.

[edit]
A complete mathematical modeling of lift from first-principles is essentially impossible, as the most straightforward method would likely be Navier-Stokes. That, however, has serious issues with turbulent flow, which will happen somewhere IIRC it becomes quite inaccurate in stall conditions.

It's been a long while since I've done any physics, but my recollection is the practical way to model it is to use Navier-Stokes along with empirically determined approximations of turbulence.

[edit2] A quick reading of the wikipedia article tells me that was mostly right, but NS doesn't have the stall issues, it's the Euler equations (which is a simplified form of NS).
Well you get the best of both worlds. For majority of users, they will just use what ever network that has signed up to be used with Apple Sim.

For those who really want the freedom of using what ever you want, you can always take out the sim. ( Which is a hassle in itself )
That's covered in the article, at least briefly -

We then have to ask how a flat wing like that of a paper airplane, with no curves anywhere, can generate lift. Note that the flat wing has been drawn at a tilt, this tilt is called "angle of attack" and is necessary for the flat wing to generate lift. The topic of angle of attack will be returned to presently.

later

It is easy, based on the Coanda effect, to visualize why angle of attack (the fore-and-aft tilt of the wing, as illustrated earlier) is crucially important to a symmetrical airfoil, why planes can fly inverted, why flat and thin wings work, and why Experiment 1 with its convex and concave strips of paper works as it does.

and then in the footnotes

7 - In the 1930's the Romanian aerodynamicist Henri-Marie Coanda(1885-1972) observed that a stream of air (or other fluid) emerging from a nozzle tends to follow a nearby curved or flat surface, if the curvature of the surface or angle the surface makes with the stream is not too sharp.

The essential action of the wing is to divert a stream of air downwards, generating lift and drag in the process. The Coanda effect describes how fluids 'stick' close to surfaces they flow over. The magnitude of this effect is driven by the radius of curvature, angle of incidence etc.

What isn't really covered that well is that the Coanda effect is not essential for a wing to work. Simply having a wing at an angle of attack will divert air downwards and cause lift. The Coanda effect can be used to generate greater amounts of lift [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C4%83_effect
NASA, SpaceX Share Data on Supersonic Retropropulsion
I write a lot on Quora and respectfully disagree with OP here.

I like the fact that I can delete my questions or answers from time to time.

It's my content. Not the Internet's.

If I change my mind about something I wrote, I want to be able to edit it and delete it.

Some of my best answers are ones I edited many times over time. I use Quora and its readers to help me improve and correct my answers. The first draft is often not that great. Quora reduces the risk for me to submit my answer and post it.

I understand there are other sites where my content would be more public and permanent and I share on there too. But I often write and re-write on Quora before sharing my content to other sites.
What is... "store"?

In the 6+ years I spent in Silicon Valley, I entered a Walgreens every three months to pick up a prescription, and probably could've dispensed with that if I'd taken half an hour to figure out my provider's online thing.

Other than that and the rare emergency, everything else (yes, including groceries) was ordered online and delivered to my home. The only businesses I routinely entered were my workplace and restaurants.

Why should I have to go to some stupid store to get a SIM card when I could just switch online in 30 seconds?
The LDS church is doing massive amounts of work in preserving historical records. Here is a cool video about the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPo5BSS_AA
Hell, I've known machine shops to use rigs built in the 1940's
Google's spyware policy is crystal clear that "Apps that track device user behavior must present users with a full-time persistent notification and icon that clearly identifies the app."

This deliberately violated that policy, and promoted the feature (disabling the notification) that violates the policy.

It clearly was spyware as defined by the Google policy.

Incidentally, pretty much every page of the Ever Accountable website also contains violations of the Android Brand Guidelines [1] with regard to the use of the Android and Google Play trademarks.

[1] http://developer.android.com/distribute/tools/promote/brand....
> People should be able to install whatever software on their computers they want.

And Android supports sideloading apps.

OTOH, that doesn't obligate Google Play to allow any software you want to sell into their store, especially when it violates black and white terms associated with the use of the store.
Do you mean that Tor adds risk over 'normal' web use, or that Tor is not as secure as people think?

The only added risk I see is that an exit node arguably could be more likely to attack the user than an ISP, but I think the difference is that attack in different ways. Most ISP's attack confidentiality as part of their business, though probably they don't insert browser exploits.
Show HN: Parable – iOS app for visual posts and conversations
Right, that is the point I'm trying to make.

That is the statement they are making, but it's not the reality. There is a lot of what can only be described by reasonable people as malware in all of the app stores. They are not curated at all. It just happens that sometimes, an app has a complaint against it and an investigation leads to the app getting banned. That's what I mean by the post-hoc system they employ.

And let's not even get into the issues of quality or uniqueness. How many freaking compass apps do you really need?

If you're going to limit free, open installations, and market to users a curated ecosystem, then curate the apps already. Create a review board. No app goes published without human eyes overlooking it. I don't care that it will reduce the number of approved apps (or the maximum approval rate). That's the entire freaking point. Curate the apps already.
Cheaper SCTP isn't quite enough—one of the major problems with lots of little TCP connections is that they all have their own backpressure, so you get things like worker processes that share a remote flapping their window sizes up and down in response to one-anothers' requests. Ideally, backpressure would occur at the IP layer (host-to-host rather than port-to-port) but SCTP gives you the ability to have a set of streams that share a backpressure "group" on both the local and remote ends.
Wow, I hadn't considered that. It might explain why I get terrible battery life when playing movies on a TV over HDMI with the screen "turned off" by dimming it down to zero. Thanks for the hint.
Give the provider the phone's public key fingerprint.

You're letting yourself be constrained by the very brokenness people are saying should be fixed.
Do you see any possible way to bridge this gap, and help people identify and avoid substandard drugs?
I am planning to work in patient empowerment, would like any ideas in this regard.
> non-linear operations such as video stabilization

What do you mean by non-linear? Are you referring to an equation containing a linear combination of the dependent variable and its derivatives, or something else?
Well, high quality craftsmanship and attention to detail can be present even on a product with critical defects.

How? To generalize/stereotype, the routine downfall of German industry has been over-engineering. In other words, it's an amazing product, but good lord it is so complicated, no-one could ever iron out all the bugs.
My questions:

- Price (if only typical example) would be interesting.
- Can you reverse scrape website code (non-technical person here...)? Occasionally I would be interested in finding people that don't have a certain type of code on their website for prospecting.
- Can you scrape across a site - e.g if I send you a domain can you crawl pages or do you need each specific URL?

As for the website - generally it's good. 1) There is not a good direct call-to-action above the fold. I would update the 'Send URL's" to something more sales directed like 'Get a quote' and remove the 'read on' button that does nothing 2) I would make the blog more prominent once you enrich the information

This could be a useful service for me. Thanks for sharing.
Computer for free? With Mac everything costs money, there is hardly no way to enjoy this piece of hardware without spending money to the Mac way of money sucking.. I enjoy my arch linux system every single day, and it never cost me a cent, there is no backdoors, money sucking thing going on at all. But, for those who believe the marketing slogan that everything with Mac is better, well, grab your wallet and join the idiots.
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> In order to realize returns higher than the risk-free rate, investors must do work.

1. Are you claiming that taking risk is a form of work? Because the correlation between risk and expected return holds up very well empirically, and it'd take a lot to convince me that buying shares of an S&P500 ETF is a form of work that I should be taxed on. Even if risk and expected return had no correlation, it'd still only require luck, not necessarily skill, to often realize returns higher than the risk-free rate--just purchase one share of each of 100 risky stocks, and I guarantee that you'll have a significant return on at least one of them.

2. There is a shockingly large body of evidence that excess returns, for the vast majority of people the vast majority of the time, are the spoils of luck, not work. Mutual fund managers, for example--whose literal job it is to earn excess returns--perform in aggregate roughly as well as the market, and the very best performers, at the extreme tail of the distribution, in one year are barely more likely than chance to do better than average the following year, and people in the bulk of the distribution are essentially flipping coins.[0] Again, these are people whose job it is to beat the market, and they're failing miserably.

3. In cases where people really are working for returns, I completely agree with you. This is income and should be taxed--as income. But in cases where someone is investing their own savings, they really are just trading a certain present value for an uncertain future value.

[0] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1356021
It is interesting that the experiment he proposes actually does use a jet of air!

I guess the best counterexample would be to have an airfoil with 0 angle of attack - horizontal on the bottom and curved down on top. Can this wing divert the stream of air downwards, generating enough to allow flight? Even if it does, how much extra lift do you get when you increase the angle of attack?
You took the words right out of my mouth. Pretty much everything can be ultimately justified by a "it improves or preserves living-standards" if enough mental leaps are made.

Subsidies? Living standards through economic growth.

Military? Living standards better if not conquered. Improved if we conquer or control something good.

My Dictatorship? Only I can be trusted to give the people the living standards they need.
Selling reservations for fields that often are in use by locals is guaranteed to start fights; what on earth was the parks department thinking?
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This is the definitive source for how airplanes fly:

http://www.av8n.com/how/

Particularly:

http://www.av8n.com/how/htm/airfoils.html
Where did you find a GTX 980 in stock?
I've been using Yosemite since the early betas and it's been great for me. I don't use Photoshop, and I can certainly believe that Adobe might be doing nasty things, but all the apps I do use have been fine.

> really long pauses anytime I try to save a simple document for the first time

Is that actually what's happening, or is it a really long pause when trying to show the open/save dialog? I have a couple of NAS volumes mounted, and if I run an app with a Recent Documents entry that lives on one of the volumes, and the NAS is asleep, then the app will often pause when trying to populate the Recent Documents list. This normally happens during open/save. Previous versions of OS X did it too, though I feel like Yosemite might trigger it a bit more often for some reason.
I don't so much have a problem with the Play store culling out certain violating apps. I'd just prefer it that they do an honest, real job of it[0]. Either curate the system or make it open. What we have now are non-open systems that are not actually all that curated.

[0] And that's slightly separate from whether or not non-app store programs are installable. But I do think that Apple and Google have explicitly attempted to discourage and obfuscate any process for doing so, even so far as to call into question who truly owns the device, you or the corporation.
It all sounds good until you get to the part where they don't include same sex couples. This is why a non-religious entity should oversee the project.

I imagine a family tree for our entire species that also included DNA would be medically quite useful. Some day, perhaps.
What form of the convoy rules is this using? (Diplomacy's convoy rules are (or were) ambiguous in corner cases, something that multiple versions of the official natural-language rules failed to resolve fully.)
The San Francisco Bay Guardian and the Decline of the Alt-Weekly
There have definitely been ethical lapses at many large pharma companies. Ranbaxy seems in a different class altogether, though.

Incidentally, Mercola.com is absolutely not a reliable source of medical information. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola. Ironically, Dr Mercola has also suggested that HIV is not the cause of AIDS.
Of course. It will be in C#. Far too much work to be done on Go's Window's support to use it, and no advantage to do so.
try shift+enter on a terminal.
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> People should be able to install whatever software on their computers they want

Yep, agreed. But unless I'm missing something, Google is not preventing you from installing whatever apps you want on your handheld computer. <tahooie>, the fellow who started this thread, is free to distribute the .apk file for his app via his own site. (Apple, on the other hand, forbids it.)

In fact, Google tells you how to do this: "you can make them available for download on your own website or server... An easy and quick way to release your apps is to send them to users by email... you can distribute your apps through any app marketplace you want or use multiple marketplaces..."
http://developer.android.com/distribute/tools/open-distribut...

And when I've been working on Recent.io, it's a lot easier to distribute to early testers on Android vs. iOS. Simply add someone to a Google Group/G+ group vs. TestFlight, must open in Mail app, provisioning profiles, recompiling, re-uploading, why doesn't this version work, I hit my 100-user limit, etc. Ick.

If the Google Play Store's policies become too aggressive, app developers will begin to shift to competing stores or distribute directly or find HTML5 workarounds. Of course I agree that Google should have reasonable policies, but if you don't like them, they (unlike Apple) at least give you alternatives.
That's right! I thought it was CJ but I thought I remembered hearing that about a running QB also (Cam maybe) so wasn't sure. And yes, agree about Harvin also.

Honestly, I've found /r/fantasyfootball has been a great resource.
For an asymmetric airfoil, zero angle of attack is defined as the AoA that produces zero lift.
I have that on one of my machines but not the other. This is the only situation I remember either of them crashing in, though.
Serious question: Do same sex couples really contribute to the worlds family tree? Technically their gene pool ends when that decision is made.
Two other reasons to use UDP for low-latency use cases, even if you cannot handle actual missed packets and thus are fully reliable:

- If your bandwidth use is small, you can just spam multiple copies of each packet to decrease the chance that a laggy retransmission will be needed. If you're sending packets at a constant high rate, you can instead include copies of the last N messages in each packet, rather than just the new data.

- You can send packets directly between two NATted hosts using STUN, rather than having to rely on UPnP or manual port forwarding. Pretty obvious, but I only see one other mention of this fact in the thread, and it vastly increases the likelihood of being able to make a direct connection between two random consumer devices.
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