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About dmsolar
About dmsolar
Born from the Founders, Engineers and Environmentalists of several manufacturing companies, dmsolar is reducing environmental dilemmas and leading the industry towards the most practical solutions for energy and other “Green” technologies. Dmsolar is pushing the boundaries of technology while keeping Mother Nature and her Resources a top priority. With recent resulting global and social change for the environment, there is a new greener cultural movement being accepted worldwide. What we plan to do with our collection of brand partners is aimed at helping you think about the part you can play.

The Value of dmsolar
Solar energy is a clean and reliable source of power. It is one of the fastest growing renewable energy platforms, a great investment with tax credits, rebates and net metering energy savings. Over 2 billion people in the developing world have no access to electricity. For these people, a PV module is probably the most economical power source today.

Corporate Vision
Our solar strategy is to exceed the cost effectiveness of existing PV flat panels through focused innovations in both the effective collection of solar energy (peak kWs) and the generation of maximum annual electric power. The efficiency and reliability of solar PV modules have increased dramatically, making them attractive options in the home or business. The solar power industry intends to use a House hearing to showcase support among environmentalists and industry leaders for long term extensions of investment tax credits for commercial and residential solar energy systems. Our Company is working to design even more cost-effective solar PV modules for electricity and to improve the durability of materials used in those systems. This research is helping to make these systems more accessible to the average consumer there by helping individuals reduce their utility bills which in turn reduces the nations overall consumption of fossil fuels.

Mission statement
Our Goal is to:
* Contribute to a rapidly developing world-class cost competitive PV for sustainable electricity production
* Ensure strong associations and synchronizations between industry, research and market
* Strengthen the relationships with developing countries in order to bring affordable electricity services to the populations of these countries
* Benefit the nation by improving our air quality, developing our economy, and increasing our energy security
* Bettering air quality, especially for children and the elderly, by using a clean, non-polluting fuel source
* Reducing carbon emissions by 23 million metric tons per year by 2030.

Our Philosophy
What is required to achieve these levels of market penetration? Nothing less than a total commitment. Our commitment to you is the success of our work. To make solar energy accessible to the average consumer because of reduced costs which can collectively shape the world.

Contact Us

By phone:
1-888-757-7697 (USA and Canada)
1-954-328-4863 (in Florida)

By fax:
1-954-484-7587

By email:
dli@dmsolar.com
So much for Michael Arrington's assertions being "shit, doubleshit and bullshit"...

I know a lot of people have something against MA, but he does good things like this on occasion which, imho, make up for a lot of the perceived douchebaggery the rest of the time.
Brett Glass here.... Frankly, I am not that surprised by the Japanese bike storage system (it's not that much different than the ones used by dry cleaners!) but am truly amazed that Poul-Henning's ancient message is still being circulated. Being flamed by PHK appears to be somewhat of a rite of passage in the FreeBSD community, by the way, so at the time I saw his remark as a backhanded compliment.
If possible please make it use no proprietary GreaseMonkey stuff so Opera users can use it as userscript. :)

edit: Hey, there is http://neosmart.net/YouTube5/youtube5.user.js
There's enough bad things about almost any good thing...

I use Flash (Flex, actually) for my company's website and it works very well for us. Blanket-labelling it as evil is just silly. Flash is no more evil than a hammer.
I don't get it. Zynga controls the ad content as they are free to chose with which offer provider they work and which they don't. Sounds like a lame excuse.
I can't see this turning into a sane discussion.
That makes sense, but for me it would be more convenient if I could wear glasses while using the computer and not while doing other activity, which hopefully will be possible with the research that's going on.
This isn't really a new syntax, though -- it mostly just uses standard CSS selectors (.class, sibling+sibling, parent>child, etc).
I disagree, Adobe is evil.

The problem is web standards and browsers are not great, either. Evil Adobe/Macromedia took advantage of this chaos and solved several problems quick and dirty while pushing one of the most proprietary technologies widely used.

And "the web" has to come back with real non-proprietary widely adopted solutions to all this things because most web designers are addicted.

One of the typical non-video problems: file uploading.

So Adobe and Flash are evil, a necessary evil. The OP coded something instead of just giving an opinion. Respect.

PS: I still don't understand how Microsoft, Netscape, Opera and Mozilla allowed this monster to exist.
IANAL, but the text of the Fifth Amendment doesn't support your claim. Let's look at it piece by piece:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger

Not applicable

nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb

Not applicable

nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself

Most people express this as "You can't incriminate yourself," but this is a much more specific clause and pertains only to criminal cases.

nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law

This deprivation of money would be within due process of law

nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation

Not applicable

(end of text)

In terms of self-incrimination, the Fifth is used entirely in situations relating testimony and criminal proceedings. Furthermore, were it unconstitutional to incriminate yourself through inaction, "duty to rescue" laws (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue), though often unexercised, would also fail to be Constitutional.
Worth noting: Readability (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/) makes these pseudo-blog-posts readable.

Also, nice article, but why not post it on your blog?
Vying for the Verticals: Which industries are expected to adopt Win7 first
Ask HN: PHP or ROR.
What do you prefer to use for your projects, RubyOnRails or PHP? Please, share your experiences.

I love PHP, tried Ruby though since I'm a Windows user, it didn't go quite well!
My experience seems somewhat consistent with this. I became moderately myopic after doing professional calligraphy for a few hours every day for a year or so (a few hundred thousand words total). But I decided not to get any glasses. Over the following years the myopia did not get worse, it improved a little.
HTTP redirects would introduce a delay and quite a bit of additional traffic. However, application level choice of server embedded in the output HTML would be efficient, and more accurate because it knows the precise IP address of the client, not merely the DNS server it's using.

But this requires much more than just changing a URL, it requires logic on the CDN customer's servers and some form of replication of the database mapping IP address to server.

So you're right, DNS is not the right place for a CDN. But it works. It's just like web browsers are completely the wrong universal client for server based applications, but web applications work.

Pragmatism sometimes trumps correctness.
I agree. For what's its worth, he's an ardent supporter of user rights and you need someone with a loud voice on occasion. It's also quite difficult to inflict change on an industry that seemed entrenched in its practices. Kudos to him for taking the initiative and getting results.
Interesting format for this article.

Introduction. Careful analysis of a commentary and observation. Lots of hand-waving and profanity. Back to the analysis. More profanity during a rebuttal. Drawing the analysis into a thread. Some toss-away scatology at the end. Coming to some sort of a conclusion.

I'm not sure I like it, but I really enjoyed reading the format when the author actually was getting to a point. Too many times once the "fucks" begin the author goes somewhere out on the deep end and never comes back. This looked like it had been rewritten a bit.

Having said that about the format, the content was mediocre. Maybe I've read so much commentary I'm swimming in it, but it just seemed to restate the obvious. Perhaps others got more out it.

I'm really interested to see if this style takes off, however. It might have some potential. Not a rant, but not exactly analysis either. Sort of a controlled rant.
Focus-stealing is the devil, and one of the reasons I tend to scream at Windows computers after a while.
Como inciden los medios de comunicacion en el ser humano - Buscar con Google
You hosted a windows7 launch party!? O_o
That's pretty nice. Thanks!
All of this pretty much exactly what I figured would be the case and why I'm perfectly content to stay with XP.

This was very helpful insight into the new system, though, so thanks for taking the time to write it.
Check out the QuickReader app on the iPhone (http://www.quickreader.net/videos).
The Future Sound Of London, especially their old radio sessions
OT: some feedback, I'm on a 1200x800 screen and there is a scrollbar that serves no purpose. I changed the margin of #container to margin:50px auto auto; and the scrollbar is gone. Or you could make the top margin like 5% to behave better on bigger screens. Not much else to say except nicely done!
Its important to put things in perspective - with Macs we are talking about software + hardware, while with Windows we are just talking about software.
A large install base and a decent authoring tool are the sine qua non of online rich media.

Silverlight has the latter; HTML 5 will eventually attain a decent install base; but Flash has both now.
That's a cute story you just told. But I think for most people on this site using OS X is an obvious choice for a completely different reason - OS X is built on Unix. I wouldn't give up the simplicity and power of the Unix command line even if Windows did have a better user interface and more features. Which it doesn't.
Thanks for all the great answers HN...inspired by NiallSmart (see comment) I created a playlist of all the music mentioned in this post - it features one track of every artist listed in the comments. Specific track was used when referenced.

spotify:user:zen53:playlist:5JtUZrhOvBV0IqySyhoDwF
thanks again!
It was actually a Hacker News comment that I wrote; the thread was deleted before I posted it, so I revamped it a little bit and published it, just in case it'd be something worthwhile of discussion.

I'm still in the process of getting a new site launched; it's also been a handful of months since I wrote anything—my last blog, which was submitted a lot here, went offline in June—so I'm still trying to pick up what I'd developed then. My plan is to split the site into drafted articles and more polished releases, but that's not ready yet. I'm hoping within a week I'll have that.

I don't think I'll be submitting it much to Hacker News, though. Even writing this much felt unnatural to me; I'm not deep enough into the stuff Hacker News is to write much that'd be of interest to the community. Hopefully I'll come up with a few things, though.
I don't work with software security and have discovered absolutely no new security flaws. I have, however, experienced many and created some in the long career you refer to.

Still, none of the security problems I wrote into my code could be blamed on highly adversarial conditions - all of them were plain bugs, places I forgot to do something or when I trusted something one should never trust.

The fact you never met a QA team that could uncover security problems possibly stem from them not looking into the code itself and never having the responsibility of finding such problems. Validating compliance, correctness of observed behavior and even user overall experience is also called quality assurance, but it is, by no means, defining of the whole software quality concept.
A upgrade to Ruby?
I like any upbeat mowtown or stax records jams.
I don't think you can make a case for Flash in OS X not being evil. I never had a problem in Windows, but seeing it grab ~50% of my cpu, even when idle, on a Mac definitely makes me categorize it as evil.
Greenspun's Law in action ;-)
That's interesting, would you mind pointing me to an example of such a competition?
I really like stuff without lyrics that's fairly repetitive. Some examples: http://www.songite.com/#c1f21f.
I was just thinking that I'd like to write another well-researched and thoughtful piece for my blog but just can't seem to get excited about anything enough to start one.

I'd like to see more from you, if you write any. I liked the edgy tone combined with the careful analysis and think you could make it into a nice style.

A couple of times in the last week a comment has made me interested enough in a reply. There was a good thread this past week on the limits of quality in software. Is total quality always a good idea? I thought about blogging about it but taking the time to work up a good narrative and then cross-checking and rewriting several times is a major pain in the ass. So kudos for following up on this.
"I want professional journalists to get stuck in the flood of everyday people so that they’re forced to be brilliant just to stand out. A lot of professionals have gotten away with being lax and amateur because they had no competition; now they’ve got to pick up their game."

Unfortunately, no one in professional journalism seems to know yet -how- to "pick up their game", and in the meantime, it's just easier to resent the everyday people. It'll be nice to see what, if anything, emerges.
The article states that countries that want to attack the US are excited about this. The article forgets to mention that the US is doing most of the research into this field.
Ah yes, the friendly, thoughtful tone so commonly associated with Rails-related discussion :)
It's probably a PR perspective on a bad situation. They could control who gets in and who doesn't, and they may not filter who gets in currently (e.g. if you pay your bills, your offer is displayed). The problem may simply be that offers are inherently hard to make profitable. If they're very profitable, they are probably very scammy.
When I worked in the City we came across a lot of trader-as-luddite resistance to new software too. Many feared being automated out of jobs. Those who got with the programme tho' found they were able to single-handedly managed more complex positions. I think we'll see the same sort of thing here, perhaps a single pilot with the right technology (controlling multiple UAVs?) will be able to carry out a mission that would previously have taken an entire squadron. As the article says, the Pentagon can buy UAVs faster than it can train fully-qualified fighter pilots.
There's no data to support that. Who knows what China or India is working on? Even Iran is in this game.
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/2413/johnmccarthyposter1.jp...
How about a command for closing whatever tag is open where the cursor is? For repeating the last closed tag? For wrapping a tag in another tag?

I'm an emacs noob but it seems like the tools for actually working with existing markup are impoverished. You only write markup once; you have to maintain it forever.
You could always subscribe (whoo, self-promotion!), but the stuff I'm interested in's a bit out there sometimes. I'm also trying to avoid the edge as best as I can. I wrote one thing in May that was submitted here without my wanting it to be, and a prominent blogger decided to freak out and rant about it. I'm trying to figure out how not to trip off stuff like that. Glad you liked this, though: That's what counts.

EDIT: I just looked and these are the most-tracked posts from the last month, if that gives any idea of content:

http://marinich.tumblr.com/post/200996589/talentless, http://marinich.tumblr.com/post/216821123/make-great-shit, http://marinich.tumblr.com/post/220489097/art-school-blues. So, as I said, it's a bit of a potpourri.
I'm going to ignore the parts I'd argue with and follow-up with this question about what I don't understand:

Your answer addresses this from the established startup side. My question is about people who are either not in business or who have just signed papers of incorporation. Perhaps they are just working under a memorandum of understanding. As I understand it, these folks are responsible for their own health insurance and are required to purchase it assuming they are able. If an Angel provides them with 100K for business development does that count as income? Do they then have to purchase insurance for themselves? For those guys, supposedly concentrating on finding a market and servicing it, are you saying there is a grant application process? Some forms to fill out? What, if anything, do they need to do that they are not doing now? Because there's obviously going to be something new for them to do, or they wouldn't have health care at all, right?
100-150 AD.
The article actually is quite thoughtful and friendly ... ya know, if you actually read it. ;)
I have both myopia and astigmatism, in which the image is warped as well as blurred. I would be interested in research to see if astigmatism is also correlated with these same factors which help induce myopia.

Also I wanted to point out the spelling error in this entry title:

"Shortsigtedness" should be "Shortsightedness"
Wow... this is, almost _exactly_ my final project for a class I'm in. I have to do some pretty serious stuff as far as the actual filtering goes, but the frontend is exactly what I've been working on down to the plugins (Redis/Sinatra/Haml/Jquery). This is amazing timing.

* Note: No, I'm not using this to cheat, I'm using it as a reference since my implementation is very different, and the actual filtering is what I'm being graded on. ;)
https://www.google.com/adsense/static/en_US/Afs.html
In which they will write Ruby in 200 lines of Lisp.
Two words: Posse Comitatus
A varied selection:

Jazzanova

Old Blue Note Jazz stuff

Glenn Gould Goldberg Variations (1. version 1955)

Bach Cello Suites (Pierre Fournier)

Minimal Electronica

Daft Punk/ Justice/ Etienne de Crecy (French Electro)

Drum n' Bass (old Roni Size stuff - New Forms/ V Label)

almost forgot: Giles Peterson's monthly podcasts
My humble opinion:

Nice blog design, decent point, pathetic use of profanity.
This makes me vocalize something Ive wondered about...

Whats the smallest subset of lisp which you need to implement in order to bootstrap the language? So, given this small subset, one can implement the rest of say scheme or common lisp or arc on top of.

I vaguely recall Sussman or Ebelson implementing car and cadr in terms of lambdas, for example.

It seems this should be quite modular, given so many implementations of lisp [ in javascript, PHP, etc now Ruby ]. So that new lisps might be easily brought up over this kernel.
Rush Limbaugh is fat.
I don't know Ruby, or Rails. I guess I'm an idiot :(
I only used "fuck" twice and "shit" three times. Tough crowd.
I like Python. Fast to develop in like Ruby, but also well-suited to many different types of programming tasks.

If you're looking to learn a new language, Python's my advice. Ruby is good too, but it seems to be primarily used for web development.

If you already know PHP, learn any new language -- be it Python, Ruby, or something else. It's a good investment that will pay off in the long run no matter which language you choose.
Does anything in Arrington's background make him better suited to cover technology than a journalism graduate?

Eventually, each of them has the chance to make himself into an expert in his field. The journalism grad might also remember some stuff from her studies such as not to invest in companies operating in the field she covers, verify with several sources, try to get responses before publishing and so on.

I'd say that blogs are a huge disappointment exactly because they failed to fulfill the promise of reporting by those who know most. Instead we got reporting by the those who write most, which tend to be the Scobles and Arringtons of this world rather than the Cunninghams and Torvalds (Torvaldi? ;).

I think Fake Steve is among the sharpest commentator on this space, but he's completely wrong here, suggesting TC > NYT because something they threw out against the wall managed to stay stuck.
It's dying because all they do is publish paid for shit.
The title puts me off reading it.

Perhaps "Heroku in Ruby solves <problem X>" ?
Thanks, I'm pretty good in php. I love the Kohana PHP framework.
First OOC, now this. What is the need to make anything look like the ugly indented mess that is python?
> How about a command for closing whatever tag is open where the cursor is?

Try `C-h m` to find out what commands your HTML editing mode provides. In HTML Mode, `C-c /` closes the current element, and in nxml mode, `C-c C-f` does the same thing. Even better, in nxml mode, when `nxml-slash-auto-complete-flag` is non-nil the current element is automatically closed when you type a "/".

The nice thing about Emacs is that it's pretty trivial to write a little elisp code to add the other functionality you're looking for.
Aw, c'mon. The title's so over-the-top you can't take it seriously. I thought it was playful.
I did read it. I have no problem with the article (and I actually think both Heroku and RoR are brilliant), but the title is so DHH-like I couldn't resist.. I hope you don't take any offense, honestly none intended.
That was the initial report from one of the researchers, but there are claims that it can be demonstrated to work in cases not involving client-side certificates, too. See http://extendedsubset.com/?p=8 : "Cases not involving client certificates have been demonstrated as well."

Unfortunately, that's all the data I have on that, that one sentence, and a few other places that have the same basic info which may or may not simply be reflections of this one. I haven't seen any additional substantiation.
I've been told it actually works on the iPhone and plays videos that fail to load due to format problems the normal way. =]
Accepting $100k in angel funding does not obligate your Corporation to cover its employees. Neither would $500k, since you certainly wouldn't spend every cent of it on payroll.

I think it's a safe approximation of the bill on the table that the founders of your hypothetical startup would need to have health insurance.

But they need health insurance now, for the same reason that they need to incorporate (eek! more big government regs!) before they start accepting money: because otherwise, there's a large number of plausible misfortunes that could bankrupt them personally. Have your appendix burst, or get hit by a car. No insurance? BK.

Your hypothetical founders make fuck-all in their first year anyways, and so it's likely they could pay whatever nominal fine the plan ends up with, which would be cheaper than insurance.

But that's a false economy. Because of the market distortions created by the health insurance companies, pharma, and hospitals, all of which set prices in collusion with the HR teams at big companies, you need insurance to have any meaningful access to health care in this country.