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Having to build 2-3 times the capacity because power generation can't be distributed throughout the day is a huge inefficiency.

This seems to me the big benefit here -- enough penetration of home backup batteries means public power generation doesn't have to be built up to provide massive peak surges. Further, trickle charging the backup batteries during the evenings/nighttime and allowing them to meet some needs during the day also means a higher net usage of generated power, so perhaps levels of generation could go down altogether.

There's also then the capitalistic angle -- if you want more peak power at your house, you can buy more batteries in lieu of (or in concert with) installing secondary power systems.

But reducing gross energy production due to higher net utilization would be a really cool thing, so long as the total cost to the macro system (considering full life of the battery vs. load taken off power plants) is a net positive.
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This post kind of reminds me of a book I read about 10 years ago. "Revolutionary Wealth" by Alvin Toffler:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Wealth

AFAICR in this book, the third revolution is referred to as "The revolution of knowledge" and I think it better describes how and what has changed during the past... 20 years.

Great book by the way. I think it was where I read for the first time a good perspective of how 3d printers could play an important role in the near future.
Thanks Peroni - appreciate your comment. We don't forget your early and continuous support was critical to Workshape.io. Love to see how we can help further - time for us to meet up?
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Cute. It might be useful with some more presets and the ability to fade to something other than white. For now, it's just a cute joke.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lego_Group

Heading 'trademarks and patents', the last patent expired in '89.
(One must still be cautious - even with 0% interest rates - since the principal is still repayable. If your part of the economy goes bad, a default on a 0% loan is just as bad/likely as a default on a 5% loan.)
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I wonder if this even needs to be something in the home. Wouldn't it also make sense to install these things, in bulk, in a place where they could service several homes? Say, at the block level. If it is part of power distribution infrastructure as opposed to a consumer product, then that simplifies some of the safety and maintenance issues; concerns like weight or volume are even less important if they are housed in a dedicated structure.
Ok... did you tell Samsung before linking it here?
Yawn. I've been following this concept, and a wide array of very talented scientists working on it, for years now.

Any of the below projects, should they ever see the light of day (you'd think out of this many, at least one will make it eventually), stands a good chance of being quite superior for this application in just about every way:

http://www.eosenergystorage.com/technology-and-products/

http://www.ambri.com/technology/

http://www.ultrabattery.com/technology/

http://www.axionpower.com/Technology

http://www.lightsail.com/

http://www.drexel.edu/now/archive/2014/November/MXene-clay/
For sure. Dinosaur's fingerprints are all over Graveyard Shift.
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That depends on the jurisdiction; I agree with you in UK/US, but in Germany an accused can not be forced to provide evidence for his/her guilt.
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Thinking about it, why wouldn't utilities jump at this and make it a standard part of every install? It would allow them to lower the demand-based generation due to every house having a local buffer of storage. They could easily monitor the levels on all the packs in a sector and know ahead of time when they are going to need more capacity which they can fill with better generators like gas turbine or nuclear.
Microsoft already disproved this belief with Window’s UAC mechanism. Unless you have an unusually savvy user-base, you have to assume that a non-trivial percentage of people will approve any prompt which is claimed to give music, games, coupons, porn, etc.

Just to illustrate how unworkable this is currently, Facebook had to include a huge warning in the developer console telling you not to XSS yourself because people would follow instructions to open the developer tools and paste in a blob of JavaScript: https://www.facebook.com/help/246962205475854
Before the code even gets to QA it needs to be functional and as bug free as possible. As a developer, I _hate_ it when my fellow developers send crap to QA because they could not be bothered to make it not crap. It is unprofessional.

The goal should be to produce SW that does not get rejected at QA.
Yes, remote working maybe not an option, but founders can visit and open their development office. I have worked for 3 companies so far and all of them are selling product in overseas and doing development here, by putting someone experienced as a CTO in development office.

Ratio between salary ($150K vs $12K ) are too high comparing to ratio of skillset, 10x low salary doesnt mean 10x low skillset, thats just financial state in countries.
A lot of guys are working at Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other big corps who took experience here, developers are not bad, they might not have enough experience.

~$300K is avg. spending for 10 developers with office and perks included annually.
Compare it to $750K spending for 5developers where each of them has 2x skillset of outsorced developer just for salary and other spendings annually, which I guess will be around $1M/annually.
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You really can't think of a technical reason?

Now I am not involved with IE at all, but i think it's safe to assume that they are most likely using new APIs which are specific to that platform.

Now that's not an excuse, as they could write in fallbacks for platforms that don't have this, but it's definitely a valid reason.

it's a reason, but it's not a valid one. if it was then no one would write software that works on older windows versions.
It's nice to know that there will always be someone around to ask the question, "But what if [insert superficially homogeneous ethnic/religious/race/gender/etc. group here] actually are inferior?", because that's typically what "naughty questions" boil down to. Dumb ideas backed by questionable science.
"You're giving power back to the utility company at a fraction of what you purchase electricity for."

Not if your region was forced to subscribe to a feed-in-tarriff subsidy scheme for solar. Around here, there was a time when solar generated power earned 10x the value of the same amount of energy purchased from the grid. That multiplier has fallen thankfully, but is still greater than one.
Flash always had its drawbacks, such as: 1. it was not a web standard, 2. it was not indexable by search bots + was not accessible, 3. needed a plug-in to run. Therefore, I don't think it was ever being seen as unseatable. It was actually quite hated in the community of web standards & accessibility-aware web developers very early on.
Breadth and depth are both very important. Too much breadth and you have a hard time getting any non-trivial job done. Not enough breadth and you use the wrong tool for the job. If you want to be the best dev possible, it's probably good to keep up with the latest in terms of adding those alternative solutions into your own conceptual framework, but it's distracting to spend too much time with them unless they truly are the best tool for the job at hand (and marginally so in terms of time invested).

I suppose it's like reading non-fiction books. As soon as you believe you understand the author's perspective in sufficient detail, it's often best to set the book aside and move on to the next one. You are under no obligation to read every page.
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Any reasonable grid company should not only not prohibit this, but welcome it and pay for energy people feed back into it. I can call mine any day and have a bi-directional meter put in so I can charge for it, should I ever choose to install solar panels.
Oh, I already looked it up. :) I was just realizing that it's not a hard problem to solve and sites could easily automate this, so they should. I guess you could argue that the browser could solve it as well. Or people could just write it out instead. :o
Google made it really hard to search for blogs or blog articles too. Which is annoying when you just want to check for articles on something by people rather than organisations.
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Very rarely the best solution wins.
Why is this not an issue if you have solar cells or wind mill or whatever?
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They both have 10 years of development experience, but the one with the CS degree has 4 (give or take) years of additional experience in another setting (as an undergrad). It's not the same kind of experience, but it gives you a bit more more information about that person.

All other things equal (which they rarely are), I'd value 10 years dev experience + 4 years undergrad over 10 years dev experience + ?.
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I would think so, and I would hope they would implement it. Especially considering the benefits to society of having people who are more prepared and self-sufficient, I would hope that safety would be only one of the reasons they wouldn't rely on people obeying some regulation for their worker's safety.
Someone who want to take advantage of this income gap would probably be better of starting a company in Asia. Since the web is global you can sell to customers in nearly any country. It might be good to target the domestic market first though, and then expand abroad.
This is being done. Power companies have shipping containers full of batteries hooked up to their grids. I have read better stories but the first thing I found googling just now is this http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-07/ausnet-trialling-new-s...
Fair enough. But the pros/cons of each tech would need to be balanced against the $/Wh cost. Once the gigafactory is fully online I thought I'd read they were shooting to drop the pack cost in half? If that were true then it'd be 175 vs 100 and the pro/con list would be much more important, right?
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It seems like you are approaching a philosophy of mathematics called "Ultrafinitism" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafinitism). It is a very interesting subject and shouldn't be dismissed prematurely.
What was the google query you used?
I'm so happy to see this posted here ... it's not the usual kind of story I see on HN. Slowdive is one of my favorite bands and remains in heavy rotation on my ipod to this day. There were rumors a few months ago that they might be getting back together for a tour. Although I enjoy Neil Halstead's solo releases and Rachel's solo release, I'd love to see a new Slowdive album.
To be fair, Megaupload used deduplication pretty extensively. So to remove the file would be to remove it from every single user whether they shared the URL or not. Any number of those users could have the right to a copy of the file in question or live in a country where copyright law just plain doesn't apply to sharing files (e.g. somewhere it's OK as long as it's down without commercial gain).

Removing just the link to the file seems reasonable to me. How do you choose which country to break the law? Removing just the link seems like the safest bet.
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Ok, if you are indeed asking the same questions that helps. I would add some information per item with some explanation or definition, so it is as clear as possible what is meant by the different terms.
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This reads like you're just point-scoring at this point.

If the site worked on the Tube before, and now it doesn't, that's a pretty massive failing.
PLMATTMETJSOW.

People Like to Make Up Abbreviations That Take More Explanation Than Just Spelling it Out Would.

SMH.
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This is an issue even without battery storage. Solar and wind generation that is set up to feed excess back to the grid already has to have a way for the utilities to shut it off. This is why you have to have your setup vetted by the utility if you are feeding the grid.
There is. The same issue is present with home generators, and most cities require they be installed by a licensed electrician who will ensure it doesn't power the grid in an outage.
This would do it: inurl:"/ganglia" AND intitle:"Host Report" AND intitle:"Ganglia::"
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Firefox has had HSTS support since version 4 and Chrome has had it since 4.0.211.0. Indeed, it is great to see Microsoft do this, but too little too late?
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He also seems to respect Merkel and Schäuble, Germany's finance minister

"Angela Merkel is by far the most astute politician in Europe. There is no doubt about it. And Wolfgang Schäuble, her Finance Minister, is perhaps the only European politician with intellectual substance. He's a genuine committed European and a deep down federalist."

http://www.stern.de/politik/ausland/greek-finance-minister-v...
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The initial announcement said, that there are no immediate plans to enable this for Thunderbird. I'd guess it's just a compile-time flag in .mozconfig. In that case it would affect firefox -app. (But I didn't bother to actually look at the source!)
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It's funny to read this and the previous articles about the loss of freedom in Firefox, then see the description on its download page (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/):

"Download Mozilla Firefox, a free Web browser. Firefox is created by a global non-profit dedicated to putting individuals in control online."

I find the "appeal to security" argument that's being increasingly popular these days as nothing more than an excuse to restrict general-purpose computing and control the users, and I am not happy about it at all. "Malware is the new terrorism." The idea that we should take away freedom just because someone could possibly make a wrong decision is personally quite horribly disturbing. On the other hand, from the perspective of wanting to exert control, it makes perfect sense: by decreasing the amount of decisions users have to do, it induces atrophy of their critical thinking skills, and makes them more inclined to accept things without questioning...

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
Swervedriver are actually working on a new record, "I Wasn't Born to Lose You", and have put out a few songs from it (more "Mezcal Head" than "99th Dream", IMO):

"Setting Sun", "Days": http://open.spotify.com/album/0C0q7niaA3GxJpVQsWiiKz

"Autodidact": https://soundcloud.com/blackandblueam/autodidact

Sorry for the shameless plug, but: I play in a shoegaze-influenced dream pop band called Weed Hounds, and we recently put out our first LP, for anyone who's interested (think Pale Saints, Swirlies): http://open.spotify.com/album/0aABjwPh5l2UOM5yWWON11
Totally agree with "intimately involved", this makes development more productive, than calling by skype and saying "Hey we have bug, clients are waiting, just fix it somehow" ;)
You are saying that you think it is reasonable that a small group of "college graduates" have created and executed a global espionage campaign against airgapped military targets using software that makes previous nec plus ultra NSA cyberweapons look obsolete.
> opsworks ganglia graph legend

was trying to figure out what the hell the 'm' unit is on the load graphs for ganglia - still haven't.
It is available right now if you hover over the labels on the chart. It is definitely not immediately obvious though so we shall have to work on that - thanks!
In which case they will also download and run SomethingSagaCheats.exe without second thought. Should Firefox disable exe downloads without a setting to turn them on? What about users who download SomethingSagaCheats.jpg and rename it to exe before running? We should disable all downloads then, no?

In general I do not like restricting rights to protect people. Now Mozilla is no government, but the same basic idea is going on here. Removing (instead of disabling or discouraging) features in the name of safety. At some point you have to tell someone they are responsible for their own online safety, give them the resources to educate themselves, and let them face the consequences if they choose not to.
Isn't part of the problem that production costs for batteries are so high? I suspect this is Tesla staking claim in a market that will grow as the price of large rechargeable batteries drops. And that price drop will in large part be due to Tesla.
Yes, that is true - however, it is generally frowned on by public companies to admit you shared such information outside the company.
I agree that they are probably not independent, but I have a different idea as to why. From my personal experience of playing many competitive games, when your opponent makes an obvious mistake you might get too excited or carried away about capitalizing on the mistake and make a subpar move. Consider a situation like this:

"Wow he just left his queen right open! I can't believe he did that! I'll take it with my rook."

Rook takes queen, rook is wide open, could have taken queen with some other piece and had it protected.

It's possible this doesn't apply to chess as much but in more fast paced games if you see an opening, you take it, because even if you don't capitalize 100% on it you're better off than not doing anything about the blunder.
In which case, for the user's safety, we need to remove the ability to download exe's. Disabling won't be good enough; they may follow steps to enable it not knowing what they are doing.
it's expected that you play within the existing
marketeer-created universe

Maybe that's how you or your kids play with them, but here we have no problem kitbashing the branded sets. Their parts end up in the color-sorted bins along with all the rest, and the kids build crazy stuff out of whatever. The last round included parts from a city, a dinosaur, and a submarine, and those were just the ones I recognized. We even mix Megabloks and Duplo with our Legos. Now, if I could only get the kids to pick up the parts when they finish...

Kitbashing is _the_ plot driver of the Lego movie, in that it's what Master Builders do.

Notice how the Lego Club magazine highlights people's creative builds.

I want to postulate that Lego's endpoint is not static sculpture, but active imagination. Consider fan fiction. Sometimes we want to create stories inside someone else's universe. Hasn't your imagination been sparked by some favorite movie or book or artwork? Have you ever wanted to tell the rest of the story? I know I did! That's why I flew my Duplo Millenium Falcon around the living room. I don't see how a more realistic version would have been less fun, or less imaginative. And that's the point of the branded sets. They're fun! With any luck someday soon I will be able to build model rockets that look a lot like what explodes on my launchpad in KSP, only my kids and I will be able to fly those around the living room, pretending the sofa is Planet Klystron, home of the savage (but peaceful) race of Mer-mole-men (Lego people with frickin' sharks heads!) Meanwhile, Superman arrives to rescue our stranded Kerbals, whose ship (naturally) blew up upon launch.

And so on.

It's about the stories we can tell ourselves and each other. In-universe. Something wholly new. It doesn't matter. Do whatever it takes to get you or your kids' imaginations jumpstarted.

Or at least that's what I'm after when I buy a Lego set (branded or not). It looks cool, and it sets my imagination racing.
So, first things first: Love the software and the concept of visualizing your activity spread in a radar plot. Well done!

Now for the rant:
I am an IT architect. There are many architects working in IT but few of them do anything that is related to what I do. I see job postings for Enterprise Sharepoint Architect and I cry a little, others for CTO/Architect/senior developer and I question if they are maybe hiring for 3 positions and are just really bad at writing jobspecs. I often have VPs working under my direction and govern the work of Project Managers and yet people contact me and ask if I'm interested in a devops role.

Recruitment is broken and I hope companies like workshape.io are here to fix it.
As an adjunct to this, if large numbers interest you there's a really excellent and long-standing set of pages about them at http://www.mrob.com/pub/math/largenum.html which has some fascinating incidental detail and covers infinities as well as large finite numbers.
Is it just me or isn't Data Science used in an even more vague manner than Software Engineer is used. I mean on a daily basis I encounter people that call themselves Data Scientists who would never be able to use the title Software Engineer or even programmer as they wouldn't be able to write a single line of code if asked.
Looks like 100% of their hosts are down right now -- I wonder if this is a side effect from being on the top of HN, or if Ganglia has a function for remotely killing all hosts?
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It's interesting that the noun 'shoegaze' is dominant now. As a teen, I followed the scene closely through Melody Maker and a fairly active discussion group on Prodigy (!), and as I recall, the term 'shoegazing' was preferred then. A Cmd-F through the article would appear to reinforce that recollection.
Yeah, I agree on principle. But sometimes you look bad in front of QA because you ask them to do their job. To give you an example - I was implementing an achievement for a console game. The achievement took roughly 3-4 hours to test fully. I was specifically told by my manager to do my best to make sure that it works,but not to spend time testing it myself,because it would be a waste of my time - it's QAs job to test things like this. So obviously, when the achievement didn't trigger after 4 hours of testing, I looked like a dick to QA,who just spent 4 hours testing this thing.

Unfortunately some people take this approach for everything and never test their code - that's bad.
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PSK is everywhere, once you hear it. It's weird how that song gets around.
agreed, they should have looked at other moths (similar shape) without tails + these moths normal + these moths without tails.
or this: opsworks ganglia graph legend
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DevOps is an integral part of Continuous Deployment. I am not sure why methods used to make deployment of software more frequent and less error prone should raise anyone's hackles. I guess it is not understanding what DevOps is and what it is trying to achieve.
How are their English speaking and communications skills compared to developers in the US?
Mozilla get scummier every year. Might be time to move to Pale Moon, I think.