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That gallon of water used to water that tree right now is not available to me to shower, drink, or flush right now.

The water becomes immediately unavailable until it returns to the ground as rain somewhere or someWHEN else.

Sure, looking at the big picture the water is never actually "lost". Until you can plumb my domestic water into the clouds directly, the big picture is irrelevant. All that matters is the water that is available in a potable form for me to drink right now.

In financial systems, we might come to an arrangement that I will pay you Friday for a burger Tuesday. With water, it doesn't work like that. If I don't have water now at the time I need it, there is no use promising me water late next week.

And when it comes to a decision between me having a litre of water today for me to survive on, or saving your thousand-dollar almond tree, I will unashamedly pick me.
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True, but I think we'd all be surprised at how much our favorite ad-supported services are making per-user per-month on advertising. My back-of-the-envelope calculations on some of them has led to me to believe it's really not much.
Please let the governor know what you think. Everyone who reads this site is at least tangentially affected by it, and at most live in California.

http://www.gov.ca.gov/home.php
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Can Oregon's tiny houses be part of the solution to homelessness?
> the bigger problem is that the more money you'd be willing to pay to get rid of ads, the more your eyeballs are worth to a potential advertiser

I think that's a concern, but it's not a bigger problem than money laundering or illegal activity or anything else that micro-payment systems have had to deal with.

With micro-payments, you can't deal in actual currency. You have to move around some kind of "Credits" that at some point get exchanged back to currency in bulk to a payment processor, otherwise the transaction fees are greater than the payments themselves. This is dollar signs in the eyes of anybody who likes to play games with international money.

It's a space for cryptocurrency to be sure, but the push-based architecture makes recurring subscriptions a little tricky from a user standpoint. Not to mention that the user has to have cryptocurrency to begin with.
Most of the time, you are not missing anything, and `bind` is faster and simpler. But if you would like to perform left partial application on methods, event handlers, or other functions where `this` is meant to be bound dynamically, the given solution works for both sets of cases.
Nowhere in the article does it say that. It DOES say Spartan couldn't match IE11's score.
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My point is more towards Chrome/Google. I mentioned Mozilla with regards to firefox the Web browser and not firefox os. The latter does excite my interest and has me dying to get my hands on a device to tinker with and build apps. Even if it's with javascript. :)
I have a similar feeling, but I think the answer is that the EFF is a one-sided organization--their mission is to form opinions on these topics and fight for what they think is right.

I think of them as an "advocacy" nonprofit, and there are plenty of those on the other side as well, trying to make their case against things like government expropriation. The balanced view, to the extent it can exist, would be somewhere between the two sides; each listener synthesizes their own balance point, I guess.
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As a fun thought experiment I tried thinking about this issue as if it affected my profession (software development). Imagine if electricity was going scarce. Yet prices are pretty cheap in the kWh such that I don't really notice it. I just pay my monthly bill (actually it auto-pays itself) and I go on my merry way. But what if the electricity problem was real such that at a certain point we wouldn't have any light. Would I change my profession to "do my part"? Probably not. This is why you can't expect almond farmers to stop pumping ground water. This is their livelihood. They have families to support too. They need to pay their rents and buy food and maybe have some fun from time to time. That raises the question...who is going to be first? How does the government even begin to regulate? What a mess.
> My own peak use of social media arose during a period of painful isolation . . . recently heartbroken and thousands of miles from my family and friends. In many ways, the internet made me feel safe.

I can relate to this. My peak use of social media was while I was attending university on the other side of the world.

But since a couple of years ago, almost everyone I care about is only a local call away from me. Over the last couple of years, I have drastically reduced my social media usage, and it wasn't because of the Snowden revelations. I just don't feel the need to ping someone on <insert your favorite social network here> when I can just call them up or, even better, meet them IRL.

Having lived for a decade in the second-largest country in the world, my sense of distance also seems to have become a little weird compared to those of others in my home country. Oh, Granny is only a five-hour drive away from me? Why even bother talking on the phone then? I'll just drive there and see her in person this weekend. The less electronics there is between us, the better.

Social media is a fallback option for when there aren't any low-tech alternatives. But if you have healthy legs, there is no need to use a wheelchair with NSA trackers attached to it.
We're making a desktop laser cutter/engraver: a magic box that makes beautiful products.
CNC lasers have been around since the 80s but innovation's been at a standstill. We're driving the price of the hardware down 5x and building a cloud backend that does motion planning and machine vision to make it dead simple to use. Push a button, out come flat-pack wallets, lamps, board games, and anything else you can dream up.
We're up in Seattle, funded, and have 8 employees including 3 founders who've manufactured hardware, sold companies, graduated YC, and built profitable businesses. Check out this article about us:
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Does this mean Chrome on iOS will reject these certs? It's a bit unclear. I know they have to use the Safari rendering engine but I'm curious if there are any other internals at play here.
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Mesos itself is, but it seems every framework out there is written in Java or Scala: Chronos, Marathon, Aurora, Spark, Singularity etc. Also, it relies on Zookeeper, which is of course Java.
Selling batteries def have helped them with keeping the lights on. Not sure if many remember but Tesla was about to go under water at some point before cutting a deal with this German car company to sell them batteries.
Sloppy on multiple levels.

The poor English doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in the company. I realize the company is from an area of the world that is not generally English-speaking, but geez, to respond to something as serious as this surely you can run your blog response by at least one native speaker to sanity check it before posting it.

But worse than that is the story they are seemingly trying to sell is that this is one random dude's fuckup -- which may very well be true, but that this could happen as the result of one random dude's fuckup speaks volumes about lack of much-needed process to deal with this sort of certificate responsibility.
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thanks for responding. could i ask you to go into more detail about what the experience of a relatively junior engineer looked like at these smaller companies?

Would you expect them to be given a task to complete or feature to implement or bug to fix, with some flexibility on how to solve that problem.

Alternatively, would you expect the work to be more like the color between the lines books we had as kids, where you are pretty much just doing the busy work of implementing a mostly predefined solution.

would you expect a developer to be able to choose what he worked on. would there be any flexibility in what language or libraries could be used, or would all of these decisions be made already.

what do you think are the most annoying things new developers do. Are there some common bad habits/ ways of thinking that one should try to avoid falling into.
That's 150AF. An orchard needs at most 4 feet of water per year, and let's say you can count on 1 foot of that falling from the sky. Your 50 acres of solar could therefore produce enough water every day to irrigate 50 acres of orchard for a year, or in other words if you devoted less than 1% of your land to solar power you could irrigate the rest of it with desalinated water.

Of course, California producers would never do that because they would have to put up their own money. History shows that what farmers want in the way of infrastructure gets paid for by the public (dams, aqueducts, levees, drainage, etc).

Edit: whoops that's high by almost a factor of 10x, but I'll leave it the way I originally wrote it.
>Is this much different than many other technological changes in history? Most benefit a large group of people, while having negative consequences for the smaller group.

Not sure. Some seem to benefit small groups while having negative consequences for the larger groups.
I think you're getting something mixed up. Until you get to numbers so big that n+1 == n, the numbers on the left of the decimal point are represented exactly. They have the exact same precision as fixed point.

Ignore how the mantissa looks by itself. Once the exponent gets involved, everything that influences the left of the decimal point is an integer. That's why you use the same base for the mantissa and the exponent. The exponent losslessly shifts part of the mantissa into the integer range. Any particular floating point number is exactly equivalent to a fixed point number.
CNNIC's response to Google
>I think that's a very idealistic thing to believe.

And I think that the inverse is what creates the whole US mess with huge incarceration rates and a doomed black population...
Sounds like a bluetooth keyboard might be helpful.
On the other hand, Django was a new framework, once. If you want to create a web framework for Go that is equivalent to Django, you have to start somewhere.
Yep, in a very tight race with CBRE for top spot. I wonder if there's a place to find sick information, like the Forbes richest list.
Base libraries are not removed automatically but libraries from packages are (though sometimes they stay in limbo as .libs- package, e.g. if pkg_add is interrupted).
Yeah, he only has the benefit of youth, whereas you have all this wisdom...
Does Foxconn have much expertise in manufacturing batteries?
NYPD Detective Stripped of Gun and Badge After Xenophobic Rant Caught on Video
I'm sorry, but what is a Gigafactory?
They did make great videos!

The voice of Patrick Stewart at the start of the Nebula One launch video still gives me shivers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4rsEjsomFI

And don't forget back in 2011 with the launch of the company at OSCON with the who's who intro video before the presentation including hardware pr0n
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oydzMfFYWM

I also couldn't help, but think that http://opennebula.org/ will be happy for the end of the namespace collision.

Hubris videos aside, Nebula.com carried more than their share of the weight in the first 3 years of OpenStack, and made me believe that OpenCompute wasn't just Facebook. Thank you and best wishes to all who brought NASA Nebula to open source and made OpenStack a reality!
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EU Lays Groundwork for Antitrust Charges Against Google
I don't think we can clean it. Any redistributive attempt to do so would involve coercive force. It sucks, but it means that for most societies, talking about property as sacred is ultimately a fantasy.
Those conglomerates developed before the age of computers. They designed their operational structures without the convenience of modern technology, and therefore relied on expanding work forces to grow their company. Labor was cheap, and necessary for growth at the time because humans had to do so much more than they do now.

Facebook is a multinational company with only a few thousand fulltime employees. If GE or Microsoft developed in the same technological context as facebook, they would likely employ far fewer people than they do now. The market increasingly favors agility, and monolithic business models are becoming obsolete (if they are not also decentralized in some capacity, a la Uber).

Tesla can become a powerful multinational player while remaining agile.
I work at DuckDuckGo. Our most popular open source project is DuckDuckHack: http://duckduckhack.com/ Developers leverage code, APIs, wikis, etc. to answer searches (across a broad range of topics) in few or zero clicks. What we call, "Instant Answers."

The nature of the project only works well with the involvement of non-developers in that the best Instant Answers are made by subject-matter experts across a variety of fields. Suggesting ideas, finding great sources, and the overall experience of the IA are all better if coming from someone who really wants to improve searches for that topic. https://duck.co/help/community/contributing

Let me know if you're interested in getting involved--any time :)
That's unfortunate.

The Economist's attempts at creating a sensible digital pricing model has just been a range of awful options. From the Kindle, to the iPad, etc.

To say nothing of the fact that it's still cheaper to just find a decent discount on the print edition and access the web version via that account, than it is to save the materials and costs and go digital-only.

For all the normative claims they make about the need for better environmentalism and economic policies, they sure seem to have difficulty keeping their own house in order.
Nah, we'd still have plenty of CAs at any given time. After all, it's highly unlikely that all of them will fuck up at the same time. If you buy from a reputable CA, there's at least 90% chance that you won't have any issues during the life of your certificate (1-2 years).

If the requirements for becoming (and remaining) a CA become stricter than they are now, the market will adjust after a while. Peace of mind has always been, and will always be, a very strong selling point. How about this: "We'll sell you three certificates for the price of one! One signed by Comodo, one signed by Verisign, and one signed by GlobalSign! And here's an Apache module that detects when one of your CAs get discredited, and automatically replaces it with a good one!"
I agree with what you are saying. I'd just like to be pedantic about 300+ HP induction motors: they are deceivingly complex to manufacture. The tolerances required are measured in microns. Fortunately, the motors are inexpensive (relative to ICE engines), easy to swap out of the car, and cheap to teardown and rebuild. Manufacturing, design for manufacturing, and efficient service and rework departments will be important for scaling motor production.
I strongly agree with you. I think that selectivity should be explicit and that there are currently incentives for maintainers to merely implicitly and quietly be selective
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One of the issues is that it was originally designed as a mentoring platform, so you would be led through it by a friend that knows the process. The help link is very good for some languages, but could use some love for other languages.
It's interesting, perhaps stereo was meant at the time for creating a more "3D" sound experience, stereo today remains the standard for recording music. Even though some movies and songs attempt things like including surround sound given that the technology now exists, stereo is much more common and full surround soundtracks are rare.

I'm curious if any audio engineers can weigh in on why stereo is still often all that is used today.
I do like the lines "the best of bread solutions" and "the sack of unintentional action" though.
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We are still building and maintaining several web applications in Java for UN internal usage. We are also adding native Android and iOS mobile applications that interacts with these services. And doing elearning platforms on Moodle.

We are looking for Java software developers and Android developers and IOS developers and Moodle developers, to join our Software Development team, as full-time position.

On the java side, we mainly do Spring MVC webapps, with "traditional" front-end in HTML5, jQuery and Bootstrap. We deploy on Linux, so a familiarity with it is a plus.

On iOS, we are getting started so both ObjC and Swift will be used.

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Open source projects are often developed by volunteers, and hosted by free services like github or bitbucket.

I've actually never seen an an freedom respecting project that included adware, and I can confidently say that the reason for that is that if a team were to do that, somebody would fork the repo and remove the offensive junk. As long as it gets caught, it's a self healing ecosystem. The same cannot be said for non-free software, as the pool of people who could find junk is so much smaller, but also because if junk were to be found by an employee, they'd have very little power to actually do anything about it.

Open source is volunteers, and when its not, they run on donations. When the donations stop, they stop. Some have found clever ways to make money, such as pay4premium or pay4support, but I've never seen ad injectors. Those come from third party distributors who aren't affiliated with the projects and can be avoided.
This is what I hoped would happen when we learned about the malicious intermediate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9254899

We need to send CAs a strong signal that the trust (and license to print money that comes along with it) we put into then hinges on them behaving properly. Making sure that their intermediaries do the same is obviously part of the deal.

We must make it very clear to CAs that hiding behind intermediaries is not an acceptable strategy to escape their responsibilities.
Yes, "name constraints" is what I was suggesting. (I vaguely remembered that there was something in the relevant standards that allow such constraints, but I couldn't remember the name and wasn't sure that it was actually in the standards. So I just tried to explain the idea.)
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I believe the point is accuracy after conversion round trip from integer to floating point and back again.

A better term might be fidelity.
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A 16 year old girl trying to change the game writes her own music but afraid to share but besides that i think we could work something out with her voice
Chrome Apps outside the browser were demonstrated a couple of years ago¹; but I'm not sure if it's in their interest to be so silent installing Chrome.

It's interesting that what you're describing is actually been done by Mozilla, when they separated XULRunner from Firefox. A few apps already use it², including Google's own Analytics Editor, but it needs to be way more polished to make it attractive to the general app developers.

¹ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=j8o...

² http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XULRunner#Uses
"One sweep" and "instantly" are flamboyant at best. There is a long way to go before running android apps on desktops is the norm. Sure, some run Android emulators but its for special cases.
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Lol  Girls have now figured out how to pee standing
I'm part of a small team of expats from Silicon Valley that came out to DC last year to help fix healthcare.gov. (Mostly Stanford, Google, YCombinator folks) We've learned a ton, and see an opportunity to create software that radically improves how our government serves its people - we've started our company, Nava, to chase that vision.

In the last 6 months, we've launched 2 major projects:

- App 2.0, the new insurance application for healthcare.gov. It's processing 70% of apps coming through the marketplace, and: converts 35% more people than the old app, gets them through in half the time, is mobile-friendly (20% of apps), sits on robust, scalable infrastructure, etc etc. It was the first system that CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service) ever hosted on Amazon AWS.

- Scalable Login System (SLS), the new identity management system for healthcare.gov. Sadly, the main achievement here is that the system is actually up and available, unlike its predecessor. It's now saving the taxpayer $70M in annual maintenance costs.

Here's a Wired article from last summer about us:
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/healthcare-gov-revamp/

Our momentum is strong, the problem is important, and we're looking for good people.

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As long as you say "usually", nobody can ever disagree with you!
It was originally designed as more of a mentoring platform, so you would be led through it by a friend that knows the process. It's easier to trust a friend than a code review for a non programmer. It's also easier on the friend to be able to download just one binary and start mentoring than for her to have to find a bunch of requirements just to get the exercise.

It's enough to have to get all of the language's requirements installed...
>Is this kind of thing really useful to anyone?

To me it reads like the kind of documentation that gets written by a person who is intimately familiar with a system but doesn't really succeed at getting into the headspace of what a newbie needs from their documentation.

I find lots of manpages are like this, actually.
I mean it's a hell of a good point. Not trying to take away from the post.
Also consider:

- solar city benefits from increased storage capabilities of batteries. Solar panels (a capital investment) generate higher returns when they also power buildings at night.

- National electric grids benefit from increased battery storage because they can store electricity for hours after it's actually generated.

- tesla is building a network of superchargers all connected to the electric grid

- tesla has arguably more at stake than any company in battery R&D. Few if any companies are as motivated as tesla for battery tech to improve.

My hypothesis is that Elon Musk is architecting Tesla as the "cloud" of electricity generation, storage, and transfer. He is building the ultimate smart grid. Electric cars are a nice excuse to develop the requisite network effects and initial momentum before expanding to other verticals. He's going from a red ocean to a blue ocean. [1]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
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With that headline I was expecting a story about Ford (or someone) building an electric Mustang in 1968.