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You still need a base power plant and few others for controlling the amount of energy in the system. Using only renewable is kind o hard. If we can figure out a way to store energy the way we can access it very quickly with arbitrary output, we could move on to renewables exclusively.
I see, so prior to this random() and entropy() addition to Linux nobody could ever write any security related application. Yes, this is true. We should change the pull request to "Enable security for Linux, 2014". God, never too late...
"The vast majority of programmers lack the knowledge, skill, or both required to correctly implement anything."

Agreed.

As opposed to have everybody implement his/her own random()/entropy().
NSA likes this. Only one random and entropy code to compromise.
Re:European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP and CETA on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @11:34AM (#8042564)
I am arguing that for an average person there is no difference between 3% growth and 15% growth, but for mother Earth there is and I don't care about corporate CEOs (less than 1% of the global population) and the Rokafela bros. Sorry for my ignorance but I think an average person and our planet is more important than few fat bankers and their CEO friends. I know, I am a bad person.
Re:Comcast Comments on FCC's Proposed Rules on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @11:17AM (#8042433)
Lat time I checked Google was not an ISP for consumers. They do this to generate more competition against the ISPs forming a trust against competition.

Example:

"The Justice Department has reached out to the companies as it investigates whether the cable-industry merger (CMCSA:US) is anticompetitive, said the people, who asked not to be named because the review isn’t public."

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-07-11/disney-cbs-said-...

Thanks to Goole Comcast started to do higher speed internet, it was shocking to me how customers were not interested in it but right after the Google offering the very same customers went totally mad and they suddenly needed faster internet. Who understands these very complicated matters anyways?!?!

Re:European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP and CETA on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @11:06AM (#8042379)
You are right. In US there is no good healthcare and this is the most expensive system that provides the least value for an _average_ individual.

Education, same.

This is what should be exported to the rest of the world? Who are you kidding? The only thing USA could export is guns and dirt bikes.

Re:European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP and CETA on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @11:03AM (#8042358)
"European economy has barely grown for 15 years and these agreements are a welcome development."

Good, keep it this way. We don't need more economic growth because the 90% of it goes straight to billionaires and the average worker don't benefit from it anyways. What we really need is an economy that does not rely on growth and mass production of toxic waste.

Re:European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP and CETA on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @11:01AM (#8042348)
This is one very good argument against the EU in its entirety. We don't need crooked politicians from a random country making decisions for the rest of the EU. It seems like things are going terribly wrong since this project started. The only gain we got is a higher dose of cocaine in the urine of the EU parliament members.
Re:Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with Mozjpeg 2.0 on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @02:33PM (#8038169)
Could you conduct a detailed article and publish it please? I think it would be useful for people who are interested in this but don't have the background about JPEG or WEBP internals.

NVM I found what I was looking for:

http://people.mozilla.org/~josh/lossy_compressed_image_study...

Re:Amazon Zocalo on Thursday July 10, 2014 @08:11PM (#8018158)
Yes, it is called competition. :)
Re:Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:19PM (#8007471)
FYI HN people don't line sarcasm or irony on the portal. I still try to figure it out why... Any time I see this, I kinda feel like:

http://www.hdwallpapers.in/walls/why_so_serious-wide.jpg

Re:Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:16PM (#8007457)
Sorry for not being helpful. At least the other comments were so freakin' helpful I heard that they stopped shooting from Gaza. You know, the opinion of Internet people matter.
Re:Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:14PM (#8007449)
I mean not relying on Twitter on communicating your message...
Re:Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @06:13PM (#8006998)
I prefer planning over firefighting...
Re:Maintaining digital certificate security on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @04:10PM (#8006500)
Exactly. It does not make any freakin sense, yet people are banging on implementation details like which cypher is better like you could not circumvent the entire process with a cert signed by a compromised CA.
Clojure would be a great language for teaching, keeping LISP and SICP but giving a tool that compiles something running on the JVM. Teaching Python definitely has the advantage of being more ready for the market, even though Ruby is nicer and friendlier and probably better OOP, also having better lambda functions support.

SICP is such a great book, it is a must have for programmers...

Re:Java vs. Scala: Divided We Fail on Saturday July 05, 2014 @03:47AM (#7991303)
Well Erlang is probably the only language that kept multi-core systems in mind and the implementation is pretty nice. It is kind of funny how we crash the entire application process when a thread crashes in it. Also worth to mention the GPGPUs with 1000+ cores on them. We should support those cards and systems better in the mother languages.
Same here, without even looking into what is slow, Clojure with Compojure does 7500 req/s. If Rust would like to be the next close to bare metal language we need some serious performance improvements.
Yes there is a continuum and there are great Tor like projects in that sense. Where you end up on that continuum mostly depends on the reviewing process.
Well you can do audits for backdoors and malware without having the source code. It is a common misconception in open source communities that you cannot do these without the source. If you check the pro security guys, they do not care about source code too much, it makes exploitation a bit easier but that is it. On the top of that, having the source code does not guarantee that you will find the security bugs either. See OpenBSD weakened crypto.
Re:OpenSSL Project Roadmap on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @07:57PM (#7974259)
Absolutely, there is a book written about this topic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

Re:OpenSSL Project Roadmap on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @07:57PM (#7974256)
"before you are accusing"

English is hard man, I know.

Re:OpenSSL Project Roadmap on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @02:04PM (#7972432)
I never asked any OpenSSL guys to work for free for me. Btw. I am contributing to FOSS projects before you are accusing me that I never done anything to the community. I totally understand the responsibilities of open source developers. Having software that supposed to provide security is a huge responsibility and in those projects following best practices (not re-implementing malloc badly, etc.) is insanely important. Just because it is free it does not mean that you can throw out everything we know about software engineering, and it does not justify broken software. There is a tendency in the software community that if it is free it can be crap and nobody can complain about it. This is bad attitude. If you can't write great software just please don't do it and try to hide behind the open source flag.
Re:Collaborative international cost-of-living index on Monday June 30, 2014 @01:36PM (#7966352)
That would be a killer feature. We could prove that the price increase in SF is insane.
Re:Collaborative international cost-of-living index on Monday June 30, 2014 @01:34PM (#7966336)
Yes, in your interpretation what that data means.
Re:Collaborative international cost-of-living index on Monday June 30, 2014 @01:32PM (#7966315)
Thank you for the site. My friends are like a little ex-pat community, using your site often to compare cities and figure out where to move next. I really like how easy is to compare the cost of living and make a decision based on data, rather than anecdotal evidence.

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