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But what about all the wire coming from the power plant to his pole? Isn't the electricity there "dirty" too?

I wonder if any of these audiophiles have ever considered their own private power plant.
... with people talking about offers for mid-level developers in Toronto / Vancouver being in the $70k - $110k range, are you claiming that you can pull in $280k - $440k for a software development position? If not, then I would think that this pay difference converges the more experience you have, no?
I don't see tech stacks here. Mostly adtech!
If the start-ups were taking a chance on me, they always had their 3 months of probation. Don't take it out on my pay. That stuff affords me my milk and eggs.

I learnt ML, sensor stuff, R, python and all other stuff in my first job right out of school. Made easy six figures (+ benefits and hefty bonuses) without any recruiter haggling, and am in comfortable position now. Because I turned towards traditional engineering companies, and then went there and did what I wanted to do as I got an understanding and tech oriented manager. I changed a lot of internal workings in that company.
True, but I wouldn't care about DRM if I could still buy books at any bookstore.

DVD's and Blueray disks have DRM, but I can buy one from any store and it will work with my player and my TV. It doesn't seem like a lot to ask for.
Really? So the highlight is that he is earning money because he is valued as a speaker and someone who has something valuable to contribute to society.

“In my view, I think he has violated the oath that he made to this Constitution and this government,” said CIA Director John Brennan in a recent interview with Yahoo News. “Getting remuneration for it is very unfortunate and wrong.”

- This is why the article is favored toward the CIA and Yahoo is putting it out in a narrative that is supposedly biased.
I thought so too but it's actually a bug in the radio itself (if you're driving a MK6).

You can go to the dealer and reference Technical Service Bulletin (TSB) 91-13-03 and they'll do a software update to fix it.

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There's another bug in that radio but I won't tell you until after you see if you want to get it fixed because its really annoying.
boo. doesn't include a comparison vs Google's NoSql SaaS offerings (Cloud DataStore and BigTable).

i personally use Cloud DataStore and find it a great fit, wish there was some comparisons against it.
I have personally encountered difficulties in grounding and bonding when different portions of a distributed instrumentation system used "local" grounds on the nearest aircraft structural member as their ground reference. The ground potential from one place to another on the structure of an aircraft in flight can vary wildly. This caused no end of problems (sudden shifts in parameters, dead power supplies, etc).

For performance critical applications, minimize the number of grounds.
Scammers put a bogus Android security patch app in Google Play
Yay, s390x support is finally in mainline! Finally we (SUSE) no longer needs to use gcc-go to build Go binaries on some platforms (we've had nothing but issues from gcc-go, half of the patches we apply to Docker are to make it behave when built with SLE's gcc version).
Hell man, I even miss Edmonton. Haha. I also moved to Australia.
I don't believe that has been true for a few releases now. I believe go defaults to a pure Go resolver implementation now. You have to force enable the cgo resolver.

https://golang.org/pkg/net/
Interesting. I'd have dismissed it as low interest, not having worked for Sun, SGI etc or on anything world-changing. My perspective is still coloured from where I started out though.
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Ask HN: Would you subscribe to an Earthquake Kit as a service?
If you live in an area where earthquakes are an issue, would you be willing to pay for a ongoing service (monthly? yearly?) that would keep prepare, deliver, and maintain an earthquake/disaster preparedness kit?

A few details:

A durable kit including all of the recommended short term survival gear (think first aid, flashlight, basic toiletries, etc) and non-perishables (food and water) would be delivered upon sign up. New perishables would be delivered, and old ones picked up, as expiration dates approach. The service would keep track of what is in your kit and what the expiration dates are for the perishable items. This info would be accessible by you via a web interface. Perishables that are nearing expiration would be donated to local food banks, shelters, etc, for consumption.

Essentially you would just sign up, put the kit in a closet, and every X amount of days take the "perishables module" out and leave it on the street for pick up.

Depending on how the logistics/economics work out:

* Donation of one kit subscription for each one sold
* Deluxe kits which would include additional, non-essential items, such as crank radio, entertainment, etc.

I have been getting ready to prepare an earthquake kit for myself, and know that many of my immediate friends and family do not have one. I figured that while I was doing the research, shopping, etc, I might as well make a few extras (economies of scale?), and from there realized this might be A) a good community to provide for the service, and B) a potentially economically sustainable small business/side project.

Additionally, can you think of any potential problems that an endeavor like this might encounter? Logistical hurdles, legal nuance, etc?
Note that this is specifically for a 120V system where instead of a single hot and a neutral, you have two hot wires, each at 60V to ground and running 180 degrees out of phase. Similar to how 240V receptacles are wired in residential.

For commercial buildings, the common layout to run a "computer" circuit with a dedicated ground and neutral, while sharing them between multiple other circuits for general loads. There are a lot of variations on this sort "isolated circuit" setup, and it's pretty much standard practice. I couldn't say how much most computers and other loads actually care that they share a noisy neutral, but I did have one personal experience with a building where an Xbox 360 couldn't get past a game's first loading screen because the power was so dirty.

For some examples, see the options listed on page 2 and wiring diagrams on page 3 here: http://www.electri-cable.com/v/vspfiles/download/Electri-Pak...
I have a hard time taking his libertarianism as anything other than a cynical maneuver to clear the way for corporate autocracy. He writes manifestos arguing against democracy, sits on the board of not one, but two private surveillance firms, and wrote a book about how the best business to be in is monopolies. It's like some negative image of Leninism, where the vanguard party is venture capitalists so the revolution is sabotaged before it begins
Have any sources of papers that prove masturbation does not have any of the effects listed in the excerpts?
Vanguard's "Personal Advisor Service" might be what you're looking for here:

https://investor.vanguard.com/advice/personal-advisor
There was me thinking running a dedicated spur from consumer unit to hifi, when we rewired, was overkill. Did a very good job of isolating from random clicks/pops compared to being on the house ring though. Fails at being audiophile though, it cost about £20 at most, if you include the new sockets.
To go a little deeper on a few of these:
Take a look at queues like Celery as part of events/concurrency. You'll also need to look at design patterns as part of OO like factories or adapters.
Regarding your comment on liver failure: wouldn't you need to take more than the allowed dose for this to happen?
i hope he has an awesome non-destructive fire suppression system, especially being in texas (i would say the same thing about california). jeez.
> However, we found no tool to help tune servers so we decided to write one.

I actually looked for a tool similar to this a while ago after finding some larger than necessary servers in our infra not doing very much. Here are some of them:

Cloudyn Optimizer
https://www.cloudyn.com/products/

CloudCheckr
http://cloudcheckr.com/spend-optimization/

BotMetric Cloud Cost Management
https://www.botmetric.com/aws-cloud-cost-management-cost-ana...

Most of these are aimed at cost reduction through many means (e.g, switch cloud providers, purchase reserved instances), not just improved server efficiency.
But the success is not directly inherited from technical debt. Technical debt bought time that enabled the success to happen (maybe before the company ran out of money, or allowing it to launch months ahead of the competition), but the company would not have failed if you somehow built it "properly" and otherwise met those constraints.

In other words, you can rationally make the decision to take on technical debt if it allows you to meet those constraints. It isn't a black and white decision.

It seems obvious to say this, but I know plenty of founders and investors who have had success (survivorship bias - if they hadn't they wouldn't be investors/founders) with the technical-debt-and-grow method and therefore apply it to every problem.
Both are great for hobby projects, and offer pretty great bang for buck, but I'd never run consider running anything serious on either, let a lone a business.

Some examples:

== Not pay bills (yeah, yeah, I should check my email more often when a credit card expires) ===

* Digital Ocean: All is working, then one day they flip the switch and shut down your servers and delete the backups (that you paid for)

* AWS: Has a super reasonable policy, first by shutting down the servers so you know

* Linode: Not sure

== Get DDoSd ==

* Digital Ocean: 24 hour blackhole, zero support or human contact in this time

* AWS: Servers kept alive, got some engineering assistance

* Linode: 24 (?) hour blackhole, a bit of really bad support

== Physical Server Upgrades ==

* Digital Ocean: Not bad

* AWS: Amazing. Zero downtime, I have 4 year uptime on many servers

* Linode: Botched my servers, more times than I can count. Even had support reboot the WRONG servers of mine when I was talking with them

== Bandwidth ===

* Digital Ocean: shitty and cheap

* AWS: Amazing and stupidly expensive

* Linode: Decent and cheap

I could go on. If it was a hobby project, I'd probably just use Digital Ocean because of their cheap prices and sleek control panel. (Or actually I'd use vultr)

But for anything serious where I have a budget for servers, you'd be crazy to use anything about AWS or Google Cloud
Many of the religious ideas about masturbation were wrong, e.g. that it caused blindness. These ideas were created by priests who felt guilty about masturbating.

Many of the modern ideas about masturbation are also wrong, e.g. that it is 'healthy'. These are merely scientistic attempts to reverse the former shaming and guilt.

For me the question remains: is masturbation any better or worse than taking drugs?
You're assuming it's trying to be human when it's trying to manipulate people.

It's just learning how to flirt to get what it wants.
> I will claim that startups (say less than 20 employees) are more likely to be seeking talent

I've always had the impression that start ups are looking for skill because they can't afford to pay someone while he/she ramps up on the technologies used.
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He did say it was a Google offer, and definitely includes RSUs.
Maybe the spreadsheet was used to track the pipeline state which is necessary for good performance.
That makes more sense. They are very close practically speaking but you are correct I believe.
>All of our good Canadian musicians, comedians, and actors go to the US and become big, countless have done so.

Not the Tragically Hip. But they always seemed happy with that.
I just wish they would add tagging support.
What are Canada's core competencies? Where does it have a comparative advantage?
It does seem so:

From http://thehustle.co/your-ceo-is-probably-a-psychopath

> FACT: 4% of CEOs are psychopaths

> About 1% of the human population are psychopaths. But CEOs are four times more likely to be psychopaths than the average person, according to journalist Jon Ronson. He spent two years researching this, and published a book titled “The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry.”

So the cited article suffers from the same ambiguity. I wonder what Jon Ronson actually wrote. Google was not helpful :(
Wait and see British coming to Canada. Brexit changed the odds.
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And contrariwise, lots of hosts install "vi" which actually seems to be vim. Aah, 'standards'. :P
Could any electrical engineers comment on this story? How would you measure whether current is "dirty"? What quantifiable factors would you want to examine to figure out if this improvement is real or B/S?

Is a personal transformer and electrical utility pole is likely to perform better than whatever typical solution one might employ for power conditioning, like a power supply? How would a personal transformer help with "dirty" electricity? (Does it prevent noise somehow from other devices on the same transformer?)

It seems like there could be noise issues with currents that a transformer wouldn't help with though. For example, I had understood that some power plants vary their operating frequency slightly over the course of the day, perhaps dependent on the speed that flywheel or generator is turning. So the frequency of the AC current might very slightly change. A personal transformer wouldn't help with this, would it?

If something as precise as our TVs and computer processors can run connected to a power supply to regular AC power, then it seems like stereo equipment should be able to too. Why doesn't a regular power supply compensate for this?
Ask HN: Is the ability to program required for a good system administrator?
I'm a programmer, not a system administrator. I see sys admins using GUIs all day long. In my heart I think this is the wrong way. My programmer side says "automate all the things!" But the sys admins aren't programmers and do not know, or wish to know, how to program. They are happy with GUIs.

So my question is: is the ability to program a prerequisite for good system administrators?

To put it another way: would you hire a sys admin that did not know, or want to know, how to program?
> A choice job at Google and you still won't be buying a home.

That's just not true. Housing is very expensive, but a "choice" job at Google pays enough to buy a home. The same goes for Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and the other large companies. Their compensation for mid- and senior-level people is so good that it's difficult to convince them to leave, even for considerable startup equity.
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> It's this sort of blame-driven, individual-focused, ask-the-unachieveable answer that makes it completely impossible for organizations to move beyond a relatively low level of quality/competence.

Keeping one's finger off of the trigger is not unachievable; indeed, every infantry organisations instils that from the beginning in its riflemen. It's really Not That Hard. And indeed, one sees that negligent discharges are actually pretty rare, even in war zones.
In the freely distributed exploits, EPICBANANA looks like a serious headache - I think there's a sizeable stranded fleet of older PIXes out there that can't update beyond 804.
I have no issues with generating PDFs, I think it's great for that. It's the fact that it's a format that's almost impossible, or takes an extreme amount of effort, to retrieve information from once it's been rendered that I don't like about it. It's more akin to an image format than a text format.
yeah, sure. for google/apple/facebook/etc. 150k cash + 100k+ equity and bonus compensation sounds about right. on a good year, add another 100k. on a really good year, add another 250k. on a really really good year, add a couple million. who do you think is buying all these houses?

the first step to making this kind of money is not settling for anything less, because opportunity is the biggest cost. when was the last time you turned down 150k to wait for a better offer?
My Leaf also draws a large current when I stomp on the gas; but I got it with the premium audio package and it rocks.

Seems like it would make more sense to just buy a higher-end inverter for an off-grid solar setup; and charge the batteries when he's not using it.
Cowardly childish down voter, won't you come out to play? Unable to muster a coherent argument? Dislike people disagreeing with you?
This isn't for production-level data migration. It's for smooshing some source text into a shape which is useful to you.

Parsing HTML with regexps is fine if you're just curious roughly how many images are in a page. It's great for quick command line experiments. It's just not good when you need to be "doing it properly".
How large-ish is your codebase?
I'm a pretty senior developer. I really don't mind doing coding questions. after all, thats what we do, isn't it? As someone mentioned there are plenty of people that are good at projecting experience without actually being very effective at their jobs.

Whats annoying and disappointing is if the questions are at such a low level that there is little room to shine. You leave after your day not feeling as if the employer gained any understanding about you, and you certainly weren't able to get a read on your prospective peers.

The purely conversational interviews almost invariably lead to disappointment for me. The company is so desperate to fill a slot that they ask you probing questions about your work style. They spin grand portraits of exciting collaborations, novel development techniques, fundamental problems of concurrency and consistency. In the end they just want someone to respond to minor bug reports in their massive taped together codebase and make sure the servers stay up.
riak_ensemble is a hierarchical multi-paxos shaped system. It's what Riak Strong Consistency buckets are built on, but it's also a stand-alone consumable framework by itself.
The HyperKin Smart Boy basically turns smart phones into GameBoys: http://hyperkinlab.com/smartboy-development-kit/

At least that's their goal, it's not out yet.
Hehe, I remember that bold claim accmpanying my first Canadian visa. "Your permission to enter Canada is privilege and not a right, and can be revoked at any moment". I doubt this attitude changed. New Zealand is way less snobbish.
The top myths about advanced AI
You know, I think it's a myth that they aren't popular there. They're no Rolling Stones, but they still fill concert halls and festivals!

But they never sold their souls to the States and they seem very proud of it.
This is called a short squeeze. It's done all the time and is not illegal. Pumping the stock up at first through manipulative transactions is illegal, but not all overvalued stocks get that way through illegal means. If you have an overvalued stock and short sellers move in, conducting a short squeeze against those sellers is not by itself illegal and can be an effective way to encourage short sellers to stay away from the stock.
with the exchange rate maybe. I have talented friends in Toronto who tell me it pretty much caps at $100k CAD. Whereas at a comparable talent and experience level, the range in the Bay Area is $175-300k USD = $240-400k CAD. And this excluding the outliers who got lucky and joined pre-IPO.
Ignoring the one time aspect. It's the standardization that is important. Docker environments enforce uniformity that are beneficial for testing. No more of the "it works on my machine" excuses. Although the article mentioned development environment specifically, there is recurring benefit in being able to power up a Docker VM for testing purposes.
Hmm. Okay.
Cut all the prices in half and replace startup stupidity with enterprises-trying-to-act-like-startups stupidity and you have most people's lives outside of Silicon Valley. Not to make it generational but this feels like how most people my age live anywhere.
It's very safe at the recommended dosage, and has effectively zero side effects. Ibuprofen very commonly causes upset stomach / heartburn.
Just wait for Cloud Spanner! http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/06/27/google-tools-up-with...
What about an additional first aid kit for everyday emergencies?
Poisoning the water supply is different because the water supply is managed by the local government, and because it's a crime. These add a personal risk to the decision, which your argument is indirectly relying on when you assume it's obviously a bad thing.

You should choose an example that wouldn't lead the executives being personally attacked by prosecutors:

* An oil spill killing ocean wildlife and damaging the look of a beautiful beach.

* A soda company deciding whether to put 10% more sugar in their sodas to increase sales, even though they know its likely to kill statistical thousands of people.

* A manufacturing company moving to China, pressuring local workers into working long hours in poor working conditions and polluting their country.

I believe none of these is a crime, and I wouldn't argue that someone who voted against these should resign from the board rather than help execute on a decision they oppose.

Do you have a better example?
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Median home price sale in Santa Clara is 1.25 Million dollars.

That's like $7K a month mortgage payment. $82K/year. You need to be earning $200K to pay that.

There are surely a lot of people at Google earning $200K, but not that many in relative terms. Most devs with a few years experience won't earn that.

If you need to earn $200K to be able to afford a home, I would say that's ridiculous.

Most Google developers are very talented and educated, and will not be able to buy a home. That sucks.
"decided he wanted to implement a rasterizer (I'd gotten my fill)"

I see what you did there. :)
Amazon gives away a silly amount of free AWS credits to some accelerator programs. At 500 Startups I think they give you $50,000 or $100,000 in credits that expire after a couple years. I assume they do the same for YC. Obviously most companies can't even use more than a tiny fraction of that.
For awhile Facebook was using their Vancouver office to 'park' foreign talent until they could secure H1Bs for them to go to the US offices, because it was much easier to get a work visa for that talent in Canada.
So was the guy yelling in that story. Both of them are very powerful people in the valley today. Google it, it's hardly a secret.
Happy customer of 1password.
Sync through the dev machines with Dropbox.
Their YouTube videos are all amazing. Here's one particularly fun transition: https://youtu.be/g66rO79QL9w?t=9m34s

Stick with it for a few minutes and you can listen to him describe heavy ion fusion in terms of an "angel the size of Los Angeles that runs off nuclear power" while inexplicable jet-skiing videos play in the background.

Edit: Eight minutes later and water sports are still playing behind him. He's talking about Mt. Kilimanjaro now.
> typing telemetry

Have you missed big fat "Send Microsoft info about how I write to help us improve typing and writing in the future" in the privacy section of settings?

> The only place keystrokes get sent that we know

We don't know how it works. I've searched and there's only baseless speculation (hello) that it's benign but there aren't any official documents detailing how it works that would dispel many people's reservations.

> The only place keystrokes get sent that we know of is the Cortana field for web searches, and you can turn that off even pre-SP1.

How do you KNOW that? The setting mentioned above doesn't mention Cortana, one would expect the setting mention Cortana if it only pertained to that subsystem.
The USA has lower prices because poor people earn very little, with no social safety net. I believe health care insurance is also rather expensive in the USA!

Not to say Canada is perfect but yes there is a cost to social cohesion.