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But the market keeps getting bigger and bigger. Unless we are using a different version of what "peak" means in this context.

"The hypothetical point in time when the global production of x86 equipment reaches its maximum rate, after which production will gradually decline." is the one that I'm using. As long as the demand is up there, then production will continue to grow.
While this is exciting, this is not always a good thing.

Two years ago, we tried this at Homejoy as an incentives for the cleaners to get 5 stars.ie. If you get 5's on your appointment, we'll pay you out the same day. We did this manually via Stripe, of course.

Efficacy of the incentive aside (it didn't actually have an impact on 5s), we cut this program for two reasons:

1) Transaction cost, as many users pointed out

2) Unpredictability - most of the workers on our marketplace preferred the predictability of weekly or biweekly payouts, even if the size of those payouts varied. It's hard enough for people to manage personal finances on a regular schedule without the added headache of getting money instantly, or daily.
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Should you upgrade your Mac to macOS Sierra?
If you want to beat AWS fight them on data transfer pricing. $90 per TB is the reason many people choose budget clouds or dedicated hardware. Amazon's own pricing reveals how much markup they have when they drop to $50 per TB publicly for high volume and probably $20 per TB for "Contact Us"-level volume.
Here are some factors that might have a role --

1) Those who found companies, or who otherwise become rich through their work (e.g. pro athletes), as opposed to more passive ways to make money, in a way have a viewpoint similar to a feudal lord: The fiefdom called self has to be cultivated, protected and expanded.

2) Modern economics expands the sphere of success more easily than ever, through things such as branding or genre-crossing. E.g. Trump, Kanye, Michael Strahan.

3) The old-school rich indulged in a lot of leisure but also personally patronized a lot of culture. This doesn't seem to happen as much today, or if it does, more of it happens through foundations that probably free up time to generate more income.
> AWS bandwidth is easily anywhere from 5x to 50x as expensive as elsewhere depending on location

Manpower and a Stable network is anywhere from 100x to 1000x as expensive as just hosting on AWS.
There are far better candidates to depose Amazon if people can move beyond the name recognition of AWS.
A climate change denier, citing the success of government regulations that limit emission of environmentally harmful substance, without noticeable harm on economy, must not be really thinking it through...
I'm not so sure about the saved locations.. I know they have them.. but I don't have a lot of experience with them.

However, HERE Maps allows for you to do an offline download of the maps, and that includes building names, addresses, routing/driving, and train schedules (non-live).
Then what is the meaning of the distinction "from or on" in the quote you provided?
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I hear what you're saying, but in English-speaking Christianity, the word "hallowed" is strongly associated with religious obligation. And invoking God just takes the conversation down a highly polarized path.
Can you spot the tiny Saturn moon in this NASA photo?
It's kind of ironic hearing you claim that there are no older candidates, then in the next paragraph you confirm having rejected candidates due to not knowing the particular tech stack your team uses.

Even if there were legitimate reasons for not hiring that person (sounds like he/she was not a good fit for the position), the way you frame it sounds like you do not understand/appreciate what a senior engineer brings to the table. You don't pay seasoned professionals to come and learn the latest fad (though for them, it will look like a perk), you pay them to double check your ideas and spot potential problems they have seen before.

If you are offering a junior position with junior-level salary, and the senior candidate is OK with that, what's not to like? There are of course risks about the new hire jumping ship when something better comes, and you may structure their pay to discourage early attrittion. But if you blame the senior guy for not being junior enough, that's exactly the ageist attitude we are discussing here.
I guess it depends on what constitutes "other pay." There's an officer with $70,000 worth of Other Pay. But overtime pay is definitely paid in cash.

But if you want to quibble about $70,000 in pension and healthcare payments, that still leaves $160-180k a year in direct compensation.
Marginal doesn't matter. The function of justice in society is for people to feel protected, without the burden of constant attention to the safety and well-being of themselves and their family. That sense of justice is often wildly different than any objective measure of justice.

In the context of wrong convictions, I think the question is whether people fear being wrongly convicted more than they fear a cold-blooded killer escaping a life sentence. And secondarily, how strongly wrong convictions of others effects their sense of justice and equality more generally, and thus the legitimacy of their government.

I'm sure this sense has changed over the years, especially when we were more segregated and different classes of people didn't feel that the treatment of certain classes could effect their own class. But I think it's become increasingly the case that the death penalty is having a detrimental effect on our sense of justice and equality. Part of that has to do with modern mass media--dead or alive, our killers are both omni-present and strangely distant. Also, unlike in bygone times we basically kill on-the-spot many of the criminals we'd otherwise be afraid of. For example, domestic terrorists.

So on the whole I would guess that the death penalty provides increasingly less benefit and incurs increasing social costs. The moral question is more definitive for some, but if we're going to be utilitarian about it, it's much more complex than a simple accounting of the statistics.
Not a good analogy, 100 years ago not only was the population lower but there was no electrical infrastructure.
This creative limitation forced folks to engage in pithy, and sometimes snarky commentary. It is both boon and burden.
>Sure, but having a compelling story about compute and having a massive advantage in knowledge of how to sell to the exact kinds of enterprises that haven't already made their big transition to the cloud yet isn't a bad combination to have if you want to establish a nice firm place in cloud. from which you can expand and develop what you need to bite off other parts of the market.

You mean what IBM is doing/has done? Oracle doesn't know how to sell to those people, it knows how to EXTORT those people. Most people I know hate Oracle with a passion as a business, and only continue to do business with them out of obligation.
I remember as a young (not black) teen I loved that show; there was no moral or social dimension to me. In my early twenties I broke my ankle and ended up diving into daytime TV for a couple of weeks, and it was unwatchable. The same episodes were not harmless fun, it was somewhere between grotesque and absurd.

I think the time has come for a "COPS" show with footage only from bystanders, and which focuses on average citizen-LEO interactions. We need that perspective to be popularized.
I don't think they'll ever have such a button. What I'm doing is auto-forwarding all mail from GApps to my regular Gmail account. And as I added the GApps account as an outgoing account/identity in Gmail, I can send/receive from my regular Gmail account, but with it showing the GApps custom domain address in all my emails. If you did this, at least you could still keep your GApps email adress even if you started over with everything else (purchases, etc).
> Quality over quantity is almost always a more desirable trait.

For the reader, but for the creators of content who largely rely on ads, quantity is far more desirable.
Vienna has failed to create global industries that attract value creators from around the world and other kinds of firms.
If they did, there would be people getting wealthy on a global scale, 'screwing up the housing market', and there's little that could be done about it.

- "If you follow development strategy X, housing prices cannot be controlled. Therefore housing prices can never be controlled!"

- Vienna chooses another development strategy that avoids the problem

- "No! They're not supposed to do that! Bad!"

Again - it's better just to have basic regulations and smart developers, those people would be living in privately owned homes just a little further from city centre.

You mean like in Germany where lots of former public housing has been sold to private conglomerates - which have increased rents and cut back maintenance to a minimum?
That's an enormous assertion that sounds very classist. Have anything to back it up?
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Date and time pickers seem to be the eternal struggle of UI.

There is so much about time that can be of interest.

Picking a time of the day, picking a day of the week, picking a date, a date with a time, a period, a Month, a Year... Often the whole widgets are so flexible, that it takes forever to get the right pick so you resort to short-cut buttons with pre-defined values, but you can't litter your screen estate with them either...

Anyway, I like your approach, but I would remove these slow-ass animations, they take away the speed this approach has to offer :)
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Great that you're open to feedback! I'm looking at this snippet from the guessing game in the official Rust documentation:

let mut guess = String::new();

io::stdin().read_line(&mut guess)
.expect("Failed to read line");

There are two things wrong here: 1) I have to use mutability to read from standard input. 2) I have to use a pointer. How about something like this instead:

let guess = io::stdin().read_line()
.expect("Failed to read line");

Make it a macro or something if necessary. Personally, I just looked at this and decided that Rust wasn't ready for use by non-low-level programmers.
Thanks, I'll definitely check that out.
I travel similarly to you and solve that by going there, watching people and traffic flow, wandering aimlessly, and having a data plan. (I recently moved cell service to Google Fi and love it.)
Also many hourly workers don't get to pick their own hours. I know when I was stocking shelves, I only got to work the hours my manager scheduled me for. If I wanted to work more hours to make more money, I didn't have that option. I've got a friend who is a mechanic as well, and it's the same thing there. He only gets to work extra if they have extra work. If they don't have work for him, he goes home (and clocks out).

I'm salaried, and I had several weeks earlier this year where I struggled to put in more than 5-10 hours a week of actual work because business was slow. I still got paid the same amount, though, and was still "on the clock". So it looks like I have less free time than my hourly friends because I'm still at work while they're at home playing video games.
This happened to me while bouldering in Yosemite a couple weeks ago. A group of college kids launched their drone right beside me, hovered for a bit, and then fell and destroyed itself at my feet.

So I guess the problem has ways of solving itself.
"narcotic undertow of cheap entertainment"

What a perfect way to describe the constant struggle I have with whittling away evenings drinking beer and playing Overwatch vs investing time in learning new skills or working on side hustles to generate additional income.
Please refrain from assigning intent to a simple comment.

Given the large amount of statistics and facts that you bring to the question it is clearly evident that you know more about this problem than I do. I merely wish to point out that a simple linear scaling of current consumption levels is not a convincing model for adoption of any new technology / paradigm. You had me on the facts, but lost me on the projection.
> Additionally, there's a few generators at the border of the grid than can operate on two different grids

Note that this wind farm is located right on the border between ERCOT and SPP (Eastern grid member). Depending on transmission capacity buildout I could imagine them being switchable.
They do have a library that helps limit these types of issues: https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text. However, it doesn't appear to be updated.
That panics. What I want is monadic error chaining.
TripAdvisor is fine for touristy places and the major "must sees" in a lot of cities. Once you get into more specifics than that, I've found the combination of Foursquare + Yelp + Google Maps / Places way more helpful for specific queries. Also the constantly mixed in sponsored posts on TripAdvisor for tour booking companies are something that bothers me.
There are new ways to make inaccuracies but there are also new ways to weed them out.

There are enforced rules about citing sources, the history of any page can be checked, there is discussion for just about any page, and more controls that don't exist on any book or news site. Errors are often fixed as soon as they are discovered, which is impossible for books and less common than it ought to be for web pages.

As for anonymity the author of most content may as well be anonymous. Other than the most famous authors or most learned readers the author of any given data is generally not of interest for practical use. For the domain expert this is of course not true, but the domain expert is generally publishing to a peer reviewed journal and reading from similar sources with an extreme eye on things like bias and sample size.

Since we are using wikipedia as a source, for maximum irony here is the page on wikipedia about the reliability of wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia

It cites 240 sources, including peer reviewed journal Nature and panel discussions of specific domain experts.
Why are they better? Dynamic languages are orthogonal to creating CRUD apps and come with massive runtime and reading overhead.
> does this mean we would instantly know if a transfer has failed?

Within 30 minutes in the worst case. Most failures we would be able to communicate synchronously, such as if the card is not a debit card or the bank doesn't support instant payouts. Some other failures we communicate asynchronously, but ~instantly (e.g. if the bank account behind the debit card has been closed), as we have to reach out to financial partners for that information.

> we still need to wait for the charge to settle right?

Nope, we support instant payouts from the moment a charge succeeds, you do not need to wait for funds to settle in the traditional card-to-ACH sense! Specifically, instant payouts can be made off of an account's "pending" balance, as opposed to the usual limitation of "available" only.

The timing aspect that both of these questions touch on are one of the big features of this launch, and something we spent a lot of time on to get the logistics to work exactly right (there's a lot under the hood there). We're really excited to have something that operates faster than the 2-3 days ACH can take, both in moving money and giving you success feedback.
A web site whose influence is over a much smaller portion of the public.
i'll give it a shot. i own a business that could potentially make me rich if i sold it, but haven't considered it yet. (it could also make me go broke, but that's another story).

a poor or lower middle class person would probably disagree if they saw my income and business bank accounts, but hey, everything is relative.

anyway. here are some reasons that may or may not apply to myself and my group of peers (all business owners end up hanging out with a bunch of other business owners or sales-type people, it just happens).

1. they like working. they may deny it, but they do. they like making things happen, making things in general, etc.

2. they feel like if they stop working, the money will disappear, or be taken somehow. this may or may not be rational.

3. they are compelled to do it, it is simply an inner drive they can't overcome. i.e. that's how the money was made to begin with.

4. they like having a high level of disposable income to spend on nice things/experiences/influence. this is the polar opposite of how a lot of people on HN think, who seem to constantly trying to humble-brag about their rankings in the frugality olympics.

i definitely fall into #4, the others maybe, maybe not. i like nice shit, so i work hard. if i wanted to not spend money, i'd just be poor and not work much. i did it for 4 years in college, i could do it for the rest of my life if i wanted to. it's not hard to do nothing and spend nothing. it's literally the easiest thing in the world, you just don't do anything, all day long.

sorry for being snarky.
Played a bit with it and it's not ready to replace My Maps at least for me.

I don't care much about recommendations since I plan my trips beforehand and use My Maps to save the places I want to visit. Having something that could propose multiple itineraries between a subset of those places would be nice (with multiple options related to the method used to move between places).

Trips seems more similar to a traditional guide than an app to assist travelers, you can't really build customized itineraries and even saving places is a bit cumbersome.

Let's just hope they don't kill My Maps now.
Why exactly is the FAA taking this over?

It's clearly stated that the US military is still going to be the primary source for the data.

Why not have an open RFP that anyone is able to provide a proposal and if the a existing agency doesn't win, make it independently run?
Foursquare is worth checking out (over Yelp or complementary to Yelp) in a lot of US cities too, definitely in SF and NYC.
You can't even write a generic pmap in go. Right there haskell wins.
I'm just hung up on the fairly large, and unsupported claim, "The fastest way to make money from coffee is aid agencies." Beyond that, to be blunt, I'm just not buying the fairly clumsy and shoehorned ideological narrative presented in the piece, especially when it explains the issues raised without actually needing to explain it in terms of abusing charity.
The name may be a trademark violation:

http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/ibmsame
There's often a ton of things people can do where they are, as well. If you get involved in local politics, join a community arts project, get involved in neighborhood rehabilitation, join a dancing group, etc. You often see a side of things you never realized was there.

You get a different experience from "outside looking in activities (travel, overseas volunteer work, habitat for humanity) than you get from activities where you see yourself as being a member of the group you're trying to help or create something with. Both kinds of experiences can be useful, though it's important to understand the limits of each.
I believe Microchip licensed the IP from Semtech and has made their own chips: http://www.microchip.com/design-centers/wireless-connectivit...
Twitter is that important to you that learning to write Japanese is just a little thing to use the platform?
I don't think the question was meant for you to answer. That was kind of the point.
Normally I agree with your assessments but I don't think you're right on this one. Presuming geothermal wells would have a >100 year lifespan with minimal upkeep the upfront costs may be very large but the long-term cost per/MW extracted would go close to zero because of the virtually non-existent marginal costs for operating geothermal wells.

Ignoring externalities created by using fossil fuels for heating (pollution, corruption, etc.), if this technique is sound it could be a more financially sensible decision than any alternative.
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Thanks, we updated the title from “URLs no longer count toward your 140 characters”. Unfortunately since the whole tweet doesn't fit in the title, we'll assume the features are sorted by importance.
Ah, OK that's much clearer, I understand now. I'd say this, picking A for what is now C would be just as arbitrary as there is no "first" scale, they're all equally important and trying to match up a first scale to the first letter of the alphabet would be just as arbitrary. For those who feel the need to start with A, then start with minor scales, A minor first, artificial newbie weirdness solved.
I think what's missing is how much more engrossing higher paying jobs are. Working on processing lines or customer service, you completely check out mentally. I wouldn't have been able to bear the thought of working more than I have to.

But now I'm in the business world and much higher up the ladder. Work is incredibly engrossing. I love it. And the higher up I go, the more I get to pick and choose the kind of stuff I want to work on. Making more is just a special bonus on top of extreme interest in your field.

So I think the premise is pretty much right. People who love their careers do more of it. People who don't love their careers don't have to do as much of it.
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It also would be a good idea if you're doing this to solicit opinions about it in order to prove to a judge or grand jury that you're following some form of best practices to do this rather than just making up shit on your own.

Of course it should have really been done from a throw-away to avoid precisely this kind of spectacle from the general public.

The one thing I'll say is that clearly this IT guy really is an IT guy and is completely clueless about optics.
They're not breaking with Zookeeper, it sounds like they're refactoring to make zookeeper use transparent to producers and consumers.
Here's the "dupe" by the way. I guess it was one of those retroactive dupes, wink.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12533757
I'm not sure, I asked a question which turns out was in fact answered with some form of, "Because it's pushing an agenda". All he did was inform me of the nature of that agenda, while another poster informed me of the source.

Sometimes context does matter.
Having done a similar trip with my wife and few years back, the challenge is a huge part of the adventure. Getting stuck in crazy places, getting help from villagers, being invited to a rural dinner "just because".

Of course, the beauty of nature is a huge part of the trip, but being taken out of your comfort zone is what makes it extra special.

If you're not prepared to step out of your comfort zone, then everything will seem run-of-the-mill and ordinary. Because it is.

Just be prepared (we could survive for 2 weeks on our own at any point) and take the right safety precautions (don't drive into war torn areas).
I politely disagree. The vast majority of tweets are awful in communicating succinctly - even as sound bites. Most tweeters, when challenged with the 140-character wall, lack enough details.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXv1j3GbgLk

Good watch if you wanna see how naively designed the whole thing is.
Interestingly, the editorial board of the Washington Post recently published an article opposing Snowden's pardon.

The same Washington Post that published Snowden's documents, and won a Pultizer for doing so.