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> hyper-efficient exploitation of rural resources

Can you expand on that a bit?

> ... to a farmer who refused to give up on a thankless, unrewarding career.

Why? How? What? Because food is relatively cheap? (Because supply is high?)
There's a higher correlation in working in a trade like carpentry and having everyone they know needing carpentry work done as a favor.
It's kind of "volunteers", as the adminstration sends you a letter and asks you. It's sometimes not easy to get out of that.
wow - <sarcasm>This technology is the future</sarcasm> - as per the article each plant sequesters about 11 Cars worth of CO2 each year.
Since there are currently about 1.015 billion motor vehicles (lets assume those are cars) we would only need 93 million of these things - how much energy do they use and can they suck more CO2 running them causes?
Don't worry, this is just a random submission from someone who also came up with the 'new' idea of accessing the Internet through satellites this year... (Posted above - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-omar-si-00)

It's not going to be seriously considered (it doesn't make sense anyway - upgrading to this protocol would be the same effort as upgrading to IPv6 - it's entirely pointless).
The use of voting machines has been ruled unconstitutional in Germany: http://www.bverfg.de/e/cs20090303_2bvc000307en.html (English version of the ruling!). Only paper ballots are used in Germany, and they are counted by hand. This article is about the software used to tabulate and transmit the hand-counted vote counts.

On the supreme court decision: the key section is "When electronic voting machines are deployed, it must be possible for the citizen to check the essential steps in the election act and in the ascertainment of the results reliably and without special expert knowledge." - since it's just about impossible to build a voting machine in a way that anyone can convince themselves of its proper operation without special expert knowledge, voting machines are effectively unconstitutional. Everyone can follow the process of counting votes on a paper ballot.
Buy a Land Rover or Range Rover, your premium product will have you ripping out the door skins the day after the warranty ends. It's a 3-6 hour job at least and impossible to put the door back as factory because the waterproofing seals aren't available (use gaffer tape). The winding mechanism costs a bundle too.
I warmly recommend everyone visit the Vasa museum in Stockholm https://www.vasamuseet.se/en

Its a massive warship that capsized on her maiden voyage, and was raised in 1960s and is preserved in staggeringly amazing detail and completeness. Its absolutely gobsmackingly breathtaking :)
Here's a quick note on bluetooth/digital sound quality, from recent experience.

I'd been playing music on my car stereo (Kenwood, nothing amazing) across bluetooth. I finally got around to picking up a lightning cable to connect directly for charging but thought I'd try playing music across it.

I was instantly struck by how much better the sound quality was.

I don't think the sound output in this case is digital am I right? Lightning still supports analogue output equivalent to the headphones jack for these usecases?

So we're being sold on this idea that digital/bluetooth is "better" but as somebody else points out here that's purely down to the DACs that are in use, but from my personal experience the DACs native to the iPhone are actually pretty good.

I wonder, apart from other motives proposed here, is eventually eliminating expensive analogue circuitry from the iPhone BOM a part of what's going on here?
But these are Shenzhen prices, not western retail prices.

I'm pretty sure that "Dremel" didn't cost him much over $10.
Watch a Delta Flight Race Hurricane Irma into and Out of Puerto Rico
The NYC subway purse strings are controlled by the state.

You kind of just proved the point.
+1 for DDIA by Kleppmann!
Pedantry - the UK government isn't the "English" government as it's referred to in the article. England isn't the same thing as the UK.
Yes but that doesn't change the main reasoning behind Apples decision as it was publicly conveyed; water ingress.
Not correct. The price of the stock times shares outstanding is its value. Where does this value come from? Why are Apple and google doing so well? It's not, by your logic, because they are great companies - that would be an objective metric, no? Existence of the SEC doesn't make stock values subjective. Any argument here that starts with "some people" - is irrelevant. Everything we are discussing is about on average, statistically. On average, a beachfront condo in Miami will cost more than an equivalent condo in Iowa. Why? Because it's on the beach and people, on average, value that more than being somewhere in Iowa
Interesting fact: Inspur K-UX 2.0 is one of five commercial operating systems that have versions certified to The Open Group UNIX 03 standard and is licensed to use the UNIX trademark.
It's Linux based (RedHat family tree).
I am not talking about PoW specifically but about the new research that Bitcoin opened, including new consensus systems in trustless networks. The community knew how to build distributed systems in trusted networks before Bitcoin.
Thanks! Your experience there is very encouraging.

Lots of moving parts, but when I was thinking about this, I arrived at a similar conclusion to what you recommend - have the conversation with my current employer, and also to timebox it. The latter part works because I'm nearly certain my wife doesn't want to be gone for more than a year or two. We'll see on the former. School's already started for the year, so I'm thinking I can have this conversation with plenty of lead time and do the relocation next summer.

Could I ask the time difference that you were working with, and if it was a particular challenge? I'd be 6 hours ahead of eastern time and I'm not sure yet whether I would want to commit to working EST from abroad - it's certainly doable, but I'm not sure that I want to work until 10-11pm each night.
If you use Macs, you have bona-fide True Unix Experience. Mac OS is more Unix than Linux.
As always with Nylas, I've got very little understanding of what's going on here. The API business must be successful, but I wonder who is using it, other than people making e-mail clients, and they all seem to have their own!

N1 was the first good desktop alternative to Outlook for Exchange in a loooong time, so I was hopeful this would be a flier. Is it going to be possible at all to use the new open source app (or any forks) with Exchange?
I don't think so. AFAIK the lightning connector is fully digital and the D/A convertor is only in the adapter.
I really like Tom Scott's explenation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
Interviewer: since you have experience working with wood, show us how you would implement photosynthesis on this whiteboard...

Or

Interviewer: what's the most popular kind of wood right now? Exactly. We're putting together a team to make a sink using it. In the second phase we will use wood to build a toilet. Interested?

Or

Interviewer: A carpenter? We were looking more for a mahogany-scientist or a pine-wizard. Are you even a spruce-ninja?

These are too easy :p
I'm surprised it lasted 484 days.
I foresee a thriving secondary market in high quality DACs that people can just connect their extant headphones to. I hope this can work just by way way of plugging directly into the lightning port otherise it's another thing for me to charge sigh
Ana is the equivalent quantity of different ingredients used in the pharmaceutical preparation in Italy.
To me that translation makes sense.
Google translate is messing up badly it should be something like this for my remote knowledge of Latin:
1 leaf of oz in water, 3 ana (equivalent quantity) of aromatic roots, 2 ana of seeds, mix very well together.
Infuse the leaves mixed together with the aromatic (roots) and with the roots infusion and mix all together with 3 ana of root seeds.
I'm on a 5s though. I still have the headphones jack.
US Dollar lost 95% of it's purchasing power over the last century, so much for "must store a stable value for a long time".

The wealth distribution of dollar is based on how many more people your grandfather killed than my grandfather. I don't have any problem with currency where initial distribution rewards people who took investment risks because they saw potential in innovative new technology.

And volatility - volatility in bitcoin is actually smaller every year, and this trend will continue. And btw volatility is natural and healthy. It's when something is not moving that you should be worried.
http://khaledroutingprotocol.blogspot.nl/2017/03/khaled-rout...

Link to said protocol with pretty pictures
Savaged by Systemd: An Erotic Unix Encounter
This is the way to go. Still do the usual screening and interviews (hopefully without incompetent recruiters in the middle) but then pay the developer fairly for a small project and see how it goes. Repeat if necessary.

The only problem I've seen with this approach is where the applicant is legitimately pressured for time by their current work or family issues. Being understanding and working out how to extend the trial period will get you through most of these.

In countries (like mine) that don't have at-will employment it amazes me that employers don't insist on this approach. Instead - weird filtering by recruiters, overly specific interview questions and then disappointment when recruiting goals aren't being met and stress when developers who aren't a good fit are stuck with the team for years.
And the first bone setters and medicine men killed a phenomenal amount of people as much as they helped, and solutions were terrible until the modern methods arrived on the scene.

Similarly Humanity has been inadvertently geo-engineering the planet.

Modern techniques are here, and they tell us that the best way to treat the patient is not via geo-engineering.

Look my point is cynical and its not about climate science.

MUCH More importantly I am saying that it is the kind of pseudo-science-hope-springs-eternal-last-ditch-effort that people LOVE to support.

Its a product in itself. That is what I am highlighting.

I believe that Climate engineering/geo engineering sits at a special hype junction, a future sweet spot that is going to be irresistible to politicians, media types and lay people who are scared and desperate.

And YES - I hope and keep my mind open to the possibility that we find good tech that helps reduce global temps which is not "pollute less".

This would truly be a magic bullet which would let us continue to grow as we have for so long, while stopping the effects of climate change, and it is something to earnestly hope for.
I see the opposite problem where I live. Driving lights as they are referred to in Norway must be on during the day as well as at night. These are on the front of the car. On the back newer vehicles have the lights off by default and come on when they sense darkness. This means I have followed many cars in hard rain on dark/dusky days and you can't see them up ahead. The law is that rear lights have to be on in conditions where they are necessary, but ignorant drivers see light coming from the front of the car and don't think that people behind them travelling at 110km/h need t see them up ahead. Automation didn't solve any problem, cars used to have lights on front and back at all times, day and night (lots of tunnels in Norway), automation created a problem.
Recording sound in space and playing back by moving through it (ARKit)
Know how many sprinklers per zone you need
Look at his other draft proposals - he seems serious but seems to have no idea what's actually involved in designing or specifying a real protocol...
The job dynamic are likely a predator-prey style relationship of supply vs demand.

The main features of janitorial work is few barriers to entry. There is fair demand, but there is plentiful supply which is why it is relatively low paid.

If Janitors could only replace Janitors, then being "non-renewable" would reduce supply, increasing wage, and maintaining balance.

In reality, the main feature of Janitorial work is most people otherwise lacking qualifications can do it; i.e. anyone. So it's not true that the renewability of janitorial work has a direct affect on supply.

Instead, it depends on overall supply of unskilled labour.
Perhaps I should've added a :P to the end of that. See Gabriel's response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15187733
Why is Information Architecture the key for your website?
I think DRM is the reason - that analog can't support it.
Software is software. The paradigms are the same. The languages have the same roots. What is culture for a programming language anyways? Sure, the tools and frameworks are different, and every language has it's own quirks and uniqueness but they're not as different as you make it sound. If a developer is skilled, these are small differences.
I belive the transition to the new domain - that the new company knew about very well - should be assited by the right tasks to learn.
To learn! - which is something we do day by day even by hanging on to existing domains: we miss and we fall.
The process of learning will uncover the parts we can ask about.
To ask! As others already mentioned: asking helps. Assuming you know what to ask. That's where the learning process helps itself: uncovers dtails and further topics to ask about. Asking includes not only people but information sources like Google and Wikipedia - and the kind you will discover on your own as relevant one to your domain.
To me usally the process of learning the product first as a novice client on a basic level is the best to start with (ideally joining an introductory course). Not being sad if half of it is in greek. Remember the greek part as something to study next.
Then - or maybe instead of it - receiving important but many times neglected tasks of documentation and testing, fixing outstanding tiny problems also helps. Carrying out these gives the satisfaction to be useful and so boost confidence, which in turn helps asking 'silly' questions. Newcomers ask silly questions, this is a fact, no way avoiding it and should not be avoided since these show lack of fundamental knowledge that the newcomer do not posess yet. Still newcomers afraid to ask because they lack some confidence (at least I do in such situations) so anything that boosts confidence a bit is a huge help.
So small but important tasks might help a lot.
All this is impossible without the assistance of the domain experts and the experts of the company culture (since the answer many times is not in the logics of the domain but in the culture or even the history of the particular company). It should be accepted that your initial pace is slower due to the requirements of the domain and company switch that comes with things to process.
I believe the situation should be discussed honestly with the superiors as the least.
They are as interested in productive work as you are and they may not have that high expectations for this period as you may think (being aware of your transition).
I like how you name drop "I work at Google" - which has no relevance to the rest of your comment. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
My uncle did it for years and he was a member of the SPD, so I guess parties are involved quite a bit.
There are sequestration methods today like storing CO2 in rocks: https://www.or.is/english/carbfix-project
... my personal website has better security than this :|

This is worrisome
37 Inspiring Business Biographies
Video's been taken town
I dunno. I was quite disappointed when nobody cared about projects could show when I was interviewing last time.
The MotherWiki has been updated interestingly
wiki.c2.com looks almost the same as it has for decades. Today I found some subtle modern buttons at the top right. They seem to have appeared in 2016.

See also https://github.com/WardCunningham/remodeling
I'd like to know what you replaced "nail gun" or "hammer" with.
The most annoying experience is not being able to use the apple headphones that came with my phone on my macbook anymore
What? Why is ethereum so popular in the Netherlands?
That they deployed a broken config file & forcefully stop-started nginx instead of reloading it (and bypassing nginx's built-in protection: it will test a config and refuse to load it if it's broken on reload. on restart it's stuck with whatever busted config you give it).
This is guy is something different (not that it would make his ideas worth any less, more on that later).

Some of his recent efforts:

Satellite Internet [0] (kudos whatidonteven) - I don't think he thought this one through. What is wrong with the current approach? Should we really erect wires in outer space?

He is currently kind of harassing the IETF via mailing lists about IPv10, threatening "If the ideas explained on these drafts will be used, discussed or published by the ietf, legal actions will be taken." [1] - not really how the IETF works.

The version number as "ingenious" 4+6 is annoying, IMO. That's not how version numbers work?

His drawing on his his very own routing protocol - KRP - are also something [2]. Although the quality of his drawings has nothing to do with his ideas per se, it seems he rushed it together in an afternoon.

I don't want to say that he is overestimating his own intelligence, rather that he is underestimating the efforts, hard work and intelligence of everyone else working in this field mostly professionally. His proposals can not easily be judged, because they dismiss almost everything that others have done previously. Why should so many smart people have missed these (obvious/simple) solutions? We are where we are for a reason. You need a good chain of arguments to "dismiss" the current state of the art.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-omar-si-00

[1] http://ietf.10.n7.nabble.com/RE-IPv10-KRP-and-RRP-IDs-Remova...

[2] http://khaledroutingprotocol.blogspot.co.at/
Same. I really want to like (and use) uWSGI, for many reasons, but I find it's lacking severely in the department of documentation (searching "uwsgi" on Amazon gives zero hits!).

A properly edited book would be awesome. I would pay for it of course.
Read more carefully. It was a production engineer internship, not UX research.

Early phases of job applications are about following directions and saying what you need to truthfully say. I'm actually surprised that my original comment was voted into oblivion -- its a pretty obvious reality. The recruiter did his best to say "Just write Unix" without crossing a line.
Yes! For sure. Going to put the MVP online in a couple of days.
Interesting. I almost feel like he spoke to an ai chat bot. Could that be the case?
Sure there's a debate. We're debating and discussing right now.
Anyone who is old enough to remember MUDs feels your pain - it's a real shame that you had to test HR inputs this way though!

$ CROSS DRAWBRIDGE

CANNOT CROSS DRAWBRIDGE

$ TRAVERSE DRAWBRIDGE

CANNOT TRAVERSE DRAWBRIDGE

$ ABANDON DRAWBRIDGE

YOU REALIZE THAT YOUR EFFORTS ARE WASTED TRYING TO EXPLAIN YOUR QUEST TO A LOW LEVEL GUARD.

YOUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE.

GO NORTH, WEST, SOUTH OR EAST (?)

Your application for an internship was spot on - ignore any and all feedback you've received from the HR rep, as it's all gumph. You obviously know what you're doing, and Internships (while beneficial in the market at the moment) are useful, you will be more than capable finding real paid work in any other area with your skillset - and best of luck to you as well. Aiming high doesn't necessary mean applying to the Facebooks and Googles of the world.

--- Wonder if the HR filters take regex?

'It'"'"'s a $"[nN].[Xx]" system! I know this!'*

*Edit: This also qualifies you on Xanax, which may not be what you want.
Crank-o'meter goes to eleven!

But yeah, if it's this easy to submit drafts to IETF, how come they haven't drowned in spam already?
I'm more disappointed with this comment! But I guess it's to be expected. You've learned a life lesson - Don't get out of line, Don't mess with authority, Or you'll get shut down!

I dislike big companies for this reason. Expect worse when you work at one. The most successful learn the game (you've taken your first step) and rise the ranks.
https://www.godaddy.com/help?foo=traceroute
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How often can a carpenter really do this? What if most of his clients won't allow him to take pictures? And certainly most won't allow strangers to come in and fondle the furniture.
::pilot in his/her best Duke Nukem: "I've got balls of steel".

The whole trip is quite impressive.
Yeah... grey text, wtf
How the British aristocracy preserved their power
For some reason I thought the runaway in temps will come from water vapor from melting permafrost, which is starting now. In other words, the CO2 ship has sailed, no?
So you always have leaky roofs at your company? And if you don't like what he did, you just keep the repairs? Sorry for being picky, but you could've used "make a dog house" or something like that. I hope you don't put patches from interviewees in production code.
> there's a tendency for governments and councils to outsource the work to whatever contractors are the cheapest

Not just a tendency. When choosing a contractor, government offices in Germany are required to choose the lowest bidder who fulfils (or rather, claims to fulfil) the requirements stated in the call for bids.
This happens if there are insufficient "real" volunteers. Before every election, there are calls for people to staff the voting places and do the vote counting. Only if that doesn't bring enough people, you'll get drafted.

(same as with the volunteer fire brigade by the way. there, too, you can be volunteered)
>The best hypothesis, IMHO from those I've read, to why Apple ditched the jack, was to get a share of the market for headphones - either through their own headphones (Apple-branded and Beats), or through MFI.

The "best hypothesis"? That's the classic "lock-in" conspiracy theory. And Apple makes pennies on the headphones compared to what they make from the iPhones (and what they could lose in iPhone sales if the removal of the port proved unpopular) for that to be any great motive.

How about: making the phones waterproof with one less difficult to tackle port, less width/height needed for the new port hence thinner phones, envisioning a wireless future (what with AirPods and co).

The fact that there are pushing AirPods (which don't care for the jack at all) and that Apple gives a free conversion to mini-jack with each new iPhone, means that the theory "it's all about selling headphones/licenses for lighting headphones" is moot.
It should be "Why the long-term future of the global ecosystem matters more than anything else". Not humanity. Humans cause nothing but destruction and suffering on an unprecedented scale. 80000hours and the EA community are not better than any other anthropocentric interest group. Seriously what's with this obsession about humanity? How shortsighted are people?
I think there's a bunch of pretty decent reasons why this makes sense for apple.

- smaller devices reduce shipping costs en masse

- marketting "thinner" devices (though screen is larger?)

- DRM

- No need to provide expensive native DAC

- Owning the headphones market, similar to how google ended up owning "search"

I'm sure there's a bunch more. It makes good business sense for them regardless of what customers (ahem, "consumers") want and with other manufacturers following suit they'll pretty much have no choice.

I'm looking forward to a portable DAC being among the collection of crap I have to put in my pocket in the morning.
hackshop products look amazing but personally I think enthusiast lean more thowards more barebone stuff, like
wrtnode boards.