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As currently proposed, the TransWest Express HVDC line start in Rawlins, WY, and first run towards Delta, UT, where without connections [1] it will begin to run alongside the Intermountain Power Plant HVDC Line [2], for the majority of its remaining journey, before ending in the complicated clustering of substations near Boulder City, Nevada.

The Intermountain Power Plant HDVC line begins at the Intermountain Power Plant, a coal-fired plant in Delta owned in large part by Southern California cities, and runs to Adelando, CA, on the outskirts of Victorville. It can already rapidly dump power between west-central Utah and southern California. With coal prices remaining high relative to natgas and California pushing for more renewables, the future of the Intermountain Power Plant is in question. It seems shortsighted then, to not plan an interconnection at Delta from the start.

Redundancy and resiliency is another issue. Most of the transmission lines between the Las Vegas Valley and Mesquite, NV closely parallel each other, the Union Pacific railroad, and I-15. One major disruption to a small area could easily cripple a significant portion of southern California's power capacity (including power lines [3] to Glen Canyon Dam, Navajo Power Station, and the coal plans around Farmington, NM), and cut off a critical transportation route with the interior. The patchwork of public land, protected land, and military reservations in southern Nevada complicates the placement of infrastructure, and confines it to narrow corridors, but piling further projects immediately adjacent is a risk.

[1] http://www.transwestexpress.net/about/docs/TransWest-Express... [2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3392214#map=7/37.130/... [3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/14282204
I do wonder about this. Granted, Java 9 (and 10) are not LTS releases - we'll have to wait for 11 for that. (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html)

But, Java 8 will stop receiving public updates next year, and pretty much everywhere I've looked, folks are sticking on Java 8.

I am hoping I'm wrong, but I wonder if we will see Java 8 be forked, and live on, by community effort, as the cost to maintain it would be lower than the cost of risking moving to Java 11. For a lot of businesses, I don't think the reality has set in yet, and I don't think they're going to realize what situation they're in until Java 8 hits EOL.
As I've begun building a new personal project, I wavered between using DO, AWS & Heroku.

I started with Heroku, and immediately ran into annoyances - mainly that they treat git as the source of truth, and require anything else to be injected as environment variables (which I find annoying).

AWS was tempting, since we use it at work, but the complexity of configuring what I needed was more than I wanted to deal with.

So I went back to DO (who I already run a couple VPS' with) and cleared off a droplet that I wasn't using, setup a docker droplet and went on my merry way.
Veblen good
Treeverse: A browser extension for navigating burgeoning Twitter conversations
Because light is analogue, our eyes are analogue and the light conditions of the living room is analogue, the paper where images are printed is analogue and so on.

It is physically impossible to get an unique colour space across all surfaces.
Hm, where exactly? "Outside US" is a lot of space. I saw electric bicycles, and electric scooters in some European countries, but they are still far from being called common. And so far I never saw anything looking like a real motorcycle with electric engine.
Flexport
There’s simply a huge range of PhD programs out there - I think that makes such a broad conclusion difficult to conclusively assert. Some concrete examples which spring to mind:

- A PhD in Performance from the University of Indiana
- A PhD in any technical field, from say, MIT
- A PhD in comparative literature from Yale
- A PhD in clinical psychology (which could be therapy-focused or research-focused), further subdividing it) from UC Berkeley
- A PhD in EE/CS from Berkeley.

I have no doubt all of those PhDs will be able to do a lot. I have no doubt that some, but not all, of what said PhDs can do will be valued by employers. And that is why academia and scholarship are distinct from business and industry - they have different, but sometimes overlapping, aims. And a PhD is explicitly training to be a scholar/researcher - it’s not a professional degree, though it sometimes has value in a professional environment.
It's actually a huge slippery slope. The common good is a common lure to surrender personal liberty. While the argument may be a little dystopian and represent a worst-case scenario, this represents a step toward the government saying what can and cannot be done with your body.
I always have and always will opt-in as an organ donor, as I have no further use for my body if dead and would like it to go to some use. That said, tearing apart someone's corpse for spare parts should never be anything but opt-out, especially as there are more than likely people who object on moral and/or religious grounds and are not aware of this policy change. Forgetting to check that "skip this" box should not lead to a violation of people's religious/moral beliefs.
The way Arstechnica phrased that made me think that Best Buy was missing from a list of several other brick-and-mortar chains--Microsoft Stores are the only brick-and-mortar stores in the USA that have been announced[1].

"Beginning this calendar quarter, these Always Connected PCs are expected to be available online and hitting store shelves at the following leading retailers:

* U.S.A – Amazon.com, Microsoft Stores"

[1] https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2018/02/21/qualcomm-a...
6502 Simulator with Transistor-Level Accuracy
Don't forget trench diggers and sewer cleaners.

Cuz dat where da $ is...
Needs a (2012).

IMO, while still cool, LSM trees don't feel particularly novel at this point. It seems like every database and their dog has adopted/made available some kind of LSM tree storage engine, down to traditional relational databases (e.g. MySQL with MyRocks).
Yeah, I think I could count the number of times that one has happened on one hand in the past decade, but it definitely has happened enough I remember it.
why is this here, from 2012?
Maybe you should look at Scaleway. They are as cheap as ovh and look very similar to DO.
It doesn't even require taxes to vanish into black holes, waste and corruption for this to fall apart; all it requires is that those taxes are being spent on people who aren't like us in some sense, who are too far away or too culturally different. You can see this with, for example, the griping from Californians about how unfair it is that they're forced to subsidise other states which aren't the economic success story that California is. (Where economic success is measured by something like GDP, and much of California is so expensive that only the best-paid people and industries can afford to set up shop there.)
What attitude? Paying for something and then expecting it to actually work?
"Denmark got a first wave of immigration in the 60s. Mostly Turkish people. They are reasonably well integrated."

I met a group of young, liberal, well-educated Danes on a trip to Japan once and later, accepted their invitation to visit Denmark, where I stayed for about ten days.

Make no mistake - these were picture-perfect Copenhagen Danes with exactly the liberal and progressive bent that you would expect and they were quite well educated and relatively wealthy (one of them even had a car!).

These people did not beat around the bush: they can't stand "the turks", they don't understand why they are there or why they behave the way they do and they cannot believe that their society has been infiltrated in this way.

It wasn't hateful, or even racist per se ... just a very pragmatic rejection of events.

This was in 2004 - I can't imagine they feel any better now.
You're failing to look at the situation in terms of perspective relative to the company - not society in general. Sandworm's point is that why should someone 2 levels above you be receiving 100x your salary?

Imagine you were at Thanksgiving dinner. Everyone gets a full plate of food, but you only get a quarter of a plate. Is that fair? Should you keep quiet since you're fortunately to have any food at all, rather than homeless on the street? It's all about relativity. Compare apples to apples.
It sounds like your line of thinking leads to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
There are 48v DC air conditioners, again though you typically need a buffer with solar, either batteries or grid unless your way over paneled and even then you might get a cutout if a cloud goes over.
Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good
Nah that's a Honda Goldwing :-)
I wish them the best; however, I have to share that I interviewed there once (recommended by one of their board members) for a CTO position, and the experience has been the worst possible. They seemed not to know what they were doing.

(of course I'm sure their version of the interviews is different).
XPS 13 9360. I use it and it works flawlessly.
>In countries where university are cheaper nobody bats an eye at someone going through the cycles just for the sake of it, purely to learn interesting things.

Tuition is pretty cheap in Canada-- definitely as compared to the States. I'm actually at university to do just that. I'm in a math degree while I get my certs. I'm getting a minor in Latin, because learning the language is literally on my bucket list. I'm having a pretty good time, I'd say.
India also has its own head motion that, for lack of better way of explaining it, is in aircraft terms a roll as compared to our pitch for yes and yaw for no. (Or maybe that's what you're talking about?). It doesn't mean "yes" exactly from what I've been able to gather, but more like "uh-huh" might be used as marker of paying attention in a running conversation. Like "I hear you, please continue" without explicitly agreeing or disagreeing.
Rightwing billionaires battle to erode US union rights
If you're interested in this idea, you might also find the transcension hypothesis interesting: http://brighterbrains.org/articles/entry/the-transcension-hy...
You have almost formulated the no-hair theorem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hair_theorem
A small note. The "Theoretical Minimum" is not just a book, it's also a website with video lectures for the complete material.

See: http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses
> It is a zero-sum game, and increasing our consumption will disrupt other processes.

You need to define what you mean by "being a zero-sum game". For example, in terms of entropy (which is a possible metric in the context of "dissipation") it isn't a zero-sum game -- certain processes increase entropy more, some less. In terms of total instantaneous thermal absorption, which defines the temperature of the Earth, it also isn't a zero-sum game -- If there was a white surface and it is made black, then the temperature of the Earth will rise; the same goes for emitting CO2 which in effect increases the global absorptivity (energy that wouldn't be absorbed if the Earth didn't contain as much GHG). Putting solar cells in barren deserts isn't going to disrupt local lifeforms simply because there aren't any. So it seems in almost every definition of zero-sum it indeed isn't a zero-sum game -- which is good!

Note that I didn't claim renewable energy has no environmental cost. It most definitely has. Every activity will have certain impacts, greater or lower, on resource availability, thermal balance, and on other lifeform habitats. The key is pricing adequately those impacts so any damage could be repaired or compensated. The effect of pricing is usually just impact minimization, since the cost of repair or compensation is usually much greater than prevention.

So it is a matter of seeking technologies that give the greatest return (power output in this case) for total cost (environmental and economic) -- and better alternatives than current ones are constantly being discovered, thankfully.
You might in fact love it. You'll get a nice overview of how interpreters actually work, for one thing.
Can you share more about the experience?
You don't want to convert to sRGB, you want to convert to the display device color space (which in professional displays is often larger than sRGB).

Most desktop environments and applications assume that the source is sRGB, unless specifically tagged (in image metadata).

So you have two points: source (image, video) and reproduction device (display, printer etc). And you convert colors from the former to the later. sRGB may not even come into play if the source image is AdobeRGB and the display is a wide-gammut pro LCD display!
It absolutely does. Maybe not in a residential neighborhood, but when it's rush hour, and I'm stuck on the highway in my truck with bikes splitting lanes, its really nice to get an audio warning that one of them is coming by at a close distance.
A couple summers back, I went to a state park in rural Indiana, where there was a working farm set up to resemble historical 1920s Midwestern life. The farm and its farmhouse were almost completely deserted except for myself, and I remember being struck by the fact that there was a large amount of homegrown produce for sale in the house completely on an honor system. Just a pile of squash on a kitchen table with a sign indicating price and a glass jar with money in it. It was a small thing, but it was great to see that that was possible, and it felt good for me to join in.
Here's a good podcast episode by the person who took the other side of that bet: http://investorfieldguide.com/bet/
That type of comment is also the underlying reason why Linux improves/fixes things at such an astronomical rate compared to either of the choices you listed.

It's not just saying "Hey you, go fix that." , it's saying "Hey everyone viewing this comment on a public page : this exists and needs to be fixed. Someone grab a wrench."
Why is the that the threat of abject poverty the only way to motivate poor/middle-class people, while pre-gifting tax cuts seems to be the only way to motivate rich people?

for too many people right now it isn't worth it to work (Too little difference between working wage and welfare)

That is complete nonsense, peddled by the current government and their think tank lapdogs (including CEPOS). They've only ever been able to find a few persons here and there who even barely fit their bogeyman of a deliberately workshy person, while the vast majority of unemployed people would love to have a job.

CEPOS et al. also tend to include people with severely limited ability to work in their grouping of "lazy" workshy people.
You are correct with reguards to #4, the evo engines and later were all decent I hear. My point partly stands as nobody seems to leave their bike stock, and mods will be limited.

American sportbikes have always had problems, even without harleys heavy hand. The Buell story really is a sad and facinating one for anyone interested in business.
You failed to name a country I could have pointed out their massacres, name it US, UK, France, Germany, Turkey some big democratic nations to name, who have collectively destroyed Iraq, Libya and now Syria .

> I also don't think that it is fair to portray e.g. international alliances against ISIS as evil and unjust wars.

Even ISIS is created, funded by those same countries themselves as pretext for intervention? And do you have knowledge how that ISIS came into existence? No most people have short memory or they have no intellectual purity to look at the truth. It there because those civilized countries uprooted some peaceful nations because some people in those "democratic" nations thought the have right to kill and invade those people capture their resources for the sake of democracy .. oh common .. please stop this ...

You are talking out of books and I am talking about what happened in my country and have seen both sides, dictatorship(supported by west as far as it was feasible for them) and corrupt democracies(which they can manipulate easily). And my conclusion is that China should do what they ought to do for their national integrity and security regardless of how external world looks at them.
A BsC in Computer Science imparts actual skills in computer science. Which is not the same as software engineering. Someone with a BsC in physics couldn’t fill the role of a mechanical or electrical engineer (not least because those engineering professions are regulated).
Project based learning is not inherently better at teaching a given subject. But it's a superior method for teaching how to write computer software because it's an opportunity to motivate, train, discuss and drill on core software developer tools.

#1 problem with folks out of college? They have no idea how to start or maintain a basic workflow. Project based learning provides space for this.
Being complacent is 'perfect' from a state of mind - don't get me wrong, this is why we are happy. The issue is that people who are complacent are not as hungry, and we need a bit of the hunger and drive to continue to have the wealth that we have been used to.
A big business on AWS is probably stuck on AWS until they rework their stack to be more portable. That's the downside of using anything but generic VPSs and maybe a S3 API compatible storage.. Now they end up paying the AWS bill even if it goes way up.
From the first page of the letter, S&P was up 21.8% and brk was up 21.9%...

For all intents and purposes they were inline with the market...
It's probably quite out of context but I stumbled recently across the news that a left Swiss National Council named "Jonas Fricker" resigned from his position after comparing the transportation of pigs in cars as the Holocaust in one statement. It was obvious what mister Fricker mean't: That it's morally questionable to do harm to pigs. But many (jewish or not) people got frustrated "offline" at face value by his words. Since I mentioned Swiss politicians.. Some right politician "Roger Köppel" was verbally attacking federal president "Simonetta Sommaruga" - as a consequence the federal president and his committee left the federal courtroom. Obviously politics and online forums are not on the same level though - my point is you don't need to be bad in reading in order to feel offended by something (Swiss politicians should know how to read - should)
I do have a negative mindset against I welfare system and its lack of work incentive, though. I feel like it should be handled differently, such as through not giving you money, but rather feeding you directly. A system that ensures health and survival, nothing more.

Why shouldn't unemployed people be allowed to live a comfortable life, not just the bare minimum of subsistence?
TIL Berkshire Hathaway owns 3.3% of Apple.
Phishthis – Test phishing email detector
Nobody is assuming that. The whole point is it can store secrets on adversarial clouds. The key stays with the client.
> MORE embarrassing

I think this is an interesting part. I've absolutely never felt embarrassed working out (no matter how out of shape I am), only about not exercising.

Exercising, for me, involves something of a Stoic (capital S) mentality: discomfort sucks, but it's temporary, and you can accept or even enjoy that aspect. It'll fade into the background soon enough.

Some people like to push themselves, others want the social aspect of team activities, some need a competitive aspect. Maybe the best option is working out with a friend you'd hate to disappoint by not showing up. Figure out what you can use to push yourself, and an activity that you don't hate much. Exploit your own psychology.
What in the actual fuck is that article satire or are these people for real?
Those might be good bets, but they're plainly not Buffet companies. Plan grid is still fundraising.

Buffet looks for a decades long track record of profits. Almost none of tech except companies from the 80s or 90s can provide that.
Music video and artificial intelligence
This has zero practical usage unless you have a personal interest in the subject, in which case, go for it
The grandparent may be referring to the cosmic event horizon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_horizon#Cosmic_event_hor...
I always feel that patents or at least the way patents work is really bad for humanity as a whole and hindering our progress. On the other hand there has to be some way for inventors to benefit, are there any good alternatives?
Oh man, it feels like you know me and my habits :)

Having the issue to be the only information available is a great advice! Thank you sir
So loud pipes just distracted me from the other 30 vehicles on the road.. Thanks

And thankfully soundproofing of cars makes those loud pipes irrelevant. They are kind of like car alarms, if I happen to even hear them, obnoxious, I ignore it
It is solid (albeit it strange) advice because that difficult goal is very hard to reach without getting caught. So essentially the advice is: "I never want to hear about you committing any crime" or "don't get caught."

Of course, it is questionable what is worse for a parent: learning their got caught committing a crime, or learning their child committed a crime. Its basically akin to defeatist attitude, or perfectionism (which is defeatist).

It also helps against self-incrimination (or well, incrimination by the parents). The idea is that if you cannot even tell your parents about it, you must keep it secret.

Of course the easier one is "I never want you to commit any crime" but once you go down the route you told there's evidence the child is already down that dark path, or might get influenced to walk it.

Instead, I'd rather give my child the required confidence that they have self respect, and that I am a listening ear when they need me.
The attitude that the cost gap between products in the same category will not be accounted for elsewhere in the user experience or product quality.

tl;dr : you get what you pay for.
Information+for+Webmasters+-+FSFE
Downvotes are probably because people hate motorcycle noise. I'm sure most of us are indifferent to it while driving next to motorcycles, but when we're not driving and are trying to enjoy life at home or work or a restaurant, we don't want to hear that noise (which just adds up when lots of motorcycles pass by). I'm all for outlawing motorcycles if noise is necessary for safety.

For people to downvote you because they don't like noise is violating HN's downvote guidelines, and contributes to making HN an echo chamber.
We absolutely don't mind people who strive for greatness, as long as they remember to contribute back to society and don't run off to Switzerland or Monaco with all their money.

We just don't like boastful overly prideful US-style "look at me!" self-aggrandizement and egotism.

You did well, without exploiting other people or breaking the law? Good for you, and good for society when you give back!

Just don't be a dick.
Truth

(I build on kubernetes and do not use GCE specific features for this reason)
It appears that KDE could do much better without any actual effort. Just merge the existing code into the base packages like GNOME did, don't make it optional.
I had ordered one of those books (don't really remember which of them), and it is to this day the only book I sent back to amazon for a refund.
I never thought of that in the context of strangeness, lepton number, and other conserved quantities. I don't think strangeness is really measurable (and I don't remember if it's technically conserved), but black holes should probably preserve lepton number somehow. Is that a quantum gravity sort of problem?
>In Norway or Denmark, the differences are nonexistent to an American eye.

In Oslo, capital of Norway, 32% of the population are immigrants.