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The other strategy they pursue is to build their own large scale solar farms next to their datacenters, starting in North Carolina back in 2011.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/10/apple-building-171-a...

The tech giants all pursue this strategy now. They build out renewable energy projects near their datacenters, put solar panels on the roof of their buildings and purchase renewable energy offsets for everything else.

For instance, Google.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/04/google-wind-solar-offset...

Microsoft is on the same path.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/03/21/new-sol...
Haha, you're right. Sorry, I should have read more carefully!
There's a guy on my street that owns 27 houses, all bought in the 90s. While that guy is getting subsidized income by paying less taxes on high value property he is less likely to sell that property to developers who will build higher density housing. The same can be applied to the people who own vacation or retirement homes out here (there's a surprising amount of vacant property out here). The taxes that aren't being paid by all those people has to be made up for somewhere, so the taxes on new property owners are higher (as are the number if different fees and things like sales tax).
One hard requirement here is to be able to expose C API. Given the current state of affairs, it's the only way to guarantee that any language runtime will be able to use it.

That limits the options quite a lot. I hear it's possible to make shared libraries with Golang nowadays, so that may be an option. Probably Rust, but I'm not sure what's the state of green-threading there.

Finally, if you want to go implementing protocols further down the stack (L4, L3) the performance requirements get tighter. So, for example, Golang's GC may rule that language out.

Taking all those requirements into account I guess C is still the only option. Maybe Rust one day.
Once you sampled enough public water in your month around the world, you tend to associate bad taste with bad quality. Water that doesn't make you sick has a very subtle one, or taste like a swimming pool. But you won't drink the second one so...
Please read the grand parent comment. If you collect data that can be tied to the user using your app/site (e.g. create a session and store the id as a cookie), you need to get consent for that. On top of that, the user should be able to view and remove the data you have collected for them.
Higher property taxes makes housing allocation more efficient as people not using the house, retired people in high cost areas, etc would be incentivized to either sell or rent their house out.
A self-centered desire to preserve an environmentally unfriendly suburbia at the expense of others who wanted to share in the region's prosperity contributed the shortage.

In the article the polls cited say that people think it was profit seeking developers and "technology companies who add jobs". Clearly instead of accommodating these desirable jobs we should give ample incentive for them to go elsewhere.
Which is used to enhance the product, so it's okay to collect and require for consent.
So you're saying that drag racing isn't racing? Also, that it's important for street cars to have the extra cooling needed to run on the track? OK. Er, so, what exactly is Model S missing for the average driver?
Legislative fixes would need to be implemented by the Congress — an institution trusted by only about 25% of Americans [1]. So I don't think it's fair to say that there is widespread confidence that this can be fixed with legislation.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/01/17/578422668/heres-just-how-litt...
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no, there isn't. I personally paid my way with loans and work, but I wouldn't mind paying a portion of a public university education for my children. Remember you generally end up cosigning loans, so if your kid flakes out, you're on the line anyway.
Akiba is still the place to go for all those parts, there are just fewer stores and you have to know where to look. I worked at a startup that constantly needed parts for the hardware component and the engineer would go to Akiba, and only Akiba, atleast a few times a month for components for a device that was connected to a vending machine.

You're not going to get a deal on common consumer electronics like a camera or video games, but even still its pretty rare that there is a place where you can go and see nearly any consumer electronic you could possibly want in person.
Not true, and not really a good comparison because the Android world is enormous with all levels of models (super cheap up to premium). In fact there are projects out there to repurpose these old devices that wouldn't even be possible under the heavy control of a different platform. You can find lots of projects. One interesting one I saw recently was using old Android phones to detect illegal lumber cutting. There also some cool DIY home security projects that make use of older phones. Another that comes to mind is a crypto currency mining setup. You can also use the phones as routers or firewalls for your home. Anecdotally I still have and use an old tablet from 2011 that my kids play on.
I live in a city with ubiquitous (non-E) shared bicycles (Shenzhen), and unfortunately maintenance does become your problem... You have to go from bike to bike performing basic maintenance tests (is the brake working? Is the chain non-rattly? Seat adjustable? Anything broken?) and still sometimes end up with a non-working bike that doesn't work quite right.
For the bike sharing company it's an even bigger problem (the two/three remaining companies employ an army of staff to keep moving the bikes to where they are needed and attempt some basic maintenance, literally a team on every street corner).
As the OP, I love RSS.

But let's not pretend it's always easy.

You gotta take in consideration the filters, the configuration, the cache, if you support rss and atom, the routing, and how you integrate it in your design.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.
> MPEG-LA never did

The never do. It's like the mob: "pay us or you'll be in trouble". You can either pay the MPEGLA (and by the way, you will never know who inside the MPEGLA decided to sue you), or face consequences (and discover which patents are supposedly infringed)
The BEAM needs an APL-y language
You could gyro-stabilize it :)
Here in Europe, strip-clearing forests and turning it into wood-pellets and burning those counts as 'renewable energy'. Our own shortsighted minister for the environment acknowledged that this is absurd, but he continuous to allow it (actually, the government does it itself by strip-clearing all trees from roadsides) to meet EU committed 'renewable energy targets' and avoid an EU fine.
Restriction is the key. There is no point completely avoiding these sites like HN or Reddit.
Stay away from vulnerable situations that sucks you in.

I have ditched smartphone and laptop, because they are just an easy access to get lost in time, whenever i feel tempted or frustrated. Right now, I cannot reason out that, I will use my will power and stay away from internet by keeping smartphone close to my pocket. Instead I use internet at work and get the most out of it. Set out time to browse/search information that i really need. Make notes and get out. Its been 4 months without smartphone or laptop. I will continue this lifestyle for a year or two.
Thanks for saving me hassle of typing 100% of those same exact words.

When Google Reader went away I looked at a few of the hosted alternatives but found tt-rss early on and never looked back.
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I'm in Beijing for the next few days and want to check out what the local tech/startup scene is like. Are there any particular places I should try and visit?

Also, would be awesome to meet up with any HNers in Beijing if you're around!
Don't even bother with yowsup, you will be banned after wasting a lot of time setting it up
Prop 13 creates bad incentives for existing property owners since the rising cost of services can be passed onto future home owners. If all home owners had to bear the true market cost of services they would either have to settle for less or reduce per home owner cost by allowing more density.
FWIW, the website just seems to load https://work.endel.io/8_stream.mp3 via an IceCast server. Huh.

And if your preferred media player doesn't like MP3s directly you can also use https://work.endel.io/8_stream.m3u.

I've personally found good success with just wget (and mplayer).

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Hmm. The sound is a little glitchy. There's one definite spot in the bit I've recorded where it's very obvious it just switched tracks.
I'm assuming you mean engineering positions.

There are some dedicated Blockchain job boards that can help you find what you're looking for. One example is https://cryptojobslist.com/

Also, I'm seeing a lot of Blockchain jobs getting posted on Facebook Groups recently too. Join the Remote Work & Jobs for Digital Nomads group along with the Blockchain Developers group.

Good luck on your search.
Fraternities and sororities are not anything like I mean.

I learn a lot from from college friends in other and the same fields. It teaches me a lot about the world, which is essential for identifying new areas for startups. I can bounce ideas off them and get feedback from entirely different perspectives; college is a great base for developing broad set of connections that all share at least a minimum amount of interest in critical thought.
What do you think funds teacher salaries?
There's a difference between a paperclip maximizer which is a bit of a philosophical thought experiment, unlikely to be a problem in reality and say Russian cyberattacks which appear to be an ongoing issue right now and where they would presumable deploy AGI if they had it.

I think you have to assume there will be bad actors trying to do bad things with AGI and take measures against it in the same way we assume there are malware creators out there who we have to guard against.
OK interesting, thanks. Yes that definitely could be part of my confusion -- that the code is doing more than parsing; it's also doing some semantic analysis in the same pass.
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Congress wants to 'inflict pain’ on Mark Zuckerberg. Is he ready for it?
Note that repealing prop13 would probably not raise property taxes overall. It would spread them more fairly across all owners, instead of the current arrangement of newcomers subsidizing established owners.
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What the hell ?

Yes do it ! You re gonna move in a less expensive place, just stop working, you can live at least 1year without working if you cut your expenses, it will give you all the time to figure out what to do with your life. And if you finish nowhere after 1year, just get an other of your boring stressfull, high paying job !

If you are too scared and don't want to "loose" 70-100k by not working, just find a part-time job, work like 2days per week as a freelance, it will be enought to sustain yourself with a low cost life style, and give you 3 more days of total freedom to work on your personnal project...

Damn, stop being scared. You can get a job again, if it doen't workout.
I don't see the loophole there. That just sounds like wasting energy and also buying credits. What is the advantage of that over doing something sensible with the energy instead?
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I can't figure out what you're implying.
Only if you don't know your way around.
But even a submarine cable with <8 strands can have 40tbit/s. And they are still considerably cheaper to install than satellites (esp including long-term maintenance).

EDIT: As an example, the new Atlantic cable "MAREA", partly sponsored by Facebook and Microsoft, has a capacity of 160tbit/s.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/networks/facebook-and-mic...
Yes, I realized that. The client doesn't need to be compromised.. the URL detecting occurs as-you-type, so its parsing the message anyway.

Wrt monitoring.. they'd probably send it encrypted if they do this at all
You need to provide more details on what your goal is.

Right now, the best answer one can give you is "it depends".
There is a very interesting subgroup in 3D rendering that uses wavelengths for calculations instead of the RGB-model.

This is called spectral rendering (other names are used).

Some even use wavelenths outside the visible range and calculate the interaction between different wavelengths.

Most of those renderers are experimental but it's worth looking at them if you like this subject.
The shuttles go to a ton of different suburbs around Cupertino, not just to SF. So your knowledge is incorrect.
Maybe ClearCase? Centralised, with access through a versioning filesystem.

Performance would strongly depend on the power of the server and a bunch of other things. Also, apparently builds are done centrally.

A get the shivers just thinking about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ClearCase

See also these two links.

https://www.daedtech.com/how-rational-clear-case-stole-my-in...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1074580/clearcase-advant...
DPRIVE maintains a list with current implementation status https://dnsprivacy.org/wiki/display/DP/DNS+Privacy+Implement... (you're looking for TLS encryption + OOOR + pipelining)
> The taxes that aren't being paid by all those people has to be made up for somewhere, so the taxes on new property owners are higher

No, they aren't. Prop 13 limits maximum property tax rates to very low amounts as well as limiting assessment increases, so no jurisdiction is able to make up for artificially low assessments by jacking up the nominal rate.

> (as are the number if different fees and things like sales tax).

Mostly, it's state income tax, though state and local sales tax are also affected (there are general and program-specific revenue sharing mechanisms by which state revenue goes into local coffers to pay for local programs.)
The time-saving alternative to cooking is not eating out (that's insanely expensive if it becomes the norm). The alternative is foods that scale well. I can buy a pack of bread, a pack of cheese and a pack of sausage in 3-4 minutes, and then use that for a week or so to make sandwiches. Preparation time will be 2 minutes per sandwich.

Eating sandwiches may be boring, but it is very time-efficient.
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How would we play it? The only decoders that exist are experiments or tests, and they are not currently optimised enough for mainstream use.
Well…

> Apple says that when it purchases REQs, “we require that they are Green-e Energy certified and come from the same power grid—and preferably the same state — as the Apple facility they support.”

So "whatever power generation method is used on that grid" does actually have to include an equivalent amount of renewable energy, although it presumably also includes fossil fuels.
I've underestimated XMPP myself, there's a surprising amount of providers out there.
> The pain of Windows phone development was significantly worse especially when you consider they kept on changing it every year because of their inferior development environment and tooling.

Vastly superior to Android Studio.

> Google switched IDE's. Microsoft changed their development environment and tooling each time they decided to osbourne their still born OS.

Google replaces Android Studio plugins at each major release.

Profilers, Gradle configurations, IDE plugins

> Well, at least they stuck with it instead of chucking it to the curb each year and starting over.

It already started over 4 times, with incompatible build systems.

> Isn't being left in the cold an annual event for Windows phone developers?

Not as much as at Google IO. Oh sorry, maybe you are right we don't feel the cold as we are taking care of our sun burns.

> This is in contrast to the Windows phone .build conference where there were no sessions because no one was building Windows phone apps.

There is no such thing as Windows Phone specific conference, there is only BUILD conference, Connect conference and Windows Developer days.

> Isn't choice good.

Not when it increases development costs.

> Because XCode and Visual Studio are bug free when new versions are released, right? Oh wait.

Android Studio wins in bug counts.

> Google has to support 3 platforms unlike Microsoft who couldn't even support 1.

Strangely, you cleverly forgot to mention Genymotion.

As for Microsoft their Android Emulator still runs better than Google's on Windows.

Maybe Google needs to do less inverted balanced tree whiteboard interview exercises and more OS related stuff.
I'm curious to know what version control system they settled on.
> To eat is practical. It is possible to do both.

Yes. Even when it comes to development, I find that often the project you are most passionate about is not one that you can be paid for, at least long term. So even if you love software, you may still need to pursue the fun parts in your spare time.
Yes. The trick is to identify what something looks like and then assume positive intent and carry on -- as I did in my post.

For the record, I shared several Obama/data stories with friends, specifically mentioning how this was the sign of a really bad thing. (Not the details of what they did, the concept of using deep personal data and friend networks as a way to monitor and persuade voters.)

I am especially concerned that the public can't seem to focus on this problem unless there are clearly set up good guys, bad guys, and some kind of simplistic emotionally-manipulative narrative. So, for instance, the current narrative is foreign powers using FB in a way most users never expected to (perhaps) deeply influence a U.S. election. For many news consumers, that's got a bunch of cartoon figures acting almost like villains in a movie.

Much more concerning to me is the fact that data, once collected, can go and do anything. Being too much for any one person to understand, we rely on programming to do things with it. In effect, we are creating systems that we ourselves do not understand. So how could we understand the downstream effects? For every Hollywood Standard Movie Plot news story, how many other bad downstream effects are happening that we don't know and might never figure out?

I know this sounds a little bit like arguing from ignorance, but my point is that these are systems about which we cannot reason. So Zuckerberg may have a noble cause and be on a mission to connect the world so that it can be a better place. In the process the things he created could end up killing millions. And it might be a hundred years before we figure it out, if ever. (Likewise, he may actually cause more good than harm in the world -- and 20 years from now somebody steals the data and uses it to start a war killing tens of millions. Is that Zuckerberg's fault? With something like, it's not simply a matter of "stealing". If I were creating and collecting H-bombs in my basement and somebody broke in, the crime involved is not simply "theft". Something much worse is going on.)
Nothing special, got recruited by a Swedish company that does visa sponsorship, never got asked about the lack of a degree and the company applied for my visa as a high-skilled worker, they asked for the documents they needed (nothing major, my CV, a form detailing my previous occupations and contact details from previous employers were basically it) and I got the visa approved a month later.

If a company is willing to sponsor your visa then it's really not hard over here.
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> Note that repealing prop13 would probably not raise property taxes overall.

A straight-up repeal of Prop 13 would repeal rate limits on property taxes as well as assessment increase limits (both are part of Prop 13) and probably lead to jurisdictions, over time, increasing property tax rates and overall property taxes. It would probably reduce increases in sales, income, and other taxes, which currently are used in place of property taxes because they have no Constitutional rate limits.
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The loophole is not that the second company is wasting the energy. (Like you said, it could even try to profit from it, e.g. by [as someone else mentioned] mining Bitcoin or doing something else that's "unclean" -- that only makes the loophole worse.) Rather, it's the fact that it's a secondary company getting paid by the primary company so that the latter can claim it runs on green energy when it doesn't. And both can profit in the process.
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But it is daily life for me. The only meal I ever cook myself is dinner (lunch is at work), but I'm not at home many days of the week. If at all, I would be cooking twice a week. Given this situation, it doesn't make sense to buy large quantities of ingredients in advance. Most would just perish.

> And I ignore the dishes for every other day or two, because I'm lazy.

That's cute. I do the dishes every Sunday. That's how away-from-home I am.
I always wondered where all the material came from that they used to extend Manhattan into the harbor. Largely ballast!
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Just wondering has anyone found life coaching useful in circumstances like this? I live in one of the most expensive cities in the world have been quite career driven but I'm worried about hitting the ceiling where taking on more responsibility isn't worth the extra coin.

FIRE seems attractive and is very possible but based on the two three month periods where I haven't worked so far in my career - I'm worried about how depressed/lonely I would get?

Any ideas?
> This is in contrast to Europe, especially Germany where people in living memory experienced first hand how the government could use your private information to literally cause you and/or your family to be imprisoned, tortured, or even killed.

And we still have a majority who is for gun control. I think part of the reason is how police / state forces are perceived: in Europe people see them as professional so "they're dangerous with data but they're also good at their protecting job". In the US "they're just obese donut eaters who can't do shit to protect you and would not know what to do with data".

You can thank the medias for all the propaganda.
Were you inspired by this repository https://github.com/mukulhase/WebWhatsAPI?

Do you need a phone running to use this project?
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An unreasonable commute is stressful at best, dangerous at worst.

https://lifehacker.com/ditching-your-commute-is-the-happines...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2347274/The-secret...
Deuteranomaly and protanomaly -- the most common conditions referred to as "red-green colorblindness", and which involve variant forms of light-sensitive pigment in one set of cones -- do not involve inability to distinguish red from green.

Deuteranomaly causes difficulty distinguishing between shades where the precise amount of green is relevant (i.e., to a deuteranomalous person, pure yellow -- equal parts red and green -- would still look slightly reddish-orangish).

Protanomaly causes a similar effect with red, and also dims the dark/deep red part of the spectrum slightly.

If someone doesn't want to use the medical terms for them, better names are "green weakness" and "red weakness" since they don't carry the misleading "can't tell red and green apart" connotation.
I would never trust btrfs for anything. You might as well just use /dev/null for storage
And illegal in most places. Usually you are capped at 25KM/h