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> Last month my bill was -20 dollars.

> I will be able to run the AC this summer at 70 for a reasonable bill.

Does this imply that the -20 is after somewhat intentionally raising power usage?
Is this a paid advert? the article has more adjectives and unbased grandeur i care to count. Almost look like a Wired puff piece.
That’s not geometrically possible for metros beyond a size threshold we’ve long surpassed. There are diminishing/negative returns to road expansion and a finite supply of land within natural barriers.

It’s relatively straightforward to alleviate transit crowding, and to sound-isolate apartments, with money. But no practical amount of road expansion fixes congestion, and we’re not likely to remove the mountains or fill in the Bay for more tract housing.
And yet here you are.
>Mobile app stores killed that model, when they made continuous, perpetual updates the norm.

Continuous, perpetual updates are definitely NOT the norm in mobile apps.

Some get some bug-fixes and the occasional new feature, but any major update lands a version 2.0.

Far more (the "long tail") are just abandoned (like all those thousands of 32-bit apps being deprecated in the iOS store).
Generally Hackintoshes are fine for CI machines, since it doesn’t really matter if Wi-Fi or the camera or iMessage works correctly, as it might matter if you were using the machine for personal use. Updates are also generally fine if you wait a bit for other people to test before installing.
Many people have expressed concern that this will make houses less affordable. That's not clear to me, at least in the case of people who borrow most of the money for their house (which is the vast majority).

The solar part of this adds about $15k to the cost of the house. That's about $75/month on a 30 year fixed mortgage at current rates.

Much of that, if not all or more, comes back in savings on the electric bill.

Doesn't that mean that for most single family home buyers the difference will mostly just be a slightly higher down payment?
But it does not live on the same level in the stack as UDP/TCP (unlike SCTP, which had multiple streams years ago, but has been stopped by the unfriendlyness of the Internet to things that are not UDP/TCP). It's interesting, but if anything it's a negative example in regard to the OPs question.
It sounds too good to be true, right? Can't blame yourself for being skeptical so soon after the announcement.
You should give consideration to the distinct possibility that the pain and frustration arises from his love for his brother.
> Week 7-11: Build, prototype, and validate your solution with prospective customers

> The time commitment is Sundays 12-6PM for twelve weeks in fall 2018

Is 24 hours really long enough to build something valuable, prototype it and validate it?

When I build things in my spare time it takes me way longer than that... but then I don't write code full time for a living so maybe I'm just slow...
Just how much more bullshit do we have to take from California's politicians ?
The stones provide scarcity and a means of introducing new currency into the money supply.

The actual transferrence process could be modernized with a traditional database, or a decentralized blockchain. The claims to the stones could even be turned into ERC721 non-fungible tokens, or for even greater liquidity, each one could represent some large quantity of fungible ERC20 tokens, so that people could own a small percentage of a stone instead of an all-or-nothing proposition.
Structured Weight Matrices-Based Hardware Accelerators in DNNs: FPGAs and ASICs
I agree, that a good UI is a very important thing in desktop applications and elsewhere. But, to me replacing the border of a button with something "prettier" is usually a UI defect and not an improvement. Desktop environments gain a lot of intuitiveness and ease of use by being consistent. And every damned web designer developing desktop "apps" thinks he has to invent every convention of UIs new, just to be prettier. Usually they loose accessibility, the ability to be used by keyboard and or the ability to render with different color schemes and resolutions. And what do they gain? Pretty borders that serve no purpose and make the UI unfamiliar to everyone.
Amusingly rain water collection is illegal in most of the state. You’re stealing from farmers apparently.
The Challenger Crew somehow died and also they are actually still alive. This is probably due to a timeline shift, for example there is no "Jiffy" peanut butter in this timeline, aka Mandela effect. Unfortunately we do not know what is causing this yet.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8NO8Dkx_yY8/V5loXQBvWkI/AAAAAAAIa...
I’m not sure why you are being downvoted. your prediction is hardly guaranteed but not entirely absurd either. it’s nice to have a guaranteed market
Developer Express has that too with their .NET components. We have dropped the subscription but are still using a version that's 3 years old but good enough for us.
New autoplay policy in Chrome
Housing is already very expensive and you are going to make it even more expensive by ridiculous regulations like these ? What if I want a roof that is not ugly ?
> The owner of the Gogs repo doesn't accept pull requests that won't fit his roadmap or quality standards, he is also not the most responsive during times this is why some people created Gitea. I am still using Gogs personally.

Let's break it down:

> The owner of the Gogs repo doesn't accept pull requests that won't fit his roadmap

That generally sounds bad. Like, in an ideal world, you would be open to changing your roadmap. Specifically the timing, for sure. Also, you would be open to accommodating features you hadn't thought of, etc.

So, this sounds like a negative, basically.

> or quality standards,

Starting with a negative, continuing with just an "or" makes it sound like you're about to list another negative.

I'd expect a "but" or a "but thankfully," or something.

> he is also not the most responsive during times this

This is absolutely a negative.

He doesn't bad thing, or xxx, he is also bad thing.

Reading that sentence structure makes "xxx" sound like another bad thing.
It's not at all controversial that there's a strong genetic component to personality. There are people who like to pretend otherwise, but it's very well-established science.
This will add $20k to $30k. Even in the Bay area, that's substantial. Especially when you are already on the edge of affordability.
Given that there's no formal qualification as an engineer you could probably just show up and get away without writing any code...
People can assess the ruins for themselves, but I need to correct some factual errors.

1. Mainstream news stories were more common on HN in past years (actually a lot more common); 2. moderators don't moderate HN to suit their own politics (in fact we take great care not to); 3. we don't block anyone for making a comment about YC (that's in response to your user profile, since I can't reply there).
Why does California need Solar farms in first place ? Why not ask nevada to build it and buy electricity from them ?

If solar is profitable why is some private company not doing it already ?
Cognitive scientist and first time dad with a 2 month old daughter here.

'Electronically' created white noise is indeed extremely effective to calm down a fussy or crying infant. It also often works instantly, making it certainly a welcome and powerful tool in the arsenal of the sleep deprived parent.

That said, I found its instant effectiveness to be somewhat concerning, as it almost seems to flip a 'brain switch' in your baby - quite different from the longer and more laborious procedure of shushing it to sleep the old fashioned way (which likely works on the same principle, but involves lower volume, more frequency variation and, last but not least, actual parent-infant interaction). Bit of a no free lunch situation.

Driven by concerned temptation, I did some digging, but ultimately couldn't find any large scale studies on the safety of exposure to white noise in human infants - there is one study in the rat model though that suggest delayed auditory cortex development in baby rats that were exposed to white noise 24/7. (http://www.hhmi.org/news/white-noise-delays-auditory-organiz...) - which btw is exactly what sensorimotor contigency theory would predict. (http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/Synthese/MyinFinal.html)

While I don't think the majority of SNOO users will operate the device this way, I would imagine the effectiveness and convenience of the device may mean that there are quite a few babies who will spend a lot of time in the SNOO, approaching long term exposure to white noise.

I am not suggesting that this will cause long term problems to the infant's auditory development as is the case in the animal model, but it is something to be mindful of.
Sounds like you’re trying to network people who want to “do something” but don’t have anything in-flight. How do you feel about engineers who already have a side hustle going and would like to find help to ramp it up?
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This argument doesn't make any sense.

It's strange to deprecate something when you can still achieve the same effect in some roundabout way?

Isn't that true for ALL APIs? You could always rewrite any deprecated API yourself, using sun.unsafe or JNI if it was needed, or even compile your own patched SDK fork.

The main intend behind deprecation is telling people "we don't want to support this anymore and you shouldn't be using it".

This is totally orthogonal to "you won't be able to replicate this behavior".
Seems like entire human economics need an upgrade.
Both problems you mentioned are solved by using S3 configured to serve the buckets contents as static site as origin for CloudFront.

While it’s not strictly CloudFront only doing the work, it’s still a static site.
It's actually the opposite. In some parts of California, it's illegal to capture rainwater. Because it affects groundwater runoff and the surrounding ecosystem.
A plausible case for a future with no privacy, and why it should concern you
I'm sorry! Was that an attack? I figured if you are into telling others how they should spend their money or live their lives or be taxed by government in freedom-restricting ways, then that maybe you would be intellectually honest and not be bothered if I TOLD YOU what to do with some element of your life. How is that an ATTACK?
>There's no good reason why one tech company should be five minutes away from their competitor

I disagree strongly. I think the most valuable thing about silicon valley is that I can walk to tens of small employers, from my house, and at least two big employers who could reasonably hire me.

In bicycling or uber distance, there are thousands of small places and hundreds of large employers.

Because I live in the silicon valley, I can switch jobs almost on a whim; I don't have to move, I don't have to upset my social circles, etc...

I think this is actually a big part of why Silicon Valley is valuable both to the workers and to the employers; there's a huge pool of people and a huge pool of jobs that we can match up without inconveniencing anyone. You don't have to settle for the job that is nearby or for the employee who is willing to move.
> they do not know if a launch escape system would save astronauts in that situation.

1. In the video of the Amos 6 explosion[2], you see the payload fairing falling to the ground, with the satellite inside. You see it happened slowly, the payload did not explore, it burned down after falling. The abort system would have saved the crew in that situation. We were also told[3] the Dragon 1 would have been just fine if it was programmed to open its chutes after the second stage disintegrated under it during ascent on CRS-7. NASA participated in analyzing both failures, they know this.

2. SpaceX have done a pad abort test in 2015[1] that demonstrated the capsule reacting to "something bad happened to the rocket" on the launch pad and saving a test dummy's life.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_2#Pad_abort_test

2 - https://youtu.be/_BgJEXQkjNQ?t=79

3 - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/07/saving-spaceship-dra...
It's almost like the industry is not perfectly competitive...
Correct. Not sure why Facebook to Netflix can't have some of their teams work from Morgan Hill instead of everyone sitting in the same HQ creating really bad traffic patterns.

The only reason I think is that owners of these companeis don't give shit.
So no air conditioning?
How will you know it's a comprehensive exposé? How will you evaluate whether an article is going to be worth the price?
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Gitea is however the more active (and quite active) side of the fork so I'd say it was quite successfully. You can easily check this in the contribution statistics on Github for both projects.
Austin is comically liberal which is great because Ted Cruz has to drive past a bunch of communists from uta legally flashing their freedom boobies at him whenever he visits the capital building.

It's also a pretty intense flashpoint though, when those same communists exercise their Texas mandated long gun open carry rights, while wearing hammer and sickle armbands and shit.

I dunno man. You won't be hard pressed to find fellow liberals in Austin, but you're still in Texas. Ford f150s will still aggressively run your bicycle off the road, your Bernie stickers will still get you vandalized if there happens to be some sort of Republican event at the capital. It's constant idealogical warfare between the young people and the rest of the state, and not even all the young people because uta is the biggest university so all sorts end up there, including people that probably would have found more like minded colleagues at a&m.

It can be exhausting, speaking from experience.
Help Me Finish 'Hello World: The Film'
I’d disagree in that you can buy an MP3 and listen forever using whatever device. But Spotify isn’t required to sell you MP3s (or guarantee perpetual playback). And, it turns out, that people (in aggregate) really like the Spotify model. One fixed cost to consume all the music you want vs buying entire albums to listen to the 2-3 songs that were decent.

There are still two markets in music. That’s not the case with most online services, but I’m comfortable with that.
The 30-year-old retirees
Very few inverters will do this.
So this is a GitHub alternative … whose source is hosted in GitHub? Instills so much confidence.
I see a monad as just an interface, as in a set of generic functions with specific type signatures that you can overload with different types. The functions being identity : a -> m a, and bind : m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b. The type m you use should have some specific properties but it's not like you can enforce these properties in haskell.

It's nice for use in haskell since it combines well with the do notation, allowing for an imperative programming style primarily when you use the IO monad. The do notation basically converts into a sequence of bind and return operations, so that it's impossible to call print a second time on an IO object while having reference to the same IO object that you called print the first time on. This is needed because you can't make a copy of the IO object.
> I think the parts of Texas and California with tech jobs are... not substitutable for a large part of the tech workforce on political/social grounds.

For some part of the workforce. 15% of software developers in the US work in California. For comparison, CA has 12% of the US population.

Many folks that work in CA are from out of state and do it for career/financial reasons, not for political/social reasons. And they'd be fine with living in a suburb of Austin if it were materially more appealing than some suburb of San Francisco.

[1] https://dqydj.com/number-of-developers-in-america-and-per-st...
> Right, but those numbers aren’t really known.

We agree! :) I was just pointing out that your first comment expressing a preference for one style over another presupposes the relative magnitude of those numbers.

I would also be interested in actual data.
Could you break that down into some fiddling small change Ningi's for me?
At least you have your Bronze Swimming Certificate.
Will you be open to someone who can drive every Saturday for 12 weeks to SF?
Prices rise by at least that much every few months. It’s a rounding error.
The price can be of concern for smaller private projects or startups.
I believe Jared Diamond answers this question in Guns, Germs and Steel. Africans didn't have iron tools and were not as effective hunters, so the animals had a much longer time to adapt against their predators.
The nightmare scenario version of this is Michael Chrichton’s The Terminal Man (1972)
And then you have those magical psychological effects at different price points. I remember when almost every piece of "shareware" was $20+ and most full "programs" were $100+. Now people balk at apps over $0.99 and even opt to have a ton of their personal information sent off to a stranger to avoid that price.

The tone of the engagement matters, too, because it works on psychological levels most people aren't aware of. It's essentially brainwashing. To me, "Buying" means assessing and confirming value, "Upgrading" means reassessing the value and how relevant the new features are to me, and "Renewing a subscription" means to keep the status quo and automatically remain up to date. Upgrade notifications feel like nagging, while subscription renewal notices are almost alarming.

Nag all you want because I can just use what I have now. Yay! I upgraded and now all the icons are in different spots. Maybe they added something interesting. I hope it still reads my old files.

End the subscription and who knows what happens. Yay! I renewed my subscription and now all my most precious files are no longer in danger of being wiped from existence. Subscribing sure saved my butt. I'm so glad I did!

Overall, though, I think the subscription model exists to take advantage of inattentive customers, which makes up the bulk of any user base. A person forgetting to cancel their subscription is as good as a new subscriber and there are all sorts of situations where that can happen to anyone. Hell, those are probably the same customers that didn't notice when a new version was released, so the company even makes up for missed upgrades. I have no real data to back that up, but it fits with a lot of personal observations.
Doesn’t mean much as long as they don’t build enough new housing. Most important cities in CA are failing to add affordable housing.
I believe Jared Diamond answers this question in Guns, Germs and Steel. Africans didn't have iron tools (or acquired them relatively late) and so were not as effective hunters. The animals therefore had a much longer time to adapt against their predators.
What we REALLY need is these Micronesian money stones to be logged on the immutable blockchain.
Something I've always wondered, you may be able to help with - why are monads? I.e. what is the problem they try to solve? I use objects and first class functions and they're pretty useful, occasionally even do a bit of currying (mainly because I think - ooh I can do a bit of currying here :-)), so how would Monads make my programs better/ easier etc. I've heard they can sequence your IO operations but in non functional languages thats not a problem. I feel there must be something they do that I'm missing so any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.

Edit: like the two things I spend most of my day writing code for are UI stuff and database code - can monads do anything for me there?
Why do VC's invest in startups with large userbases but no revenue streams?
Mars being the god of war, calling something a Martial art denotes that it is suitable for conflicts that have escalated all the way to war/violence. My previous statement meant to imply my hope that martial arts are not suitable for the vast majority of conflicts that occur in daily life.
The exposure could be worth $300 suppose for example it landed the author a lucrative job offer or business opportunity. The other alternative is generally your site goes down.
it's might be a really crappy battery, but having it use something that's virtually limitless and nearly free is a good way to go.
I think the usual approach with these 'sprint' methodologies is to use software like InVision, Figma, etc. to mock-up a prototype. No sense coding before you've got proof positive that users will care, the thinking goes.

See: http://www.gv.com/sprint/
I would have thought that paying the fee would have been enough. A one percent stake seems a bit ... I don't know. They aren't investing or anything, right?
In the past Adobe’s competition wasn’t as good. Now, the competitors products are just as good. In the past PS competitors lacked features pros needed like PMS spot channels/CMYK/LAB. Not anymore. And Resolve is very compelling in the video realm.

Many of Adobe’s core products have languished at the same time as many of the features that set them apart in the past are become less differentiating. The photo editing/vector drawing space is becoming more commoditized.
So you live in an RV now? Is avoiding a grid tie really enough of a reason to never live in a settled home?

What's the 'dumb' thing about a grid tie?
Better to put it on houses where the demand is than to pollute the land with solar panels all over it.
Babel: high-performance language interoperability tool (2012)
Ah, that explains it. I store my websites in private S3 buckets, and give CloudFront access using an IAM policy. I must need to jump through extra hoops because of that.
Any tips? We have a 10 month old boy, and everything we've tried thus far has failed; has to be rocked, hummed and boobed to sleep every time.
What a pretentious ass
Only new homes. In other words, NIMBY.
I'm afraid to say that you're about 2-3 years late.

This isn't meant to be a comment disparaging WordPress either, but the idea of "publishing posts on a Facebook page". Facebook has been cutting down on that for a while; if you want the sweet FB juice you better pay up. Although, if you really automate the entire thing to the point that I (as a publisher) don't even realize it's happening, I guess it's better to use it than not. My point is that since these days you can only get (relatively) a trickle, the value of this plugin is much smaller than a few years ago.

(Also my mind would blow up if 10 plugings like this didn't exist already)
Who told you it was profitable? It isn’t in most areas.
They're pulling it because it already did its damage. That and to make GPP2.0 w/ nda/gag orders built in.
I learned a lot about how you can fail to become rich by working, after I did some digging into taxation in Germany [1].

The outcome is that you should not expect that working more will equal to becoming rich.

1 : http://www.drinchev.com/blog/germany-freelancing-and-taxes/
The debate should not be about existing nuclear plants. The debate should be about using modern passive safety designs for plants yet to be built.
Given that the Columbia disaster occurred in the middle of those 32 years, I'm not sure that follows....
Use meditation to increase reading speed
I am translating an existing product(brainpassword) to the English market. It has been working well on improving reading speed and mental clarity.
explainer video
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I agree. This is an often overlooked or under-appreciated aspect of these models. Especially for smaller teams or individual software developers, it can provide some consistency in income and allow them to budget time to continue to invest in the software. Additionally, pricing models that let you keep your current version of their software when the subscription expires are pretty reasonable as well. I believe the Jetbrains licensing works this way.

It gets a little more complicated with bigger companies and software though. For example, how can adobe price Photoshop fairly for a hobby user that uses it once a month and a production designer who uses it 8 hours a day?