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You are greatly underestimating the production and distribution of power. Worldwide, solar and wind produces about 1% of energy.

The majority of energy usage is in commercial processes - factories and commercial buildings.

Think about an airline. To make money it has to fly when it's customers want to take a flight - not when the spot price of jet fuel is advantageous. An airline which flew when the price of flying was cheap would attract a niche market of price sensitive travellers. Everyone else wants the flight at a set time.

The same goes for industrial production. If you spend money building a large commercial business which has specific energy needs, you want that asset producing a return as close as possible to 24x7x365. There are very few types of industry that lend themselves to batch production (which implies spending capital to create overcapacity to absorb spikes).

The need for baseload generation is not going anywhere. The more advanced and productive the society, the higher the need for baseload power.
I wrote a gem to help test that unique indices match uniqueness validations in rails https://github.com/emma-borhanian/schema_expectations

If you only do rails-side validation, you have an (exploitable) race condition.
I'll take all 100 please
I wasn't criticizing you for getting lucky and someone else posting it for you, and kudos for what you were able to accomplish. I was just saying that PH appears to be a tough nut to crack for anyone not well connected/known in SV. It's not truly a list of the best products; it's a list of the best products that well-connected SV people have created or like.
I've applied to the iOS software engineer position and haven't heard any thing yet. Is there a direct email I can send my resume to?
If they put Bosnia and Herzegovina in the map then all these wars will make sense. And you do not want to promote wars. Do you?
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Perhaps you are correct (though I'm curious which languages you'd nominate as more likely contenders).
It is very difficult to imagine what kind of scaling needs are, if running in the cloud is more expensive than having 200+ engineers. Even salary of one engineer buys quite a gigantic amount of hosting.
ProductHunt specifics aside, this general approach is one part of what separates successful products from ones nobody ever hears about. It's easy to write it off as "get lucky", and the founder replied elsewhere that this wasn't planned. But they have another existing product they're trying to build an audience for so suspect they've invested a fair amount of time building up their Twitter following, trying to get in front of specific people, working out ways to get press/blog/social coverage.

So I doubt it's pure coincidence that one of their Twitter followers was also a ProductHunt member.
"There's an unwritten expectation that you stay for at least two years."

Two years is a decent duration. At least view this as a job to challenge yourself on delivering projects successfully, even if they're routine CRUD apps.

It would be helpful for you on your third job to list your manager from this first job as a reference.

Generally it's never too early to leave. But if you have a string of job hopping, some people will hold this against you, and you'll have a short list of people wanting to endorse you.
Aluminium smelters typically sign long term power agreements at a fixed price anyway. They typically cannot take advantage of increasing production in times of cheap power because of their agreements.

Besides, an ability to increase production implies idle production capacity, which, as you state, is a poor use of capital allocation.

Lots of people see a few solar panels and tesla announcing sleek batteries, and think a new age is upon us. Not yet.
You are also not going to run your aluminum smelting plant for 18 hours out of the day on battery power!

Give it time.

In 2003, Alaska built the world's largest battery at 4.7MWh.

In 2012, China built the world's largest battery at 36MWh.

In 2014 Southern California Edison announced it was buying a 400MWh battery.

On that curve, we should be up to an 18GWh battery before all that long.
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That seems incredibly forward - I honestly don't think I could bring myself to do it. Definitely sounds like the best approach though.
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1. The article don't really make such a hard claim as the title says.

2. It still seem to simplify a bit. Look at this quote:

"We doubtless share a common ancestor with today’s chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans and gibbons [...] chimpanzees and bonobos are almost exactly opposed to one another: chimpanzees are known to engage in violent, group-level encounters, complete with search-and-destroy missions that conjure images of human skirmishing and outright warfare. Bonobos, on the other hand — genetically, no more distant from Homo sapiens — do nothing of the sort"

We know that humans evolve the culture to a large degree. My native Scandinavia used to make today's Somalia look peaceful -- but now Sweden haven't been in a war for over 200 years. With mostly the same genes!

Depending on circumstances, the culture changes to a very wide possible set of behaviours. So, at a minimum, we have instincts for creating a culture which can be warlike. It seems we are both bonobos and chimpanzees. It all depends on the social situation.

(You could also note how deeply attitudes to violence changes in a culture when the local state gets a violence monopoly and creates a functioning police.)
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> we don’t have a plural form for peace

Alliance, treaty, federation, united, concordate, joint, organization... And that's just the large scale things that get names. There's also friendships, marriages, corporations, cooperation's, and more. There are at least as many words for peace as for war.

Sorry, pedantic nitpick anytime someone brings out the old "there are a hundred words for X but only one for X^-1"
Some do, but that implies on-site supply of gas (oil would not be used for aluminium production much).

Building smelters next to coal fields is a way of producing cheap aluminium. Coal is still the cheapest way to make electricity - it's only places where the government has explicitly made this not the case that coal is expensive.

Generally unfavourable government regulations simply moves production to places without the regulation - for no net change in production or coal consumption. Sometimes it's a net negative if the new location has lower local emissions standards and technology.
Off-Topic of the post, but reading this post was hard for me as I like to highlight text as I'm reading. This site will automatically put a little button underneath where my mouse was after highlight and thus whenever I tried to click off my highlight, it would automatically bring up this window to post whatever I'm highlighting. I know quite a few other people on HN have the same habit of highlighting text as we read, so surely I'm not the only one that found that quite annoying.
Ontario has the SIU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Investigations_Unit

Unfortunately, police are still extremely uncooperative and it has had more or less teeth over the years, depending on who gets appointed.
My main point was that writing all the custom stuff was why the staffing numbers were so high.

One small correction - In this case they also do not have warehouses since items are shipped from craftspeople. I also would expect mobile apps could be done by a team of a handful of people.

As for SOA vs monolithic apps (highscalability link currently is a 404), it's largely horizontal scaling and a load balancer. That in itself shouldn't change architectual choices.
There's an incorrectly joined infinitive in the second sentence.
That's right. Early in Hebrew scriptures, there are several passages that suggest, not an outright exclusion of the existence of other gods, but rather an assertion that YHWH is the god of Israelites, which evolved into an assertion that YHWH is the only God.

Later in Christianity, not only Judaic influences, but the influences of Persian Zoroastrianism (cherubim, seraphim, and God's angels), Manichaeism (dual entities of good and evil under a single Monotheistic God), Mithraism (risen son of the chief God from the dead), the cult of Dionysius (the eucharistic ceremonies), various Pagan religions adopted by Constantine's mother redesignating Roman pagan holy sites as Christian holy sites, the cults of Mary Mother of God and Mary Magdalene in France, and finally the patron saints, which are virtually indistinguishable from the concepts of caretaker pagan gods with individual responsibilities.

Religions are all melting pots, adopting and co-opting the beliefs of the native people as they spread. This makes them neither more or less valid, and it is rather remarkable the dedication Christianity has preserved to the teachings of a single man two millennia ago.
> It is only expensive in places where the government has decided to force it out of business via taxes and regulations. That's not true for most of the world, and the future of coal production is certainly up.

You mean "properly include the cost of it's externalities".

Coal is the epitome of "tragedy of the commons". The faster a stake is driven through its heart, the better off the world will be.
Indeed. My total compensation package has elements covered by NDA. Technically even disclosing this fact could be considered a breach of my NDA.

My salary figure is an important part of my compensation, but it's a long way from telling the full story.
Definitely an interesting concept. Really interested to see if anyone is going to answer yes. For me I stick with 'sh' and never really even considered other options, with the exception of csh (c shell) which I dabbled in but really never stuck. This also may be because I am not a hardcore JS programmer. I also have always really considered bash to be a huge part of Linux.
The important thing to note is that unlike New York/Manhattan, LA hasn't really had a downtown that is exclusively commercial property. Businesses are scattered throughout the regions' major cities (LA, Pasadena, Long Beach, Santa Monica, Irvine, etc.) That means that those commercial areas are intermixed with housing, etc. This works great if you can land a near-permanent job, then buy housing nearby. It's not so good if you can't afford housing in the area your employer is located (the westside), or if your employer relocates their HQ across town after you're bought your home.
> The post is talking about automatically figuring out that nobody knows the Pid of a process and hence that process can be reclaimed.

This seems pretty impossible in distributed Erlang. Perhaps the Pid was sent to another node (which may be alive but not currently dist connected), or was serialized and may be deserialized later.
It all sounds like a great idea, but you seriously need to hire a good writer and copyeditor. I don't know when I've seen quite so many misspellings, grammar errors, and odd or confusing wording. This hurts your credibility.

"gettng", "statup", "What entrepreneur's lack today", "the door to numerous possibility", "the latests information", "you are promised to get in the right direction for your success", "creating a stage where everything is possible".

You could probably hire someone for a few hundred bucks to clean all this up and give you a much more professional presentation. It would be money well spent.
You check 3 characters, not 1, but like I said, 80^3 still isn't good.
>Why post a stock chart for a coal company, when we have actual usage data for coal:

Sorry if it wasn't obvious, but coal companies have to make money. They are at the point now where they are on the verge of being wiped out by natural gas.

It will reach a point where coal makes absolutely no sense to invest in and the game will stop there. It's already at the point where nobody in their right mind is putting money into new large coal prospects.
Also known as "Robert Half My Rate". :-)
You might find this paper interesting: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/papers/BergeronFeeleyDav...

Edit: found PDF link.
yes! The Intellimouse is the "IBM Model M" (keyboard) of mice. Man I miss mine, almost considering buying this one up via your Amazon link.
Even Hell and Heaven appear to be creations of later thinkers, with little basis even in the canonical Gospels. They remind me of the Greek academic conception of the Gods: useful for controlling the masses, but not believed, and understood as a social control device, by many contemporary academics.
That's you but statistically behavior and wealth like yours is a blip.
This is the language being used by thieves to hit homes; these are just lawful thieves.
Some of the comments here surprise me. I have used stand up meetings for years. Yet I never thought they were for the benefit of the manager. Instead they help keep everyone abreast of what is going on and quickly sets the tone for the day if there are any key issues that need to be resolved.
i'm not answering the question of why i prefer to drive my own car than ride the bus. are you even being serious?
How are people supposed to know what you are working on if aren't communicating with them routinely?
It's more than fair.

Diaspora's been up and active for years -- it launched in November, 2010.

Let's say that a Tweet conveys only 1/1000th the meaning or significance of a Diaspora post. You're still looking at the fact that the lifetime volume of Diaspora is a week's worth of Twitter traffic.

I'm on Diaspora. Been there for years. Hardly use it, for a number of reasons -- chief among them that there's very little of interest for me there, no search, and I keep seeing content from idiots I'd really prefer not to deal with. I've got enough noise in my life.

I'm also active on Ello, which, similarly, has quite a small (though enthusiastic) community. And G+.One criticism which applies equally well to each of these networks is that it's insanity to go up against Facebook on the social graph. Facebook owns that graph, to the tune of 2.5 billion people, a large portion of whom are monthly actives. Google has 2.2 billion profiles but cannot convince more than 0.27% to participate with public posts monthly. Now, a fraction of a percent of 2.2 billion is still a large number, about 6 million users. But it's a small fraction of Facebook's activity.

The alternative is to pursue the interest graph. That's effectively what HN does (startups / tech interests), reddit (multiple subreddits), Pinterest (it's in the name), etc.

See Michel E. Pearl's critique of Ello:
https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/s-IsrNuI5ODCJqnUJ8KoEA

Another is to consider social networking from the "problems solved" perspective. A shockingly large part of that is :

1. Where can I post my photos online? Kids love this, yes, but parents and grandparents even more.

2. How can I post updates and content online. Effectively microblogging. Sometimes more than micro.

3. Spam and access controls. Not everything I post need be commented on by everyone, or even be visible to them. From the ground up, HTML and HTTP make all of this difficult, and tools for mitigating spam, trolls, cross-scripting attacks, and other abuse are actually an underappreciated aspect of centrally-provided services.

4. Promotion. I recently discovered that there's actually a tremendous amount of activity and discussion on Wordpress, as compared to G+, Facebook, or reddit. But it's hard to get engagement on blogs. If blogs can sort out how to provide content recommendations and engagement, and the authentication / reputation issue for comments, they'll take away much of the benefit of social networking sites.
I don't doubt that you could find an apartment for $1500 in Chelsea in 2006. Back then Chelsea was a significantly different place. The high line hadn't opened yet, google wasn't there, the stroller crowd hadn't moved in yet.

By the same token, I also don't doubt you could find a decent share where your half would be $1500 south of 96th street today, maybe even in the 20s somewhere.

Neither of those are a studio in the 20s for $1500 in 2015. If that exists, I wish I knew the secret handshake.
If you feel like you are no longer learning or growing then you should probably look at moving, especially if pay and benefits are below average. At least start a slow search to see if there is someplace worth moving to. And since you aren’t miserable and are actively employed, you can move on your terms.

I wouldn’t worry about perception, especially in software. Moving after 6 months multiple times would be bad, but moving a few times in your first four or five years isn’t a big deal. I think the opposite actually applies in software, staying at someplace too long can be seen as a red flag if it’s not a top notch company using cutting edge tech.

The real risk though is leaving a good company culture with good management and a good team. Places with both are probably fewer and farther between then you would imagine. You may find better pay working on cutting edge tech with awful management and egotistically, unhelpful teammates, especially at some hyper growth companies.

The answer depends on what you want and it sounds like more interesting work is important. If there is no way to get your ‘simplistic’ work done and do interesting stuff on your own or helping another team, then moving is probably worth it. I do wonder though if the place is so great and your coworkers so talented, why is the work so simplistic? Is it a lifestyle company or are you missing something without the experience to know?

In any event, think about what you want, take your time and do research if you choose to move, and best of luck in your career.
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Teslas do similar on the top-end. They don't normally charge past 80%. You can override this behavior in preparation for a long trip to ensure you have extra range available, but it reverts back to the default setting automatically after a few days.
Cost = $ per mwh

Drive coal out of production now and you'll cause a lot more problems than you solve. Lots of activists like to do their ten minutes of hate on coal, but they never stop and think about all the good that it does. It's a case of 'what has coal ever done for us'. Apart from all the lighting, refrigeration, production, water distribution, heating, cooling and computing it enables throughout the world.

The age of coal will eventually end. It is best managed rather then fervently trying to prevent.
Coal (and oil) have powered almost all of the progress in manufacturing, food production and distribution, health care, and science/engineering in the last century. It has unquestionably been a net positive. Will alternate forms of energy generation eventually displace it? That seems to be the trend. But if that happens, coal itself will have powered the progress necessary to create its own replacement.
Can you expound on what this would look like? (I don't think that is what the paper is recommending.)
But your employer cannot contribute to your political campaign.
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I look towards our closest relatives, Chimpanzees, at least one subspecies of which carries out organized troupe-based raids that echo much of what we see in human warfare. Troupes of young males patrol the perimeter of a territory by night, and periodically raid neighboring groups, killing adult males, seizing females, killing male offspring, and conquering their territory.

I have a hard time believing that warfare is a pure invention, given its (near) universality across space, time, and our most closely related genetic relatives.
I would definitely consider unintended behaviour from limitations bugs, though.
> But something isn't making sense here.

So maybe the government should prove it. Like beyond a reasonable doubt or something.
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That's a fair point on the use of that literary cliche. Yet, the main thrust of the idea is valid. Peace is a relief against from which special events (wars) are defined. Whether it's valid AND important to his thesis is doubtful.

I argue that we don't have a war gene, but we do have genes that are related to our experience of fears, aggression, etc. and the power of these are more easily manipulated to create societies prone to war than to peace. Despite large groups of peace-loving people in most societies, violent subgroups will wage wars and turn fear into profit. You don't see the peace-lovers standing up against the war-mongers in a way which would stop the bloodshed.

False binary coming... Would you spend a trillion dollars on raising the most helpless and hopeless up on a ladder of living standards or spend that same trillion stamping out shadows and bogeymen amongst the same people?
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It creates incentives, but whether they're perverse is a matter of perspective.

A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable result which is contrary to the interests of the incentive makers.[1]

It's common to believe that law enforcement makes mostly just decisions, even when deciding whom to accuse[2]. To voters with this view, the incentives are exactly aligned with their interests.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism
Thanks, I think you end up killing your Erlang processes most of the time because this is the model you follow when programming in Erlang. Using HTTP as example, while in other systems it is a really bad idea to have 1 req -> 1 process (or thread) mapping in Erlang it is encouraged. When the request is answered and the response is sent back the process dies. I think is a fairly simple model. I guess I need to look into Pony more to understand the importance of this in it.
Ahh, makes sense. Thank you.
In the City with many high rise building, installing Solar Panel in lower rise building causes horrible concentrated Light reflection. Generally I would rather have utility making solar farm then roof top solar panel.
> The term "capability” is much older than Pony, and the concept was proposed in the 60s.

Right, capability-based security (my definition) originated in the 60s and has been in continual use ever since. Pony's definition is new, AFAIK (and according to the documentation).

> We would have loved to use a different word, but there are not enough different recognisable words in the English language.

I think "type qualifiers" is the correct term. The Pony docs already describe capabilities as being similar to C++'s "const" and "volatile" type qualifiers, and this term will help people understand that the concept is similar (but more advanced).

The Pony docs spend a whole paragraph explaining that its capabilities are not the same thing as any other "capabilities" I may have heard of, e.g. "You may have heard of capabilities somewhere else, but these are not the same thing." The fact that you need this paragraph suggests that you've heard this objection a number of times, which should be demonstration enough that you really ought to choose a different term. People don't usually need disclaimers like this. English is a language that has entirely too many words -- there are plenty available. Or, consider making one up. :)

> But we believe that Pony's capabilities can also be developed further to support security

Yes, it's very likely that your "capabilities" would compose well with object capabilities in order to effect security. But that's just all the more reason they shouldn't use the same word, since it will be incredibly confusing to anyone who is trying to use both.