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In theory, your bags aren't supposed to take a flight you didn't take unless they're catching up to you after being delayed/lost.

In practice, not so much. My favorite example: a couple years ago when I was regularly flying in and out of DCA (from Kansas City), sometimes I'd take the direct flight and sometimes I'd take a connection in Charlotte. But several times when I took the connection, I'd arrive in Kansas City to find my bags waiting in the airline baggage office, since they'd taken the direct flight and arrived a couple hours earlier.
Which makes the vast tree recovery even more impressive.
Well, will be great if you explain technologies that allow to create such tools.
Yeah, I'm very interested in this also.
> AWS announced a 4.8 megawatt hour pilot of Tesla’s energy storage batteries in its US West (Northern California) Region. Batteries are important for both data center reliability and as enablers for the efficient application of renewable power. They help bridge the gap between intermittent production, from sources like wind, and the data center’s constant power demands. For more information, please see the Tesla press kit (http://www.teslamotors.com/presskit/teslaenergy)
At least be honest, you just want to make some money, and don't really have a clue whether it is a good alternative or not. :)
TL;DR AWS uses Tesla's batteries in Region US West (Northern California)
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By "Remote for the right candidate (...) US, Canada and UK" - do you mean work VISA valid for those jurisdictions? (I can work in the UK as I have a Norwegian passport -- but it's not clear if you'd be able/willing to consider me for this position)?
It's a great article, but does anyone know where I can find similar information about pay in Europe? The Netherlands specifically, where I live.
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Show HN: I just open-sourced my web based POS software – WallacePOS
Hi Hacker News,

Early last year I decided to build a web based POS solution. A charity I was working with at the time tasked me with finding a affordable POS solution.

The system had to support multiple locations at a reasonable price. Unfortunately I was unable to find any software that fit and so after an initial proof of concept, the project was born.

I aimed at using the latest technologies used in the browser and had fun working with them (localstorage, websockets, etc), as well as some very tricky but gratifying problem solving.

About a year and a half later I feel WallacePOS is ready for source publishing and this week I uploaded it to github under the LGPL.

I hope that it may help businesses like my client have a modern and connected POS system for little cost, and also build a community that can extend and improve the system.

Checkout the website and demo:

https://wallacepos.com/

Or fork me on Github!

https://github.com/micwallace/wallacepos
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We're focused on understanding and recommending content at scale. We use ML/NLP techniques to algorithmically understand the meaning behind content and make sense of people's wide and nuanced interests based on their behavior. Engaging content is the future of online monetization, and our first product is an intelligent native ad engine for revenue-generating content.

We have a ton of interesting problems to solve, and we're looking for people who want the responsibility of taking some of them on and delivering working solutions. You'll want to have interests or experience in some of the following:

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* Designing streaming data pipelines to process millions of daily events

* Rapidly designing and building frontend products

We’re a VC and Y Combinator-backed startup at the beginning of our journey. As one of our first engineers you’ll play a central role in defining our tech culture and direction, and have direct influence on product and strategy.

If you're interested, email us at jobs@permutive.com with your CV and anything else that helps us know more about who you are! Unfortunately we can't sponsor visas at the moment so you'll need to be eligible to work in the UK!
You can try this experiment if you own some seriously effective asbestos underwear. Grab a random sampling of people at your office. Sit them down in a room and tell them that you want to try a game to see if they can select their own salary. Get some poker chips or monopoly money, or something like that -- maybe 10 per person. Put all the tokens in the middle of the table and ask them to decide amongst themselves how to split the pot based on their value to the business. In the likely event that the people don't agree to split the pot evenly, the person who wishes to make more money has to explain why they are justified in doing so by comparing their performance to the other people who would make less. Allow the other people to respond if they wish.

As organizer, you get a bonus if you manage to come to a consensus without having to call the police (and honestly, you are wasting your time as a programmer if you have such amazing people skills).

The current situation sucks. In an ideal world, management would say, "Here is how we ranked people. I'm sorry if it doesn't match your expectation. If you wish to move up in the rankings, come and see us and we will work together with you to create a plan for doing that."

In an ideal world, people upon hearing this would say, "Awesome! I'm going to work super, super hard to make sure that I do more of what my management values and less of what they don't. And if it turns out that I'm limited by a lack of talent, I will feel good about myself because I tried my best".

I really, really, really wish I lived in that world, but I suspect the current crappy situation is likely to persist for some time to come.
It's strange how suits became a standard for government officials, big business and everyone that want's to look "serious" in all countries over the world, it shows how the western culture conquered the entire world.
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Is my honest opinion and experience, trust me! And some money can be good too :)
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That gut-brain connection is the focus of some types of meditation where you move your center of focus from your head to the center of your body. That's supposed to be the location of the "second brain".
Thanks, this is just the right length and diversity for a weekly.
This is suprising but now compare this to rainforest devastation in the Amazon and the rest of the world and I doubt we're in the positive overall which is what logically counts.
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Please do explain dark energy, given that all of physics is known and in the can?

Nothing is ever cut and dry, or proved - just commonly accepted and proved within our current paradigm - there's plenty to suggest that we've got the nature of reality fundamentally wrong.
A quantum field theory class isn't enough to actually understand and explain a Casimir experiment if you want to go beyond the 'shut up and calculate' approach. Being able to compute the Casimir force is insufficient for understanding and explaining the entire experiment.

In a Casimir experiment, which closed system can you define in which you require conservation of energy? How do you calculate the total energy in the system in the 'before' and 'after' configurations?

How does separating two plates put energy into that system in such a way that it can subsequently manifest itself as the Casimir force? Does separating the plates increase the zero point energy and is that subsequently decreased by the Casimir force? Is it known to be possible to change the zero point energy like that?

Arguing violations of the laws of physics is not very interesting if we can't microscopically pinpoint what happens in the first place. Which can be surprisingly hard: it took decades to properly explain Laplace's demon.
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The data is available from here: http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Stat...

The zip is in two parts, one SAS file for reading in the file :( and one 2.8Gb uncompressed TSV. At current writing, I'm reading it into R, which hasn't barfed yet, suggesting that the data may already be in usable form.
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HTTPS everywhere is huge waste of energy. Lets encrypt ==> lets transform energy to heat.
Also, as everybody knows, it is impossible that the earth could be orbiting the sun rather than vice versa - all books on the subject confirm it, and this would totally defy the theological principle, which is certainly impossible.

Only hereticks waste their time thinking of such stupid ideas as a heliocentric solar system. They should spend their time productively, and cut up some cats for their humours.
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Lobsters (HN with less noise) : http://lobste.rs/

Does anyone have recommendations for good electrical engineering/communications newsletters/sites?
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The roundness of the earth.

Heliocentric solar system.

Circulation of blood in the body.

Yes they're "a long time ago" (really, a few centuries isn't a long time), but they're the tip of the iceberg of contested knowledge.
James Clear Newsletter over the rest http://jamesclear.com/
It's convenient to blame the finance peeps. But wrong.

It is a face saving measure by the people actually responsible, namely Pension Funds and Government Policy makers in that order.

Pension Funds were chasing returns... and finance types depend on Pension funding at many levels. Pension funds own 95+ percent of the stockmarket shares overall and in some cases closer to 100%. Shareholders elect the board who appoint the staff. Further Hedge Funds do not hedge their own money exclusively. They sell to outside people, ultimately again mostly coming from Pension Funds.

Government agencies like Alan Greenspan had the option to use their blunt tools to control matters via interest rates and perhaps policy changes. They chose not to do so.

To me it is like a Railway Tycoon shouting "faster faster.." to the train drivers and then blaming the driver of the day when a massive accident happens. Even if the driver is reckless... who hired they guy and gave guidance to ignore the warning signals ??
Don't hate the game, learn to play it better.

I am currently reading through Thomas Schellings The Strategy of Conflict, which is brilliant, but even the first chapter is enough to outplay the normal plays that you will encounter (e.g buying a car, demanding a certain wage etc). It is a surprisingly easy read for an old book.
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> when you can find another sucker to work for half the pay?

Who says you can? People who will do that are rare, and often aren't as good as people who expect something closer to market.
I look forward to this one every day, easily the best return on $100/year you'll ever get.

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> The average age of forests in the United States is younger than it was before European settlement. The greatest diversity is found in the oldest forests, so there may be more forest now, but because it is so young, it is home for fewer animals, plants, insects and other organisms than a fully developed, mature forest ecosystem. It also means that protecting old growth forests is imperative.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oregon,+USA/@43.8637703,-1... - you can see that there are more trees in the more recently clear cut sections, and fewer in the older growth. Also, replanted sections tend to be a monoculture of whatever commercially viable species is favored in an area.

It's easy to see land ownership from the satellite images:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oregon,+USA/@43.7673552,-1...

Forest service land to the east has been logged, but not quite as extensively as the mixed private and BLM land to the west. The checkerboard pattern is created by that mix of BLM and private land: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_%28land%29
I "think" the numbers are inflated with the huge amount of $5 droplet.

I wonder what sort of numbers Linode are at.
Maybe there's something about suits that looks universally serious?
It's convenient to blame the pension funds. But wrong.

Pension funds only started chasing returns after the crisis.

Why did they do that? Because the government made a policy decision to drop interest rates like a stone.

Why did they do that? Because the too big to fail banks were sitting on a pile of mortgages without sufficient collateral because of a popping bubble that they created and they couldn't withstand the potential onslaught of defaults.

They were exposed and insolvent and in danger of being destroyed unless quick political action was taken.

Fortunately, for them, quick political action was taken and they were saved from facing the consequences of their actions. We had to deal with them instead.
Self-hosted web apps (the linked post mentions MediaGoblin). The idea is that a user can run 'apt-get/yum install mediagoblin' on his home computer and have a personal media server.
Word. I have been insisting that for a long time. There are other ways to punish people for crimes against property or fraud.
Did the parent poster change their post? I ask because nothing in their post indicated to me that they were focussed on this person being a woman, that they were naive or that there was a suggestion of an indiscretion.

That is not to say that the parent poster and their employer/company does not sound sociopathic, just that we needn't bring sex warfare into this.

I have to say though, if the parent is being truthful (i.e. not trolling), it is a pretty sad state of affairs and pretty disappointing. If you ever find yourself working with/for such actors, start looking elsewhere. There are plenty of great employers/people in the world that you needn't waste your time working with scrooge-like caricatures.
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I think Go also follows this philosophy.
Also please make content id available to all rights holders.

I made the mistake of signing up with an advertising company with content id access, simply because i was curious as to who was using my CC licensed music (non-commercial) in their videos.

At first it all worked very well and the ad company compiled a list of videos using my songs some with millions of views which was very gratifying regardless of the (in some cases) liberal interpretation of the content licensing.

Over the next few weeks however most of the video makers took down my music in response to the correspondence they were receiving from youtube viz. complying with compulsory advertising.

I tried to contact some of the video makers via their channels and eventually succeeded in one case. The person in question forwarded me some of the content id compliance literature and to be fair it was very heavy handed. In their position I would likely have reacted as they did.

As my music continued to be removed / taken-down I attempted successfully to extricate myself from the ad platform but the damage had been done and to my knowledge none of the content-creators who complied with the take-down notices are using my music now.

Afterwards I attempted to sign up for content id myself and also contacted youtube's customer service but received no response in either case.

Content id could be of huge benefit to music producers, like myself, if (a) it was available (!) and (b) it had more nuanced controls. I would be happy to pay an annual subs, for example, to identify my music on youtube so I could contact and possibly negotiate with a video-maker over the rights to use my music in a commercial setting.

Forced advertising, which lets be honest is a pretty abhorrent concept anyway, simply does not work, at least in my experience.
I think the client assumes the data is written after $dfs.namenode.replication.min blocks have been written, which I think is 1 by default.

What it actually means inside HDFS when it claims 'written', I'm not sure - I'd assume flushed to the dirty page buffer at a minimum and would hope fsync.
isn't it more of a slashdot reference now?
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He said:

> "Why pay someone double when you can find another sucker to work for half the pay?"

I see no mention of a "woman". Just because the person of interest was a woman, that doesn't make the comment sexist. Where I work (not in America), women get the exact same treatment as men. And when a women / lady gets a bad code review, she doesn't attribute it to being sexism and threaten to sue. She has the common sense to acknowledge her mistakes and improve upon feedback.

From my perspective (again, I'm not American), sexism is becoming a poor excuse for getting preferential treatment. And that's absurdly ironic.
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Depends on their model. lots of decentralized services survive by licensing out their code and / or support.

As to whether that would have proven less or more successful than their current approach, there's no way to know for certain so all we can do is speculate
You're the applied physics to CompSci's theoretical physics!
Thank you. I'll give that a try the next time I have time to tinker. :)
They don't dislike the language (some of them even worked on the JVM's major implementation, HotSpot).

They are building a competing VM, DartVM.

Because of the way Dart (and its VM, built for its needs) was designed, they believe they can eventually outperform Java on the JVM, all the while providing a fully dynamic programming language, because of smart runtime optimizations.

If they win this bet, they'll have made an acceptable replacement for the way Android apps are built. Then, things would get inversed, and developers wishing to keep using Java would use a Java-to-Dart compiler (instead of a Java-to-JVM bytecode one).
Actually you can always play insane and demand a higher than market rate from your current employer - it will cost them a lot to replace you and train a replacement. The only problem is to find a way to get them to believe you are "insane".
I feel we are getting ready for a new age like when every millionaire was investing in railroads. but the rail investment came after there were routes for the companies to service. what are the people investing on space flight today aiming for?
"Log in with Twitter"

No thanks
+1, knowing the languages of the open sourced implementations would be very helpful.
Dude, they've always chased returns... It didn't magically start happening post 2008

The sub funds that Pensions invest in get rewarded according to Alpha... the amount the sub fund exceeded the main stock price movement.

How is that not chasing returns??

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/alpha.asp
Also, rendering at 120Hz allows you to motion blur the UI on 60Hz screens very simply.
Above a certain point, and most programming jobs are above that point, there is no fixed position with a fixed value. The right person in the right place can easily be worth 2x or more than originally anticipated for an opening. There's no way to predict that in advance, so at best the employer could give an ideal range and let candidates demonstrate their value if they want to exceed the range.
> But 'patio11 is not a politician and I expect his language reflects strength of feeling more than anything else.

Yeah... strength of feeling of being perceived as "un-American".
Are you sure the platform doesn't try to enforce copyright laws on your behalf long after you stopped using it?
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What's the deal with power scaling? The OP says:
50W of power = 50uN. That's 0.05mN.
2500W of power = 750mN

2500W is 50x 50W of power. 0.05mN x 50 = 2.5mN, not 750mN.

That's a hell of a ramp up in thrust. Does it keep ramping the more power you put into the cavity? If so, how much power is required to say get a fighter jet to fly which is around 100,000N of thrust?

Or is my math WAYYY off?
Same here. A single node failure has lead to the whole cluster crashing down around me on more than one occasion.
I think Apple is counting much more on the 'novel' input/output stuff like the little drawings, different buzzes, etc. And it makes sense, considering that, in my opinion, this has been one of the biggest reasons for success. The iPod? clickwheel. The iPhone/iPad? properly done touch interface. Or for that matter where it started: mouse + keyboard!

I think many of us, especially in the tech world, underestimate how crucial these kinds of innovation are for mainstream success. I recall people shrugging when the iPhone came out because 'we had touch devices before', for example, not realizing that there's a world of difference between the PDA-generation interfaces that required a stylus and the finger-touch interface of the iPhone.

Whether Apple's 'interface innovations' with the Watch are enough to make it a success remains to be seen, of course. But I strongly suspect that Apple is relying much more on these things to be a core part of the Watch' success than anything else.
Is youtube profitable ? If search-engine-ad-$ go puff, does it stay up or go down ?
Fer EE newsletters: I find SemiWiki (https://www.semiwiki.com/) quite interesting. It leans a bit to the manufacturing side though.