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Came here to exactly say this, living your life in a non-emergency situation in some parts of the world like Delhi is close to current living conditions in the Bay Area (+surrounding states) under unprecedented wild fire in the modern history!

Now let that sink in :(

FAQ on the topic: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-carbon-sequestration?qt-news_...

Is the advantage of getting an allocation purely that the said investor buys the said stock at the price that is agreed upon in the price range of the filings with NASDAQ/NYSE ?

Also are these investors usually the HNW individuals who typically invest Millions thru the investment banking firms that are underwriting the said IPO, so win/win for the HNW and the banking firm in the way that it can guarantee the IPO'ing company that it can confidently underwrite and is also using the HNWs money to cover most of the risk ?

Please correct me if I am wrong in understanding this complex process.

I hope this California bill[0] soon gets enacted into law, that would give extra protection to the residents against selling a customers data without written consent. Written consent is big here!!

[0] https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler...)

Since this is the top comment, you may also want to edit that Devin Wenig is the former CEO[0]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/25/ebay-ceo-devin-wenig-is-step...

If there`s state associated with Akka actors, to shut them down in a proper manner and not lose state you have to use Akka persistence which just means doubling down on Akka ecosystem.

why not use Futures ?

Scala is amazing if you want to use it for light weight server programming and want to use functional constructs along the way.

If somehow you are convinced to use Akka because of high throughput streaming architecture, please just take a step back and make sure you understand what you are getting into!

My first impression is that Kotlin is being mostly being used by the android community.

Is anyone using Kotlin to write services, what are your experiences with that ?

Is someone else worried that the vision is not 180 view in the front ?

At 22 seconds at the stop sign, after the first car drives past what if theres a car that breaks the stop sign and ends up ramming into the tesla (as a human sometimes you anticipate this by seeing that the car is not decelerating as it is approaching the stop sign)

How does Ring compare with Nest in terms of the privacy issues noted in the article ?

How does Nest compare to Ring ?

I have seen so many deals on Ring security system and not surprised my entire community is on Ring (since its closer to a Costco) and we are the only household without any kind of security system atm.

This is akin to case classes of Scala such a welcoming change to the Java world.

Apart from being a functional language one of main draws to Scala is the ease with which one can get rid of the boilerplate code. So kudos to the Java team!

It would have been great if someone could have also added REITs. The argument I always hear is real estate vs the stock market.

I have been on a couple of remote/distributed teams and a common concern is that one misses out on the watercooler/hallway discussions happening between the employees.

We have usually gotten around this by saying - "hey , let us take this discussion over slack and may be XXX would have some good ideas to discuss".

Congrats on the launch.

We were inexperienced and didn't really know what to look for. Homes that required extensive rehab seemed too daunting and a turnkey property in a nice neighborhood was too expensive.

1. what in your experience are the top 3 things to look for especially for a market like Bay Area ?

2. Follow up to 1. longer term do you think the model will do well for markets outside of Bay Area like Phoenix, Vegas etc.

2. How did you overcome the cold start problem for your models ?

(A while ago there was a podcast (IIRC from NPR) where Zillow ran a contest to reduce the error % of their price prediction model and the team that won probably ended up also using factors like direction of the sunlight etc.) 3. Given your competitors use these kind of data points, will your model rely heavily on satellite imagery etc. to infer these kind of data points in the future ?

SFW: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/27/world/tiger-beaten-death-indi...

Info from the link, 4000 tigers remain on earth out of which 3000 in India.

Wow!! just wow, take a bow - to the rangers, the NGO`s, the Govt and the population, this is something the country can be really proud about. A country with a huge population and struggling to keep pace with the rapid industrialization this is very good news. Like someone else said in the thread long way to go but immensely positive signs :)

Question to the readers: Have tigers existed in the Americas ? Were they hunt to extinction or ?

This is such a welcome news and a great start to the week!

But with the recent news about a tigress beaten to death in India and after coming across some videos in the social media on the tiger encounters with humans, I hope the Indian govt. also works on bolstering education and awareness campaigns across the rural population on the man vs animal encounters and also works towards preserving the forests where these encounters are reported.

“Opportunities for professional growth” is the clear winner, appearing 13 percentage points above even “salary”.

Ofcourse professional growth is the winner as more often than not is directly proportional to one`s salary.

As a s/w engg. "professional growth" is a hybrid of bunch of things - learning new tech, Cloud knowledge(k8s, docker etc.), and well summarized in the lines below by the author:

In short, software engineers of all stripes want, more than anything else, to develop their abilities as engineers. They want it more than pay, more than work/life balance, and more than autonomy.

We felt if we want to build something as foundational as PostgreSQL for the cloud, then we need to be as open.

Good intentions here, wish you guys the very best.

One way for YB to fight off the competition from AWS would be to include a clause that any forks of the DB should always be in sync with the upstream(master developed by YB), so hypothetically speaking this would mean companies that are using the AWS YB could always have the freedom to switch to using the OSS YB and only risk loosing the features that AWS has contributed to its fork and might actually force the OSS to keep up.

So goodluck YB.

found these gems on recycling on NPR: Episode 925: A Mob Boss, A Garbage Boat and Why We Recycle - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id2907834...

Episode 926: So, Should We Recycle? - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id2907834...

how can one find areas in the bay area to go plan trees with a bunch of friends and not be associated with any campaigns etc?

With varying local rules and regulations, plant species adaptability, invasive vs non-invasive species debate raging on, it would be great to have a website which gives you info. about the local areas in the range of 100 miles where one can go and plant trees with this information readily available;

I would go one step ahead and propose to also have the saplings shipped or sold either from this website or have distribution centers/farms closer to the region where these saplings can be collected; these centers would be similar to your regular Home Depots etc. where you would have all the information readily available; One can also pay a subscription fees of 5$/month to have the farm take care of these saplings until it becomes self sufficient.

Before someone asks about how we would raise the initial capital for these distribution centers is thru carbon tax/federal/state funds.

In the similar vein, feature request to sort by best/new :)

Sources of more information.

Reddit AMA by one of Sikh drivers here - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/be99o8/hi_im_satnam_s...

Untold America episode here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKXf89yNDP4&list=PLZd3QRtSy5...

Hey man I dont have any ideas to offer but you are my superhero for the day for atleast trying to inspire the next generation of kids!

Kudos to you and good luck. Please update your post with the final idea and let us know how it went :)

A lot of it is luck and executing on the roadmap and pivot if the feature fails.

My question to the startup experience HN crowd is: What would be the right questions to ask before joining a startup to gauge the success and failure possibilities in the future?

I am a IPhone 6 user and my contacts and other data on the apps has kept me glued to the iOS ecosystem.

How do you port the iOS data to an android system ?

you mean like an orchestrator service ? ex: building for a uber eats system which depends on responses of systems (B, C, D..) where each of these systems have xx min SLA`s ?

Reading about ringpop, came across this statement

Ringpop, a library for building cooperative distributed systems, solved some of Marketplace’s problems before its adoption in other teams at Uber and beyond. It gives the high-availability, partition-tolerant properties of distributed databases like DynamoDB or Riak to developers at the application level.

I am wondering about the need to have your app services communicate with each other (is that because these are stateful applications ?) or have I missed the point completely ?