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Happy Earth Day HNers,

I built carbon ledger to make it easy for companies to build climate-conscious applications using their payments data. There's currently an explosion in fintech, climate-tech and SaaS companies who are adding climate features to their apps and Carbon Ledger will power these: Carbon neutral credit cards, Automated Scope 3 emissions calculations, Subscription offset programs and Other planet-friendly ideas!

My goal with Carbon Ledger is to make it easy to launch these features so they can drive behaviour change and educate consumers about climate change. Carbon Ledger brings a developer-friendly API and research-backed methodology to market so teams can focus on their users!

Thanks! The design is a template from bootstrap themes called Landkit.

The actual backend is done in Rails and I built everything myself on top of that.

Great! Would love to hear more about your use case.

Feel free to email me at brandon [at] carboninterface [dot] com

Adding more regions electricity is on the priority list after certifying my flights and shipping estimates with their related emissions government bodies!

https://www.carboninterface.com

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Carbon Interface is an API to generate carbon emissions estimates. Right now my API can calculate emissions for flights, driving, shipping and electricity generation.

In addition to making the estimates more robust, I am working on having the algorithms behind the estimates certified by international bodies to increase the trust of my API.

Hello HN!

I made Carbon Interface to support the development of other fun project's I've been working on that require c02 estimates for common emitting activities. I decided to turn this into a service because other people in the industry asked to use this API for their projects.

Excited to hear your feedback and answer any questions!

Lending Loop | Downtown Toronto | ONSITE | Fulltime

We’re looking for a senior developer that can navigate our whole stack which includes: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Salesforce, Heroku, and PostgreSQL.

We’re a hardworking and enthusiastic team building Canada’s first peer to peer lending marketplace. Working at Lending Loop will keep you on your toes and will push your problem solving abilities every day. Lending Loop offers a fast-paced work environment with a focus on execution, small wins and having fun.

For more information, please visit http://www.lendingloop.ca/careers

Contact: careers@lendingloop.ca

Lending Loop | Downtown Toronto | ONSITE | Fulltime

We’re looking for a senior developer that can navigate our whole stack which includes: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Salesforce, Heroku, and PostgreSQL.

We’re a hardworking and enthusiastic team building Canada’s first peer to peer lending marketplace. Working at Lending Loop will keep you on your toes and will push your problem solving abilities every day. Lending Loop offers a fast-paced work environment with a focus on execution, small wins and having fun.

For more information, please visit http://www.lendingloop.ca/careers

Contact: careers@lendingloop.ca

I agree wholeheartedly with the idea of the display being wider. The traditional shape of a watch was that way because of the mechanism inside. Wearables, like the Apple Watch, should do away with the traditional watches form factor constraint.

I would like to see these devices progress to more of a band form factor with a wider and curved display to fit the contour of our wrist.

Just a quick insight. I work with someone who runs a small online business selling health products over the web. He swears by ffiver for SEO in addition to more well known techniques. One way he found to legitimize his business was to buy Facebook likes, Youtube subscribers, and Twitter followers. I consider this modern/social SEO. Having a social following as a business can legitimize it in other people's eyes. His business has about a 100:1 follower to following ratio, and ever since he purchases followers, hes had a large increase in real followers. This follows the herd mentality. People are more likely to follow your business and interact, if there is proof others have done so. Hope this helps

At the end of the day, it all boils down to content. We're going through an age of amazing television, especially with AMC and HBO. Netflix needs to either provide GREAT content that they create, or they have to get HBO and AMC on board (which is pretty difficult). I'm sure sports broadcasting rights are really ratcheted down, but It would be cool if they broke into the live streaming side of things. I'm sure they have the capacity to handle a football game or hockey game.

I like the idea. The design could be cleaned up a bit, but you shipped and executed so props for that. This could be huge for tutorials, esp with photoshop, coding, web dev tutorials. Goodluck!

I've followed tutorials online, used Treehouse, and other services to learn online. They are useful, but for me, there is one aspect missing: help. I'm currently in university and If I have a question in class or during a study session, there is ALWAYS someone to help. I get frustrated and discouraged when I'm following a class and don't understand anything, I search the web for help and can't find much to do with the exact topic I need help with. This in turn, makes me stop enjoying that class and can eventually lead to giving up. It would be great for these online education providers to use an IM client, IRC room or something to facilitate student discussion for classmates to discuss lectures, ideas, and help each other.

Good point. Thanks for clearing that up

Must be. I find it strange that my 2010 MBP can't use AirPlay when my iPhone 4 can work fine. Really hope someone comes out with a hack/mod to fool the OS into thinking I have the proper hardware.

AirPlay won't work unless you have a 2011 or 2012 Mac. This is highly disappointing.

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Great point. I guess we can draw parallels to other purchases we make. When I purchase a car, I get the car I paid for in that current state, they wont 'update' it for free, nor do we as consumers expect that. The app industry has created a covenant of sorts that says, pay for the software, and we will update it for x period of time going forward. Which is great for consumers but to be frank, kind of a bad deal for developers (considering most apps we buy are relatively inexpensive). Either developers have to adapt the more common pay for updates model (Sparrow 1 = 4.99, Sparrow 2 = 8.99) or it will be a pure 'create the best x' keep adding features so they can amass more and more users.

This is very reassuring to instapaper users in this m&a environment. Thank you

Thinking Fast and Slow

When I was younger between the ages of 9-15 I loved hardware hacking. I would take apart Xboxes, Play Stations and even my computers. I would install mod chips, homebrew software and even tacky lighting. Being apart of the hardcore gaming community (CS, Team Fortress, WoW) almost instilled the notion of modding your 'rig'. People would overclock and and liquid cool their PCs which is hardcore stuff. I feel like there are two things that have led to a decrease in the hardware hacking environment (which I feel is parallel to the author's point).

1.Manufacturers began to 'get it'. Computers began to look cool, no more beige boxes and lame looking side panels. With the birth of Aleinware, the Dell XPS and Falcon Northwest came a huge blow to the modding community. Instead of spending days modding your PC to make it look cool and perform well, you could buy one out of the box (sometimes even overclocked)! This started to eat away at the modding culture. Even console makers stepped their game up in terms of connectivity. They began to provide more codecs for video playback which was one of the main reasons to mod a console- to allow video playback.

2. Another thing happened which pulled me and others away from the modding/hacking community- I bought a Mac. Ever since I moved into the Apple ecosystem I haven't opened up a piece of hardware. I bought my first Macbook when I was 16 and loved it. It worked, it did everything I needed it to. I moved more into the less horsepower social game landscape where I didn't need the heavy duty processing power. Once I was in the Apple ecosystem I didn't need a home NAS server running with my torrents, I began buying my music, movies and TV shows. This content then streamed on my devices (Apple TV and mobile) perfectly. It required no hacking to work, it all came together effortlessly. I feel like this is happening to a lot of hackers. I deep down feel Apple has made people complacent with current technology and has really created a lack of need to hack your hardware and software.

This begs a question, has the paradigm shifted from enthusiasts pushing the envelope with hardware and software to the technology companies?

No problem. I'm sure the reduced temperature would be much for valuable to a data center than our facility as well. Goodluck!

In a manufacturing facility I worked at last summer we had a company paint the roof white. It was previously black and attracted much more heat. We noticed a material change in the temperature in the building after painting it white and could reduce our air conditing usage. A simple payback analysis will allow your firm to calculate how long it will take to recoup the initial cost of painting the roof white with savings in reduced electricity consumption.

I currently attend school for finance (Western University in Canada).

My first two years were mainly split between economics and finance/accounting. To be honest (not sure if this is the case at most schools) but the material we learn is absolute junk. Unless you want a designation in accounting or law, you've gotta question schools' value prop to you. It blows my mind I don't have the guts to leave(lack of conviction I guess).

Many kids will say "I goto school for business" which may be true by title. But in the real world, it's the "Business of X'. If you want to get into internet firms and work on their business end, you need to know the product side of things as well. Sometimes I regret taking my major mainly because I think it makes more sense to get a degree in engineering(or something technical) then get your MBA (if you're academic) or just experience business in the real world.

Regardless what you take, everything will always work out, and even though you may learn junk quality material, things will stick that will come up in random conversations and will provide some value. However, maybe not 100k in value.

Goodluck man

Congrats Dan! Regardless if you take it or not, you're on a great path. This post by Jason speaks for itself. Keep it up

The page communicated the process/reasoning really well. Goodluck to the team