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by owyn 10y ago
A sanctuary city is one that obstructs (directly or indirectly) the enforcement of federal immigration laws. http://www.apsanlaw.com/law-246.List-of-Sanctuary-cities.htm... Since this list is most of your bigger more libera
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by owyn 10y ago
Renovo Motors is hiring software engineers to work on automotive systems. San Jose, CA. Full time, onsite. Renovo builds both hardware and software for next-generation vehicles and the automotive applications that run on them. Renovo has al
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by owyn 10y ago
That's a very short section, but it looks more like how the driving system itself responds if a sensor is damaged in a crash. Basically, that it should hand control back to the driver. And also if you crash and then repair the system
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by owyn 10y ago
It wasn't mentioned in the bloomberg article, but the 15 areas covered are: • Data Recording and Sharing • Privacy • System Safety • Vehicle Cybersecurity • Human Machine Interface • Crashworthiness • Consumer Education
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by owyn 10y ago
Renovo Motors is hiring software engineers to work on automotive systems. San Jose, CA. Full time, onsite. Renovo builds both hardware and software for next-generation vehicles and the automotive applications that run on them. Renovo has
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by owyn 10y ago
That sounds pretty nice. If it works does it need new features? :)
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by owyn 10y ago
What about Facebook's Reason? It's an alternate syntax for OCaml that hooks into the existing OCaml compiler toolchain. https://facebook.github.io/reason/ Looks like they've used it to build all kinds o
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by owyn 10y ago
Yep, rents have doubled since I moved here. I moved to the bay area about 8 years ago. In that time, the house in Seattle that I lived in doubled in value, the equivalent of about 50k/year. Since I have lived here, the rents have als
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by owyn 10y ago
Yeah, wow. I backed VoxelQuest which is a kinda famously failed project now that was just on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11904287 Projects like this can be great because you have direct contact with the
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by owyn 10y ago
There are definitely oral traditions that are very old. Yes stories evolve, but there is a core that makes them unique, which can be traced almost like DNA. There is real evidence that a lot of fairy tales are thousands of years old. http:
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by owyn 10y ago
This story has the vibe of a TED talk, it's got scientists with different opinions, a grand scope and scale of tens of thousands of years, plus dogs, which we all love. I really do think humans were doing interesting things tens of tho
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by owyn 10y ago
There's an amazing documentary about this that contains a lot of footage of the actual incident and cleanup called the "Battle of Chernobyl". http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-battle-of-chernobyl/ Thing
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by owyn 11y ago
Drupal isn't alone here. Mediawiki without caching does some horrible stuff. I just loaded a random page (with caching turned off) that does 1874 database queries. For one page. That it still loads in 7 seconds is a miracle.
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by owyn 11y ago
I parked some money in a vanguard reit a year ago as an experiment, and to create more of a balanced portfolio. Yes, it has paid quarterly dividends but it's also down -11% in total. So as usual, it all depends...
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by owyn 11y ago
I didn't even realize Eve has a public release (as of a few months ago). https://github.com/witheve/Eve And there's a blog post describing the features of version 0. http://www.chris-granger.com&#x
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by owyn 11y ago
Regarding #1 What about The Interrotron? http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663105/errol-morriss-secret-wea... That could be a major improvement for video conferencing. #2 is solved by Slack for us... but still, #3 and #4 i
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by owyn 11y ago
These are pretty small amounts. I suspecdt they make more money on the overdraft fees, which puts it in the "not merely lazy or incompetent, but evil" category for me. Payday loan companies are the worst offenders in this categor
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by owyn 11y ago
I was thinking of a user defined schema or ontology for a wiki, allowing the user to also create simple queries for their own data. The example data for a lot of GraphQL tools is Star Wars characters, movies and space-ships. If you look a
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by owyn 11y ago
One thing I've been curious about with GraphQL and supporting libraries. All the examples I've seen have a hardcoded schema definition, which makes sense because they're just small examples. What if the schema itself is dyn
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by owyn 11y ago
I shouldn't have name dropped that particular book since I haven't read it, only summaries/reviews of it. But the question still remains of how "rich people invest in the economy". Do they really? Or is it entirel
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by owyn 11y ago
Say that a friend has started a new farm as a business and he's seeking investment. That's really not a good example of what we're talking about here. A single family farm is not a profitable business at all. There was an
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by owyn 11y ago
It's not as if wealthy people take their money and put it under their mattress. No, they invest it. That investment money flows to other corporations who then spend it on goods and services, or spend it on their employees. No they do
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by owyn 11y ago
It's released under the Apache2 license. So, IANAL but yes. They do have some kind of a commercial/support offering on top of it.
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by owyn 11y ago
Now that freebase is shutting down, is there ever going to be an open source version of the server side implementation of MQL?
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by owyn 11y ago
Pitch mode: I've been working on the telemetry system for that Renovo/Stanford car. It's a fun project, and if anybody out there is interested in working on the back-end data collection and visualization definitely get in t
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by owyn 11y ago
All the examples I've seen so far have a "hardcoded" schema expressed in code. Besides code generation, is there some way to express a schema in another format? Is anyone working on a way to define dynamic schemas? For exam
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by owyn 11y ago
It ended up as Haiku: https://www.haiku-os.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system) It's linked from the wikipedia BeOS page but not prominently...
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by owyn 11y ago
Yes, that's a seriously annoying bug. Turn off auto-play in your settings and it will fix it. Not in the player, but on the actual netflix web site, log in and check out the "Playback settings", and you can turn off auto-pl
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by owyn 11y ago
At that income level, the federal tax is %28 and CA is %9.3, so about %37 yeah. Max is 33+12 = %45. There's also ~9% sales tax in most parts of california but every time you go out you better tip %20. And for all that, we get to pay
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by owyn 11y ago
Well, let's do some calculations... Assume you're making 140k, after 10% retirement contribution and CA taxes leaves about $6400 per month net. With the average 1 bd apartment at $3200 now that's half your take home wage. L

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