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> I haven't seen as many interesting back and forth discussions on HN for a long time. There are probably a lot of different factors behind that but the rise of downvoting as a means of disagreeing with a comment hasn't helped.

There are a few topics I happen to know quite a lot about (e.g. health economics), and I generally enjoy discussing them with people in real life.

I've long since given up on being able to discuss them on HN, however, because it's really demoralizing to write a 1000-word comment with five footnote citations explaining the nuances of the health insurance billing system and labor supply market, only to get downvoted within 30 seconds by people who (presumably) don't like that my comments don't perfectly support their opinions. Rinse and repeat throughout an entire discussion thread.

So instead, on these topics where I know I'll inevitably get downvoted, I just write a single comment, much shorter, and oftentimes without citations. If people respond, I often don't bother to reply. It's not that I dislike debating, or that I dislike debating this topic. But it's a waste of my time to keep writing comments only to get (virtually) slapped in the face every time I hit "submit".

There are other users I've noticed who have followed similar patterns. Which is a shame, because I've learned a lot from them in the past.
Define "maximal competitiveness" in a 60-40 state with ten districts. Ten 60-40 districts? Eight 51-49 districts, and two 96-4 districts? Either could be argued as incumbency protection.
You sound exactly like people who insist that communism has never "really" been tried.

Look, if a framework for running a society and an economy is so fragile that it immediately devolves into something else, then it's worthless. It doesn't matter if you can point to all the mistakes that were made along the way - if humans can't implement it and make it work, and if there are countless examples of them trying and failing to do this, then it's broken.
As someone who purchased a Galaxy S4, I'll _never_ purchase another Google phone. The entire reason I purchased a google phone was to avoid the lack of updates, like I had when I was at the whim of Motorola with my Droid2. I was stuck on 2.3 and never saw an upgrade in the time I owned the phone. I figured that Google would be a better actor and actual push updates, but boy was I in for a wild ride.

When I saw that 5.0 had been pushed, I upgraded, thinking that Google had vetted the release. Instead what I had was wifi that never stayed connected and seg faults ALL over the place in virtually every app that I used on a regular basis, including apps developed by Google (hangouts, photos [which were trapped on the phone unless I wanted to connect external and download them], my SMS app, WeChat, Strava, Kindle ect). They broke my phone, no way around it. It was miserable and I stuck with it, because I paid for a premium device and wasn't about to go blow another $650 on another device. Three weeks ago I got the 5.1 upgrade, just shy of a year after it was released. I'm now a firm believer of the shit phone. https://medium.com/matter/shitphone-a-love-story-a44e6643480...

Buyer beware.
This is awesome! Made me think of this Del song [1]. And I agree with others, that logo is fantastic :D

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0xDGXotGIE
This reminds me of Lockhart's Lament regarding math education:

http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/mnewman/LockhartsLament.pdf
I believe they got rid of their Food app recently. I'd be so grateful if they ditched Chat (or at least gave options to remove it from all platforms) and accepted that even if we it for work, some of it use it in a personal capacity that does not benefit from social aspects at all.
Firstly, make sure you regularly Export from your Evernote all Notes and back that up to somewhere cheap like Amazon S3 / Glacier
Hmm, I wonder if something based around Github's Gist service would be nice...
For what it's worth, one of the features of HN is how firmly it discourages the segregation of insiders from outsiders. That's why there aren't long running insider jokes and there is a relatively low tolerance for meanness.

I don't think the way it is handled is perfect or ideal, but community is a hard problem.
This is an old article and I feel like it fails to shine light on some of the issues with this system. As a recent graduate of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy I have seen that in recent years, much of the innovative sprit and lust for learning has shrunk. With a model like IMSA's there tends to be an ever increasing amount of bureaucracy. I have heard teachers mention grade quota’s, dealt with an over zealous marketing team who clamped down on student creativity, and the general Silicon Valley “fluff“ that I know plenty of us disliked. However, that being said, the people I met there were awesome. The rigor the school applied on us made us better in the long run, even if it did injure some of our GPA’s. Overall, you go to IMSA for the environment and for the like minded audience over the strict and stubborn academics.

Also as proof I went there: Chickadee dee dee
President Obama's executive action proposals[1] for improving the state of legal immigration was torpedoed last week by the latest USCIS Visa Bulletin[2]. This affects many engineers in Silicon Valley. The silence from fwd.us on the topic has been particularly telling.

(edited to include links)

[1] http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/14_1120_...

[2] http://www.natlawreview.com/article/regrettable-and-sudden-d...
تور کیش در هتل های محبوب کیش: هتل پارسیان کیش
Nope, i wont touch them either for the same reason. Although ms is starting to get its act together and open sourcing parts of its ecosystem. Anyway who would write a net application on windows, they would need thier head seeing to.
Steorn CEO to announce commercial self charging battery Oct. 28th
Don't miss proposition 47 (XLVII), the Pythagorean theorem.
Interstellar radio links enhanced by exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens
Jurassic world 2
I recently lost nearly a days writing - but apparently they only do a back-up every 8 hours, and I was off by one (I don't write in Evernote anymore, lesson learned).

They did try to placate with 3 months free (after being a paying customer for years), but I'm just amazed that with the ~$300M of VC they've raised, they still haven't caught up to the real-time sync of Google Docs of 8+ years ago.

Hopefully their new focus (i.e. sync) is aiming to at least match that. I'd have moved by now if I could find something that was both highly cross-platform (Mac/Win/iOS) and lighter (Markdown pretty please).
From my personal experience it's 50% time Google Drive and 50% time Dropbox.
Mental and Social development is a huge thing to consider here (for all you parents considering your kids for a school like this). You're introduced to college level independence at a ridiculously young age (don't forget the shmen...) and while the academics is top notch, campus life can be challenging to anyone at that age, even if you get to go home on weekends. That said, you'll likely make some pretty remarkable friends for life there...
Well, they now have a business case to write that test. And if I was in test automation there, I'd enjoy working on this one.
This is a new design, but the syscall interface is like Linux, the read/write/open/close/ syscalls are the same ABI.

As for unsafe, it would be possible to make much less of the kernel unsafe. The kernel allocation could be exposed in an interface like this:

struct Memory {
address: usize
}

impl Memory {
fn new() -> Option<Memory>;
fn realloc(&mut self, size: usize) -> Option<Memory>;
fn size(&self) -> usize
}

impl Drop for Memory {
fn drop(&mut self)
}

PIO could be wrapped up MUCH better:

PIO8, PIO16, and PIO32 could handle inb, inw, ind. A lot of my driver bugs have come from using the wrong size!

MMIO could be handled similarly.

The PCI driver could give drivers a limited set of PIO and MMIO structs to operate on
Yep. Consider Eastern California: the Sierra Nevada runs north to south creating a natural barrier. There's a small sequence of cities east of the barrier. During the Spring and Fall campaign season, it can be literally impossible to cross that barrier: you must go a long way around or fly.

The suggested algorithm would unite cities on both sides of the divide. It would be very difficult for an underfunded candidate to campaign on both sides.
While I think OneNote is a superior product to Evernote, its organization abilities leaves much to be desired. For instance once you get more than like 10-15 (depending on resolution) pages within a second you now have to scroll and its a tiny list. More than, say, 2 sections on mobile means horizontal scrolling. It's all awkward and cumbersome.

But I have yet to find another product that is better than Evernote and OneNote or even just a single, other product better than Evernote. if you find one let me know. I love my OneNote but the organization drives me nuts (I love the tagging abilities in Evernote).
Receive and Process Incoming Email with Amazon SES (+ Lambda, S3, KMS, Etc)
So... Why was this removed from the first page?
What exactly are "paper-thin evaporative materials"?
Last time I tried Google Keep is too simple for my taste. It maybe a good todo list to post-it note maker, but not for permanently notes that have reference value.
It's not just the JVM, clojure itself takes a while to set itself up http://blog.ndk.io/2014/03/12/clojure-android-startup-benchm...
That link isn't working for me, unfortunately. I'm assuming that the HOL you're referring to stems from the assumption of the default DRF allocator of fast decisions, which can cause issues for mixed workloads if there's a lot of hoarding happening. This is something that could be addressed with an allocator module, but nobody has yet to my knowledge, leading me to think it's not a massive problem for many people. I think the people who care about this use case end up running multiple mesos clusters.

One note on priorities a la Borg (what I think people are actually using at Google today, but I don't know to what extent Omega was merged with it after the Omega paper or if Borg currently runs as an Omega scheduler or what), is that it sometimes causes annoyance for people at Google, as the optimal priority is not always assigned to certain workloads, leading to starvation or overpreemption of things that were not given a healthy number. I believe that Mesos' work on oversubscription took concerns around this issue into consideration.

It's really fascinating to compare the architecture of Nomad vs K8s, because both claim heavy descendence from Omega + Borg. If I squint, it seems like Nomad is more of a direct implementation based on those papers. K8s more explicitly modularizes more components, which I think is why a lot of companies are jumping behind it, as they can mold it in the ways they want.
I worked over seas in the East. It was pretty much the same. Company sponsored you, if you were let go, you had a week to leave town (or seek another sponsor). It's not that atypical. Also, I met quite a few foreigners who worked the same (not an expat working in an overseas office but working for a local company). They also seemed to hire lots of Thais and Philippine people for hard labor (who were also subject to deportation once the work dried up)

And the police had powers to deport --double the fun (meaning you had to have papers)

That said, I don't think progressives who propose easing immigration from poor countries would allow competition for "high-skilled" jobs like doctors, engineers, lawyers because it would suffer pressure from professional pushback.
It's not clear to me that maximum competitiveness is "fair". Suppose you do in fact have a state that is perfectly divided into a red district and a blue district, but instead of drawing a representative from each side, you split it on the orthogonal side to create maximum competitiveness. Then, by essentially random chance, you might end up with two blue reps or two red reps when fair representation would probably be one red and one blue.
Less of a problem these days though, since patent term is now measured from priority date (whereas it used to be measured from issue date).
gerrymandering is good--for the electorate. why?

Because gerrymandering increases homogeneity. A gerrymandered district is more homogeneous--the voters are more alike than they were before. In general.

Homogeneity in general increases unity. A more homogeneous district means the voters in general share more common interests. If the voters share more common interests then it is easier for them to elect and hold accountable a politician who can represent their common interests.

Of course if you want the corporations to have more control over the government, and you want the people to have less control, then gerrymandering is indeed bad.
Flexible structure (notebooks > sub-notebooks > notes), notebook level encryption, real-time sync, widely cross-platform, images (with light annotation), markdown editing, zoom text (cmd/ctr-+), light-weight/fast, fantastic search, no tags. I'd like to share a notebook or make a note public, no chat. I will pay anything.
Live from Tesla's factory: It's the Model X event
I heard that spotify shut down their p2p streaming in April last year.

I don't think most end users were even aware that spotify was using their users' computers and upstream bandwidth, though. I wouldn't be surprised if spotify is doing something else now under the covers, even though this sleep issue seems to be just a bug with boost.
Japanese Architecture: hell tenon
Didn't notice anything too amazing or groundbreaking amongst the recipients' work. Looks like these awards have been coopted by those who put politics above all else.
This is apparently a solid state device that allows you to plug in your USB phone cable for charging. More details: http://freeenergy.news/steorn/orbo-powercube-has-no-moving-p...
ha! I hadn't heard that one before. Maybe I can get the rights for the next video. Thanks for the feedback!
I live in NZ. And not being able to easily change the DNS settings in Chromecast sucks for me. If I would have known this, I would have bought AppleTV. :(
I believe you'll find the shows here, and in other "radio aggregator" sites:

http://tunein.com/radio/BBC-Radio-1-988-s24939/

I've heard from a guy who knows a guy that it's super easy to time-shift those streams into a local file, too.
How to Track iOS App Referral Funnels via Google Analytics
We had skeuomorphism for a few years. Then everyone decided to go flat and abstract. I don't think the obsession with flatness will last more than a few years, though. Sooner or later, something else will come up and we'll all rush to adopt it, users be damned.

Developers tend to have an analytical mindset, and people with analytical mindsets tend to overgeneralize. We find something that works for us in some cases, decide that it's the One True Way (tm), and try to apply the same principle to everything. We defend our choices religiously, blindly pursuing the ideal of purity. If any user dares to admit that they don't understand the reasoning behind our elegant designs, we blame them, not ourselves. PEBCAK, after all.

Then a new trend comes along, and we repeat the cycle all over again.

In fact, the problem does usually exist between the chair and keyboard. Except it's not always the user's keyboard and the user's chair. Sometimes it's between our keyboards and our chairs.
L.A. Unified to get $6.4M in settlement over iPad software
What are the better alternatives to hellbanning?
Because there is an opportunity cost to having an SD slot. Remember it takes up physical space inside the device, which could be used for more internal memory, battery space etc. they would have opted for something everyone wants over a smaller subset of users
Try this: https://robustfiles.com/dl.php?key=/n9P1/Frankfurt-1986.pdf
Project Soli: using radar to enable new types of touchless interactions
GraphQL is not a query language at all. It's an API-building DSL. It's analogue isn't SQL, it's REST. Or WSDL + SOAP.

It does not have things like filtering, ordering, subqueries, etc. -- you can implement those things, but that would be just one possible implementation, specific to your data model. You wouldn't be able to point just any GraphQL client at it; the client has to know what to ask for, and how.
Rossi is a crank, not arguing about that.

But have you ever calculated how expensive is to get any amount of heat-generated electricity into the grid? Even if one had a completely free source of heat, any generator that is not at least on the tens of MW isn't economicaly viable. And for tens of MW, one needs tens of millions of dollars.
Just tried it and it looks really cool. I wonder why I haven't heard of it before.
Isn't that the plot of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel?
Apple bans app that tracks drone strikes for being “objectionable”
Curious what you mean by "expensive"...are you talking about monetary or maintenance cost?

I keep a cheap bottom-tier ec2 instance alive to run my website, stand up demos, etc. Keeping a node instance alive is pretty easy, and one of the reasons I used GitBack was so I wouldn't have to stand up a MongoDB instance...the content just lives with the code on GitHub.

Given that all my content lives in Markdown files, I'm not too afraid of migrating to GitHub pages, Medium.com, etc
Personally, I don't want them to make anything noteworthy. I want them to make something subtle, unobtrusive, and as reliable as gravity. I've been using them 3 or 4 years now and as far as I'm concerned, they're my favorite vendor.

Google and Amazon keep screwing with things because they have a complicated global-dominance ecosystem that they're trying to build. I don't trust them with my files. But Dropbox keeps doing what they're doing with only modest, incremental improvements (that gradually add up). As long as they keep things solid, I'll keep using and recommending them.
ANZ New Message Notification Phishing Email – MailShark
Critique of Microkernel Architectures – Is Linus Right? (2004) [pdf]
They do have schools for at risk kids. Military schools for instance.

While I don't disagree we should do more for at risk kids, not allowing the brightest kids the best possible opportunity in an environment free from "at risk kids" hurts us all in loss of societies potential productivity.
> I'd have moved by now if I could find something that was both highly cross-platform (Mac/Win/iOS) and lighter (Markdown pretty please).

I've compromised on OneNote, which isn't lightweight, but has become impressively cross-platform.
There's a web and command-line version too.

https://eatkeep.io

https://github.com/startswithaj/eating-cli
These schools are all over the place! I graduated from the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts. Math and science schools are truly fantastic places for advanced high school students to get a quality education.
So this is not at all the cheapest option, but if you have a Synology NAS (which are just absolutely fantastic, imho), you can use Note Station. It's very much like Evernote in terms of design and capabilities (though still young), and it has a very straight-forward importer for Evernote notes. I use it as a backup for Evernote. Note Station has mobile apps and web clipper extensions for the browser as well.

Since this resides on your Synology, it's not stored in a cloud service. Depending on your viewpoint, this can be a pro or a con. It also doesn't have a native app, and I have no idea how it does with 8,000 notes.

I do know they're continuing to update it, and I truly hope they add features like Markdown support. I personally use Evernote still (and using Alternote for the actual note taking part), but could see myself switching if Evernote ends up losing my notes or something.
Arkansas has the same: Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts (asmsa.org).
It's a great essay, no question. And I love the conclusion! It's somewhat self-referential, but in a playful way. One could add an extended riff on hypothesis generation, but maybe that would be superfluous.
Yes, we can certainly use more skepticism of kooks and frauds, like the cold fusion folks discussed in the article.

Perhaps you are misunderstanding my complaint? What I'm talking about is the dismissal of mainstream plasma physicists, many of whom are rightly skeptical of these get-rich-quick schemes.

(editted out needless antagonism)
This is so absurd it's basically trolling. I'd be willing to bet the author hasn't actually used bitcoin to buy something.

It actually works extremely well. Anything I can buy with btc instead of a credit card I do, it's so fluid and easy it's amazing.
> All those American workers have bills to pay in America, where the bills are higher the same way their wages are higher.

Of course they are, because the standard of living is much higher in America. If you prefer, I can rephrase the question as "Why should Americans enjoy a higher standard of living than Indians doing the same work?"
This is no more a cure for gerrymandering than Condorcet voting is a cure for the various ills of the two-party system. Until you have a plan to implement this algorithm in the current political system, you're just solving sudokus and crosswords.
lol it was wrong in drafts!
If only there were some sort of venue where people could socialize some sort of set of shared values to connect the daily struggles of the individual in the present moment to the community, and to the future... a way to build stories around what it means to be a good human being, and to teach the next generation how to live a better life. we could call it something like, say, "organized religion". funny thing, though, it seems to get a bad rap on these pages more often than not :b

for further reading, consider: http://www.amazon.com/Religion-Human-Evolution-Paleolithic-A...
> Right now the tax base rests on the middle class (which is rapidly collapsing).

Where did you get that from? The wealthiest 1% of Americans alone pay 50% of the federal income tax. The bottom 80% pay only 15%.

Edit: at a 50% marginal tax rate if the 1% get 60% richer through this kind of automation and offshoring, we could lower the tax rate on the bottom 80% to zero!

Edit #2: If the 1% get 120% richer, we could start handing out checks to everyone in the bottom 80% equal to what they're paying in taxes today! See where I'm going with this?
From a technical standpoint, yes. From a behavioral/social standpoint, a motivated investigator can always find some patterns to work with. Maybe not sufficient patterns, but enough to start making educated deductions.
Gag I hope not. Otherwise we risk our future reduced to Idiocracy.
Ed Snowden opens a Twitter account, follows the NSA
So I realize this isn't what you were going for, but TextSecure does tip for pushing code to git https://whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/
I don't think it's essentially a national conversation. I think it has to be a thousand local conversations that borrow from one another.

When people visit me in SF from more car-heavy areas, they're shocked to learn that I never have owned a car here. But by the time they've ridden our 4 mass transit networks, used a rental bike, taken a ferry, and gone with me somewhere in a CarShare car, it makes more sense. When they hear that I don't pay for car repairs or insurance or gas, they really start to get it.

We got this over decades of local conversation and iteration, consciously borrowing from other cities like New York and Amsterdam. Other cities can do it too if they want. And I think many are. I hear lots of of good things about cities being increasingly friendly to pedestrians and cyclists.