skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great writeup but reading things over the only thing this shows me is Bernie's people are a lot more dedicated. if Clinton's staffers had the same level/type of access as Bernie's staffers to VAN why wouldn't they be doing the same thing? I find it hard to believe that her staffers wouldn't have noticed the data coming up as well, ran a few queries to realize what was going on, and suddenly realized what was going on and possibly make another couple queries to see what the other was doing. But that would be only if they were actually up and active at the hour the upgrade went into place which from reports sounds like they were not.

On a side note - wonder what happened to the VAN QA guy?
it's your choice, Use what you like, your code will be written in any case (:
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In addition to the DNC voter file, there are similar lists available commercially. http://www.voterlistsonline.com/ is run by Aristotle (who tends to have more GOP clients, but is non-partisan). It has many of the consumer data fields already matched that are discussed in the article.

I would not be surprised if Aristotle wasn't one of the six customers to which Georgia sent the data. They have been collecting voter data for years; I worked there for a few months more than 15 year ago, and they already had a nationwide database mostly loaded from 9-track tape.
I've used this "trick" for years to get a console window on a locked-down machine that I needed access to.
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The DNC is like a company that Sanders doesn't work for.
being harder does not make it 'better' (itself a loaded word). The moon Lansing might nave been inspirational but had limited practical consequences, cheap rockets are a huge enabler for ton of things.
Per-user voting history in many (most?) states. The fact that a ballot was received from a particular voter (but not what they voted for) is often releasable under public disclosure laws.
Just silly! Pioneers are more important than bringing the pioneering to the masses. We don't pioneer for perfection, we pioneer for discovery. Completely different purposes but without discovery, there is nothing to perfect.
Exactly! Not sure if the law is still current but some states required a tax stamp for all marijuana sales (on top of it being illegal). If you sell marijuana you not only ciolate the drug laws, but the tax laws too!
He's hurt that he "found" someone else's blog posting first and didn't get the valuable karma points.
Yes, most states track voting participation at the voter level. Some track method of voting, other just are a boolean participation flag for each election.
Indian here. I feel so enraged that they're doing this right in our face!

The messaging is extremely misleading.

How do we up the ante against Facebook? This is just not done.
The frien-nemy relationship that this database represents is super interesting. So each candidate has their own columns in the database. Does that me that, for example, if the governor of California (Dem) endorses a candidate for president, they will share their columns with that candidate? I'm imagining a crypto-key getting plugged into a Mandrill scrips at campaign HQ, and suddenly the emails get 5% more effective.
I'm a physicist so naturally I do all back-of-the-envelope calculations to one-significant figure with rounding at each step. :)

My own estimation is between $400k per day (hard lower bound) and $800k per day depending on assumptions about hardware efficiency, although around $100k / day was added in the last week in a trend that is continuing, so $1MM/day will very quickly be accurate.
The problem with meditation, and similar "experiences that can't be described", is that you never know if you tried it long enough or well enough to actually enjoy it, or if it simply doesn't work for you.

Working out, at least if done correctly - which can be assessed by others - will provide some benefits even if you never get to enjoy it.

And the loss is not just wasted time - it's the feelings of frustration and low self-esteem that come from the perception that you're failing without having idea how to improve.
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because most people are not explorers. They want a packaged tour.

Most people presented with a blinking ftp or gopher or even browser address prompt, stare and blink right back. At a total loss what to do, at a loss to even figure out what the need to do to start learning what they could do. But given a brightly colored display of few constrained, familiar options (weather, celebrity gossip, sports, etc) they can ingest and start to learn new medium.
The problem with your logic is that the current highest hurdle to any of those goals, even the Oort cloud is how much it costs to get anything into orbit. We already know how to construct things in orbit. Getting the massive equipment cheaply into orbit busts the door open to serious space travel, not launching over-sized washing machines into orbit around comets.
Another nice system is for you to 'queue jump' when you call back after a certain time. E.g. if you call before 10am at a busy time, you have the option to call back after 12pm and you will be guaranteed a direct connection to an operator.
I agree that the impact of reusing the space craft is overlooked by many people. I tried to explain to a person that we could not go back to the moon today if we wanted too. And their argument was "hey we did it before, we have all those old plans, we could just build another Saturn V/Apollo system and be back in however long that took. And having talked with folks at Kennedy Space center, and read the discussions in Air & Space hosted by the Smithsonian, I know that many of the key things we "knew" about operationally building a moon capable rocket we would have to "re-learn". The original folks are gone.

All we could do would be to speed up the learning a bit by throwing money at building multiple test case rockets without any means of creating a sustainable system.

So yes, SpaceX has made a huge step. It will be interesting to see how others approach the problem (and everyone who wants to be competitive in the launch space will have to have an answer at some point). And yes, not a lot of people have realized how big a step that is. But a few years from now when SpaceX goes public perhaps and their S-1 shows just how much of an advantage this gives them, I'm confident people will look back and say, "That was when we re-entered the space age for 'real'."
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The math of say 10 sec max queueing vs say 5min wait time is pretty straight forward but maybe not intuitive. You pay significant (30%+ sometimes, depends on volume) overhead for those last minutes (queueing theory, Erlang C formula). For that reason, it's nice to do something like this. Low customer effort cost but high savings.

Virtual queueing through the phone is a bit meh, you still have to pick up the phone in the first place. Doing it through the web though gives imo a less annoying experience - wait time less visible and only have to pick up the phone once.
It's not derogatory.

In fact, he's hitting the nail on the head with his insight that CEOs that tend to re-make the company in the image they'd like to see can do active harm if that image is sub-optimal (and it probably always is).

That has nothing to do with how much money he has or with the fact that others are living paycheck to paycheck.
> That's an impressive amount of speculating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls_Who_Code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Girls_Code

https://www.womentechmakers.com/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-facebook-...

https://hackbrightacademy.com/about/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/women
>Its a choice between having facebook, or having no internet at all.
>Surely no internet at all, is the worst option.

But that's such a slippery slope to go on.

What prevents other companies to hop on the bandwagon to provide their own services for free?

And one day, lo and behold, we're on an Internet where the cost of entry to compete with the big blue (or any big gun) is almost insurmountable.
And it's probably true for religion too. That doesn't constitute a counterargument. The negative aspects of religion (for example, you can argue that religious faith is exclusionary and confusing, and so on) don't carry over to meditation just because they have something in common.
For young people in industries that pay CoL increases in cities (most of the hn crowd, I expect), high cost of living is a plus. Typically your entire salary scales with cost of living, so you can save more in expensive cities and then move somewhere cheaper later in life.
Oh I understand mining economics quite well. The comment I was responding to however claims that some people will continue to mine at a loss after the subsidy is negligible. However that assumes that people would be willing lose hundreds of millions of dollars per year on power costs just to meet current security levels, let alone whatever level of higher security might be required in a moonshot scenario.
You are free to read the code and see for yourself.
I read somewhere that they can absorb DNA from foreign sources (other animals, etc) into their cells when they rehydrate, leading to an accelerated rate of evolution.
> current highest hurdle to any of those goals, ... is how much it costs to get anything into orbit.

This is true for micro-sats, but an awful lot of high end communications sats as well as (I'm assuming) the deep space exploration vehicles cost on the order or 10x their launch cost. Dropping the launch price isn't going to drop the total price tag by much.
These articles are really frustrating to read - there is no such thing as "better" as this isn't a competition.

That being said, landing actual people on the moon decades ago with less technology and sheer determination is much "better" in my book. SpaceX is cool but let's not forget about the true pioneers.
Individual voting records aren't public in the US (secret ballot). However, whether or not an individual voted in a specific election is often public. (It may vary by state or other jurisdiction.)
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Are you being flippant, or are you actually going somewhere with that?
If we find a way to mine rocket fuel on the moon then we'd have a game changer. .. since you need far less fuel to launch from there than from earth.. that's what the moon base is about
Tell HN: Your great ideas that you won't pursue
I have great ideas for websites, apps, and products all the time but I am not that passionate about many of them. Since you're not going to pursue them, you might as well get it into the open and see if anyone else wants to bring it to life.

Note: I am not currently interested in taking up another side project so there's no alterior motive here.
-- Realizing that yelling at family members (e.g. kids) make you unhappy later on for a long time, with guilt/etc

Can you share more on this?
Although I'm a fan of meditation, and actually do think it increases focus, I think the experiment they conducted is not very scientific:

>Headed by Katherine MacLean at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, the study measured the volunteers’ attention skills by showing them a succession of vertical lines flashed up on a computer screen. They then had to indicate, by clicking a mouse, whenever there was a line shorter than the rest. As the retreat progressed, MacLean and her colleagues noted that the volunteers became progressively more accurate and found it increasingly easy to stay focused on the task for long periods.

I feel like I could also get better at it just by practicing... At least I think they should have benchmarked the experiment by comparing to people not meditating 5 hours a day, this is just inductive reasoning to me.

This being said, I love meditating and have found it to bring lots of good benefits to me. I find that focus can be trained in better ways, but meditation is great at making me enjoy the present moment, and take my time more.
People seem so determined to undermine one achievement because of another, "better", one. I love what NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin and others are doing. Such silliness.
Exactly! The Burj Dubai is an impressive landmark to construction, and so are the Pyramids of Giza. But one took 40K manual laborers and decades of work, and the other took a crew of thousands and a couple of years. There are more things at play than whether something is possible. As the OP noted, what SpaceX is attempting is sustainability and that, as any investor knows, is the secret sauce in long term success.
The field of artificial general intelligence does exist. AI risk people for the most part aren't concerned over the latest machine learning buzz, but rather the potential of an AGI.
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Does anyone provide this as a third party service? It'd be pretty cool to be able to drop a number I know I am going to need to call, and wait over to someone else who will do a ringback for me.
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That's the way I worked at my last job with Python. I filed for brain fuckery bankruptcy after trying to get pyenv and pyenv virtualevnwrapper set up.

You can't say this is Python 3 code or Python 2 code. That's completely false. If someone used latest features from Python 3.5 that wouldn't work on 3.4.

Also, I haven't had any issues upgrading point releases in Ruby(since 2.0). Point releases do not make sweeping changes by any means. You maybe talking about the weird 1.8 to 1.9.3 thing.
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It's like lazy-loading people's attention.
Okay. It was arrogant of Alexander the Great to think he could conquer Persia. It was arrogant of Kennedy/NASA to think they could go to the Moon within a decade. What's your point?
Unfortunately neither does any one if us know what the unconnected want. Let's not pretend we do.

So, given that, we're doing what we would've wanted to be done if we were in their position.

Locking me into a particular website (or a set of) , especially the one which misuses my personal information is not something i want to be locked into.

Hence, we shouldn't stand by silently letting them be locked into "Facebook and partners".

Facebook is so asking for it, this time.
You got me just before I corrected it. I don't even know how I typed "flaunting."
>I find that focus can be trained in better ways

Such as?
Write APIs for app store management and publishing so you can monitor and test performance of different assets and text, schedule different assets/text/prices, upload builds straight from dropbox, revert to previous builds easily, manage reviews etc, all within a nicer dashboard than app/game stores seem capable of producing.
The whole game changes when there are people atop the rocket. Let's wait for SpaceX to cross that bridge safely and repeatedly -- then reflect.
No, it actually means exactly what you think it means: the kind of left-wing revolutionary who fully intends to see some bourgeois heads rolling.

As a subscriber, I do think most of us would settle for the abolition of bourgeois class-status rather than bourgeois lives, when it comes to it.
Ask HN: Phone/conference for small global teams?
If you have remote teams working across the world, what are some of the tools you guys use other than skype and chats/slack.
The point of insurance is to decrease volatility. Stock options do the opposite of this. I don't understand how this comparison makes any sense.
This is only because the current government is populated by reactionary conservatives who are making many such foolish propositions. I hardly think this qualifies as a legitimate reason. Besides, they will clearly fail, as the current backlash in academic is proving.

This is just like Gingrich era Congress's incessant attempts to cutoff funding for the NEH, NEA, etc. Political posturing that will eventually blow over when people realize the blowhards are just full of hot air.
Can meditation be used to cure premature ejaculation?
How is it a solved problem? chroot is not user-friendly enough clearly otherwise people would use it instead of virtualenv, rbenv, nodeenv and what have you.

GP is right, there should really be one single, generic virtualenvwrapper-like tool that doesn't give a crap about languages.
This article appears to be 1,5 years old. So at least the 1 year deadline was missed.
Agreed. I think it's exciting less for the technical achievement and more so for what it could mean for private space flight. For the first time, some real economies of scale may be able to be leveraged in space flight. The first internal combustion engine was a huge technical achievement but it wasn't until Ford figured out how to mass produce a car that things really started changing.
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Overplayed drama because I consider the whole situation to be ridiculous. It does not matter if it’s bro, br, brötli or whatever.

The whole drama around it, and "feminism gone too far" is ridiculous, and, worst of all, everyone claims the other side did far worse stuff than what actually happened.
Why no cross-browser support? Supporting Safari and IE11/Edge doesnt take much.
True, however we also have a vaccine now so pandemics are less likely. So that is an improvement in the state of the art.
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>if Clinton's staffers had the same level/type of access as Bernie's staffers to VAN why wouldn't they be doing the same thing?

Because they firmly believe that she is inevitable, or perhaps even entitled to the nomination. Hell, Hillary talks like that herself:

>"I would just ask that when this nomination is wrapped up that they come and join with us to make sure that we don't turn the White House back over to the Republicans," she added.[1]

Her donors talk the same way:

>“Let Bernie outraise her — he’s not going to be the nominee,” a top donor said. “The idea that Donald Trump or Ted Cruz could actually be the president is going to be the greatest fundraising mechanism in the history of the world, and it’s just too early for that.”[2]

They don't think this is an election. They think it's a coronation.

[1] -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12...

[2] -- http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/bernie-sanders-fundrai...
I would say the original headline was a ridiculous shot fired, wouldn't you?
One of the bigger problems with emacs is its font highlighting mechanism - typically it's implemented with regular expressions adding stacked attributes to text. Lexical highlighting using a state machine, with state recorded at line start would be much much faster - like, multiple 1000x faster. Emacs pays for its flexibility with massive performance loss.

Compare something like joe editor (the jmacs named executable has emacs-like key bindings) for syntax highlighting; it's night and day. Joe uses state machines (DFA) in a text description format for syntax highlighting. That means that strictly it can only do lexical highlighting, but that's much much better than nothing - and fully correct syntax highlighting requires a deeper analysis than is normally done in emacs modes.

Joe itself would be much faster again if the state machine was compiled to machine code.
Given the actual distances between the parties on the issues, we already have this system[1].

[1] -- http://politicalcompass.org/uselection2012
Maybe move all github fake-stuff below your own information and add a clear visible separator? I was confused at first too, but "got it" pretty quickly.
I loved the early episodes of PoI. I bailed on it last season, though. The writing had gotten much worse and it was getting repetitive and stale.
Sanders personally took a jab at Clinton during his apology, saying he wasn't sure that her campaign didn't do the same thing, but providing no evidence of that.
It's amazing how differently time move online vs meatspace. Take computing out of the picture and 2007 isn't very long ago at all. Look at a few web pages from then and it feels like 20 years ago.
It was called Surreal Estate. I believe it's still there but at this point, I assume anyone still living there is just a squatter.
That is just lie. Source says that entire "Spacecraft Development" for entire Apollo was just $52,000,000. I bet development and testing cost was merged into hardware cost. Plus many expensive parts were reusable (launch pads, testing facilities)...

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_18-16_Apollo_Program_...
Progress isn't linear, they're working on all sorts of problems and they're not just deploying DOCSIS for the sake of it. This is the next best solution that Comcast and other ISPs can do with the current infrastructure they have. This is the right way of approaching the problem, deploy DOCSIS 3.1 as the next step and figure out the replacement for DOCSIS in the future. Customers want these bandwidth right now, not later.

Also, DOCSIS 3.1 has improvements for bufferbloat issue and it would stabilize the current latency issues. They're not ignoring it completely.

If we do what you suggest, we'd be stuck at 10mbps for a long time and instead, we're getting 100mbps bandwidth that does work for your typical usage of netflix, gaming, and so on in a family household. There's a limit we'll reach very soon where no one will care about more bandwidth but they will want rather stability/latency improvements. Data caps is the next biggest issue.

A lot of execs from DOCSIS community agrees that 3.1 is the last upgrade to DOCSIS standard and the next replacement would be a Fiber-based one, which will take a few decades to even figure out. I rather have DOCSIS 3.1 now and not in 10 years because you think we should not do this.

Our US congress had the chance to fix this back in 1990s and they screwed up with enforcing it properly. We could've had a better pure fiber-based national build out but it didn't work out.
Nice for the caller, yes.
Compares working at Google to a startup in Israel. States "... prices aren't much lower overall, AFAIK" then writes another 2000 words to justify his position.

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...

Consumer Prices in San Francisco, CA are 25.44% higher than in Tel Aviv-yafo
Rent Prices in San Francisco, CA are 213.57% higher than in Tel Aviv-yafo
Groceries Prices in San Francisco, CA are 69.48% higher than in Tel Aviv-yafo
>Plus: provides "some" internet for a billion people ... including wikipedia and various info apps. Includes photo sharing, chat, ...

Chat, fb, etc is free for now, because Facebook "allows" it to be free. Once everyone is on free basics, they can do a U-turn and say only Facebook messenger, Facebook website, Facebook * is free. What are you going to do then?

What prevents them from doing this?

Letting FB or any company be a gatekeeper to net is wrong on so many levels. There are so many devious things they can do and we as people or other companies will be totally helpless.
Queueing exists for a reason...the variability of arrivals makes it extremely expensive to provision for high levels of availability. If you are like most people, you aren't willing to pay the true costs of what you're asking for.
> APOLLO 11 LANDED ON THE MOON

WITH THE TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE IN THE 1960s.

SpaceX is cool - no doubt - but come on!!
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