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On a local level a huge number of candidates run unopposed. Even for Congress there were 31 unopposed candidates in 2014.

Money isn't everything. Giving a damn matters too.
Logan, please don't respond to trolls. It's one of the things that got slashdot into so much trouble!
The dancing robots are awesome.
Special interests are definitely the problem, specifically when they're asymmetrical.

Disney owns more television stations and has more money than the EFF.
Thanks for sharing Cerberus, looks like a great tool!
I understand the need of a simpler tool to quickly sketch out email HTML ready blocks/layouts.
However, there is key reasons about why we decided not to stick to strict HTML with MJML.
First, the abstraction layer we provide helps to reduce the maintenance effort by removing the pain to stay up-to-date with the last email clients updates.
Second, it is simpler to write (thanks to the lighter/more semantic syntax).
Last, but not least, our component based approach powered by ReactJS makes the language highly extensible and helps to reuse the same layout across different email communications.

Hope it makes more sense to you now and you'll have the opportunity to use it for your developments!
Btw ecigs is big business. Costs nothing to produce, taxed as a regular product... Affiliate fees up to 40% commission etc

Philip Morris bought a big ecig producer etc...
>One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer is found in the fact that there are two types of laws: There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with Saint Augustine that “An unjust law is no law at all.” Now what is the difference between the two? How does one determine when a law is just or unjust?

-Dr. King, Letter From a Birmingham Jail
Why not? map, fold/reduce are not necessarily implemented as the textbook says.
Former smoker here.

One good thing is the ritual. I never thought of it as "brainless" before but that's a great way of putting it. Smoking is relaxing because you turn off your brain and go through the prescribed motions. When you finish the last motion you go back to life. It's not really relaxing in the chemically induced way (in fact smoking increases anxiety), it's more like meditation. You're allowing yourself to take a break from life for a few minutes. In fact, you're really being /given permission/ to take a break by the external mandate of addiction cravings. You can use this time to reflect, strike up a conversation, examine your surroundings, whatever you want.

Another good thing is bonding with smokers. It's a shared activity. The act of smoking serves as either punctuation for a conversation, or the background noise that substitutes conversation. A cigarette can be a prop used for emphasis. Bumming a cigarette is a sort of friendly offering. Most importantly, misery loves company. All smokers know they're addicted. When you smoke with someone else, you're acknowledging each other's weakness and demonstrating acceptance. That's one of the main reasons being a smoker is like being in a big, secret club. It's very romantic.

I haven't smoked in a very long time, and I realize now that it was a really stupid and damaging habit, but I do miss parts of it. I've promised myself that I can take up pipe-smoking as a reward for surviving into elderly age.
My startup failed, and this is what it feels like (2014)
Generating a unique key for each installation and adding that to the list of root CAs on that computer.
I'd restore the title to begin with "100+". In other words, this attempts to be a categorized list of just about everything out there. Jump to the Summary at the bottom:

As you can see there are hundreds of web development tools and resources available to help streamline your development workflow and hopefully aid you in being more productive…

Don't go there looking for insight, discussion, or help in deciding what to use for your next project. But do bookmark it as a reference perhaps.
Didn't they also hassle people to review it (for free of course). That's the only thing that would be a bit hard to replace by a totally free service.
Is there an open source project for a Picasa/Lightroom Windows desktop photo organizer? Otherwise let's start one. Reaching very basic organizer behavior with an SQLite backend should be pretty quick. Reaching Picasas level of polish will be harder but you have to start somewhere.
Which articles? All the ones I remember regarding whether there was a bubble ranged from "maybe" to "definitively", and a search seems to confirm that generally: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bubble&sort=byPopularity&prefi...
I'm curious about it, never heard about Lamson. What is it exactly?
Recently moving from Python to Java. `pip` doesn't even come close to Maven. Dependency management used to be something I needed to manage much more closely in Python. With Maven, it just works.
One lived in a rural (?) farm commune. Why, I don't know. I guess it got to be Groundhog Day.

The other, a chef in a touristy restaurant. Made something new and different every week. He's another story - no idea why he'd give that up!
It's worth noting that typesafe are prioritizing reducing compile time but it's a 32 pass compiler (!)

We're working on gigantic production systems currently and with good modularization compile times are not a problem for us.
I'm not the OP, but I read your post 3 times and I have no idea what you wanted to communicate. Sometimes it happens that you think you are being super clear and nobody else gets it. Please don't take offence.
Surely that's the same corpus?
No doubt $30 is expensive, but many journals do provide free access to their content in developing countries.
I too am disappointed to see this here, though the young hotheads are obviously out in force today and relishing sticking it to the man.

Surely we are better than this.

One of the earliest lessons I was taught, and I taught my kids, is that if somebody else has something we want and doesn't want to share it, it's not OK to just take it.
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You're bringing up a good point, I'm not sure if it's paranoia but it does seem like deliberate diversion. I mean if we can paint nerdy engineers as true evil then focus won't be on the real "evil". I'm wondering if that's the reason why they were harassing Google engineers at their homes. It's not like engineers were selling junk bonds as AAA rated.

The media's skadeglädje for tech could be because tech made media worthless. Easier than ever for anyone to publish stuff and block ads.
I agree, and I also love that for students you get unlimited everything. You get to have 5 team members per repository for free, which is great for smaller development teams. If BitBucket wasn't where I house some of my private projects already I would move to GitLab.
Does YC wants to change that perception? In this other thread from today people suggest civil disobedience regarding copyright: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11092016
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How about a server in a satellite, with a Tor feed of anything anybody wants to put up there? Out of reach of oversight etc.
> How can we make it more expensive to buy politicians?

You're thinking about it the wrong way. You make it more expensive and fewer people can afford to do it.

How do we make it cheaper to buy politicians, so that we can do it too?
(1) Isnt this illegal?

(2) How do they get access to those papers?
I'm amazed that the original post was made by someone claiming to be a Senior Product Manager at Splunk!
SourceForge nearly killed SLIME in the early days when they accidentally deleted our entire repository and didn't restore it. Fun times.
That sounds like "working as intended" - after all, if instead of just requesting their file the employee had initiated legal action against you, it would have been illegal to destroy those documents. And it also raises the question of which part of your HR process is generating incriminating documents in the first place?
I started (at 17) as a social aid and to deal with adolescent stress. I think both reasons are pretty common.

(FWIW it took till age 32 to permanently shake the rotten habit.)
And if it were, one of the two political parties would appropriate the cause as its own anyway, absorbing the minority party into itself.
I think you are making a mistake of equating ethics with legality.

Furthermore, I am not affiliated with YC and have never been even been to Silicon Valley. I merely use this news/link aggregator because the content and links interest me.

Linking to a site doesn't even mean you are condoning it. Would you really rather the mods censor content like this because they are worried about their reputation? I think that is the day I would stop reading HN.
I'm pretty sure it looks at heart rate. In the app, you can see a graph of heart rate over time when you log an exercise. I have the surge, not sure how the charge works.

Anyway, you should really get some cardio. That heart is gonna keep you alive man. Treat it well.
Most papers have some to all public funding behind them.
Even papers from Stanford and MIT.

Shouldn't the public have free access?
We paid for them.
They do. They route it to the editor (senior academic), who routes it to appropriate reviewers. I think that the editor does it for free too in many cases. I feel like running ads on the site would pay for the bandwidth, only thing a totally free service couldn't replace is the prestige :(
I've written a tool specifically for java snippets http://jpad.io/, hello world is demonstrated right in the first image :)

For small pieces of code I am aiming to remove the cruft of imports / public static void main....blah blah.
The preprocessor reminds me a bit MyDef:

https://github.com/hzhou/MyDef
Not a useless analogy, it gets the point across that good estimation requires breaking a task down into little steps, questioning the requirements, discovering constraints, and iterating.

The estimation process doesn't change much whether you're painting a room on earth or on Mars. If there's more uncertainty when estimating steps, you add more buffer time for instance. The goal of the exercise is to improve your estimation. Where the room is located should simply be factored into your estimation process.
Hah! Every article I read for the last two years has been gleefully predicting this for a year now. Most SV companies (including some of the much maligned "unicorns"), I know started buckling up and becoming profitable far before this. Some frivolity will end no doubt, but the gleeful anticipation with which some people have been awaiting a bubble pop might be disappointed. This still just looks like a correction compared to what happened last time.
I don't see how you can't see that as insulting. It is treating you as a child.
> You can work out science from first principles and get a long way - the difference here with religion is that in religion, the first principles are not accessible to anyone.

i think that's exactly the point i made, actually.
Given the tendency for large enterprises to not upgrade unless there is time to do a full regression test, and then to prioritize creating new features over system maintenance, I wouldn't assume that means that there aren't quite a few of those still out there.
There are conventions in scala to talk to the culture as well. Ya I agree that it can be hard to see effects occasionally. I just worked out a bug where some element was cached despite the fact that the function I wrote appeared to be pure. But still, in scala's culture braces at the end of a function are, by convention, representative of an effect.

Eg doSomething is pure and doSomething() has an effect. It's shades of grey. Scala ultimately may not be Haskell, but it's useful and a much better alternative to using Java. To lean on the JVM and be able to sell Scala is better than using Java just because it's what's already there. To transition away from java toward something better is a win. It's definitely a win. I'd love to work on haskell or introduce haskell in places that i work but no way in hell would I ever succeed. Only at a startup with the smartest of smart people. You can take interested ruby developers and chop them into decent scala devs and that's good for the pitch. How the hell do you take a team of mediocre devs and get them to write your next production system in haskell?
If your target environment has promises and generators available, I'm fond of using Babel's first-party `transform-async-to-generator` plugin, which barely alters your code's syntax: https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-async-to-generator...
Perhaps it's some kind of ancestor of Sleipnir; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir.
I do Node.js as well, although it doesn't show nearly as strongly in my background due to every company I've been at wanting my frontend skills. I get pinged heavily due to being a major non-Google contributor in the Angular community (code contributions to Angular.js, Angular 2, Ionic, and am involved in the teams for Universal Angular, UI Bootstrap, and UI Router).

Finding a job is still pretty easy - I don't dispute that. Finding one that pays competitively, respects work-life balance, and focuses on quality of engineering & getting product right, even if it means pushing deadlines a little later is much harder I've found, unless you look to the Google/FB/Netflixes. My current job meets most of those bars (a little less on the salary side, but I was willing to accept that for everything else), but only dissatisfies me on wanting to move faster & having more influence on tech choices.

While there are no shortage of companies that want to hire, most haven't put their best foot forward I've found. The market is still good for software engineers, but it's noticeably not as compelling as it was just a half year ago - I feel like the balance has tilted a little more to the employer's side in the employee/employer dynamic.
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Sure, but the reasons people like it are pretty closely linked to the reasons it's bad for you (aside from inhaling poisons, you're hyper-stimulating the nervous system which can lead to burnout, depression, etc), so it's kinda moot to hope to retain the awesome without any of the harm.
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Original: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0116/110216-fastest...
> The only solution is to deprive the bad actors of the funds they need to keep the system corrupt, and since most people (rightly, in my opinion) can't accept simply abandoning large parts of their culture to that fight, the only option left is to make piracy widespread, easy, and safe.

Which has done more to erode Microsoft's server profits, people pirating Windows or people creating GNU/Linux?

What we need is to build alternative platforms that compete with Hollywood and destroy them (and their margins) through legitimate competition.
(1) Yes. In USA anyway. Creator is not in USA, however.
(2) Academics donate their institutional login credentials to the site.
>I'm going to give you an important kind of a picture. I hear a lot of people say "I don't like machinery and technology, it's making a lot of trouble." So we're going to take all the machinery away from all the countries of the world, all machinery, all the tracks and the wires, and the works and we're going to dump it all in the ocean. And you will discover that within 6 months, 2 billion people will die of starvation having gone through great pain. So we say "That's not a very good idea lets put all the machinery back where it was." Then, we're going to take all the politicians from all the countries around the world and we're going to send them on a trip around the sun, and you'll find we keep right on eating. And the political barriers now... scientists say very clear you could make the world work and take care of 100% of the people at a higher standard of living that anyone has ever known despite the increasing population, but you can't do it with the barriers, any more than you can try run a human organism with a wall between the ear, the eye, and the stomach. It is an organic whole, it is total industrialization.

-Buckminster Fuller

Fuller claimed that the reason why we cannot take care of the greater population as a whole is not because we don't have the technical feasibility to do so but because we are trying to solve our problems with politics. Trying to solve the problems of the electric age by using the paper-based political framework is futile and self-defeating.
I live on the east coast and one of my colleagues is being flown to the Bay Area to interview for a JS position at a very popular company. But that's just one data point.
I do it socially really, but again, it's been a year or so since.
I don't actually have much of an opinion specifically about Google Cloud vs AWS. I will say for your argument to make sense you have to first prove that 1) these differences make for cost savings that aren't a rounding error when it comes to employee costs and 2) these differences aren't overwhelmed by the smaller ecosystem (tooling, availability of talent, etc) of aws vs google cloud.

Also as a nitpick:

>AWS has two queuing systems (SQS and Kinesis)

This is a feature, they offer different promises/behaviors. In fact, Pub/Sub does not offer one of the important ones that Kinesis does (strictly ordered delivery).
I smoked for many years. And yes, there was a lot more to it than the nicotine. The aroma of a good Turkish/Virginia blend. The habitual mechanics of it all. But when it came down to giving it up, it was all about the nicotine. Also, I still miss the attention-focusing effects of nicotine. But it's not worth the addiction.
Also need to add developer tools like Prefix.io, Glimpse, Rack mini profiler and others for various languages. These tools are a must have for all web developers.
That isn't true. There are versions of 9.2.x, 9.3.x etc that are vulnerable per the documentation. 9.1.7 is the only firmware released before this was announced (jan 18th) that contains a fix. Every other software version is vulnerable and requires an upgrade.
The "onslaught" is very relative to how many time you can afford to spend on the project at all. If you can afford to spend one hour per week, then triaging 25 issues per week might eat all of that. If you can afford to spend one hour per day, then issue triaging will only be a small part of your daily routine.
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I doubt it. AFAIK, organic just means the produce hasn't been treated with synthetic pesticides/herbicides.

Artificial ripening just accelerates the natural process so I wouldn't be surprised if it can be appplied to organics too.

It seems to be especially hard to find good tomatoes in stores, organic or not. Tomatoes become bruised/damaged very easily during shipment. Customers don't buy bruised product so I think supermarkets have responded by offering more dense but less tasteful varietys.

If taste is your concern, growing your own is the best option. If you buy in stores try the smaller varietys and the ones that feel softer to the touch.
Part of it probably is stimulus-response psychology. Cigarette smokers usually pair smoking with a lot more different situations than cigar smokers. As a consequence, the smoking impulse becomes more easily generalized for cigarette smokers, while cigar smokers restrict smoking to a stable, limited set of occasions.
Pirates that don't pay attention to security don't last very long, so I would tend to agree with that statement.

Try a quick survey of the most popular pirate sites and see how many support HTTPS. You might be pleasantly surprised.
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Under editors, I'd include Brackets. Really enjoying it.
So in theory I could create a SDR setup using openBTS and then go around sending a GSM date of 1970-01-01 "bricking" iphones left and right?

Alternatively a bug or misconfiguration in the GSM time service could "brick" phones.
What is a useful mental model for succeeding?
I did think it was a little odd that her programming skills would be described as "some coding experience." That certainly doesn't make her sound like a developer and if that's the role she's looking for then the results are unsurprising.
Wow. Can you elaborate on the mental health cases? Are we talking about mood disorders like depression or detachment from reality like schizophrenia or something else?
It sounds to me like this new product category (vaping) needs time to discover the safest compounds to use for flavoring. In other words I suspect that the researchers in this study don't think it's actually the nicoteen which is causing this effect.
Allegedly. All we actually know is that he downloaded a large number of articles.
It's a culture thing. One of the primary motivators for the revolutionary war was sales taxes on sugar, molasses, tea, etc, from the British Empire.

In the early days of the US, there were no sales taxes...for 140+ consecutive years. The first sales taxes were put in place by US states as a way to deal with shrinking revenues during the Great Depression in the 1920's. They started with only taxing goods, not services.

In general, services are still taxed much less often than physical goods. For example, most states do not tax the services of doctors, dentists, or attorneys.

Then, there are US states that have no state sales tax of any kind at all. This, of course, makes sales tax appear arbitrary to people in states that do have them.

Edit: On this: "Why not electricity or water instead and why should these exemptions apply to everyone?" ... my best guess is that the cat was already out of the bag there. It's difficult to roll back something that's already happening in a widespread way. This law regarding taxing internet access has been in place since 1998, before many were using the internet...ahead of any broad taxation on it.
The flavors make it easier to switch. Cigarette smoke stinks, most people agree, and switching from that to something with a pleasant fruit smell is pretty acceptable for a partner/spouse/friend.
This article was covered by top tech news sources, why the heck does everyone need to reach out privately?
The end of the world is Valentine’s Day 2016, according to ‘Ghostbusters II’
I smoked for 20y, switched to ecigs to kick it. I treat ecigs as a medication, no flavoring.

Having tried a few flavors, I find flavorless to be by far the least offensive, to me, as well as the people around me.

I find this constant drumbeat of "ecigs will kill everyone" disingenuous at best.
I'm at Sourcegraph. We have code intelligence for more languages coming soon and have improved performance, etc., by quite a bit lately. Email me for more info (we're waiting a bit longer to announce the improvements publicly).
Non-paying customers? I pay for a private repos on my account, and for repos on 3 orgs. That's $82/mo. Many others also pay for private repos. Hardly non-paying customers.
Err... Isn't that what Lenovo did with Superfish?

That sounds like terrible advise.
Patent wars: Stripping the iPhone bare (2012)
Previous HN discussion (article has neat details of how sci-hub works): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074638
This is true. However I am mainly concerned with languages that actually have developers I can easily find locally.
My credit card statement every month with 3 charges from GitHub totaling $82 is hardly free.
Gums. Patches. Lozenges. We've had methods of doing just that for decades, and none have had the rampant adoption e-cigarettes have. The short answer is there's a lot more to smoking than nicotine. Social interactions, rituals, etc that the vaping still allows for.