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When will US legislators take comprehensive election reform seriously?
This election cycle is wearing me out. All my life, I've supported various third party candidates. I'm so tired of tactical voting being the norm. I'm tired of being told that voting for who I believe in would be treason. I know that I'm an intelligent, resourceful, compassionate, earnest human being with good judgement.

Time and time again, I feel like my political outlook is tossed in the garbage.

People have been asking for all kinds of election reform for years. Why is election reform considered to be such a "wacky" idea?

I'm terrified at the notion that Hillary Clinton might become president, only for people to kick the election reform can further down the road.

This political situation is toxic. We can't even have conversations about important issues. I'm so sick of the propaganda. I'm tired. I can't even listen to NPR most days, because the election discussions are totally base and out of touch with the real issues people are grappling with.

The fact that all of this is happening right now, one month ahead of the election, and all I hear about election reform is crickets...

That feels dismal.
>Vaguely related, It would be really interesting to see a government try juries for legislation.

That -- random selection -- was the original, and more advanced than ours, conception of democracy. Not for all posts, mind you.
Anyone care to weigh in on how this compares to FreeCAD?
Underlying driver here is that users are migrating en masse to Facebook now for their professional updates and post streams. Twitter is most impacted, but LinkedIn too. That's why TWTR selling, LNKD sold. The market for users attention, not just the market for their stocks is moving against them. FB is like the wandering Jupiter of our early solar system- the 'grand tack' is sweeping up the smaller bodies in the solar system. Good to be Jupiter..
Just to clarify, when you say LEAD/LAG here, do you actually mean ROWS/RANGE? So, approximately:

sum(price * quantity) over w / sum(quantity) over w as VWAP
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window w as (partition by stock order by time range 30000 preceding)

Totally willing to believe first-hand experience, but surprised and disappointed if it's impossible to make that fast. (Apologies if I'm totally misunderstanding the use case).
Marketing is more about making the customers think they need your product.
I've not looked closely at systemd yet, but my initial attempts with using sysctl on a test ubuntu 16.04 server, seems to reflect my experience with usage of svcadm in solaris/illumos, where the latter requires XML manifest instead of a "simple" script.

Is this an apt comparison for systemd, or is it way better/worse (I'm not an expert, so I'll leave the qualitative opinions to others!) than that?
Not an author or a big fan, but the answer is quite objective so I can give it as well: (1) If you use a decentralized system you can decide who to give control over your data. (2) Using a software with open standards doesn't enforce you to continue using it if you don't like it anymore, since you can transfer your data elsewhere or delete it. (3) Using a software with open standards means you can interact with people who decided to use another software as long as it implements the same standards.

E.g. FB is handled by the FB company. You can only choose to enter that system or stay away. You can not choose to host your family photos only at another company and still share them on FB. But in a decentralized system you can use a choice of hosters or host them yourself and still share them with other users.

E.g. in most modern contact book and calendar apps you can export your data in open formats and then import them into another tool. Having more contacts doesn't mean anymore you need to stay with the tool you created them in.

E.g. your email client, whether it's Gmail, Outlook, or Thunderbird, can talk to the other email clients and hosters, since email is an open standard. In fact for most cases you don't really care what email program the other person uses.

The disadvantage of both decentralized and open-standards is that they usually require more effort to use. You need to have more skills yourself and take more responsibility. With Twitter, because they want your data, they will make it as easy as possible for your to give it to them. But in that case you need to rely on trusting the Twitter the company with that data for the rest of your life.
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That's a great blog post; thanks for sharing.

My favourite point was that simply by adding an instruction counter, we can make every program terminate, but this does not make the program considerably easier to reason about. It reminds me of Ethereum's limit on Turing Completeness (Gas).
I'm afraid not!
That is Apple's fault, not the web's or browsers' in general.
Hmm. I'm guessing at what you mean by "diversity for the sake of diversity", but - pretty sure that's definitely something from the perspective of those, well, on the receiving end of privilege.

Sure, diversity for diversity is a shittier reason than diversity to break the glass ceiling, or to cover bases you don't otherwise cover ("hey let's built a web app and never talk to dev ops!" "hey let's build something without figuring out how to sell it!"); there's those statistics that say teams with both men and women function better, yadda yadda...

...but like college graduation, it's not for you, or about you; it's about a bunch of other people.

Diversity-for-diversity looks pointless when you already think you can join those groups. It looks like realizing you have a possibility you never thought could be yours, when you think you can't join those groups.

Does that make any sense?

With regards to what you've seen with online communities, that sounds a lot like gentrification: you have an influx of people that, rather than trying to adapt themselves to the existing culture and contribute to it - to actually join what was there, try (inadvertently or deliberately) to adapt the culture to their existing selves. On the other hand, what's the point if you have to / end up conforming so much you can't add anything new?
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I'm not criticizing the project or the personal enjoyment you derive from working on it. Keep it up. Not everyone wants to make it a fight, and I respect that.

Personally, I live for the struggle.
There are some countermeasures but they can't handle a large fire see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_991

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_6

for recent examples
Ask HN: Has the bubble burst?
I'm seeing an decline on average salary for developers in my country, more startups dying and a decrease in acquisitions from the big tech. Has it begun?
This is probably closer to a viable revenue model. Don't charge per-tweet, rather charge people who have a large follower count to broadcast a tweet to all of their followers. Free tweets go to the top X% or 1000 followers, whichever is greater, and to truly broadcast to a million followers costs money. Something similar to what FB does for posts from pages that you once, in the distant past, liked; page owners complain about this to no end, but they keep paying...
They did provide a reason - fraudulent conduct. Are other business required to provide more detail?
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Hence why they have so much "free" advertising - they likely have a massive department swarming every major media outlet to create and maintain partnerships, i.e. the little Twitter mentions that you see on TV.

I don't know if these kinds of deals cost Twitter money directly (I wouldn't be surprised), but I'm sure their marketing department is the most expensive operation they have.
I still don't really understand why Twitter's growth slowed. It was their's to not mess up, but then straight down they've gone. How annoying.

In any event, based on their current projected growth rate (27.51%), full year 2015 revenue ($2,218,032,000), and 2015 profit margin (25.15%) (which is likely BS, as they seem to be losing money), it seems they are worth about $8 or $12 billion.

One way to determine valuation is to divide growth rate by 10, add 1, then multiply in yearly revenue (27.51 / 10 + 1 = 3.751; 3.751 * $2,218,032,000 = $8,319,838,032). Or, as seems to be the trend recently, one could divide growth rate by 10, double it, then multiply in yearly revenue (27.51 / 10 * 2 = 5.502; 5.502 * $2,218,032,000 = $12,203,612,064).

These estimates usually assume 30% profit margin, so one can factor that out (as Twitter's seems to be ~25%) by applying the scaled multiple to "profit" (27.51 / 10 + 1 = 3.751; 3.751 / .3 = 12.5; 12.5 * $557,807,000 = $6,972,587,500) (27.51 / 10 * 2 = 5.502; 5.502 / .3 = 18.34; 18.34 * $557,807,000 = $10,230,180,380). One would then add in Twitter's estimated net assets (~$4.556 billion) to get a final estimated worth.

That is, Twitter is worth either $11.53 billion, or $14.79 billion (depending on how you look at it). As their market cap is $17.25 billion, and the media is suggesting offers are in the range of $25-30 billion, it's likely any acquirer will pay much much more than Twitter is worth, or all potential bidders will bow out, as Twitter's asking price is too high.

Also, no matter how you look at it, Twitter's employee count seems to be ~2x what it should be. So, either there'll be a large number of layoffs, or they'll have to stop hiring completely and "ride the wave" until their revenue/potential increases to be inline with their employee count.

Even just looking at what Twitter does, it's hard to see why 4,000 employees are needed. WTF are they doing? It's just another sign they are likely being thoroughly mismanaged. This is further supported by the abysmal senior management rating (3.2, versus a target of 4.0 or 4.2) they received on Glassdoor.
What are you talking about man? There are tons of successful NoSQL databases with non-JSON query syntax. Neo4J, Redis... should I continue. I never missed this format using ReQL and it would be a bloat to support both in parallel.
Creating a new product that everyone will use and love is not so easy, even for Google.
Hmm, I found the systemd scripts (plain text files) very readable and decently simple.
It's pretty stable.
"Service industry" includes financial services, which have been hugely lucrative to the West.

It's a globally integrated supply chain, and cannot be otherwise. There is no way countries are going back to a blast-furnace-to-car vertically integrated manufacturing world. It costs far too much and you couldn't even do it back when Ford tried it. He needed to import rubber, modern cars need to import chips.

The only non-globalised manufacturing chain is defence, which is instead prohibitively expensive.

Manufacturing is popular because it's percieved as a source of blue-collar jobs. Not only has that declined due to automation, but I think that one of the reasons for the decline in Western manufacturing in the first place was union-busting and labour relations issues. Part of the reason Germany has retained its manufacturing reputation is avoiding that failure mode.
units are simple ini-like files. Unless you want some very specific behaviour (and if you're the app's author, you know if you do), your service file will be normally as simple as:

[Unit]
Description=Some description

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/the/service/binary

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

The rest is stuff on top (user/group, namespaces, cgroups, stdout redirection, socket activation, ordering, etc.) Actually running the services instead of forking them also allows you to get rid of lots of silly pidfile handling options.
Do Hard Things. Nothing interesting was ever easy.

Granted, that's easier said than done.
We designed a decentralized platform to power social apps. Precisely to give organizations the power and choice of running their own server and install social apps, the same way they can run Wordpress and install plugins. While regular users have their accounts seamlessly work across all domains, and connect with friends across communities and privacy just works as it should.

See it at qbix.com/platform -would love to hear your opinions.
Despite some of it's crappiness MongoDB actually has a bunch of features that other databases (such as PG) don't such as easy to set up sharding and replication.

We run Mongo side by side with PG, and even though the PG is just replicated and not also sharded like our Mongo cluster is, Mongo was more easy to configure.

I think MongoDB's biggest problem is that it was marketed as the general purpose DB in the Node.js community when actually it is a specialised tool. So now you have thousands of developers wondering why they're on this weirdly behaving document store when they could've scaled fine on something more generic like PG.

More on topic: RethinkDB was aiming to be the best of both worlds, generic like PG yet document oriented and horizontal scaling like Mongo. I think their problem is that they didn't manage to pierce the communities. It would have gone better if they had evangelists for every major platform that just produced a stream of blog posts, small open source projects and tools and crashed random meet ups.
I don't think Disney is "going to $25-30B" either.

I still think Disney is Very interested.

Twitter seems like a perfect fit for Disney.

I've always felt Twitter is kinda juvenile to begin with. Kids argue, flirt, praise, describe movies, books, gadgets, toys in short blurbs; usually under 140 characters. (Yes--I know they upped it)

My point is Disney is all about capturing the youth market. They plan decades ahead. They want to coral the kids into their ecosystem. Twitter, if reworked, could be one of their tools?

For instance, Disney is trying to capture the two-to-seven-year-pod demographic, hoping to steal viewership fron Viacom(Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants). To do so they shuttered its 12 year old SOAPnet channel, which was devoted to Soap operas, to create the new Disney Junior Channel. The channel will feature children's programs.

Supposedly only 8 percent of teen boys use Twitter. I think with the right marketing, and dumbing Twitter down further, as in of ease of use; Disney could make money with Twitter. They could market toys, movies, all their dubious products.

The first time I heard the word Twitter, I cringed, and internally said I will never Tweet. I have Tweeted 4 times, but I'm not the right demographic.

Kids love the word, especially little girls. That combined with Disneys aggressive marketing, and Disney could make it work. They would need to make it kid friendly though. I think they alwready have plans in the works. It's alwready the biggest gossip site, with the exception of FB, and what do little girls do well--Gossip!

I don't know what they will intimately pay, but Twitter and Disney seem destined to marriage. I'm tempted to put my last five grand in Twitter stock, and crossing my fingers Disney pays through the nose.
...which in turn are reminiscent of Fred Hoyle's "The Black Cloud".
I post gifs of my game on twitter, reddit and on some dev logs on my blog as well as on SFML forums and TIGSource, so there are lots of gifs floating around.

I've posted some links to my game's official thread, my twitter, etc. But the comments got little attention. The OP also didn't respond.
How did I offer this as truth when I mentioned that it could very well be conspiracy theories?

$0.10 was deposited to your CTR account.
I've searched for instructions, but didn't find them anywhere, so thanks for providing the link!
Just because something ended badly one place doesn't mean the idea was bad. We have "expert" witnesses, some of whom have very little expertise. That's bad. Being corrupt and getting 'experts' in office or firing 'experts' if they don't provide a politically correct answer? Bad.

But it is a lot harder for me to argue that basing healthcare or even health and safety policies on the advice of physicians and scientists is bad. If we are revamping the tax code, it might do us well both to look at how tax code compliance is in different countries at different rates - and also talk to psychiatrists and psycologists to help set it up in a way that gets the most compliance. Talk to poverty experts to see what tax codes could hurt the poor and work on ways to solve that.
I believe we live in Utopia of someone else. For instance Central Banks were created as a response to small banks bankruptcies, in order to make a "perfect world" in which banks could not fail.

Everybody knows the consequence, there are companies that are "too big to fail", people in power "too big to jail", and at the end saving institutions with public money not only do not improve the banks but makes them feel entitled.

At the end we have the entire society collapsing, like it is happening in Japan, or with Deutsche Bank because in a society when nobody can fail you are rewarding bad behavior and making everybody fail.

The Banks that made enormous bets were rewarded with enormous profits but then are rewarded when those profits turned to be completely fictional, and loses were socialized.

Society and companies that do the right thing are punished with hardships like high taxes while those that created misery retire with Golden Parachutes. Nobody wants to work anymore, and everybody wants to speculate.
If you are using FreeCAD, probably try to run Solvespace or read one of it's tutorials, and you'll see the difference.

I have not used both apps extensively, but clearly FreeCAD is much bigger tool with wider use-cases. If talking about 3D cad only, I like minimalist Solvespace's approach better (from UI/UX stand point and from source code's perspective as well), easier menus, easier use (simple shortcuts), readable and rather small-ish codebase.
>> You're wearing some extremely hefty rose-coloured nationalistic glasses. For example, the golden period was very early in the story, isn't yet 3000 years old, yet you're claiming 5000 years of dominance?

Let's not have a fight over this. I take the start of the Minoan civ to be the beginning, some 3.5 kya, and the fall of Constantinople to be the end of the Good Old Days, followed by a few hundred years of decline. That makes very nearly 5k years.

I resent the accusation of nationalism. I can wear my rose-tinted glasses all I like (and you're free to laugh at me all you wish) but I'm pretty sure my right to be proud of my heritage does not deny others' right to be proud of theirs [1]. As far as I am concerned a patriot is someone who loves their country, a nationalist is someone who hates everyone else's. I am very confident I'm not the latter.

>> Ancient and modern Greece are two different places

Totally no objection about this. You can't have 5k ish years of history and remain the same people throughout.

>> It's not like modern Greeks have a particularly notable reputation for education, like Jewish people do.

That's alright. Another part of my definition of "patriot" is someone who loves their country regardless of its history, or current condition. It's nationalists who long for the Good Old Days (of Empire, usually). Although for the kind of Good Old Days I'm talking about, of brilliant intellectual achievements, I would make an exception and say that I do wish we hadn't declined as far as we have.

So, happy now? You broke my heart and rubbed my face in my own dirt. Can't an ancient people be left to decline in peace?

___________

[1] If the descendants of the Mongols or the Brits feel robbed of their right to be proud of being the biggest butchers in history, I consider that to be their problem.
I don't have an example from a published academic paper, but from the linked article:

> the odds are this will stoke real hostility for those who are already dubious about what has been termed 'bullying' and so on by people interested in reproducibility.

I'm pretty sure this was intended to be read as

[has been termed] ['bullying' and so on by people interested in reproducibility].

But it could also be read as

[has been termed 'bullying' and so on] [by people interested in reproducibility].

Ambiguous wording like this could easily be overlooked in review, especially if the misinterpretation agrees with what the reader was already expecting.
"You just haven't been reading the news."

No, I probably haven't in this particular instance. I don't follow US business scene that closely beyond what HN offers.
We shard geographically, with a single multi-tenant Postgres schema per geographical area.

You run into corner cases when a customer wants to operate into two distinct geographical areas, so basically you may have to maintain a central repository of tenants and, ultimately, under the hood, your tenant primary keys are not handled via local sequences.
I imagine it was because the technology that they were pushing didn't work. So even with Holmes out of the way and the ability to continue doing what they were doing g there was no point, it didn't work they were never going to get it work the way it was supposed to, so they pivot and keep her on as the oonly way they could potentially still make a return for investors. I imagine a lot of people have invested a lot of money and now want to get some sort of product out the door and an IPO or Military Contract to recoup some costs.
Interesting to see that The Guardian has a 'penalty' against it - is this due to the political leaning, or the quality of the articles? Here in the UK it's pretty well respected, though seen as clearly left leaning.
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I am looking for something smaller than kinect, that's easier to mount on a moving platform and requires less power.
You seem to be contradicting yourself.

If the binary size is big because of the (lack of) tools the author knows, the alternative to this is an editor made by someone who knows tools that don't bloat the binary.