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Trading votes in not illegal[0] in the US under the condition that no pecuniary value is added. In other words, as long as you don't buy or sell a vote. This website merely connects two voters from different parties and states and enabled them to pledge to swap votes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_pairing#Legality
To be fair, that's not a story so much as an event.
Pretty sure the parent was talking about USS Zumwalt specifically, not the Zumwalt class as a whole. It's not unreasonable to consider the first hull a demonstrator at this point. There'd be countless improvements made as the class design matured over the course of a 32 hull production run.
35 here. DevOps software engineer. Also do not work for Google. I personally find this stuff fascinating and not particularly creepy. I'm far more concerned about credit reporting agencies and their data retention/sharing habits than I am with Google and my search history.
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It sounds fairly logarithmic or logistic to me.
(Author here) The title should more correctly be "CBC are shaking down podcast application developers for licence fees", but I've only be sorting out what the situation over the past few hours, in discussion with the application dev (who prefers to not be named) over email.

I've also requested clarification from both the CBC generally, and Paul Kennedy's Ideas programme, which was the specific podcast I found to be blocked. Neither have replied at present.
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The consumer in me wants to try Dyson's robot vac http://www.dyson.com/vacuum-cleaners/robot/360eye/360-eye-ni...
I love programming. Even if I still had to use Perl I still wouldn't give it up.

Admittedly that's because I like Perl, but I also freely admit I'm more productive with full-stack JavaScript.

That said, I wouldn't mind writing about programming, but I can't afford to stop my day job.

I'd love to write an ebook on JavaScript, a spiritual successor to Marijn Haverbeke's Eloquent JavaScript but using ES6/ES7.

Maybe also a book effectively about making your own JavaScript framework — beginning as a way to build a simple website or MVP without jumping on a framework bandwagon. The book would later develop into a cautionary tale, warning against reinventing existing frameworks like Angular or Ember. All culminating in a sober recommendation to choose vanilla JavaScript and direct DOM manipulation for simple websites and MVPs; later upgrading to React and Redux for a large-scale, client-side applications, esp. if a team is involved.

I'd also like to write an ebook about CSS and how to use it effectively — not as in "pure CSS solution to problem x which is actually in JavaScript's domain" rather "CSS doesn't work like that, it works like this, see?"

Maybe also a series of primers: CORS, React, ES6, CSS, 60fps animation/UI on the web, web accessibility...
Are Jill Stein supporters spoiling the election?
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I enjoyed Soylent when it first came out, but then they started trying to be clever. It was already a complex product and they went crazy trying to replace the fish oil they were using. Around v1.4 it started to taste absolutely disgusting and the consistency was that of slime.
> If we assumed a half-life of n years, then robot vacuums will only ever approach 20% asymptotically and won't ever reach it.

You shouldn't assume that they will be 20% of sales for every future year.
This is great comment. Not necessarily because you're right (you are, at least regarding the current state of things) but because you bring up the biggest problem with unions in their current state.

People don't have an issue with collective bargaining, they have a problem with the other negative effects of unions.
I would do what I love, which is playing the piano and writing about cultural and political things
That seems like wordplay, to me. Does a car make it "simpler" to travel 60 miles an hour down the freeway, compared to walking?

SSH is more complex and more secure than Telnet.
As someone who has used MySQL with absolutely no problems on over 100 projects over the past 20 years, I really don't get the hate I see for it on HN and other places. I've never used Postgres so cannot comment on that, but unless someone can show me that MySQL kills kittens with every query and Postgres moves us one step closer to a cure for cancer with every SELECT, then I'm just going to carry on over here in my corner...
I've always been "pro GMO" in the sense that I think its immoral to artificially restrict our food supply and making food unnecessarily expensive. Plus the innovation that can be spurred from the food sector into other areas won't be seen until a hotbed has been established. I also think Europe is losing out on opportunity with its Gealileo-like reflex on fundamentally new, groundbreaking science.

That being said, I was deeply disappointed to hear that our 'groundbreaking technology' amounts to stuff like "make plants pesticide resistant" > "dump more pesticide on plants" > "apply for patent". This is really disappointingly stupid.

Also it turns out that crop yields are almost not at all affected by genetic modification [1]

[1] http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/10/gm-...
The purpose of advanced weapons, in the context of a frenemy like China, is not to prepare for war but to prevent the temptation of war: deterrence.

The "pivot to Asia" is primarily economic, which is why President Obama has pushed the TPP so hard.

For the last 50 years (at least) the oil in the Middle East has been crucial to American economic security. That is rapidly becoming no longer true because of fracking, renewables, and improving efficiency. Oil is decoupling from U.S. economic growth, so the U.S. can (somewhat) decouple from the Middle East.

So if oil is not going to be the limiting factor on future U.S. economic growth, what will be? Technology and trade are good bets, and Asia is ripe for enormous growth in both.
Political correctness is about being conservative in what you say. Crocker's rules is about being liberal in what you accept. You could do both, then you'd be following a conversational equivalent of Postel's principle.

The analogy breaks down pretty quickly though.
I recently started playing a game that I haven't played in a long time. I miss the feeling of being engaged like this. Programming just doesn't do it for me.

I want to love what I'm doing, but unfortunately there's few things that tickle my brain like this. What should I do, take ADHD meds and go to work, like everyone else?
Makes you wonder what those people would have accomplished if they'd been free to work on anything they wanted, rather than artificially incentivized to do busywork.
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If I had the money I'd stop being a coder, but still use a computer for music composition and production.
I'd play the piano and also write about social/political/historical things. I had this luxury once a while ago, and am now working hard again to get back there!
When you fail frequently at things, this fail often strategy, you aren't valuing your customers. Saying they have an excuse for failing often doesn't change the effect it has on users. Which is that they can not place their trust in your products or your company, because you've made it clear you're willing to shut them down at any time.
Indeed. Having started a business yourself. What do you think programmers should learn/know before make this feat.
Switching from a legal debate to a moral one... we may as well go back to first principles and ask why is prostitution illegal in the first place? Plenty of places have legal prostitution and better quality of life for the prostitutes (eg Australia or Germany) than in places where it's illegal.
I think this is their visualization platform for BigQuery
Are you saying you use Apple's products for privacy reasons?
I use this relatively often. Mostly because it provides history search across devices. So if I ever looked for something before and found just the right answer I can retrace my steps from only a vague recollection.

However the UI is a bit awkward for that usage. It seems to definitely be designed more for the average user who is using it exclusively for history deletion, like the activity log on facebook. The default grouping of entries makes deleting them in chunks easy but scanning through them hard. The UI also makes it easy to spot what site an entry is for at a glance but chooses not to show the url despite having plenty of space to.
http://devport.co - Portfolios for developers.

Supports uploads from GitHub, Websites, App store, etc. Automatically imports screenshots, titles, and descriptions.

Command line tool and documentation for creating your own themes. Built on Mongo, Express, Angular, Node. SailsJS. A few hundred users with a few thousand total uploaded projects.
won't use one until someone includes a deep-learning image recognition module to stop it spreading a track of cat shit all over the room
> The purpose of the press is to be adversarial, not to help meet the PR objectives of those it views as friends.

Once you know enough "good" PR people, you quickly realize that the press often doesn't work that way, save a few investigative journalists. Some PR-types I know at larger SV organizations have a lot of blogger and journalist friends, and they appear to have an unwritten "we'll give you the scoop if you give us right of first refusal" on a lot of stories.
It is a suggestion that we nationalise the payment basis for media. Authorship and publishing could/would remain independent.

It's strikingly similar to the extant instances of mechanical copyright licenses, which apply to "cover" performances of musical works, in that:

1. Grant of licence is automatic (hence "mechanical").

2. Payments are automatic (handled through copyright clearance organisations, e.g., Harry Fox in the US).

3. The original author cannot deny the licence.

The principle difference I'm proposing is a base level of compensation based on a broad-based tax. Preferably indexed to wealth and/or income.

Previous discussions:

A Modest Proposal: Universal Online Media Payment Syndication: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modes...

Richard Stallman's "Internet Sharing" content syndication proposal: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3p0bp6/richard...

Content Syndication: Phil Hunt's Broadband Tax / Content Compensation Fund proposal: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1vknhc/content...
So it's a reporting tool? All the link does is take me to the google sign in page.
According to this, google doesn't know if Im male or female. It must not be showing what they really know about me.
I definitely agree that it sucks when you're one of the consumers affected. But I would argue that this fail often strategy lets you quickly figure out what works and what doesn't for most consumers, and let's you prioritize accordingly and maximize net consumer value created. Obviously that comes with negatives, but I believe they are outweighed by the positives.
I pretty much enjoy programming most of the time. But there are times when I feel, only if I could take a small break and do something else without worrying about money.

I would like to

- Work at a General Store
- Be involved in a full movie / tv series making process ( Because movies have always had a deep impact on me, and I would love to contribute my ideas in that domain )
- Invent new food recipes
- Research on Ancient History
Politicians speak for their constituencies.
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>Like battleships, they are a big dumb target. The same way carriers and their aircraft made battleships obsolete modern anti-ship missiles have made carriers obsolete in a theoretical war between superpowers.

Yeah, except that's not actually true unless the war goes nuclear. Carriers are very well defended from air attack. The entire battle group is there to defend the carrier, which means aircraft-launched AA missiles, hundreds of SM-2s, plus point defense. Plus ECM and EM-type weapons.

And that's assuming US forces aren't able to destroy any launch platforms, which is probably not a good assumption at this point. It's much harder to pull of a surprise attack than it used to be.

>That's why the Russian idea is to just bombard them with missiles until enough they poke enough holes in them to sink or disable them. It seems like a reasonable strategy to me.

Yeah, that's pretty much the strategy everyone's been using since they switched from boarding actions to guns in the 1500s.

The Russians can't actually mount that kind of attack any more without telegraphing it in a big way, since it would take nearly every remaining conventional bomber and naval asset in the Russian military to ensure success. Nobody else is capable at all unless the scenario posits a US carrier in shallow water off the coast of Shanghai.

I'm not saying carriers are invulnerable. They're not. People make mistakes, and sometimes they're fatal. There are always variables that are impossible to evaluate without knowing the absolute latest top secret stuff. But a carrier group in the open ocean is a tough nut to crack, especially from the air, and attackers make mistakes too. It's far from obsolete.
I actually have worked as a more or less pure system engineer for three years.

It was interesting and a bit painful to not have access to source code and to be completely dependent on a slow process.
I read a truly disturbing story last month involving a roomba, a puppy, diarrhea and a light beige carpet. Imagine 8 hours of unattended shit smearing.
The scenario the author outlined 4 years ago was one possible outcome but it turns out he was wrong. Instead projects like homebrew have flourished and it's now easier than ever to get fresh packages for popular GPL software on macOS.
Why not explore other creative mediums like music, painting, writing or whatever? Better yet why not work in the intersection of two or more mediums?
I was just thinking the same thing. Very strange that Chrome doesn't provide users cross-device history search, while Google stores that information in my account activity anyway..
oh wow! I have been on a Boeing 737 simulator once and it was a unforgettable experience. Hoping to earn enough money to fly real aircraft atleast once. Life experiences is what matters.
If there are any programming/tech meetups in your area, go to them! Ask around for any work that needs to be done. Draft a quick talk on something you've worked on recently, and give it. Networking is a very powerful tool.
That's a great question. My answer is a solid YES.

I am worried. My entire business currently depends on Firebase from top to bottom. Of course I would have preferred this were not the case, but the services they offer can get you up and running very quickly.

I have to say, that over time, I may try and build my own tools that I know will exist in 10 years.
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Yeah, that and acting as a PR agency for the Iraq war.

Edit: Google "Judith Miller," then downvote.
Thanks for mentioning this, it is indeed very related and very interesting. I am not sure why not me or people around me were aware of Qthread, it has very good support for various architectures and provides many interesting features. It has many similarities with I have in mind for a concurrent library, and even some research goals seems to be very close to mine. Specially the notion of affinity and locality is what I am focusing on in uThreads. I am going through the papers and the source code at the moment to see what are the similarities and differences.

uThreads is still a work in progress and I have specific plans for it in the future that might differ of what Qthreads is trying to accomplish. For now my focus is more on providing auto tuning of Clusters based on the workload. I also will try to explore the pros and cons of uThread migration based on Cluster placement (NUMA and cache locality), and from the 2008 paper it seems that it is what you are trying to study as well. I am open to collaboration if there is an ongoing study around this topic.
Sounds very reasonable. Any specific books or tutorials you would recommend?
I'll just point two things, because they are kind of weird:

> You claiming all people who hold conservative views or vote for a republican are racist, homophobic, bigoted...

I never did that. I just said the Republican party panders to those demographics (which are not necessarily a 100% intersection.) I didn't even mention homophobia or race anywhere, but somehow you jumped to that conclusion because... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>> if you think Clinton's DNC is "a violent leftist sect"
> Did I say that? No, I sure didn't.

Read your previous comment? I'm not sure there's another possible reading of it. If you are talking about "gaining a voice" by engaging in "character assassination", you can only be talking about the people running the campaign, which is Clinton's DNC. Which is not the leftist part of the party. Pick one.

>> BTW, funny that you mention "character assassination"... right after seriously trying to paint the DNC as some kind of Satanist cabal
> Did I ever do that? No, I did not.

By saying "there are too many coincidences" you are promulgating this supposed Satanist link, even though a) there aren't "many coincidences" (there's one email) b) it's been debunked up the kazoo. It's your prerogative to believe whatever conspiracy theory you want to, but don't try to pass it as established fact and then get all huffy when I point out it's anything but. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and all that.

I agree, this conversation is better left to places like reddit. I'm just pleading with you, this close to the election, to try and do some introspection. And whoever you vote on, I hope the result is the best for everyone not just you or me.
In my experience, it takes 1min to launch a container in Triton, but 5-10s in Hyper.
It is actually very good, by virtue of running every day (unless you change its schedule to something else). So even though its suction doesn't compare well to a real big canister/bag vacuum, it makes up for that in sheer level of activity.

It's not perfect. I have a single-floor apartment with no door thresholds, yet it keeps getting stuck. I keep cables and so on neatly organized and hidden, but sometimes I've left a temporary charger cord or something on the floor; this kills the Roomba. You also have to careful with plants -- it ate a whole branch of a plant once that was hanging low near the floor. It has issues with rugs, especially with black areas, but also just getting onto the rug. It also loves to close the door on a room so that it can't get out; I had to buy a couple of door wedges to prevent that, but I don't always remember to use them. Pretty much 50% of the time I come home to find the Roomba dead in a corner.

Its dust compartment is quite small and must be emptied at least every 2-3 days. You also have to take out the little spindle things and remove hair which collects around the axles. Fortunately, the Roomba is really modular in design; you can take it apart completely, and there are replacement parts for absolutely everything. It is a rare product where the designers seem to have rejected the trend of planned obsolescence; I haven't really owned it long enough to be qualified to judge, or taken it apart, but everything I have seen indicates that it was carefully engineered to be repairable and last a long time. (It's probably hackable, too.)

Despite its weaknessss, I am quite happy with it. It keeps my apartment clean and removes the mental burden of thinking about dust. A couple of times a month I take my Dyson to clear up some corners that the Roomba can't get to where dust bunnies pile up. I have a friend who combines it with the cleaning model, but I can't deal with two gadgets that leave their depleted, cable-choked corpses around.
So this paper was paper was reported to have passed peer review, back in August[0].

On a tangental note, I've been seeing people toss around the world "leaked" when nothing of the sort is happening. Most egregiously when its a FOIA request.

[0] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/emdrive-nasa-eagleworks-paper-has-f...
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Here is a link to the HN discussion to the article I assume you are thinking about. The wording was a bit different, which may have been why you didn't find it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12625642
Just to follow up. How did your day to day work change after PhD? I am sure you would have gotten a chance to work on more interesting things. What are they?
> A few months later I renegotiated to have the bonus removed and the base salary increased to $175k.

What was your negotiating strategy here? Did you just say "I'm going to make the bonus anyway, please let's just write it in now", or was it more "I might leave if we can't work this out"?
I always wanted to be a full-time fiction author.

Eventually, a few years ago, I started a company to make software for fiction authors.

Best of both worlds!
Amazing ways to show appreciation
Following are some ways to keep your employee feel appreciated.

- Post a thank you note on the employee’s office desk.

- Greet employees by name when you pass their desks.

- Acknowledge individual achievements by using people’s names.

- Make a thank you card by hand.
Ask a person to share his accomplishments with others as a way of recognizing person’s ability & role.

- Make a celebration calendar where in managers can use post it’s & written notes on recognition tacked onto specific dates to honor contributions of employees.

- Email thanking an employee for a good idea for contribution.

- Email offering encouragement for upcoming major project.

- Send the employee a recognition memo from the Manager’s.

- Hold up an applause sign at the next staff meeting after you mention your employee's successes.

- Send out a weekly "Great Achievement E-mail Award" to the entire company acknowledging one outstanding employee.

- Award the employee with a "plum assignment"- their choice of what they want to work on for their next project.

- Send flowers to one of the less recognized "behind the scenes" individuals.
Create a "Hall of Fame" in the training room.

- Put up a picture of each employee of the month, and engrave their name on a master plaque with words of recognition.

- Hand out the "Bright Ideas" award for innovative thinking. The winner gets a free dinner, tickets to the movies, etc.

- Give the "High Five" award. Pick five people in the department and have them go up to an employee and say "I heard that you did a great job at ... Good work!"

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Yeah I wonder what our dev skills be worth when we are 60. And still need some years do get to a pension. And meanwhile you have 21 year olds without a mortgage, kids or wife... with all the time in the world to work and learn new things.

Take for example current js webdev, with a new hot tech every week.

We can't all become IT managers (nor want to)...