skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am surprised nobody mentioned

> cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities

>Some of the 31 American cities are Los Angeles (the first since 1979); Washington, D.C.; New York City (see also Illegal immigration in New York City); Jersey City; Berkeley, California; Coachella, California; Philadelphia; San Francisco; Santa Ana; San Jose; Oakland; Salt Lake City; Dallas; Houston; Detroit; Chicago; Salinas, California; Minneapolis; Miami; Denver; Baltimore; Seattle; Portland, Oregon; New Haven; Somerville; Cambridge; and Portland, Maine.
personally, I use webdav; however there are a lot of good reviews of seafile if you want a true replacement of owncloud.
I'm torn but I kinda see where you're headed. Indirect democracy ensure a certain amount of resistance to the people's will in case they decide to sink the ship. Do I understand you correctly ?

ps: I misread your answer and went into a monologue, I'm rewriting this previous answer.

> Sorry, I should have been clearer. I didn't mean digital. I meant p2p in the abstract sense. Where the system interactions are simpler, less hierarchical and everybody is almost a peer. Right now people, the blood and roots of a nation are, pardon the pun, second class citizen that have to follow representatives out of trust without any direct power beside a vote. I say this democratic design isn't enough anymore. We need more educated people (better education is easily possible) that can organize more, understand and decide more, even if it means move their ass more, but at least they'll have real power, not just a ballot.
Ask HN: Most effective way for a citizen to legally thwart a president's agenda?
I don't understand why you'd want to rise in Twitter. It seems to never work out for anyone; they clear house constantly.
Your response to all the criticisms about boilerplate is basically sticking your fingers in your ears and going "nananana".

Elm code is boilerplate heavy, it's a trade off you guys have made to make the language simple. That's okay, but don't pretend like you didn't make the trade off.
I wonder if they are also aggressively vacuuming the sqlite db on mobile devices too.
WRONG.
New media seems to be garbage, since it's all fake/made-up stories.

How do we get people to see the truth from traditional media, instead of the made-up garbage they see in new media?

We really need to work together to solve the problem of Facebook/Twitter/etc..
Do you have an example where China implemented a trade agreements that resulted in significant trade balance surplus for the trading partner? (aside from energy)
Many who identified as Yugoslavians left in 90s and are now Americans, Germans, Australians or Canadians. They don't live in the Balkans because ethnically clean countries and ethnicity ranking so high on the political agenda is offensive to them.

Many people in central Bosnia identified as Yugoslavians before the war and I would say most in the same region born in late 60s, 70s would have identified the same. So when someone says Yugoslavia, I think Sarajevo and Bosnia, not Serbia.
This is very correct and true. Totally unpredicatble, exactly like a drunkard at a bar. He can be belligerent and almost get in a fight one minute and then be best buddies with an inanimate statue the next (in this case Putin, who doesn't have any actual relationship with Trump.) Completely unpredictable.
> Some of this sounds great - term limits on congress, a measure to reduce the revolving door effect of government officials going into lobbying.

Term limits for State congressional representatives seems not to have accomplished that though: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2015/01/16/states-sho...
I don't think this is a reflection on the amount of usable sunlight on that hits the surface of the earth. It sounds more like a vague, general statement and isn't backed by calculations in the article.

The late Professor McKay (whose book on information theory and ML is neat by the way) published a great book full of climate back of the envelope calculations, Whithout the Hot Air, which is available online[1]. He clearly disagrees with this statement, as seen in the recap figure on page 103[2].

[1] http://www.withouthotair.com/Contents.html

[2] http://www.withouthotair.com/c18/page_103.shtml
Here’s the mathematical reason why it’s impossible for Trump to become President
propose a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.

Not a bad idea.

begin removing the more than two million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back.

Only the criminal ones. OK
"A meritocracy, as things should be, rather than being based on race/gender/filling some sort of diversity quota".. wonder when AI beats humans at chess and go, where does meritocracy stand ? Are Japanese/european cars better than US' ? Is protectionism, which rust belt states voted for, bad ? Looks like at the end of the day, people matter and there should be a place for educated and un/undereducated.
It's enough to help tens of thousands of families and revitalize their communities (they'll be spending most of their earnings somewhere). In Appalachia that could make a huge impact on quality of life.
I am not sure that makes sense. We dont have to hurt the oil industry to help innovation. We dont have to hurt ordinary cars to help self driving cars popular.
I had a variation of that for my household, except it applied 1:1 ratio, and only for shoes. For every new pair of shoes purchased, one old pair had to go out the door.
Ok I'm starting to see this. I guess a good example is how he acted towards Jeb especially in the primary debates. I still think that responding to Trump's verbal style with physical violence is wrong.
> There's just no need to keep pretending that your opinion is the only rational choice when you've been repudiated so completely.

You do realize that Clinton won the popular vote, right? the majority of Americans agree with her policies and voted for her. Trump won because of the arcane 18th century election structure unique to the US called an electoral college.
And for all the jokes about testing in production, that's literally all we can do.
That's a self-imposed problem. There were 22 choices for president on my ballot. Until people wake up and start looking at the other 20 parties the current system is what we get.
Looked the document, and the real interesting thing is the split cable used internally, i.e. a cable that splits usb3-micro-typeB into a power-and-usb2, that cable seems neat, is it a customized one only for this product, or a generic cable that you can find on ebay? I happen to have RPI and the same WD USB3 hard drive here and with this cable I can try owncloud without the enclosure right away.
Ask HN: How is voter turnout reported?
Not able to find much information about voter turnouts in the news. Does anyone know how it's measured, aggregated and reported? And where & when to find the state/county level data?
googeling for said code snippets is your friend.

"attribution" is the key word here not "trust" or "hurt". if he copies code from others w/o attribution, then F-ry him. end of story.
Anything not-pro-clinton gets downvoted without explanation on any social media platform I've seen, including HN (which is supposed to be less biased, more objective, and superior to the other networks).
Which is worded so ambiguously, he could technically get away with doing nothing!
What came of the investigation?

Republican fanatics keep missing the part that comes next, or claiming that the lack of conviction is due to the system being rigged.

And of course no mention of Bush/Cheney and the private email server saga.
He also successfully fought against greedy politicians and businessmen who wanted to build huge dams in Patagonia and flood an enormous area.

I think it is one of the reasons why Chile is turning towards solar now.
OK thanks, that makes sense. I wasn't aware there were markets, but in retrospect, the piling on by the media should have been a signal of a "mispricing". I tend to buy stocks when I see this behavior. (I believe the media heavily influences the price of stocks, and it's probably even more true for elections.)
Average coal miner's salary is a lot more than $32k/year.

e: the salary info wasn't in the comment when I replied.
Yeah. About your previous comment,

> We could conceivably make a policy like big federal wage subsidies to renewable companies willing to relocate to West Virginia or wherever

I wonder if the renewables need the labor? If so, I can see that working. If not, then really the only problem is how to handle political dissatisfaction in the short term, and (perhaps) thus our election today.
http://www.sandia.gov/~jytsao/Solar%20FAQs.pdf

"This theoretical potential represents more energy striking the earth’s surface in one and a half hours (480 EJ) than worldwide energy consumption in the year 2001 from all sources combined (430 EJ)."

Not back of envelope. Energy calculations worked through.
Your whole post illustrates why Trump won.

Any person that is able to parry and repose mid air the fat pigs question with "Only Rosie O'Donnel" is not an idiot by a long margin.

I have been trump supporter since the beginning - your expert diagnosis of my mental health aside - the guy won for too long, against great odds, made all the long shots for that to be luck.

And with a world gone mad, you may need a madman on top.

So take a break, take a kit-kat, watch About Last Night... (South Park), calm down - the world has not ended yet. The country is mostly the same as yesterday. The deer in headlights coupled with chicken little act that Hilary supporters are performing today while mildly amusing is pointless.

And if the left don't start to see the others as at least capable and dangerous opponents and not bigoted simpletons you may not see an winning election for a long time to come.

What the SJW managed to do in the last 4 years by overplaying their hand is the creation of strong white identity. That thing did not existed before.

You felt the first cut with brexit, and are now lacerated by 2016 election.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Trump knew himself and knew exactly what was against him. Your side didn't.
The appeal is that it would make being a career politician impossible

The assumption, and I'm not saying that it's necessarily wrong, is that "career politician" is undesirable. How about getting rid of "career software developers"? Get rid of those entrenched JavaScript devs that are only interested in feathering their own nests. "Career doctors"? The medical profession is really just a business, and it should be treated like one. Next time you break a limb, seek out an MBA instead.

Point is, the more I've been involved in politics (including running for office) the more I realize that you're not just going to march in on the first day and get stuff done. Kind of like that first day with that new codebase, eh? Now, I don't know that one out to be "Congress critter for life", but you don't just waltz in an go "my constituents want $THIS" and expect it to just happen. So a little experience might go further than electing the "outsider" who isn't "beholden to special interests".
As it's currently structured, HSA's are usually a part of a health insurance plan with high deductibles. It's not an either/or thing, it's a both/and thing.
> We just use an outdated system built to appease slaveholders that does not necessarily represent the bulk will of the people.

It may have been built with slave/free state "fairness" in mind, but even today the mechanism serves to level out the tyranny of the majority, from the states' perspective.
I feel like the bit about OTP misses the point of OTP.

Erlang is not just about distributed computing (in fact, it never was; any affinity for distributed computing was more of a side-effect of Erlang's design). Rather, it's about fault-tolerance. Supervision trees and "let it crash" are the cornerstone of Erlang programming, and therefore by extension the cornerstone of Elixir programming.

Meanwhile, OTP applications build on this in a way that permits composability. It's kind of like microservices behind the scenes, bit they feel like a monolith; you build up your system from lots of different OTP applications that work together to provide a unified whole.

Elixir and Erlang web frameworks (Phoenix, Sugar, Chicago Boss (IIRC), etc.) already do a lot of this for you by kicking off various OTP dependencies; for example, your average Phoenix or Sugar application will in turn start Plug, Ecto, and various other OTP apps, and these will in turn spin up their own dependencies (like Cowboy and Postgrex, respectively).

Basically, it's not quite right to equate OTP to just distributed computing. OTP is at the heart and soul of the vast majority of software written for BEAM.
Wait, so he'll be cutting all federal funding to cities like New York, LA and San Francisco?
Average coal miner salary is ~$22/hr, or ~$42k/year.

Social security safety net is better than 0, which is where coal is going to regardless, no matter how much we attempt to prop it up. Can't compete against fuels with zero marginal cost. Every coal company in the US is currently bankrupt.

I am open to better ideas if you have them. My proposal removes coal-fired generation and provides for workers at the same time, affordably.
JavaScript code is or can be extremely DRY. I have noticed this especially on a redux (inspired by Elm's architecture) codebase. The pitfall is that JavaScript is very unsafe and hard to read.

I've worked with TypeScript too, and there I started to notice more repitition and boilerplate, although IMO It is very well worth the safety.
Ahh, is it time to cry about the electoral college again? I suppose if no one knew going in that it was the way things were done, I'd care. Since everyone knew, it's just the worst kind of monday-morning quarterbacking.

The thorough repudiation is that Hillary Clinton was anointed the next president, anointed the "only" "sane" choice, and lost. It's a fact, no matter what tears people dredge up now.

I say this with no love or support for Donald Trump, just open eyes in a process that most people enter willfully blind.
A History of Haskell: Being Lazy with Class [pdf]
Low pay and hiring freezes are two sides of the same coin though -- these processes both transfer employees into contractor roles where private companies can charge double for the same worker and pocket the difference.
nope. that's not a point.
....maybe if you're a solar panel.
Replace with what, exactly?

A few years ago I read an article in the online version of some magazine -- Fortune, maybe -- that was attempting to rebut the argument that the GOP opposed the ACA but had never offered a coherent counterproposal. The author listed maybe a dozen plans that had been put forth by various Republican legislators.

I commented on the piece that a dozen plans is no plan. The GOP needed, I argued, to settle on a single plan to go to the voters with and say, "Here, this is what we should do instead of the ACA." Nothing like that has ever happened.

Well, now they'll have their chance to repeal the ACA with or without a replacement in hand. I won't be surprised at all if they don't replace it with anything, and we'll be back to where we were. -- Which will really put a damper on people over 45 or so quitting their jobs to do startups.

> I'm sure Trump's solution will not leave you in the cold.

I hope you're right, but I don't know how you can possibly be sure.
Depends on your perspective, I suppose. We speak ideals, we vote interests.
>Some of it sounds ridiculous - for every new federal

>regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated. How is

>that considered feasible by any rational person? It might

>sound great if you don't think too hard about it.

I think that's the reason Trump becomes president of the US. It may sound ridiculous to you but he is 100% correct with that point. Everybody knows that there are too many government regulations, people across the whole political spectrum agree on that.

And although I'm from Germany, I can tell you rules that can be removed. For instance rules that require you to own a gun in certain counties, there are other actually ridiculous rules. There are YouTube videos about that and as a matter of fact these rules are not enforced.

We need to relax our constrained thinking to start modernizing outdated structures. It's sad that Donald Trump must do this job.
Now that this is out of your system, consider working for the progress you want to see, instead of piling on with insults.

The election was yesterday, it's too late to change anyone's mind.
Except it’s not nearly a large enough employer to single-handedly prop up the places where it dominates.

And the paychecks it generates aren't really enough to justify even just the local impacts to health and the environment.
I think you found what the dark energy pushing the universe apart is. The feelings of elections lost in distant galaxies.
In Quebec, there are a huge number of Zec's[1]. Basically non-profit, co-op hunting and fishing clubs. Quebec does have the advantage that there is a huge amount of mostly empty Crown land, but they are pretty common in the denser section south of the St. Lawrence as well.

[1] http://www.perc.org/blog/what-world-zec
I think that's a little harsh. There's no first principle that the average citizen should know that says "clean coal" isn't possible.

In fact, in 5-10 minutes of specifically looking at the topic I still don't see why you're mocking the concept.
Donald Trump would have more money now if he put his inheritance in an index fund.

http://fortune.com/2015/08/20/donald-trump-index-funds/
Continuous Integration systems can really burn through SSD endurance. If you have a large, compiled code base which rebuilds on every checkin, you will be creating and deleting object code constantly. Use smartmontools or HDD Guardian to keep an eye on endurance.

Our code base creates around half a gig of compilation product on every build. We used up the endurance on a consumer-level Micron SSD in about a year. No data loss occurred.
That wasn't the point of my question. I'm well aware complaining works, but I often do not understand why people feel the need to complain in the first place, particularly in situations such as this when the complaints are literally entirely from imagination.
Found the Martian.
The fact that so many people simply stop there is a clear sign that science education has failed.
> Basically his argument is "don't take Trump literally, take him seriously".

Which I guess is great if you're a billionaire and probably get some time with Trump or someone close to him that knows what he actually plans to do.

In the meantime, all the rest of us are left with "I'm going to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something great." Forgive me if I would have preferred something a little more substantial. Then again, I would like other people to have preferred that as well. :/
Couldn't connect to a partner. So far it looks like a topic oriented Omegle.
Your explanation of your thought process is appreciated, but no amount of your insistence that your opinion is the only acceptable one makes it so.
Im curious, why not? I don't doubt the abilities of the US/five eyes intelligence community, especially in SIGINT, but they forgot how to face a remotely comparable adversary in a proxy war. They need operatives who are used to thinking ten steps ahead of a KGB trained spy, not radical Islamic guerillas.

I think the best analogy is the infamous wargame the US armed forces carried out in the 2000s. The blue team had an aircraft carrier and other cutting edge weaponry while red team had only basic equipment available to insurgents. The high tech weaponry worked just fine in Afghanistan but when faced against a comparable adversary (red team was led by an equally experienced general), the entire blue team was ripped to shreds by a few dozen men and some speed boats. Obviously the western intelligence apparatus is superior to Russia's but it has spent the last 20+ years focused on a completely different type of adversary. It would be like using an aircraft carrier to fight in the middle of the Himalayas.
Here's what I wrote about it when I left:

https://josephg.com/blog/goodbye-sf/
Oh come on, do you still need to pretend to be a victim? Aren't those days over now?
One reform that most countries could make, would be for laws and regulations to start with a justification, and a test for outcomes that would see the law or regulation automatically become invalid if it can be proven that the outcomes are not met.

Both because it would help with the problem where people don't understand the intent of a law or regulation and so assumes they are stupid, and because it would make passing genuinely stupid laws and regulations harder if you have figure out ways to set out the intent and an "outcome test" in a way that doesn't xpose how bad it is.
That's a great idea! It sounds kinda wonky like AirBnb when they pitched it to YCominbator but... it'd be pretty cool if you could execute on the idea!
0) That wasn't Ars' analysis, that was their reporting. [0] was the one that did the analysis.

1) The analysis/grading was based on policy positions.

2) You're just wasting your keypresses if you honestly can't tell the difference between reporting someone else's work and their own analysis.

3) The actual report card for those interested [1].

[0] http://www.engine.is

[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/571681753c44d835a440c...
After Trump’s win, Silicon Valley elites make plans for California to secede
Congress doesn't write federal regulations. Executive branch agencies do, within very broad guidelines that Congress has put in the statutes empowering those agencies. A lot of what Trump is proposing here can be done without any Congressional action at all; it's just a matter of changing the priorities of the agencies who write the regulations.

Of course, doing that is a much, much bigger job than I think Trump realizes.
> Will you vote for the candidate that will protect our drinking water no matter what?

I think you are making a straw man argument. Perhaps I haven’t been clear enough about this, but I’m not saying terrorism is the biggest existential threat or that it’s the only issue that matters or that it’s worth sacrificing our freedoms for or that certain groups should be discriminated against. I’m just saying that its something that should be taken seriously. Every political candidate takes it seriously and I think for good reason. I’m also not advocating some of Trump’s extreme rhetoric. I didn’t even vote for him. I also don’t believe that I’m personally being terrorized. I don’t think about this stuff on a daily basis. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t want my government to think about it.

> What attacks are terrorists becoming "increasingly competent" at, exactly?

The obvious one: aircraft as a weapon. Then there’s Chemical/biological. Historically, used by sovereign militaries and now starting to be used frequently by terrorist organizations. ISIS recently started using chlorine and possibly mustard gas. The fairly recent poisoning of schoolchildren. The recent use of other poisons such as rat poison. Another big one is Cyber attacks. Recent ISIS attacks on power grids show show increased capabilities. The department of homeland security thinks this is a new major threat to US infrastructure. BTW, the FBI and Homeland Security have published a detailed list of possible attack vectors which includes a lot more than the few I’ve mentioned here. As far as nuclear attacks go, terrorist organizations like al Qaida have expressed their desire to obtain these weapons specifically to attack the US. Shouldn’t we do every reasonable thing within our power to stop them?