skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people know they can run for federal and state offices, even if they don't know what district they are in (and this barely matters, as the election office will tell you); and while they don't know some of the more esoteric offices, those offices tend to not have much power.

What people usually don't know about is all of the local government positions that affect their daily lives: many of the things you care most about exist below the level of a city, and yet websites like this throw aside all of the water districts and park districts and commumity service districts as if they don't matter :/.

Honestly, as someone deeply involved in politics at this point, who burns a lot of time into trying to educate people as to how government works and how to get involved, I believe this website--which is so bad it didn't even include city council of a smaller city as a local result, returning only internal democratic party positions--can only do more harm than good.
Ha! Should we ban coffee?!?
Care to expand what makes MYSQL so bad?
>A few seconds later, I looked back at the family to see how their picture was turning out. They were gone. They didn’t want to see Niagara Falls. They wanted a picture so that they could be seen forever standing in front of Niagara Falls.

This line jumped out to me - because it is how my mother is. She wants a photo for the memory but never pauses for the memory itself. She was confused when I visited a foreign country for the first time and didn't take a single picture. Myself and the author seem to share the same feeling of wanting to experience something, not keep proof of it contained in a photo.

I still take photographs. But I do so to remember how things were. The photos I have of my family are mostly candid shots of them doing some mundane task and the idea of "3-2-1 cheese" is missing entirely. My grandmother bringing a birthday cake to my nephew, a smile on their faces. My sister investigating her sea monkeys with a look of curiosity. Things like that. Because they might not remember the experience - but I'm sure they'll remember being there. The experience, to me, is the important thing to photograph and not the fact they were there.

It's for that reason I find "selfie culture" to be somber. They aren't photographing the experience - they're documenting that "they were there" and they have proof they were because they have a selfie. But they know they were there so what is the selfie for?
It's risky for browsers to do it automatically since it's not something that sites are excepting. Some might be using different certificates on different servers for same domain for example.

It's possible for sites to instruct browsers to do it though, but that's opt-in. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HTTP_Public_Key_P...
Hypothetical pie-in-the-sky thinking (not saying anyone is doing anything this crazy today):

You park your bike and use your phone to "lock it".

Bike locks-in its GPS location. Any attempts to move it will trigger multiple wide-angle/fisheye cameras to start recording and streaming to your phone (also recorded).

Remotely, with your phone, you review the footage. At your command, the bike can call the police to report a theft in progress, and reports its location as quickly as possible in street address/intersection terms.

With another command, built-in loud-speaker also warns passersby that a theft is in progress. The pleasant voice also encourages them to provide additional video coverage of the thief, and (at the user's option) may promise a reward. If the theft is thwarted, then the bike-savoir is can be rewarded (paypal, bitcoin, whatever) by the bike owner, who has seen the whole thing happen on camera, and the bike can use bluetooth/p2p to verify the that the paypal/bitcoin recipient is indeed the person you just saw save your bike.

More fun: at your command, the bike can spray a thick mist of semi-permanent/eventually-washable paint around itself; the exact color shade of the paint spray would always be slightly different in every canister, so one could precisely tie a bike to its thief, if they were perchance apprehended before the getting out of their paint-soiled clothes.

Even more fun: Any/all of these features could also be configured to trigger without any user intervention. For example, if (while locked) the bike detects removal of parts like the seat, wheels, etc., I want it to call the police and emit the paint spray.

At that point, if the bikes were clearly marked as having such technology, and were not super-fancy carbon-fiber bikes but were basic, decent, rideable bikes, then you have what "the club" effect brings to cars -- it becomes obvious that they are not worth the effort, and thieving sticks to non-hardened bikes.

You then get a ratchet-effect, like in a neighborhood with some crime, as soon as one house gets bars on the windows, it won't be long before the whole block does. Get ready for GPS and these kinds of features in every bike. It could be fun, hopefully you can run Linux on these bikes :)
ah, such a typical answer from an "up in there" person.
Been there, done that, including the 15 h days constantly, the fixing everybody's shit at 5 am, you name it. Was the period I was the most insufferable person around. Try getting off them and then we see how good you are. Your attention span will be reduced way below what you used to have before (unless you actually had ADHD before this) and your motivation will ..not exist. Because, while you are on Adderall, everything is so fucking awesome! And you start working on what nobody else wants. You are the king of the world, the saviour, and the only competent person around!
As a result, you will probably fuck up your heart.. good luck trying to get your blood pressure down after that. Did I mention addiction?
But, it's a free world and you are responding to market demands by betting your future as a normal functioning person, in order to gain now, that you are fresh and young , and all that. I can understand that. Hope it pays off.
That's not really Mexico paying for it. Market pressures already keep prices low, therefore this is unlikely to come out of the profit side of the goods. Instead it will be passed along as higher prices to the consumer, or the goods will be sourced elsewhere.
> We can agree to disagree, but the tooling has definitely saved me enough time to be worth it.

What specifically are you referring to (regarding tooling)? Do you mean running it on Azure as a managed service that auto scales, programming tools/frameworks like LINQ, or client side GUI tools?

From an automation perspective not having a decent CLI for MSSQL to facilitate scripting makes it a pain from day one.
It does seem that Trump is creating opportunities, just not here and not in the way he'd like to brag about.
OP mentions MSSQL (Microsoft SQL Server), not MySQL.
You can pretty much trust all the root CAs that provide Certificate Transparency. If such a CA went evil such an event would be detected.
The title for this is horrible, the thing that really needs to be emphasized is the metallic hydrogen. The other story on HN about this...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13495007

...mentions they are going to release the pressure in a few weeks. Anyone know if they have tried to measure the conductivity yet? I assume that would be one of the first things they'd want to do.
That's a valid explanation for how wars could cause the trends in inequality, but without further evidence this is a specious argument. It also doesn't explain regional variations in income inequality. Look at the list of countries by income inequality: there isn't really a correlation between income inequality and "war-iness".

I think wars can increase equality, but they are far from the only cause.
I guess someone will have to take that up with Adam Curtis...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares
Since you control the machine and your yard, you can use cameras mounted to your house for tracking. You don't want smart, you want dumb and predictable. But good luck making something with a rapidly spinning blade safe while unsupervised.

It's probably cheaper to hire a landscape maintenance company, or a neighborhood teenager.
That's an interesting take, that's the first time I've heard of that interpretation. Is that the view of any specific authors?

I feel like Washington is extremely venerated, which makes me a bit suspicious. It's not quite a cult of personality like Stalin but nobody's perfect.

A accounts seem to imply that Washington was a reluctant leader who didn't want to get involved in politics: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-George-Washington-refuse-a-thi...
MSSQL = Microsoft SQL Server : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server

MySQL = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL
No good I'm afraid, gave me:

[SC] OpenService FAILED 5:

Access is denied.

(this is from an administrator command prompt)
If the task requires anything more complex than simple transcoding or encoding, then ffmpeg will require a user to understand DSP to some extent to be used successfully.

Of course this is no fault of ffmpeg, but a lot of frustrated users end up thinking that anyway.
Doesn't that mean that US citizens will actually end up paying for the wall through higher prices on these goods?
If someone sold hardware that came with some guarantee that a major linux distro had 100% support of all the hardware I would definitely consider buying it. I use ThinkPads because their support is pretty good (and I like the physical device) but there is always some trade off when it comes to hardware and the drivers.
It's opt-in by the site, but that's what public key pinning is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Public_Key_Pinning
apollo-server plugs into Koa, so no need to replace Koa.
Here's another HN thread going on at the same time on the same subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13494358

...it currently has more comments, but a worse title.
A nice, I might give that a try, though the

@_silgen_name("foobar") func foobar()

does seem to work just fine for now. Could change in the future of course, though I wonder how likely it is that the calling convention for this kind of Swift function is actually going to change.

Note that the whole purpose of the function is to enter the Swift side from C just once. After that all is good, you can register any kind of convention-C callbacks.

What I'd like to see is the ability to specify `@convention(c)` not just on types, but also on functions and structs. That would be sweet and reduce the requirement for C wrappers even more.
People don't like it when you refer to government instability as "a great bit of creative destruction". It makes it seem like you're indifferent to the notion of a stable civilization, which millions of people rely upon to be able to house, clothe, feed, and support their families.
Analogies are comparisons of two things, usually for clarification. A clock uses comparative based mechanics to keep time. On the other hand, these scientists are claiming their opinion is a "factual" event that can be compared to a "clock". I'm pointing out that someone is using mixed messaging to try to tell the future when the future hasn't happened yet. The last thing we need right now is for a bunch of people who "speak for science" trying to say that it's a fact we're closer to blowing ourselves up. It's a fact we haven't blown ourselves up yet and an opinion that it stays that way.
Stop Checking Email So Often (2015)
Current playback technologies only playback one frame rate. yes you can mix frame rates in an edit, but they will be converted to the master frame rate of the timeline (so that 24fps footage would be converted to playback at 48fps, not it's native frame rate). Sometimes this looks fine, other times this can cause image problems.

And it's only recently that mixing frame rates in the same timeline has worked well. 5-10 yrs ago, we would have to convert the footage, typically using hardware specifically built for conversion (Teranex or Alchemist). Then came along desktop software that could do decent jobs converting. Now, if i'm cutting in Premiere or FCPX, I can just drop the footage in and the software will take care of it, usually without issue (Avid still has problems with non-native frame rates and it's recommended to convert before importing the media).

And it's been this way since playback frame rates were standardized (and automated). Projectors had no way of changing playback speed on the fly depending on what frames were projected. Television was locked into one broadcast frame rate spec (29.97 in N. America, 25 in Europe) and TVs were locked into one of those specs. Tapes and disc playback was typically locked into one in the early days, although DVD eventually allowed for multiple playback options, as does Bluray, but the hardware typically converted them for playback on 29.97 screens (pre-HD). We're still limited to what the screen can playback to some extent, the broadcast specs of 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94 and 60.

With computers and monitors we have the capability to playback multiple frame rates, if the software allows it, and that is where the current issue is. I can playback different frame rate QTs on the same screen, at the same time without issue. But there is no software (that I know of) to create or playback videos consisting of multiple frame rate videos. Game engines might be able to change playback on the fly, but I have zero knowledge of that tech.

And it would be advantageous to have tech that allowed switch on the fly playback. I'm currently consulting on a documentary that uses source footage from at least 3 frame rates (24, 25 and 29.97). And the editor is cutting in Avid, so we have to convert before import, which slows down the creative process and adds complications to the finishing process.
People who are interested in reading a modern take on the sort of society in which Psychomachia could have been read could do worse than read 'Hild' [0] by Nicola Griffith. Hild is a fictionalized account of the early life of the woman who became Hilda of Whitby, the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby. It is a historical drama, but written by a science fiction author who uses her world-building skills to create a story of first-contact between the court of a pagan king and the alien priests of Rome, told from the perspective of a kick-ass ninja seer (Hild) who just happens to be the King's niece. Hild could easily have been a character in Psychomachia

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hild_(novel)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_of_Whitby
Reply link does not appear straight away. In the time it took for you to read comments and click the specific link, enough time had passed so that the reply link was available
It's unclear to me how this doesn't functionally mean "Trump plans 20% VAT to pay for border wall". Why would Mexican manufacturers _not_ pass the tax on to consumers unless there's a competing product from another country?
The whole series:

https://honeycomb.io/blog/categories/instrumentation/
In the meantime I suggest you warn trial users about this. I had to manually remove it from 40 repositories.
More details?
Scrape any web page with a single mouse click …
I suspect it depends on the kind of capitalist you are dealing with, industrial or financial.

Because while it seems financial capitalists thrive on instability, because this allows them to extract arbitrage, industrial capitalists are more likely to have their supply lines and similar disrupted.
Yes sure, I wasn't trying to say that going full bash is a bad thing. I was merely presenting an alternative.
Is this as sinister as it sounds or is this the equivalent of appealing your case in a regular court?
Yes, but sales and marketing has a positive ROI. If you spend $100M on sales and marketing, you'll get $150M back (for example). Otherwise, why would you do it?

So if pharma companies cut out all of their sales and marketing, they'd have even less revenue than they do today. And that would lower R&D spend.
I got stuck on this one too. Strangely "find . -delete" worked fine. I'm getting Internal Server Error" now, so perhaps a victim of it's own popularity?
Thanks for this. I had no idea that young cells were better, even if that may seem obvious. I had to dig, but the price is $7000 for the procedure and lifetime storage or $3500 and then $250 per year for storage. Maybe competition in this could reduce the storage costs.
I had a laugh at that. Apparently binding arbitration is binding only when the company wins.
For one thing, the X-37 Wikipedia page states that a design goal was 3.1 KM/s Delta-V. That's about as official a number as I'm finding online (blah blah Wikipedia source), but there are quite a few people who track these things in the sky. Each orbital inclination or altitude change requires a minimum delta V to execute, and we can observe the results of these maneuvers here on Earth. Online arguments about the X-37 delta-V are inconclusive, we'll leave it at that!
I don't trust Google.
Donald Trump wants to fund southern border wall with 20% tax on Mexican imports
Why aren't new certificates for the same domain signed by the old (perhaps expired) certificate (recursively) in addition to the whole CA model?

This proves that whoever has the new cert used to have the old cert. A browser would save a copy of a certificate the first time it visits a site, then when it visits again later it could request the chain of certs back to the first one it ever encountered. Past certs verify new certs; this check wouldn't even involve a CA.

This basically overlays trust-on-first-use security model on top of the CA security model and would make it much more difficult to perform a MITM on sites that the user regularly visits (which are probably the most valuable targets).
Agreed - I guess what I'm trying to say is if you have a boss who doesn't understand the technicalities and won't understand them, this kind of manager is the best-case scenario. Certainly there are worse managers, but there are fundamental limitations preventing them from becoming better.
Airbus has its own airline–sort of…
> Many of those 'terrorist nations' have ample natural resources, in the way of Oil - and would be prosperous, glorious civilizations were it not for their totalitarian means, and total lack of intelligent social organization.

And a worrying number of them turned out that way thanks to outside meddling in internal affairs...
Its actually quite a recognised phenomenon, its just not talked about very often. Not sure why.

http://ideas.time.com/2012/10/04/womens-inhumanity-to-women/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-robert-lusson/womens-bias-a...
Strong evidence? No. But the authors do not claim it as strong evidence. From near the end:

Dr. Lieb said that there are two caveats to the results. One is that they must be replicated by additional studies before it would be possible to say with some degree of certainty that the drugs enhance performance.

The second was that the study contained a flaw: the games were too quick, creating the problem of time-forfeits in some games. Additional studies would need to have the subjects play longer games.

The author's explanation is also not quite "their brains got better":

The study’s conclusion addressed the additional thinking time as a critical component of the effect of the stimulants. The authors wrote, “This suggests that neuroenhancers do not enhance the quality of thinking and decision-making per time unit but improve the players’ ability or willingness to spend more time on a decision and hence to perform more thorough calculations.”

Your explanation would, however, make an interesting control. If people can't effectively will themselves to spend more time, and further studies are able to repeat the effect when there is no time limit, then that would be stronger evidence.
On the Fence with Dependencies
This is not in fact all that unusual at all.
Probably not (many), but I'd wager a thing like this is largely aimed at current non-Linux users anyway.

Alternately, Linux by default could be seen as a sign that hardware is reasonably well supported, so rolling one's own may be less effort than otherwise.
Yes, I understand that the conversion is in some ways more difficult because there's a larger legacy code base. However, the conversion has already been extended 5 years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7581434

A decade long conversion is fine if that is what the community wants. There are certain drawbacks to this.

I simply like the aggressiveness that Apple has taken. The community can put "all its wood behind one arrow".
SSMS is pretty great, especially for digging into query plans and deadlock graphs. Same for SQL Server Profiler.

We use Database projects in Visual Studio, so all our schema, stored procedures, and other scripts are in version control. We can compile them (additional validation) into dacpac packages, and script updates and deployment to local instances and Azure with sqlpackage and sqlcmd.
If anything it would shine light on how our laws are for the most part unreasonably strict and don't reflect reality. Like speeding laws (autodriving cars are programmed to break them) or drug laws in some states.

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...
I have an XPS13 1080p 9350. The keyboard actually works fine but it is the only weakness of the laptop in my opinion. I don't have any keys that cause problems but the quality of the arrow keys on that laptop is really bad - one reason why I switched to vim keybindings by taking advantage of the TAB key. In terms of keytravel Lenovo laptops and Macbooks <2016 are much better.
At my local startup accelerator I find that AMZN has contacted many other devs in my area. I talked to the hiring manager, they are a nice bunch of folks working on a revolutionary problem but, alas, I am not moving to Seattle either.
It's easy. The UK can say "no" to paying for certain drugs. They take some political flak for it, but overall they've been able to keep spending down.

Even mention not paying for something in the US and holy hell happens. Even Medicare and Medicaid can't say no for the most part.

If American's want cheaper healthcare they are going to have to get used to having less of it and not get all the fancy new technology right away.
>That's not what he did or said,

He had repeatedly called for an ethnic cleansing of America. And now his buddy, Steve bannon is in the white house. The state has a monopoly on violence, and they aren't on our side
The search already returns results for offices which you may be eligible for, not which you are eligible for.

For example, my results include my state's Attorney General office, despite there being a requirement that candidates be admitted to the state's bar for 5 years prior to running for office. The vast majority of searchers will not be eligible for that office. It seems reasonable that anyone living in a zip code within a geofence around a university could have those student government positions returned, but with eligibility requirements clearly stated.

In general, the eligibility requirements also need to be more clear. In my example, the bar requirement is real but wasn't listed on the site.
Sorry, can you clarify? Adding the template argument causes a crash on idone, but I have no idea why that happens. Moreover, the output on my computer is always b\n.

EDIT: Not sure if this is it, but after some digging I've found [0] on lifetimes of temporaries. As for the lacking template argument, presumably const char* is inferred and a temporary string is constructed in main?

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/a/2784304