skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literal numbers that are unproportionally skewed by two overpowered population centers. It isn't just about proportionally capturing the interest of the individual voter. That individual voter in each state represents a sum total of different interests than a individual voter in another region of the States.

California and New York have different exports and interests than say, Wisconsin.

You would feel quite different about granting power to overpopulated areas if they were conservative rednecks, wouldn't you? Of course you would.
I'll underline the "need plenty of sunshine".

We've planted tomatoes for 16 years (hope springs eternal) in the SF Peninsula hills and gotten nearly nothing in return. Our next-door neighbor has far better sun exposure, and she gives us most of the tomatoes we eat in summer.
Like any profession, one reason for the existence of legal terminology is that it needs to convey things precisely in a way that is not generally necessary outside the discipline. Outsides do not readily understand it because they may not have the legal frame of reference that requires certain nuanced distinctions.

It also has grown organically over a long period of time. U.S. law is a mix of a variety of legal traditions, plus historic precedent within the U.S.

Most U.S. states have legal systems that are largely rooted in English Common Law, except for Louisiana which has its roots in French legal traditions. However, it isn't as simple as that.

For example, water rights and laws in California contain competing premises, one of which is from English Common Law and one of which is not. One of these premises is "First come, first served." The other is that you aren't supposed to take so much water from the river such that you completely deprive people downstream of its use. These are both part of the law in California and they are in direct competition. California alone has a very rich history in development of water rights and laws.

From what I have read, countries that lack the sophisticated legal system such as that we enjoy in the U.S. typically have far bigger problems than what we face here with trying to parse the law.
I'm the lead developer on a startup and all of our backend code is .net core (the frontend is still 4.5)!

I love it.

Feel free to PM for more info.
If there's miscommunication due to semantics that's preventing people from reaching understanding on an important issue, the semantics are indeed important. There has to be some area of common understanding to make that happen, which includes agreed-upon semantics.
Considering Uber's financials, it's a good question who risks to get out of business faster.
It's Official: Volkswagen Is World's Largest Automaker in 2016. Or Maybe Toyota
That's what I was wondering. They're probably lying their asses off about "no fault" to cover themselves.
CircleCI uses it - it's great. The upsides are:

- the great concurrency model

- the REPL

- being able to edit with Paredit,

- it's a great language

- It's also amazing for hiring devs: there is a niche pool of devs who want to use clojure, and it's easy to hire them since demand for them is low. (Vs the thousands of Rails companies who are competing for a much larger pool)

- being able to use clojurescript, in particular using Om (we use a pattern which is similar to the Elm Architecture, and it's great for writing frontends with).

The downsides are:
- mostly related to Java. Startup time is shitty (which is why you use the REPL a lot).

- Libraries are often unmaintained (though often it doesn't matter, since they are typically very composable and don't need changing).

- The web framework story is poor too - it's not nearly as advanced as the rails and nodejs worlds - you have to compose different libraries which is sometimes good and sometimes bad.

- Finally, Rails encourages good web-app best practices: you can only really scale Rails horizontally, so you start with queues and horizontal scaling and workers. With Clojure, it's tempting to run things in threads and pools since it's so easy to do. But it scales poorly, and leads to concurrency bugs you wouldn't get in the Rails world.
It's really hard to tell because Uber's released data is kind of sketchy [1] and there isn't good aggregate data for the taxi market. You can look at individual stories like [2], though. Anecdotally, if you want to do it full-time, taxis used to pay significantly more, mostly due to tips, lower maintenance costs, and more efficient rides. Competition from Uber and Lyft have depressed taxi income recently, though, so it's no longer clear which is objectively better.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/22/uber-drivers-pay-st...
[2] https://skift.com/2015/08/03/taxis-vs-uber-in-nyc-according-...
I didn't realize how much of the sets in Game of Thrones are done on computer until I watched a making-of for one of the seasons. Even knowing, I can't tell when watching.
Trump fires acting attorney general
I hate to say this but I warned you guys not to put that monolith in the chimp cage!
The problem is that at one point, when you reach a certain size, no matter the intentions you will end up affecting other people negatively.

Googles don't be evil is a good example of the problems with good intentions.

And so while I think it's fair to want the responsible people to be punished it's not as simple as it sound.
Ask HN: Any hacks for a program that would autodial Paul Ryan's office tonight?
Got this from a friend:

*
Ryan’s office is conducting a phone poll, hoping to hear overwhelming opposition to the Affordable Care Act. Here’s how you can participate:
Call 202-225-3500. After you dial, there will be a silence for almost two minutes. DO NOT HANG UP. You will think you are holding for nothing, but not so. A message will come on.
There’s a menu of several choices. (You will think you called the wrong number. You didn't.)
Press 2 and you’ll hear a recording about the bill to repeal it. HANG ON!!! You will hear a long, rambling message about the bill. But it will tell you that if you support the ACA to press 1.
Then Press 1 when prompted to support continuing the Affordable Healthcare Act (if you support it). THE HOUSE VOTES ON THIS TOMORROW, SO PLEASE CALL, CALL, CALL TONIGHT AND TOMORROW MORNING! THANK YOU!

*

Anyone have crafty ideas for how to automate this?
Physically exhausting yourself doesn't actually take too much time -- do intervals at max exertion. If you take 'max' literally, you'll be exhausted after 10 minutes.
Accountability, credibility, and a sense of duty to the greater good must be part of what defines a society. When those are intact, individuals take responsibility and accept consequences. When they are too far eroded, there is no way to force or coerce society back to integrity except perhaps through a concerted effort over many generations.
What amazes me from this Washington Post article is prices were still rising in a steep incline many years past Ubers launch in 2009. You would think 4 years later it was clear for enough people where the market was going, yet medallions doubled in price during this period (almost tripled by 2015).
I tried these once, seemed just as tasteless as any other tomato out of season.
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Phone surveys are spam, as far as I'm concerned.

And since they hang up when reaching my machine - definitely spam.
Sorry I was not aware that it violates guidelines
Look what I just saw in Nottingham City Centre wait for it
Yes, but you distract from the main issue; religious persecution is one of many criteria for asylum. Now it is the only criterion for a waiver grant.

Furthermore, it is not clear that the Sunni/Shia split meets the standard defined in this document (though I agree that it absolutely should).

No other reason for persecution is stated. Text:

(b) Upon the resumption of USRAP admissions, the Secretary of
State, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security,
is further directed to make changes, to the extent permitted by
law, to prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the
basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion
of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's
country of nationality. Where necessary and appropriate, the
Secretaries of State and Homeland Security shall recommend
legislation to the President that would assist with such
prioritization.
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I've dabbled in meditation, and I should certainly keep up with it because I noticed benefits as well, I just lack the self discipline. But your situation of "I'm too busy to meditate" reminds me of the old Zen quote that goes something like:
"You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour."
I wish I could just reset it and go to sleep earlier like that. I'll either just lay in bed wide awake or fall asleep for an hour or two and then not be able to sleep again for the next several hours.

Sometimes my clock gets so out of phase that I'll fall a sleep at around 10AM and sleep until 19PM or so. It's pretty tough to go back to regular schedule after that, heh.
Awesome! Glad they stuck to their word and added platform agnosticism. Excited to give it a try.
It's not the manufacturers' decision. In California, you can demand a new car replacement under warranty if, after a number of attempts, the manufacturer can't fix it successfully.[1] Most states have "lemon laws". Here are California's rules:

In California, a vehicle is presumed to be a “lemon" if, within 18 months of the vehicle's delivery to the buyer (or 18,000 miles on the odometer):

- 2 attempts or more have been made by the manufacturer to repair a warranty problem that could result in death or serious injury.

- The manufacturer has attempted to repair the same warranty problem at least 4 times.

- The car has been out of service for 30 days or more for repair to warranty problems.

- Problems to the vehicle are not the result of abuse by the owner.

You don't hear about this much any more because most manufacturers don't deliver many lemons.

[1] http://www.dca.ca.gov/acp/pdf_files/englemn.pdf
Reminds me of The Thirteenth Floor.
Another way to look at this: people have endured enough absurd protectionist media circus shows from US auto makers to no longer believe or care. Cry wolf scenario, in other words.
If they went to an airport and weren't organized with shirts/etc. (which given short notice would be extremely unlikely), they would just look like a group of protestors. Doing it on the Google campus, they look like Googlers - which I think is the intent.
I beg to differ. Life is most definitely a game. It has rules and winning depends on numerous factors such as information, skill, strength, luck, connections, etc. I would argue that all other games which have been created are based on a subset of the rules of the first game: Life.

Every single rule can be broken, it just depends on if/when you get caught. You're still a cheater but as long as you can pay your way out of any hole you've found yourself in by the time you've gotten caught it's perfectly ok. Traditional morals notwithstanding, e.g. Lance Armstrong or any of the above.
North Carolina requires test takers disable MacBook Pro Touch Bar for bar exam
Here's the right calling for a boycott of Starbucks because they had the gall to say they would hire refugees:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/01/30/starb...

Here's the right calling for a boycott of GrubHub, Pepsi, Oreos, and Netflix over slights to Trump:
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-pepsi-grubhub-boycotts-ca810...

These are five examples since November. There are thousands. Both sides are equally childish.
Literal numbers that would probably be very different had they been meaningful.
In what way? It didn't contradict the 1977 version in any way (that I'm aware of). It's been nearly 20 years since I've seen the 1997 version (we watch the 1993 version at home). Had you never seen the special editions, rogue one would not appear out of place.
If I understand it right this is the first time an AG has been relieved for purely political reasons. If the AG doesn't think it's likely they'll win a defense, that usually doesn't cause an issue.

As an edit: it probably wouldn't have been reasonable for her to put up an intentionally weak case, but if the order isn't able to stand up in court, then what?

The major worry for me is Trump's seeking to punish anyone who shows disloyalty. If Trump thinks he can have something done, I worry he'll demand people below him do so, or replace them with someone properly spineless.
TW5 NodeJS version is far more flexible than the single file version. You get to write your notes in plaint text files and categorize them with tags, concatenate them om or export them to whatever you wish to.
Bit permutations
I don't have the reference at hand, but I read a paper a few months ago that explained this. You prefer flavors you grew up with. Flavors change, so as you get older, you think flavors get worse. Except they don't, the double blind testing showed age cohort related preference clustering, but no proof for 'everything was better in the old days'. This study was for strawberries but I don't see why it would be different.
Seems like you never read the full Trump quote on Mexicans, because that is precisely what he doesn't say. Usually when the clip is shown on television they edit it to make it seem that way though.
It was basically a CRUD API as a service; simple object storage and retrieval via HTTP, with goodies like validation and nested routes (joins) and such built in.
Yep, and this TC article uses the original Bloomberg article as a source. I don't think there's any new information in this one.
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>Solution: Guillotine for corporate crime.

TBH, HN's BFF Elon Musk thinks regulators were too hard on VW: http://www.takepart.com/open-letter-to-california-air-resour...

But yeah by this logic, Winterkorn was worse than Hitler. Went way more wholesale on the gassing.
His base will love this
No matter how wrong you may feel another member may be, please refrain from name calling.
I sold a near perfect used Lincoln only to get an angry call from the buyer a day later claiming I sold him a lemon. After he calmed down he told me he had gone to the dealership to have the spark plugs changed. The dealership caused this problem.

Given how easy it is to properly gap a spark plug, I can't help but think this is a scam when it is overlooked. But the scam only works if you don't get the gap too far out of spec. The victim should come back a month later, not a day later.
> I suspect there is either a misunderstanding, or we don't have the whole story.

I suspect it's the law directly referred to in the article: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/560.204
I have seen unionized employees walking out against the management and owners. Employees walking out with owners, interesting.
It was, more specifically, the online equivalent of a face book [0]. Which implies an answer to why name a product after printed media when it is not for print -- because it serves as an online equivalent or replacement.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book
Yeah we are using a .net project on Azure...I'm not sure about what the original question is meant to get at.

I just view .net as the staple of commoditized programming language. Go to Asia, Europe, they are always there. The "Java" of Microsoft and it's powering lot of stuff out there.
The kick in the balls to Trump was real. I was so happy to read Sally Yates' thoughts on his immigration ban. Obviously, her days were numbers, so she had nothing to lose. Might as well go out like she did in an honorable fashion. :)

Edit: fixed pronoun
I've found that fairly ineffective with my condition (delayed sleep phase disorder). There's not much improvement at all when I'm working out regularly after work / on weekends to when I'm only doing it occasionally.

But then again, I'm fairly active at work (have to go up and down stairs between my office and the lab dozens of times a day, standing lab work, walking out to the warehouse to get parts, etc. which actually adds up to quite a lot, even if it's not very strenuous) so maybe if I just sat at a desk all day it would be a lot worse.
Holy Shit your response doesn't offer anything witty or intelligent to our discussion.

With these sorts of responses, I usually don't even respond, so you should feel lucky.

To be blunt, people like you are why Trump was elected and will most likely be elected again in 4.

Cheers! :-D
Skodas are quite popular in India
Off-topic
Have you been to a baseball game lately? Ads are everywhere.

Anyway, when I can, I watch baseball on the MLB streaming service where there are very few ads. Usually, they just blank out the screen during the commercial time which is almost as annoying.
His opposition will love this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
Try Mechanical Turk.
Dude, I'm in bed right now (9:30pm). After I'm done typing this out I'll read my book for a bit and go to sleep. I'll prob get up around 6am with 7.5 - 8 hours of sleep, work out, and be at my desk by 9.

I bootstrapped my business and I work 8-10 hour days. I wasn't always this way. Getting on a healthy sleep and exercise schedule is the best thing I've ever done.

The hardest part is, right, rejecting the SV mantra that you need to work every waking hour and drink Soylent if you wanna be successful.

As they say, it's a marathon.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by Google abandoning JWT?
He's a she.
I think the problem is with the word "rebuilt". I would take that to mean take the car apart, and put it back together with maybe a couple new parts. Given that Tesla thinks there's nothing wrong with that car, despite there clearly being something wrong with it, taking it apart and putting it back together again and hoping it works is kind of insane. (although it might work if the problem is say a loose or poorly aligned pin in a wiring harness)

I believe the author meant that Tesla would build a new one to the original specifications. This is probably reasonable, the majority of Teslas probably don't have terrible problems or we'd hear more about them, so throw the old one in the river and get a new one isn't a bad idea.
Have I ever had a strong disagreement with my boss? Always. Every day. But did my boss fire me? No. But should my boss considered to fire me? Probably. Normally you don't fire someone from your cabinet even if you are just an acting member. You make the person to resign.

I don't know the full story, but this goes to show Trump is truly an unique president. He doesn't care what people think of him. He's running the White House like a real business. Disclaimer, I like the idea of running government like it's a business (think Singapore, salary is on par with industry standard and subjected to yearly review). But I strongly disapprove Trump's ruthless dictatorship. He just doesn't understand that his business decision impacts nationwide. You need to actually think through before making any decisions or giving any public comments. Even Joe Biden learned to shut up (although he did make some dangerous comments in the past). It's okay to have a strong opinion (some people don't like compromise), but use reason and earn people's trust. He makes up stories and excuses, with little to no real proof for many of his past and current commentaries. No one really trust him except the people who voted him into the office. His cabinet members - trust me, none of them really trust him. I know that from my gut. I know my 9-month old niece can tell that as well. His mind is juggling and wandering all around the space. He's intellectually challenged, despite being a ruthless and tricky business man. He went broke but made so much from bankruptcy. I will give him the credit of being a smart asshole and a good salesman, but other than that, he's a terrible leader.

Trust me, he would be the best Secretary of State of U.S. to the Martians, because he speaks nonsense.
We plan on moving to it sometime this year, from "old" dotnet. The timings is unclear because it depends on a few factors both on our side and from Microsoft/the community. For example we are on trend of using Entity Framework less in favor of dapper, so when the bits we are still using are fully supported by entity framework core that block will be cleared. Other big dependencies like a posgresql driver are already ready to go IMO. Tooling still isn't 100% ready in visual studio 2017 with web deployment being a key problem.

My advice would be to only use it now if you are starting from scratch and you have no business goals in the next 6 months (you are building an MVP and can take the hit of some random bugs in production). I know that at least one startup is using it for critical services, but they are also committed to fixing the dotnet core source code when they run into a problem and I believe are part of the reason for the good pref of kestrel (new web server), I think unless you are willing to do that you should wait a bit longer.

https://www.ageofascent.com/category/asp-net-core/
Not nearly as deep as everyone else, but I read all the Tom Swift books. And the Robotech books. These opened my imagination and made me think of the possibilities.
Completely agreed. I'm not sure what the solution is. I like the idea of Tesla owning their own service because they can more directly control the quality but that only works if they actually want to provide good service.
If I understand the American system correctly, this is indeed something that Trump has mandate to do. However.

I wonder whether I will ever stop to be surprised and horrified over the development in the US.
Boente is the replacement. Yates was the AG who was fired.
> This is the logical conclusion when you allow corporations to be 'people'

I like how people almost never understand what they're talking about when they complain about corporate personhood. How, exactly, do you think corporate personhood is responsible for the mentioned instances of "cheating"?

Here's why corporate personhood was created; to create a legal framework under which corporations could be more effectively sued. Corporations don't actually get the same rights as individuals; they can't vote, they don't get 5th amendment rights, etc. Corporate personhood is, in most respects, quite anti-corporate (in the sense that it makes it easier to attack corporations in court).

But of course, to people who never bother to read beyond the headline, it sounds like it gives corporations the same rights as people, so of course it must be some sort of evil robber baron thing!
All that acceleration is enabled by it violating the environmental laws of every western country.
She's an interim AG, holdover from the prior administration. Wasn't going to be there long regardless.
Not really.
The cost of skilled labor is related to the amount of experience and training required to be able to perform that labor as well as the supply/demand for that labor.
Unless all these software engineers pulling down $200/hr consulting are lying?
A license shouldn't be sold. I cannot sell my driving license. A license should be acquired through a standardized test and a reasonable amount of people should be able to pass the test each year. The current medallion system which works in a majority of western countries is just corruption.

People would take the taxi way more if it was cheaper, thus buying less cars and polluting less. This is especially true in Paris where a ride to the airport is 70€ ! unbelievable (Uber is 50€).