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Between 2008 and now, the Republican party was taken over by its most extreme members. Many things that would have been solidly advocated by Republicans then are now out of the question.

Just compare the 2008 Republican Party platform [1] to where they stand today. A couple things that illustrate just how different the 2008 GOP was compared to today.

On climate change:

> Because Republicans believe that solutions to the risk of global climate change will be found in the ingenuity of the American people, we propose a Climate Prize for scientists who solve the challenges of climate change. Honoraria of many millions of dollars would be a small price for technological developments that eliminate our need for gas-powered cars or abate atmospheric carbon.

There are several other mentions of climate change in the 2008 platform. To the extent that dealing with climate change and economic growth are at odds, they wanted a balance close to growth than Democrats did (and do), but they knew that climate change did have to be dealt with.

On renewable energy:

> Alternate power sources must enter the mainstream. The technology behind solar energy has improved significantly in recent years, and the commercial development of wind power promises major benefits both in costs and in environmental protection. Republicans support these and other alternative energy sources, including geothermal and hydropower, and anticipate technological developments that will increase their economic viability. We therefore advocate a long-term energy tax credit equally applicable to all renewable power sources.

If you want to get banned from /r/republican, just wait until the next time cap and trade comes up, and someone says that it is a socialist liberal democrat commie approach, and point out that Ronald Reagan used it for the phaseout of leaded gasoline, and the first Bush used it for reducing the emissions responsible for acid rain, with overwhelming support from Republicans in Congress...and you will likely get banned from that subreddit for advocating anti-republican positions. Yup...RONALD REAGAN is anti-republican in today's GOP. (Well, his policies are...they never miss a chance to praise him or claim to be like him).

[1] http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=78545
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That was a service outage which is a far, far cry from a data loss.
I'm with you, Trello was super slow for some larger projects that I used it with. I posted this in my own comment, but it makes sense here, too [1]. Not sure if the performance problems were related to the backend stack, though. My impression is that the api was just written really inefficiently.

[1]: https://blog.fogcreek.com/we-spent-a-week-making-trello-boar...
My competitors are well known email providers like mailgun and mailchimp as well as a free service. I just ignored that and build a very specific service (which is just a small part of mailguns offering) for a conpetitive price. I also choose to host in switzerland and provide the best possible data privacy. So far it works well.

IMO you just need to be more focused or better in any way
If you're willing to have some sites break a bit at first then improve for ones you visit regularly, uMatrix in Firefox is excellent. Many items are disabled by default, but for sites you visit regularly you simply save the rule tweaks you've made for future use.
That's only because we don't have any yet, not because we're afraid of GCP. When they launch they will be on our platform, same as all our other TLDs.
While possible, that is beyond rare. Please don't spread FUD.
Well, technically they rate it as "mixture".
Unless you are a complete slob, you will clean your work area when you are done for the day, right?

In my experience grinding and polishing samples for petrography, Because the grit etc was once wet, it gets caked-on to everything once it dries. So caked-on that it can be hard to clean everything once it is dry, and if you want to remove it you have to wet it all again. Unless you are stirring up the air with a fan, or trying to remove caked-on grit with compressed air, I do not expect much dust will get airborne. So, clean up whilst it is still wet, and there will be no problems.
Never used a concurrent dictionary or an IDictionary trying to be sanely efficient using TryGetValue instead of ContainsKey followed by a call to the accessor?
I can't really believe that you started using c# from the day one and you never encountered an hot code path with a TryGetValue.
Of course it gets much worse when you have millions of objects, but even with hundred of thousands it is kind of noticeable.
Unless you don't care about caching at all, but that is a complete different kind of dragons'lair...
> GINA already had an exception for wellness programs, this bill appears to just change the incentives allowed.

Completely reversing the meaning of the word 'voluntary'.

Yes, the title is clickbait but the situation is a bit more serious than you make it seem.
This is a bit of an exaggeration. Bitcoin only lost the last two weeks of gains, but is still over $1100.
Yes, I think you're right, actually. I doubt the C/C++ pre-processor is Turing-complete, though.
This case pisses me off. Truly. Not because of what the FBI did, but because of all these articles coming out, from the doctor's home town, that leave out a ton of detail. Then a bunch of people in the comments defending someone who had naked pictures of underage girls and works in a position of power. He's trying to get off on a technicality.

How could we possibly know?

>Mark Rettenmaier, a gynecologic oncologist on staff at Hoag Hospital, had the pornography on three portable hard drives, a laptop and his iPhone, according to a federal grand jury indictment filed in November.

1. http://www.latimes.com/tn-dpt-me-1224-doctor-update-20141222...
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> I'm not sure how one would would even go about independent testing, now or ever.

That's a bit short sighted isn't it? Certainly the companies themselves have internal testing in order to help them judge, for example, whether some sensor data is useful or not.

I disagree strongly that the only valid test comes from consumer-driving. Plenty of things on the market go through trials before being sold to the public, be it toys, drugs or cars.

I'm not calling for regulated testing by the government. Just something cool that can get more people, even the companies themselves, excited about self driving vehicles.

George Hotz could do it. He knows the tech and has the popularity to get people's attention. Or, Chris Urmson, any others who previously participated in DARPA, or any existing SDC company.
Wait, wait, can we get psychological evaluations covered first?
Sorry, not meant to be an Amazon shill, just pointing out that eBook readers are getting better. I thought it was on topic for an article about reading books on paper compared to screens -- not all screens are created equal. The Kindle doesn't have quiet the contrast of paper, but other than that, the print quality is comparable.
Only if you think insurance shouldn't optimize for cost (this obviously includes age and pre-existing conditions). Either insurance should be optimized for cost, or insurance should be outlawed.
Because the service is cheap, comes with a ton of storage and is convenient. Few average people care about their privacy online.
Firefox can be configured to use N number of content processes, and will allocate tabs among these processes. In FirefoxOS we were giving a new process to each tab/app, using a pre-allocated process to speed up startup (a version of that has been re-implemented for Firefox).

I'm not sure about the exact heuristics used by Chrome, but I think they do something like one process per origin.
Given that you can't scroll past a video without it playing, it's got to be a mix
It looks like it is going to unravel, but the trajectory between 2000 and 2015 was that US insurance companies had to consider less and less information when pricing policies.

I think it is hard to extrapolate that into a guaranteed bleak future.
It's a typical white LED, probably on the bluish end of the spectrum, but I don't know the color temperature. My problem is more staying awake to read the next chapter than being able to fall asleep, and that doesn't matter whether I'm reading on the kindle, a tablet, or a paper book. I tend to fall asleep (and wake up) around the same time every night regardless of whether I read beforehand or not.
It does not. They are experimenting with different models and will probably use 4 processes for all tabs.
What is the basis for a $10M investment implying a $1B expectation?
I've never had a language click with me the way ruby has, I use it for basically any task that isn't low level. I have never liked python at all despite them being quite similar. Do whatever makes you happiest and most productive.
That's all regular Quanta gear. No idea if it was owned by FB or another OCP adopter. OCP is popular with mineral companies.
The authorities aren't allowed to get the information from your attorney, that has nothing at all to do with asking you to give that information yourself.
I don't know what this is supposed to do or how it's useful but it flickers like crazy on my iPhone6+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6owWcbPEcbA

It said iOS/Android so I checked it from iOS. The headline on HN says "Color Picker" but there are 16 million colors, what's special about these 105 colors? How do I pick other colors? There's no readme or about or what's this. What's the point? Do I give it a list of colors to show a user? Are these 105 colors special?
We have an internal one that we keep private mainly because it changes so often it would be more frustrating than useful to users.

We should still do a better job of making issues for all major work items and probably publishing some sort of high level list of desired features for 1.0.
I found the screen to be much clearer than my previous reader, I can't see the pixels at all. But the biggest improvement is in the button to change pages.

The original kindle had buttons too, but I didn't own one and only used it a couple times.
> Personally, I think we focus too much on the role of competition in history and discount the role of cooperation

Okay, well, you're the one who believes money was created to pay armies.

I'd argue that the notion of exchange of some goods for different goods precedes that and has a lot more to do with cooperation. A promissory note is just a natural evolution of exchanging goods. It's my signature saying, yes I owe you x bananas because you gave me y tomatoes. Doesn't matter if it comes from a state or individual. Same concept.
I'm not super concerned at this point about which automaker has the best self driving technology, because we don't yet have an automaker with good enough self driving technology, it's all still a work in progress.

The first implementations of fully autonomous vehicles won't be sold to private consumers, they'll be fleet vehicles serving robotaxi networks, they'll be geofenced, and they'll require a fair bit of troubleshooting and maintenance.

Should we have a competition to see who offers the best robotaxi service? We will, and it will play out in the real world.
The Indian Rupee ha lost ~40% of its value after 2011.
Not sure I understand either. At the top of the pricing page, "pro" is advertised at "$6.90/month" however at the bottom of that page they state:

"We do not offer subscriptions as most of our users do use Calligraphr.com as a one-off activity and we don't want to charge you just because you have forgotten to cancel our subscription."
And best of all, they're all zero-calorie!
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>Waymo said in its initial lawsuit that it was inadvertently copied on an email from a supplier with blueprints of Uber’s circuit board design for its lidar technology
cool! What is the name of your service? Btw how did you manage not get marked as spam or blacklisted? because I read new email providers have so many hurdles .They often get marked as spam.
This software doesn't split up the grid for you, but rather requires each letter be input completely separately:

https://github.com/aizenbit/Scribbler/wiki/User-manual
Democrats opened the door to your employer checking on your "wellness".

"Are you going to the gym? Did you sneak a cigarette in on Friday night? Did you have a chili dog or a salad for lunch)? Oh you won't tell us? Don't worry you don't have to. Okay we'll just slap a surcharge on your health insurance!"
Less information -> more fairness. The bleak future isn't there when it does not affect you but for people with pre-existing conditions (and that's a fair number) it just got a little bleaker. (Because having some life-long health issue is already bleak enough by my reckoning and such people should be aided rather than hindered in having an otherwise as normal life as possible. It's a lottery, no point in penalizing the losers even further.)
WTF?

Should law enforcement not be obligated to follow the law when they're hunting down people we don't like?
Ha, not at all! I'm pointing out that there are caveats and potential feedback effects. Has any state cited the 10th?
Oh it's voluntary. You can choose to pay more if you value your privacy! See we gave people a choice!
> But in the third, it doesn't, it can't, and the reals are countable

Isn't that a bit of an overreach? It seems that in Constructivism, Cantor's diagonalization doesn't work as a proof. But that doesn't mean that the reals are countable, just that this proof isn't valid.
> The justice system is screwed up, no doubt, but is this really a problem with the justice system?

> We as people just need to stop judging people based on assertion and innuendo.

Yes, but.

Public arrest is a crucial freedom (secret arrests are a tool of totalitarian governments everywhere, including the British colonial government and, yes, Guantanamo too).

On the other hand the "perp walk" and other pretrial publicity/propaganda by governments seriously affect the accused's ability to get a fair trial, and should be stopped.
I absolutely love how the left becomes a fan of states rights on immigration, but pretends it isn't a challenge to Roe v Wade.
The answer is that you gain velocity by shooting rocket fuel out the back. The energy that the fuel loses is proportional to the the square of the speed of the rocket as well, so everything works out fine. The mass of the rocket fuel is small, but it's not negligible, especially considering that kinetic energy is far more concerned with velocity than with mass.
The logic embedded in Supertasks and the Banach-Tarski Paradox has always seemed strange. It's not flawed, but it's so counterintuitive that it can seem like evidence that something in the logic of infinities must be wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffUnNaQTfZE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA
The law is in place to protect people when the government breaks the law. Its their own fault if the case falls apart because of that as it should be
I think by "S3-like API", OP likely meant an actual S3-compatible API such as that provided by other competitors (off the top of my head, Google Cloud Storage).
The basis for making genetic info fair game started under Obama under the guise of wellness information. If you're going to blame someone start with him.
The naming conventions seem like a way more fun variant of US Intelligence Community naming conventions. But even there there's some scheme for terms that reveal a little about its classification and originating agency unintentionally.
As a small business advertiser: Facebook is awesome. Nowhere else can you get $400 of sales for $10 in ads. That's a 40x ROI.
I had to wait 7 days to get on my Suboxone treatment. My parents got me codeine and valium from our GP to help me until that point, which amazed me at the time. 7 days is pretty short at least, and it saved my life. Other countries have months long waiting lists.
These projects are neat.

What I really want is a custom font of my handwriting that wiggles each character just a little bit, to better simulate my own handwriting.

I've poked at this problem a few times. I couldn't figure out how to encode the variations in the font.

Ages ago, there was an AutoCAD plot driver (from Autodesk dealer McNeel & Associates) with a hand plot feature. It'd fudge lines so they'd look like they were hand drawn. So maybe the trick for a hand written font is to post process the vectors.
Ask HN: Uber without the Uber - Opinion ?
So I was thinking of idea that might disrupt how some things work today.

We all know Uber has caused a lot of commotion within the taxi world and was forbidden, blocked and hated upon by many people and governments.

What if someone creates an app that connects drivers with passengers but does not process any transactions. Think of it as a social network for taxi services. The driver subscribes to the app for a monthly fee and now can be reached by passengers.

The driver collects payment directly from the customer and sets his own prices. The customer can choose which driver he picks based on past reviews and can view the facebook profile etc...

I mean, there is no way to actually forbid this app ? The only reason we see Uber being blocked or unlawful is because they collect payments and pay drivers. They set prices, they control the market. This app would be based on supply / demand.
Obesity and 100 IQ is the norm as well.
TLDR: It is a rather nontrivial result that each real number can be represented by an infinite sequence of digits, although not uniquely (as other comments said).

However, to understand that, we need to answer several questions:

* What is a real number, after all? How do we even define it?

* When we have a sequence of digits like 0.12345678..., and when we say this sequence represents a number X, what exactly does that mean?

* (...which leads to): What is a sequence? What does it mean for an infinite sequence to converge?

So, it's definitely not "Duh, it's obvious": some work is needed to understand all this. I recommend reading the first several chapters of any good book on analysis.
A news aggregation/dashboard that does not show you reposts. I love it so much I use it everyday.

http://niftykick.com

I am working on a webVR project similar to super mario maker but in 3D

http://niftykick.com/niftyWorld
Interesting - I remember reading a proposal for this, but I've never seen them in production code.
There's no difference between 'voluntary' and 'mandatory' if the penalty for not doing the 'voluntary' thing is so harsh that you can't afford to refrain.
The problem is that optimizing for cost creates situations our society isn't ok with.
It is ForwardMX. I only forward emails and dont allow sending over my service. I can not avoid getting blacklisted at some point but i have a system that checks for this and a hoster that gives me new ips within minutes :) Also i am building in more and more things to make aure that does not happen ao fast like next is SRS
http://komuter.pro , The first project/product that I started charging money
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I don't. But building a business that depends on another like this, you need to have a backup plan, yes?
More often, I see wellness programs that offer yearly FSA credit in the hundreds range for filling out a health survey and then potentially additional credit for using the program. The psychology is better there for the base premium (bonuses are better than penalties).

Source: I work for a company that makes a wellness app.
Making friends with legacy code
I'd rather be ruled by a congress of nascar rally goers than hacker news commenters.
While not exactly the same thing, people didn't think Parse was going to shut down ... until it did.
Ask HN: Potential problems integrating your business with services like Slack?
Here's the scenario:

Say my website has a contact email. I can't afford a $5/mo email and possibly a mailing server/service. I don't have a viable business, this is just for testing. So one other option (since default mailing scripts in PHP on a rented server will probably never send out/be reached) is to use a form that is stored in a database. Well this now depends on if you open that database or not... some front end web app you log into say. But with something like a Slack Webhook I can get around my technical lacking with regarding to mailing and android dev. I now have the ability to receive a 'push notification' through slack through an android app by sending a curl request to that slack channel for support.

Now the problem is, Slack "technically owns" this data right? I mean they're hosting it. I didn't read their terms of service. I'm not targetting slack either. I also wonder when I use free email from Google or Hangouts, etc... Hence you know I think you should host your own stuff when dealing with your client's businesses despite the ease that a Slack webhook might provide.

I don't know it sucks haha, it would be so easy (and FREE) to just use that (slack webhook notification for email received from website users)
Yes I was going to say the same as this. Looks great otherwise.
Yes, that's what I meant. The medium term trajectory has been towards a fairer system. A bill passing out of a committee now doesn't guarantee things will be worse in 2030.

Even if the ACA is completely repealed it's hard to say where things will be in 8 years, never mind the forever.
Ooooh, Republicans.

Is there anything on Dems on YC news?
> Note that you don't want to maximize customers, you want to maximize revenue.

Now there is a memo that the Silicon Valley web startup economy didn't get...
So every time you spend $10 on ads, you get $400 of sales? And if you spend $0 on ads you get $400 less revenue for that period?

Sounds like fake news to me.
That's just a sales trick which is effectively the same thing.

A bonus to fill it out is the same as a penalty for not doing so.

The psychology is not 'better' it's just sneakier.
I don't understand your comment. They are all wearing parachutes.
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Google is now a company that holds a patent on a product, does not produce or market said product, but sues other companies for trying to produce that product for alleged infringement of the patent.
I've spent plenty of time working in a cubicle. I've overheard my coworkers say a lot of dumb stuff. Going a NASCAR race seems like an Ivy League board meeting by comparison.

Look in the mirror. Odds are you're just as bad plus or minus a few %.
"does not produce or market said product,"

Errr, they are making cars, so ....
I understand. Maybe you could post the high level list(that's actually what I meant in my other question) to the Nomad Google group?

Do you have any ball park of how far off a 1.0 release might be? Cheers.
I think you are confusing S3 and GitLab right now.
To be sure, it would be wonderful if society actually believed in "innocent until proven guilty," but we don't. One could argue that Google fans the flames of the problem by, for example, refusing to deindex news articles about arrests despite subsequent acquittals, or linking to blatantly libelous statements against millions of people at the top of its search results from sites with extortionate business models like RipOffReport.com.

But since society won't change, the justice system needs to. Prosecutors could refuse to file charges in flimsy cases that are highly unlikely to result in convictions, such as the one at issue here. They could also choose not to lie or embellish facts to obtain search or arrest warrants that propel unjust cases forward. Unfortunately, both of these activities seem to be accelerating, not slowing down. We are seeing more and more "novel" prosecutions - those where criminal intent is questionable at best. Prosecutors do these things to pad their stats so that they can get a higher salary when they switch to private practice, but at a tremendous cost to both the defendants and the taxpayers.