skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Refused to hold a vote on a supreme court justice indefinitely as long as a Democrat president nominated him/her

Republicans have confirmed Democratic supreme court nominees before [1]

> Want to make coal and fossil fuels win over clean energy, are angry about investment in green energy

Not true, they want a market based solution to clean energy

> Want to roll back privacy and net neutrality

They want a market based solution to privacy and net neutrality

> Are angry about universal healthcare even though rest of the developed world has it and has cheaper better outcomes

Republicans believe in individual liberty and individual responsibilty and that healthcare is an earned right.

> I realize they say they want personal freedom and smaller government. But then they want to expand the army

Republicans believe that defense is within the purview of government.

Also, note that if you give people freedom they will use it. So you will see some crazy people among Republicans, but it is preferrable ( atleast to some people ) to the politically correct groupthink present on the left.

But the anti-science crictism of Republicans is valid. They need to do better.

But it is surprising to me how much Republican bashing goes on in this site. I am not American, but still I find it annoying.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/31/us/politics/07...
I've recently begun to think about the availability of housing and how that impacts the middle/lower stratum of the US, and it seems to me that there have been several short-sighted policies put in place that have put us in a much worse position for the future for short term gain (the article explains how subsidies for single-family homes are a reason for the shift away from small apartment buildings). Has this always been happening, or has it appeared to become more pronounced with the recent focus on gentrification? What can be done to improve affordable housing? I'm not all too familiar with this field, so anything helps!
They did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC3LQFpuzqs&t=12m19s http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42544.msg16...

This one probably isn't reusable since it landed in the water. Their next goal is to make a floating "bouncy castle" to land it on.
Python has math.isclose() in the standard library, with configurable tolerances:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/math.html#math.isclose
The choices a 2LT needs to make -- while having life and death consequences -- are also pretty limited and they've generally spent 3 years at West Point (or 1 year at Sandhurst, etc) being extensively taught how to make those decisions.
This type of thing would not have been an issue 15 years ago.
This is Richard Stevens socket programming 101.
Hillary wasn't campaigning on a platform of silencing sexual assault victims, but Trump was campaigning on a platform of xenophobia and dog whistles.
I'm using Apollo with https://www.graph.cool, and for me as mainly a frontend developer, it has been absolutely great so far. I've used both Relay and Apollo quite extensively in the past, and while both have their pros and cons, I do enjoy working with Apollo right now. Apollo had the added benefit of existing for several platforms in roughly the same way, so I've had the pleasure of using Apollo with both React and Angular 2. Great work!

I just got to plug graph.cool too for people interested in GraphQL and Apollo. I've been using it for quite a while, and the platform has been working great. I've been chatting quite a lot with their support (hey Nilan if you see this ;)) and they've been very helpful both in matters concerning the platform, but also for my app and GraphQL in general. I really recommend trying it out!
It's compatible with both propositions. At the moment we literally have good grounds for making either conclusion, although we have plenty of weak grounds in both directions.
They lose nothing if the disclosure is, in fact, highly damaging. Which is the obvious point. What we have here is 10 fools going in "But the Constitution" and "Innocent until proven guilty" and "It means nothing."

No, it means a hell of a lot, in this context.

Like, when you get pulled over and the cop asks you, "Do you know why I pulled you over?", you could say "On the advice of my attorney I invoke my 5th amendment right to remain silent because the answer to that question may incriminate myself. I'm not answering any questions without my lawyer."

This is almost always the wrong way to start off a traffic stop, no matter how many times people post the "NEVER SAY ANYTHING TO COPS" video.
I sometimes wonder why smalltown America prefers "trailer parks" over small-to-midsized apartments. Instead of spreading out over dozens of acres, you could have a couple of complexes with nice communal gardens/parks/playgrounds and have people live vertically densely enough to encourage shops.

Instead they either have single family homes (that's okay) or they have trailer parks --if it's a college town then they have squat apartment buildings with little in the way of design other than cheap and utilitarian with very little noise dampening, for the most part.

If you travel thru rural California (HWYs 49, 120, 99, etc) there is so much sprawl consisting of cheap housing --instead of gobbling up farmland with crappy buildings they could build alright apartment buildings resulting in better quality of life for the residents (better concentrated service, more walkable for the poor folks, etc.) on the other hand, fewer taxes for the municipality, given the property tax system.
In general, if you run a product or company it is a bad idea to get political. You instantly create 50% detractors when you need to always win about 60% support. Hold off politics activism until you have fuck you money.

In most cases politics is a waste of time, change the world via the market and products and focus on your own success. Don't degrade your work by getting into politics, it is merely a divisive system today. Politics suck and they are past the point of grass roots influencing anything, only money works [1][2].

Palmer, like many other 20-somethings, got caught up in it. Political activism peaks around 27-30 ish, Usually by 30 you realize it is all bullshit and a waste of time other than voting and giving money to causes you believe in or that you think should win, quietly, on your own without sharing with the world your beliefs because others have differing beliefs.

[1] https://act.represent.us/sign/the-problem

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Ask HN: How do you take notes?
Hey HN!

In a meeting, discussion, talks, or negotiation, how do you take notes?

- What tools do you use?

- What do you take notes of? Just what's been said?

- Do you enrich your notes with e.g. drawings & diagrams, in what mood something was said, or who was speaking to whom?

- Do you change your behaviour of taking notes depending on what you're listening to (e.g. meeting vs. talks)?

Thanks in advance for your valuable input and time!
Ultimately they're a space launch company, not a TV channel :)
"Real applications" (someone named off CMS, CRM, VoIP, groupware, helpdesk, and callcenter software above) hardly seem like moonshots.
So that the person in question doesn't get any of your money
encrypted apps dont break SEC laws, people break SEC laws
Christians following the teachings of Jesus are probably not fruitcakes.
It's not always that simple though. Kalanick can't just do whatever he wants with no fear of other shareholders intervening.

See Dodge v. Ford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Obvious Uber shill commenter
Actually, Mercurial keeps all the deleted changesets in .hg/strip-backup. They will stay there forever, unless you delete them by hand.
I am a bit confused as I have read that this bill only reverses a bill that was past last year and isn't even in effect yet. Would also explain the split right down the political ile. Or am I interpreting this incorrectly?

Internet privacy in the US may be non existent but it hasn't changed in many years from what I can tell.

The outrage seems overblown or at least misplaced as nothing has actually changed if that is true.
Sure. It was a style thing!
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It's become more pronounced lately because the original solution, which to move further and further away from the city, is no longer scaling.
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I've never found this point very compelling. It's not like the first stage of anything will ever be landing on Mars.
Yes I do dispute that notion. Actually I dispute the entire idiot notion that the US is somehow subsidising the rest of the worlds' healthcare.

In actual fact, pharmaceutical / medical device companies will simply charge whatever the market will bear, and it just so happens the US market will bear almost any price. If some market won't bear a profit making price, pharma companies simply won't sell into it.

It makes utterly no sense to sell at a loss and then cross subsidise using the massive rents extracted from US markets, yet that is exactly what most people here seem to think is happening. Although maybe Trump really has managed to 'make America great again'. Speaking of great...

The US spends 17.1% of of its GDP on healthcare. The 5 countries that are richer than the USA (GDP per capita) pay an average of 7.77%. Excluding Qatar, it's 9.03%. The top 10 richest countries (excluding the USA) spend an average of 8.03% of their GDP on healthcare, and I'm pretty sure at least a few of these have universal public health insurance.

You're paying more than DOUBLE compared to the 9 other richest countries in the world. You're simply getting gouged. If you can't even admit that maybe there's a problem here, and instead want to persist with all these insane American exceptionalist fantasies, it's unlikely anything is going to change in American healthcare.

Data from here: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS?end=2014&...

And here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... (using IMF GDP figures)
Noise dampening should be part of the health code or something.
There's a metaphor for life in there somewhere
More data can make you more wrong
> > Want to roll back privacy and net neutrality

> They want a market based solution to privacy and net neutrality

See, this is annoying. Because of telecom regulation, there is no 'market' so to speak. Lets roll back the regulations and allow some actual, legit last-mile competition, and then this might make sense.

As it stands now, in most markets, there is no choice of a high-speed ISP that isn't drooling over the collection of internet usage data.
Not nearly as much as the wings, though, and with extra fuel you always have the option of lofting a heavier payload and throwing away the booster.
See: Splice.com. It works like GitHub and is already very popular with producers.
Blue origin isn't even in the same league. Their rockets go straight up, stay there for a bit and down again. Spacex achieves magnitudes higher velocity, altitude and actually delivers things to orbit.

BlueOrigin is Bezos' pet project akin to taking a heli tour around the city while SpaceX is doing a transcontinental flight half way around the world.
Hopefully a GraphQL server can't be far behind.

Edit: I guess you do something like this: https://github.com/RisingStack/graphql-server/blob/master/sr...
I see is no reason to think the increase in numbers treated would have been so large that payers would have spent more dollars than they did, so its not clear that Gilead's revenue (let alone profit) would have been higher.
With only one living member of a species left and the egg, I doubt the species would have survived for much longer without humans.
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This is judge Aslup. The same judge who learned Java so he could adjudicate the Oracle v Google case with some level of expertise and was impressive with his insight in every aspect of that case I followed. IMO, he embodies the professionalism that we require from the bench. I certainly wouldn't throw out attacks on him based on a mildly snarky comment replying to a pretty silly argument.
Yes, React is taking over front-end development. The question is why
These supervisor projects are always a chuckle.

Is anyone ignorant enough to believe that any monitor can survive general process failure or contribute to recovery of a system with abnormal function or resource starvation?

And that is the basic reason for these monitors! garbage.
My last experience was with bluepill which was this mess of
ruby nonsense. Anyone with any experience knows you can't trust a system to correct it's own failure. Why are we hammering this nail over and over to catch a 30% recoverable transient...management.
If someone is the target of a fake news story, can't they just sue the poster? Wouldn't an injunction force Facebook to take it down?

Maybe what's needed is more like a DMCA takedown mechanism, if the verified target of a piece (eg a politician or their agent) files a complaint, then the piece is temporarily taken down, and the person who posted it has an opportunity to prove the substance of the allegations and if they fail it gets taken down permanently, otherwise it goes back up permanently.

This would also have the advantage of killing all of those useless "anonymous source" articles too.
> I was thirteen

No need to be harsh on yourself if you created games like this on that age!
If I ever get a new job, I buy a new, empty (obviously) notebook, and take notes. I love the tactility of real paper for that. I'm ooold, I suppose. After a while I will always notice that, while I keep bringing the notebook to meetings, I just don't really make notes anymore. Typically someone is assigned to make minutes (and we're being very agile about that too, different subject). And beyond that, the gist of meetings typically doesn't require me to have a written record, so it just goes in the big ol' brain (it just adds to my existing understanding of our company, our system or the problem domain). I'm sure that won't work for everyone...

Something that I do need to keep track of is personal to do's, sometimes driven by personal interest, so these don't necessarily end up in the minutes, so I often walk out of meetings with one or a few Post-It's. All our meeting rooms have a decent stack of Post-It's and Sharpies. I incorporate later those in whatever online task list is most appropriate (team JIRA, some other backlog, personal to do list), unless I can resolve them immediately.
> “This is like the Swiss patent office suing Einstein for inventing the theory of relativity while he worked there.” says someone who worked at the company’s driverless car program

Well, the Swiss patent office wasn't paying Einstein to come up with the theory of relativity, whereas I'm pretty sure Google were paying for LIDAR innovations. I hope that anonymous source's code has fewer leaps of logic than that analogy...
A big percentage of our internal services are near-real-time asynchronous event consumers. Writing a consumer is not all that different than writing a service. For events and consumers we have mechanisms that serve similar functions as API rate limiting, but they have a different shape.

So the answer is probably a yes?
> intellectual response of likes

That kind of response died along with USENET in the 90s in the eternal September
Yes, it's possible to do incredibly fast signal processing calculations using interfering laser beams.

http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2014/08/startup-with-optical-so...

In practice, it's not easy to compete with the economies of scale of conventional chips, though.
"Wall Street's Restaurant Secret: Illegal Talking over Lunch is Out of Control"

> Dirty jokes and NSFW GIFs. Snaps of unsuspecting colleagues on the trading floor. Screenshots of confidential client positions.

> All that -- and, on occasion, even legally dubious information -- is increasingly being trafficked over the new private lines of Wall Street: street-level restaurants like McDonalds and Taco Bell.

> “They’re always behind,” said Jack Rader, a managing director at ACA Compliance Group, which sets up monitoring systems for financial services companies to flag potential regulatory problems. “It’s almost impossible for a compliance department within buyside or sellside firms to stay ahead of communications technology that is available for employees like the basic human activity of talking in private at a restaurant.”
You said "regardless of whether he is innocent." There is no criminal case or publicly announced investigation. So pleading the 5th every time you are asked a question in litigation is always the winning strategy, in case you end up being prosecuted?

What about obstetricians and neurosurgeons and such other high net worth people practicing in litigious environments, who are liable to be sued a few times through the course of their career? Even if the doctor committed borderline malpractice, answering every question in a document demand or deposition with "I plead the fifth" is a good way to lose everything on a case that could have been dismissed early on without trial. When pretty much zero doctors are prosecuted for injuring or even killing their patients in a professional context.

There's pretty much no way to build a multi-billion dollar enterprise without attracting at least a few lawsuits along the way. This is obviously not an ordinary case.
Are you waiting for the data set to fully load before allowing the process to respond to requests?

Are you running just a single
node.js process or more than one?

Does the node.js process restart if it crashes?

Could you run in a debugger with a breakpoint inside a check for records being empty?
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How awesome is the expo example on http://dev.apollodata.com/ ... I just tried it on my iPhone. Freaking amazing how well it works. Mobile app development has come leaps and bounds from where it was a year ago.
So people have private ways to communicate, and sometimes they break the law by communicating forbidden stuff, hasn't that been a thing for ages? Why the sudden hate on Whatsapp, if there's a rise of law breaking messages, the root cause is elsewhere.
My understanding is that the ftc was protecting things, this protection was removed recently, then the fcc bill was introduced to try and maintain privacy. This too has now been removed. So now there is no protection for privacy. Things are absolutely different now.
Can a corollary to the NRA riff be poor software design and bugs don't create vulnerable systems, hackers create vulnerable systems?

It's like saying, coal in and of itself does not create global warming, it's people wanting jobs and cheap energy who contribute to global warming.
Noise dampening isn't cheap though. How do you meet all the required regulations without massively cutting corners AND still have affordable apartments? If you're going to go through all the trouble of putting up a new building you might as well shoot for the golden goose.
What you have read is propaganda. ISPs have never been allowed to do what they are about to do. Between the move to common carrier until the new privacy rule was to go into effect ISPs could theoretically have started new data selling programs but they had not because of the legal uncertainty and they knew the new rules were coming.

As usual some of the best technical reporting on the issue is at ars https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/how-i...
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I think Implementing a 6502 is a good example for an architecture implementation. Since it has already been done in numerous NES emulation projects, A lot of us have a good understanding of the CPU. Plus it is the part of a history which many kids could relate to. The video game era and genesis of personal computing era was almost entirely based off of this single CPU. It isnt small but definitely a stepping stone towards understanding a modern CPU. anything lesser makes it just a toy. For a toy, I like the one described in "Elements of Computign systems" here https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-P...
> They’ve learned even the slightest misinterpretation can land them in hot water -- not only with compliance, but with prosecutors on the lookout for financial crimes.

This is exactly the issue with police body cams.
Because there's no downtown to speak of, and everything in the town is built with single family homes and strip malls in mind, from the roads to commercial districts. There's a lot of space to sprawl and the sprawlers are the first to move in.

I'd love a smaller (in land use) community to move to that is walkable and dense enough, but it just doesn't exist, or the downtown core is too expensive for the area (apartments the same as a largish house just outside).
Recessions are almost always deliberately caused by central banks to control inflation by increasing unemployment and decreasing wages. Occasionally they are caused by financial crises.
Probably due to fewer evidentiary "crumbs" left behind. No witnesses to meetings, conversation eavesdroppers or recorded calls --now everything is more or less deniable and irrefutable, unless one of the parties decides to double cross the other.
Made me wish I had more of my old code to cringe at, but honestly I cringe after just a few weeks removed from a project.
Australia has huge lands, few people, a lot of local resources and not as much immigration as the US or West Europe. It's not a surprise.
The space shuttle was also really good at killing its crews for no good reason ...
If the hardware comes back down then it's returning the angular momentum on burn-up or landing. Only interplanetary hardware is robbing posterity of angular momentum.
I don't want the government I pay to spend ANY time on this. I like to think of budget accountability as scrutinizing your partner over their spending decisions in a joint bank account. Just stop wasting time and money on that!
I read a book[0] a few years ago that spends some time on the rise and fall of analog computing. Of course in the early electrical computer era it was not obvious that digital computing would be the best way forward.

Digital modeling is a pretty block-headed way to go about building a simulation. And when computers were slow and tubes and memory were very expensive it seemed even more block-headed. The main advantage was flexibility so as digital computers got faster and cheaper they ate more and more domains where analog computers might have seemed more ideally suited.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Universal-History-Computing-Quantum-C...
Is it possible to design a process that isn't a self-contained OS instance depending on a lot of
horseshit overlay controls to perform a task in a well
designed way that still allows privilege separation
from the host OS in a manageable way?

Of course not. It's the basis for all this other shite.
The whole story is just the title. No reason divulged in 1000 words. I hope this gathers more attention to seek an explanation.
So the media starts to scare us about illegal texting. Oh no! Lets make all chat apps non-secure so the bankers can no longer chat illegally anymore
eh, a modern apartment built with modern noise-dampening standofs on the drywall (something like "resilient channel" - there are several technologies, but the idea is to make the attachment between the drywall and the stud absorb vibration) is better at preventing noise from one apartment to another than older mobile homes are.

it's not expensive, either.

https://www.google.com/shopping/product/1727307288755176845?...

of course, I've never installed the stuff (I've heard stories, though) so I don't know what it does to labor costs.
The issue with every way of gathering info.

The question is "are data from body cams more armful that they help preventing bad behavior".