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I need help with an open source app to keep Canadians in touch with Parliament
Android Source (https://github.com/sunnypurewal/epac-android)

Android App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglebox.epac)

iOS Source (https://github.com/sunnypurewal/epac-ios/)

iOS App (https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/epac/id1224459142?mt=8)

I recently released both iOS and Android versions of an app that turns Hansard into a chat bot. I am interested in vastly extending the features in this app to include all of the data available on http://www.parl.gc.ca/ A few immediate examples are creating a French version of the app and designing a new logo.

It is too easy these days to be uninformed about what's happening in the federal government. Following Parliamentary proceedings is an important aspect of keeping tabs on government but it is too often reduced to short sound bites in the news, or presented in an almost unwatchable format such as on CPAC. I want to take the trove of data made available by Parliament and present it in a way that is engaging using modern technology. All data provided by the government are made available under the Speaker's Permission (http://www.parl.gc.ca/SpeakerPermission.aspx?Language=E) and is prohibited from being used for financial gain, so the benefit of this project is purely a public service.

I originally planned to do this work individually but I realized I would not be able to deliver features quickly enough on my own. I believe this app is a valuable resource for staying informed and I am confident that people will use it given the feedback I have received already. I'm hoping that by making this app open source, that there will be others that share this belief and will want to contribute.

If you are interested, try out the app on your smartphone, and take a look at the data sources at http://www.parl.gc.ca/ParlBusiness.aspx?Language=E and the code linked at the top of the post. Send me a message if you want to help.
Reason why this is not important is if your only path of attack is through the "who did it" path and you have nothing whatsoever to say about the actual content, maybe you should base your attack on more solid ground. Should be easy: OP gave us facts to verify, not an opinion. If his facts are indeed facts you will need more than merely point to the Koch brothers, regardless of their well-known agenda.
Nothing. We also considered some Japanese cars, but we found that they were generally more expensive (than e.g. similarly spec'ed Skodas or Seats).
You mean the tax dodge that only started doing research when the government started investigating?
'It affects 7% of men and only 0.4% of women, but that’s still one person in 13 overall.

No it's not.'

It's not. It's more like one in 25. Thanks for catching that!
> Because nothing is stopping them from writing something they like better, except off course skill, attitude and discipline. Thankfully they are able to contribute something much more valuable: opinions.

If people don't want feedback, then they shouldn't post on HN. HN is a place where plenty of people provide opinions whether others like it or not. If that's not something people want, then they shouldn't be here.

As for making something better. Better solutions already exist. Terminal emulators are an already solved problem. What terminal emulator problem will be solved that hasn't already been solved by urxvt, KiTTY, Serial, or any of the other Electron based terminals like Magnesium or Hyper?

That's not to say people shouldn't try as there are many reasons to do so. To suggest that opinions are somehow less valuable than yet another implementation of a terminal emulator written in a bloated framework based on a language that was designed in 11 days just to animate web page elements - and that people should reinvent the wheel or shut up... well that's just like, your opinion, man.
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> why one need to be physically present anywhere in 2017?

Because there is still merit to sitting face to face with people sometimes. Not all the time, sure, but sometimes. Also, not everyone works the same as everyone else, and sometimes people need to interact differently. I work remote primarily, but still get value out of my onsite times, just a different value than when I'm sitting at home working on a computer. Even in IT, there is value in sitting with someone and looking them in the eye for a few minutes, or holding two markers to a whiteboard.
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How much freedom should one sacrifice to enter the USA?
I think 'proportional representation' might have been what they meant.

I like NZ's MMP (Mixed Member Proportional) system, but there are others that work too. Anything that results in fewer, bigger districts electing multiple representatives should break the power of gerrymandering. And Proportional representation makes 3rd parties viable, which gives you more than a single forced political axis, and just might lift the level political discourse above the current 'My team, right or wrong'
Great app! Very small critique: at a quick glance to my home screen, the icon looks like an app in the download/install process.
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Female patient transitions to male, then gets male pattern baldness. /s
EpiPen maker Mylan's Chairman compensated $163.9MM in 2016
> Almost a third of American factory workers now hold four-year college degrees, a trend that reflects the increasingly cerebral nature of the work.

Wow.
Where/how can one learn to do this on their own?
Unless my google-fu has let me down, the father is Perry Hughes a music agent who used to represent Salford born pop-operatic tenor Russell Watson (British mums love 'im). Sounds as if the pair had an acrimonious split and according to this article (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/watso...) Russell had to pay out big.

So I'm guessing Perry has a few connections and can get some PR when he wants. Perhaps 'selling one of the family homes' doesn't provide the same punchy headline.
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Hey HN, Really excited to share my project here. My idea was to help people to stay focused and get things done. Simply set yourself a time limit for your web session and your tabs will get closed automatically. You can also track your web time and get daily statistics. To make things easier there is a simple cheat sheet.
Always wondered why a marketplace for code generation templates never took off.
Trump didn't become president until January 20th. That time period is still primarily the Obama era. It will be more relevant to see the numbers from February - June.
Many parents of that generation leave important jobs to be unemployable, maintain their unrealistic costs of living until or beyond retirement age and leave their children with nothing but complications.

That there might be better ways doesn't mean they are as bad as the average. I'd take 4X at these odds at 10X the average UK salary (even if 2 of them might be short careers) and a possible business over a less than certain chance of 2 mediocre UK employee lives with not as many family obligations. But each to their own.
As neither of you, I'm talking about OOP. Nobody's limiting the discussion to composition or inheritance. Otherwise we'd be talking about how 'inheritance sucks' rather than 'OOP sucks'.
yes but you won't find articles about this in international media, because it's just lowly Eastern Europeans
well done1 add as my starup page now.
If they go for online-sport-betting site, at least they are consistent in the sense that they just put their whole family life on a single bet.
He has half a point. The other half is that a lot of democrats avoid voting as well, since their state is already blue.

And vice versa on both counts for red states.
> By explicit I mean BinarySearch(Table, x = name) rather than "SELECT * FROM Table WHERE x = name"

So are you saying you want to force your DB to store rows in a particular order? Because doing a binary search on unsorted data isn't going to work. But forcing your data to be sorted in a particular way is either going to require you to insert with explicit instructions to do it in the right place, or your DB to know that it's sorted on that attribute, in which case you shouldn't really need to tell that it should do a binary search, because it's obvious.
They didn't say anything about Chromebooks. They said Linux.
Looking at those pictures I wonder how assembly, from unloading cargo to final testing, could be fully automated. I came to think that until we automate automation it will be quite hard. Humans with assist of tools are flexible enough - especially on this scale.
Im waiting for "one third of factory jobs require a four-year degree" before getting to excites about cerebral natures. There are a great number of people with degrees out there. I want to see that the jobs require the education to do the work, not that market forces mean that unnecessary degrees make an applicant more competative.
Fascinating to see something made not in China, and even the components don't come from there.
(I realize they also do assembly and produce some components in China too.)
I'm color bind too. I'm actually jealous I didn't think of this. I have been working in Krita lately, and I'm guessing on colors. Krita will give hexadecimal # of a particuliar color, but not a worded description of the color.

This has so many potential uses--fashion websites for one. I can't go by the color on websites for the clothing; I need to look at the details for the written color. I usually just buy black, and people call me Jonny Cash. A therapist once asked me why I always wear black. Just too dissalusioned on so many levels to tell why. That was my last session.

I imagine sites like The Gap would pay for a custom app incorporated into their site?

Will I pay for this app? Maybe? It will be my first bought app. All these years, and I never gave Apple my CC, on principle. They might get it today though.
A 50kW charger may sound useless, but in just a short 10 minute break (use the restroom, have a coffee, pay and get back in the car) it gives you 8.3 kWh - which on a model S, whose efficiency I find rated between 3 and 3.8 miles/kWh, means from 25 to 31 miles of range. It might easily be the topping off you need to comfortably reach your destination (or a fast charger!)
And if we're talking about a fast charger, that can mean 62 miles added in 10 minutes - we're quickly getting into not-at-all-useless ranges.

Agreed it kind of sucks for a full recharge though. On the other hand I already see people fueling the bare minimum to reach another gas station for brand loyalty/affiliate program rewards.
"many" is unquantifiable but it suggests lots, I don't see that being the case. In the UK house prices tend to result in the parents downsizing to afford retirement and/or end of life care. I'm not saying they should let the kids inherit the house, I'm just saying that they could have ensured that their children did not need to support them when they may be trying to buy their own home or start their own families.
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As a general rule, I always turn off the prompt to join open networks. At best, it's annoying as you move around; at worst, you accidentally join a malicious open network.

Settings > Wi-Fi > Ask to Join Networks (at the bottom of that screen)
Nice idea! I just can't figure out why is the size of app almost 30MB?
Also mortgage payments can be made smaller (refinance) while rent continues to grow. I'm personally not going to attempt starting a company until I get my mortgage under a certain level.
Some tax incentives for remote employees may help, would be good on for workers carbon footprints too.
Well, sort of. There were several states that Democrats traditionally won federally, but those weren't the "safe" ones like new York and California. The big thing Trump took from the Democrats was the Rust Belt states - the old industrial places like Michigan, which usually vote for Democratic Party presidents but have strong Republican contingencies and often have Republican governors.
uh, Seat is very well known for being very unreliable and by far the most unreliable brand of VW concern, Skoda is decent but pretty bad value against Koreans, if you equip Skoda same way as Korean you end up for sure on higher price. Japanese in general cost slightly more, but it's worth it for better engines, high quality, low risk of stealing and decent resell value, while Seat has zero value

I can't really imagine someone in US butting any of brands you mentioned, Seat is pretty bad deal even in Europe
It's not. An egg moments After fertilization experiencing suffering requires quite a bit of inagination, while we all can agree a child can suffer. Where we draw the line between that is obviously somewhat up for debate (and no one in their right mind is saying we should kill born babies for pleasure).
I think it has mostly to do with how the TSA treats us non Americans. We don't have to be from one of the banned countries. Every non American has to fear being asked to hand his laptop / cellphone and whatnot.
> The remaining 43% voted for 'I'll take whoever wins'.

Or they lived in some of those insane regions where only a single voting office served thousands of people and couldn't affording standing outside for 8+ hours, or they couldn't get a tuesday off (sane countries allot a whole weekend for voting), or they couldn't afford to get sufficient id to satisfy their state's demands. (Yes, i know, mail-in voting is a thing, but i'm sure there are good reasons to keep people from using that as well.)

There's plenty of reasons otherwise eligible voters didn't vote beyond "didn't care" and many of them are "they were prevented from doing so by institutional problems".
Never heard of this study or it's debunking. I would owe you 2 TIL if you could provide some sources!
Obama never tried to revoke visas while the people holding them were in the air.

I think there can also be a big shift in who is given a visa, without there being much visibility. Time will tell. That's not part of the entry procedure but is part of border policy more generally.
Fair, though if someone's just listing numbers that are easy to check, the content's probably less biased than the emphasis.

Worth checking anyway, because it's any single source.

If you look at property and vehicle taxes, they're a little above average:
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-states-to-be-a-taxpayer...

From the same site, income taxes are a little below average but not zero.

Sales taxes are decidedly higher than average (in part due to local taxes):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_Stat...

I'd prefer a more progressive mix that deemphasizes sales taxes in favor of income taxes.

But most stories describe this as some kind of suicide pact. That seems somewhat extreme.

Yes, there was a budget crunch after this, but the same budget crunch was felt in similar states without tax policy changes, most likely driven by lingering impacts of the great recession and changes in federal tax policy.

Al Franken had a great line about media bias in Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. He said everyone thinks the media is biased towards right or left when it's really just biased towards calamity and sensationalism.

Cato is right-wing, but the rest of the world is trying to sell you papers. Caveat emptor either way.

EDIT: Hmm, tried to provide a balanced reply with more neutral sources with a level tone. Downvote was a good reminder that Politics is the Mindkiller.
Yes, and that's bad. Suddenly you're bound by a lot more regulations, and access to many a path is cut off. It's not a great trade off.
You know, "I'll take whoever wins" might very well be the best way I've ever seen of putting that.
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Retracted. Misread the article. Apologies.
> F# and all ML derivatives are an aberration because they use juxtaposition to denote function calls. That eliminates a lot of parens but personally I find the result less readable.

It makes a lot of sense when all functions are curried. Parenthesised function calls treat all of these as different things:

f(a, b, c, d)
f(a, b, c)(d)
f(a, b)(c, d)
f(a, b)(c)(d)
f(a)(b, c, d)
f(a)(b, c)(d)
f(a)(b)(c, d)
f(a)(b)(c)(d)

If functions aren't curried, then these all mean different things. When functions are curried, all of these have the same semantics (call `f` with `a`, call the result with `b`, call that result with `c` and call that result with `d`); ML's juxtaposition syntax makes these semantically-identical expressions syntactically-identical too:

f a b c d
Even prior to setting up port forwarding I have never had this issue with Plex :/
Each time I've been through it the US immigration hall in Dublin has been a right 'zoo'
They may not solve congestion, but they should lower it, even it it's by a tiny amount. The reason is simple - electric cars don't have to visit gas stations which sometimes adds few miles to the miles traveled every month.
i.e on my way to work I have just one gas station. When I have to fuel my car, (usually once a week) I have to take a different route that's about 1/2 mile longer than my usual route. That's about 25 miles /year. If we multiply this by 260mln passenger cars on the roads we get 6.5 billion miles.
Let's go little further with this.. if set avg fuel economy for all of these cars at 20 mpg we get 325000000 gallons of fuel saved each year when all of the cars are electric.
Funny how small little thing can have big impact.

Of course this is just a guesstimate.
I'm an EV customer, in a cold climate, far from the Tesla factory and the smooth roads of the Bay Area in California USA. So I've had some experience of the reality of working with this new tech.

Let's do the future-perfect exercise. Let's imagine looking backward from a point in history when 90% of new vehicle sales (by unit) are EVs.

What happened in those years?
1) power cells (the component parts of batteries) became genuine microelectronic parts with fine structure in their insides -- deep submillimeter gaps between anodes and cathodes. That understanding about their manufacture put their cost-per-watt on a Moore's Law kind of curve about nine years ago.

2) vehicles routinely get field upgrades to their battery packs.

3) there's major competition between battery remanufacturing plants and stationary power storage makers for the used battery packs, complete with spam and robocalls begging for the old batteries.

4) the power grid companies, in every US state except Wyoming, have now integrated their distribution systems so there's distributed control over time-shiftable load. In other words, EVs have grid smarts in them and charge when the spot price per kWh is lowest in their neighborhood. It's an auctioning service.

5) in Wyoming there's a pirate electricity auctioning service available via encrypted wireless and Tor to work around the pro-coal lobby's laws.

6) truck stops, everywhere except Wyoming, now have megawatt-level charging facilities. Trucks don't use I-80 to get across the Continental Divide any more.

7) Public housing projects have been compellled to offer EV charging. Apartments without EV charging facilities are now considered substandard. Their slumlords have to discount them at least $200 per month (in 2017) dollars to find tenants.

8) An open standard -- called "STREETNET" -- for vehicle-to-vehicle communication has developed with multiple communication channels. An important channel is modulation in brake-light and running-light intensity. That means a vehicle can announce its status to the vehicle behind it.

9) STREETNET has virtually eliminated compression-wave congestion on limited access highways, by helping drivers and autodrive systems see the big picture and synchronize their speeds and acceleration.

10) Commuter rail is all electric and autodriving, and has been for five years.
There's a PWA that does mostly the same, apart for the naming: https://use-the-platform.com/rainbow-explorer/
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If it makes you feel any better at all, we Americans are also treated like dirt for the disloyalty of leaving the country in the first place.
I would thoroughly disagree with you that there is any other repository of libraries nearly the size of NPM. Take a look at ModuleCounts[0] and you'll see that NPM is growing 4x faster than the next sized repository (Maven) with already over double the number of modules.

[0] http://www.modulecounts.com/
what's expensive about providing one one way video stream with live text chat for participants to ask questions?

as for putting face to name,I can't hardly imagine how this could be positive for concentration and work, I am more likely going to be neural and more efficient if I treat other party as robot than someone with face, because then you lose focus on work
Remember that a minority of Americans voted for Trump—a majority voted against him. He is president because a majority of states voted for him, not people.
Chinese Quantum Computer is 24,000 times faster than international counterparts
Failures are an important part of judging a system. So of course they get outsize attention.
you should compile linux to Wasm and make the HTML side of things just render the framebuffer.
I think you're being deliberately obtuse and argumentative. I never mentioned personal time travel. The context is an article telling people not to bring work data with them when traveling for work/professional functions.

If you're traveling for work, and your company can't guarantee your safe and reasonably comfortable travel to that destination in a work capacity -- they should recommend you not go.
What country are you from? That is not the experience for people from my country (Uruguay, Latin America), nor for any of the high population countries, and it is highlighted in this article.

I applied for (and was granted) an U.S. visitor (B-1) visa last month, it was very expensive, I had to fill out a form that took significantly more than 5 minutes (several hours because I had to contact family members for details), and I had to schedule an in-person interview where they (very politely) cross checked most of what I wrote in the visa form, and were very detailed in the questions.

That's why the article says "If your country does not participate in the Visa Waiver Program or you are not eligible for an ESTA, you'll need to apply for a B-1 business visitor visa… the long way."

"We'll work with you through this process. Start early, as soon as we have dates for a meetup or conference. Visa appointments and processing can take weeks to months."

That directly contradicts your claim (and matches my experience).

I still haven't flown to the U.S., but those in my family who have, experienced multi-hour delays (my mother lost her flight in Boston only last month due to 2 hours in the immigration queue), most of my family members have been set aside for in-depth questioning at least once, etc.

I do know some Europeans have a very different experience (those under ESTA), but I'm not certain your saying "the experience of 99.9% of those who visit" is correct.

You might notice that none of the highly populated countries (China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia and Mexico) are in this list:

http://www.esta.us/visa_waiver_countries.html