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@dang, @sctb: Could you let your many users know the current HN policy on political articles? Obviously something is going on, it seems since (February?). Not being up front leads to frustration with wasted time on submissions and comments, and of course a bit of suspicion (e.g., is it supporting some political agenda?). I don't think people want to to reverse engineer your intentions; it's your site, just politely say what they are.

I know the guidelines object to Most stories about politics ... unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon, but that is enforced very unevenly. The top story, last I looked, was about politics, as are many others.

I know moderating is thankless, so many thanks. :)

P.S. IMHO it would be useful to answer on the guidelines page or FAQ. Answers in a thread probably won't be seen by most readers; for all I know, you've already answered several times.

EDIT: For those interested, here is some recent discussion of it by dang, but not really addressing this question directly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13857086
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President Trump cares little about protecting the Office of the President...his administration has a well-documented history of putting the thumb on the scale regarding the investigation of collusion between his campaign and Russian agents/agencies...this is damaging the credibility in the office...this firing was also clearly decided on and then the rationale was secured afterward...it baffles the mind that Trump rationalizes this executive action by claiming that Comey was "mean to Clinton" when only a few days ago Comey had his trust...the reasoning cited, and involvement of Sessions in interfering an investigation that he recused himself from, is bogus... It is not unreasonable to claim that a cover-up is in full swing!
Not at all. Renting with no road to purchase turns you into serf. Owning your dwelling is the most basic form a security a human needs.

I own a condo that I rent and live renting in other part of my city. The rents cancel each other. It works very nice for me.

I definitely wish more people own their homes. I also love highrises.
Morale is pretty low. Boston consulting group is there now presumably working on restructuring and layoffs. After Jacobs left and Mollenkopf took over a lot was cut, they even closed the Library which peeved a lot of people off. The little things... There is also a company-wide sentiment that they are abusing the H1B program...
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For a bit of micro NIMBYism: my street in Palo Alto just instituted resident-only parking (I was the only one to object). Thus the people who cut our hair, serve our meals etc will have to walk even farther to work (my house is about 1.25 miles from downtown) while the wealthy shoppers park downtown for free.

Yes it was a pain having a lot of cars on the street but I didn't feel it was a hardship that I couldn't park in front of my house but occasionally (horrors) across the street.

As my passive aggressive neighbor put it, "well they can just buy a downtown permit. It's just a tax." So again, the minimum wage earners get the shaft. The discount permit for low earners is $100.

PS: my kid wants to buy up the extra parking permit allotment and offer them to folks parking the next street over.
It's very quick to read and write. It contains all of the vital musical information in a very concise format. Numerous alternative schemes for musical notation have been tried, but none have achieved significant adoption.
His most entrenched base (e.g., people who really support him rather than those who just voted against Clinton) truly believe that anything he does contrary to their expectations is 4-dimensional chess, that will eventually resolve in a fashion that will benefit him and eventually them.

It's like how if you stare at an old TV tuned to static for long enough you can start to see pictures. It's reading intent where there is nothing but random flailing.
Glib response for a stupid comment, but I'll take some time to respond to yours. I also wholeheartedly agree with this, especially for a creative/knowledge intensive field. It is impossible to be nose to the grindstone 8 hours a day doing anything of value that can't be automated. I've listened to artists talk about this as well: a really good workflow for me is really hard thinking for an hour or two with the rest of the day refining/helping/sharing/learning/interacting/reviewing. This sort of garbage mindset leads to shit code, reviewers that only comment on variable names because they only care to focus on their work, inter-specialty prejudice, etc.

And I mean the biggest joke here is that we're talking about Stripe ... hugely successful with an awesome engineering culture. K bro.
No. 10th Amendment.
That there's not a balanced zoning requirement (housing, jobs, services) seems to me as a lay person to be really weird.

I'm sure there's a ton of good-sounding legal reasons for it, but seriously?!
I was looking into Microsofts ERP options, it was so incredibly frustrating to understand and compare their different offerings that I just gave up, but they did have an option to contact their sales department, which was probably their plan all along.
I'm curious what caused the cost of the new electronic system to increase so much. I understand there could be a lot to it on the back end to ensure privacy and anonymity of the data collected, but it doesn't seem like it should be a huge deal technically. We're talking about ~325 million people and collecting demographic info and address info [1]. The IRS has far far more variables to collect info on, however they have fewer people. 325 million people is nothing compared to scaled companies like Facebook, Amazon, or Google (far more data points per person, far more people).

Any speculation on cause or other considerations I'm missing? Did a quick search on Google News and didn't find anything. All the companies I listed have huge teams, but I am still not seeing how the cost has exploded.

https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/2010questionnaire.pdf
It's not as bad as it sounds. The LLVM they ship in Xcode is basically stock, or at least it was in past releases where they posted the source - after all, Apple is the upstream for LLVM. And unlike the LLVM API, the LLVM bitcode format is stable and preserves backwards compatibility whenever possible, in the sense that newer versions of LLVM can read old bitcode. So there's a good chance that passing bitcode from rustc to Apple's tools will Just Work, and if it doesn't (like if rustc is using a newer LLVM than Xcode) then it should be fixable.
Or like, just ignore the hatred? It's just words.
I'm also a huge Star Trek fan, and I think that would be a very interesting world to live in. How about we get there without destroying the planet and working so much?
You're correct that this is an issue that tends to cross party lines.

Franken tends to be pro-encyption, so does Rand Paul.

It's not a right-left issue. It's a bipartisan issue that speaks to almost every U.S. citizen.

And it's equally bipartisan when people hate this.

This is not a right-left issue. It's a pro/against law enforcement at the expense of constitutional rights issue. There are many on both sides of the aisle who can legitimately support this idea.
Why hire nearly a million temporary census takers[1] every ten years? Even private companies have databases with far more detailed and more frequent demographic and psychographic information on every person in the United States.

[1]: https://www.census.gov/history/www/faqs/agency_history_faqs/...
That's when Comey publicly confirmed it, but news about the investigation has been leaking since the moment Trump was elected.
It's equally likely that the startup would spend the $50 million with nothing to show for it.
That's during the census itself, which is still three years away. The funding in question is just to develop the infrastructure to record the data.
I think what they are talking about is the resident who will move in that need schools (and will pay property tax), not the developers. He developers can't build the residencies without having enough schooling for families moving in.
Please do not change the goalposts. You were talking about property not houses. Condos are property and are easier to obtain.
Ooh, if you like that one, you should read up his proposal for health care. Were it not for that little Watergate kerfluffle, the whole ACA debate might have never taken place, and the U. S. might have had decent healthcare. (A lot of supposition behind that, though.)

In other words, comparing Trump to Nixon does a disservice to Nixon, IMO.
You can be sure California exports a ton of its food.
Well we need some independent way to regularly reapportion representatives, if we're going to stick with a system of geographically-based representation.
One gallon per almond? But... one gallon of bottled water is more than a dollar. I know there's packaging and transportation, but there's packaging and transportation for the almonds, too. And almonds are not one dollar per almond.

Do the almond growers receive subsidized water? I don't know how else the economics of this works out. (Unless the water used to grow almonds isn't up to the purity standards of drinking water, and they're counting on the tree to filter it...)
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California exports food so it would just have to stop exporting so much.
https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/
But if you look carefully you will find most of this behavior plays out similarly in those few countries with somewhat more comparable wealth (e.g., Norway). The issues that many people think of as being particularly "American" problems are problems that mostly have to do with our high material living conditions (as in, diminishing marginal utility attached to other forms of consumption and increasingly high values attached to human life). Overall health expenditures are increasing equally rapidly in these countries as a function of AIC, disposable income, etc and there is no evidence they are getting any more value for their money (having a healthier populations helps naive comparisons of life expectancy, IMR, etc a ton).

Here are some papers that touch on some of these more fundamental theoretical issues:

https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/HallJones2007.pdf

http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/showcare.pdf
An interesting question, but I think theoretical at this point. The evidence is very strong, not only in the U.S. but in other advanced economies who all perform similarly. In addition to the evidence, expert opinion (economists) seem unanimous; that is, I've never heard one say otherwise.

Fundamentally, the size, i.e., the output of the economy is easy to compute: Inputs (resources, such as labor and capital) x Productivity (how much benefit is wrung from the same resources).

The inputs generally increase. One major input that increases is labor. As the population grows, there are more people doing productive work. Productive workers, which is almost everyone with a paying job and very many without one (homemakers, volunteers, etc.), produce more than they consume - an important point. It's not a zero-sum situation; adding people doesn't reduce everyone's slice of the pie, it makes the pie bigger.

Productivity also increases. You see it in SV every day, with better and better software, as one simple example. Every improvement in knowledge and technology, in every field, adds to productivity. Is there a limit to productivity? It's hard to imagine, but if there is then we're nowhere near it.

> Everyone is very highly incentivized

Or maybe the evidence is very strong. For example, is everyone is incentivized to believe the theory of gravity, or is the evidence very strong?
A very good Nixon parody account is @dick_nixon: https://twitter.com/dick_nixon
I purchased (yes, purchased) an entire album that I can no longer download to my phone. It's an absolutely bizarre and offensive problem. I'll hit the "+add" button to put it in my library and it'll just make a loading icon and then promptly revert to "+add" again, with no feedback on why it failed.

It'd be one thing if I didn't literally own this album as much as one can legally own something digital, but my goodness this seems unjustifiable.
Thought this looked familiar. It's from 2015, and was covered here before[1].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9866632
Ask HN: What are some other good, modern PHP frameworks besides Laravel?
I've heard about and seen a lot of them but I' wondering if anyone has any recommendations.
This UX problem list is nearly identical to the problem list for the iOS podcast app also. Especially the first two!
so amazon is trying to corner the market of tablets-junior-cant-take-to-the-restroom market?
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How far is it from Silicon Valley to a really good trout stream? In Boise, it's a lot closer.

How about hiking in a wilderness area? Skiing?

Now, true, if you want high-quality Chinese food, Boise may not be your cup of tea (pun intended). But I bet there are enough tech people who like the outdoors more than the big city to make a small-ish tech hub in someplace like Boise.
Pointing to the highest performing companies that have been selected by the market is not really a fair comparison for a government agency.

It's more relevant to look at what a median tech company would end up doing, if they had to launch at scale without organic growth but had unlimited funding.
It's a 30min commute and if Bart extends not a big deal. Also people move.
I know people like to blame Reagan for lots of things, but Prop 13 was passed by voter initiative in 1978, Reagan was Governor from 1967 to 1975. He probably voted for it though.
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You can use any language, but it's not like they are all equal and have the same tooling available. Rust has some distinct features and there is a natural lack of resources as the language is still new, so it's interesting from a developers perspective that someone went through the work of doing all that from scratch and made it to the end.

Also it's an alternative to C++ which is heavily used in gamedev. I personally believe Rust can shine in gamedev and every experiment is interesting.
That's just not true. The first credible reporting on the existence of the investigation came from CNN, 10 days prior to Comey's testimony in March.
Thanks to the vagaries of prop 13, schools (and other municipal services) tend to get a lot better-funded from commercial real estate than housing. So we see cities prioritizing office space and not building enough housing to hold the people who will be working in those cities. It's pretty ridiculous.
The obvious counterargument is that the Bay Area has been trying exactly what you propose for years, and the result has been a crisis instead of a shifting of gravity to other locations.
I feel like I can also be sure the export isn't really going to drop much with people coming in, but the domestic usage will rise if you keep letting people in. So the mere fact that we export doesn't really seem to help things.
Wars are not "hatred". They are action. Specifically, action driven by hatred.

The internet is not a collection of action, rather, it is a collection of information.

If we do anything to restrict information, that very action restricts innovation and understanding.

> Most people on the Internet are actually spending their time in a small number of ecosystems, like Facebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube.

The very fact that most internet users spend their time on centralized networks lends itself as a perfect example of how controlled, but uncategorized information networks are detrimental to discussion. Imagine all of Reddit were on one subreddit. The lack of categorization would lead to an unruly, and useless platform for communication. The reason Reddit is so successful is that it promotes specific conversation about any topic, without restriction. The only way that is feasible is through categorization, via subreddits.

> we need an Internet 2.0

We need an "internet 2.0" to promote the ecosystem that existed with "internet 0.1". We need decentralization (like ZeroNet, IPFS, etc.) to promote free, categorized, distribution of information.
This is exactly what we lack in Atlanta, which, as you probably know, is notorious for its decentralisation and far-reaching sprawl. As a result, everything that's done in the Atlanta metro area suffers from narrow incorporated municipality focus and a total lack of regional-scale goals.
> But... one gallon of bottled water is more than a dollar.

A gallon of tap water isn't, and a gallon of agricultural well water is even cheaper.
Environmental requirements are often a back-door for NIMBY-ism. If you black-box the process, raising environmental concerns is a lever folks can pull to make specific proposed development more expensive and possibly cancelled. We have enough such levers. Everything of this "levers NIMBYs can pull to discourage development near them" category should get offloaded to a a bureaucracy that's empowered to ignore people yanking on them.
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This would be one possible step forward. Oracle would gain more time polishing everything and making it backwards compatible and when ready open it for everybody else.
If I remember correctly this kind of loan also doesn't affect your credit since you are borrowing your own money.
Unless you can get a Constitutional amendment to legalize and then implement controls on internal migration, this isn't an option you have. People are already moving here faster than housing is being built, and they have been for a long time. Maintaining a housing shortage doesn't prevent migration, it just means that when migration happens it results in a pressure-cooker of a housing market.

We'd need an enormous amount of building just to accommodate the people who are already here.

You want to stop growth, put controls on migration or job creation. Controls on housing aren't working.
I'm kind of confused as to why the Look and Show were developed/released in parallel. They're at similar price points and it looks like the Show could do anything that the Look could do, so why have them as separate projects?
Water is typically very cheap, when it's not bottled. So I imagine they aren't using bottled water, which would be outrageously priced, but hopefully it deters some people from buying it.
And people wonder why software is in the state that it's in...
It's perfectly democratic. Our elected state legislature is doing what they were elected to do. I'm sorry that you didn't like the result, but it's not undemocratic.
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It's not entirely "the same old way." There have been some improvements since 1790.
Canadian-style empty home taxes would be a fairly easy sell to most Democrats. I suspect you're glossing over some additional rhetoric that's coming with it if you're being called an anti-immigrant Trump supporter.
But how many people are going to move there to live in a bus? I certainly wouldn't. If property values get too high I'll just not move there. I don't understand this mentality where everybody thinks they should be able to afford to live in the best cities in the country, especially in California. It's just simple supply and demand. If housing prices get too high and people can't afford to live there they will live somewhere else. Period.

Now that's an oversimplification. There is a lot to be said for mixed income communities and whatnot, but just saying "oh I can't afford to live here this sucks" is not good enough.
Parent makes a valid point. The market will (and has been) deciding, as middle-margin, non-cutting edge tech begins relocating R&D across the country.

But that happening isn't particularly good for California or the Bay Area.
... and then the contractor turns around and gives you China-built parts and US-built software to run them, with little meaningful independence gained.

The industrial world by now is too globalized for this sort of approach to work. We keep pretending otherwise so that money keeps flowing and the general public doesn't freak out, but I bet even the almighty US cannot certify that most of their tech is built at home.
SMX, (http://smxemail.com) in Auckland, New Zealand. We're an email security / email hosting provider and have been using Clojure for 5ish years.

We use Clojure for our custom big data platform, Clojurescript for our DLP rules engine embedded in the mail flow (via SpiderMonkey) and our new ISP portal.
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Yes, they do. Water is a lot less expensive for farmers, always has been.

This [0] is a pretty good analysis of how California spends its water. One interesting point: instead of carefully installing low-flow fixtures and rationing showers and letting your lawn die, you could pay the california alfalfa industry about $2 to grow $2 less alfalfa for a year.

0: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/11/california-water-you-do...
Postgres JSONB is strictly better performing on a single node than MongoDB. You can also create triggers and things to properly validate your data and do other cool stuff you can't with Mongo.

There is literally no reason to ever use Mongo for a small-medium project anymore.

If you need tooling, check out the new pgAdmin 4: https://www.pgadmin.org/
Honestly, so would I. I took a project management class in college, and many of the examples were NASA projects because they were sexy. Sadly, I don't remember any case studies referring to project overruns. And, seriously, if you're looking at NASA projects, you shouldn't have trouble finding examples that went over budget or didn't make the deadline.

There are good lessons to learn from less-successful cases.
Being able to search through old emails and conversations.

Finding an attachment someone sent last week that you didn't have time to look at until now.

Finding a long set of instructions you sent to someone two years ago so you can forward it to someone else.
CA exports a large portion of its agricultural products, including several top exports that are very water intensive to grow (again, almonds, walnuts, dairy & beef).

Moreover, current irrigation methods in the valley are not ideal for water conservation. Many farmers have water rights dating to the 19th century allowing nearly unfettered access to whatever water they can find, providing no economic incentive to invest in conservation infrastructure.

There is no Californian Malthusian crisis, just a story of poor resource management.

https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/
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that is why if trump does manage to cut the EPA, it could drive down housing prices by increasing supply of new homes and apartments.
It's ridiculous this is the top trending submission when the president fired the FBI director that was investigating his ties to Russia. If political stories are fair game, this is important but a rounding error next to Comey.

@dang, the HN ranking system is so trivially hackable via downvotes and flags by a motivated minority.
Totally fair, but to play devil's advocate for a split second, let's not forget that the Census Dept has to make people aware of itself and get people to give their info willingly and within timelines, given no real incentive to do so.

Facebook, Amazon, and Google are collecting info that is willingly passed their way.

We are probably talking about buying data entry and management bloatware from a big mediocre enterprise contractor and then integrating the monstrosity.
I'm really struggling with Poe's Law with this comment.
I've been working on an OSGi platform for the last 6 years, and I can't agree with this more.

Let's hope the JDK doesn't adopt such wrongheaded approaches, and figures out a sensible way to implement modules. If they can't, then I'd be happy with the current state of third party opt-in approaches instead.