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You can find plenty of examples on both sides South Carolina sends 7 republicans an 1 Democrat to the house, but it's own biased house is 75 Republican to 45 Democrat. Which is a very safe majority of power, while still better representing the actual voting. It also contains wacky maps like this one: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/SC/2

Still, my concern is not about the results. My concern is how easy it is to game this proposal.
Yeah it is very bureaucratic indeed. If you want to raise money or add shareholders you need to make official appointments w/ lawyers and pay significant fees.
I agree that equal opportunity should be available to both, which is why I support Girl Scouts opening up their membership to boys too.
I have plenty of backbone. During my divorce, most of my relationships were to men who were either not white, not American or both.*

One of the reasons such climates kill interracial relationships before they can begin is because of the awareness that racism makes the personal commitment outsized and this does weird things to the relationship. Standing your ground publicly merely to flirt is a de facto signal of serious personal commitment. This makes it impossible to explore getting to know the person enough to decide whether or not you really want to make that kind of commitment. It requires you to de facto make a serious commitment on too little information. It is like being asked to sign a contract without reading it.

I didn't comment on that aspect of it in part because I don't feel I can explain it very well. But, to give an example, people who have illicit affairs always feel this must be their True Love. (Unless they are chronic philanderers.)

The very fact that they broke a taboo to get what they wanted convinces them that this person must be uniquely, highly valuable and special. The reality is that very few affairs lead to happily ever after. If the person actually gets divorced, the affair typically also ends within a year. The vast majority of affairs are only evidence that the primary relationship isn't working. But that isn't what most people conclude about their own life when they stray. They conclude this person must be super, duper special. That assumption fails to result in happily ever after in the vast majority of cases.

It is a form of Sunk Cost Fallacy.

FWIW, I do my damnedest to establish romantic relationships privately. I feel strongly that it is a decision "between me and my baby" and I feel the rest of the world can just butt the hell out. I don't like being rude to people in public but, no, I don't want to hear even casual comments about "Are you two serious?" or whatever. If you have to ask, it probably isn't any of your business in the slightest. My private life is not something I feel is an appropriate topic for casual chit chat from mere acquaintances.

* http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/10/reducing-bia...
can you elaborate on more details? seems fun/interesting
I find the man pages descriptions of both true and false zen like and have wanted to make t-shirts out of them for years. On Ubuntu, the man page copyright is claimed by FSF, can I make a shirt?
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This is totally anecdotal but, moving from Mountain View to Denver was night and day. A couple of examples:

Work seems to go slower here. It seems even the frantic pace of startup life takes a back seat to work life balance.

People aren't usually in a hurry on the sidewalks downtown. It can be infuriating if you have somewhere to go.
"Conflict" is mentioned four times in the article and it very clearly states:

More than two years of fighting between the Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels has crippled the country, causing widespread internal displacement, the collapse of the public health system, and leaving millions on the brink of famine.

It does not, however, mention US/UK support for it. I agree it would be better to connect the dismay that this article engenders in the reader with outrage for our support for Saudi Arabia.
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what do you mean source available? can i get the source and compile it myself?
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Ok. Well, I do hope you work on improving the response times. I think it would do wonders for the popularity of the wayback machine (and in the end, financial contributions).
I had a lot of fun with the NES-style Mega Man 9, which was released in 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_9
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Wait, who said that they need to compress the air all the way to Earth pressure?

None of your critique makes sense without that assumption, and nowhere in your post do you say where that comes from.
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Do you disagree that being white, on average, causes one to be less exposed to racism? I don't think that is a particularly radical concept.

I also think that being a male, on average, causes one to be less directly exposed to cat-calling and other everyday-sexism. Do you take offense at my suggestion of male privilege?
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Ideally: the Representative who is chosen for a district (the weird shapes we are talking about) _represents_ everyone of the populous of that district. That way in Congress, when someone asks "hey do your constituents want a factory next to that highway plus a bunch of taxbreaks?" the representative knows which way to vote, as s/he _represents_ the local people. The weird shapes, even if they increase "efficiency" don't actually account for locality much. It'd be better to use something like commuting maps to draw regions to ensure locality.
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"it would be as slow as conventional rail" - citation?

Even Reason Foundation (which is as biased as it gets - it's funded by Koch brothers and ideological critic of almost any government investment) claim SF to LA times will be 3:30 to 4:40, which is faster than any train today.
And now there is a Brexit looming... Poor LTD owners :/
I prefer Swift for general purpose iOS development but I have one app that leans heavily on a lot of C++ DSP code and that one is likely to stay ObjC just because interfacing ObjC & C++ is so painless.
is this a git->god typo, or a statement about your feelings towards Linus?
After having seen a comment addition cause a bug[1], I appreciate the effort.

1) really damn weird compiler bug was all we could think of
Agreed on many of these. Diversity is low, foodies would go through withdrawal if they came from somewhere like SF bay area, and outside say Boulder, LoDo/downtown Denver or maybe FC it is just car-centric sprawl.

I-70 Denver to Summit county really needs a freaking train... Ugh
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That's true and it would still make life difficult, but at that point though you may be invested enough in the relationship to push through with it. Love/attraction is a powerful thing, but it needs to mature in order to overcome social boundaries.
I had the same experience. I was given a small performance issue with iterators to diagnose and had help from someone more experienced in that area.

I learned about how llvm does loop optimization and wrote a small null loop optimization pass. It turned out to be related to another problem and not need, but the experience was terrific.
To be fair, the mascot character was a fad at that point. There were a bunch of stand alone games (because they didn't do well enough to get follow ups) with character designs like that. Never played 3DO, but I played some of the later Gex games on Playstation, and found it enjoyable enough.
This.

Make no mistake here. This has nothing to do with giving "equal opportunity" of activities to all.

But a way of suppressing healthy masculine development.

The girl scouts will never accept boys and probably cite some bogus reason due to "safety from icky boys" as the reason.

There is nothing wrong with having groups for people based on ethnic background (Black Lives Matter, etc), gender or religiosity.

Having girls join the Boy Scouts was a massive shit test, and they failed it.
It is a trend in non-technical positions to ask faux coding problems that sound like tech questions from a CS class, then ask a technical expert if the answer is better than the original code. Originally it was supposed to be for developers to show that they know some basic programming out of college. It morphed into an easy to administer test that was applied to all technical applicants. The questions became harder.

That trend is starting to die off from what I've seen.

You might have some luck asking about the technical requirements for the position. Admins may use a bit of code, but it is usually not a core component of their job.

You could also point out that this type of question strongly favors recent college graduates at the expense of self taught and discipline transitioning workers. It can be construed as a form of age discrimination by motivated lawyers.
Animal training skills are key to parenthood.
What are the people of the HN community using CockroachDB for? In what kind of scenarios is this a good tool to choose?
No pity from my side, but yes. Some folks will pay a hefty price for the shortcut.
Agreed, "schism" is a better term in this instance
ranked choice voting is interesting. It also has its fair share of problems (as most voting methods do)

I believe the 14th amendment specifically applies to state elections under the "equal protection clause".
> You can't make devices that deal with motors and rare earth magnets and spinning platters coated with ruthenium and other rare materials at insanely exacting tolerances, encapsulated in hermetically sealed Helium bubbles for cheaper than you can photolithographically lay out a bunch of NAND gates in cheap bulk semiconductors.

Citation required??

Western Digital's gross margins are 40%, while Micron's gross margins are around 46%. This suggests that the margins of both NAND chips and Spinning Hard Drive rust are roughly equivalent at current market prices (at least, within a magnitude or so).

Large-scale manufacturing turns out to be efficient. At the moment, prices suggest that Hard Drives are indeed far more efficient to make.

If your hypothetical were true, then we'd expect Micron's gross margins to be larger. From my understanding, the high-tech NAND gates have a relatively low yield. Yields on bulk semiconductors are no where near as good as the yields of Hard Drives.
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No, Amtrak supposedly has priority by law: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/04/29/...
I know there are feasibility questions, but have you thought about how such travel could affect the course of U.S. politics?

One could feasibly live in Utah where land is cheaper, but still commute to California for work. This would both lead to a purpling of many red states, as well a providing a path for interior state natives to find good jobs in coastal city centers.

Knowing the status of American politics where highly populated coastal states are overpowered in the Senate by the seats of the near empty states in the interior, one can see that if the potential for hyperloops is realized, there will could very well be a massive shift of power back to the populace with more equally distributed representation.
re: #2 - We don’t have a published benchmark yet, but we will start sharing these in the coming months. Our early tests on key-value workloads (the published benchmarks will include TPC-C like workloads) have shown that our throughput is on par with Postgres when it's running with similar guarantees (ie serializable mode rather than read-committed).
AFAIK, high speed rails do not have gaps. Expansion is controlled by brute force : lots of clamping and massive supports.
I believe this trick wouldn't work. Such a big and self confident man is the best target for jokes. Size gives us a lot of ideas for jokes, self confidence guarantees that he wouldn't become angry and wouldn't kill us. We can make fun from joking, he can to appreciate our awe for his muscles interpreting our jokes as jealousy. So it would be fun for all.

But jokes about sizes or other physical properties of women is a big no-no in a world where sexual harassment accusations is a real threat.

There is one big difference between The Rock and woman: The Rock have no fear to become a subject of sexual harassment, so we can do almost anything, he would interpret our behaviour by any way but sexual harassment. He could think that we are stupid clowns, or that we are funny. He could think anything, but the idea that he is the subject of sexual harassment wouldn't cross his mind. No way.

On the contrary women could interpret any our behaviour as a sexual harassment. You have no chances: women on average have higher verbal intellect, so if you choose one at random, there is more than 50% likelyhood that she is more able to find sexual harassment in your words than you.
Because someone you trust can compile and verify that the source they audited matches the binary you got from the app store.
IIRC the sega version was the superior one, is that true?
Things are still sandboxed, but the sandbox has grown a lot since early Windows 8 ("Metro" era). Depending on your definition of "sane", it seems rather "sane" to me to have at least some sandbox protection of the applications to run. Yes, Windows 8 felt like a straight-jacket more than a sandbox to some, but current UWP, especially with .NET Standard 2.0 support in the FCU, at least builds with most of the libraries even if some of them are essentially no-ops or (security) exceptions at runtime.

So, you still can't touch the registry by default, but why would you want to? There are much better places to store stuff.

The UWP is meant to be a replacement for Win32, so it shouldn't be a shock that a lot of Win32 components aren't available by default.

However, you can use the Desktop Bridge and request permission in your app manifest for more privileges, including things like registry access. The Desktop Bridge has a lot of examples out there on things you can do. You can use the Desktop Bridge to transition a WPF app slowly to UWP over time. For instance, you could launch UWP screens from your WPF app, allowing you to move piece-at-a-time if you wanted. There are even samples on how to migrate settings currently stored in the registry (ugh, why) over to Local AppData storage like a proper application, to transition away from Win32 bad practices. (Of course, the parts of the application that need the Desktop Bridge will only work on Windows with a Win32 subsystem.)
The Very Important Question is how much time and money it takes to close the company, not how to open it. Not all startups are successful, so it always makes sense to think about the shutdown.
E.g.

Don't call my conspiracy theory "baseless"! https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=804694104&oldid=80...

-Fan of anonymous Paul Gosar, Arizona Congressperson,
To many familiar with open source, "fork" implies some sort of intractable difference: personality, legal, technical decision, etc. "Incompatible change" seems more accurate, at least based on terms I'm used to hearing.
Iran, a Shia country, is getting more powerful, which Saudi Arabia (probably rightly) sees as a threat to its regional dominance.

In general, Shias and Sunnis got along quite peacefully until a few decades ago.
Meh. The imminency of "Major New Technology Just Around The Corner" has always been a favourite argument for the anti-progress crowd.

EDIT to add: Before Hyperloop, it was Maglev.

And frankly, a significantly better argument against HS2 is that it's an impossibly expensive boondoggle.
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I'd argue that, it's not remotely the most important part nor is sub-typing. Encapsulation encourages better OO, but you can take a well encapsulated OO program, and remove all encapsulation by making all the data public, and that program is still a well structured OO program. OO is about the way objects talk to each other to accomplish work, the message, the API between objects; it's not about the many little things like encapsulation that encourage better messaging. There are dozens of practices that encourage better OO, but you can write good OO without them if you know what good OO is and don't need those training wheels.
How would that deal with popular independents? Would they get two seats if they pull 40% of the electorate?
Any restreams that don't require a login?

Edit found one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sjOKx5yntC4
If they know numbers are inflated falsely, arent they duping advertisers than? If using CPM and 50% of impressions are fake, that halves their revenue. Facebook, Twitter, etc, all the same
Python has been the language of choice for many physicists (when not doing Fortran) since the early 2000s.
No matter how bad those Learn X in 21 Days books were, I really wish there was something for Rust. Sometimes it seems like Rust moves too fast and docs are always quickly out if date or fail to inclusive enough to be useful.

I often hear "since 1.x you should be doing y with z feature now but that is only in current and the rust book doesn't have a section on it yet"

Rust to me is still very much feels to me a moving target.
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I’m currently a developer at Cockroach working on interleaved tables.

If by multi tenancy you mean sharding by a particular column (or set of columns) to groups of nodes, interleaved tables are probably not what you’re looking for. Table partitioning is currently on the roadmap and you can find the RFC here https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RF....
Why not? My issue with districts are that they are not representative, not that they look weird. The only "real" issue with crazy districts is that the administrative costs might be higher (i.e. they might require more polling places.)
Something I would love to see is an open-source attitude entering into the furniture manufacture ecosystem.

What Ikea sells you is, essentially:

a) a set of instructions for making furniture out of basic components
b) those components, produced and distributed through a highly-efficient supply chain

So break those two apart! Let hobbyists and carpenters share or sell their furniture designs. Just specify the components in a standard way, so suppliers can compete to supply the components for each design.

So you turn a monolithic business into one where smaller groups can compete on each part of the system. One company can cheaply supply cut wood in Seattle, another just sells its funky shelving designs without worrying about the infrastructure.

Most bits of this ecosystem already exist -- the furniture-making hobbyists, the DIY stores, the suppliers of nails and screws. They just need a bit of systemisation (and marketing) to pull them together into a system that can compete with a monolithic supply chain.
Yep - but many people (myself included) see this as a good thing. :) It leads to drastic reduction in stress and an overall healthier (mind and body) lifestyle.

But if you are used to high stress and crappy work/life balance (or have adapted to that lifestyle) I can see how it would try your patience.
Didn't expect to see Dick putting his name on this one...
I think it's not about lying, but very often software upgrades are not backward compatible, in that case, everybody should upgrade, that's all. It is probably more intuitive concept for the mainstream market than saying "a hard fork is coming soon".
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It is flexible to an extent, but you still can't e.g. deference a pointer to a struct passed as an argument. And that's where much of the interesting detail is for many calls.
War is the biggest factor in this, but Yemen had a very serious problem with water scarcity to begin with. They were already on track to run out of water in their main city within a few years. Many were dependent on trucked-in water.[1] Now even that is impossible.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...
One of four (MXNet and CNTK alongside TF and Theano), and the Amazon deep learning API forked Keras to default to MXNet support before it was really ready - which irked the Keras authors quite a bit.
We have natural gas pipelines that have to maintain a far higher pressure difference, and they are in the same order of magnitude in diameter. They're not expensive. Way less than high speed rail lines per mile.
That's barely faster than driving, once you account for the time spent moving between your origin/destination and the train station as well as transferring luggage.
haha, very true.
These days, new features are required to be documented before they're stabilized, so you shouldn't be running into that anymore.

Plus, even with that advice, you can still do y the old way; we don't break things, we add new ones. Idioms are always evolving in every language, though it's true that in new ones, they evolve faster.
A quick Google search after reading this comment of yours gave me this → http://www.google.com/patents/US5887146
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To be fair there are little day to day effects of the cholera epidemic for people in the UK and people generally prefer stories more immediately applicable to them
> Most of the drama around Bitcoin doesn't change the fact that Bitcoin seems to be the best store of value in the history of humanity.

I look forward to seeing this on n-gate because it's quite possibly the most hilariously ignorant sentence ever on Hackernews (and there are a LOT of contenders).
Everybody should be able to take wood shop in high school. It's hands-down the most useful class I took in those four years.

You can go a long way with a decent hand-saw and a $30 Black & Decker cordless drill. People are weirdly impressed when you can knock together a book case or a picnic table. And probably the most fun project I've worked on in the last year was slamming together a tool shed over Labor Day weekend.
Another benefit of redux-saga not mentioned here is the ability to build stateful sagas. For example, something like a game loop can be encoded in a saga like this:

export default function* playGame({ getState, selectors }) {
yield take(GAME_READY);

const refreshDelay = 1000 / FPS;

while (true) {
yield take(START_GAME_PLAY);

while (true) {
const {
gameState: {
speed,
isPlaying,
gameTime,
},
} = getState();

if (!isPlaying) {
// game play has stopped
break;
}

const timeDelta = refreshDelay * speed;
yield put(setGameTime(gameTime + timeDelta));

// sleep
yield call(delay, refreshDelay);
}
}
}
Assuming fake users don't add to revenue (by not clicking on ads, for example), shouldn't fake users depress ARPU? The numerator remains constant while the denominator increases.
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