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> (and in HOAs may be subject to board approval)

Can't speak to other states, but Florida state law specifically overrides HOAs when it relates to solar panels on your roof. They are inhibited from preventing you from installing solar on your roof.
Pretty sure you can get it for visualization...
Facebook is optimized to get you addicted to your feed. Muted blue colors everywhere with contrasting bright "berry red" rewarding notifications. Images that are always more contrasted than the layout, etc.

Anecdotal: I use a custom Facebook skin that makes the whole UI red and add a background image. Since I've started using it, I spend less time on the website. It feels, in a way, more tiring to use the custom theme.
Python is incredibly popular, we know lots of companies use it. I'd be more intrested to see who uses Haskell, Lisp, ML, and other less popular languages.
Apparently I'm already following them - thank you though.
If you feel that way and want to contribute, the thing to do is to spend 30 seconds with Google (if that) answering your own question, then posting a summary of what you've learned for other HN readers who may not have heard of Julia.

The thing NOT to do is get mad because people are talking about something that you personally have never heard of.

The thing to REALLY not do is to actually expend energy posting a public statement about how you're upset because people are talking about things that you personally have never heard of and can't be bothered to spend a few seconds learning about. No good will ever come of it, especially when you could have spent that same time and energy answering your own question.
The thing is (at least in the US), it's not the case that these places "don't matter". In fact, they matter disproportionately more. Living in a populous state, say CA as the most popular, costs voters power.

A CA electoral college delegate represents the will of ~710,000 voters. A WY delegate represents the will of only ~200,000 voters, so a vote in WY counts more than 3x as much as a vote in CA. (For much the same reason, congress also sees disproportionate representation of smaller states, since the number of senators is fixed.)

Not to mention gerrymandering results in outsized influence of rural/urban boundaries as well.
Maybe take a more scientific approach at showing carbon counts? For example, what were the carbon counts 1000s/1000000s of years ago as compared to now? Was carbon ever higher in the distant past than now, for example before humans? The "Carbon Doomsday" idea seems more a political idea than a scientific one, but maybe that is the point too. The correlation between carbon and temperature is just not scientifically working out, hence all the bad climate predictions based on carbon counts.
He uses twitter almost like a blog

Yep, and I'm more than a little disappointed in myself about that. Something about the form factor of writing there and the perceived "well it doesn't have to be shippable, it's just twitter" quality bar lets me keep up a habit of writing there almost daily while I struggle "sitting down to write essays" even on a monthly basis.
License plates are much more unique than faces and they do not change over time and you can't put a hat and sunglasses on them. What they lose in quantity they make up in quality. They are a much bigger intrusion but for a large majority of the population instead of literally everyone. The difference isn't very meaningful from a surveillance POV since you can build shadow profiles.

Two can play at the "I don't care about your problems because they don't affect me" game.

Some people live in rural areas with little to no government infrastructure that can be used for dragnet surveillance. They don't have to care about the government tracking faces with the subway security cameras.

That's a dumb game to play. Dragnet surveillance is bad in all forms.
At least Russia now is ready to flung their new technologies to anyone who can pay for them (selling S-400 to Turkey for example).

So that _nations_ can have access to pretty advanced technologies.
Google should recruit talent from youngsters by giving them a field trip to their various cafes.

"work hard and study, and this will be the food you can eat every day" as a motivational trope
I think there should be disincentives for any company to grow beyond a certain size. Huge companies provide a short-term benefit to the consumer but in the ling run they cause a lot of damage to innovation and the economy.
$120 is still astronomical.
If you let them control the narrative, they will control you and hence the market. However, after they start controlling you, their downfall begins.
I grew up with a Rhotacism, I pronounced my Rs like Ws.

For me the biggest issue was bullying. My first name is Robert, so I became known as Wobert. What also didn't help was that I was born in England and moved to Northern Ireland in the mid-80s. My non-rhotic English accent made me a target for bullying like you wouldn't believe.

I spent my teenage years working on fixing it by myself. Just sitting practicing my speech. Eventually I lost my English accent and sort-of fixed my rhotacism. I say sort-of my Rs sound like Rs, but they ae very flat and I can't roll them at all.

Occasionally I'll mispronounce an R as a W, but usually that only happens when I'm tired or very distracted.
Will an ultrasound show it, perhaps one could book in for a "baby-scan", cheapest scan in UK is about £40. Is ultrasound not supercheap already?
You're not “addicted” to tech (and why it's so dangerous to say so)
You could add substance to your comment by listing some things that became big after 2010, and saying whether or not they seemed like toys early on.

One example: Bitcoin (2009, but few had heard of it before 2010), cryptocurrencies and blockchains. I think these support cdixon's claim.

Another: Snapchat (2011) and other ephemeral messaging apps. These certainly seemed like toys.
Pardon my French but you’re talking out of your ass.

Unityscript is the Js clone they have/had (they’ve been pushing for C# to be the main language).

You can use null coalescing.

You can use all of Reflection bar platform restrictions on AOT ie. iOS (don’t recommend it in a game though...)

You can use a async/await.

You’re writing “real” C# with Unity, either with a custom Mono runtime or IL2CPP, neither of which turns your C# into “fake” C#

And Unity3D is “terrible” enough to serve 700 million players.
Isn't this largely offset by the reduced efficiency of smaller engines?

Larger combustion chambers are highly desirable because you can increase the maximum heat in the center of the combustion chamber. By varying the fuel mix, the outer portions can burn cooler to avoid damaging the chamber, while the center burns extremely hot for better efficiency. Basically, the better the ratio of cross-sectional area to circumference, the better the engine.

There's also the issue of having to replicate the turbopumps for each engine, all of the plumbing and gimbaling mechanics (though only the center engine on F9 has full gimbal control), etc.

Of course, there are downsides to large chambers such as combustion instabilities, some scaling like you've mentioned, production and economics, overall vehicle design, etc.

Basically, there are many design tradeoffs in rocket engine design. After all, it's rocket science!
Very cool. I saw this and imagined the future - maybe compiled as a webassembly binary.
Looking forward to the actual votes leaking, that'll be a nice shit show.
What a totally libtarded article!
Albuquerque born and raised, I use up for north and east for the same reason.

Everyone else I've asked in ABQ uses up for "the direction I'm going".
This meme of the "inferior Soviet technology" needs to die in a fire. It's soothing for the fragile Western conservative ego, but it's just not true - not, at least, with regards to space.

The failure of the N1 program was a leadership issue, period. Just like America trailing the Russians at first was a leadership and lack of focus issue. One team kept winning, then they lost their captains and their funding. Meanwhile, the other team got great leaders and awesome sponsors and started busting their collective ass really hard around the same time - and the wheel of fortune suddenly turned. Funny how that works, isn't it?

What's strange is that the true events sound a heck of a lot more "american" (work hard and reap the laurels, or slack off and be a loser) and yet you keep hearing the same bullshit all the time as to how "the Russian stuff was just inferior". It's not true. And it's not a good story to tell your kids.
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> Something that could offer similar usability in C definitely sounds exciting

For painting, I have positive experience with this cross-platform C library: https://github.com/memononen/nanovg It’s tiny, has very few dependencies, and the performance is good even on relatively slow hardware like Broadcom or Mali embedded GPUs.

However, it lacks higher level stuff. There’s no layout, input handling, styles, controls, advanced typesetting, or animations.
Shoutcast / icecast still is amazing. Still running a few environments and they perform great.

If you're looking to tune in to something, I like http://www.somafm.com, possibly the original spotify / coding playlist. (BeatBlender, etc)
And your conclusion mistakes coincidence and correlation, which is the cardinal sin in medical trials. Quote “in at least one case the drug worked”. This is not a valid conclusion. All you can conclude from your singular experience is that in at least one case, taking the drug was followed by speedy recovery, but other factors were not controlled for.
They could do something similar to the FCC's OTARD rules, which make it generally hard for local governments and HOAs to impose limits or red tape around installing satellite dishes and antennae. This was hugely successful in making satellite TV competitive.
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> Is the proposal to make it optional?

No. What gave you that idea?

For reference, here is the text that was adopted today: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...

For the moment, you need to click on the PDF icon on the page to get the PDF version of the text, the HTML is not there yet at the moment of writing. Apart from the looong recitals, the core of the text adopted today is simply the following:

The European Parliament [...]
1.
Calls on the Commission to conduct a thorough assessment of
Directive 2000/84/EC and, if necessary, come up with a proposal
for its revision;
2.
Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission,
the Council, and the governments and parliaments of the Member States.

Edit: Oh, but one of the recitals does state that "it is crucial to maintain a unified EU time regime even after the end of biannual time changes", so I think your worry is for now unfounded.
You can't fool hikers and runners for very long, but you can fool people who want to be hikers and runners, since the shoes mostly sit in the closet.
The "big 4" should be disrupted by the market, not the government. Of those firms listed, only Amazon seems to be in a position of solid, lasting strength.

Don't believe it? Remember Microsoft? They used to dominate our industry and crush innovation. Their tactics made Uber's seem soft and fuzzy. Sure the government gave them a knock but that didn't slow them down. Do you know what did? Apple and iOS. They missed the boat on mobile and now they're still valuable but not an existential threat to the industry.

It's really hard for a tech company to dominate over the decades. Apple has been near death multiple times in the past and while they have a ton of money, they aren't exactly innovating anymore. It will happen again, it's in their DNA.

Facebook is just Myspace 2.0 that was smart enough to snatch up Instagram (starting to show its age), and Whatsapp. Acquisitions != innovation.

None of these companies are threats to technological progress in the long term. Something new will show up a that disrupts their entire model. It's happened with every boom cycle in tech history.

The trick is to look for the next big thing and ride the wave and not look to the single most regressive institution in existence (the government) to come help you.
No discussion of our colloquialisms for measures of distance? "Over yonder" vs "a piece" vs "a ways"?
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Speaking of more control, why does everyone insist on trying to make my experience better? Why can't these "social" services let me be? Just give me a reverse chronological feed (newest item first, no sorting, no filtering) add some ads in between if you must but clearly mark them as sponsored content. There, done.

Why do they insist on optimizing everything for everyone. I don't want it. I don't need it. If you're reading this, please stop. Or at least give me an opt-out!
It has to do with the rocket equation [1].

Getting into orbit requires a lot of 'delta-V'. Part of this is gravity (needing to move up the gravity well) but more important are speed (you need to go really fast to stay in orbit) and aerodynamic drag when moving through the atmosphere.

There have been no real improvements to the exhaust velocity of rocket engines (at least none that work to get into orbit). As such, to get more delta-V we need to do that with the dry-full mass ratio.

This means we really care about the dry mass of our rockets.
This in turn pushes engineering to the limits.
The sweet-spot between weight-savings and reliability is skewed more towards the weight-savings side.

Beyond the rocket equation, there is the issue of little iteration being possible.
Launching rockets is expensive, so it is not done often. Moreover, failing to launch a rocket is even more expensive.
This makes it take a long time to figure out what works by real life testing.
Combine the weight skimming with the massive forces and complexity of a rocket, and you get some problems that can essentially be found only by real life tests.

As real life tests are few and far between, it just takes longer to learn the lessons needed.
This is something space-X has gotten quite good at, by always iterating on their design and doing tests. This is helped by the relative cheapness of launches for them. Cheap launches means you can try more per launch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
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Agreed on both points. The fact that the Director of PR could just tell a bold faced lie about the PII shows how serious the Bee and the parent company take this.
The bigger danger here just sounds like size in general.

If AWS maliciously screwed people over in a blatant way and was only 3% of the market, there's a lot less incentive to let them keep on keeping on than if they're 50% of the market.

I think a lot of ills of the current system could be avoided if you had tax penalties or such that scaled aggressively with company size and revenue. Intentionally give up some economies of scale in exchange for flexibility, competitive pressures, and resiliency.
Am I the only one who would pay $10/mth for twitter if it meant I could only be tweeted at by other people who are also paying?
Since everyone else in here is using Django or Flask, I feel obliged to chime in with Express on Node.JS
I wonder what would have happened if they took all that development money, didn't worry at all about stealth, and just tried to make it as unsinkable as possible.
Is this site legit? It seems in between sketchy and low key to me
Just because the client-side application's source code is readable in a text editor it doesn't mean it's easier to skin than a binary blob who's theming support is documented.

Not to mention how your method could break tomorrow without warning because Facebook (or whatever you're skinning) push out an update that's incompatible with the theme you've hacked on to it.
> your hair is dumb and your glasses make you look like a frog

vs

> you're black, so you must be on welfare
Hey, random HN poster.

I too went to the kindergarten and know what statistical significance is. Surprise. So thanks a bunch, but no need for lecturing on the basics of scientific method. I am also a part of a rational part of the society, which you appear to be trying to exclude me from if I'm reading your comment correctly.

> I’d bet that ...

You can bet whatever you want. I had numerous flu's in my lifespan of almost 50 years. All but one were the same, and the exception ended in less than a week. It was lab-tested to confirm that it was in fact a flu virus. It was the only one when I was taking an antiviral med.
> why does everyone insist on trying to make my experience better?

Why not? However, it sounds like your problem is that they're making it worse.
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I think I like the spirit of your idea but I'm not so sure about the execution. What is the certain size? Who determines that? Will it be updated frequently enough to handle changing times / technology trends?
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The recent falcon heavy launch (and some falcon 9 launches before it) actually had the boosters land using 3 engines.
So going by ratio, it should still be able to land if it had 3 larger engines.

This 3 engine landing failed for the centre core, which is why it was lost. Specifically, there wasn't enough 'lighter fluid' to relight all 3 engines required, only one engine was lit.
Thus the booster tried a 3-engine landing on a single engine, and hit the water at 300mph IIRC.
But it's not only if you use a shitty ISP. It's if any hop between you and the server is being shitty. And only 1 or 2 of those can you control as the user.
> The zero-carb community believes that we evolved to mainly eat meat, and that ancient humans turned to plants only in times of near-starvation.

Correct me if I'm wrong but haven't most scientific studies of our evolutionary process revealed the opposite of this? For example, actual carnivores that have evolved over time don't require dietary supplements of vitamin c. Or if you look at the structure and prominence of our teeth they are clearly not designed to be solely for eating meat...
No idea :-). A progressive tax system for companies would possibly do the trick.
Does it support m3u or playlists over HTTP?
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Sure it wasn't the browser that filled it in?
The arctic has fossils of crocodiles and palm trees, and that's not because of continental drift, so the earth has been much warmer in the past, and life adapted. It's a problem for civilization because we would have to adapt quickly, causing a lot of disruption. But we're not headed for Venus-like conditions.
I don't care what time zone I live in so long as it stops changing every six months.
Users often have very little choice when it comes to their ISP. Regional ISP monopolies are very much a thing in many countries.
And the Romanian, the Finn, and the Balt. As well as the Frenchman taking the train to Britain. The Greek, too, though he doesn't share a land border with CET-using EU countries.
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Do you really think it's that bad? Can't you just ignore them?
What's realistic about calling for a large-scale rollout of something which has never been built, in an industry where cost-overruns are typical? Shouldn't you build at least one before betting the farm on it?

Meanwhile, coal is already on the way out in the US, replaced by... unrealistic? ... power sources.
Shoutcast and the real-time visualisations are two killer features Winamp had that I don't think any media player since has even come close to competing with.

I'm not saying there aren't still decent media players out there, but honestly I think Winamp is still the best there's ever been.
The problem is that we move from one dominant behemoth to another. In the meantime small business gets crushed by either.
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I'm an artist myself and I still think it applies. If I take a client they are going to want it done in a reasonable time frame. At some point I will have to make the call of "Good enough to ship."

But even when it comes to personal projects it's useless to work on the same project forever. Often that stunts growth (new pieces teach you new things) and it also makes you a lot less prolific. I've met so many artists who let the fear of not being perfect stop them from drawing much at all. They fidget over the same drawing for months and even when they finally finish it's because they give up, hate what they made and are sick of looking at it. Something they might have been passionate about is now a source of sadness and frustration to the point they don't want to do it anymore. There is no such thing as perfect. Even the best masterpieces in history had to be declared "finished" at some point.
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And google (.... or alphabet)? Between their domination of mobile OS and search engines, I think they have equal lasting strength as Amazon. Plus their communication tools aren't exactly uncommon either, albeit replaceable.
Ah, you again. Yes, "correlation is not a causation". I am aware of that one too, believe it or not.
The diet she's describing is more commonly known as the ketogenic (keto) diet, rather than the "Bitcoin carnivore" diet.
So instead of being a perfectionist who might never see the end of their work, be a doist and never try to complete your work to begin with.

Yeah, I'm old enough to see how that works out on large timescales. No thanks.
Meanwhile, in the affordable consumer desktop world, Windows is still king. Wanna game on a PC? Windows. What OS dominates professional workstations in offices? Windows.

Windows proficiency is still considered the standard for computer literacy. Your toy phone can do things, but thats nothing compared to a laptop or desktop.

And theyre making a move on the cloud too, leveraging their dominance in productivity suites. It has been more effective than many here guessed, with FLOSS like LibreOffice competing in the same space.

And they still have those same business practices.
That actually makes me think about 2 things now:

1. Being in the zone is good, but you may be functioning mostly on instinct, so the more experience you have, the better results you ll get. By that I mean that it s where that thing called craft helps you. You then have some techniques that you can rely on, and not only your gut feelings.

2. While being in the zone, it's still good to jump out of it and criticize your own work (as in you always have to be your best critic). It s almost as if criticizing yourself should be a reflex, part of your instinct. Sometimes I imagine someone commenting what I do and me trying to defend my work. If I can't defend it well, that means I better look into :)

And I've mentioned that in another comment, but that applies to any work, whether it is considered creative or technical (knowing that there is a big overlap between those). As a person doing films and web app, my thinking is not very different from one to the other.

(Thanks to you for making me think about this)
Your answer does not address the criticisms in the comment you are replying to. If the Asian bird flu epidemic was in 2005 there is no correlation to an increase in production in 2003. Could reduced production in the first 4 years of the drug's approved existence be explained by a challenging production process?
And 99% of the agile scrummasters are just selfishly barking up the chain and their koolaid-drinking devotees use the "methodology" to justify shipping barely funcrional shit all the while disguising patches and bug fixes as "incremental value add".

But in all seriousness, I feel like it's a false dichotomy. You can be practical and still demand thoughtfulness and quality. It really kills me when people come to the conclusion that they're mutually exclusive.
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