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1. Income redistribution via social welfare programs has massively increased since 1970. The actual statistics contradict the theses of the equality sophists.

2. The unions that pushed wages up 1950-1970 also eroded America's manufacturing competitiveness and efficiency, which contributed to the outsourcing of manufacturing. The reason union membership numbers in the private sector declined was because the industries that employed unions contracted. And that was largely the doing of unions and the very generous collective bargaining agreements they got for themselves. IOW the gains they brought about were not sustainable. In contrast, the wage gains attained in the pre-union, free market era of the late 19th century were sustainable. They accompanied an increase in the competitiveness of American manufacturing, instead of coming at its expense.
I disagree with the main thesis of this article. I use 5-7am to sleep every day. I don't know why the author chose to pick these specific times as the only time you can organize your life. I would argue that being organized and reflecting on your goals etc. can be done whenever you feel like it. Doesn't have to be between 5-7am...

The article seems geared towards people with a 9-5 and kids. That's cool, but don't act like you are holier than thou for waking up at 5am and doing stuff. Plenty of organized healthy productive people who sleep during that time.
Yeah, but political ads
1) won't sustain the adtech industry by themselves
2) are much easier to convince people to regulate/outlaw
The problem is that by the time it's warmed up enough to actually run as fast as advertised, the world has already moved on. And when it still doesn't, figuring out why means digging through a giant pile of complexity that you didn't ask for. Thanks, but no thanks; I wasted enough years on Java.
You are correct, sir: 79 dependencies. Need more coffee!

The influence of Bundler is just another example of Yehuda Katz doing something initially perceived as unpopular having a massive long-term impact on developer ecosystems. He is the Erdős of the web dev world. I wish he would sell options on his future endeavours like David Bowie did.

Anyhow, in trying to keep my initial comment relatively brief, I held back on several points; what I really and truly don't get about the 750k thing is how anyone can track the libraries available. You know... with their brains. In Rails, gems are big ideas: authentication, an ORM, the ability to address all of AWS, send tweets. The idea that someone would even think to publish a "left-pad" (which I understand is just missing from the also-missing stdlib) as something people should import is what seems crazy. What makes you stop and think... wait, I'm typing too many characters, I need to see if there's anything on Github that can insert spaces at the beginning of a string. How would you even know what it's called? Is there a module for concatenating two strings? When does it become silly?

How is it possible that finding a library to add padding which may or may not exist, doing even cursory code review and integrating it not take longer than just writing a few lines of code?

Using the example of the escape-string-regexp module mentioned in the whitepaper... this would be a deeply flawed thing to add to your project. It has a hard-coded error message that has zero affordances for localization strategies. It is, at best, a few random lines from someone's hobby app.

If every one of those 1014 modules in an empty project have weird, unknown-unknown failure modes, that sounds like a recipe for trouble.

Finally, 1014 packages getting frequently version bumped is way less reliable in terms of unfortunate conflicts. Your surface area of all things that can go wrong shoots up and to the right... all to save a few lines of code?
I just want this to be noted- Chinese government has no honor and no respect for its word. Not that any government does but China just has plain no shame. With all the IP they have stolen and jobs they have killed (while making their kids toil) nobody should deal with them.
This conversation has been had on HN many times. Someone will come and say that they have to assume all reports are good faith and then someone else will counter that they're the ones using deadly force and should apply it as needed.

Endless loop debate.
Have you checked out MongoDB Mobile/Stitch?

https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/stitch
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This is the emotional response I was describing in my post. These people have this emotional outburst and have an urge to immediately demonize the other side almost as if their reputation and perhaps the world is at stake. They don’t try to understand or have any nuance. It’s done by the right and left, though more so the left lately.

The main premise of your argument is that the birther situation is racist and a big deal. In my post that’s what I clearly stated. The most racist and stupidest thing I’d seen journalists do in my lifetime was the Obama birther BS supported by Fox News and I commented that even that was 1/10th of this Covington story. They were calls for doxing minors liked hundreds of thousands of times by popular celebrities and journalists based on an innocuous clip and 10,000 plus death threats. Likely hundreds of thousands of people like you feeling no sympathy for teenagers getting death threats wearing MAGA hats and completely ignoring the blatant racism against them. The difference between us 2 is that I condemn the racism against Obama and the racism against these kids and I do feel pity for the other side. You’re quite off the deep end if you don’t.

I’m sure this individual was a very bright person pre 2016, but the collective 30 point iq drop seems to have had an unequal effect, harming some more than others as clearly demonstrated here.
I think a big part of it is that we spend so much time beating it into adolescents that they shouldn't have kids that it becomes a very large psychological hump to get over to become okay with the idea of having kids.

When you spend ten years telling people all the ways kids will ruin their lives, it doesn't really seem surprising that they'd be hesitant to have kids...
It's even odder to see people make the defence "Well, BuzzFeed News isn't BuzzFeed, and people are silly to mistake them".

No, people aren't silly to mistake them. They're part of the same company, they share a brand, it's perfectly natural that people would associate one with the other.

If The New Yorker started a division called New Yorker Feed that did nothing but published stolen content from Twitter and reddit in such a way as to make teenagers neurotic about nothing and feel no self worth, nobody's going to say "Well, you shouldn't confuse The New Yorker Feed with The New Yorker, they're totally different", ditto any other respected publication house.

By the same token, FOX News having one hour of thoughtful, unbiased, unopinionated news that represents the two mains sides of the American political spectrum thoughtfully, equally, and respectfully doesn't make up for the other 23 hours of a day.

I don't care about BuzzFeed or BuzzFeed News one way or the other, but let's give the people who confuse the services a break.
I would love a truly hacker mentality oriented mailing list focusing on doing stuff rather than what's cool/not cool. I don't want to complain about HN, it is what it is and a lot of people like it the way it is. But I'd really like a place where the vast majority of links point to blogs of people doing things in tech, or giving me ideas about what I can do in tech, rather than links to news agencies or news papers or long format writing on non-tech related topics. If it was a mailing list it would be incredible. I'd love to go back to being able to plonk people into kill files and filter/sort topics however I want.

Of course, ironically my most upvoted comments are all about news or long format writing on non-tech related topics. But I really don't have time for that and I keep getting lured in ;-)
That's not the reason. I grew up in the 1970s in a neighborhood where there were usually several different roving packs of kids playing in a variety of ways for hours on end, after school and all day on weekends and holidays. Thinking back on it, I estimate 75% of the Moms had jobs, and the Moms who didn't were rarely seen anyway.

In other words, there were usually no parents supervising anything in my neighborhood in the 70s, yet our play culture was dramatically different from present day play culture.
I like veggie burgers from time to time. It's not so much about the meat but ketchup with mayonnaise, onions and pickles on a roll feels very satisfying to me. But in general I am also not much into meat like products.
You could use Realm Object Server instead of signing up for Realm Platform.

Another option you can investigate is AWS AppSync.

You also can just configure your data layer to get from the cache if offline, and get from your Rails app if online. You can use the Reachability framework to get notifications when an Internet connection comes back online.
What happened with Der Spiegel?
Abusing the protection system like this should be life in prison. This is one of those things you don't fuck with. When you're 6 years old and call 911 because you don't know any better, that's one thing. These kids are 23 and 19, etc. and they understand the potential consequences of their actions, but they continued to act anyway.
Nope, our goal is to take it forward with Flux and having it being integrated into the main API. Flux functionality will be a superset of what’s possible in TICKscript
I believe you are supposed to register a complaint with the EEOC, after which any adverse actions taken against you including firing without cause could count as illegal retaliation (which isn't the case for just threatening legal action), but I am not a labor attorney (or any sort of lawyer).
New York. The family is mostly from metro ny and is scattered from DC to Boston.
This is interesting. One of the recommendations are to "Limit highly processed foods. If you choose these foods, eat them less often and in small amounts."

Would these meatless products be considered "highly processed food" that should be limited?
TickScript is indeed the killer feature, the problem is debugging is difficult because of the language itself is esoteric. Simply adding the ability to put printf statements to the console would be a game changer. The ability to write tests outside of chronograf would be a game changer. The ability to mock inputs would be a game changer. The problem is you've re-implemented the wheel and now you have to build the debugging ecosystem that is a well beaten path for other languages. Love your guy's product. It's also hard to give you guys money, because there's no offering you make that quite fits one of our needs.
I'd assume in any situation where a swat team is necessary, 5 minutes of triage would drastically decrease effectiveness.
On a vacation, or online and shipped to them?
I am not saying that this is consistently happening. I am saying that the parent comment's flippant response of "just go find another job" only works if you assume that Oracle is the only bad actor doing this. We already know that companies have previously been investigated for this or have settled cases brought against them, so the number of other companies doing this is at least greater than zero. And without the threat of enforcement, nothing stops greater than zero companies from eventually becoming all companies.

I don't really think there's a need to research the systemic issues when it comes to enforcement actions against individual bad actors.
well that's a relief :)
"What happens when an unverified threat isn't considered quick enough, and the hostages are killed while the police are standing around outside taking a wait and see approach?
"

When has this ever happened outside of movies?
3. Neutrino mass (NP 2015)

4. Accelerated expansion of the Universe (NP 2011)
There's an old engineering joke about how there's 13 incompatible power socket standards in use on Earth today. Sensing an opportunity to engineer a better solution, they created a power socket that is simpler, easier to use and cheaper to install than all current standards. Now there are 14 power socket standards.
There is a difference between kids whose parents kept an eye on them and made sure they didn't go too far off the beaten path and kids whose parents structured their lives so heavily that they never had a chance to breathe for themselves.

If you are from a stable family situation, it's easy to gloss over how shitty some kids have it at home.
Hacked together an ecommerce site while on the toilet yesterday using Weebly
According to a police statement regarding the 2017 Wichita Swatting event:

"Officers gave [the victim] several verbal commands to put his hands up and walk towards them. The male complied for a very short time and then put his hands back down to his waist. The officers continued to give him verbal commands to put his hands up, and he lowered them again." [1]

I'm not well informed on the subject, but wouldn't equipping tactical teams with non-lethal weapons have prevented tragedies like this? The moment a team feels uneasy, they should feel free to stun the suspect. I know electroshock weapons have their own risks, but surely they aren't greater than firing a dude acting suspiciously with a live round from a Colt AR-15?

1. https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192244734.htm...
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How much do the insurers get charged?

Because people can go long periods of time between exams/pairs as adults, it's possible they keep their cash prices low to convince the uninsured to step in the door.
That's what I underestimated. I didn't realize a tour could have 150 full-time employees.
There is no "best of the officer's knowleedge", though. They have zero knowledge of the situation. They have an unsourced phone call. They know exactly that one person has made a claim on the phone and too often they don't bother looking past that and it is completely reckless.

I can't even conceive of the same thing happening in the military (been there, done that). "We got a call the enemy is in that build." "suit up, we'll go in." "how about we watch the building for a minute?" "Naw..."
Just a thought: The votes might have to be weighted.

While we are at it, can tax payers choose where their tax dollars should go? (Not practical, of course..but why not?)
During my summer vacation growing up we played for hours, completely unsupervised. There needs to be a culture of allowing kids to play without parents watching over.
I use Grafana with Influxdb data source for alerting, Kapacitors alerts creation and sorting is less intuitive than Grafana.
This type of behavior is going to cause civil war in Western countries. It is beginning to reach absurd levels, even when facts change there are too many who refuse to acknowledge the situation.
I hate plea deals. In the case of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), the guy who made the deal got very little time, was shitty and addicted to drugs. The people he ratted on had moved on, many trying to do legitimate activism.

I mean, I don't have a problem with the members serving time (doing good things doesn't make up for burning factories), but the guy with the plea deal shouldn't have got off.

I hope the guy that rolled gets at least 15 years of his sentence and doesn't get let off early. There's no reason he shouldn't serve the entire 25. This case lead to someone's death.
No doubt about that one :) It goes without saying that their financial security is thoroughly important. Still, all workers in 2019 have diminished purchasing power compared to the amount of hours worked (and commuted)
I don't think it's unreasonable for SWAT teams to respond to a credible call. What is unreasonable is American LEOs, SWAT and otherwise, being too quick to use de-escalation equipment that works by firing lead projectiles.
A global line solves another problem: with multiple lines, when additional cashiers are added, it tends to be the people at the back of the current lines move their way into the front positions of the newly opened lines.

It happens this way because people who are further in the line are generally “in the channel” and can’t slip out as easily... at least in grocery stores.
>The phone system needs to be updated to prevent apoofing of numbers. I know it jas its reasons for corporate exchanges and whatnot, but safety outweighs that

I've been agitating for something like this for a long time now, but really, I'm fine if CallerID can be spoofed, but I should be able to get the billing account for the line it's using. Phone companies as a rule resist giving out this information (which they've made available to law enforcement for a century).
Nope, only you.
They got Turing completeness in just the MMU. This was surely unintended, just like Turing completeness in C++ template expansion and Turing completeness in sendmail configuration files.

Here you go, computation via continuous MMU faults without actually completing any instructions:

https://github.com/jbangert/trapcc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSRcvrVs5ug
Risk of thinking of your job as a higher calling
$50 - - $1000 is some range..

Is the $50 for off the shelf long sight and the thousand dollars for a myopic wearer, with high refractive index aspherics, advanced coatings, and a fashionable marque of manufacture?

I have become familiar with such deltas as I qualified, in the UK.

Edit to add :

I dare imagine, without basis in learning, it is possible that the future will be printed fresnel lenses. I decided to reprise my photography hobby thanks to the fresnel telephotos recently sold by Nikon. But I also imagine that, once sufficiently good inexpensive printed optics become available, the possibility for multi element corrective eyewear, will be a new market entirely. Even projected reality , without any augmentation, would attract me right now. Ag least in the design of my minds eye.
Firefighters work 24 hour shifts and sometimes they're on frequent calls the entire shift.
People often say that about mailing lists, but I often wonder if they have used any really good mailing list software. I mean, it's been years, but back in the day we used to write software for dealing with mailing lists and usenet posts and the degree of control you had was so much better than forum software. With forums, you get what your host wants you to see. With mailing lists/usenet you get a feed of data that you can do with as you want. Most modern email clients do a really bad job of dealing with mailing lists. I remember using NN and Gnus for reading mailing lists and maybe my memory has gone foggy, but it was a much better experience than any forum I've ever been on. You've got the ability to search, filter and sort by a variety of criteria. You've got the ability to elect not to read posts by certain people (nor replies to those people). You've got better navigation between threads. You've got the ability to read everything offline. You've got the ability to write code yourself based on the data rather than having to deal with APIs for forums (if you are even lucky enough to be dealing with a forum where your host thinks its OK for you to have APIs at all). You don't have to worry about ads showing up. You don't have to worry about corporate interests deciding what's important for you to see. So many advantages and only a few disadvantages.
I should be clear and say that the Whole Foods I was at used this color scheme; I just used letters for illustrative purposes :)

The Whole Foods that I live near now uses a single line heading to multiple express registers, as well as traditional checkouts. This seems to be the worst of both worlds; not only can I not tell which traditional checkout will finish first, I also can't really tell how long the single express queue is actually moving! Are registers opening up at a regular pace or are they opening in waves? It's honestly the worst.
Why don't people put backend + load balancer servers directly in front of the public?

What all use cases are of using web servers?
I like this year's Developer Survey better.
American police aren't trained in deescalation. Couple that with their militaristic training style and you have a tendency to be cowboys, rushing into battle in a blaze of glory.

It's further complicated by massive inequality in the country, which generates strong class differences, resentment, and ultimately an "us vs them" mentality.

And we haven't even gotten to the pervasive racism yet.

America is an adolescent state, born from extreme violence and trauma that hasn't subsided yet. Americans in general are a paranoid people due to their general personal insecurity (high inequality, classism, racism, tribalism, one sickness from financial ruin, etc). It's only natural that their police force and justice system develop in such a medieval retribution style.
I think you know the answer. That in your hypothetical example you had a choice it’s clearly not what people in extreme poverty have.

That’s what sufficient (not impoverished) money allows - the freedom to choose.
This is just the audio of the swatter though, right?

I don't think there's any video of the actual incident is there?

Maybe the dude didn't understand what the big deal was and kept dropping his hands? Someone probably jumped the gun?

I wonder if that team had non-lethal weapons and just didn't get them out. If he didn't have a firearm, a beanbag rifle could have ended this much differently.
That's a complete non sequitur. The grandparent comment is not talking about how resource intensive background apps affect the performance of the product, it's talking about how the development tools themselves may not run smoothly and efficiently on shitty hardware if they are resource intensive.
Well, I can't argue with that. Everybody loves free murder delivery, right?
We should also make it illegal to steal cell phones.
I agree. In the video I saw the cops killed the person from it seemed like 100 yards away. He had opened the door and cops thought he was reaching for his gun. But the cops were or should have been behind a car or bulletproof thingy, no need to look for the lamest excuse to kill someone.
Ionic is a wonderful APP framework. It is a joy to use it in our business applications. You can see the app running in browser in seconds and live update brings the best user experience. Cannot wait to use this new version with Angular 7 -- a fantastic combination.
Thanks for the TICKscript feedback. That’s all stuff that we want to have addressed in Flux. This alpha release doesn’t have that yet but printf, a test runner built into the influx CLI, and test inputs and outputs are all on the near term roadmap
I have been using 39dollarglasses for quite a few years, good service, and I've gotten quite a few unsolicited compliments on the frames.
At the end of the day, it seems to be that police killed an innocent person. There has to be a better way.
another to toss on the pile: https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate
And police must be given training in de-escalation. There are a lot of skilled hostage negotiators in the police, probably every team needs one. Getting rid of overpunishment for victimless crimes will go a long way in avoiding needless crises.
There's an audio clip of the 911 call posted on here. It wasn't an anonymous tip; the person on the phone pretended there was a situation/serious domestic dispute.

The police should have still been more accountable, but let's get the context right.