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My honest opinion: previous Presidents (mostly) willingly followed the rules. This President thought, "I wonder what would happen to me if I didn't follow the rules". And the answer seems to be "Nothing".

If anything's changed, I think it's a kind of "democratisation" of opinion. For example, the Washington Post was essentially able, though investigative reporting, to impeach a President. I don't think the same thing would happen now because the idea that "something must be done" used to come from those same media outlets. There was a more focused opinion driven by a few players. Now opinion can be swayed by anyone with a Twitter account (or access to Facebook data, it seems). Several people opined that Trump would not make it through his first term without getting impeached and I think he's shown that he has the ability to dilute public opinion. There have been several points in his first term where I think a President would have been devastated by public opinion had they tried the same thing in the past. He's had relatively no trouble navigating the issues. I think there is just no way to unify the chaos that is public opinion these days.

And I will say, although I'm not a fan of Trump's policies (or actions), he's pretty darn good at surfing that chaos -- and stirring the pot so that the chaos continues. If you want to put a different kind of President in power in the next election you're going to have to pick someone who can diffuse that chaos and create a clear, powerful and unified message that the average person is going to identify with. I suspect it will be incredibly difficult.
It's surprising given that there's already a plethora of tag managers out there including the big boys like Google and Adobe and specialty players like Tealium who solve this exact problem. Either Segment has secret sauce or it's just a huge market.
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> Wow, that Netflix documentary is reallllly helping grow interest in F1!

Based on language and phrasing used on the blog, the author is British, and F1 has been a staple on mainstream terrestrial channels for decades, although it has seen a decline as F1 has increasingly became boring and predictable, and almost entirely dictated by team tactics and car reliability.
Yes, subscriptions can be implemented manually. We did that two years ago before Stripe had the full “Billing” API.

One big win you get with Billing, though, is automatic generation of invoices each subscription period. It’s nice not to have to write that code, and the automatic invoices tie in nicely to a few other things Stripe can do better than we can, like automatic retries of payments that fail.
Some people just want a project with particular frameworks on their resume. "Professional side projects" carry more weight than something up on Github.
Indeed, it's more likely that they're investing money from pension plans.
A lot of that money gets funneled into Facebook, google and aws, though. Once these unicorns crash and burn it won’t be contained to one segment of the tech industry.

Engineer salaries will decline, companies like atlassian, datadog and elastic search will take a hit, etc.
Simulink, and specifically stateflow, is commonly used in the aerospace industry to graphically create state machines that can be autocoded into high performance C or C++ code. I use simulink and stateflow everyday to create flight control software. I feel like more software engineers should learn how to use graphical coding tools, as IMO it's so much easier to represent complex state machines graphically.

It's a shame that Mathworks is essentially the only game in town though, and their software licenses are fairly expensive.
What I see sometimes is that the delayed, leading terminates early and turns around. The later bus then picks up the passengers. Slightly uncomfortable for those passengers, but brings the bus back into schedule (including the driver who has limited working time and a replacement driver expecting the bus somewhere)
Istio integrations have been underway for some time now: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/istio-release (and this article by SUSE folks is good too: https://www.suse.com/c/istio-a-new-routing-tier-for-cloud-fo...).

Something that struck me other day is that Kubernetes is evolving in the opposite direction from Cloud Foundry. In Cloud Foundry the effort to extract Diego from the Cloud Controller and DEAs was an epic quest, but in the end successfully separating the "god controller" from container scheduling.

Meanwhile, in Kubernetes, it started with a nice clean container scheduler and now ... now everyone is stuffing everything into the Kubernetes master. I wonder when (or if) Kubernetes's Diego moment will come.
The best way to rebuild an organ is to break it down, and let the body respond. Maybe the original researchers knew about some unwanted damage it was causing, that might not show for years.
I think this is the most important point.

Consumers are not going to put up with all sorts of shenanigans regarding browsers, monitor support etc. etc. - it's an ugly mess.

If it 'just works' - then I think most people will accept 'paying for content' as a premise.

But when the pieces don't fit together because industry players don't see the 'big picture' ... it will just be bad for everyone and ironically encourage piracy.
Religion and conservatism do tend to be pretty aligned, and this seems to be about being a more progressive brand or something
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Tourists flee wave from glacier collapse
The Haas cached second load is slower than the first. You can't blame that one on execs already having the assets...
To be fair to the secret service, trump has put them on a terrible situation making them have to secure that place instead of using camp david like everyone else.
I wonder if the modern day Iran would allow publishing a book with a cover like the one shown. Gives you something to think about...
Mathematica is free on any Raspberry Pi.
We originally moved to Boston to be close to universities. It seemed like a better location for convincing our professors to use the edtech product we'd started with.

We made the move back to SF to be closer to our customers (since we had shifted to building an analytics product by then). It was much easier to walk them through the product in-person.

I wouldn't say this is strictly necessary today, but SF does have a nice density of startups if you are building a developer tool.
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Didn't know overnight trains had disappeared. When I lived in Europe as a poor student from the US I would take night trains every single time I could. I had an Interrail pass and once everyone was settled down for the night go look for an empty seating or sleeping area with a door. I could usually find one and then I would just lay down inside with my feet agains the door, use my pack for a pillow and go to sleep. I traveled a month like that and never paid for a hotel.
I believe this is the idea behind AWS X-Ray.

I was researching it recently for work but haven’t had a chance to implement anything with it, yet.
Keep this whiny asspained bullshit off HN, please. This isn’t /r/politics.
That's just might makes right, there's no property there since you can take what you want.

Property implies you use the state (an external entity) to enforce your rights, providing checks on individual power, not that you enforce it yourself.
I am not sure exactly wtf a "highly immersive" experience is, what I do know is I'm shipping marketing pages that take like two minutes to load on "slow" connections and "old" phones (a.k.a. "our real users") and don't have top-of-page content or layout figured out (a.k.a. do their job) without a shitton of JS, CSS, a front-end "framework" and we can't ship new functionality (a.k.a. do our jobs) without a huge conversation about components, assets, and how the build process should work, disagreements on pet patterns.

I wish I could rebuild the home page in server-rendered HTML, a minimal hand-written set of JS and CSS for top-of page plus a fairly lean set for everything else, cut down to two fonts (headings and body text), preload the blocking assets, defer non-blocking assets, put pages and everything into object storage + CDN, and just... I dunno... serve our users. Any build tools or automation or content editor tools should lie on top of any of the above (Most of the "immersion" or whatever should remain intact, aside from what I see as bonuses: minor improvements to consistency in type and presentation).
Should you go to a coding bootcamp in 2019?
The frontend landscape has actually been relatively stable over the last 2 years or so, with no major new contender coming up because things on the table now are all very mature. I don't foresee this to change any time soon with React and Vue, both really robust and complete, covering up two extremes of the spectrum.

The fact these recurring shitposts always began their rants with how freaking fast things are moving (in the speed they perceived) and that they couldn't keep it up strongly suggested that they're outta the loop for a long time or they aren't good frontends in the first place. It's also really harmful to the industry; I've seen a few frontend wannabes backing out because of all these uncalled for FUDs creating mental barriers for newcomers while I've repetitively tried to assure them it's really not that unstable in recent years.
At least the prevailing minimum wage in your community.
Did you read the article? No judgment if you didn't - just genuinely curious.

Over the course of the last decade (I got a flip phone in high school, smartphone in college, facebook my freshman year, instagram right after college) I feel pretty confident saying, "I didn't know." I don't think it's embarrassing and I don't think I'm alone. It's a big, complicated problem. BTW I went to Stanford and worked in startups. I think I'm a bright, open-minded, curious person.

To your second point: How do you recommend that we respond to environmental degradation? Or should we all look away?

I'm fully off social media and smartphones. On a day to day basis, I'm not being listened to and watched, at least as far as I know. I try to "vote with my behavior" so to speak, but it's tough. I'm concerned, for example, that not having a LinkedIn account is slowing down my career.
I'm not aware of any metro system in the world that has scheduled headways of under a minute. The Moscow Metro was tops for a long time with 95-second headways on some lines at peak (without full automation, mind you), but Paris Metro Line 1 was recently fully automated and can go as low as 85 seconds. Singapore currently has 120 second headways on its busiest line (East/West, which is not automated) and is working on getting that down to 100: https://medium.com/from-the-red-line/36-just-a-number-21011a...

Note that headway is measured between the arrival of trains, meaning the train has to come to a complete stop, let people get on & off, close doors, speed off and have another train stopped all within that period! So a 90-sec headway will feel like less than a minute to users.
There are many tools that will turn backend code into interactive UI, but they generate a mess on the front-end.
Uber for x usually means “let’s break laws and ‘disrupt’ an industry where workers had a reasonable quality of life and further push the gig economy” I’m fully okay with calling that out for being detrimental.

At least a hedge fund invests money for clients and pays taxes (sometimes)
Further than $7.25, $10, $11, $12, or $14/hr. Progress is still progress.
I misspoke, it's 1 hour, not 24. Can be found here [0].
Regardless, the upgrade happens _before_ the customer is charged, so unless you put a hold on your system and wait for that invoice to close, you're still giving them access before they've paid (Stripe's system will shown them as having the new upgraded plan before the invoice closes). And with the charge re-tries and back-off they use, if your webhooks aren't listening and reacting, you've still opened up your product to a user who hasn't paid for up to days at a time. I would be very interested to know how you got yours to close instantly, if it is doing that.

[0] https://stripe.com/docs/billing/invoices/subscription#genera...
>I'm going to put each site through WebPageTest to gather the data on Chrome Canary on a Moto G4 with a 3g connection.

I guess the results would be very different when using 4g? and that the real problem is that the author is using a unrealisticly slow connection.
This will turn out to have been a mentally ill person. I seriously doubt a real intelligence operative would show up for work with multiple passports, a pile of cell phones and a cover story that hinges upon a non-existent event being scheduled.
Seeing those examples made me realize how much I hate Modern C++, or just C++ in general.

This is so belaboured; there's an abundance of what looks like line noise to me. It lacks any sense of grace whatsoever.
The only way anyone is seeing a total tax rate of 33% is if they are making over $90k. And with typical deductions I would triple that.
That defeats the entire purpose of using the Billing product. Best I could come up with is to auth the source for the amount and see if it is accepted, then let it die by not capturing. But then you have customers who complain about being double charged.
> all is futile and there ultimately is nothing worth standing for

I actually find your religious view fascinating.
OTOH, mentally ill persons might have trouble obtaining one or several passports.
I was very excited by the idea of an overnight train in Europe but the reality was a bit underwhelming. We went from Cologne to Vienna which was roughly from 10 pm to 7 am which wasn’t super convenient timing on either end. Also the cabins were super claustrophobic for me when the beds were folded down. Fun once but I would probably fly next time.
It may be worth adding that the adoption of the Arabic alphabet was a major part of the transition from Middle Persian to New Persian, beyond language change itself. People are often surprised by how little difficulty they have parsing a sentence in Middle Persian once it’s been transliterated.
As someone who is unfamiliar with the area, are you being facetious, or is the natural geography particularly well-suited to building a pool of this sort?
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Now that you have pointed it is obvious that, say, a non profit can create value without creating a profit or that there might be externalities.

But we aren't really talking about that sort of concern here, we are talking about for-profit companies that aren't doing research and any externalities are tenuous.

It is completely unreasonable to say that such a company could be creating value. They are clearly a wealth transfer mechanism from who-knows-where to consumers. It doesn't make sense if it isn't malinvestment. People love to pull out hypothetical externalities to justify things they like that just aren't worth doing; they aren't going to justify running a corporation at a loss.
There must be some solution to the huge problems. The entities operating and maintaining these old hydro electric facilities probably don't have the budgets to resolve the huge problems, but it is hard to believe the situation is so bad and so hopeless that we'd be better off removing all of the dams and installing natural gas turbines in their place.
> A lot of the time, trains between cities in western Europe are annoyingly long for a day trip, but slightly _too short_ for overnight trips - almost like an NYC->London red-eye, where you arrive just after you fall asleep.

Yeah, the sweet spot is definitely 8+ hours en route.

I took a fantastic service from Nice to Paris which ran about twelve hours, which was plenty of time to sleep. It was weirdly cheap at €87 for a first-class sleeper car, or €157 including an extra €70 supplement to be guaranteed to be the only occupant in a room with four berths. The service started at Nice (8pm), made a few local stops to pick up more passengers, finally got to Marseilles (10:29pm), then ran nonstop from 10:30pm Marseilles to 7:38am Paris.

I had been expecting a very low-key cut-rate service designed for locals to travel comfortably overnight in dedicated beds but got a very modern train instead -- apparently operated by Russian Railways (RZD) with 2014-built passenger carriages that RZD also uses for their Paris to Moscow service (same equipment as the "sleeping cars" shown here). The onboard shower was an unexpectedly nice touch and it was an awesome ride.

Sadly the train I took no longer exists -- when I took it in July 2016, the French government had already begun to withdraw subsidies for the service (https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/may/10/france-waves-... , https://www.seat61.com/lunea.htm ) and it vanished.

The logistics can work out really well. My calculus was that (1) I was in Nice visiting family and wanted to stay as long as possible, but I needed to catch a 10am flight out of CDG the next day; (2) it would have cost €300+ to book a flight NCE-CDG and an airport hotel, and departing the city center at 8pm let me see the city for longer than heading to NCE in the late afternoon.

Unclear if it was a good deal from a point of view of national priorities. My trip kept one person from taking one domestic flight -- is that a good deal considering the externalities of shorthaul plane rides versus train rides? I have no idea.
I guess it depends on area. I've lived in considerably more underparked places than overparked - places where except for anti-peak (valley?) times, parking availability is perpetually at or near zero. This would include most of the Bay Area.

Note that "underparked" includes "inadequate parking near the target structure"; underparking can still happen even when sprawling parking lots go unfilled if it's an absurdly long walk from far away parking spaces to, say, the Wal-Mart surrounded by said sprawling parking lot. Given a parking lot and a parking garage with equal numbers of parking spaces, you'll likely find that the parking garage will be much more fully-utilized, since folks don't have to walk as far to an elevator.

(Not to mention the rather severe methodology issues in that particular article; the instructions for that bit of activism don't include controls for time of day, most glaringly.)
This assumes two things (at least) that are reasonably questionable:

- that alternative investments with predictably better profitability characteristics existed

- that customers would have preferred wealth transfer in the form of cash or financial assets instead of in the form of goods or services.

For example, maybe I don’t mind forgoing a direct cash transfer from Lyft investors because what I really need is on-demand transportation. If, in response to my ride requests, they told me what the real fare would have been and transferred to my bank account the real fare minus what I would have been charged, I’d still be left without the ride I wanted (and the whole infrastructure and network of drivers to ensure future rides). It could be perfectly rational for me to value receiving that wealth transfer in the form of a ride and operated ride service more highly than receiving it as cash.
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Confused why there are being labeled a "mobile payments company." I thought Jumio was an identity verification service?
I ve been using Jquery since long time where almost every frontend article says it's an antipattern. But it's never gonna give me up, never gonna let me down.
All of these pools are in the EU. As Americans, we cannot allow a deep-pool gap!
I took this ride once but didn't actually know that was how it worked. I woke up in an empty car clearly in some kind of enclosure. It wasn't until leaving the car and going up a set of stairs that I realized my train was on a boat.

Until then, I wasn't so sure I wasn't in a rail yard or sci-fi movie.
I believe the show "One Strange Rock" on Netflix mentioned this.
Within a single app, could this not be done mith multiple model files, and multiple services files.

I usually organize my apps by having a services layer between models and views, such that the view functions have little to no knowledge about the underlying models.

This, in place of nested apps, I have "upsmodels.py" and "upsservice.py" and the view functions handles routing logic.
and is charging them money to do so.
"I don't think it's ok that I can pay to avoid the poor people line at the airport."

This reminds me of something Abigail Disney, an heiress to the Disney family fortune, was quoted as saying in an article recently posted to HN. She said that she wished she could pass a law against private jets, "because they enable you to get around a certain reality. You don't have to go through an airport terminal, you don't have to interact, you don't have to be patient, you don't have to be uncomfortable. These are the things that remind us we're human."[1][2]

Getting better treatment because you have more power, wealth, or connections is a huge reason for the world being as shitty as it is today.

If the rich and powerful had to go through the same hassles and be treated like the rest of do, things would change for the better mighty quick.

This sort of maltreatment has been commonly perpetrated against foreigners and certain targeted minorities for decades, and mostly no one outside those groups gives a shit (or not enough to do anything about it). But when someone from your own demographic is affected, suddenly people start to take notice, and if someone rich and powerful gets affected it makes the front page.

This reminds me of Martin Niemoller's famous "First they came for the socialists" poem[3], and of how during the 80's some Senator got caught up in a scandal that started because his cellular calls were intercepted by radio, and pretty quickly after that Congress passed laws that forbid commercially available radios from being able to tune in on cellular frequencies or be easily modified to allow them to do so.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19524325

[2] - https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/abigail-disney-has-more-money...

[3] - https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-nie...
It’s funny because it appears, looking at the history of data leaks, security breaches etc - our biggest threat appears to be our insecurity
Perhaps they should work the other way, assisting people and entities of this country to be MORE secure, not LESS.
those are some awesome humped horses and cows. The police brutality scene was cool also.
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I live less than a mile from Mar-a-lago, and I drive by it all the time. It seems insane to do anything high-security there.
Every 10m of depth adds about 1 atm of pressure. Not sure what challenges specifically that introduces though.