skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is maybe helpful for money, but not really for votes. Much stronger voting blocs in SF are LGBT, "traditional liberal", union, Chinese, and hispanic/latino.

I think the active opposition by a challenger's party would make it harder to run as a democrat in the primaries (where the party can fuck a candidate a lot more) vs. in the main election. A viable third-party candidate could probably get the 10-15% Republican vote as well as ideally strong wins in some of the major blocs (by being latino, gay, etc. himself or herself), which might be enough in the general election.

Pelosi herself is also rich ($58mm net worth), and has the full backing of the party, so it would be difficult for a tech-financed third party candidate to really win. OTOH, SF is a relatively small city, so a grass roots campaign shouldn't be expensive with lots of volunteer labor.
The latency of physically moving cameras with head tracking would be horrendous. Perhaps if you also used wide-angle/fisheye lenses and somehow synchronized the virtual panning with physical panning it would be workable, as long as you don't move your head too quickly.
Wow. That's pretty impressive. I was imagining massive cylinders the size of refrigerators.
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Generic toner cartridges are cheap and work well. Printer manufacturers don't yet seem to be using the DRM tricks that they've used to prevent the refilling of inkjet cartridges.

Inkjets regularly waste ink to unblock the nozzles, so if you print only occasionally you may only get a handful of pages from an ink cartridge.

Cheap laser printers are a far better deal than inkjets.
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After SOPA, it became clear that the U.S. info sector could no longer neglect its lobbying efforts in Washington. The MPAA and RIAA represent comparatively tiny (in terms of revenue) interests but were only thwarted by the unpredictable (and unreliable) intervention of the public.

Now this.

The info sector has become big industry and is going to play a correspondingly big role in U.S. politics going forward. They're going to make more campaign contributions, be more involved in the campaigns themselves, and spend more money on lobbyists than ever before. Capitol hill is about to get a whif of silver-dollar grapeshot from a new angle, and those voting to maintain NSA funding are in an exposed position!
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I'd be sympathetic if there weren't already so many good licenses to choose from that express so many of the configurations that people might want. If you don't like MIT, BSD, (L)GPL, Apache, Creative Commons, public domain, ... what is it you need? Apparently it's something complex.
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Another such backlash is the Unlicense: http://unlicense.org/
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Although you're right that the razor-razorblade model still applies to these laser printers, the cost per page is far lower than inkjets -- and they are much more reliable. Like Pogue, I had one of this printer's predecessors, the HP 1012, and loved it. Look into re-manufactured toner for a better value. I usually use toners like http://www.4inkjets.com/CE278A-HP-Laser-Toner-Black-Compatib... and with that the costs fall to under 1.5 cents per page ($31 for ~2100 pages).
> I'm a bit disturbed, I don't know why this is happening, but I'm almost positive their sniffing my email somehow, since that's the only place these "connections" have ever contacted me.

Everyone you've e-mailed also has a copy of those e-mails in their mail accounts. If they give access to their mail contacts to LinkedIn, LinkedIn can now suggest them as connections for you, without ever accessing your account. No secret sniffing required.

As for the invitations you haven't sent, that's never happened to me.
Zynga is one of the worst company's for ripping off other people. If ever there was a company whose grave I wanted to dance on, then Zynga would be it.
The allegation that Planet Money is making is that while IV may not be the trolliest of the trolls, part of its business model involves arming exactly those trolls while concealing the relationship.

I want to find a way to rationalize what IV does (for different, dumber reasons; I just happen to like their book _Modernist Cuisine_), but the evidence we have from reporters looks very bad.
Both of California's senators sponsored PIPA. Tech is a weak force compared to Hollywood, mostly because it is apathetic.
It's pretty much an "I abandoned this software" licence, so anyone who actually uses it probably doesn't care if potential users can't use it.
Pedantry? Not here, surely.

Yeah, I wouldn't use those words in place of "affordance". My point is that those are also words in the designer vocabulary, but ones that are on the fluffy side of design rather than the hard human-factors side, like "affordance". Which we don't have enough of. But I'm a fluffy designer, so who am I to complain?
> I am not against major vaccines

Oh, good :)

> today by age 8 you have many more shoot than those you had only 20 years ago

There are two factors at play. One is evolution: there's a new flu every year (bacteria and virii can meaningfully evolve in less than a year, even). The other is that we are finding ways to vaccinate against more and more diseases. The diseases always existed, but your odds of catching them were higher then than they are now even if you don't vaccinate yourself because of herd immunity. There are still plenty of diseases we don't know how to vaccinate against, so expect the trend to continue.

> pharma sees opportunity to oversell

Yeah, and the US system is particularly vulnerable to those pressures. There are still protections: you couldn't get a placebo approved, even a well designed one. But single-payer systems are much better at focusing on efficacy. The other side to that is the US gets drugs first and sometimes exclusively. Just because a vaccine falls below the threshold of what the EU is willing to pay doesn't mean it won't save hundreds or thousands of lives in the US. We pay twice as much for health care and this is one of the (very) few extra privileges we enjoy as a result. Best take advantage of it :)

> older man who got a shot and 2 weeks later got sick exactly on something he was getting shot against

I still don't think you grok herd immunity. Vaccines do very little to protect the individual. If you would have gotten sick before the vaccine, you would probably still get sick after the vaccine. But if everyone gets vaccinated, the disease dies away.

It's like a nuclear bomb. Below critical mass, it's just moderately radioactive. Above critical mass, you get a huge explosion. Vaccines keep a disease from getting to critical mass. They don't stop individuals from getting sick very well (they don't stop the radioactivity) but they reduce it just enough to prevent pandemics (nulear explosions).
A few years ago, I bought a LaserJet 4200 used via EBay for < $200. Huge, probably sucks down a bit too much power in standby mode, and sort-of noisy. However, IT JUST WORKS. Because this series still is in offices all over (and a source of toner revenue for HP?), driver updates still seem frequent.

For those considering the printer mentioned in the article but need wireless connectivity, consider a cheapie dd-wrt router configured as a client. I use this set-up for my kids' computer in our kitchen, and it's been no problem.
Or emails can be written and never sent...
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A massive advantage of your new linear allocator is that it keeps your memory access continuous. This means that the processor is more likely to have the most recently used memory locations already in cache.

You might see further improvements if you split your allocations between two (or more) allocators. One for memory you expect to remain hot (core to the compiler) and one for stuff you think is one-off. That might improve access locality further.
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Yes, it's similar to the WTFPL, but only slightly more restrictive, in that it tells the user to leave the author alone.
My understanding of historical fascism is that it includes a strong sense of national identity combined with a muscular state and usually some sort of narrative of national superiority.

When's the last time someone flew an American flag un-ironically in downtown SF? We're nowhere close to fascist.
"Giant castles of complexity"? If you don't give a shit, just MIT license, or use the Public Domain Unlicense.
I think the catch-22 is that you'd need a lot of money to run outside of the political system, but SF voters are anti-capitalist (at least, a fair number are) and wouldn't elect a rich person. Of course, Pelosi has $58mm, but she didn't earn it through something big and impressive, but through normal sketchy congressional investment dealings.
I've been using CC0, but that one looks like a better fit for software. Thanks.
Meh, your emotional rants are just silly.

It's not about the environmentalists who care and actually make the world a better place by stopping toxic dumping. It's the people who come along later and take over positions of power who torment ordinary citizens for filling a ditch on their own property, claiming that the ditch was "wetlands". It's the California coastal douchebags who aren't protecting jack shit on the coast but won't let you replace LITERALLY rotten boards in your own house because of a morass of idiotic rules, regulations, and and endless stream of power-happy "environmentalists".
I'm disappointed to see they're already on to offering free wifi elsewhere when the network they installed in Mountain View still suffers terribly. I've never seen it operate better than barely usable/non-existent. Hopefully this ends up better.
One of the projects I've been working on is doing more aggregate analysis of zipkin data:
https://github.com/twitter/zipkin/pull/276

We're using this at Twitter to better understand usage patterns for services upstream and downstream. For example, Gizmoduck, the user store at twitter is backed by memcache, and some disk-based storage behind the cache. While we can view individual traces that hit by memcache, the aggregate info shows us both the proportion of traffic for services calling Gizmoduck, as well as the proportion of time Gizmoduck spends in memcache versus the backend store.

Furthermore, it can be useful for notifying of unusual behavior. If a service's aggregate durations has changed since yesterday, perhaps that's something we want to look at. Or if the ratio of traffic from some upstream service doubles, that's interesting to know.
Actually, I'm not sure the OP ever stated his job or job requirements. From reading between the lines, it seems like the OP and the other temps were content taggers: to watch a video/film and identify the characters and actors on the screen in real time.

If that is the case, I would guess it's a low-skills technician-like job, and frankly, I'm surprised it isn't automated with image recognition software.

On the one hand, I could understand how a company would want a group of temp workers to do this one-time essentially data-entry type work. On the other hand, if they make it temporary to avoid paying benefits, that's a loop-hole that needs legislation to close.

But I'm also sympathetic to what the OP is saying: event entry-level workers get better at their job with time and experience, they think of better ways to do their job, they learn the corporate culture and can even contribute outside of their job. I think it is a shame companies have practices like this.
I don't like giving up my address. I know they do still need my name. I am not trying to be untraceable, I am just against everyone collecting information about me.

I don't think they usually confirm my billing address(haven't bought anything in a while where I don't need shipping address anyway)

Also, I am using virtual credit card + debit with credit card possibilities.

EDIT: My bank does not require confirmation on my home address. I have random numbers and address there.
I'm surprised you don't see right through those self-deluded quotes from him. I'm sure he's smart (as are you), which just makes it so much easier to deceive yourself through contortions of logic.

The simple fact is that IV is a patent troll. They are the very definition of what that term means and that makes them a force for evil in the world. They are a parasite on the technology world. They exploit a broken system for profit.

Just like anyone doing evil they can lie to themselves about it and tell you the story they tell themselves about their motivations. Just ask any Wall Street jagoff if he thinks he's doing bad things and he'll explain that he's actually helping the world, by "providing liquidity" and "ensuring a fair market value" -- in reality he spends most of his day looking for exploits in our financial system to make himself rich.
Honest question, what makes you think that you will have more rights/privacy by hosting somewhere else? It's been my impression that there has been (comparatively) little backlash within the US regarding foreign data acquisition. Maybe all this attention on the NSA's activities will be the trigger for other countries to create or ramp-up their own data snooping efforts.
The MIT license is 167 words, hardly a "giant castle of complexity"

$ cat mit.txt | wc
19 167 1065
$ cat bsd.txt | wc
10 219 1479
$ cat CC0.txt | wc
29 978 6384
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If the author doesn't care whether people can use his software, he may be hurting his reputation and credibility by keeping the software publicly available. Potential users who see other software written by him could remember what his attitude toward his previous software was and avoid anything he's associated with in the future. And potential employers who find this code on the web might also be unimpressed with it.
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As a freelancer I think overall, clients prefer fixed prices over hourly rates. I take this approach, if project takes less than 10h I bill per hour otherwise I offer different packages and add-ons. Say client wants a fairly big responsive site with WordPress backend etc:

---- Essential ----
* Basic site (static, up to 5 pages)
* 8 extra pages
* WordPress + Blog
* Mobile/Responsive Layout
* Social Media Integration
* Usability, feedback by professionals
* Basic SEO

---- Additional ----
* Maintenance 24/7
* Setup server and domain

These packages have a fixed price that has been pre-estimated in hours. Obviously not every project is them same, so sometimes you work more and sometimes less that what was quoted. For out of the ordinary features such as complex grids, user profiles or highly dynamic sites I estimate the extra work in hours as well and add it to the total cost.

Then I divide the project in 3 milestones: Pre-Production, Production and Post-Production. A 25% deposit must be payed after signing the contract, another 25% after Pre-Production and the rest on completion. The contact also clearly states that any major changes in layout, design or content after the Pre-Production phase will be quoted extra.

This has been working for me over the years. Clients seem happy with the process.
I'm a fan of both those, but clearly there are people who want to send a stronger and different anti-licensing message when releasing their own creations.
> Last voter data I saw has registered Republican's in the low teens as a percentage of registered voters.

Not that high; per current registration data [1], 37,719 registered Republicans of 437,529 total registered voters, so Republicans are 8.62%. Low teens is about what the typical Republican running in San Francisco gets on election day

> The only way I could see a Republican winning SF is if he/she were a fiscal conservative/social libertarian.

If the political mood in San Francisco was running in a way that social libertarian positions were strong enough that they'd get enough liberal voters to hold their breath and vote for a fiscal conservative, then a left-libertarian would probably end up as the Democratic candidate in the general election, and win. (Although the main effect, given the way California's "open primary" works, would likely be a contested primary among Democrats resulting in the two candidates that make it to the general election both being Democrats.)

I suppose, though, if you the the surge of social libertarianism happens after the primary but before the general election, and the Democratic candidate isn't a social libertarian, you might end up with a chance for the Republican. But that's a pretty freakish scenario.

[1] http://www.sfelections.org/tools/election_data/
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Latency isn't the only thing--if that's all you wanted, you wouldn't need the tracing, just log the latency at each step. The real amazing thing is the structure of requests. Having a record of distibuted N+1 problems is pretty amazing, for instance.

As for where you hook into the stack, it's definitely a tradeoff. The lower level you go, the wider your coverage, but it also becomes more generic and potentially less actionable data.

I've worked on building a similar system at AppNeta (it's basically commercial Google Dapper). Here's some slides from a lightning talk I gave about distributed tracing at Surge last year: http://www.slideshare.net/dkuebrich/distributed-tracing-in-5...
I don't think tech could do it alone, but I don't think party opposition from outside would dominate when money is taken out of the mix. It would, quite obviously, need to involve getting the voters in the district on board.

Note that with CA's current system, the top two vote-getters go on regardless of party, so the dynamics are a bit different... I'm honestly not sure exactly how it all shakes out, but I don't know that anyone else is either.
> I think the catch-22 is that you'd need a lot of money to run outside of the political system, but SF voters are anti-capitalist (at least, a fair number are) and wouldn't elect a rich person.

San Francisco has a history of electing wealthy people to public office. Reality disagrees with your stereotypes.
Ask HN: how in the heck do you find iOS Developers?
I'm a general web developer and a buddy of mine asked me the other day if I could refer an IOS dev. Then I realized I don't know one App developer. Do they actually exist?

The friend is pretty well up there at a sophisticated recruiting firm so I'm assuming he has a budget, so the question would be: where would one find an App dev starting with no contacts?

I'm thinking, post in the HN Jobs thread, backtrace authors of similar Apps... Actually after that I'm out of ideas.
Did you follow the news from Germany? Merkel might lose the election over not opposing the NSA. People still remember Stasi.
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Like a lot of people, this just makes me feel vindicated.

As someone who has actually bought Zynga games, I could post you the back-and-forth, back-and-forth, back-and-forth, email thread I had with their tech support over the most minor issue, but it wouldn't help anything. (Essentially there was a minor bug in a game between me and this other player but their only "solution" was to block the user for 3 days and then restart.)
What about some sort of web of trust model that has a notion of confidence. Lets say I have four people; Alice, Bob, Carol, and me. I know both Bob and Carol, but I don't know Alice directly. Since both Bob and Carol vouch for Alice, I can be fairly sure that Alice is Alice. Now lets say that Bob has reason to believe that Alice has been compromised, so he revokes his link to Alice. Now I have am less confident about Alice, because I have one link to Alice instead of two. Or is this how Web of trust works?
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Her husband is a businessman that owns a real estate firm.
Amazon works hard to have a minuscule profit. If they have no profit, they don't have any tax liability. The business they're in lets them adjust their profits in real time -- whenever they expect to have large profit, they just lower their prices to eat it. Consumers love this, so they have huge turnover, and thanks to this, small increase of prices earns them big profit, if they ever need cash to fund acquisition, or new warehouse, or whatever.
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I'm guessing he doesn't care.
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Or we've been going at this for way too short a time to be able to draw definite conclusions.

There are hundreds of plausible reasons why, if there is life outside, we haven't been contacted.
Maybe they know about us but we're not interesting, maybe they don't know about us, maybe they tried to contact us but we haven't been able to detect them, maybe we just don't have the right technology, or we're not looking in the right place, maybe we're all limited by these pesky laws of physics and there is no chance that we could ever meet or even know about each other, maybe they are not looking in the right place and missed us, maybe they are not yet aware of our existence since we've been emitting radio for such a short time, etc
It's not their dissatisfaction with those particular (most-permissive) licensing choices that they are signalling. Rather, it's the tangled mess of other twisty-licenses and license-interactions and license-debates (like this one) that they've had to navigate.

You're essentially suggesting they should just shut up and maximize others' convenience. OK, that's a valid opinion, and if their only goal is maximal reuse, CC0 is great.

But their choice of crazy-ass license is an expressive act, like the coding itself, and you haven't established why your convenience trumps their other expressive goals.
She made a lot of money from various non-public stock deals, such as Visa, which were pretty shady. A lot of people in congress do.

Marital wealth is less "obvious" to voters. Voting in a person who actually made a bunch of money through business is much more overt. Inherited wealth is also safe by comparison.
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