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I apologize, I haven't found my issue list but:

The following Republican Senators Elect are currently US House Reps and voted:

Yea Tom Cotton
Nay Cory Gardner
Yea Bill Cassidy (assuming win in run off)
Nay Steve Daines
Yea Shelley Wellons Moore Capito

Joni Ernst, Thom Tillis, Mike Rounds are the unknowns.
I have a tool to make this text, though I'll admit I never even thought about decomposing inputs like ü and then recomposing them after Fraktur-izing.

http://mar.cx/unicate/ or https://github.com/afiler/unicate
I happen to like modern daemontools-like init systems a lot, (runit, s6) but I use various init systems depending on what I want, and that's great IMO.

The problem is that systemd is that is being forcefully pushed to all distros. For instance, by merging udev with systemd. We want to keep all the alternatives available.
For the record, I don't think the interface problem is "mindblowingly wrong idiocy" (you words!).

But I think it's a good indicator of how parts of Go's design are flawed from the outset. Design is hard to change later, so it's important to get it right from the start.

Again, I totally buy explicit error propagation. I just think Go's solution ends up cluttering your code. It's so focused on errors, yet handling isn't a first-class construct, and the mechanisms it gives you for dealing with errors aren't very good. You have the cast check (a, ok := ...) and you can do a type switch (switch a := err.(type) { ... }), but it's rather weak for something that permeates every corner of the language. At least us have pattern matching.

I find the stack frame problem disappointing. It's amazing that there are now several libraries to create artificial stack frames (eg., https://github.com/facebookgo/stack) just so you get this.
Marijuana should not have been made illegal in the first place (IMO). It's a wrong that many people want righted, which is why any discussion of Marijuana usually turns into a discussion about the corrupt legal system that we live with.

So, the question I ask is: Should it be illegal? And the resounding answer is 'No' because I don't believe in taking away people's freedom to do what they wish with their own bodies.
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Yessss, just down vote me for sharing my personal opinion.
Uber executive stirs up privacy controversy
I'll answer you as if you were serious, haha.

For me, it was a serious medical issue that was partly psychosomatic. Exercise and meditation were just parts of the recovery, and afterwards they stuck around as valuable tools.

For others? I recommend you stare death in the face and use that as motivation. One day you will be dead. Accept that. Then decide whether you want to idle through life letting your mind control you and drive you to do whatever is easiest and most comfortable for it because evolution taught it to seek comforts out, or if you want to accomplish your dreams.

If you want to accomplish your dreams, and know you don't have the willpower, the first obvious step is to build that willpower.

Every day you falter, stare death in the face again and get back to daily meditation and exercise until you've got the willpower to take on your dreams.
I'm sorry about the miswording - I meant "unoffical" as in "not officially approved". Thanks for the correction.
FYI: I've yet to set up cloudflare's free service, I will look into this when I get home from the office - until then, apologies for the dire performance
Do you think tools like this will make people star/favorite more or less stuff over time ?
$100 per month from this little tool [1] I created few months ago (as a fun side project).

[1] http://portchecker.co
> Blackpool is a classic example of a seaside resort that's been badly hit by cheap package holidays to the sun.

Partly. Other resorts have managed to reinvent themselves, but the perception I have is that our local tourism trade took things for granted, didn't innovate and assumed there'd still be millions of overnight visitors to cash in on.

It's a very parochial place and despite all our problems and examples like this popping up periodically, as a town we still seem to maintain a collective belief that it's a great place to live/visit and "everywhere has its problems", with Blackpool just being hard done to.
Qualcomm CEO Mollenkopf Sees Big Opportunity in Server Chips
Thank you for making this, this is exactly what I ever wanted to have and started few times making and did a half assed effort. So thank you. Exactly what I need. Perfect.
Is this true? If I have a element with id="foo", then "foo" will be available as a variable in the global JS context? I tried, but can't reproduce it (Chrome, Windows & Safari, OS X).
Smoking cannabis for medical reasons is nonsensical.

A lot of research has been done which leans heavily against this point of view. If you want to ignore that research or pretend that it doesn't exist (or can't easily be found), that's fine, of course.
Nice! That's like ASCII art but with more characters, like U+2320 TOP HALF INTEGRAL, U+23A8 LEFT CURLY BRACKET MIDDLE PIECE, etc.
Really? I manage several hundred VMs and their associated EBS volumes on AWS and we've had 0 problems. Also no problems with S3. Ever.
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Unfortunately, of all the things I did at Precog, I'll probably be remembered most for that post, at least among developers. ;)

As these things often do, it led to many more user signups and a massive spike in web traffic, but ultimately I don't think it had much effect on the business one way or the other.
I use a gnupg file.
Crunch – Go-based toolkit for ETL and feature extraction on Hadoop
It's actually "$299+" which links to a page with even larger plans (299/599/899). I also do custom pricing when that makes sense. There are customers at every price point. Nearly everyone starts at $29/month but as their business grows with Improvely's help, they grow into larger plans as time goes on. That keeps our interests aligned, and also keeps the average customer LTV growing every month without changing prices or upselling other services.
Yup! I like to think of most of my writing as buoys I put out during calm seas so I can navigate during rough ones. Same fundamental idea.
Very seasonal business and I'd be surprised if it was ever >50% occupancy under the current owners.

Blackpool's season for many overnight accommodation businesses has gone from April-November to just school holidays and major events.

The annual accounts/report must make for tragi-comical reading.
4 were swept into the House in the wave that brought the R majority and their voting record isn't exactly all happy happy with the establishment. Joni Ernst is not establishment. I am not sure about the other 2.

There were a lot a jockeying and some losses from the outsiders, but remember that Cantor got beat in the primary.
you have obviously never driven/ridden in Russian car :). Otherwise 747 comparison would never cross your mind :)
Ashton Kutcher defends uber against “shady journalist”
>>Medically it would be crazy to leave dosage to such an unreliable method.

Unless we finally redefine what "medically" means. "One-size-fits-all" is not necessarily the most effective way to treat medical issues, either. When it's in the context of pain relief, smoking/vaping is the easiest way for patients to manage their pain without getting "too much" or "too little" from other methods available. Medicine is starting to enter the age when solutions tailored to specific bio-chemistries are available.
Looks really nice and worked really well in my S5. The one issue I had was with the multi-touch rotation example, you're not able to touch and scroll up with your fingers if you touch in the background. The resizing example isn't as bad but doesn't seem to register the first time you touch+drag either.
Ok, we can add that: there was also a debate about a cd-r/cd-rw app, spanning a period roughly 7-10 years ago. I'm not arguing that there has never been an acrimonious debate regarding a Debian package, just that it involves a vanishingly small proportion of packages. So few that I mostly only hear about these things via places like Slashdot (or a comment like this one).
How SanDisk Is Becoming an Open Source Player
I'm confused by the Window manager comment. As far as I understand, essentially, ConsoleKit development was stopped, and work on systemd-logind etc began as a better way forward, rather than rewriting ConsoleKit.

During this timeframe, GNOME developed integration with systemd-logind, similarly to how it developed ConsoleKit support beforehand. And in fact the ConsoleKit backend was supported for a while afterwords. But this is no longer the case as nobody was willing to support it and maintain it in upstream GNOME. So it was removed.

So I'm confused by the comment. Your insinuation seems to be this is somehow the fault of systemd for requiring a shim for things like GNOME, if you want them to work without systemd itself as PID 1. But the reality is that any software which has an API dependency that you want to replace is either going to A) need a shim or B) need a replacement that is also supported by the project. And the ship already sailed on option #2 - ConsoleKit held on until upstream decided to remove the bitrot.

I find this line of argument very weird. Indeed, this whole scenario seems to be a story of exactly how FOSS often works and how we envision it to work: people do the work, and in some cases they may compete with or achieve superiority over another project. And other people adopt that work and use it for their own work later on. And people may develop replacements that are or are-not compatible as they see fit.

It's probably very true that GNOME and systemd developers worked together to reach agreements on systemd-logind, so it could be used by both and they could understand each others needs. But why is it systemd's fault if nobody stepped up to maintain ConsoleKit, and systemd's fault if GNOME decided to remove support for something they saw as bitrot? Am I missing something extremely key here? Or do you consider this nobody's fault and just something that happened?
> I could equally say that someone self-taught in QM should know the "basic" fact that product states would unitarily evolve out of that configuration.

Well, that would depend on how far my studies have gotten me, no? My general assumption is that anyone who actually does QM for a living knows at least as much as I do, and almost certainly a great deal more. (Case in point: I presume that QFT is quantum field theory, but what is DFT?) I prefer to view this as humility rather than passive aggression. In any case, I don't think either one of us should be losing any sleep over it :-)

But can we agree that there are states that can be factored, and states that can't, and that this is a useful distinction to make? And that this distinction is physical, i.e. that it produces observable effects? (And not just observable, but interesting and useful?)
Interesting application of the "rule of least power" to a Rails app. It kind of seems like code commenting on steroids--actually parsing the comments to execute the code that they describe. I'd be a little concerned about performance overhead for this--have you noticed any effect on the speed of your Rails app from using this?

And if the goal is to provide business rules documentation for nontechnical users, why not just comment your code and make an RDoc? I'm not sure I fully understand what Aristotle buys you over this:

#Move to 'to_do' if the last message changed and is unverified
request.state = :to_do if request.last_message_id_changed? && request.state != :to_do && !request.last_message.try(:sent?)
Really neat idea and well designed. Excited for the upcoming project. Where can we sign up for updates?
Ask HN: Does anyone ever migrate a large app from AWS to Heroku?
We have a fairly extensive platform. Two Rails web apps (UI) and three more API Rails apps all talking to a central postgres database. It is all running on AWS. My challenge though is that we don't have a dedicated DevOps resource and it is a huge challenge to get all the supporting infrastructure working well for dealing with monitoring, logging, exceptions, deployments etc. It seems like this stuff would be easier just running on Heroku and using a small handful of plugins rather than trying to manage it all ourselves with open source stuff we need to set up (Graylog, Sensu etc). I hear about people going from Heroku to AWS because of cost, but I wonder if anyone goes the other direction for ease of use?
Call me old fashioned, but I'm not sure it's a great idea to advertise the fact that you wrote your app on company time.
(x+1) * max(0, sign(x)) * (1-max(0, sign(x-1/sqrt(2)))) + (1+1/sqrt(2)) * (1-max(0, sign(x-1/sqrt(2)-1))) * max(0, sign(x-1/sqrt(2))) + (-x+sqrt(2)+2) * max(0, sign(x-1/sqrt(2)-1)) * (1-max(0, sign(x-sqrt(2)-1)))
I might be able to do that for popular tracks fetched from SoundCloud, but I take special care not to keep any of the data people upload to the site due to copyright worries.
Facebook kills organic reach; Forrester tells marketers to look elsewhere
Can somebody post a quick-and-sketchy summary? Thanks!
Thanks for your suggestion! We'll add more topics in the future.
Yay, the first Docker post I can understand. I just installed and used Docker today to get a simple web server running out of a VPS (which is also a first for me as I always used managed services like Heroku).

However, some aspects of Docker leave me with concerns that it may not be the tool for me. I tried installing the official node image and it downloaded hundreds of megabytes of other images (probably over a GB). Not that much of a problem on my VPS but absolutely unusable anywhere else in my corner of the world.

Looks like I'll have to create my own images and use my own private local registry to make use of Docker outside of my VPS.
OFFTOPIC: "Today, I want to share some recent learnings from performance tuning this new application stack."

The word you want is "lessons".
I thought the percentage dubious too, but even if the # is 5% likely (vs 0.1% in the general population) it's very valuable to an advertiser.
The point I am trying to get across is that such restrictions kill (or seriously hurt) any attempt of innovation coming from people on H1B visas. There are a number of ways to try to circumvent the laws, but the risks associated with them make it not worth the attempt.

I would not risk my status here or the possibility of owning a green card for a side project that makes me a couple hundred dollars a month. It is not worth it.
I had the same problem - this page has some fonts you can download, which fixed the problem for me (Windows 7, Chrome 38)

http://gschoppe.com/fixing-unicode-support-in-google-chrome/
You can just analyze the graphical output of the browser and hence make your hack useless. The underlying problem of this game is just too easy to solve.
Sorry to hear about your mother. I have talked my father into investigating therapeutic use of cannabis for his Parkinson's. He indulged as a young man but the war on drugs and raising a family put a kibosh on recreational use for him years ago. The drug war propaganda has been so effective that he was reluctant to try it despite recent legalization in our home state. In a very unscientific experiment this summer, I watched his symptoms disappear after imbibing a small amount. If only we can get the word out to more people.
This is the first I've heard of restify, but it seems like a useful framework for the main focus of most Node developers I know, which is to replace an API rather than a web application.
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I disagree with your statement. I believe that "best practices" means that "this is probably how it should be in the majority of uses." Obviously each situation is different and not everyone's solution will work for you, but I'd be willing to be that more often than not, it would.

Whenever something deviates from best practices, I would think that that raises a red flag for justification of difference.
More JDK 9 features signed off, but properties is a no-go
It's almost a certainty that every idea for a website or app that is highly successful at generating recurring revenue already has multiple competitors. A lot of recurring revenue tends to mean a lot of users which tends to mean it's not a secret.
Read my comment again, that's more or less exactly what I said. Except I do not see such a simple black and white picture. Taxi monopolies have formed to enable the drivers a better bargaining position. Uber is achieving lower prices by destroying this, and as we can see, once that is done, nothing stops them from turning the tables and driving the price too low for the drivers to survive. The drivers are not their employees, and so not their responsibility. That is the core of their model. I think they're a little more disruptive than needed, basically :)

Taxi monopolies easily grow into a problem. They overprice the rides and stifle the market. But this can usually be sorted out through political action, through opening competition, all without automatically destroying all semblance of security for the workers.
$100 per month from my Android apps. I have three apps out, and only one is generating most of the money.

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I suppose this is the particle physics equivalent of 'discovering' heavier and heavier elements in the periodic table -- good evidence towards existing theory, but effectively these are artificial constructions that exist only briefly and never (?) outside lab conditions.
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Someone needs to dedicate an academic thesis to documenting how systemd advocates pulled off their coup, and what improvements are needed to OSS governance structures to prevent a repeat. By the time the pain becomes visible, no one will remember how the actual decision got made.
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Ok, I agree with you entirely, just a quick response because I was quoting and so have the responsibility to avoid distorting other people's words. This didn't happen 7-10 years ago, that's when it started, but this continued happening until 2 or 3 years ago.

I hope all is clear now.

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Ask your Linux distributor to include recent originals instead of broken forks.

Tell them that you like to decide yourself which program you choose. Whether it is the fork or whether it is the original program depends on which package works better.

[...]

The following Linux distributions currently work against the freedom of their users:

Debian, RedHat, Fedora

If you know of other unfree distributions, please report.

The following Linux distributions currently grant their users the freedom to select the better CD/DVD/Blu-Ray writing software:

Slackware, Gentoo, OpenSuSE, Ark Linux
Here's the paper in question: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.4849
Solar Panels. I've 4kWp systems on 2 properties in southern England. Making about £3k/year with them. The money comes from the Government and is guaranteed for 20 years. First 8 years will be enough to pay off the cost of installation. Money is tax free, but does depend on the weather (and components breaking).
Lots of details at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/solar-graphing-faq/

I run a silly little Amazon (UK) referral tumblr - http://fiverfun.tumblr.com
Makes about £100 / month - which is enough to keep me in cheap electronics :-)

Tried adverts & paid apps, only ever made ~£10/month.

I rent out a couple of properties - that's ~£1,600/month (before tax, mortgage payments, new carpets, fees, more fee, insurance, more tax, etc).

The key to all of them is to find things that take as little effort as possible. The panels need checking every quarter, the tumblr is a few minutes in the evening, the properties are handled by professional agents. All that leaves me time to work for a living :-)
How so? I say this as a Pebble user that was thoroughly underwhelmed. There was the marginal benefit of receiving notifications on my wrist, but it was never worth having yet another device to charge and worry about. My watch now sits in my desk drawer.
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I'm very glad to hear that it was understandable!

I can't say I've used many of the community images. We generally just use the base OS images and install packages as needed. The Dockerfile makes it pretty easy to do.
> ...as well as increasing the Node.js heap size to 32Gb.

> ...also saw that the process’s heap size stayed fairly constant at around 1.2 Gb.

This is because 1.2 GB is the max allowed heap size in v8. Increasing beyond this value has no effect.

> ...It’s unclear why Express.js chose not to use a constant time data structure like a map to store its handlers.

It it is non-trivial (not possible?) to do this in O(1) for routes that use matching / wildcards, etc. This optimization would only be possible for simple routes.
I have a 2012 Nexus 7 and I'm wary of people saying they didn't have performance problems until Lollipop. If I was using it for much more than an e-reader the lag would have forced me to upgrade a year ago. I don't question the other issues reported but I haven't experienced any of them. The only thing I don't like so far is the combined notification bar that requires two swipes to reach the menu that used to only require one.
The reason people call it easy is because it makes a lot of things that are traditionally hard very, very easy. One need only have written Chef scripts for any considerable amount of time to appreciate just how much easier it is to write a Dockerfile. And the things that CoreOS/fleet, Kubernetes and (hopefully) EC2 Container Service do aren't just difficult to do without something like Docker, they're basically impossible. And as much as I like our DevOps teams, the fact that Docker has basically made meetings with them a thing of the past is a truly wonderful thing.

That's why it's so frustrating to see developers making superficial forays into Docker and then declare it to be too complex. Yes, the simple and largely irrelevant stuff does get a bit more complex and you have to do some learning (and re-learning) before you use it for a production workload. But that's a trade off that a lot of us are willing to make to make the crazy-hard stuff significantly easier.

We're developers. Our tools should not be optimized for first use.
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The problem I have with this is that, if I don't over-promise, then I'm too lazy to do much.