bradleysmith

huh.

I built a clone at news.intelmap.com a year or two ago, and I don't have the percentages in my admin console. Perhaps an addition since pg's exit?

upvoted simply for your wife's saying. It's a good thing to bear in mind during any conflict.

I have operated on 1099 as well; this will definitely cause some skewed numbers on 'employers'.

I believe my point stands, though. Being an employer does not implicitly mean you are part of the 1%; supporting policies that are pro-employer does not implicitly mean you are a neo-capitalist, anti-socialist 1%er.

Having been in a number of 'microfirms' myself, I intuitively think supporting them is wise policy (as a rule of thumb; as with most things, it's wise until it isn't). I may be biased, but I have seen many firms in the US that start this way and grow; low barriers for starting a business is one of the US's greatest assets, from my perspective. It is a foundation for social mobility, stands in contrast to much of the developed world, and is one of the primary motivators for people to chose the US when they 'vote with their feet'.

over half of the 6mil firms in the US with payrolls in this country have between 1 and 9 employees. ('08 numbers[0]).

"employer" != 1%

"policies good for employers" != "policies only good for 1%"

[0]-https://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html

I second this.

It may seem archaic here, but it is standard terminology in sales to refer to a physical stop-in as a 'call'.

>I like to think that we're all time travellers, collectively collapsing the universe's wavefunction through will alone... And now I'm onto determinism so I'll shut up.

I like that. Though I would think it is not 'will' but 'life' that interacts with universal determinism, through physical expression of information over time. How that information will express itself (how gene-information will translate into physical realities in each moment) seems in the realm of the unknowable (like turbulent flow or other instances of Lorenz-y chaos in the Universe), and consciousness as one of those gene-expressions makes this even more loopy.

But I've wandered into Leary-esque fascination with faults of perception lately, which ought to stick to the human-describing world of psychology, so I should probably shut up too.

I'd say Aoyagi was really just expressing disdain for not including religion on the list. Saying he/she was 'preaching the truth' seems a bit far-fetched. He/she asked a question about something not being included: "not religion?", and expressed vague dislike (in an obviously subjective way): "awww"

He/she didn't really make any statements of what truth is. Only what his/her opinion of a missing element of the article was.

He/she did set off a heap of reactions though, which is interesting to me. I've noticed how much more religion-friendly, or at least religion-neutral HN has become over the past year. That is a positive thing, in my opinion.

guns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVzOV1EeeHw

recycling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rExEVZlQia4

I find it funnier than sad. But, I agree with you completely.

There's a saying in the oilfield (many booms and busts over generations):

'when the barber is getting into the oilfield, it's time to get out'

noticed the "Datalove <3" at the bottom.

I'm familiar with this through Telecomix, but nowhere else, really. Seems to fit the bill of a Telecomix op.

I agree that the statements I highlighted aren't really "evidence" of corruption, just facts indicative of possible corruption.

Corruption doesn't necessarily have to be the acceptance of a bribe, though. The dismissal or re-assignment of whistle-blowers that are pointing out potential dangers in the project IS corruption; it's the dishonest use of authority for personal benefit, or to avoid personal responsibility for wrong-doing or negligence.

You're probably right, about the travel. 64 trips back and forth does sound like a punishment, and at ~5k per trip, it doesn't really sound that extravagant. Certainly not enough to think they were lavish bribe-trips.

Your last paragraph actually is a pretty good synopsis. This whole thing was probably a scramble to keep ahead of a badly managed project.

"Caltrans permitted an unknown number of cracked or suspect welds in the suspension span. After two senior engineers challenged quality assurance practices, Caltrans reassigned one and let the other’s contract lapse."

"Tony Anziano, chief executive for toll-bridge work, made at least 64 visits to Shanghai, stayed in one of the city’s most luxurious hotels and spent more than $300,000 on travel during construction."

I do too. Thanks for sharing these, they're heartwarming for an old fan.

a few relevant links from there:

unofficial history of fan art projects: http://www.avclub.com/article/check-out-the-web-cartoonists-...

4 full color sunday strips put out by pantsareoverated.com (Dan and Tom Heyerman) where Calvin and Susie have a daughter, Bacon: http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/page/4/?s=hobbes http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/page/3/?s=hobbes http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/page/2/?s=hobbes http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/page/1/?s=hobbes

Phil Barry on DeviantArt did 3: http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/300/8/4/hobbes_and_ba... http://phill-art.deviantart.com/art/Hobbes-and-Bacon-2-33673... http://phill-art.deviantart.com/art/Hobbes-and-Bacon-3-35410...

User DomNX on DeviantArt did a series called "Calvin and Company" where Calvin and Susie have twins. The content linked in the article has been removed from facebook, as well as hir account on deviantArt (best I could tell). Found it from pinterest user Potatohappiness: http://www.pinterest.com/Potatohappiness/calvin-and-hobbes/ http://www.pinterest.com/pin/469218854897891171/ http://www.pinterest.com/pin/469218854897891153/ http://www.pinterest.com/pin/469218854897891162/ http://www.pinterest.com/pin/469218854897891165/

"He served two terms in the N.H. legislature and ran for governor in the primary election of 1986, losing out in the end."

EDIT: Glad to see someone of this bent taking a legislative seat.

I'll concede, I'm a little under-protected when it comes to spam in my email, and sectioning my usage out to different emails would probably be a very big improvement upon that.

Still, this ought be more a pet-peeve for myself. I can't see how obscuring my email would bother you, except perhaps in the line of thought that you think it does NOTHING to avoid spam, and I am just wasting a tiny amount of everyone's time by having them parse it while not benefiting personally. I figured if there was ever a profile a geek would write a scraper for, HN would probably be it. It was a single line of defense I saw others use, and adopted.

Appreciate the conversation. The mostly undiscussed behavior of email format preference in HN profiles is something that has always strangely held my attention; I consider myself a geek for micro-behaviors in this and most any community though.

>why not just use a dedicated gmail account, just for HN, rather than "use my hn handle at that email service that everyone else uses generally". The dedicated account has spam protection and you can forward mail to your primary account as a filter if you want.

Because starting, configuring, and checking ANOTHER gmail address takes more time and effort than obscuring my current dev-related email address to be human parse-able only. Seems like a strange thing to have a pet-peeve about, as it could only barely affect your ability to get in touch with these people. Unless, you've been trying to slurp email addresses from HN profiles... I could see it being bothersome in that case.

I would like to say that this is a remarkable change in rhetoric from an organization that has been lousy with dogmatic principles since its founding.

yes, there are non-marijuana users that are fit for those jobs. yes, the fbi could pay better to attract talent.

this is a fed agency (the fed agency) saying they are thinking about letting crazy wingnut pot smokers help them defend america.

this is a meaninful change in organizational behavior that is worthy of note.

I like the general tone of the page.

"Finally, in keeping with the gravitas, high seriousness, and general bignitude of the contest, the grand prize winner will receive … a pittance."

Hey nodesocket,

Just fired up a beta instance as I am quite intrigued by your tool-set. looks very nice on first shine.

Getting some permission errors when trying to get ssh access to an Ubuntu 12.04 server. I'm in touch with y'all via your intercom dashboard.

Actually, I wasn't restarting the server. The pain was reloading that file, as it would break work that other people were doing at the time. I'm looking into whether modifying the postgresql.conf file from a query line will let us do what we were having a need to do.

thanks much, digging through both.

good stuff, thanks for the share.

That's rad, thanks for sharing this.

I agree with you. I went from laymen to building both of them in a matter of months, and subtractive tech is both more readily available, cheaper, has more support from vendors for these uses than a printer. Strictly from a manufacturing perspective, it's the proper method for the part requirements, which is anything but trivial.

>The difference is that a 3d printer is almost at the domestic use stage and takes up far less space than a CNC Mill and lathe.

That's not necessarily true. There are a plethora of available mills that require a similar skill-set for producing finished working parts. More importantly, the parts you pull off these machines could be used hundreds or thousands of times. I've listed a couple from quick google searches below.

http://www.taigtools.com/cmill.html http://www.pocketnc.com/products/

I was born and raised in a country where firearms are completely illegal. Even there, you would be able to build a higher quality zipgun (which is effectively what a Liberator is) from parts available in a hardware store. The ammunition becomes the most regulated portion of the weapon in either case, and 3D printing as a tech does nothing to change that.

Hah! Because I'm self-taught, and I didn't know I could.

Appreciate it!

Full disclosure: I was involved in the defense distributed project of initially designing the Liberator. A startup I was helping run printed their first AR-15 lower receiver. I actually pressed print on a number of their first builds.

As user ufmace (and artificialidiot) points out, this is NOT nearly as big of a revolution as the media is making it out to be. You CAN buy CNC mills or lathes to build higher quality weapons with little or no licensure, for generally the same or less $$ than a 3D printer. You could also buy much of what is necessary to build a Liberator-style weapon in a Home Depot. You could also buy a czech-stamped 9x18 makarov pistol for under $150, and put hundreds or thousands of rounds through it, all without talking to an FFL holder.

This was a perfect storm of tech interest and general wonderment in 3D printing meeting zealotry applied towards gun laws, from both directions. People from Defense Distributed are well aware of this; nonsense or not, it made a great launch pad and buzz mill. Mr. Wilson has already signed his book deal and on to his Dark Wallet project.

Me personally, I've always thought that building some STL files of the solvent trap adapter[0] or adapter used in the Econo-Can suppressor[1] would be more meaningful parts to distribute via 3D printers (If you're all into the freedom-of-weapons via technology bandwagon, which I'm not). Suppressors are a very real tactical advantage, and small threaded adapters are much more likely to stand up to the stresses of weapons use.

[0]-https://cadizgunworks.com/store/index.php?route=product/prod... [1]-https://cadizgunworks.com/store/index.php?route=product/cate...

"ALTER SYSTEM SET, which enables modifications to postgresql.conf from the SQL command line and from remote clients, easing administration tasks"

This is fantastic. We're always adding and removing ip addresses and restarting the server with each update was a pain.

about an hour a day.