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I used to really enjoy coming to HN for some good tech/hacker/software news and to get away from the near ubiquitous political bullshit on th web, but over the last few months this site has changed for the worse.

I've had different accounts over the years since the beginning of HN, following pg, rtm, arc, etc. and I've never seen it like this. Differing opinions are what make discussions interesting, but this whole "fake news" horseshit Trump is pushing is just pure garbage.

A properly configured and well-curated collection of packages will yield an exceptional experience using emacs - if you're into that kind of thing. Add in some custom elisp and you're well on your way to a fully customizable development environment.

We use google hangouts as our video conferencing tool. It's ok, nothing great I suppose. But I'm now wondering:

* what features would make these tools great? shitty?

* are we using a subpar vtc tool bc we don't know any better?

I do that for every site i can think of because, as a person with very poor eyesight, the ability to zoom seems better on desktop-site pages than on mobile-site pages.

I've read geometric/mathematical proofs that have convinced me immediately. Just seeing the logical steps flow from step to step was enough to prove the assertion was true.

Why stop there? Why not a CommentFactoryFactory?

I realize you're speculating, but ...

I'm not sure if the IRS is trending towards a paperless office or not (is that even still a thing?), but triggering a print job for every form submitted via a web portal sounds very wasteful. I'd hope they have have some sort of workflow system in place instead.

I'm curious how the one commercial knew the score was 21-3 ... Did they record a bunch of versions which covered most possible scores? Did Fox dub in the score right after halftime?

I use iTunes for syncing my iPods on my windows machine, and then I close iTunes and open Winamp. I find the EQ settings and the overall sound quality I can get from Winamp to be far superior than anything iTunes can provide.

About 5 years ago while observing an echcardiogram I remarked to the radiologist that this was something that could be automated eventually. I don't think she took too kindly to my remark. She was measuring the distance between various structures etc. and I recall thinking about how to implement something to reproduce what she as doing.

I don't understand the fascination with writing/presenting the code with as few lines as possible. I'd be just as impressed if they said the code was 120 lines and formatted so it was just a bit more pleasant to read.

This is true, it routinely exhibits higher forecast skill than any of the US models.

We have some internal models that will benefit from the new GOES 16 data. Particularly the cloud mask product and the higher spatial/temporal resolution will be interesting. We develop our own internal cloudmasks using a custom tool and I'm interested to see how they differ. In anticipation of the higher spatial/temporal resolution data, we're updating our tools to reduce the memory footprint.

So are there any gender quotas currently in place?

I think conservatives could stand to learn a few of those lessons as well. I'm referring to the massive amounts of spending and the creation of the TSA and the DHS under Bush.

If you have the time and energy you can make iotop as awesome as htop.

I don't understand what this means:

"Great chance that it is cost efficient to run your job on our servers. Our servers are distributed over homes, so you don’t have to pay for the overhead of a datacenter. This means that your cost-per-job is up to 55% lower and you compute sustainably, as we use the produced heat to heat homes."

Distributed over homes? As in "houses"? Your customer's data is stored at someone's (an employee's?) house?

Hmmm, I've never had mpl crash and we routinely plot data sets with 10s of millions of points. We do a mixture of 2D scatter plots. 1D/2D histograms, and a few 3D plots. What type of plots are you generating? What type of data?

There are remote monitoring services that track the status of various medical devices geared towards detecting anomalies in things like heart rate or heart rhythm. The ones that I've heard about use the cell network to report updates back to the monitoring company.

Yeah, they just sued some high school kid because of the domain name he chose:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft

I also think that smaller scopes/function bodies help to reduce variable name length. When you write small functions that solve a single problem, the variable names tend to be very concise. This approach helps me try to keep my code under 80 columns, and I feel that it greatly improves the readability.

Regarding the verbose identifiers, I recall the first time I started looking at Objective C (and NextStep I believe) while attempting to get into iPhone/iOS development. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. IIRC there were function names that were damn near 80 characters long. I played around with it and built some simple iphone apps, but I just couldn't take it.

The GOP has been claiming Obama is a Kenyan Muslim for -8 years (including Trump's harrassment re: his birth certificate), and a recent poll [1] showed that 41% of republicans still believe he wasn't born in the US. So, it would appear that the US population has quite an appetite for these stories.

[1] http://www.mediaite.com/online/new-poll-shows-that-41-of-rep...

Does it matter that a foreign, non-friendly country hacked an email system and deliberately staged releases of info in attempt to cause maximum damage to a political party and sway the outcome of an election?

I'm going to have to say "yes".

DNC, RNC, Green, Independent, etc. it shouldn't matter who got hacked. I'd hope that all Americans would be concerned about this.

Your research project sounds interesting. Is there any info you can share (white paper, etc)?

To add to that question ... how did you use pattern matching to replace the composability of car/cdr?

Less education? Did I miss the obvious joke/sarcasm here?

"... who could replace them?"

Im hoping it's a company run by women and minorities, just for your sake.

We have several large projects that are written in Python. Most of these aee production applications that are critical to what we do, and the others are libraries and tools for internal work. We haven't even started thinking about porting these to python3. We have so many other things to worry about (but fixes, new features, etc) that it's hard to justify the time investment to port these now. I can't imagine we're the only ones in this situation.

Did your brother actually get involved with gangs, or was he and his friends just curious?

While this is for the most part true, questions regarding sorting algorithms and data structures (debug this left-rotate function that operates on binary trees) still come up during interviews.