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by showerst 7y ago
Disclaimer: I've been involved in the us government data world for about a decade, I'm a core contributor to the openstates project, and I co-founded and help to run a (for profit) company in this space. I've met Josh in pass
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Those splits are probably based on census metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs)
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The (awesome) youtube electronics teacher Ben Eater has just started a series of videos building a 6502 based computer on a breadboard, and he sells kits. I just got my kit, so I'm really looking forward to the rest of the videos. He a
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by showerst 7y ago
(IANAL but I do work with digital legal data) — depends on the jurisdiction. Generally the bills that change legal codes are timed to take effect all in the same near-future date, and so a new “printing” is issued. How often this happens va
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by showerst 7y ago
There's actually a group working on this exact thing at the federal level -- https://congressionaldata.org/bulk-data-task-force-reports-m... It's a pretty complex task, especially at the state level where there of
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Just as a minor counterpoint, the Anacostia River Tunnel project was finished on time, and the overall clean rivers project is on time and under budget by nearly 100MM so far. Granted, it doesn't face WMATA's absolutely insane lea
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It's easily self-hostable.
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The story I heard at the time was that it was a combination of the stealth helicopters having lousy low-hover performance, and that during training they'd mocked a nearby solid wall up with a chain-link fence, which led to picking a po
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by showerst 7y ago
This family of theories has been around for a while, 1491 by Charles Mann discusses them extensively, and that book is from 2005. Reliable evidence is sparse though, so this could be a major contribution.
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If you live in the city proper or inner ring suburbs, DC is fine without a car, especially if you can afford the occasional uber. I can't think of any others besides the 3 you mentioned that I'd want to go carless in offhand.
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I'm pretty dedicated to coffee (i'd probably drive 15 minutes each way out of the way on a road trip for decent coffee), and will yelp / google aggressively if i'm the passenger. Parent is right, there are still huge str
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I think it depends massively on how much data you have. A great many companies and websites only need a few hundred megs of text data indexed, which is easier to outsource. Once you grow larger than that though, the hosted service prices ge
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I wasn't really thinking in terms of politics -- There's still a few hub cities in conservative land that are the main places people live, right? More people live in just the Houston metro area than in all of Missouri, despite rur
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(I hope i'm reading your hypothetical right) in a world where I don't have to venture out to go to work, and don't have to live in a set place to chase an industry, I'd put more value on being in a nice climate, close to
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by showerst 7y ago
I'd argue that it matters _more_ in that case, because the returns to clustering will be higher, and the non-work features (access to outdoors, climate) will matter more. I think in a world where you don't worry about jobs, and wo
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by showerst 8y ago
Definitely. In my mind the very first questions you should ask when evaluating search are "Do i need faceted search?" "Do I need boolean logic? proximity? stemming?". Because the answers to those questions will cut the f
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In my experience to get decent "show off in benchmarks" performance with ES you want your index to fit in RAM as well, but I haven't done much work with ES outside of high RAM boxes.
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I've seen a lot of ES competitor posts pop up on HN lately, and I think they're missing the point of Elastic. If you only need very basic word search, ES is probably not worth the complexity in your stack, especially if you'r
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by showerst 8y ago
I'd guess redis performs _better_ in that case since there minimum overhead for redis is much lower than elasticsearch.
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by showerst 8y ago
Is it just me or do the hard drives on this thing seem weirdly expensive? The RAM is the same price as System76, but it's $999 for a 1TB NVMe drive vs $335. Any idea for the reason on that? Otherwise it would be price comparable to a d
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by showerst 8y ago
It’s not quite an official list due to the issue you mentioned but anything that realistically rounds up to an “agency” will publish notices or regulations in the federal register, and the fedreg API has an endpoint to get all agencies.
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by showerst 8y ago
Kinda interesting that your experience with US healthcare is Kaiser, because being a totally integrated healthcare system, they act most like a good universal system might.
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This is one of my favorite textbooks. Super readable, and great intros to the links between graph theory and economics.
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I disagree here. Child porn and trafficking are always the arguments used to go after free speech on the internet in the court of public opinion. If we narrowly edit the law to specifically go after those cases, then it creates less opportu
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Here's the bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1865 The current version seems to be narrowly written to only apply to sex trafficking.
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A X,000lb car going 38mph takes a certain amount of time and distance to stop, even with a perfect reaction time. If she really did step out in front of the car with less than that distance to spare, than there wasn’t much to be done, sadly
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This sentence in the article is in response to that incident, claiming they've removed that ability.
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DO is still a sweet spot for a lot of people when combining price, features, and usability. There are services with more features (the ones you mentioned), and cheaper services (OVH and Hetzner, anything on lowendbox...) and those are their
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One softball answer to that is that any civilization that doesn't get off of its home planet is likely to go extinct, so there's less chance of it actively modifying the environment in ways we can detect. It's also less likel
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If you want a great experience and have 15 minutes to spare, http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/ has synced up the key radio channels, the video, and the transcripts of the radio traffic (with explainers for acronyms) in real

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