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There are already simple, safe surgeries men can undergo that cause permanent infertility. I also can't see why someone would suggest this side effect is a benefit.
>He went on to explain that other factors that often go hand in hand with meditation (for example, exercise, diet, even exposure to incense) could help explain these improvements. “So that as well remains to be more fully resolved in future studies.”

Sounds nice and vague although that is understandable. It reminds me of studies suggesting that taking regular naps give all sorts of health and longevity benefits. Is it the naps themselves or that you have a lifestyle that permits you the opportunity to take naps? If nothing else the ability to decide to nap indicates the individual is in control of their time which would seem to correlate with lower stress levels Vs someone who has their daily schedule dictated to them in such a way as to make laying down for 20 minutes impossible.

There are so many confounding factors the outcomes are always going to be really fuzzy.
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This is why I made my money before having a family. The downside to this is I'm going to be in my 60's when my first kid graduates highschool. But in the meantime I have plenty of time to spend with the most important people in my life.
Well, you oversimplify things, and that's a very typical fallacy. Just like they have a market today, without something to keep people loyal, it can dissolve pretty quickly. Look at Apple! With their arrogance and laziness, they are going down the drain fast. Android runs on 9 out of 10 phones, people are swapping Macs for Surface, and things didn't look like this not so long ago! Arrogance and laziness killed MySpace, too!

You always need to flirt with your customers and mostly - with the influencers! Microsoft used this strategy to flirt with developers!
But the alternative seems to be browser exposing APIs for all those permissions through Javascript and the end-user not really having any control over that. Perhaps I'm just naive about it, since I really don't do Javascript-based development, but this seems to be a worse idea than apps.
I have no intention of getting into an argument with you but wow, you must be having a bad day. I wonder if you would have gotten a different response to your report if you'd taken a different tone with the people trying to understand the issue itself.
Related to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_British_Columbia_B-36_cra...

It looks like they found the bomb, but perhaps not the uranium core as that would not have been inside the bomb during the crash. If so, it's a big metal orb full of very old high explosives ... not the sort of thing to fool around with.
My feedback would be a FOIA request for commerce.gov's API code, and a PR to add it to their repo.
Apologies for misunderstanding your comment, however I would add that vapers don't usually end up smoking, the flow is in the other direction. I'd recommend reading the Smoking Still Kills report for more information:

http://ash.org.uk/information-and-resources/reports-submissi...
> I also can't see why someone would suggest this side effect is a benefit.

Well if you can't see it, that surely must mean nobody can, right?
I'll be damned. I confused the udemy with udacity. I guess I cannot edit my comments, or else I was going to remove them for a major affed up.

When it comes to Internet, i.e, virtual material which you can't touch or feel...branding is all there is.
So you're saying deepening the labor pool doesn't push wages down?

If you're going to advocate policies that reduce the compensation middle class workers can receive, don't be shocked when they vote for a candidate promising to stop free trade agreements. A government exists to protect the quality of life of its citizens.
Because that is literally the mission of the United States government.

"to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."
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I worked there, and it really was very stressful. The whole semicon industry is very cyclical which leads to a lot of layoffs and rehiring. Senior engineers actually advised me to quit as soon as I could.
I hear porn industry complain about internet piracy. So that could be their next target after ad-blockers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/porn-piracy/
I rarely see in coverage of these mass replacements what kind of positions are being affected, just "IT workers". The article says they're mostly back-office staff but I don't know what that means at UCSF. Are these software engineers, systems admins, middle-managers, etc? Are they low level help-desk positions? Or is it a broad mix across the entire IT hierarchy? How does the answer in this case compare to other recent incidents (e.g., Disney)?

I don't ask to insinuate "lower-skilled" workers deserve to be replaced or should have prepared for it; I'm merely trying to get a better grasp on the scope of these recent outsourcings.
The US used to take second place as Vice President, if I understand it correctly.
> So you're saying deepening the labor pool doesn't push wages down?

Do you know what the current population of the US is compared to 100 years ago? And yet, we're much better off now.

Economics is not a zero sum game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

Here are a few companies founded by immigrants or their children:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2011/06/19/40-per...
Agreed. It seems really strange to me that we societally accept success (in the capitalist sense) as something of positive moral utility -- or at least something that we get to contrast against the happiness/suffering of human beings.
And you can still do: http://www.vemix.com/Games/xonix/xonix.php
What I don't get from these articles is why are they only talk about outsourcing IT services and how it hurts US employees? Outsourcing manufacturing to countries like China also hurt employment - I don't see this to be much different than that. Comoanies should do whatever it takes to keep them profitable and in this era of globalization, the competition is not only from companies based in US but worldwide.

As an aside though, I do feel that H1-B visa is being misused. I know a couple of friends who recently completed their MBA from reputed colleges in US but weren't able to get the visa due to the cap since Indian outsourcing companies nabbed majority of them. I feel there should be a separate category for visas for students who study in US so that they get a fair chance to participate in US workforce. Also, this will encourage talented folks worldwide to come to US since their future no longer will be decided based on a lottery
Oddly enough, it appears to have linked to the project's Github Pages site: 'https://igorescobar.github.io/jQuery-Mask-Plugin/js/jquery.m... (see https://web.archive.org/web/20160817080309/https://secure.do... for the original page).

This still wasn't a good idea, but for a different reason - it's relying on the demo at https://igorescobar.github.io/jQuery-Mask-Plugin/ continuing to exist, and continuing to host the plugin at that same path.
I'm not surprised -- they pulled some shady moves with visas and stuff a couple years back too.
Is Take Two the most innovative video game company?
Because those companies are US companies, their very existence is a byproduct of this political community's stability, of the infrastructure that was paid with taxpayer money, sometimes of the direct subsidies of the US states and their federal government and generally speaking by the direct or indirect economic activity that US citizens generates.

Simple as that. There is a social contract that exists and that holds together the civic tissue of this country. Of course, some companies are going to try cheating it. That's fine, it is the reason we also have law enforcement agencies.

In the case of UCSF, a public University that almost exclusively relies on public funding to survive. I think people have an overwhelming amount of reasons to be pissed off.
The FBI is not infallible. It's an organization made of largely of middle aged privileged white men.

Considering Drumpf's campaign is more or less the white supremacy's last gasping rage that white people are going to have to start sharing there privileges in this country, it's not too far fetched to suggest an organization with that background would be sympathetic and therefore have a vested interest in helping Drumpf.
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OpenMCT instantly caught my attention and seems like a solid foundation. Cool stuff, but I am not surprised since it is NASA/JPL.
Makes me think of Kite[1]. Kite is a "real" thing that one can use though.

[1] https://kite.com
Nope. If you're transmitting, you're incredibly easy to find. There's nothing that can change that.
I've never actually considered using KDE (Plasma in the early days was really laggy), but seeing this posts makes me want to actually try KDE Neon. I guess it's time to dust off the trusty ol' netbook.
Got mine! Still haven't figured out what to do with it though.
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Did that for a trip to Hawaii, and it was amazing. No itinerary, no plan. First couple of days were super chill: wake up, eat breakfast, snorkeling / swimming for an hour or so, then relax and read on beach all day and eat poke. By day 3 or 4 we started getting antsy and would spend time after snorkeling to find other activities.

Highly recommend the "go where things take you" approach to vacations.
I have worked in many companies with H1B workers, and the old adage always applies: "You get what you pay for." I don't mean this as a dig against H1B employees, but UCSF will definitely notice a substantial drop in quality of H1B work quality compared to their American counterparts.
Kerosene stage[1] will be ready in few years, probably by 2020.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCE-200
I get the distinct impression that they invested in good tooling, CI and CD, which probably enables all sorts of product engineering greatness. Hopefully it's a trend.
the intent and spirit of law is that the companies are hiring H1Bs for positions that could otherwise not be filled in sufficient quantity by Americans. Companies and Customers win, and American labor should experience no measurable harm. Not that I would but one could even argue that the way that AppleGoogleFacebookMicrosoft use them to hire students is even okay since they probably cannot fill the volume they need with American STEM grads.

This end-run with the outsourcers is a particularly egregious perversion of the law because they're bringing H1Bs with the intent to fire and replace Americans. There's also an angle of age-ism where they are firing older IT professionals in their 40s, 50s, 60s who have accrued higher pay-grades , and replacing them with less productive but much less costly young foreigners. Only losers are employees who need quality IT help, but who cares about that.
So, because the personal issues you have aren't being addressed, the products aren't getting attention? That's more than a bit of a stretch...

I get frustration with a specific bug not getting fixed. That being said, links to the MSDN posts you've made that have gotten 0 MS attention? Because in my experience, even if the issue can't be fixed, someone at least responds letting you know they're looking into it.

Further, if you're paying for support, I've never had a bug go completely unaddressed.
> Jason Calacanis interviewed Ed Catmull on this week in startups

this is very cool ! thank you :)
I don't think you actually understand cracking if you're claiming your protection is uncrackable. You're certainly not the first licensing company to sell that lie, if that is what you're claiming. I can explain why what you just said is easily crackable if you'd like.

Spoiler alert: nothing can stop cracking (but that's not the point of licensing): https://wyday.com/limelm/features/why/

But I'll just give you the benefit of the doubt and say you didn't actually understand the question.

(Also, I'm certain I'll be downvoted for commenting on a competitor's product, but licensing companies that lie to customers is a particular pet peeve of mine).
Valid point, just added a resizing function so it should be fine now.
You can't make an FOIA request for code. You can only make requests for agency records, and in the definitions section of the bill, computer code is explicitly listed as something that isn't an agency record.

"computer software, including source code, object code, and listings of source and object codes, regardless of medium are not agency records"
On your first question, I think the issue is that Americans have gotten accustomed to the loss of manufacturing sector jobs, but the argument had always been that we were slowly switching to a service and/or "knowledge" economy. The kind of outsourcing described in the article challenges the claim that Americans are competitive even in those employment sectors.

As an aside, UCSF is not a company, so your point about anything-goes competition is in this case a non-sequitur.
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You link a Wikipedia article about a highly contentious issue among economists and expect to be taken seriously?

It is almost universally the case that when someone says "economists think X" they actually refer to a group of academics belonging to a specific school of thought which defends that particular position. Not that scholarly consensus does not matter, just a reminder that in certain fields those questions become so highly ideological that you simply cannot treat them as a math question on which you can definitely rule one thesis or another.
You're putting the economic aggregate above the people left behind. If we had a solid safety net, it wouldn't be a problem, but there's a reason poverty and drug abuse leading to death is an epidemic across the US.

Opinions like this is what caused Brexit to occur, and what will probably get Donald Trump elected.
Why don't you just run a 4-core VM on your 12-core server and NOT share it with anything else? Wasting the other 8 cores would be worth the licensing savings.
That's odd, I can't reply to neotek. I didn't know there was a limit to the level of replies...

To neotek: No problem, it's easy to misunderstand people on the internet.

I do appreciate that vaping is probably safer than cigarettes, but that's a very low bar indeed...

Just because it may be (and who knows until there are long term studies), doesn't mean as a society we should be encouraging, or even allowing vaping.

At the very least I think there should be some kind of regulation around the ingredients, otherwise how can anybody say the vapor is safe for the inhaler and the people around them?
3GPP were originally considering Opus for VoLTE, then they turned to EVS instead. Anyone have any idea the reason behind this? I believe Opus still do better then EVS in voice quality.

Do we have any royalty free equivalent for AAC?

On Video front we already have AV1 from Open Media and Daala from Mozilla.
No. It's hopefully just dead as a corporate check box and now just a tool developers can use where appropriate.
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Wow, Micro-purchase @ 18F is very awesome. That is exactly what I had in mind -- it's so cool they're already doing it!
While many of the established tech companies seem to have clustered around Santa Monica, the younger companies are mostly on the east side (downtown, East Hollywood, Silver Lake, etc), far from "Silicon Beach".

I have been in Los Angeles for 8 years and love it here. When my co-founder and I moved up to Mountain View to attend YC there was no question that we would come back to LA afterwards.

People think of LA as Hollywood/media-driven, but it's also one of the biggest manufacturing towns in the country, the biggest port, an important hub for science/technology (Caltech, JPL, SpaceX, Tesla, etc).

There is a lot of untapped potential for startups here. Not to mention that rent is about half the price.
The Broadcom chips they use break if they receive any WMM (WiFi QoS) packets. I had to blacklist my MacBook Pro from receiving WMM-tagged packets on my router just to get its WiFi working. (Every other device I own works fine with WMM.)
Time for another Noam Chomsky AMA?
>> Falcon already delivered DSCOVR to Sun-Earth L1, while PSLV only flew MOM to a highly elliptical Earth orbit and MOM had to use its own propulsion for TMI.

Wait till PSLV delivers Aditya-1[1][2] to L1.

[1] http://www.isro.gov.in/aditya-l1-first-indian-mission-to-stu...

[2] http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/aditya-1.htm
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Then your page looks like crap - but since it's a guest on the user's system, that's entirely up to them.
Actually there are plenty of things - like rent control - that aren't much debated among economists. Economists almost universally reject the lump of labor fallacy.
Los Angeles is way too huge and varied in culture to worry about that happening.
I don't have a spare device now, but if I'll get one, I'll be interested in looking into it if I'll have time. Did you document your efforts anywhere?
I believe our design processes have to change to ones that are more mindful & we need a system w/mass appeal/access to teach people mindfulness.
True, I wonder if Sublime is ready to be acquired at this stage.
HMC has better asymptotics than MCMC. If your probability surface is differentiable you should always use that. Riemannian MC takes curvature into account but you need to start storing Hessians which isn't practical. Two missing pieces would be:
- An SGD equivalent for sampling "tall" data. The generalized Poisson sampler can do that, but the variance is crappy.
- An L-BFGS like version of Riemannian MC, to get rid of the Hessians.

Parallel tempering should also be exploited more.

That said, at the end of the day, the ideal sampler would be able to reason about the distribution as program and not just as a mathematical black box. It should build tractable approximations intelligently and use those to bootstrap exact sampling schemes.

I think we're going to see a wealth of better samplers come out in the next decade, following the path of combinatorial optimization towards preserving the structure of the programs.
Meanwhile social networks are all atwitter with women relentlessly mocking the study because the side-effects sound familiar to women, because the articles vaguely phrase it as "sexual side-effects, emotional changes, cramps" and the like, not
"one of the participants comitted suicide and another is infertile".
Works created by the federal government are in the public domain, per section 105 of the copyright code. So you'd be right I can't use a FOIA request to obtain the code, but if obtained through other methods, I believe I'm in the clear for hosting it on Github.
According to the Wikipedia article on Kroc, soon enough you won't have to read his story because Michael Keaton will be playing him in the movie The Founder coming out in December.
Really interesting guy though. I had no idea about all the positive things he did while he was in control of McDonald's
Why do we get another HN post everytime VS Code releases another update? Can we consolidate them somehow?
> economic aggregate above the people left behind.

Since it's a positive sum game, you could share the gains with the few people who lose out from immigration or trade, or automation (which is probably more important than the others) and still have some left over.

Or yeah, you could get all protectionist and watch the economy whither.
> is there something about Python ... that makes it especially suitable[?]

Yes. Python has the best collection of sufficiently user-friendly and fast modules for machine learning. Other languages tend to have fast, friendly, or many modules, but not all three. I suppose R is somewhat competitive on those aspects, but R isn't a great general-purpose language.
Hmm, like a SWATH but a bouy! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-waterplane-area_twin_h...
It seems like most of my vacation time is spent on meditation retreats these days. I'm actually leaving for a nine-day retreat in Hawaii tomorrow morning.
"We’re under a great deal of pressure,” Joe Bengfort, chief information officer at UCSF, told employees at a staff meeting"

Should probably start with this guy's pay first. He was paid over $460,000 in 2013.

http://compensation.universityofcalifornia.edu/reports/2013-...

The number of administrator jobs and their outrageous pay in public school system is shameful. Just look through the above PDF.
C++ has gotten a lot better with C++11/14/17. It's almost like a new language now. I agree the syntax is not the nicest. But not having a GC is not really that big of a problem. I honestly (literally) never have memory-related problems while writing C++ because I either use smart pointers, or always allocate/free objects in the constructor & destructor. I rarely even find myself calling 'new' because everything gets allocated by the STL containers. There certainly is more effort involved in this, vs. using a language with GC, but that's the (small) price in effort you pay for far more efficient memory usage and no arbitrary GC freezes.
It's a shame because Sublime is one of the few pieces of software that I use on my computer on a day-to-day basis that isn't a buggy POS (besides the well-written venerable UNIX shell apps).

Firefox? Buggy. Chrome? Buggy. Any other GUI editor? Buggy. Android Studio? Buggy. XCode? Buggy. I could go on all day.

It's written in C++, too, so it's lightning fast. There's no reason UIs should be laggy in 2016 on the very highest-spec Lenovo Thinkpad mobile workstation, but that's the sad reality of anything written in Electron JS (along with zero 4K Hi-DPI support on Linux, so I have to squint to read the microscopic text on Slack, Upwork, Discord, Messenger for Desktop, Whatsie, Skype for Linux Alpha, ...).
Ask HN: Is Rails a sinking ship?
I am seeing a fewer Rails jobs out there, it feels like they have been overtaken by new cool kid on the block - those js libraries. Is Rails a sinking ship now?

This question will help programmers who might be thinking of starting their career in Rails.
This is awesome initiate by US Gov.
Just curious, how do you get molds made, and is it injection molding or something else? I always thought it was ridiculously expensive to do custom molds.
The US economy isn't going to suddenly whither if we stopped the import of immigrant labor, whether that be migrant farm hands or H1B visa holders.

And if it does whither, that's a choice the US citizenry might be satisfied with.
Weights. Start with BodyPump classes. You won't learn much but you'll get reps and some tone. Then get into a 5x5 routine (StrongLifts) and study form, a lot. I use an app for that since I don't want to think about rest pauses, reps, levels, ... I can mentally forget all that mechanical stuff and just think about form.

I'm not a personal trainer fan.

Squats. Ass to grass paused squats. Everything got better when I started getting serious about squats.
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