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> aggressive attitude towards people whose country gave you job

Am I not paying taxes just like everyone else ? So should I bow down my head just because I worked in some country ? I worked legally & sincerely and paid taxes. I will stop my aggression if I am given back the extra taxes that I paid which I have no use of being a temporary worker. Also remember that this is not your country. The country belongs to natives, your forefathers were refugees who took over. So there is nothing to be proud of it.

> how hard someone works based on when they come to work, in tech it's who works smartest not hardest is the most valuable.

It was not only "when" they came to work, If you read further, you will know that Americans generally are not ready to fix production bugs or grep log files or even do a maven release, atleast thats what I have seen. They drink coffee and gives all the work to H1Bs. Even they apply for the patents which they make them do using ideas from contractors of CTS, Syntel or TCS and Americans take credit for that. It will be fun if the H1B programme was fully stopped, because those lazy ones will have to start working again rather than free riding on H1B contractors.

If you think you are smart. I challenge you, learn a foreign language(eg:Hindi), goto that country and try to compete with the native workers there, like I did. I learned English, got my Computer Science degree(very cheap) & I am competing with people like you. I will bet a million dollar that you don't have any other skills than being a keyboard warrior.

> It was your decision and you were always free to go and find something better

Well, thats what I did. I didn't sulk & whine, I left US and is in another country which values my skills and not treating me as indentured servant.

I really wish H1B visa system be stopped. The fun will start then, all those lazy ones who free rides and abuses H1B employees will feel the heat, because profit loving American corporates will outsource more jobs than they are doing now.
GorillaREPL is very nice. There is also a Proto-REPL that looks very promising (https://github.com/jasongilman/proto-repl)
There's nothing wrong with Raspberry Pi, just a feeling there is a better alternative on market currently.
Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time[1].

Another part of it is that it shows the incredible value of inertia. Sports scores and email is with $5B.

And I think a third is just a bit of schadenfreude from the internet insider set. Selling half of yourself to a Baby Bell-revenant and turning the rest into a tracking stock is a sad way for the first internet directory to die.

[1] The last vaguely interesting thing I can remember was Yahoo Pipes.
I'm not sure why you think space exploration is a progressive issue. It's fairly non-partisan. To figure out who supports space you can mostly just look at who has the contractors or NASA center in their district.

There are aspects of NASA that are more partisan, namely the planetary sciences (which, lately, many conservatives dismiss as agenda-driven climate change science). But there is also overlapping support for funding NASA and DOD/DARPA, which you certainly wouldn't consider progressive causes.

There's also no reason to think it will be 'thrown in the garbage'. NASA funding isn't what it was during the the unique political environment of the space race, but it's funding has been fairly steady since the mid-70s. Again, a steady level with no inflections due to partisan control of government.

The bigger problem is mission-specific funding uncertainty, as many of the missions NASA would like to run take 10 years or more -- too long for politicians to benefit from successes, so there is less individual incentive to fund an ambitious challenge like sending humans to Mars.
Jira is by far the worst and most convoluted application that I have used. It's slow a d very horribly designed that I even wonder if they did tgat on purpose. Heck you have to shell out $3000 for your team just to learn how to use it.

Hopefully they'll leave Trello as it is.
I have taken to using _ as an alternative...
In fairness the first link in the article is to the github repo (https://github.com/LuxLang/lux) but info world was certainly a weird choice.
A marching soldier can be stopped with one bullet. I guess you mean these soldiers would come in some sort of armored vehicles, but those can be stopped by anti-armor guns. The task of stopping one million, or ten million soldiers is quite easy, if they are ill-equipped.
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Its rolling release nature can make it feel overwhelming if you don't surf the bleeding edge. I ran a Gentoo desktop back in the day and if I didn't `emerge world` once a week or so I'd find myself sinking into that swamp of maintenance that you refer to.
Laser propulsion
Some usage examples on the front page would have been nice.
NASA working on a laser propulsion system that could get to Mars in 3 days
These local government employees are normally not covered by social security insurance. This allows the local governments to pay very little. So while, yes, their pensions are now out of the norm, those employees would need to be paid more in the near term to make up for the deduction of social security insurance out of their paycheck.

Furthermore, this would only address current employees and not the prior employees who never paid into social security and have nothing but their local pension to fund their elder years.
Yeah, it does need to be the same in the zone as well as with your registrar. As mentioned in StackOverflow's blog post, Azure doesn't support changing NS records.

Similarly, there are a fair number of DNS providers that don't allow you to use all DNS record types. For something so simple, providers can really go out of their way to screw it up.
> The first problem was keeping the octopuses alive. The four-hundred-gallon tank was divided into separate compartments for each animal. But even though students hammered in dividers, the octopuses found ways to dig beneath them — and eat each other. Or they’d mate, which is equally lethal. Octopuses die after mating and laying eggs, but first they go senile, acting like a person with dementia. “They swim loop-the-loop in the tank, they look all googly-eyed, they won’t look you in the eye.. (o)

the mating ritual is very alien as well

it's fascinating

first of all sex can be identified in octopodes(i) checking the 8th appendage

on the males this appendage has a small portion at the end without suckers,
this is because the male uses this appendage to reach inside his head.. mantel cavity(ii).. remove a sac of sperm.. spermatophore.. and then place it inside the head of a woman (iii)(iv)

and i was told by a worker at an aquarium that if other males have already placed their spermatophore into a females mantel a later male can remove those when inserting his own

(o) https://orionmagazine.org/article/deep-intellect/

(i) http://grammarist.com/usage/octopi-octopuses/

(ii) http://www.asnailsodyssey.com/IMAGES/OCTOPUS/octopusMate.gif

(iii) http://www.asnailsodyssey.com/LEARNABOUT/OCTOPUS/octoRepr.ph...

(iv) https://youtu.be/4fkQZrfeYXQ?t=132
The graph for the actual population projection was basically linked in the article:

https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/

(you have to select "WORLD" in the drop-down)
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Moved to Canada to do Masters (with the hope of getting PR eventually). started working at gas stations and now i am working at one of big four :) I am happy.
My God you could have paid them 1/2 of that or hired twice as many. You understand that there is a 30%-35% premium on USD? You also understand it isn't difficult to find good talent since there is a shortage of work and most are under employed.
> Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time

It's like the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M). They make $30 billion in annual sales with 55k products. How often do you hear about them?
They're big, profitable, and news is mostly boring to HN interests.
I pair program with God.

He laughs and my funny bone tingles when I make a funny bugs, sometimes. I stop. I never see why He laughs until I test it.

God says...
coffee's leaches libelled geekier implicate disapproved Rouault brickbats undulant coauthors Google's hulas rebroadcasted parquetry uttered uproarious fattens priestly daubs misanthropist politicized Hopewell's burglar wave preside bedraggle pitch lefty screwball sooner clapboarded dolmen's

What if NASA wrote the Commodore 64 20K ROM and spent 10 years perfecting it. It would be much more robust with all the bugs removed?
My life has been great these last years, and mostly due to this:

https://xkcd.com/963/
How come the US Air Force has Sukhoi aircrafts? Did they buy them from Russia? I can't imagine Russia selling their top aircrafts to an enemy.
I doubt they can. I work in public digitization from an it-architecture and programming background, and because municipaliies work closely together on a national plan I interact with quite a few teams.

I've yet to see a project manager or anyone outside hardcore development get anything positive out of at Asian products.

Their tools typically complicates everything to the point of slowing production by as much as 150% compared to projects where management is done with post it's on a board and physical meetings... I know because we did the business case, which today means we're actively avoiding companies that want to tunnel projects into things like JIRA.

I get that atlassian produce excellent tools for tracking development time so companies can bill me more precisely. Unfortunately the side effect is that everything gets produced slower, more expensively and ends up confusing the shit out of our project managers.
I believe that a fairer method of districting would be to generate a Voronoi graph where the size of each cell is based on population data. Each cell should be centered around a population centroid and should contain approximately the same number of citizens.
Looking at the video, Intel put in their own support for this on their standard USB-3 ports.[1] It's not USB-C hardware JTAG. It can be disabled in the BIOS settings, supposedly, and locked against further changes.[2] Apparently it ships enabled.

[1] https://youtu.be/QuuTLkZFsug?list=PLOcrXzpA0W82Z49Pj0v-cehuv...
[2] https://youtu.be/QuuTLkZFsug?list=PLOcrXzpA0W82Z49Pj0v-cehuv...
I love the sheer inertia that theory showed. Even after we knew burning added mass, many scientists believed that it didn't disprove phlogiston, only prove that phlogiston has negative mass.
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This is what happened for C, too.

It definitely works out. There's just a question of whether it's an end result that we want.
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Please don't make up generalizations about HN to score rhetorical points. Unless you have real data to support them, such points tend to be dominated by bias and unsubstantive.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13361461 and marked it off-topic.
Hmm, I think you're the one that's not reading it correctly. The growth rate takes into account both death and birth rates. As Balgair points out, it's simply the derivative of the total population. And the UN's projections do not show population peaking between 2050-2080.
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Outside of a small handful of areas (SV, Seattle, NY, a few others), it's very difficult to find anything in the $300K+ "total package" range. In SV all you have to do is get yourself hired by one of the top firms and then stay in the saddle while your stock vests and not suck too bad. Voila, 400K a year (much of which you will pay in taxes, but nonetheless). I challenge anyone to find a non-manager software engineering job that pays mid six figures in the Midwest.
Plus, wine works marvelously nowadays, with lots of games getting platinum or gold ratings, some even on the day they're released.
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"Because if everyone voted, it would be prohibitively expensive to gerrymander down to small areas such as individual city-blocks. "

Citation needed.

This is honestly a pretty trivial ILP problem.

Certainly you realize they already know each individual voter's political affiliation if they've declared one or votedin primaries?
The data set also includes their address,etc.

I've seen the data they used.

Heck, we were the only ones who asked the data providers to not include people's names or other PII (we just wanted to map street segments to political districts), and they pretty much laughed and said nobody had asked for that before.
That sounds like a toxic company culture and I'm sorry you experienced that.

But H1B's can be transferred to a new job. Why didn't you apply to a different company. Working harder than everyone else for a year should put you way ahead, no?
Why should you learn Go?
Stay tuned... (we have some time yet)
Oh and how do I know it didn't use malloc()? Because we were running short on memory when using it.

Why was that? Well, they had to store about one thousand 6-digit unit IDs. So they made the unit ID an int and created a UNIT_ID[1000000] array that I don't think was ever made it to 2% used.
Interesting, because for the durrrr challenge Galfond was named as the only person Tom Dwan won't play. Maybe I've been out of the loop too long.
I was impressed by how well Quake III ran on Linux way back in the day. Gaming on Linux has a long pedigree.
Oh, I understand why someone might want to do it, in the same way that someone might want to, say, weave cloth by hand -- as an interesting hobby.

I was objecting to the implied snobbery in the OP, e.g. "if you actually knew what you were doing, you'd want to shoot film for everything".

Yes, I do know what I'm doing, and no, I don't want to shoot film. Neither do the vast majority of working professional photographers (I'm not one, myself, but I know a fair number of them). Digital has become better in just about every respect you can name. Yes, you can find the occasional art photographer who still shoots film, but there aren't many of them.

The film guys are exactly like the vinyl record guys -- they're basing their preference on factors other than quantifiable objective data.
Thanks. It is custom designed.
https://www.aabacosmallbusiness.com/

With Aabaco being taken by the original spin-off plan, this is simply an alternative company name so that they still get the stock symbol they want for the investment company that will remain behind after all the web assets have been sold to Verizon.

That's it.
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Oh...that's what that is. I get some JS thrown in there too.
A jtag debugger isn't the same as just debugging a local program on your system. Normally it is required to do initial hardware bringup, where you need physical access to the cpu.

Probably not wise to ship one enabled on production gear, I used to work on things that required some soldering to get access.
I thought this would be a link to a Richard Feynman video where he 'explains' fire. But it isn't, so here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE
> And Ubuntu handles handles UI scaling surprisingly well.

This is why I jumped from Ubuntu on a Dell XPS 13 9343 (Early 2015) to a new MacBook Pro (Late 2016, non-touch). I was tired of being surprised when things worked well.

I gave it a good shot -- five months of tweaking, five months of reinstalls and forum posts and being back on the Linux Train with everything. But it just got so old. Workarounds for workarounds, unpredictability, lack of interoperability with my other devices... I just couldn't do it anymore. Linux rarely delights.

I still keep Elementary OS on a desktop (it too has some oddities, but it's mostly smooth sailing) but on a laptop, when I'm out of my home and really want to just get work done, I haven't found anything as pleasing as OS X.

I enjoyed Linux for learning how to tweak things, but sometimes I want to use the computer, not configured it. And Ubuntu was always needing configuration.
Do you have recommendations for resources about this topic?
I would like to learn more about it but most of what I read until now were superficial introductions, word definitions...

Could you exemplify what you mean by: `problems that shouldn't exist in the first place`?
OP actually has some sound reasoning in reply to parent comment. I'm not sure how convinced I am without evidence. Also stopping gerrymandering is way more politically feasible than mandatory voting.
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Weird. I attended a lecture about it not too long ago.

I wonder what Netflix is doing instead.
I remember trying run SSH (the current TCP multiplexing protocol) over straight HTTP and found there were issues so I added WS to the mix. There probably is a way to do it though it does the job as is.
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Here's my business model: go through the top-voted bugs in Atlassian's bug tracker and solve them one by one (I've done 3 of the top 10 so far): https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20BSERV...

Just kidding. But I don't think many people realize how flexible Atlassian's add-on architecture is. I can put my own Rebase button right there in the PR screen, with its own dialog, and integrate right into all the pre-existing pre-receive hooks and branch permissions.
So for those of us not in the military, we should either handcuff our laptops to ourselves or just not use computers? It's so defeatist.
Thinking in redux (when all you've known in MVC)
I would say that as long as you have a small enough number of types where implementing this for each of them (and each combination of them) is manageable... you should. The absolute worst thing about this is losing type safety (and I helped write it). The time to use this is IF this kind of design could simplify your code overall AND the number of types and their combinations is simply too much to code. Say you have four input types, two intermediary types, and one output type, and more than one step in between them, then you'd be writing about 15 times the code. We actually had a situation like this, which is why it came in handy. If you're not in this situation though, I would always advocate retaining type safety.
Northern hemisphere.
It should be noted that, for a time, the phlogiston theory survived even after Lavoisier's experiments. It only showed that phlogiston had negative weight, what's wrong with that? :-)
If the source for this had been on Github that BAKCSPACE issue would have already been fixed ;)
It's great you listen. So I'll try.

1. Scaling down in linear colorspace is essential. One example is [1], where [2] is sRGB and [3] is linear. There are some canary images too [4].

2. Plain bicubic filtering is not good anymore. EWA (Elliptical Weighted Averaging) filtering by Nicolas Robidoux produces much better results [5].

3. Using default JPEG quantization tables at quality 75 is not good anymore. That's what people referring as horrible compression. MozJPEG [6] is a much better alternative. With edge detection and quality assessment, it's even better.

4. You have to realize that 8-bit wide-gamut photographs will show noticeable banding on sRGB devices. Here's my attempt [7] to reveal the issue using sRGB as a wider gamut colorspace.

[1] https://unsplash.com/photos/UyUvM0xcqMA

[2] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/107935/13997633/a...

[3] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/107935/13997660/b...

[4] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/72159/11488537/3d...

[5] http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/filter/nicolas/

[6] https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg

[7] https://twitter.com/vmdanilov/status/745321798309412865
Wow, time to find the special USB port and fill it with Epoxy on your system.
Only in a parliamentary system, where a stable majority in the legislature is encessary to form a government. Otherwise, you end up with ad hoc per-issue coalitions.
I think it depends on implementation. I wake up every morning and I'm pretty sure I'm still me. I go in elevators and each time the doors open I'm still me. So, what sort of transportation experience would change that?

Admittedly, the closes to teleportation I've ever felt was my first trip on a cruise ship. I went to sleep in one city, and when I opened my eyes I was suddenly in a city hundred miles away. It was magic. I also still felt like myself.
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Undisputed? How? Also, if they have much deeper research, why don't they come up with a link or something to support their claim? Why is asking for a reference offending so many people here?
Ok, a special cable as a security measure is just sad. Didn't they learn anything from the Firewire DMA issues? Intel could at least have made it so that you have to enable the "Debug Accessory Mode" via BIOS (or whatever is booting your PC these days).

Edit: whoops just saw your reply that it can indeed be disabled, and that its enabled by default
When I'm editing HTML, CSS and JS I normally just use notepad++. (Windows PC).
All over the place in what way? Support for different color profiles? Actually handling color spaces at all? The fact that there's no consistency when it comes to untagged images? The mess which is plugins? The ability to specific CSS colors in a specific color space?
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> ... Wikipedia has "no original research".

But they do have a "List of common misconceptions" page.
I see lot of Chinese and Russians too .. what visa do they use?
My favorite proposed method of asteroid deflection: http://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/laser-bees/

The idea is to ablate material off of one side of the asteroid using lasers and/or mirroring sunlight to redirect its trajectory. This is better than using a nuclear bomb which risks fragmenting the asteroid. If you intercept early enough it doesn't take much of a change in trajectory to miss Earth.
>> is just snark.

That's how you look at it. People can look at your (barely) rephrased question as a snarky comment too.
Diet is super important. I used to drink orange juice every day. I got a cavity every 6 months. I have stopped drinking orange juice and have not had a cavity since.
I've said this many times before, and I'll say it many times more, but USB needs to go back to living by its name and being a Universal Serial Bus. That doesn't mean being a video bus, or a DMA bus, or a JTAG bus. It means being a serial bus. You can wrap whatever video or JTAG data you want in a serial connection without it being baked into the standard.
I did not know that's what 3M stands for, learn a new thing every day here at HN :)
We shipped a REST API in WordPress 4.7, and the API is going to continue to be a focus of the project going forward. The great thing about that is that it allows building entirely new interfaces without touching any backend code in WordPress. As an example, we built a liveblogging app[0] (warning: unoptimised React app not meant for production) entirely using the API that provided a new interface customised just for liveblogging. This connects to any site[1] and any theme.

WordPress has always had an advantage with the degree of customisation that's allowed, and my hope is that we'll see even more work towards better experiences with a shorter build-test-release cycle now. But, plugins aren't the only solution.

In WordPress itself, the big focusses for the next release (4.8) are the REST API, the Customiser (frontend live customisation), and the Editor. I think we'll see plenty of movement in this area.

(I'm one of the leads on the API, a committer to WordPress, and also work for an enterprise WP agency.)

[0]: http://app.aweekofrest.hm/
[1]: https://aweekofrest.hm/liveblog/