skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article says that 4 operating nuclear plants supply 1/3 of the electricity for NY state. That's impressive!

Sadly, 4 of the NY nuclear plants were commissioned in the 1970s. A 5th plant, in Shoreham, is the newest but is also no longer operating. Nine Mile Point has one newer unit from the 1980s, but all told, most of the nuclear power generation capacity in NY is 40+ years old.
There is. Not to be a dick but I'm rushing out...if you search for "STEM IT underemployment OR stagnation" and so on you'll find actual studies. Personally I know several people who had major trouble finding employment, from the most reputable college in my country. Some remained unemployed, some went into teaching, some moved into academia, some changed industries, most emigrated. Maybe things are getting better now. Anyway..

This article links to census data as I recall:
http://archives.cjr.org/essay/it_doesnt_add_up.php

This one's a little older but gives a good jumping off point for academic keywords for further searches:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-i...
The point is, if a health check fails or if there is an outage on AZ 2 then the ELB should be scripted to route to AZ 1 only, as well as AZ 3 if it exists.
Not necessarily a question for just you, but what have they done, exactly?
And turnout numbers for Democrats was lower than usual, so you are correct.
People I know with Surface Pros really like them. I'd consider one myself except that

- They're too pricey for a casual "I'll give it a try"

- I don't otherwise use Microsoft anything any longer

- For travel, I'm pretty much sold on Chromebooks which are easier to type on with no table and just my lap.

But arguably Microsoft has done a better job of bringing together laptops and tablets for creation of typical business content than anyone.
You're comparing the average salary of all H-1B jobs (developer, accountant, analyst, etc.) to the salary of a developer. Instead, look at the average salaries for H-1B software engineers in 2016:

Facebook @ Menlo Park: $152k

Google @ Mountain View: $130k

Apple @ Cupertino: $154k

Amazon @ Seattle: $124k

Microsoft @ Redmond: $120

So comparing base salary alone, these companies are definitely not underpaying their H-1B hires.

To see salaries for yourself, you can go here and filter by year to see the latest data:

http://h1bpay.com/companies/Facebook/cities/Menlo%20Park-CA/...
The question is why do the outsourcing companies need to hire so many foreigners---other than to pay them nothing and screw up the H1B lottery for everyone else, of course.
How to Access a Running Binary on Linux
Similar to fuzz testing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzing
So one availability zone went down, not the region, which Amazon indicated on their status page (which is clearly set up to predominantly display outages of the region, not of a single AZ within the region), and because of how your system was set up to be dependent on each AZ being operational and networks to not partition, it caused issues.

I get that having issues on AWS is irritating; I exist in that ecosystem too. But...I really can't fault them for this, or claim that they're lying. AWS says to not rely on any one AZ being up and/or reachable, and yet you did. And the fact it caused problems for you means you want them saying the entire region is down. Why? They make regions be fault tolerant by having multiple AZs; they guarantee reliability at the region level, not at the AZ level, and that's what the status page is intended to track.

Now, I can see wanting a clear status page per AZ, rather than just a blue 'i'. That's a valid request. But -request- that, don't claim that they're lying. You're being antagonistic despite them doing everything they've promised, and their status page being correct (just not using the colors you would like because they view severity differently than you).
> You don't even support your statement: "affirmative action means women and minorities get preferential treatment during hiring."

Are you saying this is untrue? If I am wrong, then what is affirmative action?
> That is not a good argument against them

It's odd that the Economist has this sub-head but then goes on to make the case that Indian outsourcing companies are the biggest consumers and paying a fraction of what the others are paying.. so they are abusing the system.

The rumor (proposal?) is that Trump is going to shift the minimum salary from $60k to $130k which makes it closer to software dev salaries in Seattle, SF, NYC which I think would address this.
You are right - no other country in the world can compete with the US on economic grounds. And the reason for this has been decades of international trade that the USA has benefited from. The aim should not be competition but dis-engagement.

It would cause a LOT of short term pain - but 15-20 years later it would show benefits. China and India need to evolve with reduced dependence on exports (and the developed world). In any case they will have the largest markets based on current population projections.

Just look at the kind of income inequality that exists in these countries - I would actually argue that this was a by-product of trying to copy/serve the US model at some level.
The very best devs are not always using code as a 'solution'. Also, going back to your customer (internal/external) and reviewing their 'needs' goes a long way into understanding the core issue they are facing.

Very often I've experienced requests made to devs are 'solutions' the customers think they need for their core issue (which you have not discovered yet).

A very good dev will go past that initial request and ask questions to understand the core issue. Many times the intial request does not solve the core issue, and the customer needs to be made aware of this, because it has a huge impact on the final solution and on your business productivity.
And why do they need an H1B visa for the employee then?
I used it a lot, both for the list and just the Readability-like feature until browsers added their own reading mode/reading list functionality. (First proposed by Mozilla, first implemented in Safari — like the download widget ;-) — and now also in Edge.) (Only Chrome is lacking, but I'm not too surprised an ad company doesn't add it to their browser.) Now I use Firefox's reader mode and synced bookmarks.
I was poking around in an H1-B lookup system that was posted here last year (2015 maybe?) that enabled me to check into another realm where I had a suspicion the H1-B program is also depressing wages:

Bench Science at Universities.

Mostly PhDs. Post-Doctoral Fellows. The numbers - state by state, institution by institution - are staggering in my opinion. It's a snake eating itself in how these Universities prepare US students (ahem, expensive via loans more often than not) then when it's time to get a job, funding is so competitive (different problem) that labor prices are forced into the gutter. Enter the H1-B labor force.

The idea that the US isn't capable of meeting real STEM demand is utter bullshit. The demand would be met if there was a living wage. A quality of life. People in the US still have faint memories of pride and not being over-worked and over-debt riddled, and still cling to just the last threads. That's why PhDs aren't lining up to spend $250,000, then take several years (if lucky) to get a $52,000 a year job with limited security.
There is most certainly a huge brain drain from China and India to the west. And it isn't limited to Technology: some of the best doctors and healthcare professionals, Biotech researchers etc. are all attracted to the well paying jobs and well-funded research opportunities offered by the US. It has always been a sticking point in India.
Three Ways to Put Humanity Back into Digital Marketing
You probably know, but pfsense is mostly just a nice UI on top of built in networking support in BSD. Linux network support has a lot more features on top of that.

You can do more than pfsense with a plain old Linux box but it takes some dense reading to learn to manipulate the traffic control and routing tables yourself.

The reason why most open source router distributions with a UI are pretty basic is because everyone doing things sufficiently advanced knows how to manipulate the network stack directly and only needs command line
I think it was Santa Ema, but it has been years.
Your first request is tricky because it can lead to issues down the road if done poorly, so it is hard to just give a quick example of it. I wrote about this subject recently (see https://www.calhoun.io/pitfalls-of-context-values-and-how-to... ) and there is a lot of info to cover. That said I could see value in doing an example and referencing a more in depth overview from the example.

Once you cover (1) most of the others fall into line. There is little reason to use context values outside of MW from my experience.

Re (3) - can you provide a link or example of what you mean?

(5) - again, can you elaborate? Are you referring to error types? Or just how the errors are rendered?

I ask all these questions because I write a lot about Go and I am interested in trying to make examples of these available, but I want to understand what you are asking for first.
DeepMind (and Others) Fuse Game Theory and Deep Learning
Speaking of which...

Q: Why 2-ply toilet paper?

A: The second copy goes to KGB
It's legal to turn right at a red light in parts of Germany (if there s a sign saying so at the traffic light). One of the few things that were adopted from East Germany after the reunification. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grünpfeil
> The post being on Medium just isn't that relevant.

Posting on a site which insists on breaking the authors first rule just looks silly.
We have satellites that are pretty fast... what's the point of laying down physical submarine wires?
If you turn up the heat a little, you can just get some or all team members to voluntarily quit. Boom, problem solved.
Change at Buffer: The Next Phase, and Why Our Co-Founder and CTO Are Moving On
> If it's cheaper to import someone from India rather than Montana, is that OK? If so, why? If not, why not?

As I understand the reasoning behind the H1B visa program:

If it's just cheaper, then it's not ok, essentially because workers in Montana should be protected from wage competition. But if it's unlikely that someone in Montana could / wants to do the job, then it's ok, because then there is no competitive situation and the interest of the business / economy to fill a position takes precedence.

Isn't a good way to ensure that to just raise the bar in terms of wage? If a business has to pay $150k/y for a H1B worker (because otherwise they won't get the visa) then they'd probably prefer a comparable candidate from Montana for $140k/y. If they still hire the H1B it's because nobody in Montana wants to / can do the job for $140k/y, so no wage competition (except of course if someone in Montana does want to do the job for $160k/y - but in that case they're perhaps not in desperate need of "protectionistic intervention" from their government).

So to me it seems an "auction" allocation strategy for H1B visas would strike a pretty good balance, raising the wage bar when demand for visas go up (and lowering it if/when demand goes down).
DeepMind's PathNet: A Modular Deep Learning Architecture for AGI
I believe that Telogis does, from what one of the engineers was saying to me.

Most software will weight on rules like how long it will take to turn left rather than right at an intersection, and other average case rules at decision points.
Well, picking on Derrida's philosophy is like picking on Rob Liefeld's art, or the crazy 90s hair your wife had in her yearbook photos: everybody pretty much now agrees that it was bad, and that we were a little crazy when it was in fashion.
Five Things I Wish I'd Known as a Design Student
So where are these numbers coming from?

A contractual maximum of 190 work days sounds a lot like 200 days a year, which is pretty normal (52 weeks with 4 off for vacation and 5 days a week = 190)

In California (I don't know Illinois) teachers get a pension, but DO NOT GET Social Security!

I see some clickbait articles searching about Buffalo Grove teachers, but those end up leading to data from ISBE.
https://www.isbe.net/Documents/teacher_salary_14-15.pdf

The data from there doesn't come up to $150k even for maximums. They list $122-139k as the maximum from 2011-15 with median values of $67-74k.
Wanting pf or something pf-like on a non-BSD-based OS is not an unreasonable request, especially considering how awful it is to work with, say, iptables in the Linux world. Having a Linux-native pf would likely be highly desirable when Linux is already required in one's setup for other reasons (for example, if Docker is a dependency for what one's trying to do).

That said, my own general preference is to use OpenBSD (which means having immediate access to pf plus all the other goodies like relayd/httpd, OpenSMTPD, etc.) in all possible situations, and only resort to some other OS (like GNU/Linux) when actually necessary; thus, I can't really relate to a need for things to be the other way around :)
AOP is just a modern take on the joke COMEFROM instruction from 1971. It is not a programming paradigm.
http://www.ipfire.org/ is Linux based.
If a trade war happened, it would wound the developing world a great deal more than it would impact the United States.

The US could be self-sufficient in terms of resources and manufacturing with relatively minor policy shifts and subsidization of domestic industries.

China's export-driven, currency-manipulating economic engine pretty much needs the US as a market so it doesn't collapse under its own weight. China already isn't playing ball by allowing American companies to compete within its domestic market, so it's not like that would be any great loss on that front.

Personally, I'd love to stop subsidizing the third world at the expense of American citizens. Developing countries need the US a lot more than the US needs them.
Well obviously if there's enough demand for workers, and immigrants are paid at the same rate, then nobody would displace anybody.

I'm not saying that the US should shut off avenues for any immigration, but simply that indigenous workers shouldn't have to compete against low wage emerging economies in their own country. If companies want to off-shore, fine.
I've been using PFSense both at various workplaces and at home for many years now, it's seriously fantastic. Feature rich, rock solid and good 3rd party packages.
I'm always shocked at how reluctant sites are to actually ship less code, and I think some of this comes down to a needed shift thinking in what an application is, what modules are and how to use imports.

One thing I've heard recently is "My app is big, so it has a lot of code, that's not going to change so make the parser faster or let me precompile".

The problem with this is thinking that an app is a monolith. An app is really a collection of features, of different sizes, with difference dependencies, activated at different times. Usually features are activated via URLs or user input. Don't load them until needed, and now you don't worry about the size of your app, but the size of the features.

This thinking might stem directly from misuse of imports. It seems like many devs think an import means something along the lines of "I'll need to use this code at some point and need a reference to it". But what an import really means is "I need this other module for the importing module to even _initialize_". You shouldn't statically import a module unless you need it _now_. Otherwise, dynamically import a module that defines a feature, when that feature is needed. Each feature/screen should only statically import what it needs to initialize the critical parts of the feature, and everything else should be dynamic.

In ES2015 this is quite easy. Reduce the number of these:

import * as foo from '../foo.js';

and use these as much as possible:

const foo = await import('../foo.js');

Then use a bundler that's dynamic import aware and doesn't bundle them unnecessarily. Boom, less JS on startup.
I would be cautious about using WordPress. It has a history of being very insecure. Right now there's even a mass attack happening.[0]

From your description all you really need right now is a static site. Look into something like Jekyll. It requires some HTML and CSS knowledge but nothing an evening going through codecadmey wouldn't fix (they also have a lesson on Jekyll). Plus you can initially launch and host for free on GitHub or GitLab then once you have your server setup with Discourse move it over as well.
http://jekyll.tips has some good tutorials and information along with templates.

[0]https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/attacks-on-wo...
That Tesla pays poor wages is well known. But this is expected since they are more a startup and do not have that much cash to go by. I guess the sad part is they don't hand out much shares either
Big cities in the South are liberal oases. Houston, TX had a lesbian mayor till last year, who got married legally while in office.
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The Status of the OpenStack DNS Project
Implementing a very basic order entry check to verify each client's abuse of an orderbook like this is pretty trivial and done in a lot of places. CME just didn't want to do anything about it.
> but the union also suggests that making it easier to refuse unpleasant jobs may create inflationary bottlenecks.

Shitty jobs being valued higher in monetary terms doesn't sound like the worst outcome I can think of.
> Turning right on red is one of those idea that once you've been exposed to it you wonder why isn't everybody adopting it...

Because someone who comes from your left may go forward, or someone who comes from your front mau turn left?

Where I live, we do not assume that we can turn right on red lights. Where and when that's possible, we have a blinking yellow light (basically meaning proceed with caution)..
woah Tesla workers Test approaching
Ken Shamrock, for the betterment of Mankind, looks like it will be a Big Show! Takeing it to the corporate ministry!
only reason, with Vizio, is if you buy a 4k HDR TV thats Dolby HDR compatible and a year or two later HDR 10 becomes the standard and Dolby HDR dies, then Vizio 'can' update the TV to be compatible with HDR 10.

Otherwise, its safe I guess to keep it disconnected.
The more you know. Thanks.
The most obvious problem with healthcare prices is that consumers are removed two steps* from paying for it, so there's little price pressure. But it's hard to have an insurance-based system while also providing an incentive to choose a lower cost provider.

* first by insurance, and second by the employer/government paying for the bulk of that insurance
It's not black-and-white. More of a balance kind of thing.

Bundling everything together is best, unless the cases where it isn't and you need some kind of file to be shared globally. Not necessarily in a global WEB context; just the site's own context works too. You want assets to be cacheable.

Regardless, big libraries on CDN's don't make as much sense nowadays as it did maybe 5 years ago. It's not like everybody is still using jquery. There's too many different mainstream libraries, with too many versions.
Steve Bannon sunk $60M into a World of Warcraft goldfarming scheme
It gets even better -- you can also make an "Oregon left" - in Oregon it is legal to turn left on red if you are turning onto a one way street.

http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2015/10/turn_l...
This is weird - I would have expected people to be excited to get an Oculus demo. Any guesses why not?
> Firing 18k people at Microsoft's scale isn't even close to burning it down and starting from scratch.

Eh... According to Wikipedia, MS had 114k employees total as of mid-2016. Given that, I'd say a 18k layoff definitely counts as a big deal.
Thank you so much for that link! I just set up my first OpenBSD firewall so this will help.
It's really common for people to criticize professional athletes for trusting unscrupulous business managers, but I've always wondered how many of those people fully understand their own investments. Do they trust a CFA's word? Do they have there entire 401k invested in a vanguard target date fund but do they comprehend what its composition is?
> In any half-way modern editor indentation-aware copy and paste/block indent/dedent is super easy.

Sure. But I've made mistakes in Python because I didn't select e.g. the last line of a region.

If you've used both extensively and prefer whitespace to sexps, that's totally valid. De gustibus non est disputandum.
I would argue that people feel "a developer is absolutely about his technical ability" but when you look at it you will find that this is a feeling rather than something which is in any way quantified as hinted at in article.

Very rarely does management decipher a developers problem solving skills, or rank the quality of code or rank eagerness to learn for example ..management does not do this.

What they do is judge "good team members" (and is that developer nice to me is very important) and "can they trust" which and goes back to "frequency of positive interactions" / "how often do you have do deal with issues".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it difficult for the employer to prove if you worked on your business while employed? Suppose you don't keep a timestamped code repository, do your market validation work that looks generic (web browsing, some calls and emails to prospective customers), don't use any company equipment, and last but not least do not blast online that you are the owner of a business.

You can then quit when it looks like the business can start generating money, and your employer would be none the wiser, right? Or heck, keep on working as how would they find out? Unless you will need to take investment, you can just keep it a secret?
This is interesting as a work of network analysis, but I'm not sure how to connect this back to politics. It seems pretty clear to me whenever I browse /r/The_Donald that they're actively uninterested in fact-checking. There are posts hating on the new Netflix TV series "Dear White People" where people ask questions like "Do I even want to know what it's about?". There was a highly-upvoted image about Pizzagate with a leaked Podesta email on the left and a UrbanDictionary screenshot on the right defining some word as a lewd sex act—from the fourth page of results. Anyone who's ever been to UrbanDictionary knows that literally every word has a definition somewhere about it being a lewd sex act.

Are the majority of Trump (and Farage, and Petry, and so forth) voters similarly uninterested in actual facts? That seems unlikely to me, although certainly possible. I worry that the fringe of loud people on the internet isn't actually connected in a meaningful way to voters, and so analyzing the fringe isn't a good way to learn anything about the world at large, just about loud people on the internet.
Georgia has this too. Who doesn't have this?