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> Having actually looked it up, federal funding is only 13% of public education ie it would be absolutely trivial to require states to fund state green card immigrants.

You're forgetting that the federal money goes disproportionately to schools in poorer areas, i.e. exactly the schools in question and the ones who can't afford to lose the money.

> Likewise emergency healthcare isn't federally subsidized.

Well that's the other problem, isn't it? It is subsidized but the subsidies are indirect. Every time someone goes to the emergency room without paying, the price goes up for ACA-subsidized private insurance and Medicare.

And the same for the lack of non-emergency coverage resulting in people running around without vaccinations and carrying untreated contagious infections.

The only real fix would be for the state to pay for all the immigrants' healthcare.

> Plus, it's highly unlikely that allowing this program would actually even increase the number of immigrants we have, just make the illegal ones legal.

It can't not. The program makes it easier to be an unskilled immigrant. Supply and demand says if you lower the cost the quantity will increase.

If you set a quota at the current number then you aren't actually solving the problem, because more will come hoping to get one of the slots and then you have more people than slots. If you set no quota then the number goes up even more.
> Didn't know remote work would play a role in this matter. Is that true?

Not sure about acquisitions but in my uninformed opinion, I assume remote first made an acquihire somewhat less likely what I saw as a feature as gitlab tries to get enterprise customers.
You're not the only one who will not be seeing this new film. I learned this after Star Wars: The Force Awakens. As someone who has absorbed much of the Extended Universe eratta, it physically hurt to watch that movie. The story overrode much of what Disney relegated to "Star Wars Legends" - this is an experience not worth re-living with GITS.
Yeah, that's why I opened with "Not that it's the same scale".

My point is just that arguing "don't spend money on X, Y is more important" only makes sense if X is literally the least important thing.

But as far as scale is concerned, it's worth noting that the US spends about .5% of its budget on NASA (again, IMO totally justified). The economist article doesn't mention how much Ethiopia plans to spend, but to get a super rough estimate, their current $3m investment [0] is only about .025% of national budget [1].

[0] http://www.sciencealert.com/ethiopia-has-launched-the-first-...
[1] http://www.ena.gov.et/en/index.php/politics/item/1435-counci...
Don't forget that many of the stadiums are at least partially funded by taxes.
Feminism is one of the dumbest things America has ever tried. Thanks to more women and men mixing in the workplace, adultery rates are skyrocketing. The single biggest predictor for adultery, studies show, is proximity. Meaning if you work with a woman you are statistically much more likely to commit adultery with her.

Thankfully this article puts some common sense out there, stating what is obvious. And people ought to quit being so obsessed with getting more women in the work force, because there are a lot of negatives for society when they do. Raising kids is a valuable profession, even if it's uncool
hate to be tinfoil-hat about this, but I2P seems sane in every way that Tor seems all-but-intentionally insecure in the face of sophisticated adversaries.

this seems a good example of "fruitful surface area" for security vulns. another unrelated design decision is for Tor to reuse a single route which can be identified with relatively high accuracy via traffic analysis.
This is what passes as science in 'scientific american'?! There's not a single absolute number reported aside from the laughingly small sample size of 400 adults in a world of 7,000,000,000.
Honest question: you have to think about whether or not you like your job? I can understand wanting to give consideration to most questions, but that seems like something you should immediately know, and answer emotionally rather than rationally.
>Amazon has wanted to put sports rights on its Amazon Prime video service,

Amazon wants me to cancel my Prime Video Service....

I would have rather gotten Season 3-n of Alpha House than Football or any other sports.. If they start investing in sports over premium content they can count me out...

I have been a prime member almost from the beginning of prime, I own 6 fireTV devices, and a few Kindle's, I am deep in the Amazon eco system, I will rip them all out over sports..

I dropped cable TV originally because I grew tried of most of my payment going to subsidize sports, and having my channels interrupted with "Live Sports"
From personal experience, not sure I'd agree with that statement. SQL may be limiting for some time-series use cases, but for others it's quite rich and powerful. I won't pretend that SQL solves everyone's time-series problems, but we've found that it goes pretty far.

That said, we may have to get a little creative to support some specific use cases (e.g., bitemporal modeling). Still TBD.

Also, I agree that SQL isn't for everyone (the popularity of PromQL is evidence to that). But a lot of people have been using SQL for a while (personally, since 1999), and there is a rich ecosystem (clients, tools, visualization tools, etc) built around it.
Not all time series data is metrics (which is what Influx & Prometheus are adapted for). Any kind of audit log -- to support a customer service console, for example -- is going to be a time series of fairly complex, multi-field records. Orders (and order modifications), support requests, payouts and transfers... Most of business activity falls under the aegis of time series, nominally immutable, even when it's not numbers. Working with this kind of data is definitely helped by a comprehensive SQL dialect.

To take a contrary position: whose infrastructure is so large that a specialized SQL and storage engine (like Influx) is necessary? Actually not that many companies...so why does infrastructure always end up with these special snowflake versions of things?
Snap's response essentially says the whole matter is none of the court's business because Pompliano agreed to binding arbitration. There's probably some advantage to only arguing the procedural stuff to get the case dismissed, but it looks really shady to a layman/investor.

Though, I wonder why P wants a career in social media growth hacking if his morals forbid inflating metrics and spitting bullshit.

Hopefully some interesting stuff comes out in discovery...

Anyone want to speculate on the gigantic redacted section in the middle of P's complaint?
One can argue that, but in practice, this often means that the clients will just take their business and go elsewhere.
Check out the room scale Vive/Rift demos at https://github.com/aframevr/aframe. They run on Firefox Nightly, 90FPS, low latency. The Web has a bad stigma associated with its 2D pieces, but it's definitely not implausible.
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How are you judging that that's a small sample size?
Yeah, was annoying thinking this article was relevant to my every day life as an Android developer until I looked farther. Is it so tough for Google to Google a name before they pick it? Geez.
The customer gets to get a refund for the product. This way it is not bricking per-se but refusal of service.
My understanding of bricking is that you have a dead device and no recourse in getting a replacement or a refund.

The interesting question to me is what exactly you buy for $99: just the device ? Is the cloud-based service included in the price also? Especially since the developer can only make an assumption as to how long (in years) a customer will be using the service.
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I think it is perfectly professional to give feedback about companies that you no longer work for.

It helps other developers decide if they want to work there.

Things like Glassdoor are extremely helpful to employees, in telling them what places are good, and bad, to work for.
Who cares 1,300,000,000 people live without liberty and are subject to humans rights violations? They make cheap shit. Is that what you're saying?
It's April 4th, 2017.

But it's okay… I thought it was 2018 earlier today.
If your bar is that high then you can say that about literally any study. What do you expect, a study involving a million people?!
I've found Spectacle leaves a bit of padding space under where the dock folds out - potentially useful, but unwanted in my case, and I wasn't able to find a setting to change that behaviour.

I use BetterSnapTool instead, which seems to have a better collection of settings and solves my (admittedly minor) gripe with Spectacle.
The key to GitS was always moving the imagination ball forward. GitS 2 was a big mindfk, but then the TV series, the TV movie, and then the OVA - each step forward was a powerful reinterpretation of the core concept - the thinning of spirit within technology and how it might be leveraged by brilliant minds.

From what I saw with the previews, they only wanted to copy the legend. There was nothing about adding value and building on what came before.

That's why it's so flat.
FYI, this is from 2012, The paper is under the link "New research"[1].

1: http://bleske-rechek.com/April%20Website%20Files/Bleske-Rech...
I wouldn't write stuff like this if I were him.

Nobody wants to hire someone who tried bashing on his former employer.
> Do they fastidiously quit applications even though they'll probably use the app again within a few days?

s/days/minutes/

It's an old habit of mine that stems from spending most of my pre-adult life with old equipment, and using others' equipment with <1gb ram running Norton antivirus.... I'm so glad those days are over, but I haven't completely recovered. That being said, I do occasionally just leave everything running for as long as I can stand to. My system can never tell the difference.

As for using less than 64gb of ram... Ha! I have never had more than 8gb of ram! I have never needed more than 8gb of ram! 8gb is a lot of memory! 64gb? Are you kidding me? I've considered several times over the past few years getting another 8gb (for 16gb total), and ended up realizing I would never use it.
Yeah, but what was the age range they tested? If they're comparing 22 year-olds to 18 year-olds, they're still only covering a small range.
Same here. The original is one of my favorite films, so I went in expecting to be disappointed, but it wasn't that bad. The story is different, but they made an effort to preserve some of the themes and kept the "Hollywood dumbing down" to a minimum. And it was cool to see some of the iconic scenes from the original brought to life.
I can't tell if this comment is serious or not but I find it odd that people who know fuck all about science go around bashing people over the head with it.
Either the Goverbankment pumps land or they don't. You are kidding yourself.
Just speaking for myself: I have never persued a friendship with a woman if I was not at least attracted to her.

I don't see female colleagues at my current job as friends and I feel the same about the girlfriends of my friends. Those are just platonic relationships to me that I am not interested in deepening in any way.
The paper is linked. Feel free to take a look[1].

1: http://bleske-rechek.com/April%20Website%20Files/Bleske-Rech...
I've been working with TypeScript a lot over the past year and prefer it to some other languages now(like Python). I would still probably prefer C# and dotnet; all the way if it ran in the browser.

* .Net is faster
* ASP.NET Core is faster
* .Net uses thread pools for task scheduling; parallelism
* Run time type information
* An mostly complete task(async/await) based stdlib(node hasn't even started on this to my knowledge)
* Linq -> fantastic
* Entity Framework -> not without some quirks, but fantastic
* Roslyn; feeding dev-time code generation back into your compiler/tools allows for some really cool IDE aware tooling.
* Cool JIT/IL stuff like Jil
* More number types than "number"
* etc
Honest question: if tech execs hire foreigners, outsource, and avoid hiring expensive older workers, why are they spending an extra 30% on men when they could get equivalent women employees for much less?
Something doesn't add up here...
Spreadsheets are the most intuitive programming environment known to man. Every time you reach for Excel to mung your data, that's opening a repl. The only problem is that Google and Microsoft don't care enough to make them powerful enough to do general purpose computation with, fast enough to build large systems with, versionable enough to enable large teams to use them.
The only black person I know of who has a Hitler mustache is Robert Mugabe.
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Hmm. Think of the response that acceleration would have, all else equal, if momentum increased.

There's two ways to change momentum -- velocity or mass. If mass increases, acceleration decreases. If velocity increases, acceleration remains the same.

Edit: You've got a bit of an endogeneity problem in your equation. And I guess I do, too.

momentum = 1/2 * mass * acceleration * time ^ 2

Since momentum is equivalent to mass times velocity, one of its components is on both sides of the equation simultaneously. My original equation had the same problem, except with velocity instead of mass.

So... I think "momentum" here is leading us a bit in the wrong direction. What the author should have been saying is "mass". After all, the metaphor was "a heavy ball", emphasizing the weight. The initial velocity was unchanged across the comparison.

It bugs me that so many domains misuse the term "momentum". Business people confuse momentum for velocity. Now machine learning folks are confusing momentum for mass. It's common for people to use a component of the whole as a stand-in term, like "my wheels" instead of "my car". Less common to go the other way: "my arm hurts" instead of "my elbow hurts". In this machine learning case the imprecision of the metaphor harms understanding.
I don't think any scientists consider TED talks a serious venue. Anyone who thinks they are learning rather than being entertained is mistaken. Not saying there is anything wrong with entertainment, it is just bad for us all when people confuse the two.
I curate great tech news from a wide range of sources on my daily newsletter (FoundersGrid.com) which is a great way to discover new blogs.
Grisak'a response in the article is fairly arrogant particularly with the Musk tweet thrown in. If you sell B2B then, by all means, fire customers, but if you sell on Amazon to consumers then you need to deal with them civilly regardless if you feel insulted.

I get the feeling a lawyer told him to explicitly state it wasn't about the review because there is a new federal law that protects reviewers. That statement doesn't jive with his previous posts.
Its not about what people want, its about the speed of USB pooling. Both Internal keyboard and touchpad are on the USB Bus in Macbooks, pooling USB slower means you save additional battery power (less frequent interrupts/cpu wakeups).
Thanks for the great suggestions.

We've certainly discussed running on ZFS internally, but haven't evaluated yet. We're a bit uncomfortable dictating file system requirements to users, so looking to ultimately provide many of these things in the database instead.

Would welcome any testing/benchmarks, though! :)
Sure, what's your experience? I'm relatively well experienced with keras and TF so far but always looking for learning partners!
This is probably the best thing you can do in a town that is not even close to dense enough to support public transit (population density 361/sq. mi., 20 times less than a Silicon Valley suburb). Better than nothing because it uses tax revenues to subsidize rides for people with low incomes.
The article fails to mention that U.S./Global Fund/Gates Foundation are willing to spend exorbitant amounts of their own money on Ethiopia's humanitarian crises [0][1][2], so there's a pretty strong incentive for Ethiopia to spend their own money on other things.

To be clear, I'm not at all against foreign aid.

[0]https://ethiopia.usembassy.gov/u.s.-response-to-the-ethiopia...
[1] http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grant...
[2] https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/portfolio/
I'd expect 2D canvas to have worse performance than WebGL. I don't think that's a fair comparison for WebVR.

Try out https://aframe.io/a-painter/ when you get your Vive in Firefox Nightly and try out the performance. It's native like for me.
If I was the CEO of Pepsi and saw my employee tweet how he likes Coke I would be pissed.

Morality is subjective so nobody can say what's truly "right" or "wrong", but it is true that what this guy did was not a cool thing to do. And I can imagine just reading through his post what other things he probably may have done to result in him getting fired.
How useful are fighter jets? Shouldn't we be building swarms of unmanned drones instead?
This, 100%. My company is jumping on the 'engaged employee' bandwagon, and it's frankly pretty patronizing. No, I do not give a shit about your marketing app. However, I enjoy my coworkers and the interesting technical problems we're tasked with solving. Just embrace the fact that you're not Google and you can still hire good people.
Surely whether a customer has a right to review a product and some recourse in the event of retaliation qualifies as an interesting question, as well though, right?
I've never considered GitS to be "punk". It's much more in line with Cameron's Aliens & Avatar.
I think OP meant virtually. Tapping on lighthouses is just like physically hitting them. Virtual attacks have bigger implications.
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I'm doing this now, but somehow have stopped and fell in love with the Philippines.

HK, is expensive.
Tokyo, is not, but I suggest doing a sharehouse, do not do an apartment. Serviced share house should be $350/month in Tokyo. You don't have to commute so who cares where, right?
Manila/Philippines, cheap enough condo to rent a month for about $400.

Also, meetup.com and language school. I love Japanese, and need to continue picking it up.
Every time you are making a movie you need to answer the question: why am I making this? Especially when doing a remake, what I have found missing from the original material that I think requires filling. Perhaps there's a prequel story to be told (Planet of Apes), perhaps I want to depict a version closer to how it could've happened in real life (True Grit) and so forth. If your answer is "well I want to make money" then don't do it.

Tell me true, what is the answer for this one?

Ps. If your answer is, well the original movie was funny but didn't have enough crotch jokes then especially don't do it.
>One of the major takeaways for me from this article was about how sincere feedback and contributions to the company can be so quickly brushed aside.

I didn't see that from the gitlab comments. It just looks like a technical discussion where his colleagues disagreed with his analysis.
At least it's not a huge cost to the town for now, but overall this seems like a giant fail—instead of investing in real infrastructure, they're just pouring money into an unsustainable SV company that's on point of imploding.

I wonder if the town has fully considered what this partnership means as far as liability... who will be responsible if an Uber rider in Innisfil gets assaulted?

In any case, Innisfil is a rural suburb of Barrie, ON, an hour north of Toronto. It's not exactly an urban metropolis: https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Innisfil,+ON/
People commenting about bad repercussions are just being pragmatic.
> Verhoeven allegedly didn't read the book (which I doubt) and set out to create a parody of it.

He didn't set out to create a parody of the book, he set out to create a parody of the message he interpreted the book to have without reading it (and accepting that he didn't read the book is the only interpretation of the facts that does not amount to calling Verhoeven an idiot -- well, in his interpretation of the book of the book, at least.)

> The movie is ridiculous because it is supposed to be ridiculous

The movie is ridiculous on many levels, only the most trivial of them apparently intentional. (It is probably not, for instance, intended to be ridiculous as a parody of, or even response to, the written work.)
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Don't think we're going to disagree with this!

And because Timescale is an extension in Postgres, it can actually sit inside (and coexist) with your standard Postgres database if you want. Or, it can be deployed as a separate instance that can transparently JOIN data against your main DB via a FDW.
Hm clearly I've got some more learning to do about this. Thanks!
Regardless of what you think of Uber, it seems like a no-brainer for small towns to subsidize distributed, on-demand shuttles rather than run a public transit system.

We need to see more suburbs do things like this for last-mile transit too.
TL;DR version:

The first problem is that Swagger encourages codegen, and in static languages, said codegen is often unnecessarily restrictive when parsing input data. Adding a new enum member, and what that does to an existing Java client (that maps it to Java enum, which now has a missing member), is given as an example.

The second and third problems are actually one and the same, and that is that Swagger doesn't do Hypermedia. If you don't know what that and HATEOAS is, this entire part is irrelevant to you. If you do know, and you believe it's a fad, then you wouldn't agree with any points in that complaint. If you do know and like it, then you already know what it is about (it's basically just rehashing the usual "why HATEOAS is the only proper way to do REST" narrative, with Swagger as an example).

The last problem is that if you do API first (rather than YAML first), it's overly verbose, and can potentially leak implementation details into your spec.
cough 40.

Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Battlestar Galactica, Space 1999, Buck Rogers in 25th Century, ET, Back to the Future...

And I'm going to get massively downvoted if I don't mention Dr. Who....
Some days I love my job, and some days I can't wait to get out of the office. Just because you caught someone on a bad day doesn't mean you've discovered a toxic culture, it just means you're talking to real people.
Local games are simulcast over the air.
Accordingly, we aimed to compare the
extent to which emerging adults (late adolescence to mid-twenties) and young and
middle-aged adults (late twenties to about 50) experience attraction to their cross-sex
friends

From the linked paper. That's for the follow-up study.
This vision seems very similar to the 2011 talk by Scott Shenker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHeyuD89n1Y
Wow, you guys are totally off base. Do you realize it's his private twitter account and not company's? How does it matter if it's about his job? If I work for Google and I made a comment on how Bing was funny or DDG respects privacy, I don't expect Sundar to send me a mail.

What if your CEO followed all your social media and day to day life and commented on things? But yeah, from my experience, I would rather not have commenters like you around as this attitude of overseeing my shoulders in my personal twitter account spills over everywhere and affects the entire team morale.