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It's the first time I hear about this product but as someone who likes fermenting vegetables this part surprised me:

>We finish by sealing the produce (completely raw and never pasteurized) into our Packs, which get shipped to your door the day they're made.

Wouldn't raw, unpasteurized chopped fruits and vegetable start fermenting very quickly in those packs? Are they shipped refrigerated?

This entire thing is so weird to me. Those packs cost around $6 each and they only produce a small glass of juice. This is less cost effective than some hipster juice bars, and at least here you don't have to clean the glass afterwards.

Buying a good juicer sounds like a much better investment, although admittedly they're probably more painful to wash up.

EDIT: after some more digging up, it turns out that the packs are delivered refrigerated. On top of that the machine will refuse to juice expired or any kind of 3rd party packs and apparently needs an internet connection and a smartphone app to function. Preposterous.

Here's the getting started video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i0UugILBJg

Step 1: open the box

Step 2: plug in the juicer

Step 3: sign up to your juicero account through the smartphone app

Honestly if you had shown me this video 2 hours ago I'd have assumed satire.
"The only element not recyclable is literally the entire actual product."

I love how companies word things.
I don't know how to say this, but I would trust a common sense understanding of human behavior over research. If there's one rule in life, it's that high finance will exploit legal and immoral loopholes to accumulate wealth, and there is plenty of opportunity for that here, despite the rigorous academic studies done by an institution that is highly connected to the people who can profit off of it.
It's a perfectly valid question. In my very cautious humble opinion, I think what it means is that the style/size matrix[0] will get squeezed more into a single spectrum: large companies will be pressured into stabilizing and delivering dividends and small ones will compete to grow large enough to get a piece of the passive investment gravy train. Apple can have a bad quarter, but it's just one company. It can't keep having a bad quarter. And if they start to and have to downsize to stay alive, they would by doing that hasten themselves out of a market cap that would qualify them for the index.

There's also no reason why passive indices have to reflect the total market weighted for market cap.

[0]https://corporate.morningstar.com/US/documents/MethodologyDo...
I think the idea behind farm to table is not that the owners of the restaurant supply everything they serve themselves but know their suppliers personally, maybe have been to the suppliers farm, and can answer detailed questions about their restaurants supply chain.
There are 74 US FDA-approved manufacturing facilities in India, more than in any other country outside the U.S. (This I believe has increased further over the last year)
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Only if the big cities have enough untapped jobs that let new residents thrive.
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The majority wants "immigrants" to go back. The president won an election based on that agenda. I'm not sure who to believe :)
They are probably just tracking the quality of sound through the signals. Don't you think?
I don't see why this matters at all -- the disposable juice packs are what extract money from the consumer. It's the razor / replacement blade or printer / ink model. If someone finds out that they really only need the blades, ink, or juice packs, it's no big deal.

The problem for the manufacturer comes when consumers figure out that they can use knock-off blades, generic ink, or 3rd party juice packs.
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>Interesting. I'm wondering if that's true in reverse for people. Did you accept a 23% pay cut to work from home?

I'm preparing for a big move that will require me to work remotely or leave the company. Part of my bargaining chips is accepting up to a 50% pay cut, starting at a much lower % of course (10-20%~)

There's no reason I can't work remotely other than they dislike it. The team frequently works from home/remotely (eg: while "on vacation") and there is little in the way of processes that requires anyone to come in to the office. Nearly all communication happens over Slack and the occasional email chain.

I love the company I work for and don't want to leave them. But I also have my own dreams and ambitions in life and given a choice between the two I'll choose to follow my dreams.
Sounds like they already have that: the machine reads QR codes and compares them to an online service for expiry/recall. Not many steps to validity.
can they DRM your hands?
There is quite a lot of middle ground between working from home and a four hour daily commute. I was at a similar crossroads a few years back, but my total commute was closer to 50 minutes and the 60% bump in pay was well worth it for me. At the end of the day, it's a personal decision that is highly dependent on circumstances and preferences.

What I will say is that there are certainly advantages to being in a shared space with collaborators for a scheduled bracket of time on a regular basis. I haven't yet found a remote-working setup that can properly mimic these advantages. Certainly some make a praiseworthy attempt -- but some of my team's most productive days have been kicked off with a brief hallway conversation that resulted in alignment/commitment that would have taken far longer if attempted remotely.
That's hardly the discussion here... The current administration isn't trying to remove the H1B, but to prevent low-skilled workers from getting the H1B so that these higher degree graduates looking for work can secure a job in the US.

Indian outsourcing firms are notoriously spamming the H1B with low-salary petitions completely offsetting the chances of these post-grads looking for work. What you end up getting is doctors and engineers not being able to work in the US and you have some low level programmer that can't even do their work well without you babysitting through the work they are supposed to be qualified to do.
I think, sadly, that this is the essence of the "problem". That is, few people outside of those who know about consumer data collection actually care about it.

And it is one reason why we are hurtling inexorably to Idiocracy...
FYI: 'stuff' and 'advice' aren't countable nouns in English - you sometimes see a countable 'stuff' as part of a compound noun like 'dyestuff', but it's never countable in the common sense of "a collection of things".

Out of curiosity, are you a native speaker of German or a closely related language? I'm not intimately familiar with the language, but it seems like both these nouns' German equivalents are countable, and I'm wondering whether that is the origin of your unusual usage here.

(ObTopic: In prior positions, I avoided working from home, because there are many more distractions there. In my current role, it's about even, which is regrettable, and working from home is off the menu here in any case.)
No, but the transition was peaceful. FW de Klerk freely gave the power across instead of being murdered in his bed or trying to set fire to "the homelands".

Since then, despite the high crime rate, there hasn't been any ethnic cleansing or large scale retribution. Beyond generic Africa-standard corruption, the country has mostly taken the high road.
The Architecture of Windows NT page on Wikipedia has a good diagram to help visualize NT subsystems. The first few versions of NT, iirc, shipped with the OS/2 subsystem but this was removed with Windows XP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT
Disgusting... I just deleted the app, however I hadn't opened it for a while, anyone know / can guess if it had still been sending stuff out (e.g. as a background process of some sort)?
Yeah, as far as I could tell this is more expensive, less convenient, and harder to obtain than juice bottles, takes up more space, and the consumables have about the same shelf life or shorter. Bizarre product. (Also, since it requires an internet connection to check if the juice packs are valid, if the internet goes down and you decide that's a good time to take a juice break...)
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Name 3 please.
A "juice luminary" - Silicon Valley writes itself!
I've also never downloaded the app and, in fact, didn't even know it existed. I've never been notified about it in any fashion on iOS?
Do nothing without contracts!
Then there's this $1500 toaster oven. https://juneoven.com/the-oven

In all fairness, most of the reviews are fairly positive. Though this takedown is pretty hilarious: https://www.fastcodesign.com/3065667/this-1500-toaster-oven-...
But... what is the point of a juicer if the contents you are juicing are already liquid?

I am in a state of panic right now because I cannot fathom how a group of people thought this was a good enough idea long enough for them to develop a final product. What????
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> The people that came into power dismantled them, no the generation.

Its the generation that votes/puts people in power in a democratic political system. Politicians are representatives of the people i.e. generation.

> The people in power before them, and after them equally were for dismantling things.

Nope. The New Deal was the opposite of dismantling: using government resources to kickstart the economy. And then the Great Society programs to enable higher standards of living for all.
Yeah, while this may be good advice for some types of markets/businesses/circumstances, there's no way that it's useful as general advice, especially not for side projects or small companies that only need to support one person. Getting that initial traction is the hardest part. Quitting after 3 months is silly.

I don't know how much Atlassian made in its first three months, but they are one of the only bootstrapped tech companies to go public in the last 2 decades. It took them 15 years. While this is not necessarily the fastest path to success, I 100% believe it deserves immense respect. They're one of the biggest success stories in tech as far as I'm concerned.

(Of note, Atlassian has mainly focused on enterprise markets)
> ... try and reduce the liabilities of the natives ...

i would add medical care to that list
Firefox mostly has the problem that the open web suddenly became incredibly important for Google: it's their platform, in the fight against Facebook and Apple's iOS.

No organisation on the planet could compete with a team that Google considers a core asset for actual survival.

Mozilla has made quite a few mistakes, but the times may change, and I sure hope they'll be around when Google's incentives are no longer aligned with the open web's.
As a daily veggie shake juicer, I'd be interested in packs that could cut down on the time I spend each morning cutting stuff up, if cost effective. But I get no satisfaction from status symbols, anymore than I care that my household appliance barely found a reason to connect to my wifi.
It hurts the buyers instead of the often-desperate women. Also, keeps the women from being vulnerable to attacks that happen when it's illegal on their side. It's not ideal but it's better than the current system in the U.S.. Also, depending on area, police might leave buyers alone subject to conditions like it staying out of the open (e.g. red-light districts).
Nice! Thanks for the in-depth explanation :)
> But I am not so sure that money is cheap right now out in the real world. If you are a new business with no track record or a consumer with poor credit history I think money might be quite expensive for you ...

Really? My understanding was that (non-mortgage) subprime lending was higher than ever, business loans were cheaper than ever...
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And it's a recurring topic in Matt Levine's Money Stuff newsletter. The finance community is not only aware but actively thinking about the ramifications of the situation.
I didn't accept a pay cut, although the wage hasn't kept up in the area the company is located in. In other words, I wouldn't even consider working on site for my current company without a minimum ~50% raise (bay area).

In the US, you can cut out state taxes by moving to a state that doesn't levy income tax. It's a nice self-raise.
Already done.

>The device also reads a QR code printed on the back of each produce pack and checks the source against an online database to ensure the contents haven’t expired or been recalled, the person said.
I think it's hard for some non-US Citizens to understand how rather backwards and unwelcome the thought is for Grown Children as Adults to be living at home with their Parents. The cultural fabric of the US mentality is to grow up and achieve "Independence" as a general concept. That usually means living away from family, and having the means to do so.

Culturally, living with one's Parents in the United States, as a grown Adult, with or without a Spouse, is going to be predominately portrayed as a negative lifestyle indicator. As in, the Individual doesn't have the choice of Independence, at least not the basic financial / living arrangements type.

The "Sandwich Generation" label scares the ever loving spirit of freedom out of most US people who might find themselves caught between providing for both Kids AND Parents.

Assimilation into values such as this US type of Independence are, understandably, quite foreign to several other Large Cultures elsewhere in the World. However, on this turf, it is the prevailing attitude. No amount of "Well in other countries it's perfectly normal" will turn the tide regarding this component of the US life experience, and, at least here, it's an indicator of a need to further assimilate or, unfortunately, deal with cultural push back.

To be fair to the US, this happens when US people try to ascribe their values to other cultures as well. I get it. Two way street.
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Thanks, but it's a last resort. That wouldn't even require a crowdfunding campaign, I just upload the files and that's it.

Since I've spent over 4 years now on this, why not dream higher? I think it's worthy to try to make something cooler, of higher quality and cheaper for everyone.

The book doesn't even have a cover yet, so I might hire an amazing artist as stretch goal or something like that. :)
Bose (et al) thinks you're overstepping your bounds by having a problem with their monetization strategy.
- Shift your mentality from developer to founder
- Do something every day to maintain momentum
A few points - you're assuming all of those visas were for low-skilled software development (however you define it as). The alternative to wages being depressed is the work moves entirely to a different country. The central problem is the consequence of the way balance sheets are structured. Employees are a cost center that reduce profit, rather than an asset. Unless your company is developing software (in which case you never want to outsource), you don't want to hire any IT if possible. So Basically, not hiring H1bs is "leaving money on the table". Its hard to convince someone to not make more money.

Every country has its exports, lets say for a moment that India's export is IT services, and the market is global. The work visas allow them to "sell" into the US market, in a very limited way. Its as good as it gets in terms of protectionism for the US. If we were told J&J could only sell 100 shampoos each year in China or India, that would sound weird and bizarre. I don't believe IT services any different in principle. Its just that when you purchase an iPhone the hundred Chinese employees who worked to produce it are not seen. But they have technically displaced/depressed American wages just like every other import.
There's no real equivalent of root on Windows. Accounts can have capabilities (pronounced 'privilege' [1]), and securable objects have ACLs and ownerships. Owners can replace ACLs, and a capability can give the ability to unilaterally change ownership[2]. And some of the more recent changes (to increase security for naive users) have been to disempower users and relinquish capabilities.

Accounts like SYSTEM may be functionally similar to root in so far as they may have the grant option on capabilities and thus have the keys to unlock powers, but good privilege separation design suggests that capabilities shouldn't be idly taken up.

Functionally, an elevated prompt had enough power to blow away the directory I wanted to delete - that is, the account had the capability to take ownership, replace ACLs, and then delete the objects - but following all the steps is fiddly. Cygwin abstracts all that away to the simplified POSIX system.

Something like SYSTEM may have been enough for different reasons; the existing ACLs may have permitted deletion to SYSTEM. But that doesn't mean SYSTEM had more intrinsic abilities (though I believe it does have more capabilities [2]).

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb5...

[2] SE_TAKE_OWNERSHIP_NAME in [1]

[3] Things like SE_TCB_NAME in [1], I think.
dito for 2Q: http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/2Q-buffer-cache-algorith...
I agree with the intent of your post, but want to point out that most people use the term "remote first" to mean that even those who are colocated work in such a way that is compatible with those who are distributed. Therefore, teams can consist of people who want to work together in an office along with team members who are distributed if the entire team embraces a "remote first" approach.
FYI, just added support for custom easing functions. :)
Paraguay, the Philippines and apparently Japan
Ask HN: Which US software companies are providing H1B for engineers?
With Trump in power, are companies able to provide H1B? If you work at a software company, does your company provide H1B?

I am mostly interested in small to mid-sized companies (20-100 employees) but feel free to add details about your company even if it doesn't match this criteria.
It's also key to know the software can really solve the problem.

Some primitive folks think computers are magic, but it is human sacrifice that makes their religion work at all.
The "give us your name and contact info" text links to their enterprise account signup form. Chances are this is not going to be on the free plan.
I don't think it's downplayed so much as implied - when a country has an increasing number of disenfranchised people but still has economic growth that outpaces their population growth, the wealth is probably accruing somewhere else (ie, those ambitious people.)

I also feel like that's exactly what is happening in the US. I write software in the Bay Area (surprise) and its striking to me that I make more money that several married couples I know where both partners work full time. The couples that do make more than me all have at least one person in tech or medical. Generally, these people are also more ambitious, but not to the degree the difference in income would imply.
Know with more clarity than anyone else on Earth: Why.

Apply Why? to everything.

- Why this tech?

- Why this market?

- Why this team?

- Why do I want this life, experience, challenge, team?

- Why do paying want this product?

- Why will I push through when everything is bleak?

Watch for vanity answers as mentioned by others.

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Interesting way to look at it, thanks. My commute costs roughly $10/day (100 miles x $0.12 or so a mile), so that's $2400/yr to commute.

It's hard to justify assigning a dollar value to your time though, unless you'd otherwise be making that ~$50/hr. If I were not commuting for 4 hours per day, it's not like I'd be consulting for those hours, so there's no opportunity cost. Is the time I'd otherwise spend lying on the couch worth ~$50/hr? Hard to say.
Perhaps that's because most of the electorate think recent governments have struck a good balance between civil liberties and security.

I happen to believe that trade off has gone a bit far and I'm worried that significant further erosion of civil liberties would start causing some serious issues, but lets face it if we believe that we have to argue the case before the public. Whining about living in a police state isn't going to be very productive, or lend that struggle much credibility.
I'm British and I'm scared I'm going to be worse off staying in Britain - how did you come to be able to leave?
>Remember that the most economical tool for the job is often not the coolest or trendiest - but is some old boring workhorse that other engineers will scoff at.

When I read this, a voice in my head yelled PHP.
Many consumers don't see their meta data as having any value to them so see giving it up as zero cost... Hence they don't care at all about tracking.
As an aside, who's idea was it at Fortune to have an autoplaying video that, when paused, starts playing again the moment you scroll down the page?!?
Distributor is not quite right.

If I run a shop that sells magazines, and I order a four magazines to fill some rack space in the shop the distributor does not decide to send you two and black hole the rest of your order.

They send you what you ordered.

Facebook is not a distributor. They are acting as gatekeepers, too.
Well, it probably cost a ton of money to convince people they need to spend $400 on a machine to squeezes the juice out of expensive packets.
I wish I knew that 80% of impact really does come from about 20% of work -- and I'd have organized my work life accordingly.
I've been in "the industry" professionally since ~2005, and with Linux since 1998 or so. I have a business need for kubernetes and there is nothing at all religious about it. It is simply that we have lots of new applications that need to be spun up and deployed. They might need to scale up or scale down, and we have gobs and gobs of on-premise (read 0 cloud) new hardware. "API Driven" infrastructure is the best way to achieve a better story for the various ops teams, and so we're building out some kubernetes clusters globally for them.

In other news: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/044/247/297...
You don't use this pattern while looping. You use it while memoizing results that you don't want to compute again.

Here's an example, in the Python package wordfreq [1]. When you look up word frequencies, there's some normalization it has to do to your text. Some words are very common, and it would be silly to normalize them repeatedly. So frequency lookups are cached.

The cache dictionary has a maximum size of 100,000, so that exceptional or malicious cases don't use up all your memory. It is extremely rare for text to contain 100,000 distinct words, but if that happens, the cache gets full and the entire thing is dropped. It will quickly be re-populated with common words, of course.

Yes, you can make this perform horribly by looking up frequencies of ["zero", "one", "two", "three", "four", ..., "one hundred thousand"] in a loop. That's not realistic data.

Do you actually have a suggestion for how to do this faster? We benchmarked this against other cache strategies (with smaller cache sizes so it would drop sometimes) on realistic data. It's much faster than Python's LRU decorator, for example.

[1] https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/wordfreq/blob/master/word...
China for one.
Generally speaking, I'd say $10k MRR in three months from a dead start is only really doable if your "product" is in large part a service....e.g., a visualization tool for enterprise customers so they can better understand their data sets (requiring extensive setup and bespoke integrations), or something like that.
Most former Soviet republics.

This would be the case for pretty much any society where land and housing was not easily available. As housing is becoming increasingly unavailable in the United States, and population is still increasing, expect to see it here.