skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft has around 36 employees on DACA, and they will do whatever it takes to help them. All good. At the same time they will do everything -- behind the scene -- to keep 5000+ of their H1-B employees from India/China remain on H1-B visa for next 70+ years of their life [1] [2]. The reason being, an H1-B employee is tied as an indentured servant to their employer. If you are an H1-B employee here is how it works:

You get sick, you cannot work, you get fired; your get laid off; you have to sell your car, sell your house, pull kids out of the school and get out of the country.

I'm an H1-B employee working in US for past 12 years waiting for my Green Card. Since last one year I'm suffering severe health issues and is on high dose of pain killers just to make sure I can show up at my work. The day I can't, I lose my legal status, and my family will get deported. My kids, who are born here will also get indirectly deported. So, not surprisingly they love employees like that, and will never speak for them.

Also, the Kids of an H1-B employee who are not born in US, gets deported once they cross 21 years of age, since the H1-B employee cannot claim those kids as their dependent. The cruel part is, even DACA does not help these kids, because, to be eligible for DACA, that child should have been in US illegal [3].

So, for me, Microsoft is one of the most morally bankrupt IT companies out there.

[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/no-one-knows-how-long-legal-immigr...

[2] https://twitter.com/RepKevinYoder/status/890640332387303425

[3] https://www.cato.org/blog/congress-should-help-young-legal-i...
These geothermal solutions are quite pricy:

https://www.google.com/search?q=geothermal+price

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a typical home of 2500 square feet, with a heating load of 60,000 BTU and a cooling load of 60,000 BTU will cost between $20,000 to $25,000 to install.

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A finger touching and leaving would be a high-priority event for the controller to output, and it should probably internally monitor events at a high resolution.

For position, as reported to the OS: what use would actually need a report every 2 milliseconds? Intuitively, I'd think that motions that matter wouldn't need that many datapoints to reliably differentiate.
If it's about groceries it is harmless, but what if you share a joke with a friend, or comment a current event? Depending on where you work, your email may be very likely to being investigated and your all mailbox to be made public in court, taken out of context, etc. So best practice is keep personal stuff for your personal email and keep your professional stuff for your pro email and also keep it boring.
If you publicize that, tons of other people evacuate, and the interstate system quickly becomes gridlocked. It's counter-intuitive, but every study and disaster plan for Houston has consistently called for shelter-in-place over calls for evacuation from an official source.
Consequences of the Inflamed Brain
User doesn't like brotli encoding type being called "bro" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559#c147

1) "User" is the principal engineer of most of Gecko's network stack and pointing out that using that name will lead to complaints during the standardization.

2) The code in question isn't Rust at all.

I mean why even bring this up given (2)?
Right I've heard of those examples, but they have nothing to do with diet.

So when people say 'eating sugar causes inflammation' what do they mean? How is THAT inflammation felt?
It is the new "bad" thing and thus gets a lot of press lately but it is also probably true that you have hear many complaints, you just may not have associated them.

A sore throat, is caused by inflammation of the mucus tissues in your throat, for example. A mosquito bite itches due to inflammation, it is the immune response to the mosquito's saliva that you feel as an itching sensation.

The 'new' thing however is that this mechanism can occur pretty much in every cell of your body and some people have speculated it is the root of a number of ailments. Google 'inflammation' on scholar.google.com and you will find a number of papers discussing different ways that it can affect you.
Trouble with trying to map traceroutes is so many long distance runs are in mpls that you can get 1 hop from Europe to Japan!
And South/Central America
Not if you're in Florida and leave today. Plenty of time to get out of harm's way. Florida orders evacuations routinely for hurricanes.
How Washington lobbyists fought flood insurance reform
I do, and since day one with 4 computers, 3 iCloud accounts, and many hundreds of GB of data I've never had a problem. What's your point?
One thing I'd love to filter on is "Gives developers private/shared offices" as opposed to open-floor.

Also would be nice to filter on workflow/tools like git vs. perforce, or outlook vs. Google calendar, or TFS vs JIRA.
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I've experienced and noticed a different problem. I've had the same phone for almost 5 years (have a hard time replacing something that still works well and is in good condition), and I've found it's not the speed that has worsened and I can live with not having certain features to run some new apps; it's the storage.

My phone's storage is not large by today's standards, I have 16 GB. I run fewer apps than I did when I got the phone, and have run the same general collection from day one. I have less music on my phone than I had in the past. I have only had to continually remove applications and music as just about every week it has warned me that my storage is almost full. This only started within the last year. I won't have added anything new, keep my cache flushed, etc and I still have to continually remove items.

Is there something practical I'm missing here, or... ?
I thought black holes don't actually exist.

https://www.quora.com/In-a-paper-written-in-1939-Albert-Eins...

and

http://www.nature.com/news/stephen-hawking-there-are-no-blac...

Can anyone shed some light?
Very nice, thanks Steve!
Right. One must remember that the target sink is going to be throwing radiation right back at the source emitter. Theoretically, they will exchange energy until they reach equilibrium between emission and absorption. Luckily for us, it will take a long time to heat space up enough to make a difference...

This also ties into why a magnifying glass cannot make something hotter than its source of light.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/

"Lenses and mirrors work for free; they don't take any energy to operate. If you could use lenses and mirrors to make heat flow from the Sun to a spot on the ground that's hotter than the Sun, you'd be making heat flow from a colder place to a hotter place without expending energy. The second law of thermodynamics says you can't do that. If you could, you could make a perpetual motion machine."
Agreed.

FWIW, after trying out many fonts (some are mentioned here) I settled on Cousine and PragmataPro depending on the terminal application. One uses Bash, other one Fish. One's for serious work, one's for quick work or backup. Etc etc. Both have the same color palette though (Solarized Dark).
The reason designers use them is because 95% of their userbase values form over function.

You're obviously in the 5% which values function over form, but surely you can understand most people want things to look pretty, plus the company wants to have a cohesive brand.

I used to be a function-over-form advocate but was converted somewhere along the line after working with some awesome designers, doing lots of a/b testing and talking with the end user.

Both form and function are equally as important as each other.
Some people prefer commitment while others appear to want to be able to walk away as soon as "love" is gone.

It seems that marriage is a crazy idea to you. Your "modern" ideas seem crazy to me. To each his own.
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It's always baffled me that the pitcher doesn't get to decide what pitch to throw.
But 'Menu' can be auto-translated.
Hah, I always thought M+ 1m was my little secret that I had discovered; apparently it's the fifth most popular coding font. It's significantly more narrow than most monospaced fonts while still being easy to read, allowing for more side-by-side editor windows.

I really like the way Fira Sans looks, and I used it for a while, but M+ 1m has a huge practical benefit. And it still looks great, too.
A couple of things about sign stealing, from someone who is not an expert, but has watched a great deal of baseball:

1) The signs are usually not complex, you can easily read them yourself when you see them on TV. One finger might mean a fastball, two fingers some kind of breaking ball, three fingers might be the pitcher's least favorite pitch. Often, the sign is accompanied by a second sign indicating where the catcher wants it. So one finger followed by a hand lifting up-up, means he wants a high fastball. The players will know what the signs mean after one batter at most.

2) The only time the batting team can actually see the signs is when there's a runner on second. In this case, frequently, the catcher will go to the mound and he and the pitcher will come up with some simple obfuscation. Normally this looks like 3-4 signs indicated in quick succession. I assume they've agreed that number 3 is the meaningful one or something.

3) The communication doesn't have to be perfect. In a lot of cases, a batter is waiting for a specific pitch. It would be enough to signal "Yeah, it's gonna be a fastball outside".

The article suggests that a specific camera crew was the original source of the signs, but it's not clear how that worked. It happened in Boston, so perhaps the camera was manned by local people who turned out to be red sox fans. If such a person was watching a continuous feed, and a specific redsox player asked to be alerted when a high fastball was coming, the apple watch would seem to be a practical solution.
I was replying for the situation that you mentioned of full time employees, with contracting I think we both agree.

> If a person is not willing to sacrifice to learn skills on their own time

That's what I mean exactly. They might not have free time! That's why you're supposed to work 40h/week and any extra is a plus, not a requirement. The same argument could be applied to any field, so should someone without free time just not work? That's why it's unfair to require that employees spend large chunks of their free time to learn how to do the company's job.
I think there's another aspect...which is that there is the job and the tools to do the job. The framework is the tools...the job is, in Rover's case, building a web site.
I'm rereading the Harry Potter books, they get _dark_. Blood, death, and stabbing all happened in just what I read yesterday.
If you are like me then sugar will give you joint pain, headaches and sometimes fever like symptoms. Very noticeable. I wouldn't generalize this though. What has a negative impact on me can be perfectly fine for you.
No, it's not.

It's true that KVM needs processor support: it kind of adds a special process type that the kernel runs in an virtualized environment, through the hardware virtualization features. The linux kernel of the host schedules the execution of the VMs.

Xen has a small hypervisor running on bare metal. It can run both unmodified guests using hardware support or modified guests where hardware access is replaced with direct calls into the hypervisor (paravirtualization). The small hypervisor schedules the execution of the VMs. For access to devices it cooperates with a special virtual machine (dom0), which has full access to the hardware, runs the drivers and multiplexes access for the other VMs - the hypervisor is really primarily scheduling and passing data between domains, very micro-kernel like. Dom0 needs kernel features to fulfill that role.
1. so are all other cryptocurrencies

2. see 1

3. not sure what you mean by this
We're using both btrfs and zfsonlinux right now, in production, and fortunately we're not consistently running into issues (I'd be hearing about it if we were!).

I should note that we do have a higher risk tolerance than many other companies, due to the way the cloud is architected to be fault tolerant. Chaos monkey can just kill instances anytime, and it's designed to handle that.

Anyway, getting into specific differences is something that we should blog about at some point (the Titus team).
I don't understand what it means either.

But one thing I've picked up is that inflammation isn't all bad - in fact some of it is necessary, particularly for growth.

Obviously, as you get older growth becomes less necessary, and cancers very much like to grow too ... so there is a trade off going on and the balance shifts so that inflammation is less desirable as we age.

A couple of good inflammation for growth examples:

Wound healing has an inflammatory phase. [0]

"There is a known relationship between inflammation and muscle growth.For instance, high doses of anti-inflammatory medicines (e.g., NSAIDs) are able to blunt muscle growth." [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_healing#Inflammatory_pha...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation#Post-inflammatory...
The only way I see any sense of "market forces" being allowed to work normally is to completely excise the ability of businesses to be involved in the political process. No corporate donors, direct or indirect. And something like max out of pocket $1000 per person per candidate per year. Money in politics is causing all kinds of distortions that aren't good for markets, or consumers, or taxpayers. Good for basically subsidizing certain for-profit industries and their share holders.
WebUSB? USB access from JavaScript? What could possibly go wrong. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.no/2016/02/racing-midi-me...
You make a lot of great points!

Finding a job is a lot like dating. People typically don't share their worst qualities upfront, and I decided early on that I didn't want to force them to. Instead, I've become more of a coach/cheerleader for both companies and job-seekers.

When I work with teams to write their profiles, it's my job to say, "prove it" when we discuss each value, and suggest that they choose another when they can't. I encourage teams to use strong language, talk about disqualifiers, include concrete examples, incorporate quantitative data, and/or provide links to contact current team members wherever possible. But, for now, I won't make anyone to do or say anything that they aren't comfortable with.

I hope job-seekers are critical when comparing different teams. Some profiles deserve an A+ while others are perhaps a B- (though I won't say which). If you interview 20 different teams, it'd probably be similar. Those that speak your language would resonate with you and those that fail to answer authentically to you would lose you. That's okay.

Ultimately, I'm providing structure for teams to talk about what is inherently subjective and messy. There is no black or white when it comes to culture or compatibility (maybe you've tried setting up two great individuals who just didn't hit it off?) but at least we now have some information to guide our decision making.
Every year a shocking number of people die from illness caused by air pollution [1]. While it might be difficult or impossible to put a head count on "Dieselgate," the increased emissions certainly killed some.

[1] http://news.mit.edu/2013/study-air-pollution-causes-200000-e...
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So what is being 'stolen' is something that largely comes down to a 50% probability in most situations?

Is there a history of 'stealing signs' in baseball? ...Since it could be communicated almost as effectively offline as by a smartwatch.

Also, how accurate can the team read the other team's signs from the dugout? Is it a high probability the information between sent to the players is accurate?
How Jenkins took over Hudson's users, and what's Jenkins market share these days
Given that Windows owns 90% of the desktop market the "people prefer Apple computers" statement would qualify as a slight exaggeration. Also the reason this lovely %-age exists in the first place is exactly the fact that IBM let others build for their platform.
HN is an odd mix of politics, that's for sure.

Cuba has a fairly large population and very limited resources which makes their system all the more impressive. Their system is worth studying, as if Cuba of all countries can do it, surely the US can: http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-lesson-for-the-us-cubas-respo...

> Cuba’s intersectoral preparedness and response to hurricanes, which include education, drilling and how the country’s relatively small civil defense force is deployed at provincial, municipal and local community levels when a storm is first detected.

The US response seems to be ignoring the experts, blaming the victims, and trying to profit from the resulting mess.

Though of course "can" in a technical sense and "can" in a political sense are worlds apart.
https://www.uaf.edu/files/olli/OLLI_15_chol_4_red.pdf Checkout slides 7 and 8. My simple understanding is that the sugar creates a particle that provokes an immune response. Cytokines attack the sugar-lipid particle that has been oxidized.
> Google 'inflammation' on scholar.google.com and you will find a number of papers discussing different ways that it can affect you.

No thanks, I'm specifically asking for an explanation of how it affects me.
I really think you're giving too much credit to the hamburger menu pushers. If you need multi-language, translate the word menu.
Google Cache for those in the "connecting" state. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_BoKori...
I think the confusion just over this title is a good illustration of the existing state of nutritional science.

We've been so poisoned by bad science that it's hard to come to a consensus on anything.
I've experienced slow-downs with both iOS and Android devices. They almost always corresponded with newer versions of operating system and all the extra functionality that came with the upgrade.

The apps are also evolving. Compare Facebook today to what it was two or three years ago. The app does a ton more and all that extra functionality doesn't come for free. I suspect one of the primary reasons they broke messenger out into a separate app is that the Facebook app was simply too damn big.

There have been instances where an upgrade has made my experience better, but the trend has definitely been in the other direction (for me anyway).

I also have another concrete example: the original Nexus 7 had an SSD that didn't support trim. Over time it became nearly unusable as the SSD became fragmented. It was also severely bandwidth constrained. The device was decent until the first major Android revision came out. At that point, the new version of Android so significantly increased the bandwidth requirements on the SSD that it effectively strangled the device.

What was an awesome device the day I got it became absolutely unusable. Eventually I installed a version of CyanogenMod and formatted it with an SSD friendly file system which made it passable again but, still sucked compared to the day I bought it.
I've got tickets open with their accounts team, relating to our AdWords usage where we were spending maybe $80k/mo with them, that have been open and unresponded to for two or three years now despite my following up on it several times initially.

In my experience the AdWords team themselves are generally pretty responsive and helpful, but anything they can't fix directly just goes into a blackhole of non-support. And it's not a case of "it's free", since we're spending a not-insignificant amount of money with the company.
Also Google Cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_BoKori...
Do you know any decent server that interprets 6-char \uxxxx sequences as part of its top-level query syntax? I mean, how do you safely pass '\u0027' literal to it anyway? If you can't, then its literals and escaping are broken by design, so it is good to know from the start of using it.

Edit: removed double backslash from literal to not confuse it with host language's escaping.
(Unrelated, to hell with those popups that trigger when your mouse leaves the window. To hell with them I say!)
For the same observation but accompanied by investigation instead of ranting, watch George Tankersley’s GopherCon 2017 lightning talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y2LhWm04FU&list=PL2ntRZ1ySW...
I agree with the verbosity. But many of those in the demographic that would do away with C belong more to the current pop-culture of "coding!!1" instead of the carefully-considered, patiently-implemented ancient art of engineering.

The pop-culture "coding" collective as a whole is not generally known for its appreciation of terse explanations. I will admit that it does favor immediate gratification, though; there is that.

Ideally, this would do the rounds with different people excerpting different bits of it. That would spark many little conversations over time, and contribute to keeping the discussion going. That would be nice.
The authors did test the combination. HC or HF alone leads to less inflammation than HCHF. Note that the control diet for all of the experiments is chow, which is HCLF.
Not necessary pre-relief, but some companies assess risk of a damage prior to the disaster.

E.g. at tensorflight we are assessing building insurance risk via computer vision and significant part of features we detect are useful for hurricanes (e.g. building construction type, potential windborne projectiles, trees dangerously close to the building). Although our business model is selling this data for insurance, we could offer an assessment to individual users close to the catastrophe. Do you think individual users would be interested in potential suggestions (e.g. trim the tree, move chairs in-house, or flee ASAP :P)
If boring == profitable, sign me up!
3 seconds is more than enough time for the pitcher to realize the batter isn't paying attention and throw a strike. Batters will look of course, but they step out of the batters box (or otherwise - I don't know all the rules) to indicate that a pitch cannot be thrown now.

Once the batter is ready to receive a pitch the catcher can signal a new pitch.
That already happens for commercial fridges and freezers, farm water pumps and for home A/C and EV charging. As it becomes more widespread it can be done more cheaply and be extended to lower power devices like home refrigerators where there is less bang per buck.

Microsoft is involved in a project called Watttime that provides an API for this for use by the IoT:

https://api.watttime.org/
> I could see a Benefit Corp do something similar - taking the ideas of ownership and lock them in a public trust.

And a regular corp do something similar to "communist" dictatorships. Planified economies, highly specialization and a charismatic CEO as the ruler.
And how effective is that defense, anyway? I mean, couldn't you just clone the VM, and start responding or not responding to different domains until you hit on the right one? Or hell, have your VM check a domain and respond correctly if the domain isn't registered?