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This idea is known as Eternal Inflation. Here is the first in a series of 4 lectures about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUZeZD9sytc

The main problem with eternal inflation is it gets us attempting to make statements about regions outside what we can observe directly.
That is a worthwhile insight IMO.
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Found it on your website:
> Total privacy - we do not have access to your email account, Ivelope only sends your email data and password between your computer and your email server.

Neat!
And Americans pay more per-capita for federal-funded healthcare than Canadians do… just the Canadians get universal coverage for it. The US manages to spend as much public money on healthcare as most other western countries do, and gets much less for it.
https://youtu.be/UC9pc4U40sI
Excellent, thank you much! In queue. :-)
a couple things:

1. I'm too lazy to write a story.

2. I'm a skimmer.

3. It probably depends on the type of information.

4. I do agree you're probably not going remember much of this as opposed to a story.
Thanks for the feedback, fwd attachment priority noted
The chat-like interface looks great! kudos!
Is this even considered a bug by the Chromium team (i.e. is there any indication of plans to fix it, or is this just the image cache working as intended)?

It's a 10 year old project and memory usage has always been fairly high, I don't see any indication of a major focus on reducing it anytime soon.

I don't hate Electron apps or anything, but the ones I already have open are using up enough of my memory that there isn't much left to run more of them. I really do hope this improves in the future though. If not I may just have to buy more RAM.
Will this 8 year old girl stick with coding?
If you use insurance they are less willing to negotiate.

(but you are getting the negotiated price anyway; the paranoid part of my brain thinks they run a scam here by recoding bills that come after the deductible has been met, which is a different sort of negotiation than agreeing on prices for services)
Your comment really speaks to the different philosophy of Linux vs FreeBSD.

FreeBSD is very much a single system - the kernel and userland are designed and built together. Linux, on the other hand, is a kernel which has multiple different userlands made up of different pieces that distributions pick and choose. Ubuntu, for example, is quite different from OpenSUSE, which is quite different from CentOS, but they're all still Linux.
For browsers that support grid you can use grid and then have a fallback layout for browsers that don't. You can even user `@supports(display: grid)` feature query to specifically target browsers that support grid.
In most cases, you really don't need to know most of these. Depending on where you're working, most places have s dedicated team for networking, they have a whole teams dedicated to working on Linux servers, they have whole teams who only do database stuff.

For me, these are more "nice to have" skills than anything that will make you stand out. You should know how HTTP works, you should know how to use GIT. If you doing any modern web development, you should already completely familiar with the command line.

Most of the time when you talk with recruiters or hiring managers, they're looking for more of a "culture fit" which translate to developers with soft skills and a decent personality. A company can always mold a developer to how they do things and the tools they use, but it's a lot harder to change a shitty personality.
Almost certainly the next big vertical stop for Facebook. It's what I would do.
From the Hackernews guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

This post is clearly political and calls for universal health care have been around for decades.
I agree with that to some extend, but the fact is, except for some very specific cases like vscode, I not only don't need "styling and dynamic", but I don't want it to be.

My OS has UI semantics. I want most of the apps to work the same everywhere. Your app is not special. Stop reinventing a "visual identity". Give me congruency and features.
I feel like this is the only comment that needs to be here.
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I don't think they are nearly as good as they think they are. But in the universe of companies, I think they're much better than average.

I think your mistake here is to see business as zero sum. It isn't. As I mention in a nearby comment, businesses create value for customers and then extract cash from the result. Plenty of other organizations are less focused on creating value and more focused on extracting cash.

I agree that the machinery of American corporate capitalism is very focused on the latter, and personally think that MBAs are an infection vector for an ideology to justify that. However, I think Google has been so good at long-term investment because they have a strong competing strain of focusing on value delivery for customers and users. That is part of engineering culture, and also part of design culture.

So yes, Google's a large company. But it's a large company where engineers and designers have a lot of power. Where many of the senior people have fuck-you money, and can go do whatever they want once it stops being fun. Plenty of other companies don't even argue about mission. Power is concentrated at the top in the hands of execs, mostly with MBA training, who just tell everybody else what to do in hopes of juicing profit numbers for the next 1-3 quarters.

If you want to look at an organization who's overriding value really is profit, take a look at Yahoo. They used to be a beloved company with a lot of good people. But they honored the traditional American model of "rush after short-term profits". They rarely built anything truly useful, and when the they did get ahold of something good (e.g., Flickr), their lack of a sense of purpose meant they just flailed around, wasting their lead. Or you could look at many companies in the financial sector, who can only think in extractive terms.
If you think the private healthcare system is immoral, you should take a look at the 100% government ran healthcare system that is the VA. You literally couldn't make up worse things than their administration has been caught doing with little or to consequence.

If the VA is the best the US government can do, with some of the most sympathetic citizens, then it is incapable of doing better than our private system.
That's weird. Try again and reference this post.
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As we say in the blog post, the Jupyter Name has been around only since 2014, but the work started in 2001. So 17 years is a good check of time !
Sure you can do all kinds of things using gmake but this is about POSIX make. See also [1] from the same author.

[1]: http://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/08/20/
Universal health care helps startups.
This article conflates public "essential health" services with universal, state-run healthcare. It also uses nondescript graphs, in image form and with no link to source data, to make sweeping, "correlation equals causation" points about universal health care and life expectancy.

This is an article trying to make an ideological case rather than to discern truth.
I get your sentiment, but I personally feel that education should be our #1 defense priority.
> "ptrace (with PTRACE_O_EXITKILL from kernel 3.8+) is designed to be reliable for this."

One of the key points I'd like to raise is the (unsurprisingly) substantial performance degradation caused by tracing every syscall/ioctl a process makes. I submit tracing tens (or hundreds) of processes with ptrace/gVisor simply won't fly. Tracing the syscalls alone is expensive, let alone applying any other intricate mid-hook logic.

http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/slides/system_call_tracin...

> "gVisor is a userspace application and is not itself tied to kernel implementations the way a kernel module would be"

I was referring to the never-ending chase that comes with having to keep tabs on any new/existent ioctls/syscalls. Ioctls are device/driver/hardware specific, which complicates things further.

> "This is true of existing container technologies. An application running under Ubuntu on bare hardware will potentially not run in an Ubuntu Docker image. You'll need to test it extensively."

There's a similarity, but solutions like VMWare/VirtualBox/hypervisors are fighting to be as transparent as possible to the underlying software. That makes things easier on software developers - as we don't all have to spend our time testing those products.

It would appear that gVisor is fundamentally different. It intercepts and tampers with the various syscalls a process makes with the sole purpose of affecting the underlying application - ie. failing a syscall that would otherwise succeed.
> without showing any form of ID.

That's changing a bit under the hostile environment.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overs...
Not quite, what you want is

unsigned char * volatile p = malloc(w * h);

This indicates that p itself is a volatile variable, rather than a pointer to memory that is volatile.
I think the point is that it's better to have something using the native widgets of your OS if possible. It carries much less footprint and it integrates with your OS much more nicely in the end. Webapps running in Electron is just becoming too commonplace.
If you continue to the next sentence in that man page:

> If this is of concern in your application, use getrandom(2) or /dev/random instead.

These bugs affect getrandom too.
^this this this! Hard skills can be learned, good soft skills are more difficult to incubate.

All the best companies I've worked for have had a bias toward hiring people who will easily fit in. People with small egos, people who want to help, people who show up.
"In 2004, Canada government-spending was $2,120 (in US dollars) per person, while the United States government-spending $2,724."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_healthcare_s...
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It's only political to a certain segment of Americans. For pretty much every other major country, it's just the natural, correct state of things.
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You can, but the experience is often like watching a giant standard-def TV set - none of the consumer grade VR headsets have the resolution to do this well yet. I personally find watching a film on an tablet or phone significantly better, unless the isolation offered by strapping a VR headset to your face is more important to you.
It has to do a lot with reliability and cost. A smart car has a lot of expensive sensors and an expected life of a few years with regular maintenance. There's also a huge market opportunity around smart cars. Those cabinets can last decades, in all conditions, with minimal upkeep. Adding sensors decreases reliability and increases maintenance cost. There isn't usually an appetite to put traffic signal upgrades or extra maintenance headcount in city budgets for non-critical infrastructure upgrades, so the financial incentives to innovate are more limited as well.
For the curious: k8s is a specific kind of contraction -- a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym. Other examples include i18n = internationalization.
Because you are not used to feeling uncomfortable, you avoid it. All change requires you to face your fears and just do it despite feeling uncomfortable.
Parts of this article make sense but only in the reversible case.

Arguments are rough- there are many ways to circumvent them. I find with review as long as you provide sound reasoning on why something is wrong and compliment the rest of the work. It's generally received well.

Hairy reviews can be avoided by specifying how a project is to be approached beforehand.

A one pager on the layout of a project and its components before work gets done does wonders to avoid huge changes at review time.
... and it is easy to do gradually. i.e. Lower the age two years every year. In ten years people born in 1983 would be covered.
There are lots of problems you can avoid when you are able to regularly get a checkup from your doctor.

Also not everything is only a cold and having someone who can check early for complications might save a lot of lives or prevent people from far worse conditions.

Last but not least: Access to mental health services like cognitive behavior therapy that replace or supplement only eating pills might help a lot of folks with addiction and raises productivity.
Push subscription and EventSource: http://jmap.io/spec-core.html#push

The FastMail web UI will soon (later this year, we plan) be speaking JMAP. What it speaks at present is a precursor to JMAP.
I greatly appreciated the implementation of AddressSanitizer in gcc7, and am happy to see it receive more attention in gcc8. Thank you!
Yes portfolio companies can offer services to each other for commercial rates. I think the issue here might be outlined here: "They charged over half of the total “investment”, hundreds of thousands of dollars, for an app one guy could have built in 2 months."

If they are being sold a service for an inflated price then there could be grounds for charges. This could be a way to move money from one company to another.

One fund could be doing very well and the VC might be in carry whilst another is doing poorly. So if you're the VC you'd want to move money into the more successful fund to generate better returns and higher carry (i.e. 20% of the profits after fees).
I think price transparency is a bit of a red herring. That's not to say I don't support the idea of requiring hospitals to be upfront about costs, but it isn't going to fix issues with ER visits referenced in the Vox article. Emergency medical treatment is not really a consumer good, where if you don't like the price your can shop around or just decline to spend money. What's more, there is massive information asymmetry. If a physician diagnoses you with X and recommends treatment Y, you're not in a position to evaluate whether there's some cheaper option Z instead. Price transparency is great for elective care, but most medical treatment is not elective in nature.
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> Taking "is good at IC duties" as the measure for "should lead a team of ICs" is sloppy.

Yeah, but the flip side is that "has an MBA" is equally sloppy. Anybody who's ever had a paper manager that "doesn't know their ass from a hole in the ground" knows that while hiring an MBA might get you someone who is good enough at managing people, if they have no understanding of the core business -- or worse, no capacity to understand the core business -- then they can't lead.

Leadership and management are two very different things just like leadership and expertise or management and expertise are two very different things.
Sorry, but can you please argue against your own devil's advocate, because I'm having a hard time coming up with counterpoints, and as a student currently in university, it's left me pretty depressed about my future. Cheating really does seem to pay off both in university and in the real world, regardless of how immoral it is.
I was joking, I have actually used APL a bit and quite enjoy it. Array based programming is quite intuitive once it clicks in your head and I think at least a conceptual understanding of APL is very valuable even when using other languages (e.g. NumPy in Python).
Knowing Unix/Linux command line tools will broaden the foundation upon which your other knowledge is built.

Knowing those tools will also simplify local development if you're running code in dev/test VMs or even containers.

Plus web dev is dealing a lot in text. Unix command line tools deal a lot in text.

I am, of course, biased as all heck. I'm a Unix sysadmin who does devops stuff too, so I like to think everyone should know the same thing as me.

Networking is vital too. Being able to understand just basics of what should be happening in a local subnet is very useful. Knowing about TCP ports and their states can also help debug certain problems.

All those extras make you stand out as a hyper-producer or guru rather than a run of the mill never stand out from the pack developer. There's definitely room in the world for both types, but gurus get the attention and respect.
Unless of course you had to use it really for work. Little cartoon bombs, "error type 11", duck sound for no reason : when I started my job in a newspaper Mac OS Classic was a nightmare not a zen experience ...
You don’t have to convince me! I think socialized medicine is the way to go. But I see enough from the other side to have an idea of the thinking there.

Part of the reasoning is that prices are high because of excessive regulation, like that requirement to treat all emergency cases. Get rid of those and prices will become affordable, the theory goes. I don’t think that would help nearly enough to make it work, but others clearly disagree.
And helps people feel empowered to try to start their own company.
I think the reason is that people living in places like SFO are effectively locked out of the market. They are angry and passionate about it, and I sympathize.

The problem from my perspective is that the "crisis" of housing is really a boomtown phenomenon. The problem exists because companies can afford to pay people enough, which won't last forever.
You could also go to a primary care doctor who would be capable of performing a detailed exam to address your chief complaint.

Your friend was right in that the emergency room doctor should do their job, but their job isn't to be the primary physician, they're there to diagnose and treat emergencies.

If you were tachycardic, tachypneic, apneic, hypotensive, hypertensive, febrile, hypothermic, bloody, pale, in severe localized pain, slurring speech, paretic, then the ER would investigate until answers are obtained, because all of the above are concerning.

A complaint of only fainting has many non emergency causes, and you would have to provide additional information that would warrant investigation. Ordering fishing expedition tests in the ER is extremely wasteful in a non emergency situation. Imagine how many people go to the ER for nonemergency care and expensive tests are ordered unnecessarily! Because of defensive medicine, this happens way too much, which is why healthcare costs so damn much in this country.
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my bank's password has to be exactly 8 characters and is case insensitive

it's pretty insane considering it's like the most important password I have
To add to my comment., the key here is if one portfolio company is selling its services to another portfolio company for an inflated price (i.e. above what is considered to be market).

From my other comment below: "One fund could be doing very well and the VC might be in carry whilst another is doing poorly. So if you're the VC you'd want to move money into the more successful fund to generate better returns and higher carry (i.e. 20% of the profits after fees)."
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No, but trademark protections are very limited compared to copyright protections. For instance, if you wanted to make a movie like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but with cartoon characters, once Mickey Mouse's copyright has expired you would be free to use his character in the movie, you would just have to avoid using him in advertisements for the movie in a way that would mislead people into thinking the movie was affiliated with Disney.
Insufficient supply is exactly the case with skilled workforce and the reason visa programs like H1B and European BlueCard exist at all. The wage auction that will close the bodyshop loopholes will shift the supply from importing the cheap workforce to importing more skilled people and there, in the higher salary ranges, it may depress wages a bit.

But, frankly speaking, I would not care about a dev who earns $150k in some tech company in the Valley if his salary will be closer to $80-$100k because of the free market. Those money could be better invested or spent on taxes.
How are you guys sorting out networking?
It would also help most big companies with spiraling health care costs, as well as lower paying jobs that can’t afford to provide benefits anyways.
Universal health care is a euphemism for the poor and sick getting their medical care subsidized by the wealthy and healthy.

Morally, caring for the sick seems like the right thing to do, but it's like when I hear Bernie Sanders call for "free college education": he doesn't mean free, he means the wealthy subsidizing it for others.

Universal health care implies just distributed costs, but the focus should be on bringing down costs so the payments don't have to be so astronomical.

For example:

-Nurses could do a lot of things doctors do now, and for a lot less money, but MDs refuse to cede any authority.

-Medicare should be allowed to negotiate drug prices.

-Hospitals should pre-publish costs upfront before you accept care rather than saddle you with 100K in bills later on.

All of these things would help bring down cost but for political reasons we don't do them. Instead it's just about making wealthy people (which, for the record, I am not) pay more to cover for it.

Even if caring for the sick is just it shouldn't be accomplished just by a wealth transfer (to be fair, the ACA had some provisions to bring down the cost of care, but not nearly enough).
I see climate change being blamed for this increase in insect bites, but can this be right? Perhaps it’s a factor; however, as I understand it the USA has warmed by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 100 years[1]. There is roughly a 50 degree difference between the northern states (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) and the southern states based on a quick peek at iso therm maps for the USA.[2]

It lookes like that would increase the ticks habitats very little over a whole century. Now take a look at the dramatic changes in just few years presented in the article.

[1] https://globalclimate.ucr.edu/resources.html

[2] https://climate.ncsu.edu/images/edu/IsobarsIsotherms.gif
It's a remarkable industry to be a part of. We work with wholesalers of all sizes (we have 8 of the top 10 nationally as customers, along with hundreds of very small business that run on quickbooks or excel). A major part of our company and engineering challenge is integrating with the backend systems at all of those companies, grabbing whatever information they can send on a recurring basis, and standardizing it on one schema. We've produced the most complete dataset of what's available for purchase wholesale for any licensed establishment in the U.S. (at least in the 40 states we operate in, we have to go state-by-state due to the regulations).

Right now we're looking for mid-senior (at a minimum able to write idiomatic full-stack rails/JS code from the start) people to help build more software on top of the dataset, but it's the dataset that's the core of everything we do. One definition of enterprise software is software where the data will outlive the applications that lay on top of it, and we definitely fit that bill.
> When was the last time your car insurance company imposed a political opinion on you

Is it still common in the US that car insurance company look at gender and race when determining a individuals premium? That gender or race matters when determining a individual person risk for accidents seems very political.
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