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I haven't bashed Microsoft for a long time, and I won't any time soon. However, this development has me worried.

There's a big difference between engaging the developer community with great products and purchasing important services that the developer community relies on.

Microsoft has succeeded many times with products and services they've built themselves, and with products they've purchased, but how often have they succeeded with services they've purchased?
Do you have a working prototype?

Since the HN post you linked is about an article were a group measured a similar device and concluded that the most probable cause is the magnetic force of the wires, and since this device breaks the currently accepted laws of physics (like the local conservation of momentum and energy) and since the only peer review article that claims to measure the effect is very dubious because the force is so small and close to the noise level that they have to use an they use a "aggressive slope-filtering level" method (whatever it means) ... the question is

Do you have a working prototype? Can you post the results of an independent measurement?

Also, what does the following sentence mean?

> We're offering a unique risk mitigation strategy that we think most investors will find appealing.

it looks like a huge red flag for me.
Yeah I've banked with 4 different people now in the UK and had visa debit cards every time.

Anyway I got declined with my visa debit card earlier, tried another payment terminal in the supermarket and it worked fine.
Interesting points! In Ancient Aliens documentary, they claim these "intelligent creators" are the so-called ETs (aliens). But regardless of whether that's true or not, one could ask "ok, who created those ETs?" and again, you'd go one level back and should try to find some older intelligent beings who designed our creators, etc., etc.

But this has to stop at some point, because the universe - to the best of my knowledge - is only (!) 13.8 billion years old, thus, some intelligent beings must have appeared some where in the universe long time ago. The question is: "how did THAT happen?" It could be that mere _chance_ resulted in a very early development of intelligent life on a planet in a galaxy far far away. The same process could have helped shape life on the earth too.

Or, maybe there really was an intelligent _being_ in charge of things that designed the whole universe such that exactly a few billion years after the Big Bang, in a specific galaxy and on a specific planet, some certain type of life would appear which would later create other forms of life, and maybe we are created by those people, thus, indirectly, created by that "intelligent being". You may call that "intelligent being" God.
This has been my experience as well: Python-style Julia code often does not run faster than in Python. Only of you rewrite it in C-style do you get C-like performance.

This is not necessarily a bad thing. Just an observation from me translating my Python code to Julia.
An acquisition would mean the inevitable split of support between the MS toolchain and the OS toolchain, which would eventually be left to die. Today's MS is no different than yesterday's MS.
From the prototype letter:

"I am a customer of yours."

Not until you pay me, you're not. Yes, Mr. Well Actually, I know that the law says otherwise, and that's exactly why the law is FUBAR.
use a thinkpad
What you are saying is: don't use the internet.

Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. got websites to implement their like buttons everywhere. The information gathered by them is collected and everybody is being tracked wherever they go.
The thing I think everyone needs to remember for the future is that Google is only backing off on Maven because of the bad PR. They aren't suddenly growing a conscience, and you can be sure that given the chance to secretly get involved in a horribly unethical program for hundreds of millions of dollars is still definitely an option for them.
California also now requires solar panels on new homes. The electric generation mix will only get cleaner over time. A car purchased today will likely still be on the road until 2029; what percentage of its power will be from gas versus renewables in 2029? I think you need to think a bit more long-term.
The region selection options at the bottom of the page have the U.K., India, and two others in lettering I don't recognize.
Hydro is something that depends on geography. Not all places have steady source for hydro power. Nor can you scale it up. Many environmentalists also complain about hydro power impacting fish.
I wrote a blog post about exactly this. tl;dr is they need to share your values and you need to pay them to do a small test project before committing.

http://jeremyphelps.com/blog/how-to-interview-a-freelance-de...
What does rooftop solar penetration look like? What sort of crossover exists between these two consumers?
Pigeons aren't even native to North America, but they're so well suited to urban environments it's doubtful they're going anywhere.

A week or two ago I guess it was mating season because I saw a bunch of them doing courtship dances.
Maybe sue isn't the correct term, but you are talking about potentially a 20 million dollar fine.

I'm being told that the EU would never pursue that with a small business and they'd just tell you what you need to fix.

That also sounds weird to me as an American. I'm not saying it isn't true, just that it's not the way I'm used to thinking about laws.
I'd guess for economy the priorities will always be safety, mass, cost, and comfort. In that order (hopefully). So airline seats won't take cues from office chairs for a while.
Not just businesses. Anyone can get sued for any reason. If your blanket policy really is “I won’t do anything if I risk getting sued” you literally can’t even leave your house.
PaaS platforms are dead, thanks to IaaS providers
Except that EVs are uniquely situated to get cleaner after they are purchased. That's already occurring, so an EV purchased in 2013 is currently cleaner per mile than it was when it was purchased [1]. You could make a weaker argument that that might apply to FCEVs. Whereas all ICE vehicles usually need to be replaced en masse to improve emissions.

[1] https://insideevs.com/us-ev-emissions/
Not true, Texas wind. 75k EV miles already. To clarify, you can choose your energy source (at least choose who gets the money for your consumption).
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The response to the GDPR seems to me to be a bunch of people who fundamentally misunderstand how law works, especially in Europe, and who have a pathological relationship to regulators because their own legal system is fucked beyond all recognition.

GDPR requires you to only gather the data you need; only keep it for as long as you need it; tell people what you're doing with it; and allow them to correct it if it's wrong. How is that too hard?
> I find it quite annoying that government keep subsidizing EVs when the infrastructure to make them actually environmentally friendly is not in place.

Why? It shifts air pollution out of urban centers.
Unless you are an anarcho-pacifist, you have accepted that there are some legitimate uses of violence, so just because they don't think you should be able to frack next door to them doesn't mean that they don't think violence is involved in keeping you from fracking next door to them.
The site is down, but we're talking hardware here right? If it can't run MacOS natively, what's the point? I'm not buying Apple stuff necessarily because of the nice form factor, I'm buying it for Unix environment that doesn't suck.
I'd love to learn more about the history of American military and foreign policy if you have any recommendations.
Microsoft's own history answers this question.
After searching "algolia" mentioned below, I figured out the misunderstanding. The company was paying somebody else per search made on their web site. So every time a scraper called the website's search function, it cost the website money.
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Django-Rest-Framework/Postgres/Redis/Celery in AWS. Have a pretty cool in house Slack bot for orchestration, that we should probs open source at some point.

I'm a backend dev here, and we're finding it hard to get good people through the door. Once we chat with them, we almost always convince them to work here, but its very difficult getting people through the door. We're paying pretty well as well for London rates, 50-80k GBP for mid-senior guys, could probs convince the CTO's to pay more for the right candidate. The office is nice, engineering is a big part of the decision making process.

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Interesting that they group the machines by IATA airport codes. I guess that's the nearest airport for that datacenter.
The thing is such an OS would never be popular, because the vast majority of users never will be programers (again).
How many charging stations would you expect? One for each parking spot?
> North America is Quebec

Or Washington, or Oregon.

Or some point in the near future as the grid transitions to cleaner generation options.
Same URLs without tracking/obfuscation redirects

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https://airdev.co/gallery?app=Dividend-Finance
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A zillion companies use Github. This does not qualify them to operate Github.
"Special interests" includes many powerful groups that aren't especially wealthy:

- religious groups wanting faith-based educational programs

- farmers wanting crop subsidies (hugely powerful in the US)

- internet users wanting net neutrality

- conservation groups wanting to preserve parks or endangered species

- unions wanting occupational safety regulations

- retirees wanting increased social security

You might even agree with some of these.
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Heh yeah. I assume that the cost structure will be something like $0.70 / mile for single person rides, and then dramatically dropping it for carpooled rides.

If the cost structure is accurate, then this could really take a way the need for a second car for most people, and maybe even a primary car for folks that are ok with renting for their occasional weekend jaunt.

If they can get significantly higher mileage out of each car and/or reduce the cost of LIDAR too, then that will make a large improvement in profitability / car.
I don't understand American law. Why isn't Elizabeth Holmes behind bars yet? She's been accused of massive fraud by SEC and yet, she's still serving her role in Theranos?
Google cached version

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Google just can't let anyone else corner the market on something. Its like a virus.
Trying to understand the cloud strategy here; does Github run on Azure, GCP or AWS?
With the efficiency loss for electricity factored in are they more or less environmentally friendly than regular vehicles today?
Interview process:

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It has to do with the relevance of that fact.
For me comfort is all about leg room and has nothing to do with the chairs themselves. I don't want my knees touching the chair in front of me. If better designed chairs means more leg room, then I'm more comfortable.
A 'self-eating' rocket engine could put satellites in orbit more easily
Government massively subsidizes the oil industry all the time.

If you have more EVs running, there is more incentive to upgrade the power generation structure, because it produces more environmental benefit.

Also, come on, the minority of generation comes from gas, but you are calling it "methane powered ICs by proxy". That looks like extremely motivated reasoning (to put it charitably).
I would actually lean into the belief that they're probably heavily pushing Google Cloud services (as Google does tend towards), and that there's a decent chance Google's work done on Maven won't operate at all if Google stops providing those services.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the article - but it sounds like there was a drop of 95% in the population of males living in Europe / Africa / Asia?

What kind of World War Zero could possibly explain this? I really can't picture how a state of sustained (for thousands of years?) high-intensity warfare over an area spanning three entire continents could have worked. How many historical instances are there of a population decreasing to 1/20th of previous levels? The 20th century had a couple of instances but that required totalitarianism and modern communication, logistics, and industrial capabilities.

The other historical instance I know of is the decimation of New World populations after contact with Europe (through disease). I don't know what other evidence they've assembled, but disease feels like a much better way to explain this population drop than warfare.

But what diseases only target males? Dunno. Maybe the early domestication of livestock introduced some kind of chickenpox or dogpox that killed (or sterilized!) males dramatically more frequently than females.
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Why don't US companies just steal non-US companys' source code?
Isn't it required to copyright the code before non-American companies can even file a lawsuit against US companies for copyright infringement?

Is code theft same as IP theft?
> Good for the country, obviously. If you can't define what good governance is, how can you possible come up with a way to maximize it?

It's almost like this is a really complicated problem that the best and brightest have been thinking about for centuries.
California AB 2565, "Rental property: electric vehicle charging stations", passed in 2014, requires landlords approve all written requests from tenants to install EV charging stations (at the tenant's expense, with some reasonable caveats).
Surely this horse is being beaten in the grave by now... Windows is part of the problem, and that’s just one reason people choose Mac vs Windows. Everything else is subjective since PC hardware has been up to par for like a year now.
Do you never voluntarily subscribe to anything?
If you have FU money but also brain cancer or live on a planet by yourself, the money doesn’t mean much.

Definitely a sobering thought. How rich I really am...
Companies don't have consciences. "Bad PR," talent drain and other happenings led to this and for PEOPLE (who do have consciences), these can continue to be considered as valid tactics for achieving a desired end.
> first party isolate is generally more stable and usually only has breakage on particular login forms

Are you referring to third-party login services and comment systems (such as disqus and similar)?
> own preferred way to structure the data.

Absolutely. But user/business data? That doesn't matter. When you design the system/stack you pick the right components/tools (right data structures) that can losslessly represent the input/output of the neighboring/adjacent layers. If you want to store 500 byte long fields, then make your DB column 500 byte wide, make sure the backend accepts 500 byte long input, but rejects longer ones, make sure your HTML input has a maxlen=500 (and account for Unicode code point surrogate / multibyte fuckery if applicable)

There's mismatch, of course, but as I've detailed in a sibling comment [0], it's because of difference in purpose and function. A DB is different from a HTML/CSS layout rendering engine, because they have a very (set) of purpose(s), hence different interfaces, and so on. And frameworks are glue between these functions (and the layers as we allocate them to).

> Since developers do not like tedious work, some set out to find a new solution that solves for those edge cases [...]

Yes, perfectly agreed. And since we concentrate on different edge-cases each time, we move from trade-off to trade-off with each new framework, and browsing trend/fad (mobile, tablet, SSR, ultra-tree-shakable-gzip-able, "native" [mobile] compilable, etc).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17209305
The darkest of these patterns of simple and becoming ubiquitous: nothing displays unless you have javascript enabled, not even text, images, or other static content. NASA.gov is a prime example of this. So the user leaves JS on and then the site does a whole bunch of bullshit unrelated to the site service using JS.

A slightly less, but more overtly, evil version of this is hiding everything behind an opaque div that is only cleared when JS on their domains is enabled. Reddit's new design is a prime example of this.
>Not to defend not giving money to the homeless

Then I'll defend it. The money would be much better utilized donated to programs that try to target homelessness as a whole. The old "they'll just spend it on drugs/alcohol/etc" cliche is actually backed by studies: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/03/should-...

Some points from the article:

"We choose to donate money based on the level of perceived need. Beggars known this, so there is an incentive on their part to exaggerate their need, by either lying about their circumstances or letting their appearance visibly deteriorate rather than seek help."

"If you travel to a poor city, for example, you'll find swarms of beggars by touristy locations. If the tourists become more generous, the local beggars don't get richer, they only multiply."

Further, a controversial issue is that of fake homeless people, which undoubtedly exist. Some say the easiest way to tell is if they'll accept food instead of money. From what From what I remember of someone's experience relayed in a reddit thread (which I'll admit has the potential to be exaggerated or unreliable) the majority of homeless people who said they needed "money for food" wouldn't accept food or would throw it away as soon as they thought the giver wasn't looking, indicating they were actually just after money.

If you feel like you absolutely must give directly to homeless people, carry around wrapped protein bars or something similar. Encouraging panhandling is just exacerbating the problems.

For some anecdotes, the last time I went to a convention in Baltimore, I heard stories about multiple people being assaulted or verbally harassed by panhandlers. In one case the provocation was that the person "didn't give them enough." The area is full of career-beggars who have no interest in actually improving themselves, like this one guy who pretends to be a youth baseball coach to collect fake donations every year. I try to stay indoors as much as possible but they even come inside the hotel lobbies to try to scam people sometimes. My experience and hearing those assault stories made me wonder how many of the people on this site decrying homeless-deterrent architecture have actually been in an affected area before.
...wow.

Ok, that's not relevant to anything else written in this thread.
I think a lot of the disconnect can go further away as JSON data types (regardless of actual serialization such as BSON etc) and use are more well supported at the database layer. When I did more C#, and Entity Framework came out, I'd add an XML column to most of my tables, as well as a base class wrapper for my own use... that allowed by to write extension properties that wrapped around XML nodes under the covers. So I could extend with extra properties for things that didn't need to be queried on.

It worked pretty well, of course I actually started doing it because getting schema changes at my workplace was a painful endeavor.

I agree that a lot of the disconnect is induced by developers. It's also part of why I'm a pretty big proponent of a JS UI talking to a service written in JS. It allows for a lot less cognitive adjustment. I remember doing HTML/CSS/JS with Flash/Flex, with .Net, T-SQL, and VB6 in one workplace regularly. I swear every time I had to change from one to another, I was typing the wrong way for a good 15-20 minutes... answering questions at times took 2 minutes just to shake my brain out of whatever I was working in.

I started using less stored procedure code and the DB more as dumb storage, and embraced node pretty early on. Even if it is a "lesser" language, there's something to be said for one language to rule them all. (I do like modern JS though.)
This is our chance to gain a GitHub+LinkedIn integration. Just imagine... your LinkedIn profile and endorsements will auto-populate based on commit & PR activity.
I guess you’re not up to date: Excel is getting JS scripting soon and most likely Python scripting not long after that :D
If your recursive DNS servers are Unbound DNS, they will keep note of which infra (upstream forwarder) nodes are responding and will blacklist the ones that do not. You can see this with

unbound-control dump_infra

After the infra ttl expires, they will probe the down nodes. If they respond, then traffic will be distributed among them again.
It is probably a reference to the conclusion part of the paper, simply because it's an obvious hypothesis. It's not necessary that men died like flies, they just didn't procreate, but that's not mutually exclusive. Eitherway, it would be the result of competition with a social aspect.