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I start all my digits at the top, why would I make an exception for 8?

http://jp2.r0tt.com/l_c1714080-82ad-11e1-9f79-1ff907600002.j...

...except that I draw bars for the 7's as taught in Finnish elementary school, which is clearly Wrong(tm) per the above instructions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_(number)#Evolution_of_the_gl...
>"a defendant cannot knowingly acquire or possess that which he or she does not know exists"

I read the above line several times carefully.

Here is the meaning I made out of that sentence, one cannot claim that they knew exactly how they got a certain object and then say at a later time that they did not even know such an object exists.

This is a different scenario than accepting responsibility for your personal belongings (say while flying) and then claiming that you don't know how it got there.

In the former case there is evidence that you got that object.

To summarize, my understanding of in flight carry on rules are you are aware of the things you are carrying and would be held responsible if you are later caught with a prohibited item.
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"There’s more money to be made investing in drugs that will extend cancer patients’ lives by a few months than in drugs that would prevent cancer in the first place.

That’s one of the findings from the work of Heidi Williams, an M.I.T. economics professor and recent MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant winner, who studied the problem along with Eric Budish, a University of Chicago economics professor, and Ben Roin, assistant professor of technological innovation, entrepreneurship and strategic management at M.I.T."

I'm damn near 40, and the phrase "there's no money in a cure" has been around as long as I can remember. Heck, Chris Rock did a whole bit about it. [0]

Is this just putting good science behind that phrase? Is there anything new here?

[0] http://anonhq.com/chris-rock-on-big-pharma-no-money-in-the-c...
Oh no - I would have no problem admitting that. I'm a full-on classist and have no compunctions about it :) I'm not talking about myself here.

That said - I do think that a family that earns just enough to maintain a 'middle class' lifestyle should be considered middle class.
Why would I use a livecd over a VirtualBox instance? Wouldn't that require me to restart?
> It wouldn't have to be a police officer, you could pay minimum wage to ... anyone willing to collect number plates etc.

I would be very surprised if any Policeman's Union would permit that.
Is there a feature to upload to s3 buckets from local? That would be cool.
Is this really a VP level position?
The first 3 graphs of your comment in chart form:

https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/668196138332327936
We were actually sort of discussing this a short while back

https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/676067023655337984
>I think that comment was meant to convey that drone operators are hard to reach for your average terrorist. Why is it important to state that 'Muslim' terrorists have only attacked civilians so far? (A claim that is not true as I've pointed out before.)

I don't think that's what the comment conveyed. I believe his point was to show that US drone operators are also living in civilian areas (similar to Hamas or whatever who operate among civilians). Thus if someone were to attack them, they could claim to kill civilians purely as collateral damage.

>'Somehow' some people get turned into murderous psychopaths by religion and some others do not. Is that the depth of your analysis?

False. Somehow we (today - perhaps it was different around the Crusades or 100 year war in Europe) don't have a problem of Christian terrorism, Jewish terrorism or Buddhist terrorism. Yet there is a really big problem of Muslim terrorism - so there must be something in whatever version of that religion (perhaps backward but rich Saudis spreading their version of it are responsible) that's causing it.
> "What is the minimum wage required for a H1B software developer in California [2]? What is the actual mean pay?"

How many years of experience (0,5,10,15,20?)? What is the education level required (PhD vs bachelors/masters)? It's not as simple as "H1B software developer in California" nor are the salaries. They vary between companies (eg., Netflix pays more than Google)

In any case, here you go: http://h1bdata.info/
You can check what your H1B colleagues make based on their job title.

Edit: To x0x0, I'm not going to parse out data for each and every company, I have a day job you see :)
I've worked for four companies (public and private), and I see that the wages are comparable to local workers (of those who chose to share their wages) and the established market rate by the state dept. of labor for the said job title. Somewhat anecdotal? Yes. It is definitely better than a blanket "H1B drives down wages".
> That has to translate into at least a small salary discrepancy between H1B holders and permanent-resident employees.

or it just gets accepted as cost of doing business with this person. Which is entirely reasonable (you spend a couple thousand to get everything transferred, not that much long run).

isn't the problem that if an h1-b worker gets fired they are screwed (have to leave)? I know with a TN that's the case and it sucks.
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I wonder if this is a side-effect of the current silicon-valley investment scene. There are lots of low-capital startup opportunities, so who wants to fund the high-capital startups in computer hardware? There have been very few computer hardware startups the past few years, and that might have an effect on overall innovation and growth.
You still need version resolution for jars in a lib directory, whether Maven does it or you do it.

Maven just automates the process.
I mean booting the iso livecd in virtualbox.
I get how we all intuitively want the PTO to not issue "stupid patents" but is there an objective, mechanical way to determine what is stupid? Do we care more about false positives (as in this case) or false negatives (a hypothetical alternative universe where too few, rather than too many, patents are awarded).

Now, before you start arguing against patents entirely, what I really want to know is: without patents, how are individual supposed to profit from their inventiveness when a larger entity could trivially copy the idea and profit based on their superior connections and capitalization? And yes, I'm talking about software. Are software inventors just supposed to give away their inventions as open source and feed themselves by working for someone else who a) got the ask, and b) defended their IP?
I think you don't follow Chinese news very much. They are heavily effected by terrorist attacks, low and high tech.

Also, I don't think China's position has anything to do with the peoples "fear" this is related to the governments position of trying to maintain it's power by staying on the right side of the information asymmetry the internet affords.
Two entry level developers at Facebook would make >$250k combined. As would a CRNA married to a nurse. As would almost any post-residency physician working 50+ hours per week. As would any big law associate beyond 3rd or 4th year. There are a lot of poor people out there, but there are a LOT of $250-$500k/year households too.
Honestly, for some time the security software from MS has been "good enough" for most people. Then again, there's plenty of people that will click "OK" to just about anything that pops up... which is why when one of my grandmother's PCs finally died, I bought her a chromebook... best option for those not technically inclined.
> If an H-1B employee is fired, they get deported.

That was definitely not true during my time on H1B. The feds could legally deport you, but they never bothered to.
It'd be interesting to see when this balance tipped on a timeline.

There's a lot of factors at play here. I can imagine a time where not everyone in the middle class had an expectation of going to college. I could also imagine a US advantage on skilled labor that would have yielded far better wages which has steadily eroded under globalization. I am also imagining a time when taxes where less burdensome. Probably some other factors at play that I am overlooking as well, still I wonder when the tipping point was 1980s?
In the event of death of the borrower, a mortgage is still secured by the property. A student loan would be discharged.
First they came for the Auto workers, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not an Auto worker, and I felt they were overpaid and sort of lazy.

Then they came for the Electronics manufacturing, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a line worker, and the line workers need to be in high-value fields.

Then they came for the Electrical Engineers, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a EE, and it seems sort of racist to take jobs from Chinese.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Google has been known to say no to China before. Going so far as to pull most of their operations out. Whether they will say no now remains to be seen. I'd wait to see what happens before assuming what is plausible here.
Distributed [1] is very new and seems to have similar core architectural goals as TensorFlow. But perhaps I'm being too politically correct: both make use of very course-grain parallelism relative to a typical distributed-memory linear algebra library (e.g., the current communication mechanisms of both are likely to be too course-grain to efficiently support distributed dense matrix inversion or eigensolvers; not that this is likely to be a design goal of either).

[1] http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2015/06/23/Distributed/
Honestly as stupid as this (and many others) are, it's the fault of the patent system, not the companies. The companies are reacting rationally to the system as it's been created, i.e. patent everything possible so you have more patents covering more things than your competitors. The only reason patent troll companies exist is because some smart investors realized you didn't need to do the risky bit, make products, to hold and enforce patents.

The system needs to be fixed, and then shit like this will go away naturally.
Do I get extra points regarding my opinion if I am native American, what if my ancestors were aboard Mayflower or were grudgingly accepted as Irish or if they were slaves. United States has a complex racial history which includes laws such the Chinese Exclusion act (something that lead Supreme Court to affirm birthright citizenship). To claim that by virtue of not being an American Citizen I have no right to offer an informed opinion based on moral analysis is ridiculous. What next according to your logic then any black man should not have considered himself to be an equal or should have offered an opinion until civil rights were changed. Or no one should have complained about Hitler. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound. United States is a unique country of immigrants with a chequeed past.

With an argument like this no doubt you are parroting stupidity. Wake up Ashwin, life is not just about advancin career.
US corporations should pay a global tax even if corporations abroad don't. That is because US corporations operate in a more beneficial corporate climate.

In what other country does the government fight so hard for its corporations' profits that it imposes treaties like the TPP on other countries? In what other civilized country can a corporation operate without giving workers vacation, or even a maternity leave? Only the US! That level of government support and exploitation allowance should have a global tax because it is unique in the civilized world.
This is not really meant to be a defense of the United States since the origin of this 1990s+ era patent nonsense is clearly our fault (speaking as an American), but I think it is somewhat naive to assume other countries will be spared or will be useful as safe havens.

I mean, just look at the various trade agreements and their related IP provisions that are currently being debated or have already been passed. The ultimate driver of this lunacy isn't the US government, but rather multinational corporations (who are increasingly not even technically US companies since they keep tax inverting into other countries) and they are pushing hard for this crap everywhere and mostly winning still.
Their point stands, they have been fought for pity cases before. That said, Samsung is hardly a company's quote worth exemplifying.
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I can't wrap my head around why you would stay there. If you moved to Seattle, for example, you'd maybe make $75K less, but you'd be able to buy a house, have a family, and pay off your debts, while probably doing the same work you're already doing.
Just curious what it's written in?
It's their culture. There is no Chinese without People making it, and the people who made it say this is how it goes. There can't be a higher or lower analysis of the topic since it exists to be analyzed at all through their efforts to give it meaning.
They've taken domain names, does that count as blocking?
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Talking about achieving enlightenment sounds condescending, and I wasn't sure how else to interpret it.

>Or is your claim that he's lying about this and marking it as Resolved-Fixed just to get it off of his plate or something?

The issue in 1 is fixed. The last issue in 5 is not.
You can clearly look at the given link and see the issue is not resolved. Perhaps he didn't consider the XSS part of the core issue, only being mentioned in comment 5. Or maybe his anger at AVG clouded his judgement? I really shouldn't be trying to figure out why, it's sufficient to point out the what.
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Why do you think picking a major is a "next day" decision? High school students have years to think about it, furthermore high school guidance counselors have career and salary guidebooks available to anyone who walks through the door.
No disagreement from me in any part - I don't disagree with you about institutionalized racism, not at all, but I also believe that accepting the role of the victim (until very recently) was (largely) the status quo (the acceptance of the status quo is the cultural bods I spoke of). The African American community only in the last 5 years has stood up and said simply "this state of affairs is neither fair nor right, and must change".

I also agree with Mandatory minimums are a pox on our civil society as are things like offender registries and a the lack of real representation for the accused - our justice system is based around the idea of free and fair trials, and the punishment discharging the debt to society.
The JVM is already open source. If this matter has indeed been settled, then the litigious organization issue might have been too. WebAssembly doesn't have a GC, and probably won't for some time. It also doesn't have ~20 years of performance tuning on different microarchitectures the way the JVM does. Benefits include getting scala, clojure, jython, jruby, and about 30 other languages working client side in the browser for free. Not to mention the languages that have been statically compiled will run way faster than the equivalent JS. That would be great for mobile, and the spread of the open web.
> I see no reason it should be arbitrarily limited or expensive to do things that technology can do for cheap.

When you hand a powerful tool to a powerful organization you must make sure that there are safeguards in place to limit the damage that can be done when parts of that organization use that tool for evil.

For the past couple of decades, the US has been having a painful conversation about the just what this proper privacy/LEO-convenience balance should be. LEO rhetoric notwithstanding, it's abundantly clear that it has never been easier to perform surveillance than it is today.

I expect that not many people would object to temporary placement of an ALPR system at a place of interest when all data from that system that is not _clearly_ directly related to a person of interest is purged before it ever gets into the hands of law enforcement.

I expect that many (but far too few) people would object to blanketing an entire metro area in ALPR cameras, RFID toll tag readers, DRT boxes, and the like and retaining all of that information forever, just in case it was needed to speed an investigation along later.

> I don't want my tax money wasted on police sitting around watching for speeders.

Thing is, I do. I want police to have to choose to pay a meatbag to do this sort of scutwork because in way too many cases, those laws are enforced to enrich the department's coffers or to target disfavored people.

I totally 100% agree that we should have sane laws that are applied evenly across the board. I would LOVE for prosecutor and police discretion, as well as plea bargaining to be removed, forever. This will not happen in my lifetime, if it ever does.

So -for now- we limit the damage evil people can do with the power tools that they have available to them. This makes policing more expensive. That's okay with me.
"a VM that clearly has restrictions and is owned by a litigious organization"

Indeed - if there's one thing that this case has shown it's that java is poison legally. If a company the size & power of Google is being forced to take a project the size & importance of Android places they really don't want to technically, well, that's a very big deal. And I wouldn't like to think what would happen to any smaller group that wanted to take a java technology down a path that isn't Oracle-approved.
As an artist, this is exactly the point that I make when I argue with people who say patents should be abolished.

Without any kind of protection, anyone who has a greater means of production/marketing than you will always steal your ideas and profit more from them than you can.

Obviously we need to fix the process so that as few bad patents are awarded as possible. Someone's just got to figure out how!
Couldn't they do this today? Require that Amazon get it to them in pallets labelled by zip code
I'm pretty sure the major reason MySQL is "more popular" has more to do with its ubiquitous install base on low-end web hosting providers than the (non-)existence of Windows-based GUI clients — particularly given that PgAdmin III has been around for at least 10 years, and cross-platform the whole time.
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> Your arguments clearly contradict each other

They don't. It's kinda disingenuous to pick phrases out of context to make a point.

But let me clarify anyway:

- smaller companies typically cannot afford to train, they need people on the ground right away.

- larger companies typically do train. Almost every large company I've worked with has dedicated training groups, programs, and staff.

- experience is more valuable than training, which almost all companies filter for
I happened across this book, which seems to be little heard of and really enjoyed it. Premise is great and the science seems solid for the most part. Author seems like he tried hard to stick with things that are not denied by the laws of physics as we know it.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21523077-attenuation---le...
I have the same configuration... the only drawback is that its very difficult to do any real work on Java with emacs...
> Talking about achieving enlightenment sounds condescending...

I guess you're not one for Zen koans and The Codeless Code, eh? Guess I'm getting old.

> Or maybe his anger at AVG clouded his judgement?

Ormandy's no hack. That didn't happen.

> The last issue in 5 is not. You can clearly look at the given link and see the issue is not resolved.

You can clearly look at the bug report and see that Mr. Ormandy thinks that the issue he reported is resolved. I don't know what you do for a living, but Ormandy does security research for a living. Have you looked into his credentials, reputation, and employer yet? :)
Why are Springer books bad?
> Hotspot is absolutely incredible technology, and it's competitors are still many years away from coming close to matching it's capabilities.

Especially when it comes to sandbox-escape security vulnerabilities! Among web technologies, HotSpot has historically beaten even Flash in that area.
It seems clear enough:

" limit financial speculation by requiring private banks to hold 100pc reserves against their deposits. "

Normally, banks aren't required to actually have the money they lend out, so when a loan is credited to your account that money is created (and when you repay the loan, the money is destroyed). In many countries banks are required to hold a certain amount reserve (I think it's about 1.5% in the USA - the UK doesn't have such a requirement), so this is simply requiring that the banks have 100%, which means banks can only lend money they actually have.

EDIT: Did you mean how does the whole money creation thing work at all? There's a very clear guide at:

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...

It's for the UK, but pretty much all modern countries work in a similar way.
Thank you very much for this link.

The elimination of intentional duration mismatch and the introduction of fraudulent time-money claims by the financial sector is one of the most important moral and social issues we face.
Even more exciting is the OmniPath[1] stuff that came out as a result of the Infiniband acquisition. RDMA + Xeon Phi + the insane number of PCI-e lanes[2] available for those new M.2 SSDs which post just absolutely insane numbers[3] all of which are supported by ICC[4] and you've got a really budget-friendly HPC setup. I'm really hoping for IBM's OpenPOWER to gain traction because Intel is poised to capture the mid-market in a dramatic fashion.

[1] See: IntelOmniPath-WhitePaper_2015-08-26-Intel-OPA-FINAL.pdf (my copy is paywalled, sorry)
[2] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9802/supercomputing-15-intels-...
[3] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9702/samsung-950-pro-ssd-revie...
[4] https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/distributed-memory... This is for Fortran, but the same remote Direct-Memory-Access concepts extend over to the new Xeon architecture.
Which modern economy has a banking system that requires 100% reserves? i'm genuinely asking. I've never heard of this kind of concept and do not understand the implications, except it seems that the central bank would become enomously more influential.
iow, you continue to assert without proof that h1b immigration doesn't constrain or reduce wages.
Yes of course, how could I forget that an H1B worker is going through the same plight as a colored person pre-civil rights time and what Jews faced during Hitler's reign :)
Wow! Hyperbole at it's best.

> "To claim that by virtue of not being an American Citizen I have no right to offer an informed opinion based on moral analysis"

Again, I never said you can't have an opinion. You have your opinion and I have mine. We agree to disagree and I like to live in reality rather than hyperbole.
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