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Interesting to see this here, I was actually looking at the Dell website for the last few months considering a Precision 5510 to replace my macbook pro (2011) and my now bricked Thinkpad X201s (coreboot fail).. when recently I saw the 5520 appear, sadly no option to buy direct. (I'm calling in favours with friends to get me a price)

I hope they continue the tradition of building insanely good hardware (look at the insides of a 7510[0].. holy crap) and allowing expandable batteries as an option.

The 5510 for instance can be specced without a SATA drive and that space can be used for a 6 cell (rather than a 3cell) battery.

The fact that these machines can be shipped with Linux is really the icing on the cake for me, even if there was no price drop I would purchase them because I have some confidence that the hardware will be supported.

[0] http://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Precision-7510-4K-IGZO-Mob...
The root of the problem with H1B is that despite a bunch of laws meant to make sure that these workers are paid and treated the same as US citizens, that isn't happening at a lot of companies. This is creating a huge demand for visa workers as a kind of indentured servitude. This isn't a good situation for US citizens or visa workers.

If the laws are fixed by, for instance, making it far easier to switch jobs on a visa, H1B workers will be treated a lot better. Demand for visa workers will probably drop somewhat but it will be more in line with what the visa program was made for: to hire talent not slaves.
The notion of statistical significance as applied to research papers doesn't map well to the poker domain. He keeps repeating that they won 9 big blinds per hundred hands over an 80k sample because anyone familiar with poker at all knows that's an absolute spanking.

Does that mean no-limit poker is volatile enough that results considered by insiders to be long-term don't achieve 95% confidence? Idk probably, I haven't looked at the math myself. Is 73 buy-ins over 80k hands a huge win? No doubt.
Since I build things to last...

I'd pick something that hasn't changed much in popularity for a couple decades. If this has to be a web app, then plain C on the server and plain unadorned javascript on the client, but only to the extent that actual code is required at all. If this doesn't have to be a web app, obviously ditch the javascript.

It also performs well and has more build-time error checking than the typical stack.
The line you quoted was written because I wanted to focus on a different part of a faulty reasoning chain. I wanted to step over it entirely without agreeing or disagreeing.

For what it's worth, I think it's a massively erroneous assumption. But it's also one I'm not particularly interested in discussing in the context of this thread.
You know what they say! The bigger they are...!

Yahoo, I mean. Or shoes.. I guess that this saying would indeed apply to shoes as well. So I guess that Yahoo and shoes have two things in common. 'Being grounded' being the other one.
Browsers are all over the place, unfortunately. It's part of why sRGB because the only reasonable color profile for Web use. I think we'll see wide color become common in apps before the Web.
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Mac has a much more significant market share than it did then, there are several viable alternatives to MS Office, and iOS and Android have kept Windows from having any significant market share in mobile.

That last point is the most significant here: sure, you might not be able to beat Google at Google-like search, but you can try to start building the thing that will become more important than Google-like search in the next 5-10 years.
I don't know this work, about I appreciate the candor and honesty this academic presents. Thanks for posting.
Stats don't lie. What is the market share of macOS and Linux?

I use macOS myself and I can't live without it, but that does not at all reflect the big picture.
>However, there's a pretty good chance no one available could have saved the demise of Yahoo.

Case in point. A clean, tidy, rational reason why Yahoo failed: it was impossible to save. Blame the company itself.
It will likely continue running in its current mostly neglected state under verizon ownership.
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One of the problems with the highest bidder approach its going to favor senior devs. This is good thing but you also have to look at graduates who have come to the US to study and may not be able to earn that much immediately but are just as likely to earn a lot more in a few years. If the ruling forces them to move them, then it will result in draining the talent.
Working on a spouse visa right now for me spouse, so I've got a slight clarification. As the non-citizen spouse of a Canadian you can VISIT (possibly by applying for a visitor visa like a normal tourist) and probably get that visitor visa extended as many time as you like while you wait for the Permanent Residency application to finish (average 2 year processing time). But you may not be able to work in Canada while you wait (there was some news about temporary work permits being issued to spouses who were inside of Canada while waiting for their PR).
Significance works the other way round than you described it -- if two players were equal in skill, then a winrate of -91mbb/g or larger would happen 5-10% of the time.

I don't know if Doug Polk understands that or not, but I agree with his criticism and I think his analogy with sports reporting is sound. While "statistical tie" is true in a technical sense, it's not usually how matches are reported, and it's somewhat disingenuous and self-serving to use that language. It would be more honest to say that it's very unlikely that bot is better than humans -- given the advantages the bot had (a gruelling 2-week schedule, and pressure on the humans to get through N hands per day) it still lost by a significant margin.
This is completely incorrect - the 810 is tested at somewhere shy of 15 stops DR. Portra 400 can squeak out 18. A slow B+W film can do 20-21.

I spent years struggling with high dynamic range/contrast acutance with severe weather photography and digital cameras. Blown highlights, color noise in shadows, rough tonality through contrast transitions, etc. Specific films (not slide film like Ektachrome) were my salvation.

Also, noise is not the same as grain. If the difference is unimportant, I'd think the other nuances relevant to this conversation may be as well.
It may, although I'm not ready to discount the possibility yet. Another thing that has been seen throughout history is people claiming progress is at an end. I can't remember the source, but there's a famous quote from the early 1900s that everything important in physics had already been discovered. People also theorized progress would slow after peak coal was reached. There are many more examples. I would suggest that whatever time one is living in, it feels like all the major advancement is behind us, and things will slow from here. It may indeed be true now, or it could just be that we're feeling the tail end of a couple S-curves (Moore's law especially) and can't fully appreciate what the next paradigm will be.
Steve Jobs worked himself to the bone and took zero money for years when he was trying to save Apple.
That's what a good faith effort looks like.
If he had failed he would have wasted years and got nothing in return. If Mayer had done this I would be impressed.
But Mayer had no vision, didn't put in the effort required, and milked Yahoo for a hundred million dollars she didn't earn.
Silicon Valley loves failure like Elon Musk's rockets blowing up the first few times. But not this corrupt Wall Street-style failure.
Marissa Mayer's failure at Yahoo was caused by pure incompetence, negligence, and laziness of all involved. Nothing about it that deserves praise.
I believe I read that it is rather that clang is (was?) not feature complete (until recently at least) for debugging in MSVC. Support for PDB/Codeview is very recent in clang, and I'm not sure it is complete yet.
The word capitalism has a fairly well established meaning in most academically rigorous settings.
Of course not, but then when I failed which would have been pre-ordained and actually entirely foreseeable, bashing me here would NOT be really, really pointless and sad. However, if you are respecting her for picking up a paycheck, that is your right.
You might want to look at GitLab, which basically has the best of every other world, with sparkles.
>Immigration Attorneys are making a fortune of this broken system

Those same law firms hire lobbyists to make sure the system remains complicated and inefficient. Also, all the law firms that service tech companies have almost 100% of the work done by recent college grads for very low pay. Ever wondered why your L-1/H-1/I-140 support letter has so many errors? It's because it was a generic template that some recent college grad spent an hour on and you paid $3000 for an attorney to sign the G-28 form. Oh, and many immigration lawyers haven't even passed the Bar exam for the state they practice in--they can practice having passed the Bar in any state. These are the bottom of the barrel law jobs, IMHO.
I find your problems are mostly fighting your own muscle memory. The Cmd key is much more consistent for the entire OS. You can do Cmd + C, Cmd + V, Cmd + R, Cmd + Q pretty much anywhere (including the terminal), whereas in Linux you have to use Ctrl + shift + c/v. And the ergonomics of the Cmd key is way better than ctrl key.
For installing development software, there's `brew`, and the terminal is exactly same. I don't know any feature that is Linux-only to feel the `better integrated`
To go to the end of line, just use Cmd + right/left.
Skilled parents are more likely to have skilled children. Even ignoring any possible hereditary intelligence correlation that might exist, having good job prospects will naturally heighten the chance of their children doing well.

There are also more than enough skilled people waiting to come here. With a backlog of skilled works the west has the opportunity to be selective (refugees are another subject). I personally support the idea that they should be more open to skilled workers. Although Canada already does a pretty good job compared to the US. Apparently the UK is looking into copying Canada's policies following Brexit.

But even here in Canada skilled immigrants often get associated with unskilled or illegal immigrants, or just generally misunderstood in terms of the value they bring, which (unfairly) puts pressure on reducing numbers.
All of them are Oracle now and Virtual Box is pretty good?

It really isn't. VirtualBox was always mediocre compared to VMWare, and ever since the Oracle acquisition, I haven't heard of any major new features or performance improvements coming out of the VirtualBox team. Though, given what Oracle has done to its other acquisitions, benign neglect is a pretty good outcome.
You spelled her last name wrong.
This reminds of Jeff Hawkins' book On Intelligence. He takes a similar stance on the overarching/conceptual solution vs. more specialized solutions that dance around the knowledge gap. He criticizes neural networks as not sufficiently detailed to mirror the brain's behavior, and proposes the Hierarchical Temporal Memory model, or HTM.

The hierarchy is crucial: as in the brain, there are different regions at various levels of cognition, with higher regions responsible for greater levels of abstraction. A moment of real learning/understanding is characterized by a sudden, system-wide switch of signals between layers mostly traveling up the hierarchy (this input is confusing! I don't know what to do with it!) to signals mostly cascading down (AHA! I get what that means! Let's do this in response).

It was written in 2004, so like this article it lacks some of the insight we've gained over the past decade or so. But I think some of its general insights are still relevant. Whether it's NNs or HTMs or some yet-to-be-discovered algorithm that ends up being the driver of general AI, this article definitely resonates. At the most general levels of AI, we are still in the "confused" phase: viewing the state of AI as a whole system, our signals are still largely questions going up the conceptual hierarchy, rather than understanding cascading down.
Upvoted since I think this discussion might be interesting.

I'm wondering why people focus on financial compensation so much? Why does how much someone was paid justify more or less bashing, as the case might be?

And what's unhealthy about tone policing? I'll leave aside the way you've negatively framed my attempt to steer the conversation in a more positive direction, and just say that I don't see what the purpose of publicly bashing a well-compensated CEO who didn't have much success is.

Who is this unhealthy for? For her? For us? For future boards of directors who may be trying to attract a CEO to turn their company around?
This is so cool, the guy (among other things) beat an important algorithm that had stood as the fastest for decades.
Beware, this may be a scam company. The project501.com website seems to have no information about who they really are and how they profit from this matchmaking endeavor.
Iran is a pretty highly-developed country with a population of 83 million people, so I don't think that's too surprising.

There's a perception gap due to the western world's treatment of Iran. Maybe we shouldn't have overthrown their government and installed a dictator in the 1950s.
> it would help people in need while also removing the usage of chemicals that are bad for health and environment.

Because manufacturing digital cameras doesn't involve chemicals that are bad for health and environment...
Check out Koken. Self-hosting but it's pretty great.
Agreed. It would be absurd to open our universities to foreign talent only to deny them local jobs.
Wikipedia says "Currently, a balanced view of linguistic relativity is espoused by most linguists", so I wouldn't call it discredited, just more nuanced.
I agree. And yet, the molecules in the film emulsion get reconfigured directly by the light emitted by reality and focused by the lens. It's direct, physical, embedded in the material structure, testimony of what once was. A physical manifestation of one's experience.

Light-sensitive transistors to electricity to software to memory feels much more ephemeral. Not less magic, but less al-chemical.
Not necessarily. They could just be stuck in a cycle of poverty and be a drain on the system.
> she simply wasn't heartless and evil enough to fight in that chaotic, insane and corrupt political environment

What are you talking about? She managed to make enough backroom deals to oust a standing Prime Minister. That's pretty strong evidence that she is Machiavellian enough to play the game of politics.
Yes, yes, graphene is awesome, we know. Can you make cheap sheets of it?
It didn't 'mess' HipChat up, it just never improved it and adopted to a marketplace that has Slack in it.
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That's exactly right except for the "if necessary" part. A deal to sell off all of the web properties to verizon has already been made.
I've been fine with 400 and have noticed issues with 1600, so 800 certainly seems like a good place to draw the line from my experience.
I was able to avoid X-ray exposure to all of my film (some of which was ISO 1600 that I was pushing to 3200) during a trip to Washington D.C. not long after the 9/11 attacks. At that time, all of the security checkpoints at the airports, monuments, etc. seemed to be on edge. However, by politely requesting hand checks of my camera and film I was always accommodated and never had my equipment X-rayed. Checkpoints that had swab based explosive scanners always utilized them during the manual checks.

I was worried about the lower ISO film as well because going to ten different museums/monuments a day meant ten security checkpoints. I didn't want X-ray exposures to accumulate for even the low ISO film.
right, i bet he's laughing a lot.
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This is a Google form that is a self-assessment of IT maturity. The text is thanks to the IT Capability Maturity Framework by the Innovation Value Institute (IVI).

Constructive criticism is welcome, such as how to make the Google form more useful, or additional questions, or alternate maturity models, or feedback on how you use concepts like this in your company, etc.

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Heck, come to Knoxville TN. Lower cost of living and 100K is fairly easily attainable for a senior dev.
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That looks more like a long-term exposure than HDR - look at the water blur, it's not the typical HDR ghosting. My Polaroid PDC700 camera did that color range and picture quality almost 2 decades ago (big sensor helped, admittedly.)

And that's not impossible with 35mm at all. Chemistry advances as well, you know. The age of nanotechnology. We're getting analog films in 35mm format that do gigapixel+ resolution equivalent images. Along with that, these newer chemicals are far less susceptible to noise. Add to that things like high refractive index lenses made from fluorite and optical calcite, and analog cameras can still hold up to/stomp digital, all day. I do keep my eye on the analog world of film, because I've got ~$10K in equipment sitting in my bag and I like having equipment that I can use.
Pillow doesn't do anything with gamma by default, nor does it require that color management be compiled in.

(I'm a maintainer of pillow)
> Green Card process has to be restarted from the square one

That's not fully true AFAIK. The green card (GC) is a 3-step process - PERM, I-140 and GC itself.

If you already have your I-140, unless your previous employer cancels your I-140 (which cost them a few thousand dollars), your new employer can just start over the third step of the process. This is not optimal, sure, but it is not square one either.
This is not a convincing argument. The odds are certainly against Yahoo, and the promise of MM was it will turn Yahoo into a Engineering powerhouse, which never happened. On top of that the Yahoo hack handling was not leadership.

She tried, well but her Participation Trophy was worth $300 million including Golden Parachute. That is a grave sign!
Is it under-rated? Perhaps its marketing isn't as strong, but it's the "father" of a lot of distros today. Personally when I want a server distro, I still go with Debian. Simple and solid. No nonsense.
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Since everybody here is confused on why they would give up the Yahoo brand: This is not the Yahoo which was sold to Verizon (which stays Yahoo, incl. email service) but the investment vehicle holding all the Alibaba shares. The name "Altbaba" is an obvious play at the official ticker of Alibaba (BABA)
As an enthusiast photographer, she did one great thing in my book: She oversaw the attempted revitalization of Flickr. The old Flickr product and UI had stagnated for the better part of a decade, and under her administration, Yahoo rebooted a lot of the core experience. Some parts were rebooted more successfully than others, but on the balance, it was for the better.
There is no grace period when you're terminated from an H-1B. There might be one January 17th if it doesn't get revoked but right now officially you have 0 days to leave the country, no?
Even better -- this situation is much more public and open than the situation with Andrew's FLT proof. I remember when Wiles proof was announced, when there was a gap, etc. only a select few got to actually look at the proof. It was only published after it had been very carefully checked. I started studying number theory exactly during this strange period of secrecy in 1993. Incidentally, exactly at that time, I used to play around writing computer games with Harald Helfgott, who is the guy who just found the mistake with Graph Isomorphism a few days ago... (He's a fantastic mathematician.)
The real problem with H1B, that outsourcing firms exploit, is the lottery system. Issa's proposal doesn't address that problem. Zoe Lofgren's bill, which replaces the lottery with a salary ranking system, would be much more effective, in my opinion.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/06/technology/h1b-reform-bill/
Good question. Cambridge and Oxford have interesting technology but very high cost of living. Bath is close to Bristol and part of the same city region. I'd prefer to avoid London due to air quality, cost and commute. I would consider other cities (e.g. Manchester, Sheffield, Newcastle) if I find interesting work.
I'm not "respecting" her; I'm just pointing out that the high pay is not as black and white as it was made out to be.
There is a probably a consumer device that has a GRE listener running, and it is possible to send it a small packet, and it will return back some sort of error response. So classic amplification.

Thought given the moderate amount of traffic, maybe it isn't a hugely effective DDoS method.

Even if a consumer device doesn't use GRE, it doesn't mean it isn't there. GRE is often included in Linux kernels.
It just really depends on whether the scale/revenue of the acquired is immediately and clearly accretive to the acquirer. WhatsApp and Waze were pretty far along that path (and their prices reflected it!). Younger companies are more vulnerable.
Great idea! What kind of traffic does this type of idea create?
The new 60 days grace period rule has not gone into effect yet so it is still true at this moment.
Not sure why a "good faith effort" requires taking such a crazy amount of personal risk. Yahoo was willing to pay millions to the exec they thought had the best chance to turn the company around. She should have declined that and and unnecessarily played on Extra Hard mode instead?
Eh? Does it matter?

Some people are referred to frequently by their first names (Sergey, Larry, Joel), some by their last name (Woz, Jobs), some by both or either.

Are you trying to imply something?
I guess it depends on your perspective. Is it the older workers who rake in enormous paychecks for incrementally far less work or is it younger workers who work for much less to make a name for themselves and establish their career?
"T'alt-tab or not t'alt-tab?"

Wait, that wasn't Nash's. Never mind, carry on.
> They have nervous system, therefore they feel pain, just like us.

That's two non-sequiturs in one sentence. I'm pretty sure there exist lifeforms that have a nervous system without an analog of pain. (Hint: If you want to defend your argument, start by defining "pain".) And it's quite egregious to just assume that there exist only one kind and quality of pain in all living animals. (Again, start by asking yourself how to rigorously define "pain".)

> They also suffer emotional pain, not just physical. Kill a pig in front of another pig and he/she is going to be terrified.

If at all, that's just an argument not to kill pigs in front of other pigs (unless the emotional pain is a desired outcome).
Interstingly this could make sense, because they're selling off all of the Yahoo! assets there is no reason there is no incentive to use Yahoo! mail and in fact they lose the rights to those assets once the sale is completed.

Altaba will still be holding all of the other assets not sold to verizon so this is likely the best way to move forward for whoever is left working for this not quite dead entity once the sale is complete.
It's a great decision if you don't want me to use your language. I'm already a little fed up with the camelCase vs snake_case coding style conventions I'm supposed to switch between to write an app that uses both Python and JavaScript. I don't need a third convention, especially not one that's enforced by the language and contrary to every other language in existence, as well as my serialization formats.