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Ding ding, there's the cynical and at least partly correct answer - Obama bombing poor Muslims while acting like it's a pained #LesserEvil choice was a-OK with liberals: shrug & grimace and let's go back to a craft beer at Moral HighGround Cafe. Trump gleefully doing a 90 day transit suspension on Ivy-league/Silicon Valley Muslim PhDs?! A Hitlerian crime against humanity!

Don't get me wrong, I think this order, especially applied to LPRs, is crap. But having been deported from a country before for what I considered an unjust cause, I'll take that over being drone bombed to death any day of the week. And yes your average citizen of Yemen likely already had a better chance having a US (via Saudi) weapon dropped on their head than being granted a visa.
In what ways, specifically?
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Nobody is being forced to hire him.
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In my experience, German companies are particularly bad about having a rigid focus on specific academic credentials, often coupled with an unwillingness to believe that effective learning can occur outside of schools. I do respect their traditional apprenticeship track, but even that seems to be slowly disappearing.
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Any way to only display things that are available for download?
Though, that only works for the language that you use. Other languages may opt to use the CLI as the API
do you really believe this? honest question.
> Hira, who has done extensive research on the subject, points out workers at outsourcers are typically not treated as well as others. The median wage at outsourcing firms for H-1B workers was less than $70,000, while Apple, Google and Microsoft paid their employees in the program more than $100,000, according to data he collected. That suggests the American companies are going after true, highly skilled employees, while the outsourcers are recruiting less expensive talent, he said.

Not necessarily. You could also say that the big tech companies are overpaying them or there's premium in their compensation while they're fairly compensated in those Indian outsourcing companies with no premium in their pay package.
Thinking a bit about this problem, I'm a bit torn

In one side, a CLI offers a "better" way of using the product (as with a library it's easier to misuse something)

On another, issues like this

(But I guess in this specific case the issue is that encfs is not doing a minimal validity check of the password being provided)

It would be good if CLIs would/could be more consistent, but in the Unix/Gnu options world, probably it won't
That is helpful! Thank you! I had copied the notation from wikipedia.
This is only true if you assume that the rewrite branch will be broken the entire time. You're only blocking the team if your work will be unusable until it's done. If that's the case, then you're also assuming at some point in the future you'll complete the work, get everything working again, and then merge everything back to master. It won't likely play out that way, though.

More likely is that:

* Your child branch will be test-broken and likely build-broken almost the entire time you develop.

* You'll stop taking frequent merges as they become painful because you're clearly not doing the work to patch everything up (and can't, because you've broken everything and likely can't even run tests).

* You'll be "almost done" and then spend three weeks trying to get everything building and testing again.

* You'll tell everyone to freeze checkins because you need to get merged and it's impossible because the branch is so far out of sync and and you're now conflicting on every tiny change.

* You'll finally push your merge back with half the tests disabled.

* The entire team will spend another month cleaning up the mess.

I've never seen a big feature/rewrite branch play out any other way.
*deterministic
At risk of sounding horribly cynical, this is a company providing industry skills assessments, proclaiming loudly that industry skills assessments are very necessary.
It is literally referred to as the 'nuclear option' because both parties basically knew not to touch it. But after the Democrats did it, the Republicans obviously aren't going to intentionally cripple their own use of it.

Mutually Assured Destruction, and Democrats fired first.
L1 is mentioned in the order but when skimming it looks like they are only going to do site visits to make sure people are there.

It's funny because the L1 visa brings in far more people than the H1B because it has no cap.
> 2. You usually flatten right before the final layers.

The newer trend appears to be fully-convolutional networks even for classification, since they appear to overfit less, compared to flattening+dropout.
I bet that there are a lot of Americans who completely disagree with Trump's policies and yet at the same time they feel avenged by them.

The working class enjoys watching the elites get worked up and horrified about Trump.

I think that this election is a manifestation of inter-class conflicts according to "Maslow's hierarchy of needs" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs ).

On one side, we have the working class made up of people who don't care too much about moral ideals because they can barely afford the "Safety" step on the Maslow pyramid.

On the other side, we have the elites who don't seem to care about the daily struggles of the working class and instead prefer to indulge their need for self-actualization by focusing on convenient moral ideals instead of inconvenient practicalities.

Why weren't any of these celebrities protesting when Washington bailed out the big banks during the financial crisis? That issue had much more significant ramifications on the average American but the elites didn't care because doing something about it would have hurt their stock portfolios.
> Getting human beings to take InfoSec seriously is incredibly challenging. If you can't get that to happen, no amount of good tech will save you.

I personally know one case when an assistant for a medical study forwarded a email list of participants to everyone when it was specifically complied that it was confidential. You would think that the person was fired because of this but no they literally couldn't find another employee that would take the job for such a low pay, so he kept his job and security didn't improve...
This is a distinction that I wish someone had explained to us in high school, and then given us a choice about when applying for university. We just got vague assertions of this university or that being 'more practical' or 'more theoretical' with no real explanation.
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Sounds similar to 'Musical ear syndrome': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_ear_syndrome

Unfortunately most of the proposed causes seem pretty speculative to me. Good old "brain searching for a pattern" seems like the obvious one to reach for. Fortunately it seems to be relatively common (although it is disconcerting). I've been experiencing this recently and I swear I can hear AM band radio.

Interestingly, the 'white noise' backdrop for these 'phantom sounds' is generated by one of 2 machines in my house: an air purifier and an aircon unit. Even more interesting is that both have air-ionisers built in to them for air purification purposes (negative ions from the purifier, unclear what's in the A/C).

At the risk of sounding a little crazy, I wonder if there's possibly a connection...

EDIT: If there was something to this, it would certainly give more meaning to the phrase 'babbling brook' (i.e. breaking water negatively ionises the surrounding area). I know that sounds up there with other hippy-science like 'crystal healing', but take a look at [1] & [2].

[1] http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/negative-ions-create-p...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_air_ionization_therap...
Why do you think I think that? You haven't offered an argument to "prove wrong." You've offered assertions and antagonism. If your intent is to invite discussion, it isn't a very good attempt.
There's a much simpler reason that I only work remotely: companies are willing to let me.

I love being close to my kids, my wife, and the general comforts of a home office. There are many other reasons I prefer to work remotely. That said, if there were no companies allowing me to work this way, I wouldn't say "sorry, I only work remotely" and become unemployed.
Do people still recommend Eric Evans' book on DDD? Or would Vaughn Vernon or Scott Millett be better ways to learn it as of now?
Working hours is a pretty arbitrary concept that depends on the business. Every hour is a working hour if you run a 24/7 store.
> People don't care that he's rich with daddy's money, they care that it's not "decades of political speeches and political fundraising money".

They don't care about either of those things. His supporters backed him because he said things they wanted to hear, no matter how outrageous they were.
A strong "+1" to this. Plus, there are quite a few strong CS and engineering universities in Canada, so it's not as if the intellectual environment will have to be created from scratch.
Trump campaigned on this. America voted for this.

Every nation gets the government it deserves.
> "Both parties are the same" is such a tired meme considering what has happened the past 8 days.

"Both parties are the same" is not meant literally, and usually people mean "both parties are bad". It's about the illusion of choice.
What he's saying, is pretty much that he doesn't want to work for people that think like you.

And it's okay. Not everyone can be a good fit for every company.
The special sauce in S2 is the space filling curve aspect of it which is totally not what you want here, the concept behind it is I want to say called a 'geo grid' which off the top of my head a guy I know made a library for [1].

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/geogrids
Or all the other devs are thinking, "woot, less hours of pager duty." Having people work off shifts can be rather beneficial if you stagger things properly. Scheduling like that, you hold meetings right after lunch, and that's about it. Everything else works just the same. Long as the scheduling is consistent, then having people slightly off the normal schedule works just fine.
Thank you for the explanation. It somehow seems to me that most of the RL problems can be converted to some form of SL. For example can the pong RL solution using PG (thank you so much for that article btw) not be converted to SL by recording a human player actions for a while and labeling them based on rewards achieved ?
Be careful with those numbers.

While they are likely accurate for simply attending a conference, they might not be for presenting at a conference (that often changes the reason for the visit from "education" to "paid work" which can impact the need for a visa).

That said, Schengen area is probably still easier than the US for attending AND presenting.
The whole BSD family of operating systems provide far better consistency than the Linux distro universe, as they are the ones to directly maintain the base system's codebase (POSIX utilites, OS-specific utilites, the kernel, the drivers, init system). Linux distros, on the other hand, are just a juxtaposition of software from a plethora of sources.
Couln't you use an initialization pattern that includes all the weights of the smaller layer in the larger layer? This would keep the behavior of a subset of units exactly the same, at least at initialization time.
Exactly. People look at their government and give it 1/5 stars, then vote for anyone promising change, because they think they have nothing to lose. But the range doesn't start at 1 star. It goes down to minus infinity.
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The game RimWorld does exactly this.
Best post by a mile. Not only did America elect Trump, Sanders also did mighty fine for someone who in years past would be considered unelectable.

People pass around figures about GDP and low unemployment to prove to themselves things are absolutely fine, but then you dig further and you find that many feel lost and desperate.

Obama said "America is already great", and many people found it a vomit-inducing quip. In many ways liberals brought this upon themselves.

I find similarities in how liberals deal with Trump and how americans in general dealt with 9/11. "They hate us for our freedoms" is a much more palatable idea than thinking about systemic dynamics.
That's sort of what I figured. That the usual suspects of visas get hit right now, but that all other visas would come under review in due time.

I shall have to see how it pans out, would have liked to work my next job in the USA.
> I am now looking for a new job and am applying almost exclusively to positions that are several 100km away, if not on a different continent. The reason: the potential employer already understands that this will be a remote position.

It can also mean that the potential empolyer will expect you to relocate.
Indeed, but if performance is affected so much by the initialisation, then I would avoid random initialisation in the first place. There are various publications exploring different initialisation methods for various problems.

I'm afraid that I cannot go into more specific details right now, but you can get more stable training and faster convergence with a better initialisation strategy.
Or

>Click on the Secure/Not Secure/(i) page info button.

>Click "Details" to go straight to the Security panel of the Developer Tools
Considering the only requirement is high school education, I think it's likely that DV is on the chopping block.

There a few fake articles that say it's cancelled already.

I've also read that DV visa holders from the 7 countries that are mentioned in last week's executive order will not be able to enter the United States.
> You do not think this could have a chilling effect on the free press?

I personally do not think it will. And I don't think anyone can make that argument that is has as of yet.

But if it does, what objective measures can we point to, to say that it has?

> You assume it is literally correct, after admitting that there is no evidence for it.

No hard evidence. But are you going to make the argument that 1000 ppl did not leave NYT over the course of the campaign. No, its a pretty reasonable churn rate for a newspaper.

Did they leave because of poor coverage? I personally noticed the coverage deteriorate, and tracking the sentiment against the NYT from Twitter, Reddit, etc. I believe this statement to be true. Am I certain of it. No. But do we need hard evidence of everything we say? No. Only if it matters. And this, simply does not matter. The question is would you hold a similar statement by Hillary or Obama with to the same standard. Depends what side of politics you are on.

> A literally correct statement can still be a lie.

If you had 100% proof (voice recording) that someone knew something, and then they stated publicly that they didn't, what do you call this? I would call it a lie.

Calling everything else a lie that cannot be proved is like the boy crying wolf. The word loses its meaning and is less effective at pointing out proven lies which both sides of politics could agree on. The left likes to cry wolf a lot over sexism, racism, etc. These words are almost meaningless now - whilst there are still proper racists in the world.

> Can you agree that saying the NYT is losing thousands of subscribers without saying they are at the same time gaining 41,000 net new subscribers is misleading?

They could be gaining 41K left wing supporters while losing moderates. Personally, I feel that they are losing a lot of moderates and republicans, and accruing a new base of progressive leftists because the paper has headlines that they agree with and don't want to question. So I don't think its misleading. It can be read as saying that the Times reader base is shifting, and the people who are reading it now are just looking for something to confirm their narrative. So in this scenario, net numbers don't matter so much. You can agree or disagree with that, but all I am arguing is that using lie is too strong and if you call everything a lie it has no meaning anymore.
Or have singular people in the company with undocumented, critical knowledge.

PS. "Distributed teams" isn't the same as "working remotely", although many things that make the latter work apply to the former too.
In that case, I suppose it's reasonable for a historically white suburb (with all white owners) to create rules for themselves that keep blacks out?

That way, a municipality reduces to property. Should not the owners of property be free to manage it in their own favor?
Posted because I thought this was satire, but apparently it is for real.
Vocational education is undervalued in both America and the UK, it seems.
> Labelling all people from entire countries as not eligible to enter your country is, by definition, racist.

Nope, this assumes that the country is racially homogeneous
Don't you just love it when someone with zero direct reports thinks he can tell managers how to manage?

It's a job, it's not a fucking Montessori school, or a correspondence course. If you don't want your employability to dry up once rockstar ninjas become commonplace enough that the demand bubble for them pops, you will cultivate the essential skills of showing up when and where your employer demands and otherwise being their huckleberry. Know what that means? It means someone who can be counted on. Showing up at the office on time is a first-line test of dependability. That's why companies ask it of you.
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>This doesn't sound like a higher education problem - it sounds like an education problem.

The story isn't really about "higher education" in the traditional meaning. It's about taking the blue-collar apprenticeship & training model and calling _that_ a "college degree". Since blue collar schooling (apprenticeships) and blue collar careers (e.g. factory workers) have a social stigma, some folks in the article are saying "degree required" should be expanded to mean "apprenticeship required". The last sentence of the article highlights this re-labeling:

>“And whatever you do with training, you need to call it college. You want to make people feel good about the path they choose.”

Other sentences in that article on that same theme:

> But the college-for-all movement, [...], is often conflated with earning a bachelor’s degree.

> “Higher ed,” he said, “needs to respect the dignity of labor.”

E.g. the prospective factory worker attends training at a community college for 2 years and gets a credential that's not a traditional bachelor's degree -- maybe a Completion Certificate and call _that_ the "college degree required". That's the idiosyncratic meaning of "Degree Required" specific to the NYT article's title.
Have nots? Trump voters were richer than Clinton voters.
Reminds me of an archeology job offer I once saw in Germany (for a dig). Masters or equivalent degree in archeology, PhD preferred, 6 Euro/h.
No. If you click on Secure, the popup has a link to the Security panel.
Well first you need to establish that Trump are actually doing those things.

This is the primary issues once you actually dig into things he might just as well just be nationalist which means occupied with US citizens not world citizens.

From the perspective of a nationalist the extreme measures Trump have taken are simply to secure the country.

From the perspective of a globalist he is destroying the very foundation of the global society. None of those are wrong, they are just different perspectives equally valid.
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I work for a company with offices in USA, Europe and Taiwan.

What's a "normal working hour"?
It's getting better. My first employer hired me for a programming role although my background was in physics, based on my open-source contributions.
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Yeah, it seems clear that they failed the execution, whatever their intentions were.

Not that surprising given their lack of experience in government.
What you call "bitch and moan" can be a useful reminder of how people tent do overestimate what happens in proximity and overlook what happens in a remote location.
And that is a sure 'no' from my side. I have moved for a job once, I will not make that mistake again.
I hope to explore Plan 9 in greater depth than I can right now too.

I agree that the kernel services are what make Plan 9 different. I think the "everything is a file" concept is something that has not been explored nearly as much as it could be.

Thanks for mentioning 9vx, I completely forgot about that project! Just downloaded it and fired it up (managed to figure out the correct invocation without needing the (nonexistent) manual :P). That would be a really interesting port to JS.

I agree that Plan9 is not at all hard to get at - but if you can run it just by visiting a website, a LOT more people will play with it. Even if they just fire it up, go "huh, neat" (or more likely "how on earth do I use it") and close it, that does increase platform exposure.

I can't help but remember all the DOS games that are directly playable on the Web Archive. Inferno used to run in-browser because it's the perfect tech demo of the platform. Plan 9 should be able to too IMHO.

At this point in time Web browsers are not the perfect environment for general-purpose x86 emulation, I can't argue that. If things were different we'd run everything inside the browser. But I think Plan9 is sufficiently resource-light, fast, and cleanly-designed enough that it would make an excellent candidate.
Some (many?) Gnome apps are written in Vala. It takes a language that is basically a subset of C# and compiles it to C with GObjects. If I were going to write a non-trivial Gnome app right now, I'd probably use Vala.
The only way to influence Trump's policy at this time is to be on his side. This may sound weird and very counter to prevailing thought but this may be the only way. Trump already knows he can't win the other side so he will continue to appease his base which will be more detrimental to all of us.
I flagged it because 1) I'm tired of so many articles about politics here, 2) the author sounds like a whining brat, 3) if you don't like what's been elected you are going to have to deal with it.
> We are discussing hiring local workers, not outsourcing. The local workers just happen to be brown and born in a different place.

One distinction is that many immigrant workers will be sending money back to their family in their home country, resulting in a net drain on the economy in which they're working.

I'm not saying this is a good reason to make life harder for them, but I do think it's a fair point.
Is it possible that workable solutions are going to be addressed on a state by state vs federal level?

For example, my home state of California has an extensive community college system that is very good at administering 2 year technically focussed associate programs.

In contrast, a state with a lower population (or college) density might favor apprenticships.

Also, if the stopping point is utilizing custom industrial applications or specialized industrial skills, why can't companies take the initative to make teaching versions available on public facing sites, where students can train and test themselves before applying for jobs? U.S. companies are wealth aggregators with little tax burden in the U.S.; it seems fitting that they should take up some slack since they are so much more reliable funding streams than public institutions. (Although, the article notes John Deere's solution, which was in a very similar vein)