skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's possible to critique both systems; the American (capitalist) system in which you need to pay huge amounts for education in order to have the mere chance to get a job that's above sustenace wage, the system screwing over especially those who can't afford to pay back debt; the Cuban system in which your training is free of charge but you cannot apply your skills such that you receive above sustenance wage. Considering the doctors who are able to get into well-paying jobs alone, the American system seems to work better.

Another commenter remarked that the Cuban system is set up to keep the people at the top in power, the American capitalist system less obviously so. I wonder what other methods of Socialist organisation may be explored other than the capitalist wage-labour system we see in both Cuba and the US. The idea of labour vouchers has always been interesting to me.
People confuse the normative and the descriptive. Everything you say is basicly correct. But it's horrible so it can't possibly be true. But why should evolution not be horrible?

Evolution does not care about our ideology. If we don't account for it and nerf its edge, though forms of selection that don't cause suffering to conscious creatures, like embryo selection or genetic engineering, then we will have to wait for Malthus to provide sufficient selection pressure to ensue our survival or extinction. This fingers-in-ears approach to biological reality would be concerning if countries like Korea and China weren't poised to exploit embryo selection and genetic modification for increased health and IQ, thus likely forcing more reactionary countries like us in the west to adopt them, too.
Are you motivated by money in this situation?
interviewing.io comes to mind working in this space w/ the same goals.
More Americans Support Aid When Told Puerto Ricans Are U.S. Citizens
Probably because they don't use it: http://techstacks.io/alibaba
This mirrors my experience. When I enrolled in a CS masters in 2006, I was repeatedly questioned why I would enter the field when all those jobs would be going to India.
I'll probably get in trouble but russians don't like to hire russians.
This is not good for IBM indeed.

As lots of people know that IBM gets 21 consecutive revenue decline and it's forced to cut down cost. But cutting down cost doesn't mean you should shift your development work to under qualified developers or programmers. This will further affect IBM's software quality and hurt its revenue. Why not putting the money hiring less but good developers. If you are a developer, you would find what that feels like to work with under qualified developers.

To be honest, have you heard about any impressive software product or solution from IBM in recent years? I would blame this to a short-visioned management team. Maybe its management team is thinking they could hire more below averaged developers with the same money of hiring one good developer in hoping that quantity can cover quality. In fact that's totally wrong in technology field.

Moreover, those talented technical people are escaping because they are not getting what they deserved. The management team is investing far less in technical talents than in so-called business. The end result is that the product quality will become worse and worse and customers would finally give them up.

While other companies are attracting talented IT people by all means, IBM is lost and it's driving them away.
Every Indian I have worked with in the US has been reasonably competent or better. Every Indian I have worked with remotely from India has been worse than useless. This suggests the hypothesis that the problem is with the work culture, rather than intrinsic to the workers.

And that suggests that IBM is not making more money because IBM's work culture has not adapted well to changes in the global economy. It may be that they have shifted to India workers because they are no longer capable of monetizing their workers to an extent great enough to pay competitive salaries in the US, rather than some factor resulting from their reliance on India. It could also be both, creating a vicious feedback cycle.

In short, problem is that IBM is IBM, not that IBM is full of Indians.
>James Flynn, namesake of the secular increase, finally agrees that these IQ gains are not g factor gains [1], but believes that they still represent economically relevant skill gains. This is doubtful for two reasons: first, because measures of aca- demic ability over time do not reveal any concomitant Flynn-like gains [2, p. 8; 3]. Second, because we know from large-scale military re- search that almost all the predictive power of IQ tests in training contexts comes through g alone [4, p. 129].

[1] Flynn, JR. The Flynn Effect: Rethinking intelligence and what affects it

[2] Flynn JR. Searching for justice: the discovery of IQ gains over time. Am Psychol 1999;54:5–20.

[3] Flynn JR, Weiss LG. American IQ Gains From 1932 to 2002: The WISC Subtests and Educational Progress. Int J Test 2007;7:209–24.

[4] Ree MJ, Earles JA. The ubiquitous productiveness of g. In: Rumsey MG, Walker CB, Harris JH, editors. Personnel selection and classification. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erl- baum; 1994. p. 127–36.
Interesting -- and unexpected. I also wrote the Speex suppressor and one of the things that specifically annoyed me about it was the robotic noise and the pseudo-reverberation it adds to the speech, but it seems like some people (like you) like that. Trying to understand exactly what you don't like about RNNoise... is it how the remaining background noise sounds or how sharply it turns on/off?

I did a quick hack to RNNoise to smooth out the attenuation and prevent it from cancelling more than 30 dB. I'd be curious if it improves or makes things worse for you (compared to the samples in the demo):
https://jmvalin.ca/misc_stuff/rnn_hack1/
Happy to give you a call, but allow me couple days to ruminate. FWIW, this company is based out of the US. They do have some operations in the US but this isn't their primary region.
This feels like an awfully insensitive metaphor given Afrocuban history and its role in Castro's revolution.

You might be getting an awfully short end of a stick, but if you're getting free education and free health care at that level, you are not justified invoking slavery as a comparison, given the history there.
> Doesn't it just require trust of a single party for settlements

If you're talking about two banks... There are thousands of banks out there all with varying levels of trust, and those banks all need to transfer funds between each other on a daily basis. Most banks only have direct relationships with a handful of other banks.

> Which you still sort of require in the ripple model because ripple owns a crap ton of it's own coinage (60% of the pot).

Yes, they own 60% of XRP available, but if you're settling a transfer between USD/EUR then you only need to trust ripple for the length of time for that settlement to happen.
Yep, plan is to incorporate. There's three of us, splitting equally. We're being engaged as a company.
For context, Alibaba uses their own fork of MySQL which is AliSQL:

https://github.com/alibaba/AliSQL
They might have had _something_ on the front page before, don't remember what exactly. I know they had CodePen examples added in the "Getting Started" and "Tutorial" sections when the docs content was rewritten last year. The use of the React-Live editor widget on the front is specifically new, I just don't remember if it replaced something similar previously.
When can we start investing again in education...
So we've gone from using components with lifecycles - in the form on JSF and Web Forms, to using components with lifecycles - in the form of React and Angular.

I'm not knocking React or Angular - I use and enjoy them both. And I find it much more convenient to have components that live entirely in the browser instead of trying to maintain a stateful UI server-side; I certainly don't find Web Forms or JSF development to be very enjoyable.

I just find it mildly amusing that front-end web development seems to continually re-discover old concepts. That's certainly not a bad thing; better to re-discover good old concepts than to forget them completely.
Fusion power doesn't really help with rocketry, though.
ANTIFA Website Planning Nationwide Anarchy on November 4th
From one of my previous replies:

"I was describing measures that would likely foil automated bulk analysis."

Nothing you just said is relevant in that context. Yes, obviously anything can be easily compromised if it's targeted. I said as much in the very same post.

Automated bulk analysis exists to find targets in the first place.
Is this similar to Amazon's Lambda@Edge?
Lots of people leave Cuba for America without becoming doctors first.
Good for MariaDB - they're really pushing the MySQL ecosystem forward at an incredible pace.

RocksDB from Facebook, ColumnStore, MaxScale...really cool stuff.
EU’s planned copyright reform raises problems for free speech
The Washington Post basically exposed this as "Fake News".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/23/wh...

And in case you're interested, here it is from a more colorful source;

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/yet-another-major-russia...
The love of communism among those that don't live in places that tried to implement it is something that totally baffles me.
If the pitch sounds higher, then your phone is actually playing back the song faster. If it sounds faster without the pitch being higher, then its just a perception-of-reality thing.
I started JS in 2011 with ExtJS 4 and it was pretty awesome.

Later it got too bloated and expensive and I switched to Ember.

Whole other thing. Missed all the widgets ExtJS had out of the box. Also, it seemed that Ember used MVC like ExtJS, but had a totally different idea about it.

Now use React and craft most widgets by hand, didn't expect a framework to be so flexible.

React components feel like using the ExtJS xTypes again, really nice.
Six months, not two years. I personally tend to ignore warranty periods of under a year anyways, since products with such short warranty periods (30-90 days is common here in the US) tend to be cheaper to replace than to get warranty service on anyways.

On the other hand, warranty here in the US can be annoying to deal with anyways--I've failed twice at getting replacements for Samsung flash memory cards that have been in production for less than their warranty period. There a some problems (microsd becoming read-only) that can't be caused by user misuse. That might be more reflective of Samsung as a company, however I've had similar issues with other companies as well.
What are you embedding v8 into exactly? What happens if I figure out a buffer overflow in v8? What do I break out into? Is it solely process isolation? Is it in a container? A VM?
> I'm sure American doctors would pay down their debt quite quickly if they lived like a Cuban doctor and nearly their entire paycheck went to school loans.

After medical school, doctors still aren't qualified or licensed to practice - they need to go through residency first, which pays really poorly (in some cases, less than the equivalent of minimum wage). During that time, doctors aren't going to be paying down their loans, because they're just making enough to get by. (Some doctors even end up having to take on additional debt just to get through residency. That debt comes from the private market and has a higher interest rate than the unsubsidized Stafford loans).

This period lasts anywhere from 4-10 years, depending on your specialty. In the end, it's not unusual for a doctor who enters medical school in their mid-20s[0] and is not independently wealthy to expect to turn 40 before paying off their final medical school loan.

Medicine isn't the unbelievably, guaranteed lucrative field people think it is. It may have been in the past, but those days are long gone, and the expected lifetime earnings for physicians continues to drop each year, which means it takes even longer to pay off your debt.

[0] This is actually typical; most physicians, especially at top schools, don't enter medical school straight out of their undergraduate program
Is it just me or medium's comment section is fundamentally wrong? It's always a pain for me to browse
Hiroaki.
Doh, indeed, wish I had seen that earlier. V8's raw API is... tricky.
What's the reason nowadays to use MySQL/MariaDB instead of PostgreSQL?
The server hosting the article above is also running 38 other containers - databases, WordPress blogs, Jenkins (CI), Gogs (Git), etc. And it only has 4 GB of RAM.
Good tips! I actually just worked on detecting dead webhook endpoints, as I've had a number of users use ngrok for local testing, create hundreds of events, and then disable ngrok--and much like Stripe, I retry with an exponential backoff over the course of a few days. Needless to say, my logs were filled with failed webhook request errors and I had to figure out how to limit that from happening in the future. Very interesting list of alternatives to webhooks as well.
Dark-Web Drug Dealer Arrested After Traveling to US 4 World Beard Championships
I heard the same thing from locals when I was there. I have no other evidence to support this.
The reason people are comparing US and Indian employees is because the doubling of IBM's India workforce since 2007 seems to be, in many ways, a result of labor arbitrage, as the linked article is arguing. You can slice things any way you want, but the fact is that this is a problem for the average American worker. In other words, it's something that readers of the NYT would care about.
That idea sounds fine, absent all of the evidence I've heard of where the vast majority of the toll money is going outside of the city where the toll road is.

I suppose taxes aren't much different, in that most go somewhere else. But, at least with taxes you can see a money stream back to the city and argue it up. With it going to a private company, you are sorta screwed.
Apple: A semiconductor superpower in the making
Well, your comparison isn't too fair. It seems like you're using the loss rates for modern aircraft capabilities. This is roughly like comparing the crash rates of modern OS's to early Unix.

To put it another way, it seems likely that the safety will increase by that much. Before airplanes, hang gliders were one of the most popular ways to fly, along with balloons. Gliders were incredibly unsafe, because pilots were expected to control the glider by shifting their body weight. This made stalls fatal, since you couldn't recover.
I remember the moment when I drew a line in the sand and simply refused to use ExtJS any more: I discovered that the mysterious bug I'd been hunting all day went away if I removed a comment.

It turns out that ExtJS was building some kind of dependency tree by scanning my source code (at runtime!) and looking for things that looked like variable assignments. And it got confused by a commented-out assignment. I don't remember exactly how this caused things to break, but I do remember walking through the stack trace, slowly figuring out what it was doing, and then simply getting up and leaving for the day.

No thanks.
Tons of Cubans do if before as well. Have you never heard of wet-foot dry-foot?
Idera bought out a company that I used to work for. They immediately let half of the workforce go without compensation. They are normally (in Canada) expected to pay severance, but an extremely optimistic interpretation of our employment contracts led them to believe that they could let us go and pay severance to anyone who was still unemployed some lengthy time (If I remember correctly, about 9 months) later. They are the Gordon Gekkos of the software world and I wish them absolutely no success. If you get bought out by them, lawyer up and start searching for a job immediately. If a product that you use is acquired by them, then start shopping for an alternative.
>Even in the Bay Area, a Home is still 5-6X annual income of a typical software engineer.

Is this true? I am ignorant of actual prices in Bay Area, but people are always complaining of high housing prices there.
Or "Martian timeslip". In fact "blade runner" is a pretty poor adaptation of the book (but a great film, imo). I'm not sure most of pkd would benefit too much from a "direct" film adaptation...

I loved the man in the high castle for many of the changes and the overall style - but it seems the writers got a bit lost trying to round off the open ended story and fill in some blanks. Small wonder, considering the book.
The Apple issue is that you have no alternative. The app is similarly region restricted on the Google Play Store. If there was a Windows version, it would be similarly restricted on the Windows store. But only on iOS do I have no alternative to getting it.

I'm happily running the app on my Android device despite it being region restricted. Sweet sweet freedom.
All Gmail (and presumably Inbox) images are transcoded/downloaded via Google's image proxies. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?co=GENIE.Platf...
This should help keep health insurance premiums down as all those Millennials start aging!

(I kid, I kid...)
The entirety of Debian 0.97 (kernel, userspace, packages) fit on two floppies back in 1994 :P
Of course you're right, and maybe I phrased it poorly, my intention was to highlight the jQuery eco-system as the main puller of folks from ExtJ e.g. jQueryUI and the 10,000's of jQuery plugins that replicated ExtJS/Sencha functionality several dozen times over (with various levels of quality).
Unlikely. Medical degrees from Cuba aren't portable what so ever. Cuban doctors are nowhere close to what Americans expect -- don't get me wrong, they are perfectly fine performing basic medical services but don't expect them to know how to use any modern equipment or be familiar with modern protocols used in the West.

What is it far more likely is that those who actually live the glorious communist future would make an educated choice that being a janitor in America is preferable.
And/or "Diamond Age".
Much of Bangalore and modern Indian cities are almost at par with San Francisco as far as Infrastructure goes. How do I know this? I travel to India 3 times a year for work.
It wasn't a last ditch effort, the decision to change the pricing model happened 3 years ago. I think the community would have accepted a reasonable rise in price, it was the decision to mandate a minimum purchase of 5 developer licenses that sealed their fate.

Sencha's biggest failure was not building developer mindshare. If they wanted to sell commercial widgets, they should have done just that - their grid was pretty amazing and is probably the feature that led most people to discovering ExtJS in the first place. Instead they tried to sell an entire framework, with an entirely custom approach to building software. For that model to succeed, they should have made the framework itself free on a liberal open source license, and focused harder on selling services, extensions and tools around it. That way, it would have been embraced by more developers, widened the talent pool and encouraged their big corporate customers to expand the scope of its use in their companies.
First and second hand (The most timely: I had close friend visit there ~6 months ago).

A quick Google turned up a few articles: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-04-17/news/950417013... (1995, but there are other sources).

Doctors and other higher ed degrees tend to have a strong English component, which is a plus in the tourist industry.
Netflix but for kids. How does the prediction algorithm work?
The success of tech in Israel has been one of the most depressing phenomena of recent years to me, given Israel's general bad behaviour, and negative impact on international peace and security.
> But I keep hearing employment is great, productivity is great, stock market is great, and yet it seems like most anecdotal evidence I see and read about suggest this is all hollow, and things are actually really bad for the average American.

Stock market and the incredible rebound of housing prices are great if you are older/wealthier and own assets.

There is no denying that if you were wealthy and an asset owner, you did incredibly well.

But if you are young with student loans or an average joe with a few thousand in the 401k, then it isn't going to affect you much.

The years since the financial crisis was primarily about bailing out the big banks and the wealthy asset owners.

If you are an young or an average person, you are doing even worse now since medical costs have increased. The ACA ( obamacare ) was about transferring the burden of medical costs from the elderly and sick to the young and healthy.

If you are older, wealthier and owned a lot of assets, the past 8 years have been the best years of your financial life. The S&P 500 rose from 600s to 2500s and looks to be headed to 3000. Everyone else has fallen behind. Stagnant wages and increasing medical insurance costs.
I'm curious what would be their motivation for investing so much in MariaDB when they already have their own? Hedging bets? Encouraging competition?
I've done this with a couple of applications, using something like fileb0x in the build process to convert the files into Go source which can then be compiled into the final executable.
Yeah 2002-2005 or so the conventional wisdom is that there wouldn't be software written in America anymore -- that companies were going to beat a path to Asia just like they'd done in textiles and furniture.

Economists explained that software is a highly "tradeable good" and Asia -- especially India -- was filled with millions of highly educated cheap programmers.

Given that the number of people employed in software in America has remained constant since 2000, and that wages are about where they were then too, I think the evidence is that there has been a substantial "pressure release valve" effect going on. So while the most dire predictions of the 2000s haven't come true, it's also true that the confident optimism of the 1990s ill advised.

I would say that software development has been good to me so far as a career, but I still think I would hesitate to encourage a young person in America to pursue it.
Taking the commentary in this direction is unneccessary. In the 90s, the rise of outsourcing originating from the US and the rise of US-based H-1B-farms raised valid questions about the difference in production quality (in the historic, 'what-kind'-ness sense of the word); the wages paid in foreign countries with lower prevailing wages were predictably lower, as otherwise offshoring would have made little financial sense, and importing exceptional talent from overseas was always an option for those willing to pay for exceptional talent.

IBM and other US firms do in fact pay locally competitive and generous (but not outrageous) salaries in India, as well as other foreign talent hotspots like Romania and Estonia.
> Ultimately, if you think it's such a good deal, I'm sure Cuba would let you defect and go to medical school for the opportunity to earn $30/month like she does in Cuba.

Well, yes, they very explicitly have programs to take foreign students who get free or subsidized medical education in Cuba in return for practicing in Cuba for a certain amount of time.

That it isn't attractive for American doctors is unsurprising given the huge difference in economy, but it is attractive to a lot of people from developing countries, and it does a lot of good for the countries they come from, given that these doctors are meant to return, unlike e.g. the UK NHS which contributes to a lot of brain drain.
I think you'd only need to target either MELPA or Marmalade. Elpa's repository is more limited and out of date.

An arguably more serious problem with those is that some people host packages on the EmacsWiki, which is freely editable by anyone.