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If the only thing standing in the way of a student continuing on Graduate or PhD studies is grant money, they shouldn't have trouble finding a job. In that case, if the university wants to attract those students from the private sector, they'll have to find a way to increase a student's stipend to cover these expenses. At top-tier schools where tuition is the highest, their endowment is likely large enough to support this move.

Alternatively, the schools could adjust what they charge students for tuition. As the article states, the cost of a year at Princeton's grad school is $49k/yr. Somehow I suspect that this sticker price is not tied to much in terms of their cost, but if it means charging less to students if that allows them to attract top talent, they could probably do that as well.

In terms of raising the bar, to me this would mean that if graduate schools want top talent, they'll have to find a way to do it: raise the stipend, lower the cost of tuition or something else. In this case, a very bright student who can't afford graduate school will either have to go into industry or the schools will have to find a way to keep them.

On the downside, if we follow the pattern of the last 30 years, the reaction will go something like:

1) Students struggle to afford college tuition

2) Government steps in to make large cheap-ish loans available beyond what might be reasonable ().

3) Students now have access to loans to go to any school they want

4) Colleges notice that they can raise price because students don't price shop

5) Colleges raise their prices

() They're government backed loans that are difficult to discharge, mostly because there is nothing to repossess and interest rates would likely go through the roof if students could graduate and immediately discharge their loans.
i never thought about this: you can just fill a car with a bunch of stuff and send it somewhere. makes mailing heavy stuff potentially dumb in some cases, depending on how things price out. also, maybe moving cross country gets easier for the same reason.
> He posted a list of contract addresses in the github issue, most of them look like ICO wallets

What are you talking about? Do you mean this issue: https://github.com/paritytech/parity/issues/6995 ? What list are you referring to?
... and someone else mentioned the car seat, too. Always fun!

However: unless you are planning a very large family, this is a transitory phase. I noted as my kids matured the amount of crap you have to lug around drops precipitously. I can't see that many people needing to carry the stuff on the bulky end of this for years and years. I carried my kids sequentially in a back-pack (3 years separation, so #1 was walking everywhere when #2 came along) and managed to fit all the above (aside from movies) into the back pocket of the kid backpack (strongly recommended for the transition to walking, incidentally, as a backpack is almost zero hassle when empty, while a stroller is just as hard to push empty as full).

But back on topic: you could lease a car/van for the Peak Kid bit of your life and still save money.
This is correct. I've been involved in these sorts of postings, and it was absolutely gamed. But for good reason: we already had the perfect person in the role and wanted to keep him.

Imagine if there was a law that required companies to post job openings for every position in the company, regardless of whether or not that position was already filled. As you can imagine, they would likely make the job requirements exceedingly specific for the roles filled by people they really like.

You don't even need to imagine, just go look at government or non-profit job postings. It's often the case that they similar ridiculous policies for promotions, where they already have a person they want to promote, but they need to open it up to public applicants first.
Is there a way you can do fuzz testing on wallets before deploying to catch similar bugs to this? I'm guessing it would cost a lot of Ether if an attacker wanted to automatically fuzz test many high value wallets looking for exploits?
It was definitely the progressive point of view. Trade unions in the US have historically been nativist.
But if you actually read the descriptions there are plenty that look like they'd have great potential for code execution.
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Perhaps you _can_ do it that way, but you can also just use m-of-n cryptography (e.g. Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme) to split your private key.

See http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/multisig.html for an example, and https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Multisignature for more background (including links to SSSS).

You don't need a smart contract to achieve this. I suppose it's more convenient since your co-signers can just submit their M signatures onto the blockchain, instead of having to collaborate offline to generate a valid signed block.

But putting the multisig logic into a smart contract is quite obviously not fail-safe, as these vulnerabilities show.
I'm rooting for you (and more usefully, donating time and money to political candidates who can help you). My research group currently has a scientist who took a year to recruit stuck in immigration. I wouldn't be surprised if he gives up. It makes me furious what the alliance of nativism and greed is doing to this country.
You seem to be assuming that lowering tech wages will lead to more participation by labor overall, but I think that it will instead just lead to companies lining their coffers with the savings realized by replacing an equal number of positions with lower-paid H1-B workers.
They could handle that use in a few ways. The easiest would be to tie the second account back to the first, so that FB knows but nobody else does. But presumably people are doing that for a reason, and the real solution is to create a feature for one's main account that accommodates that reason. And banning is not an unreasonable solution. Facebook is demonstrably ok with losing small amounts of marginal traffic, especially if that helps limit abuse. Their number one asset is trust, and anything that chips away at that trust is extremely dangerous for them.
so there would be cars just cruising around on their own without any drivers or passengers?
> I don't see many scenarios in which launching a USB denial of service attack would be the most effective thing to do.

High security servers that don't have typical interfaces are super common in government facilities. Sometimes they'll shove glue into the USB and sometimes the USB is the only method of accessing the system.
How is that at all equivalent to what I said?
> I honestly believe that the best way to ensure that Trump gets re-elected again in 2020

That all depends on how the Mueller investigation will end. Chances are Trump will not be able to get on a ballot by then.
I think "only" is an odd choice of words.

In a country as large as the US, that two consulting companies picked up nearly 10% of the country's visa allotment for a certain category of worker is part of the problem in itself.
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It's not an ethereum bug, it's a parity bug.

Ethereum worked exactly as coded.
This sort of attitude is why Trump is president.
Yeah - they saved what 50$ in gas?
Which defeats the purpose of Ethereum, which is to get in, get rich quick, and get out!
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For freelance developers, there's this list:

https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer
That would be the ideal case, but instead employers seek out H1-B workers.
This is making a ton of assumptions about your target. Is it a desktop user? Then possibly. Is it a server? What type? Does it have a keyboard/ monitor? Maybe a USB is how you access this device - so a USB that can get control over the kernel is suddenly your most viable attack method.
Misleading title. This was not a bug in Ethereum, but in the code for a particular popular multi-sig wallet people use on Ethereum. I don't mean to trivialize it, but this is kind of like saying "Bitcoin was hacked" when MtGox went down.
You are accurately reflecting the status quo, now that impediments to wage-depressing use of H-1B are so thoroughly lawyered into submission. But H1-B requirements say, among several other related things, that employers must consider U.S. candidates in "in good faith."

That's laughable unless you take the legalistic view that, unless it's been litigated not to be in good faith, that's good (faith) enough. Companies like Tata exist only to import cheaper workers. Saying otherwise amounts to claiming you might just want to hold hands with that person from the escort service.

It's also insulting to those who can see the difference between an R&D organization doing a worldwide search for a CTO and a "body shop."
> Why should those countries be okay with losing their top talent?

What sort of thinking is this? People stopped being subjects of their countries a while ago. Countries should compete for people, not trap them. If a country isn't OK with losing its top talent it should fix its institutions to make itself competitive.

You know what country doesn't allow its citizens to leave? North Korea.

Besides, remittances are a thing.
Actually, it is tough to operate such body shops: USCIS has hired contractors to do audits/random checks on these consulting companies and their employees. So, outright fraud is very hard these days. That's also another reason why USCIS is going after the employers, who are not typical body shops operating out of some office in Edison, NJ., Kalamazoo, MI., etc.
Nowadays there are very few statistical packages which only support Python 2 and not Python 3.
> have more complex APIs, or they're just syntactic sugar over heavyweight threads.

I am pretty sure that's not the case with Kotlin coroutines :)
Not even a bug in Parity, but in a smart contract made by the Parity team.
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I suggest just using the superior OS at this point: Linux.
$443m loss in one quarter is quite a lot. There seem large increases in R&D and sales and marketing expenses. Guess they are having to work hard to keep user numbers growing.
I would much prefer to have an iOS update that's ready to go, not one with "only" P1 issues resolved. That sounds like a terrible way to treat your customers. If that's true that they switched to Agile, what advantages did they honestly gain from it aside from swifter releases (if that's even an advantage at all)?

> And none of the bugs you have listed are even all that serious.

If the standard we're now using to critique Apple is now "well these bugs aren't that serious no big deal" the company is in trouble.
If you are on a Work Visa like H1B or EU Blue Card, most of the job boards here don't work. That's why I created http://www.visaok.in to help techies find Work Visa sponsored Jobs.

Also researched a ton and created Visa Guides for over 25 different countries including Germany, Mexico, Singapore, United Arab Emirates etc.

You can find these Visa Guides here => http://www.visaok.in/work-permit/blog/
top-posting still makes me sad.
And you are supporting this claim with... "oh please"? You want to prove US education system is inadequate to supply the workforce for technological companies, I believe it is not so, US has very good supply of necessary talent in the field. Please produce your evidence why you think it is not so.
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I consider overly frequent false positives to be a severe issue, so yes, I have.
This is definitely not the case for public schools in CA, for the most part. That's why I'm basically forced to sending my children to private schools at considerable cost ($30k/yr/child).
Note that you've gone from the dramatic "it all should be held at arm's length" to the somewhat less dramatic "some of it is ok to trust, but this other stuff isn't". That's precisely what I meant when I said your first comment wasn't well thought out.

Your new position is still too extreme; human trust is not binary. We could go another round where I point out exceptions and you come up with another model that is still too simple. And again, and again. Eventually, we might even get to a point where a useful discussion could be had. But it's not my job to force you to think past your taste for dramatic statements. It's yours.
You're right, it would've been more accurate to just say "graduate" instead of "PhD", I'll edit it. I don't think I mentioned undergrads though.
That's because a very large fraction of the voters there has their mind made up long before the elections and only a small fraction will end up deciding the vote. So all that money goes towards targeting a very small number of people and whichever way the vote goes in Wisconsin it will only be won by a few percentage points.

To go beyond that you'd have to go back to Johnson vs Goldwater, which was before I was even born.
Yeah, I guess we all learned to write-protect the floppies the hard way... When you lose data you become a bit more paranoid about making mistakes. Fortunatelly floppies could be protected with a bit of tape.
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/physical.html

Many (perhaps even most) hackers don't follow or do sports at all and are determinedly anti-physical. Among those who do, interest in spectator sports is low to non-existent; sports are something one does, not something one watches on TV.

Further, hackers avoid most team sports like the plague. Volleyball was long a notable exception, perhaps because it's non-contact and relatively friendly; Ultimate Frisbee has become quite popular for similar reasons. Hacker sports are almost always primarily self-competitive ones involving concentration, stamina, and micromotor skills: martial arts, bicycling, auto racing, kite flying, hiking, rock climbing, aviation, target-shooting, sailing, caving, juggling, skiing, skating, skydiving, scuba diving. Hackers' delight in techno-toys also tends to draw them towards hobbies with nifty complicated equipment that they can tinker with.

The popularity of martial arts in the hacker culture deserves special mention. Many observers have noted it, and the connection has grown noticeably stronger over time. In the 1970s, many hackers admired martial arts disciplines from a distance, sensing a compatible ideal in their exaltation of skill through rigorous self-discipline and concentration. As martial arts became increasingly mainstreamed in the U.S. and other western countries, hackers moved from admiring to doing in large numbers. In 1997, for example, your humble editor recalls sitting down with five strangers at the first Perl conference and discovering that four of us were in active training in some sort of martial art — and, what is more interesting, nobody at the table found this high perecentage at all odd.

Today (2000), martial arts seems to have become firmly established as the hacker exercise form of choice, and the martial-arts culture combining skill-centered elitism with a willingness to let anybody join seems a stronger parallel to hacker behavior than ever. Common usages in hacker slang un-ironically analogize programming to kung fu (thus, one hears talk of “code-fu” or in reference to specific skills like “HTML-fu”). Albeit with slightly more irony, today's hackers readily analogize assimilation into the hacker culture with the plot of a Jet Li movie: the aspiring newbie studies with masters of the tradition, develops his art through deep meditation, ventures forth to perform heroic feats of hacking, and eventually becomes a master who trains the next generation of newbies in the hacker way.
Changing your in-group from being based on race to being based on citizenship doesn't change the basic immorality of your position.
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Do people actually use satellite imagery other than to appreciate how cool is to look at one's house from above?

Reviews are mostly around average 3 stars for most places. Because there are two types of revies: 1 star - waiting times were horrible, the meal was cold and waiter was rude; 5 star - the best meal I ever had, everyone was cheerful and helpful.

Automatic re-routing is good. Especially with traffic information. However it is miserable where there are unknown closed roads. It will constantly reroute you to the closed road. You can't pick a road segment and remove it from consideration. Then you are back to experience of physical maps. However slightly worse, because you don't know road numbers - up to this point they were irrelevant.

Traffic congestion is a big plus.

Public-transit is also a great thing.
Why didn't they choose at least pure functional language for smart contracts? Imo that would reduce the amount of dramas...
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seems like they could produce an eight core P4 equivalent without ME.
I've been on long distance buses with large, comfortable reclining seats and convenient pickup/dropoff points for 8 hour plus journeys more than most sane people

I assure you it's not the human driver which means that most people strongly prefer other methods of transport.
The reason is to balance rate decreases at the top percentile, to decrease the corporate tax rate, and to finance lost revenues from dropping the estate tax. The rest of the reasons people state are needlessly obtuse or purposefully deceptive.

There’s one mathematical reason, it’s because this bill can not increase deficit past a certain amount, and so to balance giveaways to the rich we must demand more of every other income quintile.
This is why I didn't invest in ETH when it was 60 cents. I thought the whole thing had an enormous attack surface and wouldn't scale. Just goes to show that flawed things can be extremely lucrative.
The hell? (just checked youtube and you're right.)

How did that ever make it past FCC certification? I understand unintentional QRM from cheap things but that is something that's spec'd out.
> Pass a Constitutional amendment that states that corporations are not people.

No one claims they're people. The law lets them stand in as people so society can function. The whole "corporations aren't people" meme is myopically fixated on campaign finance, ignoring the much larger issues around this legal doctrine.

Can a corporation own property?

Can it own patents? Copyrights? Trademarks?

Can it be sued in court?

Can it file lawsuits itself?

Can it make contracts?

I don't think any of us would like the result of answering "no" to all those questions, yet those are the questions that the legal fiction of corporate personhood was invented to answer.

Should corporations have the same free speech rights as people? I can see an argument for answering that "no", as rich corporations may speak disproportionately powerfully. I can also see an argument for answering it "yes", in the sense that corporations are just people acting together, and collective speech should be just as protected as individual speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

Remember that whatever constraints you put on EvilCorp's speech are going to apply just as well to the Sierra Club, a labor union, or the NAACP. I honestly don't know if that's a tradeoff work making. Maybe it is.

I agree with your point about transparency.
Under the logic of the tax code, tuition waivers should obviously be taxable. The University is basically paying for graduate student labor with a vastly below-minimum wage stipend, along with a very valuable free education. "In kind" benefits (such as the use of an apartment) provided by an employer are generally taxable. That doesn't mean tuition waivers should be taxed. It just means you have to be intellectually honest and call them what they are: a tax break.

But viewed in that light, maybe they're not so defensible. While a small minority of graduate students may come from the lowest income backgrounds, on average they're highly educated and privileged. So in essence, it's a tax break for among the most advantaged people. Why is that "fair?"
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“You like the Sportland Sports? They made so many points last game!”

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Well blockchains work by consensus is the difference: the rules can only be changed if enough people agree. This sounds better in principle but breaks down using proof of work when a small number of parties control most of the computing power.
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In 2006 I was a consultant (dev) on a dot-com product (being done in Ruby and Rails). The founder had plans to use Zazzle as one monetization approach, and IIRC, Cafepress too. I think t-shirts were one of their products (at least for Zazzle). Anyone know how those two are doing these days?

On a side but related note: It might be interesting to read any stories about how some of the original dot-com companies are doing nowadays, those that survived, that is - from the 1997-2001 period.
The default tax rule in the U.S. is that any benefit you receive, in any form, is earned income and taxable.

Layered atop that default rule are a long list of exceptions, which are generally categorized as (1) exemptions and (2) deductions.

If you attend a Ph.D program where the advertised tuition is $30k per year, and you get a tuition waiver (or w'ever it's called), the default tax rule says that you still earned income because you received a benefit. The nominal value of that benefit is $30k, therefore the student would need to pay taxes on that $30k.

Apparently there's an exemption or deduction that excepts tuition waivers from the default rule, meaning such tuition waivers wouldn't be considered taxable income.

As part of the GOP plan to pay for corporate income tax rate cuts, they must discard many kinds of exemptions and deductions to replace lost revenue from the corporate rate cuts.

To those who say that this is a shell game[1], note that if it was just a shell game then the change wouldn't have been made. In other words, there's an expectation that discarding this exclusion will generate more revenue. That revenue would directly come from students and/or universities, one way or another.

Universities could lower tuition, but one reason for the disparity between nominal tuition and effective tuition is that foreign students disproportionately pay the nominal tuition. Reduce nominal tuition and you reduce the foreign subsidy for domestic students. Not only does the effective price of a graduate education go up, but you're likely to see even more foreign students. Depending on which country you hold citizenship, that's either good for your career prospects or bad for your career prospects.

[1] All the news reports make a point of saying that the university "pays" the tuition waiver. It's a distinction without a difference. The student still derives a benefit, and however the university cares to balance its books (e.g. with double-entry accounting) is entirely irrelevant unless there's incredibly esoteric technical requirement to the particular earned income exception. Such esoteric technical requirements are rare since the 1986 reform as the text of modern rules emphasize underlying economic benefits and not accounting practices, as focusing on the latter create more opportunities for gaming the tax code.
I dont think its fair to say a code review would have fixed this -- its an operational bug. They failed to initialise the library (ie: assigning ownership) after deploying it.

Last time the smart contract let anyone initialise it (which was a code problem).

Either way its pretty much the end of Parity. I bet those PolkaDot investors are going to be mad when their tokens are worthless!
I post occasionally about political topics but I rarely engage in debates (the key word here).

I find the other person usually just digs in their heels the more you reply...