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Beyond notation and ordering, I have had the best results reading and comprehending complex concepts, including mathematics, by taking the following suggestion to the extreme:

> Read with pencil and paper in hand, making up little examples for yourself as you go on.

I like to find a difficult question that I can answer with an understanding of the material. This acts as a litmus test of my understanding and a forcing function.

The question can be almost anything, but a general approach I use is to write a "compiler" that maps some concept from the material to a concept I already understand (this normally takes the form of a denotational semantics). Then the question would be, "How can I interpret X as Y?" This technique has its limits since the material can't be too far afield from something I already know and the idea isn't novel but it has been effective for me. The critical bit is forcing myself to write down a fairly comprehensive mapping function. This gets me into the dark corners of my understanding very quickly and adds new questions to answer.
>In the US, the top 15% of the market is in Silicon Valley

Wait. What? Sure, there's a concentration of talent in SV, but to simply say that the top 15% of all U.S. IT talent is there is pretty myopic.

I get your point overall (though I am not saying I agree). But, had to point out that you tossed out your belief as a "stat", as if it were some well-established fact.

Likewise, with your (admittedly) anecdotal observations on Indian teams. Pretty broad generalizations you seem to operate on.

We're entitled to our opinions, but what's ironic is that a worldview that rests on sweeping generalizations about groups of people is actually self-limiting.
Generally, I hit it when I'm having a discussion with one or two people in particular.
Old Firefox releases (binary and source) are very much available for download, though whether you can run them on modern operating systems somewhat varies. And you almost certainly can't compile some of them with a modern compiler, though a compiler from the era of the release should work...

Anyway, https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ has links to all the Firefox release binaries and corresponding source snapshots starting with version 0.8. It includes a number of the betas as well (so for example has the Firefox 58 beta builds already).
I'm sure general consumer protection laws apply. I think this is specifically addressing things like HIPPA and FIPS. Most of IBM's systems would be designed with those in mind, this is just clarifying that it's not yet.
I'm with you, here - I've got vim opened in guake available at a hotkey on the laptop I'm typing on right now. Though, I also have VS Code pulled up on Desktop #2 -- it's just not as hot-key accessible.
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> And also - we can afford couple of maids in a decent paying job

Which is nothing to be proud of, the maids are affordable because lot of poor people did not have the same privileges like you had.
TL;DR: The "tech industry" as a general concept does things I don't like and I want everyone to know. Period.

I'm getting really tired of reading stuff like this - endless, tongue-in-cheek, vapid complaining, without any real solutions or call to action. Seemed to be a staple of 2017. I would also like to note how ironic it is for the media to complain about Facebook and Twitter propagating fake news when they're just as bad. For all the complaining about the tech industry, journalism seems just as morally deficient, but journalists are losing their credibility at a faster rate. Insult, meet injury.
Excuse my errors in the title, HN has a limit on title length.
You're right. Mea culpa, I always played Protoss.
Are there any decent "voice synthesis as a service" out there ?
Can you please provide a link? I am genuinely curious because the ads I currently see are dubious at best.
I don't, funny thing is I see it exactly the opposite, the traditional medical treatment and attitude towards alternative options is preventing those with serious disease from following through.

2 weeks is the minimum I've seen. Some need up to 30 and in rare, advanced cases even 40 days of fasting.
It is very difficult to get good carpenters.
The country, as a part of USSR, used to have an accent on industry development. Its higher education used to be free, and largely remains so. In 1990s, it turned very poor, and is still far from average European level. Hence a generation of very advanced developers asking rather moderate money. I hope it will not last, because the level of consumption and wages will rise :)
I do the exact opposite - I don't write anything down and try to visualize what I'm reading entirely. I don't start writing anything down when doing exercises until I have the entire solution in mind (unless it's something computational). It's hard to get used to doing at first, but, after a couple years, my abstract reasoning skills developed significantly past most or all of my peers.
What is the percentage attrition? 2%? I wasn't able to get it clearly from the article.
I think percentage is what we should focusing on instead of the total numbers considering the total population.
Esperanto? Why not Klingon?
What is it they do to voices in audio recordings that make them sound like this?

I can’t put my finger on it but like all Audio Books have this distinctly processed sound. Is it some kind of voice auto tune or?
https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/the-ccc-men-who-hate-wome...
Far more companies are replacing India talent with Pakistan talent. The per person cost is what India was about 5 - 10 years ago. However, things will slowly change again, but I'm hoping that these economies start just doing their own projects and competing at the company level not just the outsourcing as there are definitely people we should be paying locally to do the work (at a higher price - remember that extra 1 trillion dollars to the top 500 people?).
How old, what grade in school and what country?

Context matters.
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I timed my iPhone SE when I read that. 25 seconds.

So I tried rebooting with all of my apps exited. 25 seconds.
What do you mean by pushed by their families? You don't seem to have a good understanding of educational institutions in India. IIT entrance exams are one of the toughest exams out there. Please read this page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Entrance_Examination_–_A...

So even if families pressure their kids, they will not be able to get an admission in these institutes unless they demonstrate required skills.

Here are past exam papers - https://www.jeeadv.ac.in/Archives-Past-Que-papers.html

For value, skill, and ability, please google the research done by the students at these universities and the firms that hire these students.
The fact that Esperanto is more difficult to learn for non-europeans can also be seen as a feature. It enables the use of Esperanto as an introductory European language. There is pretty good evidence that spending a year learning Esperanto before learning, say, English, leads to better English skills than spending an extra year on English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperant...
Not that I know of. Mostly hukou is used to "limit", not to outright prevent. E.g. in Shanghai and Guangzhou people without a local hukou cannot buy more than one apartment. It's much harder for people without hukou to get Shanghai car plates (that by themselves cost around ¥100k ~ $15,000 these days) that will allow taking numerous elevated roads during peak hours.
> ...they get to fight a bunch of battles in parallel...

Isn't this what having a minority opinion would look like? It seems like aggressively rate limiting everyone would run the risk of increasing echo chamber effects.
This looks interesting but it took me far too many clicks to join the wait list.
Yes but basic training is often the most romanticised aspect of army training. A myriad of movies focusing on just this 1% (however inaccurately) attests to that.

The article kind of reminds me of that Bear Grylls 'Foreign Legionnaire' docudrama that he did some years ago. Once again turning the boot camp recruitment and training aspect of an oft fabled unit into a reality TV show.

I wonder if the show saw an uptick in recruitment for the FL as a result? (Even though none of the soldiers in the show were current FL servicemen).
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Interestingly enough, Australian Defence Force personnel are not allowed to wear their uniform in public unless performing official duties. The reason for this though is terrorism concerns, as wearing the uniform could make them a target.
That makes sense, but even if everything else takes three seconds (that’s overwhelming the small VM book time) I’m not sure what the real benefit of this is.

I’m sure it’s technically more secure than a sandboxed application running in its own VM in its own process but by how much?
This..
Airbus product line (cash cow) is based on midsized fuselage cross section twin. A300 fuselage cross section. This is what funded the A380. 4 engines (A340) dont make economic sense after ETOPS.

Airbus does not have large cross section twin. Hence the A350xwb is critical to their future, not A330neo. Large cross section ETOPS twin 777X is the real 747 replacement. A380 is a halo product and not 747 replacement. The market is too small for A380 production run vs RnD costs.

Now Airbus product line is more secure. A350xwb completes their prouct line-up. Single aisle, medium cross section twin, large cross section twin.
I have a new favorite sentence for the ones I've heard lately: "There's a world where there's a solve for that ask."

"There's a world where..." replaces "Imagine if..." or "It's possible that...", and I think it's actually a neat way of presenting an idea -- if used very sparingly.

"Solve" and "ask", in this context, replace the words "solution" and "request". I'm not sure how people started abusing these words, but it's pervasive in my industry. I suspect it follows the recent trend of "nouning" verbs (a reverse-Calvin thing to do: https://i.imgur.com/l5AC4qG.jpg) like using "gift" as an action verb ("they gifted me a calendar"). I can understand that because there isn't an equivalent alternative word in English. We could just say "give", but it doesn't have the same meaning as "give as a gift". "Solve" and "ask" are nouns that already have suitable traditional words to use instead!
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Anki is pretty awesome. I spent about 1000h learning Japanese with Anki so far. Together with Yomichan it's pretty much the ultimate learning tool, imho.
To be honest, it seems like they have better opportunities with these jobs available, but these people are probably better off in the long run without it, and our companies are probably better off not depending on these services in the first place. Its kind of an unnecessary evil.

There are some jobs I've had in the past that didn't pan out, and I'm glad they didn't because I wouldn't have grown if I had stayed in them.
> Not even in the US or any part of the world, will rewrite their syllabus and text books

The situation is different in India.. Our schools, though are called the same name as institutions in US, are basically skill training workshops. Last time I checked there are 100000 graduates coming out of school in each state, and there would be at least a million engineering graduates produced every year throughout whole of India. Remember there are no strict rules and things have to change with the changing world. India needs to think different than the rest of the world.

Did I mention Angular or React? I mentioned ML/AI, and latest Data structures which is 100% relevant for any recent graduate to learn or at least be aware of. React and Angular are just libraries and any one can learn them if they have solid programming base.

But ML/AI is a very different beast as they require you to have good solid understanding of mathematics, statistics, probability theorem etc, which is difficult to acquire outside without spending considerable amount of time.
Learning Esperanto helps you learn other European languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperant...
Yes I'm aware (WebRTC actually uses DTLS, SCTP, RTP, RTCP, ICE, STUN, etc depending on what it's doing). My point is about the objection against being able to "open sockets" in the post I'm responding to...
That's not exact, it only works when certain conventions are followed, which is the situation we have now and will always have because unlike IDEs which typically autocomplete context free (or nearly so) languages your asking for auto completion to be done on what is essentially a very complex recursive language.

Also zip sucks, use tar or cpio.
15, grade 10, USA. Thank you for reminder.
Prior to his insights, glia were just thought to be little more than structural support and insulation for neurons. The truth of course is so much more interesting.

Baruch dayan emet.
As a final year undergraduate, this scares me a lot.

Not sure why this made such big news because this is pretty much evident once you talk to a majority of cs undergrads, they literally have no idea and interest in cs but are in it because it is, well, 'trending'.
Even in the US with less regulation and more subsidies, nuclear is more expensive than coal.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

Keeping old nuclear plants online for a few extra years is not a solution to climate change. If some other western democracy can show how to build and operate nuclear plants cheaply and safely, great, do it.

So far the examples of recent new builds are slow and expensive. See VC Summer, Vogtle, Flamanville, Olkiluoto, and Hinkley point. From where I sit it looks like the German decision in 2001 to phase out nuclear was the right one, but only time will tell. (Merkel really did make a big mess in 2011 though)

Edit: Finish names are hard to spell.
http://fortune.com/2017/12/27/world-richest-trillion-dollars...
On average every ten of these 500 people are adding whole GDP of North Korea into their pocket. There must be a lot of social engineering to control this wealth flow.
I learned more French from a day of trying to read Le Petit Prince in French, with the English translation beside, than I did from 3 months of Duolingo.

Rote learning just doesn't work that well for most people.
The EMR market for hospitals and large clinics really isn't ripe for disruption. This isn't an industry where a startup can quickly hack together an "80% solution" as an MVP and sell to some early adopters. Due to regulatory requirements and legitimate patient safety concerns any new entrant needs to be a 100% solution from the start. Otherwise they'll never make it past the first vendor down select.

There may be some limited opportunities for disruptive innovation in niche markets like smaller medical specialties with unique requirements, concierge medical practices, genetic counseling, etc.
Japanese Green Tea KitKats seem very popular.

I've been asked for them before back in the United Kingdom.

Now, in Hawaii - we put 10 bags in the suitcase because we'd been asked to bring them.
I just tested my iPhone 8, it’s 20s to login screen.

Actually slower than I thought. I found an old blog post that says an iPhone 5 took about 35s, the slowest of the models they tested.

2x is nice but maybe it didn’t improve as much as I had thought.

https://www.ifixyouri.com/blog/iphone-6s-bootup-time-compari...
To me, one of the indications that Indian IT is out of ideas & unlikely to move up the value chain was a string of stock buybacks this year by all major players. I believe a company invests in stock buyback when it feels that it does not have any other better uses of the money. Basically, they dont have/ can't find avenues to invest money where the shareholder growth will be much better than buyback.
Should functional programming be taught before imperative programming?
You were wanting to move your licensing to the cloud and decided against it? Any particular reason?
I've gotten offers for somewhat more for Amsterdam (with booking.com).

I didn't take it, because I was getting way more in London at the time.
This is a consequence of the PCP theorem, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX-3SAT#Theorem_1_(inapproxim...
Thanks. I wonder if that’s for some random $50 low end phone.

My iPhone 8 was 20s to login screen. It basically instant once I login but that may be because my password takes a while to type and it’s loading the rest while I type.
in case you haven’t already noticed, hacker news is not a place for jokes...
> I was talking about this outright dismissal without any ground.

The quotes text was an observation without any judgement.

The rest of the post addresses how the Indian it industry started to boom and why they're losing so many jobs so quickly. Still no dismissal.

It's not that Indian doesn't have talent. It's just that it's not smart to outsource your main competency. So they're not doing that.
> The first thing a recruiter will tell you is to abandon your life and your family.

Do you mean that as in "move" or as in "work long hours"?

Google has at least offices in Germany, too.
If we are going down that path of reasoning you can just as well say "all scientific research has some relevance to weapons". It also happens to have relevance to making life better, saving the planet, and understanding the universe.
I know you meant sweat shop, but I find the typo hilarious.
Some of the descriptions are so overwrought:

My acclimation to the iPhone X has made using an iPad feel anachronistic — I want to swipe up from the bottom to go home there too.

With Touch ID, after you tap a particular notification in the middle of the display, you then must move your finger down to the home button to authenticate. I always found that annoying. Now that I’m used to the iPhone X, I find it to be intolerable.

Whereas the first bumps, on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, were like blemishes. If you’re going to have a bump, have a fucking bump.

But if I pick up or glance at an iPhone without it, I’m skeeved out.

Things I notice instantly: the display looks very small, the colors look too cool at night (because of the aforementioned lack of True Tone), and the perfectly square corners of the display seem downright crude.

It’s unique in Apple history — if not all of consumer computing history — for the same version of the OS to present two distinct interfaces that are so markedly different.
Not infrequently, but it's in vogue to hold the belief that they don't.
Just as an aside: economically stock buybacks are equivalent to dividends, but get a better tax treatment in most jurisdiction.
As an aside, India seems to have much more international level manganent talent than say China.
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Maybe you should refresh another couple of times and wait patiently for another 2-3 minutes. Did you try Chrome?
I think the aggressive moderation creates a space for good conversation. To my mind, it is the only place where free discussion can really occur, provided all involved parties meet the standards for civility, citing their sources, etc.

I have long been able to talk about my medical situation here and my pursuit of unconventional treatment. Doing so elsewhere has been strongly discouraged by the moderating staff. I have never once had an HN mod tell me I need to quit talking about that here. It is the one and only discussion forum where I can have a real discussion about such things and not have it promptly turn into ugly drama, with the forum viciously ganging up on me and mods telling me it is my fault.

The moderation here has given me the opportunity to try to learn to discuss it constructively, in spite of the long history of extreme skepticism and open hostility my situation has received.

Given that many people have outright called me crazy and I have been banned from a few forums over it, I find it incredibly hard to believe that the moderation here has any agenda other than fostering a high bar for civility so that serious intellectual discourse can occur at all, in spite of it being openly on the world wide web and not a walled garden.

It's a really challenging thing to do. And if they were doing anything akin to what they are so often accused of, I think you would see a lot fewer of those accusations because everyone would live in fear of being banned for commenting on it.

If your idea of free speech includes name calling, no, you cannot do that here. The reason: allowing it kills the ability to genuinely have a free exchange of ideas and information.

I spent a lot of time working to fit in here. It did not come naturally to me and a previous handle of mine was rate limited at one time. But these sorts of accusations in no way fit with my experience of the space. I really hate seeing them, yet also recognize their very existence is evidence of how untrue they are.
> Not because we secretly agree with one side or the other but because flamewars are repetitive and therefore destructive of intellectual curiosity.

Just because something is familiar doesn't mean it's not worth exploring. Often seemingly familiar things are misunderstood because we don't take the time to understand them.

> ...what things make the HN ecosystem more rich and complex vs. what things make it dumber...

I think "flamewar" avoidance leaves HN a little flat, actually. There is a lot rich and complex in giving the usual tech/SV crowd a challenge to its viewpoint from time to time. The goal isn't always changing minds or learning new things. Sometimes it's just to realize that smart people can disagree with us, and because of that, we need to respect people that disagree with us.

Maybe we need to let passionate, smart people have it out from time to time so everyone can be reminded which positions can stand up to the flames just fine. Otherwise, we forget that the farces of "them" that we enjoy are just farces, not reality. And that makes us dumber. And boring. And intellectually stale.
As someone who has debugged many weird TLS problems, I'm not at all surprised. The protocol documentation is pretty hard to use, so I'm not surprised that server or proxy implementations would bail out on unexpected input, and that they would only use existing clients as their base of expected input.
That’s a shitty analogy. It’s more like if you invite your friend over to your house and they are wearing a wristwatch and you have an irrational fear of wristwatches (illuminati might be listening, so huge privacy risk obviously). Should you a) rip the watch off their wrist and throw it out the window, or b) not invite people over who wear wristwatches.

To use your analogy though in the context of this paper... It would be more like if your friend only wanted to hang out at your house if everyone could join, and you told your friend everyone was allowed to come in, but then you secretly kicked out one person and managed to trick your friend into thinking the person you kicked out was still there because you knew everyone would leave if they found out. Sounds pretty selfish to me.
Makes me wonder how the founders of Fairchild Semiconductor would have reacted. Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore, Eugene Kleiner... How much bullshit would they have tolerated in 1960?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Semiconductor#/media...
You're way off on Magento.

See https://magento.com/news-room/press-releases/digital-commerc...

They're not a WordPress plugin, and they are a large company.

I don't mean to be rude, but I don't think you know what you're talking about.
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