skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll give you my perspective: it's tough. I tried to go from ML Engineer -> ML Consultant, and while I was able to find work at a reasonable rate, it was difficult, because most businesses don't have technical problems, they have business problems.

For instance, even though the root cause might be high latency, the actual problem is that the high latency is killing your retention.

If the business is sophisticated enough to value technical expertise, often they value it so much that they are willing to hire experts full-time, or they're so small that they can't afford to. So as a technical expert, you end up caught in a weird uncanny valley (in my experience). I think that patio11's advice is, as always, spot on here; the skills needed to become a technical consultant that charges $N/week are way higher than the technical skills needed to become a business consultant at $N/week, for any value of N. That isn't to say that technical skills aren't value, just that it's a tough sell to make, for a number of reasons that patio11, and others, have written at length about.
If only there were some kind of science explaining why this might be the case, https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=testosterone+risk+ta...

Of course the article is merely pointing out that bitcoin is risky business, which we all already know.
Well yeah, if something bad happens one can complain about it or figure out how to profit from it
Leaving everything to be decided by market factors definitely has it's flaws. There should be room for authorities\patrons to intervene and prevent a certain skill set from being wiped out because it doesn't make business sense to preserve them.
Good update!

tl;dr: With iOS 11+ and on iPhone 7+, one-way NFC is allowed: apps can get OTPs from an NFC-enabled Yubikey, but FIDO (which needs two-way NFC) isn't going to work right now.
Yeah, I think I get something like 5 posts in several hours (or maybe it's 5 posts in an hour with several hours of cooldown time?). I suspect it's because I have too many "controversial" posts, which is to say that center-left is a bit too far to the right for some on HN.
I concede it look like DACA has some time requirements most F-1 students would not satisfy (in addition to the entry age req)

Still a non insignificant amount came here on non-immigrant visas also (tourist visas).

In any event, there may be some meat for a class action by international students who may not want to pay the "full-fare" price they pay, given otherwise international students (on expired tourist visas) are eligible for state subsidy.
No dude. I'm not saying it's off the table. I'm saying it shouldn't be necessary for a 1/0 illegal operation.

I'm not even saying to wrap your functions in try catches. If your program has a 1/0 operation then obviously you made a mistake somewhere. With javascript you have to hunt that mistake down, with a language like python you get the line number of where that mistake occurred. The exception is there for the entire program to fail so that you can correct your mistake. The language should not allow operations to occur that create these things called NaNs and thus automatically this removes the need to check for NaNs too. That's all I'm saying.

BTW unless you explicitly instantiated a NaN you should rarely ever be checking for NaN's in your code. NaNs represent illegal operations like 1/0, and thus any type of code producing a NaN should be killed. If you check for NaNs in your code that means you are guarding your code from your own bugs.

>I didn't realizing using a debugger made me a JS fanboy.

Yeah that was inappropriate. I apologize for calling you that, unfortunately you still saw it before I edited it out.
Often for light loads like vim and web browsing even laptops like my T470p can get almost 6hrs using tlp, reasonable brightness settings, etc. But I would hold out for snapdragon/ryzen/intel 8th quadcore ULVs/Intel-AMD graphics to start hitting the business/developer laptop market.
I was just asking for clarity; not making a point of any kind.
I really got a lot out of what Patrick Stewart said in this video about his own parents:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/05/31/187551135...
Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care
Good point. But it's implied:

If men are able to take their wealth into crypto, where it is very hard to tax, then the women who receive net-tax benefits will receive less from men in the future.

See "Gender Tax Gap"

This is a threat to the socialist system which transfers men's wealth to females.

Watch what plays out over the next 3 to 5 years and prepare to be blown away and how this is going to strike at the core of all socialist programs and other super-structures.

Hope to see you on the other side, with your 1 Bitcoin Cash (BCH), on the other side.
What I frequently have trouble with is knowing what is represented by “theirs” and “ours”. I wish it would just tell me the branch name instead because sometimes both commits are logically “ours” or “theirs”.

Obviously that would only work for ‘git merge branch’ scenarios and the like but it’d be great.
I hope that's your real name and not some political joke.
As a lifelong Mississippian, that was wonderful and charming to see and hear. I get so used to hearing those voices that it's not noticeable until someone points out the unusualness of our little part of the world.
Good time to take top courses on Udemy – Happy new year
No problem. Thanks for clarifying. I fully agree that any instance where a refusal is not respected is a problem.
Anybody know what the basis is for the threatened lawsuits?
In my limited experience, it's hard, but in most cases that isn't a problem. JavaFX is powerful, separating layout and styling from code via FXML and their CSS like language. If you want to style the application like a webapp it's a piece of cake, but if you want to style it to look native then you'll have to use stylesheets such as http://www.aerofx.org/

On the otherhand, with Swing all you need to do is add the following line:

UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
Anecdote: she designed a program which went from 0 to "in the pockets of literally over 90% of SFBA professionals who've eaten with me in the last 12 months", in under a year, and when I ask about it every last one of them said it was their main card. You know the line from the Social Network? If it were as simple as outspending Amex, you would have outspent Amex.

Middlebrow dismissal all you want; this was one of the biggest coups in consumer banking in the last 20 years. (The LTV of a premium credit card gets into the five figure region.)
Got a billion dollars? You can send a person to the moon, but don't even dream about getting into the music streaming industry!
Obviously you don't stop loving your home country just because you chose to immigrate. Unless your home country is some hellish warzone which China isn't.

That still doesn't mean you wouldn't rather settle in the US when you went through all the trouble to get educated there, in most cases.

There is absolutely no shortage of excellent universities in China.
>Unless you are a high value target, there is a pretty good chance no one is sitting specifically bruteforcing your passwords.

But... I don't want advice from plebs, I want advice from big winners!
what are you talking about? when did i say I want to make arithmetic slower? And how is that globally agreed upon as a standard? In math when you get a NaN, do mathematicians continue to use it as a variable or do they realize they made a mistake? Think about it. In all math and science It's actually globally agreed upon that a NaN is not a variable you can reuse in some other function.
I have heard Ripple (XRP) mentioned as well. XRP is centralized and currently used by a handful of banks, which could make Amazon like it a lot or hate it. Amazon sure did hate paying California taxes for many years.
I don't know how things work in Washington, but the last article I read on California state schools (where you hear similar complaints) was that the international students were actually funding more in-state students with their higher tuitions, since the state itself wasn't funding the schools enough. So, lots of international students yes, but that also meant the school could afford to host more in-state students than if you got rid of the international students.
There's a selection effect, but I think that everyone who's worked in Silicon Valley knows plenty of people who stayed on F-1 visas. So there's an anecdote that's the reverse of yours.
Markov chain?
I can see the difficulty of getting in to make a degree even more valuable in some countries.
Wikipedia says: "Brin immigrated to the United States with his family from the Soviet Union at the age of 6." A student?
The degrees open doors to high-skilled visa programs. Same reason many of my international coworkers have Masters degrees in CS - it massively increases the success rate at getting official permission to work in the US, even if employers themselves are indifferent to them.
> go back home for a job

I know lots of international students and the vast majority would like to get a job here. In fact, by and large most of the people I knew who returned to their home countries did so because they didn't succeed in finding a visa-sponsored job here.
Because health comes first, a great nation can’t compromise with it
https://dzone.com/articles/the-worst-mistake-of-computer-sci...

Keep in mind this guy didn't even mention how javascript handles nulls. While nulls bypass typecheckers, typically a null + 1 throws an exception. Not so in javascript... null + 1 returns a 1 in javascript.
"Anthem should do their best to explain the complex rules set forth by government"
I wonder how many of these students come primarily for the subsequent job opportunities. If they were able to come for the education but not the subsequent OPT, would they still be willing to come? I've seen the tuition some of them paying like $50k/year and not sure how they can afford it unless they are hoping for big returns afterwards.
One pager to rule them all
Sounds like in the current environment those are no longer advantages, considering China is home to some very good universities herself.

Also these degrees don't offer any substantial advantage in any of the other countries you mentioned.
Yes but then you're talking STEM and stem may be about 30% of int'l students. Most int'l students are not STEM. I also knew international students in STEM and also most of them came here for a couple of semesters and went back home. Additionally we're talking state schools, many in the Midwest --places Silicon Valley does not often go to the well.
U overstated it vastly...In China, UK degrees got so inflated, many of which being one year master, that they are pretty useless now.Oversea working experience is still valued
What? The returns to education are increasing. That’s why everyone’s going on about income inequality.
Whatever you might think of this, I think it bears mentioning that everything else we eat plays a huge role in determining our internal bacterial landscape. In other words, fill your diet with sugar and alcohol and all the live water in the world isn’t going to help.
Regarding PhDs, grad international enrollment is declining.

Regarding the full-paying foreign undergrads, their tuition contributes towards the costs of the university that are shared. American students, especially at middle-ranking public schools, are hurt when schools lose their funding.

Regarding the "racism against Americans," there is no such race, and if there were one it would not explain research productivity. What would is the self-selection of who will go across the world to study something technical, the much better high schools in other countries, and in the mere fact that the rest of the world is a larger talent pool than the US. It is easy to think of reasons.
Most of the ones I did are still here also. But the students coming to the USA in the last few years paying full tuition studying in non-STEM areas have mostly gone back home. My wife’s cousin, for example, went back to China after getting a master’s degree in accounting from a school in Philadelphia. (I guess it is still different for CS majors, as they can easily get jobs in the states)
> i am surprised to read, that people would still put dependencies/libs into their projects

What I mean is dependencies presented as sources, vs presented as Jars. It has nothing related to dependency management.
Might be good to cite sources with direct evidence, if you’re claiming that somebody broke the law.
The 90% figure is disputed, and includes refugees. A more reasonable figure in the article is:

"On the average, half of the deaths caused by war happened to civilians, only some of whom were killed by famine associated with war...The civilian percentage share of war-related deaths remained at about 50% from century to century."

That implies roughly 3/4 of the deaths are men.
Are you using Mapzen's vector tiles with Tangram? If so have you decided on a replacement? Mapzen pricing was good, too good it seems. I require access to global tiles but very low amount of requests with a custom Tangram JS yaml.
Rogers disputed that there was any increase in attrition and told his employees that they should stop complaining and get back to work.

Can’t imagine why anybody would want to leave.
> realize that every person who arouses any controversy gets death threats online.

I offer no comment on the rest of your post, but this part mirrors my own experience.

My wife posted on Facebook a year or two ago about her opinion on a mainstream controversial topic, and it went viral seemingly instantaneously. Within 12 hours she'd gotten shared almost 10k times, and received hundreds of private messages. Of those, more than two dozen were direct death threats, some with the names of our children and other personal details.
You have to be crazy (e.g. addicted to the process of a research career) or clueless to start a PhD unless it figures your path to citizenship, so yeah most american PhD students are probably not the best and brightest assuming the talented crazies are a minority.
AMEX basically shot themselves in the foot.

AMEX had one of the highest renewal fees for users and one of the highest transaction fees for vendors.

Consequently, they lost the ubiquity required to be a useful credit card and wound up in a downward spiral positive feedback loop.
I am glad that Briggs could heal his ulcerative colitis with an unorthodox treatment.

"On occasions when she stopped taking bupropion, the blood and abdominal pain returned until she started taking the drug again."

Yet I guess I am unimpressed when I hear that symptoms diminish with use of a drug like bupropion. Eventually when the patient gets tired of the side effects they will get off the medication. This will leave them with the return of the illness they used the drug to treat in addition to the damage it caused in other parts of the body. Masking symptoms is sort of psychiatry's gambit so I guess this is nothing new.
Why H1Bs Need to Take Toronto Seriously – Twitter Thread
"HN of all places should be sympathetic to what happened to Equifax"

Why should I be sympathetic to them, especially after how they handled it? And especially given that they make loads of money off MY DATA, and want to turn around and have the gall to charge me to see it, to make sure it's accurate?
The top talent might be leaving, but the databases and the lovely toys are staying put.

To be used by not-top-talent.

Interesting times.
Those good universities have caps and very tough entry exams. People who go to Midwestern schools are not typically your elite students --but rather students whose parents thought it would be a good investment in career to send their kids to study a couple years in the US.
Probably greater than the payout, but if I had a family member on that plane, I'd forgo the payout for search teams in hope of receiving closure
Polarized glasses could also work.
I don’t know a why you’re getting downvoted. I find, at least in my department, international students don’t get the same opportunities Canadians do. There’s definitely an archetype of a CS professor who does “interdisciplinary research” with a stable of international students doing software development projects for the bio and medicine departments.
On the contrary, California's budget is awful because of a combination of Prop 13 and the lack of one party rule. By requiring a supermajority vote for tax changes, Prop 13 all but guaranteed that any additional programs would be funded by ballot initiative, which has forced way too much of California's tax revenue into no longer needed programs and bond repayment. The recent Democrat supermajority has slowly been cleaning up what little of the government remains in control of the legislature.
So besides the loss in basic research, is it bad that universities should get squeezed?

...in a universe where superfluous administration is cut first, it is not.
My Precision 5510 (last year's) gets almost 7 hours, and I have the high res screen too. I also have the GPU but only run it for compute.

I did go for the m2 drive so I could fit the upgraded battery, which is about the max size you can fly with. I love that laptop and to me it's the closest you can get to an MBP.
If I taped a dollar bill to every can of Coke and sold them for 50 cents and the sales of Coke exploded, would you say I put a marketing coup on Pepsi?

This depends on whether you sell cans of Coke (boring) or convert people into Coke drinkers (very interesting to Coke).

Chase invested $X to, effectively, purchase a portfolio of new users. Some members of that portfolio will be worth less than the average cost of acquisition. Some members will be worth much, much, much more.

"Banks are full of dumb people who are bad at math" is one of hackers' common beliefs which is not just a vexatious tribal marker but also a really you-have-to-turn-off-your-abilities-to-perceive-the-world-truthfully-to-believe-this vexatious tribal marker.
I'm not well-versed in his work but it seems like Laughlin is an advocate for the approaches to looking at the system instead of the components. One could say that is what the conformal bootstrap does when it's used to solve a theory by calculating its critical exponents. I'd definitely be interested in seeing if we could calculate the critical exponent of the IR fixed point of turbulence.
Right, but the OP seemed to be asking whether men or women were the primary victims of high male mortality rates. Responding with "the men are dead and we can't do anything about it" seems cruelly fatalist. Like I mentioned, we actually could do something about it and help both groups (regardless of which group is the primary victim), but I think there's a sizable contingent who want to paint women as the primary victims of male mortality while at the same time arguing that we can't divert any public money/awareness from more important causes to address male mortality.
Also there's not really much "mystery of MH370." It was almost certainly suicide/murder by the pilot. Though I guess there's no harm confirming that.
True for Good Schools. It is a great privilege to get into Ivys and top US institutions. Those Midwest public schools in the article don't really have a reputation for themselves.
Intel CPU vulnerability fix could bring notable performance hit to macOS
Does anyone have experience with puri.sm librem laptop line?
Write your own miniature Redis with Python
I don't need a native look a feel and most people probably don't even care about it, but I do care and I definitely prefer it. I loathe modern flat themes which completely lack affordance. However, I would like my applications to look like they belong on the host OS even if it has an unfortunate flat theme.

In order to practice what I preach, I'm looking for something that looks native for most cases that I can use for side projects and become proficient in. For my current project I chose SWT over Swing because SWT supports a native look on Linux (via GTK) while Swing doesn't (as far as I can tell). However, SWT is kind of clunky and I wonder if there are better options or if my previous research is out of date.
Could it have been a way of "privatizing" the institutional investors' funds? Invest a few mil in a startup, then spend a chunk of it on hefty consultancy fees to a company conveniently owned by the fund manager's wife and another chunk to the CEO's best friend's firm.

I'm wondering if the investment funds and startups provide enough transparency to the people whos money is actually invested to detect such schemes.
> Regarding PhDs, grad international enrollment is declining.

Your source on that? All the schools I’m in contact with are still as international as ever in their CS PhD departments. I’m not sure what the trends are outside of CS, but I can’t imagine they would be very different. I think you are just pulling this number out of thin air.

Research is funded quite differently from undergrad programs. Sure, fewer TAships are available, but your research funding is much more detached. DARPA and NSF aren’t going to become stingy all of a sudden.

> Regarding the "racism against Americans," there is no such race, and if there were one it would not explain research productivity.

If I claimed (without any evidence in fact) that “Indians or Chinese are less productive than Americans” I would totally be accused of racism even though both India and China are multi-ethnic. It is especially a stupid thing to say as foreign and domestic students are pretty diverse, with slackers (or dreamers) and very focused students on both sides.
I don’t think you can say there is “nothing new” in how the NSA is perceived. Both externally, and internally as well, if the reportage in the story is correct.
Ah, the old HN trash-PhDs-and-academia meme. It’s been... minutes since I last encountered this.
The salary cap sounds like it will lead to more outsourcing, which would increase expenses overall.
Here's a Postgres benchmark on Skylake (supports PCID) showing a ~6% reduction in TPS.

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.0/01274.html
This post will be a little different; I'm going to tell you a laptop that I wouldn't strongly recommend for running Linux.

Thinkpad P51 is a really great laptop imo, but unfortunately it has some issues on Linux due to the Optimus setup. It can be disabled in BIOS, but then there are some issues with external displays with the dock. `gnome-shell` goes insane if I connect the dock with the internal display on, eventually resolving to switch to internal-only mode.

It's a shame because the laptop is great, but it is still acting pretty poorly with latest Arch Linux and the proprietary NVIDIA drivers.

I'd be OK with Nouveau myself, but unfortunately external displays won't even connect in Nouvuea.

In defense of Linux: even the Windows drivers stammer a bit with Optimus disabled, so it's clearly not that well-supported. Not so with Optimus enabled though, so that one is covered by the famous Linus Torvalds quote.

I've heard the Thinkpad X270 is all around a better option for Linux. I've had a Thinkpad X1 Carbon and it worked great with Linux, but I found it to be too "ultrabook"-y for my tastes, which is why I resolved to the much bulkier P51.