skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were an international student, that's the incongruence I would challenge right there: "residency is, however, incompatible with certain immigration statuses that are nonetheless compatible with study, including F-1."

I'd say give me the same benefits -or at least in-state tuition.
One of my favorite Linux machines was a MacBook so you could do that and have the option to switch back or dual-boot MacOS.
I have the P51 also, and have had a really good experience so far. In contrast to my previous unpleasant experiences with Optimus, this time I installed Fedora and everything worked out of the box. I don't use a dock, but the HDMI and VGA outputs work fine when I need to hook up a projector. Battery life seems decent, without any optimisation on my part.
This is a very informative tutorial, I've been meaning to learn Kube for a while now. I have to say though, coming from someone who has used docker-compose/swarm a lot both for development and deployment; this seems like a huge amount of setup and configuration. Would this be considered a simple deployment, or are most like this?
Ok, you seem to be missing this factor in all of your arguments.

The currencies of all the countries you mentioned trade very unfavorably (maybe not the right word) with respect to the USD. So even if the cost of a higher ed degree seems like a lot to US locals, that cost is a few orders of magnitude higher from the perspective of a family considering this investment for their ward.

The only way this degree is worth the money, even after the substantial scholarship/assistance that US schools used to offer, is if you got a job that pays you is US Dollars. If at the end you don't get such a job, then the degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

A masters degree used to cost about 20-30 thousand dollars in total if you got the aforementioned scholarships/assistance. Then once you landed a tech job you'd have made up your original investment within a year if you lived frugally, which most international students tend to anyway.

After that you could save up your money, which would be a substantial amount once exchanged for the local currency and return. This is unlikely.

Because most would choose to stay and climb higher on their career ladder and provide a more luxurious standard of living for their families.

This is the whole point of going through the university system, not the degree.
> Couldn't you go AWOL and then register as undocumented? .
Well, you can't qualify for DACA without a time machine, so you'd need to estsblish eligibility under AB 540 by spending three years as a California resident attending a California high school to qualify. Having done this, you wouldn't have to pretend to be undocumented, since you'd pretty certainly lose your F-1 status. So, you'd potentially be eligible for in-state tuition—but also potentially eligible for deportation. Plus, unlike an actual good-standing F-1, you’ll have a lot harder time ever getting legal status in the US.

> Wouldn't that be discriminatory in some sense?

Of course it would; every status distinction made in law is “discriminatory in some sense.”

The relevant issue is does it fail to meet the legal standard of legitimacy of purpose and adaptation to that purpose applicable to the basis and nature of discrimination.
Yes, CSR is hot, but it did cause them to take a $300M profit hit, and their dominance will only last until the next bank offers insane handouts like chase did.
I’m confident in the choices I made, thanks.
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So tell me why I should prefer this over Consul for service discovery, health checking, etc. and Nomad for running jobs? With Nomad, I can choose raw executables, shell scriots, jar files, docker containers, etc. I can choose batch jobs or long running services and the executables for each are less than 60Mb and they can serve as servers and clients.
Jed McCaleb co-founded Ripple, was forced out and then created Stellar.

Related: http://observer.com/2015/02/the-race-to-replace-bitcoin/
I have a x270 I am trying to dump, I found it to be too small. The sweep spot for me was the t450s, so if I were to buy again I would likely go with the t470 (maybe the s version if I thought the battery was good enough).
There have been other shops that fill those games. Buddybuild was one of them.
Sorry just saw this. That's what I meant by "safety". I don't think the average person cares or even knows that it could be a problem.
>If the NSA is going to spy on us, wouldn't you like that to be as secure as possible?

I'd rather those perverts not peep on us; this isn't an unreasonable request.
Of course. But "just being snarky" is what users here are asked not to do. The damage it causes to the culture outweighs the benefit of making a point that way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
With a little more work you can get either of those to do under 3W. I get near 20h of use on both my t450s and x270
It's really sad that research institutions are leveraging international student's high tuition to increase their revenues.
The problems that really need solving are of a political nature. Who gets the rewards and who bears the risks, what are the public spending priorities, what are the rules on employers, multinationals, real estate developers, etc. Does a miraculous breakthrough in high-end medical research even matter when no one can afford basic healthcare?

The only people who can get up in the morning every day and work on these problems are lobbyists. Usually, they're working in the wrong direction. Regardless, does anyone really think we could have a lobbying-based economy?

The free market is working on frivolous problems because that's what's left to do when you don't have the force of a state behind you.
I guess that Turbolinks is used by Basecamp 2 and it sucks a lot. Search takes seconds to load for me, without any loading feedback.
I agree.

I don't know if this is a problem in the US, but something else worth mentioning is that for many jobs, public sectors pay much more (higher pay, better pensions, more sick leave, better job security, ...). So it isn't just about firing people for incompetence. [1]

If the govt should be increasing pay to match market rates, then it should also be decreasing pay to match market rates.

[1] https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/comparing-government...
I thought of applying for Phd(Biology) in US because it has graduate school, there is one year course work then Phd. In most of the other countries, you have to select lab and decide early on which project you have to work on. There is no flexibility if you don't like the project.

Second the quality of education in US is better I guess.
Your thought is incorrect. I mean precisely what I said.

There is no moral obligation to pay more than your legally required amount of tax. The presumption would be that no moral obligation exists until one is proven, for precisely the reason you mentioned (it depends on your viewpoint, so we cannot begin with any one set of norms), so if you would kindly propose one, I will disprove it.
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PS: If you guys keep downvoting me, I guess I'll be next president of the land of free! Ha ha.
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I recently switched from a MacBoop Pro to a Dell XPS 13. The battery life is great. I haven't measured it but I think 8 hours is not an unreasonable estimate. The laptop is built for Linux (Ubuntu) so there are no driver issues. I wrote a review of the experience here: https://fman.io/blog/home-and-hotel/
You may have a valid point --I will not contest that. However, what you say there was not the experience related to me by international students. Maybe I knew atypical international students. As I understood it, for the most cases, a degree from here afforded them better chances back home at some BIG CO., given they were unable to attend elite home country Uni (National Uni of xx]
I usually look at their commit logs for that file at that area, I also find it useful to commit the unresolved conflicts when doing a merge and then resolve them in later commits so I can look at what I did later if I need to fix a bad merge
Finally some good news from NSA.
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> the nation’s 17 spy agencies.

17.

WTF.
About this, there was a relatively recent article from a chinese POV: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15769807

In this article, surprisingly, the author suggests that his education abroad (Cambridge) was a result of his failure in the chinese system.

Finally, I threw in the towel, and asked my parents to send me abroad. Anywhere else on this earth would surely be better.

And regarded western universities as much less competitive and demanding.
X1 Carbon for sure. The 5th gen is amazing and 6th gen is around the corner.

The XPS 13 is good and I applaud them for the developer edition but the build quality on dell laptops is grade A rubish compared to a ThinkPad.
A single insider is a noisy signal. A pattern of insiders is the red flag.
> It's better to leave CSS and HTML as simple primitive bytecode for web UI with powerful compilers instead of developing epic w3 specs leading to numerous bugs in browser implementations.

Haven't we pretty much already crossed that bridge? I recall quite a few bugs in CSS specs.
Okay, so for JavaFX you would need a specific style sheet for each OS version provided it doesn't support any theme customization. That's less than ideal, and a step backwards compared to Swing or SWT.
That all makes sense. It's just not a good fit for HN, so I appreciate your willingness to stop.
> And how is that globally agreed upon as a standard?

Because all modern processors and mainstream languages implement their floating point calculations as IEEE 754.

> when did i say I want to make arithmetic slower?

When you said you wanted to introduce exceptions whenever NaN is encountered.

Your processor has instructions that add/subtract/divide/multiply floating point numbers according to the IEEE 754 standard. What you propose is to then check in the implementation of JS after each instruction to see if the result is NaN, which is going to be a speed reduction of at least 2-3x, though I would expect it to actually be higher than that because branching can get
expensive. (Making a note to go try it and benchmark)

Then, after doing this check, you want to have JS throw an exception. This only slows down the uncommon case, so that's not much of an issue, but in situations where NaNs are able to be treated as valid values, they then have to catch these exceptions and resume normal execution flow.

The result is that there is a happy path slowdown of arithmetic operations by at least 2-3x, to gain an arguable advantage in debugging time in the unhappy path.

Throwing away compatibility with other languages and working against the processor are not goals I'd shoot for, and wrapping basic arithmetic in try/catch blocks doesn't sound like a very good payout for doing so.
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By way of comparison, GCHQ personnel seem to be leaving for 4-5x salary from big tech companies[1]. So do the math and figure out what the GCHQ folks are being paid.

Also, GCHQ has hired 494 contractors for 71m GBP[2].

[1]: https://sites.google.com/a/independent.gov.uk/isc/files/2016..., page 40

[2]: Ibid, page 70
Your country sounds highly unusual. Are these government jobs? Talking about naivety, this certainly doesn't seem like it's true generally.

Also note that I said US offers a lot of economic opportunities not that other countries didn't. And I was talking from the perspective of a person from a developing country looking to travel to a developed country. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
I feel like a lot of people asking this question 2 are also in low cost of living areas. DC isn't quite San Francisco or New York but it's higher cost than average, and especially higher cost than places where people tend to complain more about federal government waste.
> I'd say give me the same benefits -or at least in-state tuition.

So, you'd declare your intent to establish permanent residency in the State (and therefore the US)?

That sounds a lot like having immigration intent, which can be a basis for revoking your F-1 status.

Not being a resident is the deal you sign on for with F-1 status. If you'd rather take your chances immigrating illegally, spending three years attending California high school, and then trying to go to UC on in-state tuition as a deportable undocumented immigrant when you are qualified to instead get an F-1, well, sure, you can try. No sane person with the option is going to choose that, though. An F-1 with non-resident tuition is a much better deal.
You can do better! I get near 20h some times longer with about the same work loads. Make sure you have tlp and use the settings suggested by power top. There are also a few options to pass to the i915 module that increase power savings.
Honest question: What's the skillset of a hacker at NSA?
Not that I'm targeting to become one, just curious as to how someone would become a hacker.
Obviously depends on WHICH schools you attend. Even in case of UK, if you went to Oxford/Cambridge, people would still recognize it. However, studying in some random UK/US schools won't bring you too much benefits as you might think.
Google still exploiting tax loopholes to shelter billions in overseas ad revenue
Not an academic source, but... my parents came to the U.S. for graduate school in the late 80's (physics + computer science) and decided to stay and develop their careers here. Literally every one of their classmates (my "aunties" and "uncles") stayed in the U.S.

When I was in grad school from 2005 to 2010, the Chinese grad students (e.g., from China as opposed to Chinese American) were quite diverse in where they were deciding to develop their careers. While some stayed in the U.S., many chose 1) going back to China, 2) academic and industry positions in other places in Asia (e.g., Singapore, Japan, Korea), 3) Canada, Europe, etc.
Potentially, but the question then becomes (A) did Google have a hand in passing this tax law, and (B) does this so-called gag order extend to complaining about the tax law itself, or only to compliance with said law?

I see no evidence of (A), and if my comment has been construed as an aphoristic gag order, I would like to answer (B) by clarifying that it only means there's not much to complain about when a company abides by the tax regulation.
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Good, we're on the same page. Any chance you know what's holding up integration of RLGs? I'd have thought they would be a natural fit for a cheap silicon implementation.
I've never used Maven, only gradle.

The issue with convention over configuration is that you don't see how things should happen, because they're hidden behind the convention.

For example, what are the steps behind your Android build? Can you tell me exactly what steps gradle takes when you run gradlew assembleDebug?

So if for whatever reason you need to modify something, you're completely on your own.
It is interesting to see how posts and comments are written in a way that so far hides or downplays the severity and owner of this flaw.
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These things are relative. You're right that the parent comment was turning toward an ideological tangent, but at least it was still moored to the original topic. Yours became unmoored and went fully generic. In both cases it would be better not to do this and to stay more substantive, but we only tend to post moderation comments in the second case, it being the more egregious.

I greatly appreciate your intention to avoid ideological squabble in the future. If only everyone would do the same our happiness would be complete! On that scale at least.
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you: What I believe is that there are currently no keyboard layouts worth the hassle of switching, and to be honest I have a bit of a problem believing that there's any particular layout of 12 inch by 3 inch bit of space covered in linearly activated keys that is going to ever change that fact.

Most changes in keyboard layouts are obviated by the fact that peoples fingers are more flexible than the language they type in.

Do I believe there's better possible input methods than a 104-key keyboard? Most certainly. Have we got any yet? I don't think so.
You have been down voted, but your observation is correct, and the parent comment is misleading as to rates. Source: I’m a government contractor and line manager.
The NSA leaks we're at once impressive in their technical scope, but largely just things we knew we're possible if you threw engineers at the problem.

It's likely we didn't get the really juicy bits, but the vast majority of the stuff we learnt about was just operationalizing things we already knew.to be possible.
So the music "industry" waits for the cow to get big and then starts milking it. A sudden and unexpected turn of events.
Null and NaN are different concepts with different trade-offs and different behavior when working with them. Nulls don't have special processor support[1] and are not part of a multilanguage, multiprocessor, international standard.

[1]: So far as I'm aware, though I'd love to read about it if I'm wrong.
Seems like a huge waste of money to put software engineers in an Apple store.
Pedantic addendum, many government employees are still civilians.
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The patch was updated to v3: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-D...

Compared to the x86 patches, these are still in the review stage, aiming to upstream for 4.16.

I guess they'll find their way into Android trees before then.
NB, that article is slightly out of date, the current top rate for GS-15 step 10 in the DC area is $161,900:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
Thanks for the explanation, wasn't sure how that kind of thing works.
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Is it possible to sue Intel if you need ~30% more web servers because Intel built faulty processors? The argument would be that you had bought AMD if you had known about the flaw.
The legal floor of difficulty will always be greater with Federal employees as opposed to private employees as Federal employees have a property interest in their job. In other words, no Federal employee can be fired without some sort of paper trail. This is a constitutional Due Process issue and not something that Congress can easily address.

That said, I think the difficulty--or at least the consequence of the difficulty--is exaggerated. As a practical matter every large organization must contend with red tape, much of it self-imposed. Most government agencies, much like most corporations, impose more red tape than the applicable law necessarily requires. Consistency and repeatability demand process. Red tape is merely an epithet for process that appears wasteful, especially out of context.

IMO, government salaries suck because of the politics: Congress is more likely to increase expenditures if that money is laundered^Wfiltered through private contractors. Bureaucratic inefficiency is just a convenient narrative for why Congress prefers outsourcing. Over the past 50 years almost all the increase in expenditures for Federal work has gone to private contractors. The size of the federal civil service has increased by about 20-30%[1] since the 1960s, but budgets have increased several times that[2].

[1] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-docu...

[2] See, e.g., https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/omb... from https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/omb/budget/Historicals
Would you please not post this sort of nasty snark? Even if you're right, the acid rots the container here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You break the HN guidelines quite a bit like this, so we'd appreciate it if you'd clean up your act.
It would be awesome if people stopped talking about the alleviation of societal ills by saying that people will "go to war" on them.

Poverty isn't something you war on. Poverty's something people are lifted out of.
I don’t use it for anything that requires login
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In my opinion the new logic is build in React Native (unless your app fits in the 10% of use cases that won't work well with RN), then deploy to both at once. We have had excellent results.
I think he was referring to terminating the pregnancy or putting the kid up for adoption.
The sense is sort of reversed between rebase and merge. When rebasing, the branch you're rebasing onto is considered the canonical/local branch, despite not being the current branch when you issued "git rebase".
Well given that advertising, marketing and finance companies throw ragers like this somewhat on the reg, it doesn’t surprise me that folks at the top take it to 11.
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Thank you for sharing that powerful video with me. Makes my liking of Patrick Stewart (the only true Commander of the Enterprise) even stronger.

He's such a kind, caring and eloquent man despite his upbringing.

I'm watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi_27bpIb30 now to learn more about his life.
The RAM manufacturers, for building their circuits too small? Or Intel, for allowing a side-channel attack to exist? Or Linux, for assuming that randomizing some pointers would mitigate any side-channel? This bug is definitely a product of lots of different issues coming together.
I've owned (and sold) an XPS 13 and now have an XPS 15. Battery life is pretty terrible though. I barely get over four hours. I have TLP running and I'm running Gentoo as my distro.

I did buy it refurbished, so I wonder if it might just have a bad battery or if I'm just screwing up some of the power fine tuning.
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>a degree from here afforded them better chances back home at some BIG CO

Again, you don't need the foreign degree if the BIG CO is hiring locally anyway. Sure it makes you stand out, but your net gain is very little compared to someone who got educated locally as well.

Sorry about belaboring this point.
Might expect this to ultimately lead to privatization of these services. Which is black mirror territory.
Clicked the article thinking maybe a Norwegian Google Streetview competitor had invented time travel... Was still worth the read! Was not disappointed.