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I don't think it's xenophobia that's preventing us from "stapling a green card to every diploma," as Mitt Romney put it while advocating for the idea. Making immigration easier for educated workers is popular and has fairly broad bipartisan support.

So why hasn't it happened? Many of those in favor of a "comprehensive" solution are wary of letting the most popular parts of immigration reform pass individually, lest they end up with the less popular remainder (some form of normalization for existing undocumented immigrants) standing on its own and thus harder to pass. Similar logic worked against passing a real "DREAM" act prior to the President's somewhat dubious selective-enforcement scheme.

Relatedly, there's a strong feeling among some reform advocates that focusing on skilled labor from Europe or Asia at the expense of unskilled labor from Central and South America is yet another example of discrimination and at least metaphorical fence building. Why help those who are already well off enough to get a college degree in the U.S.?
My feeling after browsing the Java section was that the most popular questions deal with "curiosities" of the language. It is not wrong per se, but I think I have read the majority of them.
Hooray for 3.1 and 3.2 apps.
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Can't find such release notes, but you can search for "major enhancement" tickets from Trac, that might give you better overview:

http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/query?priority=major&...

Based on the ticket count, combinatorics seems to have gotten most enhancements.
Nvidia et al alone will probably keep that impossible in the mainstream markets, until we get (out of my area, may be misusing words) 1080p decoding on a comfortably multitasking CPU or SOC.
Before it's the next big thing? That would mean acquiring all good small startups that are active in _some_ space they are interested in, without waiting for the decision on who's the best. Again, fear does not make good decisions.
> Denial of this service to people who would not submit to a search, IMO, makes this highly coercive and the search can no longer be considered strictly voluntary

I agree with you, which is why in the grandparent post i said "kinda." I think it is a HUGE constitutional stretch to not have freedom of movement on public transportation systems. Roads and sidewalks are public transportation systems, so why shouldn't we have constitutional protections on public subways/buses?

The next level of chipping away at this is to have quasi-goverment agencies (government owned corporations, etc) like the one controlling the GW bridge. It pissed me off when the GW bridge used to have signs that said "Photography is prohibited." I really wanted to start a website collecting photographs of the GW bridge, just to show how useless the ban was.
Why the hell didn't they just pick the existing MSVS semantics? This type of garbage is huge when dealing with cross-platform code, in a number of subtle cases--usually with string manipulation.
I don't think people understand what Google is doing though. Your results may look very different once everybody understands the extent of Googles data collection.

This is very new territory still. I don't think we can predict what is going to happen if there is some massive repository of personal data that lives forever. So I'd rather we going at it with baby steps.
Surprised to hear that crawling still runs out of the basement. For a general-purpose search engine, what kind of bandwidth does that require? Or is it manageable only because DDG proxies so many searches to other search engines?

Also, doesn't it seem inefficient to have crawlers here and indexes there?
They are not going to use this for finding toddlers or birds, are they?
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In the developed world I would hope that virtually everyone has good enough health/nutrition and thus variation in height and appearance is due more to genetics.
With image links so you can judge for yourself whether the conclusions of the article hold true or not.

Personally I don't think so. Whilst I wouldn't describe any of these hugely succesful women as unattractive, I think they would compare to the attractiveness ratings of male CEOs (also a bit above average).

Meg Whitman, HP (#10)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Meg+Whitman&tbm=isch

Virginia Rometty, IBM (#19)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Virginia+Rometty&tbm=i...

Patricia A. Woertz, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) (#28)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Patricia+A+Woertz&tbm=...

Indra K. Nooyi, PepsiCo, Inc. (#41)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Indra+K+Nooyi&tbm=isch

Irene B. Rosenfeld, Mondelez International
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Irene+B+Rosenfeld&tbm=...

Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin (#58)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Marillyn+Hewson&tbm=is...

Ellen J. Kullman, DuPont (#72)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ellen+J+Kullman&tbm=is...

Phebe Novakovic, General Dynamics (#92)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Phebe+Novakovic&tbm=is...

Carol M. Meyrowitz, The TJX Companies, Inc. (#125)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Carol+M+Meyrowitz&tbm=...

Ursula M. Burns, Xerox Corporation (#127)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ursula+M+Burns&tbm=isc...

Sheri S. McCoy, Avon Products Inc. (#234)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sheri+S+McCoy&tbm=isch

Deanna M. Mulligan, Guardian (#250)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Deanna+M+Mulligan&tbm=...

Debra L. Reed, Sempra Energy (#266)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Debra+L+Reed&tbm=isch

Denise M. Morrison, Campbell Soup (#334)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Denise+M+Morrison&tbm=...

Ilene Gordon, Ingredion Incorproated (#390)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ilene+Gordon&tbm=isch

Heather Bresch, Mylan (#396)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Heather+Bresch&tbm=isc...

Kathleen M. Mazzarella, Graybar Electric (#451)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Kathleen+M+Mazzarella&...

Mary Agnes (Maggie) Wilderotter, Frontier Communications (#464)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Mary+Wilderotter&tbm=i...

Gracia C. Martore, Gannett (#465)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Gracia+C+Martore&tbm=i...

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo (#483)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Marissa+Mayer&tbm=isch

Beth E. Mooney, KeyCorp (#499)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Beth+E+Mooney&tbm=isch
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Thanks a lot for the reference !
A bit OT but hopefully interesting nevertheless. This is apparently the original pronunciation for the works of Shakespeare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s The entire video has some nice information but if you want to skip to an example of the original pronunciation, you can jump to 2:50.
Sure it does.

This instantly makes the degree more valuable to the foreign student. Thus the university can extract more work for lower wages from them.

Wages for teaching are not set by individual professors, and thats where most of the poorly compensated labor is.
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Damnit, I'm busy fixing the devise issue!
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Take a look at the recursive code being used, it's not exactly what you think it is. The naive recursive solution makes two recursive calls to the Fib function, and requires an exponential number of calls. The 'standard' recursive solution defines a helper function that takes two arguments, so each recursive step only takes one function call and the total number of calls is linear.

In general, a recursive solution need never have a bigger big-O than an iterative solution. You just need to define a helper function that has a many input parameters as your for-loop had variables that it updates.
I do not see why you think cheaper precision milling is going to create an environment where making a watch requires a fraction of the effort. In order for that to be the case the biggest impediment to making a watch would be the cost of production. Do you think its relatively effortless to understand and modify a basic watch design? Do you think "traditional assembly at home" is going to be easy?

I think "being knowledgeable" in watchmaking is a prerequisite for an amateur to personalize the movements to any extent. I highly doubt that many people are going to download watch designs and go nuts and add 5 or 10 new complications that they have always wanted on a watch but could never afford.
I'm a foreign graduate student doing my Master's degree at a relatively well-known university in Texas and I really don't feel like a slave. The pay is modest (15K/year for 20h/week) but it is sufficient to live comfortably and occasionally travel (I travelled 6 weeks last summer all over US). And I don't feel like any of my fellow students are slaves either. No crazy hours, no crazy pressure on results.

Maybe it's worse for PhDs or at better (research) universities?
I haven't had a long career but I've heard quite a few times "Hey, we'll have a girl onboard!". My initial concern is usually, I'll admit (is she cute?) but I don't like to look like an asshole so I ask "Is she good?". Almost everytime, someone tells me that "it doesn't matter".

So yes, the article is right, some women get hired for their looks regardless of what they do.
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The title is good in that is always how we seem to see that question phrased on the Internet. That is, with the underlying assumption that the U.S. has once again deliberately gone out of their way to be different.
You're right, or at least not incorrect :) If JavaScript started off with a module system, a decent core library, Promises, Classes, etc., a lot of this pain would have been avoided. But of course, part of it's beauty was that it was so simple. As these things become standardized in JS, hopefully the incompatible add-ons will fade away, but it'll take years.

Dart has an advantage of a clean slate, which is why it's "ok" in a sense - once you've decided to use Dart you also get decision/opinions on a lot more.
Dalton is very patient, damn frugal, and smart.
His API programming team is off-the-charts talented (essentially 14 Stanford and Carnegie Mellon guys), and here's the important part - they get along very, very well. So, the team is tight, and thinking long term.

They've got a rock-solid cash position, and I wouldn't be surprised for Marc Andreessen to re-invest after 2 years, just to own a piece of this flex infrastructure for such a small $ amount.

Today's announcement is exactly what's next.
Building more ways to "roll your own social network".
The API is amazingly rich - the developers love it.

For example, messaging is far beyond Twitter's broken DM mechanism. The API allows you to DEFINE messaging protocols, and uniquely build a social network with a distinct message system. It's software-definable, via the API.

What's actually happened in the first 5-1/2 months is that the "core API" is finally finished. They've actually unbundled all the core social 2.0 infrastructures.

Watch for more creative "edge API" ideas (like this social Dropbox) to come out, now that the core team of 14 is freeing up to invent.
I agree with the synopsis of the presented theory. I also agree that it would be prejudicial to assume that attractive women are less intelligent and capable than their less attractive counterparts. However, I don't see how that assumption is baked into the theory.

Even if, on average, the more-attractive candidates were more intelligent and capable (purely for the sake of the argument), the theory presented seems to support the notion that, despite the hypothetical averages, there would still be a pool of less attractive, highly-qualified candidates held back. It seems to me that, if that were true, they would, under the presented theory, be replaced by attractive candidates who in fact do not qualify for upper management.
Good for him that he managed to get around that.

But personal, face to face interactions are much better are gauging how a person is going to be when joining a team. Any sort of team.

People on paper sound nice, but when you meet them they are a bit off. I have a scary knack for this and can call out caustic people after the initial interaction.
Is there some kind of tech crash happening right now?
IMO, no discussion about the loss of "British accents" in America can be complete without including Canada, Australia and South Africa in the mix. I always found it fascinating that the US and Australia have such dramatically different "standard" accents despite both being former British colonies.

Btw, anyone wanting to search for the "missing link" should visit Bermuda. Strange mix of GA and RP.
Sounds like a 19th-century-style theory linking sociopathy with unattractiveness. Might as well throw in some phrenology while he's at it.
Can someone explain the security issue in more detail? Is it that I can supply Symbols (and other Ruby objects) in my YAML, which normally can't be included in JSON? That seems to be the basis of it, but I'm looking for more info if available.
Interestingly, I just spoke with a colleague yesterday who admitted (without shame) that he recently campaigned (successfully) to have an attractive female hired into his group. I asked him about her qualifications, and he said she seemed capable, but not exceptional. He stressed that, at least to him, her appearance outweighted her abilities.

Incidents like this make me wonder if some sort of anonymous interviewing could be implemented in certain industries, and whether the benefits associated with mitigating prejudices would outweigh the intangible benefits associated with getting to know someone as a whole person during the hiring process.
Technically the "revolutionary" use of HTML5/JS to create an entire phone's UI/OS/App's is entirely WebOS and it continues to live on.

Little is new, most is old anyways :)
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Michael Moritz is a billionaire investor. It's easy to understand why he'd like to increase the supply of technical labor in the US. This lowers his cost of labor, contributing to his further enrichment.

Foreigners desirous of US citizenship similarly favor "immigration reform" for self-interested reasons.

The marks here are American tech workers (and American workers in general) who buy into various elite rationalizations for why labor needs a pay cut so people like Moritz can pile up more billions.
Android itself is "open", not "free"; the result is that the users of Android--hardware manufacturers, not the end customer--have the right to restrict the rights of others to modify that software and benefit from its openness, a right which many vendors take advantage of: Android is thereby not an example of "free software" (with the exception of the Linux kernel it bundles, which sadly doesn't provide users much benefit in this specific context as, in addition to supporting opaque binary blobs in drivers, it continues to use GPL2, which failed to protect against the threat of hardware manufactures designing locked bootloaders).
I wasn't using bioperl or biopython. I wrote the algorithms myself.
Not entirely sure that Belinda Stronach fits, either -- having Frank for a father was a bit of a hand up, I'd think.
You have to think ahead. You have 96 numbers now, but after 96 you have to change the data type to a larger storage to be able to store larger numbers. So when you pre-calc say 10,000 numbers what happens to your array then? What if the program is run on an embedded system for some reason that has memory limits? Like say someone finds a reason to use Fibonacci numbers on an embedded system to monitor machines and control machines and other stuff?

You don't know a reason to use Fibonacci numbers, but that doesn't mean someone else might find a way to use them.
>What has been your experience?
I live in Bolivia and have been here for the past 14 years. Wouldn't go back to the states willingly.

Bolivia may be a poorer but it's much friendlier and you have many more freedoms the US just seems to be losing these days.
Another funny fact about the 'halo effect' discussed here: when rating individuals for aptitude on a variety of tasks, straight men have a positive bias towards attractive women, whereas straight women have a negative bias towards attractive women (a kind of 'jealousy' phenomenon). This jealousy phenomenon seems less apparent when it's straight men rating men.
>we should consider the unintended consequences.

What would you recommend we do as a result of considering them? Without getting a more substantial position from you, this reads like concern trolling.
The Rails YAML parser allows execution of arbitrary Ruby code, by design. If an attacker can figure out how to get input into the YAML parser, they win.
Point taken. But you don't get to speak to those who think Google is evil without getting them to read it first.

For me the ends justified the means. Of course you may disagree and simply find it to be an annoying type of pandering.
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>despite being low on this list Marissa Mayer is by far one of the most recognisable, probably because as an attractive woman it's a good brand for Yahoo

Or it could be because she used to do PR for google (#73), and she's in our industry.
it appears that some versions of rails parsed JSON by first converting it to YAML then performing YAML.load

I think they wanted a json parser but they didn't want to write one. So they basically just wrote:

YAML.load(json.gsub(/awesomeregex/, "awesomereplace"))
> Ironically despite being low on this list Marissa Mayer is by far one of the most recognisable, probably because as an attractive woman it's a good brand for Yahoo.

Or publicly pulling a highly recognizable face from Google is really good for Yahoo!.
If I were Microsoft I'd throw money at making W8 Phone run as a viable replacement for iOS on these devices. And I'd make the software 100% free of charge.

Never, ever, ever going to happen. Apple would provide the access required to do that, so you'd need to reverse engineer the device in order to install a custom OS on it- something that Apple would likely take legal action against.

Add to that the perception that WP is a dead-end OS for crappy old devices, and you're ruined your brand too.
Great news. It's good that all of these bugs have been surfacing lately.
The whole notion is nebulous because both nations lost their original accents. Just watch videos of Americans speaking from a few decades ago and you'll see how much "General American" has changed in such a short period.

Secondly, given the abundance of regional accents in the UK, I doubt there was even a dominant accent in the American colonies at the time unless you're only counting the upper class.
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For whatever it may be worth (probably nothing), I am a relatively short guy who is not particularly attracted to men, but if I really think about it, I think I have a preference to taller men, just in terms of first impressions. I think I associate height with being "more grown up".

I have been taller than my father for many years now, but I think the extent to which I consider him more of an "adult" than myself is comparable to how I consider men who are taller than me as well.
That kind of reasoning is what got us into Iraq.

I'm simply suggesting thinking through the consequences rather than simply cheerleading.

For example, would we be comfortable with 90% of science students being not from the US?

What if we make a system where no one born in this country can actually afford to do graduate work?

Remember, the foreign-born students don't have the kind of undergrad debt load that we have in the US.
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Would it ever be possible to have a self-updating framework?

As in, I use Rails to develop web applications. In the past months, I've had to painstakingly go back to every single app I've ever worked on, and manually update it in whatever minor way it needed updating. Now, I'm going to do that again.

If you consider that I'm going to continue to build Rails applications, the number of apps I will have to update every time a security vulnerability comes out will be larger and larger. For a framework that prides itself on sane defaults, it doesn't seem quite sane to have to worry about taking down, updating, and then relaunching every app you ever had when one of these vulnerabilities come out.

I don't mean updating a Rails 2.3 app to 3.2 automatically, just applying these security patches automatically, or prompting the user to do so. Our operating systems do it, our IDEs do it, our programs do it, why can't a framework? I'm not saying it would be easy, but I'm sick of having to be subscribed to these email groups just to start the manual process of fixing everything.
It's generally considered poor form to create a novelty account just to comment on a posting here.
"Anonymous stalking has always struck me as self-defeating. You want attention drawn to your existence, but don't want to admit who you are? How is that useful?"

Because it could be anyone, knowing specifically who is harassing you leads you to understand the limits of someone's power (and giving you avenues of law enforcement escalation) versus driving someone batty with suspicion and mistrust.
Why not just say O(n)?
Love these things. I'd love to see something at the auth provider that steped up authentication if required
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I was thinking more along the lines of customizing the watch face for the amateurs. Downloading the movement probably isn't required as completed movements should be available for purchase.

For experts, yes, they should be able to customize their movements and go nuts.

My original post all comes down to lowering the barrier to entry, making existing things possible with less effort, and increasing the iteration speed for very hard and experimental things.

PS. Of course you have to be "knowledgeable" in watch making to pull any of this off. The "without being knowledge" in the original post referred to me commenting on the topic without any specialized knowledge rather than the hypothetical amateur doing things willy-nilly.
Having worked on a lot of mainly (or entirely) remote teams, I think digital/chat interaction is just as good as face to face. Sometimes face to face personalities don't entirely match your chat persona but chat does a good job of passing along enough information to decide. I've worked with people for years while never having met them in-person. No need.

Regardless of remote/in-person, a piece of paper should never be the sole hiring decision.
One other factor is the preceived threat of wage imbalances acting against U.S. non-naturalized citizens ("We'll be flooded with H1B's who will work for 25% less and undercut our sons and daughters!"). I'm not sure how much of an issue this actually is in practice but it's definitely something to think about, especially before we start stapling green cards to diplomas.

> Why help those who are already well off enough to get a college degree in the U.S.?

You answered your own question. It's about skills, not how much money the immigrant already possesses. The proof is in how famous India is for sending over tech entrepreneurs, despite being otherwise maligned by stereotype in many of the same ways that those from Central and South America are. They are able to come over and work here in the U.S. because they possess skills which are desired.

If you look at immigration practice as being simply that anyone who wants to come to America and work hard should get a fair chance, then that is probably unfair. But there are those who argue that we should be selective and prioritize towards those who would contribute most.

But I suppose all of this just adds to your argument that there's many competing factors in play here, even for a topic as obvious as this.