skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OOM killer exists because of memory overcommitment, which exists because of fork/exec. The justification for overcommitment is that a big-ass process might fork just to do an exec immediately afterwards. If that is the case, then it would be lame to error out the fork because there's not enough room for a second copy of it. But if it doesn't actually exec, then suddenly there's not actually as much memory as it thinks it has as the forked process starts modifying things. This justified overcommitment in the first place and then it snowballed from there.
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And you think that trying to give this person $100k will make it easier for them to remain anonymous?
Might be interesting to somehow show the delta between application date and decision date, in particular by country.
Dreadful! But what do you expect when the student is the "customer".

Education is there to benefit the student, sure, but society has a very large stake in educating its population. Its called a positive externality.

This is a matter of public policy and society should be regulating this stuff. Now try doing that in a partisan political climate, where we can't even agree that creationism should not be on any curriculum.
Even if you store the secret on the same server it shows some effort went into the protection of user credentials.
"I'm too "linuxy"" .. "Having a machine instead of a skill is a way for lazy people"

There's a good balance between skill and technology, otherwise I might tell you to just throw away your computer. And for the record, operating a CNC mill still takes a good bit of skill.
You mean this https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ ?
Skype stores chat history in an SQLite database located at %AppData%\Skype\[Skype Username]\main.db, as far as I know it is not removed when Skype is uninstalled. You may be able to remove main.db by hand, and hope that Skype have configured their servers to flush the string from chat histories.
They can, and do, rent them as if they were chattel.
I am sure they would much prefer purchases go through their site instead of a (third party) affiliate code then eh?
The H1B program is very clearly NOT meant to be a mechanism for importing workers to swap directly into existing jobs at lower pay. This is the crucial point of the article and of Disney's wrongdoing.
I saw an article on Reddit yesterday claiming that 47% of Americans would have to sell something or seek a loan to pay $400 in unexpected expenses. (I didn't actually read it, of course, so I'm not sure if "loan" is a credit card.)
It was probably horrible at the time, but I'm sure that person will be able to look back on it and laugh at the pure incompetence of Disney's management.

As someone else commented, outsourcing is often the last-ditch effort by terrible IT managers, and that incident seems to confirm it.
If I had to venture a guess:

They're referring to fixation [0], or preservation of the tissue, and not to affixation, the attachment of something.

So, basically, they fixed the tissue prior to removing it from the skull, causing it to keep form. Whereas, if they removed the tissue from the skull and then chemically fixed it, the tissue would have already lost form and the lymph would be undetectable (no longer be in original form).

Think about a cake in a pan. Baking = fixing. Remove the cake before "fixing" it, and it's a plot of mess. "Fix" it first, and you have a free-standing cake, it'll hold shape. Bad analogy, sorry. :)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation_(histology)

Edit: forgot reference.
The middle class workers are massively wealthier than their Indian counterparts.
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H1B employees are "at-will", and even in a more precarious situation with a sword of Damocles hanging by a thread over their heads. If they quit, they get sent back to their home country unless they arranged in advance for a different employer to sponsor them. If they are terminated, or laid off, they get sent back to their home country. It's fucked.
Hey there, we assume that the condo you purchased you live in not as a rental property. The spirit of this post is to show that there isn't a straight yes or no answer to rent vs. buy...The shorter the time frame the less likely is you should own.
Even China has only 45K greencards. They seem to follow the same pattern as India for immigration, so what category are they coming in. Last I checked both countries (India, China) have similar number of immigrants in the US.
Can a private prison sell its prisoners to another private prison? Of course it would be called something like "inmate transfer", but I don't see how it's not possible.
And what, apart from legal approval, is morally or materially different about forcing a prisoner to work and forcing a free citizen to work?
Well, time will tell. Thanks for the heads up.
> My point is that the 512-bit users would not have been targetable if nobody knew their keys were 512 bits long

This is wishful thinking. A Man In The Middle Attack would have worked on him.
> 1. Almost all the successful microservice stories have started with a monolith that got too big and was broken up.

This is pure survivor bias. The majority -- by far -- of 'failure stories' I know of in the software industry are ones in which a company tried to take their monolithic code base and modularize or microservice-ize it.

> 2. Almost all the cases where I've heard of a system that was built as a microservice system from scratch, it has ended up in serious trouble.

This is not because microservices-first is inherently flawed. This is purely a skill set issue. Microservices demand a greater skill set. A 'monolithic' approach puts much less of a demand on the engineer's skill set.

For a simplistic but illuminative example, if all you know how to do is build systems that operate on global mutable state (most newbie programmers), then of course you will run a lot further in a monolith than if you are trying to do this in a microservices pardigm.

This is a simplistic example because effective use of microservices requires much more of a skill set than not using global variables. The truth is that effective use of microservices (knowing how to build architecturally sound software) is way beyond the reach of MOST smart, senior level engineers that I've met in my career. If this sounds arrogant, it's not; there's a definitive architectural skill set that CAN BE LEARNED but that is missing from most software practitioners. (Our industry/academies need to learn how to teach it.)

This is the elephant in the room in our industry--and why we spin so many wheels talking about everything else. All of the energy we spend talking about patterns, processes, languages, etc etc do so much less for our industry than if we trained our practitioners in how to construct architecturally sound software systems.
How to explain business priorities to a programmer?
It's hardly untraceable. There are only 1000 ghost gunner mills in the country. It is feasible that they are all being tracked by the USPS. Fedex and UPS refuse to mail them... That means the government likely knows where each was sent, and has a name too to go with the location.

There is a paper trail associated with being able to receive such a heavy thing in the mail ( you'd have to send it to a location you control / own / rent etc )

Suppose you buy the machine, build your own gun, use it for some bad purpose. If the gun was ever found, it could likely be traced back to you. How many people have guns created with the ghost gunner machine? Not many. Can you tell a ghost gunner cut lower from other methods? Yes.

The whole thing is just a publicity stunt. When there is a local shop in a major city where I can go in and rent a ghost gunner machine for a day, in cash, providing nothing but a large deposit to guarantee I bring it back, then and only then can such things really be untraceable.
Color would be a good start. All black gives nothing for the eyes to focus on.
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More effective would be to stage a mass walkout with as many coworkers as possible to make the retraining process untenable for those left behind.
You have just described the weakness of the American populace. They deliberately don't teach people in public schools to work towards financial independence, that would be bad for the oligarchy.
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Not if they are opened with FILE_SHARE_DELETE.
>Very few people have a legitimate use for explosives,

That's still a lot of people.

>it should be easy to control, along with the obvious "possesion of unregistered firearm, or of an unlicensed design, or using homebrew propellant" laws.

Similar efforts have been made with the goal of stopping the illicit manufacture of controlled substances. These efforts have mostly failed, and have had the side effect of inconveniencing and endangering many small businesses and hobbyists. Manufacturing drugs is much more difficult than manufacturing explosives. Please please please educate yourself about basic chemistry and then reevaluate this opinion.
My understanding is that EMV is a protocol that can work over the wired interface or over NFC. I have a contactless debit card I was issued some time ago that definitely talks to the NFC radio in my Nexus 7
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> Does the current process put the burden of proof on the government to show that yes, there are in fact US workers who could do this job?

No, it puts the burden of proof on the employer. My employer had to submit about 600 pages of paperwork to show that yes, they did look around a lot before hiring me (including records of applications by candidates). I have no idea how the outsourcing firms get away with that.
For dry academia, Lauren A. Rivera's papers are pretty entertaining reads:

http://www.asanet.org/journals/ASR/Dec12ASRFeature.pdf
http://ann.sagepub.com/content/639/1/71.abstract
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562410...

It's pretty astounding that the people advising the largest companies in the world make their own hiring decisions based on whether they think the candidate is a "tool" (their words) or not.
"skilled foreign workers are by far the most unfairly discriminated group of people"

I'm sorry, but I have to call bullshit on this. The State has an economic interest in maintaining high(er) levels of employment among citizens, because employed citizens stimulate the economy, while providing financing for public programs, and while not claiming benefits like unemployment. There's a net economic benefit (not to mention a foundational argument for the role of government) in protecting the employment of a country's own citizenry, so it's not like this is done capriciously.

(Also, fun time to point out: Many other countries have the same exact qualifications that protect jobs from citizens being outsourced to other countries. Including India, fittingly.)

Now, contrast that with the idea that a certain segment of the population is systemically disadvantaged based on race, income bracket, or gender. And for the minority of those disadvantaged who actually achieve qualifications that make them a great fit for a job, they still face discrimination in the form of hiring discrimination and wage discrimination. This is all done not based on merit, or as a matter of economic policy by a government, but rather: whether someone happened to be born a certain color or sex.

Really? There's really even a second of argument to be made about which of these scenarios is more insidious and unfair?

EDIT: Also, SERIOUS dog-whistle warning on use of the word "supposedly" to refer to discrimination against women and other minorities.
I'm still excited for more power for games. For a game that uses CPU correctly see Dwarf Fortress.
Top 3% overall. And I agree. It doesn't mean much. Just that I've answered a lot of questions that people liked and upvoted. Nevertheless, it works for marketing.
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India isn't better or worse off, India is a country, it doesn't have well being. In addition, no those people cannot fix these problems: political change is extremely hard to achieve and it rarely happens. Empire collapses, revolutions, death of dictators, the rise of an enlightened ruler... short of something like that, you're stuck.
From someone in Europe who don't follow mainline news, there was never any issues with what Manning did, at least not from me and the people i talked to. The amount of war crimes that were and are committed by individuals in the military and are covered up and almost encouraged are worse then a few undercover personnel in danger and some failed missions. I actually see that as a good outcome, if that actually happened.

That this trade agreement is classified as secret, is just a huge joke. I understand why they are trying to do so... The idea that Corp. Lawyer A is in a lawsuit today against Corp. Lawyer B, and with Corp. Lawyer C acting as judge (who yesterday was in a suit against Corp. Lawyer A).

Who even thinks of this?????? Was this a bet by a few drunk 0.1% guys to see if we are stupid enough to let it pass? Im amazed at the audacity of even trying to claim that this is even reasonable or needed. And that is just the process... With these rules, you could basically eliminate ANY worker rights, ANY nature protection law, and ANY laws that are created to keep corporations in check.

Its scary thinking of what legal BS could be added to these laws that we are not even allowed to see until 2 years after it has been completed.
:-| I think you can try harder to figure out the many different resources on that page, including multiple downloadable full-text corpii at affordable prices.
I want to give him the benefit of the doubt and say the "a:link ," in the following css is a mistake:

a:link, a:visited {
color: #94388e;
text-decoration: none; }

...but I'm pretty sure it's not, and this guy really does want to break how unvisited links are displayed.
Great comment DMAC. The model shows what will happen if rates go up 1% and condo prices are flat. Rents paid are definitely factored in the model as are taxes. The investor is in a TFSA & RRSP which means capital gains are a non-issue. Property taxes cant be avoided though. Its a real advantage of investing in Canada to use the RRSP & TFSA vehicles.

You're right, mortgages can typically be locked in for five years.

But really people can check out the model and use their own assumptions:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZJnbA2MO7iuQc4xEX9E2...
It can be, if you are living on amusement park wages.
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This arms race is probably because what I want isn't a new game I just want the same game as the last game but looking twice as good.
Severance of 10% of base salary, plus another 90 days of work.
"A limited number of the visas, 85,000, are granted each year, and they are in hot demand. Technology giants like Microsoft, Facebook and Google repeatedly press for increases in the annual quotas, saying there are not enough Americans with the skills they need."

If Microsoft, Facebook, and Google are speaking the truth then wouldn't they be keen to pick up the talent being dismissed by Disney and Edison? Understand that someone monitoring ticketing tech at Disney World is different from a mobile software engineer but there must be some overlap.
It's true. Arms races often drive innovation in other areas, the Russian/American space race being the poster boy.
But...but..there is currently some mythical god programmer stuck in india that could make investors billions if only we had a more open h1b visa program...

Nah these programs are never ever abused in any way shape or form by company management.
Ok, since HN is turning into Reddit:

Fallout 2 > Fallout 3

:)
Interesting, I hadn't caught that when I read through it the first time:

"Many American companies use H-1B visas to bring in small numbers of foreigners for openings demanding specialized skills, according to official reports. But for years most top recipients of the visas have been outsourcing or consulting firms based in India, or their American subsidiaries, which import workers for large contracts to take over entire in-house technology units — and to cut costs. The immigrants are employees of the outsourcing companies."

They don't really say how many H1B workers are employed through Disney's contractors, but it's definitely implied
From what i have seen i think the experience is pretty bad.

Apple Pay is (comparatively )unreliable. It could be the terminal, it could be the software, it could be the iPhone or Touch ID. I dont know, but you are 10x more likely getting into problem then waving with your plastic card.
People dont like to risk and be embarrassed.

There is no real incentive to use it. If Apple could have an App and store how i had spent the money with Apple Pay, abit like personal Finance organizer then i would have use it just to keep track of my spending.

It is slow, when i saw the demo it took 3 seconds, ( actually in real life it is likely to be 4+ ) I thought it was really slow. Compare to places like Singapore, Hong Kong, or Japan where you get sub 1 seconds payment using NFC card. ( Although they are not credit card based )
Without having seen the notification email, from the couple of recent posts about this I think it might not be clear that the timeframe is negotiable.
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"...For example, what if a low-income person is given a lottery ticket every time he or she deposits a certain amount of money in a savings account? That might be an effective way to use the inclination to believe in luck to teach the value of saving money."

Or what if we just paid decent wages?

If the OA is a true reflection of the quality of thinking in the book then I'll save my £18 I think. A poor school will be a poor school whatever technology you install.
I don't think I would find myself ignoring it as much as finding ways to violate it catastrophically.
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What is this?
This website indexes all available LCAs from 2001 to 2015.
Where does the information come from?
LCAs are public records and provided by the "Office of Foreign Labor Certification".

IMHO, this is misleading. LCAs don't have a 1-1 corelation to 'Green Cards'. This data is based on the PERM process which is just 1 stage in the green card process. LCAs aren't green card applications, but a labour market test based on which green cards are applied for.
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1+1 in the area at the moment will go for around $1800-1900/month. Based on two places I've rented in the Pinnacle centre over the past 3 years(and looking for places in that complex and ones near by).
All you're saying is for the right amount you can pretty much get anyone to do anything. Most people would agree with that. Water shortage in CA? Well not for the rich dude who is going to pay thousands of dollars to get a tanker to water their lawn. That does not mean there is no water shortage.
Really?

https://github.com/servo/rust-url/pull/108
I've also used Wallet for a couple of years and for a while I was using it whenever possible. Usually, my phone is quicker to grab than pulling out my wallet and finding the right card, etc. Not by much but slightly easier.

Likewise, it was a minor novelty at first so I enjoyed using it. Just tap, pay, and a receipt scrolls up the screen.

But then a bunch of my normal shops had issues when their POS provider disabled Google/Apple options to push their own. Also, some places where it should work, the terminal was broken and only accepted swipes. Then there's the paper receipt that they still hand you on top of the one you already have in your email. Still have to sign the slip. Basically the benefits of electronic payment end up negated by the continuation of paper receipts and signatures and are again relegated back to novelty status.

I think I mostly stopped using Wallet after a few attempts failed due to faulty POS terminals or changing vendor policies and I had to put the phone away and dig out the card. At that point, I wasn't just using a slightly less convenient method. I was using it after failing to use the slightly more convenient method.

If POS vendors actually had any pressure to properly support Apple/Google payment systems I'd go back to using it in a heartbeat but since they don't directly suffer from poor performance (as if some chain store is really gonna hound the POS company because a segment of their customers was mildly annoyed) there is little pressure for them to improve.

Stores themselves might be pressured because they directly face the public but there's not enough motivation to invest the resources when your customers are Rite Aid, Best Buy, Safeway, and Home Depot. Those companies only care that the POS works most of the time and doesn't cost too much.
Interesting weaseling of SourceForge is to add a "downloader" which fetches either the actual unmodified installer/sources. The "downloader" installs adware while fetching the real installer for the software. In the case of GIMP the filename of the downloader was made to be the same as the filename expected of the installer for a given version. This dirty approach might be thwarting ways of protecting with cryptographic signatures, or even trademarks/copyleft.
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The overall approach is to license cross-platform tools under the MIT license, and the Windows-specific runtime components under GPLv2 and GPLv3 that could be supplemented with a commercial license.
"Even here on Hacker News, a community of people with an intelligence over average..." Really? intelligent in which topic? You are really demeaning others. Just because you are super techie/coder doesn't make you intelligent in other issues.
> Refactoring across the call stack is orders of magnitude easier than refactoring across a socket.

That's assuming that things haven't become deeply coupled within the "call stack". Separating things across a socket often forces a separation of concerns, which does tend to make refactoring easier.
Did you forget about Speeding or the 1001 other traffic offences? Does anyone observe proper following distance for every second of every trip?

I suspect if you wanted to harass your ex-wife, or a dissident, then overhead footage of their car for a few hours would provide a multitude of crimes.

Sure, if you actually prosecuted everyone that's one thing, but selective enforcement plus mass surveillance is a very powerful and easy to abuse tool and you don't need anywhere near 100% coverage to make this effective.
I'm sure that this is something you've considered and chose not to do for a good reason, but it seems like using a different email address for each job posting would eliminate a lot of the problems caused by an incorrect subject line.
> But a part of me keeps nagging at me: This is what you’ve been planning...

Can you find a way to leverage both opportunities, pursue your MSc abroad while working remote part-time? Your employer would likely benefit having you plugged in while learning the very latest technologies.
Related course readings and assignments for self-learning: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-s996-category-theo... couldn't manage to find any videos, though :/
leverage is leverage, can work for or against you. Returns in real estate have been elevated above long term mean returns through low interest rates and flexible government programs.. increased amortization rates, lower downpayments, higher CMHC eligible mortgages.
Too bad this is falling off the front page; it's a delightful article.