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by gervase 9y ago
I can't speak to overall statistical numbers, but of the 75+ international graduate students that I've spoken to, I would estimate at least 85% plan to stay in the U.S. I find this particularly surprising given that their status i
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by gervase 9y ago
Just to put this into perspective, as a graduate student with 2 kids, this would shift my effective tax rate from 8.4% to 37.0%. As graduate student stipends are already minimal, this would make remaining in my program financially impossibl
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by gervase 9y ago
I think motion sensing is probably the way forward; voice control is intrinsically limiting in most (crowded) environments where computers are used today. Considering humans can ride bikes, drive cars, play instruments, etc. (including typi
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by gervase 9y ago
From the article, it seems that it is best-applied in situations where the following constraints apply: 1. No existing national addressing system exists. 2. Streets are not named (or do not exist). 3. The address space to be described is ex
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by gervase 9y ago
It seems to be me to be roughly analogous to the hostname <-> IP mapping; they both describe the same place, but one is more memorable and easier to communicate. This company seems a far cry from ICANN, however.
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by gervase 9y ago
I think there are two separate issues that you raise that are essentially independent: 1. What evaluation metrics should we use to measure the advancement of self-driving technology? 2. How can we measure the public's level of acceptan
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by gervase 9y ago
My understanding is that they actually exclude ALL dual nationals, even those whose citizenships were the result of birth circumstances, unless you are willing to formally renounce your second citizenship.
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by gervase 9y ago
Not the parent, but I think of it as analogous to running an emulator/VM. That is, if your reactions to input are those of an extrovert, does the interior process of how those responses are generated really matter?
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by gervase 9y ago
Most conversation on this topic is occurring in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15508603
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by gervase 9y ago
“Essentially what the dollar stores are betting on in a large way is that we are going to have a permanent underclass in America. It’s based on the concept that the jobs went away, and the jobs are never coming back, and that things aren’t
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by gervase 9y ago
It isn't clear to me from the press release whether these are similar to D-Wave's quantum annealing qubits, or if these are another type (e.g. more like a "true" qubit). Is there another source with more information?
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by gervase 9y ago
Some context: - Last traditional donation account frozen Dec 2010 - Started accepting Bitcoin Jun 2011 Address history: https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/address/1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBs...
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by gervase 9y ago
Really puts the "free" in freelancer, too.
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by gervase 9y ago
Perhaps an extension, then: "Would I want this to happen to $LOVED_ONE, if they were convicted of $HEINOUS_CRIME?" This may permit consideration of the relative social value of the punishment, alloyed with the emotional bias provi
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by gervase 9y ago
I get the same feeling when I see these products. I think they are targeted at the (surprisingly large!) segment of the population for whom their phone is their only computing device. In the bubble that is HN, they make little sense, but
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by gervase 9y ago
In the keynote, one of the developers said that they've done exactly this for some of the dev team. Specifically, they are using Visual Studio, in VR, as their primary development environment. Could be hyperbole for marketing purposes,
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by gervase 9y ago
Although I agree with you in general, to play the devil's advocate, it's also possible that the current state of affairs is a side effect of the state of record keeping over the past couple hundred years. Given modern data storage
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by gervase 9y ago
Except you won't keep it only in your head: you'll be typing it into a computer at some point. Really, in either case, you should also be using token-based 2FA as well.
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by gervase 9y ago
Just so you know, this feature change also affects airplane mode; that is, when you turn on airplane mode, only the cellular modem turns off. The WiFi and Bluetooth radios remain on if they're currently connected to something, only tur
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by gervase 9y ago
I can't speak for these, but I assume they are based on Google Translate, which does offline translation on-device when configured to do so. It needs to download a pre-trained kernel for each language, but once done, it can handle it o
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by gervase 9y ago
I would say it's definitely worth learning, even if you don't use it for coding, simply for the reason that it's ubiquitous. I use it constantly when configuring Linux machines, which is only an ancillary part of my job, just
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by gervase 9y ago
This is the most terrifying part! What would prevent some calculating third party from doing this to my parents? Is it solely down to whether or not the children have the ability to pay costly legal bills? I dearly, dearly hope that there w
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by gervase 9y ago
> have a custom name I assume this means that they would like to train their own activation word. I could see someone re-using an activation word from another ecosystem, for example, for a consistent interface for less-savvy users; plent
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by gervase 9y ago
The business risks of being overly-apologetic are minimal; those who were not affected, or didn't care, will dismiss the statement and carry on. However, the reverse is not true; an insufficiently-apologetic email would only serve to e
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by gervase 9y ago
Password managers are kind of a funny niche; the Venn diagram of people who use them, and power users, are probably more overlapping than most. I would venture that those (power) users want full cross-platform compatibility (Win, Mac, Linux
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by gervase 9y ago
If SpaceX is able to realize its ambitions, I think it could certainly be a modern-day East India Company [0,1], if not more influential. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company [1]: Some sources have est
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by gervase 9y ago
Graduate stipends almost never include room and board, as far as I know. This may be different if you're in a high-rent area (UCLA, Stanford, NYU, etc), but in general, your rent comes out of that $1300. They do currently include decen
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by gervase 9y ago
Yes: https://help.bitwarden.com/article/import-from-lastpass/
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by gervase 9y ago
Since this appears to be strictly a notification for now, I expect Hackintosh users will see the message once, choose "Don't Send", and never see it again. According to the article, once you've made your choice, that cho
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by gervase 9y ago
Previously, on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15288168 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307611

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