1. Julian Assange will out a source if it will get him press attention, or 2. The dead guy was not the actual source and the DNC would have no motive to take retribution, so Julian Assange will lie about a source if it will get him press attention.
3. If you murder a Wikileaks source, Julian Assange will go after you with everything he's got, releasing the information at the worst possible moment, in the most damaging possible way, and offer rewards for the capture of the murderer.
4. The guy was not the leak, but using an actual robbery makes everyone believe the leak is gone.
except this is dumb. A $150,000 per year threshold is just too high for some industry. We tried to hire university professors last year and annual salary for starting position (assistant professor) is about $90k-$100k in computer science across the country, which many people complain is so high that that is why college is unaffordable. We had exactly 1 applicant that was a citizen or a permanent resident for one of our position. The guy was good, we made an offer and he chose to decline and go to a higher ranked university.
With a $150,000 threshold a year for the H1B program, we would have had exactly one applicant in our application pool which would not have come.
This is just plain FALSE. Americans don't got to PhD to the level universities/the US want/need to train. I am in the PhD application committee of my university for Computer Science. We get 4 permanent resident/citizen application to our PhD program in a year when it is a good year. There is so much funding out there for permanent resident and citizen for a PhD program that we usually accept ALL of them, but maybe end up not coming for various reason. Still we end up having about 20 people coming in. So our PhD student population in CS is about 10%.
There are so few citizen/resident applications to PhD program that we essentially consider them a minority to be protected.
And attending conferences and visiting colleagues at different institution pretty much show that this is the norm, not the exception.
Clearly, IEEE has more experience and is more believable. (And yes, I am an IEEE member, but that does not really biais me.) The methodogy used by IEEE spectrum is public [1]. And it also takes stack overflow and git hub as indices. Though that is not the ONLY thing it uses.
There is a saying in data mining: I'd rather have more data than a better algorithm.
Whoever, being a candidate, directly or indirectly promises or pledges the appointment, or the use of his influence or support for the appointment of any person to any public or private position or employment, for the purpose of procuring support in his candidacy shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Legalese is hard to read in my native French. But here I am really not sure what this is saying. Isn't this is a law that prevent candidates to offer future position as a bribe for endorsement ?
I feel like lots of people here are seeing only one face of the H1B program. I got hired as an H1B and I am permanent resident now. Though I entered the US on a J1 program. When I entered the US, I did not even want to stay, then life being life, I decided too. I work for a university and there are not many qualified applicants. It is very unlikely that you would someone that is skilled and permanent resident or us citizen for a professor position. They pretty much just do not exists. There are some, but not many and definitely way less than opened position.
I can understand that there may be issues in the H1B program. But there are legitimate use of it as well.
Artificial Intelligence is a field of study, just like Algebra.
The way ACM defines it [1], AI includes computer vision, NLP, planning, and knowledge representation and reasoning. All these tasks are today based on computational statistic/machine learning. You can also look at the last AAAI conference [2].
That funny because I am so sick of people complaining of the allegedly incorrect use of the word Artificial Intelligence.
It is the correct academic term for the computing field that include data mining, machine learning, operation research, and statistics. Now, maybe Artificial Intelligence does not mean what you wish it meant. But academics are fairly clear on what it means...
Besting for compression is usually a very relative term as there is a tradeoff between quality, file size, compression time and decompression time.
Now I haven't done any particular research on compression but all the things I read about FLIF and BPG only talked about filesize and quality. This is only part of the equation. Is there more result on this issue ?
What about indicating in a super market what are the objects that you want and which are the ones that you don't. That information could come from a master list of what you want to cook this week and what is currently on sales.
This similarly applies to clothing stores: your niece would love that dress and her birthday is in two weeks.
Or in book stores, you could pick up the book and have typical reviews show up around it.
In games, the alien demo from MS hololens was awesome. A colleague of mine has one of the dev kits, and the game was fun and exciting. If it is cheap, I'd buy one.
Once again for board games, like warhammer 40k, you could use VR to make the actual rules of the game using a computer and keep track of the status of a unit, show movement,...
There is potential in virtual art. I think there was a book of gibson (doctorow?) that integrated the concepts. Though it is somewhat similar to pokemon go.
You could do interesting things in recalling tracking from the past. Maybe you have a room with cameras that constructed a 3d model of the room over time, and you could roll back what happened in the room while being in the room. Gives you a different perspective on event. Could be useful for law enforcement for instance.
I see lots of potential applications of VR. now, holding the phone in front of you has definite drawbacks, but a hololens like device could apply to many things.
Please do not judge CS researcher by a single paper. BTW, this paper was not even the best paper at IEEE SP. (complete list with best papers at [1].)
From a quick read of the lava paper. It seems that the novelty aspect of LAVA is that the software can inject bugs automatically in complex codebase. So you no longer have a grad student writing obviously faulty code on a toy program or inserting a few bugs manually to test one or two software. LAVA allows you to insert a myriad of bug in a myriad of software to test border condition more accurately.
Clearly it is not the best idea of the decade, but it is a nice little tool/result.
well, comparing to the worldwide rate of accident might not be reasonable. Some countries have a very high rate of accident and fatalities. One should compare to the accident rate in the same locations.
According to wikipedia [1], fatalities in driven accident in the us is about 15 per billion mile. Which also about 1 per 65 million miles.
So with over 90% of their money going to employee wages in-country, they can't just tax the income of those employees?
You are ignoring the place where that income is realized matter for taxation and how easy it is to redirect fund to a foreign country. If you cut sales tax tomorrow, you will not raise local wages, the company will incur a large profit that it will offshore to a country where there is no business tax. The tourist pay the same amount, wage did not go up, the French government (in this example) loses tax revenue. The business owner cashes a lot of money.
Maybe they hide that 10% offshore; you get to tax the other 90% immediately
Sales tax is about 20% in france. So you are saying the government lose about 10%-15% of its income on tourist sales tax. That's about a billion dollar that they could get and they don't.
You really need a sales tax to capture the tourism industry?
"Needing" imply that there is no alternative solution. As usual, there are probably plenty of solutions. But that is one that works reasonably. Revenue stream in a global context is not an easy problem.
I'm an optimizer, not a feelings-obsessed git. Fairness is secondary.
So do you think it is right that some companies manage to dodge taxation while some other can not afford the legal fees to enter a tax privileged status ?
It does not matter how you organize taxation or society in general. If there is a rule, you want it to be followed and not avoided by some technicality that enable ones to dodge the taxation.
Take your particular favorite tax regime which is if I understood correctly, tax everyone income at 17%. Now, if you have to non neighboring competing businesses, I don't know, a shoemaker and a baker. The shoemaker give the baker a pair of shoe to the baker every month, and the baker give the shoemaker bread everyday. They both declare the transaction as wasted bread and misconstructed shoe. They did not pay their 17% tax on it, despite clearly the shoes is an income of the baker, and the bread is an income of the shoemaker. Variants of this is illegal in most places, because it is unfair and it bypassed the rule.
If you're going to argue fairness, then businesses deserve to vote in elections. No taxation without representation, right?
I don't see what this have to do with taxing fairly businesses? If there is a business tax code, it should apply the same to all businesses. Here in particular what happens is that some companies manage to pay tax lawyer to dodge taxation by using the complexities of the system. Certainly, this is not what the tax code (and international free trade treaties) intended.
Whether companies should vote is a completely separate issue.
The stupid thing is, it doesn't matter whether you tax businesses or individuals. [...snip...] Why would you ever think it's a good idea to instead tax the company they own, where they can shift the cost of those taxes onto anyone but themselves?
I have no particular opinion on whether it is a good idea or not. But clearly moving from a model to another as consequences. I do not know whether these consequences are good things or bad things, but there are differences. If you only tax people income and not business profits, then the following scheme becomes possible. If my company makes a lot of sales in 2016, it has a high income and so potentially a high profit which would be taxed, so it has some incentive in paying me in 2016 rather than split in two payments, one in 2016 and one in 2017. If there is no business tax, then it does not matter to my company whether to pay me half in 2016 and half in 2017 or to pay me full in 2016. But because my personal income tax rate is increase with income, I would rather be paid in two payments to reduce the total amount of taxes paid. Now, I am not arguing that one is preferable to the other one, but clearly there are differences in how the money flows around, so it DOES matter whether you tax businesses or individuals.
(one could argue that a flax tax rate would solve that issue, but that is a different discussion.)
Slashdot Mirror
1. Julian Assange will out a source if it will get him press attention, or
2. The dead guy was not the actual source and the DNC would have no motive to take retribution, so Julian Assange will lie about a source if it will get him press attention.
3. If you murder a Wikileaks source, Julian Assange will go after you with everything he's got, releasing the information at the worst possible moment, in the most damaging possible way, and offer rewards for the capture of the murderer.
4. The guy was not the leak, but using an actual robbery makes everyone believe the leak is gone.
On a related note, where is the closest VLC developer? How do I buy him/her a beer? Where do we send the pizza?
except this is dumb. A $150,000 per year threshold is just too high for some industry. We tried to hire university professors last year and annual salary for starting position (assistant professor) is about $90k-$100k in computer science across the country, which many people complain is so high that that is why college is unaffordable. We had exactly 1 applicant that was a citizen or a permanent resident for one of our position. The guy was good, we made an offer and he chose to decline and go to a higher ranked university.
With a $150,000 threshold a year for the H1B program, we would have had exactly one applicant in our application pool which would not have come.
This is just plain FALSE. Americans don't got to PhD to the level universities/the US want/need to train. I am in the PhD application committee of my university for Computer Science. We get 4 permanent resident/citizen application to our PhD program in a year when it is a good year. There is so much funding out there for permanent resident and citizen for a PhD program that we usually accept ALL of them, but maybe end up not coming for various reason. Still we end up having about 20 people coming in. So our PhD student population in CS is about 10%.
There are so few citizen/resident applications to PhD program that we essentially consider them a minority to be protected.
And attending conferences and visiting colleagues at different institution pretty much show that this is the norm, not the exception.
Honestly, that is the most important thing for me. The rest of linux 4.8 is kind of "business as usual".
If I had knew that Linux could boot and be usable on a Surface, I would have bought that 2 month ago instead of a dell laptop.
Clearly, IEEE has more experience and is more believable. (And yes, I am an IEEE member, but that does not really biais me.) The methodogy used by IEEE spectrum is public [1]. And it also takes stack overflow and git hub as indices. Though that is not the ONLY thing it uses.
There is a saying in data mining: I'd rather have more data than a better algorithm.
[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/ns/IE...
18 USC/599 reads [1]:
Whoever, being a candidate, directly or indirectly promises or pledges the appointment, or the use of his influence or support for the appointment of any person to any public or private position or employment, for the purpose of procuring support in his candidacy shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Legalese is hard to read in my native French. But here I am really not sure what this is saying. Isn't this is a law that prevent candidates to offer future position as a bribe for endorsement ?
[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
I feel like lots of people here are seeing only one face of the H1B program. I got hired as an H1B and I am permanent resident now. Though I entered the US on a J1 program. When I entered the US, I did not even want to stay, then life being life, I decided too. I work for a university and there are not many qualified applicants.
It is very unlikely that you would someone that is skilled and permanent resident or us citizen for a professor position. They pretty much just do not exists. There are some, but not many and definitely way less than opened position.
I can understand that there may be issues in the H1B program. But there are legitimate use of it as well.
The H1B fees in the US go to public education. Though, it is not 50% of the salary of the employee.
well, they publish pokemon go on the iphone, like any other app. And they take a cut of any app sold, and of any in-app purchase on their store.
Milk is for pussies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Artificial Intelligence is a field of study, just like Algebra.
The way ACM defines it [1], AI includes computer vision, NLP, planning, and knowledge representation and reasoning. All these tasks are today based on computational statistic/machine learning. You can also look at the last AAAI conference [2].
The way it is defined, your GPS is an AI system.
[1] http://dl.acm.org/ccs_flat.cfm
[2] http://www.aaai.org/Conference...
That funny because I am so sick of people complaining of the allegedly incorrect use of the word Artificial Intelligence.
It is the correct academic term for the computing field that include data mining, machine learning, operation research, and statistics. Now, maybe Artificial Intelligence does not mean what you wish it meant. But academics are fairly clear on what it means...
Someone was mentionning BPG as well.
Besting for compression is usually a very relative term as there is a tradeoff between quality, file size, compression time and decompression time.
Now I haven't done any particular research on compression but all the things I read about FLIF and BPG only talked about filesize and quality. This is only part of the equation. Is there more result on this issue ?
Doesn't blizzard distribute its update using bittorrent?
Sounds like it is : http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/c...
Ok, I'll bite.
What about indicating in a super market what are the objects that you want and which are the ones that you don't. That information could come from a master list of what you want to cook this week and what is currently on sales.
This similarly applies to clothing stores: your niece would love that dress and her birthday is in two weeks.
Or in book stores, you could pick up the book and have typical reviews show up around it.
In games, the alien demo from MS hololens was awesome. A colleague of mine has one of the dev kits, and the game was fun and exciting. If it is cheap, I'd buy one.
Once again for board games, like warhammer 40k, you could use VR to make the actual rules of the game using a computer and keep track of the status of a unit, show movement, ...
There is potential in virtual art. I think there was a book of gibson (doctorow?) that integrated the concepts. Though it is somewhat similar to pokemon go.
You could do interesting things in recalling tracking from the past. Maybe you have a room with cameras that constructed a 3d model of the room over time, and you could roll back what happened in the room while being in the room. Gives you a different perspective on event. Could be useful for law enforcement for instance.
I see lots of potential applications of VR. now, holding the phone in front of you has definite drawbacks, but a hololens like device could apply to many things.
Thanks for making me laugh!
I really needed it after this horrific event.
Drones hovering over peoples head in an area where balls are batted at high velocity. What could possibly go wrong.
Did anyone fact-check this slashdot story about fact-checking ?
Please do not judge CS researcher by a single paper. BTW, this paper was not even the best paper at IEEE SP. (complete list with best papers at [1].)
From a quick read of the lava paper. It seems that the novelty aspect of LAVA is that the software can inject bugs automatically in complex codebase. So you no longer have a grad student writing obviously faulty code on a toy program or inserting a few bugs manually to test one or two software. LAVA allows you to insert a myriad of bug in a myriad of software to test border condition more accurately.
Clearly it is not the best idea of the decade, but it is a nice little tool/result.
[1] http://www.ieee-security.org/T...
Well, even if it doesn't apply there, it is still fairly ironic.
well, comparing to the worldwide rate of accident might not be reasonable. Some countries have a very high rate of accident and fatalities. One should compare to the accident rate in the same locations.
According to wikipedia [1], fatalities in driven accident in the us is about 15 per billion mile. Which also about 1 per 65 million miles.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So with over 90% of their money going to employee wages in-country, they can't just tax the income of those employees?
You are ignoring the place where that income is realized matter for taxation and how easy it is to redirect fund to a foreign country. If you cut sales tax tomorrow, you will not raise local wages, the company will incur a large profit that it will offshore to a country where there is no business tax. The tourist pay the same amount, wage did not go up, the French government (in this example) loses tax revenue. The business owner cashes a lot of money.
Maybe they hide that 10% offshore; you get to tax the other 90% immediately
Sales tax is about 20% in france. So you are saying the government lose about 10%-15% of its income on tourist sales tax. That's about a billion dollar that they could get and they don't.
You really need a sales tax to capture the tourism industry?
"Needing" imply that there is no alternative solution. As usual, there are probably plenty of solutions. But that is one that works reasonably. Revenue stream in a global context is not an easy problem.
I'm an optimizer, not a feelings-obsessed git. Fairness is secondary.
So do you think it is right that some companies manage to dodge taxation while some other can not afford the legal fees to enter a tax privileged status ?
It does not matter how you organize taxation or society in general. If there is a rule, you want it to be followed and not avoided by some technicality that enable ones to dodge the taxation.
Take your particular favorite tax regime which is if I understood correctly, tax everyone income at 17%. Now, if you have to non neighboring competing businesses, I don't know, a shoemaker and a baker. The shoemaker give the baker a pair of shoe to the baker every month, and the baker give the shoemaker bread everyday. They both declare the transaction as wasted bread and misconstructed shoe. They did not pay their 17% tax on it, despite clearly the shoes is an income of the baker, and the bread is an income of the shoemaker. Variants of this is illegal in most places, because it is unfair and it bypassed the rule.
If you're going to argue fairness, then businesses deserve to vote in elections. No taxation without representation, right?
I don't see what this have to do with taxing fairly businesses? If there is a business tax code, it should apply the same to all businesses. Here in particular what happens is that some companies manage to pay tax lawyer to dodge taxation by using the complexities of the system. Certainly, this is not what the tax code (and international free trade treaties) intended.
Whether companies should vote is a completely separate issue.
The stupid thing is, it doesn't matter whether you tax businesses or individuals. [...snip...] Why would you ever think it's a good idea to instead tax the company they own, where they can shift the cost of those taxes onto anyone but themselves?
I have no particular opinion on whether it is a good idea or not. But clearly moving from a model to another as consequences. I do not know whether these consequences are good things or bad things, but there are differences.
If you only tax people income and not business profits, then the following scheme becomes possible. If my company makes a lot of sales in 2016, it has a high income and so potentially a high profit which would be taxed, so it has some incentive in paying me in 2016 rather than split in two payments, one in 2016 and one in 2017.
If there is no business tax, then it does not matter to my company whether to pay me half in 2016 and half in 2017 or to pay me full in 2016. But because my personal income tax rate is increase with income, I would rather be paid in two payments to reduce the total amount of taxes paid.
Now, I am not arguing that one is preferable to the other one, but clearly there are differences in how the money flows around, so it DOES matter whether you tax businesses or individuals.
(one could argue that a flax tax rate would solve that issue, but that is a different discussion.)