The new 911 Turbos do not offer manual transmission any more. You can only get the PDK (Porsche Dopplekuppling) dual-clutch gearbox as an option. I enjoy my manual-shifting 996, though it's no fun in stop-and-go.
I'm a computer science professor who started as an assistant professor on an H-1B visa, making less than $110,000. Since then, I've won a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation and brought in a few millions of dollars of federal grant funding, as well as established strong ties with industry and government labs. I've also mentored many graduate and undergraduate students who are US citizens, some who have gone into graduate school with fellowships that have been based on work in my lab. Others have gone onto academic positions of their own after earning a PhD under my advising. Another group of students has gone on to get excellent jobs at major tech companies.
Were this program in place, I would not have been able to get a job in the US. I'm now a green card holder on the path the naturalization, making above the threshold that Senator Cruz proposed, and bringing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to the university where I work. You should ask yourself whether I have been a net positive for the United States or not. If this proposal, supported by many here, goes through, others like me will not even have a chance to prove their value.
I get the issues with the H-1B and the lock-in to companies while making under the prevailing wage, but this is a blunt-force solution that could end up having wildly unintended consequences.
Importantly, this looks to be a Facebook-specific implementation of Vanish, a project with the goal of making data "self-destruct" after a set period of time done by Roxana Geambasu and her colleagues at the University of Washington, linked here.
They describe in their USENIX Security paper why encryption alone doesn't solve the problem.
These are well-known techniques in the telephony world. AT&T has been using this for many years to combat telecom fraud; knowing who you call means that if you don't pay your bill but another phone number starts calling people in your circle of friends, they can identify that it's you making those calls.
Communities of interest have also been examined in the context of IP networks and email. It's an interesting field of research and this seems like a novel analysis, though I'm sure they are doing something very similar within every carrier network.
UPenn, Cornell, Stanford immediate come to mind if you're looking to play at the top level. Look at proceedings of the POPL and PLDI conferences to get a sense of what people are doing and where they are doing it.
At this point, what nation can you really rely on for "economic, academic and political stability"? There were terrorist arrests in Toronto... cue Jon Stewart on the people who hate Canada: "Saying `I hate Canada' is like saying `I hate toast'." No matter what type of bread you are though, it seems someone is out to get you. It seems increasingly clear that you can't rely on anyone to provide a completely safe environment, and concentrating all of your assets in one location is an invitation to disaster.
This is an asinine and insulting statement. Of course I care about what I do, or I wouldn't be in this field today. But you're living in some kind of a pipe dream if you think that finance doesn't play a part in these decisions.
My apologies for what unintentionally came out sounding like an ad hominem attack. I meant "you" in the general sense and should probably have used "one" instead. Also, I didn't check the thread closely enough and thought you were the same poster who started this thread talking about how people would be willing to spend the education time for the seven-figure salary (well, duh).
I found that response irritating and took it out on your post. Sorry.
I concur with your statement on the excessive costs of education. Being stuck with close to or above a six-figure debt for an undergraduate education is a terrible proposition. It seems doubly unfortunate for you that you weren't able to secure subsidised loans whose interest is not payable as long as you are a full-time student. If the government is serious about helping its citizens stay at the forefront of science and technology, it should be doing all it can to help those people with the wherewithal and determination to attain advanced degrees.
There is no question about the sacrifices one has to make for the PhD program, even in computer science and engineering. I have friends getting married, starting families, buying houses, and I'm getting along on the measly stipend that would barely support any of those things. I hope it will be worth it (as previously mentioned, opportunity costs mean I'll come out behind), but only time will tell.
The original assertion I was beefing about was the implied prestige and salary potential of an MD vs a PhD. Particularly after taking malpractice insurance into account, unless you're a specialist, I doubt you're going to come out tremendously ahead. I've always thought MDs are overrated in terms of prestige and perceived intelligence required to garner the degree. Graduate school, from what I've observed, is more mentally challenging than medical school (the MD is a professional degree, essentially) and getting the PhD garners you the right to be called Doctor as much as the MD. As I mentioned, it just so happens that most PhDs don't insist on being called it or don't want to be, perhaps because of the lack of hierarchies such as what are found in hospital environments etc. Nothing stopping you from choosing it as your official title on forms though. If/when I finish my degree, I imagine it will be a real charge to be addressed as Doctor for the first five minutes or so until the novelty wears off.
It is unfortunate for you that you weren't able to continue; I'm sympathetic to your plight. Given that you work with PhDs in your company, perhaps pursuing the degree on a part-time basis may be in the cards (I've worked in a couple of research labs where people were able to do that...had I stayed working at one in particular, that was the career path they had laid out for me).
Yes, very true. And, in fact, with a Ph.D. in Comp. Sci., you get to be called "doctor".
Not unless you end up teaching, which only about 20% of Ph.D. students end up doing.
The PhD means "Doctor of Philosophy", ergo you get to be called doctor. Simple, no? Perhaps surprisingly to you, most medical doctors do not insist on being called "Doctor" amongst their peers. Then again, the lack of doctors of computer science taking their rightful moniker may be the lack the egomaniacal God-complex associated stereotypically with certain classes of medical doctors.
I'm living in the real world, and I can guarantee you that the average income for a PhD in computer science is no where near that of MDs. Especially compared to practicing physicians.
It's true, practising physicians can make much more money that computer science researchers. For that matter, garbagemen make much more money than other professions with similar experience and education requirements. That doesn't mean I'd want to be one. Obviously you should only do a PhD if you are interested in research, that should go without saying. As you astutely determined, the optimal point to finish your education if salary is the most important thing to you is the Master's degree. The opportunity cost of being in school a further four or five years on a graduate stipend will probably end up being higher overall than the extra money you make coming out with the doctorate.
If you don't care about what you are doing and just want to make lots of money, you should be in corporate law. Why bother with something as challenging as science?
Absolutely. There is a general unwillingness to deal with privacy as a major issue here. I would claim that privacy is a basic right that citizens should demand, and it should be legislated into government. There is a privacy commissioner in Canada and associated legislation
that can be enforced; similar governmental structures exist in Europe. For all of the free-market talk and general wish for lack of interference in personal life, wouldn't it make sense for American government to serve the people in a manner that everyone can agree with, by creating safeguards and services that protect our privacy?
Or am i missing something and are OpenVZ and Xen very different products? (doesn't sound like it)
Upside of Xen seems to be the ability to run *bsd and other OS's in guest domains too, no mention of this in OpenVZ
Essentially, Xen creates a new kernel for each virtual machine instance (or dom-u), while OpenVZ appears to use the same kernel instance for each virtual server. The latter approach seems to have benefits for performance and scalability, but if you discover a kernel bug in an OpenVZ server, all other instances are immediately susceptible, whereas with Xen, only the dom-u you are in is exploited (though if all instances are running the same kernel, you're up the creek). You'd generally need to be able to exploit the dom0 in order to affect all dom-u's.
Obviously, you're right about Xen supporting multiple OSes per instantiation versus OpenVZ.
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The new 911 Turbos do not offer manual transmission any more. You can only get the PDK (Porsche Dopplekuppling) dual-clutch gearbox as an option. I enjoy my manual-shifting 996, though it's no fun in stop-and-go.
I'm a computer science professor who started as an assistant professor on an H-1B visa, making less than $110,000. Since then, I've won a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation and brought in a few millions of dollars of federal grant funding, as well as established strong ties with industry and government labs. I've also mentored many graduate and undergraduate students who are US citizens, some who have gone into graduate school with fellowships that have been based on work in my lab. Others have gone onto academic positions of their own after earning a PhD under my advising. Another group of students has gone on to get excellent jobs at major tech companies.
Were this program in place, I would not have been able to get a job in the US. I'm now a green card holder on the path the naturalization, making above the threshold that Senator Cruz proposed, and bringing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to the university where I work. You should ask yourself whether I have been a net positive for the United States or not. If this proposal, supported by many here, goes through, others like me will not even have a chance to prove their value.
I get the issues with the H-1B and the lock-in to companies while making under the prevailing wage, but this is a blunt-force solution that could end up having wildly unintended consequences.
Importantly, this looks to be a Facebook-specific implementation of Vanish, a project with the goal of making data "self-destruct" after a set period of time done by Roxana Geambasu and her colleagues at the University of Washington, linked here. They describe in their USENIX Security paper why encryption alone doesn't solve the problem.
Phew! Thank goodness I defended over the summer. Maybe I should register for a new number certifying I've read the new rules?
These are well-known techniques in the telephony world. AT&T has been using this for many years to combat telecom fraud; knowing who you call means that if you don't pay your bill but another phone number starts calling people in your circle of friends, they can identify that it's you making those calls. Communities of interest have also been examined in the context of IP networks and email. It's an interesting field of research and this seems like a novel analysis, though I'm sure they are doing something very similar within every carrier network.
If you're interested in theory, read up on the DIMACS group at Rutgers. They are very well regarded.
UPenn, Cornell, Stanford immediate come to mind if you're looking to play at the top level. Look at proceedings of the POPL and PLDI conferences to get a sense of what people are doing and where they are doing it.
One good book on investing is David Chilton's The Wealthy Barber. I recommend it.
At this point, what nation can you really rely on for "economic, academic and political stability"? There were terrorist arrests in Toronto... cue Jon Stewart on the people who hate Canada: "Saying `I hate Canada' is like saying `I hate toast'." No matter what type of bread you are though, it seems someone is out to get you. It seems increasingly clear that you can't rely on anyone to provide a completely safe environment, and concentrating all of your assets in one location is an invitation to disaster.
My apologies for what unintentionally came out sounding like an ad hominem attack. I meant "you" in the general sense and should probably have used "one" instead. Also, I didn't check the thread closely enough and thought you were the same poster who started this thread talking about how people would be willing to spend the education time for the seven-figure salary (well, duh). I found that response irritating and took it out on your post. Sorry.
I concur with your statement on the excessive costs of education. Being stuck with close to or above a six-figure debt for an undergraduate education is a terrible proposition. It seems doubly unfortunate for you that you weren't able to secure subsidised loans whose interest is not payable as long as you are a full-time student. If the government is serious about helping its citizens stay at the forefront of science and technology, it should be doing all it can to help those people with the wherewithal and determination to attain advanced degrees.
There is no question about the sacrifices one has to make for the PhD program, even in computer science and engineering. I have friends getting married, starting families, buying houses, and I'm getting along on the measly stipend that would barely support any of those things. I hope it will be worth it (as previously mentioned, opportunity costs mean I'll come out behind), but only time will tell.
The original assertion I was beefing about was the implied prestige and salary potential of an MD vs a PhD. Particularly after taking malpractice insurance into account, unless you're a specialist, I doubt you're going to come out tremendously ahead. I've always thought MDs are overrated in terms of prestige and perceived intelligence required to garner the degree. Graduate school, from what I've observed, is more mentally challenging than medical school (the MD is a professional degree, essentially) and getting the PhD garners you the right to be called Doctor as much as the MD. As I mentioned, it just so happens that most PhDs don't insist on being called it or don't want to be, perhaps because of the lack of hierarchies such as what are found in hospital environments etc. Nothing stopping you from choosing it as your official title on forms though. If/when I finish my degree, I imagine it will be a real charge to be addressed as Doctor for the first five minutes or so until the novelty wears off.
It is unfortunate for you that you weren't able to continue; I'm sympathetic to your plight. Given that you work with PhDs in your company, perhaps pursuing the degree on a part-time basis may be in the cards (I've worked in a couple of research labs where people were able to do that...had I stayed working at one in particular, that was the career path they had laid out for me).
Not unless you end up teaching, which only about 20% of Ph.D. students end up doing.
The PhD means "Doctor of Philosophy", ergo you get to be called doctor. Simple, no? Perhaps surprisingly to you, most medical doctors do not insist on being called "Doctor" amongst their peers. Then again, the lack of doctors of computer science taking their rightful moniker may be the lack the egomaniacal God-complex associated stereotypically with certain classes of medical doctors.
I'm living in the real world, and I can guarantee you that the average income for a PhD in computer science is no where near that of MDs. Especially compared to practicing physicians.
It's true, practising physicians can make much more money that computer science researchers. For that matter, garbagemen make much more money than other professions with similar experience and education requirements. That doesn't mean I'd want to be one. Obviously you should only do a PhD if you are interested in research, that should go without saying. As you astutely determined, the optimal point to finish your education if salary is the most important thing to you is the Master's degree. The opportunity cost of being in school a further four or five years on a graduate stipend will probably end up being higher overall than the extra money you make coming out with the doctorate. If you don't care about what you are doing and just want to make lots of money, you should be in corporate law. Why bother with something as challenging as science?
Absolutely. There is a general unwillingness to deal with privacy as a major issue here. I would claim that privacy is a basic right that citizens should demand, and it should be legislated into government. There is a privacy commissioner in Canada and associated legislation that can be enforced; similar governmental structures exist in Europe. For all of the free-market talk and general wish for lack of interference in personal life, wouldn't it make sense for American government to serve the people in a manner that everyone can agree with, by creating safeguards and services that protect our privacy?
Essentially, Xen creates a new kernel for each virtual machine instance (or dom-u), while OpenVZ appears to use the same kernel instance for each virtual server. The latter approach seems to have benefits for performance and scalability, but if you discover a kernel bug in an OpenVZ server, all other instances are immediately susceptible, whereas with Xen, only the dom-u you are in is exploited (though if all instances are running the same kernel, you're up the creek). You'd generally need to be able to exploit the dom0 in order to affect all dom-u's.
Obviously, you're right about Xen supporting multiple OSes per instantiation versus OpenVZ.