Not trying to undermine your point, but I believe it won't take much long to re-train those "imported" doctors. Only those who are ambitious and bright would come to the US and I have at least a handful of friends from the medical school in Myanmar, who were in the same class year as I was, already doing their residencies. Most of them took ~2-3 years of taking the USMLE and applying for hospitals in the US which sponsors H1B (mostly the rural ones). They seem to be liking what opportunity they've been given to as far as I can tell. I actually regret quitting med school there and leaving for college in the US after my 2nd year just because I want to be an aerospace engineer (turns out, I cannot because there's almost no company that would hire an H1B aerospace engineer, so I had to change my studies back to comp sci).
One thing that I never understood about the US medical education is the requirement of the bachelor's degree (pre-med) before applying for most med schools. In my home country and many others, you can directly apply to med school. Now that the college costs are quite considerably expensive, four-additional year of college studies simply adds to the cost of becoming a doctor and therefore, the newly minted doctors expect to make a lot of money. This pre-med education requirement adds unnecessary, in my opinion, burden not only to wannabe-doctors, but also to the medical system (create scarcity of doctors to say the least).
Not sure if someone already has pointed this out, but one small caveat I'd add is that learning the table of 11 is not that difficult. I think the extra effort required to learn 11 and 12 tables are, therefore, a bit overestimated.
Actually, it all comes down to whether you can see and appreciate the skills involved or not. I didn't realize that in the beginning, but now I do. You have to know that there's a lot of skill and practice involved in making the way the players pass the ball (in soccer/basketball/hockey), the decisions they make to distribute the ball (e.g., attack from the middle, from the side, one-two passes and sometimes, individual dribbling skills). These are all very difficult to do for any amateur (or even some professional) players, and it becomes to see it AND appreciate that only after you've played soccer (basketball, hockey, or any sports you name it) yourself. I could watch a soccer game without any goals being scored and yet still get enjoyment out of it.
Another somewhat related analogy would be that I was never trained in playing any musical instruments; I never am interested in learning how to play one myself. But when I see an orchestra playing a random classical music (i.e. the kind of music I personally find boring), I still appreciate that they are showing off skill that they practiced to acquire for many years.
What ISP do you have? Mine is Time Warner and it started with $35/month (after applying their first-time subscriber discount) >4 years ago. The first 3 years, it was 15Mbps, then it was increased to 20Mbps. But the cost eventually increased to $55/month in 2015 and by then, I cannot justify spending that much for an online access as a grad student (usually am not home), so I told them to downgrade me back to 15Mbps for $35/month just a few months ago. Overall, I do not notice much of a difference in speed decrease, but I wish there is more ISP available in my area other than Time Warner, who seems to have a monopoly here...
Is it fair to assume that the model of voluntary contribution/donation doesn't stick with the major publishers because they could potentially make less money by adopting such model? Is there any major content publisher which adopts voluntary-donation-as-income model? I can see that a lot of casual reader like me will forget (or some intentionally ignore) to "tip/donate" whenever we read, say, the New York Times (by "casual", I mean someone like me who reads one NYT article a day at most). For cases like mine, what about encouraging (via a pop-up at the corner?) the site visitors to donate if they visit your site to read a certain number of articles in a day or a week? Will that work?
I feel like there has to be a happy medium where publishers get paid some reasonable amount for their content, and readers also get to enjoy the content for a reasonable price. I think this model can coexist with the current model if the reader/content consumer doesn't mind the ads.
This (anonymity) is impossible in my opinion. Research projects can be so focused/narrow that anyone who is following the conference proceedings/papers could narrow down at least some of contributing authors in some papers fairly easily.
Thanks for chiming in your opinion about the Philly weather. I personally prefer Philly or DC's weather than Boston's, but these are all subjective. :)
I'm just wondering if there's any bad/good connotation about Philly weather in general. The way you wrote above make it sounds like it's bad(?), but from my college years studying a few miles outside of Philly, I never thought it was bad.
The introvert vs. extrovert part just sounds like what I experience. I consider myself decent in writing and reading skills, but when it comes to speaking and communicating ideas, it doesn't come natural to a non-native speaker like myself. Worse is when people expect you to think and speak out loud during programming interviews. Then, my brain is tasked to do two things at once under a lot of pressure.
That's what I wonder every now and then, too. Like a couple of comments noted here, I have never heard of peanut allergies in my country (Myanmar) until I came to the US. Myanmar people eat a lot of peanut-based snacks (including the famous national salad called "Lahpet", which has peanut. It could entirely be due to genetics (i.e. south east asians are genetically immune to peanut allergies?), but I really would like to know the answer one day.
You are not alone. I'm also the same type of person, who become nervous when interacting with the interviewer. I am fine talking to coworkers one-on-one or contributing ideas in the group meetings. But when it comes with the pressure of securing a job (not to mention that I, as a candidate, has to go through several rounds of interviews within a day), it becomes a bit too much.
I was one of those kids. Grew up in a Southeast asian country. Shop snacks and stuff from grocery stories up to 5 blocks away from my house (blocks are about the same size as the ones in SF downtown). Beyond 5 blocks, my parents would not approve until I get to like 7 yrs.
Please read my comment above. I lost hope on these UN and NGOs since I interned at a few INGOs (three) before going to college. I'd certainly recommend you to donate to charities that gives directly to the people (not the middle management and people who work) and the ones that have good transparency record.
I also have a friend who works in the stats department in NYC. Back in 2011, he was getting paid almost 90K salary (not including benefits like you mentioned) and he told me that he loves his job because there's little or no responsibility and is certainly not challenging. He's still at UN and I haven't talked to him in the past couple of years. That and my personal experience interning at NGOs have convinced me that these jobs actually are quite chill and well-paid with little or no actual work (the hard work like field trips are usually delegated to locals, who are paid significantly less than the management, who are usually foreigners).
Can someone help me--who isn't familiar with future trading--understand this article by providing a "layman" explanation? I read this twice and from what I can gather, Kraft bought futures for a different type of grain and as a result, the price for the other type of grain/wheat is reduced? Thanks in advance! (wish I learned a bit more economics)
US Work visas? No...unfortunately. There is not only a cap on it, but the demand is way much more than the cap can handle (also thanks partially to companies like Infosys which abuse the system).
I see it differently. I personally don't do well when somebody told me to solve a problem (regardless of the difficulty) in an hour or so while that person is around. I want to think quietly in my head or write down stuff where I need to (on a notebook or even type up quickly in the IDE/notepad app). I also want to look up the existing tools and stuff that I could use so that I can build something the right way. Even for a small coding problem like sorting, I want to run it in my head or write it down on paper lone to test it. That's why the current way of interviewing is so much trouble for me. I could solve most of the problems that are given in the modern day tech interviews IF I am alone given an hour without having to speak it out loud.
Better option would be that they give me a small, independent project to work on for a few days and once I finish it, I talk about how I approach and solve the problem with the interviewer via phone/skype/gchat. That would have actually been the best way to test a candidate's ability.
As someone who will be graduating in less than a year of PhD in comp sci., I would like to encourage you to not give up on all PhDs with such assumption. Like you, I am not impressed with the prospect of academia and research in general. But I honestly don't think a majority of CS phd students at decent (top 50) universities will fail fizzbuzz test as long as they have had undergraduate CS background. Some of us may fail to implement BFS/DFS/merge/quicksort during a 45 minute interview, but I think this is due to the interviewing process for tech jobs being somewhat broken (I saw my peers studying 3 or more months with interview prep books/sites and thought it's becoming ridiculous). A much better way to test a candidate would be to assign him/her a take-home assignment/project and let him/her work on it independently or along with your team, and judge his/her candidacy based on it (if your company can afford the extra time/resource for such process). I'm sure you'll notice those PhD folks from CS would not be as bad as you think they are.
In any case, I'd (for selfish reason) encourage you to be open-minded and give applicants with PhD background at least an equal chance. Personally, I never wanted a PhD, but I went for it because I needed to keep my immigrant status legal, and I couldn't pay for a master's degree out of pocket (if I enroll for a PhD program, I get a master's degree for free on the way). The downside of being a PhD student is that it is significantly more difficult for me to find my way back into software positions, which is something I wanted to do eventually; the HR usually throws away my resume with the assumption(s) that I am either only interested in research or am "overqualified" (or that I'd ask for more money), all of which are incorrect for a lot of PhD students, like me, stuck in academia for now. For all HR or recruiters reading this, I'd encourage you all to give PhD students a fair shot for the programming positions at your firms. You might find that these PhD students are more motivated or have more persistence/endurance (as most who survive the PhD experience usually have) or if you're lucky, are better prepared and thoughtful programmers.
What kind of diet do you follow? Could you give a quick example of your daily food for the week? Sorry, it's a bit off-topic to be asking this on HN, but I am hitting my 30s and want to make sure I eat right from now on.
Can someone explain why one can't simply average the individual average results as the author wrote below:
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No, we can't run averages on worker nodes, and then average those out. We need to have each worker node compute their sum(order_value) and count(order_value), and then sum(sum()) / sum(count()) on the coordinator node.
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Can you explain a bit on what innovation means in financial industry? This is not a sarcasm or a mockery, but a serious question. I have a friend in financial industry who works for Barclays and she always complains that the regulations are getting tougher, and it's hard to innovate. With you saying that, it starts to make me wonder what kind of innovation one could possibly create in banking other than loaning out money in various forms, and insuring assets.
So which one is the novel contribution here? I get that he is combining a bunch of EXISTING technologies, but does he need to be in the video? Are his motives just to show off the technology HE invented or just a way to publicize his company and his name? I have seen many projects where they control objects in the computer with hand motion (and even gesture) like this.
I'm sick of people worshiping folks like him or Jobs for no apparent reason. I get that he's risk-averse and is willing to put his money into innovative ideas, but it's not like they're all coming out from Musk.