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>>most hackernews users don't live in India where that applies due to the large diploma mill churning problems they have as well as cheating at the university level.

Sorry to let you know but you don't have 'large diploma mill churning' or 'cheating at the university level' in India. In general, the situation is same as in US.

Alumni connections will take you places your hardwork won't take you in the next 7 lives. Same in India, same in the US. I hope we could all graduate from coursera and be considered the same as people from Stanford. In reality, University education has very little to do with 'education', its a membership to a club that takes care of you all your life.
Are there any projects like that that show people how to write a bootloader? I have been wanting to write something like Xv6 except I want to write everything that will be running except BIOS code.

I have yet to find something on bootloader code.
Exceptional people in any profession are in short supply. Isn't that a true statement?

Whether that justifies hiring internationally and issuing visa waivers, I'm not sure, but good people sure are hard to find regardless of industry.
I wish I had known about this when I lived in NZ (was there for over two years). Yes, the greens in NZ are quite amazing. I even had a nice camera, but I never once thought about taking some maco shots of moss. I miss out on some great opportunities to photo these little mini-forests.
The response I see most often to this question - and one that is clearly inaccurate - is that police don't target people for their politics or their culture.

To my way of thinking, the entire concept of drug prohibition is an attack on a particular culture - a particular diet - which is strongly associated with a particular array of politics.

I think it's reasonable to assess that the US today is a police state.
Thanks for picking that nit, I wasn't aware of that. I can count the number of handguns I've fired in my life on one finger (and it was a PPK).

I believe the analogy on the whole is still roughly valid, just s/when the safety is on/without pulling the trigger/
How do robots 'see' the world?
Thank you greatly!
It's a good example of "no, seriously, AIs might figure out how to do weird stuff".
You can see the general trends in this article:
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/occupational-employ...

One disturbing finding - in the higher income areas, the only areas with strong growth are in healthcare and tech/CS. Almost nothing outside of that.
When you say that you can do arbitrary precision linear algebra, do you control the scalar type or is the code templated on it? Basically, can we run the factorizations over arbitrary scalar types, which allows things like automatic differentiation over the factorizations?

How does the performance of the linear algebra compare to other templated linear algebra codes like Eigen?
Pretty sure racism predates colonialism and the slave trade of the era. Slavery and racism dates to antiquity at least, and probably back to prehistoric tribal days.
I think it is part of the "Windows as a service" vision.

I've no doubt you're right. Unfortunately, if there is one thing in computing that really shouldn't be some sort of super-connected, ever-changing, as-a-service rubbish, it's the basic OS your whole machine runs on. This direction was inevitable the moment they appointed Nadella CEO, but I've always maintained it was another case of Microsoft trying to jump on the bandwagon long after other big players and then misjudging when it did.

I suspect a lot of people are going to watch with something of an open mind until the year after launch when the deadline for a free update to Win10 expires, and then there are probably going to be some hard questions asked about adoption levels and revenue streams and why so many businesses and home users are still on 7/8, and then Nadella is going to decide to spend more time with his family and be replaced by someone who pushes Microsoft firmly back towards its traditional and probably much more successful roots in 2-3 years before Win7 support runs out and forces some really serious questions to be asked by Microsoft's core customer base.
Never heard of it before, thanks for the info.

http://www.thewire.com/politics/2013/07/nsa-admits-it-analyz...

Best source I could find, unfortunately, couldn't find the testimony itself in text.
Robots used to attach Syria
Why Dealership Used Cars Cost More
All I'm doing is trying to examine your claim at the extremes. At the other end, are we able to tell the difference between zero suffering and some suffering?
Maybe this can be used to generate embarrassing nonsense tattoos for idiotic Americans.
Yeah, double-action-only should be the default for all handguns short of crazy .22LR target pistols.
Cardiac Arrhythmias
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http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/118/8/800.abstract?ijkey...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19633305

Atherosclerosis
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21200345

http://www.healio.com/cardiology/chd-prevention/news/online/...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18426850

Oxidative Stress
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16941810
Plus the absence of internet-enabled devices (phones, etc.) in theaters.

I recall when "The Godfather" and "Rocky" were in first-run theaters for at least a year. The Syufy theaters had a quarter-page print ad for one or more films every single day.
The "Occupy" movement was targeted by police, as one example of a non-violent political group targeted by the police.*

I agree that the US is a police state.

*And by targeted I mean we had undercover police officer agent-provocateurs trying to encourage our local Occupy group to engage in serious crimes and provided materials for those crimes.
I think Terry is more to blame. Of course, there is also the problem of making money on Windows too, especially as most of the Windows sales are OEM. I am thinking of breaking up Microsoft's Windows division into a non-profit foundation, funded by hardware vendors like Dell and Intel with no per system licensing fees required anymore for example. Of course, it would be complex and have to be planned carefully.
"Keep in mind that this was a ruling for summary judgment. This was not a trial. To dismiss the suit at this stage, Lungstrum [the judge] needed to view the facts in a light most favorable to the Hartes [the SWATed family]."

Words fail me.
I remember our old console CRT TV when I was a kid was starting to go. All the colours were getting fuzzy. My dad and cousin had the back off and were adjusting parts of the CRT tube using screwdrivers wrapped in electrical type while wearing gloves.

My dad was a EE and cousin a CompSci. I think even then as a kid, I realize how incredibly dangerous this was. It really didn't seem worth it. They did get the colours sorted out and it lasted like 8 or 9 months before it started going again and my dad gave up on it. Seems like an incredible amount of disk to to take to squeeze out a little more use.
>There was a moment in his childhood, he recalls, when his parents lived together and the bills were being paid on time. But bad luck and a bad economy shook it all apart. One Thanksgiving, he says, his mother suffered eight strokes. A couple of months later his dad, a roofer, was badly injured in an accident.

That this shortcut to poverty by medical bills can happen in a modern western society is appalling.
Tesla has big, big plans for the next 4 years
He specifically does not pass a judgement on them. Just that the military-industrial-surveillance state has a banality of professionalism to it.
Unfortunately, the people who run the Indian and Chinese economies don't agree. If only the world was run by people who have deep thoughts on the Internet. If you read through most comments in this thread, we have no real answers. That indicates things will get much worse.
Articles like this will likely be censored in 20 years
Law enforcement do what they want. That simple.
'police state' isn't something well defined.

In any case, regardless of the fact that these sorts of incident are not uncommon, they're not particularly frequent either.

The term _police state_ has 'taken on an emotional and derogatory meaning" by describing an undesirable state of living characterized by the overbearing presence of the civil authorities'

Which isn't at all the case for most people. More like isolated abuses of power than the pervasive control of civil authorities. It's a problem, and the problem is growing, but "police state" is an unhelpful hyperbole – using terms like that loses you credibility and distracts from the real discussions that should be happening.
Wages are not being driven down by labor supply. Rather as this particular example clearly shows, they are being driven down by the underlying economics of production. Another example of this trend is Detroit. The United Auto Workers union succeeded in keeping the wages high, but the underlying economics of production destroyed the industry.

The lesson in this scenario, is counter-intuitive. You can regulate, unionize and force wages to stabilize. But that can only help you in short term. On a longer timeframe, innovation and foreign labor catches up and now instead of losing few jobs to talented foreigners you end up losing the entire supply chain. The Software Industry thankfully has been able to resist this trend. The same report shows solid growth across all software related professions.
It's hard to read stories like this. It's so clear that the diversity issues in the tech industry are in part a signal of a much larger issue in our nation. Under represented minorities have such a tough time getting a decent education let alone one in computer science.

That said, I'm hopeful that the industry that I'm a part of can play a large role in fixing this.
When they found no evidence, they didn't file charges. That's a pretty major difference.
To play devil's advocate:

> Just force corporations to pay proper taxes,

Considering that the USA is one of the few countries that taxes on overseas profits, and has a higher rate of tax than many countries, what exactly are 'proper taxes'?

And considering that many countries have eliminated or reduced the cost of university without raising taxes excessively, why is it impossible to do the same in the USA?
>The ones who succeed, are usually more tolerant to stress and that is a major reason they complete their college.

They are usually also the lighter cases (less unstable situations), with a least some parental support, and also the ones who got a few more lucky breaks.

In the end, though, they ascribe it all to their "hard work" and ignore those things -- condemning those less fortunate. Mostly like privileged stable upper middle class students do.
They had digital subscriptions. In fact, I'd guess that WSJ.com was the first successful paid-online-subscription newspaper that still endures as paid subscription. (The San Jose Mercury was earlier, but they went free later for a number of years.)

Back in the 90s, WSJ Op-Ed content was free, but the rest was paywalled.
It's China. It's not a free democratic country, it never has been, and it's not going to be any time soon.

Not that it's not worth working towards, but encryption is just a tiny corner of the problem there. Nothing that threaten the stability of the ruling party is going tobe allowed.
Your statement is ridiculous. I'm not going to discuss the demand for accountants and cab drivers or the differences between engineering job and cab driver, but your assumption of there are plenty of exceptional accountants in India and exceptional cab drivers in Europe is unfounded.

Why would Indian accountants be experts with U.S. accounting practices and tax laws? Would they be amazing at dealing with customers and auditors? What makes you say they'd be more cost effective than American accountants?

Why would European cab drivers be more effective than American cab drivers? If you put one of those crazy taxi drivers from Eastern Europe here he'd get arrested within hours. Would they provide better customer service when they don't even speak English?

Where as for Engineers, good engineers from China and India are just as good at their subject as anyone and culture barrier is not really a big concern when you are dealing with pure technology, so of course it makes sense to hire top engineers from other countries.
There is no STEM shortage.
That's a confusing assertion, to me. This is no more beautiful than recent Fedora versions with Gnome 3.

The two are extremely similar in appearance. Very simple, very clean, nice little calendar, nice sidebar thingy. They are different in functionality (sidebars on Gnome 3 are for apps...available shortcuts on the left, and running apps and desktops on the right, and calendar is in the center and pops out of the top bar), but they look so similar that I could easily mistake one for the other, when the calendar and such is not open. The status bar and start menu at the bottom is the only notable difference, and that's certainly not the difference between "beautiful" and not.

I agree that this desktop looks nice. But, it looks nice in ways that current Gnome on Fedora looks nice. Clean, unobtrusive menus and status info, etc. And, I think both are (finally) nicer than Mac OS X. I find Mac OS X (and Windows) too busy, in comparison. They both look a bit like Android, actually, which I also like.

Edit: Screenshots of my current, stock, F23+Gnome 3 desktop, so we can be on the same page about what I'm talking about. http://imgur.com/a/j2uRT
You can teach an 8-year kid the scientific method so they can "do science" with household chemicals. Probably they won't discover anything novel, but assuming they don't look at the internet it will be new to them and that's the important bit: reasoning about truth on the basis of experimental observation.
Has anyone gotten their qemu to compile? I patched around
this problem (I have gcc 4.something):

ansel:~/xv6/qemu ./configure --disable-kvm
ERROR: glib-2.12 required to compile QEMU

and then hit this one:

ansel:~/xv6/qemu ./configure --disable-kvm

ERROR: DTC not present. Your options:
(1) Preferred: Install the DTC devel package
(2) Fetch the DTC submodule, using:
git submodule update --init dtc

got the submodule, did a make:

Makefile:116: * target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.3 and up to date.
Not to mention that $60 billion sounds like a small part of the military budget, which is already 4-10 times the size of the next country, and mostly used to abuse other places instead of defense.
If a urinal on a pedestal can be art, I think we've lost the fight when it comes to the word having any meaning.
It may be standard for Java, but I wouldn't say it's simple. I'll give you an example.

Say I want to use protobufs. There are a couple prerequisites: 1) I have to know the protobuf syntax. 2) I have to know how to compile the protobuf file into my language of choice.

If you're using maven, you also have to know which plugin to use (a simple google search), and add the 30 lines of XML to your build file. This is not such a big deal, except you're also hoping that the plugin supports all the protoc features that you may need. And what versions of protoc does the plugin work with? And is the plugin well documented?

Compare this to using make, or even using the <exec> ant task. protoc is well documented and you can access all the features you want in a standard way (command line options and arguments).
FTA: "Once they had been cleared of any wrongdoing, the Hartes wanted to know what happened. Why had they been raided?"

They got raided because in a police state, constant paramilitary raids happen whether or not the police have valid criminal targets. If there are no real criminals to raid, criminals will be invented. Poor quality contraband testing and the drug war itself are two such ways that criminals can be invented. The purpose of creating criminals and conducting armed raids is to keep the citizens afraid of their government.

We've fallen a long way. In what world is the growing of a certain kind of plant a legitimate reason for a violent raid?

Fascist behavior is exactly why I am purely indifferent when the police are killed or maimed: they have earned their reputation as oppressors and wear it with stolid pride.
I'm comparing computer science majors, which is the majority (80% in 2015) of those in the computer science category. I think this removes outliers like someone getting a bachelors in computer science with a major in financial engineering at Cornell making 200k on Wall Street after graduation.

2014 67,500. 2015 65,004. Down about 3.7%, which adds up over time.

Either way, from my point of view, the software "profession" is dead in the water unless real change in the industry and our government happens.
What's mysterious? Legit curious.
I wish people would stop downvoting posts that make reasonable points in a civilised way. The parent post gave two perfectly sensible and polite answers to the question that was asked, even if not everyone might agree with them.
Admittedly, there's real danger when a cultural majority uses "weirdness" as a value judgment on immigrants and foreigners.

But...

If hardmaru's remark about Japanese culture ("a society where the process matters just as much as the end result") is incorrect, I'd prefer to see that idea challenged for accuracy, rather than labeling it as "hegemonic".

The remark about calligraphers exploding was a joke - even in Japan/China, there's the stereotype that calligraphers are fussy perfectionists. My grandfather was a calligrapher for the Taiwanese govt for many years and he'd probably explode too, if he saw any of my Chinese handwriting.

Cultures are inherently different, and I think it's okay to point out oddities in one's culture or someone else's. hardmaru seems to have lived in Japan long enough to be credible on this matter, and I have no reason to suspect bad intentions.
I hope this remains true though, Japan has some of the most rigorous safety regulations but Fukushima still slipped through. Indian government is largely corrupt, incompetent and not known for following safety precautions. The risk will be multiplied by every new nuclear plant built there.
I ran across the current generation iPod Touch while I was looking at the iPhones and couldn't help wishing that Apple would make a phone in that form factor. I understand the existence of tablet phones like the Plus: half the population regularly carries a large bag capable of holding a small tablet, and so they have little reason to buy a separate device. But even the 6s isn't terribly practical to carry in a pocket, and the form factor is poor for its intended purpose as a handheld device. It's too small to replace a tablet, and too big to be comfortably used as a phone.
Thanks, we don't need to simulate real use, once we are close to 10 Gbps we will benchmark different approaches for packet capturing in Windows like our own driver, WinPcap, NDIS, and WFP.
On the surface that does seem to be a major difference, however given that there was _no_ evidence that anyone in that house would be bearing arms (at least according to the article) the bar for forcing one's way into a house and pointing a gun at someone should be much, much higher.
Cool stuff! ajwhite put something similar together with an old Android tablet and React Native: https://github.com/ajwhite/MagicMirror
YMMV but in Chicago they just plant the "evidence" anyway
>A contemporary aesthetic that the fools in our art departments crafted in the 1960s under the guiding hand of the CIA

Wait what?
Given that fully developed western countries have not figured it out, why would you expect that a largely impoverished emerging country will?
Lived there for almost all my life, among well-educated, well informed people mostly — and still depressingly big amount of them are sincere in their support.

You know why I despise the western anti-establishment activists who are afraid of US and Europe turning into totalitarian regimes? Because they have a very naive image of what totalitarian state is and how it starts. Today's Russia didn't start in former KGB or in government offices; it started in Stalin-loving hutjob papers. It started with ideology, and that ideology filled a vacuum that the cleptocratic elites desperately needed.

If you fear for your country's future, know that a self-serving capitalist asshole is not nearly as dangerous as a sincere actuvist who really wants to make the world a better place.
As of a few days ago, Elemental supports a BigFloat class which wraps MPFR along with MPI wrappers and distributed matrix classes which template over it.

It would be a modest project to support other datatypes, as the main obstacles are MPI wrappers and perhaps some explicit instantiations. I would be happy to respond in excruciating detail on dev@libelemental.org.

As for performance: Elemental is focused on distributed-memory functionality but still achieves performance comparable to optimized libraries when run on a single process (indeed, Elemental often maps down to OpenBLAS, MKL, etc. when run with only one process).
I think moss is beautiful. I transplanted a lot of it to my stone garden (with permission from the owner of the nearby forest).

In England where it rains a lot, they use chemicals to try and kill any moss in their lawns. Id be happy if my lawn was nothing but moss though.
Replace the word Apple here with Microsoft and you would be making the argument for open standards and platforms circa 1999-2005. In the end the web was built so we didn't have to download a bunch of software. That is the logical conclusion of this debate.
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Docear (http://www.docear.org/) + Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/), with Emacs+AucTeX for the writing.

They all fit together.

>- recording notes and ideas from papers

Docear's core is a mind-mapping application that is used for taking and linking to different notes - you can take notes using whatever app you want and then add it to the mind map-

> - recording where I got a paper from, ie was it referenced from another paper or found on a particular site?

With Zotero this can be as simple as a click, it adds the current page and document along with metadata and can export it to bibtex or the like, thus tying it to docear.

> - even how to read a paper.

This is not a technology problem, investigate approaches such as SQ3R (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ3R) which is the one I use (actually the variation SQW3R) or PQRST (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_skills#Reading_and_liste...). I keep a low-tech approach on purpose for this, but there is nothing preventing using Docear for this as well of course.

>Right now I use google docs with sub folders for unread, read and implemented papers. I tend to use Acrobat to highlight sections of a paper that I find important and Evernote for saving more important notes.

Docear is supposed to be used with PDF annotators, it then scans the PDFs and automatically creates the references mind map.

> If anyone has a good system for how to read papers more efficiently, how to store notes/annotations for a given paper, or how to track a todo reading list I'd be very appreciative!

For reading them take a look at those I mentioned before, SQ3R has been useful for me in terms of articles and books. To store things Zotero is very good for anything which is done via browser. Docear is useful for managing different "projects" (could be disciplines, specific papers, etc). For TODOs you can either also keep them in Docear (since it has a mind mapper you can create a new node and add the references you exported from Zotero there, actually Docear scans the library and automatically adds any PDF to a specific node) or use something like Evernote.