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Written in XML?! That's the first I've heard. Though also a fine proof that what you're writing is much more important than how you're writing it.

(Still, though -- XML?)
There is some provision for parallelization in afl: https://github.com/mirrorer/afl/blob/master/docs/parallel_fu...
Keep in mind that there's lots of different definitions of classes.

Software reasonably fits in as a white collar job, which is working class.

In general it's probably more interesting to discuss the various things people use to differentiate roles than it is to argue about what words should be used to describe the roles.
My first degree was in "Theoretical Math". I took classes in subjects like Number Theory, Topology, Analysis, Non-commutative Ring Theory. The subjects were about Math not how to do Math to solve other problems. We studied proofs not applying math to solve word problems.

As an example, I wasn't very good at solving differential equations, a very important part of math used to solve many real-life problems. Instead I studied things like the Lebesgue Integration which extends the notion of integration to a larger set of functions for which the more familiar Riemann integral wouldn't be defined. That was taught in my second semester real analysis course that had these prerequisites: Real Analysis I, Complex Analysis I, Differential Equations, Calc I and Calc II. A lot of work to get to an interesting subject, but a subject of interest to Mathematicians not engineers using math.
An undergraduate degree in Applied math, in contrast to theoretical math, would probably have involved learning more about, say, differential equations.
Kamen is a legend in my eyes. Taking part of FIRST steered several classmates and I to become engineers. Electrical, mechanical, and software!
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To add to the above, From Wikipedia[0]:

NVLink is a communications protocol developed by Nvidia. NVLink specifies a point-to-point connection between a CPU and a GPU and also between a GPU and another GPU. NVLink products introduced to date focus on the high-performance application space.

and [1]:

NVLink – a power-efficient high-speed bus between the CPU and GPU, and between multiple GPUs. Allows much higher transfer speeds than those achievable by using PCI Express; estimated to provide between 80 and 200 GB/s.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVLink

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce#PASCAL
He doesn't have to be confrontational at all.

An e-mail in a softer tone, stating the facts and that it hurts would be enough. He should mention HR in there too.
"average income" as reported is usually the median.

Edit: I'm not sure why I'm getting downvotes.

Anywhere you read about average incomes from a serious source it'll be the median, no one uses "mean income" for average when dealing with incomes, since the distribution is so skewed.

If you even just google "average income" it'll report you the median. Median is so completely standard when reporting on income data that it gets short-handed to "average".
I guess there are no known security issues but they are speculating that the vDSO mechanisms may have not-yet-discovered bugs in them.

The idea is just having a special page that is mapped as read-only in userspace and kernel writable. If it's correctly implemented, it should be safe.
Is all this due to Marissa Mayer's failure at the helm of Yahoo or is it just a logical business decision the shareholders made? Whats the backstory.
It certainly distorts results where the median and average in the general population differ by a lot. Where I live the average is almost 50% higher than the median.
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>> there's always a shortage of programmers

Wow, people really have forgotten the IT-death. :-)

There are cycles and bubbles here too. They just might not be in phase with the general economy.

(And get off my lawn. :-) )
Doctors and lawyers require outside certification and extensive post-graduate education just to enter the industry. Comparing them to software engineers is not a useful comparison.
Let's do some basic math - she makes $400,000 a year, on 131 units. 400,000 / 131 / 12 = $254 a month per unit. That's really not a ton of money for each one. $254 for your own place to live isn't a bad deal.

Additionally, when they say she makes $400k a year - is this her take home, or her business's gross profit? Are they considering the money she has to spend on mortgages, insurance, repairs, business administration, rent collection, legal fees, etc?

A holiday in Jamaica is something most middle class people can and often do afford, even lower middle class. You can get a trip to an all inclusive for a week with airfare for $1000, maybe even less.
The purpose of PEP 3147 is to fix some of those problems: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3147/

Addendum: I'd might as well mention that PEP 3147 is implemented from Python 3.2 onwards, so for Python 3, some of the problem is solved.

You still have the issue of being able to install different version of the same library.
Planet Good,a crowdfunding site for people to raise money and find volunteers
Problem:

The majority of news media relays information on crisis and tragedies. A few examples are earthquakes and other natural disasters, terrorism, accidents, etc. And often, the common person is just dealing with personal struggles or trauma in their own lives (i.e. a sudden death of a loved one). Or a person has a mission of a community project and needs a few volunteers.

How can people help those in need and show empathy and support through financial and other means?

Solution:

We believe there is a need for a website that speaks to the goodness of people, to instill empathy to help their fellow man and woman.

Our solution is Planet Good (tm). People will be able to post their stories and raise funds and/or request volunteers for their causes or causes for other people.

We have the trademark for Planet Good (planetgood.org), a Facebook, and Twitter account.

https://www.facebook.com/planetgood/

https://twitter.com/PlanetGood

We needs funds to develop the website and app to bring this project to reality.

Progress:

We designed the initial wire frames for the Planet Good website. We need funds to develop the website and iOS and Android App.

Thank you for Consideration, Comments, and Votes!
That's just it. They are not false claims. You're doing actual testing for actual home health hazards.

But the sort of person who would buy your testing service is also the sort of person that does not buy houses that typically have such hazards in them. You are mostly going to be validating subjective emotional impressions with objective empirical evidence. It's a very powerful feeling to have someone else prove without a doubt that your gut feeling was correct.

For a small minority, you will actually be identifying real household dangers, so it's a win-win business.
> downtime -- the amount of time software engneers spend unemployed (due to economic cycle, startup bankruptcy, downsizing, etc.)

funny but from my circle of friends I never heard of anyone being unemployed and looking for job for more than a month. I myself had exactly 0 time of looking for a job in 12 years of working. I'm in Europe, though, we're ridiculously underpaid compared to the US I think. Very few people earn more than 100K.
This is a very good point. I work on a team with 7 Scala developers of varied experience. When someone commits code it is reviewed. If the reviewer doesn't understand the code we will talk it over as a group and either learn the new technique or decide that the complexity is not worth the benefit and maybe even rewrite the commit. We encourage people to talk about new techniques before implementing so that rewrites are rare.
I don't have any hard research, but I suspect it is mostly style and ego. BMWs are generally perceived as higher status and more stylish than Cadillacs.

Edit - I speaking mostly of cars and middle-weight SUVs. Pickup trucks, as noted in a sibling, might skew the rural areas back to the domestic end of the spectrum.

Part of that is a history of poorly constructed domestic cars (relative to Japanese imports, anyway). My personal experience bears this out... My most reliable car to date is a Lexus RX330. I owned a used Miata that was better than average. And a used Pontiac sedan that needed a new engine at 75,000 miles. I currently drive a Wrangler, and have my fingers crossed that it proves Americans can build reliable cars. Time will tell.
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I think the grandparent is playing a little loose with terms. By "working class", I believe they mean both: have to exchange their labour for money, and low social class (less respect from peers, say at a dinner party).

Though obviously some software engineers "cash out" and then don't _need_ to work anymore, and many doctors would quickly run out of money if they stopped working.
I'd say the Grauniad (read - Guardian) isn't _as_ bad as the other broadsheets.
>“There are women who 95% of men say yes to, and there’s nothing like that for men,”

The men that 95% of women would say yes to aren't available on dating apps, because they don't need to be - almost by definition.
Its a fair question. Something like disciplined stage presence.

Its kind of TRP dog whistle-ish, which is neither good nor bad.

Can you perform your joke or pickup line or whatever in an appealing manner with confidence and consistently without giggling or overreacting to your audience facial expression or generally looking anxious.

If you abstract out all the sex and the psychological rationalization behind it, its something like the audience would not find you flaky if you were presenting at a professional meeting. The presenter might be wrong or the audience might be completely uninterested, but they would describe it as presented well, by most common standards of presenting well. There's generally a side dish of smooth recovery from minor bumps in the road, which some people would consider a self evident part of the definition of "presenting well".

Originally, way back, the concept comes from the mix of the mental side of disciplined holding your frame of mind and the physical side of maintaining a strong frame when ballroom dancing or lifting.
There's up- and downvoting and we use that to rate-limit comments that are being displayed as you go. Downvoted comments (like spoilers) get filtered out quickly, upvoted (or new) comments make it through the rate-limit. We're using a modified version of reddit's published scoring system.

Syncing is the single biggest technical issue and currently not easy since most platforms don't allow access to the point where we could really time-sync. Still looking at a few options, though.
Randomly modifying a filesystem image and then fixing up the checksums seems a little unfair. Would it not be reasonable to write code that assumes data that matches its checksum is valid? Isn't that the point of a checksum?
0) Don't try to create your own encryption methods.
I thought the default look of the site was a bit hard to read, so I made two themes for Stylebot. If you have Stylebot installed you can go to the site, click the Stylebot icon and load either of them from "Stylebot Social".

Stylebot is only available for Chrome though; does anyone know an alternative to Stylebot which is as user-friendly as Stylebot but also available on a broad range of browsers?
Recently I've been playing with Prince [1] and I've found it to be very powerful with excellent support for paged media. Given that HTML, CSS, Javascript, SVG is used to build the document, it's also familiar to most people already. There doesn't seem to be any open source competitor to Prince though.

[1]: http://www.princexml.com/
Yeah -- "force multiplier," and talk of how programmers can obsolete other jobs, is at least partly an argument that programmers 'deserve' their salaries, because they make society permanently more efficient.

That discussion feels imprecise, though. Are those really the reasons that programmer salaries are what they are? If there were 20x more programmers, would that change things?

Worse, it makes me want to avoid that whole side of the discussion, because it also sounds like justifying an economic fact on moral grounds.

Yes, supply and demand and perverse economic incentives sometimes result in high demand for things that aren't that beneficial to society as a whole. Personally, I happen to think that what programmers do is more beneficial to society than what Hedge Fund managers do. But I don't care to have a conversation about whether or not we 'deserve our rates.'

It's what supply and demand dictates; that much is definitely true.
They are... but isn't something like Tinder essentially just showing you a photo and letting you decide? That would encourage the opposite behavior... which is what the article says.
My guess is that people there have less connection to the Detroit 3. I live in Grand Rapids, which is second only to Detroit in their list for having the highest percentage of American brands, and I got a few sideways glances when I purchased my Civic (even though it was manufactured in Indiana). Like any other Michigan resident, I have quite a few acquaintances that are somehow connected to the auto industry. Also, I know that GM gives out some pretty good discounts for their employees, which they can share with family. I'm assuming that other brands are similar.
Exactly. Software salaries should be compared to doctors', lawyers' and other professions', as software engineering is a profession.

I bet you the comparisons would not look so good then.
This response just doesn't make sense given that modern OSes expose USB through much higher-level device management and communication APIs. Those are the APIs browsers use, and I've already explained that browsers shouldn't unbind and then expose a device that the OS or another native application has already bound. So, I really don't understand what argument you're trying to make here.
I keep an eye on the Scribus project from time to time. Who knows, maybe someday it can compete.

https://www.scribus.net/
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That only really works in a world where all of the users on the machine that can run Python also can write to shared library directories. That seems kinda awkward from a security perspective unless you're already using containerization (in which case you don't care about any of this).

This is certainly better than it was (.pyc files just didn't co-exist sanely across python versions), but it doesn't provide a method for running multiple versions of libraries between different apps.
Why wouldn't humor cause you to want to be close to someone? Also people laugh become something is funny. Maybe the mechanism of laughter signals trust or shared understanding that facilitates group bond, which means it causitive
Half-blood Prince Spoiler Alert. GCHQ notified. Of National Security Import.
In practical terms I need a typechecker to write code at anything like the rate I do, with anything like the defect rate I achieve. But that's possibly sophistry. I agree the principle is not quite right (or at least not quite absolute) as stated; using extra power has a high but finite cost, it is occasionally worth using more power than you strictly need if the benefit is high enough.
The level of math. An Econ/math double major is about the right background for an Econ phd program. (I was a math major in undergrad and didn't feel like a lack of much exposure to Econ hurt me much in grad school, but it would have given me better perspective on the field.) Many Econ undergrads want a "businessey" degree and don't want to take math beyond calculus, so trying to teach "real" macro (which would require coursework equivalent to differential equations) or "real" micro (similar to but less fussy than real analysis) or even empirical research (statistical tools that build on regression) would be rough going. So we teach "intuition" and watered down versions of the results and punt on justification. Plus the "core" undergrad courses have a large service component --- we need good business students to be able to take intermediate micro, for example, so unilaterally ramping up the required smath wouldn't be feasible even if some of the students wanted it.

tl;dr phd programs can spend a lot of time teaching students how to use and extend mathematical tools and can cherry pick students with the right backgrounds. Undergraduate programs have a big service component, have to assume a range of mathematical preparation, and have to actually teach "economics" in their core courses -- game theory needs to teach game theory, not how to be a game theorist.
I'm not that strong on this aspect of history, but it has always seemed to be an association rather than a sectarian divide. Even though it was well known Everton was the catholic club, plenty of catholics supported Liverpool from the beginning, for instance. Glasgow and surrounding areas seemed the strongest exception.

You're right about sentiment in Liverpool though. That probably stems from the port and strong association as the point of migration leading to a large Irish community.
For further reading check out Victor Lustig, the man who sold the Eiffel Tower, twice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Lustig
I don't think most of the couples who meet in college, in church, through family, and so on, were really "planning" to find spouses either and the article shows that the portion of spouses finding each other through online dating has skyrocketed since the 90s.
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I think the shift is about scale. It's one thing to have a small set of documents. It's something else to have a very large set: the interlocking and mutually reinforcing nature of large disclosures gives another degree of legitimacy.

It also has a "dragnet" aspect to it, unlike a small targeted leak.
> Oh, come on... you know that there are many forces working in opposite directions in the EU parliament and commission.

Of course there are. What I'm saying is that it particularly seems to be parties of the political left, for instance Labour in the UK, who are both pro-EU and against the very essence of EU with their nationalist and protectionist economic rhetoric. The Conservatives, on the other hand, are more skeptical of EU in general but more for free trade.

It's similar in other countries.

> Tax avoidance != tax fraud (or fiscal fraud)

Quite. I don't think anyone has caught Google or other big companies of large-scale tax fraud. There are of course always some small differences of opinion on how some status should be interpreted, but by and large the way the corporations work has been found to be in compliance with law. Large figures of "tax gap" are published but based on fantasy.
Qt was never C++, since it always had the MOC.
I didn't find the data to be very compelling but the real world example with Pandas and D3 very helpful.

Probably irrelevant but I feel the article should probably be titled differently like "Using Pandas and D3 to get a rough....." as I'm not sure many good conclusions can be drawn from that dataset (I could be vastly wrong though?).
I'm reluctant to provide a working email address in exchange for a "free beta" of a product that is vaguely described and depicted with a few screenshots. More than doubly so in the case of a PR firm.

In terms of a "Show HN" providing more information without requiring a sign up might alleviate my skepticism.

Good luck.
Remember that package manager Windows was getting a while back? That's effectively what it is!
spoilr.tv is to something like that, but asynchronously. Your buddy is a week behind on Game of Thrones, but still sees your comments on the last episode, time-synced with his watching it (and you're going to be notified if he/she responds to them).
All software (not just languages) evolves until it contains a half-arsed rewrite of apt-get.

You should be so lucky as to have a program package manner be at all compatible with apt or yum.
It's about supply and demand. (not exclusively but still)

How could it be enforced that software developers can only earn the median income of the general population?

Passing new laws that set a limit? That would be completely crazy, you might as well just go and live in North Korea if you like that.

Why shouldn't private companies have the right and the freedom to pay more out of their own pocket (not from government funds) for certain employees?
Why A/B tests are outdated
Let's not kid ourselves, it shrinks for men too. As a 40 year old I thank my lucky stars that I'm out of the dating pool nowadays.
Kefir most definitely has vinegar in it, especially if you're getting towards the bottom of the batch, after all the sugars are gone. That's what takes it from "just a bit tart" to "whoa, that's sour".

Though it depends a lot on your culture. The "kefir" sold commercially in the US does not have yeast in the culture, and therefore no alcohol or vinegar. It doesn't really qualify as real kefir. You have to acquire cultures and make your own to get the full experience. You also have to acquire a taste for it.
Well, on the other hand, by that age you've probably both got pretty established patterns that are harder to break as part of your marriage. I don't think there's necessarily a "right" age to do it.
I agree with this 100%. Having too many ways of doing things, and no way to pick between them, results in everyone doing things every which way, all different.

That's why this document exists at all. We can definitely make things better, but to do so requires putting together guidelines, proposals, and consensus (things developers are historically pretty poor at), rather than just cranking out code and complaining (both of which developers excel at, especially fueled by coffee)
Your numbers are way off: http://mediamatters.org/research/2005/09/21/limbaugh-dramati...

•Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): 9.0 percent

•Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8): 5.2 percent

•The Department of Housing and Urban Development's public housing program: 22.5 percent

•Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP): 9.1 percent

Finally, the report estimated that the federal administrative costs amounted to $12,452,000,000 for the 11 programs studied -- 6.4 percent of total federal expenditures on these programs.

PS: For comparison Social Security spends even less on administration but is vastly more expensive, which is arguably a net loss.
>There doesn't seem to be any open source competitor to Prince though.

This would be my issue with using it. This is partly why I stay with LaTeX for our book as I can convert it to other formats if I really need to. I find LaTeX gives me more control over presentation & type-setting than web-based stuff as well.
Huge database aside, I would be more curious to know what is the most valuable data/metadata in the database. Anyone have any thoughts?
There's a large base of C# code, and there's a market to get it moved from Windows to Linux.
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