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Same here. I started our team back in 2001. I just returned this year to mentor that same team. I love the program and attribute a lot of my career choice to it.

WOW have things grown and changed. Some for the better but some were... disappointing. The biggest issues are always about money and team size. The program constantly reemphasizes that it's not about winning or the trophies. But that's kind of hard to do when so much attention is placed on aggressive competition and it's the same well-endorsed teams winning every year. Especially with this year's challenge. I've also discovered this questionable practice of teams flying in from far away to participate in a regional where they think they have a better chance.

Our team won it's first regional EVER this year. It took us 15 years. We just never had the funds or man hours to build any of the amazing ideas the students had. I'm proud of our students. But I wish there was a way to even the playing field and let students focus on the innovation rather than if their bot will literally fall apart on the field.

I think FIRST should stick to full cooperative game modes and ones that don't require lots of refs to determine points. This year is a mess and full of people complaining about points that the refs completely failed to give. For a organization that encourages automation there sure are a lot of things handled by error-prone humans. :)
Even more tax hypocrisy being spouted by the Guardian.

http://order-order.com/2012/11/26/the-guardians-offshore-sec...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/06/28/the-insuf...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/guardian-med...
Why is income from money, you know that which is earned because you have lots of capital, taxed at a much lower rate than incoming from labor? The < 1% are hiding their money in plain sight and not paying the same level of taxes as people who trade their labor for money.
Jaywalking is a ridiculous American invention of a crime.
There is no need for onerous restrictions they place on admittance. It used to be that you became a lawyer by apprenticing in a lawyer's office and reading the text of the law. That's how lawyers came up for generations until the post-secondary boom in the 1950s. Now, that time-tested method is illegal in all but a small handful of states due to ABA guidelines.

Of course, the superficial justification is that if you don't go to school for 8 years and pay $150k+ into the education industry before you can get a crack at real work, then it's because you're a fraud who wants to fleece the general populous. There is obviously going to be a surface justification. However, many lawyers are still primarily interested in fleecing people, and the artifical barriers to entrance probably only serve to further incentivize it; that's a big chunk of debt hanging over one guy's head.

Suppose he wanted to undercut his competition and offer meaningful legal services that a normal person could actually afford; oops, he needs to bill $200/hr because after overhead, 65% of that goes to his student loan payments. :|

However, I'm sure that the ABA and AMA do not function at all like unions and are run by truly beautiful people with stunningly pure hearts who would never put their own self-interest above the general welfare. I am sure the strength of their character fully precludes any attempt to keep competition low and/or to make the minimum viable price point of the profession artificially high. Such a thing would serve only to enrich them and their compatriots while blanket disqualifying large chunks of people that would otherwise make great lawyers and/or doctors, and of course, the people in charge would never even fathom something like that.
Interesting. However, they are mentioned by name in this article.
I know we don't like to apply laws to company's, but that's generally illegal in most areas even if it's generally ignored. Still, if you can profitably produce such buildings then just keep building the demand for housing is finite.
Any excuse to get better battery performance is good enough to me :)
Vote Corbyn/Sanders?
You say men are still looking for attractiveness, and women are still looking for stability? Imagine that. Glad to hear Tinder hasn't uprooted our most basic animal instincts.
Unfortunately electric cars won't solve that problem. The graph on http://www.leiserstrassenverkehr.bayern.de/laerm/entstehung/ (a German government website) compares the engine noise ("Antriebsgeräusch") with the tire noise ("Rollgeräusch") for different speeds ("Gesamtgeräusch" means "total noise"). The yellow line is for trucks, the blue lines for cars.

As you can see at a speed of 40 kph (25 mph) a car's tire noise is already higher than the engine noise and at even higher speed the engine noise doesn't really matter anymore. So even if your electric car engine is absolute silent, the total noise at speeds above 30 mph won't be all that different.
1. When they're more interested in why you're leaving a company, run.

2. When they negatively recruit ("Oh that other company sucks, you don't want to work for them!"), run.

3. When you look around the work environment and see everybody on 15 inch monitors, run.

4. When they have an applicant tracking system and they don't respond to you after an interview, run.

5. If they ask "What are you weaknesses?", run.

6. When they ask "How much are you making now?", run.

7. When their Glassdoor reviews are below a 3.0, run.
Ad-hominem. Does not make their articles any less relevant or wrong.

Specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
Next generation uArch from AMD. Which promise 40% IPC improvement . Again it won't be as fast as Intel, but at least AMD is within Reach for a price war, where as now even if AMD is 50% cheaper it makes little sense to use them.
What are you talking about? The Daily Mail is a terrible source of what they believe will sell to their audiences; news/tabloids is a business, and they certainly do not care about the quality of their product, but only the income they generate - which, is worthwhile remembering before choosing to digest its dribble. I am not going to waste time demonstrating examples when anyone can simply visit the site and experience this for themselves.

Sure other 'news' sources are not immune, but at least step above appealing to the lowest common denominators in society or attempt to form some kind of quality.

I could provide analogies to help illustrate the point, but it is a waste of time arguing about it.
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HN is very opaque about how it ranks articles, I suspect that it's not only blind upvoting.

If you look how articles move on hnranking, some move more naturally than others.

This story in particular has a couple of very large boosts: http://hnrankings.info/11469285/
>If this worked you'd think it would be more widespread

Yeah, that was my original question.

I think what you're saying is true to an extent. At the same time, a lot of companies complain that positions simply go unfilled.
> It's just a boring "Oh i thought she was hot and I
> messaged her" kind of thing.

Just a stone's throw from "oh, I thought she was hot and I walked over to her" except that your scenario has the benefit of not being dependent on physically chancing across cute women as you romp through your daily life.

You're not Hugh Grant in a romantic comedy, so all that matters is that you're getting the results you want and enjoying the ride.

Online dating doesn't stop you from attending singles night at the roller rink, but it might give you more opportunities to find what you're looking for. That it's your Brave New World seems more indicative of personal self-limiting hangups about what courtship should be vs. what it actually is.
Meh can we keep this hyperbole shit off HN?
A Billion NYC Taxi Rides on Google's Dataproc and Facebook's Presto
I didn't say that. I just responded to the comment about having PB of data as the norm. You cannot handle such scale without adequate processing power and intermediate RAM.

By the way, I'm writing this on a core 2 duo, which is my main computer. So trust having 4 cores already looks like overkill to me :)
To answer the supposition at the end of the article, they're already working on driverless racecars.
http://selfracingcars.com/
"1%" is a joke. if you apply that to the entire world, and not just selectively to western countries (as is the habit):

According to the Global Rich List, a website that brings awareness to worldwide income disparities, an income of $32,400 USD a year will allow you to make the 1% cut.

Using current exchange rates, that amounts to roughly:

29,185 euros
2.2 million Indian rupees, or
211,126 Chinese yuan

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/050615...
> That got me thinking, if we can't forbid citizens from photographing in public, why should we forbid our government?

If we can't forbid citizens from promoting a religion, why should we forbid our government?

If we can't forbid businesses from cutting unprofitable departments, why should we forbid our government?

If we can allow businesses to be run by the same people indefinitely, why should we forbid our government?

etc.
The problem with having 100 x86 CPU on one board is NUMA becomes a bad problem. When memory accesses from one CPU to different regions of memory will have quite different bandwidths and latencies, you're much better off by acknowledging that upfront, designing a proper interconnect (Infiniband), and not sharing memory between threads but rather communicating explicitly (MPI).
Indeed. The engine noise is relevant for Formula 1, however, because high-performance race cars generally have much louder engines than commercial cars.
This strikes my as a parochial viewpoint of a bunch of people riding their first-world privilege.

I suggest that you, your co-workers, hacker colleagues, and friends who are transgender spend some time in Saudi-Arabia or on ISIS-controlled territory to get a perspective on what really matters.
One thing that I didn't know prior to moving to California is that if your car meets certain specifications, it gets a sticker that allows you to drive in diamond lanes (carpool lanes), regardless of the number of passengers. I imagine that this, combined with foreign brands' early investment in hybrids, is a factor in the popularity of foreign brands in California, at least.
Ambiguous in cash terms, certainly he's very rich and has millions of pounds. I'd assume he could live comfortably without ever having to work.

More importantly, he is married to the daughter of a Baronet, and is the cousin of a Baronet too, so, socially, very firmly a 0.1%er.
I don't think it's entirely a misconception. Yes, some people mistakenly think that an all-EV world will be totally silent, and it won't, but the noise reduction is still huge. In most situations, the average is much less important than the maximum, so the fact that typical noise from modern cars is mostly tires and air is irrelevant. Trucks, motorcycles, and performance cars are what make up the bulk of the annoying noise, and EV versions of those would help a lot.
It's not the case here but it's actually possible that in some cases it's just an estimate ( MYSQL InnoDB ).
Don't conflate lifetime wealth with one time annual income. Many more than 1% of the population earns top 1% income in some year. And don't conflate wage income, which is taxed at (marginal) 40+% right off the top, with investment income, which is low or never taxed due to scheming.
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I want to echo the support for Prince here, even though it's not open-source it is a very useful piece of software. I create web-based art books at a museum[1], and Prince has allowed us to generate high-quality PDFs[2] and even print-on-demand editions of the same book for very little additional effort. Full-bleed images, roman numeral page numbers, footnotes, multi-column text pages, all are possible through CSS.

In a past life I was a print designer relying on Adobe software for everything, and it is tremendously liberating to be able to leave that world of vendor-lock-in behind (InDesign has a nasty habit of making each new version's files incompatible with previous ones). So compared to where I'm coming from, Prince (even as proprietary software) is a big step forward because it allows me to work in open formats.

[1]: http://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics

[2][PDF, 8MB]: http://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics/assets/downlo...
Forgive my naivete, isn't that feature provided by the operating system?
ad hominem "directed against a person rather than the position"

The Guardian position is that avoiding tax using offshore companies is morally wrong. The Guardian avoids tax using offshore companies

hypocrisy "the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case."

edit: You are right that it does not make their articles any less relevant and I did not claim that it did.
This is such bullshit. Every time I hear an explanation of Tinder like this, it's from someone who isn't even using Tinder and only reads about it vicariously through the people who brag about Tinder dating. The rest of us, men and women, use Tinder as an extra dating pool to add to Bumble, Hinge, OKCupid. They all have pros and cons. Hinge was great until they gave me 24 hours to respond to woman; sometimes I'm busy. Bumble requires the woman to message me first which is very nice as it takes that awkward "don't blow the first communication" line out of my hands.

Yes, there are people who use Tinder for hookups. People use OKCupid for hookups. Match for hookups. That has not even remotely been the desire of the women I've met on Tinder.
Right, though the reference has nothing to do with the Panama Papers, but how they're impacting US politics; which is no secret.
Millions of websites are made with writing HTML by hand and it's certainly not that bad.
The easiest way to see this split, if you're ever trying to explain it to people, is to point to movie reviewers. It's the simplest version.

Movie reviewers over the past few years have been off-step with major movie consumers. They've missed the mark on many movies (Deadpool and the new superman/batman movie are the most recent examples). This isn't because the reviewers' tastes are inherently better than the unwashed masses (although they would have you believe that).

It's because they're elite, upper-class individuals, or at least they live that lifestyle. They're 'rich' folk who are unconnected with what John Q. Public really is into.

It's a super simplification, but it's valid.
That may be your experience, but having worked for a large medical billing and large bank, both do heavy background checks. I've even been finger printed, and had my Facebook searched.
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I recall reading a post on OKCupid's great blog where-in they were saying that women over-estimate their attractiveness relative to men at the same level.
You both have it wrong. Both cars and pedestrians must remain alert and look carefully for the other. Anything less than that gets people killed unnecessarily. Trying to pin it on one or the other is just arguing over who should pay for the headstone.
My house fronts on a 4 lane parkway. As soon as I wake up, I can tell whether or not the road out front is wet from the increased tire noise. (And indeed, we have a wooden fence of maximum legal height, set on top of some earthworks, and double-pane windows to cut the noise down to acceptable levels and I can still readily tell the difference.) The objectionable [to me] noise is mostly from tires.

Every so often, we get someone on a sport bike or sports car ripping along the parkway having some fun. That's very intermittent and far more often brings a smile to my face as I'm reminded that we can still do that...
> [Idris] is a total language: your function must come with a proof that it terminates.

So, you can't express the programs that never terminate, but can you express all the programs that would terminate?

Point in case, you probably shouldn't ever want to use a language for the specific feature that could express a non-deterministic program.
Not that it is ready for primetime yet, but guix solves this problem well by allowing each user/application to have its own dependencies of different versions while allowing them to still share if they want the same version.

May sound weird, but take a look:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/

The main distribution will only ever have free/open source software in it but it is trivial to make your own packages/package repositories and share them since it is just a guile code file.
1% is higher than most doctors, 410,000k per year is in the 99%. Past that these numbers grow fast 1.5 million per year does not hit 0.1%.

However, a lot of people only hit those numbers occasionally. Win 2 million and your in the 0.1% for one year.
It's a real problem, but not as bad as people think. The current US presidential election has seen several massively financed candidates get nearly nothing for their money. Trump and Cruz spent relatively nothing in the early parts of the election compared to Jeb Bush who spent 10's of millions.

Hillary dwarfs Bernie's fundraising, yet is remaining highly competitive. About as competitive as one would believe if they had the same finances.

People don't like to admit it, but representatives are usually pretty popular locally even if highly detested elsewhere. The US Congress's ~10% approval rating is only possible because local representatives maintain ~>50% approval ratings.

I believe the real problem is that people don't actually know what their representatives are doing. If people understood the level to which health care insurance companies were allowed to influence the ACA, I doubt a single supporter would survive reelection. Health insurance companies writing health care reform bills is pretty much the definition of evil in the US.
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Franky, the FHA should be writing mortgagees, not Joe Sixpack Seller Financing. Seller financing is more often than not used just as rent-to-own furniture stores are: rent seeking of the poor, with them losing their entire invested amount when they hit a financial hiccup.
Cameron is worth $50 million that we know about. Easily in the 0.1%.
> I've been married for over five years now

And yet in your previous post you wrote, 'I've found online dating to be a slow, frustrating process.' Shouldn't that be 'I found online dating to be a slow, frustrating process'?
>The main condition holding them back, Desmond argues, is rent.

This is a symptom. The main condition is that they have to bargain with their life (or physical suffering) on the balance for nearly everything including rent.

When the choice is pay rent you can't afford or live on the street (a severe risk to one's life) then you will pay whatever you are able.

The same goes for selling their time for less than it is worth for decades at a time. It is either that or die or be in pain. This is also very profitable for the parties on the other side of the equation.

This seems like the defining feature of poverty and why it is worth fighting. When people are not bargaining with their life on the line, they will make decisions to improve their lot rather than to merely lose less.
Lisp came before the 60s. I try to put myself in the shoes of the industry where cons cells and GC would mean 'no' to your business. It wasn't until the 80s that lisp was usable in the mainstream (wild guess).

And yes CL is perfectly adequate to write solid mundane software (quicklisp was a gift here). But in this context, lisp strength, strong metalevel facilities and culture, has no value. Plus they have costs too, macro-fu require a certain view point on code.
At least for guix, you can install it on top of any distribution and use it instead of the system package managers. I had some troubles with this when I did it, but nothing deal breaking and it isn't 1.0 yet so I imagine some of it will be cleaned up.
It's mostly a problem at lower speeds, where hybrids tend to run in electric mode and thus are just as silent as pure EVs. Which is to say, this problem has already been mainstream for years.
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This is an interesting approach to a genuine issue; I've got a background in Curriculum Design and can agree that an outside, "third party" type certification system could have market potential for both graduates and employers. One of the sticking points in my studies looking into a similar concept was balancing the cost to the student with the expected utility of receiving the certification. So, unless at the debut of the certification there is a large, verified list of employers willing to pay a premium for certified graduates, this concept doesn't make a market value connection in my opinion.

On another fundamental note, the system as described would be effective in long-term retention knowledge testing, true. Yet this model doesn't seem to incorporate 'continuing education' into the remedial approach. Thus, the certified prior knowledge can be tested and maintained, but there's no inclusion of 'new' studies and knowledge that promote long-term growth on top of the knowledge base.

As I've experienced in several industries, there are already licensing ('cerification') bodies which have deployed a Continuing Education (CE) credit model (e.g. insurance, finance). This proposed model may benefit from comparison and distinction from these existing, regulated approaches, in addition to the above note regarding expected market value. Cheers for taking on a genuine issue and working towards a better environment!
This is a duplicate from four (4) days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444941
Partially from economic theories about the use of capital in a market economy.

Partially because the socio-economic class of people who benefit from such tax laws overlaps heavily with the socio-economic class of people who create tax laws.
With intrinsics you have to write each instruction by hand. Not only is this a lot of work and compiler specific but if you aren't familiar with all of the instructions at your disposal it is unlikely you will get the same performance. Not only that but ISPC can be compiled to multiple different SIMD lane widths so that something doesn't need to be re-written with the width increases or decreases.

One example would be the n-body simulation of the computer language benchmarks game. The C++ version uses intrinsics but wouldn't benefit from anything that can do 4 doubles instead of only two at a time.
I'm looking forward to getting involved in these other programs. My oldest is excited to join her school's team next year. She'll be entering the 3rd grade. I'm not familiar with how anything outside of FRC works. But I'm probably going to be busy finding time to help her team and my FRC team.
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It's very strange and difficult to read, but I think I deciphered it!

It's the scrap of the bullets points that appear in the front and back of the box used to sell WordPerfect.[0] You can look at the image at the bottom and math the image with the text in the page.

[0] It was a long time ago, you can't download it from the internetz, you have to go to a brick and mortar store and buy a box with the floppy disk inside. :)
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

This is demonstrably untrue. A search for "average income" returns articles referencing both median and mean incomes (and usually clearly distinguishing between the two).
This is a little off-topic so I apologise for that: How close does the literal fiber on Google Fiber get to a home? Meaning do they terminate from fiber in the home itself, or does fiber terminate on the street, or on the block, or what?

For example they could be using cat6 or heck even cat5e to deliver 10-1 Gbps internet the final mile.