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I'm in the bracket of the "100 professionals working their asses off trying to ship solutions" as my day job. What has the "unemployed enthusiast"s chatting on a thread go to do with me shipping solutions? Let the children boogie and i'll join in my free time :)
I meant not useful in terms of gauging the output of the Elixir community.
Dear consumerons and children:

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I hope you all don't have children.
Are engineers in Europe really less passionate about their job than those in the US? Personally, I'm skeptical. For sure, having a mission to go to Mars is cool, but just working on rockets alone seems like it should be exciting enough to inspire passion and hard work.

I would guess that European rocket engineers are, or could be, just as passionate, and work just as hard as those in the US. But what saps the passion of engineers is bureaucracy, inefficiency and mismanagement that slows them down and interferes with their work, and by most accounts, these problems infest the aeronautical industry, on both sides of the Atlantic.

SpaceX has managed to build a company that doesn't seem to suffer from these problems. From reading Elon Musk's biography, it doesn't sound to me like the SpaceX engineers are driven by some dream of landing on Mars, even if that's Musk's goal. Rather, they just have a no-nonsense, "get stuff done" attitude. They don't spend weeks doing tests when they can get them all done in one day. They don't spend millions of dollars buying outsourced components when they can build them better and cheaper themselves. They don't thoughtlessly replicate inefficient processes because that's how it's always been done, or it's done everywhere else in the industry.

Put Elon Musk and his management staff in charge of the ESA and I bet they'd install the same no-nonsense attitude in European engineers, and it would be Ariane that was delivering reusability before everyone else. As it is, let's just hope that the example SpaceX sets eventually pays off in changes to the way NASA, the ESA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc. are run.

Although I think that the big US defense contractors would rather get out of spaceflight completely than match SpaceX's costs. Because if they can, then it proves they could have done it all along, and that they've been hugely overcharging the US government for years. And if they've been overcharging for access to space, it might make congress ask questions about all the other pork-barrel military contracts they get, and why they can't deliver those cheaper as well?
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I've never quite understood it myself.

It's far from mandatory (I've run Gentoo for years without it) and when you have to fix stuff in the mkinitrd script, you just cry...
It's quite simple: Don't do drugs.

Next question please.
I know someone whose partner works at Palantir London. I've heard similar about the London office. Second hand though. What I've heard is, there is very little in the way of basic engineering practices or organization. People hacking stuff together all over the place, very poor test practices, stuff is broken all the time. Hero coding to get things working. And cult vibe through the roof. They weren't happy there.
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No, just no.

This kind of articles makes me cringe. The fact that the journalist is obviously aware of the limited scope in the research by stating the caveats makes it unresponsible publishing.
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Thank you for the response. Quite informative. Special thanks for the PS, I am actually pursuing a Master's degree and, like you, I am planning to start my own company or work for a startup that I think is solving an important problem. I also started to get tired of the academic life.

For me, being successful as a startup founder, is to bootstrap (I don't want to loose the freedom of making my own decisions) a business that is solving a "real" problem for enough users to have reasonable income. I am not planning to scale just for the sake of scaling or to raise fund for expanding. I am making the conscious decision to have a sustainable business with no exit strategy.
That's why I said that you have not used it in anger in production environments.
Anyway, good luck.
If you think about this on personal level it makes sense (IMO). Taking this kind of stuff seriously is always easier to explain later on that trying to justify why you did not take any action.
Like the original Godwin, this was a joke, not an attempt at policing. That people choose to interpret it otherwise is depressing. Well done for completely killing it with trivially true proof - you understand that's part of the joke, right?

As for what I meant, what I was trying to say is that - contra Russell - people actually did in fact overcome their differences and collectively combat the Nazis, but I obfuscated it to avoid, y'know, mentioning the Nazis.

I suppose it's too much to hope that you've just Kafka'd me into my own Godwin and are about to drop a YHBT.
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No. HMC is fully buffered and provides a packet-based interface to the CPU it's connected into. This means that the CPU doesn't need to know anything about the memory it uses, and saves die space on the CPU side, but it adds latency. HBM has lower latency than HMC.

Also, GDDR5 does not have higher latency than DDR3. The memory arrays themselves are the same and exactly as fast, and the bus doesn't add any extra latency. GDDR5 doesn't trade latency for bandwidth, it trades density for bandwidth.

Things built to use GDDDR5 often have much higher latencies than things built to use DDR3, but this has nothing to do with the memory and instead about how the memory controllers in GPUs delay accesses to merge ones close to each other to optimize for bandwidth.
> What about the widespread awareness of encryption and the necessity of secure cryptographic communications?

I think Wikileaks and Snowden should get some credit for this as well. Also, I think the silk road guy should get most of the credit for "darknet" being a thing.

> Popular culture is culture.

Yup. But it doesn't necessarily affect other popular culture (which is how I defined "cultural impact").
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A french speaking compagny.
It seems algebra knows what economists do with math
It seems lots of pain was inflicted on many people because of the patent system. Usually drugs are upheld as the prime example of why patent systems are necessary. This seems more than questionable, given this example. Combined with the fact that companies have no conscience, it would be nice to have better ways to do expensive research than a) in companies and b) for patents.
It is, the original one, the Pentium (translates roughly to '5') which actually gave a symbolical name to the _5_86

The name Pentium is now used for relatively cheap CPUs, these CPUs will remain functional, as they are not 586.

The following wiki page calls it "P5"-based CPUs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_micropro...
Ah so it's nature _or_ nurture now? It must be completely boolean?
Yes, all you have to do is get rid of your nervous systems pain receptors. Crippling back pain- why hang on to it?

Please tell me your post was ment ironic.
There are people out there who cant move without pain medication - and who regularly hear a "Get a job." from the same guys who recommend "Dont do drugs!".

It may come as a shock:
I know, its a strange thing to contemplate- but others might not be a copy of you. Like, there are other people, but they are diffrent?
What you describe is religious syncretism. It is not the same as trying to understand the original beliefs of a group of people thousands of years ago.
LMAO....they need donations to "test" Basic Income. That speaks volumes people.
> The fact that the journalist is obviously aware of the limited scope in the research by stating the caveats makes it unresponsible publishing.

I haven't read the article, but isn't it the opposite? Isn't it being responsible to state the caveats?
I haven't traveled much for business in a long time, but I always included tips on the receipts. I never felt squeamish about this. Having worked in restaurants as a busboy during high school and college, I regard tips as part of the cost of a meal, not as my way to reward great service. The accounting department never complained, though I suppose that if the tips had crept up from 20% to 50% it would have.
Such a bizarre group of baseless assumptions.
>The majority of voters don't pay taxes and rely on aid for everything from farm inputs to school fees.

I am a Kenyan too and this is not true. Everyone pays taxes. Though a poor jobless Kenyan should not be paying income taxes, the same group of people still pay VAT for everything else they purchase, bar a few exceptional goods and services.
Sometimes the world isn't as black and white as that.

I was misdiagnosed as having IBS a couple of years ago, and became addicted to oxycontin, because the pain was no severe I couldn't go to work without it.

At one point I had to have a colonoscopy, and I had to stop taking oxycontin 48 hours before the procedure, the withdrawl was hell.

I remember being scatter brained, unable to focus on anything for more than a few seconds, I was sweating and shivering, and it felt like my bones were on fire. The withdrawl caused a deep pain, especially in my joints, ankles and knees were the worst. It was a strange pain I had never felt before, like fire and electric. Even my teeth hurt.

It took 24 hours or so to get past the worst of it, and I have been VERY lucky to get another diagnosis and some medication that helps. I will never take oxycontin again, but sometimes, you just cant help it.
My intuition is the Swift ecosystem will struggle against conflation with particular platforms, i.e. iOS and OSX. This struggle is common among languages: C# with Windows and JavaScript with the browser come to mind. Historically, C faced similar association with the Unix platform. Language platform conflation makes it difficult to parse information from blogs, books, and StackOverflow: the worst offender of course is Javascript where the presentation may be based on jQuery or NPM dependencies even for things practical in vanilla Javascript [or rather ECMAscript].

Outside of Google, using Go tends to be a decision made among a wider range of technical options whereas Swift is very often "not-ObjectiveC." To put it another way, Google created Go as an inhouse alternative for applications where Python, C++, or Java might have been the choice previously. A wide language range: even more considering the range of Java alternatives [Scala, Clojure] on the JVM.

A third factor I see with Go is the Clojure effect. The median Computer Science and Engineering knowledge in its community tends to be high relative to languages chosen based on platform limitations, institutional standards, or "this is the language I know".

I've left out Rust because I don't see it as likely to achieve the scale of adoption of Go or Swift...and saying that I should clarify that I think that platform binding, and a few billion platforms at that, will mean Swift is likely to instantiate more lines of code than Go. Clarifying further, I think Rust's adoption will be a matter of power law distribution not technical shortcomings.
AMD pulls off better compute in pure GFLOPS but you'll have to extract that compute power in OpenCL. AMD still doesn't have a good answer to CUDA.
> boys did 34% better

No, two particular classes of students had their boys do 34%. In reality, the sample size was 4, not 80. They choose 4 classrooms, and saw these results.

If the researchers switched the classroom treatment selections, are you certain we would have seen the same result? Or did we really just find out that boys in those two classrooms happen to be 34% better at reading?

Those classrooms where boys did worse might have done worse for a large number of other reasons: those schools might be on the 'bad' side of town where less affluent students tend to go (happens all the time in small towns); that classroom might have been the one where the school has put all the trouble-maker kids because they know this particular teacher has the ability to teach those kinds of kids (or, conversely, that class might be the one that saw the huge boost when it was a game); the classes who did worse might have had a classmate dying in hospital that week, and the boys just didn't do very well under those conditions.

There are too many other completely reasonable answers that aren't related to the test itself, given the methods used in this study.

How I'd repeat the experiment: pool all the children before randomly selecting them for treatment groups to avoid bias from their origin classroom.

Edit: And to be clear, I'm not saying the results are incorrect. They might be onto something amazing here. They just happen to be bad at statistics. Maybe they should frame it as a game.
People leverage themselves to the hilt. That's true in most of the major markets. Here in DC, there is a compressed clustering of houses around the 1-1.5m mark. Just below 1m you're talking about a dilapidated 3br in Bethesda. Above 1.5m you're looking at mansions in Georgetown.

I found the compressed range weird until I realized it was driven by the max mortgage you could qualify for on two incomes each in the 100-150k range (common mid-upper end government or NGO salary).
Yeah, I'll stop taking the drugs that allow me to function and have any kind of quality of life.

That's a great suggestion! however if I do it's quite simple, don't do drugs, can you do it's quite simple don't be an empathy lacking idiot?.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10980506

This was my guess. The government is disentangling itself from the company, because IAD guys are starting to realize that Palantir is just another consulting firm.

Moreover, they're a consulting firm that failed to deliver on their promises. I'm not sure if they'll be audited and put to sleep, or if they have enough government patrons.

FinTech has realized Palantir's tech is pretty pictures and the rest is just a datalake setup. To negotiate and buy it is hard, even when it was the new hot company. Then to actually run the software be prepared to pay high rates for their "forward deployed engineers", which the rest of us just call "software consultants."

Their branding is excellent, in that they managed to offer a more "West Coast mentality," as I've heard sneered by government clients.

Having worked and lived with devs from the Bay Area, I can say that the the government could use a lot of help from Silicon Valley. But Palantir is not the help they need.
If you zoom in you can see their name. Couple of names I picked up, are ware houses and distribution centers for ebay, wallmart, petsmart to name a few. The reason Gigafactory doesnt look as impressive compare to others because only 15% of GF construction has been done so far (according to Bloomberg Article). So the completed structure will easily dwarf everything else in the vicinity.
The pervasiveness of OC provided by doctors is amazing. Even as of a year ago, I went into the hospital for back pain and left with a script for two fist fulls of oxy. I looked at the doctor and legitimately thought he was trying to get me hooked. And this was at a world renowned hospital.

I have to wonder if Purdue is involved in some kickbacks to Dr's who (over)prescribe.
In many other countries, pain is treated without highly addictive opioids. Only in the US are they available at that scale.
That's not how you count sample size. If there were four "classes" of one million boys and girls, does it still make the sample size four?
I have to at least skim it to determine whether it's noise or not in the first place.
Shades of John Dee

"1555 28 May - John Dee imprisoned for heresy and for being a magician accused of 'calculating' as a form of magic"

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/john-dee.htm

To be fair, the 'calculating' in question was casting horoscopes of the Monarch - which was regarded as a political thing to be doing in those days.
This article buys in in the hype. It reads like they just copied statements of the press release. The article on anandtech[0] is a lot better.

Also, do not forget that benchmarks made by Nvidia mean nothing. How fast the cards really are will only be clear if independent people do real benchmarks. That's true for games, but it will also be true for all the speculation found here over the ML performance.

[0] http://anandtech.com/show/10304/nvidia-announces-the-geforce...
Many people are inappropriately given opiates by their doctors to treat long term pain.

Those people are not "doing drugs", they are following (bad) medical advice.

People with long term pain need better access to pain management clinics; better access to physio therapy and exercise therapy; better access to different meds; and if they're still in pain better prescribing of opiates carefully following protocols.

https://www.fpm.ac.uk/faculty-of-pain-medicine/opioids-aware

https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/FPM-Opioids-Aware-Press-Releas...

> There has been a sharp and sustained increase in the prescription of opioid painkillers in recent years. The latest figures from 2014 show that 22.75 million prescriptions were written in England with a total cost of nearly £305 million to the NHS. Similar rises in prescribing in the US and elsewhere have been accompanied by increases in harms related to these drugs including addiction, unintentional overdose and death. Opioid painkiller problems in the UK have not reached the epidemic proportions seen in the US but we know that over 5% of adults in England and Wales have used opioid medicines that were not prescribed for them in the past year.

> Of more concern is that nearly all the rise in prescribing has been for treatment for long-term pain however, opioid medicines are often ineffective for this condition. About 4% of the population in England and Wales is in receipt of a prescription for opioids and once opioids are started they can be difficult to stop.

In the UK opiates are commonly used for suicide. Self poisoning is the second most common method, and opiates are the most common medication used (and opiate + paracetamol combinations are in the top 5 too). Most of these are legally obtained.
I have a sneaking suspicion one day systemd is going to try to replace the gnu in gnu/linux.
My take: If institution of a basic income is not accompanied by development efforts within a population to create meaningful opportunities to work, it's not really doing what the population really needs. I don't see a difference between charity and basic income in an environment where extensive economic development is really what is needed. If I don't have an opportunity to work even if I want to work, what difference does it make what the money that is given to me is called?
> This might sound like an advantageous situation for the employees

Strange logic. To me, this idiotic requirement seems very damaging: the only employees who would benefit from it are poor performers.
I believe it has gotten easier. But the problem is not so much Rails itself - Rails has gotten steadily better at reducing coupling. The problem is that Rails on its own is not that interesting - what makes Rails is the ecosystem around it. And a lot of the Rails philosophy (convention over configuration etc.) contributes to an environment where people make a lot of assumptions. Active Record is often one of them.
I had massive dental problems a few years ago, they started me on a high dose of codeine but even that wasn't cutting it, I didn't want anything stronger since I knew how bad opiods could be from my ex-partner who was disabled but the pain was so bad I couldn't sleep so I went onto OxyNorm for a few months.

Coming off that was absolutely horrible, about as ill as I've felt since I had the flu and nearly ended up hospitalized.

I have a spinal condition and opiod's have been suggested by multiple docs but I simply won't take them until the equation balances, withdrawl and potential depency vs not be able to function.
Well, yes. But that is a completely different thing than "don't do drugs".
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> Swift performance compared to Scala?

Depends how you write the code :-)

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
You seem to think it's a value judgement. It's not. I'm not saying it's bad. I'm saying it's strange to us.
People are weak. But boy, they can sure click a little triangle. The world is safe now.
The most recent CPU affected by this is probably the AMD Geode, which has had a stupidly long production run (and I think is still in production) for billions of embedded devices and doesn't quite implement the full 686 instruction set.
The practical side of me welcomes a language that can be used both on the client and server, and on both Apple and non-Apple platforms.

The idealistic side of me notes that Swift seems like a far more complex language than Go, so if Swift kills go, it will be bittersweet.
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The first 686 CPU was the Pentium Pro, which despite the name was a full redesign. The earliest consumer variant would be the Pentium II.
>Mean world syndrome is a term coined by George Gerbner to describe a phenomenon whereby violence-related content of mass media makes viewers believe that the world is more dangerous than it actually is.

This, combined with most people's statistical illiteracy about which risks actually affect them, is the root cause for a lot of problems I think.
Date: 2015

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10710670
I bet you he was using arabic numbers!
This applies to almost every tech and non-tech company, so this doesn't necessarily imply anything. All companies want to hire "the best" (let us set aside the totally valid question of whether or not elite schools graduate the best). And if you've done such a killer job at selling the reputation of the company to the public that all the top graduates want to work with you, why wouldn't you hire them?
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Education wise they may be doing well. However, I have a feeling they both do not pay taxes and lack unions of any form.
That wasn't the concern. I said the team is very good relative to my experience at other places. They know that I like 'em already, don't worry ;)
It is what it is.

I would not have wanted my original comment to be interpreted as claiming to understand the original beliefs of people from thousand of years ago. If that was the case a text substitution exercise would not be appropriate. It was intended as a fun, non-serious and non-religious exercise, as I've repeatedly emphasised.
Emacs, then elisp perhaps?
It's fascinating looking at the history of submissions of this link:

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The best part of the article:

"Dr. Curtis Wright, who led the agency’s medical review of the drug, declined to comment for this article. Shortly after OxyContin’s approval, he left the FDA and, within two years, was working for Purdue in new product development, according to his sworn testimony in a lawsuit a decade ago."

Says it all doesn't it?
He deserved it for using a random incident to blame the candidate he doesn't like. He is the kind of the guy who would say "Anyone who disagrees with me is only doing it to piss me off! Differences of opinion are proof of evil!"
Worth pointing out that you can pick apart any hiring criteria with the statement that "I've met lots of people who met the criteria but were idiots, and many people who didn't meet the criteria and where very intelligent."