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These things have no clear lines, welcome to reality.

This response applies to the previous line about being the intelligence of cattle as well, now that i've given it more thought.

Intelligence can be measured so more context would be needed here. In this hypothetical scenario has one group of humans either fallen through some kind of circumstance to a lower level of intelligence(not knowledge) or another has gained significantly more intelligence through some means? In that case they should probably be considered separate species not separate races so we're in a whole new ballgame.

Either way, when "humans" are potentially that different (there's no defensible claim today that any group of humans is significantly less intelligent than any other really) this issue gets very hairy.

Someone thinking that today would definitely be racist.
"Conclusion: do not put yourself in an environment where the people around you are doing bad things."

Who you "associate with matters", always has.
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Well, since you seem to know who I am, you probably know which challenge I was given. Do you really think its not an OO problem?

Otherwise, you can probably have some of your other engineers review these tests if you are too busy to do it yourself. Not like this is rocket science. They can at least weed out clear failures like me :D
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Hi Sid,

Thanks for the follow-up. I appreciate it and I'm glad that my feedback might help improve your hiring process.

I don't mind your comment, and I hope you understand that there are no hard feelings at all. I hope you understand that my goal is not to damage Gitlab or yourself in any way.

I would like to say, I've been impressed by the openness and transparency at Gitlab, and I think this goes hand-in-hand with a desire to do the "right thing" in every way.

It is with that in mind that I posted my experience, because I think there are problems with the way our industry approaches hiring (as seen in our poor diversity numbers, age discrimination, etc) and more openness can only help. I wish more people shared their experiences, and I wish more companies were open to refining their hiring processes.
People like this are why I don't like to call myself an "engineer" anymore. They've ruined the word for me.

I spent a year at WPI, and its fucking lousy with these stuck up losers, sharing lame "engineering memes" putting down lib arts majors. Mind you, these were not even engineers, just engineering students, most of whom hadn't built a single useful thing in their life outside of school.
I wouldn't be surprised if Uber and Lyft start lobbying for legislation that will make it difficult for new entrants in the market.
> That is a problem, because the moment that people have to pay the actual costs of an Uber ride, they may go back to taxis or driving their own cars.

There doesn't seem to be evidence of that.

Uber is apparently profitable in its mature markets (mainly the US).[0]

The money is mostly used to prop up new markets, where you have to give lots of incentives to get both sides of the market in place fast (keeping supply and demand matched is the constant challenge of nascent two-sided marketplaces).

That being said, the fact that they're having to turn to Saudi money (nobody's preferred source) isn't encouraging.

[0] http://fortune.com/2016/02/18/uber-profitable-us/
But that's not what this study is about: everyone agrees that stomping wildly off the end of an array in C is not going to end well.

This is about far more subtle issues than that - issues where there is some disagreement about whether it's OK to do or not. And the GP is right - these are often not such a problem in practice, if only because these are the kinds of issues where experienced C programmers know that they're sailing close to the wind, and there's almost always an alternative construct that's on more solid ground.
Yes, that is what my point was.
And yes, your most recent response clarifies your counterargument.

I assume you meant to say "Since 2007, AMD has continually improved..."

So I stand corrected in that I didn't realize AMD had closed the gap.

However, my point was about the relative manufacturing ability of Intel and its competitors. Am I to understand your claim that AMD's manufacturing is (approximately) as good as Intel's at the moment?

I don't have any new information, but its a very, very hard problem. And a brief google search seems to indicate that AMD has faced more recent challenges:
http://www.wired.com/2012/03/amd-global-foundries/
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For what it's worth, I have ADHD, and when I take adderal it has a profound mellowing, and calming effect.

I don't take it in the morning for that reason. Because it has zero stimulation / awakeness effect on me, I wait to use it in the afternoon, when sleep inertia has fully dissipated.
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Yes. Many buyouts are immediately followed by a boilerplate class-action lawsuit that the terms were unfair. It's effectively protection-money, as the law firms who specialize in these actions settle in a predictable way, and class action means no shareholder can file a separate lawsuit in re the merger terms.
Not everything in life is easily quantifiable, but that doesn't mean those things that aren't are meaningless
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Yes.

As I understand it, this requires either that every to-be-inlined function is present in the public header file, so it can be #included into every user source file which wishes to use those functions, so they turn up in the object file and so can be inlined, or we rely on the compiler and linker to inline across object files, which is not commonly supported.

It depends upon the compiler having inlining support - the library is targetting arbitrary compilers on bare metal platforms, so it's not necessarily a valid assumption.

Currently, there stil remain two uses of inlining, and I am aiming to get rid of them too in the next release. This also removes a macro from the porting layer, making it simpler.
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I think he is talking about organisations that are either: A) likely to fail victim to Amazon beginning to sell Amazon branded products under the "AmazonBasics" brand.
B) Increasingly unlikely to be able to compete against the sheer scale of Amazon as a storefront as it expands.
The strategic case for it is that it lets them optimize the software for their hardware and vice versa - same reason they have C and Fortran compilers with a reputation for generally good number-crunching performance.
I disagree, and find myself increasingly annoyed with his popularity. I liked his earlier journalism, 1-2 years ago, but as he's become increasingly popular he's become like a John Oliver or Michael Moore of finance.

The formula is the same - take a complex issue, simplify it beyond recognition, and then act outraged that the rest of the world, when considering the entire complexity of the issue, had a range of reactions different from your five-year-old view of things.

It's great entertainment for the masses, but it's a different genre from informative journalism.
I've read his comment - I really don't see the purpose achieved by you copy and pasting it.

His comment was a response as to why Syria has problems, not as to why there is civil war. Your take on his comment:

> it's impossible to see full blown civil war happening without the failure of the Ottoman Empire to create a unified culture and nation state

Is something the equivalent that blaming the bombing of Hiroshima on the Shogunate would be. If you do not see the difference between historical events which contributed to a circumstance and recent ones which precipitated the events stemming from a circumstance (e.g. Truman's authorization) - than I think there is no way we can have a conversation.
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I think it's a smart move. Every major tech company is investing heavily into VR/AR to hedge their bets. Examples:

Facebook with Oculus(acquired for $2B)
Google with Glasses, Cardboard, MagicLeap($542 million in series B)
Apple with Metaio(acquired for ??)
Microsoft with Hololens
Sony with PSVR
HTC/Valve with Vive
Amazon with Flow app
Snapchat with their filters
Uber with self driving cars

Basically every major company out there is doing something with AR or VR and they will all use OpenCV.

Also despite the fact that a lot of computer vision algorithms are GPU accelerated, the vast majority of them (at least in opencv) runs on CPU only. Intel can definitely do a lot of great stuff there.
I haven't had a chance to run it. I also don't have clear data on it's userbase. I just know it's been used in supercomputing centers for a while doing large jobs fast over fast WAN's. So, potentially reliable if I see more users telling me it is in various situations.
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> states are morally required to provide citizens with access to affordable health care

There may be other indications (I haven't checked), but that statement doesn't sound even remotely libertarian. The moral requirement to provide affordable health care is a positive right (something that obliges action). Contrast this to a negative right, something that obliges inaction, such as free speech or private property. Libertarians generally don't acknowledge positive rights (unless by contract, but then we're talking about something else).
>Pretty much with bike lanes it's a "build it and they'll come" situation

not just with bike lanes - this works for most transportation infrastructure, and in both directions. If you take away a car lane, less people choose to drive. If you add a car lane, you don't get less congestion, you get more people driving. People choose the optimal route, and there's a lot more people going places than the current road network can accommodate. you can keep widening roads for a long time without having much impact on congestion. If you want to actually fix the roads, you need to improve the more efficient means of transportation, like bicycle lanes and mass transit.
Normal people don't take limos to the airport.
Thanks, we certainly hope that openess can help us improve faster. We're working on providing more information about our process to all participants in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...
This attitude is incredibly american.

I'd rather my taxes went to someone trying to build a business than someone that "tries" to get a job only to get fired after a month every time.
Ah, and I suppose I got in too fast.
Your question about the lookup service is an excellent one.

One: it costs 20 bucks a year to run urbit.org in its capacity as a DNS server for binding 256 names to IPs.

Two: at present, there are about 50 galaxy holders, so if between them they can't scrape up 20 bucks a year to keep urbit.org registered, Urbit has worse problems than centralization.

Three: the use of DNS as a root routing table is an implementation detail in the Unix process, completely isolated from Urbit. When Urbit wants to route a UDP packet to galaxy X, it routes to the reserved range X.1.0.0. If the DNS itself collapsed, we could probably find other ways of mapping this table.

I would not call bash/Perl/PHP "esoteric" either -- it has a very specific meaning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language

Hoon is a little under-documented and should have its grammar specified somewhere, although the easiest way to do so would be just to clean up the Hoon parser (a parser combinator written in Hoon).

(The original plan was for the Hoon parser to look as pretty as a spec grammar, which many parsers in Hoon do. But looking at ++vast in hoon.hoon, you'll see we fall a little short of that goal.)
Programming jobs need critical thinkers and problem solvers with a mathematical ability. What degree such students were attracted to at the age of 18 is neither here nor there really. An undergraduate degree is not really training you in anything formally. How many of us actually use, or for that matter remember, what we learned in our undergraduate degree program? In my case it was pure Mathematics, and to this day I have not had to use Field Theory, say, in my career (and I would likely fail abysmally if required to).

The most important bit is the 'critical thinking' coupled with a passion to learn, build and being creative. At the end of the day writing software has a huge creative component to it. Sadly most companies require STEM degrees for an entry level Software Engineer position. I agree with the author that we need to be more open and be the meritocracy we thump our chests about so loudly. Conversely for liberal arts jobs ...
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FWIW, I don't believe we're going to have 60% unemployment in the future due to automation (or any other factor), but I do think that unemployment, underemployment, and plain old poverty wages are a real problem now.

My living quarters could use a good sweeping, but I ain't doing it, and I ain't paying anyone to do it, even though I could easily afford it.

I guess I'm an armchair internet expert, but I don't see how a theoretical 60% unemployment or the 10-30% under-employment/poor compensation we have now means there's no work to do.
I assume you meant to say "Since 2007, AMD has continually improved..."

No, Intel is the one with the reliable continual improvement process. That is their advantage, not ability to manufacture large volumes.
I know this is a little off topic, but I just googled my own name and an article came up about another guy the same age as me with the same name being shot in his home in America. Poor bloke, but what a weird thing to come across.
A lot of people are taking issue with what's called sensationalism in the article.

I think that's ignoring the elephant in the room. Before amphetamines, it was other drugs. The major point is that practice of capitalism in America is founded on a pattern of use and abuse of drugs. This is an elephant in the room because the dearly-held narrative in America is the idea of work hard, get rewarded. What's called a good work ethic here is seen as insane working hours outside of the US. And this ethos is reinforced by the dominance of US interest in the world.

Now you add in the Chinese startups working even more insane hours.

Is this really what we want our human civilization to move towards? This blind, tunnel-vision obsession over technological progress without actually reflecting on where it is that we are going?

Well, at least when you're using drugs that help you focus, these inconvenient ideas can be easily dismissed. Back to work now, y'all.
Define your terms. WTF is "Deap Learning"?
This explains how it's possible to boot a VM + a container in 150ms.

It's surprising that you can boot a server in a blink of an eye.
My impression was that they heard reed solomon was used in robust systems like they are describing. They intend to use it in theirs. It will therefore be just as robust. Similar to how some firms describe their security after adding "256-bit, military-grade AES." ;)
You are assuming that their actual intention was to improve the job situation, as opposed to just looking like they were doing so.
Let's pretend your mum was opening a diner, and she wants to sell the best fries in town. She has a good recipe, but knows with a little tweaking, it could be great.

She has a few regulars who come for lunch each day, so decides to see what they think of little changes she makes.

She starts by adjusting the amount of salt, a little more for some tables, a little less for others. She notices sometimes tables order more refills of their bowl of fries, and even stay longer (buying drinks, etc...).

Rather than making bigger changes and directly asking customers their preference ("do you prefer our new super-fries or our classic-fries?"), she's decided to focus on more subtle (often not very noticeable) changes, and most importantly, watched the reactions or changes in behavior to influence any longer term changes.

(imagine everyone she asked said they like some new seasoning, but now only order a single, small serving. maybe the original is actually preferred?)
Not sure why this is so highly upvoted. Nobody is questioning that deep networks work better than shallow ones, and there is a good understanding in academia of why (that fits with most lay people's intuition). I hardly consider that the most interesting or relevant question.
There are small libraries that help with making native DOM operations more jQuery-like. We opted just to write our own since we didn't need a good portion or even the smaller libraries.
A 10" Android tablet + bluetooth keyboard isn't bad from a hardware perspective. The OS and software stink.
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I don't think it was, but it certainly existed when the whole idea of networked games simply blew my mind.
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(For what it's worth, it turns out that this sort of nefarious invariant disrespect was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11532599 .)
Unfortunately grandiose ideas like Urbit only seem to come from and get executed by minds like Curtis'.

You can't have one without the other.

If people want to a clean state restart of the world of computing without an infestation of corporations they'll be against attempts to shun him.
If you haven't seen it, this TED talk on using plants for air purification is pretty cool: https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_...
Indeed!

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Ah good eye, thanks, hadn't heard anything at all about that.
That would make sense if founder/employee liquidity was in the works, but from the information we have it's going straight to the company.
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Really? I don't generally find that he over simplifies things. Can you cite an example?