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Stuff still needs to get done, so a hiring freeze means needing a workaround, they will find money for contractors because it is seen as a limited time expense, even though it is probably 3x or 4x more expensive over the long term. When they tell you they cut the size of government they won't tell you that government costs went up, or they will tell you government payroll is down and contractors get costed as something other than payroll.
I think we had about 8 parallel streams for main subjects (i.e. everyone did maths, english etc. at the same time).

People were moved between streams fairly frequently.
I've been using kdb+/q for a long time (7 years now) - and can attest to its speed. Objects are placed in memory with the intention that you will run vectorized operations over them. So both the memory-model and the language are designed to work together.

Lots of people complain about the conciseness of the language and that it is "write-once" code. I tend to disagree. While it might take a while to understand code you didn't write (or even code you wrote a while ago), focusing on writing in q rather than the terser k can improve readability tremendously.

My only wish is that someone would write a free/open-source 64-bit interpreter for q - with similar performance and speed to the closed version. Kona (for k) gets close https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona
Or a chemist.

Republican stances on pollution are at this point directly at odds with high school chemistry.
I can't speak to your other points, but extremely low interest rates are not any kind of impairment to 'the poor,' as they generally do not have much in the way of savings, and benefit from 'cheaper' loans for things like cars or housing.
Thanks, that was really interesting. What is DaySCOR?
Lol. People that coast through life on acid would use these as additional justifications their way of living is more pleasant. I find it dangerously misleading, though. ;)
Terse syntax isn't an issue, you just need to get used to reading it. Using 1 character variable names is another matter though.

There is no reason not to use camel cased variable names and indent functions, if/else blocks etc, and when written this way the code can be perfectly legible even to non q programmers.

Something else that leads people into the write-only trap is that the usual way of working with the language is to use the REPL loop while working, where you can tend to be doing multiple things on 1 line. It's just laziness not to reformat and clean up the code afterwards though.
Could you explain why any of what you say a 'pro-business' politician should do is pro-business? I think a lot of people would disagree with you on those points.
If all they release is jigsaw it will be worth it
Exactly. This is the most pointless economic indicator ever.
That sort of culture exists at my company, but I wish there was more team atmosphere at work. (or free time outside of work to do this)

That's true I'm not sure it's very easy to quantify the stress of a nation/industry and compare it to another nation.

At my current company it's pretty do as you please with breaks/lunch/time off. I believe I have 3.5 weeks and I've been here a year. I pretty much just go to work and then go home (not right at 5pm on the dot). So I wouldn't say work/life balance is great, but it is what it is I guess.
Especially since the number one chocolate in the US is M&M's, not Hershey's.
It does infer that it brought something into question.

Which is not what Trump did here. Climate change is still about as unquestionable as it has ever been.

Denying it is on the same level as denying the holocaust happened.
IMO we should treat climate change deniers exactly the same way.
My first thought as well, in the quantified self area. Plotting heart rate data, blood pressure, while working
Vaccine opposition is definitely from both political wings, but not from either of the parties. GMOs are also not a problem at the party level, the Democratic party does not adopt that extreme position even though many uninformed people on the local level do.
That would be a much better headline.
I thought the same too.

I suspect stress capacity is going to be different for each person, and that capacity might change or shift over time (as a result of physical health, emotional stability, etc.)

Another is that the level of stress (and its attendent tension held in the body) one might be aware of is dependent on how well trained your awareness is.

We could narrow down "stress" by measuring the levels of stress markers in the body, but I think that only gives part of the picture.
I'm currently in my first 'non-programming' programmer role. I was hired to provide 'subject matter expertise' on software development issues and to help define requirements and design architecture.

Meetings, talking to folks, writing documentation, meetings, drawing diagrams in visio, and meetings is my life now.

It's stressful because

1.) I'm not coding (So, I literally have to whip out my laptop and code something every day to maintain my sanity)

2.) It's really hard to tell if I'm doing a good job or not (i.e., I don't know the rules of this new game).

The pay is good, but I really miss being able to code in solitude for hours at a time during the workday.

Also, I'm starting to get headaches, a lot. They used to be rare.
As for the weather thing he's touting, maybe cheaper to just enclose existing highways with a solar panel helmets.
There's no reason why it can't scale, but one problem in implementing this kind of system is convincing the population to accept higher taxes (and Swiss taxes are, overall, still significantly higher than the US despite what the article seems to make out). It is, ultimately a case of the government taking more of your personal wealth to provide services to society as a whole, which flies in stark contrast to the traditional US approach.
This may be a bit odd, but I looked up this comment pretty easily because I was curious what it said to elicit such a strong response and I feel like you misrepresent it here.

The comment is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/5bm3kp/colorado_ca...

It isn't your most down-voted comment. It has -3 and you have about 10 other comments with lower scores. In the comment you solely mention the smell of kids. This doesn't mean that they are using cannabis at all. This could easily be similar to kids whose parents smoke cigarettes. Yes second hand smoke is bad for the kids over time, but that doesn't make them stoned by any means.

I don't disagree with you though that there are dogmatists around cannabis. There definitely are and they don't help anything.
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They need to add a few more stations. On the 300 mile trip I take most often there is exactly one, and it isn't in the town we normally stop to eat at. (we commonly leave right after work and have supper 2 hours down the road which is a good time for a break). There is no station anywhere any of the hotels I stay at either.

In short, the current superchargers are a good start, but if they want to make electric cars work for long distance they need to have them at every restaurant in the country, and every hotel needs to provide a charging station.

In most of the country you can find a gas station every 20 miles even in the least populated parts. (though I can name some areas where next gas is 60 miles) Since a fill up is only 5 minutes I can fill up and then go to the restaurant across the street. With fillups taking 40 minutes we need the charging station to have a different model from current gas stations: they need to be places where humans would want to stop for a long time. Parks, hotels, restaurants, museums and the line come to mind.

It will be interesting to see what happens as (if) electric cars become common.
> It takes a long time for economies to correct to a President's actions- on the order of years.

Those predictions were for short term effects.
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The arguments against GMOs are economic not scientific. I'm fine with consuming GMOs but I'm not okay with only a few large corporations controlling the entire market.

I put Monsanto in the same category as Big Oil, they use their massive capital and weight to push smaller players out of the market and generally don't favor the consumer very much.
Mediocre? It's worse than that. It's worthless. Stock price means nothing.
The perception thing is very real and that is what has driven the German automaker to tweak the sound the doors are making on their cars. Here are a few references. They are recent as this sound engineering has been going on for longer than the newspaper have been reporting online.

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-08-05/mercedes-...
* http://www.bmwblog.com/2014/12/22/perfect-car-door-sound-mad...
* http://mediatum.ub.tum.de/doc/1138344/369710.pdf
* http://emea.nttdata.com/blog/en/its-all-about-sound-how-car-...
* https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00849046/document
Currently for me (not having children and such) I don't see myself taking non-paid time off. Something about that to me just seems wasteful for some reason.
The article's date says 1 February 2016, but the slug is even earlier, dated July 2015.

It popped up on HN back then, too.
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What is the difference between how this neural network translates from Japanese to Korean, and just translating from Japanese to English and then English to Korean.
Very nice article.I wish every country followed the swiss way of work life balance!
Gordon Brown (PM after Blair) introduced the Migrant Impact Fund precisely to spread the benefits of migration to those who would normally lose out. The Tory/Lib Dem coalition cancelled the project 4 months after they got into power (in August 2010 to be precise). Then austerity was piled on top, and now we've arrived at where we are today.
I agree that there are many reasons behind Brexit aside from immigration. On this point however, this Labour policy to dramatically increase immigration started in 1997.
Your list is largely comparable to what one would see as a list of goals from someone sympathetic to European style socialism.

And yet the USA is the dominant economy in the world. How do you square that reality with your claim of what a "pro-business politician" would do?
Yup his choice for Head of the FCC is actually quite anti net-neutrality.
Email sometimes works.

I emailed my Senator about SOPA and got a direct response. The response was that she was in support of it, which didn't make me thrilled but I got a response.

It was sufficiently well thought out and long that I just assume she was inundated and had a canned reply her aids just pasted to everyone and changed the names.

A call may have had more of an impact since fielding a call is, after all, more expensive than an email.
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"the real underlying issue is unemployment/underemployment"

Why is a country that as high unemployment allowing high levels of immigration? Being mad about that seems highly rational to me
Exactly this! so sick of people using this as some kind of proof achievement. All it means is that financial companies (i.e. banks) are expecting deregulation and are bullish on ability to make money in the volatile environment to come. It has no connection to any macro economics that will be impacted by his decisions being made today.
Immigration is a great example to pick of technocrat vs populist.

Left technocrats see immigration as a human rights issue. Freedom of movement is a well-recognized fundamental human right; your ability to move from Gloucester to London is enshrined in Britain's unwritten constitution. Left technocrats do not see the movement from Paris to London to be any different than the movement from Gloucester to London.

Right technocrats see immigration as a free market issue. One cannot have a truly free market in goods and services unless service providers can freely travel.

So compromising on immigration means compromising on principles. Sometimes it's expedient to do so, but I vote for my representatives based on their principles and how closely they appear to adhere to them.
> mostly interesting problem solving and high pay

Arguably the "high pay" factor can be detrimental to professional motivation. I'm pretty sure some developers would hesitate less in switching to a completely different career when they are not happy at work if their compensation weren't better than average... But it's a good problem to have for most of us.
It's not her job to win everybody over. But if she wants to contribute to what she'd consider progress, she can stop injecting so much noise into the signal. People only have so much exposure to "the message", and are likely to dismiss it quickly given too many scatalogical & other insults.

There's a difference between "winning everybody over" vs "do your part to contribute to polite discourse" vs "make your side sound dominated by insult-spewing jerks". Parent wasn't asking for total perfect solution, only to stop contributing to needless antagonism.
> To avoid redundant code and more re-usability, Oracle Corp is going to introduce private methods in Java 9 Interfaces. From Java 9 onwards, you can write private and private static methods too in an interface using ‘private’ keyword.

To me this seems sane only to be used with the `default` keyword. Am I right, or did I miss something?

The last time I used Java the Optional waas mostly usable, but had some rought edges, and I saw that all my painful usecases were waiting to be released in Java 9. When I last checked unfortunately the monadic types were still not sharing an interface for common operations (Optional and Stream), not even in Java9.

Overall: finally it is here! I miss some parts now from the .Net Core world.
Can we not post articles behind a paywall?
Not possible for me since my car is full of computers usually.
At a unicorn I was working at, MBAs were being hired to be engineering managers. I did not see a single engineer promoted to management, it was mostly all MBAs. The few I had direct contact were really useless at helping engineers out, all I ever heard from them was "Just get it done.". If I asked for help, they'd say "Well who else is gonna do it then?".

I felt demoralised and lost some of my confidence. But the company was bleeding talent at the engineering level, plenty of engineers called out this crap and asked the CEO for answers. CEO would make excuses and not do much. Now the company is not doing well at all, even the senior leadership is leaving in droves, the CEO has even been replaced, the valuation has also declined quite a bit.

I am not in silicon valley, so not sure about there but over here, it seems to be a trend to have MBAs in all management positions above engineering and even CTOs of startups who are MBAs.

I had no interest in an MBA until I saw this trend. Now I am seriously considering that route, because it seems there is a serious glass ceiling. Doing an MBA might be necessary for me to move up the ranks.
From what I understand via articles, a lot of the current rally presumes that the talk of trade wars and tariffs is bluster... and that the rise is due to anticipated decreases in regulation and taxes making it easier for businesses.

It is still very possible that serious talk about major tariffs and trade wars from Trump might cause a US stockmarket wobble, similar to how the FTSE wobbled after Theresa May confirmed her desires for a "hard Brexit". This IMHO is the main angle of Trump's campaign that is potentially very bad for the business climate.

(Of course, there are many factors in a stockmarket's price so who knows. In the long run of course it is best to ignore day-to-day speculation. :) )
> If you refuse to pay the tax, people with guns do not come for you.

Seriously? People get put in jail for tax evasion all the time. Certainly lots of guns involved in that process.

> money taken from your savings accounts

Not theft?

> public goods and services, to be shared by all of us

No. Tax money is distributed to favored interests. It is not shared among all.

So what portion of your property do I have a right to? Which part of your home or possessions may I come and direct to my purposes? Or to "the rest of us" even? May I go to your fridge and distribute some fruit to your neighbors or to the homeless? How is a claim to income different than a claim to your other property?
I'll probably get down voted for asking but why post this yourself rather than up-vote me when I posted the exact same link 40 minutes earlier?
Huge point. Beyond the electoral college, the founders of the US had many mechanisms to prevent this kind of thing, but we've degraded them in favor of the idea that everyone's voice counts equally.

Senators used to be appointed. Party candidates used to be selected by party officials, not the public. This last one in particular would have prevented a Trump presidency.

Andrew Sullivan explains all this very well here: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny...

The summary is that too much democracy leads to tyranny.
Maybe it's just convenience. If I was traveling in a pair or so, having Uber/Lyft in a place I would go would immediately give me a way to get around the city.
That's obviously a big slice of caricature, don't you think?

Why feed the polarization like that? What do you gain from it?
Another "mildly subtle" point: the anti-labeling thing is promulgated by pro-GMO lobbyists and pro-GMO business interests, but those people are engaging in very short-term thinking, as is so often the case in American business. If they were to support GMO labeling the whole thing would blow over as soon as the label became "normalized."

That's just a hypothesis, but based on the way genuinely unhealthy things tend not to have disappeared from the market just because they're on a label, I think it's true.
OK cool, that makes sense.

I had some good discussions with Michael MacInnis and recently Ilya Sher. I had actually read Michael's masters thesis in 2011 or 2012 and found it to be a very good historical overview of shells:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=99934401164441475...

I agree with the goal of "taking shell seriously as a programming language", which I think all projects share. I disagreed on the need to make shell a variant of Lisp. I actually tried this a bit -- I hacked on femtolisp, which is used to bootstrap Julia, and I thought I could bootstrap a good shell with it. This didn't work out as nicely as I had hoped so I dropped the idea.

Ilya was having some issues with the "two modes" of parsing -- command mode for shell-like constructs and expression mode for programming features (function calls, math, etc.). I thought this would be an issue too, but as mentioned in another comment, now that I've written a bash parser I think it's straightforward to solve, and Ilya agreed.

The thing is that bash already has many different modes of parsing, which I implement using "lexer modes" or lexical state. This same technique can be applied to a new shell and then there should be a natural way of mixing commands and expressions (quoted and unquoted words, etc.):

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/10/19.html

I'm also trying to make oil do what bash/dash/etc. do essentially syscall for syscall. I believe that is a little hard with Go because it has its own runtime. Although I think there is a way to pin a goroutine to a single thread which can mitigate those issues.

I was planning to start a thread in maybe a month to review some of these issues and exchange feedback. Let me know if you are interested!
All conclusions are only valid for similar workloads, but each of MapD and GPUs, Q/kdb+ and Xeon Phi, Redshift, Athena, Big Query, Presto, and Elasticsearch claim to be fast, inexpensive, easy to work with, and otherwise great for Big Data. Which ones really are fast? How fast is fast? How much is this going to cost? Do I need 5 nodes or 50?

A few examples of some useful conclusions:

- Just because a relatively well-optimized PostgreSQL database on a regular workstation takes 5 minutes to run a query doesn't mean you can't get special hardware to run that query faster than you can type.

- Spark + S3 + Amazon Elastic Map Reduce look like an ideal tool to work with large data, but they're pretty slow compared to better tools, and even compared to plain PostgreSQL.

- HDFS really is a lot faster than S3.

- Performance of an Xeon Phi 64-core CPU is within an order of magnitude to an NVidia Titan X.

- Loading 104 GB of compressed data into Q/kdb+ expands to 125 GB with and takes about 30 minutes, but on Redshift expands to 2 TB and takes many hours to upload on a normal connection, plus 4 hours to actually import!

- It might cost $5000 to custom-build a GPU-based supercomputer that can do these queries in under a second, but you can run similar queries if you're willing to wait for 5 minutes each by spinning up instances for a few dollars an hour plus a few more dollars an hour for storage, or by just running PostgreSQL on your workstation.

Also, not a conclusion, but it's incredibly useful to have a simple example exactly how to configure the tool and import some CSV data
> The points in the article could apply to policies/norms in Sweden as well. Here, we get at least 4 weeks of paid vacation per year

No, mandatory EU minimums enforce at least 5 weeks of vacation.
Can you explain more what do you mean by the word "scale" here?
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Mainstream financial analysis is junk.

If you knew what a market would do - you wouldn't share it with everyone for free.

You may, however, attempt to manipulate some market through these means.
> Every dollar you spend on your bunker is a dollar you don't spend helping the world keep out of the sort of trouble that would make your bunker necessary.

But it's also a dollar that's been spent - paying for school supplies for the daughter of the welder employed by the manufacturer, the medicine the truck driver's mom needs, and a few drinks at the bar for the retired vet who ran the backhoe for the bunker.

The economy isn't a closed system, so anything that gets the super rich to spend their money rather than stockpile it will benefit the economy as a whole.
I know in California when I was in high school, it was free for high school kids to take community college courses. It was cheaper to take calculus at a community college because I didn't have to pay for the AP test. In addition, I knew it would automatically count as college credit, instead of the pseudo-credit you get for AP test results.

As an added bonus, I could compete calculus in a semester instead of a full year. It was way better for me.
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But if the primary concern of the electorate are cultural changes this is an irrelevant gesture. Now some might say it is racist or xenophobic to want to maintain the culture of your local community. I don't believe it is.

It is a good example of how the constituents wishes (preserve culture of local community ) is at complete odds with the governments wishes. They can keep on throwing money at them, but it will never address this issue that many people find very important.
For someone out of the area, what's the big deal? I much prefer the mackinac bridge for the sights AND the bridge itself.
Sometimes that causes more stress.
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It's fine, they've had enough time to replace you.

However, why not offer to consult on any production issues that they have (at a reasonable hourly rate). As long as it's done in your own time, and it doesn't violate any non-compete you might have in general this shouldn't be an issue.