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> if you need segfault protection, you're a bad programmer. Let's be honest, you don't segfault unless you're doing something idiotic. I've not segfaulted in the past 8 years in anything but assembly

sigh Please look at the "trophy case" here: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
That is fair. From watching HN over the years, Google seems to prefer certain US colleges for new US grads. I myopically assumed a US-centric perspective in my comment. If you come from one of the large well respected programs like GA Tech, they'll look at you once they looked at the Stanford folk.
But is the difference due to some secret that "non-rich kids" don't know? That most kids don't do more isn't a surprise. But why don't they know more? This article suggests that "they didn't know they could (or should)".

I would wager that most kids don't want to put in the work to be a true over-achiever. Or because they haven't been raised that way. Not because they're unaware of the benefits.

I'm trying not to fall into the trap of suggesting the reason for success is "hard work" when socioeconomic differences in opportunities explain much or all of the gap. But that truly seems to be the thesis presented here.
If you don't see a difference between "Here's some free cash." and "Here's an economic and societal environment where you can build a prosperous and fulfilling career and family with your own two hands.", then studying human psychology and spending more time with those who have grown up in the US with a much different culture and upbringing than you might be to your benefit.
> 10 years later, it doesn't matter.

Even a few years later, impressive work experience and open source projects should far outweigh what university you went to.
If "functions as a service" (AWS Lambda) takes hold, I think Rust will be a popular server language since you'll need services with almost no startup/warmup time.
I replaced books with my Kobo and iPad years ago, but replaced the iPad with a Surface since. I don't have any memory palace issues, but a bookshelf is a must.

To solve my bookshelf issue I use Calibre and keep all of books, including technical manuals in it. I store all of the files and the Calibre database on a folder in DropBox. It suits me fine. I standardized on PDF and ePub files for maximum compatibility, but Calibre will also convert the files on the fly for me.
I think you have to use each tool for what it's for. Golang is useful for high performance stuff, yet it's easy enough to handle an HTTP request and parse JSON, for example.

Of course if you compare it with other options, you will find solutions that provide better expressiveness with less code (development speed), at expense of execution speed, type safety,...
How do you know your ability to do that isn't rare?
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I'm a little uncomfortable with the language that the theories "say that the world is" X. General Relativity and the Standard Model both model the world using real numbers, but they're both known to be wrong, and the fact that they are continuous is not a great reason to claim that the universe is continuous.

On the other hand, observations about Lorentz symmetry holding at distances on the order of the Planck scale put a wrench in a bunch of discrete spacetime theories. I don't really understand the math, though.

All this is somewhat tangential to the issue of real numbers. Real numbers are not necessary for continuity.
I don't think it's actually a means problem, I think it's a community values one.

People mostly act in their short term interest. When we do more forward-looking things like studying or investing in retirement, it's because we strongly believe those actions will pay off in the future.

That strong belief in the value of studying is the advantage rich kids enjoy. Everyone around them agrees that studying is a very good use of time with high expected value down the line, so on any given afternoon it's easy for them to choose that valuable activity over hanging out with their friends.

The same isn't remotely true for poorer kids. Some of their friends tease them for studying because "you're never going to get into college anyway," and the adults in their life probably support studying, but in an abstract and understated way. Studying is "a good thing" for a poor kid, while it's a critical factor for future success to a rich kid.

Yes, with the internet and public libraries it wouldn't be logistically difficult for a poor kid to study as much as a rich one, but without an entire community pressing its importance onto them it's immensely hard to actually do it.
But if we assume that we can say a sentence either specifies a real number uniquely or does not, the Berry paradox number is uniquely specified.
You're not the only one.

A neuron nucleus can be as small as 3 μm, ... which could pack about tens or hundreds million 5nm transistors.

There is plenty of room at the bottom, as Feynman said.
The bump fee only works if it's not weather related. Mechanical and overbooking only. Oh, and pilot scheduling mistakes.
The real solution is to design a test that you can't study for effectively.

However, I suspect the study-ability for the SAT enhances it's predictive ability. Someone who does whatever it takes to learn some words for vocab testing will do whatever it takes to learn about sociology.

The truth is that standardized tests aren't less predictive for poor students. Whatever causes the score gap also causes an achievement gap once they arrive at school.
The SAT in its own right is total BS. You want to fix the problems with wealth inequality you don't go getting people on equal footing with the SAT. You get rid of the SAT, you get rid of many other things. You put power into the hands of the people instead of huge corporations like the College Board and "universities" that are really just minor league sports centers.
There is naturally going to be competition as long as there are choices. That said, I do not think our system serves us well in the USA. It imposes a great deal of distortion on how young people choose to spend their time -- ie, on window dressing rather than meaningful pursuit. The marketing of elite higher ed also may lead some of us to take on more education-related debt than we should, which can be limiting of future choices in life!
But getting you in the door for that work experience is key. Co-op programs and such can really help with that, especially if you don't have a lot of job-finding experience.
Man, I am jealous. I just don't see how anyone can get into the top software companies anymore without those super impressive credentials. To be honest, I saw your first sentence and my gut reaction was, "Uh, no!" but I am certain you know more about this topic than I would. It's just so very surprising.
> most of the airlines barely operate at margin as it is.

You're spreading very outdated information. Airlines are currently making record profits:

"2017 is expected to be the eighth year in a row of aggregate airline profitability"

"These three years are the best performance in the industry’s history"

From: http://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2016-12-08-01.aspx
"The new application describes pliable chambers making up the body of the robot, filled with fluid or air. The robot would be able to sense pressure on each chamber and adjust the amount of air or water, to respond to a child’s hug, or to an accidental collision."

This sort of mechanic isn't novel to my mind, pressure sensors aren't, it's all prior art and ordinary mechanic stuff except tossing in the computer/software. If you think it's a breakthrough, then my point fails, of course.
I must echo the same sentiment as the GP.

It really all comes down to effective studying, and is very accessible to all income levels. Just buy one or two good prep books, and get access to practice tests (I used only the ones in the books, BTW). I didn't enter into any SAT prep program, and always felt they were for people who did not know how to study well.

It doesn't even require much intensity if you do it right. For both the SAT and the GRE, I began studying 9-12 months before I expected to take the exam. I spent only a small amount of time a week on it (1-2 hours). The trick was to be regular and consistent. Towards the end, start taking practice tests. I got a pretty good score on the SAT and a fantastic score in the GRE (easily in the 99 percentile range).

No tutors. No prep programs. Just a bunch of books, and 1-2 hours a week. That's all it takes.
Did they change the score again? I thought they just changed it to being out of 2400 but it's not anymore?
> Most took the SAT cold.

This really bothers me. Obviously most people can't afford expensive prep classes, but it doesn't cost much to buy your children a few practice books. Back when I took the SAT, the Barron's book was great, and I got most of my value from that. This is just poor parenting.
Much of it comes down to people's discomfort with meat.

White meat is consistent, reliable, mild-flavored, and often is served such that it contains no clues that it came from a living animal.

Those not comfortable with murdering for food shouldn't do so by proxy.
Hello from an Uruguayan who worked as a Software Engineer at Google Zürich. No, you're not screwed at all :)
Not necessarily. My circle of friends took the PSAT, but skipped the SAT.
If it is anything like the ACT, it doesn't test knowledge, it tests how well you take tests.

The science section in the ACT is more chart comprehension than anything.

Everyone gets tripped up thinking they need to know more when really they just need to learn to take it better.
HN should have a 'reference' comments section, this is a good one.
i think it's no coincidence Godel's proof of uncountable reals, comes around the same time as Lebesgue integration. As mathematicians started exploring what the serious use of Fourier series
http://carlosicaza.com/swiftbooks/SwiftLanguage.pdf

Swift was designed for writing apps on the mac platforms, primarily on iOS, and although somewhat debatable as a replacement for Objective-C due to it's quirks. If you want proof of that, just read between the lines in the original documentation.

Not to mention, many of the features that were called out originally are direct responses to issues with Objective-C: Optionals, Typed containers, Generics, modules, real first class functions instead of just blocks, final classes, let, etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that more because air traffic is up rather than their margins having gone up?

Maybe oil prices of the day play a role too... but I wouldn't count on that to be true for long.

Even in this report though, you'll note that the fares are down 63% since 1995 - the competition is pretty fierce here. The absolute profit is only around measured 5% even today. I wouldn't exactly call that a great margin.
>Let's be honest, you don't segfault unless you're doing something idiotic.

I disagree, segfaults can arise out of simple mistakes in rare cases that aren't always immediately obvious - let alone a segfault in a complex system.

A sign of a good language is to as much as possible make invalid states illegal by design. Why, if you can reliably check for bad memory use with the compiler, would you not do so? Toughness is no measure of coder talent, otherwise the best of us would only be using assembly for everything.
C++ is hard, too. So is C, to write correctly. Hasn't stopped either of them from literally powering almost every computer in use.

Rust's complexity is equivalent to, but distinct from C++'s. I prefer it over C++, and I'm one big fan of the latter.
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Not too sure what is meant by "mainstream" but I can see Rust getting a foothold in certain industry, such as medical, automotive or aerospace. To get there, it will need to be mature and be stable significant enough. It will also need a big player to take that first step and prove it in production.

Imagine if Ford mandates its suppliers to use Rust for the software in its car and it faced little problems after a few years out on the road.
I took the SATs twice - primarily because the first time I had gotten so little sleep that I fell asleep (multiple times) during the reading comprehension portion of the test.

Did much better the second time around!
>> admit when they don't know something... encourage you to validate that with data

Correlating this with employee performance data might not be the only metric.

My experience is that people that won't admit they don't know something are not necessarily bad employees. Often they are capable employees, although this is a trait I rarely see in the best employees. However, I find they are toxic to a good work environment, since they won't listen to people who do know something.

They do seem to get promoted to management had a much higher rate :)
Agreed, I mean is a reverse proxy even a server? The number of people who use Nginx for load balancing is huge, so when they say people are switching to nginx from Node.JS, I'm just like: "Dude, I only use Nginx for my kubernetes ingress, with plenty of services behind using Node.JS rather than any monolithic everything server" So is my server Nginx, Kubernetes or Node.JS, or Python, or Java? :-/

I think this statistic is conceptually a little behind the times in some ways
The world of The Geek is claustrophobic, no?
Not surprised to see you here too. Also, hope you will find this material entertaining.
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>"I don't think there's much incentive post C++11 to really consider porting anything (even small things) over"

I am curious why specifically C++ 11? Could you elaborate?
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The lesson here is that one element to career success (for it's own sake) is understanding how your performance will be measured, and then working specifically to 'score well' by those metrics.

Companies that understand this can craft incentives within their culture so that employee goals are aligned with company goals and both employees and the company succeed.

Companies that have serious problems, like an Uber or Theranos, are likely suffering from inappropriate reward structure, whether explicitly or implicitly defined.

The students who avail themselves of professional test prep are getting a life lesson in climbing the corporate ladder. This is one method by which wealth breeds wealth.
Only 9 companies can sell. The free mods will be better/more interesting anyway.

Minecraft has become a giant cow made out of blocks with millions of kids being sucked up and stuck on, with Microsoft and about a million others underneath milking it for all its worth.
When you serve files over https (which you always should) you can't use sendfile anyway. The data will have to be encrypted, so you can't have the kernel send the data straight into the socket.
Public Benefit Corporation is one potential route.
Works the same as a low end kindle. Reflection does it in normal lighting conditions. It also has a backlight, which almost never gets used. Really like the Kobo H20, especially with the open source koreader OS. If it was just a little bigger it would be more practical with large texts, though it's usable as-is.
Me, i just happen across an education gig in Chile a couple years ago, and have been doing education gigs (hardware prototyping and general science) a few times a year in South America and Europe since then.

Doesn't pay much, but having all the time to yourself for work instead of being distracted by "work"/job is worth it.

I'm a programmer by education and first hobby, and over 10 years in the industry i found that i just can't work on a project i don't appreciate. For me programming is an art, and on a job that art is constrained, so i would inevitably burn out in a year or two.

Why do you want to stop working in tech?
Some of the improvement was probably age-related brain growth. I noticed in high school and college that as I got older, my performance on repeated math tests or contests mysteriously improved, even if I didn't do any practice in between. Math problems that seemed out of my reach suddenly became attainable. Some friends of mine noticed the same thing when I pointed it out to them.
Indeed we do not have a good, computational understanding of what makes brains efficient. It's plausible that growing new pathways could contribute to the efficiency of the brain, but is that the only reason the brain is efficient? What about the brain's spiking communication? What about the synaptic and dendritic dynamics? Are any of these "features" useful or just vestigial byproducts of evolution? Without that computational understanding, it's hard to make satisfying arguments one way or the other about what exactly makes the brain efficient.

You can cast neuromorphic chip development as a path to realizing that understanding. Recall how convolutional neural networks only realized their heyday once the hardware resources to implement them (i.e. GPUs) was readily available. Once GPUs made running CNNs practical, people found all sorts of new ways to understand and use neural networks. In other works, the computational model and the implementing hardware must be co-developed before something actually useful is possible.
The corollary is that while public universities, certainly in Germany, will admit almost anyone regardless of grades or pre-admission exams, the introductory courses will drive 40-50% away within the first two terms of any STEM degree. There is no grading on a curve, no endless midterms to pass a course despite failing the final - most of the time a single 2h final exam will entirely determine your passing grade, and it's not uncommon to have 60% of a cohort fail. Fail the same course three times and you are out right there and then, permanently barred from continuing your studies for the same degree.

It's like hiring based on bullshit (cough essays) or work samples.
Thank you for clarifying your library's usage of "semantic." Although I disagree with how it currently abuses the original design philosophies of HTML/CSS, I can see an interesting perspective that this library has taken alternatively with the meaning of being semantic, which is valuable and insightful.

When I first heard about Semantic UI, I was excited because I had hoped someone had finally built something like Bootstrap using only Sass/Less mixins that were pure and side effect free (i.e. not littering the global namespace with generically named classes, not dependent on the structure of the HTML). I was disappointed that was not the case and frustrated with the confusion of the usage of "semantic" when its already widely adopted to mean something specific for HTML.

I really wish UI libraries were built on mixins. Pure mixins would allow for reusable component styles and modifiers such as "three large red buttons" to be mixed into semantically-named CSS classes such as "user-controls." Additionally, mixins would allow for media query usage (e.g. I could use a "big red button" for desktop and "small red button" for mobile), allow for more selectiveness about which components/modifiers I want to use (which may reduce the overall size of the CSS), allow for conditional styling logic, and generally be easier to work with in a CSS preprocessor. This facilitates all the goals you've mentioned while being more flexible, open to extension and enabling us to stick to the way HTML/CSS was meant to be used. Maybe you've already considered all of this and have your reasons for not pursuing it. I'm sure it would be much more work to go that way now regardless, although it seems Bootstrap 4 has started heading in that direction.
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Casino chips are 1:1 and refundable, I'm not sure that works the same way.
So true. It doesn't get the credit because it's often eaten at a picnic table with lots of napkins. It also uses a lot of cheaper meats. BBQ doesn't apologize for that though. What it does to cuts like pork shoulder is magical though. I smoked a hand made pizza once with cherry wood at like 700+ degrees in my BGE and it was the best pizza I've ever had. I haven't been able to replicate it though because I haven't done it enough to be consistent.

I think BBQ will eventually get it's due. We're seeing a lot of chefs take common, cheaper dishes and make them more upscale and interesting to larger audiences and foodies. One of the best dishes I ever had was dinuguan [1] at Paul Qui's (Top Chef winner) restaurant in Austin.

I don't think Americans have a huge problem with food as the parent suggests. I'm biased of course but I prefer it how it is. We don't need a singular identity. We have places like Napa, Vegas, NY and San Fran that stack up against any city in the world, even though our history is short. We attract top talent from everywhere and the melting pot delivers vastly different experiences. You can come to the US and visit New York, New Orleans and the Pacific Northwest and get amazing food with completely different styles and cultural identities.

Why do we need a unified food? Why is that important?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinuguan
Ha! I care about real-time and jitter too (nice article, BTW), but for rather slower CPUs these days, possibly orders of magnitude away from what you care about!

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Yes, but I can see why some businesses would not want to deal with that hassle, simply invoice including VAT and let the customer sort out the recoup. But technically you don't have to and many businesses customers will appreciate this.
It's not given away, it's purchased. The shareholders just need to agree to equitable terms.

New Belgium was advised by Eureka Capital Markets, a middle market investment-banking firm:

http://www.newbelgium.com/community/Blog/new-belgium-brewing...
Their actions said that, yes. Their ads, no.
emacs on my NeXT cube (which was B&W) used font highlighting. It worked pretty well.
I'm an aviation enthusiast and a CS undergrad. I've always wondered what's different about code written for airplanes. Anybody have any insight ? And is there a modern replacement for ADA?
FWIW there is an old spec draft for WebSockets over HTTP/2: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hirano-httpbis-websocket-o...
> Would you have thought that a test like the PSAT would be useful for 11th graders only so that they could get national merit scholarships?

Wait, is this actually not common knowledge? I could swear it was included with the official PSAT materials we got handed in the test, and I know my school publicized it like crazy prior to the exam. It was a mediocre public school, too.

I totally believe you, but that (way more than the study-ability of the SAT) is a surprising thing to me. Differences in quality I get, differences in common knowledge still throw me off.
I also enjoy my stay in sarcasm town.
No, that's US law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/250.5
Sometimes people confuse what they envision with what they perceive.

But given that what we perceive is in most cases so heavily filtered through what we believe, I'm not sure this is necessarily a conceptual mistake.

Envisioning something in the minds eye isn't necessarily a sense but it's pretty close. I do think it's a good idea to regard envisioning as property of our own mind however rather than relating it entirely to external phenomenon. Which should also be more widely practiced with perceptions in general IMOP.
Or because the only real build tool (Plovr) was maintained by a single guy and hasn't been updated in years.
The server requirement was only true for 10.5 and 10.6. With 10.7 and up, the regular client OS X can also be virtualized on Apple hardware.
Govendor + vendored dependencies in repo