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Verilog and VHDL are certainly fundamental, but there's plenty of alternatives...

Chisel with Scala, MyHDL with Python, Bluespec and Lava with Haskell are all low level HDL languages to name a few that piggy back on typical programming languages.

And if you want a higher level integrated solution you could use Altera OpenCL or Xilinx HLS.

Not to say we couldn't ask for a lot more from FPGA tools!!
Yes. They are not a bank, but they are a Money Services Business (in the USA). E.g. see http://paymentsviews.com/2012/08/13/so-you-want-to-start-a-p...
I initially thought that too but realized it was a meaningless concern.

Even if you knew g, it wouldn't help because the pressure also depends on the thickness of soil it's landing on, as well as its mechanical properties - like how much it's already been compressed. A hammer dropped onto concrete exerts more pressure than it does dropped onto sand.

Also, what's the shape of the footprint of the hammer? Error in that will be more than the difference between Earth and Mars gravity.
...It makes the same localized predictions as other quantum theories and has the same utility (aside from not having relativity incorporated).

One just says "we fundamentally can't know, lulz random" and the other says "we could know, if we knew everything". PWT just has the local probabilistic behavior because we can't know the little fiddly bits of the rest of the universe, even if we know the dominant local forces. Copenhagen just says that it does random shit, no reason.

I'm not sure why you think the other interpretation of QM gives predictive power PWT doesn't.

Ed: To specifically address the stats point --

PWT says that if we had total knowledge of the universe, we could determine that the coin would always be, eg, heads under specific conditions, but due to measurement limitations we can only say that it will come up 50/50, and that the discrepancy between the theoretical ability to perfectly predict and our need to statistically approximate is related to our ability to measure (and compute).

By contrast, Copenhagen says there is no coin between when it leaves your hand and when it lands, so clearly we can't do any better to predict than statistics of how often we see the coin heads on the table after it leaves our hand.

You seem to fault PWT for making the same predictions as other models, just because it doesn't declare the problem of doing better fundamentally impossible.
Working at a company like this sounds like a nightmare hellscape and this guy should join a startup and enjoy life again.
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Minor correction: it's "seishain". 正社員(せいしゃいん)
I wonder if the prominence of esports is cutting into ESPN as well. Hell just yesterday there were over a million viewers on Twitch[1], in large due to a major esports tournament for dota. League of Legends regularly hits those numbers and beyond for their tournaments.

In the past esports were kinda sideshow attractions, but now the production quality and audience numbers are quickly catching up to traditional sports. On top of that their distribution models are more consumer friendly. I'm sure there's overlap of people who watch both, but I wonder if the next generation of kids will defer to esports over traditional ones.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/68heiu/600k_viewers_...
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Even the money transmitter play is harder than you'd think (all of what I wrote above is applicable to that class; being a bank is even harder). Since Paypal failed to convince the regulators that they were not an MSB, they are much less likely to let a small fry under the radar.
Some more context -
I am a biophysics PhD candidate and SIGF Bio-X fellow at Stanford. I have been working on deep learning for genomics with my advisor Anshul Kundaje since conception 2.5 years ago. A year later most of the lab was using deep learning for their research. Last fall we had the first Deep Learning for Genomics class at Stanford and 70-80 students took it. Next month, my advisor and my colleague Avanti Shrikumar will give talks at Nvidia's GTC conference on this topic (8000 people attending!), I will debut a 2-hour interactive presentation/workshop with Nvidia's Deep Learning Institute.

It's coming and we need to expand the field - my goal is to tell it like it is without wasting your time.
> You end up going into hyper-determinism, which is almost all about negating free will.

You seem to think this is a bad thing. Why?
Well, yeah. Usually somewhere in there it'll have

class Complex {
double real;
double imaginary;
}

Or similar. Maybe template it so you can have a Complex<double> instead. It's still fundamentally a combination of existing types.
Is it constructive criticism? Doesn't seem like it to me. It's absurd to suggest that ~20 lines of code in a system of hundreds of thousands of lines amounts to a valid criticism.

Only in a world in which all else was equal between Postgres and MySQL would this even remotely be plausible as a criticism. We don't live in that world.
Smoothies aren't as good as eating the whole fruit! Fruit is better than juice because it has fiber. The insoluble fiber becomes something like a mesh inside the intestine and prevents food from getting digested too soon. When you put the fruit through the blender, the insoluble fiber is ripped apart and you lose a lot of its benefit. Dr. Lustig, an endocrinologist at UCSF, talks about this in one of his lectures. It's on YouTube, but I can't remember exactly which lecture.
I'm sure $90K is a thing somewhere on the coasts. A typical starting salary around here (MO/KS) is $60-65K considering you have some internship experience. Otherwise it's usually in the mid 50s. Amazon offered $160K (bonus included).
It's based on being able to pay your taxes with it.
I have always done this. I use the time in different ways, depending.

Sometimes I sleep. I have a nice, super comfy setup in the car, should I need it.

Often, I play. Or walk. Just get into idle and stay there for long enough to matter.
It addresses a related but slightly different question.

You flip a coin: there is a 50/50 chance of heads or tails. These probabilities are due to our incomplete knowledge: the coin knows which face is up, and it's only because we don't know that we assign probabilities.

Now if we have a particle that is 50/50 spin up or spin down, we may think that it is like a coin: the spin is already determined, we just don't know which it is. This is where Bell's Inequality comes in and shuts that idea down. Until the particle is observed, it simply does not have a spin, in the same way that a coin has an up face.

So if a pre-observed particle does not have a spin, what does it actually have? This is the core of the dispute in the article. There's two possible answers:

1. A wavefunction (psi), aka a quantum state. This is the psi-ontic view which argues the wavefunction is a real and physical thing that evolves in time regardless of any observations. MWI and Bohm are both psi-ontic theories.

2. Nothing. This is the psi-epistemic view which holds that it makes no sense to talk about a particle's reality in-between observations. In this view, only measurements and their results are real; the wavefunction is a state of knowledge. Copenhagen, Consistent Histories, and the minimalist ensemble interpretations are psi-epistemic.
Devil's advocate - how is it really better to have a bunch of autogenerated Django migration files?
Gold is a pretty silly thing to base your currency on. It's shiny metal; it's not something productive like land, labour or production.
I've been hearing this pitch since approximately the middle of the 1980's. Back then it was Harvard Graphics, Foxpro, and ... TeX.

What makes your offer different?
"Oh, I brought my lunch. Sorry!"
100k personal profit on a mill in revenue is pretty nice actually in my opinion. I'm just working for a firm where my contributions are likely resulting in revenues higher than that and I'm receiving similar compensation, without actually owning the vehicle of growth.

If you've really figured out a way to grab 10% of REVENUE_X that's reproducible, you're a golden goose with your choice of owners.
I do. And it definitely helps. Initially I felt tired at end of day but more alert while working at standing desk. No struggle with trying to stay awake.

Half day sitting down and half standing up seems best.
Cards on the table: I work for a money transmitter "app" headquartered in SF (I say "app" because we still operate in a somewhat speculative niche in the industry) as a software engineer - but I have a degree in law as well. To me the regulatory compliance seems to be an issue with the tech people not properly collaborating with the "banking proper" types (financial services/legal/banking professionals) Note: in "easy" jurisdictions we are seeing some progress[0]

Would you be able to take this offline and discuss with me further? I do not know the protocol for off site discussions from hacker news. Do I give you my public key? haha LOL

[0] www.monzo.com (with whom I haveno affiliation whatsoever)
It might be a sense of contributing to development of your society. Every brick you make is a significant visible improvement for everyone there. But on Earth, a lifetime's work is nothing compared to the whole world's output. You can't see if you're improving things, making things worse, or having no effect at all. If you do simple things like make bricks on Earth, they probably have negative value - somebody will have to do more work to break or discard them soon enough.
Thanks for the suggestion. Just checked. It's not.
On the same note, here's some research on the impact of Harvard MBAs as CEOs: http://www.mintzberg.org/blog/mbas-as-ceos

> "A decade after its publication in 1990, I looked at a book called Inside the Harvard Business School, by David Ewing, long an insider. (The first line was “The Harvard Business School is probably the most powerful private institution in the world.”) The book listed 19 Harvard alumni who “had made it to the top”—the school’s superstars as of 1990. My attention was drawn to a few of them who would not have been on that list after 1990 [...] So Joseph Lampel and I studied the post-1990 records of all 19. How did they do? In a word, badly."
ARM has special instructions for complex numbers[1]. Modern CPU architectures usually have vector instructions which should cover most common complex number operations as well.

[1] Look for the instructions prefixed with FC = Floating-point Complex

https://developer.arm.com/docs/dui0801/latest/a64-simd-vecto...
> My MBA has had virtually no effect on my opportunities or employability... What HBD does well, above all else, is act as a filter."

And you don't think employers realize this? You don't think this pre-screening process impacts their judgement when looking at job candidates?

The top management consultancies, the top investment banks and private equity groups are full of HBS grads. You think they all would have got these jobs without going through the HBS process, networking with their peers and alumni who end up working for these same companies, interning, and getting the HBS seal of approval?

You refer to yourself as an engineer. That might be why HBS didn't help your employability. But if you don't think it helped others, you're dreaming.
This is closely related to QBism (quantum Bayesianism)

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

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150604-quantum-bayesianism-...
I used pandoc to generate latex from markdown while studying philosophy in graduate school, I even came up with a little executable tarball that generated a directory structure in the the way I wanted, with a shell script to handle building everything properly.

I find that this route is best for documents that you are writing: you can focus on the content and use a nice markdown editor like Ulysses without having to worry too much about formatting.

On the other hand, when I'm trying to typeset a pre-existing text for reading/distribution, I find it a lot easier to copy and paste the text into a latex template and then tweak it incrementally until everything looks the way I want it to.
It's said of the Harvard Business School that it trains people for two jobs: President and Chairman of the Board.
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well, yeah, obviously.

Software is not the end-goal itself. The point is not to make (or use) amazingly elegant software. The point is to make money.

If a supplier says "I will provide the same service as you are currently getting and cost you $X less" then that's a no-brainer regardless of what service they're providing. It's got nothing to do with technology, and technology doesn't change the nature of that decision.

"Having a throat to choke" is also a matter of insurance. You can't insure against your own incompetence, but you can sue a supplier for not fulfilling the terms of their contract. Executives would much rather negotiate what they think is a tough contract with a supplier than manage a complex project themselves. To that mindset, the removal of risk (because if anything goes wrong they can sue the supplier) is a huge bonus.

It's a totally different mindset from those of us who actually make things.
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Closure is more fundamental though. Add a structure (define an ADT) to a closure and you will have an object.

The classic example is a closure with message-passing, which was the original concept in Smalltalk.
This is just wonderful. I watched his essence of linear algebra series, and that just opened up a whole new universe I never knew existed. I was yearning something like this for calculus. I am salivating at the thought of watching these. Better finish my work.
> [Professor Michael Jensen] advocated an "agency" theory of management in which management's sole duty was to maximize shareholder value. This upended the long-held "stakeholder" model, in which management was seen as having broader obligations to a corporation’s workers, customers and communities.

It's interesting how that theory has filtered into public consciousness. My sense is that the public doesn't grasp it as one theory among many possibilities, but as a law of nature (a pattern I see for many ideas - people lack perspective that the theory is one of many possibilities, and different concepts were popular before and others will be popular later). You can read people using agency theory, thought not by that name, on HN regularly.

Consider how amazing that is: An academic comes up with a theory, and eventually tens of millions (or more) are repeating it. Is it marketed? Even if it is, many or most of the people repeating it probably have no idea of the marketing. Is it part of an intentional political propaganda campaign? I know other popular ideas successfully pushed on the public this way (one I know of in particular is the "death tax", and I've observed others where the talking points frame and effectively end the discussion).

What incredible power. Is it random? Can it be directed and controlled? Who knows how and who is doing it? I know political groups do it to an extent, as I said, but I don't know their range or accuracy, so to speak.
> I was somewhat disappointed to find out an object was just a struct with some functions attached

> when I learned that they were just bundles of existing data types, though 'oh is that all?'

Uh-huh. When I learned how everything just translates to 0s and 1s in the end, I was also super "disappointed". Higher-level constructs and abstractions are new compositions of lower-level building blocks? How.. plain!
It would certainly be possible if mathematics standardised on writing proofs in a proof assistant like Coq. Then anyone with a basic functional programming background could understand the most complex of proofs, given enough time to step through and understand all steps of the proof in the Coq IDE.
With an unemployment rate at 2.8%, I would say that there actually is a shortage. That figure is already lower than the expected unemployment rate at "full employment" scenario. [0, 1]

At the same time I am not going to dispute your opening line: because there sure as hell is a disagreement on labour cost too.

Which brings up another fascinating point: the situation is Japan is going to be a data feast for economists. A modern, technologically advanced country going through such a shortage of labour that it's affecting the equilibrium and general conditions of the labour market.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Employment_in_a_Free_Soci...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment
Frankly, we were not able to find something suitable. It needed to be fast (our largest report has like 2000 pages), needed to support advanced layouting (images outside of usual print margins, multi-pages tables with continued headers, ...) and we wanted to have some kind of templating language. Native node.js would have been nice, but not required.

Maybe I was out of luck, butI couldn't find anything useful fulfilling these requirements - if you have suggestions, I'd be interested in seeing what's possible.

How it went, though? Due to our use cases, this LaTeX service is a complexity beast. The templating isn't fun; LaTeX was not created to be templated itself. We have escaping in place, but from time to time user input breaks it. We have no way to let users create their own reports at this point. There are multiple reasons, but LaTeX being not that beginner-friendly is definitely one of them.

But given the template is correct and the user input is sane, it's fast and simply works.
Not to mention the two (!) SIDs for audio output. The only way to obtain those nowadays is to cannibalize Commodore 64s.
Aren't they both just bundle of function objects + states?
The Zen Slap:

"If you read through enough Zen koans, you’re quickly struck, as it were, by the number of those oblique lessons that end with a student getting slapped. It may be delivered by hand, stick, sandal or goat bite, but the slap, painful as it might be, is an act of compassion, a wordless reminder of the things we know but can never seem to remember or practice for very long."

-- http://www.siliconbeat.com/2008/10/09/of-course-if-theres-no...
The classical model of capitalism is that profits are a side effect of some socially beneficial activity. But today, "maximizing shareholder value" as a goal has been so well optimized that it often no longer requires doing anything useful. This led to such strange situations as 40% of US corporate profits coming from financial activities. (That ended in 2008.) There's still the hedge fund industry, which is a net lose for its customers but a huge win for its operators.

The Harvard Business School helped develop the theory, and the policy thinking, that made this possible. Short-term capital gains are not heavily taxed, for example. Both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have said they should be. That policy, which favors financial maneuvering, is so well entrenched that it's not even discussed politically any more.
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As far as I know, at-will employees can absolutely be let go for expressing an unpopular opinion. It is only illegal to exclude a quite short list of "protected classes", mostly (entirely?) defined by immutable traits like race. To be clear, I don't think this "freedom to exclude" should be protected constitutionally the way freedom of speech is, and I'm a big supporter of all the exceptions to it that I know of, but I still think it's a worthwhile concept that should be considered when discussing freedom of speech as it pertains to private entities.
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Honestly pretty much all of them if C++ is your reference point. Java, C#, Scala, Ruby, Ocaml...
I'm hoping to try MyHDL someday. If it's good, great, otherwise probably I'll try to develop my own metaprogramming (likely based on R7RS scheme) system on top of VHDL.
The talk was cool - youtube version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPaYrhUZSYQ

Things that stuck in my mind -

Self driving LA - NY without touching the controls coming about Nov 2017

Hoping to build the Mars rocket in about 8 years

4 or so new gigafactories being planned. He figures we need about 100 to get the planet electric

Semi truck on its way shortly - Musk has been driving the prototype around the car park

Trying to make a tunnel boring machine go faster than a snail - presently they are about 14x slower
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I'd say go with Verilog. SystemVerilog 2013 and VHDL 2008 are competitive when it comes to synthesis features, but synthesis is only half of the story.

SV's simulation features are really top-notch. If you're going to pick one to learn, I'd go with SV because you'll probably be using it anyways for verification tasks.
For my last job change I rewrote my then-outdated resume in Latex using a modified version of the popular resume style. The reason was that I found the usual suspects (Word, Docs) just as fiddly with what I was trying to format, but without the clean evolution that a .tex file in a git repo provided. Getting this just right did take time, but I did it iteratively and now have an excellent base that is exactly how I want it, and something that looks better than the word processor templates. Overall it was a worthwhile investment IMHO.
>Japanese civilians at the time weren't really innocent.

Wow, Its fascinating, the mental gymnastics people perform to rationalise the atrocities their side perpetrates while in the same breath deploring the atrocities committed by the other side.
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Maybe a small party will not make it to the presidency because of the issues you have mentioned (to that also add electoral trickery like gerrymandering).

But there are many branches of government that can help influence government, and you can also run for office within your state. Here some states have independent senators.

In China you don't really have independent branches of government, it's just the Chairman of the party and whatever he wants is what gets done.
> This feels totally infalsifiable!

This isn't too surprising, because it's a QM interpretation that's designed to be indistinguishable from the others. The MWI is unfalsifiable (you can't see the other worlds) and Copenhagen is too (you can't​ see wave function collapse actually happen).
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This is the reason I write pandoc flavored markdown these days and generate latex with it. That way I can still use full latex power when needed inline, but for simple things like headers, italic and monospace I can just use markdown syntax.
There is a documented story about a Doctor who defected from North Korea. After crossing the border from North Korea into China, she noticed bowls of rice and food on the ground. At first, she didn't understand why the food was on the ground. Then she realized, "dogs in China ate better than doctors in North Korea."[1]

There are many shades of grey on the scale of terrible place to live to amazing place to live. This is not black and white. Today's China (with its many faults) is a much better place to live than North Korea, or the China from 1970. In fact, China's per capita GDP (adjusted for purchasing power) has risen 7x in the past 25 years![2] I think people in China are happy to have this huge level of economic improvement for now, and will deal with the civil freedoms later.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_Envy#Dogs_and_docto...
[2]http://www.tradingeconomics.com/china/gdp-per-capita-ppp
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