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Chapel has been used for incompressible moving-grid fluid dynamics, so it's certainly feasible. For that problem the result was ~33% the lines of code of the MPI version. There is a performance hit, but the issues are largely understood; if (say) a meteorological centre were to put its weight behind it, a lot of things could get done.

It's also pretty easy to see how UPC or co-array fortran (which is part of the standard now, so isn't going anywhere any time soon) would work. They'd fall closer to MPI in complexity and performance.

You couldn't plausibly do big 3d simulations in Spark today; that's way outside of what it was designed for. Now analysing the results, esp of a suite of runs, that might be interesting.
I'm not convinced that private prisons are anywhere nearly as influential as people make them out to be. They're a common bugbear in these conversation, but the numbers don't match up. Something like 5% of the total US prison population is in private prisons. I just don't see how such a small proportion of the activity would have so much influence.

A much bigger influence is probably things like prison guard unions. They have the same sort of profit motive to increase the number of people behind bars, and that applies just as much (probably more) to state-run prisons.
It's not an inflammatory response, it's an immune response. The inflammation is simply a side effect of the immune system swinging into action.
I find the Haskell tooling ecosystem surprisingly terrible, given how rich the information content of the code is. There's virtually no equivalent of most functions from e.g. Intellij for Haskell that I know of (although I haven't tried FPComplete's tools yet and hear good things).

The libraries you mentioned though are indeed all really fantastic, and after learning how to use them you'll miss them dearly when they're unavailable.
In principle, I love the idea of weighting the distribution of an employee equity pool away from up-front grants and toward follow-on grants. It solves what I think is an even bigger challenge of equity grants, which is that someone's financial outcome is largely dependent on a guess you make about their impact before they've even worked a day.

In practice though, I think it's hard for a lot of companies, because unless you're planning on having a larger % of the company in the employee equity pool in the long-term, you're basically robbing from the size of the up-front grants to feed the follow-on grants. So when you give your employee his or her offer letter, you'll say, "I know this is less than what you're getting at other companies, but if you perform better than 50% of the employees here, you'll end up getting more than what you'd get from other companies." A lot of employees are just going to go for the sure thing, making recruiting harder.

At Detour we do give big follow-on grants, but we can do that because our employee option pool is like 45% or something, which we can only do because I'm funding the company, so it's not really a replicable model (while progressive equity is, I think).
Really? The general policy, as I've been told, is to let the interviewee use whatever language they're comfortable with as long as the interviewer is comfortable with it too. I even give the option of using sufficiently detailed pseudo-code.
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That would disallow you from voicing that opinion so succinctly.

Instead, you would have to add a line that either gives more depth to your opinion (why do you think it would help?) or that just serves as use,es filler. I bet many people would opt for the latter, as it is easier to write.

Unfortunately, I don't think we have technology to measure the amount of content in a comment.
I spent my early childhood in a third world country, and I never heard of anybody having an allergy. It was one of the surprising things I learned about when I moved to the first world.
I've posted this before but I feel it bears repeating:

There are two truths I try to keep in mind whenever I start feeling this way:

1. There are countless people who are so much better at programming and so much more motivated than me, that I could work my entire life and never be as good as they are right now.

2. There are countless people who are so much worse at programming than me, that they could work their entire lives and never be as good as I am right now even if they were more highly motivated.

Its a continuum, a hill. Feel for the gradient, walk uphill.
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Haskell can build self-contained binaries that don't require a 700MB compiler. Look for /-bin$/ packages.
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ALA, while essential, is effectively useless 'for your brain'. You need the products your body creates in inadequaate amounts from ALA, EPA & DHA.

Furthermore, I personally guarantee your flax oil is rancid. That shit does not keep. Eat sardines.
Likewise. I am highly skeptical of these stories now. The "terrorist" threat seems to have died after falling out of favour as the public slowly came to realise there never was any major threat, and now suddenly "cyber terrorism" and hacker attacks are everywhere and are apparently the greatest threat we've ever faced.

>The other thing that I find troubling is that many of our allies (Germany, France) don't seem at all enthusiastic over the sanctions against Russia. Why? I would like to understand the difference in what we (USA) want and Europe does.

I honestly don't know. The US keeps prodding Russia in recent years and for what? Is it another war they're after? What are the US hoping to gain here?

As a European I am delighted to see some of our leaders pulling back from supporting the US foreign policy.
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Looks like it was moved to the National Parks Service website: http://www.nps.gov/afbg/index.htm
It's a guess based on my limited experience.
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I have no doubt that Google has great folks on staff. However I concluded that despite that with respect to their hiring process they still suffer from being Too Big and Too Famous. Therefore they treat people too much like cattle, like a commodity, and they bias too strongly towards reaching a false negative, and towards 20-somethings.

I'm sure their process is different if you're very elite and famous yourself (eg. Norvig, Rossum) or you come in via an acqui-hire. But for everybody else they treat folks too much like commodity cattle and bias strongly to false negative.

Fortunately, for truly talented engineers with lots of great alternatives, we can reject or avoid them just as much. Problem mitigated.
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I interviewed over a period of three month in 2007. At the end of the interview, they said I did great. The recruiter called me and said they would be extending me an offer the next day.

I was ecstatic and told my family and was planning on how I would tell my current employer.

The next day the recruiter called me and said that they rescind this and wont be offering me the job. He said he was not given a reason why.

Then, over the next ~4 years, they called me no less than 4 times for the same damn position. I had to remind the recruiter about the first interview experience, after which they said OK then they dont want to continue that process.

After the 4th time, I angrily said to the recruiter "You have called me for this position 4 times! Either give me the damn position of delete my damn phone number from your system!!"

They haven't called me since.
And yet ironically that legal exposure may be a risk worth taking to shield yourself from an even greater legal problem.
> Did you not say that a substantial number of employers owe their existence to creations of government

Yes.

> and for this reason are bound by government obligations?

No, at least, not in the sense you are using "government obligations" (generally applicable labor law, etc.) I said a substantial number of entities are creations of government on the principal of granting benefits to certain individuals associated with the entities in exchange for certain obligations attached to the particular form of organization.

I did not say that those were the reason (sole or otherwise) that those organizations are bound by generally applicable law. (There is, I think, an argument that, whether or not a law should be applicable to people in general, the fact that those entities are creatures of government and not natural persons may be relevant to whether or not the law should be applicable to them. But I certainly did not argue that things like labor law were applicable to them because, and much less only because, they are creatures of government.)

I'm was not, in fact, saying anything about why people are bound by generally-applicable government business obligations. I was making an observation related only to your upthread comment on the meaning of the phrase "we let you exist" in reference to employers.
I think your path selecting algorithm can wind up in a state of deadlock, but it is very clever in a socially passive assertive way. There has to be a way of handling paths crossing simultaneously, non-aggressively, and this can not be resolved without additional signaling semantics.

I like my desk and being socially awkward.
Wow--I don't think I've ever (knowingly) helped change someone's mind by writing an online comment before! It's a nice feeling, thanks. :)
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If you network for the sake of networking, in places that promote networking, then you'll meet others who have the same objective and may not be useful because there is actually no substance to connect over and meaning to exchange.

However if you attend events because you believe the content will be valuable, and you're open to meeting and learning from others, then it's likely (from my experience) that people you meet will prove helpful to you in future.
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> I think the best way to get over that is to make something on your own that is so great that everyone wants to hire you without even doing an interview!

This is a good idea.

I have no idea what people would want or what I could make that people would want or what open problems are there that I could make. Every idea I have someone else already has a better solution.

I keep trying and put it in github but it's mostly for me; no one looks at it.
In my sample of one, HN is a site to be treated differently to entertainment sites. If you see my Reddit account under the same username its choc full of one liners, puns and glib comments. I quite enjoy reading and making these. Here I feel a bit like a privileged guest in that I'm marketing, not technical and corporate, not start-up (yet atleast). I add comment only where I feel I will give community insight, or I have a relevant question. I really enjoy HN for what it is, even though much of the technical articles are not for me. While humor in itself is not a bad thing here, I would hate to see HN move in any way towards reposting, circlejerk or popularity/karma contests. For that reason I am very selective in my votes to push comments and articles that truly add insight/interest for the startup world, and not just something I personaly find interesting or amusing.
Even if I were not fit for a job with you, or a position in your company, I would LOVE to interview just to experience what this is like.
Took 10 mins to hack a silly, inefficient version.

https://play.golang.org/p/UPlzWR5OCO

Gives the same result as https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg03416.h... SHA256 test vector.

Looks easier to understand, to me...
You are criticizing a negative feedback loop while simultaneously endorsing policies that would create equally detrimental feedback loops.

What is true justice?
If some employers think people in protected classes are more likely to sue when let go (even if the employer did nothing wrong), they might be less likely to hire them in the first place.

This isn't hypothetical. This is actually happening.
I don't understand this article. It fails to mention that tech companies have the best paid parental leave policies[1]. There are other family-oriented perks: on top of normal life insurance at Google, "The surviving spouse or partner of a deceased employee will also acquire vested stock benefits, and children will receive $1,000 a month until the age of 19. The timeline can be extended if the child is in school full time."[2] I bet there are more perks at other companies which I'm not aware of.

The article is full of anecdote and false implications. So, "Yahoo told employees they could no longer work from home." If you are working from home because you're taking care of your children, I think it's fairly reasonable to expect that your attention is split and you won't be as productive. Much of it describes the work habits of top execs. I don't think that's representative of the industry as a whole, and probably aligns pretty well with work habits of top execs of other industries.

[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/susiearmitage/tech-companies-offer-w...
[2] http://mashable.com/2012/08/09/google-employee-death-benefit...
Definitely agree, one way to balance this would be to have each person be counted for each day/week they have worked there, so If I've been around for 2 years before the IPO I'd have 104 weeks that would get distributed to, whereas someone who joined a month before the IPO only has 4.
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I find this argument exceedingly unpersuasive. The "social contract" argument would only be valid if people agreed on its terms. As it is, a company's responsibilities end where the law ends.
This is a bad idea: there was a hiring stop at the down-cycle and Google tried to cut costs while keeping all engineers. (the biggest change that I felt was that bottled mineral water was changed to ultra-clean water from the river in Zurich).
Ah I see it. I think the YouTube link I gave is the same one (from Haskell Symposium 2008). Terrible quality unfortunately...

Edit: https://wiki.haskell.org/Yi has two screenshots and a decent overview of what's available. It's more up to date than the video at least.
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Foucault would not have been surprised by this. Since the USPS is nominally the property of the federal government, defrauding it is an attack on the body of the sovereign. Drawing-and-quartering really isn't out of the question to avenge that injury, even though in the American case the sovereign is not an actual person. The response wouldn't have been close to this had the criminal defrauded e.g. FedEx.
Great point, I didn't consider that.
If some employers think people in protected classes are more likely to sue when let go (even if the employer did nothing wrong), they might be less likely to hire them in the first place.

This doesn't help fix discrimination at all, it makes it worse.
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> Why? Is Russia really a threat to us?

Well, ask Ukraine how this agreement has been working out for them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine#Bud...

Something in there about "respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine". But hey, what are words on paper? Just words?

Then there's Putin's latest saber rattling: "Russia threatens to use 'nuclear force' over Crimea and the Baltic states".[1]

Yeah, Putin's a peaceful, misunderstood, fun loving guy. Certainly no threat to "us". Right?

But he is a threat to his neighbors. Perhaps the USA feels that the world (and by extension the USA) is better off if we at least attempt to restrain a megamaniacal egomaniacal plutocrat. The USSR isn't getting back together. Unfortunately Russia doesn't yet comprehend that.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-threat...
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> If some employers think people in protected classes are more likely to sue when let go (even if the employer did nothing wrong), they might be less likely to hire them in the first place.

The solution is to make them also think that people in these classes are equally likely to sue if not hired, and particularly likely to win if the employer is, in fact, discriminating against them in hiring.
Young people hitting it big makes news copy advertisers like. But news is news because it's out of the ordinary.

Henry Ford was 40 when he finally won. Ray Croc was 52. (Colonel) Harland Sanders was 62, Jon Hamm (Don Draper) was 36, JK Rowling was 32, Thomas Siebel (Seibel Systems) was 41, Reid Hoffman was 35, Robert Noyce (Intel) was 40, Dave Duffield (Peoplesoft) was 46, John Pemberton (Coca-cola) was 55, Henry Kaiser was 63, and Charles Darwin was 50.

You've got plenty of time.
I think the problem here is that while you would rather have that judge, this particular person has decided not to be that judge for you. He would rather not be a judge than be the judge that you want.

Anyway, you can't blame "the people of the US" for how their legal system works. Most of them were born into it and trained from birth to have enough apathy to let it be what it is. Most of the people who are at fault are dead, so there's really no point in trying to blame anyone. I don't know why you have that impulse, except to say that you are employing the same kind of thinking that leads to these problems in the first place; Namely, claiming it isn't your problem.

So that's a right useless thing to say, if you ask me. If you want a revolution, blaming your public is essentially going to make them believe they are stupid, lazy, apathetic cynics; it's not going to cause it.
That's why it's called a vision. A vision is something that is not real yet, that people believe or hope will come true.
That's probably a one-time install of the haskell-platform package.

After you install that, most dependencies are small.
"What the world needs is a massive consortium from science, math, social sciences, history, philosophy, religion, economics, business, politics -- to devise downsizing schemes, justified by world systems simulations, leading to safeguards, stockpiles, backups, plans-B, austerity triages, etc. The effort would need to be vastly multi-disciplinary and international."

To say this is "not likely to happen", as he does in the next sentence, is an understatement. Not only won't it happen, it wouldn't work if it did.

I can't think of any case in the past 2500 years when anything resembling this kind of "change everything" top-down command scheme has been tried and has not resulted in unmitigated disaster. This kind of approach has failed whenever it is tried, from Alexander's empire to the Crusades to the Soviet Union to the modern social-environment movement. Huge sweeping changes, driven from the top, that resulted in failure, war, starvation and suffering.

The Malthusian argument that even though everything has been getting better for hundreds of years, everything is about to get much, much worse also requires extraordinary evidence at this point, given it has failed so many times as to be counted as an extraordinary claim.

Might there be a grindingly ugly end to global civilization in the next few hundred years? Sure. It could happen.

Can it be prevented by any kind of massive top-down command scheme? On the overwhelming bulk of the historical evidence, probably not.

Could it be prevented by increased urbanization, empowering women, and technological improvements? Quite possibly, as those things are the drivers of so much good over the past several decades. They have the advantage of not being known to fail for pretty well-understood reasons, unlike massive top-down command schemes.
Holy shit.

That's brilliant!

Calculate the number of judge sentence years based on prison places, want harsher sentences build more prisons, tie the cost of incarceration directly to judges sentencing.
It's a question of risk vs reward.

Your body has an extremely complicated and mostly successful system of defence. If a pathogen enters the body and is not attacked, it may easily kill you, for this reason pathogens, once identified, are always attacked. There is a system that is responsible for identifying threats(lymphocyte), some times this messes up and identifies the wrong thing as a threat. This is easier than you might think because your body makes antibodies(attack living stuff like bacteria but quasi stuff like viruses) and antitoxins(attacks toxins), when the body sees a foreign substance in the blood, it only takes one lymphocyte is misread it as a threat, and boom all-of-sudden your body fights like the devil to kill/remove/subdue that thing.

Backing down the response would alleviate some allergy problems, but it would also cause the body to perhaps miss some actually-bad things in your system. It'll be hard to change this, and problem inadvisable, as the system has been tuned over millions of years. The best course of action is probably treating symptoms, or finding targeted and intelligent ways to trick the system into handling these corner cases better.
You've got about billion comments like this in your history.

The previous advice has been good.

If you opened up more about your specific troubles I think more on HN might help diagnose.

Maybe put some stuff on github, who cares how awful it is or if no one will use it .... The following statement is not globally true but I think it is probably true in your case --- you won't be able to succeed until you fail some more.

If there was a "hoboon" github we could like at when responding to your comments, the specific advice might be more specific.
I had heard similar things and wasn't really considering Google either, but a friend there recommended that I apply so I did. The recruiter I interacted with was moderately (but, I suppose, understandably) condescending, and the phone interviewer combative---he also apparently hadn't bothered looking at my resume, apparently assuming I was still in college (I've been out of college for a decade).
It's surprising that none of the binge-watched documentaries touched on the pervasive practice of plea bargaining. Without it, we'd have far fewer people in prison.
Depends entirely on where you live. In some states, companies are free to discriminate based on sexual orientation.
Where is your github? People bothering to respond to your comments on HN might be the only ones you will be able to get to glance at your code ... but I bet they will. I would have if I had been able to find your github.
You can essentially already do this with a Raspberry Pi, PiCam, battery pack and opencv. The hardware will cost you under $100, and there are already various libraries that can process the license plates [0]. With a 3g stick you could even collect this data remotely.

Of course, performance won't be comparable to the commercial product here in question, but I'm certain that with some motivation you can get similar, if not better, results on better hardware.

[0] https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr
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It's not just that the reward for joining early is smaller than it used to be. It's also smaller compared to joining later. The marginal utility of money is actually what's causing the problem. If I can join a company late with very little risk and a much higher chance to make a few million, I'm probably much less incentivized to join a company early with the risks associated with that.
I read it and thought it was super cool.

I was inspired to write my own checker to demonstrate how easy it was to my software team.

And when I get a chance I'll try to contribute some general-purpose checkers to clang.

I dunno if it will work, but IMO it matters. If for no other reason than inspiring other folks!