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Never ever ever use goto's. If you have to use a goto, rewrite the code.
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There's more to it than that.

Some English dialects/accents are historically associated with lower-class people, or people perceived to be stupider/lazier/etc. Which creates all sorts of impressions on another person from the instant you open your mouth.

Many southern US accents have these kinds of connotations, for example, to such an extent that A) a lot of people won't take you seriously if you have such an accent and B) I'm glad mine got drilled out of me as a side effect of correcting for a lisp when I was a child.
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Unless `madvise(ptr, size, MADV_DONTFORK)' is used. But in this case you have no information at all on the region (which may have been mapped by another library), but I might not have understood the initial OP suggestion.
Windows 8 had tons of UI inconsistencies. You would move from a metro style control panel to an old, non-resizable grey winform with tabs. Windows 10 didn't really improve or worsen that.
I've made minimal use of Stan, and not really used Pymc3, but from a quick look, it seems Pymc3 is a bit more integrated than RStan. In RStan, you end up writing Stan code as an alien, wrapping the foreign syntax in quotes, and then shoveling the code as a string into Stan. There isn't really an R grammar for Stan as near as I can tell.
I agree, and even if there _is_ talent to some degree, insisting that people simply aren't talented enough for something just does us a disservice when they simply need to work at it.

"Oh no, I'm not that talented, I couldn't possibly do that!"

It's just a way of shooting people down prematurely, either by the people themselves because they believe they simply can't, since they believe it's some stupid innate thing, or because others tell them "you're not talented enough, stop trying.".

It's dangerous and it deprives us of a lot of actual talent, who simply believe they could never be.

Not to mention the fact that people move this to a ridiculous degree where they say "10x programmer", but this doesn't necessarily mean they'll be a 10x programmer in all of the field, merely where they've been so far. This needs to stop.
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Is your point, that if 10x programmers exists, then it's bad, because the community that formed them was possibly unwelcoming?
Zed's book is concretely about introducing programmers (particularly new ones or ones going from higher level managed languages down into C) to where and how C can be dangerous especially around string management.

And that's why this is a style issue. Even if he disagrees with Zed's approach (and in particular how undefined behavior is discussed) it's just mendacious to claim that Zed isn't introducing his readers to the idea that one needs to be careful with strings and understand what kind of inputs one will receive.

This is a critically different behavior when compared to Ruby or Python where string management is done for you, and coming from the POV of someone who's familiar with those languages... Zed's approach makes sense. Especially when the alternative being suggested is "you absolutely must go read the C spec and K&RC".
Berlusconi was really the most "business friendly" candidate. His own business, that is :D
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> Will Win10 RTM still requires a Microsoft Outlook/Live/Passport/Hotmail-Account? The non-obvious small almost hidden "offline" profile option during Windows install wizard is not okay. It should be an equal option.

It almost certainly will not. Even in Windows 8.1, I have had to disconnect from the Internet before creating the first user so Microsoft wouldn't fuss about it.
it's also leaking everything you do, every program you launch.
IB, Management Consultancy and Law certainly have that aspect - even if you are realy paying $2000 a day for a wet behind the ears MBA with no experience.

If your a rich person with legal trouble you want a rockstar lawyer like Cherie Blair as your Barrister. Just Like the NI journalists who got off from bribing cops - they had the most expensive lawyers money can buy
Nice to read some specific recommendation instead of general complaints. That said I'm not sure all these point would work if MS followed them.

Saying that MS should fix a lot of open source projects is strange (even if they already do this for some projects like Node). I think a lot of open source developers should learn more about Windows and make sure their code works on Windows. Or others could create a new fork/project with the same functionality and possibly same api but with Windows code. It is very strange to hear open source advocates say that MS should fix everything. I thought one of the meanings of open source was that when anyone that wants something can help we will end up with almost all important projects/ideas implemented, possibly in multiple ways.

Regarding cloud it would be very nice if Windows worked even better in different clouds than Azure but I'm still not sure this is only MS fault. Amazon could have started earlier to offer more help and tools around this. An easier scripting language than Powershell would be nice though. Regarding running Windows without a monitor I think that has worked since Server 2008.

It is also a bit hard to see what MS should make money off if everything should be free. If Windows, Office, Windows Phone and developer tools should all be free it is almost only cloud and support left to charge for and I don't think they could ever make much money on support. For cloud they will have to compete with Amazon and Google on pricing but they are probably already making money and could make a lot more here.
I have been a subscriber to the Economist for over 25 years. In recent years, I have noticed a subtle, but noticeable, change from the small-business-friendly to the statist, big-business-friedly tone .

A look at the ownership structure may explain the shift - The Economist is now 50%-owned by big business interests

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist_Group

BTW, they endorsed B. Obama for president twice, in 2008 and 2012, who has been, despite all the populist rhetoric, very friendly to Wall Street and big business (not a single Wall Street criminal has been indicted)

I still like them, for the excellent writing, but I find myself agreeing less with them over the past several years.
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Anycast will spread incoming requests out to N physical machines, then you can do your layer 3 load balancing, then you can do your SSL termination and HTTP load balancing.

We didn't use anycast, though. I suggested it to our CTO many times and it would have saved us over $5,000/mo in DNS costs, but it never got done.
As someone that has been involved in hiring processes in a South American country. I can say that the "myth" does hold truth.

For each position I tend to filter 100 people just to have a couple of real candidates. The real candidates weren't spectacular but they could get the job done in a reasonable time frame.

Once in a while there were a person who can get the job done with less supervision, better quality and faster. Usually that person could build systems within the software. Something like :

http://xkcd.com/974/

That person is the one that gives some gas to the "myth". A good developer that is probably at the %90 percentile.

The problem with people in denial is that they have an strong bias when (s)he compares with their coworkers (who probably are just smart or smarter). Forgetting that for each coworker there were a lot of developers that applied and couldn't solve a fizzbuzz.

If the myth weren't truth I don't think there would be so many people failing the fizzbuzz test: http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

You could argue that those people are not developers but the truth is, they are often graduated from college and somehow manage to get hired in some place.
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You made the unfortunate jump to the other extreme from the GP: nowhere did the GP say or imply that "spies should not be spying, soldiers should not be fighting." There's room for nuance between "dragnet surveillance" and "no covert operations," but you seem to have missed that.
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It sucks. Hopefully you will land on your feet. I went through a similar situation. The founder at least let us know the approximate runway length before our series A funding would run out. It was clear to everyone as employees that we were still struggling to get meaningful revenue growth. Still in the end it was a bit of surprise because it sounded like he had verbal commitments to do series B funding - and then it all seemed to fade away over the course of a week and all 12 of us employees got the call on the same day -- "can't make payroll at regular rate - you will get the minimum wage required by law and everyone is laid off as of today."

So I would say my boss at the time tried to do the middle road - it was enough transparency that we weren't surprised at any fundamental level. We had a last straw hope that then went away. I think that level of transparency helped me to not to be bitter toward to the founder.
Yes, you are correct. The 300k was total across all datacenters. 85% of that was in the US, 10% in Europe, and 5% in Asia.
This article is submitted over and over again, and discussed over and over again, making the same points over and over again.

It's really annoying.
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"Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre [programmers]. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Hruska#Mediocrity
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Remember the 'brogrammer' movement a few years back? Companies were actually starting to advertise for brogrammers to the point where I called out a company on HN doing it.

What other industry have you heard of that came up with such a sexist movement like that?

There definitely was a problem, though I think it's getting better. The big problem was that nerd culture, which was predominantly male until recently, was very closely tied to programming for several decades, making the industry fundamentally hostile to people not from that white/asian nerd male culture. Brogrammers were a bit of a backlash against that, but in a still male-orientated way.
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That's the sort of statement that needs evidence to show it's true. Anecdotally, from what I see based on 20 years experience working in software, it's a very, very discriminatory industry. People who are from an ethnic minority, women, and gay people find it much harder to find a job. Managers (particularly non-technical managers) assume that those people won't be as good or that they won't fit in with the rest of the team or the company culture. Startups are much better than established companies but it's still a problem.
If anything Intel has been moving towards "more general purpose" computing in the past few years with Xeon Phi.
Really nice even though I don't have a MIDI keyboard lying around here.
For those of you wondering, it is due to weather concerns: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32955880

They will continue when the conditions are better.
I'll write a blog post on it later called "So you want to build a realtime bidding system?" and submit it to HN. :)
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> I see a lot of articles claiming that programming talent is a myth. Yet none cite a source or back up this claim

That's because the article writers have rarely worked with a 10x programmer. They get shit done, fast, with massively below average bugs. It comes from a deep understanding of the code, the language, and the metal. They're also more likely to innovate and/or find novel solutions.

In the past they were spread around or sometimes in research (Bell), now they're clustered in the big 4 (Google, Apple, Microsoft, FB) and SF.

So unless you are where they are, you won't find them or even know they exist. That guy who can wrote a cool Jquery plugin at your startup probably isn't a 10x programmer. John Carmack would be an example of a 10x.
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Any good examples where FPGAs outperform standard CPUs?
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What about this model: Say programming skill is more or less proportional to the time spent programming. Further say that at any moment a person has a certain probability of leaving the industry. In that case the skill curve over the population should be a geometric, hockeystick like curve. It wouldn't make sense that the majority of people had experience in the 5-8 years interval say.
I don't routinely do it anymore myself, but I had an one liner "May contain a digital signature to ensure integrity" and noone asked me any questions.
Leaked internal builds are our best clues. Those leaked builds are not nightly builds either (there is some QA before it gets there) and then there is some informed speculation because we didn't get any updates for weeks on end.
I'm thinking it could be interesting for Nvidia, considering that they have been building up HPC as their second leg, as an insurance policy in case Intel invests heavily into tooling and process technology for FPGA. Plus they're in a partnership with IBM now, who probably have some interesting use cases for future FPGAs (i.e. deep learning).
It will be interesting to see how this will play out for duckduckgo
I guarantee this is why! This is a first step for this whole thing, it only makes sense to get the most widely-supported (and arguably simplest) implementation out first.
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Though Law is probably not a good example of a non-toxic environment. (Source: TV-series)
Oh please, these researchers are human beings, not fish or robots to be traded like commodities. Nothing was raided or stolen; a bunch of people made a decision to move companies. Happens all the time! Uber probably offered much more lucrative employment than Carnegie Mellon.
Bidness is bidness, no matter how small.

I hope you had a nice weekend. :)
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The top page seems to be working but lookup part seems to choking. Getting one from gpg didn't work, too
It was such a big and public mess, let's hope they'll give twice the effort to make up for it. After all, they backpedaled on the track point buttons.
If companies are worth more than what they make in revenue, stock-holders should be penalized for illegal gambling.
I don't see the Hardware Model at all.

I think they are just wanting as many people as possible to switch to Windows 10 as fast as possible. They are doing this by giving it away for free.

After the year Windows will be monotonized the same way. As someone that always builds his own comoputers I jumped on the $29.99 Windows 7 deal which they offered the first 6 months and $39.99 for Windows 8 which was good for the first three months (Off the top of my head not needed to be accurate for arguement sake)

It's free for a year to upgrade and than back to business as usual.
Update: Somebody just sent me a PGP'ed email! Encrypted to my 1998 key, to which I no longer have the private key :-(
No!

The point of Metropolis-Hastings is to sample from a distribution when you do not know the partition function. It is the most important building blocks in a set of algorithms broadly known as Markov Chain Monte Carlo. These algorithms are particularly useful when performing Bayesian statistics.

Genetic algorithms will not give you samples from a distribution, they only perform optimization. Particle swarms also focus on optimization, and on top of that, they do not seem to have either theoretical justification or empirical success.

MH is embarrassingly parallel since you run multiple chains at the same time. Again, the point isn't optimization (that would be simulated annealing) but sampling.

Being 100 years old is also largely irrelevant. People will publish new algorithms to get publications all the time. That do not mean they necessarily outperform the old ones. Gradient descent is the basic algorithm used in training all of these cool new deep learning algorithms, and it's much older than MH.

Yes, there are more recent improvements to MH, the two biggest ones being Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (which uses gradient information) and Parallel Tempering (which is somewhat similar to homotopy optimization), but that's hardly a reason to dismiss the importance of this algorithm.
> That second paragraph means that if the string pointed to by s2 is shorter than n characters, it doesn't just copy n characters and add a terminating null character, which is what you'd expect.

But what I would expect is that it would copy len(s2) characters, not n.
.. which hasn't exactly payed off yet. Whether Knight's Landing changes that remains to be seen. Intel's reliance on x86 for everything is IMO holding them back in the data parallel HPC segment.
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Can you explain what you mean by "got into obamacare?"