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How about no STEM visas for anyone? Instead, throw the effort at growing these folks at home
Yes, folks like Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, An Wang, Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Bjarne Stroustrup merely took jobs away from native-born Americans instead of creating more opportunities for them.
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Yes. If this sarcastic post doesn't make obvious they are all immigrants.
Kids aren't going into STEM these days because they aren't encouraged, don't see much opportunity, and let's face it, you want to get really rich and successful, STEM isn't the way. US citizens aren't going into STEM (except maybe medicine) because there aren't enough opportunities for them.
Why bust your ass to get a Ph.D. in some science field, do post doc, and eventually in your 40s start making a decent living whereas an MD will have you raking it in by 35?
There just are not that many opportunities to begin with, anyway in science.
Engineering: when a kid sees IBM, Intel, and other big companies moving their R&D overseas WTF are they supposed to think?
And then with these immigrants coming in, it puts further downward pressure on salaries - which is EXACTLY what industry wants. This isn't about lack of talent; this is about messing with supply and demand of labor.
Things have changed dramatically since Tesla, Bell, etc
Yes, folks like Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, An Wang, Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Bjarne Stroustrup merely took jobs away from native-born Americans instead of creating more opportunities for them.
Oh right! All those tens of thousands of H1-Bs are going to be like them!
US citizens aren't going into STEM (except maybe medicine)
That "M" isn't for medicine, but for Maths.
Yes, folks like Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, An Wang, Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Bjarne Stroustrup merely took jobs away from native-born Americans instead of creating more opportunities for them.
Oh right! All those tens of thousands of H1-Bs are going to be like them!
Most likely not. But the bigger the number, the bigger the chance that someone like them will be among them.
But the bigger the number, the bigger the chance that someone like them will be among them.
Of course, the corollary to this is that the bigger the number the fewer actual Americans will get an opportunity to shine, too.
Who's to say immigration won't benefit all, or at least most citizens? It's in people's interest to get the best inventors and workers of the world, isn't it? Let's assume genius is born, and not made. In that scenario, the probability of an Einstein increases with the population
Who's to say immigration won't benefit all, or at least most citizens?
Modern history. Specifically, the scandal of H1-B abuse in this country which is used by our largest corporations to artificially deflate the market-price for high-tech labor by importing cheap foreign labor to replace Americans. The "you must exhaust all opportunities to hire an American!" rule of H1-B hiring is just a fig-leaf that these companies get around by posting a role that NOBODY meets the requirements for, then using the fact that none of the applicants met the (insane) criteria for hiring as an
And then with these immigrants coming in, it puts further downward pressure on salaries - which is EXACTLY what industry wants.
If you're talking about R&D/Tech jobs, then that's a good thing. Prices go down, more investment goes into creating local jobs, we get a leg up on the rest of the world, our money gains value.
The only down side is our salary goes down, but that's only for people with similar skills. If you paid $100k for an education of the same quality that one could get for $10k somewhere else, then you're getting ripped off. Blame the educational system.
Arguably William Shockley too. His parents were American, but he was born in the UK.
A couple of the Traitorous Eight (who left Shockley's lab, to found Silicon Valley) were immigrants too, including Kleiner. Yes, the one who bankrolled Google (among many other things).
Shockley is not a good example. If you have one parent who is a US Citizen, you child is a natural citizen – not a naturalized citizen (which is important if you plan on running for President).
The other examples, on the other hand, are wonderful.
Yes, folks like Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, An Wang, Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Bjarne Stroustrup
OK, that settles it. Immediately cancel all visa programs and deport every single foreign techie - the world simply cannot afford another disaster of the same scale as C++!
Consider this instead: STEM visa holders got an education that didn't cost a penny to the US, and brought that added value to the US.
Added value for tax dodging Texas companies you mean
Consider this instead: STEM visa holders got an education that didn't cost a penny to the US, and brought that added value to the US.
It's worse than that. Many STEM visa holders had some training or education in the US (especially post-docs), which was usually funded by some US agency or organization.
But because of the visa situation, they are forbidden from actually applying these skills here. The US spends lots of money training these folks, then kicks them out.
Posting anonymously due to being almost in this situation (J visa expiring soon).
I'm all for increasing STEM graduates in the USA. But according to this article [usnews.com] there were 600,000 unfilled STEM jobs in the USA last year, and 300,000 unemployed STEM workers ("only one unemployed STEM worker for two unfilled STEM jobs throughout the country"- not finding one of those 600k jobs due to mismatched skill sets). This does include skilled blue-collar jobs. Even if a decent STEM education program were implemented now, and enough students entered it, it would be several years before they were ready to enter the workforce. Those jobs are there now. If there were a surplus of STEM workers in the USA, or even close to it, then there's no way we should be importing thousands of foreign STEM workers- but that doesn't seem to be the case.
How about no STEM visas for anyone? Instead, throw the effort at growing these folks at home
Could the mod who moderated "flamebait" on this please anonymously post justification? We have 20 million unemployed, many of them techies over 40 who can't get a call back because the employer prefers cheaper (pronounced "younger") people who don't have as many family complications and the expectations of good benefits (like health insurance and pension/401k match.)
It seems to me that it is a perfectly legitimate point of view, and not an invitation to flaming, that we shouldn't be importing something we already have a supply of (and the capacity to generate more of) just to depress wages. Part of the problem is the attitude that an employee must either have the sun, moon, and stars (and often in quantities that don't jive with reality--i.e. a demand for 15 years of
Techies have a 3.3% unemployment rate
Split it demographically by age and you find that unemployment for "techies" north of 40 is significantly higher--closer to double the national unemployment for all industries. The problem this creates is that these are educated, skilled people who expected another 20 "high-earning" years before we put them on an ice floe.
Flamebait? How perverse. Like TheRealMindChild, I'd rather see some effort made to improve living conditions for these people in their own homelands. Why do we NEED immigrants again? Oh yeah - it's politically correct to allow a few tears to be photographed on your face while talking about how bad it is in _____________ (fill in whichever country makes you weep).
If those STEM kids were so smart, maybe they should begin improving conditions at home. If those lesser gifted illegals are so industrious, th
I think you have nailed one of the two major issues:
a) Reform the system so H1B's are portable between employers, and
b) Keep the high-tech workers in the US.
From an outsider's perspective, one of the real advantages of the US is that people from all over the world will come and work in the US. The same can't be said for China and/or India. The issue with kicking skilled foreign workers out of the US is that they start foreign businesses outside the US to compete against workers in the US. The result i
From an outsider's perspective, one of the real advantages of the US is that people from all over the world will come and work in the US. The same can't be said for China
Strange, the amount of tech campuses being built in China is pretty large (I saw some on my last visit there a few years ago), and the amount of people that are more than happy to work in China is similarly pretty huge.
It's not about the amount of raw talent – though that is a consideration.
One of the geniuses of United States is that we bring together the best and the brightest where they can interact.
Partly it is a networking thing, getting the best people regardless of where they are born.
Partly it is a diversity thing - Diverse viewpoints can unlock new insights.
Partly it is a globe thing – If you are going to run a global economy it h
And how many of your ancestors were the best?
How many jobs/positions need filling that can use something other than the best?
There are plenty of Americans who will take the "muck" jobs (I was once one, when I needed to be). However there are also plenty who won't (I can think of two individuals I know who leech off of others because they only will accept jobs in their desired fields). These immigrants will compete with the Americans willing to muck when needed, yes - but generally we are also the Americans
> And how many of your ancestors were the best?
My ancestors came here with no strings attached and weren't indentured servants.
People that are smart enough to be imported here today should be treated the same way.
The STEM graduates would have created low paying jobs and boosted company profits.
[W]ould this be an example of the paradox of virtuous meritocracy undermining equality of opportunity?"
I'm not saying that we should necessarily give precedence to immigration applications from STEM candidates; I take exception to the assumptions in the statement I quoted. No country, not even the United States, owes "equality of opportunity" to those who have not yet entered the country. Do we owe the whole world this?
My father came to this country over 50 years ago under the conditions of "what can you do for the U.S." There had to be a recognized need for his skills and someone had to sponsor him. I see no reason for a completely egalitarian lottery. Unless we're going to open the floodgates, it makes sense to pick and choose to some degree.
It happens all the time in tech. Every hear of a nurse having to train his/her H1B replacement?
The idea of tech visa workers is to lower wages, not because foreign talent is needed. Anybody who works with a lot of H1Bs will tell you, they are generally not exceptional. In fact, most H1Bs are entry level, and only about 7% work at an advanced level.
(I'm sure being in India does constrain his ability to compete with my technology skills somewhat, but not enough that I can stop worrying about him.)
I'd rather have an entry-level H1B here, earning and spending money in the US (and paying taxes), than to have the same guy over in India or wherever.
(I'm sure being in India does constrain his ability to compete with my technology skills somewhat, but not enough that I can stop worrying about him.)
Since most H1-B's are entry level, not "advanced" workers at all, and we have millions of fresh grads chomping at the bit for the few entry level positions available, what sense does it make to then import people to drive down wages and increase competition for a group that can barely get employed in the first place?
In fact, most H1Bs are entry level, and only about 7% work at an advanced level.
In fact, 93% of statistics are made up on the spot. As far as the average quality of H1B holders, I've worked with some brilliant H1Bs, and some real idiot H1Bs. Just like among the native-born Americans, the idiots outnumber the geniuses.
You're right about the purpose of those visas, of course, but don't get mad at the H1Bs, who are leaving their home to work because that's the way they can earn as much as possible for their family back home. They're absolutely exploiting the difference between salaries in the US and salaries in other countries, but what they're doing isn't morally any different than someone from leaving Mississippi (average income $31K) and getting work in DC (average income $71K).
Look them up for yourself. 54% of H1Bs are entry level. Only 7% of H1Bs work at an advanced level.
Here we go again. The supposed shortage of IT workers has been repeatedly shown to be false. While the IT industry has fared much better than most after the Bush depression, to claim that there is a shortage is just plain wrong.
There are thousands of people willing to do the jobs but it is the employers who are the sticking point. They want someone under 30, with 10 or more years of experience in multiple languages, willing to work long hours for average pay.
Article after article I have read all say the same thing: employers admit they are looking for someone with exceptional skills but then go on to admit their wages are not competitive AND they are unwilling to train people.
Only in extreme situations are there shortages of qualified people and those are few and far between. The disconnect between what is available and what HR/employers say they want is the overriding reason for this supposed "shortage".
Until employers get their heads out of their asses and stop whining about how they can't find anyone when they get 200+ resumes for a posting, they can go pound sand.
Didn't you get the memo? Only a godless America-hating communist would allow market forces to drive wages up when there is an alternative.
There are no uncompetitive salaries, only lazy workers.
also to much need degree and passing over tech / trade schools at the same time. Parts of IT need more of a hands on tech / trades setting and the old degree system is a poor fit also CS IS NOT IT.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
With record levels of unemployment/underemployment, 50% of college grads unemployed (and probably higher if you count those flipping burgers because they couldn't find anything better), we should be looking to slow down immigration programs until our own can get to work.
There is a shortage.
I run a small team of four people in a small publishing company. My work is 9-5 to the dot. I don't work weekends or after hours unless the site is down in a catastrophic way and that's incredibly rare for us. I'm required to be a full stack web developer since the whole team is so small. I need to know Linux OS administration as well as engineering level PHP to maintain a number of web properties.
When I was looking for our 4th developer by far the most impressive resume came from a guy
No business is gonna spend months teaching you basic practices.
That's why some people go to college. Others go do open source projects. Anyone worth hiring is going to be able to pick up PHP/JavaScript syntax in a week or two.
Saying that employers should "pound sand" because they can't find a single person in 200+ resumes is incredibly short sighted.
People say that because it's hard to believe that no one in the stack of resumes does not have any skills/knowledge/experience that can transfer to your projects. Just because they may not be able to write beautiful JavaScript in the first hour on the first day of their employment with you, does not mean they will not be a profitable employee.
Here we go again. The supposed shortage of IT workers has been repeatedly shown to be false.
No it hasn't. It's actually quite painful in software development. Pretty much everything we use requires software. Cars, refrigerators, assembly lines, medical equipment, farming equipment, power plants
Or maybe there are some but they don't want to work for a power tool manufacturer in Ohio. That's the problem. CS graduates from US want to work in New York or California for Google or IBM. We were looking for a SW developer
The problem is that employers aren't willing to pay the market rate for the job that they're demanding, and since they're not willing to pay the market rate, they can't find anyone to hire. There's only a shortage of cheap employees, not a shortage of employees.
What you don't realize is that "for the job you're demanding" doesn't just mean a list of skills. The location of the job is part of the job, and part of what affect the market rate. If the job is in the middle of nowhere in Ohio, and you're only
That's just an chicken and an egg problem. High prices are an indication and a consequence of shortage of supply.
Take this ad [monster.com] for instance. They are willing to pay around $100k to an experienced sw engineer to work in Cleveland, OH. That's around 4 times the median income in the area.
I assume there are not many US SW engineers with experience in industrial automation looking for a job in Cleveland. How much will it take for somebody to take that job? 200K? 500K? Might be more than the company can afford.
Again, why is on-the-job training/mentoring/internships not an option? Simply pontificating about it here on Slashdot does not solve the problem. You're basically creating a chicken and egg problem. You'd rather import labor rather than hire someone who may not have all the knowledge/experience - this person will end up sucking off the teat of the government. Sounds real good to me...
Sure, you can hire a graduate and somewhere down the road, in 3 years, he may become a Sr. SW Developer. There's kids who could make it in 9 months but guess what - they don't want to work in industrial automation in Cleveland either. So you're looking at the engineer you desperately need 3 years down the road. Maybe. If he/she doesn't leave. Or turn out to be a bust.
Because that's what might have happened to that company that is now looking for a Sr. SW Developer in Cleveland. That's what happened in our t
I don't see what the problem here with the things you laid out. You could hire a senior level guy and they could bust or leave in 9 months as well because they hate Cleveland and you're back to square one. Or he could hate your company. You're forgetting that hiring is inherently risky.
Yes, employers are being dishonest even with themselves. Office politics most certainly extends into hiring decisions. They want high skills, but they don't want candidates with PhDs. They want someone who is good but not too good. They seem to want an idiot savant who is a genius at technical work but a complete fool with money who will be in a world of hurt if that all important income takes a hit. They say they're afraid the doctors will leave out of boredom. They think a PhD doesn't mean anything
It doesn't take a genius to realize that housing is governed by supply and demand as it relates to inelastic demand of non-luxury goods. IOW: you can't choose to live under a bridge. This means that EVERYONE needs to rent somewhere and there is only so much land to go around.
This is why it's cheaper to live in the middle of Ohio than it is London or Tokyo or Silicon Valley.
McMansions, where they are available tend to be cheaper than a shack in a popular high density urban area.
I would have voted for visas for 50,000 smart foreign students graduating with STEM degrees from U.S. universities over bringing in 55,000 randomly selected high-school graduates from abroad
Or we could hire Americans. First, it doesn't steal jobs from Americans. Second, it keeps talented individuals in their home countries instead of leaving their country with fewer skilled workers. That's kinda a big thing in 3rd world countries.
We might as well let the cream of the crop immigrate here and reap the rewards of high paying local jobs.
By contrast, a lot of manual labor is specific to a locale: gardening, cleaning, garbage collection. There's no reason to have able-bodied Americans collecting welfare because illegal aliens take those first jobs on the rung of the economic ladder because taxes and regulations have made them cheaper to employee under the table than to comply with a hose of regulations and taxes for hiring Americans.
But then those undocumented workers started entering the midwest, the economy tanked to 10 years, 9/11, etc and everyone began to freak.
Some of the problems with firms wh
Here's a big part of the problem: As a country, we are throwing a large amount of resources at education. The government even props up the student loan business and the states are heavily into education - not just K-12 but state run universities.
If we want to support education because it is a Good Thing (tm), shouldn't the government be allowed to recoup the investment - i.e. we don't want people to get 13 or more years of education partially/fully funded by tax payers for them to go work at McDonalds a
There is a misguided perception, here, that immigration is about fairness. It is, in fact, about the benefit a society accrues from accepting the immigrant.
Why? "Because I says so".
The reality is that ideas of fairness have a huge impact on many aspects of the world, including immigration. You might try to get all reductionist and say "the bill of rights only happened because we did psychohistory calculations and determined that its net advantages to society outweighed its net disadvantages and societies with a bill of rights tend to prosper more". But that's ridiculous because no such calculations are accurate, and they all are swayed more the author's biases
Actually, the Bill of Rights was an outgrowth of the public perception of events surrounding Shays' Rebellion.
The U.S. immigration policy is founded in the principles of Expansionism, which takes as its dictum, "growth is good". On a planet with 7 billion people, there is reason to question that wisdom.
Ideals are worthwhile, but rarely pay the rent, just ask Karl Marx. Policy that is dictated by idealogy most often comes at a very high cost.
1) Import a bunch of smart, engineerish types who will undercut the salaries of current engineers in the USA.
2) Leave a bunch of smart, engineerish types in their home countries, where they do the work for $5/hr or less, and who will undercut the salaries of current engineers in the USA.
Like it or not, the first option is probably less damaging to your salary and career, and better for everyone in the USA in the long run.
The counterpoint is I would want to know how many actually do stay, and how many do 6-12 months and decide it's not actually for them...
Send Justin Bieber and Celine Dion back. Please.
Sorry, but trying to justify amnesty for millions by pointing at 50,000 scientists and engineers is a ruse.
We bounce STEM graduates out of the country and we make student loans available to people who want to study subjects that will never lead to employment and income that will allow them to repay their student loans, so we create a permanent underclass who will have to work low wage jobs and always be behind in their student loan repayment. Meanwhile, STEM graduate, doctoral, and post doctoral students have to pay 6.5-8.5%, presumably to make up for all the underwater basket weaving dopes who will never be a
There shouldn't even be a quota for immigrants with a higher education. The idea that we're turning away highly skilled people who *want* to be here is positively insane.
I've got a bad feeling about this.


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The next proper Legend of Zelda game has finally been given a date. Skyward Sword will be arriving on Wii on November 20th, nearly five years since the release of the last big Zelda game, Twilight Princess. Unlike Twilight Princess, however, Nintendo notes that this entry has been "created from the ground up for the Wii console," and will require the Wii MotionPlus and Nunchuck controllers.
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If you didn't catch the Craft of War: BLIND when we featured it on Friday, now's a good time to check it out above. The release of this machinima has hit several WoW news and comment sites like a storm, even being featured on the front page of MMOChampion. But the real news is that Percula, the creator and animator of the movie, has issued a little more information about who he is, and where he comes from.
According to Percula, the future of BLIND is somewhat uncertain. This is because he did work for a game studio, but was laid off a few months ago. The high praise he's received makes it more likely that he's going to do a sequel, probably called something along the lines of Execute or Counterspell. Percula does say that he's thankful for both the positive feedback and constructive criticism he's seen since the release of BLIND. Although, as you might expect, he's having trouble keeping up with sheer volume of emails.
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These are serious defects.
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- the encoding used in a properties file is ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8. If the app is using a language which does not use ISO-8859-1, then the native2ascii tool must be used to process the files. (Rather impolite for an internationalization mechanism, is it not?)
- natural text keys versus coder keys: from the point of the caller, using a natural text lookup key has the advantage that it increases legibility. However, such a lookup key appears as blah=blah in a properties file. Such duplication makes most programmers justifiably nervous. (If a database is used, a ResultSet having the same blah=blah structure can be easily created, but without any actual data repeated in the underlying tables.)
- in a properties file, there is no easy way to find duplicates. In general, there is no easy way to perform any sort of query on the data (as there is in a database).
- mailing raw properties files to translators does not seem desirable, but building a front end tool for such files is not easy - so it never gets done
- if an item has more than one line, then the line continuation character "\" must be appended to each line
- apostrophe characters are a problem: the MessageFormat class treats apostrophes as special characters. If an apostrophe appears in a pattern passed to a MessageFormat, it must be escaped, or else a nice little RuntimeException is thrown. If you send properties files to translators, the probabilty of errors related to apostrophes is very high. If a database is used instead of properties files, however, then it's fairly easy to build a front end tool which can do the necessary validations. (Building such a tool is especially attractive when it can be used with multiple projects.)
- use of module names: the ResourceBundle mechanism allows the caller to specify a module name, which is mapped into a corresponding class name or properties file name. It's possible to seriously question this design. In general, a method should not know the identity of its caller.
In summary, it seems that ResourceBundle was intended originally for desktop applications and properties files, and that its design is not robust enough for easy use in the context of a web application backed by a database.
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Lexington, Ky. (WKYT) - Police are searching for 2 inmates of the Blackburn Correctional Complex in Fayette County after police say they walked away from the minimum security prison Saturday night.
23-year old Christopher Melton was serving a 6-year sentence for theft and evading police. He would have been eligible for parole in April 2013. He is described as a white male, 6' 1", 160 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
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Listing 3 shows an improved Hybrid Radix Sort implementation. This implementation improves not only performance, but extends the algorithm to handle unsigned numbers from 8-bit to 64-bit. Also, the radix is no longer fixed at 256 (8-bits), but can be any power-of-two; i.e., any number of bits.
// Listing 3 template< class _Type, unsigned long PowerOfTwoRadix, unsigned long Log2ofPowerOfTwoRadix, long Threshold > inline void _RadixSort_Unsigned_PowerOf2Radix_1( _Type* a, long last, _Type bitMask, unsigned long shiftRightAmount ) { const unsigned long numberOfBins = PowerOfTwoRadix; unsigned long count[ numberOfBins ]; for( unsigned long i = 0; i < numberOfBins; i++ ) count[ i ] = 0; for ( long _current = 0; _current <= last; _current++ ) // Scan the array and count the number of times each value appears { unsigned long digit = (unsigned long)(( a[ _current ] & bitMask ) >> shiftRightAmount ); // extract the digit we are sorting based on count[ digit ]++; } long startOfBin[ numberOfBins ], endOfBin[ numberOfBins ], nextBin; startOfBin[ 0 ] = endOfBin[ 0 ] = nextBin = 0; for( unsigned long i = 1; i < numberOfBins; i++ ) startOfBin[ i ] = endOfBin[ i ] = startOfBin[ i - 1 ] + count[ i - 1 ]; for ( long _current = 0; _current <= last; ) { unsigned long digit; _Type tmp = a[ _current ]; // get the compiler to recognize that a register can be used for the loop instead of a[_current] memory location while ( true ) { digit = (unsigned long)(( tmp & bitMask ) >> shiftRightAmount ); // extract the digit we are sorting based on if ( endOfBin[ digit ] == _current ) break; _swap( tmp, a[ endOfBin[ digit ] ] ); endOfBin[ digit ]++; } a[ _current ] = tmp; endOfBin[ digit ]++; // leave the element at its location and grow the bin _current++; // advance the current pointer to the next element while( _current >= startOfBin[ nextBin ] && nextBin < numberOfBins ) nextBin++; while( endOfBin[ nextBin - 1 ] == startOfBin[ nextBin ] && nextBin < numberOfBins ) nextBin++; if ( _current < endOfBin[ nextBin - 1 ] ) _current = endOfBin[ nextBin - 1 ]; } bitMask >>= Log2ofPowerOfTwoRadix; if ( bitMask != 0 ) // end recursion when all the bits have been processes { if ( shiftRightAmount >= Log2ofPowerOfTwoRadix ) shiftRightAmount -= Log2ofPowerOfTwoRadix; else shiftRightAmount = 0; for( unsigned long i = 0; i < numberOfBins; i++ ) { long numberOfElements = endOfBin[ i ] - startOfBin[ i ]; if ( numberOfElements >= Threshold ) // endOfBin actually points to one beyond the bin _RadixSort_Unsigned_PowerOf2Radix_1< _Type, PowerOfTwoRadix, Log2ofPowerOfTwoRadix, Threshold >( &a[ startOfBin[ i ]], numberOfElements - 1, bitMask, shiftRightAmount ); else if ( numberOfElements >= 2 ) insertionSortSimilarToSTLnoSelfAssignment( &a[ startOfBin[ i ]], numberOfElements ); } } }
The main performance improvement is based on the realization that swapping of elements happens with the highest probability. In the case of 256-Radix, the bin where the _current pointer is located is only one out of 256 bins, and thus the chance of finding a number that goes into that bin are one of 256. The first while loop inside the main for sorting loop takes care of this condition (elements not belonging to the _current bin) and stays in it while this is true (probability of 255/256 = 99.6%). The use of tmp variable gives the compiler a chance to use a CPU register for swapping instead of the _current array memory location.
The threshold value that determines if the array size is small enough to use Insertion Sort was set to 32. This value was borrowed from the Hybrid Binary-Radix Sort where it was experimentally determined to be best. Table 3 shows results of experiments for Radix-Sort of arrays of 32-bit elements, to determine the best setting for the threshold.
In the top portion of the table the threshold is varied from 8 elements to 512 elements. In the bottom portion of the table the ratio of Radix-Sort to IPP Radix-Sort is computed. From these measurements it is evident that the threshold values of 32 and smaller perform inferior, as well as values of 256 and larger. Value of about 100 seems a good choice.
Table 4 and Graph 4 compare In-place Hybrid Radix-Sort (using 256-radix) with Intel's IPP Radix-Sort (not in-place) and STL sort, for 32-bit unsigned numbers.
They show the two Radix algorithms have comparable performance for large arrays, for mid-size arrays IPP outperforms, and for small arrays Hybrid Radix outperforms. These measurements also show STL sort lagging in performance for all array sizes. Table 4 also quantifies, in the bottom row, the impact of the speed-up improvements, which improved performance for all array sizes except the smallest.
Radix support has been extended to an arbitrary power-of-two-radix; i.e., an arbitrary number of bits at a time (up to 32-bits). This radix value needed to be passed to the function, as a true constant, since the count[] array size is allocated based on the radix. Template functions allow constants to be passed to the function, but do not support default values for these constants [2]. This fact about C++ is disappointing, but can be hidden from the user inside a library. Listing 3 shows the use of overloaded sorting functions for each data type with a core template function that is type independent. Also, note that not only the radix and data type are passed to the template function, but also the threshold value of when to switch to Insertion Sort.
Handling arbitrary power-of-two-radix (i.e., any number of bits) also includes support for the case where the number of bits of the array elements does not evenly divide by the number of bits in the radix; e.g., 32-bit elements and 11-bit-radix. In this case, three passes would be performed: 11-bit, 11-bit and 10-bit. Actually, the last pass would still be an 11-bit pass, but the mask would be only 10-bits. Thus the count[] array would be allocated with 2048 elements, but there would only be 1024 possible "digits", leaving half of the bins empty, and still functioning properly.
From Table 5, which compares non-Hybrid N-bit-Radix Sort variations, it seems hopeful that 16-Radix Sort (4-bit) or 64-Radix (6-bit) could outperform 256-Radix (8-bit) as a Hybrid algorithm. However, this did not prove fruitful even when varying the threshold between 8 and 512, most likely because 16-Radix required eight passes and 64-Radix required six passed, compared to only four passed for 256-Radix, for 32-bit unsigned array elements.
2048-Radix (11-bit) did not succeed, even though it used only 3 passes, most likely because of its poor initial performance (as seen in Table 5). Using the Hybrid algorithm in this case improved performance, but not enough to be superior to 256-Radix (8-bit) version. The conclusion is 256-Radix (8-bit) Hybrid algorithm is the best performing combination over the entire range of array sizes for 32-bit unsigned array elements.
Table 6 and Graph 6 show measurements of various algorithms when sorting 64-bit unsigned integers. Intel did not implement sorting for 64-bit unsigned integers.
These measurements show that Hybrid 256-Radix (8-bit) Sort outperforms STL sort and Hybrid Binary-Radix Sort from [1]. All three algorithms being compared are in-place. When comparing a pure Radix implementation with the Hybrid Radix, performance gains are measured for all array sizes, and of similar magnitude as gains for 32-bit unsigned (in Table 2).
Table 7 and Graph 7 show performance measurements of several sorting algorithms, some in-place and other not, for arrays of 16-bit unsigned integers. Intel IPP Radix Sort outperforms all others in all but the smallest array size (where Insertion Sort is used by some). The best performing threshold value for the Hybrid 256-Radix Sort was found to be 64, which is used in Table 7. Hybrid 256-Radix Sort lags IPP Radix Sort in performance by nearly 2X, and provides a trade-off between memory usage (being in-place and using half the memory). Intel Sort, STL sort and Hybrid-Binary Sort from [1], all performed nearly equally, lagging in performance.
Other potential radix values were tested, such as 2-bit, 4-bit, and 6-bit, with various threshold settings, but none were faster than 256-Radix (8-bit). Table 7 and Graph 7 also compare a pure 256-Radix implementation to a Hybrid 256-Radix, where at 100K size array and larger the hybrid version offers no performance improvement. The reason is that at 10K elements, 256-Radix divides the array into 256 bins in the first level of recursion, each array being about 39 elements. This array size is small enough to trigger the use of Insertion Sort, and results in faster performance for the Hybrid 256-Radix Sort for array sizes of 10K elements and smaller. However, at 100K elements division into 256 bins results in each bin holding 390 elements, which is above the threshold, resulting in not using Insertion Sort in the second/last recursion level, leading to no performance gain for the Hybrid implementation. In other words, at 10K elements and below the algorithm is a Hybrid 256-Radix Sort (leveraging Insertion Sort), but at 100K and above the algorithm is a pure 256-Radix Sort (not leveraging Insertion Sort). This behavior was verified by instrumenting the algorithm to check whether Insertion Sort was called for arrays larger than 100K elements in size, and it was not (but was called for smaller array sizes).
Table 8 and Graph 8 show measurements of variety of algorithms.
Intel IPP Radix Sort and Counting Sort substantially outperform all others except for the smallest array size, and track in performance closely, with Counting Sort slightly faster for larger array sizes. Counting Sort will be discussed in more detail in a later section. STL and Hybrid Binary-Radix Sort from Algorithm Improvement through Performance Measurement: Part 2 are close in performance and lag all others. Hybrid 256-Radix Sort and Pure 256-Radix Sort track in performance, because for 8-bit elements only the first level of recursion is executed and Insertion Sort is never called. Trial of Hybrid 16-Radix Sort (4-bit) resulted in lower performance. Hybrid 256-Radix and Pure 256-Radix Sort outperform STL sort and Binary-Radix Sort, but lag IPP Radix Sort and Counting Sort.
An optimization that did not yield performance improvement is to combine count[] array and startOfBin[] array into a single array. This optimization reduced stack memory usage of the algorithm, but decreased performance by a few percent due to more complex computation of startOfBin[] values.


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It's 1972, when we meet 11-year-old Byron Hemmings, an English school boy living with his mother and sister in a country house. Byron's father Seymour works in the City (the financial district of London) and only comes home to see his family at the weekends. Though his work pays for the big house, the Jaguar that his wife drives and the private education his children receive, he is, in reality, only a visitor in their lives. Within several chapters one begins to believe that this is perhaps for the best — they don't seem a happy family. The weekends are strained affairs, with Seymour intent on criticism and attempts at ensuring control and discipline while his wife and children seem to hold themselves in limbo, awaiting his departure each Sunday so they can reclaim normality.
In this, her second novel, the author of the acclaimed The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry ambitiously structures her story in two parallel narratives: the story of Byron and the present-day story of Jim. The early story begins during a Leap Year and when Byron's best friend James tells him that two extra seconds will be added to the clocks, Byron becomes obsessed with the possible danger that he thinks the introduction of this wrinkle in time will bring. On the way to school one fog-laden morning, his mother takes a route forbidden by her husband — Byron sees his watch go backwards for two seconds and then there is an accident. It may all be a terrible mistake, but his worst fears are confirmed. From then on, everything is out of kilter and their lives begin to unravel. We are never sure just how much Byron is to blame for what happens, but it is Diana, his beautiful, fragile mother, who is most dramatically affected. And as she struggles, and fails, to maintain appearances, her guilt-ridden son and his friend James set up an elaborate plan to save her.
The second storyline follows the life of Jim, supermarket worker in his 50s trying his best to cope after decades in institutional care. With his nervous tics and obsessive-compulsive rituals, Jim is ill-equipped for life outside Besley Hill, the institutional home where he has spent most of his time from the age of 16. He has no friends or family, and lives in a broken down camper-van. He is a man alone in the world, a character whose every gesture and stuttered utterance speaks of loneliness, abandonment and emotional turmoil. It is his story that I found most deeply affecting. There is a poignancy to Joyce's narrative that makes for her most memorable writing.
No one has ever been inside his van. It is the deepest part of himself, the part that no one must see. And thinking this, he is aware of a searing pain that is like a fresh rift between him and the rest of the world ... Black rain begins to fall. It explodes on the paving stones of Cranham Village, the wheelie bins, the slate rooftops, and the van. Slowly Jim moves forward. Anything, he thinks, anything would be better than what lies ahead.
There are fluid segues between the two narratives as the connections between them are slowly revealed, but it seemed to me that this was a novel made up of two distinct and, in the end, unequal parts. Where there is a somewhat stark but sensitive portrayal of mental illness in the pages that narrate Jim's efforts to conquer his demons, the story of the Hemmings family is less tightly structured and at times seemed lacking in cohesion.
And there is perhaps just too much going on. Along with heavy hints that Diana has been rescued from a disreputable past; the unremitting middle-class snobbery of the local housewives; Byron's own oddness and the emotional distance of his mostly-absent father, there are also issues of class tension, racism, the domestic subjugation of women and a wider, much too generalized critique of society. The reader struggles to know where to focus attention and I found myself wishing the writer had imposed the same level of control on this narrative as she does with the contemporary story.
As the summer progresses and his mother becomes caught up in a woefully doomed effort to salvage the order and routine of their lives, Byron carries an increasingly heavy burden. He is a boy weighed down with responsibilities he cannot understand and problems he has no hope of solving. There is little support available and soon it becomes clear that there will be no redemption for this family. Thankfully, Joyce does allow us to hold out some hope for Jim. Although broken by his years of incarceration, a series of incidents lead to his forming a friendship with Eileen, a woman who is in many ways almost as damaged as he is.
Even with its flaws, this is a book populated by characters trying their best to find a place in the world. And while Joyce only succeeds in part, Perfect is worth a read if only for the pleasure of witnessing Jim's grim determination to conquer his past, and to claim love, home and hope for himself at last.
Rachel Joyce burst onto the literary scene two years ago with a widely acclaimed novel, "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" was nominated for Britain's Man Booker Prize. This month, Joyce has a new novel out. Reviewer Ellah Allfrey doesn't think this one holds up to close scrutiny.
ELLAH ALLFREY, BYLINE: It's 1972, when we meet Byron Hemmings. He's an English school boy living in the country with his mother and sister. Byron's father works in the City and only comes home to see his family at the weekends. He pays for the big house, his wife's Jaguar and private schools, but in reality, he's just a visitor in their lives. And it doesn't take long to see that that might be for the best. They don't seem like a happy family.
The story begins during a Leap Year, when Byron's best friend tells him that two extra seconds will be added to the clock. Byron becomes obsessed with this wrinkle in time and the danger he thinks it poses. And, of course, his worst fears are confirmed when on the way to school, his mother takes a route forbidden by her husband and there's an accident.
From then on, everything is out of kilter and the lives of all these characters begin to unravel. This is Rachel Joyce's second book and the structure is ambitious. She tells a 1970 story of Bryon and at the same time, she introduces us to present day Jim. He's a supermarket worker in his 50s trying his best to cope after decades in institutional care.
He has no friends or family and he lives in a broken down camper-van. But even though the descriptions of Jim are stark and affecting, in the end, the novel is made up of two separate and unequal parts. The story of Byron and his family is less (unintelligible) structured than the modern sections and at times, the book seemed to lack cohesion.
There might be just too much going on. Hints that Byron's mother was rescued from a disreputable past, the snobbery of the local middle class housewives, the emotional distance of the father along with issues of class tension, races and domestic subjugation of women and the general critique of society, it was hard to know where to focus my attention.
As the summer passes, Byron's mother gets caught up in a doomed attempt to salvage the order and routine of their lives. But slowly, Byron begins to see that there will be no redemption for this family. Thankfully, Joyce allows us to hold out some hope for Jim. He eventually does form a meaningful friendship with a woman named Eileen.
Even with its flaws, this is a book populated by characters trying their best to find a place in the world. And while Joyce only succeeds in part, there is pleasure in witnessing Jim's grim determination to conquer the demons of his past, and to claim love, home and happiness for himself at last.
BLOCK: The book is "Perfect" by Rachel Joyce. It was reviewed for us by editor and critic, Ellah Allfrey. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Yale's Springtime Invitational Hosted Sunday
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—This Thursday and Friday, 11 members of Yale women's track and field will travel to Philadelphia, to compete in the nation's oldest and largest track and field contest. The Penn Relays span from Tuesday to Saturday and include athletes of all ages, including high school and masters divisions. In addition to all eight Ivy League Schools, hundreds of teams will compete, including some traveling from outside the continental United States. Such a massive field necessitates steeper entry standards than have been seen so far this season. Thus, the meet is a great opportunity for the few Bulldogs making the trip to compete among upwards of 100,000 athletes.
Of those traveling, 10 will be participating in events on Thursday. Four will comprise a 4x400-meter relay team—junior Kelsey Lin, freshman Shannon McDonnell and seniors Jenna Poggi and Allison Rue. Last weekend at Princeton's Larry Ellis Invitational, Yale's relay team, including all of the same individuals except Poggi, finished in 3:57.75. The team has nearly six seconds to make up in order to qualify for the ECAC Championship meet, just two weeks away.
In addition, five long-distance runners will be continuing their successful streak at the meet. Junior Liana Epstein, senior Elizabeth Marvin and freshman Emily Stark will all vie against the massive field in the 5,000-meter run. Although Epstein has not yet competed in the event this season, both Marvin and Stark met the ECAC-qualifying standard in the event near the end of March, when they competed in North Carolina State's Raleigh Relays. Still, Epstein has impressed this year in the 3,000-meter run, an event in which she has already qualified for ECACs.
It is this shorter, yet still extensive event that senior Nihal Kayali will take on this week. Kayali has lately been competing in shorter long and middle-distance races, such as the 800-meter and 1,500-meter runs. However, she did contend in the 3,000-meter race during the indoor season, securing a personal best of 9:32.45. In addition to already occupying a place on the top-ten lists for the 3,000-meter run, she will add positions in both the 1,500-meter and 5,000-meter races this year. Moreover, her times in more than one event in the outdoor season have qualified her to compete in the ECAC Championship meet.
Meanwhile, sophomore Kira Garry—Yale's star competitor in the 3,000-meter steeplechase—will have the opportunity to defend her second-place spot in the event on Yale top-ten lists. Though Garry has only competed in the steeplechase once this season at the Oxford/Cambridge meet, her freshman-year record allowed her not only to qualify for ECACs, but also to compete in the preliminary round of the NCAA Division I meet. She will take to the track this weekend with this and many other accomplishments—such as an ECAC qualifying time in the 3,000-meter run and new personal best in the 1,500-meter run—to bolster her performance.
Freshman Karleh Wilson—who holds the Yale record in the shot put for indoor track and field—will once again show off her incredible strength and proficiency in the event at the large meet. During the recent dual meet with Harvard, Wilson earned the second-place spot on the lists for the outdoor season, when she posted a mark of 13.57m (44-6.25). This is her best mark of the season, and though it earned her first place against the athletes from Harvard, this distance is just off her best for the year of 13.80m. (45-3.31). With such heavy competition at the Penn Relays, Wilson should find no shortage of challengers up to her standard.
Finally, as the team's only entrant competing on Friday, sophomore Alisha Jordan will contribute to the team's effort in her best event, the triple jump. After landing an ECAC-qualifying leap at the Cambridge/Oxford meet less than two weeks ago, Jordan now holds the third spot on Yale's top ten lists with a mark of 12.30m (40-04.25).
While the meet will run all day Thursday, the Bulldogs will not start to race until late in the evening, beginning with the 4x400-meter relay. A complete schedule, list of competitors, and all other meet information is available at the meet website: http://thepennrelays.com/. Results will also be posted on the site when available.
Though only this small portion of the team will be traveling to compete on Thursday, many more members will join their teammates this Sunday for Yale's second home meet of the season. The Springtime Invitational will be held at Cuyler Athletic Complex and Dwyer Track, and will begin at 11:00 a.m. As it is likely that most athletes will not compete in both meets this week, those individuals who are not traveling to the Penn Relays will have their chance this upcoming weekend. Among these athletes will likely be freshmen such as hurdler Mackenzie Mathews and 100-meter sprinter Sydney Cureton. Results for the Springtime Invitational will be posted on yalebulldogs.com when available.


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Just when the Davidson County Post 8 Warriors appeared to be coasting, it turns out they were really just skidding instead.
Just when the Davidson County Post 8 Warriors appeared to be coasting, it turns out they were really just skidding instead.
Post 8 committed three errors in the fifth inning against the High Point Post 87 Jr. HiToms on Friday night at Holt-Moffitt Field, turning a 3-1 lead into a 7-3 deficit almost before you could blink your eyes.
By the time it was over, High Point won 11-4.
In all, Davidson County booted the ball six times in the game.
"We brought it early, but then we had that one inning with all the errors," said Warriors coach Dale Moser, whose team slipped to 7-7 overall. We didn't help our pitcher any. (Justin) Freeman gave up that one hit (a three-run homer to Zach Michalski), but he should have been out of the inning."
No doubt.
The Warriors scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the fourth on a bases-loaded walk by John Hanes, quickly followed by a sacrifice fly from Trevor Jones to give Post 8 starter Avery Bowles a 3-1 lead in what was shaping up to be a tight ballgame.
But then came the fifth inning.
Freeman, who came on in relief to start the fourth, got one out in the fifth before the wheels fell off. High Point's Zach McLean reached first when shortstop Drew Beaver couldn't field a slow roller behind the mound that was ruled an error, and then Freeman hit Pete Guy with a pitch.
Michalski then followed with a line-drive shot that just cleared the fence in left center to put the HiToms up 4-3.
But two more infield errors lead to three more runs and a 7-3 High Point lead before the inning was through.
And that pretty much KO'd the Warriors the rest of the night.
"I'm disappointed," understated Moser, "but it's a long season. I don't feel like it was really an 11-4 game."
Moser said it was planned to take Bowles out after three innings.
"We came out with a plan to throw several guys because we'd had so many rainouts lately," said Moser. "Our pitchers hadn't got a lot of work. Right now we're trying to make up for lost days to the weather.
"We start our six conference games next week, so we want our pitchers to be in the best shape we can get them in," said Moser. "We're trying to get them game-ready."
He may want to focus on the defense on top of everything else.
"Six errors is terrible," said Moser. "I don't think we've made six errors total in our last five ballgames, but we made them tonight.
"I guess I'd rather get them all out (the errors) in one game."
Notes: Post 8 director Jim Lippard announced that Lexington will play host to the 2014 North Carolina American Legion playoffs … The Warriors' Trevor Jones had three of the team's eight hits for the night.


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But such names tell us little about the person. For all we know, each is "just another white guy" who lived or acted in the area some time ago. So what else is new? However, the name "Negro Bill" tells us that a black man had relevance in our area too! That is nice to know! It makes one stop and think about it. It is something that will be remembered. It might even stimulate some to look up the history of the man.
To be "offended" by that name, I say, is truly racist! What motive is there for wiping out reference to black people in our history? The man was visibly different from most in the area at the time and was readily distinguishable because his skin was darker than most. Is that something to be ashamed of? I think not.
People commonly use nicknames referencing personal characteristics for people – such as Billy the Kid, Big Ben, The Snake – all white people. So what is "offensive" about being "negro" (which just means dark-skinned)? That name was not offensive when given; why try to be offended by it now? Would offended people be satisfied with "Black Bill Canyon"?
I vote for letting the name stand. Making such a fuss about it now is simply unnecessary at best, and racist at worst!
—Carole Hahn


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Betty Klug's curator insight, April 27, 2013 3:50 PM
I love animation maps. Great for getting students interested in learning.
Samuel D'Amore's curator insight, December 14, 2014 6:36 PM
This video does a fantastic job of showing how the United States has expanded and grown since its original 13 colonies. While many today might imagine that our nation was simply always this size in fact over many years of colonization, land purchases and land grabs America has eventually become what it is today.
Edelin Espino's curator insight, December 5, 2014 11:04 AM
is sad to see how people just refer to it as "Africa" when every part has its own name. Even myself don't know many of them since they are irrelevant for the western people.
Samuel D'Amore's curator insight, December 17, 2014 12:08 AM
This interactive map does a great job of not only showing the sate of political struggles and military conflict within the whole of Africa. This shows the new countries many dissidents and rebels wish to establish in order to give their people a cultural and ethnic home land. This give a good picture of simply how chaotic some parts of Africa truly are and how destabilized many regions are.
Chris Scott's curator insight, July 2, 2013 11:15 AM
This is the coolest map I have ever seen. I love languages and to have a break down of languages that are spoken around the world is incredible.
Paul Rymsza's comment, August 22, 2012 2:15 PM
the potential of this site is amazing between the interactive learning system and the correlation between the timeline and location. If the human geography class is anything like this i can't wait for it!
Seth Dixon's curator insight, September 28, 2013 3:34 PM
This database of global wars and conflicts is searchable through space and time. You can drag and click both the map and timeline to locate particular battles and wars, and then read more information about that conflict. This resource would be a great one to show students and let them explore to find what they see as interesting. This site is brimming with potential.
Jesse Gauthier's comment, October 24, 2012 10:23 AM
The world, here, is literally at your fingertips. It is a simple way for anyone to locate a multitude of data about any given place around the world. It is another way that brings the whole world that much closer in this technological era.
Dean Haakenson's curator insight, January 7, 2013 12:05 PM
Wonderful resource for studying religion and region.
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Hello again.
Well, after using Sabayon with LXDE, I changed to Sabayon with E17. But this version doesn't connect to Internet.
The modules are installed and wlan0 appears. But I don't know how to configure my connection in the Terminal, or if I have to blacklist some modules (it seems that I don't need to do that).
E17 has a Connection Manager, but it's empty.
I don't know why does it happen, because in LXDE my connection was out-of-the-box.


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