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Comments were an anti-feature of JSON: purposefully removed. JSON was (originally) meant as a machine-to-machine interchange format, and why would machines need comments? From the creator of JSON, Douglas Crockford:

> I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability. I know that the lack of comments makes some people sad, but it shouldn't.

* https://web.archive.org/web/20120507093915/https://plus.goog...

Basically: he didn't want people to start putting in pragmas in comments.

2012 discussion:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3912149
That's OK. My 2019 Ridgeline gets 30 MPG highway, about 20 MPG city. That's an advantage of living in the US -- our gas mileage formula is more intuitive.
Suck it up, force yourself to do your job, and put any extra energy into improving yourself and your resume, and find a new job. Try to really understand your part in the failure of your current job and work to improve on that.
I'm a big fan of sticking things on the roofs of station wagons. A lot of things (sheet material and long things) are easier to haul this way than in a truck bed or minivan.

That said, having more vehicle than you need is definitely a means of social signalling and if you're regularly shoving 5 people in your 5-seat compact or regularly hauling large things on the roof of your car or regularly burying your AWD mom-mobile in the mud you will give off lower class vibes so I understand why a lot of people buy more vehicle than they strictly need.
> Looking back we now know that it did some good, but it also did some bad: It meant that everyone on the internet could become a publisher and the result has been fake news, unbridled growth in hate speech, terrorist propaganda, and so on. It meant many users trapped in echo chambers who receive an untrue view of the world.

From my perspective, your last sentence perfectly describes the prior. The most prominent purveyor of “fake news” is, by far, the major networks themselves. Hate speech has never been less unbridled, and terrorist propaganda never had anything to do with the CDA.
It isn't ironic, his work was satire.
What is with all the ad hominem attacks in the comments? What a bizarre thread.
I’m also not an expert, but my understanding is that it applies but would be hard for the EU to take action against them
Lighthouses typically shine a beam up to 20-30 miles, depends on height obviously. I would imagine the loads would be at least 1kW especially with old fashioned incandescent bulbs?
> which politicians and the press are all guilty of,

This attitude is a contributing factor. It is letting people off the hook for regurgitating fabricated stories, by giving the impression that nobody is telling the truth anyway.

There are several politicians and media outlets who are truthful and backing their claims with evidence (and retracting statements found to be untrue). But since some other people are liars, apparently everyone is a liar. So you might as well believe what you want.
This is great! Has anyone read From Python to NumPy?
Yep, based on Pouet's statistics, the C64 scene has overtaken even the PC (Windows) scene last year [1]. Huge activity there, even compared to the "golden years" of the scene [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/pouetdotnet/status/1345056422757871616

[2] http://www.xentax.com/?p=1325&fbclid=IwAR1XAEbZwK6lL4g-_RkyN...
While it wraps their web app, I use Frost for Facebook, which is an open source app that lets me access Facebook messages on mobile without using any of Facebook's apps.
This is not blindly ethnocentric, it's the OP's thesis based on a feminist critique of the existing business culture in an area OP built a business. His/Her observations were that, for his/her employees, western business culture was potentially an improvement over existing conditions.

OP in particular observes on experiencing lingering caste pressures and strongly misogynistic trends in the expectation of business environments. You're suggesting this is preferable to employee equality and industriousness?
You could attach the tether at a higher or lower latitude, but standing on the ground next to it, it would appear to rise into the sky at a rather alarming angle (more or less parallel with the equatorial plane). More of the cable would be going through the atmosphere. Centrifugal force would hold it taunt and a great deal of tension at the base would be required to keep the entire system in that configuration. At no point along the cable would the cable be following a valid orbit (the center of mass of the cable would not be in geosynchronous orbit). You would need a much stronger cable, and the result would be far less useful.

Edit: http://gassend.net/publications/NonEquatorialUniformStressSp...
This is generally accurate, but the last paragraph is a little suspect -- we're iterating on C# 6 right now and using the Roslyn compiler to build the features necessary for it.

I don't think compiler architecture is seriously stopping features in their tracks -- there's only a cost/benefit analysis. 'MichaelGG's suggestion on inferred members, for example, has implications on the contracts of types and usability/user interaction with the language, so it's not just a question of if we can do it, but if we want to do it.
Solar power satellites would most likely beam the power to Earth using microwaves.
IMO Yes and I was expecting the article will point that out just by reading the title.

I was in Tanzania a few years ago as a tourist and I came across many young westerners doing all kind of things like HIV prevention. Sometimes I thought I belong to a minority among westerns by just being a tourist.

I was trying to view the situation from the other side. What must it be like to be a black guy living in Tanzania being told by little white teenagers how to have sex? Little black kids getting cool toys only from white folks, all teachers who know cool stuff being white. I don't stretch the argument too much if I claim that you will get the impression that all good things come from white people and that black people are too stupid to even have sex. As an educated person I know that this is not true and I can differ between spurious correlation and real causes, namely growing up in a developed country, but I doubt that little children are able to do so. They will assign many things to skin color just to realize that they can't change their own and then will think they are doomed and have to hope for the good will of the white saviours for the rest of their lives.
N-queens, while quite a cute problem, is typically not that interesting as a constraint programming benchmark. The way to make it fast is to have a bit-set representation of the domains, which is not the best representation for many other important cases.

I tested the standard Gecode (http://www.gecode.org) implementation from version 4.2.1 without any special options on a MacBook Pro with a 2.6GHz Intel Core i7. Note that Gecode does not have bit-set representations for domains, so it is not optimized for this special case. Tests were run for 500 iterations and repeated 5 times to get deviations below 2.5%. I get the following timings for your sizes plus 50 and 100:

n time
8 0.0368 ms
10 0.0243 ms
15 0.0221 ms
20 0.1263 ms
25 0.2677 ms
30 0.1621 ms
35 0.2433 ms
50 2.3234 ms
100 0.5509 ms

The timings are of course all strongly dependent on the heuristic used for finding the solution which is shown by the varying times above.

Constraint programming is typically also very dependent on the the pruning power of the constraints. Adding the option "-icl dom" which makes the pruning for the all-different constraints domain consistent, gives the following timings.

n time
8 0.1138 ms
10 0.0603 ms
15 0.0879 ms
20 0.2801 ms
25 0.6612 ms
30 0.4657 ms
35 0.7553 ms
50 2.7687 ms
100 8.7687 ms

As can be seen, domain consistency did not actually help us in this case time-wise. The number of search-nodes visited range between 17 and 1066 for the normal consistency level, while the number of nodes visited for the domain consistent version range between 14 and 286. The reduction in search tree size was however offset by the increased complexity of the propagator.
>I would hazard that the bright, somewhat-more-scrupulous minds are busy making it big elsewhere. Perhaps traditional finance.

Yes, because we all know how scrupulous traditional finance is.
> I thought Linux also had a very strict ABI compatibility policy also.

Yes, it does.

> But if you had a fully-statically-linked binary (and enabled a.out support if necessary), I think Linux should also support very old binaries.

And it does.
Just wanted to add there's lots of factors at play besides the renters specifically
They can be produced cheaply because all of the life support, human facing controls, and armoring aren't included. This reduces weight which shrinks the airframe and reduces operational costs significantly.
Why not charge a fixed price though? Simple billing, no time spend on time tracking + predictable price to the client.
That really doesn't have any bearing on the point that the costs of the F-35 and M4A are dramatically different. Funding or not funding the F-35 isn't the determining factor in funding M4A.
Very interesting.

This would explain the response I got (backstory - I am a contributor to a number of open source packages / not totally clueless, but was coming in from a micro personal account). I was like, how the heck do they afford this response for $99! (or whatever it cost back then - this was a long time ago).

I kept my support plan active for a year as a courtesy though I never had another question aside from the first two I put in.

That said, as a programmer I like time to focus so being asked customer questions would drive me nuts, hopefully they filter out the idiots who just can't setup things right (80% of issues are not bugs but customer setup issues).
Agreed. AWS technical support is exactly that. It's been a pleasure every time, that when I open a ticket, I actually have a real technically minded human behind it.

As a converse, I've also had the extreme displeasure in dealing with Oracle and Tenable/Nessus support...

With Oracle, its either a continual feature-push to go to professional for only starting $50k/yr more (NO), or troubleshooting ends up asking 100 questions for your question.. And if you answer them, they give you 100 more. Effectively its a technical DOS in the hopes you abandon the ticket.

Nessus/Tenable is similar. They want you to use their terrible tenable.io (which isn't fedramped), and will badger you incessantly. And service tickets demand enhanced logs be turned on and provided to them. Their tool can censor some passwords, but have caught passwords in there along with services, addresses, and exploit data about them. And even if you censor the logs prior to shipping to them, they will put their foot down and demand unedited logs.
I don't think that a framework is a good substitute for a style guide or the processes like reviewing, documenting or factoring code that lead to consistency and readability. If your team members feel like they have to "rewire their mental models" or spend weeks rewriting code rather than adapting to it, the team has a problem that you should deal with in another way than pigeonholing your projects into frameworks.

I generally disagree with the sentiment that collections of libraries are somehow inherently a better solution than frameworks, though. I just think that it is probably a poor solution to the problem you describe here.
>"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy," Newell said. "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. For example, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24/7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country three months after the U.S. release and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable.

-Gabe Newell of Valve

http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/11/25/gabe-says-piracy-isnt...
On one hand I really appreciate the original meaning, it always seemed 'neat' to me.

However the reality is that it's modern meaning has changed. See here:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decimated
Ah right! Yes, that's definitely true, I remember using AOL dial-up a few times in the early/mid-2000s. My parents had kept their account because of the @aol.com email issue (AOL webmail only became free in 2005), so I used their account to connect from motels.
Hi I'm Joey McCarey and I'm a junior studying Computer Science and Chinese at Harvard. I have experience in software and web dev, robotics, data analytics, and MLops. I'm open to intern roles and continued employment interest from small to medium sized companies working on innovative software or interesting data and machine learning applications.

Location: Cambridge (Boston), MA

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: AWS, GCP, Docker. Torch, Tensorflow, OpenCV. C/++, Python, Java, OCAML, JS, SQL.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HIrAFCxW5DUW5ESGqojc16rfKYG...

Email: jmccarey@college.harvard.edu
I think what jarcane was saying was another site like, yikyak. I agree that there needs to be more anonymity on the internet and everywhere in general but I don't think its needed for sites like this. It is a cool site and everything, but I do not think it adds value or substance.
Businesses are run by people.
Earlier in the thread, you specifically said that you thought they would try to censor material served by 3rd parties if they could, as that was their vision for the platform. That's hard to square with the idea that you've been talking about Apple's censorship of apps they host as some sort of minimal grounds for absolving themselves of legal responsibility.

On top of that, the content that sparked this discussion is clearly legal. There's no possible way Apple would be in criminal danger from hosting it, and I'm sure a civil suit wouldn't make it very far either, especially considering the scare wall and the parental controls.

I guess I should also make it clear that I'm not suggesting Apple ought to host illegal (or even borderline legal) content simply because it can be accessed through a browser. Apple doesn't make the choice about what's legal, and I just assumed it was understood that that was out of scope of the discussion.
Video calls is another one.
can confirm. used to work for an ISP and they game it, and the reason is that everyone else does. you aren't supposed to game the fcc broadband site, though, since they use they as a proxy for internet speeds in the US.
What does "coding" exactly mean here?

If we include the whiteboarding and sketches, I'm coding all the time! If we're talking about literally inputting code, well it's because it's very difficult to solve hard problems without some sort of planning first.

Also, administration of issue trackers, etc. Meetings. Helping a coworker. Writing documentation. Waiting on a response from a 3rd party vendor, etc.
I always wondered wtf the browsers language setting is for. Can a website not query this for the preferred language rather than make a language decision based on an IP address geo lookup?

I am English, my browsers language order is to set English (UK) then English (generic). No foreign languages. However I live in France and if I visit a site it will give me a French version due to my location rather than the language set within the browser.

I (apparently wrongly) assumed saying I want content in English would mean the website would query what language the user wants and then send that.

Could someone explain what the browser language preference is for?
There as going to be C64 laptop, but Commodore's CEO at the time, Marshall Smith, was a total retard (mba recruited from a company selling screws and pipes), and canned the project after TANDY people told him its a bad idea :))))

http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/lcd.html
Or maybe death on the month?
"Submarine Tech" has produced a fleet of quiet submersible vehicles powered by nuclear reactors and capable of continuously operating without provisions for several months, each containing several miniature nuclear missile silos with a missile inside each of which is capable of destroying multiple city-sized targets anywhere on the surface of the Earth on a moment's notice.

And that is just the unclassified stuff.
Sure, I suggested local jails upthread. You as thread parent suggested "outside the city limits". SF is a "city and county", so it's not possible to have a local jail outside city limits. You're going to have to bribe some other county to take care of the homeless you've charged with crimes. That's not going to be cheap!

It's not cheap even if you manage to get all your jails built in Sunset or some other backwater. Jail is expensive, and the homeless have no official salaries to garnish so you can't use the Ferguson method. Besides which, there's no way the state is going to take any convicted public poopers off your hands to house in their expensive prisons, so you're going to have to keep these criminals jailed for their entire sentence.

Wouldn't it be easier to open some public restrooms?
I'm surprised by the assertion that you can't use expression syntax because you would then be forced to implement common subexpression elimination. You don't: Just run your C compiler with -O0 and you should get expressions without CSE.

What you do give up if you use expression syntax is control over register allocation, unless you specify that expressions are evaluated via the stack and a designated accumulator. Or you could annotate every single subexpression with the register to put it in. I'd agree that this might not be a good fit for the overall design of this language, but I don't think CSE is to blame.

Besides that, the description of the calling convention could use a few more details. Are all registers except the stack pointer and the return value(s) callee-saved? Can you return multiple values? Can each function choose where to return its results, or is eax fixed as the return register? The "may be just documentation" comment confuses me.
Yep. I've been on the reservation list for the B1 for what feels like forever (IIRC right around when it was first announced), figuring "this thing looks simple and minimalist enough that I'm sure Bollinger can keep the price reasonable".

Last month's MSRP announcement immediately dashed any desire to buy this vehicle new. Maybe some of these will hit the used market in a decade or so and I'll be able to swap out the aging batteries for whatever the latest-and-greatest is in 2030, but as it stands I ain't willing to take out a fucking mortgage for a pickup.

I've got my eye on the Atlis XT and the Cybertruck (in that order). Both seem to be very reasonably priced, though Altis is probably the bigger unknown. I've also got my eye on the DIY approach of converting an old pickup myself, though that'll have to wait until I've got a decent work space.
Here’s a fun theory that he’s just a master comic:

- He admits he’s played a lot of characters, and he’s now playing his least favourite for the first time, Sasha Baron Cohen.

- He admits all the times he’s gotten people, many of which were important and intelligent, to side with him and his ideas while he’s in character.

- It would be a good comedy and satire to see an entity like the ADL rave and cheer for certain ideas. Then again, he admits some people might not find it funny.

Thank you Mr. Cohen, my new favourite character ;)
I thought it meant the whole website at first. Looks like by website they mean a single webpage and all of the files needed to display it though. (images, css, scripts)
cURL being able to access a CORS protected endpoint isn't an issue because cURL doesn't have your cookies.
I was fourteen once too, kid.

I know the world looks simple when you’re out there forming your very first political opinions, but it’s really not. The world isn’t some simple struggle between good guys and bad guys, it’s an incomprehensibly complicated overlap between lots of people acting in response to various incentives that they themselves don’t understand.

I recommend keeping your mind open and your mouth shut as you learn a bit more about how the real world works; hopefully before you’re old enough to vote.
I got the same response. :)
Because gmail is a communication platform and that is basically what they wanted to make Wave into.
Wow, something from coding horror where he isn't trying to sell us something?
They're based in SF, California so maybe it's 10am PST.
>try to share as little personal (non work related) information on-line as I can

What, are you afraid we'll come around to Halesworth Rd and steal your kindle or something?
Google's toolbar used to optionally let you run folding@home through Google Compute.
If you go to Apple, you might be surprised to find out that you've already agreed to some form of NDA with them. Especially, for example, if you're a part of any Apple Developer program. They might not always feel compelled to remind you of this, however.

I wouldn't know, though; I don't think I recall ever having been to Apple. No, not in a million years. I do find this Apple sweatshirt which I must've found at a thrift store to be especially comfy, however.
Is leaving the world behind a good or a bad thing?
I bought a 105 last year in Thailand and love it.
I get about 2 weeks of battery life with moderate use.
The 215 actually has too many features for me - I just like the simplicity of talk, text and torch without having to worry about charging, so the 105 wins :)
That's ingenious - good work, and I'm glad it's working out well.
"Enterprise sales office hours"
Are you looking for companies to have their sales people available online for skype office hours? Or some other source?

"Online customer acquisition office hours"
Again, a 3rd party that helps you vet some questions you have about products?
Thank you dalke.I want to search for text in documents(full text search like the one implemented in sql server full text index)and list the documents containing the text
Note that the first part (the one before he types "(quit)") is something you have to do only once - to set up the system itself. Any library in the distribution will install as easily as cl-ppcre did.

With all the talk about "curses" going on right now, I'm pretty happy we lisp hackers actually have something available that integrates so much high-quality software so well.
the "plan b" app was mentioned on reddit the other day when someone posted about his wife going missing.

it's pretty neat that you could remotely install an app like this after your phone is already lost:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb
Two stage Redis to Postgres.
In others, you get 2 years in jail after 25 years...

And bailed out in 2 hours - http://www.hindustantimes.com/Eight-accused-jailed-for-two-y...
Heehee. Nice!
I think he's saying that the accident resulted from egregious negligence. Sometimes accidents really are extremely difficult to prevent, like when you strike and kill a pedestrian who emerges suddenly while you're driving slower than the speed limit in very poor visibility. But sometimes accidents come about because deliberately undertake actions that a reasonable person can expect will result in killings. Like when you decide to drive home after consuming 8 shots of Jägermeister and accidentally kill a pedestrian. Both situations are accidental. But in one case, the police won't do anything while in the other case, you're going to go to prison for a long time.
I would have guessed with 90% "assurance" that they have; guess it goes to show how much I think they've done without any funding. Very Impressive.