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Really cool talk on an implementation of static_if in C++14. I'd suspected something like it should be possible, but couldn't get it to work right. Great to have someone figure it out for me :).

Also, cool to see that they are considering adding a version to the language in C++17. Thought they'd ruled it out. Andrei Alexandrescu has a very nice talk on how static_if is superior to concepts, this is definitely very nice to have.
I figure the book's helped more people than I can count, so why not continue?

It's one of the finest programming books out there, about any language. And your work is very much appreciated. (We've never met, so I hope you don't mind me saying).
Yeah, totally fair. If we get enough feedback to the contrary, we'll change it :-).
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As someone who falls into the venn diagram of "cares about cars" and owns a Tesla I respectfully disagree :).

I think the better comparison is "cares about cars" -> "cares about only electric cars".

FWIW electric powertrains have been making it into high end car tech for a while, I think we're just seeing it move down-market now in interesting ways.
Author of the article doesn't seem to understand the word "fundamentally". This is most definitely an ancillary flaw, not a fundamental one
We already see lot's of copying for any popular work. AKA CSI: Miami. And, you can generally do fanfiction as long as your not trying to make money from it.

I just want to minimize the amount of me too pandering that follows any popular new thing.
Well, we didn't, did we? We could make an unholy mess with nuclear weapons, but hubris aside, we can't kill ourselves with them.

Lovecraft survived to the very verge of the atomic age, and it shows in his writing; one of Azathoth's epithets is "nuclear chaos". In other words, he took it about how his writings would lead you to expect.
Edit: clean above should have been cleaner.
10% of 63000 is... 6300
> Anyone's welcome to still read him, for all we care,

Of course, but I'd qualify this a bit. If you are in a life situation where you feel alone or in need of a community, you feel you're not included enough, or feel "smarter" and more reflective than your environment, then spending time at LW can amplify your smugness and stroke your ego to the point of not noticing what you are turning into. I saw many people there with milder psychological problems. Really, a psychologist would probably have an interesting time analyzing the "life advice/coaching/coping" parts of that forum.

However, if you're living a balanced, good life, reading this stuff won't matter much. It's similar in many ideologies. If you're in a receptive situation, then Scientology, or Reddit's Redpill, or basically any elitist, enlightening type of subculture along the lines of "you now understand what it all really is about" can be harmful.
$100k isn't what each employee will get. A lot of that will go to COBRA coverage and outsourced job placement services.
It seems your "but" has the hidden assumption "since the US has longer term copyright", but in fact, when Mickey was created and for a long time, the US was actually one of the countries with shorter copyright terms. The Berne convention, which sets the copyright length to Life + 50 years, was signed by most developed countries before 1930, but the US only did so in 1988: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...
According to Dealbook [0], "The new company would have dual headquarters in Wilmington, Del., and Midland, Mich."

Dual headquarters usually works out about as well as co-CEOs.

To the point of DuPont having a great company culture, I agree. I used to cover them as an investment banker....they are definitely safety-obsessed.

[0]: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/business/dealbook/dow-chem...
Not really. More than three fourths of all public school teachers are female, and it was co-organized by the National Center for Women and Information Technology, so it makes sense. Even at the high school level, teachers aren't usually teaching what they have a degree in or have industry experience in, they generally major in education and teach whatever the school needs. A lot of my math/science teachers in high school were just following the book along with the class, especially the younger teachers.
You're definitely right to point at bandwidth, particularly since at least in the United States the major carriers have been pushing customers back to paid plans.

A closely-related issue is the nature of the content: it would be one thing if ads/trackers were just image content but a lot of them ship huge amounts of poorly-written JavaScript and CSS, usually marked as uncacheable or with a short TTL. I'm not talking about fly-by-night operators, either, but places like Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. which have good web performance teams who are apparently strictly prohibited from talking to the ad / tracking / widget groups.

All of that extra bloat has a huge performance impact to begin with but it also dramatically amplifies any network delays. That means that most of the people who read a piece about blockers and try one are likely to notice a big performance win and that initial impression will stick with them for a long time.
No you're totally right, it's not a pyramid scheme. I still don't think it's a Ponzi scheme though because I don't think a sticker and return postage constitutes an investment. It's just a normal, if unsustainable, trade.

For now. It would be totally consistent with how Ponzi schemes work in real life to start with something legit that turns out to not be sustainable, and then turning it into something fraudulent. Say once people have started sending in stickers they should choose to offer a service where they hang on to your stickers to save you the trouble of mailing back and forth, and doubling your holding every 10 days. Then a sticker would be an investment and it would be a Ponzi scheme.

I can only hope they'll do something like that. It'd be totally in the spirit of Ponzi.
It's a form of lamp posting, for sure, but people lamp post because building flashlights is often too much hassle for them, even if you'd prefer they do it that way.
But we used to have a large number of $20-$40 million-per-year companies where people had decent jobs and worked. When that becomes a marque of a schmuck then we have a problem.

I think some of these overvalued... frankly, Pet Rock companies aid and abet this. Don't get me wrong, WE are the problem here but the effects are not good.
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This will never see the light of day. Sen. Hatch and Co. will see to it.

Due to the way campaign financing works, any senators or congressmen which vote for this bill will face a reduction in campaign finance funding during the next election cycle.

The only way to get meaningful policies through the legislative process is to fix campaign finance first. Until this happens, legislators will continue to be corrupted by those with large amounts of money.
Technically they are two different things, in the language of political science. I'm don't know exact definitions, but a nation is something a group of people have an emotional attachment to, a cultural entity; a state is a political entity. If you're lucky, the two coincide and you a have a nation state.

The U.S. usage of 'state' has a different meaning. Maybe when the states were more independent entities (with their own currencies, militias, etc.) around the time of the Revolution, it carried the standard meaning.
> I don't understand why as a society we would want a megacompany ....

We probably wouldn't. But these are companies, not the government. They're allowed to do things we don't like.

Yes, there is antitrust law. The U.S. Government gets to rule on whether the merger is legal, but not whether it is good for society.
What happens after the Hour of Code?
If you're in a rich area in the US, look for Spindrift soda -- the brand started out in Boston, but has spread to other upper-class milieus since then. There's also La Croix, as mentioned by another poster here -- it's artificially flavored, I think, but still pretty good and definitely low on sugar. (Spindrifts are made with fruit and soda water; they're not low-sugar or sugar-free, but they haven't been sweetened out the wazoo like Coca-Cola.)
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I'm very much inclined to think this is just what people get used to. You're used to watching lower framerate, so your brain is yelling "something is different" all the time you're watching.

I got used to higher framerates (mostly via interpolation), and now 24fps stuff feels really jerky to me, almost like stop motion.
Regardless of whether Teslas are "good cars," (and while they're not particularly good sports cars, they are excellent sedans) they are desired cars. A ton of people who never gave a crap about EVs before now see Teslas as objects of desire. Many of them can't afford to buy one, but they think of them as "if I won the lottery...."

Then when a cheaper one comes out, it will be thought of as a cheaper version of that awesome car people always wanted to buy but could never afford, rather than a crappy "green" car for hippies.

How many new product categories started at the low end and expanded upwards? They always start out expensive and work their way down. In hindsight, it's bizarre that other attempts to produce EVs came at it from the low end.
Fage, Straus, Maple Hill, Voskos all sell full-fat yogurt, and Trader Joe's sells one under their own brand. Maple Hill's is not strained and made with milk form grass-fed cows.
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From Mitchell Baker's blog post, it appears that it is Firefox that has diverging needs from Thunderbird.

"Thunderbird and Firefox are interconnected in a few different ways. They are connected through our technical infrastructure. Both use Mozilla build and release systems. They’re connected through the sharing of some pieces of technology. The time has come when it is no longer effective for Thunderbird and Firefox to keep sharing the same technical infrastructure. Firefox and Thunderbird have diverging needs."

https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2015/12/03/thunderbird-updat...
I agree - in fact if you read the comment you responded to ... :)
Actually, both look for signals of accomplishment and both are willing to take whatever signals you can provide to that effect.

Didn't go to a top-tier school? That's ok, let's talk about what you've built. You haven't built anything? That's ok, let's talk about what you've done? You haven't done anything you feel proud talking about? All that together is not ok.

You have to have something

I'd argue that talent is actually some minor ability/sense of passion/direction augmented by the compound effect of sustained effort (determination).
I think you're giving GM a bit too much credit here, there's one thing that's sorely lacking: Infrastructure.

Tesla already has a fantastic network of superchargers.

CCS(which GM is betting on) has very low penetration(Sea -> Portland is a dead-zone, also Portland -> North CA) compared to CHAdeMO.

Telsa has the advantage of a better infra(120kW vs 50kW) and the ability to use other standards like CHAdeMO.
Don't know of one off hand. I know a few curated lists related to specific AI/ML topics have shown up here on HN (mostly NN and DL stuff,IIRC), but I don't remember one that covers AGI. There's definitely a TON of great AI content on the 'net, but yeah, a nice curated guide to help work through the important stuff, in order, would be very helpful.
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What previously failed luxury electric cars were there? When I think of previously failed electric cars, I think of stuff like the EV-1, but I'm not particularly knowledgeable here.
If "DuPont culture" mentioned in the comments is true, I hope they help Bhopal Disaster victims get the justice they deserve.

Bhopal Disaster happened because of Union Carbide(wholly owned subsidiary of Dow chemicals)
how do I debug a program running on a unikernel?
The fundamental problem is trying to cast individuals in heroic narratives. The mechanism for status is beside the point. People in Russia had ikons of Stalin.

I feel like somehow biasing towards nonfiction is one way to improve this, but that may just be bias speaking.

We can't be all that coherent about "greed" anyway - if we do create consumer surplus through business, then this is a good thing. If we enrich ourselves by rent-seeking and cheating, it is a not. Deciding which is which is pretty hard.
And I wouldn't worry about Disney's ability to monitor and enforce their trademark either
What do you do now that you are no longer in banking?
It marked the height of bad mergers only in hindsight. Big mergers are always hard, but that doesn't make them a bad idea.

I was looking for a summary of the internet and found this lovely video gem: https://www.coursera.org/learn/internetgiants/lecture/jCXgb/...

Click through the interstitial and you can watch the whole thing, which goes into mergers [relevant!] as well as AOL/TW particularly.

Needless to say, it was difficult to predict. In terms of the top websites by traffic cited in the lecture (and looked at by the FTC for monopoly review) you had (in decreasing order w/ unique visits per 1 month, units not mentioned):

AOL 61, Y! 52.7, MS 51.4, Lycos 30.8, Excite Network 27, Go Network 23, About 20.6, AltaVista 19.2, TimeWarner 15.9, Amazon 15.3

You've got a crystal ball if you could have looked at that, predicted the future, and said "Gee, joining up AOL with a media company is a really bad idea."
Given this press release was issued after the announcement of plans to merge, my guess is that it's pro forma for NewCo.

In other words, I think the denominator here is 10% * (63,000 current DuPont employees + 53,000 current Dow employees) = 11,600 people.

If that is in fact the case, then average severance would be a bit over $50k.

EDIT: Dow's current workforce 53k, not 58k.
But those who have disproportionate amounts of cash don't consume as disproportionally as they earn. An individual can only personally consume so much. As more wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer people, the money that trickles down as consumption declines. And as investment becomes more and more abstract, you've got algorithms passing money back and forth between algorithms, and the rate at which cash actually makes it out into the rest of the population also slows.
Its going to be added to the language MAYBE.
One of the problems with the first approach was, that it used {}, but did not introduce scope. A serious wtf in any c-like language.
They have a lot of great television, but the film selection always seems limited.
Charity always attracts scammers and swindlers. That's on them. It's OK, as long as you're not making the problem worse by financing "charities" that only further impoverish their clients either by malice or by incompetence.

Suppose that rural village can put those inferior sheep to at least some use?
Twitter does not speak good UX
I think that's just Commanding Heights on stilts. It may well be that informal systems can be more efficient.

The problem with formal systems of accountability is that it ends up serving storytelling rather than being calibrated regulation and control.
Age might be a factor. When I was in my 20's I had no real interest in teaching kids. No I'm older, with highschool age kids myself, now I have some interest in it (I am teaching 2 of my kids to program myself).

But I'm not sure I would want to teach a real class either. Computer Science is very hit-or-miss. Seems bad to force a kid to complete a class when they have no aptitude for it.

Final side note: I help run Boise Code Camp, which is held once a year around spring break. As part of that we devote one room just to kid topics (grade school-middle-school). That room accounts for over 10% of our attendance.
Well, you would not expect their ad agency to get the blame for fraudulent engineering, would you?

Do you imply a dichotomy between engineers and "board people"? The car industry is one of the last areas where top positions are routinely given to engineers who raised through the ranks, so to most of the board, an engineer isn't a "one of them" but a "one of us". From what i remember about the careers of german car CEOs, being head of engineering (still "an engineer") actually seems to be pretty close to "next in line for CEO".
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Prescribe is a linguistic jargon. [0] It is exactly the correct word. And the whole point of E' is to remove is in such cases, because it carries an overloaded value which could change from person to person. In this case, a linguist would likely understand that it is prescribing a form of English, but not everyone would share that interpretation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription
But doesn't the FTC look at US companies? If a merger results in a monopoly locally, isn't that enough to warrant denying it?
Personally, I find the higher framerates valuable enough that I'm willing to put up with the artifacts. They're easy to see if you're looking for them, but I think most of them are pretty ignorable, although there are some pathological cases (any time the scene pans across regular vertical bars e.g. blinds).
What pre-Tesla electric cars where aimed at the luxury market? The only one I can think of is the Fisker Karma, which was almost universally panned for shitty build quality. What Tesla did (with the Model S, at least) that Fisker couldn't was build a car that seems to have traveled back in time from a future where electric cars are ubiquitous. Sure, it's no supercar, but it can go 200 miles on a charge and it outshines its luxury sedan peers when it comes to acceleration and style. If I had to choose between a Tesla Model S and a BMW M6, I'd pick the Model S every time. But if I had to pick between a Nissan Leaf and a Ford Fiesta, I'd get the Fiesta, because cheap electric cars are compromised in a way that cheap petrol cars aren't. That's what Tesla did differently.
There is no such thing as a natural in tech. Take for example John Carmack who you would consider a natural. He writes an extreme amount of code, he is known for writing his own libraries from scratch. I think that there are natural factors that come into play but with coding the vast majority of talent comes from drive.
oh yea I almost forgot about pop culture. There's the Bond connection to boot.

Hell sometimes I theorize that maybe somehow almost the entire artifice of western pop culture was conjured up by Dee and associates in some kind of..

well I dare not speculate too far.
When you have a fully automated motorway, with vehicles able to drive safely at any speed, I wonder what the cost and physical limitations of driving very very fast while still on the ground are, vs potentially flying.
i attended the conference for the first time this year. very nice and knowledgeable conference, many more talks will be available in coming weeks as they announced in closing notes.
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The car referenced (a Xindayang D2) weighs 640 kg (1477 lbs). _That's_ the way to make a $20k electric car. Wish it were good, though.

But to an F-150, it's a bug on the windshield. For safety, maybe we could limit urban traffic to lighter-weight vehicles?
Point taken. Will sort it.
Have had the same issue on my PS4. It's mildly annoying when searching for something new, and kinda nice when you're getting back into something you were watching yesterday.

I wish it was selective about autoplay, for certain conditions. Chances are, I don't want it to play when I've never watched a second of any episodes in my life, but it's nice that it autoplays when I click it from "Continue Watching" section.
* IMO macros are occasionally useful, but YMMV.
* "Hardcoded features" like?

I'm all for purity, but so far, I haven't seen anything IRL that backs up your claims/arguments.
From the point of view of the owners, some of those old style, "employee-first", companies can't change their ways fast enough in order to improve profits.

I have seen first hand how one company used a merge as a excuse to change their culture. Some people, even speculated that this was the real reason for the merge.

If you are a majority stock holder, maybe a heir, you don't see the need in this times of weak unions, pro-business laws and cheap educated available labour of keeping your employees so happy.

I don't know anything about Dupont and Dow cultures, but if it is as you explain, you can bet what culture is going to dominate.
This is what constantly puzzles me about other manufacturers' plans to get into the EV market. As far as I know, nobody has plans for a usable fast charging network.

One could argue that you don't need one. Most people don't take road trips that often. But they want to be able to. It's one of the most common questions I get about my Model S: "What if you want to take a road trip?" You can make a pretty easy economic argument that you're better off with a shorter-range car for daily driving, and renting something for your once-a-year road trips, but most people just won't do that.

It's great that the GM has the Bolt and other manufacturers are planning to make EVs with decent range. But without a fast charging network, what's the point? I can't see them moving beyond a small niche.

The question I have is, why isn't any other manufacturer addressing this the way Tesla has and is? Are they, and they just aren't discussing it (or I've missed it)? Do they think third parties should take the lead? Do they think it's not important? Are they just incapable? Do they not actually care about the success of their EVs?
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If you are looking for potential transformation, keep an eye on Gogoro, in Taiwan. Although Taipei isn't nearly as smoggy as some Chinese cities, Taipei moves on scooters. Converting to electric could happen faster and have a much higher impact on pollution as a local manifestation than electric cars in relatively lo-smog cities in the US.

While the ready-fire-aim approach that is a wonderful characteristic of China might be a lab for interesting attempts at changing the architecture of cars for electric propulsion, I'd rather bet on BMW, for example, to bring high volume carbon fiber manufacturing technology to market without sacrificing crashworthiness.
...but still most don't do it. It's been possible to install an ad-blocking mobile browser on Android for a long, long time. People haven't done it.
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I don't know enough German to follow, but Google Translate helps me out a bit. Here's my question: We know VW had a cheat device to specifically detect the test and switch to a different map.

These other tests that show the cars pollute more in the "real world", is there any evidence that they actually detect the test and cheat like VW did? Or are they merely optimized for the speeds used in the test? These are two entirely different things. There's a huge difference between gaming the test and outright cheating. In one case, if you drive very very gently in the real world, you will get the test results. In the other case (VW) you could never hit those pollution numbers no matter how gently you drive (or how perfectly you replicate the testing drive cycle).
This was my school growing up in small-town USA. Town population of 2000, no cities within a 5 hour drive, class of 60 kids. My math teachers typically had math degrees, but the science teachers were usually warm bodies. (no such issue with English, history, or spanish tho, had plenty of those)
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