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Let's not leave out the history of Sundown Towns[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town
Offtopic, that sarcastic tone really caught me by surprise - it sounds more like an older New Yorker than a Native American tribal leader.
Considering the picture was taken indoors, at night, with 1915 film technology, all of the people in the picture would have to hold perfectly still for several seconds. That might affect their countenance.
Dell actually got acquired very recently. Google did the weird Alphabet thing. Apple had the entire NeXT saga.

It's not likely to happen soon, but unless you're a "fool" or someone who makes their money on foolishness arbitrage (which, again, you can do without being zero-sum), that's not the point of stocks, anyway. Buy a bunch and leave it alone until you retire.
Because it wastes memory and decreases performance, that's why.

If there's a section of code in your function that may or may not be executed, depending on a conditional, then allocating the memory for variables used within that code block will be a waste if you end up not executing it. Now, you could argue that that block should be turned into a separate function, but now you're doing another function call (unless it gets optimized out) which wastes performance, and you're making the code more cluttered if the code block is relatively small and not really worth turning into a separate function.
On a tangent but any idea how the author's portrait was created? http://tinyclouds.org/

Edit: Thank you.
"The first rule of C is don't write C if you can avoid it."

Eek! Not what I was expecting. In the video game world there is a not so small contingent of "write everything in C unless you have a really damn good reason not to".

Great post though. Now go forth into the world and write C, my friends!
Well then OP's point is even more sharp: it's all about connection and politics, not payout.
The clang-format wrapper script presented has a bug. The $@ at the end must be quoted for it to work on filenames containing spaces.

For bonus points it shouldd prefix the clang-format command with "exec" but that's not a correctness issue.
I think for most people your maximum heart rate is your maximum heart rate. That is, there is a certain rate you can reach and there is not any problem with that.

If there is a question about your heart you go to the cardiologist and get a stress test where you have an ECG attached and maybe also they look at your heart with ultrasound and if your are healthy nothing untoward happens.

If you are not healthy there is a risk of arrhythmia and other things that can go wrong. The risk of this is certainly higher if you are older, but young people, even teens, sometimes have sudden cardiac death under stress.

Anyway, I have seen the old electrical types of heart rate monitors do something like this, where the heart rate seems to bounce back and forth between the true rate and 1/2 the true rate and probably there are situations where the monitor picks up every other beat for some reason.
"Also the last time I saw a video about a low level language discussion, only Rust had a dev there nobody really knows. C++, D and Go had prominent people speaking for them."

That has nothing to do with anything.

"Rust is trying something new and Go tries to only use the stuff that worked in the past. It's no surprise that people favor Go instead of Rust."

That's a good point. Anyone doing something critical wants low risk. Using a proven tool or one with proven concepts is lower risk. Go's methods were proven in Pascal, Oberon, etc. So, Go is less risk.

Not to knock Rust in any way with the above. Might be safer in long run due to design and improving toolchain. However, there is a risk perception and a real issue of new concepts taking time to spot then eliminate problems. So, I encourage Rust for systems use on less critical stuff right now but was shocked Dropbox uses it in storage functions.
EDG C++: The parser used by Microsoft and Intel compilers [pdf]
That is before the MITM attack
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Free isn't the problem, discrimination is.
To be fair, I can see why it looks and feels like AstroTurf to people who don't know any better. That kind of cynicism is probably pretty healthy for good reasons in companies like theirs.
Home page: https://www.edg.com/
FWIW, he followed up in a Periscope chat: https://www.periscope.tv/w/aV8GYzE4NTc4fDF5b0tNZHpRbXFveFELq...
Please kill package management. Android brilliantly bundled reusability within the app concept itself via Intents. It's safer, centrally managed, and way easier for the user.

A new Android OS and your favorite software is installed in minutes compared to traditional desktop oses and their awful combination of command line and gui crap.
"... or relying on the perception that armed law enforcement could do so."

I can take you to court, and you can say, "sure, whatever, you and what army." You'll only care if you think there's an actual army (or police force) who'll make you do what the courts tell you to do. Otherwise any judgment against you doesn't bother you.

Note that this is exactly why Chinese knockoffs/counterfeits of US tech products are such a big market: US courts have no jurisdiction in China, and the US Marshals can't keep up with all of the imports.
I'm surprised to see so many places not on the list, and so many places making it that caused me to question the rationale (to the point where I read the follow-up article on how they chose places).

Then I realised as an NY Times piece, this is for Americans. Lots of the places are Anglo-Spanish-friendly (St Helena, really?), mostly within less than insane flight times (explains the lack of New Zealand on the list) and the inevitable references to Kanye and other celebrities (because you know it'd be insulting to suggest that these places actually have things going for themselves without the affirmation of a celebrity).

While I disagree with almost the majority of the choices (choose Melbourne over Sydney any day of the week as a tourist, avoid anything with Democratic Republic of the Congo on it unless you're already familiar with the safety requirements for the region) it's an interesting and thought provoking list, nonetheless.
Consider something like https://pythonhosted.org/passlib/modular_crypt_format.html and support all your old hash-functions. If you really want to migrate people to the new hash functions, you can:

* Fully expire the accounts (and send emails asking them to reset their password)

* If they successfully login to their account and you have the plain text password, you can re-hash that using argon2i.

* Have them reset their password on next sign in before allowing them to do anything.

* Let the user know their account has less security than it could, and they can upgrade the security by changing their password.

Afaik, there is nothing you can do to upgrade their passwords, modulo argon2'ing the result of another hash function - I am simply too unclear on the safety of this approach so I don't do it.
Exactly. This stumbling block is as much about the solar lease/ppa model as net metering, because math about cost of botg grid and solar are assumed 100% unchanged for 20 years.

Rooftop owners that buy their systems outright are still im good shape, with a different payback period. Leases have been pushed bc theyre more lucrative for installers and homeowners have avoided the upfront cost of buying. Leases were a gateway financial model to expand rooftop solar but I think we'll see a shift to system ownership, which will reduce the impact of net metering. And it will be further reduced as storage tech ramps up.
Yes, exactly. I didn't mean to say that all "free" things are a net neutrality problem, only that policies which affect different traffic differently are still problematic when they're free.

For example, if T-Mobile started charging $10/month to access Spotify on their network, that's an obvious net neutrality problem. What I'm saying is that if T-Mobile lets you access Spotify for free on their network, that is also a net neutrality problem, although many people see it as just a bonus.

Stuff where an entire plan is free is fine. It's when different traffic is treated differently that net neutrality comes in.
> Is there still a market for providers that only sell bare bone private servers?

Are there still sysadmins out there who would prefer that their servers run only the softwtare they themselves installed on it, no more?

There's something to be said for turnkey solutions like Heroku, but there will always be those who want more control.
I agree, but if you consider the success of Chrome OS it's clear that for a lot of users a simple OS is more than enough for their computing needs.
Very interesting idea. I haven't read through your link entirely, but I'm always a bit of wary of things based on how we think humans should behave and not how we actually see them behave.
Some CEOs run a company that way though. They will be blunt and impatient; often sending e-mails like "just get it sorted". I can completely understand how some might not even question the e-mails as being out of character.
Couple sentenced to two months in prison for refusing child vaccination
The job listings of YC companies aren't intellectually interesting. Hence, I suspect that the odds of producing quality comments is rather low. This is probably why Monster.com and StackOverflow Careers don't have comments sections either.
I read it as a plain suggestion.

Kind of like saying, "kudos for this but if you also manage to do it in DirectX it will probably help a lot getting hired in a field that is obviously interesting for you."

However it does look a bit of an offtopic suggestion as you point out.
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> hrowing away the earlier version and replacing it with the argon-wrapped version can't hurt them

Are you sure? And if so, can you convince me as to why you are so sure?
Perhaps that bill would have happened even if Disney hadn't been lobbying. A lot of people don't give a second thought to "intellectual property".
I'd happily cease to participate in working there if that happened to me.
You lose your bet. Outcomes for schizophrenia (recovery) are substantially better in developing countries compared to developed ones, sometimes called the WHO paradox. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26640277
Thx! Same here ;)

I have multiple sources I've curated over the years... but I don't keep track of all of them. That's why we created SlugBay. I want to rely on it to help me find good resources and store them whenever I need them.

IMO - Finding resources is somewhat easy (it just takes time) but finding the right resource is way more challenging.

The Search Engine is just an entry point. First, we're building a database with dozens of curated sources like HN, dev blogs, aggregators, repos, newsletters, etc.

Then, we build a community to help us curate those (already) hand-picked resources. The invite-only process is just to help us choose the right developers. We need to have enough relevant content before opening the floodgates.

In the long run, we want devs be confident they can find and pick the right resources for them on SlugBay.
I think the backstory there is roughly https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/616316157109256192

(The remainder of @sonic_hedgehog is also amazingly absurdist, but usually not particularly anti-capitalist.)
The other widespread use of char pointers is when you need to perform pointer arithmetic over a buffer (without any dereferencing) in steps of 1 (as sizeof(char) == 1).

Void pointers do not allow pointer arithmetic (GCC allows it as an extension).
Oculus Rift's founder said that Virtual Desktop use of the Rift is "not a focus for us right now" in a Reddit AMA yesterday - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3zt7ul/i_am_palmer_lu...

Followed by a comment saying web browsing in a Virtual Desktop style environment on the Rift isn't very good, and can't be due to screen resolution limitations.
> I've worked on harder projects that taught me more in internships. This is what I'm most dissatisfied with...

Turns-out that the lack of feeling personal & professional growth is a very common complaint with people early in their careers. The pace and variety of corporate work life can be extremely stifiling compared to university & internships.

Before you jump to a new job-- one way to consider the next step in your career is ask:

- What are the most important problems in your field?

- Are you working on one of them?

- Why not?

- How can you leverage where you are now into the Next Big Thing?

On this subject, Richard Hamming offers brilliant advice> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw
It looks like they ran the photo through Google's Deep Dream. There are a bunch of generators online, eg http://deepdreamgenerator.com.
That is not relevant to this discussion, but I agree security should be a priority when developing anything.
Are you kidding? Every kind imaginable, from subsidies for coal mining and oil to subsidies on natural gas, subsidies on upgrading for higher efficiency, etc.

Not to mention the implicit subsidy of the rest of us picking up the tab for the damage they are doing to the environment.

If you're really curious there's tons of information out there.
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It's also worth bearing in mind that a VPS has it's limits compared to physically segregated kit.
I've seen enough pricing pages to know that "popular" really means "recommended", but with the added benefit of social proof.
There's no monopoly in the US cell phone market. Competition is decently robust, with four major networks and a buttload of MVNOs.

Right now, one network is pulling this throttling bullshit. If you don't like it, there are other choices. If you say "I wish I could switch but T-Mobile is cheaper" then what you're actually saying is that you don't care about the issue enough to pay for it, and that means the providers have no reason to care about it.
It's not that simple. Solar is only really practical if it fits into the grid system, otherwise there's no real point. The energy it gives you goes up and down, and not in sync with your own household needs.

So you need something to do with excess capacity. All by itself, units of power aren't all that expensive. But a solar installation is very expensive. You need to amortize the cost of the installation, the people putting it in, the company developing the technology, over around 30 years before it's really worth it.

Even then, normal consumers won't bother unless it's actually making their net energy expenditures lower. So you also need a finance company to come in and finance everything so the consumer isn't coming out of pocket for the installation.

All of this is viable, only so long as the power companies are paying retail rates for excess electricity. There's enough money so everyone gets paid. What this is all about is the power companies are suddenly deciding they want to pay wholesale for excess power. Why should they pay wholesale? They're not buying in wholesale quantities from each consumer.

This sucks enough profit potential from the industry that it makes more sense for them to go elsewhere to put together a workable business model than to stick around and deal with decimated revenues.

The power companies are using their political muscle to stamp out competition. If they were to play fair, then they'd be forced to compete with solar. They don't want to compete, so they're using lobbyists to warp the political process.
My practical experience: optical trackers almost always lie to me when I do intervals training (though, I haven't tried expensive high-end dual-wavelength devices), while wet chest strap is pretty accurate. As instructions say: just put some water on strap and it will work.
Kernels have to provide cleared memory if they don't want to leak data between processes.
How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012)
We're in agreement here. Unfortunately, until we develop a serious pollution permitting scheme where companies can buy and sell pollution "credits" on a market with some max set and enforced by the government, we will be unable to capture these negative externalities in dollar form.
Speaking of great documentation, I've been blown away by the quality of documentation for sequel - a Ruby ORM that has some more advanced features (than ActiveRecord) for working with Postgres:

- http://sequel.jeremyevans.net/documentation.html

- http://sequel.jeremyevans.net/rdoc/files/doc/postgresql_rdoc...

- http://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel
Honestly, I don't really care what you use if it fits your needs. The main point here is that the author shut down his project, because they were spending $250 a month, to operate a very basic setup. Pick your favorite host, but a car payment to do so, is ludicrous.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/79/3/352.full

Scroll down to references and citations, and educate yourself about the trans fats that are present in meat and dairy.

You may wish to re-examine your previous claim that vaccinic acid and conjugated linoleic acids may contribute to negative health effects when eaten with meat.

It is also worth mentioning that some of those trans fatty acids are produced by bacteria found inside the human intestinal tract [0]. You're getting those anyway, whether you eat meat or not.

Can you identify one or more of the saturated fats found in meat that produce adverse health effects? Better yet, can you identify the reactions in the biochemical pathway that produce those effects?

I am reluctant to accept your apparent claim that "saturated fat is bad for you", when I am well aware that medium chain saturated fats are sent directly to the liver, whereas long chain saturated fats are assembled into triglycerides if not already in that form, packaged up with cholesterol and protein, and transported through the lymphatic system before reaching the bloodstream.

As the original article stated, correlation based on survey responses is a weak, weak, weak way to do research.

It may be true that eating meat is relatively unhealthy. But it also may be the case that the unhealthful effects are produced by the Maillard reaction products from the cooking process, and that changing the preparation method removes the additional health risks [1]. You won't know until doing enough real, rigorously scientific studies to more precisely identify the mechanisms in play.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19118369

[1] Some raw meat advocates already believe this.
If that happened, it'd probably be big enough to get mainstream media attention ("grassroots VS corporate lobbying bidding-war!"), at which point politicians might well be forced to side with the grassroots for fear of their image permanently being stuck as "a corporate sell-out", at which point we've won regardless of how much money corporate lobbying puts in.
So, time vs money is a rich persons dilemma.

It's also a monk or nun's dilemma and a motivating factor in ordination for some.
What's its advantage by comparing with DigitalOcean?
The project lead already said on Reddit that if Dropbox loses data, it's now Rust's fault, so... :)

The project was a whole team of engineers working for almost a year, with extensive testing. At least, that's what I've heard. So like, I think they did exactly what you said, it's just that it's ready by now.
By a version of Google's DeepDream sampling from a relatively low layer.
I mean, that's true, and Google has spent plenty of money on the EFF. But the reason I trust the EFF, unlike most companies/organizations/government officials Google 'donates' money to, is that the EFF has taken Google to task, recently even: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/02/google-eff...
I've had a site running on Heroku that has 200-300 visitors a day for almost 2 years. I'm still on the free dyno package. I wonder if I am just below some tipping point where I would need to bump up to the non-free stuff. My site runs fine and there are never spikes of traffic, it's pretty constant all throughout a 24 hour period.
They are. Small backup gens (ie without autostart/disconnects etc) can be bought for a few hundred bucks. If you don't use them that often, say a few hours a year while your offgrid system is under repair, the cost of operation is extremely small.
Well this is a story about taking control of finances by developinga system that, in the end, translated into an app idea.

2097 word long article where there's 195 words about an app.

Don;t know if it's an ad
I'd like to commend the author for the tone of this article.

It's the right mix of "paper" and "blog post." It's an experiment that sort of flops and there will be a variety of "yay for tech!" and "I can't wait to see a movie where various body parts of people remain black and white!" in the comments here regardless.

Presenting it as an experiment, clearly explaining what you tried, then detailing some future thoughts and saying "it kind of works" was refreshing and honest. Thank you.
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> I would think a lot of inattentive driving would actually show up on the tracker (abrupt stops, swerves).

Those could just as well be samples of very attentive driving. You know, the ones where you didn't hit the tourist stepping backwards off the curb into traffic and the one where you avoided the toddler that suddenly appeared between two parked cars (just two samples from my driving career).

I'd be more wary of people that never have such items while they drive than the ones that do. Circumstances are everything when it comes to making decisions like these.
parties not allowed to buy tv advertising? That would take about 5 minutes to work around. just have a big party official retire, and become the head of a public organization which carefully avoids colluding with the party, while funnelling private donations into privately funded ads which merely explain why one candidate is better than the other.
> This is the end result of an education system that has not prepared people for the modern world

Not quite.

> if we engineer a solution that produces water of a purity greater than water from a reservoir

This statement hinges on our ability to accurately measure the purity. This is far from settled and I can understand the hesitation.

Personally, I would take a look at the methods of purification. If they're using tons of chemicals, and most purification processes do, then I would pass.

I would prefer they use osmosis and then dump the contents out where they can filter down to natural aquifers, allowing natural filtration to take place. Then you pump it back up using the infrastructure we already have in place and put it through the regular process.
noscript+adblock wins again! 67K for me.

To be fair, I've had to spend some time training my adblock to handle nytimes
> And thus we reach biggest complaint about rotary engines.

Complaint? Never heard one from an RX8 owner (only shock from new owners who didn't read-up on how the engine operates, and thought they had a leak someplace!).

If you changed your oil out when you were supposed to, chances were you'd never notice it eating oil.
I just saw the front page post about automatically colorizing photos (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10864801) and thought I should share this website I built a couple years ago. It allows grabbing color from a reference photo and painting it onto the black and white image you wish to color. It was a fun learning experience and can make some pretty convincing photos with a bit of patience.
On the subject of schizophrenia, the most interesting and insightful thinker I have read is John Weir Perry: http://global-vision.org/papers/JWP.pdf
His notion is that schizophrenia is a normal process to reorder the mind to heal from severe psychic trauma, which neuroleptics interrupt and prolong.
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