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You've been in discussions on this forum where I slam both C and C++. I'm clearly against it unless I absolutely have to use it due to its issues. That's why your strawman is more amusing than most. My actual argument was that new tools are usually unstable in terms of features, implementation bugs, and (with compilers) performance. So, default recommendation for mission-critical apps are mature tools whose strengths and weaknesses are well-understood so pro's can use them robustly.

Back to beta-phase claim, you're saying the core features and compiler of Rust are no longer in development or testing? Totally stable now with only extensions, library features, and optimizations being added? If so, that's good news and I'll drop that claim in the future. Otherwise, it's in the beta phase. Another hint would be existence of any bugs with core functionality in your compiler or libraries.

Again, though, if the spec and core functionality are frozen with all bugs fixed then I won't call it beta. Is it there yet?
Is the NRA transparent about its finances? I personally have no idea who supports it.
I live in a small town in the North Cascades of Washington and my "connection fee" is $40 per month while my electric bill varies from $75 to $175 depending on the season.
No no no. You should read more. That will increase your intelligence which makes your legs stronger.
Your demo (from github link) has SSL warning.
Discriminating against insurance customers on the basis of things they cannot control, like their age or gender, is not good.

Discriminating against customers on the basis of driving habits that they have control over, like how fast they drive, or how hard they swerve, is completely fine.

If driver A drives safely at the speed limit, and driver B constantly pulls stunts at speeds well over the speed limit, B is much more likely to get into an accident than A. Why should A have his premiums raised just to subsidize B's voluntary driving habits?

By making B pay for the costs of his unsafe driving habits, and rewarding A for his safe driving habits, this feels like a great marketplace improvement.
A power company is not a normal business, they are a public utility. They aren't supposed to be making money, they're supposed to be providing a public service.
You guys! This is Ryan Dahl of NodeJS! He's back! When did he come back? So excited to see him around again, he's such a great guy (I had the honor of meeting him once).

Brilliant post too with an excellent write up. Can't believe people hadn't already been thinking about this.
This causes a large gray area in Google Books. There are large number of books still under extended copyright, but no copyright owner can be found. Google has been to court several times by opponents who also want to make money off of distributing grey books. One part of me wants to see 100% of the world's books online, not the 15% or so now. Another part of me wants to be done in as a finacially fair way as possible.
So is TamilNadu, India
in some ways it probably doesn't matter - if you are an otherwise safe driver that lives in a county full of side-swiping jerks then your rates will go up because you're a higher risk to the insurance company than a safe driver that lives in a county full of other safe drivers. they already do this by considering where you live and work when calculating your rate.

you are a higher risk, because you live around a bunch of jerks. is it your fault? not really, but the insurer isn't there to assign fault, they mitigate risk.
> Go's methods were proven in Pascal, Oberon, etc. So, Go is less risk.

Totally disagree. Rust's ideas are tweaks of decades-old research. These tweaks are what make it interesting and constitute research in their own right, but Go did that too with their tweaks to CSP and interfaces.
>>Ignoring C and C++ mean you are ignoring maybe billion $ industry around them

Right, very difficult to move the inertia in any direction. The same is true about Java too.

But there are fewer reasons for any starting a new project to do it in C or C++.

Newer stuff replaces older stuff, Heck when C came along, there were languages with billion $ industry around them. C replaced them.
maniac != claim
On what basis are you claiming that the government could have equalled SpaceX's achievements? SpaceX has made several firsts that no company or government ever has before.

Receiving money from the government doesn't mean the government could have done the same thing.
And then you add Google on top of this and you have a phone with open ears and eyes.
My method is similar: Monthly I fill a spreadsheet with my "book value". If my "book value" keeps growing, everything is ok.
thanks a lot! already corrected.
I feel like the EFF is arguing semantics and hasn't really made a valid argument about what's wrong with T-Mobile's approach. Yes T-Mobile is throttling and yes they're trying to relabel what they're doing to avoid all of the negative connotations that the term "throttling" brings wit it, but what are they doing that's harmful to the customer? I think it ultimately comes down to the fact that T-Mobile made it an opt-out feature instead of an opt-in one.

The reality is that wireless bandwidth is constrained and sustained transfers at high rates degrade the overall experience of everyone using a particular cellular tower. T-Mobile, being particularly bandwidth constrained, is attempting to mitigate this issue. They're doing it by offering a service where if you allow your bandwidth for certain content types to be be throttled, then the bandwidth you use for certain qualifying services won't count against your data cap. They're offering a carrot, not threatening with a stick.

Yes it's opt-out, but that was probably done intentionally because most folks won't notice the degradation or won't care, AND, more importantly, most people wouldn't bother to enable it if it were opt-in. If T-Mobile made it opt-in then their adoption rate would be lower so by making opt-out they're getting the greatest benefit.

I just looked at my account and the toggle to turn Binge On off is easily accessible in my user profile. It's not a buried feature anywhere. The only possible gripe I could see is that the setting is granular and per-line making it marginally harder to disable, but that's also a benefit. I have multiple lines on my account but only 1 has unlimited data, so the ability to disable it for just that one line is nice and allows me to have my cake and eat it too.
The easiest way to budget is just stop spending money on stupid stuff, and don't live somewhere with high rent. Don't make large purchases, except perhaps a condo or house so you don't have to pay rent anymore. You don't need to write anything down or manually keep track of stuff in an app. Your online account balances automatically keep track for you. This isn't rocket science.
It would be really cool if you could pick the source code location that the image is made of.
China and India: The war that echoes down the decades
Is it really the case that some programming languages are more resilient to hardware errors than others?

Java does array bounds checking in principle, but it is usually optimized out of the machine code. Isn't it then virtually just as susceptible to hardware error as C? And the JVM is written in C anyway.
A somewhat less nuanced response, that (despite a lively conversation) never made it to the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10831261
<sarcasm>Yeah I agree that this data is totally safe from government snooping because the likes of the NSA/GCHQ have shown that they are totally unable and unwilling to grab this data as well as the stuff they personally collect...</sarcasm>
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> FxOS for phones didn't fail

Any new phone shipped with firefox os? Nobody buys it. It totally failed.
I wouldn't call LowEndBox a discriminating audience in any metric.
PG talks about startups as if they are the best thing that ever happened to this world.

The iphone did not come from a startup. Nor did the internet. The world needs startups but if the startup fails like the way most of them do... then it's just wasted capital producing a good that has zero utility.

Anybody have a good argument for why we need startups for every little stupid business idea? PG almost describes the "entrepreneur" as some sort of genetically superior being.
Resident thinks their city is less exciting than exotic locale? Well that's unexpected!

Seriously though, I live in a city where locals keep discouraging tourists from coming, and tourists keep talking about how great it is. Part of it is due to how stuff that makes a city fun is different for the two groups, but also because locals don't treat their cities as special. When we travel somewhere, we take advantage of everything, at home we mostly just want to get home.
No, I don't believe that the future is languages that are not Turing-complete, mostly because halting is not the property most people care about. I believe that a large part of the future will be languages that are not Turing-complete, for applications where that's appropriate (e.g., C compilers) but not where it's not (e.g., interpreters). I also don't think that "well, that's how we've always done it" is a particularly compelling argument given how young the field of programming languages is.

For instance, another wonderful example of requiring code to cooperate with the proof process is Google's Native Client. NaCl doesn't care about halting; what it cares about is that the code in question only accesses its own memory, or makes specific pre-defined calls into the supervising code. You can do this with hardware support (and they did, with segmentation, where available), but you can also do this with software support.

The NaCl technique is straightforward. You're required to lay out your assembly so that every 32-byte alignment boundary separates instructions; you must insert NOPs as necessary. Any fixed read, write, or jump must be within an address within a mask (or to a predefined address in privileged code), and any computed read, write, or jump must be immediately preceded, within the same 32-byte block, by a mask operation on the relevant register. For data, the mask enforces that only data is accessed; for jumps, the mask enforces that the jump target is within the code area and also 32-byte aligned.

Now you've proven a fairly complicated property of the code, that control flow never escapes to privileged code except at well-defined entry points. Doing so on arbitrary x86 would be impossible (unless you resort to binary translation), but this is a very minor modification to arbitrary x86, and a regular C compiler can be easily modified to emit it. The resulting restricted variant of x86 remains Turing-complete.

And it is entirely reasonable for the NaCl verifier to say "Uh, what are you doing, please try again" if presented with code that is technically non-malicious but does not follow the rules. The NaCl verifier doesn't claim to detect malicious code (that's the antivirus problem, and unsolvable). It claims to take code that makes a specific promise about not being malicious, and verifies that property.
Reminding us once again how cool it would be if we could "easily" send robotic probes to go and stay on various solar system "places of interest."

Something I hope that comes out of SpaceX's reusability of boosters is a way to put a mission package into orbit, then launch a boost unit with the necessary engine and fuel that then docks with it, and then puts it into the necessary orbit to get to its destination.
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There is also a savings effect which makes making and saving more money start to have huge upsides. aka, if you live on 40k per year and make 60k per year you can retire young, but bump that to 120k and you can 'save' years as long as you don't let lifestyle creep set in.
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What does it matter what it's built in if it's not an open project?

First issue. I click an icon on the right yet the menu it controls opens on the left.
Methodology: whatever we felt like

Things to do in each location: crowdsource to Facebook
If they asked nicely, I might consider it. Microsoft is not asking nicely, with Windows 10, so far as I can see; they're just... taking what they want.
I probably live a very different type of life-style, but your method is how I budget. I save everything I can, then only worry about (budget) the expensive items, of which there are only a dozen or so per month.

I highly doubt that my method would scale well if I had more income, though.

I dunno about the happier part, because my friends who live beyond their means sure seem happier! ;)
Things like that are in the making: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/544471/renewable-energy...
Generally i think companies leverage data to ratchet rates upwards, not offer unsolicited discounts. Why invest in infrastructure that will reduce profit? That's why when I drive through an ez-pass-only onramp without an ez-pass, they know exactly where my car entered and exited, but they still charge me the max-fare for not having a ticket.
Maybe, but what is the point of having all that wealth if only 10% of the population can access it?

If automation replaces 90% of jobs, then you're going to have a lot of unemployed people with no money.

I disagree about automation becoming a commodity. Automation is all about monopolies. You only need to write software once and only the company with the best technology will control the whole market... Why would a consumer use a piece of technology if it is less efficient than a competing piece of technology?

Just look at Intel vs AMD. Intel's CPUs became just a little bit faster, and as a result, in just a few years they decimated AMD financially.

Technology is a winner-takes-it-all game.
The modern history of T invariance begins in 1956.

Or 1781, when Critique of Pure Reason was published. Kant proposed that time was an empirical fact based on experiencing events in time being a precondition of all human experience. The tradeoff for a well reasoned non-skeptical position was that we give up claims to "really really" know how things really are independent of human experience...i.e we give up claims to potential omniscience.

That we normally take "knowledge" to mean human knowledge, doesn't change that this is what we mean. Or to put it another way, what would time be for a computer with knowledge or as the article mentions for creatures that experience time backward?
Interesting! I never get FB messanger messages but I know from the numbers that obviously it's huge.
All the high-res images are here: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

And here's the same kind of thing from the British Library: https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/ (try searching "maps")
...

It's Sailfish.
Yeah and sadly ms totally screwed up with rt when they had no available porting strategy for real applications to arm. And now rt is basically on life support and the rt devices have locked down bootloaders as far as I've heard which makes them kind of an even worse investment as far as buying a device goes.
I mean, Rust has a lot of high-level features that make it flat out easier once you get past fighting with the compiler...
Same here- not too upset about pirated games disappearing, but I also live in the US where it's easy to buy games online for a reasonable price. From what I understand, in other countries marketplaces aren't as available and/or pricing isn't far (i.e. Australia)
Really bored at my current day Job, always assigned to do mundane tasks, I feel like my life is wasting away. Am 23 been programming since I was 18. I recently (Last week) got a remote contract gig which I do at night which helps a bit but my day Job is sucking the life out of me, but I can't change it till I find another one. I can feel my passion during the day fading away.
The time of day matters, the cost is usually more when you need it (i.e. in the morning when you are taking a shower and making your coffee and evening when you get home from work and kick on your AC). So putting power on at a low usage time (10 am) is not the same as using at a high usage time (10 pm).
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That's fair. It's always nice to have options depending on use case.
The 80%+ tax rate were used to pay for WWII debts. Also, tax loopholes were absolutely rampant prior to the 1986 tax reform act. Because tax rates and deductions are so fungible, and vary from country to country and even state to state (if we factor state and local taxes) the only objective measure is to look at tax revenue as a percentage of GDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven...
A few places have plenty of sun throughout the year. Hawaii might be ideal for this. But what about many parts of the US where you deal with winter rains and snow? No battery will be sufficient to store energy in those situations. So the reality is most people will continue to connect to the grid for some time to come and someone has to pay the costs of that infrastructure. However if people manage to be truly self sufficient then that is great and I fully support them.
How to secure your PVR/ NZB server
Nzbget, Sonarr, Sickrage, Couchpotato, Sickbeard, PlexPy, Headphones, Mylar communication can be easily encrypted by using a SSL certificate.

However those are expensive and if you are using that kind of service, you are most probably trying to save on your entertainment budget.
This being said there are ways to easily obtain a free SSL certificate that works with those services.
One of them is to register or transfer your domain name to EuroDNS they are not the cheapest registrar around but their added services make up for it.

If you already have a domain name registered that you want to use for your PVR/NZB server then you can transfer it to them.

If not, then register one with them https://www.eurodns.com/international-domain-names/

Once you have a domain name with EuroDNS you can obtain a free SSL certificate:
http://imgur.com/IBmbrpa

Then click on:http://imgur.com/Jd1hXLN

And you be directed to: http://imgur.com/ebOFG1Z
To generate a CSR file I am using this: https://www.digicert.com/easy-csr/openssl.htm
To be fair, $17 million is 0.14% of his net worth.

I don't own my apartment, but if I did, it would be approximately 100% of my net worth.
What would be really awesome is a Reddit bot that takes the Highest-scoring image from the colorization subreddit and mixes it 50% with the deep learning results and posts it as a comment.

From the published results, I think it's likely a 50:50 mix of human and ML in this case would likely yield the most naturalistic result in 90% of cases.
I'm unfamiliar with these programs. What does participation entail?
I thought you needed hardware you connect to the automobile to do the tracking? My understanding was that the phone and the hardware sync using bluetooth, and the phone uploads data to the insurance companies. Kind of like Automatic: https://www.automatic.com/home/

This is how they track the hard accels, hard breaks etc., since the car puts these events on it's BUS.
While the question is interesting, unfortunately the article didn't really present a good solution. At least I would have liked to see the results of more than one approach rather than just the one presented (which isn't really a solution IMHO).
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Coming from JavaScript, Java and Python, Rust has a steep learning curve, but with thought and patience you can learn to write Rust. I am getting much better at thinking about ownership before even compiling now. If some silly webdev like me can hack it, other programmers can do it too.
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Well... one refrain I keep hearing from government is "Please, small businesses save us from ourselves because everything we do seems to accumulate a 20x overhead!"

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/material_mobile.html?material=34...
The Top Gear thing was a very stupid move that will cost BBC millions.

Top Gear was a very popular TV show and BBC sold licenses around the world.
That reminds me of the old G.K. Chesterton quote, which was originally about religion.

Provable correctness "...has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."
You seem to be doubting the feasibility of micro grids, but people are already doing this with 240 V. Granted, it's harder to steal copper wire that is at 240 V.
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Rust is actually pretty conservative regarding "new stuff".

Every single feature of Rust, with the exception of the borrow checker, has been around since the 80s.

Even the borrow checker is based on linear / affine types that had been researched in other languages at least over a decade ago.
I'm always surprised DC isn't higher on the list for tourists. The museums alone make it worth the trip.

If you're already in NYC, it's a pretty short train ride (by American standards at least) to DC. I think it's about 3 hours by Amtrak, just a bit longer than the Eurostar from London to Paris.
Are you seriously unable to view HD iTunes/Vudu/etc videos natively on your surface book? That seems crazy to me
People seem to ignore peak vs average demand, envisioning each car being shared by dozens or hundreds of people, while most cars get used for commuting at similar times so the sharing factor would probably be more like 3-5.
I don't disagree. In the most sunny areas of the world, people will go off grid if the grid tries to price them out. Those not in sunny locations will be beholden to the utility.
TIOBE is bullshit.

Its based on search engine 'search' text typed by users. 'Go' and 'Rust' are both words used for a wide variety of purposes apart from programming languages. Same with Python.

Don't trust TIOBE on these things.
"Why is it on the solar owners to pay for all of their energy storage but not on the coal power plants to capture and store their CO2 emissions?"

Because those are two separate issues. One has nothing to do with the other.

The story here is that a solar customer wants the government to force the power company to store his/her energy for them and the grid is not designed for that. The power company pays a wholesale rate to all its suppliers.

I see this as a push to get better storage technology developed which will benefit far more people. The solar company is being disingenuous and I bet there books are not quite as positive before this event as they let on.

I like home solar and will probably install it when I decide to buy a home, but I will install a storage system and a cut off so I can use my panels without the backfeed to the grid incase of power outage.
Long range forecast