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>Once you spend enough time on activities which sharpen your visual aesthetic sense, you see a clear difference between mainstream bland models from H&M and Topshop on hand and small designer shops on another and understand why it's worth to spend more on them.

Fair enough, but it makes little sense for someone who hasn't 'spent enough time on activities which sharpen your visual aesthetic sense' to shop for expensive clothes; the result is usually going to be terrible.
I am actually re-writing Rust's documentation on ownership right now. I'm interested to compare and contrast my stuff with this. (First draft of the first chapter is https://github.com/rust-lang/book/pull/58, I have PRs up for the other two, but they're not quite as polished yet)
It's interesting to consistently find that people who hate C++ just really really hate it a lot, to the point of using profanity a lot of the time.

I don't see what the big deal is. C++ is probably the most gigantic and complex language I am likely to ever use... but you don't have to use the vast majority of it if you don't want to. If you want to stick with C-style coding, you pretty much can, if you don't want OO or STL or ++11/14 features -- nothing is forcing you to write those features into your code. But when you want access to them, there they are; and if suddenly you find yourself needing a particular library that only exists in C++ (as so many graphics and physics engines do), you can get access to that as well.

As soon as you need multithreading, or sorting of hash maps, or even basic string operations, knowing you can reach for them in pinch rather than find the C alternatives or build your own, seems like a big bonus to me (assuming a comparison to C).
I disagree. The above condition is unorthodox, I admit, but is needed to make the definition logically consistent.

The idea of democracy is to give everybody the same voice in decision making. There are different mechanisms to achieve that, direct voting is only one of them. Other mechanisms are consensus, random selection and representation. Each of the mechanisms has different strengths and weaknesses and should be used to decide different things. You can also combine them to an extent, for instance you can randomly select members of a jury who then decide by consensus.
Which country is this? That would be quite a remarkable and a radical law!
Climate change has varied widely through time
BitFury were apparently spending around $100M on a new mining data centre[0] so I would imagine cost would be in excess of this. There was also a discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774204 with some estimated numbers.

[0] http://www.coindesk.com/bitfury-details-100-million-georgia-...
The answer to your question is basically yes. The "rationality" movement that is usually found in HN and similar groups is the LessWrong crowd, and this was founded by Eliezer Yudkowsky specifically to teach rationality in order to convince people of the threat of superhuman AIs.

While CFAR is technically disconnected from this, it's still part of the same crowd, so obviously a lot of the people related to it (including a lot of the participants) are of the same beliefs.

You could make the case that, if you learn to think rationally about the world, then you realize that superhuman AI actually is a threat. I'd even make this case myself. But that doesn't change the fact that the historically/causally correct reason rationality/AI are connected is because they both started from Eliezer.
Why would you put a clickable link to the spam website on your blog though?
They have not actually released the tool to the public yet, to my knowledge.
I use git cola for the same. It's a really light weight little tool that's surprisingly feature complete.

I usually make a bunch of changes at once. Following a break I review the changes and break them up into logical commits.

I aim do break up changes so that the commit log can be read like a book and. I can guarantee that not a single commit contains hidden surprises or unrelated changes.

I don't know how most devs get by with just the CLI. A lightweight gui makes commits and reviewing the history tree so much easier.
FWIW, DragonflyBSD HAMMER1's dedup runs well on small machines (2GB) without hiccups.
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I think years of reading http://www.osnews.com/ have lodged OS = operating system into my head too.
It's a bad analogy. I want both the Hilton and Motel6, am prepared to pay for it and currently pay More than the Hilton user. Stepping away from the broken analogy the concept that some provider decides what media I consume is hilarious and I'll never accept that. Take spotify as a good case, the only reason they work is that they provide me with pretty much everything I want to listen to, granted some indie folks will disagree. Meanwhile for video it's still a much more fragmented landscape and this is a step in the wrong direction.
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What other copyright rights are there?
They do not have their own ships. They have become a licensed intermediary, it means they can resell capacity on ocean container ships.
not sure the author understands the magnitudes of money at play here. tumblr is a blip in yahoo world. on its own its a niche, nothing more. beloved by some, sure, but nowhere near the stuff that would be needed to turn around yahoo.
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You seem to assume that the belief that humanity "loses by default" is wrong. I'm curious to hear why, since you seem to be know about this topic. (And because I disagree with your view, so hearing might educate me).

"Some folks take it for granted (why??? Take things for granted about such an uncertain subject???) that we're just doomed unless you Give Miri Money(tm)."

Are there really people who would put it that way? I know plenty of people (including myself) who think it's a good idea to donate to MIRI, but I certainly wouldn't put it in the terms you did.
What's funny for a foreigner like me is that the "preparedness scene" seems to exhibit a lot of American cliches :

- it's never reasonable : you prepare for the end of the world or a "multi generational collapse" not "just" a "little" earthquake or a flood

- you need a Hollywood budget : a well stocked retreat that will allow you to "survive" without changing any of your habits

- guns, lots of guns : I remember someone recommending having 10'000 (yes, ten thousand) ammo for each semi-auto carbine you had (no less than 2 per member of your family of course, not including handguns, knives, handgrenades etc)

- fatality is never an option : end of the world, multi generational collapse ? So what ? You just need to store more food, dig deeper for your bunker, and buy more guns (of course ;-)

In fact I believe it's the first time I read something reasonable about preparedness in English !
I'm sure it can be done if the lithium doesn't evaporate, but the question is whether it's cost-effective, compared to just getting new lithium. It's not like there's just bars of the stuff to be found in old batteries, like with traditional lead batteries.
I wanted to write a similar comment, but then noticed that the paper claims 100% safety by using an analysis tool, not just by convention.

Agreed about the potential of Rust, it sidesteps most of these problems. Though it might introduce other problems of its own, only time will tell. I expect that Rust's future sore spots will include destructor leaks, the reliance on macros, and the tremendous complexity of traits. (Though of course I don't claim to have better solutions to those.)
It just strikes me as silly that an economy "requires" an infinite supply of money. I realize this is a commonly held belief, but I think it is wrong.
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True, but I think a lot of the encouragement is to move away from writing C++ like it is C because we really don't want to encourage people to write with dangerous approaches anymore (like you can if you write C++ like it is C).

I work with a few who write their C++ like it is C (pointers thrown around, no const-correctness, memcpy instead of copy constructors etc. etc.) and it is horrible to read. There is no indication of lifetimes of objects, nor any indication of ownership. No RAII, no exceptions, nothing. It is dangerous.

You are rewarded for writing C++ safely because you won't have to fix any bugs and you can offload all the work onto the compiler for checking types and safety for you.

Like you, though, I don't understand people who get red in the face about C++ and go into a profane rage. It is just a language after all.
>The slight performance gain on a few systems that you get from using int rather than int16_t

int16_t is also unportable as he mentions later

>the hugely increased risk of introducing platform-specific undefined behaviour

What risk? Please explain how int introduces undefined behaviour.

>how much performance

It's not about performance. intN_t is NOT guaranteed to exist.

>But you just said in the previous section that it only makes sense to perform pointer arithmetic within a single object anyway.

Yes and that's right.
The only problem with the Neo 900 is it's in the ballpark of $1000 and production is very limited because it relies on rare parts.
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> C++ has had to be backwards compatible for the billions of lines of code written in it. It has managed to introduce new features and safety quite well in view of this. Perhaps the rise of systems programming languages with static safety guarantees is C++ already? You don't have to write it with "old school" methodology just because you can write it with old-school dangerous approaches.

The very definition of static safety guarantees is that the compiler enforces them, and that's what makes them useful. C++ has great safety guarantees if written correctly - but if you can reliably write code correctly, you don't need safety guarantees in the first place!

> EDIT: And I will add that C++ does have the benefit of having loads of libraries available to it, including GUI libraries and bindings which makes development a breeze.

There are many libraries, but the important ones have mature bindings from other languages, or at least tools for generating them (e.g. Swig). That said, using them exposes you to the safety risks of C++, so you're often better off rewriting them (e.g. I worked on a Java project that initially used ffmpeg to handle some transcoding tasks - but as a result had to deal with bugs in ffmpeg that took down the whole JVM for particular inputs).
Do you have any specific suggestions for a radio like you describe?
Depends upon the generation of Atom honestly. Older Atoms had extremely inefficient chipsets paired with them despite the processors having some varying power draw, but the CPU on those only took somewhere between some mW up to several watts which were eclipsed by the rest of the system typically (the chipsets drew at least 11 w idle or load last I remember).

I had one of the older Ion 2 Atom 330 boxes that were popular for media center PCs and it didn't really matter if it was made by nVidia either - power draw was pretty much the same no matter what.
This is discounting all of the other positives mentioned in my post which will probably make this $4B investment an investment which pays off in droves in reduced material use by the nation on cars and repairs, in reduced health care spending for respiratory illnesses, in reduced spending on funerals, reduced
dependence on oil, and potentially even side effects such as reduced psychiatric visits (green spaces have very positive benefits, and if reclaimed parking and lane space is used effectively, it could make our cities much more healthy places to live).
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And why isn't this site built in react?
If that's true then bsdnow.tv should be informed. In a couple discussions and interviews (Bryan?) they talk about feature disparity and that a newer OpenZFS version needs to be imported into FreeBSD trunk.

It's still true that if you want to analyze serious issues, IllumOS DTrace probes will be more complete.

With that being said, I'm glad to hear FreeBSD is not behind IllumOS ZFS. FreeBSD has wider hardware support than IllumOS and thus is preferred by most users.
To quote that article:
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This version of the theorem is correct, given its assumptions, but its assumptions are unrealistic in practice. Some objections that are commonly raised:
...

* The theorem doesn't directly apply to decisions between more than two outcomes.
"""

Additionally, it does not take into account the cost of making the decision, which, under direct democracy, rises quadratically with the number of people that must debate and agree to the decision.
That's not exactly right in terms of the description of a blackhole. A blackhole can have a singularity (there's formulations of blackholes without them), but it is not the singularity itself.

As for the question of what it would with regard to the singularity inside a blackhole, my guess is nothing unless you make some fundamental assumptions that the geometry of space/time cannot collapse into an infinitely small and dense point. Because the notion of locality doesn't mean much to the idea of a gravitational singularity. They'll still exist just as happily in a non-local universe as they do in a local one if distances are arbitrary. Or rather I should say if geometry/shape is arbitrary for all objects.

What makes them a royal pain in the butt is the fact the solutions meant to remove them often leave lots of other assumptions in the air that don't quite square with observations like loop quantum gravity (LIGO I believe knocked out one formulation of it recently). So, until we can find some observable phenomena beyond entanglement that makes it apparent locality and spacetime as we understand it doesn't exist we're going to have to trust the current models we do have.
Thanks, will review the color scheme again.. The name will be addressed.

Regarding the slowness, I hope it's a temporary thing - the HN effect - my 512MB droplet is struggling a bit at the moment.
Dear "Dear 'Dear Github'",

I found your letter to be patronizing and facile. Saying "I could explain X but it should be obvious" is a good indication that your snarky post is lacking substance.
Visa runs a network that today can support 15,000-45,000 times as many transactions per second as Bitcoin. So the first answer would be a network that can handle success. Secondly they do the fraud management and detection.

It doesn't matter since even arb bots require the movement of non-Bitcoin resources. Going from cash in hand to cash in hand with Bitcoin is almost never cheaper than traditional remittance today anyhow.

We have lots of Bitcoin merchants now and except for the ones supporting the carding industry like fold and purse almost one offer discounts for using Bitcoin.
They avoid using exceptions, which means avoiding doing work in constructors, which compromises your ability to use RAII, which in turn makes template-style programming much less effective.
In some cases the List-Archive header contains a HTTP link to the mail in the archive. But often enough it is just a link to the archive in general, so not a general solution.

You could leverage the Gmane archive, which allows linking to mails by Message-Id like this: http://mid.gmane.org/<CA+55aFx93de2f2bRbCp74uNX0LxkgpSKE8uOG...
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A long term World War Z or The Walking Dead scenario just can't happen without the sci-fi "undead" component. A "rage virus" producing effects like in World War Z would probably devastate society, but within a week or so most of the infected would be so weak from hunger that they were not a significant threat, and a few weeks after that they'd all be dead from some combination of starvation/dehydration/exposure.
No, they were not forced to yield to the establishment, they chose the establishment because it is the path with seemingly less risk. There is a meaningful difference, by using well know and established music it becomes easier to gain the hallowed "traction" VC funded musictech startups want. Soundcloud has little to no interests in focusing on truly independent artist and productions the way Bandcamp has and is doing.
And who exactly gets to decide what is "fringe"?
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The safety guarantees being enforced by the compiler does mean that you can (and really should) offload all the checking onto the compiler and not think you know better by casting everywhere etc.

Good point though!

Sad about your JVM - did you not monitor the state of the process you spawned to handle transcoding? Did you end up fixing the bugs in ffmpeg?
The XAP processor architecture use in CSR Bluetooth Chips (design orginally from Cambridge Consultants) is one such processor.

On it:
A 'byte' is 16 bits.
A word is 16 bits (so sizeof(int) == 1)
A function ptr is 24 bits (so sizeof(Fx) == 2)

CSR have sold well over a billions chips. There is a strong argument that this is the 3rd most popular architecture family after ARM and X86/64.

Things that x86 programmers do that won't work because they make assumptions the C standard doesn't specify:
Cast a uint16_t* to uint8_t* to extract the upper and lower octets of the uint16 (a uint8_t array is actually in memory a uint16_t array using only the lower 8 bits)
Store a function pointer in a void* (throws away upper 8 bits of the 24 bit func pointer).
This is so beautiful :)
Amazon would need to put up a convincing firewall between their freight forwarding business unit and their e-commerce and product business units.

I have seen other companies where this is done--a particular business unit or subsidiary is prohibited from disclosing its sensitive customer data to its parent company because of the conflict of interest it would create.

Amazon is serious about internal controls so I don't doubt they could pull this off as well if they want to.
Thanks for the feedback! It was the last item I was planning to address before "launching" the site, but I decided to put it off for another day. It'll soon be fixed.
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> CPU manufacturers have too much chip real estate to know what to do with:

Agreed. Ultimately if Intel continues down this 'closed IP' route, their processor monopoly is going to be replaced with generic logic (FPGA-like processors) which will be dynamically programmable.
1. I would, too. The Harvard endowment gets an average of 12%, according to what I have read.

2. That is why Harvard hasn't already done it, apparently.
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you can say this about any single aspect of existence. more expensive food is generally healthier (BIO, non-GMO, free-run chickens, wild salmon etc.), driving more expensive cars tends to transform driving experience from necessary-evil -> OMG-so-awesome-joyful-beautiful-thing-I-want-to-do-for-rest-of-my-life. And so on.

It's all about priorities. Some people, for whatever reason, need to impress others by all costs, appearance including. Hence they dress as they dress. Some consider quality of personality much more important, if appearance is not outright disgusting. Some look at cars in similar way. and so on..
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Such a claim requires the Bible be taken at face value, which is not at all certain. It very well could have been written much later than the date it supposedly occurred by political authorities to promote a specific ethno-religious order.
Especially since it's from 2009.
A general rule I stick to is that the person who gets a salary gets less than 2 digits equity early stage. Same applies for founders who work 40 hours a week and so on.

How important is everyone to the success of the startup? If you have 5%, you should be increasing the valuation of the company by 6%. 26% share should increase valuation by 36%. 36% share increases it by 57%.

However, this assumes it's unpaid. The ones getting salary need to increase valuation by far more.

I don't know the credentials, but if the two larger portion guys play a big role in valuation, it should be fine. E.g. good degrees, previous experience with startups, investments, rare skills.
Harvard enrollment is about 20k and tuition is about $50k per year.
Superpowers is shaping up to be something really incredible. I'm so glad that Sparklin Labs has decided to open source this project. It really iterates on what made CraftStudio special. I just hope I have enough free time to do some hacking on it soon!
Original Netflix content isn't inherently Netflix's content. Netflix has exclusive rights to air the content, so it's branded as original.

It's akin to a college football bowl game sponsorship here in the US. There's the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl, Go Daddy Bowl, Buffalo Wild Wing's Citrus Bowl, etc. The companies aren't actually in control of the bowl games, but they get the branding that's associated with it for that year.

Calling it a Netflix Original tends to be a misnomer, although I don't think this is the case with all of their shows.
Tuleap (https://www.tuleap.org/) ?
Take somebody who has never done a pull request (GitHub-style, not Git style) and has also never created a patch, and then try to teach them how to do both. Which is easier? Creating a patch will win every time.
They don't have the range of products you can find on Amazon. If Amazon is supposed to replace Wal-Mart then they need to sell the same range of stuff - and with a certain minimum quality standard.
Hopefully there will be some action on this in Norway. Unless they want to ignore unconstitutional police and agency activity, just like in .. so many other major countries.
> If you feel like you're not improving, change something.

Just make sure you give it enough time to make sure it's truly a plateau (measured in weeks or months depending on how long you've been training). Bouncing around to a new barbell program every 2 weeks will do you little to no good.
You could try to split the difference by using a wrapper around malloc that zeroes in production and doesn't under testing.

Of course, running significantly different code in production and test has its own issues.
I know a lot of people say "Boost is awful", but Boost provides the same atomic interfaces: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_60_0/doc/html/atomic.html. Quoting from the introduction:

"Boost.Atomic is a library that provides atomic data types and operations on these data types, as well as memory ordering constraints required for coordinating multiple threads through atomic variables. It implements the interface as defined by the C++11 standard, but makes this feature available for platforms lacking system/compiler support for this particular C++11 feature."
Maybe you are right and all luck. :) Idk.

Best of luck to you.
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I wish they would do that. I have many friends who share accounts internationally (I'm one of them, I live in Denmark and my account is shared with a friend in the Netherlands and a couple who lives in Portugal) and this would mean that they no longer need a vpn to get content from catalogues better than their countries'. The Portuguese catalogue in particular is incredibly limited.

If they did that all it'd is have one of our mates living in the US to make us an account and we'd never have to VPN again.
Okay so:
1.) preaches about new destroyer god
2.) saviors who possess the secret knowledge of salvation
3.) give them money
4.) think correctly, not incorrectly

Yep, it's a cult.
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Assuming that this is going to work by just blocking known proxy IPs, I suppose it can be worked-around simply by setting up your own VPN server, which really isn't that difficult.