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I haven't used the standalone version, but I have used the boost version for build a cross platform RPC library quite intensively. Unfortunately compile times there were really bad, for about 10kLoC C++ I had a compile time of nearly 1 minute (about 5years ago on a medium speed machine back then). I later also built the same library using Qt and the compile times were below 20 seconds. I think the differences came from the fact that asio is heavily templated, you get all in headers and favors directly instantiated objects instead of pointers. In QT you mostly have pointers (and therefore work with forward declarations to the implementations).

Besides that I think asio is a really good library. It gives you LOTS of options how to handle your workload. E.g. much more than libuv, in the sense that you can mix asynchronous and [non-blocking] synchronous IO calls inside your application, do IO calls from different threads, organize work with executors (io_services) and strands, etc. The drawback is that not all of these patters work good, and giving the users this kitchen sink of functionality could lead to worse results than a more focused approach. E.g. it took me a while to realize that calling io_service.run() from multiple threads is not the best idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_door
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In Element and similar pickup-SUVs the rear door is still quite small so it doesn't feel so scary. In others, such as current Opel Meriva B, the door about as big as the front door. And just look at Rolls Royce Wraith.

My dad's first car (which he bought in 1960) also had suicide doors in the rear; that was a Moskvitch 400, which in turn was practically the same design as Opel Kadett model 1938 - the Soviets took the design, toolings and machinery from occupied Germany after WWII.
I've also noticed that Vancouver is full of Canadians, unlike similar cities in North America.

[edit: sorry, this was a dumb comment, I misread North America as "USA"]
Paypal is actually very good on diversity/LGBT/gender issues.

The implication of the headline is that the event, the panelists, or Paypal are sexist -- which is obviously untrue.

I don't believe inflammatory "culture war"-related content like this (where the main purpose is virtue signalling, generating outrage, and mean-spiritedly making fun of companies), belongs on the frontpage, so personally I flagged this submission.
I don't think 10000 people have problems finding jobs..if you worked at Intel, I'm pretty sure that sounds good in your resumé
your theoretical alternative is just as bad as the real panel. So what does it prove exactly?

Is it not common sense that a panel about gender equality should include both genders, at least to some extent? Are we really discussing this?

But then again, I guess purple-pinkish background if enough of a female touch, right.
So, can we expect "Dell recycles a lot of stuff" next week, and HP the week after, followed by Sony?

Dell have an equivalent page: http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/id/corp-comm/us-goodwill-rec...
I've been to Vancouver, too, and I've seen the street you're talking about. Drove down it with my family and it was shocking. Massive piles of trash everywhere, grocery carts, garbage bag "luggage", mobs of people. It was sad and quite shocking if you've never seen it before. Nothing I've seen in SF or LA compares to this.

But...I don't think marijuana caused that. I think it has a lot more to do with a permissive city than pot. Recreational pot is legal in my city (Tacoma, WA) and we don't have this issue. In fact, we have almost no problems with pot at all. My only complaint about the entire thing is the tacky advertising and storefronts that the pot industry uses to attract clients. The market is oversaturated and shop owners are desperate to survive and are resorting to decorating normally seen at used car lots and Liberty Tax outlets.
fwiw GP is from Toronto.
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The point of this service is not to replace actual self-reading; but rather - Give people some idea of what the article is actually about so they can decide if they can/should invest time to read it.

Most people don't have time to do all the reading they want to do and having more info than just a clickbait headline will help them allocate their time in a more productive way.

Example this is how Vox.com is showing new articles on its "new" page:

"Big Marijuana is coming — and even legalization supporters are worried" (An activist explains why he left the movement."

The headline and snippet gives you no information what the article is about. You have to actually read 2500 words over 50 paragraphs to know what it is about, in the end you might like it, or be dissapointed, its a gamble.

But by reading a well written analysis you can have a fair idea of what you are getting into before you invest 15-20 minutes of your time into it.

Do this for 10 articles a day and 300 a month, the time you save adds up quickly.
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All the nerdy types flocked to her and were very inclusive with team projects.

That woman would have had to question why the nerdy types were so keen to include her. There's a huge difference between a motive of "Let's invite someone to our team because they're a great engineer" and "Let's invite someone to our team because they're hot and they might agree to date me once they really know me".

Being keen to include someone is great if it's for the right reasons.
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> the Art Gallery

For those who don't get the reference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNX2X9nXyIo
I don't understand what the author is trying to say with "wiring it in backwards" in the last paragraph. Well, of course you power it with the batteries right next to it; otherwise, what would be the point? From what I can gather from the original blog post, linked by asimuvPR, there's just one way to put it in and you'll probably fry some components if swapping polarity.

Am I missing something, or is this just your average TC article?
Nobody is allowed to fail or make mistakes any more, not just scientists.

Your past used to fade with time. You used to be able to move town, escape your failure, try again.

Now, any failure is forever emblazoned in shrieking tones online, and the only escape is a new name, and starting over.

It's not just science, it's everything.
There seems to be a mixup here between "pressure" as in "this organism is under pressure" (implying an unfavorable environment) and selection pressure, which acts on genes, not species, and is really more of a filter.

It's not as if an organism can "release" the "pressure" by evolving in a new direction. In your example, if we eradicate mosquitos, one transmission vector becoming less viable doesn't make other vectors more likely to arise, as if by some conservation of total population.

> least costly alternative in response to imposed pressures

Evolution is even lazier, alternatives don't arise in response to imposed pressures at all, so in this scenario the lazy thing is extinction.
> It's just simply frustrating to watch Linux reinvent some wheels, poorly, time after time.

Out of curiosity, why do you think that Linux got such traction and the BSDs didn't? I keep hearing from the BSD camp that the BSDs are better than Linux at, well, pretty much everything, but there must be some reason why BSDs were not as performant for people than Linux distros.
I can't find the link now, but I remember reading about a paper (probably through Marginal Revolution) that showed that, in the GDR, because men and women worked equally and earned equally (in the general case, party leaders aside), a lot of cultural gender equality just became the norm. E.g. men couldn't impress women with nice cars or any of the other status symbols that are so common in the West, and had to 'convince potential mates' through their personalities and actions.

So a lot of the gender roles of the West were basically obliterated, i.e. there was no real stay-at-home mother in the GDR, all mothers were working mothers. Seems to fit your experience, and the GP as well.
Supposing this theory is true, how big an emdrive does it predict is needed to lift a reasonable payload, say 100kg?
The German team did it for a BBC documentary on "junk science" - they were looking for a null result, so while I take claims that the tech works with a pinch of salt, the same applies here.

Everybody acts to their own interests.
This is remarkably similar to the game of go. The thing is that the devil can place pieces anywhere. They don't have to be close to the angel. So he really only has to calculate the arc that is possible for the angel to travel in and play pieces somewhere around there. As the angel gets closer, the devil needs to fill in the spaces between his pieces. But because he doesn't have to construct a complete wall, his initial moves are very inexpensive. A single piece can be used to potentially block off a fairly wide arc. The trick is to progressively restrict the options of the angel until there are none.

If the Angel backtracks, this is good for the devil because it's amost like getting a free move. You can imagine that if the angel moves right and then moves left, he's back in the same place but the devil has place 2 pieces. So the Angel is a lot more restricted than it first appears.
Bronto, iContact, Reverbnation, Ansible, Pendo... there are startups (3 of those have already had good exits).

Keep in mind it's a strong life & ag science play. At least 3 strong feeder schools. SAS and Red Hat anchoring tech employment, among others.

It's a fine area for tech startups. Funding isn't a problem, Boston is a short flight away.
Yeah this comment literally made me LOL; life was hard in the late 90s
I think the culture of Intel is such that they'll turn this around - sadly it had to come to job losses first. But it was the same (if less severe) in the late 90s when AMD nearly stole their lunch.
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1 mosquitos only carries diseases, many other species do this, for example rats spread the plague in the dark ages, even infected humans spread diseases.

2 there is no expert or science that can fully understand the whole ecosystem and how it works, mosquitos and many insects are at the base of the food chain, the impact will probably be a domino effect that will make many other species extinct, where will this lead? nobody knows, it's like playing with fire.

Wiping out entire species to solve the spread of a virus is not only inefficient (there are other ways it can spread) and dumb but also dangerous, it's like a solution of an infant that can only think destroy destroy.

We need creative and intelligent ideas for hard problems, not simple and stupid infant like ideas, and hn is a place where people with such ideas gather this is why you see more of these comments.
OK, perhaps that was a little too sarcastic; but the post still smacks of hand-wringing to me.

We have inequality, availability of social support, property prices, local culture and climate as possible factors just to start, and post fingers availability of marijuana?
I've got https://github.com/voltagex/junkcode/tree/master/Python/spot... and https://github.com/voltagex/junkcode/tree/master/CSharp/spot... but I was never really happy enough with either to take them past my junkcode folder.

If I could make the Python one work a bit better, I'd probably use it with Ansible - http://snappishproductions.com/2014/03/24/Spot-Instances-Wit...
I would imagine that more phones and computers get recycled (per product bought) than other consumer electronics. If I've spent $400 on a phone, I won't throw it away - if I can't resell it, I'll find out how to properly recycle it.

On the other hand, most other products probably just get thrown out - broken or working chargers, cables, old telephones, etc.
A non-profit would probably need to pre-allocate revenue.
Actually its quite slow: https://forums.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/model-s-laguna-s...
Not so clever. Calgary is also full of Canadians.

I have no idea what you are trying to say.

Actually I would challenge you to point out other cities in Canada that suffer similar amounts of homelessness, poverty, and crime.
engine management units, camera flashes, LED lights, servo motors and brushless motors to name a few.

Whilst the raspberry pi has the ability generate PWM, you can't guarantee when they run because something else might be scheduled to be on the CPU at the time.

The fancy RGB lights require a precise, complex signal running at ~800KHZ* you can't miss a signal slot because it'll change colour. Its the same for servo motors, although thats more simple as it only needs a static PWM to hold position.

*might be less
I love when someone digests for me the article and gives just the facts.
The Tesla has power steering, which is controlled by the same software that decided that the door doesn't need to stay closed while driving.
Funny anecdote time: my first car was a used Honda Civic. The owner was selling it much below KBB price, because it had a problem: the rear doors would not open from inside.

I take it home, and was going over the car with some friends, and one of them finds a switch on a rear passenger door: hmm, what does this do? He flips the switch, and we try to open the door from inside, and voila! The door opens. Flipped the other switch too, and the doors were functioning fine. I think I saved 20% of the cost of the car simply because the owner didn't know about child-proof switches. :D
I like the idea of the form factor as it makes it easy to source a compact case. If it wasn't the case, but rather the compactness, that was particularly useful then it's worth pointing out that smaller Arduino-compatible boards exist. For example...

http://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2013/07/05/smallest-arduino-...
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Gross generalisation. But, hey —I'm a lot nearer to 55 than I am to 25. So what the hell!

Older people "learn" stuff.

Younger people "access" information

SOURCE: Nearly two decades in university teaching.

When I started out, you'd explain something and students would make notes. You'd rarely be asked to explain that "thing" again.

Latterly, I found it almost impossible to convince students to take notes and they'd often ask to be shown how to do the same thing on multiple occasions —often on the same day.

My theory is that; with smartphones, Google, Wikipedia, etc. the youth of today are conditioned to being able to access any information, any time, at the tap of a screen. There is no incentive or need to make the effort to retain that information, as it's always there. And they expect their college lecturers to perform a similar 'on-tap' role.

Conversely, for us oldies, we might have learned stuff from a book which we'd borrowed from the library and had to return, or a TV programme which had dissipated into the aether. Sources which were not permanently with us. So we had to make the effort to retain that knowledge, because accessing it again was more hassle than remembering it.

I sometimes think it ironic that the classic SciFi utopian vision of a future where everyone in the human race has access to the combined knowledge of all mankind is almost upon us —and yet seems to have resulted in a population where the average individual knows less and less.
> established physics says the EmDrive is a perpetual motion machine.

In what sense is it a perpetual motion machine? As far as I understand it violates the conservation of momentum, not the conservation of energy. How would a theoretical perpetual motion machine based on this effect work?
So it does prevent failure in NHEJ, doesn't it? But how does it prevent offtarget effects? I mean, if the wrong guide sequence is bound, an offtarget is mutated all along, isn't it?
Toronto has a "marijuana community" so to speak. But it's not so easy to obtain. Not free everywhere in your face.
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> there was no debate about feminism. Women were expected to work

There is something to it. In the soviet era, those three girls would have been praised for their success and presented as a proof that the world (or at least the commie world :)) is a fair place where everybody can succeed with enough determination and work. This was intended to send the message that women are expected and welcome members of the workforce and made for a reasonably sane atmosphere.

OTOH, the author here starts with complaining how the world isn't fair, despite having a counterexample at hand, and then follows with bitching about Y chromosomes and discrimination before even naming those girls. WTF. I certainly wouldn't want to go into environment where nobody cares about my work and I'm basically a tool used by sad people to make others feel sad.
I wasn't suggesting that the data leads to telepathy. It may, it may not. I don't know. I haven't studied it. But dismissing anyone that studies it as a crank, and by implication anyone that supports them in that study as also a crank, is bad for all of us.

I'm less concerned about telepathy per se than with "science as politics". The social sciences are seeing some serious problems because there are things that scientists cannot say or talk about because of their political implications. Climate science is hampered by the problem of having to be constantly aware of the political ramifications of their research: are they "helping the deniers" if they publish a result?

If we start bringing this bullshit into hard science then we'll break that too. This is maths and physics. There's the hypothesis, there's the experiment. Do the experiment and validate the hypothesis. If the experiment isn't working, devise a better one. If the new theory leads to predictions then test those predictions. It's all objective, it can be tested, and those tests can be reproduced.

It's like free speech. I may not like the things you say, but I will absolutely support your right to say them. If you find telepathy interesting enough to study, then that's awesome. If you think you've got a result, and I'm interested enough, then I'll look at your methods and your data and work out if I agree with you or not. But dismissing you as a crank just because you're studying it is anti-scientific.

And just like free speech is being threatened by politics and there are now things that people must not say, science is becoming threatened and there are things that must not be published. This is bad imho.
The Portuguese case study says that it's really not a bad idea (though not referring specifically the increasing or diminishing illegal business, just less "street value") [1][2]. But I agree with your corollary.

[1] https://www.drugpolicy.org/sites/default/files/DPA_Fact_Shee...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal#Observ...
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I had to walk through it with my family. It's difficult to describe the shock we experienced.

The reason I think it's linked to Marijuana is how easy it was to obtain. If these homeless people can get access to it, they probably wouldn't bother working to improve their lives. They can have an "awesome life" in their minds if they get to smoke pot. At least that's my impression of what Marijuana does to people. It makes you feel relaxed and completely care free.

Maybe I'm wrong, and I hope someone can challenge my perspectives, but I think the rest of the world also thinks this way. That's why all countries ban drugs even though they don't ban Alcohol.
The Element, and all the other modern, pillar-less 'suicide rear door' cars I've seen (Landcruiser FJ, Mazda something-something), have the rear door latched by the front one, so you can't open the rear without first opening the front, 'normally hinged' door - it's a pretty good safeguard against latches failing and doors being sucked open while driving.
Yes, we clearly need to tell nerds they can't interact with females, because...

...help me out here. Because nerds are icky?
My fascination for corvus started when I saw Joshua Klein's Ted presentation in 2008[1]. Inspired by these recent findings I two weeks ago decided to get to know some crows. I bike commute every weekday and pass a place were I've noticed there's almost always a flock of hooded crows (corvus cornix).

I decided to feed them twice a day (when going to work and when leaving work). The first time they were very reluctant to pick up the nuts and seeds I threw to them. Me throwing things in their direction understandably made them hesitant. After I left however, I saw from a distance how they inspected the nuts and picked them up.

I did this two times a day for two more days. The day after that I saw a crow sitting on the ground a few hundred meters away. Soon it started flying straight towards me on the bike path. I slowed down and it landed straight in front of my bike and started cawing. I picked up the plastic bag of nuts, and it came right to me.

Fast forward to now. When they are at the place they come to meet me. A few times they have also showed up from nowhere (almost eerily) when I stop with my bike. One second I swear I can't see a bird anywhere, and a second later they land next to me. I've also had a fantastic experience were 10-20 crows flew with me and right next to me (when riding my bike) for a few hundred meters.

It has become a nice part of the day that lightens up my commute. I will keep doing this and see how things evolve. All in all, I would recommend building some interspecies relationships with crows. :)

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_o...
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> The amount of homelessness and crime is 10 times more what I've seen anywhere else in North America.

Woah. Talk about 4/20. I'll have what you are having.

> I've been to Vancouver and it wasn't a very pretty sight.

Well, I've been to US and it wasn't a very pretty sight either. I am of course talking about the atrocities I've seen on a late Friday night in Walton, Nebraska, but clarifying that would just totally ruin the post, wouldn't it?

What you are referring to is an area of Vancouver called Downtown Eastside, which sits to the East from downtown. More specifically - there's a several-block area around the intersection of Main and Hastings streets, which is indeed an impressive cloaca. It's been there for ages and, put bluntly, it serves as the Greater Vancouver junky area.

Outside of this part you'd be hard pressed to see homeless people and the "10x crime anywhere else in NA" statement is just a random collection of words.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Eastside
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