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>but what is "bloat" in the context of 2016?

I've recently (last 3 years) moved my bare-metal embedded software development from C to C++ so I've actually run into issues of STL adding too much to the binary size.

To give a real-world example, I'm working on a custom device that is a type of data cartridge. I have a "big" ARM-A5(Atmel SAMA5D36) processor running embedded linux that does all the heavy lifting but goes down when main power is removed. I have a small ARM-Cortex-M0(LPC824) that is always running on a battery and manages power, watches for button-presses, and a few other janitorial items on the device. The small processor has 32kB of program space and 8kB of RAM, and my project is mostly C++. Here are some specific examples of how using any STL will bloat program size:

Using std::string, and touching any of the STL string handling immediately adds 20kB to my binary. Using stl::list is 6-10kB of program space (actually not that bad and std::vector is pretty efficient). Adding exception handling adds 5kB of code and a single exception adds 6kB of code (not stl but just an example).

I've worked on a lot of embedded projects and my general rule of thumb for, "How big of a part do I need to use fully-featured C++?" is 256kB of program space -- something most bare-metal embedded software engineers would call a large amount of program memory. On projects where I have less than that I don't use STL and basically use C++ as C with classes, function/operator overloading and templates.
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> ...building cheap homes, say at 120k a pop...

Cheap homes are $20k a pop. $10k for materials, and $10k for contracted labor. If you allocate another $20k for the land itself, and completing utility connections to it whenever they do not already exist, that's $40k total.

If you had $240M to spend each year, you could build 5000 houses every year, and have $40M left over for rudimentary commercial strips, administrative buildings, libraries, schools, firehouses, and cop shops.

You could stamp out a new municipality every year in 10 undeveloped adjacent square-mile survey sections. 6400 acres would be 5000 for the houses, and 1400 for the commons and businesses. You don't even need to go as far as Mississippi from SF. There are huge tracts of undeveloped land on the Great Plains between I-25 and I-35. They're actually cheaper than Mississippi, mostly because they have a less reliable fresh water supply.
Only he knows for sure but it seems a lot more likely from reading his annual letters that he's betting on the quality of their management team and their continued ability to produce profits. It would be very out of character for him to make a bet on future technology.
> But, what 2016's tech would bring is a 6502 that instead of being clocked at 1.5-2Mhz might be clocked instead at a couple Ghz.

For most applications in 2016 that could actually use a 6502, they probably don't need it to run that fast (and more speed would mean more power usage). New pin-compatible 6502s are still sold today for embedded applications: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mouser-6502-motorola-6800-c...

But if not for pin-compatibility, instead of being 4.3mm x 4.7mm, a 6502 could be a speck of dust, with the only size constraints being connections to other components.

> What a modern 6502 design might do, however, is be extremely power efficient. A modern 2016 CMOS design clocked at 1970's speeds might use very little power. Whether it would beat ARM in that market is an unknown.

The 6502 design from 2012 that I linked above uses 300µA.

> The 6502 would also be quite acutely sensitive to the speed of memory, so the chip would not be able to run any faster than RAM could feed it data (it has only three user accessible 8-bit registers, and only one of those can be used for computations). It worked with 1970's tech because 1970's memory's were as fast as it was so it was not slowed down by a huge memory vs cpu speed differential.

The 6502 also only addressed 64kB of memory (though variants like the 6509 supported up to 1MB via multiple banks). With 2016 technology, you could easily supply all the RAM a 6502 could ever want or use as on-die SRAM that matches the CPU speed.
> The government already has to compete against the private sector

private companies compete against other private companies, by this reasoning unions are not necessary in the private sector either.

Also, in some areas the government does not compete against the private sector, I think.
Don't police forces or firefighters have unions in the US?
Well, a focus on profitably is much better than a focus on becoming a unicorn (no matter how bad the terms)
I did Wes Bos's React for Beginner's course and it was fantastic. and he's Canadian!

I did Tyler McGinnis's class over at Egghead as well. Both were top notch.
I also don't understand why this is again top in HN. The alternatives of installing certs programs in this linked article are really helpful.
The real solution is to get people off the road in general.
Interesting, but not sure why you'd ever use this instead of TypeScript. TS has most everything this has - including real ease-of-use compared to Babel - plus a lot of additional stuff that's critical for large code bases. And its semantics are very clearly defined.
Not really reflexes per se; as reflexes don't involve any higher brain function. One doesn't rely on reflexes for driving. Reaction time on the other hand is an entirely different matter...
Lets look at QCT which I think is the biggest if not the biggest ARM company out there.

http://marketrealist.com/2016/04/qualcomms-chipset-margin-hi...

QCT’s operating margin fell from 16.9% in fiscal 1Q16 to 5% in fiscal 2Q16. The margin was on the higher end of the low- to mid-single-digit guidance as the ASP (average selling price) of 3G and 4G handsets equipped with Qualcomm chipsets rose by 6% YoY to $205–$211. The price rose due to a favorable product mix and higher content per device.

The Margins on cell phone chips are terrible. QCT made 2.5 bil on 17bil in revenue.

http://investor.qualcomm.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1234452-...

Would it really make sense to invest in Cellphone business when every dollar you put in gets you less ROI compared to what you have now. From a finance perspective it would make more sense to return it to the shareholders and let them invest in QCOM if they want to.
> These things need fixed to be able to do what you are encouraging.

Lack of transportation, other options or the public intoxication charges should not and cannot ever be an acceptable reason for driving while impaired.

If you indulge, don't drive. Period.

There is no option B. The only acceptable solution, if you have to get behind a wheel and drive, is to abstain from any impairing consumption.
Which scheduler are you using on the USB device? Did you try deadline or BFQ?

There is a long standing (CFQ-related) kernel issue causing system lockups in high I/O situations:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12309
In what sense is Angie's List either a penny stock or a scam? How are investors being duped?

I'm just curious because I've seen a few ads for Angie's List and they have a $500m market cap.
This is from February of 2015. Nothing about this data is new anymore.
Is that effective for non-adobe pdf viewers? What about the ones that disable javascript?
So this sounds kinda like Google+ Communities, but detached from Google+? It seems Google is now approaching social as "throw endless piles of new social apps out there until one actually becomes popular". They recently added chat capabilities directly into YouTube and Photos, rather than relying on Hangouts, for example.
> How are they ruling out the fact that since it's been legalized, more people in general are using marijuana?

That's exactly the point. No one is trying to say that driving high has gotten more dangerous as a result of legalization - just that it's inherently dangerous (and a certain percentage of marijuana users are going to be driving either way), so legalization only contributes to more usage, leading to more irresponsible decisions on the road.
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I recall seeing something like that when input devices were living on the same hub as the storage device getting IO at the time. But that was years ago, and the USB stack has seen considerable work since.

Edit: never mind, Johnp_'s comment and bugzilla link is highly interesting.
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Yeah, I very carefully didn't assume that he wanted to emigrate to the west to "enrich his life" or rescue him from blah blah White Man's Burden. He mentioned that (paraphrasing) he was trying to better himself in emerging technologies so he could get a job abroad.

And as someone in Austin who has seen how insanely hard it is to find a good culture fit despite a large pool of "talent," yes, I'd jump through hoops to find someone as humble and self-motivated. Unfortunately, I'm just not in a position to do so at my current place.
It's definitely unsafe if you're traveling much under the speed limit on a major highway.

Most important thing when driving is to be predictable. It's predictable to be traveling plus or minus 10 mph from what is posted.

It isn't predicted to be traveling 30mph+ below the speed limit.

(no comment on being high, just saying, it's super dangerous to be doing 30-40 on a 65mph road).
Probably as in the investors want to create a Ponzi-like scheme and make profit regardless of the future of the company? (which makes sense IMO)
This is well-stated. I worked for a Berkshire subsidiary for a good chunk of my career, and can tell you the Berkshire values really are what drive the investment. It's not so much about fundamentals, although they do need to be very sound or on the value side, as much as focused, lean management with a clear plan. In this case, I'm thinking Berkshire thinks Apple's share price represents a clear value at the moment (I agree, not that it matters what I think), and there's probably a lot of confidence in the management team going forward. Berkshire doesn't try to catch a falling knife, so they must think otherwise.
Simp_le does the same thing. I use simp_le with Haproxy on one server and nginx sni on another. Works very well.

https://github.com/kuba/simp_le
Anybody using Falcor?
Your pot/music comparison to show reflexes being unaffected doesn't really work when the music industry has a long history of drug abuse of all kinds, including alcohol. It's not very hard to find stories or even videos of musicians being drunk and playing great shows. It is almost a cliche to have images of legendary musicians drinking from bottles of hard liquor while on stage.
Thanks for reposting this excellent opinion piece. Gassée really nails it this time.
The heartbreaking stories in this article, as well as several from the comments, all seem to be the symptoms of an overly litigious climate in our healthcare system. Health workers are afraid to speak plainly. It's gross.
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I am not sanctioning the behavior.

However, the exposure of the data is no more [or less] a violation of privacy than what is typically reserved for operators under the terms and conditions of large websites. Neither is it more [or less] a violation of privacy than what is allowed by right when data is treated as a corporate asset [under US law] when ownership of the asset is transfered via sale or bankruptcy.

To put it another way, it is only to the degree that it is in OkCupid's business interest to limit disclosure of the same data points that OkCupid [insert other any other corporation here] refrains from releasing that data.

The only reason our visceral reactions are different is that we hold biologic people to a different standard of "doing the right thing" than the fictitious persons that are corporations. Legally, a person owned that data. That's why a breach was possible. It's the reification that creates the privacy problem.
Is riding a horse that's high safer than driving while high?
Industrial broilers of both sexes are raised to slaughter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broiler

I think it's also the case that requiring something else be done with males would have much less than 2x effect on the price of eggs. A hen will produce ~300 eggs a year. Whatever extra it might cost to raise the less efficient egg breed roosters for meat would be less than the cost of feeding a hen to produce that many eggs.
> When contacted by Motherboard for comment, Kirkegaard was dismissive, stating he “would like to wait until the heat has declined a bit before doing any interviews. Not to fan the flames on the social justice warriors.”

Yeah, this is a grad student who fails the maturity test in a big way. I could perhaps kind of understand the position that repackaging publicly available sensitive data was just a lapse in taste (assuming, likely erroneously, that it was truly public and not harvested by posing as a mate-seeker). Now he's equating blowback from this lapse with "social justice warriors"? This person sounds like an absolute peach.
I think you're asking "what happens when someone captures 51% of the voting shares?" - This is actually the #1 problem with these types of systems, since the majority could just vote to put 100% of the funds into their own bank account.

The slockit-authored DAO in the article addresses this through two failsafes:

1. Shareholders can vote to split the company in two at any point to extricate their funds from majority control.

2. There is an extra layer of "curators" (kind of a misnomer) who are trusted members in the community who make sure payments aren't being funneled through an intermediary to a majority shareholder.

Whether these safeguards will work remains to be seen.
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The study you linked has the same error that almost all of these 'studies' have. "The percentage of drivers involved in fatal crashes who recently used marijuana more than doubled from eight to 17 percent between 2013 and 2014." So they are testing the blood of deceased people, finding the presence of THC (which can remain the blood for weeks), and calling them 'marijuana-related crashes'.

So quite literally by their own definition, someone could smoke some weed, a week later get drunk, go driving, crash, and now this is a 'marijuana related' crash?

I don't buy it.
The norm in most corporate and non-corporate environments that don't have unions is that the better person doesn't get better pay: the kiss ass does.

Getting rid of unions does nothing to further merit based pay.
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I disagree. Marijuana can impair reflexes significantly, at least for some individuals. My high school drivers education class (1979) had an electronic device used to measure brake reflex time. The device had simulated accelerator and brake pedals. A red lamp would light to signal the need to brake. I believe the average response time for most teens was around 250ms. I smoked pot nearly everyday during this period of my life. On the day our class was put to the brake response test I showed up high, as usual. I scored over 1 second on the response test. The instructor at first thought I was putting him on. He reset the device and had me try again. The response time was the same. I'll also admit that during this time I had episodes where I would "zone out" while driving high on pot. I would not remember a significant portion of the drive I had just undertaken.

My read of the article referenced is that current measurement techniques for Marijuana do not accurately correlate with driver impairment. That's not the same thing as stating Marijuana impaired drivers are safer than ones intoxicated with alcohol.
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Does stuff like this article goes to print? It seems that they have a separate group to make science-y stuff "go viral" to compete with BuzzFeed. Kind of like what WaPo is doing now.
> After [the 60s] management and unions had a decidedly more antagonistic relationship.

Union antagonism is very much cultural[0], and the US didn't wait until the 60s for that to happen, late 19th/early 20th century US management didn't shy from violently repressing strikes and busting unions, Pinkerton was often hired in that capacity and industrialists with enough clout could get the police or even the army involved (as in Blair Mountain or Ludlow)

According to "American Labor Violence: Its Causes, Character, and Outcome", as of 1969 the US had the bloodiest and most violent labor history of the first world.

[0] the UK and France both have very antagonistic labor relationships for instance
I couldn't find a link to the study. I had a few thoughts on this that weren't addressed:

1) What do they mean by "involving marijuana?" The article jumps straight to THC concentration levels in the blood, but doesn't state that this was what was measured in the (i assume) study they are referencing. "Involving marijuana" could just as easily mean that they found pot or paraphernalia in the car. In previous studies I've read, this was actually the case.

2) Why limit it to just fatal road crashes? Is it because there's no change to nonfatal crashes or perhaps that number went down implying that their assumption of marijuana's influence over driving ability is pronounced and are instead focusing on an outlier to push an agenda?

3) Did the total number of fatalities change significantly? If not, then this is a non-story. Of course there would be more instances "involving marijuana." It's legal now, so there's more people "involved" with marijuana on a day to day basis. This would be no different than saying that the rate of fatal crashes "involving" Tesla automobiles has increased since they were introduced to the market.

All of this may be addressed in the study and this is just a terrible story, but I can't tell from the article.
That second to last comment from Tashnikov is highly interesting, as i have noticed Firefox triggering a virtual lockup on Android when started.
the article doesn't actually explain the "autonomous" bit imo.

This looks rather more like a distributed decision making platform. Say, liquid democracy + ethereum, rather than Accelerando-style "sentient alien corporations".

Noticeably, the DAO does not seem to be able to make any decision, it does things through proposals suggested by people which are voted on.

Still cool anyway.
> - When you're tired, you can have a cup of coffee and wake up a bit and regain some of that focus. You can't drink a red bull and suddenly be way less high.

Actually, there are terpenes in cannabis that mitigate many of the confusing effects, which can be found in foods such as black peppercorns and pine nuts. Pliny the Elder wrote about this; see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3165946/
So yes, there are ways to get "less high."

Not advocating that driving while high/texting/tired is a good idea, just trying to enlighten about some of the fascinating science behind Cannabis.
Much of this is also perception. Lots of places are fine for walking or cycling, but people are so accustomed to driving everywhere that they drive even when it's somewhat ridiculous, like driving from one parking spot to another in the same a parking lot instead of just walking to a store elsewhere in the strip mall. Or driving to a store a block away and trying to find a parking space instead of just walking.

Some places are actively hostile to walkers: building only arterial roads and refusing to build sidewalks to exclude walkers and the wrong sort of people (black or poor). Relatively few places are so hostile to drivers. So people grow a bias toward driving everywhere. Load your bicycle on the car and drive it there to ride around in circles.
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"the apple ][ had HW with dependencies on the CPU being at a certain rate"

On the other hand something like a KIM-1 would be totally doable although there would have to be changes to the cassette interface and TTY interface software timing loops. Oh and I suppose if you clocked below 10 KHz or something then keypad debounce routines might need some work. But from memory there would be no hardware changes necessary to downclock a KIM-1. There is a hardware PLL in the cassette interface input but all it does is sniff if the incoming tone is above or below some frequency

A KIM-1 was a rather simple 6502 single board computer from the dawn of the microcomputer era.
TLDR; A computer program living on the ethereum blockchain is currently in control of 107+ million dollars, making it the second largest crowdfunded project in history. Shareholders vote on proposals to give money to other entities (probably also programs on the ethereum blockchain) that they hope will make money and send it to the parent contract.

All votes are managed by a program written in EVM code, which runs on a sort of "virtual computer" that is designed to be (in theory) 100% secure, 100% reliable, and 100% incontrovertible. No middlemen have any control over this program, it essentially completely outside of any human control (beyond the voting rules encoded within it.)

UPDATE: Apparently this morning it passed $120 million and is now the largest crowdfunded project in history.
if you have firefox it's pretty easy to take a screenshot of the fullpage by opening the console and typing something along the lines `screenshot --fullpage`

if you have OSX and dropbox, you can sync your screenshots automatically to dropbox as you take them.

my point of view: this is a sweet plugin if it came for free. I have no incentive to pay for it, unless I'm a very lazy person.
According to Ulam's memoirs, Hardy thought very poorly of the Tripos as a test of anything in particular.
There's actually nothing to support that conclusion.
There are benefits other than cross-platform development to using web views or React Native or something that gets rid of the Android guts.
> an oftentimes euphemistic term for people interested in things like gender and minority rights issues.

I wouldn't call it euphemistic. It's willful dismissiveness. And I'd posit that the Venn diagram intersection of users of the term and Ayn Rand super fans is large.
I'd be scared about if I were making BRK-sized bets as to what percentage APPL's cash flow is correlated with "cool" or "visionary".

Apple's great at reaping rewards for 5-10 years when they crack a new market. They're less great at winning over the longer-term in mature market categories. (That's probably the bigger problem with industrial design-based brands though -- they're far more susceptible to copycatting over a long enough period. All the perils of fashion without the agility to change things as quickly)
> If a breathalyzer test on Tuesday picked up the beer you had last Saturday, there'd be no correlation between that test and accidents, either.

Not sure that's true: if the alcohol was still in your blood that long, it would still be affecting you and impairing function.
And many critical parts of the German military ran on synthetic fuel derived from coal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fuel#History
It's actually important to name the vendor responsible for this mess so this doesn't happen again.
Sounds a lot like communism.
From the article:

> Berkshire’s positions were disclosed in a 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a quarterly requirement for investors managing more than $100 million. The report indicates the number of shares held and the value of each stake at the end of the quarter, so it isn’t clear if Mr. Buffett’s firm has continued buying the stock since the quarter ended.
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But profits are higher than ever.
You can indeed live without them. In C++, the trade-off is that you are now responsible for manually writing and maintaining any and all error propagation code, including remembering to check every relevant return value.