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Just like Rust with unsafe blocks.

There are ways in Ada to write programs without ever having to call Unchecked_Deallocation.

Good luck having the compiler eliminate bounds checking for library code.
As Wittgenstein once said, all left for philosophy to do is language analysis.
Hey, what do you know. My new game Blight of the Immortals is already up and running in Gameroom. I didn't have to do anything!

(Previously had the game inside one of those Facebook canvases. )
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And a password can't?
I think my similar image search engine can boost your company growth. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12777317
There are a few other ones.

PTC, which bought Aonix and Atego, both Ada vendors.

Green Hills, I think.

Then IBM had Ada compilers but they have sold their unit to someone else, I think one of those companies bought by PTC.

Finally I guess there might still exist a few lesser known ones, living from their maintenance contracts.
It is hilarious to me to read an analyst report that ignores App Engine (or even Heroku! Or is that what they meant by "Salesforce"?) in the PaaS space. Snapchat is primarily an App Engine (plus Datastore) customer. They have more daily active users than Twitter. Unless Beanstalk is way bigger than I think it is, App Engine has the lion's share of the PaaS market.

We're all tight lipped on purpose. People guessing from the outside will basically be wrong until results become public (I applaud the folks at AWS for breaking out their segment publicly; you may have noticed how much their stock spiked when they did so as analyst consensus was way off).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud, but not specifically on App Engine.
Don't get too excited, there is no discoverability other than what you pay for as far as Im aware.

Steam gives you 1m impressions when you launch, and 2.5m for updates. Not to mention nice exposure in new release section and fairly good search tools.

Gameroom has none of this.
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For a supposedly Linux-oriented vendor, System76 does less than you would expect to pick open-source friendly components: they offer NVidia discrete GPU options but not AMD, and use Intel WiFi instead of Qualcomm-Atheros. I wonder how much effort they put into ensuring that the rest of the system works well out of the box with Linux, especially where power management is concerned.
Gruber is an apple fan boy and apologist above everything. if they released a macbook pro with only 4gb RAM and no trackpad he'd find a way to defend it
Nice, we're working on trying to sell them some software. I wonder if that is why we haven't a whole lot the last couple weeks...
Thread spawning is fast but footprints are still pretty large. You'll likely max out around 10k threads with defaults, and maybe tweak it to 100k with small stack sizes.
Unfortunately it doesn't sound like the data could be used for this, "Disclaimer: The data, service, and algorithm provided by this website are based on the automatically computing and training of public available data. They are only for academic use. The user of such data, service, and algorithm shall be responsible for contents created by the algorithm by complying with compliance with applicable laws and regulations."
Every company I've been in has had people advance from support to things like sales/marketing/sys admin - being in the company or at least in the industry has helped a lot!
Is there any VISA sponsorship for foreign interns ?
I don't find this satisfactory - someone could just answer with "towards the center of the sphere", as if the center were some equilibrium.
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Hi James, this is pretty neat. I think this website could be a big hit among all the graduate applicants since they all are looking for creating a personal academic website at the time of applications.

Is there an option to import a latex resume to create the website? That would be handy.

I just want to thank you for ShareLatex, I use it for all my academic documents, it's pretty awesome.
I have a Skull Canyon NUC(desktop) that I carry to work.
Also a Thinkpad E460 if I'm travelling.
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i looked at the carbon when i was purchasing a xps 13. i saw that the xps was much cheaper for the specs i wanted - i7 + QHD display.

both are very cool looking... but the recent lenovo spyware and the fact that thinkpads still have hardware whitelists turned me off.

plus i got the 950 pro ssd on my xps 13 which is where the performance comes from... not the cpu or ram anymore.
> what I often wonder is whether it's really possible to make a computer think of a thing

Trivial constructive proof that the answer is "yes"; as far as we know, it is physically possible to measure and then simulate a human brain to an accuracy much smaller than the thermal noise floor at normal brain temperature.

That is, you can always literally just run a human brain on a computer, and unless we're entirely wrong about all of physics, it will do everything a physical human brain would.

> So long as a computer does not have any desires

"Desire" is actually pretty well understood in the frameworks of decision theory and utility theory. You can always make a program "want" something in terms of that thing having a positive value in the program's utility function.

> What would anything matter to you if you didn't eat, drink, sleep, feel, get bored, get curious?

What would anything matter to you if you didn't shit, get pneumonia, and die? All the things you mentioned are just random things that humans happen to do; I'm not sure what it has to do with the concept of having preferences.

> Without that, it's all just text.

The representation doesn't really matter. Having desires is a property of the internal behavior of an agent, not how those behaviors are implemented.
Blind was pretty awesome when I was at Yahoo during layoffs. It's died down a bit since though.
I agree that it's important to size the VPS market, as it directly competes with one of the primary things people come to AWS or GCP for ("How do I host my site?"). As a side comment mentions, I might also include GoDaddy as well as DreamHost and the underlying brands of Endurance, since again so much of the "cloud" is really just people running WordPress "brochure ware" sites.

Having said that, you should realize that some of those companies (GoDaddy, Endurance) are public and even indicate how large they are from an infrastructure sense. Ultimately, VPS and/or website hosting comes down to charging customers $5/month for approximately $0 in infrastructure. The "real" infrastructure money is in either large compute, or "serious" sites. So it is important, but ultimately they'll round towards 0.

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud, and have never worked for any of the other companies mentioned.
I did a little unintentional experiment about this. I worked at a lab in a basement where there was a lot of constant basically white noise. Nothing stood out, it was just a lot of things like ventilation ducts.

I noticed after a few months that I couldn't figure out how to solve some problem until I was walking home. Curious if it was the timing or the noise, I got some hardcore machine shop ear protection that I wore from then on. Suddenly I was dramatically better able to focus at work.

The dull roar in the background was definitely just sort of consuming attention unconsciously and seriously slowing me down.

It was really loud in there though, every place I've worked since it's always conversations and sudden noises like doors opening that distracts me. I would never have heard a conversation a few desks away at the earlier place.
I have a Lenovo T460s running XUbuntu 16.04 and I'm extremely happy with it. I have 20GB RAM and 512GB SSD and the WHQD screen (2560x1440). Very reliable, current uptime with 4.4.0 kernel is 62 days. The only downside is somewhat poor battery life. Under heavy utilization, I get 3-4 hours out of it.
I think the new razer blade stealth [1] is a really good alternative to a macbook pro. It has all the hardware the macbook lacks and apparently the trackpad is really good. It has all the ports you need and a really nice touch screen as well.

The only thing that worries me is that the laptop is made by razer and as such is targeted to gamers.

[1] http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-stealth
I wouldn't recommend he answer that. VP's are a lot easier to identify than a TL or similar
My friend's company Iron.io laid off ~20 employees in SF (almost the entire company). Apparently their series A round brought in 12 million just a year ago.
I think the new Macbook Pro is awesome, say what you will, I can just imagine myself during debugging pressing "step over, step into, and continue" on the touch bar.

If you earn money through development, its only fair to buy the best product.
> because I think this could help companies and people can change for the better.

The first lesson you'd learn is that these companies would rather shoot the messenger, which would be you in this case.
So maybe 10% of his salary goes to the state, and lets say that 1% of the state's budget goes to BART (it doesn't), so that's .1% of his salary. And if he spends 25% of his income on local taxable goods, and .5% of that goes back to bart, that's .125%.

So about .225% of his salary makes it back to BART. Not much of a return.

If BART wants to help return money to the community, they can ask for less money (taxes, bonds, fares), not use tax dollars and captive commuter fare money to pay employees 5 times a typical salary and count on some small percentage of that money to trickle down.

A few months back my building hired a new janitor after their old one retired - the building manager literally had a line out of his office of people looking for the job. The Bay Area is expensive for sure, but even jobs like $50K janitorial positions still get filled.
Many serious AGI efforts are aware of the need to ground learning in sensory data from (real or virtual) embodiment. Deep Mind is the most famous and popular one.
I believe the hiring is a facade. They have been sending out hackerrank tests to every new grad but never planning to follow up. As a matter of fact, they stated that they will "follow up" in December. Any serious company in the Bay Area wouldn't be this slow with hiring if they were not in trouble.
Just in case we're not already working on them, feel free to send me your few things and I'll route them to the appropriate PMs and engineers. (Contact info in profile)
It's made for your mom. Sounds like a good start to me.
I don't see how that matters in this case, AMD took the lead on AMD64 and Intel had to copy them afterward. They really could have done anything they wanted. As someone else here mentioned it was probably more to re-use the existing investment in x86 decoders.
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Yes, they get given products and are paid to feature products in their images. To tip them, keep following, liking and maybe refer them more followers via word of mouth, etc.

Source: Got a friend whose full-time gig is posting on Instagram.
Not quite true. Verizon is planning to sunset 2G in 2019 [1], and is making efforts to get customers off 2G before that (similar to what AT&T has been doing). They are also rumored to be planning to shutter 3G in 2021. This leaves only T-mobile and Sprint in the US market providing longer-term 2G support, and their coverage is not great if you need to deploy devices outside major metro areas.

[1] https://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2016/07/verizon-targeting-...
> What I find unusual is they publish tutorials when there are plenty of good sources

In my experience, sometimes this is to flaunt/show-off/project their _percieved_ competence/understanding/knowledge of the said concepts. I know it sounds very dismissive and generalising, but I have witnessed this happen a lot of times. It seems like they don't even know what they don't know.
I'll wager £5 you end up buying one.
Using generators can make your code look as if it was synchronous
Try http://www.chowdrapp.com it's got more of a social twist to food discovery
Anyone know if we can build something off this? The text "Disclaimer: The data, service, and algorithm provided by this website are based on the automatically computing and training of public available data. They are only for academic use. The user of such data, service, and algorithm shall be responsible for contents created by the algorithm by complying with compliance with applicable laws and regulations." makes me hesitate.
> Support sucks. You get the short end of the stick from everyone - clients, management, developers - and there's little in the way of benefits for doing so. No wonder there's a high turnover in the field.

This is because support departments are viewed as cost centers, not profit centers.

People who work in cost centers generally get treated badly. If their manager can figure out how to lay them off without affecting customer retention, it's gonna happen.
I'm not sure if you're seriously questioning, or if you're trying to win an argument.

i'm going to go with the notion that you're genuinely curious.

I worked on a project with grids, an editable table like an excel sheet. Each grid, row, column, and cell could be styled. Font as Arial, Comic Sans ...; Color as rgb; padding top, left...; background color as rgb; Alignment as left, right or justified; format as freeform string, integer, float money or regex; decimal separator as . or , ; thousands separator as . or ,; and a whole bunch more.

The first cut just naively associated a style struct as part of each cell's data. Several customers complained that grids were very slow to start up, a few complained that they were running out of memory. They were using very large datasets for the grid, and the naive implementation wasted a lot of time on initialization, and a lot of memory on duplicate representation of style.

In retrospect it was a stupid mistake to make. We'd only tested against small amounts of data on relatively fast machines. Customers were using millions of rows.

The solution we went with was the aforementioned pattern. it saved a ton of memory and a ton of time avoiding all of that initialization. There were a few rounds dealing with smart lookup of style based on cell, row, column, and overall table.

My c++ is rusty, but i'm a little baffled by your confusion. Iterating over data structures in a uniform was was kind of a big deal back in the day. IIRC, implementing preorder, inorder and postorder iterators for a binary tree was homework. Have iterators fallen out of fashion?

I don't have a peer reviewed paper paper indicating flyweight is helpful. I don't have a peer reviewed paper saying multiplication is better than looping over adding m to itself n times. It's just better.

Some of them are mostly stupid, ala singleton. Of course even stupid singleton is a nice place to stick environment variables, because they are globals. I never thought decorator was all that great. I really like composite, but i like tree representations that i can recurse over.

If i had a scale, where you could place code on one side, and a design pattern on the other side, and it would balance if adding the design pattern was worth it, i would give it to you. To my knowledge, no such thing exists.

If you have questions, i'll try to answer. here or jfoutz at gmail.
I mentally filter out those ads - they're almost always looking for US-based, sometimes even only their city. Others like remote "for the right candidate" give the impression that they'll take on remote workers only as a last resort, which seems unlikely to work out if that's their mindset. The best results tend to mention "remote-first" or "international" - to me this says they have a culture of remote work, properly understand where it does and doesn't work and know how to get around or mitigate its limitations. The most annoying for keyword filtering are, of course, "no remote".
Ask HN: How to become a vegan?
I live in a modern western culture and my diet contains typical western foods. After being diagnosed with a mild hypertension with family history of hypertension, I've become interested in more healthy diets.

After reading MD Greger's nutritionfacts.org I'm willing to start decreasing animal protein intake with a hope of becoming a vegan one day.

Any advice/stories from people with similar background?
My game is there, and we don't have the Facebook stuff enabled so it doesn't ask for permission when it launches.

But of course, instead we ask you to make a custom account for our game so you can log in and out on different platforms.
Indeed.com says the average janitor earns $28K in SF, I'm sure there are plenty of those janitors that would take a $50K+ job at BART.

http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=janitor&l1=san+francisco&tm=...
"Its says windows 7 or better", so I assumed all macOS versions are supported. :)
Damn, they were making waves here due to screenscraping Commbank and then writing a letter to the Prime Minister about it.
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Once upon a time dell would let you return the OEM CD if you weren't going to use windows. I wonder if they still do that. They could invalidate the OEM key to windows, not sure if microsoft would care to implement that and give dell the money back.
Not sure how this contributes to a discussion of Linux laptops, especially when OP has specifically called out not liking the new Macs.
I'm not sure I follow why AGPL for the IDE you're using is a big problem? Surely the IDE license does not affect the license of code written in the IDE?
No, because the GP is wrong. He claimed

> The aforementioned barrier-separated box is high in entropy but simple.

This isn't true in any meaningful objective sense; representing the exact state of the system in some basis (e.g. the position or momentum states of all particles in the system) requires a huge amount of information, corresponding to the entropy. The GP only said it's a "simple" system because we (for arbitrary reasons) don't really care very much about the position of each gas molecule. We as humans are satisfied with describing the system in terms of bulk statistical characteristics like temperature and pressure. However, we would be unsatisfied doing the same thing with a similarly information-rich system such as a microprocessor, because now the bulk characteristics of the system aren't sufficient information to describe the characteristics that humans care about.

"Simplicity" or "complexity" as described by the GP is not a physical quantity; it's a reflection of which precise dynamical behavior we happen to care about. You could probably find all sorts of heuristics that generally match with human intuition, but in the end it's up to opinion.
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Looks like there's some other information about this at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/probase/ and http://haixun.olidu.com/probase/browser.htm
When I read this, all I could picture was the scene in HBO's 'Silicon Valley' where Gavin Belson sacks his entire Nucleus team, then later inadvertently hires them all back again when he acquires EndFrame, and doesn't realise that he is talking to the same people in the same room about the same product.
Hmm, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc seems like the type to call something like this "hella creepy" ... comments?
Ubuntu on a T4*0 (14", rugged upgradability over slimness) has kept me happy for years. It seems to be the most common Linux hardware, so tends to be well supported.

- Best keyboard you'll find on a laptop

- Upto 32GB of RAM (T460)

- Removable, hotswappable batteries

- Desk docking is useful

- Replace / upgrade whatever you like, yourself

- If you want to save money, a 1-2 year old model will have specs similar to the latest MBP and be going for $500 refurbished

- They refuse to die. I have 7 year old ThinkPads on the latest Ubuntu LTS, working like a dream as media servers, etc

- They use Debian on ThinkPads on space stations!

- No garish logos / aspirational consumer lifestyle marketing
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Thank you for linking me to this. I had never heard of it. That is exactly it.