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This sounds like it's more of a library thing than language thing. The problem (I'm guessing) is the older platforms have `libstdc++` which won't support newer features* . Though I suspect statically linking `libstdc++` might be a (nasty, but workable) option here.

* - again, I'm guessing - I've been out of the c++ game for a few years...
Ask HN: What skills are expected from a software developer in your company?
Not necessarily purely technical skills. Eg. collaborational and social skills are also interesting.

Couple of followups:

- Why are these skills are important?

- Based on your experience, which skills, if any, are typically lacking from students graduating from a University or a College.

Disclaimer: These are questions based on something my prof. told us to ask a software developer as a part of a course I'm taking. I found the questions interesting and would like some more thoughts, hence this post.
I have a BT headset and a BT car kit.

iOS swaps to the newest BT audio devices, and reverts to the original one (if it's still around).

I've not experimented with more than 2 audio devices.

Hope that helps! (I also hope that was the questions that you were asking)
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Both are absolutely inhumane.
We debated this in our household years ago. Seeing live animals like orcas and dolphins and elephants etc.. gives children an appreciation of those species they can't get any other way. To see them is extremely important to understanding why they should be protected.

Is it better to not be able to see them for yourselves live - the enormity and grace - or just not learn about them at all. Having sea world and zoos and circuses benefit the cause for conservation.

(I lost the debate in my household)
> VP8 and VP9 are free

Unless Google ever uses one of your patents, and you have to sue Google over that.

VP8 and VP9 come with a no-litigation clause that basically requires you to share all your patents with Google if you use VP8 and VP9 – which is a shame.
TL;DR: I don't know what to do and think most people don't, too.

I mean, private emissions, I heard, are insignificant compared to industrial. But then, industry exists because, in the end, we consume stuff. Right?

I'm sincerely hoping for someone who I can trust to explain to me how I'm making the world a worse place by purchasing, let's say, a car, and that as if I'm a 5-year-old. Not because I'm easily bored, but because (I accept,) I'm still ignorant and I need to start from the beginning.

A meteorologist (I just googled "scientist who studies weather", not a native speaker here) telling me "hey, the temperatures will increase by X degrees and the sea level will increase by X meters so... we are doomed" makes me want to do something but I can't even begin to predict the effects.

Also there are these false data generated by (IMHO, crazy) deniers but while easy to catch on its own, they have this side effect of creating many false positives while trying to identify fake data in this ocean called the internet.
When I went vegan in 1991 you couldn't buy soya milk in a supermarket. Now every supermarket has its own brand.

Political agitation moves the Overton Window [1], if you sit back and wait, nothing will happen.

That said, you will need a plan on how a billion Indians can have a fridge and an indoor cooker without impact.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Yup, we drove down from Mountain View the night before.

We did stop by Solving on the way back, which was pretty fun.
Looking at the makeup of CO2 emissions [1] (ignoring methane and other factors) it seems that it makes the most sense to avoid unneccessary heating and electricity consumption (which most people will already do because it's good for your wallet) and cut back on driving (which most people don't). For agriculture and industry, the two big other factors, you're probably right: There's not much a single person can do.

[1]: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-05/global_em...
A president can pardon anyone from any crime for any reason, or no reason at all...

I thought it was only federal crimes that can be pardoned, no?
For many people I think it's still the wrong way around. It's not the first solution to running Linux applications on Windows. The first I saw involved X-Win32 and a Linux server in the basement. It's just that most of these solutions get it wrong. It's not that people want Windows, and a little Unix. People want Unix/Linux, and a little Windows.
VP9 was added in VDPAU Feature Set F, which was introduced with the later Maxwell chips (950/960 cards have it but 970/980/980ti cards don't).
"Paris" and "liveability" together is weird.

The only reason people move to Paris is because the country is hyper-centralised and 'all' the jobs are in Paris. That's also the only reason that limits the rate at which people are moving away from Paris. Housing in Paris is unaffordable for low wages. People who can get rid of their job move to smaller cities across the country, people who cannot move to suburbs and undergo more and more commuting.

Concentration of jobs in the same place, unaffordable housing, does this ring a bell? :-)
In practical terms and matters, parents make binding choices for their minor children every day. Where are my kids going to sleep tonight? Where I [and my wife] decide. What are my kids going to eat tonight? ...

You're right that it's not consent exactly, but I made a binding choice to have children and to raise them in America (and Massachusetts and Cambridge and in this house). I made that choice recognizing that that would subject them to the good and ill of those choices, including taxation, the federal and state laws, local ordinances, and whatever drafts, roof leaks, and other dangers this house might have.

That they were not personally consulted and did not personally consent that we drive on the right side of the road, that we use the USD as our currency, that we use center-tapped 240VAC, 60 Hz single-phase as the residential electrical standard is irrelevant in practical terms.
My two cents: Don't do it on your own. Contact NGOs that work on the censorship issues, EFF, AccessNow, FLD, etc.. They have been working on these issue for a while and probably can help you with their resources.
May to Seek Hard Brexit by Leaving EU Market
The author's argument boils down to:
1. Snowden didn't come back to the US, so he must be a traitor (rather than a non-idiot who knew exactly what had happened to Chelsea Manning).
2. Putin allowed him to come when the passport had been cancelled, so Snowden must have agreed to sell Russia state secrets.

This feels very much like a deep state smear job, especially given the weirdly adulatory photo of Obama.
And they should write a porting guide, first thing. Start with setting up a dev environment and cross-compiler.

Then they should do a sample port to some very easy to obtain hardware, a Chinese $100 GSM phone, and document the whole process step-by-step.

If you want wide support, you need to leverage enthusiasm.
I suspect that large part of Windows, perhaps not the kernel, but many of the required subsystems, are written by 3rd. parties and licensing will prohibit an open source release of Windows.
My prediction is Uber et al will take notice of this HN thread and address it by coming out with ads on how their drivers are treated well.
That's news to me, and a real disappointment. Just before Christmas I saw there was going to be a mag -8 flare close to where the ISS would be- watched it with my 4yo, spinning a tale the ISS was Santa and the flare was a reindeer re-entry.

The flare predictor[1] on the Heavens Above website will presumably shut down when the last of the old satellites goes.

[1] http://www.heavens-above.com/IridiumFlares.aspx
Dec 2016 Talk at LinkedIn: Introducing Type Annotations for Python [video]
Check out Accident and Long Term Care illness insurance; They are typically ~ $10/month and tack on coverage for things that you have no existing condition or family history of.... and are generally otherwise low risk for.
Because on of those working homeless is going to bring a gun to the head office someday.

On a related note, holy hell California was the most gun-obsessed place I've ever visited. Weapons stores everywhere! Shut some of that down before someone gets hurt.
> animals taken from their environment just to entertain us?

Funny thing-- it's not too much of a stretch to extend this to pet ownership, as well. I have mixed feelings about all of it, honestly, but since these are essentially intractable problems at this point in time, I believe it comes down to how each individual animal is treated.

I certainly think it's quite possible to have a large, 'exotic' animal who is trained to perform from birth to be happy and have a decent quality of life, just as I think the same is possible for that puppy or kitty adopted by someone you know. It seems clear to me that neither is ideal, but there are plenty of examples of better and worse situations. It's not black & white.

Regardless, in my view, anyone concerned enough to protest the treatment of animals in circuses and/or zoos is being hypocritical if they're not working just as hard (or harder) to end the suffering of all the other sentient creatures we subject to 'unnatural' conditions on a vastly larger scale. Right now, the best we can seem do is keep saying "spay and neuter" like we have for at least half a century, and too many people still don't even seem to be getting that utterly basic message.
They still make money on every single pc/laptop that ships with windows which is still their biggest money maker with office. If they truely open source windows (BSD or else) it will be free to ship for OEM and Microsoft will lose one of their biggest source of income.

tl;dr: not gonna happen
You can also look at https://github.com/scmbreeze/scm_breeze
I went and found a job working for a renewable energy company and put solar panels on our roof!

Next up (in whatever order makes more financial sense, probably): electric vehicle, heat pump.

More difficult to change: less flights, less meat for our family.

What about you? :)
Actually, across the country, Trump handily won voters who made more than $50k/year.
Simple, get SHIT done. If you can get SHIT done, you are in. That's what matter
fwiw, Coinbase wouldn't be the first financial institution to challenge a John Doe Summons. The IRS issued one to UBS in 2008 (https://www.justice.gov/archive/tax/txdv08584.htm). UBS claimed it couldn't comply with the summons without breaking Swiss bank secrecy law, and the Dept of Justice ultimately came to an agreement directly with the Swiss government (under an existing tax treaty) to get the records it was seeking. Simultaneously, the IRS set up a voluntary disclosure program for Americans to pay a penalty on back taxes and avoid criminal prosecution. The amount of back taxes owed on bitcoin capital gains is probably less than the amount being sheltered by the Swiss in 2008, but it's not nothing.
I think he's referring to the fact that the Uni campuses are situated directly downtown. Something rare in other American cities.
Open source doesn't mean free....
As someone who has to live with a 4mpbs connection, if VP9 produces better quality video, I'd want Apple to use it.

I use an iMac, so battery life is not a concern. Even otherwise, I'd take video quality over battery life.
Play that out a little bit and tell us how you get a functioning government [or collective society over 100K people] as a result.

"I didn't agree to that parking fine; I park where I damn well please."

"I didn't agree to not put rat poison on the food I sold."

"I didn't agree that John and Jane Doe owned that house."

"I didn't agree that we have a medical licensing board to determine qualifications for doctors/surgeons."

"I initially agreed to pay for that, but I now revoke my consent and don't wish to be bound by that earlier consent. I did not agree to recognize your courts as valid and able to enforce that civil agreement."
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> the lack of available housing in the area due to a decades long aversion to building more housing and a huge jobs/housing imbalance amongst almost every city in the SFBA

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2011/03/san-fra... :

> San Francisco, one of the most coveted places in the world to live in, has more than 30,000 empty homes according to 2010 U.S. Census data. That means about 8.3 percent or about one in every dozen homes is vacant — more than any other surrounding county.
when i taught myself golang, gobyexample.com was the best resource for learning golang! so i'm hoping this is on par with that. what gobyexample lacks is more complicated examples, but it gets you started with just enough.

rust seems like a great language, but i'd like to hear about some advantages versus golang.
>If there is one tool that every developer uses regardless of language, platform, or framework it's the terminal.

Sounds like the author never heard of Windows development.
Not convincing. Really tried to read with an open mind, but there was literally no new info here, just a narrative spin.
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I guess the answer to your question depends on how you reckon warranted.

I reckon the tickets were not warranted and therefore object to paying the fines.
Moody’s Agrees to Settle Financial Crisis-Era Claims for $864M
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Evict every land rentier (aka "homeowner") in Palo Alto and Atherton, seize their idiotic ranch properties, and build dense apartment buildings.

You can't talk about a housing shortage in an area where most of the land is spent on quarter-acre, single-family, one-floor suburbia.
> basically requires you to share all your patents with Google if you use VP8 and VP9

Do you have a link to the license which says you must share all your patents with Google?
It may be worth noting that C-w also works in Vim insert mode.

So, for me, it works in both shell and editor.
That zoo expands on the Hagenbeck concept – an idea Carl Hagenbeck developed in 1907, where he wanted to construct a zoo without glass or fences – and researched how far and high animals could leap, and just built moats of the appropriate size around their habitat sin his zoo.

You can read more about the original concept here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierpark_Hagenbeck#Panorama_ex...
Well the Copenhagen interpretation traditionally requires the act of an 'observer'. I.e., you are not allowed to perform that act of summation on the set of orthonormal vectors in N dimensional Hilbert spaces until an "observer" observes. (That's where that stupid cat came into play and the 'uncertainty' of it being both dead and alive simultaneously until it's 'observed'.) Until this discrete event occurs, the wave function doesn't "collapse" and we're just living in statistical la-la land.

The disagreement lies in "I can mathematically apply the trace function, I'm just not quite sure when".

Alternatively, according to the Everett interpretation (to which I subscribe, and to which you seem to as well) quite a few reputed physicists do believe that the universe "splits" (though not in an actual literal sense, there's nothing ripping the universe physically in two) every time an "observation" occurs and there are lots and lots of occurring simultaneously taken from various frames of reference. This actually makes a lot of sense. Let Sean Carroll https://youtu.be/ZacggH9wB7Y convince (the plural) you.
As a non-english speaker, learn to read and speak english was the one thing that had more impact in my life (professional and personal).
>> Many of them are just belittled and controlled and disrespected.

Those guys are pathetic. They probably get courtesy sex every month or two right? A proper man takes charge of his own life first, which provides a sense of security to his wife, which is what she wants and respects. If he can't pass her shit-tests, how's he going to get by in the real world?
> For example, dual SIM card phones are not offered on any phones built for the US market, since carriers make a lot of their money from financing new phones.

Actually there are plenty of dual SIM models available in the US from US companies that are 100% compatible with US carriers, you just have to be willing to open a browser and shop for five minutes. I am currently using a Microsoft Lumia 650 dual SIM phone, purchased from Microsoft and shipped to me in Georgia (US) from California. It fully supports both AT&T's and T-Mobile's networks, and consequently all MVNOs of those networks. Until I gave her my Nexus 6, my wife was using a dual SIM Blu Android phone, sold by a Florida based company and shipped from the US. Again, the phone supported all US GSM bands.
> A parent can't sign their child's life into debt.

Student loans aren't actually very far away from that. (Not everyone taking out a student loan is over 18 or the local age of majority, which I realize that you haven't personally consented to what that age of majority should be.)
What you are saying might be right in principle: markets usually factors in risk in current prices. However, it seems to me that technological startups, like Uber, but also Airbnb, Twitter, etc. are market's blind spot.

There is a lot of hype in media, everybody is seeking new unicorn to invest in, so it might be the case that all the funds managers are still in denial about the true worth of technology companies.

It wouldn't be uprecedented, in fact current market situation looks a lot like just before dot-com bubble bust: 8 years of bull market, and a lot of money invested in companies without viable business model, like Uber.
> user feedback only

This reminds me of the quote by Henry Ford when he said if he had asked people what they wanted they would have told him "faster horses". Sometimes users don't know what they want till you give it to them.
I haven't seen that video but the one circus with animals that I've been to, I felt pretty uncomfortable watching the animals perform, because the animals seemed so tired and traumatized.
I think there are a lot of Intelligent, Educated, Talented and Creative people in Montreal. But that probably can be said of many places across the globe. So the raw materials for successful tech hub are (partially) available.

However, the government seems to to the major 'driving' force behind this, just like they are doing with the Video Game industry in the Province, with big subsidies, tax breaks which 'artificially' boosts local studios.

Now the future will tell if the artificial injection will create a lasting, self-sustaining tech hub, or will simply evaporate in the next elections (if a different government decides to cut the Business friendly regulations). But if we take the historic example of the local video game studios (there are a TON of studios around town!), there is a big potential for Montreal to become an important AI center.

Ex-Gamedev (and Montrealer) ...
IANAL, but I expect it would open Microsoft up to countless patent, and perhaps copyright, lawsuits.
Yes, and the blatant and frequent language and tone stating as if it's a foregone conclusion that his actions constituted crimes while providing such insubstantial arguments. It's almost insulting.
I believe he/she means that, while it's important to have quality infrastructure in place (fun locations, decent food, good pipes) to support startups and tech, it's absolutely critical to have a small group of hackers which actually DO things. Otherwise it's just theatre.

The jury is still out on whether one comes before the other or vise versa.
Depends on your use case/tools/habits. WSL gives you the advantage of being able to access the same files with native Windows tools and from the GNU[1] command line. If you plan on using the X GUI tools, it will be much less useful to you.

[1] I can't bring myself to use the term 'Linux' here, because, ironically, Linux is the primary missing part in this Ubuntu distribution. It should really be called WSG or WSU.
Granted, I don't go all the way back to the early days, but learned to program in 1981. I think a possible change is that our expectations for software have escalated, so that the learning curve is longer because of the complexity needed to manage things like UI, networking, and graphics.

Programming was more fun for me in those days, and today I gravitate to programming tasks that don't involve writing commercial quality apps.

Back then, you could easily make software that looked like commercial software -- albeit with fewer features -- because everything was just a text display. Today, if you say "I want to learn programming because I'm interested in games," well you've got a long road ahead of you to make something that doesn't look lame.

It's just that in the past everything looked lame. ;-)

This may explain the appeal of things like Arduino and Raspberry Pi, where projects don't need an elaborate skin and high performance in order to be interesting and cool.
If I'm a big company, like Delta, I want to make sure my profits are based on my efficiency at my core business, like operating an airline, not some random thing like the fluctuations of oil prices. So, I'd like to buy a contract that insures me against high oil prices. To pay for that insurance contract, I'd sell a contract that gives away my excess profits that might accrue if oil fell. These contracts are derivatives of oil, not oil itself.

A healthy derivatives market helps businesses focus on producing useful things for society. Every human should buy health insurance. Every big business should buy commodities and currency insurance (they don't call it that).

An unhealthy derivatives market encourages business to gamble rather than produce. GE Capital, before it got shut down, was at one point a bigger business than the rest of GE.
But come on, the default mode is "emacs" for a reason.
In the article she indicates it was for proving her hypothesis regarding the source of the problem. She then sent an actual patch upstream to fix it. It was faster this way because of the way the binary did bitwise flags for options. Flipping a single bit in the binary was quicker than recompiling bit twiddling code to for testing purposes.
Be realistic, the next day 10 forks would appear distributing it for free.
I read this entire thing through and it's literally like vapor, there's nothing to it whatsoever that supports it's headline, and no counter narrative that upends the basic story Snowden and his journalist contacts have laid out. I assume this writer is now owed a favor by his buddies at the NSA who he worked with on this story.
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...claims that there are no more places to build, racism, classism, you name it. It's always a smoke screen. They are always lying. Always. None of the people blocking housing care at all about any of those things.

Are you an aspiring mind reader or do you just enjoy making blanket statements?

I lived in a small 50,000 population Southern Ca. beach town that approved a massive 9000 resident master planned tract home/apartment community in 1999.

Character? It absolutely changed. We went from having essentially no big box stores to a Walmart, which beget more strip mall chains. Previous housing developments weren't on this scale, so yeah I'd argue thousands of semi-generic "tuscan villa" styled homes do change the aesthetics of a town.

Traffic? Went up significantly, as the whole community was built east of the existing city (and beach), meaning the main arteries were now quite full.

Classism/Racism? Doubtful. The town wasn't pristine to begin with. The majority of these new homes were more expensive than the existing housing stock complete with golf courses and swim clubs.

So now what?

More roads got built to alleviate traffic, a new outlet mall, new construction alongside the new roads. It's not helpful to act like these concerns are fake. California is a gorgeous state.

Not everyone wants to carve up every last canyon in the sake of making a miniature Irvine (or any strip mall, master planned lookalike community).