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This sounds analogous to a stop-the-world GC. I wonder whether it's possible to construct a method for dealing with memory palaces that is more analogous to a non-stop-the-world GC?
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The duke nukem forever of kickstarter games.
I'd be interested to know your thoughts on the Essence of Linear Algebra videos by Grant Sanderson. What role do you see material like that playing? (They are fantastic if you're not familiar) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xV...
There's an equally overzealous tendency of the big three to knock him. E.g. the time when the New York Times reviewer John Broder (probably acting on behalf of some of their best advertiser-customers) wrote the review with ~9 coincidentally unfavorable inaccuracies described here: https://www.tesla.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive

I suspect more social media shilling is paid for by the big three than by Tesla.
I'll have to look into those. Being able to start with the Arduino IDE is a big plus for beginners.
I grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere. I'm used to dealing with large animals killed by coyotes, old age, and butchering.

But I don't like your attitude towards death. You might not care about snakes and frogs and such. That's fine. But they're neat animals, and it's not childish at all to not want to harm them.
No-one has the right to be an asshole.
Give people a tax credit to ditch their lawn. That with having a lawn tax (or excess water use tax) would be an effective solution to reduce what is generally a waste of water and a poor use of space, particularly in arid regions.
The app publishers that are going to be accepted in the network will have full control over what ads that will be displayed. It's their choosing if they which ad they display and where as long their app passes our quality-standards (eg. UI/UX, number of active users, regular updates etc)

I feel like the TinyAds network is more about buying influence and exposure and not a fixed number of impressions (that basically translates to the number of times an ad was loaded and that's it).

Also - I'm not sure why would you think your inventory is doled out since the app publisher accepted your ad and you have the guarantee of the ad being displayed on their app?
I'm not arguing that it can't be done, I too have seen plenty of examples. I'm saying that it's not leading anywhere, individually or collectively; which is why I suggest focusing on substance instead and seeing where that leads us. I believe the problem is that the general public have no clue about what's possible, and we're not doing a very good job at showing them by producing more of the same crap.
>"The need for state-financed housing is per definition a failure to leverage natural market forces and points to regulations being the culprit when investment conditions are better than ever at the same time."

And what do you call it when a city becomes a place that only the wealthy can afford to live in? There are so many people that contribute and make a city function who are not even remotely middle class. Where do they live? Isn't that also a failure? Real-estate in desirable cities is increasingly being used to stash cash[1][2], and there are no shortage of developers who are developing property specifically to attract these types of "tenants." So no simply relying on "natural market forces"is not really an inclusionary solution.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/25/planne...
[2]http://nymag.com/news/features/foreigners-hiding-money-new-y...
JWB as in John Wilkes Booth, the guy who assassinated Lincoln? I can't really imagine him having a resurgence in popularity, but I've never fully understood the American psyche, I will admit.
AMD would have to match the current power draw and integrated GPU that Apple can get from Intel before they switched on the portable front.
Excellent point. I'm also curious about comparing the demographic that enlisted with the equivalent demographic cohort that stayed home in terms of age, educational attainment and socioeconomic status. Was the military the only hope they had for employment or did those that stayed home prosper economically and do generally well.
If i advertise it on the socials media will be able to able massive users?
Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news
Do they really? That's the line I kept hearing when I was searching for my home but it seemed they were overly inflated, and buyers were drifting away from the silly harassment and pain of HOAs.

Id say the evidence is clear: if you want to truly own your home, don't buy in an HOA. If you want others to make decisions for you, dictate how your home will look, and monitor you like a police force, then choose an HOA.
Why should I rent digital goods? It's quite nonsensical, because copying doesn't cost anything. I prefer to keep what I paid for.
There's more to it than getting it 'working'. Airplay support, for one.
That definitely happens, and the population of deer ticks goes way up too. I tell you what, finding deer ticks on your kids is huge motivation for mowing. I take a "mow the weeds" approach, I don't care what grows in my lawn, but I'm not going to let it get long enough to harbor ticks.
> main point of growing a natural yard is to attract wildlife

Is there a consensus on attracting wildlife to places where humans live? Having grown up in a place where every year at least one person in the village died from snake bites, I do not think I personally want to go back to those conditions.
You can actually do a soft transition from the (opaque) Arduino programming style to a programming style closer to hardware. After all, Arduino programs are just C++ and you can plug in your own functions and assembler and you can even compile and upload your own ASM/C/C++ program written from scratch and compiled with the gnu-avr-toolchain to the UNO.

After you have done all of that it might be a good idea to start soldering the AVR on your own boards.
I think the property value issue is important. If a major employer closes and people want to leave/no one wants to move there, property values go down. Even if you're not underwater, you're in a much worse position. To move to a place with more opportunity is much more expensive, especially if you have no guarantee of long term, stable employment.
With drives like this, the approach of "throw more hardware at it" continues working for databases to the point where most database loads in the world can be handled on a single machine.
Here is the story from the Northampton Chronicle that is referenced but not linked to: http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/doctors-now-80-per-ce...

Note that it is similarly without any substantive details. Not to be a naysayer, buuuutttt... knowing a fair amount about type 1 diabetes, I can suggest any number of possible explanations that are far short of "miracle." The most obvious one is that he had over-treated type 2 diabetes and increased physical activity is leading to an increase in insulin sensitivity that looks like a miraculous cure. Alternatively, especially given the late age of diagnosis, he might have Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adults (LADA), which is kind of like really slowly developing type 1 diabetes. The body naturally goes through ebbs and flows in relative efficiency and autoimmunity, so if he still had some functioning beta cells, a temporary period of reduced autoimmunity could allow those cells to resurge and produce enough insulin to support his body without the addition of exogenous insulin. However, that's unlikely to last if that's the case.

Again, not to pooh-pooh all theoretically good news, but... I see lots of miracle cures for diabetes in headlines, and none on the pharmacy shelves.
Looks like Google has their annual 'give the employees a gizmo' idea. :-)
GMO's are bad!
Definitely all valid points. For me, using bike share systems is ultimately dependent on how long I'm in a given city. I use bike share when I'm in Boston for conferences, because like you my trips there are point-to-point and rack (station?) coverage aligns with my routes. Back home in the bay I don't feel any urge to use the bike share.

The fleet of bikes being poorly suited for SF is really my biggest gripe with the system out here. A heavy bike and upright posture make hills very unpleasant. Security is a huge plus for bike share, not having to think about where to lock up my bike semi-safely would be great. Seems dependent on rack coverage though, which is tricky.
Side effects from functions that modify global state (or importing global state elsewhere) are bad because they increase the complexity of a program in a way that can very rapidly spiral out of control. The operation of a function reading global state is no longer easily predictable and you'll be tracking hard to replicate bugs.

Better to have a function rely entirely on its arguments and to output the result as a return value.

Side effects that do things such as persisting data or producing output are - for the most part - acceptable, if they are contained in such a way that you move to as much of a 'functional' approach as soon as you can.

So reserve your side effects for the edge of your program, keep the rest as side-effect free as you can.

Now that was a little long for a bullet point list hence the abbreviated version.
> I don't know if this is still an area of opportunity but I remember having an at length conversation in regards to trying to become the go to devices firms that VCs and or startups could call in to help themselves or in the case of VCs the businesses they provide support to a leg up on this

Yep. Definitely an area of opportunity. There are some contractors specializing in startup, charging them a lot at critical stages.

I think the biggest challenge with them is to get the money. Startups by nature don't have the money to pay thousands of dollars per day to contractors, there are only a very few who can afford it after a big funding round. That's a niche market. Unfortunately, startups usually have an abysmal business culture, they don't hire/don't understand contractors and they don't expect to to pay that much for a service.
Yea, float is over-rated as a BH advantage. It's simply a low cost short term loan, over many years it's even a negative interest loan, but in bad years it costs lots of real money.

He has to keep money ready to repay float when insurance subs need it, or regulators would shut them down. So it can't be directly invested in long term equities.

Any investor who wanted to ape Warren could borrow against 20% of their portfolio and achieve a similar "advantage". You shouldn't borrow more because one day the market will drop 50% and you could have your entire portfolio liquidated at the worst possible time.

And obviously borrowing doesn't help if you aren't a skilled investor, if you are paying 7% to try to earn 8% the extra return isn't worth the risk. But if you are the next Buffett with the skill to average over 30% a year for your first decade with a smaller portfolio, it's a reasonable strategy.
Come to the midwest. When it's warm, you have to mow almost every time it rains.
Linus has explained why he picked SHA-1. I'm not Linus, and I'm not defending his choice, but he has said repeatedly that git's hash is primarily for indexing and error correction, and not primarily for security. Clearly he felt like SHA-1 was "good enough". And if you have something that's "good enough" there are reasons not to write code for alternatives you're not going to use.
> For one, all shaders would need to be converted from HLSL to GLSL

Not necessarily. Vulkan now supports HLSL input too, which is compiled into SPIR-V, same way GLSL is. You don't need HLSL → GLSL translation step.
All large code bases smell.. and some of them reek. I've never once in my life encountered a consistent code base and I reckon that I'm not alone here. The only pleasant code is the one you wrote yourself.

Everything goes down the drain once you get dozens or even hundreds of people involved. Ask any dev at Microsoft, Apple, etc.. they all push crap code, but it somehow does the job... and in the end it doesn't really matter.
Oh, I just remembered another fun feature of Japanese verb conjugation.

Can you conjugate the (regular) verb "へる" (heru)? There happen to be two verbs that are pronounced "heru" but with completely different conjugations! Do you remember which one is which? In fact any verb that ends with -eru or -aru can be potentially conjugated like an ichidan verb or a godan verb. For each such verb you have to remember its conjugation class, lest you conjugate it completely wrong. So these aren't so regular after all.

Also a related topic is intransitive/transitive verb pairs. These are also heavily irregular, and you must use the correct one in a sentence or it will be ungrammatical.
I can't believe no one has stated the obvious solution to rural lack of opportunity, the one that worked until 40 years ago- reinstate the draft.
Freecell Solver
Big companies have big marketing budgets and are interested in big numbers (eg. huge number of impressions).

I was thinking in terms of a more human approach where advertisers are actually looking to connect with their potential users.

App publishers don't sell impressions - they sell influence by allowing the advertiser to get a spot from their app real-estate.
This isn't a matter of "overcoming the laws of physics"... what's being conjectured in the article may or may not be a physical reality.
I've found the best programmers are also really good writers of English.

I unscientifically credit this to my belief that both skills require 1> clarity of purpose (why am I writing this function/paragraph? What's the overall purpose of this effort?) 2> Lazy enough that they'd rather get it close to right the first time, and then fix bugs, rather than thrash around and see what emerges, 3> a taste for parsimony, but not excessively so, and no need to show off in what they type.
I'm 1500 player in Chess.com, and I still miss out on "Checkmate in 2" or "Checkmate in 3" situations on occassion. That's why I review every single one of my games with Stockfish / SCID vs PC.

Generally speaking, those Checkmates I miss are Queen or Rook sacrifices, or "Smothered Mates". There are plenty of checkmates that are obvious 10+ moves ahead... but if you aren't explicitly looking for a smothered mate, it tends to be hard to see IMO.
They are. NYC has massive cheap apartment blocks built with public funds. The suburbs of Long Island and Weschester use land much less efficiently and are more expensive. Notice how Soviet Russia made apartment blocks: per unit construction costs might be higher, but transit and land gets used more effectively.
As the other poster stated, you don't really disagree, just misunderstand.

You can actually do everything you need in the Arduino IDE and then leave the IDE, compile and upload your own program written from scratch to the UNO. All that while staying compatible to the dozens of hardware extensions out there.

The "Arduino" part is not the destination, it's three quarters of the path to the destination and that path is already paved.
I find it remarkable that you see Clinton as having promised some sort of improvement here. Let's not forget that the situation on the morning of November 8 was the direct result of eight years under Obama, the loving-est, caring-est president that ever did sit behind the Resolute desk. Not that I don't have considerable respect for the man, but really - if that was the best he could do in eight years of what I do believe to be genuinely giving a damn, where is the sense in expecting better from someone who so clearly did not give a damn that she didn't even see purely cynical value in putting up a credible pretense of so doing?

Based on what you say here, it's very clear to you that for poor people to vote Democratic favors their interests, and that for poor people to vote Republican goes against them. This is very evidently not so clear to everyone. Perhaps all those who disagree with you are simply hateful, ignorant fools. Then again, perhaps they're not.
But then how do you remember a number that really does have repeated digits? I'd never be able to remember my phone number under this system.
"if you want to truly own your home"

Property tax?

I'm not here to extoll the joys of paying and dealing with an HOA, they can be a hassle - I know it.

However, consider the alternatives: Move out to unincorporated land, build your 5 acre dream home, swimming pools, tennis courts, etc. Watch as a dump and trailer park open next door...consider what your options are.
Lack of opportunity in NH? The unemployment rate in New Hampshire is 3.8% It was two and change last year. I grew up in NH. it's a small place. No suitable job in your town? Drive.

You know what would help with addiction? Universal health care, and treating addiction like a disease. Who has supported that: the types of politicians who get elected in cities, and who people in rural areas vote against.

Rural issues being ignored? Hillary's website is still up. Anyone with a browser can see the white papers on rural aid, the economy, drugs. The 65 policy fact sheets. 112,000 words of policy, compared to 9000 on Trump's website. Of course, one might look at deeds, rather than words. What's in the news this week? "Trump slashes billions from rural programs." Perhaps you think that the policies on the left are wrongheaded. That's fine. But to say that the politicians on the left ignore rural America is to lie.

As you note, the electoral college exists to give unjust and immoral over-representation to rural interests. And the nomination process for presidential candidates starting out in lily white and rural Iowa and New Hampshire. And of course, a small town in New Hampshire has all sorts of opportunities for local political participation: selectman and school boards, and even in a small town of 5000 souls two or three state reps. It is not the fault of people in cities that people in small towns don't use these tools and advantages to elect people who will put in place policies to make their lives better. People in cities are not stopping rural people from taking care of themselves. Rural people are ruining their lives on their own.
> What puzzles me is this: how do the republicans, either under Trump or any of their predecessors get people to consistently vote against their interests?

Because they are voting based on tribalism. Trump signaled that he was a member of their tribe with his "tough talk" and racist comments. It doesn't matter what he does now - what the voters cared about was that "their team won."
Ads. Mainly developing chat apps for Google Play and it's the simplest way to make money for these type of sw.

It worked well until Google removed our main app from search results and it all went downhill from there.
I meant feedback for the "what will it do" section of the YC application. Sorry for the confusion.
it just so happens that those interests are around supporting founders so they can build huge companies and disrupt major industries. (No joke.)

Question: do threads that are critical of YC companies get buried just because they're YC companies? (For example if Uber had YC investment, which a cursory glance says it doesn't, would the criticism of it have been buried by mods here)?

(I say this because there were a lot of critical stories about Uber recently, and in the past, too.)
In parts of the world and acre certainly could be a very productive farm.

An example in North America - "With only 1½ acres cultivated in permanent beds, the farm grosses more than 100 000$ per acre with operating margins of about 60 per cent, enough to financially sustain his family." http://www.themarketgardener.com/
>"Berlin has supply, the limited resource are vintage buildings (pre-war or rebuilt in the same layout)"

Is this the courtyard style apartment building you see in Berlin? Is there a name for those? I'm guessing these are the desirable ones?
It depends on your HOA.

Ours only exists to pool funds to split snowplowing in the winter and eventually resurface our private drive. Everything is run as a direct/pure democracy in the annual meeting, which is easy when there are 15 of us and nothing to talk about except snowplowing, resurfacing, whether we want to change the dues, who has new kids/grandkids/pets/jobs/lawn tractors, and who brought the best cookies this year.

There are no HOA rules above those already in place by the township, state, and federal governments. I can safely say that this status is unlikely to result in 24/7 protests.
Assault ....via the Internet‽ That's a new one. I can't wait to see this played out in court.
Of course, do they come with a nice IDE and a big library/ecosystem of soft/hardware examples?
A different kind of problem: Mental Health in Academia
Museum of Pretty Bugs
Hollywood can't get anything right: real police don't act like movie police; real soldiers don't act like movie soldiers; real programmers don't act like movie programmers; real lovers don't act like movie lovers; real clergymen don't act like movie clergymen; real businessmen don't act like movie businessmen — and to the extent that any real people do act like movie characters, it's due to the influence of movies.

What really worries me is that most of us have far more false experience of most of the world than we have real experience: how many of us know much about chess, or police work, or soldiering, or programming (okay, that one HN has down pretty well, I hope), or love (I hope most of HN has that one down at least a bit), or church, or business? And yet no doubt all of us have very strong opinions about these things, due in no small part to … the false movie experiences we've had.
As an advertiser that sounds like a nightmare to me. We want to be able to push our creatives out to a huge mass of users instantly, track whatever performance is relevant to us, then iterate on that to try to improve. Having to vet individual placements on apps would be a gigantic waste of time and I would not do it. Maybe for some niche markets it makes sense but I can't think of any.
Ah, unfortunate typo corrected :) You've made me worried that might be true too.
Woah, that's disorienting to be linked to a bluedoc unexpectedly like that, considering I'm not on my work account. I ever recognize one of the authors.
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Maybe what you meant to say is that normal Republicans aren't normal Republicans. Or perhaps that this is what normal Republicans actually are. Because any which way, Trump remains popular with these whatever Republicans.
It's about having a good reason. Coyotes gotta eat, nothing lives forever, and a slaughter is a harvest. But killing a snake so you can have a trimmed lawn you don't even want, well yeah, no wonder.