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The standard says the compiler is allowed to make that change. The standard says the programmer writing that piece of code is wrong. So no, it's not a bug in the compiler, the compiler is complying with the standard.

You could make a case that it's a bug in the standard though :-)
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The point is that "build a product to scratch your own itch" is a dangerous statement - you should be finding an itch that (a) a lot of people have and (b) that doesn't have an overabundance of scratching solutions.

The itches of typical developers fail in both of these criteria; typical developers are a small niche of consumers and they can scratch their own itches, so there are many solutions and if it's still itching, then probably simple scratching won't help.

You need to find itches in other domains. It might be your own itch if you have extensive background in some specific business domain and just happen to have development skills, but for most people you'll have to go out of your way to find and understand the itches that you couldn't possibly ever have - possibly because scratching them would be so easy for you that you wouldn't notice the problem if you had it, while they have been suffering for decades.
Got it. EMV is clearly an issue then, I see the problem.
Interesting. Apple haven't made user generated content available over the web in such an official capacity before. I really hope this signals a change in direction so we get more web APIs for content developed on iOS - it's something that users want.
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The C standard allows the compiler to do this, so it's definitely not a bug in the compiler.
Because most people aren't lawyers whose job it is to defend bad actors and deflect blame on to good actors for enabling the bad actor to carry out their bad act in the first place.

If you're arguing there should have been no hard fork, then you're defending a person whom you know is guilty of an $80m robbery.

You can claim that technically it wasn't robbery, and they just found the money unattended while searching for unattended money in a bank, but any reasonable person would interpret that as theft.

Meanwhile, as you're fixated on how wrong Ethereum was to protect itself from a significant % of ETH falling in to the hands of a bad actor, there's a much larger issue in the cryptocurrency world right now which is mining centralisation in cryptocurrency and Bitcoin in particular. It was viewed as merely theoretical once upon a time but now it's very much an issue and crippling the use of Bitcoin as a currency and as a project. Status.im is just one example of that. It could have been built using Bitcoin but it's using Ethereum because it's the more progressive platform / currency / blockchain / ecosystem.
You mean like approximately zero percent of non-trivial C or C++ programs in actual existence?
I guess this is kinda cool, but you have to look past the headline.

18 minutes without oxygen isn't far-fetched for humans.
The Guinness world record for "longest time breath held voluntarily (male)" is a bit over 24 minutes.

So, yeah, that line in the article that says "no warm-blooded mammal can...come close to the naked mole-rat’s 18-minute record" seems to be painfully and stupidly wrong.

The interesting part is not that they survive for 18 minutes. The interesting part is that they do fine at 5% oxygen and that seemingly they (almost?) hold their breaths involuntarily after they pass out at lower levels.
Sounds like a NP-Complete problem to me.
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Meta: I can't believe how often xkcd nails it.
Like Bo Burnham said: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q-JgG0ECp2U
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That is blatantly not true. Some people have principles. Look at Richard Stalman, he doesn't sacrifice his principles for efficiency because he really believes in them.
I actually thought this was a Stripe product when I first saw the landing page - and I mean that as a compliment, because Stripe's web pages are always beautiful. (My only slight criticism of this one is that the bits which load in progressively as you scroll down have slightly too much of a delay.)
What a lovely book. I learnt more in the first few chapters than I did a year at college getting a mediocre grade. Anything like this but for Logic?
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From what I heard, peat is a much bigger carbon sink. I mean, if you have multiple meter thick layers of practically pure carbon material covering the land, thats an enourmous amount. I have read something about 30% of carbon stored on 3% of the worlds land mass. The amazon on the contrary is only a very thin layer of organic soil with trees on top. Its still huge but only through its size, not by amout per area.
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Awesome. Do you also know what they are using for the shell? Seems to be something a bit different from that theme.
Sockets over NFC on Android
I hate to sound so critical, it sure looks like an interesting project, but could developers of such applications/websites please stop putting everything on their web page in marketing speech? Why do so many FOSS developers imitate the worst aspects of the proprietary, commercial software world?

I looked at the feature descriptions and they are full of meaningless buzzwords like "crowd sourced wisdom". So you've lost a potential user. K.I.S.S.
So vampires have more IQ than humans? I should reconsider becoming a vampire hunter.
This looks great, but the only thing stopping me from integrating something like this into my apps is the fact that there isn't any native (Objective-C) client/library support, so far.

Its one thing to have a prototype built with JS. Its another thing entirely to integrate into apps which use native technologies.
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But RMS is the opposite of corporate.
Ah, thanks! Didn't see that. That's some hairy code, for sure. :|

I don't even know if these things are the same in C and C++ any more (the code in question is in C++).

/me runs back to C.
> Pain is a messenger. It tells you something is very wrong

This is incorrect, and this belief causes great harm. Pain is only sometimes a signal that something is wrong.
I prefer the image of Ronald McDonald turning up in full clown gear to give a hard nosed business lecture.
Circular runways: Engineer defends his proposal
That would be handy. You would think such a thing must exist. There are certainly companies that will digitize all your photos for you, including some cleanup in editing software, but I believe they charge ~ $0.75/photo. Anyway, they must have some decent hardware.

I just finished scanning a batch of my old high school photos, but I didn't take a lot, so it was only a few hundred. Managed to fit three at a time on the bed of my all-in-one printer/scanner, but it was tricky because there was a dead zone along the edges, so they had to be in the middle, but spaced out enough that the software could auto-crop them. Still not TOO bad, but I wouldn't really relish doing it for thousands.
I have never met someone that didn't lie occasionally. Most are just basically honest. And that's ok.

There is no point in telling a 5 year old that their picture sucks, for example. You might not say it is your favorite, sure, but you won't be telling them it is garish in color or that you can't even tell it is a doggy.

In her situation, she's freaking dying. She sees a chance at life, and she has to lie to do it? Yeah, she's still basically a very honest person, much like the person not being mean to the 5 year old.
Any interest in sharing the identity of the apparent primary account? It would be very helpful to my sanity and personal safety to know more about the persons stalking me around and harassing me online...
What if we humans had a predisposition to "Cargo-Cult" in order to strive to advance our race? Some sort of memetic gene. A sort of selfish gene if you will.

People would argue striving to be like a TED speaker or Kim Kardashian or (INSERT_CELEB_NAME_HERE) is superficial, dumb and shallow. Yet those people are better positioned to survive given our society doesn't change.

I would be interested to see if their was some sort of Event that drastically changed our world, would we worship hunter-gatherer style traits again?

I think yes.
As far as I understand, Curve is viable due to the fact they issue corporate cards (you can see "for commercial use only" on their cards).

Europe has capped interchange fees to 0.2% and 0.3% for debit and credit cards respectively. However, three-party schemes (like Amex) and corporate cards are exempt and charge more. But you're right, I'm not sure how MasterCard is happy with that (since the product is clearly targeted at consumers).
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Reading it as a kid I wasn't sure I trusted the author - Silvanus P. Thompson FRS ('FRS' - which I knew to be something rather prestigious) when he wrote in the prologue "Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I've had to unteach myself the difficulties . . . What one fool can do, another can."
You could of course switch to Ada.
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SEC Reg SHO 2017-Q1 Fails-To-Deliver= $131.95B -you and I don't care
I think Canada is pretty easy for UK/Ireland. I know a few people who moved there for work with relatively little planning and within a couple of years, they've got permanent residence. They moved for standard big company jobs too, it's not like they're experts in their field or anything.
Or you could throw your clothes into a geyser [1] :)

> (...) The group put their soiled clothes in a pillowcase and threw it into the geyser’s cone. When it erupted, the clothes were sent flying over a hundred feet into the air. When they collected them, the churning, heated water had indeed cleaned them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14146482
How often do they even check it though? And of those times, how often would they refuse it? I know that pre-chip and PIN in the UK I had a card for years where the signature strip had been rubbed off, and I was never challenged on it. When I've visited the US they've also very rarely checked.
Same here. I discovered Inbox quite recently and it does a great job for me.
Chuwi SurBook to try and fill in the Microsoft Surface’s shoes
Surely nullc's company could sell their expertise even without segwit getting pushed given the number of core developers on their payroll?
That's not how law works, is it?

One woman forgot to pay and walked out the store with an item; another women chose not to pay and walked out the store with an item. In England the second has committed theft, the first hasn't. What's the difference?
It sounds like it may be worse than that. According to someone who took the test[1] they then also offer students the chance to pay to retake for better scores.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/66kb3c/95_engi...
One thing that should be considered is the right for an individual to be forgotten.
Free hacking tools 'help young into cyber-crime'
What else would you do instead? More often than not I see this point abused by lazy or negative people to justify not doing anything useful.

Yes there's survivorship bias, you try to adjust for that, and draw inspiration from the positive parts of the better and more realistic examples.

Just because the system is rigged against you, doesn't mean you shouldn't try to achieve things. Not trying to achieve things is decidedly worse.
Yeah I'll wait for the ETEKCITY version for $16 with prime shipping.
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For people claiming that this is a compiler bug, it really is not.

I am no expert, but what I understood is that the C standard defines some situations (such as an overflow error) which result in "undefined behaviour". In this situation, the compiler is free to do whatever he wants. This is in fact what happens here.

This is clearly annoying to programmers. In this case, it is even hard to avoid undefined behaviour even if the source of undefined behaviour (a pointer overflow) is known.

Why is this done? This way the compiler can do some aggresive optimizations which are only valid if there is no undefined behaviour (e.g. no overflow, null pointer acces...).

There are various good articles about this.

To make the situation more complex for programmers, it is possible to write programs which exhibit undefined behaviour but work fine in practice. Until the compiler tries to do a specific optimization.

This is basically why you shouldn't use C. Long-time C programmers know a list of operations which are undefined behaviour, and are usually able to point out a few of these in a program written by newbie (ironically, these programs may run and pass tests just fine).
> There's zero lock-in unless you want to use Hangouts. Or Google Earth. Or Inbox.

That's not really Chrome's fault - it's the fault of the respective (Hangouts, Earth, Inbox) product teams. We didn't blame Microsoft for "lock-in" back in the IE-only website days, I think it would be fair to give Google that latitude unless you are ascribing nefarious motives above and beyond what lazy/resource-constrained web devs used to do with IE6-only web sites/apps.
I thought sandstorm was supposed to be a security-focused project? But they're writing new C code and connecting it to the Internet. And surprise surprise, this happens.

Fuzzers will catch a certain proportion of this type of problem, sure. But for a ground-up project like this there's really no excuse not to use a better language.
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Sadly I don't think there is any risk of them running out of money anytime soon.
This is as much as a discovery as finding that banknote of 100 in your old jeans that you forgot about.. Garbage can't be 'new'

Don't get me wrong, horrible issue and glad to see some articles pass by on HN that try to address this issue. But calling it a 'discovery' is a bit odd imho.
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Cloudflare starting to enable DNSSEC automatically for .dk domains
People talk about this as customers, but: surely the point of pre-order money in many cases is precisely to fund operations - to provide the working capital needed to do manufacturing?

If I have a hardware product that costs $80 to make (x10,000) and I'm selling it on Kickstarter for $100, are you saying that after taking in a million on kickstarter I should just sequester it and then find a spare $800k to do the actual manufacturing?
Bed-wetting children get cheap blankets and mattress protectors (plastic sheets), not duvets!
Some of the features, like mesh gradient have polyfills.

Polyfills are the only way this chicken and egg problem will be solved, if widely used browser vendors will eventually implement the standards.
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind" is cited by Paul from the OC Bible in Dune.
South Korea's Online Banking System Is Stuck in 1996
So rewriting code in order to "do what I mean" makes sense, since not doing what you mean is a bug in the language itself?

Not sure that's a very productive approach. The spec is what it is, and it's of course rather deliberately done the way it is in order to make it possible for compilers to optimize and extract more performance.
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You can't expect salaries to move (quickly) with currency fluctuations though. A couple years ago the US and Canadian dollars were at parity, and those $70k and $80k salaries would have still been about the same. So not much of a gap at all, especially considering healthcare costs. Yes, at the current exchange rate, Canadian salaries are quite a bit lower when priced in USD. Most day to day expenses are proportionally lower too. (Although not all. Things like electronics tend to be tied to the US price somewhat, although not 100%. Housing is also inflated, especially in places like Vancouver and Toronto, but that's largely a separate issue. You'll notice that, for example, you can buy cars cheaper in Canada right now. (In fact, if you're in the US shopping for a reasonably high-end car, you can almost certainly save money by importing one from Canada.))

So yeah, a lower dollar is somewhat bad for employees who see some of their costs go up (in CAD) due to the exchange rate, as well as those who are planning to spend their earnings in other countries. It's also bad for companies that need to import goods. Of course it's good for companies that export goods, especially those with costs (like employee salaries!) paid in CAD. If the dollar stays low (in a relative sense) for long enough, these things tend to be pulled back into equilibrium, but they never move as fast as currencies can fluctuate.
Was going to say the exact same. "Would you like to finally find success working from home? Would you like to do more than just get by? Today we are talking about how to hustle your way to making $5,000 per month or more. Learn from these examples and use them as inspiration when devising your own work at home success plan." .. and my scammy-senses are tingeling.
You also need adequate cubic footage to absorb the moisture dependent upon the humidity inside. If you run the AC, that helps keep the humidity lower, but it's probably more expensive than just running the dryer.
So sad and need to find/create an alternative.

For me, Wunderlist is well done in offline access, super fast sync and a battery-friendly Mac app. I sometimes work in some place that does not allow internet connection, e.g. warehouse where phone signal is screwed, or some meeting rooms just block the signal due to their privacy.

In many years I still cannot find an alternative. May be Evernote(?)
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One thing that struck me about this article is that every single picture on it has the author's name on it. Iyer, Iyer, Iyer. It really is strange to see 5 seemingly unnecessary photos, especially since the photo captions are just explaining something or quoting something in the story, and aren't taken by the author.

In any case, I feel this is a romanticized version of Japan that people really try to find when they visit. I've certainly had some magical moments in Japan -- Kyoto, especially Arahiyama, is very beautiful and some parts of it feel magical -- but in general having visited multiple times and currently staying here, I feel like Japan is an eastern Asian country with a separate language and potentially more indoctrinated politeness. I'm curious why people get so fascinated with Japan... Not that it isn't, but what makes it more fascinating than, say, Korea, or New Zealand?

Also, is it common for things that aren't editorial or news to appear on BBC? It feels out of place.
I think it's more about being 'mentally prepared'. A lot of 'successful' people are harping on this thought that as long as you work hard you can accomplish something similar to what they have, which might trick a lot of people into actually believing this, not taking into account the substantial contribution 'luck' has.

In many ways, this train of thought is also abused by those who have already made it. Help the poor? Why, they're not working hard enough! Thus, helping everyone be aware of this could conceivably help us make better social policies.
This is an odd attitude: we have all sorts of new discoveries of things that are ancient. The whole field of geology is based on very ancient things and it makes discoveries all the time. A discovery just means it's new to us, not necessarily that it's entirely new (whatever that means).
I thought about this recently when a new cafe opened up in a prime location (replacing another cafe). The rent must be enormous, and it occurred to me that no matter how good or efficient the cafe operates, the rent will probably simply rise until the cafe is merely earning at average market rates.

I found that rather depressing. All those people struggling to improve their business are merely struggling to increase the income of the property owner. (I guess if I had the money and inspiration to become a property owner it would be less depressing).
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You can still get 1.25% back in the EU. It's not a lot, but it's still just free cash.

https://www.americanexpress.com/uk/content/platinum-cashback...

I have a card that gets me miles instead of cash. I did the maths and worked out those were better value for what I wanted. Again, they're just free miles and I'm always flying with the airline anyway so I'm never making extra trips in order to spend them.

The genius of the system I use is that I have multiple credit cards (American Express, Visa) but actually they all just feed into the same account with the same bill to make managing them simple.
Brookfield is another.
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The plastics are not inert and interfere with the smaller organisms feeding in the ocean. Since these form the base of the ocean food web, if their growth is disturbed, the rest of the food chain suffers negatively.
robots.text is not a security tool. It's communication tool that gives advice. Just like sitemaps.

If you need to add security (logins) to protect content you don't need to protect you inconvenience users.
Lastpass is really quite horribly designed. To think that someone actually sat down to design a 2FA system and thought of that crap. Jeez.
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I hope the folks at Gallaudet University don't come across these
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When I saw the comic in my feeds this morning I immediately thought of Darius Kazemi's XOXO talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw
You can ask Clang to print the compiler IR after each optimisation, but you would need to know that you were looking for something before that was useful.
>What else would you do instead?

Acknowledge when luck was the major reason for your success. Don't stand in front of a room of people and tell them if they weren't so damn lazy, they could have hundreds of millions of dollars as well.

In other words, if luck played any major part in your success, you really have no justification in lecturing people on how to be good at something.
It's considered reasonable to endanger lives to dry washing? (I don't live in the US).
yeah it's not even hard to solve of a problem, just use the archived version of robots.txt that matches the crawl date

too bad they already lost loads of internet content that way
IE invented nice things like AJAX (XMLHttpRequest) as an ActiveX control - let's not forget this is exactly the sort of standards-breaking behaviour that you are accusing Google of doing with Chrome.

The web has a long history of post-facto standardization where implementation comes before standardazation (see browser wars).
GE appliances is already a Chinese company so pretty sure they have some chance to be the first to actually commercialize it. So no need to worry about China copying it..
"That's arrogance... I have 40 years programming experience to back that up."

Ironic juxtaposition.
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But none of that really justifies animal experimentation.

> It's important to note that ethics committees nowadays are extremely strict when it comes to using live subjects, humans or otherwise, so rest assured that the experimenters did their best to minimize the suffering of the rats. If they didn't, their work would probably never be accepted for funding and/or publication.

I don't buy it. These ethics committees are starting with the presumption that it's ok to use animals in experiments to begin with. Have they outlawed vivisection yet? I've talked to a researcher at a large US state school who routinely sawed through monkey's skulls and installed removable, screw-on skull caps so that they could poke and prod at their brains more easily.

I mean, I'm a hypocrite for saying that though. I still eat chicken. But I don't delude myself about it.