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what are your criteria to be a "safe programming language"?

- type safety
- memory management
- compile time help

Here are some options:
- http://tobyho.com/2008/03/30/how-safe-is-your-programming/
- http://vita.mil-embedded.com/articles/when-programming-langu...
I think it's depend on where you stand. I do have plenty of useful skills and expertise in many areas, but when it comes to C++ development it's likely that I'm nowhere close to "very junior programmer" with proper education. Might be I'll try to get a job in future and will know for sure, but at moment I feel best I could hope for is some QA position.

And a lot of open source contributors are like that especially when it's come to games since there no one to pay for development. There are number of games that have very skilled people on team (VCMI has @alexvins), but usually they started with very basic things and learned along the way. As our project originator who still around, but no longer contributes said: when programmer get good enough he get a job and no longer have time for contributing. :-)

Another thing even is that gap in education quality is huge around the world. We have many people from Poland since H3 is very popular there and sadly even after computer science course their knowledges are much worse than mine and skill of practical development is none. Disclaimer: I don't have any education and situation usually much worse in Russia where I live.
Hangovers are a wretched, miserable thing, it's true, but beyond the flowery language of metaphysics, they are at least in part due to our drug of choice.

Ethyl Alcohol is not kind to the body, its metabolic pathyway involves formaldehyde, for a start. There are other substances, other alcohols even, that can have similar effects but without the specific awfulness of the hangover.

Certainly, what the author describes as putting the walls back up, that's likely going to happen regardless of the drug, but the pain, nausea and dehydration are signatures of booze, and these will affect your mind too - makingyou more wretched and self pitying.
I don't get what this article is trying to say.

“In India,” he said, “you cannot look or be strange. Choosing a new entrant is a risk. You have to be careful with your money. A new product must be different.”

Isn't this contradicting itself? What I understood from this article is (1) Renault are selling the cheapest possible standard looking car and (2) They do localized, ritualistic sales & delivery which appeals to their buyers.

Seems to me that this is a story about a car that isn't trying to disrupt anything or be any more radical than absolutely necessary to meet its price/cost goals. It is trying to bring standard low cost Renaults to India.

The article mentions the Tata Nano, a more radical low cost concept. It could also have mentioned the Twizy, Renault's current attempt at a tiny lower cost car radically different from other models. Both of these stretch the standard definition of "car" and you might call them disruption attempts. The Kwid is explicitley trying to do the opposite.

The current suite of car types (budget hatchback, family sedan, SUV..) is fairly stable. This is probably because use cases have remained the same, the technology has remained similar & underlying economic factors of production haven't changed much.

Two things could change that: EV technology & AV technology, especially AV.

For example, if most passenger cars are autonomous taxis, we might see more specialized designs. Slow, single seaters for urban travel. Larger comfort vehicles for longer distance travel.. etc. That would be disruptive.
We still have no idea why humans speak over 7,000 languages
It's cheaper. Why? Because people have spare disk and spare bandwidth.

It's also more likely to survive a major war if it's redundant enough.

Is it better for serving hot assets, no. Is it better for storing a massive amount of raw data that you need occasional random, indexed access to? Maybe.

Edit:

Also, less regulatory concerns since in theory nobody knows who is paying for it. This is probably it's biggest weakness, to be honest, since it could be used to spread child porn.
I try firefox usually once a year to find out nothing changed about freezing, crashing, slow reactions and bad rendering on machine with 2GB RAM.

Meanwhile Chrome just works. It's even worse on Android, they don't have in FF even pull down to refresh and it's the slowest browser I tried.
Have you ever been to Delhi or Bombay? Spend 30 seconds on a street there then come back and comment.

There is no “dominance game” – unless you’re trying to dominate the random cows standing in the street, negotiate a path around some random trash fire in the road, avoiding getting ensnarled in a swarm of tuk-tuts or navigating streets with potholes the size of Rhode Island or buses that will deftly try to squeeze you onto the sidewalks without any regard for anything else. Then there is the sea of people flowing along and through the road like refugees fleeing Smyrna.

India is not Brooklyn or San Jose.
Don't mix apples and oranges. This discussion and the article are about the design of the bottle, not the actual soylent powder.
Except the medicines themselves aren't expensive. The prices are that high because the pharma companies demand it, because of all the tests, which are their main source of income. That is why prices in the US are so much higher than elsewhere (because of the political power of lobbying and cultural acceptance of price screwing the public on medical things).

Given that it's the very same party that would be doing the testing for expiration dates, I kind of doubt they would research this out of the goodness of their corporate hearts. Effectively the same outcome could be realised without the effort of extra testing anything: by just lowering the price of medicine a bit; big pharma would make less money, the public would have more medicine for cheaper.
I dunno, I am doing exactly this right now. Rather than by a DJI spark for £500 I'm building my own micro drone.

current expenses are at about £100 for the frame, motors, ESC, and flight controller, but I already own a transmitter and receiver that I'm reusing, so add another £100 minimum for that (probably more tbh). Then factor in that so far I've not brought the LiPo batteries or chargers, so add another £50. Then factor in I'm not putting any cameras on it yet, so add another £100 for a fpv camera, 5ghz transmitter and receiver. And the spark does more than that would provide, to match the spark you'd also need to add a second HD camera, and gimbal, so maybe another £100 if you buy low cost parts (I'm not currently seeing any diy parts that can do what the spark does I.e live view and recorded HD video with one camera, hence the two cameras needed). So that's £450 now.

And then consider that the spark comes with a smart phone app, GPS, and a bunch of nifty easy to use features that are way ahead of what clean flight/betaflight open source controller software currently does.

Perhaps the balances of the economics are different for the more expensive DJI drones, but to me the spark seems very well priced for what it does. I wouldn't be building one myself if I wasn't at least as much interested in the fun of the project than the final result.
The Indian startup ecosystem is like the caste system
That's not how bitcoin works right now. To change the network to function like that would almost certainly require a hard fork. That's probably enough to go on if you're genuinely interested in this.
Nintendo Looks Set to End Two-Punch Strategy
Perhaps for the anonymity part? I imagine the market for things like this will have more overlap with the former user base of MegaUpload than the user base of S3.
Avocado tastes like... nothing? I never understood the fascination with it. Maybe I'm eating the wrong ones.
Is it winning? Eh, probably not really. Remember, pseudoscience and quackery has been popular for pretty much all of human history, and like with this its often been promoted by celebrities and other influencers.

A lot of this stuff has become popular over the years, from Intelligent Design to faith healing and homeopathy and those weird mystical bracelets people were advertising about ten years ago.

Yet it never won. It never became the 'common' consensus on a topic, or something the mainstream believed in, or that the scientific establishment promoted. It became popular with a moderately large but still somewhat niche audience.

And that's the case here too. This 'Goop' thing couldn't truly win, because truly winning would mean people would generally take it seriously. No example of pseudoscientific nonsense has ever really won in that sense.
You can occasionally see a car older than the driver even on the German highways.

In order to have a car in such a good condition, you have to take care of it. Not just mandatory service intervals, but really take care about every detail.
Patrick is Czech, but has a lot on his plate, so any spelling errors are most probably due to haste.
Free birth control for African countries will slow Europe’s migrant crisis
> It's also more likely to survive a major war if it's redundant enough.

If there is a major war, international Internet will be one of the first things to go. In that scenario, having your files spread out across the world is a major negative. If you want the data to survive a major war, bury an external hard drive.
Ask HN: What first inspired you to work at or build a startup?
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1. In the United States most insurance will pay for a handful of Therapy sessions.

2. I had a breakdown years ago. Looking back it was just a massive Panic Attack. What really surprised me is I woke up the next morning feeling o.k., then out of the blue--life crushing anxiety. Anxiety so bad I just physically shook, and was always in tears. This went on for years.

3. After a week into the anxiety, I saw a Ph.D in psychology. I spent all my savings on these sessions. The result--not a bit of help. Now, they will claim that twice a week for 9 months is "not giving it enough time", but at a $100 a session it was just a waste of money.

4. I was finally referred to a Psychiatrist. He put me on all the antidepressants. None worked. He put me on a long half life benzodiazepine, and with a bottle of wine I was kinda functional.

5. My point is try Psychology/Psychiatry. Remember it's more of an art, than a science. I didn't realize this when I was in my twenties. Over the years, I have seem the spark dwindle from my Psychiatrist's eyes. I think if he had a do over, he would have picked a different speciality.

6. If I had a do over, I would have skipped it all. I did eventually stop drinking, but for years it was the only drug that worked, besides having to beg for low doses of benzodiazepines. I'm now trying to get off benzos, but figure why, at this point in my life. It's still a bitch getting any controlled drug from most doctors.

7. I can say this. So many of you will just get better with Time, but it might take awhile. (The "Professionals" conviently leave this out. There are some studies praising time verse therapy/drugs, but they are buried, and were small studies. I my case, it felt like I wounded my brain that night of the huge anxiety attack, and it would take years to heal. The experts told me most people do get better in a few weeks. I didn't. The depression arose because my life went from great to just lucky to get to sleep. Exercise did help eventually. At first, it didn't at all. I needed alcohol. I didn't want to blow out my liver in my twenties, so I only drank when I absolutely needed it. Don't overload that liver.

8. I once had a talk to a resident Psychiatrist. At first, he was a a cheerleader for his decision to specialize in psychiatry. After some debate, and honest reflection, he admitted to me all the modalities/drugs work a tiny bit in some patients, and the profession has a way to go.

9. I do know this, patients whom have been on a drug for a period of a few years shouldn't have to go into those prearranged sessions, just to refill a script. If the drug does not require blood monitoring, the patient should get refills. I know so many people who self medicated with alcohol, because our American system of treating mental illness sucks.

10. Time. I know, who has time. I need to function tomorrow. You have my heart.
Actually, I don't think many people can stop that "institutionalised misery" spilling out into their family life.
You can easily see it the other way around. That cars act rudely by obstructing pedestrians and "cut the line" continuously. A lot of the paraphernalia in western style roads just reinforces the status of cars at the expense of other users.
Also I've never met anyone who thpught that. On the other hand there is the folk etymology of TeSla = "technicky slabsi" = "technologically inferior", which has some grain of truth as for political reasons the Tesla conglomerate tried to disassociate itself from Nikola Tesla by explaining the name as abbreviation of either "technika slaboprouda" (phrase that essentially means "electronics", litetally "low voltage technology") or "telefon slaboproud" (~ phone and electronics).
You can be creative for your own self, and not for others. You don't always need to show your creations. That removes the success anxiety. You should not try to be liked by others, it's very unproductive. Or at least it should not be your primary concern.

Even if people say they don't like your creation, it doesn't matter as long as you like it. Nobody cares about your sleeping position, and if somebody criticizes it (unless it's a doctor), you already know their opinion doesn't matter because 1) evolution works by listening to our feelings 2) you can't know the absolute truth about anything 3) there are many diverse opinions out there. It applies to creativity as well.

Only time and long term execution will tell if what you do matters (and to be honest, it does not matter anyway). But ultimately your cannot apprehend your work and the expectations of people. People are not able to tell you what they want, so it's not worth it to listen to them. I like to think creativity works in the realm of evolution and natural selection. It's impossible to predict what will work or not.
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Or start later because you are likely to have higher savings, better contacts and more experience.
But you can have the best social setting, and mental illness will still happen and still affect you dealing with things. Depression makes it just as hard to get out of bed on nice days as foul ones.
Yes I don't really understand the war argument. If there were a massive war (like a world war scale not some conflict in Middle East), the first thing Russia/China would do is cut underwater internet cables.

Most nation states would probably block outside internet access to avoid propaganda during time of war. I think I would have bigger concerns than whether I could recover my files stored online.

For cases like this I'd much rather trust just a simple USB stick or external drive which I could carry with me in my backpack and backup important files there so I don't have to rely on internet.
I wish there were a cellular broadcast mechanism for data like this. Sending out OS updates, cache prefill, etc. to everyone on a cell network during low use periods would be interesting.
At least the cap isn't slide-to-unlock.
What a disaster, end of American freedom. Now politicians telling you what to do or not do about your home.
I don't find myself uncivil. I would totally say what I said in a face-to-face conversation to preserve the decorum of a forum.
The very first sentence of the abstract seems a bit too optimistic to me
Perhaps. But megaupload users were storing a lot of movie content such as full HD / blueray movies. You need very fast download/upload speed for this to be useful. Not sure if something like filecoin or sia can offer comparable download/upload speeds.
Might it be possible to kill the worms with x-rays or something?
The parity of zero, the primality of two, and other mysteries
It's the programming equivalent of the people who try to put as many complex word in a sentence as possible to look clever.

I met some people who were trying their best to make everything a oneliner because "shorter is better" or whatever reason they had at the time.
The real reason I always saw was that it was making the code "hacker-like" (and completly unreadable) and they could brag about how clever they were.
It'd be more productive to compare the substance of articles and not their clickbait headlines. For example that last headline in your list is incendiary but the points it makes are well cited.

From memory here are a couple of Guardian headlines:

"Your worst nightmare: a successful Donald Trump Presidency"

"Have we reached peak beard?"

And here's a couple they're serving up right now:

"'Soon you'll be able to afford a BBC man' / Emily Maitlis mocks pay gap at conference"

"'Bigger than yours' / Randy Newman writes song about Donald Trump's penis"

"Peter Dutton's new mega department will streamline dog whistling and fear whipping"

Not exactly indicative of unbiased, quality journalism. But never mind, because how much do cherry picked headlines really tell us?
> and then gaslights them into believing it's their fault for not coping with it.

I don't understand why you say that.

Are you saying therapy make people feel guilty of their own self?
If Santa Claus showed up at your doorstep and took you on a ride in his sleigh, you'd stop being an atheist. You no longer become an atheist when your experiences or reason casts doubt on it, same as no longer being religious. For some people, atheism is really weak, and tends to be held culturally in the same way religion used to be.

I think personally in the west atheism is more akin to victorian christianity..it's just a baseline belief "cultured" people hold, and generally is held without thinking much about the consequences as people go about their daily lives.
> Now everybody is connected

> As Marc points out, all the stupid ideas from the bubble all work now

This is the thing I try to explain to people when they talk about bubble. Back then, Internet was this weird new thing. Now, it's as much a part of our daily lives as eating food.
Interesting, when I used to play League of Legends I was sure that the crit chance wasn't random at all. In my experience, at 25% crit precisely every 4th strike would crit, at 50% precisely half, and at 75% every 4th strike I'd do wouldn't be a crit. It seemed fully deterministic which I thought was an interesting way to make the mechanic more skillful as you could count in your head when you'll get a damage spike; you could fire some useless shots on minions then dive in for a trade on your enemy laner knowing that you'd win because of your guaranteed crit.
If the language is Turing-complete there are definitely things you'll want in contract (such as the execution of it halting in finite time) that you won't be able to enforce. When code is the literal definition the contract, non-Turing complete is the way to go, because you can't reason about your code otherwise.
There are two clear uses for this, and one anti-use.

First, in scientific coding, one of the big challenges is in reproducing the results of a program that uses random numbers. A classic solution is to use a deterministic pseudo-random number generator that can be seeded, such that if it's seeded with the same number on two different runs, it will always generate the same output. This could be a great replacement for that, since you could write a rand() routine that accepts a start point in the chain and traverses forward to output random values on demand.

Second, you could use this as a source of future randomness -- for example, I will award you $x if the next eight bits out of the random generator represent 0-127, and will award the $x to me if they represent 128 or greater. We can both check the value, and we don't have to trust each other.

The caveat with the last example is that we both have to trust that NIST has not been compromised ...

The anti-use would be in any sort of cryptographic implementation, since any "entropy" you'd be gaining by using this data as a source of randomness is completely counteracted by the fact that the source is known. Randomness becomes deterministic once the source of the randomness is disclosed and broadcast ...
> Being a writer, or a musician, on the other hand, entails a perennial anxiety over the success of whatever you're doing. How will you ever know if your next thing will be liked or not?

I'm sure most musicians don't care about that. It's big media that thinks this way, and coincidentally produces mostly stuff that real music-lovers find crap.
In the Netherlands you are about 4 times more likely to be seriously injured or killed due to an accident by distance driven on a moped compared to in a car. This is due to the safety features of cars and to a lesser extent the fact that young people, who end up in a lot of accidents are allowed to ride a moped but not a car.
It's very important that people working on things like human social interaction be able to do things like invert binary trees. They only hire the best.
Atom doesn't handle large files very well and it hangs a lot. Sublime ftw
"Nasal Scott Nudds" was popular in the late nineties.
>I doubt they were as influential in main political discussion as e.g. Fox News seems to be today.

Why do you assume that? Absolute garbage tabloids have been influencing elections and dominating mainstream political discourse in western countries for decades[1]. In the UK an entire political ideology was created to try and work around the influence of right wing mass media (spoiler: the answer was allowing media barons to dictate policy).

If anything tabloid influence is lower today than in the past. Compare the result of the 1992 UK general election with the 2017 one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_The_Sun_Wot_Won_It
“So even if we were were going to give up one-sixth of that, it would still be 1 percent of our budget. Where is the substitute?”

Well, if the Mayor himself has an electricity bill of ~$10 per month then the shortfall in city's budget could be made up by increase rates.

The article doesn't address how the city thinks it will handle intermittent nature of solar power. I don't know much about Miami's electricity generation to know whether there are existing peaking plants that can cope?
One of the issues I see with Firefox is that they did some stupid stuff like Pocket, Hello and this awful Australis UI that as a result alienated a lot of power users.

Power users are Firefox's best chance at regaining market share, and some of those users are now gone as a result of Mozilla's stupid decisions.
Mice and humans are practically identical in comparison to bacteria.

Even if there were some chemical process in bacteria that performed the same imagination function as the ones in the brain, we wouldn't know what it was to look for it.
This might be used as a public and neutral source for games based on random I guess (lotteries, etc.).

Everyone would be able to verify one game's result by checking the public entropy source at toss time.
Not familiar with US law (esp. re: fair use), but in Germany this would likely count as a quotation and therefore be admissible.