skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not described in the betterC page as these features are not new for D. The betterC page only describes the differences versus the full D feature set.

Documentation for the individual features mentioned:

http://dlang.org/spec/function.html#safe-functions

> array overflow checking

http://dlang.org/spec/arrays.html#bounds

> guaranteed initialization of locals

http://dlang.org/spec/type.html
http://dlang.org/spec/declaration.html#void_init

> no more stray pointers into expired stack frames

DIP1000 describes D's scoped pointers approach to memory safety - https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1000.md. This is work in progress and the document doesn't reflect latest state of things.
Conceptually, scoped slices/pointers/references are similar to concept of borrowing that you guys have in Rust.
The long term goal for Uber is to build a global monopoly of self-driving taxis in a world where no one owns their own car. That would be worth trillions.

For a long time they looked like they might manage it, but things haven't been going well lately. The latest valuation doesn't factor that in.
> Uber's global ride-share business was margin positive last quarter, which is a flip from Q1.

I think this means that the cost associated with an avg ride was less than Uber charged for the ride.

"R&D overhead" is all the software engineers and PMs and UX people and VPs. Let's say there are 5,000 of those and each costs $300k/yr on avg, that's $1.5B/yr + offices, servers, etc. which they're losing every year.

If they can further scale up the number of rides (and keep it margin positive), eventually they'll be able to finance the "R&D overhead" from the margin, and actually be overall net positive. (Or, bring down the costs by getting rid of drivers. Or, push into adjacent markets like food.) If you believe in this, then Uber is worth more than -X to you. (Lots of people actually do, so it's actually worth sth like $50B+.)
Doesn't methane break down in the atmosphere fairly rapidly? From what I'm reading, methane lasts about 12 years while CO2 can stay in the atmosphere for potentially thousands.

Unless we choke to death on methane isn't this less of an issue than CO2 buildup?
Yes, it is hard to decide to give strong negative feedback. But an editor will generally do it anyway, because they are being paid by the publisher, and so their job is to make the book a success.
That John Downey Jr. is great as Captain Iron Man :-P.

What happened with me resigning from Mozilla was something other than a shaming incident. Anyone aware of California Law, corporate governance, and Mozilla's CEO history who was paying attention should be able to figure it out.
Like with some sort of cryptocurrency...?

There is an ICO next week for this!

/s
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I've never seen a 5-star app regress to a 1-star app with NOAA Hi-Def Radar in the latest update.
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For those looking around these sources wondering how woolly mammoth populations can save us, from The Verge article:

So these Russian scientists, the Zimovs, roped up a huge section of the permafrost starting in the ‘80s and are repopulating it with these large animals: reindeer, horses, bison. They’ve been able to lower the temperature of the permafrost by as much as 15 degrees [Fahrenheit] by reintroducing large herbivores. The mammoth project is all about this. If we can introduce a mammoth herd to the tundra, we can maybe save the environment for another 100 years, because they’ll help put into place these very natural processes to keep the environment colder.
Ok, we'll change the url to that first link, instead of https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/608712/a-thori.... Thanks!
I've been saying this in and offline for years... then I realized that it just doesn't matter... we're cooked. Things will be out of control before people eve understand what really happened, as in Egypt, Tunisia, etc.
Kind of funny how that works when money is fungible eh?

Same thing happened, and continues to happen, with tobacco tax dollars.
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A combination of growth rate, and positing where Uber will be once they stop spending money on things like self-driving cars, etc, which are very expensive with no revenues yet. It's similar to Amazon that for years only had minimal profits because they were spending so heavily on new products. The idea was that Amazon could generate tons of money by simply curtailing their spending, which fuels the speculation on their share price.
> I think uber's in a death spin, not sure it can pull out.

that is not evidenced at all in their financials though. Their losses are down and their revenue is up. They are doing exactly what is expected of them if they hope to be profitable in the next 18 months or so.
Looking at my domain whois... 6 months. As others have said, at this point it probably isn't an MVP any more (bad creator!), but it is very close to a release in the next few weeks. Honestly looking forward to getting it out there and seeing what people think.

https://BreachInsider.com

I'd argue it wouldn't have taken the full 6 months if this had been my sole effort, but with a full-time job, a young family to support, and finishing another site-project for a friend, I think 6 months isn't bad.
Right. The key thing is to make it clear that you think the person is capable of doing better. Harsh, negative feedback like we see on the the internet all the time, attacks the person, not just their view. The message is "you are an idiot," rather than, "I think you are wrong on this, but smart enough to correct your view once you hear my argument"
(PlaytestCloud co-founder)

We record the players' screens (with their permission) in iOS, Android and browser games.

We offer a free trial - would love for you to try it out and let us know what you think!
If an 8-bit integer is sufficient for a problem there isn't anything to be gained by moving to 32 bit floats. You can't just use a 32-bit floating point operation to emulate 4 8-bit integer operations for free (or vice versa) so you just can't compare the two the way you're trying to. Especially since moving to larger precision values would balloon memory and bandwidth requirements. For an honest comparison find out what the 8-bit integer performance of the GPU is.
Just another vote for WU, which I love.
I was under the impression that thorium-salt reactors have been tried in the past and not deemed "worth" from security and profitability point of view.

What has changed about that ?
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I would think that most of that energy is used to transport the 747 1/3 of the way around the earth, overcoming induced and parasitic drag for 8+ hours.

From a straight lifting standpoint, lifting 910K pounds to 37K feet takes about 45 billion joules, which is the energy content in about 320 gallons (~2200 pounds) of jet fuel (if consumed perfectly efficiently).

A 747 burns about 1 gallon of fuel per second, meaning the straight lifting fuel consumed represents about 5 minutes or 1% of the fuel consumption on the flight.
Buying an eBike is a lot about choosing the motor you want then hunting down a bike that uses the motor. I would strongly suggest that you buy from your local bike shop and buy the brand that the bike shop normally stocks.

My pick was the Brose mid-drive motor available in Tour 50nm/City 75nm/MTB 90nm models. I then bought an ex-demo one off model from a localish bike shop. https://www.ebike-manufaktur.com/en/e-bikes/11lf-shimano-deo...

Problem with battery meant it took 11 weeks to get it back on the road as the shop did not have a relationship with the bike manufacturer.

The bike however is phenomenal. I weigh 130kg and it takes me up ANY hill in Bath. There's a couple of 1 in 3s that I can cycle up one handed.
While I support the idea that lottery and gambling is for 'entertainment purposes only', if one never buys into the lottery, they can never obtain the winnings. Buying exactly one ticket per drawing at least places one in the pool of potential winners, despite the odds being rather long. Although the expected value is still minuscule, it's an unquantifiable improvement (since we can't divide by zero).

And before you evoke any comparisons with the probabilities of getting struck by lightning or hit by meteors, none of those will ever pay you a nice chunk of cash.

Investing the same amount of money in a financial device with higher assurances of returns is not a comparable experience, neither psychologically nor practically, even if we callously suppose that such instruments are in fact widely available across all cross-sections of society. Holding back the price of 1 ticket per drawing period from safer investments to gain a shot at a high-payout lottery is simply diversifying your investment portfolio.
The Hot Chips talks will eventually make their way onto YouTube...
Pro-Russian Bots Take Up the Right-Wing Cause After Charlottesville
Yes. When I opt-out of sharing location information, I expect the app not to monetize my location. That's what opting out should mean.
Is it possible in the Age of Big Data that we have enough indicators to slow things down before they bust?
weather.gov/5digitzip will take you straight to what you want and is just about as easy as an app for most folks.

Using well-designed government services feels like a good habit these days.

Try it on your desktop or mobile browser, easy as pie:
http://weather.gov/10018
Where do we see that it was an intern ?
Harder to control?
Perhaps somewhat ironically they thought balls were easier to rig.
This is the correct answer. He doesn't care about the lottery system, the states, or the potential winners that didn't get their chance. But getting busted for the crime hurts everyone who cares about him.

> all the people that I know behind me that I hurt

As in sitting directly behind him in the courtroom waiting for sentencing.
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I think a big flag would be lots of winning tickets with the numbers selected. I suspect some astonishingly high rate of tickets sold are selected by the lottery terminal ("quick pick").
Maybe because of the short duration of the tests? Longer term they may use more exotic compounds?
I suspect it would be comparatively more expensive to build it out of proprietary nickel alloy; especially considering this reactor will not be in service long enough for embrittlement to matter.
> It seems like you don’t get Apple or their history of product development.

I get it just fine. They are improved user interfaces over things that already existed. Changing the main method of transfer of energy from the motor to the road in a vehicle is a fundamental change that has significant implications for everything else in the vehicle to the point of making it very unlikely that that vehicle will ever be completed.

People would not buy a car with spherical wheels for the 'cool factor' they would not buy it because it is untested technology with significant implications for the safety of the occupants and others on the road.

> Apple doesn’t care about incremental improvements when talking about a new product category.

Well, what is a leapfrog to you looks suspiciously like an incremental improvement to me. There were some phones that had a fair amount of resemblance to the iPhone before it launched and the iPod had a large number of predecessors as well. And without iPod no iPhone.

Arguably the iPhone could have been a success without multitouch, it's perfectly possible not to have multitouch and at the same time not to have stylus and not to have a keyboard.

As for the benefit of spherical wheels, yes, I can see some benefits, but I can also see significant drawbacks that are not easily engineered away.

A car is a device on an entirely different plane than a phone, the only time your life depends on your phone is when you're trying to call 911 after an accident, with a car you (and the people on the road around you) depend on your car from the moment you get into it until you disembark. That requires a more conservative kind of development.

Such as Tesla is showing, and which they occasionally get wrong, usually when they release stuff that isn't quite as reliable as it should be for mass deployment.
and we can't even get people to agree that there's a problem.

and we have no leadership to guide our response.

and we can't winnow our way out of this alone.

what now?
yep. as noted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8648995 it wasn't even just dcop - KDE had tried CORBA before switching to DCOP, and GNOME of course tried CORBA (two different ORBs), then tried Bonobo-on-top-of-CORBA, and SOAP. There were tons of documented protocols on top of X11 (many still in use today). And that's ignoring the countless ad-hoc solutions that various apps used...

Linux desktops are implemented as process swarms and communication among processes is one of the central things they have to deal with.
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There's only one contributor to the repo, Arham Ahmed, arhamahmed, Computer Engineering Student (BASc) 2019 at @uWaterloo
A large part of rest of the world has public transport for that and no need for Uber.
We can just use Fusion to drop a giant ice cube in the Arctic, just like in Futurama.
It looks like more of an ignorant / stupid mistake than anything else.
One of the major flaws of this species is that we don't do anything inconvenient, that requires global agreement, until it becomes literally an existential threat. And even then we may dither, and there will be special interests that will keep spreading out misinformation about it, etc.

Seriously, the "sapiens" part in the name of our species is a bit of an exaggeration.
Clicking three links yields his LinkedIn that says "Software Engineering Intern at Google" https://ca.linkedin.com/in/arhamahmed
> Stealing software from a non-profit that you refuse to support, even though you depend on the work it does, is extremely not cool.

If this truely was an intern who did this, "you refuse to support" and "you depend on the work it does" are kind of stretches.

Obviously stripping the crediting and copyright details is an incredibly poor decision, but not like this intern has any part of Google's decision to support Ruby Together or not.
Within the downtown area of Washington, DC, bikes are not allowed on the sidewalk. (This is roughly the area bounded by Massachusetts or Florida Ave. on the north, Georgetown on the west and the Capitol on the east.) Couriers, tourists, and a lot of others disregard the regulation.
Great, thanks! That makes sense, but it wasn't clear to me in the post.
I play every once in awhile, when the jackpot gets to be large enough they start talking about it on TV. The $10 or $20 I spend is well worth daydreaming about the things I would if I won.
99% availability seems not so "highly available" as they call it. It's just SLA, but that means if the service is down for 7 hours every month it still meets the availability SLA.

I know it may not matter that much for backup, I'm just wondering why would they set the bar so low - i.e. how do they organize the storage that they had to set it so low. I'm guessing MAIDs but I still don't get it.
This is maybe slightly more understandable in 1981...
It's the true COST of Uber rides that is in question, not the price.

In other words, does Uber have a viable business model?

Some analysts think the answer is no.[1] They argue that Uber will never be able to charge prices in excess of the level required by a traditional taxi/limo operator to be profitable, for long enough to recoup the billions of dollars the company has burned by subsidizing the price of rides. Put another way, even if Uber drives every competing taxi/limo operator out of business, as soon as the company raises prices to cover costs -- vehicle, insurance, maintenance, fuel, credit card processing, license fees, and (at least for now) labor -- new entrants (and revived old entrants) would quickly come into the market, preventing Uber from keeping prices up.

[1] For example, see http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/06/wheels-come-off-uber....
> Time from what?

Time from focusing on the bit that mattered. Anyway, the article linked underscores my point far better than I'm able to do.
Even homeless people generally have some disposable income. They simply have different priorities, which does not make either of you correct.
Wikipedia indicates that it was merely a name change for the same game, is there more to it?
And his github profile links to his linkedin page which confirms his status as a (for the moment) Google intern.
One price increase for a beta product hardly makes for a habit of increasing prices. If anything, prices in cloud computing have continuously been getting lower across the entire industry, and with margins being fairly large and the market getting more and more competitive, I imagine that trend will continue.

If they'd wanted to increase prices for the premium tier, this would've been the time to do so. Instead, the kept the prices roughly the same, with small savings for some scenarios and a tiny increase for edge-cases, while introducing a cheaper tier that has feature parity with the competition and is quite a bit cheaper. Whatever your past issues with Google, I think you're way off on this.
Why I’m leaving the Node.js project
Nothing about laws? Seriously? The laws are the entire point! (Even if some socially maladjusted people occasionally break them.)
Hanlon's razor is my favorite razor and the one I find most true in day to day life.
>Do you think we've seen the peak of Uber's valuation?

As an entity contracting human driven vehicles? My bet would be yes.

As for its desired autonomous future? There's no telling.
I'm a big proponent of huge increases in funding for fusion research. But I think a better "extreme measures" project to mitigate global warming is the space sunshade:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade
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> "There's really no other way of getting into that "fusion" area of the plot."

There is at least one more way that doesn't fall into either of the categories you described, which is dense plasma focus. Essentially you let the plasma collapse in on itself in a controlled way, and this collapsing plasma provides enough condensed energy for the fusion reaction to occur. This isn't just a theoretical approach either, multiple fusion reactors have been built that follow this approach. I kind of think of it as judo, instead of fighting against the plasma with magnetic containment, you work with its natural tendencies to produce the effect you want.
A couple of comments;

First it is really awesome to see actual research experiments being done on the materials. This is a critical first step in understanding the underlying complexity of the problems and as the article points out it is really helpful to have a regulatory agency that is open to trying new things.

The second is this isn't a 'Thorium-Salt Reactor' it is 'parts that would go into parts that would make up such a reactor if the experiments indicate they will work.' A much less clickbaitey headline but such is 21st century journalism.
So, it seems there is way more backstory to this than the issue spells out (or only starts to). Can anyone provide a bit more context? Was this done in a backhanded, malicious way? Did Google tell their intern to start this project, or is it his side project? I mean, it's not cool either way, just curious.
High enough that you can't fully trust the guy getting the payout to share.

If someone you just vaguely know made you an offer to get this payout would you accept it or turn them in? Most of us reading this make enough money that we can afford to be honest in cases like this, so it is a moral question only - are you really dishonest enough to cheat?
I'm suspicious of the "fundamental law of road congestion".

I suspect what the law reflects is that freeways don't get widened until it's so overdue that the widened version is already over-capacity.

If someone complained that their web server was overloaded, and they tried increasing capacity but it was still overloaded so there's no point, you might say "was this at Friendster?"
Disagree, the forked repo would have to intentionally delete the license data.
Then now is his moment to learn about open source licensing. Doesn't mean the infraction does not count or we should let it slide. As any license, even MIT with its few requirements must be enforced to be worth its bytes.
Intern made a stupid mistake. Nothing new. Move along.
Yeah, I organized my backup around it. Then they decided that maybe they won't offer unlimited storage after all, and I better pay up or they are going to delete my files. Not falling for that again.
Ehh. A $1/week expense which buys you hope and dreams for a week isn't that bad in the grand scheme of things. It's certainly cheaper than cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs to temporarily take the stress out of the fact that you're in a long-term shitty situation with little way out of it.

This concept that the poor should only ever work, eat, and sleep, and any attempt to look after their mental health is wasting money, is outright dangerous.
The intern represents Google in all regards and actions.
I thought it was the other way around in fact. That they don't produce nuke-weapon-ready material meant that this avenue was not profitable from a security perspective. I may be recalling this incorrectly and I haven't re-checked but I think that's correct?
Neo-con!
From what I see, google-cloud-gemserver uses gemstash[1] but does not include its source. Am I somehow misunderstanding the accusation "You forked this repo from the Gemstash repo"?

[1]: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-gemserve...
I would say the export functions are among the weaknesses of Quoll. You can export to HTML, docx and epub, with the only notable configurable option the selection of the chapters (and character notes etc) that should be included in the export. For epubs you can also configure author name and ISBN.

The quality of the exports is not that great. The HTML looks good for printing, but is a pain to read on screen. The epub looks good, except that it doesn't display chapter headings. The docx has 8 newlines between paragraphs when I open it in OpenOffice. I don't have a MS Word on hand right now to check whose fault that is, but it's unfortunate since I would probably go via docx to pdf.