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I find pybind11 [1] to be perfect for my C++ code. There's so little boilerplate, and I get RAII-guaranteed memory safety and all the speed my C++ development can bring.

For example, the binding of an accelerated HyperLogLog implementation only requires tiny amount of work, plus a line in my Makefile:

PYBIND11_MODULE(_hll, m) {
m.doc() = "pybind11-powered HyperLogLog"; // optional module docstring
py::class_<hll_t> (m, "hll")
.def(py::init<size_t>())
.def("clear", &hll_t::clear, "Clear all entries.")
.def("resize", &hll_t::resize, "Change old size to a new size.")
.def("sum", &hll_t::sum, "Add up results.")
.def("report", &hll_t::report, "Emit estimated cardinality. Performs sum if not performed, but sum must be recalculated if further entries are added.")
.def("add", &hll_t::add, "Add a (hashed) value to the sketch.")
.def("addh_", &hll_t::addh, "Hash an integer value and then add that to the sketch.");
}

[1] https://github.com/pybind/pybind11
Dude's plan is to live there rent free until he eventually sells it and then the 'owners' get a return on investment -- kind of like buying shares in a corporation that doesn't pay dividends I suppose.

Solves the 'getting priced out of the market' bit brilliantly assuming he can find enough suckers to fall for this grand scheme.

--edit--

It's actually a double-plus brilliant plan.

If he manages to pull this off he sells the house for full price then buys back the tokens at a fraction of the value once the investors realize what a bad investment it is to let someone live for free in their house.
https://livestream.tesla.com
I completely ageee that they belong in tablet land but tablets did not exist in the mid 00s. All of my older relatives who now use iPads exclusively all used OS X back then for both ease of use and aesthetic reasons.
Where do you draw the line between legitimate avoidance and illegitimate avoidance? My wife and I bought a house in order to lower our tax bill. I think it's wrong to have a huge tax deduction primarily benefiting people who already are well off. But is that illegitimate avoidance? What about estate planning, which encourages individuals to divest assets to their kids on a certain schedule so as to maximize how much of their nursing home care is paid for by Medicare/Medicaid instead of their own assets. Is that illegitimate avoidance? How about deferring capital gains tax on the sale of equities by instead taking a loan using the equities as collateral. What differentiates these things?
I mainly blame Facebook for this, but these days it's now viewed as seedy and odd to try and be friends with strangers across the internet. Each new 'social service' that now appears is not only silo-ed by it's own protocol, but also promotes the continued siloing of users into their own (existing) friendship groups.

Back in the day (yeah, I'm old), you could drop into an IRC channel of strangers and be having a good conversation within minutes[1]. ICQ, as mentioned, had a 'find friend' feature, and many other early social platforms encouraged like-minded strangers to interact.

So we all end up just talking to the same 20 or people we've always spoken to, re-enforcing the echo-chamber-effect, and never introducing new ideas and viewpoints into our lives.

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[1] IRC these days, if you are lucky to find an active channel, is now so cliquéy that any interlopers are largely ignored.
Design Science still develops and sells MathType, the "pro" version of the Equation Editor licensed to Microsoft.

They also make other software meant to make math more accessible to people with various disabilities.

https://www.dessci.com/en/
https://medium.com/@VidCon/vidcon-debrief-e6bb4e187a28#5f56

I think this observation summarizes even this thread:

> do not violate harassment policies, but the result is often that the vitriol of their followers ends up focused not on ideas, but on people

I was looking for any attempt at a neutral-ish video of the incident but came up empty.
The answer is pretty reasonable in the Quora post (Answer: no). In my experience, people who get something more out writing software than a salary tend to stay in software development, at some level, for their entire career.

That said, if you're a software developer and you're also good at communicating and managing people, seriously consider moving into management. While I think the stories of the '10x' developer are true, I also think a good manager can double or quadruple the effectiveness of their entire team. That has a huge impact both on the careers of the people being managed, and at the company.
The production Dodge Demon can do 0-60 in 2.1-2.3s. Good, yes, but not unheard of.
Then why are you here? HN is extremely heavily moderated.
You could just give your kid a gps device.
Your children do have a right for privacy, you can't simply spy on them without their knowledge.
Also if your kid tells you it is going to play with their friends. You are not only spying on your own child but on other people children. That's clearly illegal, since the other childs can't know your kid wears a GPS spying device.
It's extremely telling that false statements made against predominantly right-leaning individuals in this thread maintain their prominent hue, whilst true statements correcting those beliefs are fading to a less visible hue.
There are plenty of extremely profitable and growing ad-supported digital media businesses. It's just not the Vices and the Buzzfeeds of the world.

Spending a ton of money up front to generate a huge volume of largely undifferentiated visitors and then selling their ad impressions at very low CPMs is not a winning strategy. And building it on top of the whims of Facebook's algorithm was worse.
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Is your argument "Google should not be allowed to do anything if their algorithms aren't 100% flawless and perfect"? I really am failing to understand your viewpoint.
The rise of Tesla: part 1 [infographic]
Photography with Volvo XC60 Built in Camera
Many of them are businesses >> 1 person, and they're not all video. There's no doubt some successful video creators on patreon, but it's still a pretty small number.

Plenty of the video-based ones are in erotic media, too. It's definitely a new and interesting income medium for that genre.
Depends on where it is. In parts of Europe, it is.
> There really isn't another useful standard to apply here.

...accuracy?
The engine sticks out in front the driver cabin. They also don't have barriers on the side that keep passage cars from getting under and being hit at head height
It's thrown into an account that the creator can retrieve at anytime. A hole incorrectly insinuates it's never retrievable. This is a good way to get away from Googles monetization handcuffs.
These business models (Patreon, Twitch subscriptions) have been robustly tested over the last 5 - 10 years, and many people make a living off of it. Are you unaware about these sites and how much money they make? The top Twitch streamers have around 15k subscribers, each at $5 / month, about half of which goes directly to the creator. Do the math and consider switching your career, haha.
Well, depends on the campus ;-)

We had a BulletinBoard based community with FTP sharing, and someone built a crawler to index the servers. So everyone just knew this staic IP which was out campus version of Google.

We then slowly transitioned into DC++ by constantly educating and sharing content on both FTP and DC++

The real shame was that move to DC++ actually caused the BulletinBoard community to die slowly. No more announcement posts, no more requests, no more SuperStar uploaders who “magically” found the latest TV shows aired in the US.
A lot of people seem to have an electric car fetish that is blinding them to the amount of work that went into the chassis and suspension design which is the real achievement here.

If you have 1000hp available at any speed not going at least reasonably fast would be an achievement.

Putting 1000hp to the ground at really low wheel speeds in a semi-production ready (let's not kid ourselves, nobody is going to be sending a $200k+ car off the line in high volumes) chassis is the interesting thing here.
> maybe the author did have malicious intent to harm the reputation of DJI

In the context of a bug-bounty program, it's not malicious to "harm the reputation" of the entity in question, it's malicious to attempt to profit off the hack itself.

> The author wanted to sign the papers, take the money, and advertise the hack.

Of course! It's part of their portfolio.

It's common for security researchers to share details of a hack once it's been fixed. It's not "malicious" to tell the truth.
The answer is already here
https://basicattentiontoken.org/
Young kids (who should rarely be own their own) are different than teenagers.
Agree. It is about seeing the problem as a whole.
No, I had an experiment I was tried to run on EC2 in 2013, and ran into this. It was very clear though. Established connections would plateau, and then no more tcp syns would arrive to the ec2 host, unless a connection was closed. At the time the limit was 5000 connections on the micro instance -- from my notes, we got an allocation for hi1.4xlarge and I know we hit the limit there too, but I don't recall what the limit was. This was a very simple TCP proxy, using Linux kernel ipmasq; this uses significantly less memory than HAProxy, although with a lot less features.

We had a very excited account rep because of where I work, but he was only barely able to confirm the limits were there, he wasn't able to get them raised or removed, nor could he tell us the limits by machine type.

There's a thread from 18 months ago on the aws forums [1], where an aws rep more or less confirms, but again provides no information

[1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=231806
Fair point. Brave's system is still better than just blocking all ads without offering an alternate funding mechanism for creators though; and people seem to have no problem with browser extensions that do that.
On the job - go find a product design consulting firm to work for.
Thanks, I didn't think about that, it makes sense.
> It's pretty well known though in this day and age that smart watches can have recording capabilities

This isn't true for hybrid smartwatches and fitness trackers. Those devices don't have listening devices and require tethered cell phones for internet communication, which already enables GPS tracking. It'll be interesting to see if this has been written in such a way as to exclude those or lump them in with the devices being targeted.
The “common wisdom” being investigated in this study and discussed in this thread was whether short and “shocking” cold showers would improve health. The top-level commenter claims that transitioning directly from a hot shower to a few minutes of cold shower at the end has made him less susceptible to respiratory viral infections.

I agree that there are often several directly contradictory pieces of “common wisdom” floating around about health topics. That’s one of the chief difficulties with folk advice in general.
Wheels will lose traction, or the front of the car would lift, rather than whiplash.
Oh please. I should hope that people aren't so intoxicated on the Kool-Aid that when Tesla claims the Roadster outperforms the fastest production cars in the world, people want to dig deeper.

You're seriously implying that blindly accepting what they say is better?
> At best they're for helicopter parents

This makes 0 sense to me. I've never had kids of my own, but women I've dated have. For most of them, just knowing that their kids are somewhere safe is certainly important.

I'm talking for small children though. With older kids (e.g. teenagers) perhaps a more consensual agreement would suit better.
A three month delay on their first mass market car is hardly struggling. We get insight into where they are on that road map every three months. Come February they will have slipped even more, made up some of that delay or stayed three months behind. Right now they have more then enough money to get them to May of next year, if they miss again in Februrary and then can't raise more funds they need to change their plan.
Tl;Dr

--too many guys with laptops means way too many sites /blogs

--Google and Facebook are gobbling all growth in ads. That new ad dollar is being increasingly spent on Goog and FB.
Hey, how do you call a guy who takes people money for future orders without delivering on the ones already taken?
New York City bus drivers earn $21 to $32 per hour [1]. Bus tickets cost $2.75 to $6.50 [2]. That means a bus needs 3 to 12 passengers' fees, every hour, solely to pay for the driver.

[1] https://nypost.com/2016/03/13/nycs-highest-paid-bus-driver-d...

[2] http://web.mta.info/metrocard/mcgtreng.htm
No, my argument is "Google should not present results as if they are an absolute answer when they are not capable of knowing whether that is true".

It's pretty simple: a list of search results does not imply certainty. Injecting a single "answer" does. As I mentioned elsewhere, it's as if they have decided that the "I'm feeling lucky" button should apply to everyone.
Not sure if you're trying to make a joke and it fell flat, or if you've never seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail and are missing the reference.
Do you have any examples of those profitable businesses?
Tax rates need to more reasonable to encourage the rich to pay them without question. When rates get to high the first hint is that they stop earning and spending where that holds true. A business doesn't always have the same opportunity because they tend to want to sell everywhere.

The idea is to get them to spend freely and the trick is finding the breakpoint that changes the behavior. there will always be countries welcoming the rich and as luxuries become more available in more areas this will only increase.

so find the balance
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. I made a conscious effort to not consume media sources which engage in blatant and one-sided activism. I just want the facts, and all the facts, not just the subset that fits a narrative. And I don’t need the commentary at all. In investigative journalism I want them to tear into both sides of the political spectrum equally, not suppress/ignore one side. I struggle to name a single media outlet that would do that, so I mostly just read tech blogs these days. And then only the subset that don’t insist on shoving their politics down my throat. The Verge is out.
If you decide to stop learning new technologies - yes.

If you want to continue learning new tech and position yourself as a truly experienced engineer, there is plenty of headroom for developers willing to continue to grow.

I'm 40 years old and I just had my best year yet - by far. Obviously a big part of that was the decision to move into contracting, but I'm not particularly worried about getting put out to pasture just yet...
I'm sure you could use legal instruments to make the legal system honor the blockchain, but at that point what value is the blockchain providing? More importantly this is venturing into the realm of securities and futures, which is highly regulated.
That it would, thanks for pointing it out!
I have been using Nightly for sending time and glad people get to experience the numerous improvements
The loss of this particular business isn't nearly the shame that the loss of the business model is. Activities that required human effort and involvement had a cost, like identity verification, while activities that had near zero costs were free.

That was terrific, as you could verify your identity, get a code signing cert, one for the website, and one for s/mime or digital document signing all for $60. I like Let's Encrypt and have used it since, but it's nowhere near as full featured of an offering.
Bitcoin nears $8,000 as ‘FOMO’ traders pile in after crash
You can if that data point happens to be Linus Torvalds.
Or Ken Thompson.
I don't think advertisers associate their ads with violence when cnn reports on it and I don't think they should associate social media websites with the minority of offensive content they host. Reddit and YouTube aren't identified by their edgy content.
How did you determine that most clicks are bots?

Savvy marketers aren't measuring clicks, they're measuring conversions and they tie their marketing spend to sales leads and to revenue generated. Ads that generate clicks but no sales don't last long.
mutt and a mailing list
There's at least one rural delivery man who bought a Tesla Model S and paid for it by using the mileage payments he gets for his job.

There's a specific tax deduction for commercial vehicles that cost more than $50000.
If I knew Alzheimer's were coming for me, I'd start meditating now. I currently do mindful meditation everyday, and have been doing since 2008.
The filters are only as good as they have to be. If the filters didn't work at all, nobody would pay for them. If the filters showed adult content intermixed with children's content, that would be a problem. Intermixing Blender with "Will it Blend" videos likely isn't a problem, but if it was integral to the platform and really bad, it could drive the Blender community away.
GM and Ford would be good at drawing up plans like that since its fairly common for production to be delayed on new car designs

http://www.leftlanenews.com/ford-may-be-facing-f-150-delays-...

https://jalopnik.com/chevy-bolt-ordering-delayed-by-three-mo...
Posting unsubstantively like this will get your account banned. Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That has little or no relation to what I said. The publishing of how something is done with specifics when that process was largely hidden previously makes this interesting.

Your inability to see it as anything but purely political is not an attribute we share.
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Because nothing happens in a vacuum. How would it be fair if Franken were to be held accountable (which he should be, absolutely), but Trump not?
I eat centrophenoxine and racetams and meditate ~daily. I quit drinking/using anything stronger than caffeine. Try to be good to myself.
Terraform 0.11
NASA uses dust, salt, and smoke to visualize the 2017 hurricane season
There's definitely some truth in that. For all sorts of promotional spending (think things like tradeshows as well) there is a whole system that depends on the belief that spending money on whatever activity is a good idea. "Events are a waste of marketing dollars. We shouldn't ever sponsor them." said no event manager at a company ever.
It was like that long before T_D existed.
Highlights of the Terraform 0.11 include:

- Improved Terraform Registry integration with module versioning and private registry support

- Per-module provider configuration

- Streamlined CLI workflow with the terraform apply command
I never watch youtube videos except for instruction videos and music videos. Why does google insist on going ads only rather than ALSO OFFERING pay per view?

I have the exact same gripe with facebook—their only viable method of supporting content is itself ruining the site. Both companies are just leaving money on the floor by committing entirely to a single (dying) revenue model.

This looks cool, but seems inherently untenable at actually getting the money to the content provider without the content provider working with this service.
> they mostly need to be profitable through advertising whereas the conservative side can be run at a loss while their backers recoup their investments through deregulation and tax cuts

This is insane. Show me one conservative-leaning media startup that was saved (or turned profitable!) through "deregulation and tax cuts" without reliance on other streams of revenue.

Unless you somehow mean that a better, faster-growing economy via deregulation and tax cuts results in better business outcomes overall, regardless of political leanings, which I would agree with enthusiastically.
Hey, better than ads.
It's not reasonable to count on readers to draw that inference because it depends on the readers' ignorance about the legitimate reasons for such accounts. A lot of it is just for asset protection--from creditors, lawsuits, disgruntled family members, etc.

You may argue that having assets offshore so they can't be reached in say a civil suit is also "something illegitimate." But I strongly suspect you'd organize your startup as an LLC or corporation, for precisely the same reason.
There are three realities:

1. The actions you should take if you knew that a serious disorder was coming for you will probably be beneficial one way or another.

2. There is nothing you can do about Alzheimers.

3. The only reason you wouldn't live the best, healthiest life you could now is because of an incorrect notion that you'll probably be fine until some set time (e.g. retirement)

Knowing these things, and the fact that stress has a negative effect on your health should compel anyone who reads the article to just live a sustainable life.

Since everyone dies and everyone knows it, the priority should be on living a nice life, free from the illusion that you'll live any given duration. Ideally, being diagnosed with something like Alzheimers would result in a shrug, just like how you would shrug if someone told you you're gonna die one day.
You missed Linux.
The ban is specifically for the ability of the watches to covertly record or transmit audio, not about GPS logging.
It's https://libre.fm/ :-)
See my edit, if you didn't already, but there exist services that already do that.

The asymmetry created by this kind of "pay me without my permission" means that someone providing a service now has to do a lot of extra work if they want to get paid, whereas a user who wants to pay someone doesn't. That's not a good system if your goal is really to get money to creators.
Those examples are indeed not directly related to politics, but indirectly they are because Android and software in general are. Its not as if there's some kind of 0/1 bit which suddenly lights up: "this is about politics." There's nuance, shades of grey.

Furthermore, we don't always discuss Android's low memory killer's process or malloc chunking; we also discuss iPhone's latest authentication measure FaceID or we discuss the latest inclusions of the Linux kernel. Both of which are more easily related to politics.

> One reason the West has gone mad the past few years [...]

What? Nice political comment.
Is this parody?
Autoencoders as classifiers
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http://rust-class.org/pages/classes.html goes well with the Rust book if you want to learn systems programming in Rust.

I learned from Robert Harper's intro to functional programming book then read the Rust docs http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/isml/book.pdf
I guess I fundamentally disagree that them providing an 'answer' is somehow unethical, unless there is some kind of verbiage on the feature that claims 100% accuracy that I am unaware of.
>this bunch of idiots can't access the legal system or expect justice

Sure they can, but they should also not be surprised when a lack of controls on currency transfers result in their shit getting stolen, when part of the 'appeal' of Bitcoin to so many people is that there's no controls on it.

>sour grapes

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Bitcoin is fucking stupid, a huge waste of electricity and CPU power, and its ultimate destiny is to crash and burn. Some people might make money off of that, good for them if they do I guess, but I don't really care either way.

>'the banking system is corrupt and bad'

Agreed. People didn't go to jail that should have, and society suffered for it. I don't agree that Bitcoin is the solution to those problems, though.
Well, if I were to speak as a homeowner and not an engineer, I don’t give a rats ass what’s going to change. At most, I’d agree to upgrade _one_ device in my house, not every single little IoT trinket embedded in the walls. And then not too often, say once every 5 years or so. That necessitates simple, well tested code that does the bare minimum it has to do, and runs on a low power MCU where Linux in its full form can’t run.