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+1 for tags. Subsections will lead HN to become like Reddit with everyone living in their own bubbles. But tags for quick filtering would actually be nice to have. I definitely don't want to read depressing political news while having my morning coffee.

To avoid bubbles, users should not be allowed to save their tag based selections.

edit: added some more ideas.
They have a "quarantine" system they use for highly offensive subreddits (like gore and violent content). These don't appear on the /r/all aggregate listing and can only be viewed if you associate an email with your account.

But for subreddits that break sitewide rules (doxxing, inciting violence, etc) they just ban the subreddit outright instead of quarantining it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3fx2au/conte...
> How does this go with the often quoted mantra that you can only beat compilers today if you're an extremely skilled asm programmer? Or is the problem you describe just about executable size rather than speed?

Word 2000, so a 17+ year old compiler. Compilers have gotten a lot better since then.

Having worked on a compiler team back in the mid 2000s, even then I'd say it was easy for almost anyone to spot areas where a human could optimize more.

Now days, much less so.
Search for the discussion about rtags. It does something similar for emacs using libclang.
<<All I want is impartial.

First they are prepping for an IPO and need to clean up image.

Second, is being impartial even possible, short of some super-duper AI that after being programmed by biased programmers cleans itself of the bias?
Why would it cost that much to transport it? You've got lots of gravitational potential energy to work with, in terms of shipping down to Earth, so it doesn't take the kinds of fuel that it takes to ship things out of the Earth gravity well. And you don't need to bring back the whole asteroid, just the products, so you're not shipping "massive amounts of rock through outer space".

Are you familiar with the companies that are being set up to do this, and that are backed by Eric Schmidt et al?
(disclosure, I work at google, and previously at YouTube)

This allows a user to donate to a content creator even if that creator doesn't have any way to get access the donations. That is, until youtubers start registering themselves in the payment tool, this is essentially watching someone's video, and then throwing money into a hole.

With other patronage systems, like patreon, you cannot donate money until the creator has an account. To me, that feels super sketch.

Edit: It reminded me to go and check my old bitcointip and altcointip accounts on reddit, on which I apparently had combined closed to $30 in BTC at today's prices, but which have both been shuttered and are now inaccessible. That's not promising.
This video freezes right before the excitement, I can tell because the sound keeps going. I blame a very complex conspiracy.
I think the major fear is the precedent he sets for divisive politics in the future. He also may cause the US to loose ground to China as far as foreign influence goes, but the first point is what worries me.
oh, I always thought it was called Napier's Bones, oh well.
FP continues to be on the upswing, also in the JVM world and frontend (compile-to-JS) languages.
Amazon Aurora does something similar in the sense that it decouples InnoDB functions including buffer cache and storage access from the overlying MySQL engine. The decoupled InnoDB lives on separate VM(s) and includes optimized data replication to support DBMS high availability. For example, with Aurora you can failover a large DBMS in seconds to a new site and have it come up with a heated buffer cache since that replicates too.

This approach makes sense for Aurora because it leverages cloud storage to provide data high availability across availability zones. Just putting InnoDB in a file system seems less interesting unless you add features that are strikingly different from what it does now.

See http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/p1041-verbitski.pd... for a full description.
https://gitmate.io - Gitmate is made by a friend of mine and it's pretty good. It uses coala [1] underneath (coala is a unified static code analysis tool that supports 100+ languages; I'm a maintainer, so shoot me any questions you might have about coala).

Gitmate is much more than just static code analysis and review suggestions. It supports automatic issue triaging, rebases, labeling, identifying human reviewers, and so on.

Here's an example code review: https://i.imgur.com/JO0nXL7.png

(Here's an example if there are 10+ reviews: https://i.imgur.com/VlQA9iS.png)

[1] https://coala.io/
OK cool. That's what I was hoping.
What exactly is it you mean these things show? Sounds mostly like you are complaining about his form than anything he has actually done.

Is it worse than Bush administration who started a war?
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Isn't CodeFlow similar to the code review functionality that's now integrated in Visual Studio?
And who defines who is intolerant in this democracy of yours.
> It used to be stuff we did for fun.

We still do! When I added Retroarch to my HTPC I wanted it to use the "ok" and "power" buttons on my remote instead of "enter" and "escape" which are only found on a keyboard. While I did contribute a patch to the Retroarch project, which I tested using a laptop, binary patching was much easier on the Raspberry Pi ARM binaries than figuring out the build system for LibreELEC (the binary patch drops support for enter/escape, so it's literally changing two bytes for the two keycodes).
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> Since the rich avoiding taxes isn't some new phenomenon, this is off-topic.

The actual mechanics of how it is accomplished being published is a fairly new phenomenon, to my eyes. That makes it somewhat relevant.
I'd suggest the exact opposite - if you can afford one of these cars, you must be working very hard at be very good at whatever you do for a living.
>> From what I've studied of history, the climate today is similar-ish to 1920's Germany.

In what respects? As far as I can recall, the US did not just move from a monarchy to a democratic republic 15 years ago as a result of a revolution after loosing a world war.

I think the populist discontent behind Trump is real and concerning, but Pre-WWII Germany and current day US are very, very, different places. I think its fair to request that if you wish to make a parallel with Nazi Germany, you substantiate the claim with specific historic evidence.
It's agenda, specifically agenda set by the moderators in /r/politics, who have created the current far-left & anti-Trump circlejerk by banning conservative and right-wing posters.

I've been using Reddit for over a decade now and while in the first couple of years it was totally possible to discuss even politically incorrect topics in most subreddits, over the past years you get banned for all kinds of nonsense simply because many of the moderators are a sensitive bunch and very biased. I'd say it started to get really bad in that regard about 5 years ago and has increased exponentially during the last US election.

Try having a discussion about genetics, race and intelligence, crime statistics, feminism and "women's issues", sexism or something of that order on Reddit these days - it's downright impossible, no matter how civil the discussion being held is or how much you back your arguments up with scientific studies and facts. In every mainstream or larger sub that's not specifically meant to be "politically incorrect" you'll get banned for "bigotry" or "racism" or "sexism" or other such nonsense if you don't agree with the popular leftist narratives. In some of the right-wing oriented subs you get banned for being a "cuck" or such nonsense.

Entering the mainstream has largely ruined Reddit as a discussion platform as far as I'm concerned. I only engage in the programming / tech related subs these days.
Isn't Reddit just usenet for the social media generation? Isn't Reddit just a platform for launching abuse at public figures? Everything about Reddit is oriented toward abuse and mob mentality.
No, but after you accumulate a "small karma threshold" (that is a direct quote from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) you gain a "flag" link on stories. Then you can flag the ones you don't want to see (and then hide them to make them disappear for you if you like).
>so that a 3rd party can take their nontrivial portion of the ad revenue

The ad revenue is not the money at play here.
You can show open buffers in your status line. I use the 'buftab' plugin for it, but I'm sure there are others as well.
Toyota plans to start selling EVs in China in 2020
By the same token, if you believe that tax evasion is theft then what is morally wrong with doing everything within the law (and without since the law is written by those whose primary interest is in restoring anti-constitutional feudalism) to counter it? Careful with that double-edged sword.
Preciſely why we have copyleft.
The web can't access all the sensors on your phone -- at least not in their full glory. It might have trivial APIs like "take a picture", but it can't do anything specific to a piece of hardware, by definition. It can't control the camera's imaging pipeline (lighting, focus, preprocessing, etc.).

As a shortcut to understanding this, consider what hardware support something like ARKit [1] needs. Or consider whether you could write a multitrack audio recorder as a web app (no, because the web audio APIs aren't multitrack).

My point is that you need "general purpose computing" that is not the web for many things. The web is indeed open, but we also need our general purpose computers to be open. Android is better than nothing, but it's arguably not as open as a PC running Linux.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/about_augmen...

The answer to the second question is also no.
Yeah but in PayPal's case, they were all MasterCard numbers. And keep in mind that since one of the primary uses was to be able to Pay secretly with PayPal on a site that doesn't support it, the number would have to validate through the merchant's existing CC system. MasterCard was clearly on board with the process.
Are you referring to this book: https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Buddhism-Selected-Writings-Suzuki...?
Philosophically speaking, assuming there is always a single answer for any question and promoting a specific SINGLE answer for them is not only inaccurate and misleading, sometime it's WRONG! The world is complex, many questions will and should have multiple answers depending how you look at it.
> I, as a lone doc, am not equipped to make heads or tails of un-randomized un-controlled piles of data.

Isn't that a description of literally what every practicing doctors, that isn't involved in research, actually does?

And clinical trials are extremely expensive. Surely there's some utility in gathering data between the extremes of doctor-patient and clinical trial.
Apple delaying HomePod smart speaker launch until next year
However much English skill is common in a country for most people of a given level of education, programmers will generally lag somewhat behind. They have, after all, spent their uni days learning maths and technical subjects rather than languages or other liberal arts.
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Right but to hit an 8 second 1/4 you're trap speed is 170-190 depending on how fast your 1/8 mile was. There simply isn't even distance to accelerate linearly in 1/4 to hit 8 seconds without leaving the line like a bat out hell.

The suspension on most of these cars is also far from normal. There's very few cars in the world which make an8 second pass on independent rear suspension. Most of these cars have straight axles and 4 link suspension.

I really want to see a Tesla Roadster make an 8 second pass with whatever tires it needs because tires alone won't get you there. They got some serious engineering in that thing to make it hit 8 seconds with a suspension that doesn't make you hate life.
Right, which is why patreon works, and 10c per pageview doesn't.
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The delays of just writing a widow is so slow. Macintosh Plus Review https://youtu.be/_bI0moHdjPQ?t=22m29s

I was an Amiga kid. I had friends and co-workers who had Macintosh Plus and they always seemed to be so S-L-O-W to an Amiga.

Amiga 1000 from 1986 https://youtu.be/CDWdVk-hmgA?t=51s

The window draws were also slow BUT Ray Tracing and full animation compared to that lame Macintosh is just a whole different generation. Amiga lost and it took till 1994 or 1995 to beat an Amiga in 1986.
>>0.01% of NK population is ~2500. There's going to be a lot more casualties of war than that.

wrong way to calculate. Sometimes you need to die so others, including your family, have a chance.

Of course, you can say who are we to decide that "John" in North Korea should die for freedom...
He didn't receive what he paid for. The institution could have even accepted the money knowing they would not be rendering the service.
Can you clarify? I tend to use mobile and I have a /r/all (which I never use) and which is the Reddit's defaulted top subs, but I can browse my own 'front page' which seems to be a nice mix of my subscribed subs and popular posts. It's a decent compromise.
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We use GitLab at work and are generally happy with it. It makes it super easy to cross-reference issues, merge requests, files, prior comments, etc.
If we're talking about anything, you can build a turbo Gen 4 LSx swapped Foxbody Mustang for very cheap (check out the sloppy mechanics group). The same goes for an automatic AWD DSM. Both of those have the potential to get into the 8's with little money, but it does take some fine tuning.

However, I'm assuming you are interested in brand new production cars. The cars I listed above are all old and do not compare to the Tesla in anything other than drag racing. If you're interested, let me know and I can go into a more detailed breakdown of the last car I tuned (LSx swapped Mustang).

As for new cars, it depends on how much work you're willing to do yourself vs paying a shop.

Here's a link to a newer 5.0 Mustang with a completely stock engine and a ~$8500 twin turbo kit. He does have other supporting mods (tires, suspension, torque converter) that likely put him over the $10k mark, but you can also save a few thousand on the turbo kit by piecing it together yourself.

"He estimates the car makes over 900 horsepower at the tire, but what really matters is the stock Coyote engine paired with an off-the-shelf Hellion turbo kit added up to an 8.6-second e.t. at over 150 mph."

https://www.svtperformance.com/2015/04/13/feature-quickest-s...
> At some point of restriction, they're completely [...]

seems to me that there is no "completely" unless they literally screen and evaluate every single post before accepting them. until that point's it's all matters of degree.
Sure but a registrar / hoster that has just closed one hate site isn't going to let someone spin up another immediately. And soon enough they'll be out of options.
Here you go poor fella https://www.jetbrains.com/upsource/
Any other non-Americans just fed up with this peurile black-and-white, Left-vs-Right tribalism that all discussions of US politics have seemingly devolved into over the last few years?

It’s like watching a bizarre caricature of some dystopian satire.
> I think there are plans to make an official debugger it just hasn't been prioritized.

There was a nascent project inside the Go team a couple of years ago (called ergo I think?) but I believe it was shelved in favor of Delve, which was much further along.

It's probably safe at this point to consider Delve the de facto standard Go debugger.
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Flagging stories simply because you don't want to see them is an abuse of the flagging system and will get your privileges revoked - putting a stop to that is why hiding stories exists an alternative.

Stories which are obviously off topic or spam should be flagged, but stories you simply don't care for should just be hidden. If you flag stories because you don't like them, you're making it more difficult for everyone else to participate in that thread.
I think that remains to be seen. I don't recall any word of him signing any deals with them. He claims they pledged to spend "billions" on weapons and other contracts — that seems to be all we've heard so far.

I'm contrasting that with (my) Canada who has been actively signing with China since the first rumblings of trade discord with the US.

Not saying it's impossible or not true, but I'm wary. That weird angry screaming he did at his bizarre presser the other day was not overly convincing. If it was anybody else, I would have sworn they were on uppers of some kind...
I don't think that's a problem with these kinds of articles. Consider for a moment that new users and users who are not even users yet are NOT the target audience.

I see this article as a 'more advanced knowledged required', aka the folks who are past the point of slowly building up a workflow (your example).

I've been hunting for a good way to visualize git stuff within vim, and this article introduced me to a neat plugin that I will try out right now!
No, the "payback period" isn't the time to pay off the total cost of the vehicle. It's the time to pay off the difference between the Tesla and the competition.

Here's how you do the calculation:

- Diesel semi: $125k

- Tesla semi: $200k ($75k more expensive)

- Miles driven per year: 150,000 (~8 hours per day at 50mph. Rotating shifts mean these trucks don't take weekends.)

- Net savings per mile: $0.25

- Savings per year: $0.25 * 150,000 = $37,500

- Break-even vs. cost of diesel: $75,000 / $37,500 = 2 years

So after two years you have more money than if you'd bought a diesel semi. That's what it means.
Aside: are you a pokemon fan? your username is one letter off.
You've outlined a cogent rationale for refusing all medical treatment! And there is a lot of evidence that this is in fact not a terrible idea. A lot of medicine is, not just not-beneficial, but actively harmful.

So as someone that would be liable to act on this data, I understand and sympathize that receiving this data would be an unfair burden on you. But what about the rest of us? We're being treated by people that we are expected to trust that actively refuse to learn whether they're actually helping. That seems pretty unfair to the rest of us.
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Google is not an encyclopedia or a dictionary, though. Encyclopedias are editorially curated products where each entry is researched and chosen very deliberately. The answers Google provides are picked by an algorithm and have nowhere near the level of oversight that dictionaries and encyclopedias do.

> "Truth" is an inherently messy concept. The very best curated sources and human experts are frequently fallible.

Here, we can agree. My objection is to Google presenting their tool as if it does provide one true answer to your question.

"The problem lies in your education" is a fantastic way of absolving responsibility. What if people's education about tech is in fact exactly the problem? Do we shrug our shoulders and say "well, they should all know better" or do we proactively try to make the situation better?
The hard part is getting the government to acknowldege the blockchain tokens as actual ownership.

And then they'd also have to agree to honor all stolen tokens. Cryptocurrency really doesn't work unless you let the blockchain be the final arbiter of ownership, which means it would theoretically be possible to steal someone's home.
std::io doesn't use a runtime, it just makes system calls directly.

(It used to use a runtime because it had optional M:N threading, but that was removed when it turned out not to be any faster than 1:1 threading, caused all sorts of problems with stack switching, and of course pulled in a problematic runtime.)
I believe Upsource ( https://www.jetbrains.com/upsource/ ) and Sourcegraph ( https://about.sourcegraph.com/ ) are both code-aware in that sense.
I agree. Before Aaron Swartz it was pro-big business, pro-entrepreneurship. Now for a lot of users those are seen as bad things.
It's interesting that people are so quick to dismiss this as merely a rendering, with the videos being CGI. Is that because the videos are 'too good' perhaps, or it just looks too much like a racing game car on the X-box? You'd have to deliberately ignore the fact that there were real cars presented at the announcement, for instance. Also interesting is that because the acceleration is so fast, there were accusations of the video being sped up at that point - people couldn't believe it was real. Are HN readers getting more skeptical of TSLA because of its recent financial and production issues, and this is showing in the cynical comments here?
Is it possible this is the first iteration of an initiative getting more complete, nuanced answers?

As software developers, we talk about small cycles and iterations first that drive toward a working product, not a singular giant leap toward a goal. This would be consistent with that pattern.
Like I said, I think that's more an artifact of how easily stuff spills into public discourse with this administration than any indication that it never happened before.
The viewpoint is slightly different.

> Racism and misogyny are terrible enough that if you hate it, you must be correct.

This isn't about correctness.

The viewpoint is:

Racism and misogyny are terrible enough that if you support them, you must be evil and desire harm to others, at very least indirectly.

Even if the racists/misogynists of the world were 'correct' I wouldn't want to live in world where we legitimize that. And that's why a lot of us reject him and his policies wholesale.

Saying "well he's right about free trade" (I don't believe this, but as an example) undermines the rhetorical context of fighting something much worse than bad economic policy.
Sun readable laptop screens. The olpc had one and a tablet was also produced with such a screen, which could switch from color mode to e-ink mode. Amazes me we still don't have sun readable screens for laptop and smartphones.
One other reason might be that they licensed part of the code from a third party and are no longer allowed to re-distribute it. I suppose patching out a few bytes might get them out of legal jail.
What an odd solution to the problem.
We've seen where that leads to: there is plenty of software out there where you'd have to open every document you wrote with version N - 1 in version N to "convert it" to N's format, and version N + 1 can't read N - 1 files at all.

That can lead to a very ugly form of bitrot quickly. Do you convert every document you've ever touched every time, even ones you haven't needed in years, just in case? Do you worry that every time you convert a file it might corrupt the file in the process? Do you find some way to keep every version of the program available at all times and play try every version until it opens the file?

Backwards compatibility in general offers much greater means for archival.

In this specific example: losing backwards compatibility for ancient equations directly threatens the archival of math and science documents. That seems like it could have huge repercussions in some fields.
Money that the society they are avoiding paying taxes back into allowed them to earn in the first place.
Ah I was, I misremembered CRISPR being involved. It is actively being used to modify mammals (ex: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/23/559060166/cr...) but maybe not people yet.

I think the original warning is still valid.