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How is Rust less complicated than C++? I don't use it, but from what I read it seems to be even more complicated, and getting even more so with the myriad of features they are adding each release.
Well, Google tried a while back, but got shut down over legal issues, if I recall correctly.
The wording of this article seems strange to me. Presumably these painkillers were ordered by local pharmacies on request of doctors/patients, rather than dumped by drug companies in some random places in the towns.
> We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle.

You seem to only take issue with one side of the "ideological battle", it's almost like you just banned the account because someone said something you didn't like.

If you would really believe what you say, you would not let "gender pay gap" and "women in tech" topics be posted at all.
>Following this logic, why aren't you writing your code in English?

Because slippery slope arguments never shone light on any situation.

>The real world is complex.

Which is neither here, nor there. We're talking about programming languages -- where you can be 10x as complex as another, but as long as you're both Turing Complete, you can't really do anything substantially more.

So, this is not about more power to handle "the real world", but about ergonomics. Which nobody ever said were C++ strong point.

>Don't confuse hiding complexity with minimizing complexity.

Well, we should also not confuse adding complexity with adding expressiveness.
Medicare is also more expensive per capita than most modern nations and its publicly funded.
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Share buybacks are purely to boost exec remuneration. At these prices they should be stopped or at least restricted based on company debt, etc.
I'd tear down the whole building; as I'd be very surprised if the walls weren't full of bugs as well, similar to the American Embassy case.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/15/world/the-bugged-embassy-c...
My startup, RAMM Science (https://ramm.science) has a Deep Learning Platform, we have customers using Deep Learning for:

Predicting real estate opportunities (which houses are about to sell) predicting energy usage for thousands of sites in real-time, predicting churn, predicting Ad-Tech prices and fraud in real-time, predicting anomalies in seismic radar scans, customer segmentation and recommender engines.

Those are examples of real world paying customers using Deep Learning
> Rust is much better suited to be a serious competition

why ?
>C++ is a language with a lot of features, and not all of them should be used in every code base.

That's not up to the individual coder coming later to a codebase. Or wanting to use a library that enforces those features, etc.

And the design of the features can impact how other features are implemented, even one doesn't use them.
That seems an unlikely assumption. $30M of series B in May 2016 would have been at around $200M valuation. Given the risks that is a disappointing return.
Care to cite any sources as I'm only coming up evidence that they don't (the last one is a forum like you said and the reasoning explained there is due to bloat)

https://mashable.com/2018/01/04/apple-slowing-down-iphones-w...

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/12/29/16829512/...

https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/29/samsung-lg-claim-older-p...

https://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-8/8589...
The UK is the leader in this field sadly. One of the very few things we are still “good” at is destroying our own economy for short term gain.
> This is due to the nav buttons being constantly visible in most apps, an option to hide them and only spring up when required would be perfect.

Samsung has that on the Note 8 (the 5 still had hardware buttons, I'm not sure about the 7, or other lines, though the Note 8’s dimensions means that it is probably the phone that needs it least for real estate reasons, so I'd imagine it's across the line.)
Maybe they could start with a constitution.
For how many days? I've seen emails come through from Yahoo Groups 4 days ago.
A price-to-book cap (similar to Berkshire's) or a share price limit should be set from the outset alright.
Things unions often do, historically:

• Require employees to strike even if they don't want to / can't afford to.

• Prevent employees being fired, for any reason or under any circumstances.

• Harass or even force non-members to join.

• Get involved with extreme-left politics and use union fees to fund the union leader's own political views / ambitions, regardless of the views of the workers themselves.

• Segregate workers into types, and attack the workers themselves if they do the "wrong kind" of work. The attendant removal of any flexibility cripples working speed and causes great frustration. For instance imagine being ticked off or even fined because you wrote a Docker config or created a monitoring dashboard, and that's the job of devops only, not developers.

• Block any kind of labour saving automation. Imagine being told you weren't allowed to deploy a script that checked your dependencies for CVEs because that was Joe's job and he's been doing it by hand for the last six months, so he's going to keep doing it by hand for the next 10 years. Now imagine that any task that anyone ever mentions is immediately given to a human to do instead of waiting for it to be scripted, so effectively nothing can ever be automated.

• Losing interest in advocating for workers rights.

These examples may sound absurd but unions of all types across all industries have engaged in this kind of behaviour in the past. It's a power thing. Because unions use their power to fight the government they can often get laws passed in their favour, granting them even more power, giving them even less incentive to work for the workers instead of themselves, etc.
A great long read, and I had never heard of her!

But what does "don" mean on this context? It's repeatedly used, but not explored or explained.
Think back to when people had been building websites for 2 years on the internet.

It's still early days. 2 years feels like a long time, but it's not that long.
> (57.6% in a recent poll) around the idea that receiving faster or better care because you can pay more is fundamentally unfair.

Gross.
Galaxy S and Note flagship lines actually had dropped removable storage several generations ago and recently brought it back.
Why Japanese Web Design Is (Still) the Way It Is
>China built and paid for the African Union’s computer network

I guess the old saying applies, "if you aren't paying for it, you are the product."
That sounds rough. I hope your employment conditions are more stable these days...
Only on TV that is publicly broadcast over the public airwaves. Anything private like cable or satellite can say anything they want.
The article mentions that the batteries don't perform well at -20°. I wonder what Tesla has done to prevent freezing and how well their systems work in the extreme cold. My guess is that they have planned for this but it would be nice to hear from someone in a colder country that can confirm the performance of the batteries in extreme conditions.
FCC: Hawaii false missile alert wasn't caused by bad UI [pdf]
It is an argument and it is not a straw man, because that argument is based on historical precedent. It's simply observing what has happened repeatedly in the past and pointing out it'd likely happen again. There are no logical fallacies there - if you believe the future would be different to the past, despite implementing the same policies, it's on you to argue why.
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In this case, Murdoch has a track record of using his media empire to push his business and political views, so it's really quite appropriate.
I'd like to add this article (with somewhat of a cheeky title): "The impossibility of intelligence explosion"

https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-in...

It's written by François Chollet, creator of the Keras DL framework. In the article it is shown how the environment and intelligence are interrelated. Some of the points are expressed in the IEEE Special Report as well (sensorimotor integration). There are many correlations with the recent push towards simulation in AI - Atari, OpenAI Gym, AlphaGo, self driving cars, etc. It's a new front of development, where simulation will create playgrounds for AI.

The main point is that intelligence develops in the environment, and is a function of the complexity of the environment and task at hand. There is no general intelligence, or intelligence in itself, only task-related intelligence. An intelligence explosion can't happen in the void (or in a brain in a vat, or in a supercomputer that has no interface to the world, and can't act on the world). The author concludes that AGI is impossible based on environment and task limitations.

An interesting take because we're focusing too much on reverse engineering "the brain" as if it exists in itself, outside the environment. We should learn about meaning and behaviour from the environment and the structure of the problems the agent faces. Meaning is not "secreted" in the brain.
Not lower bit microcontroller programming which is still dominated by C. (Because C++ compilers do not exist or produce worse code.)
Each college has a don for each subject, who is responsible for all students taking that subject within that college
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The company got an investment from his personal funds. If you are asking about where he as a person got money, Vegas is legal and likely gives tax receipts.

He took a loan from the company; if he couldn't pay it back then yeah he is in deep trouble but he could.
Have you tried Bear - http://www.bear-writer.com - for notes? I've found it far more pleasant than Evernote, although it's Mac + iOS only (no web).
cryptokitties or whatever is called? :)
It's worse than that, their series B valuation was closer to $300M.

Great for the founders, hopefully great for the team, solid for early investors. Disappointing for latest investors, but shit happens - and the best investors understand the long-term value of graciously allowing the founders to follow their heart, even at the cost of a short-term disappointment.
But that's inaccurate bs that someone edited there. There's no real connection between Webvan and Amazon.

Louis Borders founded Webvan (the guy who founded Border bookstores). They went bankrupt in 2001. Mick Mountz and a few other Webvan employees started Kiva Robotics a few years later... In 2007, Amazon launched AmazonFresh, and then in 2012 Amazon purchased Kiva... and those former Webvan employees started work at Amazon (IDK if they still work there).

And if you click on the ref in wikipedia.. you'll see it's an article from 2013 saying Webvan was alive at Amazon because former webvan employees came to work there when amazon bought kiva.

That's not the way acquisitions work... Webvan is long dead.
That's where SWIFT is located, afaik.
Which unions? I grew up in the UK and unions there were antagonistic in the same way. French farming unions regularly pull stunts like dumping cow shit on the roads:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2822120/French-farme...

The only country I've ever seen held up as an example of productive unionisation is Germany, and unions there don't seem to bear much resemblence to unions anywhere else. Possibly because of its unique history with respect to socialism.
I dump them into Google Keep and set a reminder for that particular note.
You're better off opening a casino than betting it on Black.
If unions are a good idea, and we're all in theory smart, why aren't we unionizing more?

Because 'we' all think we're way better than the average coder. There will be winners and losers in any collective bargaining scenario, and we're all convinced that we're the special one that can get a much better deal arguing out own case. 'We' don't want to be dragged down to the median by a bunch of dead weight 'losers'.
Most of my knowledge in this domain is contextual and thus useless but here is a good example of the more extreme side of some unions. [0]

I want to make it clear that I am not against unionization. What I am against is the use of rhetoric and promises of fair treatment to create a mob-like organization that uses threats and coercion to not only manipulate the local government but the people who exist within that organization's industry.

[0] https://www.phillymag.com/articles/2012/10/25/busting-philly...
That hypothetical one magic ICO to derail Facebook would surely not have to rely on Facebook ads to succeed. And besides that, I'd consider Facebook to be "sufficiently evil" to individually black out an advertiser they secretly consider a threat, of it ever came to that.

This move is easily explained by the long term cost of being perceived as the place worth the shitty scam ads. The existential threat Facebook is trying to avert is people thinking "I would not have lost that money if I had not been on Facebook all the time, reading all those stories about bitcoin geniuses" one day. Everybody likes to blame the messenger.
A few decades ago the most common job title in the USA was secretary. It certainly isn't anymore. Now it's truck driver.

Secretary went away (and wasn't simply replaced with a new title like admin assistant) because of IT. We don't have a secretary shaped hold in the economy. They mostly got other jobs, or retired.
> I know HN doesn't like to do politics, but there is a huge overlap, at least in terms of thought process, in the people who support a particular president and those who support bitcoin.

source?
Has the responsiveness improved? It has been a while since I tried out android (htc one and galaxy s4) but I think the biggest thing that drove me back to iphone is UI.
Allow foreign doctors to work in the us with a reasonable, attainable testing period of one year, and you will find no shortage of doctors in the us within the year.
I think mapping roads is a real world problem. But for a few urban areas, maps are rarely updated. Of course Google has some sort of monopoly here, but there is a LOT of work to be done.

Planet labs now have the ability to map the entire planet every day at a 3m resolution. So object detection applied on these images can be a quite efficient. I still wouldn't call this AI as we are talking mostly about supervised learning but it's a highly practical real world use case. CrowdAI and the like are on this path already.
That's unlikely how it actually works on Google's site.

Google doesn't have to connect to an advertiser's network, they already have the ad information and all targeting and bidding information, so they can mostly compute the results ahead of time and only do last minute checks for winners based on, for example, whether the most likely winners have exceeded daily limits and such.
What are some well-established initiatives working to on governmental accountability and reducing corruption? E.g. promoting a constitutional amendment against conflict-of-interest or corruption. The closest I can think of is The Rootstrikers campaign, started by Lawrence Lessig:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootstrikers
I think the Update Cache and the MDM will still be there. Other than that I can't think of anything (major) that's not on that list. :(

Of course, both of those things are pretty big components of iOS management. Which reinforces the idea that Apple doesn't really care about anything except iPhones.
Classic unions probably wouldn’t work in tech - you would never get people to accept a seniority system - but if we went for a mediaeval style guild that could work very well
Do you really think someone couldn't come up with an equally long list of bugs in Android?

I've noticed a couple annoyances in iOS 11, but nothing at all that would make me consider switching. It's by no means ridiculous.
Will the Future Be Human?
Boilerplate bureacracy usually happens, when Configurations are not itteratable and/or a language does not enforce the providing of meaningfull defaults. I find both sides guilt and charged here...
I used an iPhone 4S as an experiment during my travels in China, and kind of took a liking to it.

Of course, it was a one time fling. Android is the only way. Not a middleway, but the best way.

Clearly the only solution when on Android is to buy high end handsets and nothing at the mid or lower tiers.
Since there's likely to be people that do not consider this sufficient, a question out of personal interest: what could Mozilla do/have done to sufficiently prevent something like this from happening in the future?
This is not an apples to apples comparison. I've given examples from runtime, not from development time.

OTOH, refactoring in C++ is not hard, at least from my experience. With some knowledge of the language, everyone can write reasonably bug-free C++ (or any other language) application in one go.

Compilation in C++ is a different story. C# is not native. It's converted to CLI (was that the name, I don't use Win32 for ~15 years), then JIT compiles it to machine code, and optimizes over and over in every execution.

Yes, C# is reasonably fast, but it's not native, cross platform (mono doesn't count), and designed to be a systems programming language.

People tend to think C++ is overly verbose, no. Win32 programming model forces simple operations to be long and time consuming for a programmer to implement. Opening a file, serial port, or anything is a single line, because of the (while not everyone likes it) "everything is a file" philosophy, which makes UNIX and C++ much easier, verbose, and accessible.
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I have never received the reason or what guidelines I have broken many (???) times.
Do you really need to regenerate the whole dynamic programming table though? It seems to me that it could be kept more conservative and only recalculate the needed parts.
No file manager

No personal files - music, ebooks, videos

Slavishly tied to Apple appstore.

ITunes requirement in the past

Useless Apple iCloud which cannot be trusted in the event of disaster (no retention policy)

Proprietary chargers

Many Android apps are more mature and have more features than iPhone equivalents.

Pricing Of handsets.

Slow handsets after 1.5 years, due to amongst others planned obsolence.
Frankly, I'm not sure why Google would acquire RedHat, SAP or Oracle.

I'm not sure what will be gain from that. Google probably doesn't care about the softwares these companies provides as it has its own internal alternatives/derivative and Google is not really a software vendor, so it's a bit outside of their core business.

What would make more sense in my opinion would be for Google to have a partnership with a big Enterprise player (or several in fact) and promote it loudly.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC#Compatibility_with_ASCI...

Most programmers manipulate characters as if they were ASCII, and that code will break if presented with EBCDIC. The C++ Standard is carefully worded to not assume ASCII encoding.

C++ presumably supports other encodings, but I've never heard of another one that will work. There's RADIX50, but that will never work with C++, for the simple reason that there aren't enough characters in it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Radix-50

You can also see the EBCDIC support in oddities like the digraph support.
There's plenty of evidence, but probably not for 'works' in the sense the GP meant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo
He's practically a Marxist if you weren't previously aware. There are plenty of "intellectuals" who are highly regarded in academia and also delusional Marxists. Intelligence and attachment to reality aren't requirements to succeed in academia unlike other highly paid and influential professions.
I'd like to see that list of Android 8 bugs and then compare it to iOS 11. You just need to look at the frequency of iOS 11 point releases to see what a mess they've created. They've released 10 iOS 11 updates so far and number 11 is just around the corner.
Take a look at Linuxkit by Docker: https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit . I didn't develop it, but I use it indirectly via Docker for Mac, which I use a lot. The latest version supports Kubernetes. This means Docker commercially maintains a Linux/Docker/Kubernetes stack that needs to run reliably on what I think is a very large install base. They have open-sourced the system they use for this, it's called Linuxkit and it's a very cool, underrated project.
Metaprogramming enables insertion of custom boilerplate without need of an IDE.
Aha! Thanks for that.

That may well be in the higher echelons. I never heard about such at universities in Australia, Norway and Denmark.
This is true. CoreOS was doing well and i am sure could grow on their own too.

Why did CoreOS go for this deal though? also, how could the investors agree?
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> It's also possible that There's are being used fraudulently to pump BTC.

My point is: How can you pump BTC with USDT? You need somebody to buy your USDT if you want to sell USDT. In fact, you need somebody to buy an enormous amout of USDT if you want to pump BTC.

Pumping BTC is not a one sided thing, and I fail to understand the other side. What I get from this thread is that that nobody really knows who is buying the 100 million USDT per week.
No free lunches!
>And it was just an "ah-ha" reminder that in every group, culture, hobby, or community there are a few advertisers that have an outsize influence on what people think their own grass-roots culture is.

What makes you think that the locals listen to those radio ads and assume it represents their own grass-roots culture? I grew up in a small town and the radio ads were dominated by a few dominating businesses, but I was never under the illusion that they represented the culture at all.

I think you are right for what outsiders think the grass-roots culture is, but that's a completely different statement.
Yes, absolutely.

Consider the obvious edge case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)

That's a "part ... of their culture" that definitely warranted erasure, and which was erased in part by colonial forces, who in that case were absolutely morally correct to exercise their power in doing so.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_don
> You have different interests to your boss and your boss has different interests to you, of course you will vote and engage politically differently.

Nope. At my employer, anyway, engineers and the managers they report to are pretty similarly compensated and pretty similarly motivated to achieve the team's goals. Somewhere between Manager II and Senior Director you start to be meaningfully distinct from the engineers, but "your boss" as a software engineer is a (sometimes, not always) slightly more senior version of you who made a lateral move to management which you may or may not be planning soon.
To be honest it’s slightly misused in the article, because Beard is from Cambridge, where “don” is less commonly used (or at least was when I was there 20 years ago). It’s more an Oxford word.
What? See ether to btc here: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/
There are actually unions in technology (particularly, but not exclusively, in the public sector) so while that might be a valid argument as to why adapting a particular element of showbusiness union policies in a particular way would be a bad idea for a tech union, it's not actually an argument against unions in tech.
The union was completely insane and basically declared war on the company

This happens when people become full-time employees of the union, rather than doing union stuff while being employees of the company. The only paid staff an honest union needs are maybe some people to do admin. Union bosses always seem to be paid as much as managers or more too, they don’t have anything in common with the Workers anymore, if they even ever did