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I would not trust them with deleting any data. No deletion on another system can ever be verified.
Simplicity, no STL or templating, no OOP connotations

I don’t necessarily think it would, but if it did, those would all be reasons
It would probably be much smaller than the gigantic C++ standard.
My thoughts on why they failed, I feel, are a lot more simplistic. Maybe oversimplistic and based on my own anecdotal experiences, but I don't see myself as an outlier here, so I feel a connection to others that went this way.

Simply, Toys 'R' Us did it the best, but their competitors, Walmart, Target, etc. did it at all. Sure, I couldn't go play a Nintendo Gamecube at Walmart like I could at Toys 'R' Us, or see all the neat Lego models and peer at them... it was still competitively priced and super convenient.

They were doing as a specialty what Walmart made a department. Home Depot and Lowes seem different to me. There's an air of skill needed in a lot of what they sell, so the added friendliness and help is a great value-add. But Toys 'R' Us, I believe, lacked that. What kind of value can you add to a toy that another big box retailer can't very easily? Other than the odd collectable that popped up here and there, TRU never really gave me a good reason to add them as a stop to my trip.

Only reason they failed? I highly doubt it, but I feel it was a big reason. I think they would have worked pretty well if they leveraged their experience and connections and joined with one of the big retailers like Target or K-Mart.

EDIT: And I know they sorta joined with Amazon, but I mean more in terms of a place where they could set up displays and let kids really go to town with feeling the atmosphere of the store. That, to me, was their game and they did it well.
By that overly simplistic statistical reasoning, whales should be riddled with tumors.
Interesting to see the price action (and reaction) during the first few moments of trading.
Spending bill funds military communications satellites that DoD did not request
Of course he didn't say that literally every Enlightenment thinker shared the exact set of values. Neither I nor Gray are claiming that. But his argument, as I understand it, is that there are a certain determinate set of "Enlightenment values" that these thinkers mostly shared, that Pinker himself shares, and that society as a whole needs to share in order to make progress, stay civilized, etc. Gray's point is that no such set of values exists, that Enlightenment thinkers were always in contradiction with each other, and that people who claim to hew to "Enlightenment values" today are likely to be in fundamental disagreement with each other.
Please don't use GNU C, or any other non-standardized version of C. A huge part of the reason C that is so widespread is because it's a well defined standard implemented by many compilers for many platforms. GNU C is defined by its implementation, which is awful.
Enough so that Playboy went under.
> I think almost every vice would be less damaging to society if it was in the open. Polite society doesn't want to see sex work or drugs, but they still exist. Hiding them makes things much worse for the people directly involved.

I understand what you're saying. However, compare sex work to slavery (which it often is). Nobody wants to be a slave. Some desperate people might agree to be enslaved to pay off a debt.

You could say that if someone agrees to be enslaved, it's OK. But I'd argue that removing certain choices promotes freedom. If slavery is illegal, a person found with slaves can't force the slaves to say they agreed to this arrangement; the arrangement itself is illegal and the slave holder is always in the wrong.

I think treating prostitution the same way makes sense. People are free to sleep with whom they choose, but when it's done for money, it's far too easy for exploitation to occur. If we say it's always illegal, we remove the veneer of respectability that enables one person to exploit another "by agreement".

Note that in both cases we should target the exploiter and not the victim. The point isn't "you can't be a slave", but "you can't enslave anyone."
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16653671
Bottom line: I am so fucked
I wish we could go back to using more glass, cardboard, and metal packaging over plastics.
Good point. Especially the last remark about two or more popping up; that's really the worst side effect of SESTA/FOSTA.
> So if one finally manages to get a safer C variant that finally wins the hearts of UNIX kernels and embedded devs

A safer variant wouldn't be C. What makes C great for OS development is that it is just a step above assembly and you as a developer are given tremendous amount of power to do good and evil. C#/Java are programming languages with training wheels and it's great for application development. But for low level coding required for OS, network stacks, databases, etc, you really have to take the training wheels off.

I suppose you can try and make the C type system more stringent, but then it wouldn't be C. And considering they are aiming for backwards compatibility with existing C and its immense code infrastructure, they will have to keep the "flaws" in c for all.

Time would be better spent making the libraries/kernel/etc sturdier but if they can pull it off and win the hearts and minds of OS developers, then so be it.

Also, people have been trying to sideline C for decades. Each attempt has only reinforced C's standing and reminded us why C is so essential for OS development. Anyone remember the ill-fated attempt by Sun with their JVM centered JavaOS?
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Here's a youtuber I came across in prep for a trip to China last year:

https://www.youtube.com/user/serpentza

He's a South African living in China for 10 years and married to a Chinese woman.

Very interesting to see his videos from the last few months about how things are changing in a more dramatic way than in his entire time there.
counterexample: RedoxOS

Although it's more along the lines of Plan9 - a unix-like system that ignores the bits of POSIX that really suck.
https://imgur.com/a/gXlIe
"We", as in discourse in the mainstream media, which includes fox and others who overplayed the story.
Are there methods to change the noise of a chainsaw, as there's money to be made in illegal logging - they'll have the incentive if they're organized, so it would be quiet enough or different enough to potentially sound like it's "outside" of a protected area or not a chainsaw at all?
Heh, your food for thought is a cherry picked, fairly detached piece of speculation.

Here's another equally meaningless "food for thought": we bring a native American from a thousand years ago to today. They go from a life of being very connected to their community, the environment, fairly plentiful sources of food, and so on, to a society where, statistically speaking, they have a high chance of living in poverty, being systematically discriminated against in ways that prevent them from pursuing education/employment/etc., facing substance abuse, being confined in meaningful ways to an arbitrarily defined "reservation", etc. etc.

Do you still expect tears and violent resistance if you try to send them back?

You can basically expand this thought experiment to most populations who are not upper middle class white people. Would you rather be born as a random Incan citizen, or a modern day coal miner in Peru?
Yeah, he should talk to Cambridge Analytica about getting an email there where every email isn't backed up and there is a timed erase function.

It works wonders for their human trafficking work

But sure. What about her emails. What about indeed. Kushner only had 100! We should do another investigation.
Seems like exactly the use the Touch Bar on the current MacBook Pros could be put to - the best I have so far seen for that is NyanCat...
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I'm wasn't aware of the UK having legal and/or regulated sex workers.

The closest I'm aware of is that Leeds has the first (and only?) "official" red light district, and my understanding was that that's more a case of the police not asking or prosecuting rather than it actually being allowed or legal.

(There's plenty of discussion to be had over whether we should or not, this reply is more of a "oh really, do we?" sorta comment).
I'm actually on the Cforall team -- we've been running fairly low-profile for the moment (it wasn't one of us that posted the homepage to HN), but plan on making a beta release of the compiler and stdlib sometime this summer.

If you're interested in working on the project though, more hands are always welcome; I'd suggest contacting our team lead, Peter Buhr, his email is pabuhr AT the university domain Cforall is hosted on.
does anyone know the pattern they emit?

edit: found it, but sadly without scale. No Idea how dangerous the lobes would be: http://www.emfguru.co.uk/kumar/kumar%20figure1.JPG
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I don't know. But is it kind of odd that Mark Zuckerberg sold about 1 million+ shares at the Facebook high, days before the Cambridge Analytica debacle? I wonder if there is some insider trading there.
Ukraine is neither small nor NATO, but...yeah.
Disclosure: I work on GCP

To understand, what services got pulled? we have a very long deprecation policy and I can't think of anything that has been removed in the last couple of years.
I think I learned the ins and outs of coding a lot better by doing it by hand. Perhaps it helps reinforce and understand what you're doing. But, I see it being the same as being forced to do your math exams without a calculator in school: almost no one works that way, but if you can work that way, then when you use the calculator you become much more effective. It's more of a learning or training exercise so that when you are doing other things, you have a foundation to build on.
Now that these centralized companies are in positions of power, regulation is actually a favorable position for them in a lot of cases since they will have the leverage to influence the regulations in their favor. This could lead to regulations that cement them as condoned monopolies or institute regulatory burdens that effectively cut off the ability for new entrants to even emerge in the first place.

Thank goodness that we are close to having the tools we need to decentralize a broad array of the applications we use the internet for today. If anything the introduction of regulation will accelerate this -- it's certainly easy to imagine a decentralized Facebook and Twitter that is immune to any form of government control beyond shutting down access to the Internet itself. Hopefully the idea of regulating online discussion and sharing on social media will soon be as absurd a proposition as trying to regulate the web as a whole.
That's our jam here in the US. Can't afford $1k/month rent? Sleep in the streets, or get assaulted in an overcrowded shelter. If you're lucky once you freeze off a couple of toes you'll be taken to a hospital, where they'll load you up with debt. Then, we'll pass you off to one of our for-profit prisons for failing to pay off the debt, who will also charge you for the time you spend in the prison.

This is an actual worst case scenario in our country. If you think we're a little psychotic, it's because if we've experienced poverty in our lives at all, that daily lottery draw has been in the back of our minds since. That sort of insecurity just does not go away.
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Snel 10 kilo afvallen in 1 maand: Hoe doe je dat en is dat een goed idee?
Make sure to show them some Elsagate videos, too.
to be fair, a lot of smaller sites go down after being posted on hackernews due to the huge uptick in traffic.
Whether exceptions are good or bad depends on what error handling strategy your product needs. For some software, it's better to try and recover no matter what. For others, complete failure is preferrable to operating with invalid state. Exceptions can be a blessing or a curse depending on what you need. Having them in your toolbox is certainly an advantage over having no choice.
Bill Gates and Richard are betting lab-grown meat may be the food of the future
Complete and utter bollox. Put your keyboard down comrade.
How Facebook handles account deletions
If this was in direct conflict with the politics of the average YouTube employee they'd be dragging their feet about it.

Politics/agenda are certainly involved.
When I lived in a crappier area of a city I noticed an interesting system: "scrappers" - poor, probably homeless, people who would dig through your trash looking for recyclables that they could sell.

So there was this totally organic system that had emerged which helped make sure the trash didn't contain things that still had value. Of course it wasn't perfect, not to mention that we really don't want people to have to do that. Interesting non the less.
Maybe so you can silo cookies and the like?
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This is utter nonsense and you have no basis for stating any of it.
Moreover, the journalistic source link tried to make shwannomas seem dangerous, but a quick reading about the tumor via google suggests that the vast majority of shwannomas are non-cancerous or benign.
I like Dropbox and YCombinator, but this line near the end was odd: "Today is a big milestone for YC. When we launched 13 years ago, we never imagined that a company that we’d funded would one day go public."

Really? What were they doing funding it, then? I hadn't realized that wasn't the original idea at YCombinator.
Ah, thanks, I didn't know that. However, it appears that some U.S. states do actually protect based on political affiliation.

This is decided in court anyway, so the scenario you point out, while plausible, is only theoretical.
I'd say it's a bad idea to conflate labor laws for salaried full time employees with hourly freelance contract work. The labor laws do not apply to self-employed people, and they do not require that you bill clients for your lunch. Your client is not your employer.

If your client understands and expects to be billed for lunch, and your client is paying for your time from 9-5, then it's reasonable. (But that would be a rare situation, normally that would be very temporary, or become a full-time salaried position). If your client is paying for your work on an hourly basis, and has not explicitly agreed to pay for your lunch, then billing for it should be off limits.

For most hourly contract work, lunch is on your own time, not billable hours. I'd be pissed if my lawyer were billing me for lunch, it would be downright dishonest.

As far as debugging, I assumed the parent's comment was talking about debugging his own tools, for example a debugging activity that applies to all his clients, or to himself, rather than time spent on project specific triage. If I'm working directly on the project, I bill for it. If I'm working on something that is indirect and/or not solely for the project's benefit, then I don't.
I thought Mozilla started a similar project? Why not focus on that instead? Why not cooperate?
When the land isn't producing (winter), and you're just living mostly off reserves, and you're not enjoying being pretty much trapped in a hut covered with snow, that counts as "unemployment". Sure isn't a "vacation".
I thought they were trying to win back the House? One couldn't imagine a more evocative campaign issue, for independents suspicious of both parties like me. "We care about democracy and Paul Ryan doesn't! Tell Paul Ryan to restore trust to democracy!" OK, tell me that and I'll vote Democrat. Crickets.
Agreed see also the late 90's - that wasn't normal.

Also the 2004-2008 economy - people say the bankers ruined the economy - my view is the bankers made 04-08 too good and the following depression was more normal.
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I need a butt detector to launch my startup, Buttstagram.
The advertisers are the consumers, the users are the product.
A full time C#, can confirm. It's an awesome business logic langauge, but the hot path eventually gets rewritten in a very C-like style, with all Linq, exceptions and allocations thrown out.
Up 47% at the moment.

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That's up to you - what techniques do you know that allows you to process personal data which ensures it's secure? It's a law, not a specification or an implementation detail.

More general, it's difficult to understand because it's in legalese, which is aimed at people that studied it for years - it's the English programming language. And like code, there's lots of holes in it that it doesn't cover, despite lots of manyears of effort.
> Thank goodness that we are close to having the tools we need to decentralize a broad array of the applications we use the internet for today.

Having the tools has never been the problem, getting people to use them is. You don't know the meaning of the words "total, utter disinterest" until you've tried to convince a non-technical person to use a federated alternative to Facebook.
> Android has not, until extremely recently, required apps to request permission for things at runtime.

Or allowed permissions to be selectively denied. I think that was introduced in Android 6.
If a publicly owned company started to contribute too much money to charity, they would certainly be subject to shareholder lawsuits and a proxy war over management.

Sick pay is easier to do because it's related to retaining good employees.

But generally, as Milton Friedman famously wrote, "the social responsibility of corporations is to increase their profits".
For the same reason the control problem is so hard in AI. It's difficult to anticipate how intelligent agents will behave in a reasonably complex environment.
To address this challenge, some legal propositions are intended to be clear cut rules, but many are intended to kick the can down the road with less than clear language to be interpreted with the benefit of specific scenarios at hand and experience.
FOSTA passed the Senate 97-2... I don't think that's a fair assessment in this instance
If your post covers it, it should be easy for you to answer the question:

Should YouTube be forced to host porn and snuff videos? Why or why not?

In answer to your question: the porn thing was a dicey question of tradeoffs, and in the US was adjudicated by the legal system decades ago. This is an explicit example of a debate about where to draw lines (a debate that continues), and porn has (for the most part) been evaluated to be in-bounds as concerns ICANN and power companies. For now, at least.
OK. they only had a 50% chance of making it to 5 years old. That's much better!
If I could add to this: realize that “AI” will be a small fraction of the overall product. And important one, one without which the product would likely not exist, but in terms of effort spent it will be small. So no, you don’t need an army of ML researchers to ship it. You need maybe one or two, and the rest of your money is better spent on hiring engineers, sales/bizdev people, and a great product manager. People don’t give a shit about models. They do give a shit about whether your product solves a problem. Use AI as a means to an end, not an end in itself. Focus narrowly on a concrete problem, don’t try to do everything at once.
[actually on the Cforall team] Huawei has funded the project for the past couple years, the web server is just our university research group's web host, which we didn't expect to get this much traffic on (it wasn't one of us who put this page on HN). We've been running fairly low-profile for the moment, but should make a beta release later this summer.
The scope of mistranslations is boundless, so this will not work - and what principle absolves the willful mistranslators of this obligation, anyway?
The original Amazon executable C and later C++ since there really was no other alternative (this was circa 1994). In the late 90s, Perl started making its way into the front-end.

Either way, the tech stack has little to do with the success of the business.
It depends. Certain channels are like that, but other smaller instructional channels will also be swept up.

> Provides instructions on manufacturing a firearm, ammunition, high capacity magazine, homemade silencers/suppressors, or certain firearms accessories such as those listed above.

That's going to impact a lot of channels that focus on firearms/military history as well as general how-to sorts of channels. YouTube has been a great resource in the past if you're wondering "how do I properly install these trigger pins in my rifle?" or "how do I safely load this muzzle-loader in a deer stand?"
100 days with Rust: a series of brick walls
looks like they mispriced. Most of those gains are accruing to underwriters and speculators rather than the company. Same thing happened to eToys.
Defrauding investors yields jailtime more often than not. Depending on the particular case is might be a civil case, but even civil cases often result in incarceration.

I'm not going to argue with the rest of your post because your belief that a company might be doing "anything altruistic" is just sad for me, perhaps laughable for others.
By "the tools" I mean in part "a way for there to be strong economic incentives and funding mechanisms" which I think is a relatively new phenomenon.

Good design costs money because most people won't do it for free (as they would do other things as evidenced by OSS out there today.) The fact someone can run an ICO to fund the development of a well designed decentralized Facebook that once launched is effectively self-sustaining is encouraging.
I could be wrong, but wouldn't VCs prefer some type of large acquisition, a la WhatsApp, as opposed to an IPO?
Cheerleaders would be another example. Is it sexual objectification to have scantily clad attractive women on the sidelines? Most probably.

Is having not attractive scantily clad women on the sidelines the answer? No, probably not.

Is getting rid of cheerleaders the answer? Maybe.

Do a lot of girls and women like to be cheerleaders? Apparently.

It seems like the fundamental issue is that men like to see scantily clad attractive women. Efforts to shame or unemploy females who can make money from this is an attempt to fix the symptom, not the cause.
> I think this has largely been achieved.

Definitely true, and it's worth noting that crackdowns on 'trafficking' and 'abetting' sex work in the US consistently undermine not sex work but safe sex work.

- Acts like "renting an apartment out for a sex worker" become abetting, which drives sex work to happen on the street and at client's residences - the places where serious violence are most likely.

- Any attempt at collaboration, like sex workers sharing the cost of private security or hygienic supplies, can be reclassified as a form of trafficking. (The tortured legal logic is that "you give me $10 and I buy paper towels for us both" constitutes taking money from a sex worker and enabling their business, and therefore trafficking.)

- When Washington, D.C. attempted to crack down on sex work, women carrying condoms were arrested or forced to throw them away - a move which did nothing to prevent trading sex for money, but effectively undermined safety and disease prevention.

- When the government moved against Backpage, quite a lot of sex workers were deeply upset. Because the website didn't make sex work happen, it helped it happen safely, allowing workers to choose their clients before meeting them in person.

Over and over again, we see that anti-trafficking laws are actually used to marginalize sex work and destroy any possibility of a safe, healthy, or voluntary environment for the workers. At a certain point, it looks like the scenario of vulnerable sex workers who face constant violence is actually being driven by these laws that punish any worker who tries to live a better life.