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> But compared to the cost of dredging for ferries, maybe it's still cheaper?

I think the point is that it doesn't matter, if it's simply not cheap enough.

The shallowness of the estuarial coastline significantly drives up the cost (be it with dredging or more exotic technologies like hovercraft), and that's the (short) answer to why we don't have more ferry service.
The substantive part is that nothing they wrote back to him, and nothing he wrote in this article was substantive aside from a vague claim about how CEOs who respond (with junk) are better CEOs.
Well FHIR is making its way, that looks positive, but no mainstream EHR has adopted it really.

May I ask what your target users are?
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You lose your unvested RSUs when you leave (so divide your RSU calculations by 2 to start with), and the later grants would be at higher prices and thus have experienced less growth, so your envelope math is off by enough to not be good envelope math.

On the other hand, $100k is by no means the largest RSU grant you can get, so, basically, we have no damn idea. Overall it’s pretty silly to speculate about someone’s net worth unless they’re excited to talk about it.

But the larger point that high performing senior engineers at megacorps can make way more than people outside the megacorp world imagine is true and surprisingly contoversial on HN.
Reading code, and writing documentation and diagrams.

Clicking on buttons and guessing why it didn't work.

Making a code camp, or organizing a coding event.

Answering RFPs...
I'd suspect a valid correlation that's not a causation. If a company is generally doing well, presumably the CEO isn't under as much stress and doesn't have as many firefighting responsibilities as those whose companies are doing poorly. Hence having the time to write a letter to a stranger.

Maybe those underperforming companies will bounce back and you'll find a (much delayed) response in the author's mailbox a few months down the line!
Netapp can also get rid of their NVRAM architecture. More importantly any journaling file system can have in memory logging now and replication means just transfer the fs transaction logs.
Yeah I'm just thinking recent history -- you could probably make a case for fire, flint knapping, etc.
and the score is still 0-0-0
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It’s great that the compiler team could implement safer behaviour. But if the programmers’ intent was to zero all bits in the array they should express this explicitly in the code with a memset(). Otherwise a change in the compiler later could throw up this vulnerability again. The code should express the semantics as clearly as possible.
Evening Standard is edited by a graduate of School For Scoundrels. George Osborne went to Eton. All a bit Cambridge Analytica.
My theory is CEOs that pay attention to smaller things miss fewer opportunities, and build a culture of doing so across the company. Look up Bezos' infamous "?" emails.
This is WHY I primarily look for pre-release stuff on Safari. I consider it one of the best investments a tech person can make in their own continuing education, because by the time something gets to print, it's often obsolete already.
A phone these days is even simpler than a desktop. A $20 Android phone can understand "Hey Google, what is ECC memory?".

HN is not like other sites. It is for informed discussion that adds depth to the topic. If I want a linkfarm of relevant topics, I can easily go to Google or Wikipedia. If I want to see karma whoring for copy+paste links, I can go to Reddit. HN is not going to stay more informative than other sites if we are satisfied with discussing basic topics.
I'm not talking about email, IP address or any other convenient mode of identification.

Think voting patterns, date/times active, submission categories, comments, writing style, punctuation ...

Facebook had a project to cross-reference user behavior to anonymized medical data. Say patient A's history says he visited a foreign country in the Mediterranean, came back with the stomach flu, was hospitalized for 3 days ... Maps to: holiday photos, dates, locations, status updates, friends commenting get well soon etc.

I hear they were pretty successful at it too! Makes you think what a government actor can do with enough data.
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I'm curious why some old architectures didn't use two's complement for signed numbers. What advantage did one's complement or signed magnitude have over two's complement?
You will get rate limited more severely the more downvotes you get.

I've also run into subreddits run by very biased moderators who will mark any stories as spam they disagree or competes with their friends. And due to the shadowban system, many people never realize it.

That's why I stopped submitting comments and stories on reddit. I only browse it now.
The time cost for CEOs to respond to your letters is likely zero - they've got staff to handle that. And so replies are really a proxy for "how deeply does the company care about its customers"
Thankfully, not for very much longer...

http://wg21.link/P0907r2

C++, but apparently something similar is being considered for C as well.

https://twitter.com/jfbastien/status/989242576598327296?lang...
This is awesome. I've written Jeff Bezos dozens of emails, I should write a blog post on it. Most of them complaints that some time get directed to the right forum and a proper response, a few of them praise, and a few of them completely insane or mean that I assume are ignored or caused some secretary to ask for a vacation.
I remember. Uk is collapsing. This is the dregs.
From what I’ve read of the last AI winters, funding was more centralised, & projects were larger and fewer. Hardware was scarcer.

These days anyone with a few dollars to spend on compute time and some free software can do machine learning. I can’t see that going away.
Nice catch on the Surface! I was trying to figure out how you knew I use one, then I remembered the cartoon.

It's actually a coincidence because I asked my cartoonist to draw a non-Apple laptop, though I didn't specifically say Surface. But she drew a Surface, and that is indeed what I use.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidleinweber/2013/04/24/so-mu...

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/04/bot_...

http://fortune.com/2015/12/07/dataminr-hedge-funds-twitter-d...
Modern computing only exists because of wartime codebreaking and artillery calculations.

This reddit post is a good writeup on the latter:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3kbt3w/was_a...
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You don't have to "fancy yourself a pacifist" to not want to work on military projects directly.

For one, you may pragmatically think it hurts your brand more than it helps your company.

For another, you may think that is you wanted to work in defense, you would have gotten a job in defense. If your company starts chasing defense, maybe it's time to change companies.

For another, you may think the government of the United States doesn't or no longer deserves the best weapons in the world. Perhaps another Western country does.
It’s much worse. If you say something against the groupthink, especially about a hot button topic, dang will come and ban your account for “being inflammatory”. It’s impossible to discuss certain topics here thanks to the flagging system.
--- While your point is completely fair in that 24 packages won't make a very useful service, it's also fair to say this is a new tool and it's OK to give it some time. --- (EDIT: for the sake of transparency, I'm crossing out this initial paragraph since, after reading some other comments, I've discovered that cppget isn't all that new; the rest of my comment, however, is relevant without that statement)

I'll poke a little at your assertion that it's "never the build tool itself". Unfortunately, in my experience, it often is. Have a nice fight with Hunter in a project or two. It's got a decent, though still somewhat small, number of packages[0], but that doesn't make it useful. Every time I reload my PC and clone the two repos that rely on it, I invariably spend a day sorting out something or another (last time it was signature related). It doesn't help that the tool is tied to CMake, these are the only two repos I use that rely on CMake and I have actively avoided learning enough about it to not require several Google searches when I need to do somewhat simple things, but that's the rub. Cargo is simple, even npm (by comparison) is simple even for projects with great complexity[1]. Hunter, by comparison, has me asking every single time I have to update a dependency or install fresh from a clone ... what problem is this solving for me? How is this less manual than managing dependencies with a clever zsh script[2]?

As far as vcpkg is concerned, I agree, though I'm a Microsoft fan[3]. It generally works -- and unlike Hunter, which uses CMake as well, I haven't run into the kind of hair pulling, four-letter word spewing fits using it ... at least not to the extent that I did.

To the authors: Really, though, please please keep investing in making better dependency management tooling. If it's good enough, there are enough of us that will make "unofficial packages" because it takes less time to figure that out than it does to figure out how to fix the broken dependency management system we're stuck with.

[0] https://docs.hunter.sh/en/latest/packages/all.html

[1] I'm certainly not saying it's not without its pointy corners, but I'll take those sharp edges any day over some of the C++ build tools I've played with.

[2] Which is the only "build dependency management" system that's worked for me -- I literally "lynx --dump" the releases page, parse for URLs, download and script out each build dependency manually ... I even have a set of functions that manage to do some of this in a relatively well abstracted manner given the circumstances. Granted, these are single platform target apps, but so are the handful I have that use vcpkg.

[3] Well... to be fair, my one Windows 10 install is in a virtual on an openSUSE Tumbleweed installation, so maybe I'm not a fanboy, but with their movement towards open sourcing a lot of their tooling and frameworks, there's not a lot I can complain about, personally.
I did see your other post and I appreciate this. I quit too and wrote about some stuff. Thank you for this.
And the Nobel Prize only exists because of dynamite. So what? Now it honors peaceful efforts.

Just because something is born one way doesn't define its entire existence.
One of the examples RMS gave where this happened (in GCC) relates directly to OS X history, viz.,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13224864
No, I haven't.

I tried several books and lectures, but the lack of direct applicability and competing activities (job, gf, family, friends) drowned it out.

I know your implied question, but I consider negative responses fundamentally important to serious inquiry.
I had posted this previously in a different thread, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

I work in the diagnostic imaging space, we are working on integrating AI for assisted diagnosis or screening.
It's a several-year road map for some base function.

We had a top sales executive leave for IBM Watson Healthcare division about a year ago, was very proud to be part of what Watson was going to bring to healthcare

He's been working back at my company, couldn't stand selling lies (and wasn't making much commission with canceled contracts).

From a named company more impressed with what Google deepmind has done with NHS
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Well, MSVC team is the last one who can propose something since they didn't even support C11 completely today, and weren't able to add C99 support for almost two decades.
Speaking for myself: Because it's a collection of lots or relevant data in one place. You get to pop up your head and look at the world at large. How is the industry as a whole progressing, what particular areas are "hot" in terms of attention.

It's well researched, it's sourced, it's free - quite likely the only compendium of that size that meets those criteria.
In other words, TBAA is fundamentally limited in its ability to capture the programmer's expectations about aliasing, because it must assume that any two pointers that happen to have the same type could alias – even if a person reading the code would consider that obviously unreasonable.

In this case, you could avoid the wasteful re-load by marking the function arguments as `restrict`. One of the reasons Rust's memory model is interesting is that the language statically prevents mutable aliasing in most cases, so "restrict" comes for free… well, kind of. (It's actually rather difficult to nail down the precise guarantees, especially when your compiler's backend was originally designed for C.)
Firefox has two hot keys- C-S-t for undo closed tab, and C-S-n for undo closed window.

It’s slightly different from the chrome behavior where both of those actions are treated as the same, and both are on ctrl+shift+t. I switched chrome->firefox several months ago and I’m still not used to it. 99% of the time C-S-t does what I want, that other 1% it’s a different key.
Oh boy. That is one tortured slide. "We must have a hockey stick, find me one".
I'd like to say I love typescript, too. It's better for collaborative development than raw JS. My point is different, that working in the "low level" or raw JS, obfuscated or not, is where the substantive work happens. Good example is the people working on frameworks.
Yeah definitely. Although I've argued the US would probably have poured funds in as a buffer against Russia. Especially given the relationship between USSR and Guomintang was not 100% unambiguously hostile, so the US would want to make sure they weren't tempted to flip by USSR assistance.

I think that the role US money played in Taiwan's success is vastly overplayed anyway. The US basically abandoned them to their fate until the Korean war kicked off.

It's always a fascinating set of hypotheticals like you said.
Email me and I would be glad to have a back and forth for free. Good sales process comes down to patience and persistence and I can coach you through both if you dont mind the sometimes-slowness of email.
> You are no longer using C, you are using <Implementation>C.

This is always the case because the C standard is only a partial spec. There's no such thing as "a program written in C(++)", there's only "a program written in <Implementation> C(++)". If you compile your program with a different implementation, then it's a different program. It may work, but it may not.

What I'd really like to see is a modified version of the C/C++ standards which keeps the language the same "in spirit" but removes all undefined and implementation-dependent behaviour. This would give compiler writers a stationary (or at least slower-moving) target to aim for and make it possible for C to be portable in theory as well as (sorta) in practice.
Restaurants not in my area, maybe I tweet "When are we gonna get a <popular restaurant> I keep hearing so much about on <local radio station>?". Not an immediate return on investment but maybe a hint at where to build next. Medicines, or anything else that may not be for me? I know a bunch of other people that talk all day about things they need and problems they have. If I hear about a potential solution for them, I'm probably going to mention it next time I see them, maybe even shoot them a quick text right now.

My experience with targeted ads is either way off base or suggesting something I don't need because I literally _just_ bought it. But mostly I don't experience them because they're so easy to block. Then they don't even get the potential benefits of word of mouth.

As far as fraud, the roll of an online advertising company should be to ensure both parties are holding up their end of the deal, ensuring links go where they are supposed to and sites are presenting ads as agreed. That can be done with code the ad companies write for the advertiser and content providers to run on their own servers during the agreement. Pawning that off on the user machine doesn't solve the fraud issue, but apparently advertisers are convinced it does, for now. It does get you tracking, but only as long as users put up with it. It's lazy and, hopefully, it won't be a profitable solution much longer.
The current context of this discussion is the primary driving force behind technological innovation, you seem to be addressing a different context entirely.
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I feel like Let It Crash and Fail Fast make a lot of sense in a dynamically typed language where, if you were to go ahead and code defensively and try to make assumptions about where your program could possible fail, you'll end up with a bunch of redundant error code and will probably have written error handling for places where the program might not have ever crashed. Rust's Result type makes sections where an error can occur pretty explicit, so I'm not sure it makes sense to follow the same methodology. I'm interested to hear what other people think.
Sample of one, but a relative of mine died less than two weeks ago from colon cancer. It's no joke. I recommend you get your screenings.
My favourite pg essay.

There's also https://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/
Some timezones change twice a year. Seriously![1] A fellow engineer was responsible for the web front-end framework for dealing with time (back when we built it all here) and he spent months working through some of the strangest crap, some JS, some wierd crap humans dream up.

Good example: you, user A, are in a TZ that switches biannually - at one point in the year you lose an hour, at another you experience an hour twice. Now, another user B is also in one of these whacko places and creates a meeting (while experiencing an hour for the second time) or what-have-you for a future time where user A goes through their local groundhog hour. You have a backend server that, for legacy reasons, simply truncates TZ and goes with its own local TZ. That server is in another TZ that has an identity crisis. JS is doing dumb stuff that only JS could do. Does your brain hurt yet? I'm pretty sure that this engineer can now perceive four dimensions.

He didn't receive a bug report until we migrated to UTC. UTC made things worse, somehow. As it turns out UTC is only good for when you care about a machine doing something at some time, or when working relationally.

Store TZ (ideally location, an offset is not a TZ) along your dates. When presenting them include that information, as well as relational ("3 days, 4 hours ago at 00h15 in WA").

Time is nuts.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
Interesting, although I'm talking sometimes I close three tabs and literally immediately try to restore and get like, the first tab I closed instead of the 3rd sometimes. I don't think I'm just pressing the inappropriate key. But maybe I'll try C-S-n next time this happens and see if it resolves the issue.
This just makes me sad. When class material, which is supposed to be the antithesis of closed and proprietary is treated as property, then there is something very wrong with the educational system you are working in. Education is about spreading knowledge as far and wide as possible, not controlling it.

All of the course material we are developing for a new four year IT, information literacy and Big History program for a Cambodian university is licensed under a twin MIT/CC license for all media (there will be a lot of video), code and text and will be downloadable from GitHub. We hope this material can be used and adapted for use anywhere. We've done this to prevent anyone from trying to make make the material proprietary and ensure it stays free, not because we were worried about what students might do with it.

I had never heard of an "academic integrity agreement" before. I just googled it and found this:

"Some schools have created an honor code -- a school-wide
agreement about ethical behavior -- that parents sign in
September and students sign each time they turn in an
assignment, quiz or exam."
-- https://www.edutopia.org/blog/academic-integrity-cheat-or-be-cheated-denise-pope

Sign a statement for every assignment, quiz or exam? WTF! An honor code that takes out the "honor" and replaces it with "legal" is no longer an honor code, it is a contract. This is the sign of a broken society.

To paraphrase Monty Python, "America is a silly place, let's not go there."
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An earlier version of nebulet was named "Metal OS".
Does Arch have anything similar to Ubuntu/Debian's Alternatives System [1][2]? This is very useful for managing different versions of the same package/s and I tend to rely on it for a number of things.

[1]:https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives
[2]:http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man8/update-alte...
It does seem quiet. Did a project with them 2 years ago and I'd love to hear what the state of the art is.

Some quick googling and wikipedia reading doesn't show any recent updates especially from android and ios, anybody know the current state of the field?

Or is it good enough and they don't need to rev it?
> If there's a way to do this on reddit once some dubious character has claimed a given topic, I'd like to known.

There is nothing preventing multiple subreddits dedicated to similar or identical things. If you feel abusive people are taking control, chances are others do too. So the best course of action would be to start another subreddit dedicated to the same thing. You and others who feel this way can build a better, less abusive, less controlled environment and people who prefer that environment will move over in time.

Edit: Also if you install the right moderators for the environment you want to create it can ensure the abusive individuals can't take control of your subreddit.
This is what the cops and hiring a lawyer are for. Contacting their place of employment just makes you look like someone with a (probably unrelated) axe to grind.
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I had to stop going to any thing political related on reddit, between russian trolls and hyper-liberals downvoting reasonable opinions it got to be to much.

I installed the Reddit Enhancement Suite plugin to hide /r/politics and /r/the_donald from my home page. If I do read something political on there its from /r/NeutralPolitics which requires anything you post to be cited with evidence.

For everything else reddit is great. I don't even use Facebook anymore because it became too political on there. If I want politics I'll watch PBS News Hour or go to a news site.
Compare the number of autopilot crashes, to the number of crashes from cars without autopilot, driven by idiots who are busy staring at the phone screen while driving, you'll realize that autopilot type systems are probably a zillion times safer.

Of course, there's zero data about how many accidents happen because drivers were staring at their phones, so you rarely see articles screaming "<non electric car> driven by an idiot staring at phone screen crashes <into what ever catches attention>".

I was skeptical about Autopilot from day one, but one test drive convinced me that this may not lead to zero accidents, but it certainly is way way better than vehicles that crash when driven by distracted drivers