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I might've misunderstood your comment, but I think you're referring to a different meaning of "Python’s import model" to the parent comment. Here "Python's import model" refers to the fact that when Python comes across an import statment it will potentially pause compilation of the current translation unit to go and compile something else. It does not refer to the fact that Python maps import statements to directory names and file names. Here is the relevant quote from the article:

When a new import statement is encountered, Python will first find a source file corresponding to that module, and then look for a pre-compiled version in a deterministic fashion. If the pre-compiled version already exists and is up-to-date, it will be used. If no pre-compiled version exists, the source file will be compiled and the resulting bytecode will be written to disk. The bytecode is then loaded.

The article suggests using this idea in C++ and the parent comment objects, but then it sounds like you're saying it wouldn't be needed anyway (so you're disagreeing with the article too?).
How nice to see this link here! I could answer any questions that anyone has. --Jim
I don't think you can just blame poor maintenance - the material and style choices are just poor to start with.

The cathedral looks to me like a gun emplacement, or some relic of a forgotten war.
I've been thinking about this lately because I want to rent out my flat and move abroad.

It turns out that, if I take into account my mortage, building charges, and expected empty time between tenants the minimum I can charge for rent is... actually kind of similar to the market rent.

It would seem like there is a floor to London rents, and it is related to the mortage payment, which is related to the value. If the value was 50% lower, then landlords renting at the current level would be undercut.
Eat less, what a novel idea!
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> Quite a few places I heard called bothie were privately owned

Aren't all bothies privately owned? What other ownership would there be?
Not always. If interest rates go up, house prices go down but rents go up. The opposite is also true if interest rates go down.
The article explains it. They are used for getting rid of pooled blood and are used for that purpose by legitimate hospitals and doctors. Obviously quack medicine is also trying to sell them as something to use to get rid of "bad blood" which is nonsense. But they do have legitimate medical uses.
> The idea is that Netflix was able to coerce more than half of its subscribers to watch this film.

How is this different from any other Netflix show/film? They can pay for marketing and force it to be recommended for all users, but that's about it. The difference is that Bird Box had a lot of viral potential and turned into a meme because of its content, not external factors.
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2 reasons:

- increased demand: wealthy/corrupt foreigners outbid (pay more) local buyers, so more locals are renting instead of buying

- lowered supply: if your main motivation is money-laundering and/or long-term stability (e.g. the rich Chinese/Saudi buying property in a democratic, stable, non-corrupt country like the UK), chances are they won't be renting it (the income is negligible), it might just sit empty
Age is a pretty good argument actually for computer languages IMO. More abstraction is better, and this usually comes with time and progress. Otherwise we would still be using Assembly, which incidentally should be faster than Fortran since most people here seem to focus on speed of execution. Python is more abstract, ie higher level and this makes it more suitable for scientific tasks than Fortran for the vast majority of problems. As I said earlier not all scientists are doing heavy simulations on a daily basis. And for scientists the goal is their science not the coding.
In The Netherlands some start-up is trying that business model and they also recently became active in the USA [0].

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[0]: https://launch.blendle.com
I believe the Intel Fortran compiler is also free

It's only free for students and educational uses. Not for any commercial or non-education research use.
I get what you are saying, but if used everything I would like to use I'd spend maybe a quarter of my paycheck every month. On random subscription things. Everything is subscription based and feels like I have to pay separate subscriptions for every bus I take, you know
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Dreams are some mixup of things that happened during the day. No need to read too much into them. I've dreamt of work, people, hobbies including computer games and cherished activities not practised for years at the time of the dream. Dreaming of "stuff that happened", basically.
Reddit does have some good niche subject subreddits, but you absolutely have to stay out of the big frontpage subs.
I don't blame workers for unemployment. If anything, corporations are to blame for not being willing to hire workers at lower real wages, or perhaps with worse working conditions (e.g. increased monitoring and micromanagement) when involuntary unemployment is high. (To be clear, this happens for entirely self-serving reasons, like the concern that hiring someone at lower pay would ruin "morale" within the firm. No one sane thinks that hiring unemployed workers is bad for them, and worse than the alternative of leaving them without work!)
Or alternatively pay per article - which is in the works: http://blendle.com/
I stayed in a few of these over the years. Loved it, especially for the sense of "middle of nowhere". Really surprised to see another piece in a major paper, or to turn up on HN for that matter.

There was a piece in the Guardian, also this month, that the MBA is struggling and they may die out unless they start getting some younger volunteers soon. Bothies are volunteer maintained and restored, and the volunteers are apparently aging rapidly.

With lots more photos: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/jan/25/mountain-resc...
Twitch/youtube/patreon subscription model is the future.

Why subscribe to several newspapers (where you don't care for 90% of the content), if you could subscribe to the exact 13 authors that write about stuff you like, and never miss any of their articles, and never need to look through 30 pages of crap to find that?

I'm seeing a lot of business models that would never work without twitch - a guy that's streaming pen&paper RPG sessions. He's not even streaming in English, but in Polish (much smaller audience). And he earns very good money (it helps he's awesome at storytelling :) ).

Another guy earns a living by streaming his commentary on interesting starcraft matches.

Another streams coding his game (but he's not doing it full-time).

The best thing is - if the community is in the sweet spot (like 100-1000 people) - you can interact with the people in chat, and it's not fake interaction like on TV or in radio - when you write something you know the "celebrity" will read it and likely respond to it. It makes the audience much more engaged than with traditional media.

Every niche hobby is now a marketable skill if you have a little charisma and a lot of time. There should be something like that, but for text.
First lemme start with this: https://youtu.be/i54grFI-JhA

Now compare that to the "training" the organization in the linked article, Impact Bay Area, provides: https://youtu.be/qRgdwH_V07c
https://youtu.be/w0xeg0E3_5E

Look how compliant the attackers are. Do they actually expect assailants to just roll over like that? And read the caption on the second video: "I've been backpacking solo around the world since October 2015, and want to empower other women to travel anywhere by themselves and know that they deserve to walk on every single inch of this earth."

^Yeah, that's the sort of attitude I bet those two Scandinavian women had. They ended up getting their heads cut off. I went to the website of Impact Bay Area and there is no indication of the martial arts backgrounds of the instructors (if any). They offer "instructor positions" on their site, which includes 100 hours of training by their existing IMPACT Staff, with no mention of minimum requirements or skillsets for applicants.

But IMO martial arts isn't even the best way to actually achieve improved safety for your workforce in dangerous neighborhoods. A good anti-terrorism/physical security course, combined with "combat hunter" instruction and practical application, would give people the mindset to develop and maintain a keen situational awareness and a sense for potential threats. Then have them do some interval sprints and other cardio training, because the best thing they can do if they ARE physically threatened is RUN.

The sort of "self defense" theater @Impact Bay Area is just going to give people a dangerously false sense of confidence. And they are charging $750 for these "classes"??! Are people really so clueless as to spend money on this sort of training? I feel like I could grab a couple of ex-military friends, charge slightly less, and still deliver a higher-quality curriculum than this. -_- Except I don't live in the States and really have no desire to spend any significant amount of time in SF....

Edit: Here's a video on the combat hunter program: https://youtu.be/7t-BXqPf-jM?t=85 basically it helps you develop "spidey senses". You are more cognizant of your surroundings and perceptive of oddly-behaving people or objects (in my experience).
Budgeting is "being an adult 101"...

You cannot get "everything you would like", that's life.
I tend to prefer cafes over co-working spaces, because I get about the same value (maybe even better coffee!), but at a much lower price.
What seems like an obvious solution is to decentralize the ad market again. Especially news papers should be able to sell ads to buisenesses directly, as they have in the past.
I appreciate your candidness.

I have met a good few people in tech who are smart and hard working, but are chasing the next shiny thing without any long term overarching direction to their life.

I won't say that's necessarily a bad thing, but I can't imagine putting in insane hours every week when I can't answer the "to what end ?" question.
Yes. Really bad article, I don’t understand how people can handle the cognitive dissonance. If anything, the situation described would reduce rents for your average consumer because the increased building sale prices makes it more profitable to build more buildings, increasing the supply of apartments. Basically foreign oil money supporting jobs and subsidizing rents. And as the article actually states, it doesn’t make sense for them to buy single family homes, so they aren’t even inflating the market for people who want to own their own home instead of renting.

The only potential drawback is the situation where investors buy property as an investment only, not for income, and consider tenants will decrease the value of the property, so they keep it vacant. I hear this happens in China. But it is expressly not the case as described in the article.
I think there's been a sea-change about what people think is a reasonable subscription cost.

I don't know how much my parents paid to get a physical newspaper delivered when I was growing up, but when I looked how much the Times costs to be delivered I was absolutely staggered that it would cost me nearly £500 a year.

I don't know if the price has changed, or my tolerance for subscription costs has changed, but as a millenial I can't even begin to justify spending that much money on a newspaper.
coinmarketcap - this site is freaking HUGE and printing money for its owners. There are much better alternatives today, but these guys were the first and they made a lot of money
It’s fine, I was arguably overdoing it for comedic effect. Still, for Americans especially, I believe there are destinations in SE Asia that are far more rewarding than Sing Sing. If you need the economic environment, HK would be an obvious choice, and maybe Shanghai. If you are doing remote work, the list becomes far longer. I spent three years in different cities worldwide in ca. 3-month intervals before getting stuck in Berlin, and I would recommend Barcelona, Florence, HK, Australia’s east coast, Melbourne, Cape Town, Buenos Aires, Rabat, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Beirut (check the local war forecast), and Havanna.
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Same. I lived in Singapore for a few years and it can be a horrible place to live. Great place to visit though.
changing the ad market will not fix the problem, the problem is the papers existed quite well when they had a captive audience.

that is no longer true so many publications are finding that they only were prosperous not because of their content but because they were the only game in town.
This looks delectable for the eMMC storage alone. I wish there were a Raspberry Pi model that came with it... I'm tired of SD cards causing problems and eating my data or (more frequently) causing the Pi not to boot.

I also wish Raspbian had an option to mount all the write-heavy directories (logs, etc) on tmpfs, so they wouldn't wear the card out so quickly.
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> No, the subscription model has been the basis for the industry for the past 100 years.

I had always been told that the subscription price was to cover the marginal cost of printing and delivery, but the majority of revenue for most publications was from advertising, which was meant to cover the cost of creating the content, whether it be entertainment or journalistic.

That having been said, you would see many things bundled together in the past, so your newspaper subscription would get you a weekly magazine, and as you mentioned with the split between basic and premium cable packages.
> HK, as a comparison, has preserved its character and charm

I don't think that's entirely fair. The way I like to describe it is that Singapore is Asian-Sydney and Hong Kong is Asian-New York. All are world-class cities, but Hong Kong and New York have deep and diverse layers of culture and subculture that are immediately apparent to the most casual of observer. Sydney and Singapore have plenty of depth which is easy for residents to see but for tourists it isn't nearly so obvious.

(Disclaimer: I live in Sydney.)
As a cafe customer however it's irritating that you're taking up space for someone who'd like to sit down and drink their coffee.

Or to put it another way: you're saving yourself money but (potentially) at the expense of the cafe owner who loses walk-in customers b/c his place is filled with barely-paying squatters.
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Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?
Looking to make 500$ a month - any examples of super simple SaaS that make at least 500 USD per month?
I don't know where to start, so looking for inspiration/examples etc
That's true and also they don't always rent out the houses/apartments that they buy; if someone wants to launder a lot of ill-gotten money and buy many apartments/houses, it may be too much hassle (and draw too much attention) to deal with tenants and real estate agents so they just leave them empty, wait for prices to go up and then sell for a low-tax capital gain.

They don't necessarily need to receive rent payments to 'clean' the money. It's possible that what is regarded as money laundering in their country of origin is not regarded as such in the country where they are buying the property.
You'd have to have bought the Sunday Post for a while. The Broons (Browns) and Oor (Our) Willie are cartoons in it. Same Scottish firm that gave generations of British kids the Dandy and Beano comics with Desperate Dan and Dennis the Menace etc.

A but n ben is a two roomed stone cottage. The cartoon Broons had one.
I think the solution from a consumer perspective is per article 1-click micro-transactions.

It needs to be easy, seamless and not require a new account for each site.

"Click to pay 10¢ with NewsBuyer to read this article". Boom done.
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The build system doesn't need to become a compiler. It just needs to parse the source files for import statements in order to create a DAG.
That just means subscriptions might usually be too expensive, not that the model has some intrinsic issues.
Previously the only official way to get a 16GB variant of the Compute Module was to use the NEC edition[1][2]. Looks like that got a lot easier now.

[1] https://www.nec-display-solutions.com/p/eeme/en/products/acc...

[2] From what I understand it still has all codecs unlocked by default which you'd have to do manually with the new CM3+.
No. I enjoy working absolutely alone. I rent a private office now. If I wanted people in my work space, I wouuldn't go full remote in the first place.
Are you saying that there are no statistics that back up AA as effective?

I am pretty skeptical of a claim like that.
Since I've seen this paper mentioned a few times now on several different sites and heard varying replies, I'd be very interested in informed opinions about this. I've taken a look at it but don't consider my skill level in statistics high enough to assess the paper on my own.
Better yet, google should not be able to store any personal data about users who are not registered
Also, think about the most successful subscription business ever: insurances. Hardly a new thing.
I’ve used Dokku in production for several months. For single-server app deploys, it works amazingly well.
Having a physical paper printed and delivered seems to be much more difficult than serving a website, as the latter has marginal cost close to 0. I think people are more understanding of paying a few bucks to get a pound of paper than paying a few bucks to open a website in their browser.
I often use a cafe which is focused on playing tabletop games etc. Food/drink is extremely overpriced but with the understanding that you're really buying time and they just have a "don't be a dick" rule that you really ought to be buying something ~once/hr
This is the first thing I read here, including the article, that actually makes any sense explaining how this might increase rents
I dislike coworking spaces. For a solo developer, they offer a lot of distraction. You're stuck in one place which defeats the purpose of getting out of the house for inspiration. For a team, it becomes very hard to create company culture. It feels like you're an empire without a fortress. I'd rent an apartment over a coworking any day for the team.

What I now tend to prefer are other cafes frequented by other designers and developers, or new private member clubs. These clubs offer a lot of stimulus for freelancers and you're surrounded by people of various different fields, which sparks interesting discussions.
Isn't this pipelining as opposed to parallelism? I assume that multiple downstream crates are already compiled in parallel whenever possible.
Cafes like Starbucks were designed for squatting though. It's not like coffee was meant to be that expensive; it includes rent.
Do you feel your money was well spent on the guardian's fabrication about Manafort visiting Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy?
While you are right in that having subscriptions was much common last century. It is my understanding that the field of media studies accept advertising as a central force in the development of mass media.

"With a few exceptions – television in the United States and the free daily tabloid – there are no media which from their very beginning have not used advertising as a source of revenue [...] The influence of advertising on the media development started during the 19th century with the popular newspapers. It was the common
interest among media owners and advertisers to reach the masses that connected advertising and media and made them mass media and mass advertising. The productions techniques that were introduced in that century
allowed mass circulations but it was impossible to conquer a large audience with the contents of the contemporary elite papers, expensive to buy and hard to read. The contents were changed and the prices were reduced. In order to make them very low, advertising was accepted as a second source of revenue. The papers were sold on the streets or home delivered anything that would bring the papers closer to the readers. In order not to discourage subscription, weekly subscription was introduced."[0]

[0]https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/16522354.2006.11...
What I don't get is why go to all the hassle and expense of smuggling them when they could be bred locally? Surely the raising and breeding of leeches isn't complicated?
Can you elaborate as to why? Snark is not really the goal here.
What is wrong with using this CSS format? The whitespace is deliberate and matches the theme
I once had a comment flagged and had dang personally warn me over saying that Germany was surprisingly backwards at consumer tech (I explained in more detail what I meant, of course).

HN generally doesn't like 'inflammatory' comments. It's part of both the culture and policies.
tl;dr "people have a lot of subscriptions so they might start unsubscribing"
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I completely agree with you, so what I do is to find cafes that are not very popular which is probably a win-win: I hate sitting in packed cafes and the smaller cafe sells some more coffee+snacks by doubling as my office.
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Not sure I get the argument. Cafe owners seem to be looking for the types that come in regularly, spend a lot, and stay a while. Why else offer WiFi at all? Turn off public WiFi and this customer type will go elsewhere.
These boots look like they're great fun. They also look like you could get badly hurt easily with them (also with other similar jumping boots). That's what's preventing me from getting something along those lines.
When done properly, SD cards are reliable enough. For my digital signage product the custom OS is highly optimized around avoiding IO as much as possible. There are thousands of devices, some running more than 4 years now, without any SD related problems.

I also really like the fact that the Pi is pretty much stateless. So switch SD cards and you can be mostly sure everything still works. If storage is bundled, that's a lot more difficult.
I wouldnt mind a story. More like, did you use up your savings? Did you work at a day job / part-time job? How did you fund your startup, if you didnt take any VC money
Not entirely. The guys is a frequenter which means recurring revenue, and making the cafe look lively is something that gives it social proof.

If the place has such a problem, they can mitigate it ofc. For example, you can limit the chargers for example (or arrange tables in a fashion that would limit it). Then the amount of squatters would be limited.

Also, as another commenter said, you can just turn the wifi down (or limit the time). You can even charge for the wifi.
If this publication is false, its premise is true, which would mean the publication is true?
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You have a good point but I feel overwhelmed with subscriptions today. Between personal and business I have easily got 40 or more paid subscriptions. It's not just media but software too. Mac apps, iPhone apps, web apps. They're hard to cancel and easy to forget (until I check my bank statements). And they dip into my bank account with no renewal confirmation or approval. And they'll happily self-renew for the next year without being used once in the last year.

Of course I signed up to and pre-authorised all of this, and forgot to cancel when I stopped using them, so it's 100% my own fault. But something doesn't feel right about it.
I almost expected a little popup to appear mid-article that said "Whoa, slow down there fella. You've read four free articles this month. All you need to do to get subscribed is give us your email and payment info."
No. Its like trying to work in the middle of a prison cafeteria.