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> std::string is a terrible idea with regards to efficiency. If it works for you chances are you should use Python instead

Concrete examples of what you mean would help here.

> For anything complex, std::string is slow and has a huge memory footprint (each string has its own buffer, separately allocated from the heap).

Some implementations (e.g., GNU's) will inline small strings, and so avoid a heap allocation. Python strings always heap allocate; if you're referring to the fact that Python strings don't have to chase a pointer to the data (the string data is inlined in the Python object itself), that might have some marginal effect on speed, but for most cases it really isn't going to matter. I'm not seeing the memory comparison: `std::string` is 32 bytes on my system; Python's str reports as 49. (+ character data for each.)

What would you prefer std::string did to make it more amenable to "a few megabytes of data"? (A case that, honestly, I think it handles just as well as most language's string type.)

(Now, if we want to harp on std::string's Unicode support, I won't stand in your way.)
A year later, it’s very clear that the tax cuts boosted gross domestic product and jobs a bit — and just for one year. Its effects are fading as U.S. GDP growth appears likely to weaken in 2019. The only thing that “rocked” were corporate profits and the stock market. And we’re facing trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-official-the-trump-tax...
Growing up in a zip code is not a challenge. This "adversity score" doesn't measure adversity.
Of all the sites and people, I expect Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky to have followed best practices in storing user passwords.

Jeff wrote this in 2007:

> Do not invent your own "clever" password storage scheme

> Never store passwords as plaintext.

> Add a long, unique random salt to each password you store.

> Use a cryptographically secure hash. I think Thomas hates MD5 so very much it makes him seem a little crazier than he actually is. But he's right. MD5 is vulnerable. Why pick anything remotely vulnerable, when you don't have to? SHA-2 or Bcrypt would be a better choice.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/youre-probably-storing-passwor...

Another topic on passwords: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-dirty-truth-about-web-pass...
Ultrafast Motion-Planning Chip Could Make Autonomous Cars Safer
And surely there is nothing wrong with the alignment of ransomware authors' and this friendly service's incentives.
The someone in question is a search engine. Telling them where your content originated from helps you when your content matches future searches
HPC sysadmin here. Our cluster is built around NFS for storage. User home directories are mounted on all compute nodes via NFS. Research datasets are mounted on compute nodes via NFS. It is simple and stable and works very well within our internal network.
A lot of content creators have posted their experiences here. It matters for SEO, while being shitty to content creators.

From this readers perspective if it's on medium it's not worth reading. I've literally thought this "awesome that sounds like it will solve my exact issue...oh fuck it's on medium...next"
I believe (strong personal assumption) that this is something not only for Facebook, but also for Google and Apple. Back 3 years ago, a lot of people from my network had dreams to work for Google or Facebook
. Today it's no longer the case. They demand a company who is serious about things like privacy, environment. Things like career possibilities are still important, but so many companies these days offer similar work experience.
Surprisingly I hear more and more positive news coming from old evil: Microsoft.
Extended free-tier? But the site says there's a free forever plan?
>Punishing those in privilege is how you achieve equality.

Tall poppy syndrome. Destroying things does not create things. You can drop a nuclear bomb on silicon valley and punish lots of privilege. It's not going to achieve any notion of equality.
Yeah WebKit was developed for safari, which chrome forked into blink. Safari still uses WebKit
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In your stance, let’s hope you don’t have some
bad luck with your circumstances or health, and your kids drop back a couple generations.

In my stance, your kids can get ahead on their own merit.

I don’t know how to achieve this perfectly, but it’s an aspiration.
I think there’s a difference between challenging and shutting down. Challenging should be encouraged since it (at least theoretically) forces people to have a reasonable basis for their beliefs. Students who don’t want to be challenged and just want to be correct and shut down opposing thoughts shouldn’t really be called students. They’re not seeing to broaden their horizons. If they only want to learn about their speciality topic, that’s okay, but university isn’t really the place for that. Technical and speciality schools exist to focus on small fields of learning.
No?

The fact that there's a freeze to allow for shaking out troublesome issues in a few packages (and possibly discover ones you didn't already find in older ones) without much risk of others newly breaking is a feature, not a bug.

Debian testing/unstable, backports and third-party repos exist if people really want the latest anyone's packaged, or the latest version of one specific thing on their otherwise stable system.

You may disagree with the philosophy, but every part of that behavior is working as intended.
The S&P 500 does also swap stocks, and more often :-)
It doesn't matter whos fault it is. The only point in the system where we can reasonably fix it is at these companies.
Isn't Apple serious about privacy and the environment?
Life is not fair, by the time you are six the number of distinct words you have heard varies drastically depending on your parents socio-economic status and education. The answer should be to extend the SAT with an IQ test, those are robust to environmental factors as twin studies have shown. Maybe you can couple that with a subject specific aptitude test. But also there is largely no equality of opportunity, because you never had a chance to change your genetics in the first place.
I suspect this is what is taught in college these days. I would add punishing people for hard work seems to be more of a Stalin thing.
I don't see any mention of an offer of immunity.

If I didn't have immunity, you can be damn sure I wouldn't be answering any questions on a subject that might get me prosecuted again.
Final Fantasy VII Remake: everything we know and expect
Cute device to hide behind without actually defending unfair attacks.
To be fair, this is kind of impressed on people when so many are judged by the name of the school on their diploma or a score they received in the first quarter of their life. There's no guarantee a Harvard accepted child will have a happier life than someone "destined" to be a fast food cashier, but when we pressure young kids with so much judgment before they even experience life, it feels like a race from the start.

Couple this with the lack of class mobility and sometimes people feel participating in that race was the only way to control your future.
Welcome to the Monkey House

HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213 th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...
> A giant leap for regulators
Yes, this is the big one. The low speed and short distances involved are excellent arguments to allow it, and this opens up for more advanced projects in the future.
BART is also ridiculously slow. To compare, within the similarly dense and similarly sized Swiss middlelands I can hop on the train system and compete with cars going highway speeds while reading HN or do whatever. In the Bay area I felt like I had to plan half a day to get into SF one way alone. There's no reason why you can't have at least Swiss quality rail there, not even talking about Japanese levels.
Imagine if this happened to you, assuming this is true. The settlements should be big and somebody at Hertz should go to prison for at least a medium amount of time, effectively it’s filing a false police report.
Kylie Jenner is now a billionaire. Only by clever self marketing and ad targetting.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/natalierob...
I use fuzzing on top of a whole range of other test scenarios to expose tail risk (no matter how thin -> or especially for thin tails). It doesn't matter how long that fuzzer runs. What is more relevant is the quality of such a session which can by continuously improved by tweaking the fuzzer dictionary. This is what defines the limits of when it's no longer useful IMO. But because we aren't talking about minutes or hours but +/- days (or weeks), the "how long" is more of an academic question.
This is exactly what I've been looking for! I'm building a custom chat portal for my personal website and I needed some way to get pinged whenever I'm away from my end of the system.

Your pricing, however, seems really high. As an individual I'd graciously pay my dues just to support this, because I think it's an idea worth supporting with the right audience in sight (as opposed to PushBullet et al which are more for non-technical consumers), but I feel like it would be hard for sysadmins inside big corps to convince their bosses to bite the bullet on $60 per 4000 notifications when the corp may be sending out 40-50k notifications a day all to different personnel.

Is this intentional? Do you want to restrict the use of this tool to a few hobbyists to avoid having to put too much effort into scaling up to handle those loads? I just put my startup hat on and I'm curious as to how you determined the pricing.
Wow, is the world drowning in cynicism? I want a service that breaks the ransomware encryption and researches into that direction to ultimately make the incredibly hurtful extortion of vulnerable computer users not viable. To me these companies are criminals if they facilitate the extortion.
CA doesn't have a Second Avenue Subway...that's an entirely different state...

The LA-Vegas line has never been built because the private companies that would build it modeled their financials on the assumption of getting billions of dollars of free land or easements so they could build it and tax breaks on their first few decades of operation. Without the free government incentives worth billions...incidentally, roughly the same value as it would cost the government to build an HSR to Vegas...the private companies have gotten nowhere.

Texas' freeways are just as bad as California's freeways. The difference is that our freeways are used about 10x-100x as much, so there's a reason that our freeways have potholes for a few days. What's Texas' excuse? They ran out of budget to fix their basic infrastructure again?

CA has not had total Democratic control during the time periods listed. The Republicans maintained enough seats in the Legislature to block tax and spending bills, effectively a legislative veto. They only lost those seats in the most recent elections.

If Republicans ran the state, then CA would be deeply in the red like it was the last time a Republican governor ran the state...namely, Pete Wilson, who did such a bad job that he effectively turned CA from a a red-leaning state into one of the bluest states in the nation. (Schwarzenegger was governor during the recession so that won't be held against him, but notably CA was also in the red during most of his tenure, including the time when Republicans actually had enough Legislative seats to enact legislation and not just veto Democratic bills.)
Susan Kare: The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile
> With Facebook, what annoyed me was that they set up internal teams to help with political candidates social media campaigns - no matter who the candidates are.

That sounds like a behavior of a honest service provider. Worse behavior would be if they'd help candidates which match their political biases, but work against candidates that disagree with them. That would look like abusing their position of a steward of a world-wide platform.

> With Facebook, what annoyed me was that they set up internal teams to help with political candidates social media campaigns - no matter who the candidates are.

Isn't political campaigning part of the discussion? If so, why is it bad to give candidates equal access to tools to perform this campaigning? Would you begrudge a printer that would print signs for any candidate, no matter who they are? If not, how electronic signs are functionally different from printed ones?

> everything is happening violently.

I feel people are really abusing the word "violently" nowdays. Nothing that happens on facebook is violence, it's mostly just talk.
The road is dangerous, the pavement is banned. Scooters and bikes need dedicated road space.
I wonder if there is a process that has to be gone through to now update the pound avoirdupois. It is defined as 453.59237 grams but given the formal definition of the gram has changed could there be a need for a formal acknowledgement, or does the law encompass changes in methods so it just happens automagically?
Here's a first-hand account (I'm assuming it's related due to similarities):

https://stevecheney.com/handcuffed-and-under-surveillance/

Sounds awful.
Amazon invests in Deliveroo food courier
> I would prefer corporations (especially ones with such depth of funds and breadth of influence) be kept entirely outside the electoral process.

Do you mean corporations being banned from providing services to any electoral campaign? Probably not, because in that case election campaign would be impossible. If so, then Facebook would be free to provide promotion services to any political campaign too - they are service provider as any other.
umm no... That entire purpose of bitcoin is to remove accountability, to make a digital version of cash that can not be blocked, censored, or regulated by governments or corporations.

See Some people like the idea of freedom
If this is true, I don't think adding points to SAT scores is the best way to address the problem.
I’m constantly impressed with how brave she is, I’m not sure I would be this strong under this much pressure.

We seem to have completely lost our way at this point, I thought jail was to protect the public not persecute political prisoners to build trumped up charges against your enemies and journalists in general. It feels like we’ll be really lucky if our rights and freedoms survive over the next little time and Chelsea Manning is at the forefront of this atrophy. It doesn’t seem very easy to save them especially with the politicisation of the Supreme Court.

How do we fight these things?
> How about having lots of decent, desirable universities instead of a few elite ones and many weak ones?

Bell curve
>Current medical understanding of depression doesn't support that assumption.

Learned helplessness can be unlearned but a burden alone
Yeah, how can they force her to testify if that would mean incriminating herself? Though I'm not a lawyer, this seems to contradict my idea of a [Rechtsstaat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechtsstaat?wprov=sfla1).
I am happy to pay for well articulated content that can sometimes reach 45min/piece in reading duration.

Medium will slowly learn what you’re interested in and send you opt-out’able weekly newsletters with recommendations.

I’m surprised the OP has this much distaste for a platform which not only has good content, but rewards such, yet without ads. I’d happily pay to see less ads in my life.
Yes, the Internet has made spreading fake news easier, but let me reiterate my argument - the Internet has made communication as a whole easier, so it's only natural that fake news spreads easier. However, that is not the fault of any given communication platform on the Internet, unless that platform happens to explicitly select fake news stories to spread, and suppress anything else. Which certainly is not case for WhatsApp.

Even in the past, good old rumor mills (I heard it from a friend of a friend of a cousin's barber) were reigning supreme in spreading bullshit around, by simple word of mouth. The Internet here is just a compounding factor to something that is very, very old and already very, very effective.

Edit: expanded first paragraph
Was in Paris earlier in the year. It appeared that most people were already riding in the street rather than the sidewalk.

Traffic in Paris is rather chaotic though (it's actually nice to see quite a few cyclists despite this chaos). I'd be concerned about rider safety.
It depends on attack surface and what tooling you already have in place. But for example:

> Finding suspicious outbound network activity

https://blog.rapid7.com/2016/05/09/introduction-to-osquery-f...
Then I suppose that with really bad visibility someone could probably fake an ILS and cause the plane to crash without the pilots having the chance to recover. After looking around, it seems that several large airports,.and even a few medium size airports in the US have Cat III approaches: https://sites.google.com/site/ilsapproaches/Home/cat3

I never even considered the possibility of a CAT IIIc where you can land in zero visibility, probably because I'll never fly an airplane with suitable equipment. I've never briefed flying a CAT III approach, and wouldn't even consider landing at those airports in the light planes that I fly. In my local area around KDEN the general consensus is that while it's technically legal to land a light plane at KDEN you would probably have to declare an emergency to get clearance from ATC, and even then they'd strongly encourage you to land somewhere nearby (like KFTG) if possible.
Hertz should face criminal charges for this. They ruin people's lives and have the audacity to play it off as a computer glitch? How incredibly fucked up. Of course the cops could investigate first before arresting people but no one expects anything from the police. At least they haven't shot anyone yet. I guess none of these renters was black.
That stuff matters, but of far greater importance is the volume of plastic made. We make too much. It’s not particularly hard to reduce your usage a lot, but I think that’s coming at it from the wrong end. The manufacturers need to be incentivised to do better. Carrot and stick, with the stick getting bigger over time.
I can’t agree with this sentiment of yours.

While I agree that people that had less than ideal childhoods should be given more opportunities to succeed, it shouldn’t be at the expense of those who worked their ass off for their kids, only to see their hard work taken away by government laws.

My own parents and grandparents came from shitty roots. Russia, concentration camp, Brazil, then to the US. My parents worked hard and I had better opportunities because of that.

What if government took that reward away from them? Well, surprise surprise, it did (just in another country in another era).

_you_ have a choice too: either to take the hand that’s dealt you and move forward, or complain about how others had it better because of their parents, or their own actions.

I’ve had a lot of ups and downs in my life due to circumstances as well as choices I made. I don’t blame other people for what happened to me (but I will blame government services being complete shit, especially towards veterans).

This isn’t a perfect world, so don’t complain what others get that you don’t have. Work towards making the world better instead, without destroying what others have worked hard for in the meantime.
There's a lot of people who can't get fiber when you get outside the cities. I'd be thrilled if I could get under 35ms.
You live in a better neighborhood, you get a better education, you likely have healthier food available to you and grocery stores nearby, in addition to a school that probably cares a little bit about that sort of thing. There's still drugs in high school, but they are sold by the rich kids. There's tutors and test prep centers by your school. There's a lower probability of violent crimes and gangs. Sure, your family has to shop at the thrift store, you get hand-me-downs, and you don't get to go to Subway at lunch with your friends.

Somehow, all of that is rendered worthless when somebody going to a shitty school with shitty food wins the shitty school and home life lottery and edges them out of the more prestigious school with lower test scores thanks to the adversity bump.

Ultimately, good school kid must settle for highly regarded state school and post about how unfair the system is on a website for engineers and entrepreneurs. Shitty school kid becomes rich and famous because they went to an Ivy, everybody in the VC office loves them, buys a Tesla and their single mom a mansion.

Just kidding, shitty school kid had to drop out when their mom got sick junior year.
> Nobody is allowed to give you money or anything else of value

That sounds like a form of extreme boycott - and however I despise politicians in general, subjecting them to essentially expulsion from the society (at least temporarily until the election ends) and complete gag order and media blackout (because otherwise I could promote a candidate without giving them money directly - I would just publish ads under my own name but would be praising the candidate in them) just for wanting to be elected seems a bit extreme to me. Not to say at least in the US it's probably incompatible with at least half of the constitutional amendments.