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Adverbs and adverbial phrases can move pretty freely in English. These all sound fine to me:

we are going to go to the airport by bus tomorrow

we are going to go by bus to the airport tomorrow

tomorrow, we are going to go to the airport by bus

we are going to go to the airport tomorrow by bus

we are going to go tomorrow to the airport by bus

The last sentence sounds a little more awkward, but if you're emphasizing when the event is occurring, it would be fine. Similarly, in the right context:

to the airport, we are going to go by bus tomorrow

by bus, we are going to go to the airport tomorrow

This phenomenon is called topicalization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topicalization
The article gives the impression that it uses turbines not thermocouples.
That's why there is an abstract. It gives you a summary of the paper.
Yes, there have been problems with vitamin manufacturers making aggressive claims regarding the power of vitamins (see
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/25/are_vitamins_a_billion_dolla... )
Beyond the issue noted with UTF-16 permitting surrogate pairs, it's also important to understand that UTF-16 does not free you from normalization form concerns.

For instance, even within the 16-bit Basic Multilingual Plane, it is not safe to reverse a UTF-16 string by simply reversing each block of 2 bytes, as a Unicode glyph (e.g. á) can be composed of a pre-combined code point which only takes 16-bits, or a base character (a) followed by a combiner (´).

The pre-combined variant would reverse just fine, but the renderer-combined á would reverse to ´a, which is probably not what was intended.

If you're dealing with Unicode you need to be dealing with a good library and you need to be understanding what you're doing, once you go away from simply reading/displaying/serializing bags-o-bits.

But if the latter is all you're doing, UTF-8 is just fine, and less susceptible to mistakes with code that works correctly on C strings.
The Chinese ethnic communities in the Bay Area have well established networks of people with a culture of facilitating opportunities for each other.

Ya, like other groups in California don't?
You're right - the class of investor has shifted away from professionals and people wanting to leave China (the aspirational Chinese migrants we are used to) to extremely wealthy corrupt officials who are dumping their money everywhere they can put it.

Because property supply is constrained but their capital is seemingly unlimited, we are seeing properties fetch prices that are totally disconnected to reality. This is happening in Melbourne, Australia too where entire suburbs that used to be 'family friendly' at $800K are now seeing properties regularly sell for $1.5M to investors on the phone.

New York Magazine called it out for what it is - money laundering.

http://nymag.com/news/features/foreigners-hiding-money-new-y...

I wouldn't be surprised if President Xi's rise and his crackdown on corruption is behind the flight of capital overseas.
The text should be flowing and not just random words next to each other. I should be typing sentences and not individual words.
It's really nice to see non web based startups.
Good luck making your RAII class exception safe. It's extremely difficult, to the point that writing a simple class becomes an hours-long exercise in reasoning about exceptions.

And of course, if you admit that exceptions aren't worth worrying about, then you'll start to question the entire "C++ way," which usually ends in disillusionment.

Alternatively, instead of disillusionment, you may still kind of enjoy C++. But suddenly you find that it's been three years since you've worked with C++, and on reflection, you haven't really been missing out on much of anything at all by not using C++.

It doesn't seem like C++ solves the right problems, even with the new dialects. Programming languages should be convenient to think in. By immersing yourself in the C++ mental model, it becomes difficult to keep a large-scale architecture entirely in your head.
> essentially dirty bombs without detonators and must be protected as such.

No, it's completely wrong. That's not how a nuclear plant works. And as you can see, a nuclear plant does not "explode" when it goes amok. The chain reaction is very tightly controlled and there are multiples redundancies in case things don't work as expected.
Yes, extern "C" is still a thing to interoperate with the C FFI. It is required if for nothing else than to use C headers.
The literal types are optional— they're user-defined literals, which can be written like (say):

QString operator""_qs(const char* c_str, size_t len)
{
return c_str;
}

void foo()
{
auto iama_non_stl_type_ama = "foo"_qs;
}
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People form networks with their friends to help each other. This is not a remarkable thing, and it doesn't benefit all Chinese.

I have a couple friends, immigrants from China, who wanted to retire and move to a part of San Francisco with less steep hills. They complained that every time they found a place, it would be snatched away by somebody with a whole lot of cash. Mainly, somebody from China.

Eventually, they did find a nice little house in the desired neighborhood, much smaller, only a few yards away from a bunch of grocery stores and the church that they attend. So, that worked out for them.
To be fair, they didn't attempt to claim to invent the 'composite image'. While there is a picture of a composite image and it is mentioned in the description, nothing about composite images is in the claims. The claims themselves seem to be specifically about using a text identifier on a social-network messaging system to display in-line images. The composite image figure is simply an example of multiple in-line images used together in a single message. This is also just an application, so there's no guarantee the claims will stay the same before it is accepted (If it ever is)

That said, I'm not a patent lawyer so take that with as much salt as you want.
I have to admit that recent events have altered my opinion of him, which is sad because I have enjoyed reading his site.
"dirty bomb" is a radiological weapon, not a fission/fusion weapon, and is exactly what detonating explosives (or H gas, or whatever) inside a commercial power reactor or RTG would be.
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The same thing happened to Japan a few decades ago. It's also happened to Korea more recently.

When your country is poor, moving to the U.S. offers great opportunities for you and your children. But as your country gets richer, the difference shrinks. At some point, you might find that your home country offers the same or better opportunities for you. As soon as the kids go to college (or get married), the parents are free to go back.

Too many elderly people coming back, though, could cause strain on a country's pension and welfare system. After all, they've never contributed anything toward a pension plan in their home country. Some people intentionally keep their old citizenship (even after decades of living in the U.S. and multiple opportunities to apply for U.S. citizenship) just so they can claim pension and welfare when they go back. Their lack of U.S. citizenship also makes them less emotionally attached to their new home and less involved in the public life of the U.S., making them even more likely to go back.
FWIW, things like range-based for loops, "auto", and unique_ptr are pretty standard in Google these days.

Still no exceptions, though.

The thing is, when you have a single codebase that is maintained by thousands of engineers, you have to make concessions. There is no place for "rockstar programming": everything must be, in a sense, bland, so that it blends seamlessly into the work of thousands of others.
I come away from this article with the singular thought:

*The justice system is broken.*

The patent troll problem would simply evaporate if the justice system worked properly - if, for example, the vast majority of the trial was conducted online with the aid of computers. If all of the mechanical work could be automated, motions filed in real time, the mechanics of the trial enforced perfectly and without delay...

(Fixing the justice system would also fix two other problematic areas: the criminal justice system that relies on prosecutorial over-reach, and improved consumer protection.)
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So, I should pay them to have my data in order to sell it.
Unrelated but there is a movie that features one of those RTG as an interesting prop in the story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Ended_This_Summer
Good money on the Chinese real estate bubble popping this year. It is already stagnating, even in tier one cities. Since the whole system is set up on valuations going up significantly each year, a bit of prolonged stagnation should bring the entire system down unless the government steps in with heavy inflation.
let me play devils advocate for a moment here.

Why do these articles make it seem like the patent trolls don't spend any money bringing these suits? I'm assuming they have just as many legal fees to take care of as Carolla does.

The only good side to this is these companies finally understand the ROI on cases like these are prohibitive to the company bringing them.

Despite Coralla settling, I'm pretty sure Personal Audio lost money in this mess.
Isn't this cheating? I thought the bootloader was supposed to be input in using the toggle switches or keypad, and only then can you boot off paper tape. Lazy kids these days.
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Is there evidence of them not maintaining the houses? How are they screwing up the rental markets?

I work with hedge funds that do this in CA, and neither of your points strike me as true.
I almost pitched a similar reactor in the last YC round, since they asked for energy. I assumed they'd never fund fission because of the crazy regulatory risk, and anyway I wanted to wait until I got a simulation working.

I'm glad uPower pitched and succeeded. With the possible exception of Radix/Dunedin, they're the only folks working on appropriate-size reactors today.

However, I doubt they'll get 28% thermal efficiency with heat pipes, and I doubt they'll get a 12-year core with pragmatic enrichments.
> Why do I even need to know about them when all I want is walk through the collection?

Because there are algorithms where you may not want to walk through the whole collection. STL wasn't meant to be a container library alone, it also includes many generic algorithms that work using iterators to delimit the range of data to be operated upon.
It could be that you need a web frontend for a project, and all the stuff that's interesting to you is done in the backend code. Engineers in other fields use prepackaged components all the time; Jeep engineers, for example, used to use Chrysler transmissions and Chevrolet motors even when they were more than capable of building their own.
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I tend to upvote helpful comments, especially if it's in response to something I said or asked.

I like to also post a "Thank you" reply but I seems to recall some push-back on that because such comments don't (supposedly) add much to the overall conversation.

I can see the point there but I also think some basic social niceties go a long way in encouraging helpful participation.
It has been shown before. Here you go: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec11/tech/full_papers/...
Well, that is the current policy. But that was not the policy when the paper was published. I have asked them previously about this and never gotten an answer as to whether they applu this policy retroactively.
> Do these confrontations result in violence more often than, for example, ones involving US domestic police forces?

Well if domestic police force could use drone to blast away protesters they would rather do that then get down and dirty. But alas they actually have put on their tactical vests and drive the APC to the scene...
And I note - that is for the authors version of the paper which for older papers many people do not have. I might have it - will look around.
It's all over when they start buying American landmarks. Nothing good happened in or to Japan after some Japanese investors bought Rockefeller Center.
No- they account for 11% of foreign home buyers.
This is a really nice tool, I'm surprised I had not seen this before. It is very nice; I think the word of this needs to spread more and keep it updated and add additional visualizations, particularly more advanced ones.
Yes, but developer experience is only one aspect for you to consider.

Have you considered the ease of deployment/availability/potential audience size of web apps versus your native platforms? We're all just trying to make successful products, after all. And any app of significant complexity will require at least some level of craft (which I suspect is part of your gripe - no craft required, ecosystem too large.)

Also, consider that any platform like HTML5 that includes Gamepad, Audio Data, Canvas/GL, Mouse Lock, and Socket API's has evolved far beyond simple document display.

The cruelest retort I can give on HN is none at all. It must be crushing to see one's story meet the front page of HN, only to receive few/no comments, right? If you're this passionate and worked up on the subject, please give the silent treatment a go.
There are times when you hear about something (like Uber, AirBnB etc.) and you tell yourself: shit, I wish I had thought of that. This is one of them.

This is not a comparison to Uber, as I see this business more like a Dollar Shave Club.

This is the case when the aspirin vs. vitamin analogy becomes rather literal. For that reason, like the dollar shave club, I think they need a way to get the word out. Ideally a charismatic or fun video that can get traction. But there is still no guarantee. If I'm taking vitamins, I'll wait until my bottle runs out and by then, I'll forget about it and buy it at the store next time I'm walking by the isles.

Alternatively, they should turn vitamins into aspirin by focusing on a specific vertical. I would have focused on prenatal care, etc. Bring an OB or Pediatrician as an advisor or spokesperson. Create the case for how these vitamins are more targeted for the expecting mothers, produced naturally, dozed correctly, etc.

Best of luck to the team!
An architect (known HERE IN GERMANY to be an over-run study-topic with too little jobs or low pay (until you made it)), a social worker, which is now a dish washer. Highly qualified foreign workers (which we highly need)...

even if the article portrayed a university guy... where are we (Germany, Europe, rest of the world) on a global ranking on universities?! (We are well behind Berkley, Stanford and Harvard!)

There were only 170 "expert workers" coming in the first year [1]. Also on that link a more in-side discussion (german residents) with much more critical tone (Google translate may help).

And I am not against that all the Russians, Rumanians and now also the people from the recent crisis come here because of hard economic problems in their country. But... you know... let's keep the church in the village.

People are having less and less offspring because live gets more difficult here (work opportunities only in big cities, living costs (esp. housing FOR A FAMILY), taxes, requirement to travel, etc.). And then arguing "we need people/imigrants"... it's just twisting everything... like a german politician said "I make me my world as I'd like it to be"). There is even the debate here, that "Germany gets rid of itself".

And then YC summer "batch" consisting of 68 groups, which received funding (some, then "B", "C", what 1 Mio, then 21 Mio)... wow... there is not much here (sorry, no it's not!)

Ignorance is bliss ("ja ja ja, the Americans are just more risk-friendly", end of personal horizont)

It's good to be called a "SF based company"

"Made in Germany", yeah... cars... and cars and cars (I wouldn't wonder if Google or Apple or a StartUp (Tesla?) would crush these next)

Europe, welcome to the old world!

But what will it look like in 10 or 20 years?

[1] http://m.welt.de/print/welt_kompakt/print_wirtschaft/article...
Except you just have to look at Fukushima to see that things can still go badly wrong, resulting in a meltdown of 3 reactors. And this happened in arguably one of the most tightly regulated and technologically advanced countries in the world.
Are size and efficiency the most pressing issues to solve in nuclear power?

You'd think the greatest problem facing a potential buyer is getting planning permission and insurance. Who wants a nuclear reactor down the road, even if it's a scaled-up TRIGA design? From what thin details are there in the Techcrunch writeup ("spent fuel from it can be reused in another reactor with some processing") it could almost be a pulse reactor, the design is well-understood.

Another worry is getting rid of the used fuel rods. With all the 70-odd TRIGAs operating around the world, the United States will take them back, but who can tell with a startup?
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I intended the two to share a type. My point was that you cannot express that constraint with only auto.
So essentially there are two kinds of science, one is the way I and millions of other scientists believe in, and then there is your own definition, which is the only true one? I'm giving up...
I think they are fearful and it must be stressful to have to do an admittedly dangerous job under immense public scrutiny, media attention, and the disillusionment of their communities they're supposed to serve.

But Ferguson's disillusionment is not an abstract dislike of authority, it can be concretely traced back to its history. When we talk of disillusionment we need to talk about years of police abuse and mistreatment of citizens: racial profiling, trivial arrests and police brutality. And they continue to justify the community's scepticism by withholding information (the officer's name), clumsy attempts to manipulate the narrative (the unrelated story of the robbery) and attempting to shut down the media.

Not all cops are bad, but it whatever institutional policies exist to hold cops accountable is non-existent; they haven't earned the community's trust.
I set up our neighborhood's NextDoor site last year. I got to name it. As the site owner, I can change the name (I think), if people objected and wanted a better name, I'd do it.

It was tough because our area is fairly low density and they require a minimum number of households to set up a neighborhood. I didn't want to include a couple of developments where they really weren't in the same demographic as the neighborhood I was setting up. I did some gerrymandering to make it work.

Now Nextdoor is including comments and posts from all of the surrounding neighborhoods, which is really annoying because I don't really care about what is going on over there and would just as soon not have them tracking what is going on over here.

Hmpf.
It's a reactor, not an RTG. One reason I don't like the term "nuclear battery". The term is also annoying here because it's clearly an attempt at spin. The cultural situation with nuclear is beyond spin, and requires direct confrontation.
A lot of silicon valley companies get patents to use defensively (basically how you have to play the game). If I worked at FB and had insider knowledge that the company was generating patents for only defensive purposes it wouldn't bother me that much.
Not actually, unfortunately for you ;-)
Everything wrong about software patents is summed up in this patent.

1) A guy was just randomly writing some code, and some lawyers found it interesting, so they made him file a patent. He didn't need the encouragement of the patent to write the software ... it was going to happen anyway. This wasn't even some dedicated Facebook research. It was a random Easter Egg. Why do people need a 20 year monopoly for a random Easter Egg?

2) The author probably doesn't even know what this patent says. Its a lot wider scope than his embedded image idea. He probably has no idea how it will be used to sue other programmers like him in a few years.

3) No insult to the author, but this "invention" is kind of BS, and not the "complicated" stuff laymen probably think requires a software patent. If people actually knew the trivialities that are being patented and used as roadblocks against their competitors, they would be shocked.
There are a lot of speculators (domestic and foreign) buying US houses because of their appeal to corrupt foreign officials who need to reinvent themselves as legit corporate execs under new identities (and it takes 2-3 years to get the fake jobs and references in place; during that time, a person is living out of his house, which is what makes the Valley so appealing).

I'm completely OK with the US as a place where people from all over the world can reinvent themselves and tell a second chapter of their stories. That's what it's been for hundreds of years, and what made it great. Almost every one of us has at least once ancestor who came here to escape trouble in the old country. I'm not OK with it when it means that Americans are priced out of their own housing, especially now because these corrupt foreign officials aren't even coming here, but just buying real estate just in case things go bad in their home countries. Not only does it make housing unaffordable for us, but there's the moral hazard angle as well: by allowing nonresident foreigners to buy so much of our best real estate, with a great proportion of those being corrupt officials or people seeking resale to them, we're effectively subsidizing corruption in the rest of the world.

(Is it correct that every foreign investor buying real estate is a corrupt third-world ultra-HNWI? No, that's only about 1 in 4. The other 3 are speculators banking on the resale value to corrupt officials abroad.)
Good approach. To elaborate, bid the lesser of your value or market value. Always. If you feel the least bit of pressure, or feel there's any shenanigans going on, walk away.

There'a always another house to come around.
Sounds intriguing... Is it something rule-based where I have to define things ahead of time, or can it infer stuff - for example highlighting outliers in an automatically detected numeric field?
I studied energy at Stanford and joined the team that spun TerraPower (www.terrapower.com) out of Intellectual Ventures with Bill Gates' backing. I spent a lot of time looking at these nuclear batteries and economically it's very hard to see them working out as anything close to competitive to natural gas, coal, or wind. The amount of security, containment, etc. that you need for a large plant vs. a small plant doesn't vary much, so the costs per kWh don't scale down as you move down in total plant size, they scale up - and the idea as the techcrunch article suggests that you could sell just a "thermal" battery and let the utility or whoever add the actual steam-to-electric conversion on their own is laughable. Utilities don't do anything on their own.

I do hope these guys figured out something novel about the economics -- and I certainly applaud YC for going into energy.
I'm thankful to have Everyblock back in Chicago (even if it primarily serves as a do-go project by Comcast now). I truly appreciate all the automatically pulled in data-- learned about new restaurants, violent crimes etc.
Amen to that, brother. JSON is a huge pain point for Java. No wonder so many Java folks keep defending XML--at least it's malleable in their home language.