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On the contrary, I would say that it cleans things up amazingly. As the language currently is, if I want to change one of the default values, I need to specify every single value up to that point.

func(5,0,0,NULL,0,true,true,false,NULL,true);
func(verbose: true);

With named parameters, I can just specify the differences between my function call and the default values.
Thanks so much for the kind words! I really appreciate it.
IMO... We should start banning the times with their new paywall.
Interesting. I have a 2013 MBP from work and my monitors have HDMI and I seem to recall HDMI / DP converters. I'll need to check if the display ports work well with ubuntu. Thanks!

(two 27s and a 24! Fantastic!)
Glide in the Sea of Go Package Managers
I hope that upon discovering it, you said aloud, "It's a Unix system, I know this!"
>top healthcare systems in the world

Americans actually believe this.
What part of the reactor degrades so quickly? Can't it be replaced continuously? Why isn't the shielding done with some non-degradable matter, like water or some oil?
May I make a feature request? Under export track, there is one option, email. could you make a setting so I could set an email address and when I click email it goes out without further intervention? thanks.
As I understand it, the proof is how tightly they pack the pixels. If you need a stronger backlight to illuminate the screen, and more power to push all the pixels, it stands to reason that a more detailed screen e.g. 1080p instead of 720p, in the same form factor, is going to use considerably more battery. It's part of the reason why the iPhone 6 does better in battery life tests without gimmicks to extend the battery life as the phone hits Low Battery warnings, the screen's resolution is just over 720p instead of the Nexus 5's comparable 1080p screen. This difference is highlighted by how the Nexus 5 had a 2300 mAh battery while the iPhone 6 has merely 1810 mAh, 20% smaller. In battery tests for the 1080p Nexus 5, under L, it lasts roughly 8 hours. The iPhone 6 gets about the same playing movies, maybe two hours longer otherwise. I'd argue the screen plays a huge role in this.
It's the same price.
No, you don't. But the question at hand isn't using a dynamically vs. a statically typed language, it is, given that you are in a statically typed language, is a Java-style one sufficient?

Indeed, this is one of the benefits of dynamically typed languages: you're not restricted to any particular type discipline; you don't have to worry that the type system of the language you're in is too restrictive.

OTOH, if you want it to be easy to write reusable code, having static typeclasses with type inference can be quite useful. You could write a monad transformer stack in a dynamically typed language, but you can't always write code that's generic across any monad without explicitly passing around an object that represents the monad in question. (Racket's "units" might be a reasonable solution to this problem, though.)
You were one of the first people I told about this idea (something like five years ago), and were one of the tutorial's earliest and most enthusiastic supporters. It's pretty cool to see how it's all come together!
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I like this idea in theory. the rectangle the example is a good one that I've personally tripped over before.

That being said, this could hurt readability in some cases as single lines of code are going to get larger, especially with length parameter names. Another issue I forsee is a code style where parameters are prefixed with p_. Having to type that prefix each time would be annoying, but finding a readable syntax that allows a separately specified name will also be confusing.
Standards are a farce
In spring 1998, my 6th grade class did a virtual stock investing game (using prices from the newspaper business page, with ability to change our picks once a week or so). My big picks were Dell and Lucent Technologies, and my portfolio more than doubled in the course of 2–3 months, far outpacing the second best student, who gained like 15%. Both stocks crashed within a few years after.
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Please stop adding features to C++ and standardize an ABI already. The lack of an ABI is why it's impossible to call C++ libraries without an entire C++ compiler – and it generally requires generating mountains of wrapper code a la SWIG – which is then called with the C ABI. The lack of an ABI is why dynamic libraries use C for writing extensions instead of C++: C++ can literally only be called by C++ (and in fact only by the same C++ compiler).
No.

But I wouldn't worry too much if that is the only symptom you share with the OP.
Have a look at your Battery Usage settings for which apps are prime candidates to remove. But I think you'll also find L does a good enough job at extending battery life for many Android handsets. Don't get me wrong, I still think my iPhone uses less juice, but given the slightly larger battery in the Nexus 5 compared to the iPhone 6, it can hold its own under L.
Also RedReader.
I'm not sure, but probably within a couple of months. I don't how much work the publisher is going to have to do to put it in their format.
I hope hope hope they come out with a feature to hide stuff you've already clicked on. I don't get why you'd still want to see something you've already clicked on. At least offer a toggle.
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Same, I might just add that the USB monitor thing (well, DisplayLink at least) is not as bad as one would expect. It's surprisingly efficient and 99.9% of the time you won't notice the difference. When playing full screen video it might take up a bit of CPU power, but unless you're under heavy load already it won't matter. Been using a StarTech DisplayLink adapter for 2 years now and never complained.

EDIT: A quick google reveals it might not behave as well on a linux-based OS.
It's not really the responsibility of the standard committee, right? C also has no standard ABI.
I didn't know there was a character limit and some of this was trimmed before but as there were a few questions I can answer them as well.

I'm in WI, and from what I've read the average salary for my position should probably be closer to 2 times what I am at now. I have 5 years but only between 2 small employers. That's part of the reason for the confidence issues. I just don't know how other places work.

They are interviewing and looking. We had someone training the week before but he just walked in and resigned (after a week). So that might be a bad sign or maybe like he said a better offer did come up.

I know the company won't be able to align with my biggest goals because the biggest is to move from the US to the UK. That's narrowed my search when applying but I don't think it's impossible.

Thank you to the people who have answered. I'll continue to check on this but tomorrow I plan on getting that meeting together.
If only named member initializers were supported in C++.

Here's a similar hack that works in C++11, though it unfortunately requires declaring a global variable for each name (which I make less-bad by prefixing them with $, which is non-standard but supported by all major compilers):

https://gist.github.com/kentonv/7553792
Doesn't apply to iCloud/IAP
I can never remember the precise names of parameters. ;-)
There's a start-up scene starting to grow around Northwest Arkansas somewhat. Innovate Arkansas and the ARK Challenge are a local source of seed funding.

NWA TechFest http://nwatechfest.com and Little Rock TechFest http://lrtechfest.com/ are good events for networking.

There's a good network of local .NET User Groups across the state, too. NWA, Little Rock, Fort Smith, Jonesboro all have one. If that's too Microsofty for you, I'm pretty sure there's a Cocoa group in NWA.
> NO REMOTE IN THE WORLD will ever beat an app

Except when you want to quickly pause.
Upgrade the Nexus 5 to L and all you're missing in this list is the SD Card slot, which, given the 802.11ac support you shouldn't miss. At this point, my wifi speed tests on the Nexus 5 outpace my SD Card slot read tests by 5x or more. ;-)
I came here looking for how to pronounce "Wit.ai". I'd decided on "Witty", as read by Forrest Gump. "Witaeeee!"
Well, function specifications in the link table would have to become more verbose, and the linker would have additional decisions to make. You could also wind up deferring a lot of problems that could be caught by compile-time checking until link-time, which might also be run-time.

The problem that they're trying to solve is that people often use 5 arguments when a single struct would do.
Is that fair? It sounds like demonizing the opposition, which is a form of 'ad hominem' argument.
Or go pro. People make 100's of billions of dollars every year 'cheating' in the stock market... Some of it's even completely legal. Find a hedge fund that's a little slow to update their purchase price based on market changes and eat them alive. Figure out when large trades are going to happen and remove liquidity at the right time etc etc.
Do you realize that Google, Facebook, Oracle et al. are US companies? These companies all benefited from the stable business climate that the US government largely provides(stable judicial system, Delaware Companies, a stable financial system, State University systems that provide research grants that made Google possible in first place etc.) So why should these Corporations that benefitted from that not pay their fare share of taxes? I hate pay taxes too but I pay them and I understand that they pay for services I benefit from. You sound both naive and uninformed. Its a farce that American companies that make billions pay almost no tax on those profits while us little people shoulder the burden. Did you actually read the article?
SGI's biggest mistake was selling Cray Research's business division to Sun. These became Sun's E10k machines and got them a tun of business outside of the desktop workstation market. It is probably what kept Sun around so long and why Oracle wanted to buy them.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1996-05-18/business/1996139...
>In case of seatbelt laws in particular you have a huge amount of proof/data showing that seatbelts save lives both of the person wearing them and other people in the car[1] and there is also a massive amount of proof/data that [a lot of] people are too dumb to wear seatbelts on their own.

I hate this line of reasoning. People aren't "too dumb" to wear seat belts. They have their own reasons. It's not your place or anyone else's to protect people from themselves. You might be able to make the case for a law requiring seat belts when more than one person is in the car, but not for singleton drivers.
C absolutely has an ABI – you do not need a C compiler to call a C library.
If the IDE would just let me plug in whatever editor I like the most, that would be great.

I guess there could be conflicts with things like hotkeys, but some tweaking should get rid of such incompatibilities.
It is exposing more implementation details to the consumer of an API. A function with named parameters can’t rename its parameters without callers needing to update all their named arguments. Not necessarily a bad thing. And verbosity isn’t so much an issue—I don’t mind writing a bit more code now if it’ll save me from a bughunt later.

However, I do find named parameters suspect, not just because I don’t care for names generally, but also because they’re just papering over the problem of a function with many parameters, some of which have the same type.

Faced with that problem, I usually reach for more descriptive types: enums instead of booleans, numbers that know about their units and axes and coordinate spaces, that sort of thing. Ideally, all arguments have different types and there is only one permutation of their order that the compiler will accept. It sounds onerous, but most of your functions probably satisfy this constraint already.
I think that's too personal a preference to make the default, and people would get confused. Imagine someone wanting to show a friend a funny video he found on reddit, and now it's gone.

They have already implemented something similar with the 'hide' button, which allows you to hide a story.
I love Gaia GPS, it's my primary GPS app. But the display has been annoyingly buggy for years (seemingly switching zoom levels randomly sometimes, drawing a line to a waypoint incorrectly after selecting "Guide me"). Map download regions can only be set to rectangles when few trails are that shape (e.g. any trail other than a straight N-S or E-W line will require downloading many extra tiles). In the map display, it impossible to hide the top row of buttons - I wish there was a simple gesture, like two-finger swipe up, to toggle display of all UI elements. That said it's still better than MotionX.
FYI starting in 0.3 Terraform state files are JSON.
You can pull up the sidebar in Redditor (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/redditor-perfect-client-for/...). It's my iOS Reddit app of choice since iOS 7 launched.
[For beginners] How to set up a website with Ruby on Rails and Bootstrap – part 1
Deep Learning for Computer Vision with Caffe and CuDNN
And implement syncing of settings, for goodness' sake.
Winforms has data binding.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ef2xyb33

WPF main advantage over Winforms is XAML vs tool-generated designer class IMHO. Most of the other concepts have their equivalents in both technology.
This! I love the idea simply because of this use case.
They are not counting arrests for possession prior to the change in law in the stat, so not a tautology.
Don't sign that CFAA petition
I use two monitors to code, debug, shell, test, etc... with when I am working and nothing else is open on that machine other than work or research related to what I am doing. Not even email is open. All of my distractions (email included) are on my laptop with it's own extra screen. The key (for me anyway) is setting your screen saver to come on or go blank after a short period of inactivity mine is 5 minutes. This visually blocks anything from grabbing my attention on this machine. Now all the flashy alerts and popups are hidden from view.

This article should have been titled something else as the multiple monitors aren't the issue. If you are being distracted with multiple monitors from the work you are supposed to be doing then you need to close those distracting items or block them visually.
My setup for front-end development:

* 15" Retina MPB at 1920x1200 (iTerm 2 with either 3 or 4 panes)

* 27" Thunderbolt (two documents side-by-side, currently tolerating Atom)

* 27" iMac in target display mode (browser and dev tools).

And that's just the three spaces that I do most of my work in. I've got other spaces set up for general browsing, email, image editing, chat, etc.

It's probably excessive for most people. But I need to see all of these things. If I can't have them all up at once, I have to do a lot of switching between windows and spaces, and that takes a time. It's small amounts, but it adds up. I rely on tools like Gulp and BrowserSync to help me save small amounts of time. Staying focused by keeping my work in front of me really does help to keep me focused.
I throw these eye-candy Google websites into a text-only browser and start /'ing; it is _way_ easier to find the info you're looking for.
Since this is HN and most people here have written code, I compare multi-monitor setups to a text/code editor with a single panel/pane. You just don't do it! Sublime, N++, Atom, etc. all support multiple panes (split screen). Once you get coding enough you never go back to using a single pane.

Same thing with multi-monitor. As long as you are productive (unlike the author), more screen real estate is better (obviously, there are limits)

Personally, I like dual 27"s. Allows you to run 4 full size (think 8.5"x11") word docs at 100% side by side. Very nice!
Or you could use a different game service that has more features and client libraries in more languages: https://gamesnet.yahoo.net/documentation/services/multiplaye...

(Shameless plug, sorry)
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Or don't put quotes around a URL? Why would you do that anyway, are you suggesting they aren't real websites?
The study makes a point to stress that the authors don’t believe that H-1B visas depress wages...

Ummm, I think this "point" needs a bit more support. At first blush, it is implausible at best.
I'm building one as well. Want to discuss?
"Hacker News is full of people from the software field; folks whose professions are often unconstrained by physics"

Lockheed Skunk Works, on the other hand, is not.

They've been pushing the frontiers of engineering in areas that are very much constrained by physics since 1943, and succeeding. Many times.
If its only one, sure. How many people on that plane had temperatures around 99? Half a dozen? From flu or hot coffee or too much sun?

If half a dozen people are kept off of every plane and quarantined, that's thousand of people a day. That's an overburdened health care staff. I have more sympathy for the problem.
Thank you very much for posting these documents! This will save my small medical tech startup a huge amount of time and pain.
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This was discussed a bit in the first post about Terraform: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8098496
Pot is only decriminalized for people above a certain age, probably 18. It's still illegal for teenagers.
What's next? Tabs? (I wish...)
I agree this probably looks better in theory than it does in practice. As far as long function declarations go, it sure would be nice to go back to declaring multiple arguments of the same type without repeating the type:

int myfunc(float x, y, z, r, g, b, a);

instead of

int myfunc(float x, float y, float z, float r, float g, float b, float a);

Yes, I know about structs, but often that's not applicable. And if the type name is some long thing, then you have to really look carefully to notice they are all the same type. It seems this style is now being seen as a feature, although I don't know of any language that required repeating the type for each parameter until C and C++ adopted this for the new style function prototype declarations. I was very sorry to see that D has also adopted this "feature". I believe go allows multiple declarations of the same type. I'd much rather see this fixed in C and C++ than have them clutter up things with named parameters.
No, this proposal does not affect the linker at all. Argument names would be resolved to positional arguments during compilation.
Did it about 5 years ago, just had to contact apple, they contacted the developer, Boom! It was all done.
Didn't see the voice search feature mentioned. And not requiring a phone is a bug advantage.
Reddit Sync is a fantastic Reddit client for android. I prefer it to the actual website.
I don't think this is really that surprising, WP7 is now just past 4 years old, and WP8 has been out for two years. The average life of a mobile device is 18 months, my first windows phone (7) device died about 8 months ago, and that (I felt) was an exceptional life for a mobile device.

How many WP7 devices are still signing into skype on a regular basis? Seeing as not that many WP7 devices were sold in the first place, I doubt it's many.
They still have that policy. There have certainly been issues with it because there are international users (Quora still struggles to cater for users outside US/UK/Australia, though their recent efforts to connect with Indian users are going well) who might have a 'western name' and 'transliterated' name, and the policy sort of breaks down.

I suppose Quora thinks that anonymity will be good enough, but pseudonyms might prove to better in 90% of cases. I think that probably 9 out of 10 uses of anonymity that I've seen on Quora weren't really necessary.
Penny Arcade on Gamergate: “they’ve broken your banner, you helped them do it”
The "fair share" rhetoric so frequently deployed in these contexts would be more convincing if US corporate tax policy was more in line with international norms and if less tax revenue funded policies ranging from wasteful to downright immoral.
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Features

Node.js 0.10.x compatible API
libUV native support
Timer, set/clear Timeout/Interval
EventEmitter
Stream
HttpParser
HTTP
HTTPP(run http over udp)
TCP
UDT(udp transport)
DNS
URL
IPv6
Connect middleware
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What you say about my startup?
In Socialchan you can create your groups and discuss about your favorite topics, if you create your group you will find people with similar interests and you expand your network of contacts, you can also share your photos and videos to create funny discussions.
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someone wants to be my co-founder?????
Somehow, "hysterical, convenient and cross platform" in this context conjures an image of a room full of people with manic grins plastered to their faces, determined to be having fun Or Else!
> But if you wouldn’t watch a movie or play a video game while you’re trying to get something done, why would you keep an app as distracting as email sitting within your field of view?

Because... I wouldn't? I use a window manager and I don't have a system tray (so no email notifications, for example). Often, I have one application open on each screen, perhaps a PDF reader, a text editor or a browser. Then, if I need to actually look at two things fairly back and forth, I'll split that screen into two, or use both monitors. What if I don't need the second monitor? I guess it could just be looking at the wallpaper, or displaying an analogue clock (that is: if I'm not looking too much at the clock, pining for the time to pass quicker!).

Does using two monitors make me more productive? I don't know yet. But I don't see how two monitors would make me more susceptible to procrastination. If I feel the need to fire up the browser and go to reddit or something, that's pretty much as with one monitor as with two. The time and effort I save by not having to minimize the currently focused app in order to open the browser, compared to just opening a browser on the already blank second monitor, seems so small as to be inconsequential to a bored, wandering mind.
And I was there. And everyone knew who the girl was. And everyone was just too cocky and had parties on campus where toilet bowls would get broken.

I haven't read the article beyond seeing the names and dates. I'll look at it in the morning and tell you more.

EDIT: Had some time after all and just finished reading it. I can't add any more than was in the article but I can verify about half of it from my own time there but I was gone by 1984.
This is the best I have found.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435