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It's important to consider that C++ code, is not the same as C# to C++ code. The Facebook guys originally converted PHP to C++ code for speed, just like il2cpp, but eventually they wrote a JIT because it was faster AND they could keep the dynamic features like code generation and dynamic loading.

C# is ment to be a safe language, unlike C++ which has, among other things, the notion of undefined behaviour and manual memory management. This is what makes C# initially slower than C++. You might be able to compensate with a JIT, but safety still costs. Not to mention, the Unity guys will still probably have to implement their own GC and spend years on optimisations.

Also, several games are using dynamic loading for things like plugins and mods, as far as I know, il2cpp will force them to change how this is implemented.

From my standpoint. The cheapest option, and best option for everyone really, is to continue using (an up-to-date) Mono and instead allow for writing games in C++ as well.
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Agreed, especially since the inline approach allows more flexibility, like 66%.
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I see it now. Thanks very much.

But isn't 30% a lot of margin in hardware? Even software companies nowadays have problems with that margin.
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You seem to have missed the point. And I'll let you have the last word if want. I will say this though:

There is no universal right to smoke. Smoking harms others and provides no benefit to anyone other than people who suffer nicotine addictions.

Furthermore, smoking bans are bar none the most effective way to reduce public harm from second hand smoke. They indeed "actually work".

EDIT: And to your other response I did mean "the right to continue their addiction." Thank you for pointing that out.
I'd say the majority of startup co-founders don't pay themselves until they hit a critical point where they no longer see paying themselves as a "negative" act to the company.

That critical point could be reaching profitability, or signing a large round of funding, or landing a key client.

Most of the co-founders I've talked with, or have heard speak publicly (I counted at least 2 speakers this year at startup school), borderline brag about how they went x number of years with no salary. I think sometimes it's an act. There's no way declaring bankruptcy or defaulting on your loans can feel good. Other times I feel like that's a direct influence from investors. For example I've heard verbatim the following sentence from an investor:

"We want you [speaking to an audience about investing] to live like college kids. You know, eat ramen noodles, borrow food from friends, live on your buddies couch, take the bus to the office. At no point should you rely on investor money to pay your own bills"

A part of me agrees with that mentality. You should be financially independent of investor money as a co-founder. Another part of me sees a benefit in keeping a co-founder at some level of comfort. If they don't have to worry about paying for food this month then their work performance would surely increase.
I just came here to say the same. You can accomplish the first two chart styles quite easily, though the last might be a bit more involved.
I'm curious about his electric vertical take off and landing supersonic airplane idea. He has mentioned it in several interviews so far.

I wonder how he plans to position the electric motors and the fans. Vertical take off needs a huge amount of power compared to normal runway take off, that means bigger batteries...

He surely has based the concept in first principles, but I must be missing something about this one.
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I picked up my first Philip K Dick novel (Ubik) recently and it blew me away. I could see the plot elements which were later used in Matrix, Inception and a few other movies. Its fascinating to see how many of his novels got made into movies or were inspirations. I believe it was Keanu Reeves who said his favorite under rated movie is A Scanner Darkly.

He is a very interesting character and a lot of enigma?/controversy surrounds him. This was an interesting conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXeVgEs4sOo
> Every city has loads of work that needs doing, picking up litter, emptying public trash bins, park beautification, cleaning up graffiti, repainting bridges, filling in potholes, etc.

There's a large problem with the "filling in potholes" part. Road construction is a skilled trade (no, it's not just digging ditches). I've heard this "ditch-digging" argument on HN before (the other commenter wanted welfare recipients to dig a ditch on the Mexican border to keep illegal immigrants out...). Using public funds to effectively put tradesmen (some of whom are unionized) out of work to provide busywork to welfare recipients is not a good idea from a free-market point of view.
That's because that program gives you rewards points specifically for sharing your private information [1].

[1] http://time.com/money/3025429/verizon-smart-rewards-loyalty-...
Well to be clear, on WiFi it does not send the tracking data, only when using the LTE network. That said the only SSL tunnel software I saw was Junos Pulse which is sitting on a ton of bad reviews at the moment because apparently it doesn't work with iOS 8. What VPN software do you use with your iPad?
Nowadays DE-CIX is slightly bigger than AMS-IX.
Downloaded this app out of curiosity, but deleted it 10 minutes later after failing to find an entrance but stuck at some weird barcode pages...Anyone with me?
The cloud stuff, especially Azure, is Microsoft at their best - and Nadella having come from that part of the business is what preserves hope for the long run.

The reason for this is MS are on the backfoot, but instead of playing defensively they've gone all out to hit every selling point their competition have, and then add their own stuff too, while leveraging what is quite a lot of existing small and medium business lockin to migrate over to the cloud as appropriate. Many people (myself included) thought Amazon, Rackspace etc. would prevent this from working, but they've done it really well.

I've also seen a lot of companies move to Office 365, when previously they'd have gone with Google Docs. They seem to have prevented that threat from getting much further too.
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"What Hazlett doesn’t see right now is any one company or model with the inside track on the future of TV. 'It’s all in flux. No one knows really where it’s going to go,' he says. 'There’s a graveyard of failed experiments and it’s growing. And we’re going to see Apple TV, Roku, Google, Sony, Samsung, and others we’ve never heard of all take more shots at this. No one’s gotten it right, and that includes Netflix, which I think may be in the most precarious position of all.'"
If you've read Brave New World or you like psychedelics, you should really check out Island, the novel Huxley wrote after taking mescaline (PDF version is online).

Island is pro-drug (magic mushrooms), pro-sex, pro-enjoying life, sensible use of sperm banks, sensible non-coercive education, playful response to religion.

Sado-masochism is presented as child abuse or a kinky adult game, not as in BNW as a nobel response to an immoral world (BNW ends with the savage whipping himself, getting into an orgy with curious onlookers, and then hanging himself in disgust).
Good point about code compiled to C++ not being the same as idiomatic C++ code.

However, unlike PHP which is dynamic, C# is statically typed. It is a much more direct match for C++, and performance should be pretty good.

But with that said, I think your point still stands, as there are still things like bounds checks in C# which would need to remain when compiled to C++, while idiomatic C# might not have those checks.

I wonder though if those bounds checks couldn't be disabled in some cases. Sandboxing isn't a concern on the Unity WebGL port, for example, since the browser provides that, so il2cpp code doesn't need to be safe in that sense.
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Speaking from experience here: you will be co-founding with your significant other, regardless of whether you realise that or not.

If you're in a significant relationship, that person is your partner; major life decisions surrounding employment, business, balance between home & office, etc. etc. aren't made in a vacuum.

Consider also that in some jurisdictions, your partner may be entitled to a share of the company as part of a divorce or similar proceedings (happened to a colleague of a friend here in Australia).

Also speaking from experience: your significant other will likely be an invaluable source of support, motivation, opinion, experience, etc.
I can understand discriminating on quality or something like that, but we're talking about not being able to opt out of having your personal information sold. It seems like there should be some kind of a law where that has to be made absolutely clear. It doesn't even seem to be buried anywhere in the Terms of Service, which say:

"Verizon Wireline consumers and certain business customers may opt-out by calling 1-866-483-9700. Verizon Wireless consumer and certain business customers may call 1-800-333-9956."

Only after calling that number are you told you are ineligible because you are prepaid.

This is advertised as a prepaid account, not a personal-information-selling subsidized account. It's also not even really competitive with other plans. Verizon gives you up to 1GB/month for $45, only with recurring payments, while Cricket gives you 10GB 4G with unlimited throttled data for $55. Unfortunately, Verizon has a monopoly in most of my area. T-Mobile and Sprint don't operate here, and AT&T is spotty.
Is Instagram still using a modified version of Django 1.1 (if I recall that was the version they were on) or do they stay on the newest version now?
I think the central thesis of BNW, insofar as it is relevant to western societies and their possible futures, is that escapism is bad in excess.

In the information age, access to entertainment is utterly unfettered, and it's shockingly easy at times to get caught in a dopamine loop (example: Zynga, candy crush). While this is, I believe, a valid concern, I find the conspiratorial aspects a little absurd. Claims that this is orchestrated specifically to prevent the unwashed masses seizing power describe such an undertaking so as to be unfeasible. We're in this position due to very, very, rapid changes in technology that as a society, we have yet to fully adapt to and understand.
Ultimately, because it's easier.

I was speaking to a friend recently about writing iOS & Android apps and their Android apps literally take 4x longer than their iOS apps to build because of hardware fragmentation. As in, bugs in the hardware of phones like the SGS3 (still a very large portion of the market) causing them to have to implement massive workarounds and complete full testing on actual hardware devices.
I have no idea that it overtook Counterclockwise and Vim. When did that happen? Do you think it's because of Cursive coming out of beta release?

I used to use Counterclockwise a few years back when I started with Clojure and then switched to Vim soon after.
Can't be understated - I've benchmarked my current MonoGame stuff with 2.10 and 3.10 and the modern stuff is leaps and bounds better in terms of GC performance (that alone being my biggest hurdle). Perf improvements have been coming very steadily and while there are areas I wouldn't recommend it for I wouldn't hesitate in recommending it for the logic level of many games.
No, everyone hasn't.
> The homeless are less likely to congregate in safe areas where organizations dedicated to help them are located.

The areas where organizations dedicated to help the homeless are located are almost never, to even a first approximation, "safe areas". They are quite often in nearly the worst parts of the city they are in to start with, and often made less safe by the congregation of the homeless there.

> They're more likely to sleep in an alley somewhere instead of, at worst, gathering near a shelter, or at best, getting a bed in a shelter where they are safest and most secure.

Many homeless avoid shelters because their experience is that crimes against their person and meagre property are more common in shelters than otherwise. Its probably reasonable to say that in shelters there is less danger from the elements, but it is far less clear that they are "safest and most secure" considering the totality of the circumstances.
How do you see this as different from founding a startup while in a significant relationship? I.e., say, founding a company while married vs. founding a company with your husband or wife?
Ask HN: Anybody want a non-functional very large CNC Bridgeport Mill?
Hello HN,

I'm clearing out an 1800 square ft warehouse and one of the items in it is a very large Bridgeport first generation CNC mill. The mill is mechanically in absolutely excellent condition, it only has a few hundred hours on it total because the electronics burned out in a bad way after it was installed in a school in the previous century.

I'm giving it away because I intend to sell the warehouse and my friend who was going to rebuild it has stated un-ambiguously that he's no longer interested in the project.

So, for the very large price of $0 you are more than welcome to this beast provided that you have the ability to transport it. I have no crane or other facilities to lift the monster, estimated weight is 1.2 metric tonne.

There are NO electronics with the machine, nor are there servos with it, you're going to have to fit servos (or maybe even steppers) to it to get it running as well as probably a VFD to control the main spindle motor. This project is definitely not for the timid.

If you're seriously interested then please drop me a line, the machine is located in Eygelshoven, Limburg, The Netherlands, so presumably it's within easy transportation reach of a good chunk of France and Germany as well as all of Luxembourg, the Netherlands and of course Belgium.

I can't do any showings or other luxuries, I live 300 Km away from the warehouse myself but I do have a friend locally that will be happy to open it up and clear a path to the machine prior to removal.

If you're looking for a stable base for your 3D CNC milling project you're probably not going to find anything better. If you want a desktop mill or this would be your first CNC project then this is probably not for you.

A picture of the beast:

http://pics.camarades.com/v/jacques/machines/dscf1225.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1
Thanks for the suggestions, but I really don't want an expensive postpaid contract. I don't even need service every month. WiFi calling is better than cell calling most of the time, and unfortunately, no carrier other than Verizon operates in most of the places around where I live. I'll stick to a VPN.
I think this is a very cool product, but I think the messaging here misses the mark a bit. First we're told what a pain the install process is:

"Blame the Install"

Read: Installs suck.

"For some reason, when Apple launched the iPhone in 2007 they decided to take the world back 15 years and create a software application store."

Read: Application stores are backwards.

"Nowadays a user has to browse preview screenshots, read the description and reviews, and only begins an install process after careful consideration."

Read: Evaluating apps sucks.

"The password prompt comes up and you struggle to enter your 15 digit, multi case password. Gah! Password incorrect. Second time's the charm and the YouTube page begins to load."

Read: Passwords suck.

"This is the world that we’ve all come to accept because of the install process."

Read: The install process sucks.

Then we get an explanation of how branch.io is going to solve all these problems:

"The First Step to Fixing It"

Read: We're going to fix it.

"The first step in reducing the install barrier and make apps more accessible like the web is to make links work through the install."

Read: Huh? Reducing the install barrier involves web accessibility and links that work through the install? What does that have to do with sucky passwords, ease of evaluation and backward app stores?

"Imagine if LinkedIn had a ‘View In App’ button on every mobile web profile. When you click that link and don’t have the app, wouldn’t it be nice if you saw the same profile post-install?"

Read: We're going to deliver deep links that work in apps, and will still work even if you haven't installed the app yet.

This sounds like a very cool project, but I really don't see how this "reduces the barrier to install". Many of the pain points outlined in the statement of the problem aren't addressed by the product. In fact, only one is: accessing the content you came for once you've actually installed the app. That's a great problem to solve, but it needn't be framed in the context of "app installs suck and app stores are backwards." In fact, Branch wouldn't have a product without app stores.

Don't try to make more of the problem than it is. It's enough of a pain in the ass that many app installs don't preserve the original user intent. That is a very simple, but very real problem. Stick to that.
This page describes the lockstep payscale at one of the most prestigious big law firms in the country. http://www.vault.com/company-profiles/law/skadden,-arps,-sla.... That probably explains quite a big part of it.
I don't see the point. Just read the original text. https://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt.htm...
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Good point. Maybe some self-selection bias here (Hey, I'm comfortable with computers and programming, so I'll jump straight to the computer-y part of machining).
Two or three times the median salary? That just seems false. I'd love for you to prove me wrong though.

For example, the median salary for a mid level front-end developer in my area is $81k. If you can find someone (anywhere) making $160,000 - $243,000 at the same position please have them send me an email.
As a long time Unity developer that hasn't touched C++ in years, I can say that I have been experimenting a lot with UE4 and I haven't really needed to touch C++. Blueprints are really powerful.

Having said that, I'm really excited to see c# supported.
I didn't like the part where it asked me to move the pin to the location but didn't have map tiles for the location!
Interesting they're still around.
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In addition to all of the other users reporting that it isn't actually disabled, they publicly claim that it's disabled for enterprise and government customers but I confirmed that it's still being sent there as well.
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This was a good read, but the author is not above narcissism it seems.

He reminded me of the Luddites in the 19th century, who
destroyed the cotton- and wool-processing technology
that they feared would replace man with machine. Only in
this case, the concern was reversed: The attacker seemed
to dislike how crowdsourcing puts the collective
potential of humans above technology.

or sometimes extreme narcissism.

“artistic flare.” The words are now what I imagine when
trying to express the struggle between the creative,
collective mind that emerges online, and the dark,
almost eerie forces that antagonize all kinds of genius.

In my experience, mobs like 4chan tend to descend on people who have high and mighty ideas of their actions. Though almost certainly in this case it was just because the tool was vulnerable to such activities.

The authors inability to empathise with "... and personally feel that crowdsourcing is basically cheating (and I’m not the only one that feels this way)." is something that makes me leery as well. That's an understandable viewpoint, how is this going to work with actually classified documents?

Still, like I said, good read.
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Nope. I reported the fact that what's shown as a coffee shop here in Melbourne (Australia) is in fact a parking lot, and has been forever, and couldn't feasibly be a coffee shop under any circumstances due to its location.

Two years ago.

And it's still a coffee shop. Corner of Flinders & Spring, if you're interested.
I couldn't change the hosted file in place and I couldn't edit my above comment, but here's a new link to a dated copy.

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It's stable across devices and sessions – if you have a cell phone and a tablet, the UID is the same and it won't change over time even as you move around their network.
The "Activity" screen on the original TestFlight was also a key feature when working with outside beta testers. It made it easy to see where users got stuck in the process and coach/prod them through it.
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Bang on true. As I noted elsewhere, that semester of night courses at the local JC has improved my machining abilities drastically, as well as illuminated me as to actually planning the order of operations (y'know, "step 1: bandsaw", etc).
Really interesting to see them put their theory into practice along with real numbers. I'm currently reading the book and am finding it quite interesting. I'd recommend picking it up, pretty quick read and very helpful to put distribution in terms of a framework.
Because the linked article includes a lot more than just the details of that meeting.
Curious, I don't see this but if that's the same acronym used here it's a tracking ID:

http://www.gsma.com/oneapi/anonymous-customer-reference-beta...
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I cant help but think of Erlich Bachman's 'Aviato' when I hear 'Tiempo'.
Are they using imagine recognition/prediction to help resolve the outline and depth perception of complex molecular structures?
Well said.

People are eager to complain about startup working conditions, but a lot of other jobs have similarly challenging conditions for parents and their children. I don't know why some people have taken your post so badly.

Good luck!