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> But if I had to restrict myself to a subset to avoid the "runtime penalty" for programs embedding my Rust shared library implementation of libbfd

The point is there is no 'runtime' penalty with Rust†. It doesn't have a compulsory garbage collector, it doesn't have a compulsory complicated IO manager, it doesn't have a compulsory multiplexed threading system. In some circumstances lacking any of those will be a downside, of course, but not having it built-in and compulsory means Rust gains flexibility. In several ways, there's actually lower overhead with Rust, because it is a modern language designed around the advances and research that has happened, e.g. dynamic (de)allocation can be faster due to putting some sizedness requirements on the very lowest level APIs (which one rarely calls directly, so the programmer will never notice the restrictions, just the improved speed).

My comment was trying to address the Go <-> C <-> Rust bridge, pointing out that C and C <-> Rust are essentially the same, other than the extra code one must have from writing in two languages rather than one. If one was to forgo the C (which is possible, Rust can easily be used to write a library directly exposing a C ABI), there won't be much difference at all between C and Rust.

In summary, in future, any restrictions required would not be very significant, and, even now before Rust's runtime has been excised, the restrictions will be things like "no network IO", one still gets access to all sorts of fancy iterators and data structures without requiring any runtime.

†Strictly speaking, this isn't quite true right now, but there is a concrete plan currently being executed to make it true.
I'm a bit more laissez-faire about the messaging behind these stories. Your assumption is that young, naive founders are being suckered and exploited by the perpetuation of these stories, because they don't need to live such extreme lifestyles to be successful. This is partially true.

But we already know that we all can't be winners, and most ideas will be losers anyway. In our subgroup of grinders, I don't know that there is a significant statistical difference in the outcome vs the normal population of startups. But heuristically, we know that people willing to put themselves through more pain are objectively tougher, and harder to kill. Traits that probably are pretty good to have for a startup entrepreneur.

Thus, I don't think its such a bad thing for entrepreneurs to do, even if its for the wrong reason. We don't need to protect anyone from themselves, startups are such an extreme experience that they'll quickly know whether or not they're happy with their decision.
True, although nobody got to vote for Prince John.
I can appreciate the fresh aspect of it, but I do definitely recall the stark contrast between 12th grade and my first semester at the local community college. Just the fact that you didn't always have to be in a class room -- you could schedule an hour break between classes, and go hang out in the cafeteria or library to catch up on some work. Or go outside between classes and walk around (in high school it was like being in a day prison, not allowed to leave the building). Oh, and you didn't need to get anyone's permission to use the washroom. Not to mention that there was no forced group activities such as dodge ball (any athletics was strictly up to you signing up for it).
Fibjs runtime for JavaScript applications faster than Node.js
That may have been true in the past. All the data I've seen in the past few years has GCC generating faster code for some benchmarks, and clang generating faster code for others, with no really consistent pattern (this is by no means an exhaustive sample, but it is certainly large enough to be vaguely representative).

Interestingly (to me), I am seeing more and more examples where clang and gcc are beating icc in performance.
I think the more important line is at the top.

> ... they included structural MRI scans from 539 people diagnosed with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 573 controls ...

Why did the study not include individuals across the autism spectrum?
Thank you! In case you're interested, these are the things I'm working on now: sub-notebooks, exporting to PDF, and sharing.
It depends on the business and on one's financial capabilities. The most important thing is "are you doing something that makes you feel happy about it?" In theory one is never too old to start a business since a business should be a journey, not a destination.
A.I: Senses don't make us more intelligent
Pretty good plan, but then there is this: http://www.contextis.co.uk/resources/blog/comma-separated-vu...
I wonder if the 20k is due to a similar reporting requirement?

Is that for all types of transactions, like if you had a business account and wanted to wire money to the U.S.?
Then perhaps Washington or Jefferson would point out the specious reasoning in summary executions for having " (treasonously) knowingly violated the constitution" using a definition of treason which is unconstitutional.
... you will be amazed at what he learns!
I think the point is that there have been a lot of studies related to brain anatomy, and attempts to diagnose using anatomy. These all seem flawed now.
Plan to reborder the US into only 38 states
When was that culture of fairness and justice in effect? I can't think of any such time.
Here's something I've always wanted to build, much better than I thought it.

Here are some thoughts:

- Flagging can be good. Some things just don't fit, so they must be put out.

- Maybe you could make it easier to give negative feedback. Some buttons (customizable?) to just click: "I don't see this as a real problem" or "This is more a dream of yours than a problem". Could also help with flagging.

- For ideas, there could be an option to quickly point the potential common problems an idea can suffer of (and also count the "votes" to these), such as: insufficient market; network effect; solution looking for a problem; this already exists; this has been tried.

- Pull requests. Let people at least try to modify others' ideas, add information etc. Maybe this will help people feel like their feedback is valuable.
First look inside the cloud from the most popular Lucid Dreaming app on Android
So is drano.
> From random readings, it appears that great musicians, scientists, artists live not only during the same era, but usually very close to one another.

I'm highly skeptical of this claim. Can you back it up?
Interesting analysis, but as a current student I would find the things she wanted to change to be annoying in high school. It probably depends a lot on the student, but I really just wanted to listen to the teacher teach. My best teachers really knew their stuff and assigned interesting work for homework.

The ones that tried to get us to hop around were not appreciated. I'm there because I want to learn, not do jumping jacks.
The only one of those that I think would actually happen is the "low-cost internet access", and that only if the government mandates it like they did with the Comcast and NBC merger. The program that resulted from that, Internet Essentials, works well in my hometown and was extremely helpful for my family when I was in high school -- not to mention the fact that although they only officially offered "1.5mbps", we averaged well above that, frequently reaching 1MBps or more.

I read somewhere that in some areas it was excessively difficult for people to sign up for, but it turned out to be easy enough for us. Mandating the continuation of that program, and more like it, could be at least one positive result from Comcast+TWC.
The Prince

1984 and BNW present two very important macroscopic anti-patterns, but they aren't so great at documenting the day-to-day banal tyranny that make the system what it is. The Prince, OTOH, was a real eye-opener.

To someone at the bottom of the corporate food chain, very little of its advice was directly applicable, but it really helped explain the behavior of the people above me. It turns out they're not nearly as irrational and narrow-sighted as I was often tempted to believe. They were just shamelessly putting their own needs first. I probably had a dozen "Ohhhhh... THAT's why X did Y despite the obvious pitfall Z!" moments scattered throughout my first reading.

I credit The Prince with singlehandedly doubling my ability to predict turbo-assholery and saving my skin at least once. Seeing a trap before it is sprung can really make all the difference. It should be mandatory reading for anybody who hasn't yet had ample opportunity to observe the dark patterns of office politics first hand.
That looks awesome. Want.
10 maxims of the new business traveller
"in response to questions from The New York Times, the I.R.S. announced that it would curtail the practice"

While it's upsetting that this practice happened in the first place, and even more upsetting that the judiciary seemed to allow it, it's a relief to know that the New York Times here fulfilled the intended role of a free press.
My problem isn't with the statistics. My problem is that the law depends on fuzzy bits of information that are easy to rhetorically manipulate in order to direct a case towards (complete and total financial asset seizure, immediately) or (not). It's not logical. The seizure is not reliant on facts. It is not reliant on evidence.

This demonstrates an imbalance between ability to determine truth, and ability for the powers that be to act. It is dependent purely on abstract pattern. Other commenters have pointed out that that model can be used to accurately represent the behavior of innocents.

I'd much rather see data on the effectiveness of this law. Does it actually track suspicious activity? Does it work, and is the value of that work enough to justify the grief it creates to the few you refer to that the law affects?
Thanks! We'll definitely look into 1-click feedback and flagging.

Regarding Pull Requests - we're in the process of adding a "team" functionality, but maybe an intermediate level of involvement (between joining the team and just commenting) would be useful. Thanks again!
The point of an MVP is to get the product in the hands of users as soon as possible to test viability and garner feedback before going down a rabbit trail that may not be successful. It isn't necessarily to start making money from customers before the product is ready—although being willing to pay for something in alpha is probably a good viability indicator its not the only one.

Many games aren't treated like products but more like hobby or art projects. This isn't a bad thing but it does mean an MVP isn't really necessary or helpful. Many games do things that achieve the same results of an MVP:

1. Screenshot Saturdays. This puts the idea in front of people even if the thing is buggy, broken or just unplayable.

2. Festivals. User testing during festivals was incredibly valuable and helped us determine what attracted players to the booth, what they enjoyed about the game, what was fun, what wasn't, etc. Here the game doesn't need to be finished.

3. Awards. Similar to festivals, an award can indicate that you're on the right track. The inverse isn't necessarily true. Winning an award does not equate to market viability.

4. General social media, spreading the word and press. If someone is willing to talk or write about your game that's a good sign.

5. Steam's Greenlight: Will people vote for this?

6. Steam's Early Access: Will people buy this before its finished?

7. Kickstarter. A very time consuming and potentially expensive endeavor that might work for MVP-like launches. Will people contribute money to the possibility of this game existing?

The point of all of these is to get out there with the game as soon as possible, even if its not ready, to test out the idea. Some require higher levels of investment than others and make sense at different points in the project.

Experience: we launched our first game earlier this year with success and followed these where they made sense.

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If you use CoffeeScript, you might have to watch out for unexpected variables being created by the transpiler. For example, if you write a method that ends with a `while` loop, CoffeeScript will actually return an array with the evaluated results of the loop. Normally not a big deal, but when doing games in JS you need to watch out for excess memory use, since your framerate will tank if the GC runs too long/frequently.
A market that exists in some kind of historic utopia perhaps?

Jesting aside...

In part, I suspect that's why the OP has "a hard time believing [they] could get $29.95 for what [they] have currently produced" — unfortunately, since the race-to-the-bottom that occurred, mostly due to the app stores (and Steam), etc., the $30-for-a-non-AAA-game market has pretty much become history.

Now, even indie-devs who are experienced games-programmers are having to put out what amounts to weeks/months (or even years) of work, for just a buck or two, or, indeed, for free, and/or have to rely on IAP (in-app purchases) or adverts to generate any revenue in return.

There are few ways round this (such as getting 'Featured' / on front page of app-store, or getting a lucky viral hit), but as such, it's made Indie games high-risk low-return in most cases — a fact which is hurting a lot of decent, seasoned Indie devs / dev-shops.

Wish I had something more helpful to say... but apps/games have pretty much tanked to the bottom price-wise — and that's without even really considering how saturated most categories in the app-stores now are (because 'anyone can write an app' nowadays), and that 'discovery' in all the app stores just totally sucks (and, furthermore, in Apple's app store, many titles can't even be reached by searching their actual name! But I digress)

Disclosure: I'm no longer a games dev (but was for about a decade), though I still have partial involvement in that industry.

[Edit: but I certainly wish the OP good luck in their endeavour!]
Many indie games on Steam sell for that much, though not much higher: http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Indie/
I find it funny that Nevada is willing to bend over backwards for one tech company(Tesla) yet wants to prevent another from gaining a fair shot at the market.
Link-baitey title. Even though the content says any age is fine, the title assumes that there must be a certain age when one is too old to start a business.

Here's the real answer: about 1 nanosecond after you've died.

Seriously, don't let anyone tell you that you are too old for anything.
I think I'm just separating concerns more than most here. I guess because I'm not that outraged by society doing something unjust (because look around).

Does it sound like the law is being used unfairly? Yeah.

Does it sound like the law as written is easy to use unfairly? Maybe, probably yes.

Would I oppose changes to the law intended to make it harder to abuse? No.

Do I think it is a major practical concern for a typical small business or individual? No.

I don't think it is inconsistent or difficult to hold all those ideas at once.
I earned some cents already. I'm skeptical but lets see how it develops.
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Really? You actually think email became a mess just because Reader was shut down? It's not like there are about elventy hojillion competitors in that space to choose from!

This smells like the "new coke" argument to me.
You are making a distinction that doesn't matter to people who don't work at Google. Of course the products are designed by those building them primarily to help users, that's how you run a dev team properly.

But the strategic decisions about what projects get funding and promotion and integration into the google ecosystem and cross promotion, etc. take these things into account. So the end result is that, like every other company on the planet, how revenue is generated affects how products are made. The fact that it's indirect at Google is actually the norm.

"they are not the primary motivating force driving designs or features, either inside Google, or in the wider startup community"

If Ads are the primary revenue generator and the company is long lived then they are one of the primary motivating factors, it's just good management to hide that from the passionate makers who build great things because it is a distraction and a fucking downer.
She's accustomed to being an adult, and being treated with respect. High school students aren't accorded much respect, from needing permission to use the restroom right on through the existence of bullying and other 'hijinks' which would be viewed as prosecutable criminal offenses in any non-pathological office workplace.
For what it's worth [], I'm pretty sure CERN(/LHC), ESRF, SLAC Nat. Accelerator Labs, Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Bekeley, Sandia, Princeton Plasma Phys. Lab, Brookhaven, Fermilab, Argonne Nat. Lab, TRIUMF, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Oak Ridge, Research Triangle Park, various institutions within the Max Planck Society, Institute for Advanced Study, Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, RAND Corporation, (and likely many others...), all have/had facilities within (at most) 100 km of a city with a population of at least 150,000 people. Several of these institutions are within commuting distance of major world cities.

In the set of nation state funded research facilities (e.g. funded by US Dept. of Energy, European Research Council, etc.) I'm willing to bet that most of the facilities are more often relatively near cities (greater than 150K pop). Many (high energy / high capital cost) facilities, employ on the orders of 1-10K staff alone.

[] (... and that Basic Science, High Energy Physics, Computational Science, Basic Tech, Corporate Research, and/or Public Policy/Economic/GeoPol research are the hard problem spaces you are alluding to...)
::I think you are either highly abnormal or simply wrong.

Is it really that abnormal to remember the stresses of a bad situation, especially when you transitioned to a better one? I can see people not thinking anything is wrong while they are going through the experience, but I really can't find anyone that I know, at least, who thinks high school was a worthwhile experience. And who hasn't had that feeling of relief at the beginning of summer break, and that sick feeling in the pit of their stomach when summer was over? Or recognized immediately on the first day of college that a student actually can be treated like a person, not an inmate?

I recall sitting in a college class that had a recent high school graduate in it, and he raised his hand asking if he could use the washroom. The instructor just looked at him and told him that he is in the real world now, and doesn't need to get permission for a normal bodily function.

Of course, you might be right, in that I probably spend too much time reflecting on something from 25 years ago. It is the main reason that I don't put up with BS from people I work with -- had enough of that from school teachers. But it is possible that it affected me bad enough that I could probably use some counseling about it, if it is considered normal to just forget about what high school (and junior high, to an extent) was like.
That is a pretty broad shift from the theory of how courts operate in the U.S.

We have an adversarial system where the legality of a law attacked by someone harmed by that law and defended by the government. Who would a constitutional court represent? Dead white guys from 1780? Someone else?

If created, the first thing the court would do would be to rule itself out of existence, because the Supreme Court is at river of what is/isn't constitutional... And has been recognized as such since John Jay.
It's the word shocked. You're not wrong, there is nothing wrong with the post title in itself. But the internet has caused a lot of people to falsely attribute some form of grandeur to innocuous content in order to get you to click on the article. It's the crossroads of intellectualism with capitalism. The point is we're all striving for the most clicks because clicks translate to dollars, either directly in the form of advertising, or a personal brand. But on HN, it's considered gauche to acquire links in this nature. You should be getting the clicks because the content is worthy, not the title.
The goal of the tool "strings" has always been to dump the strings table of a binary object. It happens to also have a mode that lets you try to find random strings-like content in any file. It happens to default to this mode if it can't parse the file as an executable. People thereby have gotten somewhat used to using this tool to having this functionality at hand, and use this tool a lot of this purpose.

This is not, however, the actual goal or purpose of this tool. The fact that many people use Perl as nothing more than a slightly better version of sed doesn't mean that Perl's ability to write complex object-oriented software is "over-engineering". You just don't know what this tool is actually for, which is OK, but means you can't judge whether or not it is "over-engineered".

BSD, apparently going back to at least BSD 4.3, also had a strings tool, and it did the exact same thing: it parsed binary files to dump their strings table. Apple's strings tool has no code heritage from the GNU version, instead being a vague descendent of the one from BSD 4.3. This is how this tool has always worked: stop being part of the noise trying to turn this into a GNU-bash fest :/.
AtScript from Google
> The ads division is mostly firewalled off from the daily concerns of people developing products at Google. They supply cash to the treasury, people think up cool ideas and try to implement them.

So Google is really a trust fund combined with the charities it supports? Either what you're saying is right and Google is a very bad business, or wrong, and Google is excellent at hiding its nature from its own employees (I suspect that both of these are true, to some degree).

> Do you think Johnny Ive, when designing the Apple Watch is concerned more with the business side of how they'll up-sell different watch bands to make money, or do you think he is absolutely focused on delivering a product experience that is fantastic and that if they do a good job, the business will do well?

It doesn't matter what Johnny Ive or some product manager at Google are focused on, or what their intentions are. The history of business, politics, and the world, really, is full of people focusing on doing a job, but all the while advancing a different goal altogether -- whether they mean to or not (this emphasis on intent is a common theme with Google in particular; Google seems to think that if your intentions are good then no bad can come out of your actions, even though there's no reason to believe that's the case, and plenty of reasons to believe the very opposite).
I think you can easily say the same thing about every single amendment in the Bill of Rights. Might does indeed make right and usually might is money. While the article points out that making deposits below 10k is not illegal and while that maybe technically correct, just like many things that were not explicitly illegal in the Communist system could harm one greatly, many things that are not strictly illegal in the US can harm one greatly. I think we need to start looking at things another way.

For lack of better words (though I'm open to suggestions) it is essentially illegal in the US to travel with cash, make deposits under $10k, or really, anything the government authorities deem to be illegal vis a vis money that can be taken via civil forfeiture laws. If one can't run a business or even save for his children's college without fear of losing the money to the government, what then is the difference between our system and that of authoritarian regimes if both systems are not ruled by laws but by the greed of police and government agencies?
This tool has always, going way back to at least BSD 4.3 (if not earlier), been a tool for dumping the strings table of a binary object, which just so happened to also have a fallback mode for things it didn't know how to parse as an object file.