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I was going to bookmark the linked comment, and found that I had in fact already done so. It is a very useful, actionable piece of advice. Thanks for writing it.
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Does not matter if your hand, for example, is in contact with any of the exploding material that comes from a short in a high-current situation.
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Linkers don't get as much attention as they should. The linker has the last chance to look at the entire program before it runs. It's a good place for final checks and optimizations.

In Modula, each module had an "init" section. The Modula linker traced the dependencies of the "init" sections and arranged for them to be executed in a valid order. If there was a dependency loop, that was an error. That's way ahead of the C/C++ rules on order of initialization.

Elimination of duplicate code at link time is possible. For template and generic instantiations, this can be a big win, especially for C++.

Some linkers support "weak links" - if A has a weak link to B, and there are no strong links to B, B is not loaded and the link is null. This is useful for optional components which need some kind of startup.
Yes, on the third day, boost converters, buck converters, and wiring with a higher voltage rating would arrive via UPS and that would be the end of the "safe" low voltage neighborhood grid idea; replaced with the much more efficient high(er)-voltage neighborhood grid.
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> I'm a hetero male ... it's just an image.

That's the exact privilege you get to enjoy as a hetero male. You get to ignore things like this when your female colleagues (if you're lucky enough to work with any) have to look at the image and be reminded that many people continue to view them as objects.
Machine learning isn't an approach, its an entire discipline. Deep learning is just a specific category of implementation of a subset (neural nets) of machine learning.

They aren't entirely different approaches, considering deep learning is a form of machine learning...
Yeah, I also feel the same way. If I would need to do scientific computing work, Julia would be one of my choices.
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Well, you have to take the context of our discussion in consideration, I meant that you couldn't dynamically elect to allocate your buffer on the stack instead of the heap at runtime in the constructor. Your solution just allocates a 128B buffer on the stack for all strings which may or may not end up being used.

That makes your string object 128B larger in all situations. Since we were talking about std::string, I'm pretty sure many people wouldn't be happy if sizeof(std::string) suddenly took 128B (g++'s sizeof(std::string) is 8B on my system).

What I had in mind was stuff like alloca and other local scope allocation techniques that would get tied to the constructor stack frame not the caller's.
no IE9 support, and showing a blank page with this message "Hey! Your browser is not supported, certain pages may not render correctly! Try updating your browser at http://browsehappy.com . " ? Many people like me don't have a choice.
Highly recommended. Of all the Hacker News styles I've tried, this has been the only one that I've used consistently.

Notably, it preserves the compactness of the front page. A lot of other styles tend to space out stories on the front page too much, which makes it harder to read through.

I do wish there was a similar theme for Firefox.
You've been able to use a phone to call a cab for a lot longer than 10 years.
I found this really fluffy. Not even sure how I'd tl;dr it. Some people are more aware of their heartbeat than others, and that correlates with a few arbitrary things that seem to line up with our sentimental understanding of 'heart'?
And... Guess what?

Roskomnadzor had a story with YouTube, had them blocked for several hours (mostly went unnoticed as IIRC they had banned only a single IPv4 address, and most ISPs hadn't even pulled the registry before the block was lifted), and had made them block a copy "Dumb Ways to Die" video in Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_Ways_to_Die#Censorship_in...

So, the fact is, somebody had not only suggested but actually proceeded with blocking YouTube as a whole.
With the backlash that Google Glass got for having a camera, I can't really imagine too many people wearing this crazy headgear.
If you were a young, inspired enthusiast and you never found out that CCC existed, don't you think that's sad? It's unfair to deprive such knowledge, from someone who hasn't had the chance to find it yet.
My firm offers an entire framework built around this service, except it is an enterprise version for 12000% more where the server is placed back into your company's data center.
Yes, you are making the classic "we spend X for the defense project and that would buy Y."

You aren't adding anything to the conversation because it never changes anything. Can we try some non-classic thinking? Maybe we can add something new to the discussion .
I had thought something similar to this, that a person's internal state of 'feeling / intuition / empathy' was oriented around the combination of certain kinds of sensory / intellectual input reacting with the body, that are not cognitively consciously modeled, but abstracted and correlated against the body.

If a person can notice a correlation between body reaction and external world reaction, then their intellect may not necessarily be able to conceptualize or mode the processes that occur, but they may 'know' certain things because of the frequency of the correlation.

I tend to think this is why I am very analytically oriented - my health was often variant throughout my adolescence and adulthood, and I never could ever understand what people meant by 'gut reaction' or 'heart feeling', aside from literally being convinced it was nonsense. I've always had to intellectualize and conceptually model things, which actually makes finding socialization patterns and trends (with myself as a participant) extremely difficult. It also explains how many people learn to feel and judge the world in an origin dependent manner, with early stimuli shaping the interpretation (relations and models) of sensory percepts.

I rarely can tell the difference between my feelings, and the feelings of others. I check them logically and experimentally, which is pointless and ironic, but it makes as much sense to me as thinking that when someone is smiling at you, they are happy. It's an aggregation of data, correlated and adjusted when the theory doesn't match reality. It's not that I don't care about what people think, it's just that it's impossible to know or even hypothesize about based on external observations and judgments using a single point perspective. I have to hope that language efficiently facilitates clarity, but I've fallen into similar analytical wormholes there too. So then there's trust, or something.
But the Big Ideas don't happen here. That comes by doing customer discovery, reaching out, and engaging in live conversation.

So true. Go out and talk to people. You'll be amazed by how better your brainstorming gets.

In the end, there are usually two main routes for ideas. Enterprise products are easy to profit from, you just need to know the space, talk to potential customers ahead of time and do it. Boring but profitable. Consumer ideas are much harder. Everyone can get ideas for consumer products (do we really need another dating app?).

So choose wisely. Is your real goal to build a small but sustainable stream of income? Choose enterprise. Are you dreaming big? Maybe try consumer.
If you generally "engage with products" then I'm not sure Julia is for you.
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We hadn't observed this before, so I wanted to make sure we were able to reproduce it and test the fix.
For people who want to learn more about the complexities in this topic, I highly suggest listening to the Energy Gang podcast[1]. A ‎senior editor at Greentech Media, principal lobbyist at a huge energy lobby firm, and the founder of Sun Edison get together once a week to talk about at latest news. I work in the new energy industry, and everyone I know in this industry listens to this podcast.

For example, a few months ago, they talked extensively about how Hawaii's utility is basically falling apart since it can't find a way to compete with solar now that solar is at grid parity, and solar+storage is on the verge of reaching off-grid parity[2]. What happens when half of your customers simply leave? We're about to find out over the next few years.

Also, if you want to learn more about tech entrepreneurship in the solar, I recommend reaching out to the SfunCube[3].

[1]: https://www.greentechmedia.com/podcast

[2]: https://soundcloud.com/the-energy-gang/can-the-us-government...

[3]: http://www.sfuncube.com/
I've been using this: http://hckrnews.com/about.html#extensions

In addition to collapsing threads, it also tastefully identifies new comments: http://i.imgur.com/qs6FDRU.png

It doesn't mess with the layout beyond that, which I like.

By the way, http://hckrnews.com/ itself is wonderful. It's HN, but in chronological order. That seems like a bad thing, but in fact there are only a few dozen submissions per day, and it's easy to pick out the interesting ones.
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For work that actually requires me to crack open a terminal, it's as you described i.e. in the vast majority of cases it can probably wait until the next week they've booked. In the rare case that they're losing money thanks to inaction or if the problem is directly due to an error I made, then I'll fix the thing so that it's in a working state right now and work on a longer-term solution in their next slot.
Compression performance does not mean speed. It just means how well it compressed the images. None of the tests on that page even mention speed.
Not having animation is a plus to me.
Found a $200k mistake with this. Thanks. :(
Having spoken to Sven a few times, I think they are targeting industries/applications more specific than their website appears :)

If anything, I would consider this to be a competitor to Context Relevant and Alchemy API instead of Clarifai.
>We'll go on trusting the FOSS. The free and open nature of it means that we're never really trusting the company (the corporate entity) just the people they've amassed to work on the FOSS. Those people can continue to work on the FOSS after the company disolves, because the osftware is open/free.

If they aren't volunteers doing it for fun, though, they wont, unless someone pays them.

And even some very popular FOSS projects millions of people use have just one or two overworked maintainers and not much in the way of funding or contributions.

So FOSS is no magic bullet "as long as the code is open and there are users the project will be worked on".
http://www.verrando.com/pulcini/gp-uw1.html

They have a 6-minute figure on their page. I wonder what modern hardware could do with it? Anybody care to give it a whirl?
From the Wartard post:

"but the Chinese did manage to sneak a diesel powered sub into the middle of a carrier group during USN exercises off Taiwan in 2006."

I was stationed in Japan when I was in the Navy and just missed this little event. Supposedly the sub surfaced directly in front of the Kittyhawk. Shortly thereafter, the Kittyhawk went into General Quarters.
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lol unicode naming KEWL
Sixth bullet: Lossless compression is supported.
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> What about typos in docs?

In my opinion these trivial changes should be submitted as text in a bug report rather than patches or pull requests. For brevity a regex statement like s/foo/baz/ can be used.
Just to give one example, Oracle allows this for ages, so it is something real not an idea.
That would probably never matter in practice, though—I've rarely seen compareTo() return anything other than -1, 0, or 1; certainly never anything approaching MAX/MIN_VALUE. Still, bravo for considering all of the edge cases.
There was an interesting article about Fabrice:
http://blog.smartbear.com/careers/fabrice-bellard-portrait-o...

Does anyone know if he has a day job or does he just lock himself away and work on these interesting projects?
I don't think I am. I'm just trying to put that cost into some perspective. Its comparable to a aircraft carrier in some ways. I'm not necessarily advocating for cutting the military spending. If people are comfortable with taxation for one of those carriers then they should, arguably, be comfortable for taxation for the SLS.

I think people have distorted ideas of what space travel really costs. Describing it as a 13th carrier puts thing into perspective.
This offering is similar to Uber Perks , which uber has had for a couple years..
he said $.3 or $.4 per kW/h. It's not his insulation. That's super expensive.
I think your perspective overlaps mine from what you've written. And there isn't much of a back story to me. It's just the case that a lot of my wider family have gone out on their own over the years and things have gone well for them. I guess the appeal of increased agency has pushed me out the door and away from the 9 to 5 life style. And at 27 I don't think I'm risking much making this move now.

My current list of ideas has slowly formed from people (family and friends) asking me "can you build an app for this thing because I hate doing xyz". Other ideas have come from things that annoy me personally. So I'm pretty happy with my thought process in regards to where I'm getting potential product ideas. Currently where I'm at is trying to decide which of these potential projects am I going to settle on. I've had ideas piling up over the last few years and now I have to strike out all but one.

So now I'm in the frame of mind where I'm thinking if I do idea A it's probably not going to be the next big thing but it's quite possible I'll make a good go of it. Or for idea B I'm thinking it's a long shot but if I pulled it off it might really go somewhere. I think I'm looking for a reason to pick one idea over another. Is it just a case of doing whatever seems like the most fun (after filtering ideas based on merit)? That doesn't sound like a bad plan. Or is a small but manageable first step the right approach and leave any grand ideas for a later time when my experience in developing a product has matured?

As to switching stacks. I thought about that long and hard. I've dabbled in Linux over the last two years and have picked up a little Python. I know it's not ideal adding the extra overhead of learning a new language and environment but sometimes you just have to do what your gut says. And I've been hankering to leave the MS world behind for a while now. I think once you're running Cygwin as you CLI, using a Vim emulator in Visual Studio, and drooling at the thought of using PostgreSQL as your DB of choice it's probably time to change stack.

I appreciate the time you took to write out that reply.
This looks like a fun project!
Ask HN: Untested tech business model vs. Existing, conventional businesses
Currently struggling with this dilemma. Let me preface that this is not for a US based business.

I'm looking to start a new business, and I have a concept for a web marketplace (it's not an ecommerce store nor is it an entirely web based business such as a SaaS). It's a pretty new model and nobody has done it. I would be bootstrapping, I'm not the type to hunt for VC dollars nor is it really likely here. I need to be making money within a year.

But, part of me wonders if I should forget about trying to be bleeding edge and just try to do more conventional business, but apply my knowledge of tech, marketing, web etc to do it better and more efficiently. Examples include, food & beverage import and distribution, real estate investing/renovation, construction etc.

I look around, and while a lot of people are making money in tech/web, it really seems like many are just gambling with VC dollars and hoping for a big exit one day. Not really what I'm looking for.

I know a lot of well off people and none of them are in technology. They are distributors, they are home builders, pharmacy owners, real estate investors, etc etc.

Now I pose this question to HN: is it better to invest entrepreneurial ambitions in more conventional, old fashioned businesses and just being smarter about it, or is it better to pursue innovation and try to upend old business models with something new -- if you are looking to make actual money, without big investors, and not seeking a big exit in the future?
This seems part of a trend, by East coast pro-state leftists, of growing tabloid-y media to make their ideology more accessible.
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> "Having a solar panel that isn’t connected to the grid is like having a computer that’s not connected to the Internet."

"...it keeps the NSA from spying on you."

There is so much market segmentation potential in that one sentence.
Thomas, thanks for that discussion (almost 4 years ago)! I'm a converted "day rate" person and highly recommend for everyone else.

> Be very careful basing your rate on your expected salary.

As I mentioned in the linked thread, the problem isn't normally consultants being convinced of these concepts, but rather it's the clients that don't understand this. I often find that going into engagements I have to spend a lot of time explaining these things to clients before moving forward. My suggestions - if they are unwilling to accept/understand that up front you're probably destined to have a shitty client (that will ultimately have financial impact on your business).
My experience here is with my iPhone & iPad. Until recently, there was no way to use Dvorak with them, but I seemed to switch seamlessly. Though, there's something to be said about potentially different motor memory being used for thumbs vs. full finger layouts.
From what the website says, BGP does support lossless compression.
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I think the existing culture there was already dead, it just hadn't run out of money yet. Maybe the current staff would have been happier with a dignified bankruptcy and final issue, I don't know.
Oh wow, another person evangelizing about X obscure language from inside their pseudoacademic ivory tower yet providing no examples of anything useful they've done with it, or anyone has done with it for that matter.

Everytime I see this BS I think of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrp57IAlh84

It's fine to say something more reasonable like "I have high hopes for this very early stage language in the future", but this kind of fanfare is the reason why stuff like Java got so big.
For much more (but worth it, if you're interested), see this profile of Hughes, from Dec. 2012, in NY Magazine: http://nymag.com/news/features/chris-hughes-2012-12/ --

It basically predicts Wieseltier's ouster:

"Given that Hughes’s interests are at least as literary as they are political, I found that many of the people I spoke with suspected the real changes at the magazine would come at the expense of Wieseltier—who had his own charmed life as the oldest young man in the room. As the editors came and went at Peretz’s favor, Wieseltier ruled a sort of archipelago of learnedness in the magazine’s back pages—haunted by its own testy thoroughgoing-ness, dense with type and argument, and deliberately off-putting. [...] His culture section, which often made up nearly half of each issue, was supposed to have nothing to do with the rest of the magazine at all.

"But Hughes wants a single, readable magazine—with photographs!—not two stapled together, and this will entail treating Wieseltier, as one person familiar with the magazine put it, as an employee for the first time.

*

Looks like he got treated as an employee all right.
Not yet.. I've set up a GitHub clone and had to patch OpenSSH: the authorisation process can execute an external command (AuthorizedKeysCommand option IIRC) but doesn't provide enough information to do a DB lookup à-la-GitHub.
Haha I know! They wanted me to follow the format of our other posts... :P
You need a Falcon Heavy for today's launch, but the problem here is that there is no such thing as a Falcon Heavy. It doesn't exist yet, or ever.

Not to mention there's risk in NASA putting its Orion dreams on something thats currently unproven. If the publish saw Orion blow up today then that could prove disastrous for the SLS program.
BBC Future tends to write articles that border on the nonsensical. I suspect they're made by writers who're tasked to simply churn out a lot of words, regardless of the quality of their writing.
>But you don't know how small the effect is unless you measure!

The very final actual number no.

But as with most things in life we can have a sense (based on what you know and see around us in society) of it's scale.

In this case, I don't think "percentage of people with multiple marriages" is such a difficult and exotic subject to consider that our guesses will be that far off them mark.

>If 90% of the population marry once and never divorce but the remaining 10% marry and then divorce 5 times this means that the divorce rate is 36%.

That's only if the calculation is based on naive average. You can get percentiles, medians, etc.

"90% of the population marry once and never divorce" is already a valid metric.
just want to point out that Django is pretty good at making REST backends.
Thanks for the response, did a bit more research and realized my mistake of not comparing the heavy versions of both rockets. I did find this article (http://www.nss.org/articles/falconheavy.html) that talks about the Falcon Heavy and it's projected cost of 100 million per launch, almost 1/4 of the price, and can carry more then double the payload. However it's a bit old (2011) and I'm not sure if that projected price point might have changed, with the delays and all.
> No, that is an overgeneralization of a very lazy mischaracterization of what I said.

I didn't characterize what you said, I asked whether I had understood your properly.

Now that you have clarified, I have another question. Do you actually believe that what he said was a controversial yet fundamentally scientific opinion? The man himself has acknowledged that there is not actually any genetic difference in intelligence, as far as we can tell. It might be different if the data actually backed up what he said, but as far as I can tell, it was simple racist ranting.

Nobody was punished for shirtgate. A guy apologized for doing something wrong. Everyone forgave him. The end.
How can Julia be "on par" with C when it is itself implemented in C?