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In C++, shared_ptr and similar "smart pointer" concepts are very similar to ARC. The key difference is it's a library feature, built atop destructors and copy-constructors, and not a language change like ARC.

Microsoft's C++/CX introduced in 2011 is also very similar; the hat syntax[1] is to COM's AddRef/Release as ARC is to -retain/-release. In both schemes, what used to be manually refcounted objects are now managed by the compiler. I don't recommend C++/CX though, it is confusing to C++ devs. Smart pointers are a better recognized idiom.

[1] Unrelated to the hat syntax from MS's previous attempts, Managed C++ and C++/CLI, which are GC and not refcounting as in C++/CX.
Siri will read notifications, including text messages if you say something like "read that text".
One thing is that it says chatting is free and there are no hidden fees. It doesn't say how much extra it is costing.
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Z80 is just a CPU, it doesn't have a sound chip.
I actually bought my first 1911 yesterday - a Ruger SR1911 Commander. Put 60 rounds through it at the range to break it in, and my wrist was none the worse for wear.

If I'd put that same amount of ammo through my Glock 17, I would have had a sore wrist at least for a little while. I find the 9mm to be more of a "kick" while the 45 is a "shove".

The construction of the gun is going to make a difference as well - the Glock is mostly polymer with a metal slide, slide rails, barrel, and some other internal parts (mag liner, etc) while the 1911 is mostly steel.

Google says the SR1911CMD is 36.4oz, while the Glock 19 is 23.65oz, unloaded.
Ask HN: Why aren't there more missing words?
I've always found it odd that there aren't more times I am literally lacking for words. How is it possible that words are so expressive of thought? It is so much so that it must be thought is an expression of words. But that is not commonly taught? Or is it wrong?
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Have you thought about chargeback risks? I.e. when you hit mass-market there will be a non-trivial number of attempts in which customer cancels the payment to you after receiving the ordered product on the basis that it was not what he ordered. It seems that it can be quite a mess to figure those situations out due to suppliers being so varied.
It didn't evolve in tandem, it adapted and began to modify "natural world" to suit it.
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Could probably be done with dynamically generated images, like the Travis-CI badges.
Yep, my address/es are already scanned by bots via my GitHub profile.
>Loneliness

>You are the only committer for a month
I would love to see a report on how this, or something like this went. That really would be a valued service. Whether the value is set high enough is a very good question. Transaction costs are very low so that provides more leeway.
I've got a G17, a G19, and the SR1911CMD as of yesterday - and I'm already thinking about selling the G17 to pick up an Officers-size compact Armscor/RIA 1911 to tinker with.
I'd love to be able to access the images to put in the README.md file on my repos - have you considered badges like Travis-CI has?
With no pun intended, Watson isn't magic.
Congrats to Mike and team for making something people [really] want! I am so excited for you guys. Can't wait to start using.
> "There are no pizza places in this town".

"...but there is one in the town 80 miles away, so your pizza will be $95".

"Would you like to go ahead with that order?"
There was actually a project for the GNU Coreutils to make sure that write errors were being reported[1]. It looks like echo is using the "atexit (close_stdout);" method described in that talk to close the stream and detect errors. You can see what close_stdout actually does here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/lib/closeou...

Arguably GNU echo is the only one to actually get this correct. Which is kinda amusing given how the comments on github are all about how ugly and bloated it is and how elegant the Plan9 and UnixV ones are.

The talk is worth a watch if you care about these things. It kind of re-enforces your point about read/write being to complicated to use correctly. Meyering found these kinds of bugs in lots of other programs like perl, python, rsync and emacs.

[1] http://www.irill.org/events/ghm-gnu-hackers-meeting/videos/j... (slides: http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/slides/jim-meyering-goodby... )
Can they use that verbatim? Because they should.
You objected to the assertion that society has been set up to reward ownership of capital. You somehow fail to acknowledge that when lending at interest is disallowed, owning capital does not automatically lead to accumulating more capital — a process which you called “a law of nature”, and which is clearly anything but.

The question is not whether reasonable interest rates are more profitable than others, but rather — whether society would be better off if lending at interest was disallowed altogether. I submit that it would.
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Fukuoka lived in postwar rural Japan, not post-bubble modern Japan. It's very true the economy is different. However, this fact really reinforces his point that depending on money to acquire inputs to your agricultural process is a big risk and unneeded complexity for the small scale farmer... hence, his success and book.
Right, they will put online the first release next month. I received their announcement in my inbox : http://www.kordam.fr
They offered! They found a "good cheesesteak place" about 30 miles from here (I believe it) and offered to have someone drive it out to me, but cautioned it would be very expensive & asked if I wanted them to get a quote. I declined, not THAT hungry for a cheesesteak tonight, but I'm super happy with the knowledge & result.
That's slightly different: in Swift/Objective-C ARC == "Automatic Reference Counting". In Rust, Arc == "Atomic reference counting".
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People should focus instead on something that has worsened, not improved, with scientific intervention and technological development - the enslavement, brutalisation, and mass slaughter of billions of land animals (not to mention the treatment of sea animals and ecosystems) due to the continued maladjusted cultural preference for animal products. How can people winge and moan about their wounded sense of aesthetic purity (the same people driving this trend by picking the brand 10 cents cheaper on the supermarket shelves) when countless numbers of living, sentient creatures are brought into being by us, for the sole purpose of living miserable, dreary lives, punctuated by sickness and episodes of violence, capped off by a final often-horrific experience of slaughter, simply so that we can treat them like small factories, extracting products from them, then eating their body parts or furnishing our cars and bodies with their skin?

Why not be simply thankful that you have freedom from pain, sickness, confinement and slaughter. To complain of the food we eat, as if we are the victims of our own preferences for convenience and low cost, while billions of animals are subjected to treatment tantamount of instituionalised torture, is the height of entitlement.
> Any suggestions?

Paste this into the console on https://news.ycombinator.com/submit and try submitting a Show HN. Some code is odd in order to make it browser-pasteable. Obviously rules can be changed to what you think are most important.

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I have a different, yet equally unsupported view.

Code is meant to be read first, executed second.
This was done for the Atari 2600 (VCS), and it ended up significantly enhancing what the machine could do.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/197315-space-rocks-2600/

Only two 8 bit sprites and smaller objects available per scan line. Sprite sorting and multiplexing gets done on the external CPU, along with feeding the right data at the right times allows one to maximize what the internal 1.x Mhz 6052 can do.
What exactly will "Big Data" really do for this situation?

Big Data for this seems like not quite the right tact, unless you are shooting to categorize people and hope for the right drug for the many possible mutations for the cancer. I don't think we'd get very far as the samples would still be too small, and there would be too many possible mutations.

The only thing that will help, IMO, that is a future cure is cancer immunotherapy that is specific to just that one person.

It has worked in many cases, but it's very expensive. One of these days, that price could plummet, and even stage 4 could theoretically be kicked to the side, with no need for chemo.
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Just FYI, My company used to offer Les Concierge for something very similar, until recently. They stopped it because people were not really using the service. So, inspite of the coolness of the startup, I am skeptical if it makes money.
Nice idea and like others here I really appreciate the simple plain web page. Best of luck with it all.

Just a thought for when this begins to scale: vetting of the people ordering the stuff. They will have names, email, delivery address and an idea of the income level/lifestyle of the person ordering. I'm assuming credit card details are on a payment system and not available to the people handing the requests.

PS: any customers complained about what they got yet?
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After watching the RO-BOW, I was thoroughly impressed by the inventor. But I also got two simultaneous feelings which I don't ever recall having when confronted by some technology:

1. I felt like I saw a glimpse of the future where a computer was built to express human emotion, and it was beautiful.

2. A sense of horror seeing the moving parts playing human written notes, making a mockery of the human experience.

I think it was the final tune, and the music that made the whole video so poignant. So in this sense, this machine is a piece of art.
A concierge service is a lot more intensive than responding to the clients of a bank.

If Apple did this at their scale, they would probably end up very quickly having an (hopefully public) API for every business around, rather than having their agents call the same restaurant 10 times a day. That would really be a revolutionary way to consume.
On further thought, you're right that a non-LDR is harder in terms of balancing on the day-to-day and that's part of what made me comfortable with remaining in it for so long despite the discomfort of being apart so much - I could more easily do what I needed to, but consider this: frequently I felt guilty for not Skyping for a little longer, or having longer phone calls, or always keeping in touch with text messages, iMessages, FB, Couple.me, etc... and it felt really asphyxiating. I constantly worried I wasn't doing enough, and I frequently felt guilted with respect to "not putting enough into the relationship" which is probably my fault for not establishing boundaries early on. When we saw each other on bi-monthly trips, I still had to get work done (CS, other classes) and I was constantly guilted into "you should've done it before the trip!"

Originally the plan was for me to go down to go to her after I graduated (to Florida) but I got an interview for an internship in NYC, which I performed well in, which was converted into my receiving a full-time offer in Manhattan. I accepted since it is at a firm I wanted to work for since I was in high school. Literally my dream job. She was open to the idea of moving up with me but she enrolled in an academic program that would have added another 2 years of an LDR after already 1.5 years. She was perpetually sad over the summer when I interned in NYC (she was living with me for a month) because we couldn't spend time together even though my working hours were quite good compared to my friends in Seattle and Palo Alto, and I realized my ambitions were met with ambiguity and a slow-growing resentment.

The pushing back of an "end date" for longer and longer eventually led to my feeling that overall it would be healthier to end it, additionally considering the changes that happened in our lives over the course of the relationship. That being said our goals had also diverged significantly.

I knew what was important to me so I decided that it was best to move on since our long-term goals were no longer aligned, but it was an incredible experience that I'm lucky to have had. Not everyone gets to meet someone that, for a time, they connect with so well. I look at it as a learning experience that has made me a better person which I'm told is the best perspective to have.
It was taken by LICEcap [1] with cho45/KeyCast [2].

[1] http://www.cockos.com/licecap/
[2] https://github.com/cho45/KeyCast
I mentioned this in another comment, but this is why I would encourage consumers to only take a discount like this from reputable sellers.

eg I would gladly take a 2% discount with Amazon, as it would save me hundreds over time.

On the other hand, if I were trying out a new SaaS product I would start with a credit card and opt to use BTC once I trusted the company and their product, much like I wouldn't buy a 1 year subscription for a 10% discount without first using the product for a month or two.
Ask HN: Debian 8 or Ubuntu?
I am going to update one of my servers (linux, apache, mysql, php) in the comming months. Should I use Debian 8 (it will come out this year, right?) or some flavour of Ubuntu?

My main goal is: A server that just works and gets security updates. For as long as possible.
GNU "strings" may have been meant, as it had this issue recently.
Wow, I'm surprised to hear you feel that way. I usually feel as if language, even when used very thoughtfully, is able to provide only the barest sketch of a lot of thoughts. I especially find it frustrating when talking about feelings, or music, or drug experiences. I usually end up saying things in a plain way, and color it with tone of voice.

I'm as sure as I can be that I don't think in words at all. Stuff happens down in the engine room, and I get feelings, and then they get translated into language.

Even when we're convinced that another person really means what they're saying, the thought isn't really transmitted, only the intention to transmit it. Parents tell their children so many things, their hearts breaking, practically begging their children to really understand what they're saying, and it rarely if ever really gets through. We just keep making the same mistakes because we're not able to transmit the feeling you get from bitter experience. I think everything would be totally different if we could.
It's not that there are words missing, it's that you are lacking in imagination: you only allow yourself to think in concepts that you have words for.

E.g., in Indonesian there are two forms of “we”: “kita”, that includes the person being spoken to, and “kami”, that excludes the person being spoken to. In my native language, Danish, there is only one form (“vi”) but I have never felt that I need more words to express “we”. Yet, when I see the Indonesian feature it seems immediately useful and I start wondering why that possibility of expression has never evolved in the Danish (or English) language.

You would probably want to read up on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis — e.g., http://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/sapir.cfm
In the story, the very next day The Carpenter got a generous contract from FOG, a stealth startup doing very interesting work, and promptly forgot all about Thing. It sounds like he got exactly what he wanted.
You interact briefly before you are asked to handover the CC details. That's a great draw.
His reason is almost certainly money. An agent's commission isn't insignificant. It's the opportunity cost of, well... what he's doing.

If he's talking with contractors, he's probably also trying to figure out how to fix it up or modify it. I didn't need to talk with any contractors at all, so I don't know whether or not an agent would have helped.
The tax treatment is significant, though, and a lot of investors prefer buybacks to dividends because of it.
ah sry, i remember the z80 being mentioned in that context. maybe it was ZX Spectrum's Yamaha AY-3-8912.

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/projectay/gdmusic.htm
If GDP is increasing, there is no reason to get account surplus, but instead to manage debt/growth ratio. Admittedly Australia hasn't done too well on this recently, but it's still in a good position (~30% of GDP). Unless you subscribe to the "Countries should be run like households" school of economics.

Service based economies are desirable because they are human resourced (i.e they are renewable), and given Australia was resource based, there was a significant risk it could just sit on that and fall apart when it runs out. I'm not sure what you are talking about with "Intrinsic advantage"... Are their states with service based intrinsic advantages?

The awe-inspiring part: The economy has done nothing but grow (in recent years, and has been one of the only ones to do so).

Is it perfect? not at all. But seriously, you've got to have pretty massive global blinders on to say its future is not bright.
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One thing that really helped me with resume writing is learning to think of it as advertising. You want to make it as easy for the person reading it to say yes to you as possible.

I'm involved with hiring pretty frequently and here are some things that help me:
-don't bother listing every technology you've ever worked with. It's a waste of space. It doesn't give any context. Mention them in the context of your work history.
- talk about the people stuff you were successful at as well as the technical stuff.
- don't just say what you did, tell me why it mattered. For example "reduced build times from one hour to five minutes which enabled team to release twice a week rather than one a month"

One thing to remember when you are involved in the hiring process, particularly with technical people is they want to be able to say yes to you. Hiring probably isn't their main job and they have a hole in their team. If you are the right person for the job, it's a win for everyone involved.

Another thing that helps is having contacts that will let you know where opportunities are. The fantastic thing about having experience is you probably know a heap of people who can help. Getting involved with the local community around whatever area you're interested in can help you meet more people. I've also gotten jobs from being on related mailing lists and applying for positions that are posted.

If you're not sure your experienced is quite right, getting involved in open source is an option for building up experience and reputation. It means you can show people what you can do and if your work gets traction and if you contribute to somebody else's project it can be a way to meet more people in the right area.
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Ask HN: Why keep living?
It may be because I live in a country without great access to mental health care (America, in case it wasn't obvious), but I went through a very long period of my life where I was horrendously depressed. Suicidal depressed.

I won't go into the details that led up to this event (I'm using a throwaway account for a reason!), but basically I had all of my dreams in life shattered and then I dealt with the Department of Justice for a year. The long-term stress robbed me of any self-confidence.

I finally got over it last year when I started doing small kind gestures for the people I care about. Volunteering to run errands. Cleaning the dishes. Anything to convince myself with concrete examples that people are happier that I'm around. Anything to justify not committing suicide.

And it worked, until last week when I suddenly started feeling anxious and depressed for no discernible reason. Being kind to others doesn't seem to have the same effect this time around, so before my condition gets any worse, I'd like to ask the community what reasons they have for continuing to live. Maybe I can figure out why I feel so crappy and pre-emptively stave off those inner demons.
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It actually might soon be considered an eating disorder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa
I can't tell you the number of times I knew the recipient had an iPhone and it still showed up green on Messages.
There are plenty of times you will be stuck with platform in one setting when you don't use it otherwise. Obviously, in this situation, it's better to focus on something that will run on both platforms, even if it can be iffy on one of them.

The grandparent clearly frames it like this; "if you're stuck with Windows...". He's not saying "If Windows is your choice of operating system...".
You can also use just LXC to do the same: https://www.stgraber.org/2014/02/09/lxc-1-0-gui-in-container...
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When you pay at the restaurant you don't know about the extra of putting it together, and so I don't think they're morally obligated, but it's certainly controversial and something to think about.
If you got an offer from them, they wouldn't be willing to relocate you?

It seems like if that's the issue but you are getting offers then I imagine you should be able to negotiate your way in. That or you could just go into debt momentarily.

Even start ups fly people in for interviews; I can't imagine they'd have too much trouble relocating you. That is, if you're willing of course.
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@astro Yes. An XSI compliant echo actually supports no options at all. See here for how echo is supposed to work: POSIX. 2008 §echo

the link goes to http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ec... ; here I read

OPERANDS

The following operands shall be supported:

string
A string to be written to standard output.
[...]
The following character sequences shall be recognized on XSI-conformant systems within any of the arguments:
[...]
\c
Suppress the <newline> that otherwise follows the final argument in the output. All characters following the '\c' in the arguments shall be ignored.

wait, what???
Funnily enough, I believe the distinction between natural and artificial flavoring refers solely to the process by which the flavor compound was derived, even if it's the exact same molecule in the end.