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Seattle's cost of living is a lot cheaper than SF, and there are a lot of big tech companies (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Salesforce).
The techniques for writing well-structured code may seem obvious to someone who has been practicing them for a long time, but they may be not at all obvious to someone who is just starting out. After all, it took a few decades in the history of programming and some very smart people like Dijkstra to convince professional programmers that code structure was important. The principles of refactoring weren't well known until much later. So I think that expecting some junior programmer to come up with these ideas by trial and error is setting them up for failure.
A const parameter in C++ tells you that nothing is going to be modifying the object in the body of the function you're writing, in which you're making a temporary reference to said object.

Unless you're trying to say that it's not a formal proof of correctness, but that's not an argument that engages with the claim the blog article made about whether this is something you would or wouldn't, or couldn't do, in C++.
"Your client needs to resolve this or litigate it," Mr. West wrote. "But publicity about it doesn’t help. It just ratchets up feelings in the agency."

yep
There are people who disagree that the world is round, but journalists don't generally have to pretend like there are multiple possibilities there. What's the threshold supposed to be?
I agree with this. I can drive to a store, buy what I want, and then drive home faster than friends of mine who live in San Francisco can even get on a bus to get to their destination. Walking around through crowded urban streets carrying valuable items you just purchased is also sub-ideal. I can buy things that are large or small, or that require refrigeration: no difference. I can make multiple stops without having to carry a ton of stuff through all my subsequent stops, as I can leave the stuff in my car.

My car is essentially a portable home I get to take with me wherever I am: it has first aid equipment, it has water and snacks, and secure storage. If you are optimizing for convenience, the correct choice is to separate things by networks of roads and use cars: that's why they exploded in popularity. You do want to live near where you work, but most of the people commuting long enough distances to make that matter are doing that due to economic issues (cost of living), not due to fundamental requirements for car deployment.

The issue is just that it isn't sustainable: it uses too much energy at too high an externality cost for us all to have this amazing level of convenience. It requires too much land to be paved and too much oil to be burned. But people should not confuse sustainability with convenience: dense urban areas that are not conducive to cars are not "convenient". To the extent to which people who live in them think they are convenient, it is because they don't understand most of the downsides they know about to cars are caused by dense urban environments.
Members of these hate groups seem to have a profound lack of empathy for anyone not in whatever division they've decided was important.

I still think this guy lacks empathy. He was just literally put in the shoes of his targets: something most people can do without quite so big a shove.
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It wasn't, and arguably is not in any way constitutional. This became a thing mostly after 9/11. Terrorism and drug laws were significantly expanded in scope. For years the public was looking the other way - distracted by fear - while the government began openly breaking or bending the law, almost without any concerns.

During that time, many behaviors became routine (with or without actual laws backing the behavior up) that have extremely questionable legal standing, and typically zero moral standing.
People who make their identity all about what tribe they're in (whether that tribe be their color, creed, country, or simply hobbies or tastes or sports team) don't have much of a self-identity to begin with.

Edit: By "people who make their identity all about their tribe" I'm referring to racial supremacists, religious fundamentalists, political extremists, or ideological zealots. That could explain how someone can go from being a racist to being a big fan of a heritage he only recently recently discovered. If you don't value who you are as a person, then you're more likely to fetishize a mythic ancestral past. That's one reason for why fascism appeals to defeated peoples.
Is this really extreme? Relatively recently we managed to get rid of the idea that you should be a ruler of a country if your parents were rulers. Slightly later the idea that you should be stuck in the class you were born with. My generation got the idea that they don't have to be Christian just because ~99% of previous generation in the country declared themselves as such.

I'd be very happy if people made such choices on their own and questioned traditions in a logical and considerate way.
All the links in that commit result into a 404; so if they are collecting data it's purely off of whatever they have output in the Access logs.

Possible something in the future; or possibly something they could not neuter as easily as they would like?
Fatal Accidents as a Global Health Crisis
To question and not accept blindly is encouraged. Even the word "Israel" means to struggle with God.
Hating others Is a waste of time. It doesn't matter the reason.
Jewish people should question the ideology and politics that the Jewish community promotes, just as Hungarians should question the ideology and politics of the people who claim to represent Hungarians.

This guy did a full about face from "Gypsies and Jews are destroying Hungary" to "Jews should be welcome everywhere, but we need to stop Muslim immigrants from destroying our tolerant open society".
A number of these answers are highly unidiomatic, symptoms of people coming from another language to Python. Trying to shoe horn one language's patterns into another is fraught with problems, not only are you going to be less effective in the new language but experienced coders of that language are going to hate working with your code.

Raymond Hettinger's PyCon 2015 talk "Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code" has an excellent example of a Java -> Python case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M
It certainly is no easier than someone who can drive less than five minutes to a store: that person can both keep a tiny pantry full of fresh stuff or buy massive loads of bulk items without issue. Essentially, you have made an argument for why "it isn't so bad, as you can mitigate some of the downsides", but haven't shown a situation where it is actually more "convenient" (which I emphasize, as it is all sorts of other things, such as more "sustainable").
I think the point of this article is precisely the opposite.

Writing off people who "find refuge in hate" as being "small-minded" is an easy temptation to give into. But, the subject of the article I think provides a very effective refutation of that. I don't know anything of the article's subject beyond what is written about him in this very article, but I imagine that he was raised into anti-Jewish sentiment, or grew up in an environment filled with it; that's the usual origin story for people who join hate movements, anyway.

I liken a hate movement as being more akin to a cult. Cult leaders, we can surely condemn; but is it really reasonable to permanently write someone off who's been indoctrinated from birth as being "small-minded"? Societal pressures are very powerful things.
Couldn't agree more. Good for him not hating jews anymore but it's switching your whole belief system due to finding out your heritage is just stupid. In this case it was for the better but more often than not is a recipe for disaster (both switching and being instilled from a young age applies here).

> how about thinking for yourself and not basing your thoughts and beliefs on who you think your ancestors were

We'd all live in a better place if more people did this...
> If you have any interest in finding out just how much bullshit has gone into shaping your world view

Personal attacks and acerbic swipes are not welcome on Hacker News. Please don't do this.
And downvoted posts become impossible to read unless you use a custom CSS.

Nice.

Then I wonder why HN sounds like a cult on some subjects...
Macbook if you are ok with mac. or thinkpad classic series. T series or W series should be fine for student. Whatever your choice don't forget to choose SSD or spare budget for upgrading hard disk to SSD.
Many supposedly simple and obvious facts require a scientific study to actually prove, even if it seems like they'd be true in theory. "Critics say" is safer when the reporter doesn't have time or space in the article to prove something. Sure, an in-depth report would be better, but not when it gets in the way of getting an article published with what you have.
Well, intelligent or not, I did like this quote of his: "Anti-Semitism doesn't need Jews, because its based on false premises. It is the projection of one's own fears, and lack of self esteem".

Sadly, hate for a group of people is one of the oldest tricks in the book to get support from people, especially people who are having hard times.
So gross. I love mayo (extra please), travel the world and eat pretty much everything, but cannot simply understand mayo and fries. I don't understand dipping oily fried food in thick oily sauce.

I think tomato sauce (ketchup) provides a much better contrast. The acidity counteracts the oiliness and the sugar in the tomatoes and salt on the fries rounds out the flavor profile. You get nearly all the flavours in one meal. Even better with curry ketchup. Mayo, OTOH, doesn't provide a strong enough contrast. It's sweet and tangy, but still predominantly tastes like fat to me.

But enough people like it, so there has to be something to it…
The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can find whatever you want here. There's certainly a tremendous amount of truly world class culture in the city. Film, of course. But also music (not just pop, but classical, jazz, etc). Games. Writers. Painters. Sculptors. People doing things there are no names for.

It's a giant city, with what is likely the largest concentration of creative people on the planet. Don't let your stereotypes and preconceptions mislead you. Some of that is here, but it's just a thin surface, and there's a great deal of depth underneath it.
I'm going to assume matt is lying unless he will release comp data for his offers vs what the candidates' reported salaries. he is on here doing 100% damage control.
It's quite sad that some people's first reaction to everything is to assume that the other carries an agenda and there's a need to be defensive.

Person A thinks that everyone else is a sexist person with an agenda. Person B who doesn't agree with person A thinks everyone else is a radical feminist with an agenda. It's a never ending cycle of stupidity.

/rant
Supercharger says Hi.

300A at 400VDC, usually only a ~15-20 minute charge to get enough juice to make it to the next one.

When I'm heading home the last one on my trip ~80 miles away is usually 10 minutes from offramp to onramp.
Quasicrystals Are Nature’s Impossible Matter
But then you find out you're atleast partly jewish

I can't find out that I'm partly Baptist for what should be obvious reasons.
The thing is, encouraging people to question their Jewishness just because of happenstance of who their mom was, is going to be interpreted as anti-semitic.
> [Religion] is objectively useless.

Religious flamewars aren't ok on HN. Please don't.
I found his transformation even more disturbing than his anti-Semitic view. Any semblance of intellectual reasoning he had to support his anti-Semitic view gave way to self-preservation and a need to not hate himself.

I wouldn't be surprised if even his most vocal opponents lost respect for him over this.
...there is a really mind-boggling amount of everything else out there in LA...

So true. I live in a pretty ordinary SFR (that's what I wanted), but it's a trip to go to friends' houses and see what other people have been able to do.

Horse properties where you stable your horse in your back yard and go riding into the mountains that rim the city. Totally unique view houses clinging to hillsides in Hollywood. Converted warehouses with 10K SF in Frogtown by the LA River (perfect for a sculptor or a tinkerer). Properties on National Forest Service land in the forested valleys in the San Gabriels. Freaky old cabins built in the 1920s right on the edge of Elysian Park or the Arroyo Seco.

It's not the luxury or the money (I did not mention any beach houses). It's the uniqueness. If you have your nose to the ground and care about such things, you can still score one of these places on a middle-class income.
Specifically, GPLv3 or AGPLv3 to avoid consumer device lock down.
Pivot Place
> and last but not least.... downtown LA is now a legitimate downtown. it took 10 years of concerted effort by the powers-that-be, but it's a cultural destination and nice place to live now. a residential construction boom (you could buy a condo for < 100k at one point in the last decade!!!) has fueled a rise in shops, cafes, restaurants, bars, etc. in the downtown area. downtown is also the regional transit hub.

The construction boom started about five years ago and is just peaking. Most of the work before then was commercial to residential conversions. Most of the "effort" went into zoning changes (almost everything downtown was zoned commercial leading to a major glut; occupancy rates were around 20% in some buildings).

The reason it's a cultural destination now is mostly due to the "concerted effort" to raise commercial rent prices elsewhere in Los Angeles. I run a small art gallery in South Park, something that wouldn't make sense if it wasn't for the cheap rent. I know a lot of other people running similar spaces or smaller bars, the story is the same. In a few years when we have to re-negotiate our leases a lot of these places will move or shut down. I really don't care about hipster cafes, but having the Fashion District (all the fabric suppliers, textile printers, and mom-and-pop clothing factories in one place) is great (my wife has a clothing business and I help out sometimes). It's cool if people want a "nice, clean" place to live and spend their money on hipster coffee and lame clothes, but I kind of wish these people would stay on the west side.
Does Emotion Come into Play When Trading?
“Your client needs to resolve this or litigate it,” [prosecutor Steve] West wrote. “But publicity about it doesn’t help. It just ratchets up feelings in the agency.”

My jaw dropped when I read this.

Dear Mr. West: your job isn't about your feelings. And it certainly isn't about your need to be right or your refusal to admit a mistake. You need to grow up -- and I also think you need a new job.
Might I suggest that you try it out before making such a firm statement?
Option 3: motorcycles. Lane-splitting is legal in California. Instead of complaining about traffic, ride a motorcycle.
WordPress written in Go might be okay for the hosted version at WordPress.com, but it would have a lot of difficulty achieving the kind of market share that the self-hosted PHP version enjoys. I can't imagine Dreamhost et al. being happy with people recompiling WordPress Go on their platforms all the time.
It certainly will.

I still think there is a fundamental need to re-think the energy market though - specifically on the role the power utility plays. Clearly they won't be selling a great deal of power but they play a key role in absorbing spikes (both up and down) and stepping in when the grid needs to be balanced. Somehow they need to be fairly compensated for that universal arbiter role & charging per unit of electricity doesn't seem to work well on this new landscape.
anyone can pin multi-floor plans on maps https://kipapp.co/w/grand_central_terminal |
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Where you there when generics got brought in? What was that like from MS's side?
I purchased a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga S1 for $760 refurbised w/ a 3-year manufacturer warranty on eBay and it's the best laptop I've ever owned.

portability:
0.76 x 12.46 x 8.7 in
* 3.46 lbs
* 6-7 hours battery

performance:
i7-4600U
* 8GB
* 256 GB SSD
* 12.5" 1080p touchscreen (very bright too)
* awesome keyboard
* good trackpad (if you click over the raised nubs in the top center you get a middle click which is handy too)
* convertible with very sturdy hinges
* overall superb build quality (has passed a number of MIL-spec tests)
* all hardware has linux support

affordability:
seems like they are going for $700-800 for refurb. w/ man. warranty on eBay http://www.ebay.com/dsc/Laptops-Netbooks-/175672/i.html?_fro...
Isn't that going to kill performance (and possibly even kill the system, in the event of partial netsplits or similar)?
Not quite. A bug is a known issue that was not intended that is planned to fix.

Known limitations are not bugs and fixing them is enhancing the program. Bugs must not be known to exist at the time of creation.
Wow this is still a thing?
Hang on.

You have admitted that you didn't even know the meaning of the sentence that you have been defending until I posted the meaning of the word 'benighted', while criticizing those who were upset by it for holding faith based positions?

Sorry, but that is hilarious.

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bitgodthrowaway 5 hours ago [dead]

These privacy bugs are well known to the people who put them to use.
Facebook offers to let publishers keep revenue from certain ads
"whole hog into Jewish culture." Made me laugh.

Your comment though was less entertaining... You make it sound like a guys life journey happened over the course a fluff piece in a newspaper. whose yo say he didn't go through years of self discovery, thinking for himself and finding meaning in his rich cultural heritage... The only thing to take out of this story is that it's important to keep an open mind... You are advocating on making decisions and than never rethinking it in the future...

I am really glad you aren't (I hope) an anti Semite or racist because all the enlightenment in the world won't change your clearly well thought out thoughts and beliefs...
The term "capability” is much older than Pony, and the concept was proposed in the 60s. We would have loved to use a different word, but there are not enough different recognisable words in the English language.

We use capabilities in Pony to statically avoid data races - not for security. But we believe that Pony's capabilities can also be developed further to support security - would be great to try and program Sandstorm’s security with them.
What to Expect from the LG G4
If you do the math, their cut changes by a dramatic amount in the deal/no deal scenario (all or nothing), and only a tiny tiny percentage in the 3% increase in pay scenario. To them, the incentive is to close, and fast.
Gotta have a quality off topic useless article on the front page at all times. Hacker News living up to their SJW reputation as always.

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

LOL!
In general converts (though you could argue he wasn't a de jure convert to Judaism, he was for all intents and purposes one) can easily be super rigorous in the practice of their new faith, I've noticed. He's merely swapped one (distasteful) extreme for a much less distasteful extreme.
Have you verified that the browser actually phones home via network sniffing? If they have in fact successfully used that commit to remove all cases of phoning home, than it is an unfortunate oversight in the commit history of a browser that still doesn't ever phone home, and in practical terms, nothing more. If the code paths can not be reached, they can not be reached.

Before somebody hops up, yes, I am as aware as the next guy that today's "path that can't be reached" is tomorrow's path that can, and yes, of course outright removal would be better. It's absolutely fair to raise an eyebrow and ask sharp, pointy questions under the circumstances. But it's not fair to say a browser "phones home" if in fact it doesn't.
I can never understand how Jupiter can be thought to have any significant effect on the fate of Earth, given how tiny it is compared to the solar system, or even just to its own orbit.
Is there a war instinct?
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So yeah, if you get in an accident you're dead or you're injured and that obviously affects your health, but something just feels wrong about these "phenomena x" is a Global Health Crisis headlines. I don't like these Obesity is a Global Health Crisis/Epidemic statements either.
> and I also think you need a new job.

How do I, as a citizen, convince my representative(s) to pursue Mr. West (and the case in question) for investigation?
I don't like the way the navigation links stay at the top and overlap the text when I scroll down, it becomes confusing and hard to read. It might be better if they had solid backgrounds, but it would probably be best if they either scrolled with the rest of the page or were embedded in some sort of opaque (or very low alpha) bar.
Yes, this struck me too. I really don't care about "feelings" at the agency nor should he. His job should be to approach justice. If it's not, get the bum out.
That's because cults are this weird thing in that someone has "salvation" or knows the secrets of "the universe". People get suckered in and empty their pocketbooks and life into someone/thing they hope is for real.

Hate movements are altogether a different thing. People usually start as individuals and then coalesce around the existing idea of "hate (insert unchangeable noun)". And then their meeting then induces even further bouts of rage with hate feeding on hate.

And yes, it is small mindedness. They can analyze why they hate when they choose. They do not. Cult group people are victims of extreme deceit, lying, and eventual control of their livelihood. At the endgame of a cult, the leader has near full control over everything: family, property, money.
This has been tried a few times, and Elon has even demonstrated it on the Model S (it's faster than filling up a large-tanked luxury car). The super charger is close enough to instantaneous that I think we'll get to fast-enough recharge times and large enough capacities before we get to a nationwide battery-swapping network.
I certainly hope this will be the end of coal. It would be the biggest single step forward in reducing GHG emissions.
if a tree falls in the forest.....
> Is there anybody who doesn't concur with this assessment? It seems like a flat, unambiguous fact.

Many things that one person feels are flat and unambiguous are perceived otherwise by other people. To use an extreme example, some people think torture is unambiguously evil; some people think it depends on the circumstances; others think it's legitimate vengence on enemies.

There are very many law enforcement officials who use this tool, legislators who pass these laws, and a large segment of the public who trusts and supports law enforcement; they all might feel otherwise about these practices.

I think good reporting should challenge our perspectives by introducing us to others that are outside our usual worldview. Be suspicious of reporting that doesn't challenge your beliefs; they might be kissing your a--; you might be in an ideological bubble.

> Critics' say?

The idea must come from someplace, and it's important to say from where so that you can judge its credibility. Either the reporter hears someone else say it or invents it him/herself; the latter is the job of op-ed writers.

I do agree this idea can be taken too far ('experts say that the Sun appears first in the East every morning') but I'm not sure it's a problem in this case.
"Gypsies and Jews are destroying Hungary" to "Jews should be welcome everywhere, but we need to stop Muslim immigrants from destroying our tolerant open society"

Family infighting sure does suck, doesn't it?