skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, Ada may have already made a copy of the value; small (register-sized) values tend to be passed by copy into subprograms.

If 'in' is a type than so is the concept of an lvalue in C and C++ -- because constants (and 'in' parameters which function as constants with local scope) in Ada are not lvalues; they cannot be assigned to by the semantics of the language. (In C and C++, every sense of 'const' can be gotten around; even const methods can mutate object instance variables by const_casting this.) You can call any constraint imposed by the language a type and that may be true in the abstract sense, but what counts when talking about types in a language is what the language's own type system has to say on the matter.

Parameter modes (in, out, in out) form a part of the type of the subprogram (procedure or function) the parameter is a part of, but constantness is not a part of the type of the value in Ada. Note that this is not the only way types differ in Ada than in C++ when it comes to access: C++ types encode information about how a parameter is passed, Ada types do not. The Ada declaration:

procedure Foo(I : in Integer);

may be equivalent to C++

void foo(int i);

or

void foo(const int& i);

depending on how the compiler chooses to pass the values. Note that even 'in out' parameters may be passed by value through a 'pass by copy-in copy-out' mechanism, so whether a parameter is passed by value or reference is largely handled behind the scenes, so the type system doesn't include that information. If it did, Ada would be even more verbose and unwieldy than its reputation suggests, as type enforcement is much more strict in Ada.
Still voluntary compliance = still toothless.
How about the agreement between users and site to the tune of "you honor DNT or I block every little bit of your ads"?
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"That would be a 6 month time period, where the number of cars went from 58,295 to 64,500. A total change of 6,205 new cars over 6 months amounts to roughly 1,000 new for-hire vehicles a month - about one half of the rate that de Blasio had said in his OpEd."

This argument assumes (with no justification) that the cars have been added at a constant rate. But if they were being added at an increasing rate, there might have indeed been 2000 cars a month added over the last two or three months (with less than a thousand added in previous months), and the mayor may have been citing the most recent statistics rather than a yearly average. Without more reliable data, there's no way to know which is true.
You would rather they make statements with a neutral tone, promising nothing?

What's wrong with expressing a little excitement and optimism?
Sorry, you're wrong. That's a recent comment that I am not referring to. I did not save a referent to the original statement when he made it back, oh, maybe 5-6 years ago because even though it immediately struck me, I did not seem to have taken a note of it. Someone once responded to one of my comments on Reddit with the same source, but that was also a while ago and I didn't take note of it. If Reddit had better search functionality, maybe I could find the source, but I have not been successful the couple attempts I have made at finding it because someone like you tries to cast doubt on the claim.

I don't even know why you need the quote; his actions and their manifestation in how Facebook operates and what it does and how it serves as a global surveillance system for not only our government but governments all around the world speaks far louder than any single quote he made and was probably told is not a good idea to repeat.
I'm really happy to hear that! The 12 month delay really made me feel terrible, and I got a lot of (justified) emails asking me what was up and why I hadn't delivered yet. I'm actually considering a Kickstarter campaign for the next book (not announced yet, shh) but this time I'm not running the campaign until the first draft is actually completed, so I can actually have reasonable launch dates. :) Thanks for being a backer!
Startups would be mostly the same, hiring lower talent non-union labor.

Unions give skilled labor immensely greater negotiation leverage, as the alternative for employers would be hiring lower skilled workers.
Celebrity engagement is essentially impossible. The numbers don't work. No celebrity can "engage" with a million people when there's only 86,400 seconds in a day. If you don't like the "million", put whatever number you like in there that is still comfortably greater than the number of seconds in a day. Engagement doesn't scale.

You can create the illusion of engagement, but that's all.

Note the lack of the word "Twitter" in the reply up until this sentence. It's not even about Twitter. It's just generally impossible.
I think I'm pretty close to the 'sweet spot' where further optimizations are both a waste of time and make the result much less useful in the longer term. But just for the sake of research I'm more than willing to play around to see what happens.
"FedEx is still faster than the Internet" https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

Of course, the applications here are probably quite different -- this research grant may be more geared toward building a faster network to handle large amounts of streaming input.
For a really class act, check out Ceylon's collection classes. As an example, Set and SetMutator are separate interfaces; a MutableSet has both. The whole standard library is really well thought out WRT typesafe functional programming.
It does feel fast for asm.js, but WebAssembly is simply much better than it. We did asm.js because there wasn't an option to do something better earlier; now that there is, with all browser vendors eager to collaborate, it seems pointless to delay.

Also, this evolution should not be too disruptive. First, asm.js content will continue to work, since it is just JS; it will also continue to be fast (in fact, WebAssembly will polyfill into asm.js in the short term). Second, tools like Emscripten will be able to emit both asm.js and WebAssembly, so that those users don't need to even care about what their compiler is producing (and those users are the great majority of people using asm.js on the web).
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I'm not sure if I could agree with the "Outside the valley" comment. I live nowhere near the Valley, and myself and plenty of my co-workers are not credentialed. As a matter of fact, my current workplace is pretty much in a rural area. My last 3 jobs have had a pretty equal number of credentialed and uncredentialed employees. These companies all pay very well, and are well-known.
I don't agree that email is decentralized.[1] It's interoperable and universal, but that's not the same thing. You can use a single address for mail from arbitrary sources, and all email addresses, regardless of client or mailserver, can talk to each other. But once you've chosen a mailserver for any given address, you've put all of your eggs in that one basket. Now, it's easier to switch clients, but let's be realistic, when's the last time you did that? And both the list of popular mailservers (http://www.mailradar.com/mailstat/) and clients (https://emailclientmarketshare.com/) is quite short.

Honest feedback: as far as I can tell from a quick onceover, qbix is just an aggregator for existing services. That doesn't really solve the problem, and arguably, by positioning yourself as a single point of failure for negotiations between different APIs (facebook, email, sms, etc), you're actually creating a system that is substantially more centralized, not less. And you're covered by a patent (or at least an application), so potential competitors can't interoperate without a licensing agreement. If you're trying to be a decentralized, universal platform, you've just shot yourself in the foot.

Disclaimer: I'm working on a similar problem, but I'm doing it as an abstraction layer between transport (TCP/IP, bluetooth mesh, anything with a reliable bytestream) and application. That allows you to do some really cool things, like communicating between people (or services or whatever), regardless of device or physical network topology. https://github.com/Muterra/doc-muse

[1] That isn't necessarily a bad thing, and I think that email is a great example of a very successful hybrid (both centralized and decentralized) system -- it allows users to choose between centralized providers with minimal switching cost. Centralization with zero node lock isn't necessarily bad.
> This article seems to argue "Taxing the rich leads to reduced growth and therefore all of society is worse off for it."

No, that's the utilitarian argument, which the article specifically considers unsatisfying, instead proposing an argument from justice.
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Local Jump Errors everywhere.

But I remember specifically using open(url), parsing some HTML, and writing out a CSV. Today there are libraries to make that trivial for an experienced Rubyist, but this was Ruby 1.8.0. FasterCSV was still just around the corner, there was no hpricot yet. And you're working with blocks right out of the gate. The little 40 line program (including whitespace) took me quite awhile. It read (what I thought was) very pretty. But I think the Ruby community tends to take for granted how big a role idiom plays in Ruby. In the early days when you didn't necessarily have access to all that, fighting your way through syntax errors trying to learn the language by referencing the pickaxe was definitely one of the bigger challenges I've faced as a programmer.

By that point I was already very proficient with c#, had written a fair about of VBScript in ASP3. But I really struggled with how opaque learning how to be productive in Ruby felt.
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> Furthermore, I installed uBlock in Firefox for Android because ads were getting so bad that it was essentially impossible to view some sites.

This in itself is enough of a reason for me to use Firefox on Android and recommend it to everyone who uses Android.

There are a lot of other great things about it, but the fact that it allows installation of extensions (and therefore allows adblocking for non-rooted devices) is huge.
What happens if a stock in a tech company goes down to low value? Do they owe money back to the brokers that made the IPO?
FWIW, you can have 2 cc2.8xlarge spot instances for about $0.50/hour. $12/day isn't nothing, but it's pretty affordable. Stick your data on an EBS instance attached to the spot so you keep your data if the spot instance gets nuked and you have a functioning cluster for around 13% of the on-demand price.
In my experience, you would have gotten just as much technical debt and bad designs if you so had spent months of planning before typing the first character of your code.
> Even Buffett spoke out, that his class wins, but it should not (for the good of society). And he said, that something is wrong, when his secretary has to pay a much higher tax-rate as himself.

Did you read the article? Mankiw noted that when CBO statistics are used, taking into account all taxation, not just income taxes, the United States have a very progressive tax system.
Nukes are actually much better at load following than is commonly believed. It's used a lot in countries without significant hydro production, like Germany and France, and load following capability is a regulatory requirement in many/most markets. For rapid anomalous load events in the grid you of course revert to the shutdown mechanisms, but the load-following is used to keep up with everyday demand variations.

http://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/reports/2011/load-following-npp....

https://www.oecd-nea.org/nea-news/2011/29-2/nea-news-29-2-lo...
Granted, but you could contact archive.org and ask how $8k of AWK credit could be donated and used productively. I'm certain they'd have a valuable use for it.
bryans, we'd fixed this earlier (with the pop-up, moving it back to a later time). i'd meant to write this earlier.
Nothing whatsoever happens. It's just the market doing its market thing.
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I wouldn't call it a delusion. Investors were valuing Twitter at close to $40 Billion because they were expecting Facebook-like growth. Now that they don't see that growth they currently value it at around $20 Billion. Based on simple things like P/E that's still a good number.

I still think there's a good chance of a turnaround for Twitter. It's widely used by the media and celebrities. If they come up with a better way to consume this then I think they have a good chance of getting back to their recent highs in their stock.
I find it odd that AirBnB is consitently pointed at as a resounding success when, alongside Uber/Lyft/TaskRabbit/the now shutdown maid service, it simply relies on literally breaking the law and hoping that you'll make enough money to change the laws. Granted, AirBnB doesn't have the same "fuck the worker" mindset as the others, but I still feel like the "sharing econony" is far from an established sure thing. Then again, if you own stock in AirBnB I doubt it matters at this point.
This is a matter of choice I suppose.

For me gdipp (or mac ftm) rendered fonts look like just crap. Never been typographic junkie though...
That sounds completely impractical (unless you think form letters are engagement.)
Two possibilities (among many others)

1) SBIR/STTRs are specific solicitations that serve the specific goals of funding agencies. If you don't see one that matches your tech exactly, it's a nonstarter.

2) Often times, the call for proposals are written with a specific company in mind that the funding agency already has some relationship with or interest in funding. Breaking into this can be challenging for a new company to learn the landscape.
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I agree with the sentiment even if the practical doesn't mean much. I'd like to see more companies open source abandonware.
If a company employs 20 people and 5 of them are programmers without which the company can't function, one leaves and recruits away the other 4 to go work at the same place that means the remaining 15 people are out of work.

Business owners have a lot of people's livelihoods at stake. It's about a lot more than just how much more another company is willing to offer you. That might not matter to you, but that's also why you get to see the policy before agreeing to work at the company.

If coming to work at my office and having the flexibility to recruit away all my staff is important to you...then you don't really have to sign the contract. If you do sign the contract then you're agreeing to the terms. It's not rocket science. Fair policy is that you get to decide whether or not to abide by it before I start paying you. You have the right to decide that policy isn't okay with you and not take the job. Nobody forced you to sign the contract and take the job. If it's a market problem, then I will eventually lose all of those employees because they will have plenty of other choices if they aren't happy working there anymore.

Or to spin this around into the language that you used, policies like the one I describe exist because a lot of people only have their own self-interest in mind and part of my job is to have the interests of all of my employees in mind.
It's great that we have so many choices of great programming fonts nowadays. What's everyone's font of choice? I've been using Consolas for the last few years.
true (I'm assuming)...

I guess it depends whether we're talking about start-ups or small businesses/hobby projects.

I don't think I've heard of any start-ups which were sustainable at the beginning, whereas many small businesses/hobby projects are.

Drew Houston from Dropbox was also a solo dev at the very beginning of Dropbox, but I guess the very fact that by definition start-ups are destined to grow quickly means that new people need to be brought on board at some point...
On the one hand:

Who cares!? You don't have to use every feature of a language.

On the other hand:

What do you expect when something is designed by committee? Everyone wants to add their own special sauce to the mix.
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If you hate it, why are you using Angular?
By that argument, you lose energy when gasoline evaporates during transportation. In both cases (electricity and gasoline) loss is marginal and can be mitigated by striking a balance between centralization and transport/power line distance.