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> various tricks

They actually present (approximately) a very simple construct that is used to speed the interpreters up:

void labels[] = { &&ADD, &&SUB . . . };
...
goto labels[ vpc++ ];
ADD:
...
goto labels[ vpc++ ];

instead of

...
switch ( *vpc++ )
{
case ADD:
....
break;
case SUB:

It's not really hard. The only problem is that the former is not a standard C and not present in MSVC. See

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6421433/address-of-labels...

"Erlang does (that) for building on Windows. They use MSVC for most of the build, and then GCC for one file to make use of the labels-as-values extension. The resulting object code is then hacked to be made compatible with the MSVC linker."

It obviously mattered enough for Erlang developers to use GCC even for just that critical piece of C code. It doesn't mean that it has to be regularly used in every code (not every switch is executed the way the main interpreter loop is).
> you signed over the right to control the stuff you put on Facebook as soon as you wrote it.

You still retain copyright on it, though.
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Wow. I really admired that product, back when I used Windows. That's pretty sad, Paint.NET was doubtlessly a lot of hard work to create, and it's name now besmirched with this bad decision.
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It's articles like this that deplete what little faith I have remaining in "science." The science that is released to the public has been subverted and corrupted by so many orders of magnitude that I'm not even sure why they bother calling it science any more. The lack of objectivity and conflict of interest in the studies/results is astounding. When politics is funding biased studies in the name of furthering corporate profits and then releasing it as "actual science", it's more than disheartening, it's downright sickening.

It's funny how many scientific atheists sneer at the religious for their beliefs when there's so much corruption in their own ranks... and that's coming from someone who'd rather believe in science than any form of organized religion...
Hey, I've known highly attractive women who were also really smart and fantastic at execution, so I wouldn't include that part in your list. It is a possibility that she is being used as a showpiece, but that would make for a pretty dysfunctional team and isn't the sort of thing you'd presume.

Your other critique about them not having a moat to defend against alcohol delivery services is true though, at least if they don't have some actual materials science behind their product.
If you're interested in language, I really love "Metaphors We Live By." It's more profound than I previously thought a book about metaphors could ever be. It starts saying interesting things on page 1.
I use uBlock Origin and Ghostery.
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Honestly, I think you will be more successful if you spend your time and energy looking for employers that could sponsor your visa to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc...

I'm from a very remote part of Brazil and I used www.seek.com.au to get a programming job in Australia in 2008.. The company ran some remote tests with me and paid for all the relocation costs. You should try this.

Also you can try to get a permanent visa even before you try to move there. You can use the Immigration Points Calculator (https://www.wannamigrate.com/tools/) to know if you have the basic requirements for these same countries.
And by some you mean nearly all. At least the ones that sustain the "important" parts of our Internet (Google, Facebook, news media, etc.)
Considering that Vtables are basically the same thing as a jump table in a switch… They have most probably improved in the same way.
Just watched 'Fed Up' this week. It is your typical one sided documentary however it does shed a lot of light into this topic.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2381335/

Also, I'd recommend going here and looking at the FDA's proposal on labeling %DV for added sugars: http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocuments...
Folding has nothing to do with DNA.
OP claims they were getting routinely banned and Google was plugging the holes they were using. I use a ton of apps, usually install them from my browser, and never had any issues.
Just because it's called the Right to be Forgotten, doesn't mean it actually entails burning memories off people's heads. You're arguing against a strawman.
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Great, now we have an "Uber for condoms".
Whoa, that's intense. Definitely going to try this out when my new laptop arrives! Thanks!
If you're dividing the whole county's water consumption by the county's population to get a usage-per-capita figure, that's going to be incredibly distorted by the Las Vegas strip (hotels [luxury showers and toilets that actually flush], pools, fountains, etc) and related (golf courses). These don't contribute to the denominator, but contribute enormously to the consumption. (If golf and the hotels consume 14% together, that would increase the per-capita consumption by 16%.)
I spent more than twenty minutes last night trying to create this throwaway account in order to publish an anonymous "Ask HN" using the TorBrowser, I even tried to "Download Audio" alternative and was completely sure that the numbers were correct but again the captcha reappeared as if the previous answer was invalid. I decided to allow JavaScript globally just in case without much luck. After some time I started to think that I was really a robot so I decided to create the account using my normal browser, very frustrating.

EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqnXp6Saa8Y
A citizen of the EU can also ask a newspaper to remove online articles about him, and in fact the requests usually start there. Why that doesn't apply to hardcopies has also been discussed at length.

Newspapers are not required to retroactively publish their articles, because the EU directive is about data accessibility, not about rewriting history. The EU is simply codifying that the natural shelf-life of (newspaper) articles also applies to online content.

Yes, you can still find those articles if you're willing to spend the effort. Search engines removed the effort requirement, and the EU decided that this placed a disproportionate burden on their subjects' personal lives.
The primary metabolic disorder in society right now is driven by an excess of sugars in our diet, particularly fructose. Fruit juices and processed foods are swimming in fructose.
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Here I thought I was going to read about a genius new type of condom or something different. There's local delivery service here that will bring you beer or cigarettes from the corner store already. They could just bring me some condoms if I was that lazy or unprepared and I can't imagine having to tell person your with to just wait an hour if that's the case.

Might as well apply for a startup to provide the morning after pill.
> say today X does no good on brand new hardware

Is for you the "brand new hardware" your desktop which spends hundred of watts per hour or your mobile phone which has to survive the whole day without recharging his 5 Wh battery but still let you surf the web with all the stuff you take as given? Making optimizations that work good with lower wattage CPUs is a good thing, unless you limit yourself only to the non-battery devices.
...and here comes dot-com bubble 2.0
You're not paying for a server being up for you 24/7, you're not managing a server, you don't worry about what's being provisioned. That's what "no server" means, yes everybody knows there's a server! There's no magic hat tricks! It's just a new trend word now :), say "no server"
Moreover, in some circumstances, it is not even a mistake, but you've been the victim of something terrible, and your name will be associated forever with it.

"I am not sure I want to employ/rent to someone who's been victim of X..."
Well, only the first two are objective --- the others are all way too subjective, as they depend horribly on how motivated I am. Even the objective measures are hugely variable, so in order to get any actual data, I have to measure trends over months, rather than weeks.

Being told that I need six months' work before anything measurable happens is not really something I find motivating!
[Tinfoil for Facebook][0] is good, and only wants network, location, and storage permissions (and you can turn off location). It doesn't provide background notifications, though.

[0]: https://github.com/velazcod/Tinfoil-Facebook
Why shouldn't the results be blocked/removed globally? If the data subject is a french citizen and the publication is from a french newspaper, why shouldn't the effect be global?
The article alludes to this, but doesn't state it: let's be clear that by blocking ads, you're not just blocking annoying advertisements---you're blocking software, most of which spys on you. Some sites load megabytes of JavaScript.

Another perspective: for free software advocates, these simply must be blocked, because they're non-free.
A YC founder once told me: "YC doesn't make a company and definitely won't fix a company... they invest in companies that are already working. That's their secret."

Granted, these companies aren't soaring into the stratosphere yet. "Already working" can simply mean a few early customers, a functional and polished prototype, or even just a really good idea and a (very) proven team. The point is that YC, like any investor, tries to minimize risk as much as possible, even though they're in the riskiest layer of professional startup investing.

I used to agonize over the fact that I never worked at a big name-brand company and that I haven't been able to hobnob with apex talent who might co-found a startup with me as I figured that was the only way to get into YC or TS. This one bit of advice (i.e. traction is everything) washed away that anxiety like night and day. The ability to succeed is in the founders' hands, not YC's magic wand.

Doubly so... because do you really want to take investment (even from YC) in an idea that doesn't have traction and isn't working?
Can anyone summarize what this move will mean for performance on the average web app?

Will they be giving up some speed to claw back some memory?
If you mean "what has led you to think they're further away from consensus": mostly just gut feeling, as a (younger) member of that community. I've not seen any rigorous and comprehensive studies of which interpretations garner the most support, but it does seem like popularity is currently divided between the orthodox and several other interpretations that have evolved from "niche" to "significant minority" in recent years.

If instead you mean "by what process are they further away from consensus": I would suggest that the recent surge of research in quantum information theory has stimulated a greater interest in foundational issues, which in turn has led to an invigoration of the interpretations debate.
Airbnb hosts in Ireland facing retrospective tax-bills
fun fact: many years ago, zirtual's ceo used to participate here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maren
The microcontroller that is in the disk-emulating hardware I use to keep my Oric-1 collection running, is faster/better/stronger than the CPU in the Oric itself.

In that regard, Oric recently caught up with the C64. ;)
Yeah. My thought was "RTBF is nice but it doesn't scale well". It will end up so that friends of Zimbabwean dictators can force search engines to "forget them" but shoplifting marks people for life.

Even simple parameters are not that simple. Age-based thresholds, for example, would likely ensure family connections and privilege are "forgotten". The fact that one was a stupid teenager doing a stupid thing might be forgettable; but the fact that one got out of trouble thanks to Dad's friends should remain visible. This is impossible, no matter how you slice it.
That would lead to lower rates because you can't prove your impressions. No honor among thieves.
My solution for when I don't feel like drinking. Fizzy water with a lime in it, people assume its a vodka tonic.
sounds like the social situation needs to change, not the explanation.

assuming you're in your 20s now... don't worry, by age 35 there's less explaining and less criticizing.
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> It seems to be a basic human bias; we think everything positive that happens to us is due to our own merit

not all, but if one decides to move for work and opportunities, giving up close family, many friends, various safety nets that they bring (financial, personal etc.), start from 0, working hard relentlessly and then is successful (whatever that means), then coming back and listening some envious BS talk about privileged/lucky/whatever by people who eat junk food not because they have to, sit their evenings in front of TV consistently, never ever considered learning something in their (massive) free time etc. They started on +- same level, have same internet as me.

Do you really blame anybody successful? I don't. I want to give back, and I am doing that. But not to random Joe, but to my dearest - family and friends. If everybody does that, the very few truly unlucky remaining can be dealt generously with state social systems.

This is what made US so famous and strong in past - that your success won't be averaged with those that don't break a sweat, your success will be yours. And more you work on it, bigger it might be. Remove this incentive, and many very bright people will steer their energy elsewhere, and humanity gains less.
i used to think the same way, but you'd be surprised how quickly people accept that you don't drink (soda or alcohol). and if you're continuously getting harassed for it it's a sign you should shed those people as quickly as sugar.
I think he meant in the manual, yes. For example page 12[1]. I don't have a good understanding of Chinese, ancient or otherwise; why would they be difficult to translate?

[1] http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-FH-00910-00083-00098/12
Eventually the undefined behavior of this chatter will result in unallocated memory slowly churning in the garbage collection of time. Some day one of the sectors of unallocated memory will be executed resulting in a self replicating program. This program will evolve and multiply, pondering on the vastness of the S3verse, forever in search of Root.
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Drink less soft drink and need less exercise = less money for beverage and exercise industries.

Keep drinking soft drink, exercise more = more money for both industries.

I don't think they care about difference in willpower, only money. They will say almost anything to get it from you.
Actually, exercise does help to lose weight and reduce fat. As men get older, they have lower amounts of testosterone and and lower muscle mass which results in a lower resting metabolic rate. Muscle tissue burns calories even when you asleep so that calories that might have been converted to fat are consumed by the muscle tissue instead.

Thus, exercise that increases the gluteus maximus (buttock muscle) in your legs, the largest muscle, will increase resting metabolic rate which results in weight loss.
Wasn't aware that was built into Chrome until just now. I'll give that a try and see if my experience is the same. Thanks.
The Pittsburgh area accelerators also require that the company stays headquartered in Pittsburgh. I love my hometown, but it's not exactly the best place to grow a company, especially a startup (in general, I think in some verticals there may be a fair amount of potential). The governor talks about bringing in more venture capital to the area, but that's not really something you can legislate. There's a low cost of living and really smart people out here, but one of the biggest hurdles (IMHO) that no one is mentioning is that it's difficult to access capital to get going, and the small size of the business community here and lack of affordable transportation to other areas make it a bit daunting to start. Better to move out to SF and start something while couchsurfing--there's a higher ceiling elsewhere with their accelerator communities.
I started blocking ads about a year ago when some mainstream tech sites began to show ads that I felt make me unhappy, such as "The 10 signs of getting a heart attack/Alzheimer's/cancer", etc. Usually with a picture of someone in their 60's looking quite sad or disoriented. I find this kind of advertising very offensive and I'm sorry that I'm now also blocking all other kind of ads, too.
No, I don't think obese people are stupid. Just the opposite. I am jealous of the ability, generally, to enjoy food without restraint. Why live a long life if you have to eat healthy the whole time? Life is too short to prioritize vanity over quality of life.

And yes, I find the perverse entangling of health and marketing to be nauseous. There is so much crap out there, it is easy to get lost spending time and energy in a terrible place, like a gluten free diet. Many people willingly lie to themselves to convince themselves that "this author knows anything" without thinking critically. If obese people are stupid, so are foodies, workaholics, gamers, drug addicts, consumers of anti anxiety medication, etc...

People need to learn moderation without passing judgement on what others care about. Americans are inhelthily interested in health for no goddamn reason. Do you really think living longer is gonna help anyone?
There is also the quantum mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
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you can pretend that you are a recovering alcoholic and that you are using your tremendous willpower to stay away from alcohol, even in a bar. People might applaud and respect you for it and leave you alone :p
NVIDIA Inspector and GPU-Z both have simple, clean UIs and have been all I've needed in my GPU overclocking and custom bios adventures.
That depends who you ask... they've probably been peer reviewed by other biased peers who are on Coca-Cola's payroll... or at least peers who favour these big food companies. So technically, yes, they're peer reviewed. Does it make them any more valid? Draw your own conclusions.
I was recently giving a screen-shared demo to a media company that makes the vast majority of their revenue from online ads. One of the execs saw the adblock extension button in the browser chrome, interrupted the demo, and proceeded to tell me how terrible I was. Needless to say we did not make the sale.

Lesson learned: When giving demos, open an incognito window since most plugins are disabled by default.
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There's one caveat: advanced branch prediction is probably not free. It probably costs a bit of silicon, even some energy. It may or may not actually matter (I'm no hardware designer), but if it does, we may have to make some hard choices, like a few more cores vs badass branch prediction.

It may not matter on X86 specifically, where out of order stuff dominates anyway. But it might matter for stuff like the Mill CPU architecture, for which energy efficiency and not wasting silicon is very important.
I've found some content won't appear/work if ads are blocked. So in some cases I temporarily whitelist a site in AdBlock or Ghostery. With a HOSTS file, isn't that sort of thing a lot more painful?

(I used to use the HOSTS method but stopped for that reason.)
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The irony is that Ghostery is reporting 14 trackers on the page as I read the article...
> Also, the CDC has better epidemics to worry about than the obesity one. I frankly don't care if people want to be fat

But you might worry that obesity and lack of exercise is a major portion of our health care costs which comes out of your pocketbook through higher taxes for Medicaid, Medicare, Federal, State, and City employee health care costs, retired military, ....
Also, your health insurance costs are higher and if your employee pays for your health insurance then your employers health insurance payments are larger meaning less money for salaries.
You can keep your software development workflow simple. Example: You could do a website using Html5, CSS3 and Old-school Javscript or you could use all the tools like grunt, bower, CoffeeScript, SASS (or LESS) etc... It depends on the level of engineering you want to put into your project.
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I know it's not a representative sample or anything, but in supersize vs. superskinny if there's somebody drinking a lot of sugary drinks, it's always the superskinny one, never the supersize one. The supersizers always eat a lot of salt, protein and fat.
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I have moved to Coke Zero, which tastes just fine (although it somewhat depends on the country where you buy it). I don't think there is much wrong with that, so I don't quite understand why Coca-Cola doesn't promote it more instead of denying that sugar may be a problem.
That's not how peer-review works in science journals. If Coke publishes the data on their website, they don't need any additional hoops. If it gets published in a scientific journal, the article is sent in to the editor. Then the editor makes a decision if it's even the kind of thing they'd want in their journal and either sends it back or sends it to their choice of scientists in the field. Those scientists (usually 4) offer revision suggestions and their feedback. It's then up to the editor to reject the article, print it, or require modifications before printing it.
It is little bit weird that we are hearing this from scientists but apart from that there is nothing wrong with what it says I think.

Just because some people can not resist and drink responsibly, why should the company take the blame?

Having too much of almost everything is bad for you, am i missing something here?
The next time tell him that you are finding flaws in adblock to help ad companies. If he asks you for more details tell that this is a support 1 yr service because you have a dedicated team constantly researching new adblock versions.
My excuse, when I decide I need one is "I'm just not feeling like I want to drink today." If anyone tries to put the thumb screws on me (which only occasionally happens), I say "I've never folded in front of peer pressure before, it's unlikely I'm going to fold today. I don't feel like drinking today." Usually that's enough to get people to drop the subject. If they still continue to the point that I've had enough, I leave. If my friends can't respect my decisions without fighting me on it, I don't want to be around them. They'll have way more fun getting drunk without me anyway, so I'll leave them to it and see them another day when either I do feel like a drink or they don't feel the need to coerce me into drinking against my will.
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I hope I'm misunderstanding you because it sounds like you're saying you're upset the border guards accuse you of coming to the US to work illegally when you are in fact coming to the US to work illegally.
The default behavior in Java 7 & 8 is to cache forever when a security manager is installed, and to cache for an implementation-specific period of time when a security manager is not installed. Sans security manager, I see 30s in Java 7 -- reference the DEFAULT_POSITIVE constant in sun.net. InetAddressCachePolicy
So they could just put a link on the front page, then.