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If we followed your advice, the differential between worst case and best case performance would be large.

There are good reasons for preferring a less extreme difference in potential performance for general computing with AOT compiled languages. In particular, we should ensure the worst case performance isn't awful. We wouldn't want e.g. an occasional exception getting thrown to act like a DoS attack on a web server.
I was curious how indoor CO2 levels change from people breathing, so I did a quick calculation. A small room is 4m x 4m x 2.5m. That would contain 40m^3 of air or 40000 liters, 8000 of which is oxygen. From what I can gather, a normal person working will use 30 liters of oxygen per hour.[1] If the room contained one person and was completely sealed for 8 hours, it would end with 7760L of oxygen, 192L of CO2, and some water vapor. Around 0.5% of the atmosphere in the room would be CO2. While at the occupational limit, that's still enough to cause drowsiness and mental fatigue.[2]

It's surprising how little CO2 is required to disrupt cognition. Still, even getting to those levels would take an extremely stuffy office. I'm not convinced this is a issue in most workplaces.

1. http://www.molecularproducts.com/pdf/technical-library/A%20G...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide#Toxicity
The last year of sales that I could find (2003) clocked Desoxyn sales in at $9.3 million total. Not that much, but still millions.
Enterprise software is hard not because writing it is hard, but the multitude of stakeholders that you have to convince and have a buy-in before it would even pass muster. However, you are brimming with good ideas, if Seattle doesn't want your ideas, there are enough police departments in the world that you'll find someone who is willing to try new things.
I would wager a fair amount that most people diagnosed with ADHD are referring to schedule II substances when they mention stimulant medication.

I didn't know that the racetams (or, per your comment, Piracetam at least) have a major effect on oxygen utilization. Thank you for reminding me to look into the world of nootropics again. Straight up stimulants are so taxing.

I propose a HAB model as a next step in cubicle drone-tech. Individual airlocks, variable temp, humidity, noise, airflow... And no disco.
Methamphetamine is also sold under generic names. Mayne Pharma sold about $4-5 million in 2014 in the US. Other searches indicate around 9-10 million from another company. Agreed that it's not that common and even 10 or 20 million isn't much. Though who knows how much of that is crazy DEA enforcement or just plain ignorance.
Firefox used to run its updates during startup too (not sure if it does still), and this is one of the reasons why I switched.

When I am in a rush to check something online, I don't want to waste 5 minutes updating anything.
Apple aims to maneuver between two goals - between selling privacy , but creating great services(who often depend on data). My suggestion could be one mechanism to optimize both.

Or maybe not. we don't know.
I understand not publicly showing things on broadcast media, but taking them completely out of circulation or revisionist edits without making the originals available is problematic.

For me it is the same as the wanton edits Lucas has made on the Star Wars movies, etc.
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Does it though? Does it do its job well? Does it have scheduled maintenance every evening for the mainframe batch job? Does it not handle non-ascii in names? Does it not have the perspective of knowing how much better it could be done, like webmail before gmail?

Just rewriting in new technology won't necessarily make it any better though, I'll definitely grant you that. I'm one of the crabby people who prefers technology from the early 2000s that grew out of unix technology of the 80s. But the really really old stuff can actually have meaningful limitations.

With regards to the medical industry, most of the software and systems are truly bad (in addition to being made with very very old tech). The reason IMHO is that due to all the regulation and all the money, all the power is on the political side rather than the technical side of the market, and it's a market where users don't choose what they use, administrators choose for them (and then don't have to use it).

(My mother is an MD)
More of a fun experiment than anything else, but the Pig Shell is worth playing with:

http://pigshell.com/
Google and Apple won't let you block your app from app store requests in Texas. Fixed internet connections can be traced by IPGeo databases so you can block connections from Texas, but mobile carriers obfuscate the IP with NAT so you can't block mobile web access.

So you can try but probably not.
I'm not sure if this is contrasting in any way. Just sort of a, prison culture is so messed up that it's better and safer to be fighting fires.

The quote arguing that they rely on $2/day firefighters from prisons and can't release them when ordered is somewhat telling.
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I guess they do have fortran cuda now: http://www.pgroup.com/lit/articles/insider/v1n3a2.htm

12 gb ram may not be enough for some physics apps, but it's made a big difference for workloads requiring under 12gb of memory, when you get a 250 gb/s data transfers on gddr5 over the 12gb/s for ddr3
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No, it's exactly what I said. Methamphetamine, not mixed amphetamines like Adderall. Meth is sold under the trade name Desoxyn as well as under generic names. Look up Mayne Pharma; they have 2014 results presentation that talks about their generic meth sales.

It's approved in the US for obesity as well as attention disorders. Schedule II, just like common painkillers (the non toxic ones anyways; adding a liver toxin moves painkillers to lower Schedule III).
The bid ask spread is a measure of how far behind you are the moment you buy a stock. If the ask is $10 but the bid is $9.75 you've lost 0.25 per share the second you make a trade. If the spread is only $0.01 (as is now common) you've only lost a penny. So smaller spreads are great.

It's true that markets now respond faster to large sales so if you're a hedge fund trying to unload $BIGNUM shares of MSFT you'll have a harder time. But that's good for everyone else. If that hedge fund has proprietary information that MSFT is undervalued you want that information getting out to the market as fast as possible leading to more efficient prices.
Couldn't you simply stipulate in your ToS that if you reside in that area that you are not allowed to use said service?
Amusingly, JavaScript has the exact same language feature.
> Straight up stimulants are so taxing.

This is so true. You become so productive, but at the same time you feel that your body is being overdriven.
I mapped it to Alt-Space (so I guess it'd be buttons plural) for no other reason than it seemed like a convenient combination for something I'm going to be constantly running.
> Think about the greatest, most beautiful cathedrals in Europe. Some of them took more than 500 years to build. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of the computer programs we will build over the next 500 years?

Now that is inspirational.

I've managed to spend my software development career mostly writing programs that I feel are meaningful and useful, and I'm very thankful for that. But nothing I've written is going to last more than 10 or 20 years. I would love to produce an artifact that lasts centuries some day.

So far, discounting stuff that only lives because of some legacy hardware system, we've got maybe LINPACK and... what else?
To put it as simply as possible: Triton does not have magic block storage. If you want to write anything that persists past a container's lifetime, it is tied to the machine instance the container was running on unless you manually move it around.

It's not any worse than you'd have if you were starting from scratch with your own hardware, but Bryan Cantrill is firmly against magic block storage. His suggestion is that you rewrite your persistence layer to know about SDC or "deal with it".

It's not necessarily that bad since a lot of containers don't need state, but my personal axe is that I work with databases almost exclusively.
> 'Ancient Aliens' is a big fuck you to those who actually did the work.

The majority of whom were brown, if not black.

A lot of the Ancient Aliens bullshit is founded on a core of racism about a millimeter beneath the surface. The rest is just simple ignorance about pre-modern engineering and mathematical techniques.
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Since the situation is unlikely to be resolved quickly enough to satisfy, the Tcl Community Association has obtained new domain names wiki.tcl-lang.org, core.tcl-lang.org, and www.tcl-lang.org that designate the same hosts that wiki.tcl.tk, core.tcl.tk and www.tcl.tk, respectively, had designated. It is intended that both name registrations will be maintained in the future, provided of course that control of the .tk names can be recovered.
Except users do get prescribed such combos. And users often mix alcohol and benzos and opiates without issues. So taking a prohibition-based approach is good from a CYA perspective, but doesn't provide value to end users.
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Spaces before punctuation are the giveaway.
Yeah, we connect with other services so we need the ability to programmatically re-schedule a function to run in ~5 minutes if it failed the first time.
So thinking ahead -

It seems like USG will be unsuccessful at compelling Apple to unlock the phone. If there are no security vulnerabilities in the trusted hardware, then there is literally nothing special Apple can do to help unlock it. Although we can hope for a stay (in the sense of not advancing the inevitable big picture) whereby USG successfully attacks the chip with acid.

There may then be a detour where USG attempts to compel Apple to push an update to a new (and unknowing) suspect that renders their security moot. This entire process would be under a gag order (since it's an ongoing investigation), so perhaps it's even already happening. Once again, I guess I hope this is successful to avoid the otherwise inevitable showdown.

The next move directly pertaining to this situation will be for USG to push for some law banning the sale of encryption that cannot be opened with a court order. Yes, this battle has been fought before. But this time we're dealing with a purpose-built device, distributed turnkey by a commercial company. USG may not be able to compel Apple to act, but it can certainly constrain their actions when they do.

Also, technology is now acceptable to put on the "news" so the entire populace can be browbeaten with the four horsemen to make them compliant and dilute techies' informed voice. The percentage of civil disobedience will be insignificant - LUKS will likely not be setting precedent.

Plus the major technology companies having become part of the establishment and vice-versa, so cooperating with the government is in their direct business interest (as long as the PR is managed). In this larger situation, Apple will cry uncle long before USG does - I doubt they want an import ban.

So all of this points to such a law being passed, I'd guess 2-3 years out. If Free solutions aren't outright criminalized by the same legislation (ala RIPA), then something supplemental after that. It's a lot easier to "address" questions of constitutionality and basic human rights against a single unsympathetic defendant.

Will we successfully retreat to steganographic filesystems, and can we encourage enough drug dealers et al to adopt them such that the leviathan encounters effective technological pushback? Or do we have to wait for all of this to become widely accepted, then for norms to adapt and persecution to finally end? Interesting times indeed.
My uncle died from this. Walked past a stopped car, got hit in the next lane.
Bullshit. Historically verifiable bullshit. See: Every security system ever that relied on not telling your opponents the details. When will you amateurs fucking read the literature and understand you're wrong?
I totally agree. We just finished our perf cycle here at the Goog, and in my self evaluation I rated my impact as "medium" on the various projects I worked on. (I started back in June, so I haven't been around very long, and I'm very much still ramping up.)

The peer evaluations I got all rated my impact as "important" to "critical". I don't feel like I did anything too outstanding; just doing what anybody would do, and I feel like I still have a tremendous amount to learn, and the senior personnel are still way ahead of me.

I definitely feel like a touch of impostor syndrome can be a help toward excelling, as long as it doesn't cripple you.
And that's why, god bless 'em, good defense attorneys are the real safety net for all our freedoms, no matter how many guilty clients they get off.

Logically speaking, circumstances have allowed for the outcome of this case to be aided by iPhone data. Practically speaking, the reason they're pushing so hard in this case is because the guy is utterly indefensible -- he's a guilty-pled drug distributor, and there are undoubtedly few who would defend him. Just as sure, there are people somewhere who would prefer justice be meted as painfully as possible, and anyone who defends this guy would be a pariah in their eyes, but sticking up for the rights and fair treatment of the guilty is the greatest thing you can do to assure your own rights and fair treatment in the future.
If you allowed arbitrary precision (or even 8 decimals) then there'd be a bit less emphasis on latency, right? As is, a penny is worth quite a bit so everyone has to queue up at the same price making speed win.
I think you are correct in predicting that retail investors will on net lose by investing in startups. In most cases, the best opportunities will go to the pros, leaving the amateurs to get the duds.

But, it does strike me that the Kickstarter model would be far superior if the backers got an equity stake in the company. As it works now, the backer takes a big risk in not getting a product, or getting a crappy product, yet enjoys no upside if the product is a smash hit.

It also strikes me that a barbell strategy to portfolios can be a good idea for some people. That is, invest 95-99% of your money in safe bets like Vanguard mutual funds, and then a few percent in high-risk, high-reward bets such as startups. It is unfortunate that worthy people who are not millionaires do not have the opportunity to do this. Even if people do not net make money from this, if people buy lottery tickets or go to casinos, why not allow them to risk money in a way that has potential to do good for society?
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Wow, $300K for a director salary does not seem like much, given the connections and experience they have.

IANAL, but that seems like a crazy lawsuit.
This actually sounds kind of fun... (24y/o)
Check out http://project-osrm.org/ for routing.

Disclosure: I work for Mapbox, we offer a directions service based on OSRM, I'm paid to work on it daily.
The stopped driver was obeying the law by not blocking an intersection. The turning driver ignored the second lane of traffic when making its turn.
This feels like an over-simplification. Life doesn't fit into 4 quadrants, and the only thing models are guaranteed to do is be inaccurate. "One thing" and "well" are fundamentally subjective and based on a particular use-case. You have to focus on the problem(s) you're solving, and be disciplined about the scope of the problem(s) you're solving.
Would hardly call what a professional soldier does the same as what a murderer, often a crime of passion, does. Same with rape. I do not need raping soldiers in any capacity.
Yes...if it wasn't for all the moderately educated drug addicts, society would be perfect.
Title is false. This is not autopilot.
Someone who wants to hire a node.js programmer and doesn't want to overpay for expertise they can't use.

An engineer who spent the last decade working on motherfucking space probes for NASA but can't hit the ground running with javascript today is going to be passed over for the kid right out of high school who can, in that case.

That said, if you worked for the last decade on space probes for NASA, you're probably smart enough to avoid web development altogether.
WaPo has descended deep into clickbait headlines. I can't remember the last time HN hosted a legitimate headline from WaPo.
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The extent to which an app can add something that seems like a non-feature (it takes a selfie of the viewer's reaction) then try to build a business out of it is truly amazing to me. Wow.
Internet measurement is such a cool subfield. It's really astounding how much data is locked up within the nooks and crannies of digital activity.
> "How do you have time for these side projects when you are behind on xyz project".

Nights and weekends ?
>No. The problem remains. This just time-shifts the problem.

The time was the problem in the example, so time-shifting is a legitimate fix to the problem here. "In a rush for work, turn on computer, 30 minutes of updates." was the problem.

>Every Linux distro I use seems to have figured out how to apply and configure updates before you reboot a system, rather than during the next boot cycle.

There are tradeoffs for doing things that way. Such as when everything eats shit and you regret updating.

For example:

pacman -Syu

Can be a complete nightmare.
Then count people who die following their sentences in the same way you count reoffenders. Problem solved. As it stands, I'd bet a big fraction of people dying within 5 years of getting out of jail are ODs, so setting up a metric that encourages prisons to work on drug issues is a good thing.

If you're worried about states executing people to keep them out of the numbers, count executions that way too.
The thing that annoys me the most about the government's moronic handling of this whole phone, data, encryption, privacy, etc. issue is that if they had not been fucking around and abused their powers, not allowed the devil Bush and Cheney to drag America into the depths of authoritarian purgatory, is that companies would surely not be resisting legal court orders for decryption and they would not be looking at fully encrypting data at rest and in transit. It is the grotesque abuse, gluttony, and pathetically degenerate greed of the government and the retards at all the various itel and policing agencies that are to blame for the very state they are in where they feel they need to double down on their authoritarian tactics.
So what do we do about it?
In clickable form:

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https://tcl-lang.org/

http://core.tcl-lang.org/
GCC has computed goto (e.g., do some pointer arithmetic, then jump to the address located at the pointer address), but I don't think that's in standard C.
HFT has been around for a while longer than Reg NMS: http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2005/01/17/sma... describes an major player doing something that sounds similar to modern HFT in Jan 2005, presumably they'd been trading that way for a while.
So what you're saying is frackers need to find oil in the area, ruin the water table, thereby driving citizens of East Texas out of the venue...

We're all one event away from being supervillains.
I wish I'd noticed this earlier in the day, but it may be worth looking at GWX Control Panel (http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/08/using-gwx-stopper-t...) which provides simple steps to temporarily or permanently remove the (current) "Get Windows 10" system tray icon along with making the Registry changes to block upgrades from happening in Windows Update. It'll also let you easily remove the downloaded 5-6GB of Windows 10 upgrade files if they're already on the system.
Unfortunately there is a lot Apple can do to help unlock the phone -- Apple can sign a new ROM and not respect the 10-tries-and-zeroize, I believe, even on a 6S and iOS 9.

There's also some unencrypted content which could be dumped with a signed ROM on a locked/powered off phone, although I believe there are ways to dump this as non-apple. This has evolved over time -- it was much more open pre iOS 8, and I haven't read the entire iOS 9 documentation or tried to verify it for iOS 9 yet.

The rate limit portion is in hardware, but the 10 tries is not. IMO Apple should make an effort to avoid being in a privileged position for deployed phones; it's unavoidable with iCloud for the current architecture, but they could do a lot to avoid the "special rom can dump more" issue. At the very least the 10 tries and dead could be moved into hardware.
Hey! Awesome! Just saw a nice bump in signups from this post, thank you!

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We are making a bit of revenue now and users really like the service.

We could really use an angel investment to push development forward. I've funded development for the entire project for the past 13 months out of pocket. We have no debt and almost no overhead.

Someone should invest in hook.io!
Your app could require GPS permissions to start, and refuse to run if it's in Texas boundaries.

I don't think Google and Apple could oppose that, as you can argue you're attempting to operate within the bounds of (patent) law.
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"Any positive population growth is necessarily exponential"

That's just false. If the average number of children per person is falling toward replacement fast enough, population growth is not exponential while still being positive (potentially indefinitely).
I've no idea about the implementation specifics, so I was just assuming the 10 tries are part of the trusted security chip. Obviously if some features are implemented solely with software, then those can be defeated even without an unlocking (since the system is based on a low entropy passcode).

Honestly if Apple can indeed break their own security, I would call that fortunate for not advancing the inevitable showdown. Widespread proprietary software puts us in a very poor position for creating precedents, since Apple is eminently controllable by USG.
Yep. AWS is a great example. Many products that can be used very well together (S3 and Cloudfront, for example), but the chosen abstractions are such that they can be used independently as well.
How much do you have in savings? 5 figures, 6 figures?
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Weird, recently Ive changed jobs from a place with plenty of space to each individual worker and windows with the view to a commercial street(which remained open), natural light, etc, to standard cubicle corp with at least a hundred people on the same place and I can't stop thinking there's something wrong with this type of environment.

Indeed I feel dumber and anesthetized, the lack of natural light, outside stimulae, seeing the day pass, I suspect makes time drag. Past experiences in this kind of environment also gave me the same feeling.
> who cares if they think a cal tech graduate should make $82,126, it still makes $74,000

Mostly someone who wants to measure the effectiveness of their undergraduate curriculum. As a student, there's a strong case to be made for ignoring this data and seeking the most selective alma mater possible. But if the law surrounding Duke v Griggs ever gets overturned and IQ / SAT scores are allowed in screening job applicants, you definitely want to know how much of a school's function is the actual learning and placing bit.