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I don't know about Go, but it certainly is as fast as Java. And it can definitely be faster than your average Java program, because you will have a really easy time doing concurrency. That is why it is a neat language, worth investigating.

It is by default slower than Java and Go because the default data structures are immutable. When execution speed is more important than statelessness you can make your data structures mutable.

Read more about that here http://clojure.org/transients

Happy holidays :)
Commercial serial terminal servers (used to?) go for about a thousand bucks.

Bottom line, I think it’s (barely) cheaper to build one yourself, but only if all the research & development (read: ordering multiple prototypes) is already done, like it is now :).
Indeed,

Most of (relative) successes of machine learning have involved a circuit something like

(input data) --> ML --> (human acceptable output)

We see this in translation, image classification, face recognition.

But if we a circuit of

(input data) --> ML --> (data for further significant processing by computer)

We have a problem. The ML can't be a real "black box" at all here in the sense it can't learn the correct classifications without regard to how those classifications are going to be used. Since it's learning "what humans do", the code can't be that much more reliable than humans but it also has the problem of not being adaptable in the fashion that humans (sometimes) are adaptable.
I'm trying to remember the WTF moment I had with working with MongoDB, there were a few. I think it was not being able to do an atomic create or update operation across a collection of documents.
Parinfer is the craziest lisp exponent ever. I highly recommend any curious and / or skeptical dev to download Atom, install it, and give it a shot. This book also helps: http://funcool.github.io/clojurescript-unraveled

From straight up confusion to basic productivity in just a week, it has also completely removed the learning fear. Highest regards to this beautiful tool that will hopefully bring lisp to the masses.
Persona seemed like the right identity product for its time, but technology has moved on in the years since. We now have blockchains: shared, publicly-writable databases that are perfect for hosting identities that users fully control. Figuring out decentralized identity is part of my day job, and if it's something you're interested in building or talking about, email me: niran@niran.org.
indeed many problems are locked in exec chambers.
I found flights to Copenhagen on flychecker at £12
Crows caught on camera making tools in the wild
A notebook is just a slow desktop with a built-in UPS, more arcane chipset, proprietary power management systems, and proprietary wifi chipsets.

Yes, it's been possible for quite some time to install Linux on laptops. But to actually use a laptop with Linux on it, things like power management need to work out of the box without lots of configuration by the end user. Linux support for ACPI has only very recently become solid to the point that I don't need to worry about it.

And as far as notebook ownership eclipsing desktop ownership, notebook sales eclipsed desktops long ago, around 2004. For most people, unless they're PC gamers, notebooks have offered sufficient computing power for more than a decade.
The game looks bad. The article gave me the impression that the author had high expectations, based on comments from testers. The reality is that every day, dozens of games get released that look more interesting than the author's game. This is not meant as a flame comment but merely as a reality check.
Show HN: A New Game I Built in Two Months
Sorry for using a brand new account. I've lost access to my old account of several years.

This is a game that I spent the last two months working on: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noatechnologies.android.shooter

I built it completely from scratch.
That means that I built the graphical user interface engine, the collision engine, rendering engine, and physics engine starting from zero. I release it to the Play Store a couple of days ago but so far I haven't gotten a single download.

I'm starving for some feedback. I think it is a decent game for spending the time away in the bus, subway, or the doctor's office but maybe that is just me. I need honest feedback. I want to know if it is total crap or whether I'm in the right direction. Please help me.

A bit about me. I'm located in the northeast, Connecticut and sometimes NYC. I've been trying
to teach myself everything about games since 2010. Mainly I've been trying to work
on this game:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noatechnologies.android.flyingfighterbeta

But it feels like the Never Ending Story. I'm taking an indefinite break from that and working on creating the smallest games that I can possibly make. Like the game I just released.

I also worked on this game a couple of years ago with no success if anyone is curious:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noatechnologies.android.machinabuilderlite
FCC Releases Mobile Wireless Industry Competition Report
Are you sure that diet change has anything to do with your improvements? My personal experience is that strength training alone can do wonders.

10 years ago I got rather bad back problems. I tried karate, running, walking in mountains. It did not help. Then 6 years ago I went vegan for ethical reasons resulting in a drastic diet change. I expected that would affect my health - something for better (like back pain), something for worse. To my surprise that had no effects for health.

Then 3 years ago I read book from www.bodybyscience.net and started strength training. That really helped. Chronic back pain gradually became less bothering. The last time I experienced its acute form when one has to lay for few days was 18 months ago when previously it was 2-3 times per year. The best pert is that I only train once per week for 15-20 minutes.
I have used Darktable and like it a lot, I can easily recommend it. Props to the team for this release, we sorely need an open photography tool.
A few years back I picked up "Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia Volumes 1-3" on Amazon[1] for something I was working on and they are fascinating.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Russian-Criminal-Tattoo-Encyclopaedia-...
> We don't trip over ourselves when writing imperative code

Speak for yourself. Though I guess I'm more concerned with refactoring than with writing. In particular in imperative code it's very hard to tell the difference between semantically important ordering and accidental ordering.

> when we do, it mostly has to do with IO or other OS state, and monads won't help you there.

Yes they will? It's very normal to encapsulate something of that nature with a monad.
Lucky guy, lucky too he used a relatively thin rod, a thicker one and it would have been quite a different ending.

I did a similarly stupid thing one day. While repairing a clock for a display on a trade show I hooked the ground crocodile clamp of my scope to what I thought was the ground but which in fact was V- of the DC supply voltage of the neon light installation that was use to drive the display. I had a blind spot in the middle of my eyes for many days after that (and took out a fairly large chunk of the mains supply for the Eastern district of Amsterdam). The crocodile clamp totally disappeared, the scope, miraculously survived and wasn't even out of spec.

Every time I use a crocodile clamp to hook it on to something I think back to that moment when the clamp makes contact and some part of me expects it to happen again.
> this study is purely associational, so cannot show whether exercise actually causes changes in telomere length, only that people who exercise have longer telomeres.

> ...

> So the message seems clear, he says. “Exercise is good” for your cells, and “more exercise in greater variety” is likely to be even better.

Fascinating -- the first quoted sentence is logically equivalent to saying, "If you have short telomeres you're statistically unlikely to exercise much."

The conclusion that exercise leads to shorter telomeres is empowering and optimistic, so it's no surprised the American scientists and press ran with it. The conclusion that people who exercise regularly are genetically predisposed to it is disempowering, though, and it wasn't mentioned at all. (It is consistent with jasode's sibling comment that exercise can speed up the ageing process, though.)

I'd also be interested in the inverse correlation -- are sedentary lifestyles associated with shorter telomeres? What proportion of people in the study actually did exercise, and what proportion had shorter telomeres? Essentially, "show me the numbers in all of the boxes and let me draw my own conclusions."
Why do people tattoo their specific drug addiction/use? Does it serve some purpose, like untraceable/unprovable communication to set up drug deals?
Pretty hard to top that.

"I bought some fuming nitric acid on eBay and spilled it on the carpet. Dad was pissed."

"I fused two screwdrivers together with a photoflash capacitor. Sears refused to give me a refund."

"I accidentally made chloramine gas and experienced short-term breathing difficulties."

"Yeah, well, I shorted out a nuclear submarine battery."

silence
can we start posting checksums over https?
5/3/1 and deloading is an import concept not mentioned here. https://www.t-nation.com/workouts/531-how-to-build-pure-stre.... Post workout meal is also very important, 50% carbs 50% protein and should be largest meal of day, if you were going to eat something bad this would be the best time to do it.
What would you think of a similar argument, but, instead of for forced vaccination, for forced compliance with following government nutritional recommendations when we feed children?

The health consequences of a childhood of poor eating are arguably as big a problem as many (but not all) of the diseases we vaccinate against were.

I've not been able to come up with a good argument to distinguish these, other than the health consequences of communicable diseases are more directly visible. Take measles, for instance. At the time a vaccine for it was developed and deployed, measles was infecting about half a million children in the US per year, and about 400 per year died. (40 years earlier, the number of cases per year was about the same, but deaths were about 20x higher).

If your kid gets measles, it is obvious that he's got a serious, dangerous health problem, especially if he is one of the ones who dies.

If you feed your kid in a way that ensures he's seriously obese and sets him on the road to almost certain diabetes by young adulthood, it's not immediately obvious to the naked eye that something is seriously wrong. Kids can have so much energy that even the fat kids can run around and ride bikes and skateboards and be active by adult standards. From an adult point of view, the main visible problem for the fat kid is likely to be social--the fat kid gets picked last for pick up sports games, things like that.

Also, what the parent could have done better to prevent the condition is more obvious with things like measles. Your kid gets measles, and I can confidently point my finger at you and say your mistake was not vaccinating.

Your kid is fat, and I can only speculate. Maybe you aren't making the kid exercise enough. Maybe you don't supervise his between meal eating and the kid has 6000 calories of candy and soda between each meal. Maybe you cook giant portions and make him clean his plate. Maybe the kid is a bully and steals the other kids' desserts at school.

So with measles since there is really only one thing parents can do wrong that can lead to the child getting it, it's easy to force people to not do that one thing. With childhood nutrition and fitness there are so many ways it can go wrong it is hard to force people to do it right. So maybe that's how forcing vaccination can be distinguished from forcing good nutrition?
It should have survived, depending on the probe in use and the input circuitry of the scope. But most quality scopes would just display a sine wave after you scaled down the Y axis a bit. Mine certainly would (elderly Tek).
No, he did not short out the reactor, he shorted out the battery.
Tiny minority? In terms of using streaming apps in the car over FM radio?

If so, even here on Hacker News? I would fair to say the demo here consists of innovators, early to late adopters.
I did this for several years, and it didn't give me anything near VP-at-Google skills, maybe "VP-at-so-so-company" skills. I was in charge of development, systems administration / DevOps, SEO (got multiple things to the top of Google), some management (of non-technical freelancers, because I was the only full-time technical person), and a variety of other "fill in the holes" jobs. This was after multiple stints at other small companies (but not 5 full-time people small.)

I got some things out of of it, no question, but absolutely nothing compared to what I would have gotten at a high-quality company that had reasonable hours, plenty of capital, very ambitious people (no one who worked there is anywhere near technology now - most are 9-5 or non-technical consultants), interesting technology, etc. The most important thing I got was "be incredibly careful about who you work for and what promises you choose to believe", but saying to people "don't be naive / foolish" is easier to say than it is to evaluate the intentions and capabilities of founders / companies. The second most important thing would be the ability to say "I've been through the wringer before."

The quality of companies varies wildly, and the wrong environment will do very little for you. Some wind up at ones near the bottom of the quality pile and having the ability to recognize that you're at one isn't a given.
Bronnikov's elder son Vladimir ... also served in police. After 17 years of service, he was badly beaten undertaking his duties and his spine was broken. He now walks on crutches. His younger son Evgeniy was beaten to death in the street when trying to save a girl from rapists.

What a dark reminder that in society's underbelly convict tattoos are a sign of prestige and no good deed goes unpunished. No wonder that in cultures with "well-developed" underbellies, altruistic behavior tends to be less prevalent.
See: detroit. 5x was spent for 30 years until the entire system collapsed when enough tax payers fled the city.

This is the result of your plan.
Show HN: SlimScroller.js – Smooth scrolling under 300 bytes
It's not really about optimisations, but more about being able to translate directly to fast machine instructions (which may behave differently on different machines). What I'm talking about is not adding checks, but what happens when the compiler knows that something has undefined behavior through e.g. Constant propagation. This happens in the optimizer on IR level. The undefined behaviour is there to make translations to machine instructions efficient - so that you don't need to do checks on pointers and that addition, shift, etc. on several instructions are supported although they behave slightly differently
Apple does also, so iOS users are also RHEL users per the articles logic. But yours is funnier (creepy too but funny).
Edited just before you posted that comment, because I somehow knew it was coming.

Sigh.
Martin Shkreli’s other pharma company is dramatically collapsing
28 points (and counting) for a bullshit fluff piece absolutely filled to the brim with Amazon product links.

Tell people they can be fit with no effort on their part, add the word hack, bump up the upvotes with friend's accounts to get started, profit.
>>I haven't tested my ability to get a VP-at-Google job

People don't generally 'apply' for a 'VP-at-BigCorp' jobs. They either enter the game through their network, or get promoted in house.

Which is why it all comes down to how much good your network after a while. No matter how good you are, which college you went to, who are your friends etc sort of stuff matters way more than what the person can actually do. If anything, the real capability of the person may not even matter, most big companies run like well oiled machines, some one at the top is needed only to prevent what might be 'obvious' mistakes.
An open source, free, no log-in SMTP server simulator/alternative to Mailtrap
MIT Licensed - https://github.com/jkingsman/Mockbox
Pirate Bay Founder Builds Ultimate Piracy Tool Using Raspberry Pi
Animated infographic outlining the Standard Model (5:33)
You could also just use LibreOffice, which comes preinstalled on Ubuntu. GP merely mentioned _creating_ slides, which should pose no issue. Current versions of MS Office even support OpenDocument (*.odp files) for both reading and writing, so cross-compatibility should be good too.
Awesome, thanks for linking to this! I copied this format from a friend 10+ years ago and have yet to find a better/cleaner replacement. Never knew that it is based on a well-known template.
Guarding the gates with OpenBSD 5.8
How to describe your Personal Projects on your Data Science resume
How NORAD's Santa Tracker started with a typo 60 years ago
Hey guys. I felt like writing a truly tiny smooth-scrolling plugin that just works. Feedback on the code is more than welcome!
Define Happiness: The Act of Making Someone Else Happy (2008)
Seems like you are saying Node is the new PHP or Ruby/Rails. It definitely has the most traction/gains so it has many experienced but also many newer devs.
What's the use case for these libraries? They've only ever annoyed me.
Agreed, there's very little actual content in this post.

If anyone is serious about either cutting or bulking, I'd recommend the /fit/ sticky [0]

[0] http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html
Geniuses have a greater ability to work hard productively and efficiently.
The oscilloscope actually survived, as a surprise to me. The power went out at the building, level, classroom and desk level, but no actual damage.
Protip: publish on npm
Will do right away.

Edit: Done.
Kind of wish these sorts of career moves PR releases were announced like transfers/signings for professional athletes.
Scientists find 1500-year-old Viking settlement beneath new airport site
I agree somewhat. it was more of an experiment to see how small I could get this to be.
Having native code handle something in the browser instead of a thin, easily verifiable javascript widget seems the opposite of a more secure solution.
It's nearly 2016 and Firefox can still only using 1 of my 8 CPU cores, and I can still bog down the UI with heavy web apps. My favorite email client is no longer supported, and now a potentially great privacy tool is being dropped. Meanwhile, after wasting countless man hours on a Mobile OS, they're now "pivoting" to IoT.

Why can't they just focus on what people value them for, web browsers and privacy?
Awesome project. Using it on several customer projects (non public code) and probably soon on Abilian Platform.
Then why not just use the term "translator"?
Diarrhea kills more than a million people each year. In 2012, it was the second most common cause of deaths in children younger than five (0.76 million or 11%).

Be thankful that you live in a time and place that allow you to not take it very seriously. I know I'm thankful for this.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarrhea
This dude is really passionate. I don't know anyone who did chemistry for fun, let alone had any budget and enough parent leniency to do it before 18yo. As he grows up you notice he talks more and more about security gear.

I don't know how someone can get into chemistry before 18. I understand reactions that are presented to me, but how do you get the initiative of trying something new? How can I be confident those are the only reactions that happen? OP has only produced H2S by mistake a few times in his life, far fewer than I'd expect anyone experimenting to produce unexpected chemicals.
The worst features can only be disabled on Enterprise editions of Windows. That is not the attitude I want in the most important piece of software on my computer.
I felt the same. The article is full of broscience. There were multiple points where it was clear he was unfamiliar with exercise & nutrition research yet he still spouted the broscience as "scientific" research.

Though, I do have mixed feelings on this. If this convinces some readers to take up fitness as a hobby that's great, but there are much better fitness resources online than some broscience blog post.
I also used Starting Strength. Not sure where I found it, but quite likely the same thread.
I'm used to colander - http://colander.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
I've used Persona on one project (see: https://github.com/OWF/owf2014/blob/master/website/auth/pers...). I was awesome (much much easier than the OAuth dance with the various providers we wanted to support). I wholeheartedly agree w/ Stavros.
The tragedy of Enron was the automatic investment plans in the 401k for most employees. The default choice was Enron stock. Also, depending on the nature of the matching contribution, Enron stock might have benefited from a larger matching employer contribution percentage or discounted share price. This is why 401k plans now offer various choices that are suitable and diversified for most people.

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/07/04/are-you-stuck-on-y...

A defined benefit plan could have prevented this tragedy. It's funny though. Defined benefit plans are mocked at by large firms but increasingly being used by wealthy individuals/families and their small businesses. Nothing beats government subsidized PBGC insurance for the future retirement plans of America's job creators.
>> "...100% chance..."

Roulette and slot machines.
Hi, HMR author here -- HackMyResume treats LaTeX as a destination format, not a source format! So you would generate LaTeX through Handlebars/Underscore or whatever other template engine, then use your normal LaTeX workflow. Currently for example, the "awesome" theme generates a LaTeX CV based on Awesome-CV (https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV). You have to run `xelatex` or similar to finish the build, which should probably be documented better.
It's an interesting coincidence, not a serious suggestion for those who are downvoting.
pretty much.
Sounds like this is the likely most profitable angle, similar to how DK employees use proprietary DK data to win at FD (and vice versa).

Your comment should be higher up the page.
I see, by "in the paper itself" and "the original paper" you mean "Is Sound Gradual Typing Dead? [pdf] (neu.edu)" not the paper `sitkack` referenced.

Same problem in section 6.1 -- " “Reticulated programs perform far worse than their unchecked Python implementations” -- and nothing to support your claim that "Reticulated Python is still an order of magnitude faster than Ruby".
How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy
I just watched Deadly Code (Siberian Education) http://www.netflix.com/search/deadly?jbv=70302183&jbp=1&jbr=... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1697064/ with John Malkovich . The movie depicts some of the "thief" culture aspect.

More about the phenomenon in general:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thief_in_law
Show HN: E-cards for Everyday Greetings ,Anytime,Anywhere,For Anyone
Personally, I think the question of the effect exercise has on my lifespan is irrelevant.

A lot of people talk about exercise being valuable because it makes you healthy. I like all the wonderful benefits of being healthy and in good shape, yes, but I also genuinely like exercise. There is basically nothing as incredible as the right kind of physical exertion for me.

If exercise is a vice, who cares? It's worth it.
s/posting checksums/doing everything on the web/

It looks like they actually offer https, just don't force it. There's a good chance they're just testing it, seeing as their CA, Let's Encrypt, was made available to the public less than a month ago (and their cert's validity period starts on the LE public beta launch day, so it's unlikely they were part of the private beta):

https://www.darktable.org/2015/12/darktable-2-0-released/