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Around the time when Rakudo further detached itself from Parrot, and declared an effort to support alternative VMs (eventually writing one of its own).
Best HN comment ever.
"The government needs laws to block Internet sites to stop terrorism and child porn sites. It will expand no further than that. This is not the thin end of the wedge."
Microsoft killed Netscape to kill the thick client planned by Netscape to commoditize Windows. I'm pretty sure that Microsoft (just like Apple today) didn't want the web to succeeded as an app delivery method.
Upvote for mentioning KDE Connect!

My favorite things about KDE Connect:

1) shared clipboard between mobile and PC

2) "send file to phone" - context menu in Dolphin / "send file to PC" in Android to quickly exchange single files

3) browse the whole Android file system (and copy/delete/edit files) directly from your file manager in Linux
Why do you think it's immoral?
jstat or Java Flight Recorder/Mission Control will give you plenty of info on class loading, JITing, GC, and almost everything else going on in the VM, and there are plugins fort VisualVM which will provide a lot of the same information.
Sounds like the technology is bad laws in those jurisdictions, not technology. Thus it should be solved by changing the law(s) instead of changing the technology that's perfectly fine.
Or download it from Project Gutenberg. Possibly not the latest translation but should be good enough: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45109.

Now you can have it with you at all times.

Do the same with the Meditations: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680

If anyone can link to more readable editions that can be downloaded it would be nice to know.
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I'd assume IoT concerns are about the number of devices rather than bandwidth, which probably translates to "switch everyone over to IPv6 already".
It's a political issue really. Universities should require publication ONLY to non-profit publishers. Requiring "Open access" doesn't really cut it, because the publishers just charge more for open access. And at the very least, there should be a large initiative to change from publishing papers to a more sane , modern and orderly cataloguing of scientific data.
Does it work fine for you as a laptop OS?

Battery time, suspend/hibernate, etc?
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Online ads are pure garbage.

It's amazing to me that I still actively seek out some legacy ads (flyers in the Sunday paper, Thursday car ads, Wednesday butcher ads) in the local paper. But except for the occasional Google organic result, I never, ever get any utility from online advertising.

The closest thing is the ads in podcasts, which tend to be built around a story and are more compelling. I've looked at several of those advertisers and bought a couple.
Probably won't come down anytime soon, this box is hosted by Voxility, they're notoriously terrible for dealing with abuse complaints.
"For example, a garbage collector could deliberately trigger segfaults (by `mprotect()`ing all managed memory) to forcibly pause the mutator during a garbage collection cycle. Every managed thread must install a `SIGSEGV` handler that waits until the collection process is done."

Interesting, is this actually a common implementation pattern for languages that have a GC built into their run time?
I live in Sweden if you're supposed to wait you'll have to wait several months sometimes extra to purchase content made in the US. Also, historically there is no good way to purchase the content if you do not want to purchase a physical disc in a shop.

Sometimes it's never available, especially english shows that is only broadcasted on english tv channels.
This is a project developed by a high school senior. Yes he made rookie choices as have been pointed out here. If you like the direction of the project, contribute! It will help him learn.
Is this HackerNews or DoxingNews? How is doxing the whole country an acceptable submission?
This is the product of self-righteous activism. You'd have to be pretty deluded and starving for attention to think effectively releasing tens of millions
of private individuals' complete identification data is justifiable in some way.
Personally, I don't think this is going to happen with these Apple phones. (Although I'd be interested to see what happens with security updates; and how easy they are to use with local languages.)

But.

There have been considerable environmental problems with companies dumping e-waste on developing world countries.

Sometimes this e-waste is described as "used, low cost computing equipment", sometimes it's described as "recyclable waste".

Either of those sound fine. When I hear them I think of a small local co-op fixing the computers and installing free software and distributing them to schools or whatnot. Or of people dismantling and sorting the stuff, and recycling for cash.

What actually happens is something like the e-waste dump in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sch78

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/dec/14/to...
A guy near me has a Nissan Leaf that I see driving around multiple times per week. I don't agree that it's "ugly" at all - it looks like every other car on the road. If I didn't know what it was it wouldn't even register.
It's not up to the SSD driver. The SSD driver will not see any effects of speculatively executed code and there's no way the CPU could speculatively send commands to the drive.
"Non-standards-compliant way" is the long-time default engine, MyISAM not supporting transactions and locking. Fortunately they moved to InnoDB as default recently, but the very fact that it took them so long tells much about their attitude towards DB standards compliance.
Now, define "luxury items", while considering e.g. that in the UK there's VAT on things like tampons (though at the reduced 5% rate), while e.g. imported luxury meat is zero-rated because its food.

It's an incredibly complicated tax to apply, because the rules tend to grow to deal with more and more corner cases.

For example: Are jaffa cakes cakes or biscuits? It took a lengthy court case to determine that they are in fact cakes for the purpose of UK VAT [1] [2].

The reason for this case was that cakes are exempt from VAT as food no matter what, while biscuits are zero-rated in the UK only if they are not covered in chocolate. In the latter case they are considered confectionery, which is standard rated. Here's more on the complexities of this classification [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes#Categorisation_as_...

[2] http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/vfoodmanual/VFOOD6260.htm

[3] http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/vfoodmanual/VFOOD6200.htm
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I guess you could easily strap a smartphone or laptop to the Roomba to do the actual position tracking.
Streaming isn't going to work there anyway.

In reality, there are 100+ seeders and if you had a constant supply of streamers who spend half their time seeding (assuming they download the whole movie by the 50% mark), then you have a very very healthy swarm.
What if you're communicating with the SSD via DMA? Don't you have to make sure that the writes aren't speculatively executed?
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> We're all well educated people with high earning potential who should be capable of buying movies

That's exactly what I would tell Apple when movies that I want to watch are not available in the German iTunes or just as a dubbed version.
Comparing the price of private U.S. Colleges to public Canadian Colleges is a mistake.
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You can go to different countries for having lower tax rates, in my experience it is never going to be less than 35 - 50% for the amount of money I make.

I am not sure how is it not fair to combine VAT + income tax to understand how much you are actually paying to the government. Goods I "choose" to buy includes: food and clothing, I am not sure how much it is a choice or just a necessity. Buying a flashy car is a choice, buying bread or a medicine is not so much.
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Id like to clarify that Cookie is a cookie manager for Mac OS X.
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If you are pointing to Australia as an argument against multiculturalism, then you're pointing to the wrong country. Our society is one of the most multicultural in the world.

And I have news for you - I have a number of friends who have moved to London for "London's culture".
The data released contains national identification codes that are confidential.
I believe the Swedish equivalent is the 'personnummer'.
The sites you indicated appear to be regular person search engines, like the US equivalent Whitepages?
Can you show a specific search result, pick any Swedish name you want, that would also list the person's personnummer?
>Americans should feel nothing but disgust for most of our housing policy, and single family homes should be derided as one of single worst allocation of resources the American public makes.

In your opinion.

Some people think driving cars are bad. Some people think eating meat is bad. Some people think space heating is a waste of electricity.

Everybody seems to think their particular way of living is perfect and everybody else is either too wasteful or doesn't know how to live.

Your argument really is just "this is my subjective opinion of how to live and people who disagree are wrong".
What an odd place to put an anti-Trump comment.
I use adblocker. Now, the news sites I like say "sorry pal, adblocker means no news". I'm perfectly fine with that. It's just arms race. My freedom to remove the ads, their to put them. Everybody's free and I love it. Now I'll have to pay and that's fine : good content comes from work and work deserve money. But all of a sudden, as I'll pay, I'll become much more demanding. And so competition can work again...
Even if you're not using VS you can download an xml file that is everything your project need to deploy to Azure AFAIK.
More and more it seems to me that there is no replacement for correctness, and you have to squint to tell this apart from theater.

Perhaps I'm exaggerating. It would certainly raise costs to the attacker to recruit an additional collaborator, and to wait for a serendipitous scheduling. But I'm not convinced it raises the difficulty by $300k.
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"Getting rid" of intellectual property has the unfortunate side effect of getting rid of the funding for content providers.
I think there should be more focus on latency and upload improvements as well. With all the realtime streaming/communication going on, really low latency is crucial for the future. Also we are sending a lot more data these days, so broadband with 100/6 Mbps or 200/8 Mbps is very unbalanced.

You don't really need more than 25Mbps downstream for streaming even 4K with one client, not uncompressed of course. However 100+ Mbps with <10ms latency allows for real time gaming via streams in high quality for example, making expensive hardware at home obsolete.
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> It is not clear to me how being able to design a small combinatorial logic circuit would directly help a potential bioterrorist.

By advancing this technology.

I assume (hope) we're not yet capable of spitting out DNA out of a USB synthesizer.
But given the speed with which technology evolves, it wouldn't be too wild to speculate that 10 or 20 years from now this might become possible.
Seems my generalisation was wrong. A shame.
Referee wrangling is not unique to Elsevier. While you are correct about "one of the pillars of these publishers' income", I have heard very few argue that referee compensation would improve the situation.

To the best of my limited knowledge, the complaints about reviewers taking a long time or not responding at all are independent of the publisher, and equally true for open access journals. I've gotten my share of "the deadline is in two days" emails. No can I think of what compensation might entice me to respond in three days rather than three weeks.

The blanket statement "Over here, in the industry" does not universally apply. In my field of pharmaceutical chemistry, I believe most research papers are from industry, they participate in the free peer review model, and do not believe their image has been compromised.

Your industry may well be different; perhaps it doesn't have a large research component?
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Former LimeWire engineer here. I implemented randomized chunk selection for swarmed downloads in LimeWire.

I think the proper swarmed streaming solution is to make the percentage chance of requesting the rarest chunk be a smooth function of the number of replicas of the rarest chunk. If the rarest chunk has only one source, the probability should be 1.0. If there are multiple chunks that are all the most rare, you probably want to randomly select which chunk to request next, with an approximately exponential distribution rather than uniform distribution. Y probability of selecting the first chunk, Y^2 for the second, Y^3 for the third, etc. You'd want to run some simulations to fine-tune the probability function and also the Y percentage.

What I did for LimeWire was (1) if the MIME type wasn't on a streamable whitelist, download all chunks in randomized order. (2) if the file was a streming type and less than 10% complete, start downloading the available chunk closest to the front of the file that isn't currently in progress (3) if the file is a streamable type and 10% to N% complete, randomly select either in-order or randomized selection with probability X. (4) beyond N% complete, always use random chunk selection. I'm pretty sure N was 50 and nearly certain X was 0.5. I originally proposed making X a smooth function of the % downloaded instead of 0, 0.5. 1.0 stair-steps, but the lead developer strongly preferred stair-steps.

The random selection algorithm actually tried to keep the number of ranges of bytes (extents) below 5. So even after 50% downloaded, you still have a 25% chance of getting in-order downloading.

The reason I used randomization instead of rarest-first was that it was my first change to LimeWire, and this was the least invasive change to make. At that time, LimeWire had a global list of verified downloaded chunks and a global list of in-progress chunks, but no global counter for number of replicas.
What's "critical" about IoT, 4K and VR though?

At best they could enable some important new functionality -- maybe.

But that's hardly "critical". Desirable, nice to have, etc, yes.
>This is about your guests,

who consented to the conditions of your house when entering. If he is not sure he ought to hire a civil engineer to inspect and verify the safety status of the house or ask the host to do it.

>your children,

who is your ward and is subjected to the decisions of its parent with regards to all of life choices

>the person that buys your house next,

ditto the guest situation except for buying

>the person that lives next door

this is the only legitimate case for regulation, to protect the public and/or third party.

>so they threw their (still very hot) excess soup from their pot out the window and it got all over me.

This is not a problem of housing but of manners. You can get rid of hot soup without infringing of other people's ability to walk around the public area and not be wet.
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I used FreeBSD exclusively for a some months on my primary laptop, a Lenovo Ideapad. I never did get wifi working properly (I believe support for my chip is in 10.3 or 11.0) so I had to buy a ten dollar dongle. FreeBSD does not support integrated graphics. I think I got around this by disabling one of the graphics cards. But I'm not certain. I also couldn't get power management or sleep mode working. So I got used to shutting down every time I put it away.

My work now has me using OS X, but I keep the FreeBSD machine on a vpn because I love working on it. If you're thinking about, I'd highly recommend looking into the FreeBSD and OpenBSD support for your laptop. Otherwise just buy an x220.
Actually it's a tax to being far from the central bank. The further you are the longer the price signal from the printed money will take to reach you.

Inflation is cancer.
I really don't care about US politics. I came across the link on Reddit and found it interesting. Make out of it what you want.
OK, but if the company held $50 in non-cash assets and $50 in cash, the same logic would hold. The "growth and recurring revenue," stuff you're talking about is just an asset pricing restriction, which requires that the $50 in non-cash assets are not affected by moving some cash off the balance sheet. This holds if the company does not face cash constraints. (Like Apple.)
We want to see your solution to a problem that we know REALLY well.

Does that give you an expectation of the sorts of things that someone new to the problem will spot? If so, how do you manage that expectation - eg if the user misses something in their 3 hour test that you only spotted after using the same problem for 6 months, how can you ignore the fact they still missed something?
Ok, from what I see you are thinking at too high a level for this.

The CPU has a pipeline where it executes instructions. This pipeline has stages in it for: fetching the instruction from L1 cache (a), decoding the instruction (b), fetching data from registers or memory (c), computing the instruction (d), storing the data back into registers or memory (e). This is a rough grouping of these stages, and each of these (a-e) stages is comprised of smaller stages, one of which executes in each clock cycle.

So between the first stage where a CPU starts executing a comparison instruction (a), and when it knows what the value is (d) that can be many clock cycles. So instead of waiting and stalling it instead guesses which branch will be taken and starts feeding it in.

It is only in stage (e) where it stores values to registers or memory where actions can actually take place, and by the time it gets there it is executing the correct branch. Either because it guessed the correct branch from the beginning or it has mispredicted, flushed the pipeline, and is now executing the correct branch.

Edit: Note that there is no such instruction as "delete file on SSD". The CPU has various ways of working with external devices (such as sounds/video chips, ssd's, etc), with memory mapping being one of the more popular one, but there's also IO pins and a variety of hardware protocols that it can write instructions to use. If you want to learn up on this get a small device like a Raspberry Pi and play around.
That's why I added the "(mostly)"; where I live, most food is exempt from VAT, which is as it should be. I agree that clothing is a necessity, so should also be exempt, but only up to a reasonable limit - and then things get a bit too complicated.

VAT is definitely a problematic tax because it tends to hit the poorer harder, but that doesn't affect the fact that it would be possible to pay almost none of your income as VAT, or you could pay millions in VAT; it's very different from actual income tax.
I agree with you, when it comes to applying law to real life it is usually lengthy and pricey process. We should just use a better legal system where these things are not up in the air. You can complicate life with broken legislation, just to keep lawyers busy. You could also just ask: do we need a lawyer to determine that jaffa cakes are cakes or biscuits, or we can pick one and go with it.

On the other note on VAT categories: how about collecting data and letting machine learning decide what is a luxury item? We have excellent clustering algorithms that can find clusters in data human has no chance to find. Lets apply that to purchasing habits and figure out what sort of clusters we have out there, and lets decide how much VAT you pay based on that.
Amazing. I wonder what the benefit is of having information such as you home address public.
<10ms latency?

The speed of limit limit for US coast to coast (Boston to LA) is ~20ms.

Roundtrip, since you also need to ask for something, is double that.

And that's just the speed of light.

Forget <10ms latency as long as physics stand, even for Illinois to California.
"because the code generators found in traditional compilers do a poor job of generating code for interpreters,"

Are you referring to the assembler in the GNU toolchaine or? Could you elaborate on this sentiment? Thanks.
From my experience, there are a corporate issues. Corporate need to solve them in an effort to survive and earn money for next business. This issues are not "real problem solving" in terms of save world or make world better place. So there are a lot of corporate jobs where your are solving corporate day-to-day issues. After some time it starts to be boring.

I also faced to interview processes where have been asked for insane technical details and implementation but after hiring I found out that I will struggle with past. I need to revise data within CMDB messed up during previous migration. Or other interesting task : perform tedious implementation/tests over entire infrastructure because there is process and it needs to be done only and only this way.

For me it seems like, there are pros and cons for every position...you can have job security but it is exchanged for boring staff. Real problems solving position is facing to higher risk, stress and pressure.

I feel...that I am still searching "my place", trying to do lot of side projects, raised own business...just find what will fulfill me. But day-time is very limited so it is long-term run. I am changing full-time job every 2-2,5 year, often with changing location and it is quite depressed (for me and also for my childrens). I don't feel "home" anywhere. I bought house but i don't know where I will be 2 years from now. Everything due to jobs.
Wow! Thanks for pointing this out! I had no idea it was coming so soon. I'm so excited to upgrade. This is particularly useful for some niche compilers (like Poly/ML) who have special features for only linux-x86_64.
It is strange how he mentions that one of their goals might be:

2 Only get the developers that are interested enough to perform their test in a ordered and timely manner.

and then dismiss it so lightly:

I've already expressed interest in their position. I have a day job, and several side projects: I won't spend a sizable chunk of my free time so they can tick some boxes about my coding skills.

Maybe they are not interested in people who have so little motivation.
Difference being that in Sweden there is a different requiremnet for causing harm (IE; national ID card or passport - or linked bank account) simply having a social security number and address is not enough for identity theft to occur.

in other countries they treat SSN's as private, thus they are trusted.
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Lots of figureheads in tech wear suits in marketing materials.

Even still, my criticism isn't specifically or especially the suit. That's just a superficial component of the deeper flaw. It's just looks like it's trying too hard, doesn't look natural, feels cringy. I mean, who sits on a bench in a suit by themselves looking ambiguously into the distance while clasping their hands together? It's weird.
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