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> Twitter ... also pushes those comments to that person.

Yes. They should fix that (if these recent changes haven't yet done that). I've had one of the worst mornings of my life in the last year when I criticised a new browser API and the author of the API refused to stop mentioning me for an hour despite being asked repeatedly to stop. Having to turn off your phone because a high profile person is angry at you is awful. Having people threaten you or publish your contact details is much worse.

Who draws the line between criticising someone and 'pushing others to harass'? Would you block people on the left who have criticised people on the right who were subsequently harassed? Milo had syringes sent to his house and his mobile number published, Totalbiscuit and his wife received a bunch of death threats. We shouldn't ban all the people who criticised them because they were subsequently harassed - I'm sure you wouldn't support that and I'd be right there with you. We should ban people who actually make credible threats, publish non-Twitter contact info on Twitter as a way of harassing others, and similar behaviour.

> Not having a Twitter account doesn't mean you can't express yourself.

Yes, just that you can't express yourself on one of the few places for discussion, and more to the point, that other people who want to hear you (and in Milo's case that was a lot of people) can't do so.

> You're not barred from making sites or publishing your thoughts on innumerable other places.

But due to Metcalfe's law none of those other places have any worth.

As one of the grandparent comments says, we don't trust the free market to protect other values, we shouldn't trust it to protect freedom of expression.
HN is funny sometimes. A 50-line C file that reads a Mach-O header hits the front page, but last week my new tool for reading ELF/Mach-O binaries and showing size profiles didn't. (http://blog.reverberate.org/2016/11/07/introducing-bloaty-mc...) Oh well, c'est la vie. :)

FWIW, here is the ELF parser from Bloaty; I'm happy with how it turned out (the first 400 lines are the ELF parser): https://github.com/google/bloaty/blob/master/src/elf.cc
Something erks me about how that all sounds VERY Facebook/Google -ish?

One organisation that provides our transportation, internet (which itself is gaming, information, communication, business, etc.), energy, and basically every facet of our lives. Google and Facebook are already trying to get closer to that...
why do people scroll hijack like this, it makes checking out the site so slow
Yes, the same system exists in Germany too (confusingly alongside Sofortüberweisung). It's called Giropay and it works the same in that you sign in on your online banking website and the wire transfer is guaranteed by your bank, not a third party.

It's nice and works well. All would be great if it weren't for the fact that it's only offered by some banks (mainly cooperatives I think) and only accepted by some shops. Why the German banks have tried to sue Sofortüberweisung out of existence instead of implementing their own universal system that undercuts Sofortüberweisung's merchant fees (0.9% + €0.25 per transaction) is beyond me.
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Well, the good news for you then is that there is progress underway to implement Gc-as-a-library in Rust, to give you this option if you need it as well.
With e-mail, as long as you have IMAP support you can relatively easily download all your mails and upload them to another server. Just takes a while if you aren't good at cleaning out old stuff. There even are companies offering that as a service if you don't have a fast internet connection, only a mobile device or ...
Can you recommend one? I've never heard of this.
It's insane. I visited my uncle in Petaluma and he drives a volt. He's normally a very slow driver (drives us insane ;), but one day we were running late to dinner (don't do that to my aunt...) so he decides to floor it (again, flooring it for him, so like 45 MPH) and that car just _took_ off.

I was very surprised at how much torque the car had. It's one thing to realize, "oh, yeah, of course electric cars have more torque because x, y, and z" but a completely different thing to be sitting in it when the car decides to go 20 MPH faster in a blink of an eye.
Off-topic, but I opened this page without any tracking or ad-blocking & after about 30 seconds of reading, was treated to two video adverts which were off-screen but playing audio at the same time. One would have been obnoxious enough, but 2 simultaneously was just awful.

Online ads do the marketing for ad-blocking all by themselves don't they?
The monospace font looks interesting. Fixed-width serif fonts are not that common.

But creating fonts for Go? That sounds like a solution in search of a problem.
I'd love to see some kind of study that went deep into how the results pan out over a certain population and why.

My own anecdote is that I'm a better driver in a manual. I'm a lazy driver, and lazy in a manual means avoiding stopping/gear changes by anticipating green lights and so on. Being lazy in an automatic results in more stop and go for me because it's no more effort. I could be as efficient in an automatic, if I put in the effort (which I would probably do if I knew my numbers were going into a study).
Sometimes bugs just happen to be terribly convenient, don't they?
Those things have not been true of automatics for the last two or three generations. They have clutches inside the torque converter, they can block shift. But it is only the latest generation of gearboxes that return better economy figures than manuals. Until very very recently auto boxes were indeed much worse for economy.
i don't think generic is relevant to GUI. objective c didn't have generics, and i don't think it mattered in any way when they built cocoa.

now generics is a problem of its own when working with data and algorithms, but they managed to get along with it in the backend so far, so...
Currently not, but that can change with the next CEO.
German licenses also have an expiry date, at least since 2013. Your license without expiry date will also need to be replaced in 2033: https://www.adac.de/infotestrat/adac-im-einsatz/motorwelt/be...
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Yes, it definitely gives the code a retro feel. My first impression is that I like it.
Are they changing their mind based on those news? I assume those kind of people don't read news to educate themselves, they use 'news' to confirm the beliefs & thoughts they already have and will likely never change.
>They aren't just function keys. Losing the tactile feedback of volume and screen brightness, while not THE END OF THE WORLD will very quickly become an every day annoyance for me. In order to... have a contextual touchscreen that forces me to take my eyes of the monitor to use?

Most people "take their eyes of the monitor to use" the function keys. Given this, the function row strip will finally be more usable and more obvious for lots of other uses besides volume and brightness (things that people at best adjust a dozen of times a day).

Most laptop users are neither programmers not touch typists that use the function row 2000 times a day. Nor does being a "pro" users means you are either of them. A graphic designer might not be a touch typist or care for the f row, but he is a professional. Same for a doctor, an architect, a musician, a videographer, a CEO, an accountant, etc etc...
My driving instructor (in the UK) came from Sweden. He thought automatics were much safer and reckoned everyone should drive one, especially in the city, but he didn't like teaching them because they were so boring.
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Negative, current generation transmissions lock up from first gear.
I love the way he's basically a Bond villain, but nice.
It appears you are mistaken: a properly configured little snitch will protect you. You can configure APS (automatic profile switching) to pause and ask every time your mac connects to an unknown network -- not a device, as I imagined, but a network.

Here is a detailed post: https://blog.obdev.at/automatic-profile-switching/
I can't find anything official either. Most of the guys I know also drive stick and none of them have worn out a clutch unless they take their car to the track. Seems to be a pretty well known among stick drivers that manufacturers build them to last the life of the car these days. Can anyone from Europe chime in on this?
In Italy the percentage of automatic cars is very small, I've no exact idea but it's like the reverse of U.S. numbers, maybe 5% or 10% are automatic, even if I bet this number is raising. Because of that I always used manual cars in my life, but recently because of family and the realization I mostly drive in city traffic, I got a SUV (that is normally not my preferred car) with automatic transmission. Well... it's a lot less stress honestly if most of your drive happens inside a city. However interestingly, from time to time I use my wife's car which has manual transmission, and for a few minutes is definitely a lot more fun. You also really never lose your practice driving manual cars, even if you don't touch one for many months, it's like driving a bike. So manual is cool but I would suggest people approaching driving cars to learn the manual way to a have a more complete understanding of how a car works and be able to use a manual car in an emergency.
So why are Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Skoda, Volkswagen and such reporting slower zero to sixty times on automatic transmissions?
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I don't see why not, other then time and a healthy skepticism of the untested by the AAA game devs who might build one.
92 was 25 years ago, this isn't a modern car, it should not be on the road if you care about economy and road safety.
>This is the next Apple Watch in the making.

So, a product that went from non-existent to being the #1 sold item in it's niche, the #2 in overall watch sales, and outsold competitor smartwatches 10 to 1, becoming a multi-billion dollar thing?

And all that in it's first 2-3 years (it took more for the iPod to become ubiquitous from its 2001 introduction), and while not of course being expected to become the next iPhone anyway...

Yeah, some failure.
My 1998 Saturn noticeably cut fuel on deceleration, it was easy to tell since the exhaust system was perpetually breaking
Generally, as the bank also tracks the rate at which your passwords get invalidated (by being used), they will automatically send you a new sheet when there are only ~20 remaining on your current sheet.
cool post ... looking forward to being able to use this tool soon!
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I'm not sure where you're getting those extra 17 days in your week but my god please share the secret with us.
It would be nice if OSFree ever gets to the point it can run some sort of desktop.
Do you mean the old Java crap, like

https://netbeans.org/images_www/screenshots/platform/jmonkey...

https://netbeans.org/images_www/screenshots/platform/nbAWSAd...

https://netbeans.org/images_www/screenshots/platform/lg_soft...

https://netbeans.org/images_www/screenshots/platform/GGSSEph...

https://netbeans.org/images_www/screenshots/platform/platypu...

https://netbeans.org/images_www/screenshots/platform/blueMar...

or the new Java crap like

http://fxexperience.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Charts-Ba...

http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/best_practices/img/saleshist...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/vie...

??
HotSpot at least doesn't have terrible startup time. 50msec for Hello World and about 500msec to get a JavaFX window on the screen with a button in it.

The .NET CLR isn't really "fast without requiring lots of warmup". It's a much simpler design that out of the box simply compiles each method the first time it's used. It doesn't "warm up" because it doesn't do profile guided or speculative optimisations at all. The weakness of the CLR is one reason C# pushes more optimisation complexity onto the developer e.g. having to mark virtual methods explicitly instead of methods being virtual by default. With respect to memory usage I guess it's not much different.

There are JVMs designed for old candybar feature phones (J2ME etc). The issue is not "can you make a mobile JVM" as the answer is clearly yes for any type of phone, even very old ones. The issue is "how much fancy technology can you fit in that space".
See this picture of the Dragon spacecraft's panels: http://www.space.com/images/i/000/017/802/i02/spacex-dragon-...

They are very clearly Sunpower C60 or similar, a high end mono-Si cell.

I am a bit skeptical about the economics too, but apparently it works for SpaceX.
Can we please keep gender identities discussion from Hacker News?
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I'm not sure. It was a long time ago and I wasn't really involved in the process, I am a coder.

I think he had tried to sell his business and failed, but the company that wanted to buy his told him where he was going wrong. Then once his business was restructured and sold he got a job buying and chopping up businesses, restructuring them and selling them on.

He told us that we had a weird hierarchy and gave us some ballpark figures for new hires. So we needed 5 plebs to one middle manager, 4 or 5 middle managers to one senior manager and then a good board of directors. So we hired middle managers. Split the workforce between them. Hired some people to fill the board of directors, some were there in name only (people with PHDs) (cheap) and some with a lot of experience who actually advised and were more expensive to run. I seem to remember they were on the board of directors of a few local companies, so although they were expensive hires they did generate a lot of extra work. Like, good contracts with good margins.

At the end of it they had a company that ticked the right boxes for an acquisition, n coders, n/5 middle managers, etc etc, shove all that in a fancy powerpoint... what happened next was a mystery to me. But they did get purchased and made the owner multi-millionaires. The rest of us? Not so much. We had the choice to move 200 miles to our new offices or quit. :(
I'm gonna guess this is more accurate thermal models for motors and IGBTs so they can be pushed closer to melting point...
> lies, misinformation and misrepresentation have been a part of human communications since the dawn of time

Yeah, but they were never shrugged off. Even the worst charlatans insisted they speak the truth; they didn't just go "meh, maybe it's not true after all, what is truth anyway".
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I want to see the people who cycle the clutch twice at a red signal.
I was bitten like this with an RC of an earlier VS version (maybe 2012, I don't recall). I haven't touched a VS RC since, and doubt I ever will!
The TC only locks under light load on the highway, and isn't 100% effective there because the hydraulic fluid still produces a lot of drag.
Google quite frequently lose photos people store with their services:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/QuKiYj...
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/bNSFIy...
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/photos/7Xf0Cj6_...
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/njdwFPaq...

Personally, I lost photos of my kid's Sep 1.
There is value in only some of the pieces working together, too. I'm sure having all the pieces together makes sense for some setups, but not all.
Gmail is part of the chain of technology that lets me communicate, so I think a comparison with a telco is fair.

Also there could be a distinction in the law for mass communication, e.g. #users > 1M.
Damn, how could I forget Swing? Its such a breeze to use!
No, but it determines how well you can steer. Especially in sharp turns you usually have to shift down/up. If there's an obstacle (perhaps a person), both hands on the wheel will give you more room to steer in both directions. You'll be much more limited with one hand.
The problem is not the first mover advantage of Facebook, but that people do not understand logical fallacies, that they erroneously believe that most media is impartial, and that they are unaware of confirmation bias.

Logical fallacies should be taught in school: we also start with simple arithmetic before we move to more complex topics. (A course in formal logic seems overkill, it should be an applied course.)
I get tons of false positives in Gmail. Mostly from mailing lists where I guess someone else reported it as spam because they were too lazy to unsubscribe, but also some others. But it means that I regularly have to dig through all of the Russian camgirl requests to make sure nothing important is there.
If you install OmniSharp, it gives you all the linting, compiling and code completion you need. I develop for Unity using Vim and OmniSharp, and it works great. I haven't tried Sublime with OmniSharp, but a colleague of mine reports that it works great, he doesn't miss MonoDevelop at all. The only thing you're missing, really, is the debugging stuff in MonoDevelop, but I hardly ever used that anyway.
Fixed-width serif is exactly what I wanted! It's refreshing to be able to switch from serif to sans-serif, I do that on my Kindle about once a month and the text immediately becomes less boring.
I guess I was being a little harsh. Forgive me, I've been cranky ever since the election.
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SpaceX just asked permission to launch 4,425 satellites
The syntax is a lot lighter and more modern than C#
They push a subtle hate for sure with sexist undertones.

I had a recent conversation w two feminists where I pointed out a fact as reported by Harvard that women are getting paid less because they don't negotiate.

I hadn't even made a comment on the underlying reasons and two women jumped all over me.

They lumped me in with the root cause, made simplistic comments like "oh so it's the women's fault!" and challenged me to start a class teaching women to negotiate.

While I don't think that's a bad idea, it's BS to put blame on me and challenge me to do more than they've done because I'm a successful man that owns a few companies.

Over half my primary company is women and if you asked any of them they'd say I'm the best boss they've had and I empower them to succeed. I trust them. I've also changed a life by hiring a homeless person. I take chances on good people making career changes.

I've got a small company of about 20 employees and a bunch of contractors. I've done more for women in business than both of the 2 feminists combined. Yet I'm the bad guy. Funny they consider themselves liberal and do little for their causes.

It's absolutely ridiculous how feminists push blame and are so divisive. They think everyone is out to get them. Facts mean nothing. They want to talk about prior injustices and ignore the first "why".

Merely pointing out the fact that women don't negotiate means you think it's women's fault to feminists. I recognize we've gotten here for a variety of reasons but if business rules currently dictate you need to negotiate, maybe learn to negotiate and use research from industry experts to tell a compelling story and make more money.

Sure there are asshole sexist males out there but the women I know that know negotiation are on par with men.

Feminists also ignore how women treat other women in business. Throughout the companies I've worked for and my own, something like 95% of issues with coworkers involved women with other women.
And people wonder why software quality is going downhill.

Of course a Software engineer is paid to write code - if they're not, you probably want a different person.

Maybe we need a new job title: "Business Value Expander"

Requirements: Glue together everything else that's already been written by other people, and make the business rich.

What could possibly go wrong.
Basically any car that has electronic fuel injection does this. So at least the '99 Civic definitely does it.
Think about what is required to turn the engine over and prevent stalling.

-When the clutch is engaged whilst going down hill the wheels turn the engine. No Fuel Required.
-When the clutch is disengaged the engine has to turn itself over - which needs fuel.

*Disclaimer, i'm sure carbourettas (sp?) could well be doing weird ass things so whilst conceptually the above holds they may well be different.
If no one will say it, I will: it's stupid that we have multiple package managers and package formats.

There's no fundamental technical reason Linux couldn't have just 1 extensible package format and 1 extensible package manager. All the reasons for the split are social ("I like A"), political ("we want to be able to control A") or historical ("A came first, we built our house on A, we can't abandon A").
I think you may be begging the question. You might be right that we're here because of our irrationality, but using your conclusion as its own argument isn't very convincing.
But all sorts of projects have such requirements, any open source project by Google does. That isn't unique or special to Oracle.
I was referring to the misinformation about higher fuel efficiency of manual compared to automatic. I heard it too in driving school.
I like the vision Lennart describes.

My hope for systemd is that it unifies the Linux Desktop universe. The Free Desktop movement has stopped doing that.

There is a time for exploding into lots of variants and a time for unifying. Remember the time, when git came up? There was an explosion of DVCSs (Monotone, Darcs, Bazaar, and more). For now, the world has mostly settled on git with Mercurial as a secondary.
I recently went to the ends of the earth to get a 2016 manual VW sportwagen in the US -- but it was possible after going to dealerships looking at me like I was insane.

Shifting around in my BMW e36 5 speed will always be one of my greatest pleasures <3 -- nothing gets me up better for work than knowing I can speed around like an asshole on the way :)

People complain about traffic, but I feel the opposite. I mean, in an auto if you see a spot to cut into you are forced to floor it to force the car in a low enough gear -- it feels like the car is suffering vrrrAHHHHHHHHER
Thank you - this is immensely helpful; I will be updating the docs in the coming days to make this more clear.
> I thought in Germany you used one-time disposable TAN numbers for this purpose?

We do, Sofortüberweisung just acts as a man in the middle and passes through all TAN requests from the banking website to the client. They can't transfer money out of your account without your consent, but they can do just about anything else that doesn't require a TAN.
I think Kessler syndrome is still likely to happen despite the best intentions and efforts of all players involved. a 1,000km circular orbit is very, very stable, so if something goes wrong and the satellite doesn't deorbit itself properly, it will be there a very long time. If there are on average 4000 of these at a time and only .1% of them malfunction in this way, that's still 4 per year.
Sorry you've found everything slower!

Spying leads to manipulation, true. But my fear is based on not living in the US. And disabling regkeys doesn't stop 5gb of telemetry going to MS a day. Which I find just a tad excessive.
ART/Dalvik don't implement it, but Java ways for many languages to interop with each other for a long time already and is pushing the limits on that even further. The C calling convention as the lowest common denominator for language interop has been fading away for some time now already. Targeting the Java ABIs/calling conventions gives you access to both C libraries via things like JNI/JNA and also Python, JavaScript, Scala, Haskell (Frege), etc.