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There are many, many more good libraries for Java in Maven Central than for .NET in Nuget. OS independence, if not quite platform independence, has informed much of those libraries' development.

Maven, love it or hate it, can do a staggering number of things, some of them very useful.

JAX-RS servers and clients are more robust IME on Java. (Just try to find a capable path+querystring builder for .NET.)

JDBC is still the gold standard for database connectivity.
I am motivated by the desire to crush my enemies, to see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
This article focus a lot on security, but deterministic builds are also good property to have for other reasons (e.g. it can serve as strong evidence that a new build environment is sound; gives people more trust in the build process).
Some X drivers can be made to do proper vsync discipline by setting a "NoTearing" option in xorg.conf.
Thanks! We specifically designed it to remove the barriers and costs that come with starting up, especially for first-time founders who may not be aware of all the bases they have to cover.
> "I've gotten the impression that our relationship doesn't have the professional trust I would like it to. I'd like to understand what I can do better."

This! Use these words exactly! How she responds to this will show you what it's all about. Either she gives you concrete examples of what she thinks the problems are and how you two can solve them or she will continue as before. If it's the latter there's probably nothing that will make her change.

> Never complain, never defend.

And this! Even if you 100% in the right, complaining about person A to person B will have a significant chance of you losing face in the eyes of person B (exceptions: you either know person B extremely well (e.g. spouse) or person B has also experienced the faults of person A). Acting defensively will seem as if you're not willing to learn or see your own flaws.
Apparently people keep forgetting who pays the majority of OpenJDK developers.
It was (I guess) briefly flagged, I created this in that interval, still seems absent from the front page.

Can't delete this that I can see, oh well.
He comments in the conclusion that he runs Arch on his main machine. It seems like I've been seeing a lot of comments like that from people around the web lately.

What's the draw of Arch over Ubuntu/Fedora/Mint, etc?
Third Generation Interfaces and Amazon Lex
I too don't understand the appeal of working for big tech companies.

Until a recruiter from Facebook contacted me and sent me a list of teams at Facebook to pick the ones I'd be interested in.

http://imgur.com/9p7QJ5s (just an excerpt)

Then I figured out there aren't many places in the world where I could do cache infrastructure "to handle over a billion requests per second" or storage datacenters to store "350+ million photos uploaded per day to Facebook -the largest photos site on the Internet-".

Next thing you know. I'm interviewing at yet-another-big-company. Damn, they got me with their marketing //(^-^)//
I wouldn't be so worried yet. Verlinde's theory is quite fresh and it will take time to conclusively rule out Standard Cosmological model. As of yet, no one has properly worked out entropic gravity equivalent of various gravitational effects that arise in General Relativity such as gravitational lensing, a part of which was used in the paper discussed in the article.

Never the less, Verlinde's ideas are more interesting and reasonable than other proposed modification of gravity, but that's just my opinion.
They came back the next day and we finished the conversation with my attorney present.
Great news for Golang. Time to switch if you have not.
Thank you so much for your valuable post! I appreciate you didn't do what others did - downvote - but rather take your time to explain. I learnt alot from your message and link you provided.
I think he means in jest that people have constantly talked about Stallman's quirks that are honestly gross but shouldn't take away from what he says regarding technology.
The 2012 Mazda 6 doesn't show MPG, but it does calculate it and expose it over ODB II
I hope you're joking (in which case funny) but he directly addresses this in the article.
What is the alternative? Public computers?
Good? This is the devops container boys recreating Windows' DLL hell and selling it as an "improvement".

If you want to run something without installing it as a distro package the option was always to download it as a tar-ball.

BTW, Flatpak is a Gnom/freedesktop creation. It is a reaction to distro maintainers overriding the "perfect" decisions made by upstream (Gnome devs etc), and is upstreams attempt at taking over control.

Gnome+Freedesktop is aiming to make a singular Linux desktop experience, for all the wrong reasons.
The game for truth was lost long ago in the MSM. I wish they would turn into their Turkey counterparts, at least the average citizen would be less likely to blindly trust it.
Not much of a Windows fan but https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd184075.aspx
It will be interesting to see the impact of AI on news. I would love it if bots could parse out all the fluff and spin and just relay facts. That's all I need from the news. I'm smart enough to draw my own conclusions once I have all the information but nowadays that requires trips to websites all over the political spectrum to figure out what really happened. That being said, algorithmic based AI news could potentially end up being worse than human created fake news.

(Imagine Amazon Suggestions applied to news. One obscure google search and suddenly that's all the news you hear about for the next week)
Redis and NoSQL data stores in general are for merge-on-write not merge-on-read. That's why most of them are non relational (no relations, foreign keys or joins).

This project encourages merge-on-read which is exactly the problem k/v stores try to solve in another way (merge-on-write).

The problem with relational data stores is that once you have relations then you need consistency and then you need moving operations to the data store itself (stored procedures), and transactions, etc... and suddenly you need an army of certified DBAs and a $1+ million dollar budget on datastores alone.

It's not the right way to go. Feel free to have SQL but adding joins is a bad idea.
Ironically perhaps, time heals this barrier. I could never have accepted this article in 2008. In 2016, I've already come to this conclusion and this article is just "duh".
I've been using Java on Linux in production for more than 7 years and have never had any problems associated with the OS choice.
I definitely love Nancy since it's basically Sinatra for C# (IIRC Nancy was inspired by Sinatra).
I had this thought as well. Time to start subscribing more heavily to a viable multiverse theory, at least to support my tastes in science fiction novels anyway.
When was the last time that hte entire data centre went out? One, two servers, maybe a whole rack, but an entire dc out for good, more like a few hours downitme
So, I'm not an oldster, not a young'un, but somewhere in between in my mid 40's, and I've been in this industry for over 20 years at this point.

I see my friends from the same age group go different ways; quite a number stay in tech as employees, getting more senior and climbing the engineer ladder. They're the ones who are affected by age discrimination, particularly as they get into their 50's and over.

The other group takes what they know in tech, and become a super experienced tech-guy in another industry, doing things like machine automation at car manufacturing plants, or optical quality control at meat packing plants, etc. They use their skills in other industries, but by silicon valley standards, they leave tech, since making pistons or making sure chicken breasts don't contain wing aren't tech problems. This second group of people don't stress anywhere near as much about their jobs as the first group, but their highest attainable pay wherever they work is definitely lower.

The third group retires early and pursues their dreams, but they're not worth talking about in this context. Tech is amazing in that it enables people who are moderately successful to retire earlier.
How practical is it to get into programming for VR for cost sensitive developers? I feel like this space will not blow up until the tools and resources become fairly accessible for the common developer.
> It's not easy to defend yourself against sexist accusations, except that I have proof that I'm an activist and I've rallied for women rights and LGBT rights. Does it exclude the possibility of me being sexist? No, but it sure as hell keeps it at bay.

Perhaps this is a nitpicking aside, but let me be clear -- I think there is no correlation at all between attending a feminist rally and not exhibiting general workplace sexism. The idea that attending a rally would make you immune to issues like unconscious biases, sexist condescension, assumptions about technical competence, talking over someone, etc is as ridiculous as the idea that attending an NBA game is a demonstration of proof that you are a competent basketball player. The fact that you even brought it up puts your entire understanding of this situation into doubt for me.

> Edit: From your perspective how can I solve it?

It's tough. You say you're being bullied at work, and if you are, then you have few options -- by definition, bullying involves an unreasonable abuser and an innocent victim. Most of the plausible and good outcomes in this case involve you finding a way to no longer work with this person.

But if you'd instead posted "Ask HN: My coworker screamed at me and told someone else I'd been sexist. What do I do?" then I'd be able to give a very different answer, probably starting with:

(a) I would assume that I had, in fact, done something sexist and upsetting.

(b) I'd ask the person who was upset with me if I could meet privately with them, and I'd tell them that I felt terrible about it; that I badly want to heal the working relationship; that I respect their work and want to put effort into not upsetting them again; that I don't understand what I did but that I understand that this doesn't mean that I didn't do anything, and so on.
Science can restore faith in Democracy
Does anyone know if this protection was designed in from the initial conception of the major mobile OSes, or was it added on later when the relevant companies/engineers learned of how insecure the baseband processors are? I suppose you could explore the source of early versions of Android to see, unless it's all deep in a driver or something.
It's even default on the new 2016 pros.
“But then if you mathematically factor in the fact that
Verlinde’s prediction doesn’t have any free parameters,
whereas the dark matter prediction does, then you find
Verlinde’s model is actually performing slightly better.”

What? How does this work?
Because it is the only alternative to .NET for those of us working with enterprise customers.

Pick the list of Fortune 500 companies and many smaller ones that work with them, take out the few SV darlings, and they will either be using .NET or Java for the majority of their software.

Specially those whose commercial domain isn't at all related to software development.

C and C++ are usually around as library languages supporting those applications, or older applications, many of them still written in frameworks like MFC and such.

Even if Oracle would kill Java, which might happen with this kind of behavior, it will take a few generations to change to something else, specially since many people are unaware of the amount of hardware running embedded JVMs.
SourceForge has a new owner trying hard to bring it back to life.
Based on what the guy said, his clientele is mostly young men who play video games like Battlefield or Call of Duty, and want to see how the same guns there work in real life. So they literally come asking for "that gun that was in CoD", hence why he mainly stocks things that are trending in games and movies.

Apparently, it's also popular with foreign tourists; especially from Asian countries, with more extensive civilian gun control than in Europe, where many wouldn't even see a military (or military-looking) firearm outside of service. It got to the point where some ranges added signage in Chinese and hired Chinese-speaking instructors to cater to the new audience:

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2015-04/17/content_20457...
But once a recruiter has this type of experience with a few older candidates, they will be more likely to discount older candidates in the future, regardless of whether those later individuals were willing to do 60+ hour weeks or not.
Years ago (probably 2009) I wrote a small utility which polls the SMC to get current and voltage readings and from hardware. Wrapped it up in a simple app which shows realtime power consumption in my menu bar.

Didn't do much with it since the SMC keys differ for pretty much every piece of hardware Apple create and there is practically no information so it requires some investigation for each.
Show HN: SentiNews – the World is Tired of Bad News
>This is the devops container boys recreating Windows' DLL hell and selling it as an "improvement".

I'm not a fan of Flatpak (Nix/Guix for the win), but this is completely incorrect.
That was probably my first "mainstream" language I learned as a teen. What kind of negativity do you mean?
Yes, but that's very unlikely to be the case. There are pop books out their peddling the idea that ADHD provides different advantages -- it's perverse and entirely non-clinical. No one is writing books about the wonders of blindness, or missing a limb -- because physical impairments are so obviously, on the whole, impairments even if we might imagine some circumstance they could be beneficial.

ADHD is a developmental delay in the frontal lobe which causes significant cognitive impairments, that far and away, on the whole cause havoc for people.

People with ADHD should not be encouraged to attribute their successes to their disorder, they are almost always due to unaffected cognitive skills -- NOT ones impaired by ADHD, or affected by stimulants. People with ADHD are often the worst at making this mistake which is why I wrote my initial reply -- because I am concerned for the writer of the comment that they are making this very mistake and that they should really be taking medication.
> No law broken if you upload your own work to the cloud. You have right to do it.

The issue is that they didn't just upload their porn "to the cloud". They seeded their porn via bittorrent, which is a tool used specifically to share files to others. Seeding your own work via bit torrent is at the very least giving implied consent to others to download said work. If you give consent to others to download your work, you can hardly sue them later and claim the downloading was unauthorized.
About $800 for either major platform, plus a PC that can push the pixels for it (probably another grand or so). The Vive comes with touch controllers and room-scale stuff, which is why its list price is about $799; the Rift is $599 but the touch controllers and the second camera necessary for hand tracking are a $200 bundle. I would not recommend a Rift; right now room-scale (diagonal placement) is experimental for the Rift whereas it's standard for the Vive, and coupled with Oculus's founder being something of a dirtbag I'd recommend a Vive on both technical and not-feeling-icky grounds.
Wow, this is utter shit. There is literally nothing here.

No wonder he was going 70+ days without being paid.
Of that I have no doubt, but I think on average the perception is that you are giving up your quality of life for money by going to finance.
Why is it horrifying that actions taken with a consenting adult aren't sexual assault?
Are you planning to backport the fix? It would be very disappointing if a serious security problem like this would be left unaddressed. Not all of us can or want to switch to the latest major within months after its release.
Sorry, but this is definitely not a hardware, connection or session issue. Just check the rest of the thread. We're seeing issues over various links (broadband, mobile, datacenter) on different server locations (AWS vs. on dev machine) with or without private mode / logging out and then in.

I honestly wish it was something like this, at least then we could fix it.

The double POST requests you see is most probably because api.instagram.com returns a 302 response ("Found", i.e. redirect). This is a relatively recent change, but still weeks before those issues started.

By the way, your server refuses connection when you go to https://picodash.com directly (without www.). You might want to fix this.
Google Chief Games Designer on Why VR Matters
If the OpenJDK developers would provide official builds of it, I could accept the argument.
We're splitting hairs a little bit here, but from the perspective of a man putting the moves on a woman... how does "letting" look different from "wanting"?
Taking care of my dependents, which makes me feel capable and fulfilled.
Only if you phrase it awkwardly like that. Adding the fifth element creates a set of five elements.
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/hErbgrtSMzr
That's when he adopted the speech patterns that made coastal people think he's stupid. He was born in Connecticut, was raised by East coast old money parents, went to prep schools, then to Yale and Harvard. You don't end up sounding like a rancher with that upbringing, at least not accidentally.
Same as in a higher-level statically typed imperative language: mutable arrays contained within larger dynamic buffers for amoritized constant-time append and prepend.
Announcing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks V1
All of my packages are actually up to date, since Arch is a rolling release. Even on Xenial there are packages that are behind enough that I notice due to missing features/bug fixes.

The AUR is a far superior system than PPAs and offers far more software than I've seen "natively" available for any other distribution ever.
Sounds like good news for C++ developers?

I'm assuming C#/.net carries the same risk, and C/C++ does not.
The US has never entered into a conventional war with another power close to their own. It is a 100% uncertainty if the US would win, even with the US' more expensive wartoys that are still unproven.

Just a cursory glance at US' military history the past century reveals the US has only engaged against powers that were greatly diminished (European Theater, Russia, JP), or in and against countries in regions that were relatively far less equipped and primitive in weaponry (Asia, Africa, Middle East, etc).
It sounds like you're assuming that, just because a group has certain intentions, that the actions they perform further those intentions.
What would be the next test? Clusters or that dark matter dwarf galaxy causing ripples in our Milky Way?
The med school and law school knowledge is equally applicable to any med or law career, because you are studying for a certification exam that is independent of employer. Even if you choose to employ yourself (private practice), you'll have to pass those exams.

The Google study emphasizes what Google tests for, not what you need for the profession. If you start your own software company, for example, is the Google material critically important?
Cool idea. There are some creative people out there. Rather than complain about the perceived age discrimination in tech and business generally, someone decided to do something about it. I hope it helps people.

I wonder if there's a broader solution to the problem that might involve more outreach and educational efforts to communicate to the younger folk that us oldsters have something valuable to offer, despite our encroaching senility and decrepitude :)

Perhaps however, the proof's in the pudding. Nudge some of the bigger corps. like Facebook & Google to expand the upper end of the age range a bit, and then people will rub shoulders with people possessing different and possibly broader life experience.

That said, I do find lots of 20-30-something techies to be quite smart and experienced so am not trying to knock them here. Quite often it comes down to the individual's qualities and not merely their numerical age.
At the risk of being crucified here, Trump did say he plans to make H1Bs more expensive for companies; in hopes that the program starts being used for extraordinary talent (as meant to) rathan than cheap talent. If he keeps his promise, it's most likely to end that problem.
> OSX does not support fractional HiDPI scaling

Yes it does. It's right there in the system preferences.
He means peer reviewed from a security standpoint. Reliability and interoperability may be related to security but they aren't the same thing.
I thought that the gallons calculation used the same cheap mechanism, just adding a trivial percentage left * capacity calculation.
So the TLDR is old people are the problem? I see....
Any thoughts on expanding your "mind's eye"? I can often picture something, but when I go to sketch it it's as if I have tunnel vision and can only focus on a very narrow part at a time, and I lose sight of the whole. I feel that if I could somehow expand this -- perhaps through specific exercises? -- I'd be able to draw much better. Or maybe there aren't specific exercises and it just requires a lot of time putting pencil to paper.
Why has this article completely disappeared from the site? I've paged through hundreds of articles starting at the front page, and it simply does not appear.
Go doesn't share any kind of similarity in purpose, methodology or audience with Java.

Or maybe you were being sarcastic?
> If in all your self-awareness, you know you're not sexist, well then - you're surely not

At least not intentionally. You must still be aware that we all have subconscious biases which can sometimes make you act or say something that can be interpreted as sexist by another party. Maybe a female coworker feels that you are mansplaining things to her but not to your male coworkers?
One thing Oracle doesn't seem to understand is that the whole "milk it till it's dry" strategy won't last forever.

Everything they touch is a catastrophe.

Oracle database? Bloated, absurdly expensive, and blown away by PostgreSQL. If you really want bulletproof reliability and absurd throughput then DB2 on a mainframe is a better choice.

Virtualbox? Bloated, slow, and much more buggy than VMware's offerings.

ERP software? Companies could save tons of money using a custom solution and even if you are so massive you need something like Oracle's ESP SAP's offering is infinitely better (and cheaper).

Java? Don't even get me started on Java...
Note that URL says "preview-2" but that was just a publishing mistake. we don't want to break URL's since its out in the wild already but please be assured that this really is RTM.
The Gun Industry's Lucrative Relationship with Hollywood
thank you for the clarification. I was aware that linux was great on surface 1,2 models, and last I had checked, either v3 or 4 were completely locked.
I'm your age, and I think a good example of what you're talking about is javascript frameworks. Younger programmers might dissect each one and suss out the details like any of us might have done with CONFIG.SYS, but as an older programmer they all seem essentially similar and as far as professional skills go I can probably either just choose one or wait until the dominant one shakes out. This of course is aided by my sense/prediction/bigotry that JS frameworks are following Hotelling's Law.
What happened to Miguel? Did he get deported?
Do a FOIA request and get your FBI file. Could be interesting confirmation
Sounds interesting. Where could I read more about your technology?
Regardless, neural nets could eventually lead to AGI.