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1) What makes a language like Fortran so intimidating?

I know it's the butt of many jokes (together with Cobol and Assembly - especially in the context "really hard to learn/use languages) but just scrolling through the github repo (frontpage), the code doesn't seem that intimidating (or any less confusing than Go would seem for someone unfamiliar with its nuances).

2) What makes Fortran so much 'faster' at computation than C?

C is the go-to for any low-level performance, but in terms of computation, Fortran seems to do better (or so we're told). Is/Was Fortran a better-designed language, that allowed it to perform better than C at computation?
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Good to see that the Free Republic is as rabid as I remember it being.
How about trying to find the PC with the beaconing condition? That shuts down the entire ring? Usually someone copied another DOS PC configuration that uses the same Token Ring address. Engineers were good for that. 1994 or 1995 and they bought a new PC and instead of filling out sheets to have IT set up the PC they tried to do it themselves.
Having knowledge of C and python helps according to dsacco, where would you recommend starting? Books? Checking others code or how would you go about it?
That's vine I guess.
Very good. I work preclinical and am familiar with the devices version. Glad the same is in place in general pharma too. Although it does seem the results are not well communicated. Do you know the rules in place for a recall vs update to recommended protocols?
I think he's just expressing a healthy degree of skepticism, with a touch of hyperbole for flavour. He's likely just a bit sick of being asked his opinion on the drive until there's further experiments and research conducted on the matter.

I'm not dismissing your interest and excitement in the topic either. I'd love for it to be functional, and for us to learn new information on the way our universe works. The bar for entry is set particularly high on this, that's all :)
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Supposedly, Microsoft Office used a bytecode language for a long time afterward, at least into the 1990s. Old time Mac users probably remember MS Office 4.2, which was an identical clone of the Windows version and ran like molasses.
200k jobs? What kind of jobs? If these are paper shufflers adding overhead to health care, then I'm all for it.
Even better, they've since changed the slogan, citing it as being silly.
Umm this is a bit off-topic , but I don't know how else to reach out. But I have been not able to access Star Fighters due to a certificate failure, could you please check it out or point me towards whom to contact,
The two are fundamentally different platforms. Twitter is an open space provided as a free service to the public at large, while a lecture is a fundamentally closed platform (only the lecturer speaks) only open to those enrolled in a specific class.

That said, even in the example you give it is not always considered appropriate to remove people causing disruption. Consider, for example, a conservative speaker giving a guest lecture being protested against -- often loud enough the the lecturer needs to shout to be heard by his audience, even though protesters are outside.

Here is a relevant video of Ben Shapiro giving a lecture at Penn State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLpa6fsTxCA
That's kinda how the web works.
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Casinos where the rules ensure you loose even when you devise a method of skill and intellect to win, you still loose. Isn't that the very definition of a rigged game?
Admittedly I didn't read it in detail, but I don't see anything about page-ins there. Can you explain the connection between kqueue and paging?
Just an e-mail sign-up form for an app that's "coming soon". Doesn't meet "Show HN" guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Look up a Kickstarter project called Modbook. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/modbook/modbook-pro-x-1...

They take a MacBook and covert it into a tablet. This is what Apple should have done. Instead they let Microsoft out innovate them with the Surface.
The suit goes into much more than just a confidentiality agreement. It doesn't allege that only the agreement is the source for those points.

The evidence and facts brought up are:

1) A quote from his offer letter.

2) The confidentiality agreement.

3) A Code of Conduct policy for "internal purposes only."

4) Data Classification Guidelines.

6) Employee Communication Policy.

7) Training programs including one called "You Said What?"

8) "Prepare to leave Google" policy.

9) "Exit Certification" note upon termination.

10) A "Global Investigations Team" led by Brian Katz.

11) "Stopleaks."

12) Quotes from all hands meetings.

13) Alleged amendment of a policy in response to his letter to Labor Workforce and Development Agency violations.
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There are some c and c++ web frameworks floating around that seem quite nice.
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But does Uber really have a competitive advantage here? In the multiple cities I have lived in in the past couple years (Boston, Austin, Dallas) I have never noticed Uber's range being greater than any particular taxi. I do prefer uber do to brand trust, but I had no issue switching to RideAustin after uber left the city.
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There's a very enjoyable discussion in the comment section with my (brilliant) former colleague Max Fagin. He points out that Casey's first draft of this post neglects the curvature of Mars, and when you account for it Casey's model predicts the craft punching out the other side of the atmosphere.
This is version 2 of a project I started three years ago (hence the test domain). I'm rebuilding the website/home page now, so not many of the links there work, but the web app (click the login link) is about 85% functional. There's still things that need to be built out in the app, like the statistics module, but I wanted to get it out there for feedback up to this point.
Far more than one in a thousand will use it as an excuse to do the wrong thing.

And lots of articles about best practice leave out very rare edge cases. No advice is always always right.
The way SmartOS performs under memory pressure is completely different from Linux, the OS is still usable where Linux would be completely frozen. Admittedly I don't know the underlying implementation behind this feature.
> 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT

Some say 'Next bought Apple'
"What makes a language like Fortran so intimidating?"

Some versions of Fortran are optimised at compiler level for hardware, hence question #2 is moot. [0] Note the level of optimisation on linux [1] required to speed the code up.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Fortran_Compiler

[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/using-intel-compil...
In this long-winded 'psychobiography,' I was unable to find mention of one of the more peculiar aspects of Fischer's life: Some events of his life appear to indicate he either had extraordinarily bad luck, or had somehow pissed off some powerful people in America. These events started at least a decade before his participation in a $5 million match in Yugoslavia, which is what led to an official warrant being issued for his arrest.

> On May 26, 1981, while walking in Pasadena, Fischer was arrested by a police patrolman, allegedly because he matched the description of a man who had just committed a bank robbery in the area.[436] Fischer, who alleged that he was slightly injured during the arrest,[437] said that he was held for two days, subjected to assault and various types of mistreatment,[438] and released on $1,000 bail.[439] Fischer published a 14-page pamphlet detailing his alleged experiences and saying that his arrest had been "a frame up and set up".[1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer
It does make the conversation interesting, as the "varnish guy" sort of subtly suggests that single threaded is subpar. Which seems odd, given that nginx is single threaded, and in a somewhat similar space to varnish...and seems to enjoy a good reputation for performance.
If your car did need to talk to your blender why wouldn't you want it to do so directly?
Sadly a little light on detail, but does offer up:

> 1. keep emotions out of the exchange, 2. discuss, don't attack (no ad hominem and no ad Hitlerum), 3. listen carefully and try to articulate the other position accurately, 4. show respect, 5. acknowledge that you understand why someone might hold that opinion, and 6. try to show how changing facts does not necessarily mean changing worldviews.
I'd love some information on this topic.

As someone who lives in Los Angeles, I understand why we have such a bad pollution problem (although far better than it once was). In our case, geography plays as much a part in the haze as anything else.

What kind of outcome can Londoners expect to see if diesel is eliminated? Does the increase in C02 from London adding more gasoline cars (and likely throughout GB) actually cause greater loss of life elsewhere in the planet due to GW impacts?

Climate and atmospheric science always leaves me a little feeling... Overwhelmed. These sorts of collective action problems always concern me because of how slow they can be, and because if we get it wrong, the consequences are terrifying.
The document linked at the end of the talk currently contains summary regarding the radiation problem on the way to Mars.

I've heard of the following approach. The spacecraft generates a magnetic field which spreads around it in flight, having some substantial size (order of kilometers). Relatively small amounts of matter (some gas) are constantly emitted from spacecraft, get ionized and trapped in the magnetic field. Such a low density thick "cushion" of ions makes the radiation shielding.

I'd like to learn more about effectiveness of such an approach.
Anyone have a tl;dr?
In the US, we have the defense of "entrapment by estoppel," wherein a government official actively misleads one into thinking an illegal act is legal. That's really closer to what happened in the article than simple ignorance. The author asked police multiple times if what he was doing was illegal.
It didn't help that it tempted every criticism of google to call them evil, even when the disliked action was clearly not evil.
In theory yes, a smart enough JIT could figure this out. That was in fact v8's strategy for a while. But in practice, it's just not as effective. In a small function like that things are fairly simple, but with large code it takes time and resources for the optimizer to figure out all the types. That leads to noticeable slowness and pauses for recompilation etc. Instead of that, asm.js gives you the option to just receive the types up front.
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My suggestion is even if you cover multiple topics, do it one at a time.

Do tmux, then notebooks, then whatever, instead of splicing one in to the other.

Mixing topics just makes the material less effective at both things and hard to follow.
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that @Mathnerd is a good idea. It would not be hard to do this remotely via a script.
Planning to do many changes to the text,video and how i present the product. Your feedback is very valuable. Thanks :)
I remember when imgur was started because there were no good image sharing sites. They were all bulky, slow and terrible. imgur came along and made sharing images easy. Now they are one of the ones they set out to fix.
+1. I spent a considerable amount of time on Twitter between August and November of this year. I quit cold turkey primarily because of the widespread negativity. Plus, its endless stream of tweets had a certain cheap novelty factor that coaxes you to spend more time on it than is warranted or necessary. HN and Reddit, to some extent, mitigate this in just the way I want.

I'd be interested to hear about what are the reasons and ways people find Twitter useful/interesting.
tnx for the tip, installed it. 1 million users, so it must be doing somethign right
"If your car did need to talk to your blender why wouldn't you want it to do so directly?"

Sure.

But my car does not need to talk to my blender. :)
Chrome is the culprit. For as much as they helped with V8 innovations, they've also done harm

- ignores usability basics: horrible UI with > 10 tabs, reloads all tabs, many other issues - all of these are things people have complained about forever, they refuse to fix

- memory hog: Chrome uses more memory than almost any other browser

- Google forces Chrome upon you since Hangouts etc will not work with other browsers

- for reasons passing understanding, the Chrome UI has been copied by every browser

Firefox is better at every single thing and has a far better extension model, which sadly they will deprecate again to copy Chrome. I find it very sad that its popularity and market share has fallen as the world has collectively dumbed down the browser UI.
G3/G4/G5

Especially in the Pentium 4 era.
> Someone will have to pay for those clicks

Someone will get infected with malware by using the shady ad-network with a higher revenue, so what's the difference?
After using Reddit daily the last year this is the first time I've experienced downtime, so in my experience it has pretty darn good availability.
IBS - irritable bowel syndrome?
> Do you have any more specific pointers regarding using it without a daemon? As the examples seem to start with starting a daemon, unless I misunderstand something

At the moment, the RPC requirement means that you need to have a process that can accept RPC requests (a "daemon" if you like). However, unlike Docker (and containerd), ocid's lifetime is not tied to the lifetime of its containers -- which is one of the main downsides of Docker/containerd IMO. So in principle you could have ocid set up to only start up when kubelet is telling it to do anything. The real benefit of the design behind ocid is that in the future we could switch to a fork-exec model with the kubelet and it would still work.

For example, currently kubernetes is adding a requirement for runtimes to include a "kpod" binary that can do container and image operations even if the kubelet is down. My hope is that eventually they will just make the kubelet shell out to this binary so the CRI is defined through some sort of "here are the cli flags you need to accept" interface.

> the complexity seems to be skyrocketing for sometimes very little benefit.

I wouldn't call the current CRI "complicated", it's just that the gRPC requirement IMO is a bit too much. However, I would hope that since ocid and rkt both don't require daemons (well, rkt requires systemd but that's a given) that they'll reconsider their method of communicating with container runtime runners.
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I don't think giving an answer to a question makes that question moot.
I wonder whether these good days would soon come to an end with process per tab model.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
I had the pleasure of attending high school with Casey. He (and his brother as well, who i worked under as a doctor) are both capital G geniuses. Anyone wanting to be highly informed on interesting topics like the hyperloop (with his potential biases due to involvement with Hyperloop one), terraforming, space travel or other similar things would do well to follow him on quora.
As a counter argument I present Reddit, which as a downcote button but is even more notorious for its abusive communities. Is it possible that HN is just more heavily represented by mature people who tend to communicate better than average and the Magic isn't really in the downvote algorithm?
I ditched Facebook back in 2008, and haven't regretted that decision since.
No law was changed
653 on Zillow all throughout the metro area, for 3 bedroom houses over 1500 sq feet. SF really distorts our perception of reasonable prices.
"In the meantime, these entities are parking dollars out of reach (actively removing them from circulation) instead of investing or spending them within the US.. where they would have been circulated anyway if not for the tax avoidance. They are being rewarded for removing the money "

No - they are not removing anything.

Listen - if you lived in Dubai and earned $300K/year and paid minimal taxes, and moved back to the US with $100K in your Dubai account ...

If you left it there, and used it for travelling overseas, making investments, there would be no tax.

If you brought it to the USA - and it would be taxed at say 25% ...

Would you leave it there, or bring it back?

Would you be a tax evader/avoider for leaving it there.

No.

It's perfectly reasonable for you to want to leave your money overseas.

(I should point out that this is merely an analogy, personal taxes don't work this way for Americans.)

Apple has done nothing wrong.

If the US adjusts it's tax system to be more commensurate with how the entire rest of the world works ... it would be very beneficial to America overall.

I really don't like Trump, but I think he's going to fix this one issue, and that's going to be quite a big deal and a 'good thing'.
> Erm, manic depression as distinct from schizophrenia was basically established by Emil Kraepelin in the 1880s.

The physiological basis for scihzophrenia wasn't figured out and ignored until the 1970's.

> Dr. Whitaker could be going full Foucault, but as well established by Hollywood, you never go full Foucault.

Robert Whitaker is a journalist, not a doctor. He's sort of like the kid who points out that the emperor got swindled by his tailors.

I like the reference to the quote from Tropic Thunder, but I'm not up to date on Foucault's contributions to philosophy.
I use workflowy, but mainly for task management and light note taking. The UI is cimbersome on desktop, and unusable on Android. The only thing that saves it is keyboard shortcuts.

I used to use Evernote, and still recommend them for people who want something more robust and featured. I wish they were lighter in the formatting and allowed markdown though.

Usecanvas is good if you want something dead simple.
14) Literally getting fired for discussing terms, wages, and working conditions of employment

15) Lawyers telling employees to STFU on discussion threads about legal problems in the news
I've never understood why people use templating engines in PHP. I've been an on again off again user of PHP for atleast 7 years now, and I've never understood it for exactly the reasons you outlined.
All my servers run FreeBSD so why not!
"What makes Fortran so much 'faster' at computation than C"

What I mean is the reason C isn't faster is because of the hardware support at processor level and extra library support for example in IFort. Is writing/re-writing a problem in another language when there is an existing well documented body of code is premature optimisation?
Moxie just committed circumvention support earlier today. Here's the commit:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/commit/5417...
Which 60-70%? It seems crazy to think it's that simple unless you can a) articulate which employees contribute to revenue, and b) take into account the compensation/option-based expense.

Make a mistake and you not only affect revenues (by cutting those contributing to revenue) but also cutting the ability to retain those remaining who actually do contribute to revenue.

No doubt there's room for cuts, but 60-70% seems way on the high side.
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yes, all of this is true. The second incarnation of Iridium Corporation which acquired the bankrupt assets paid maybe 5 cents on the dollar. It was ridiculously expensive to build and ate up a ton of late 1990s venture capital money. And the US DoD gateway stuff (Hawaii, etc) and Iraq, Afghanistan wars certainly helped their revenue stream. But now that they're established, they seem to have found commercial viability and funding to launch the next generation of satellites which will provide medium speed (but expensive $$$/MB) data service in a truly global fashion.

Iridium's polar orbit LEO architecture makes it a rare and special thing. Globalstar was an utter network architecture failure (bent pipe satellite relay), Inmarsat is not usable at polar latitudes due to being geostationary based.
Not the code, the databases. And actually the specific databases I need to run (we have minimal PII scrubbed versions we use for local testing) could live on my internal HD but I don't have enough storage for all my files + the backup files of the DBs for restoring + the restored database files.
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It will. No company remains dominant forever.
I think what they meant was that the specific answer made the question uninteresting.
Oh, do I miss the days of debugging problems caused by Opera's overagressive caching of _everything_. NOT.
Downvotes are stronger than upvotes, and the downvoted content gets buried.

I haven't seen this mentioned before, nor does it match with my observations of behavior on the site, though I admit the calculations of how down/up votes contribute to dimming is not transparent. Do you have a reference of where the relative weighting of up vs down votes is discussed?
Check out youtube-dl, get-flash-videos or one of the other video downloader tools.
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Mercury's motion does violate Newtonian gravity. General Relativity however simplifies to Newtonian gravity for various low-dimension applications though (i.e. an Apple falling from a tree, the orbit of the moon for most astronomical guidance purposes over that distance etc.)

In much the same way we don't account for the curvature of the Earth when building a house's foundations.

That's my point though: when you violate a fundamental physical law, it can't just be wrong. You have to somehow also account for why it doesn't happen all the time elsewhere (i.e. the effect is small to within experimental error over common measurement cases) and by necessity the new theory to explain it has to encompass the predictions of the old i.e. the benefit of Newtonian gravity was that it easily recovers the behaviour of nested epicycles of orbital motion (and made new predictions successfully where epicycles could not).
Well, with the current model they would have no other choice if they want to survive and remain free.

Realistically though, I have very low expectations for this to actually happen. I know many people who still haven't installed any ad blockers.
I've been ad-blocking for a long time, but I've recently started default blocking all JS, remote-fonts, and even CSS. It's made my browsing significantly faster
JQuery is not by default anymore.
When you use SaaS products, auditing the code is not a service they offer. You have to rely on certifications from independent certifying organisations, etc.
All the technical stuff aside, the simple fact is Apple enjoys a level of brand loyalty and market hype unlike anyone else, which is why they can afford to do practically whatever whatever they want and get away with it.

Their every decision now is weighed much more towards profitability and upsell/obsolescence than user satisfaction/usability/advancing tech.

The fact that the new MacBook is the fastest selling ever, despite all its negative press, is proof.
The changelogs on the point releases for each gem are essentially TL;DRs. It took ~10 minutes to read through all of them. The meatiest one is probably ActiveRecord: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/v5.0.1/activerecord/CHAN...
I think you might be thinking of the upcoming 5.1 release.
I always thought a factoid was a tiny fact.

Merriam Webster actually lists both meanings (small fact and non-fact). https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid