skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Link? Superior in what way? Is there any LLVM based JVM implementation that runs faster than the current JVM android is using and no compatibility issue?
"

Yes.
Azul uses LLVM as its last tier JIT compiler now :)

I don't think anyone is going to argue they don't have the fastest JVM around.

See http://www.infoworld.com/article/3193078/java/azul-introduce...

The performance numbers they give are:
" Falcon bests Oracle's HotSpot Java platform by anywhere from 5 to 250 percent in production performance, depending on the application, according to Azul. "
I recently rode the electric share bikes in Beijing.

It was a fantastic experience. Pick up from anywhere, leave anywhere.

Share bikes are getting huge in China, sometimes causing a mess. But the white electric share bikes in Beijing were a fantastic experience and could have a big impact on the cities pollution and transportation issues.
Perhaps it would be sustainable if most of the wealth wasn't going to a few people with little redistribution. I'm not even talking about communism, just fair taxation and contributing and no loop holes (double irish tricks and the like).
Such a misleading title!
But max 2 kids doesn't lead to to zero population growth - it leads to decline since not everybody gets married, or has the max number of children...

But there are probably outiers who have more which even that out.
> to show the rest of the world how to do more with fewer people and a smaller impact

Japan has no plan. Let's not write sentences like there is a big mastermind behind everything. Politicians are not even able to take care of the ongoing budget and pressing issues, so let's not assume they know what to do 10 years from now.
Actually, LLVM can do dynamic deopt.
It can do the guards.
It can also remove the bounds checking for java code.

(Azul made all of this work to make it their last tier java compiler).

It didn't take that many people or that long.
So yeah.

(Though in compilers, hard work on existing thing beats shiny shiny almost all of the time)
China will get there much faster because of the 1 child policy, indeed.
Nasty car-to-car crashes happen all the time, and it isn't because the drivers involved don't consider cars a valid means of transport. The difference is that you can walk away from most car-to-car crashes because you're ensconced in 3000 pounds of steel.

Perhaps it will make more sense when self-driving cars, or even just lane keeping and auto-braking cruise control become mainstream.
gangnam style is a deeply insightful (though i don't know myself if it is accurate) critique of korean culture. it's not necessarily popular because it's insightful, but definitely a bad analogy in your case
Microsoft went Google evil on this product...
Little Flat Booty By, Evon Latrail
What about mar-a-logo

Actually there doesn't seem to be much that sounds good with logo applied.
Ask HN: How did you move from IT/software to something unrelated?
I'm a frontend developer in the greater Vancouver, BC area. After becoming burnt out at my last position over a year ago, I've had no success in finding further work and don't have all that much motivation to continue the endless cycle of humouring recruiters and sending resumes out. Not because I don't like software development, more so because of the cost of continued attempts and lack of potentially inspiring outcomes (technical, very time intensive interviews with very few compelling companies worth the effort) that I am qualified for.

Anyhow, I'd like to apply at companies that, for lack of a better description, essentially pay minimum wage and require building basic skill that I may not have developed in software. Like Starbucks, McDonalds, retail. However, computers and software are pretty much all I know and all I have on my resume. I'm reasonably outgoing, well spoken, and have some confidence that I can work with others, but making the backwards transition from my career to a more basic jobby job (no intention of being derogatory here) is surprisingly unclear.

Edit: Part of the intention as well, is to build versatile skills that might allow more job flexibility in the future. For example if I were to travel and work without requiring a skilled worker visa.
The optimal build I found is an internal geared motor (they are smaller / lighter), and under 3kg. That, plus the battery pack I got weighs around 3.5 kg, and is 700 watt-hours, which is enough for around 40 - 60 miles of assist at 15 - 20 mph, assuming you are putting in enough peddling that would normally get your bike to about 10 - 12 mph.
> If you read all the way through

Why would I though? His story already sounds like something not very true and interesting. The guy exaggerates a lot and quite out of touch with reality. There're plenty of other interesting things to read on the internet.
> most of the wealth wasn't going to a few people with little redistribution

What are you talking about? Corporate profits are nothing compared to the national budget for redistribution. Check your figures.
Lets suppose for a moment that automation is abundant and a welfare state is able to provide universal basic income. People wouldn't need to worry about their kids future and they will have plenty of time. How would that affect fertility rates?
I've done SSD firmware development in the past and these kinds of vulnerabilities have been identified and mitigated for quite a while now.
Most of his configuration is invalid, due to his misconfiguration of group policy.

Yeah, it's his fault that he didn't properly navigate the Kafkaesque nightmare that Microsoft has created in order to thwart people from disabling all this spyware.
Incorrect - the fertility rate for a given population in order for that population to 'not decline' is 2.1 (not 2.0). In Canada, we are not even hitting the 2.0 mark (we are at 1.6).

source:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
> Also the welfare state might be reduced somewhat to make it sustainable.

That's already progressively happening, but it's because it's progressive it becomes a problem: you are for example paying for the pensions of folks who are retired now, but not for yours and there will be either no pension for when you reach 65, or they'll push it back to 75 to manage the costs. Folks who will retire in 20 years cannot count on the government's welfare at all.
All the Trees Will Die, and Then So Will You
There's also the thing where, uh, Windows NT has full memory protection.

On Windows 9x it was trivial for any app to hose the OS, because critical memory regions were unprotected.
They aren't even architecturally similar. The ART VM is register based while the JVM is stack based.
practically speaking, I think for the most part, when folks talk about blocking execution, they are referring to the browser locking up while the long running process is running.

To gracefully establish expectation in the user - A processing indicator will buy the application some time before the user gets impatient. The setTimeout 0 pattern is useful to delay the long running process enough for the browser to redraw the UI to throw up the processing indicator.

One can further achieve another state in the processing indicator by leveraging time delayed CSS animation which runs in a thread that's parallel to JS. So you could use CSS to augment the content of the processing dialog while the blocking JS is running.
There's a deeper trend here that the author is still unaware of, and that is - being delusional and not having any friends/family who will point out your head is really far up your own ass.

The issue is when you're in your 20s and you had some financial success, you can use that to justify not listening to anyone and even feeling like you are eligible to give anyone else advice!

Reality is, in your 20s, there are things you don't know know that you don't know. That's how little you know :)

This is a subtle point - you don't even know, the types of things you don't know, you are not aware. That's what being delusional is about - it makes you write blog posts that you genuinely feel will help others, and all the while you are VERY much lost.

Anyhoo :)
> How would that affect fertility rates?

People don't have kids because they dont want to have kids. That's more a choice now than it ever was. Automation, Basic Income, won't change the global trend, especially in Japan.
I stumbled on this literally in the same minute as I was about to start writing a program and wondering whether I ought to use CLOS. I don't think it answered my question, but it was interesting reading nonetheless.
Sadly, last I checked, it only had bindings for Linux which was probably the right thing to do but made it hard to try on my Mac workstation. Looks really cool though, like part of Clojure's answer to Julia, which is also pretty cool.
Yeah this isn't really valid... you can't call what Virtu do 'trading' in the same sense. You're conflating two different things. It would be kind of like calling the Blackjack dealer the best gambler at the table. He's not a gambler, he's just there to facilitate the gambling of others and take a small cut for doing so.

Virtu are market makers. They aren't there to pick a direction or express a view or take any long term risk.

Gushing about their trading performance is like gushing about McDonalds... oh my god they buy buns and beef and lettuce every day and sell it at a profit!!! Well exactly, that's the business they are in. If a store isn't making money McDonalds would close it down. Virtu quote a bid and an offer in tens of thousands of securities. If they weren't getting enough flow in an instrument to cover their adverse selection costs + fees + fixed costs, they'd shut it down.
We know it's unhealthy, unproductive, and unsustainable, and people do it anyway. There is pressure to overwork, coming from employers and from a misguided urge to keep up, and all kinds of addictive behaviors that keep people in front of the screen. This is a widespread problem to be addressed, not just some preference for each individual to decide.
Fair enough, that's correct :) But as you said, it doesn't detract from the point, even if we shift the definition a bit. The likelihood is still clearly beyond what would emerge by chance.
It could replace cars as long as it's not snowing, or raining, or too cold outside, or you don't have stuff to carry.

You know what could replace cars for millions of people? A subway. But first we have to work on legalizing high-density urban environments with narrow streets...
Why would anybody invest in a startup without #4 and #5? I simply don't understand spending a huge amount of money like that without knowing what you are spending it on.
I ended up taking a couple months off before starting another SaaS with a couple friends, and with less than $1k invested between us, 3 months in we were live with sales and it was acquired 6 months after that.

No it wasn't, you fraud. source?
> If your excuse is editing MS Office files, LibreOffice supports the formats and works

For very small values of "works". I've found that even high school projects turn out to be a bit too much for libre office.
Oh, I now kinda get why people fuss over Kotlin.
So basically take a year of business courses to not be a moron. Got it.
Were you using only electric when you went the 23 miles? I live in Japan now and all the bikes are "electric-assist." You still have to pedal and it just feels like someone is pushing you or you are in a much higher gear than you are.

On my regular bike in the bay area (Berkeley area), I was able to turn 95% of the signals green by stopping right on the sensors (I rode a motorcycle too so I knew where they were). There was 1 signal that I could never change to green with my bicycle and the crosswalk button was reachable from the street. I always rode on the 'smaller' roads for what it's worth.
This should have a [1997] tag
John Taylor 'punched the FAA in the face': recreational drone registration gone
No YODA conditions, please
I've been using Linux as a daily driver for fifteen years. I have shot my share of trouble and the next two guys' too. It's not a good experience. It's bad. Even when things aren't breaking left, right, and sideways (which, to be clear, definitely happens less often today than five years ago, with the corollary that that breakage is usually something a mere mortal can't do too much about), it feels kinda...well, shitty. I've done my time with a bunch of different DEs and each and every one is a fit-and-finish mess. (KDE comes closest. It is still leagues shy of the Mac that's also on my desk.) If you--the general community, not you specifically--can't make something that feels good to use, your foot is already deep in that bucket. Then you add on hardware and software incompatibilities and your answer is "halfway patches or just do without", and you are so deep in Zealotville that me shouting sure isn't going to reach you (but might dissuade a few people from burning themselves along the way).

If you don't have a positive argument for using your thing instead of framing its competition negatively, few people will ever use it. The Linux desktop as a whole doesn't have that positive argument. Because, for most people and including most developers, it is a strictly inferior good. Not to Windows--but to the Mac. You're stomping your feet about people not being bothered to troubleshoot--it ain't their fault that that's still a tire fire! I use a Linux desktop because I know what I'm getting into and I know enough, from the aforementioned fifteen years of dealing with its crap, to make it mostly tolerable for work (not at all for fun, which is why I still use Windows, too!). I sure wouldn't start today, not on either the handwavy "but but telemetry!" grounds nor the usefulness of it.
most people didn't have industrial jobs then
Your generalization lumps short term want/enjoyment with long term need.

Let's stop making diabetes medicine. If people actually wanted to not have diabetes, they'd stop eating candy.
It's rare to see motorcycle riders that aren't totally reckless..
The drawings are reminiscent of the diagrams in Metaprogramming Ruby, which is definitely worth the read if you want to dig into it.

It's much easier to read than you might think.
Media:

https://www.suasnews.com/2017/05/john-taylor-defeats-faa-reg...

https://www.recode.net/2017/5/19/15663436/us-drone-registrat...

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/hobbyist-faa-drone-registratio...

and Bruce, wow! what a legend! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTvSINcnQ6s

if you have the time, listen to John stating his original case and totally pwning the FAA lawyer! https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/recordings/recordings2017.nsf/...
Ask HN: How to Get Hired in US/Canada?
Background:

- Not from either country so visa/work permit is needed.

- Finished CS degree 2 years ago (Internationally as well so OPT isn't an option)

- I've done internships (not at a big co.), built and launched side projects and several contract jobs.

I'm looking for a front-end or mobile position but so far I've found it hard to get over the visa hurdle. I've had several interviews but 5/6 of them the process ended once I mentioned the need for a visa. I know it's really difficult but is there anything I can do to improve my chances?
Thanks for mentioning the stigma around motorcycles and scooters in the U.S. They are seen as grown up toys, yet all over the world motorcycles serve as a primary means of transportation for millions of people. Careless drivers obviously aren't targeting motorcycles, but I think there's a collective lack of mindfulness to their presence on the road.

Anecdotally, I became a better car driver after just a few weeks of simply learning to ride a motorcycle on public roads.
It's pretty basic Windows GPO knowledge. Lots of them work this way.
But even with all of those advantages, you didn't make $1000 a day. You broke even and almost lost money. In order compare to someone making $100/day you need to make money consistently for a long term. No one can consistently turn $50k into $365k/year because if you keep making bets like that, you eventually lose just as big as you win.
I agree that car accidents still happen. But honestly most my near misses with cars were outright insane.

One in particular gives me chills. I was driving along an empty road and a car wanted to make a right-hand turn onto the road. The car driver came to a stop at the side road, we were close and it was clear enough that I made eye contact with the middle-aged woman driver. I swear she looked me right in the eyes, then she proceeded to drive right out in front of me. I swerved, slammed on the brakes and slid up next to her car (luckily there was room on a single lane road). She just waved at me apologetically. I wore a bright red and white (with reflective strips) jacket, bright green and white pants, black and white reflective helmet and my motorcycle was bright green, it was the middle of the day (but not glary) and I had my headlights on regardless.

I'm absolutely convinced she saw me, we looked right at each other, she was just in a bit of a daze and a motorbike didn't register as a car, so she just pulled out. Now, it's true she could have done the same with a car. Obviously, I can't know for sure, but I absolutely believe if bikes were more common that situation just wouldn't have happened - at least, not like it did.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm actually in Australia. So for you US folk it was a left-hand turn she was making ;)
I have an idea I'm working on. Actually, I get ideas almost daily. What I don't have is engineers. I have been on here for a couple months looking for a co-founder. Add me to the team. Plus I'm already self employed so I don't mind risk and I can sell.
US Corporate profits are about 1.6 trillion, total national budget is 3.8 trillion. Looks very comparable numbers, don't they? And this is profit, after everyone already got paid and all the tricks have been performed in the books. I think definitely globalization and global tax dodging is affecting the ability of states to support a welfare state.
I don't find this at all. I built my e-bike by converting an old Univega touring bike with a 1300W EcoSpeed mid-drive. Even with a 670Wh battery it comes to less than 10kg additional weight. As a touring bike, it was already built to carry a load, so the rims and tires are fine. The cantilever brakes are adequate; discs would be better, but the bike wasn't built for them.

Top speed on level ground is about 28mph (45 km/h), which is a speed one could easily hit going downhill without a motor, so the bike is well within its intended performance envelope.

I like this setup because it's still easy enough to pedal -- not like a racing bike, of course, but again, well within the amount of weight one might be carrying when touring -- and when I don't feel like pedaling, I don't have to.
You make it sound like Google is the only company to EOL underperforming products and services. How many products and services has Apple or Microsoft abandoned or shut down during their span? I'm guessing that list is very long.
For those looking for a decent TL;DR:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/05/10/m...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/05/11/microsoft-b...
This poor guy actually did get fleeced.

Sure, there are people who aren't very technical and don't have any MVP to speak of, but most of those people know to stop before they've blown through $50,000 and have shredded their liver with "brain drugs" (which are just drugs btw, there is literally no pill for hard work)

I'm glad he eventually got a start up going elsewhere, but I'm genuinely worried for this guy. His writing is all over the place and he was ripped off by shovel sellers during a gold rush. He couldn't see any fault with paying thousands of dollars for legal services and developers when he had barely any customers and no discernable product?

Yikes, poor guy.
According to Wikipedia, for Generation X "demographers and researchers typically use starting birth years ranging from the early-to-mid 1960s and ending birth years ranging from the late 1970s to early 1980s."

So any members of Generation X were still children in the 70s or not yet born. I think you mean a different cohort or a different time.
To be fair I did say Java based VM.
No, Google’s Not a Bird: Bringing the Internet to Rural India
I drive a Scion xA in America, it's only 100mpg. I think small cars like this (Honda Fit, etc) are catching on, at least in cities. But even still I only get 32-38mpg; maybe from worse aerodynamics?
It's not really my thing, but Plasma seems like a really solid desktop. What are your complaints with it?

And I'll raise this point again:

>You and people like you are the reason that it's not as good as it could be. I use Linux as my daily driver and it works extremely well. But if you continue to let it languish with a small market share because you can't be bothered to troubleshoot it for 10 minutes or maybe live without that piece of software you need so much, then it won't even go anywhere. Yours is a self defeating attitude.

Using proprietary operating systems because Linux isn't there yet is a great way to keep Linux from getting there. It's a chicken and egg problem. What would you prefer: getting your privacy thourougly invaded by a proprietary operating system, or being there to help Linux gain market share and tip the scales? Even if it's not perfect, it's more than enough, and supporting it is the best choice.
Good points.

All economies have a lot of fluff, but yeah, it would be exciting if the shrinking workforce meant a focus on optimizing the productivity of individual workers, while the country doesn't have to deal with unemployment at the same time. Really the only issue is the short period of time in the immediate future of providing current levels of welfare to the large elderly population with a much smaller still-inefficient younger workforce facing the burden of doing so.

It's possible if they figure out a good short term solution, it could put Japan into a lean diet that is really good for it in the long-run.

However they also run the risk of suffering some serious long-term economic damage if this rough patch doesn't go well. Way too many things can go wrong -- if the young decide to also ditch the workforce and rely on state welfare while it lasts, or are not supported enough, or the focus goes too heavily on making babies and not on optimizing economic output, etc.
> Investors were like LOL, have a nice day (especially if you have poor traction). And yah it’s just something I avoid now.. if you’re going to make something that helps people, charge for it.

This times a million. I've been burned so many times I use as few "free" services as possible, and nothing critical ever goes on one.

> Note: I’m gonna get crap about this probably.. I’m not saying this can’t work, obviously it has worked for a lot of companies and continues to.

It continues to work because the bubble is still holding. Eventually when privacy regulations finally go into effect, that decades worth of millions of users data that every startup trades around in back rooms is going to be effectively worthless. I suspect a lot of companies will be shifting to subscription models once we finally end open season on spying.
I actually like this. Fuck the enterprises who degrade the experience for their users. Disable this disable that. Install shit like McAfee. They just need an excuse for their existence. And the users are the ones to suffer, and the company loses precious productivity without knowing it.

I know companies that will pre install McAfee in the brand new MacBooks they give out to employees! It's insane. Microsoft should just say, if you want to use our OS, stop fucking with it.
Well, my definition of "works" is that you can read it. Authoring new documents should use ODF. And again, MS Office works on Wine, so you can use that in the worst case.
Honestly aside from the $50k I'm having a hard time seeing what the author was contributing, let alone his tech bro. It seems like this whole operation was a ready-fire-aim situation, probably why it failed.