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This title is hugely misleading. The value types specification is for JVM, the platform, not Java 10. You can compile a large number of source languages to run on JVM, such as Java, Scala, Closure, Groovy, Kotlin, Javascript etc. just to name a few.
Does your expense reporting software have hooks that Lyft can use and Uber can't?

I tried Uber's Concur integration once, but our accounting people didn't like that I had a receipt in my expense report without a hardcopy... I ended up needing to print out the email receipt so someone else could scan it in.
You can have a more complex structure that mixes different incentives. EX: Cost + with reductions in profit based on expected net costs.

The problem really comes down to competent regulators, but sadly that's often a major hurdle.
I'd say the problem in that statement is "I don't like Lisp", and we should solve for that :)
About reality
>College students will have to pay the cost of their college educations one way or another. Either with loan repayments or higher taxes.

If I'm buying a hundred thousand tuitions, presumably I can negotiate a lower price far easier than if I'm buying one. Additionally, even if their total monthly income was the same, not being in a large amount of debt could be a positive. Many would feel more comfortable taking a loan to start a business or build a house, and it would be easier to justify spending without needing to worry about debt interest.
>Well when has this ever not been the case? The way most of our economic systems are set up, the disparity of wealth between nations, between races, etc. They are all about this luck. In fact the difference between human beings and animal is exactly that as well. The concept taken to its conclusion is absurd.

More need to come to this realization and abandon the idea of absolute meritocracy altogether instead of paying lip service with talk of "equality of opportunity".

>It is important in disputes that law treat us equally because it is necessary for the preservation of suppressing violence by forcing all competition into voluntary exchange. Otherwise the institution cannot provide the incentive to suppress our instincts and redirect our efforts.

>But the western illusion that those values necessary to create incentives for us as an individual economic unit can insulate us from our family, and clan, and the necessary operation of our reproductive evolutionary system is a postmodernist, socialist fiction that assumes economic and legal equality can be extended to genetic equality – contrary to all evidence and reason.

>The rawlsian veil of ignorance is a complex rhetorical device for the neurolinguistic programming of the masses precisely to confuse them into the illusion of biological equality and to divorce the individual from his ancestry so that his loyalties are to the state and rather than to his familial genetic heritage.

>The blank slate, likewise is a device for the same purpose. So are diversity and open immigration.

propertarianism.com/2013/07/20/legal-equality-is-necessary-economic-equality-is-unattainable-and-genetic-equality-is-undesirable-your-genes-matter/
It's not completely stupid. My answer would be:

If you need something up and running fast, but don't care about performance per instance, such as a marketing landing page use RoR.

If you need something very performant per instance and are willing to pay for it, such as a enterprise application or large web site, use Java.

If that's not an acceptable answer, the interviewer doesn't know what he's doing.
I live in Victoria, Australia. Energy bills are through the roof - almost literally as "insulation" is a thing just about no-one here has any competence with. Whatsoever. I'm talking about builders and building code designers specifically.

Ironically (see the top and bottom positions of the chart), I spent the first 40% of my life in Norway where things do get proper cold as opposed to in Australia where it's accepted to just have a heater pumping hot air through literal slits in the building (e.g. 0.5cm gaps under the external doors, that sort of nonsense), resulting in houses that are never properly comfortable at horrific expense. Yet in Norway the houses are actually insulated for deep, real winters and don't even need active heating at the temperatures costing Australians a fortune (eg 5-15c). I'm pretty sure it's impossible to get single glaced windows in Norway (because it's actually illegal to use), yet here it's a "luxury" item which is priced as you'd expect when not a standard. This gets my blood boiling (hey, free heating).

On a side note, I just started ETH mining on a Pascal GPU, and can still turn a profit. If I still lived in Norway I'd buy a lot of GPUs..
LIDAR Lite Test: A Quick'n Dirty Laser Organ
Judging by nomenclature it seems to be more influenced by Plan 9, which also adhered somewhat to capability-based security without advertising that fact.
http://www.yoctopuce.com/EN/article/first-tests-of-the-lidar...
It looks to be a capability-based microkernel in the spirit of L4 and Green Hills' Integrity.
Food is better, people are friendlier, sunnier, better quality of life, better stuff for kids. Less tax.
> If yes, it's troubling. All my stoner friends claim no permanent damage from chronic use

I mean, your stoner friends have got to be making a strange claim in the first place. There is no magic Twin Earth, where yoga is a contact sport, John McCain is president, and they never smoked, that they can compare themselves to.

We all decline somewhat from other factors, the question is just how much is attributable to what. How would they even be able to parse out their cannabis-decline from their age-decline, or from their haven't-practiced-long-division-recently decline, etc?

If they are only thinking "I felt dumber when smoking but now that I stopped, it seems gone", well, that's something, but it can't be a complete picture vs their never-smoked potential.
There's nothing stopping you setting up your own TV station or newspaper or search engine.

Just the billions of dollars and thousands of talented staff.

So, yeah, for 99.999% of people it is impossible.
Healthcare and college won't bankrupt you?
Sort of on-topic but I recall once an Australian company called Enviromission that was wanting to build solar updraft towers in the outback. With so much incredibly solar-rich, un-used land, I thought Australia would've gone all in for solar by now.
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I agree with you, but mostly for a different reason: the opportunity cost. You can flip burgers for $10/hr indefinitely, or you can forego ~4 years of income, accept ~$30k in debt, to permanently raise your base salary to $100k if you pick, say, Software Engineering. So was the student debt worth it? At age 65, most certainly the college graduate will have accumulated more assets and have a higher net worth. Sure, debt repayment has a drag on a portfolio, but if you don't have a well-paying job, you're not even building that portfolio in the first place.
It's a little out there, but I think VR workspaces will potentially provide such a method. Currently the iteration cost is too high. (For example it could involve rearranging desks, tearing down walls, buying equipment, etc.) VR opens the door to a malleable workspace that still comes close to pairty with face to face communications (it is not there today but most likely will be in a few generations.)
Well for me, I use stack overflow to translate. I want to do this in this language / framework, how do I do it?

I'm sitting at a bar in Turkey. I want to know how to say, "I want a beer," in Turkish. I know how to order a beer, drink the beer, and pay for the beer; I just want to know how to do it in my current circumstance.
This topic has been covered extensively on HN. Check out some of the past submissions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=passive%20income
Op didn't say it was a complex algorithm. :)
In QLD my rates are as follows, GST included:

Supply charge: $1.10/day

Usage rate: 28.6c/kWh

Therefore, my standard quarterly bill will have $100 of supply charges in addition to any usage that occurs.

I am super lucky that I got on to PV when there was a large (unsustainably so) government incentive, so my feed-in rate is 54.6c/kWh (not including GST) which more than offsets my normal use since I am never home during the day and thus feed that all in, then use power at night at the 28.6c rate. I essentially get a negative bill as a result (told you it was unsustainable).

Nowadays, the feed-in for new contracts is just 6c or so, hence people now look to invest in using that power, or having battery storage.
I feel this way every time I need the use of a pickup truck. There are plenty of places I can go rent one but the time it takes to reserve it, drive there, do all the paperwork, and then repeat when I return it just doesn't seem worth it most of the time.
Is it really misleading though?

Does anyone with the slightest familiarity with JVM languages not understand that each major Java language version is also associated with a major JVM version?
Themed logging with ANSI colors on Windows 10
Ok: static analysis of a language where most fundamental relationships are resolved at runtime.

I guess this is one way to express the futility.

The lesson learned is hook console.log -- or whatever function you are interested in -- meaning,
replace it with something that captures the context in which it is called and passes through the call to the original)
It's obviously a subjective matter. However, seems as he specifically mentioned "while raising a family", here are a few possible reasons:

- Safety

In general Australia has a lower crime rate than USA. Of course, there are absolutely areas within USA that would have a lower crime rate than certain areas of Australia.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Australia/U...

- Health Care

Australia has well established free public health care that covers general illness, radiology, necessary surgeries, disabilities etc. Higher income earners are expected to also have private health insurance and are penalised in their taxes if they don't have it. However, if you're a low(er) income earner or simply prefer the public health system it works quite well.

https://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/dhs/medicare

There's also a pretty solid Welfare system if you are worried about income stability for whatever reason.

The free public education system is also quite good, although I'm unclear on how it compares to the USA.

Of course, there are also many benefits to living in the USA over Australia - particularly if you're working in the tech sector. There is a strong tech scene in Australian capital cities, but it's fairly quiet elsewhere. There's nothing comparable to Silicon Valley.

Depending on your business, the USA can also be a better place to start your own business - larger sales capacity (if you can deal with the fact States have very different taxation rules etc.) and significantly more VC opportunities (although Australia is slowly picking up its game).

Film and TV industries are also obviously miles behind LA or even New York. So if that's an industry you're interested in then USA is the place to be.

However, Australia seems to compare fairly favourably when raising a family is your biggest priority, say over career advancement.
I suspect that's actually part of the problem: a massive buildout of renewables without full accounting or planning for the complications to the grid, i.e. all the shock loads and lack of storage. Then the consumer is left footing the bill.

At the same time, we have signed long-term LNG contracts while simultaneously large gas projects are delayed by various red tape and doesn't look like it'll clear up any time soon. I read at some point Australia is importing LNG just to reexport it to meet contract requirements.
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Why the hate for interns :'(
The first two are sensible suggestions, but playing the stock market is essentially gambling. Most people would be better off investing in index funds.
I thought it was well-known that marijuana use among adolescents was a risk factor for schizophrenia.

I'm 100% for legalization, but no drug is ever completely safe. I had to talk a friend down from a nasty paranoid dissociation episode after she ate the recommended dose of a mass-produced legal pot cookie in Seattle. It's a hell of a lot safer than alcohol, IMO, but that's not the same thing as "safe".
Yeah, see my other comment. Australian builders / the whole building industry is downright ignorant and just about completely incompetent when it comes to thermal management.
I made an open source search engine that searches her user curated mind maps on the web. Here is the search :

https://learn-anything.xyz/

Since everything is open source and I can't run ads or add any sponsored content, the only way to support it is through Patreon. I think it is a pretty cool idea and solves a big problem of not knowing how how best to start learning a topic or what learning some topic X is.

I hope people will find it useful.
Some would say Communism lacks even a real first chance.
I'm getting to be the same way. I've been fortunate enough to have found work in the last 15 years through friends, so the interview process is chatting at lunch as a formality.
A number of reasons:
1. Safety. I don't hear gunfire on New Year's Eve, like we used to in L.A. and some places I lived in Orange County as well. Someone getting shot is almost national news here.

2. Government support. If I lost my job I wouldn't have to worry about how to pay for health services. We're a healthy family, but peace of mind is great.

3. Government support. My 7 year old was diagnosed with mild ASD, ADHD and Dyslexia in Kindergarten. The National Disability Insurance Scheme has helped us pay for Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology and Psychology. She has very much thrived here, and we are grateful for it.

4. Professional environment. This might be anec-data (all of it might), but mine and my wife's workplaces are very flexible when it comes to taking care of family matters.

There are TONS of things I miss about living in Southern California (it still feels like home in many ways, good Mexican food, Disneyland, running my AC non-stop all Summer!, etc), but, for us, the pros outweigh the cons.
Hey IEEE, you are doing the opposite of a service in a world created by your members. Please cease to exist.

As an on-again, off-again IEEE member, I've often wondered what it would take to stage a "revolt" of sort and get enough like minded people on the IEEE board (or whatever they call their leadership group) to radically remake their approach to monetizing content. In an ideal world, I'd love to see all research papers made freely available and the organization funded solely by membership fees and other means - conference fees, sales of dead-tree books, probably other stuff. Maybe charitable donations?

But up to this point, I'm afraid I've never been motivated enough to really pursue the issue. But if anybody wants to form an "open access caucus" (or if there already is one!) feel free to give me a shout. I'd still like to help with an effort of this nature.
Net metering is under heavy pressure from utilities because it costs them a lot. They'd also like connection fees to pay for the infrastructure they have to maintain, even if you aren't using (much of) their electricity.
> An empty process has nothing
> Namespaces are the gateway to the world

Sounds like capability security to me. Although I wish they had said more about how these namespaces work. If they are inheritable and you can virtualize them for child processes (as you can in Plan 9/Inferno) then I'd say it qualifies.
That's another proposed change in Java 10, both part of Project Valhalla:

http://www.jesperdj.com/2015/10/12/project-valhalla-generic-...
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I think this statement is a little sensational. If $30k in student debt is 'shakling', then did we ever expect the same person to take on a $300k mortgage, or other larger financial milestones typically associated with middle class life?

I agree that this debt isn't helping achieve other goals, but it's magnitude seems small compared to large financial goals like home purchases. If you weren't going to qualify for the $300k mortgage (less down payment), it wasn't because you had student debt; it was become you didn't have the income.

My point being, this debt isn't crushing. It delays other financial milestones, but it shouldn't end them. However, if the discussion was about borrowers that are taking 6-figure student loans and then becoming baristas, well I would agree that person is definitely shackled for life -- but that situation isn't representative of the typical college graduate. The typical graduate has about $25k in student loans.
It's a double-edged sword. The code's behavior is apparent in that simple example, but things get considerably more difficult to understand when you're dealing with monkey patched methods and dangerously clever method_missing magic in non standard library code.
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http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/values-0.html
LOL, and this too :P
Excuse me? I've never created any fake accounts. Your accusations are baseless.

By your logic, your replies are harassment; you are condemning precisely what you are currently engaging in.

Disagreement on the internet is not harassment. I am free to mention the username of anyone I like in my tweets of gifs of boys kissing.
Publish some books on the knowledge you've accrued.
My definition of "passive income" is income for which you need not work more than five hours a week. Some people are stricter and define it to mean no work each week. With very few exceptions, there are no opportunities which will actually end up being passive income for you just because you're a web developer. There are several opportunities to increase your income, but it's rare that they are fully automatable (or even feasible as a part time venture).

One option is running a successful service company; this is by definition not passive unless you own it and don't need to actively manage it. So that's out.

Likewise, a productized SaaS company is not passive unless you have very minimal customer support requirements, new feature development and marketing to do. That's overwhelmingly unlikely (if you look through the routine threads asking HN for SaaS success stories, you don't typically find instances where there is a minimal time commitment).

I'm not trying to discourage you from developing a successful stream of income. I'm just trying to push back against the idea that you can reliably generate income passively using web development skills. There are a few options that can require very little time (in theory, I still don't think you'll easily get there in practice). But I think the only one that will leverage web development and still be mostly passive is running a network of websites monetized through ads that have low effort content. Other than that, maybe write a useful ebook and promote it until it has excellent SEO and referrals.
You greatly underestimate how utterly devoid of morals both of our major parties are, resulting in them being in the pocket of the coal miners and other big corps. They are almost militantly opposed to non-coal, non-LNG investment.

This is a government which earlier this year brought a lump of coal in to parliament as a prop to say that they were 'not afraid of coal' and to attack the opposition for 'attacking the jobs of rural workers at the coal mines'. I'm not even joking:
https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2017/feb/09/scott-m...
> Australians in general are hesitant to use their AC or electric heaters, opting to just layer up when it's cold or try to use fans in the summer. Many (most?) households don't have clothes dryers, using clotheslines instead.

Are you suggesting these are bad things? I think they're positive however, it varies wildly across different locations and demographics.

> I would like to see how much energy the average Australian household consumes.

Again, an average figure wouldn't be that insightful, as there are probably massive differences in different populations. Additionally, building standards change things considerably (presence or lack of insulation, double glazing, ceiling height, aspect) - certain eras and locations (often due to regulations) get these things right, others don't.

I'm not sure how much consumption would go up if power got cheaper, but mine sure would... I really dislike being cold inside my own house. That said, I much prefer living in Australia to the U.S., especially while raising a family.
This is an awesome site, thank you!
I think the parent meant index funds. Index funds are the only kind of market participation that you can reasonably call "passive."
I thought we were only supposed to use "she" as the default pronoun when the subject is something positive though, like always "she" the engineer, but never "she" the thief or "she" the serial killer.
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Would it actually be that inefficient? I honestly don't know, but am curious if the tech has changed that significantly. Consider lifecycle costs (both financial and resources) before replacing it; might just need a clean and service.
The cyclical pattern you mention is concerning. Our government should be mandating cheaper housing and encouraging child rearing. Otherwise, we'll end up like Europe with flat or negative population growth. Our path forward mostly depends on having more people than before (which in itself is not sustainable indefinitely), unless we see radically new policy, like UBI.
Yup you can very often just buy the tool you need on CL use it for a weekend and sell it to the next person at pretty much the same price. I suppose this is actually a nice model as it forces you to not abuse the tool so you can still sell it for a good price.
Can you elaborate on the Canticle for Leibowitz connection? Not doubt motivating me, just curiosity as I've never made the connection and enjoyed both works.
> It seems that thinking on exceptions in low-level languages is firmly in the "no way" camp.

Except Go isn't particularly close to the metal anyway. The only way Go is low level is in the same way Java is low level: it's very limited in terms of the programmer's ability to create abstractions.
I avoid using my AC but I'm just really cheap and don't mind suffering through heat too badly. It helps that I also work in an office fulltime so that's full HVAC and I'm not home during most days when it's bad. I also love the cold (to the extent that QLD has cold) so right now I'm in a shirt and shorts and loving it.
Ditto here, and I'm American so guess I don't count as western.
No what I'm saying is that the single Newtonian solution in this problem is no motion. The ball stays at the top of the dome. If there is a problem with multiple Newtonian solutions, this isn't it.
Given that we are not even close to the official release of Java 9 and whether the proposal to JVM specification will be accepted and implemented for which version, it is largely inaccurate to title the article "Java 10 - Specification for Value Types" for a JVM change proposal. Besides, interchangeably referring to JVM and Java reflects the ignorance about the whole ecosystem of JVM languages.
> Ruby embraces and favors magic. Python shuns magic and goes for one correct and explicit way.

Could you please give examples of this?

I never understood where this idea comes from.
If your adversaries are not shy on using rubber hose cryptanalysis you are screwed to begin with.
"Access-to not ownership-of" VS "The tragedy of the commons"

It's as eternal and essential balance as CPU vs MEMORY.
I to have this issue on my laptop. Gnome​ is the worst offender but definitely not the only. I've found that changing the font size in mate to around 6 to 8 does help.