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Heh, it finally happened on Hacker News too, people misunderstood what i wrote and downvoted me for it instead of trying to understand what i am talking about (yes i am annoyed with that, it is one thing to be misunderstood and another to be penalised for being misunderstood - especially on HN where messages fade out when downvoted).

So, first of all:

> Reference counting is GC.

How did you thought that i said otherwise when i clearly wrote "aren't using reference counting but some other method of GC" ("other method" here implying that reference counting is also GC)?

Moving on...

> Also you should not put all GC languages in the same box

I did not, as should have been obvious from the "after all both use GC methods that allocates tons of memory whereas something like Python or even classic VB use reference counting" where i compare two different methods of GC, one that uses a lot of memory and another that doesn't.

Now i get that making the previous misunderstanding would make this bit sound as if i was making a comparison between "GC" (Java, C#) and "non-GC" (Python, classic VB) - and please note that the quotes here are to show what one could think while having that misunderstanding, not what i really think, after all i already made it clear with the previous quote that i think that reference counting is a method for GC - however i do not think that it is my fault here, i gave examples and tried to make myself clear about what i mean. After some point i believe it is up to the reader to actually try and understand what i am talking about.

I think the rest of your message (the "as many do allow for AOT compilation to native code and do support value types and GC-free memory allocation as well.") is relying on the above misunderstandings, especially considering i didn't do what you describe, so i am ignoring it.

Now don't get me wrong, i am not attacking you or anything nor i believe you are wrong with the fact parts of your message ("reference counting is GC", "not all GC languages are the same"), it is just that the message doesn't have much to do with what i wrote.
You have to weigh the death toll of the evacuation against the death toll of the disaster.

We see the flooding issue right now--an evacuation would have killed far more people.

A dirty bomb? Once the bomb goes off you will have plenty of time to evacuate where you need to. Keeping radioactivity contained would be more problematic than removing people.

A biological agent? You want to quarantine rather than evacuate.

A fire? San Diego showed how to deal with that--phased evacuations ahead of the actual fire path.

Earthquake? Well, once it's done you have plenty of time to evacuate.

I can't really think of anything that would affect something the size of Houston simultaneously.
Yes, however every region has different natural disasters that can be prepared for in different ways, so when they happen they cost many less lives.
Wow, that is so ridiculous. I was wondering what it was too.

So, this is really about people drawing weird boundaries around what they find acceptable and labeling whatever's outside the boundary "porn". Mmm, so progressive.

Much of what is called "sex positivity" strikes me as suspicious for similar reasons.
"Slow iteration, each mistake that you could learn from potentially costs a hundred lives"

The potential for disaster is absolutely there, but aircraft crashes rarely do cause that many deaths, they are just the ones media loves to cover. The survival rate of aircraft crashes are at about 90%.

Every year millions of people die on the road, amounting to several thousand each day. That means that just a bump of 10% in the death rate of automobile accidents would mean hundreds of thousands more victims every year, they're just distributed across many accidents that would only be reported on during a slow news day. A bump up in aviation death rates would mean a couple thousand more.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/odds-surviving-plane-cra...
http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/traffic_deaths_...
But a car that can drive me while I sleep and become a Taxi while I work is something I would go into debt for.

I don't think most regular people will actually own fully autonomous cars to rent them out. Big players will do the capital expenditure to buy a fleet, and rent out transportation service. Renting in uber style will be basically the price of owning, but without the up-front capital expenditure, and it will provide the convenience of choosing the type of car for the specific transport needs of the moment. The margins of these rent-a-fleet services will be low, so you won't have a hope as individual car owner of actually buying a car and renting it out without turning it into a loss compared to just renting.
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Yes, else it ends up as some form of Perl Golf
I'm going to start using NPM Lego, thank you.
And now we are 10 sailors down and two major crashes... What is the ROI?
This guy mix and match totally unrelated things.

- clean != finished

- clean != perfect

- ugly is not clean

- you can understand a code and find it still ugly

What is he actually talking about?

> Automated tests are not that important

I agree with the content of this section, but the title is bad.
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Can the HN title add "(2015)"?
That's assuming you only have 1 train.
Trains leave between Osaka and Tokyo every few minutes at rush hours, and travel at speeds upto 300 km/h. They are timed to nearly 1 second accuracy, monitored precisely by computers, and each station has multiple tracks to buffer the traffic.

Tokyo's station serves 3000 trains daily and some 415K passengers per day as of 2013.

The Chinese high-speed rail system also deals with similar levels of passenger traffic. Shanghai's Hongqiao station for instance has no less than 30 tracks, can hold 10K passengers at the same time, and comfortably serves an average of 210K passengers per day (much more on holidays), and it is only one of a few railway stations serving the area.

Trains scale well if you do them right. Technology has come a long way.
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If we went for the evidence we’d all be pair programmingband doing some form of agile development.

It would be nice, and it’s backed by various studies, but we’re not.
A situation in which all relevant assets are priced appropriately and there is no way for one's gains to outpace market gains without taking on more risk. Assuming an arbitrage-free condition is important in financial models, thought its existence is mainly theoretical.
Not if they take only Bitcoin!
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I did read the comment, and reposted the same link to identify it as the source of the canoeing stat.

My reference to 350,000 participants is this text [1]:

The United States Parachuting Association has nearly 35,000 members.

It estimates that about 350,000 people complete more than
3 million jumps in a typical year.

3,000,000 jumps / 350,000 people = 8.57 jumps per person per year (approx).

It doesn't even pass the smell test that football could
be more dangerous than skydiving.

The perception of football as "safe" can be attributed to its popularity: many people play football, therefore it's viewed as normal, just like driving.

[1] http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/skydiving8.htm
Iran has officially stated they want Israel obliterated, and then they started building up nukes, so not sure how sane or defensive they are
Someone, at sometime, has previously predicted just about anything and published it, making them appear prescient.
The first D&D campaign I ran fell victim to this; two of the players were brothers and their mom picked up on that, despite the fact that I attended the same church as them.
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This seems to couch the idea that older professions finally "understand it." Look at the houses people made 40 or so years ago. We now have to have disclaimers indicating that the materials they used were... not so wise to be used.

Go back further, suddenly you will be left with basically nothing but survivor bias. It will seem like they had it together, but it is just as likely they did not. Pull it in some and you get the hastily built houses that seemed to fall apart way too easily.

I feel like this can go with software. It is actually trivial to find software that is still is use from the 80s. Older fortran code still exists. It is far harder to find any lessons in those software packages. Even when I desperately want to.
I experienced while writing a lot of tests, the code suddenly became
- more readable
- less over-engineered
- replaceable
- easier to maintain
since it's easier to write tests for "clean code".
Ask HN: Which services provide data from credit cards?
I read there are companies you can pass credit card numbers to to retrieve customer information/data. Is this legal? If so, which ones do that?
If you read the article you will see that it entirely failed to predict what just happened in Houston. The article goes on and on about Storm Surges, and building Dikes - neither of which had anything to do with what just happened.
If you accept that the US Government didn't lie just told the least untrue thing it could then it fits. It just turn outs the former is identical to the latter in most cases.
I believe there was an article posted on HN a while about about whether or not humans could improve the speed of a fastball in baseball. If I recall correctly, the suggestion was that one of the ligaments can not stand the stress above a certain speed.

There are many sports (especially in track and field!) where we are meeting the limitations of normal humans. Can you be a world class sprinter if your body is not aligned to it at birth? If you are disadvantaged at birth, how reasonable is it that after sacrificing most of your life to training you are going to accept inevitable failure? What if a PED can push you over the top?

One of my favourite quotes of all time is from the Simpsons: "Cheating is the gift man gives himself".

With billions on the planet and hundreds of millions who are rich enough to pursue sport, the pool of people who have the drive and are willing to dedicate everything to being the best at their sport is HUGE. What is sport at that point? Filtering for genetic freaks?

But then, looking at it another way, should we then see it as a technological challenge? Let's look at cycling. Whether or not we accept the premise that doping and PEDs in the pro peloton are a thing of the past, it's hard to argue with the success of Sky's "marginal gains" strategy. The margins of victory in large stage races are so minute that even a 10 watt difference could be meaningful.

I kind of look at this as an F1 style of sports. Those with the access to money for research will win (as we see with Sky in cycling). If we include PEDs? Well, then money for research becomes even more important.

Now, I actually like F1 racing (even while not really liking cars -- I'm complicated ;-) ). I like pro cycling. I like a lot of things. But, I honestly don't think this is the direction that sports should go. As someone who participated in track and field in his youth, I'm highly disillusioned with current trends -- competition for medals, the need to beat world records, people sitting on their sofa watching 10 minute vignettes of "life drama" with occasional intermissions of some guys running.

Sports for me is 50 year olds getting together for a game of soccer; jogging in the morning every day to get ready for the 10 km "marathon"; riding in a "sportive"; softball; hockey; kendo; whatever you enjoy doing.

Watching people at the top level is awesome, but we don't need to enhance it. We don't need to embellish it. We certainly don't need to pay someone the GDP of a small country so that we can have bragging rights at the office the next week. Especially if a PED makes the difference between a struggling athlete bagging groceries for a living or living the life of a super star.
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Someone please explain us:

- what the heck are we seeing

- why is a twisted 3d object such a big deal

- what are the applications
I agree... Judged against the title, the article adds little value: take one micro-benchmark; implement the naive Python algorithm using non-CPython approaches like Cython, Numpy and Numba; and stick on clickbait title that implies a speedup that applies in all cases.

The article would be much better if it ditched the comparison to Julia and instead showcased "Some ways to make Python code faster."
It's not either/or, it's both/and: climate change and city planning are orthogonal to one another.

> Is it clear that climate change is responsible for the extent of the damage?

That's highly odd way to phrase the question.

Climate change is responsible for more energy in the oceans, which is responsible for more, bigger, storms. Bigger storms mean more damage per storm. Climate and weather are different. The climate changing in a manner that makes the weather more extreme will always contribute to damage, but will never be "responsible" for it as it will always be the weather causing the damage...

So: this is the third "once in 500 years" event in 3 years. That is what "climate change" looks like. These storms "suddenly" popping up? Climate change means more of that, as we have been seeing and can demonstrate statistically. The long term prognosis? Thanks to climate change it's worse, with these rare events becoming ever more frequent, and the extent of damages growing over time.

Our climate is provably changing, from human activity. This is very clear. Barring holodecks there are no primary causes for weather than climate... Change that climate away from what our society is adapted for and expect pain.
Not entirely sure about how trustworthy it was but I think I've seen some kind of a study that claimed it affects something like 30% of people. Doesn't really matter if it's majority or just 30% though, still too much to ignore and not all games are able to offer multiple locomotion options.

Also depends on where you draw the line. I've never gotten sick from VR personally but the movement can still sometimes feel weird to me.
Here is what people like the first woman in this article never address:

If porn is so denatured, and so misrepresentative of reality, why do people make it themselves, and then share it with others, while never getting any money or fame from it? There's no other explanation than they enjoy it. And there are SO many places on the internet where people do this. And you can find all the stuff that is supposedly sooo unrealistic that "normal" people don't do. Singles, couples, groups, women and men, all of it. All of it.

Why not just admit, hey, there's things I like and things I don't like, and sometimes people like things I don't, and vice versa. (I mean, I know why, but.)
I had that, but lately I got best results from pandoc.
The single most dangerous thing I learned was that "cleaning" as you go and the "intrinsic quality of the code" were somehow paramount.

I'm not against the ideas, per se. But they have a cost. And at the end of the day the quality of the product you are building is far more important than any intrinsic quality of the product. Worse, it would be nice if they correlated, at the least. They don't seem to, IME. I'd be welcome to data showing otherwise. Make sure you understand your budget. And for the love of god, realize that idioms in the codebase and in the general programmer pool are more important than purity of some style.
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Sure, but we've been building houses for a long time. We know a lot more about building houses today (or even 40 years ago) than they did when the practice of house-building was still relatively new. And most of this knowledge didn't come from building houses over and over, but from developing better theories of how buildings stay up, using better materials, etc....
Digg and Reddit, for starters, don't have hundreds of their own datacenters - and about one or more orders of magnitude less users than the "giants". Twitter seems to have operated a mixture of leased and owned DC space (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/09/19/twitt...), but far, far less than FB/Google/AWS do.

Digg and reddit are fairly niche, at least for advertisers - which means these sites need far less ad salespeople and support staff; reddit also can get by with having next to zero visible support staff by relying on community moderators which cost them nothing.
Yea, but the rental income from houses in California are taxable by the California FTB. That's a reasonable compromise. What's less clearly reasonable is whether a California resident should pay CA taxes on a rental house in, say, Guatemala, but that's also the CA FTB's position.
Yes, if "sociopaths" are rare then most of their games will be against opponents who haven't played against them before. One suspects this also means that if the number of games goes up dramatically (say we move to the city and enter an occupation with lots of daily transactions), initial cooperation will decrease as sociopaths are seen more often.
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Yes, but we're talking about Fedora's default. And in Ubuntu's default for example the home directory isn't even seperate.
I can't speak to their autonomous technology, but Toyota has always been a leader in electric vehicles, from the early hybrids, to partnering with Tesla, to impressive long term improvements in fuel cells even after the U.S. Gov. Moved on to batteries.
Arguably Toyota has more electric vehicle prowess than any other company. It is relatively small potatoes to change the source to batteries manufactured by Japanese companies.
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Well, the interest rate has to be substantially higher than the risk-free rate, otherwise you're incentivizing late payments. 6% is a little on the high side, but not unreasonable IMO.
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I've heard that ME can't communicate over a non Intel WiFi or Ethernet chip-set. Possibly related?
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No such luck. Menu structure is different and dialer does not have that option (stock 7.1.2)
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This is nonsense. The only way to "be careful denouncing them" is to tolerate them. How much extremist behavior would you tolerate before denouncing or taking action? You present no measure and you've said nothing worth taking into account. At all.
But why do people differentiate porn and Sex?

When we look at a professional football player play football, we never call it fake football. So why when it comes to sex we choose what is real and what is fake.
I understand that very few people can have Sex like porn stars and very few women have the ability to look like porn starts. But why do we look down upon them and call them fake.
Wasn't in the case on Linux due to overcommit that allocations always succeed anyway? So a novice C developer, working on 64-bit Linux may assume that malloc calls never have to be checked.
>while shoveling snow always helps you out

That appears to be an error in the article. If your opponent is shoveling, then you shoveling hurts you (300 drops to 200).
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Enormous compared to what? We spend 3.2 trillion a year on Medicare, which is 9.9K a person [1]. Imagine if just 1K per person per year (300B) was spent on infrastructure every year to make mass evacuations over a few days possible. Imagine how great normal day to day travel would be once that is in place, city by city.

[1] https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...
Do you know of any viable setups for using eye tracking in daily computer use? I think it would be pretty nifty to be able to control my mouse while having both hands on my keyboard.
sure, he typed wrong number and got same make, model and color stolen vehicle, also:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/policeman-b...
Interesting project, and surely a great showcase of R graphic capabilities. For somebody like me coming from python/matplotlib, which gives almost unlimited freedom in creating complex visualizations, when approaching R graphing should I focus on basic R ("graphics" package) or learn some ggplot2?

At first it looked like basic graphics is quite limited, but after I learned that I can draw rectangles and polygons I re-evaluated it a lot. OTOH I can't avoid the feeling that all ggplot2 gives me is some canned styles and a very uncomfortable syntax, like "ggplot(...) + geom_bar(...) + theme(...)" where `+` means something I can't fully comprehend (because "The Grammar of Graphics").

Please help me change my mind if I'm being ill-informed, I do want to take the most I can from R graphing. ggplot2 is hugely popular so it must be doing something right.
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It's folly to assume the competition is fixed. New competitors can and have appeared long after Uber was started.
The valedictorian of that class, who had just aced the test on digital communications the week before, raised her hand the following week to ask a clarifying question about a follow-on topic: "When you say everything is just ones and zeros...what does that even mean?" That sums up naval training.

That sums up a big chunk of computer science. What answer did she get from the instructor?

It's a good question, coming from a non-technical person, and I'd definitely give a dirty look to anyone who laughed at it.
Because it's staged and directed? If it was just recording people having sex, you'd be right. But there's a lot of editing and other work going on. If you watched a football game where directors came on and had the players redo a certain takedown then it'd be a closer comparison. Maybe compare to WWF wrestling?
Indeed, the speed limits are completely reasonable if you don't want to remove people from the streets - but your suggestion seemed to be that people were near-immediately removed from the streets instead of limiting what cars can do at first. There were 30 years when cars were lawfully limited to 4mph in rural areas, so your "even on empty roads" point is moot.
I think a bit of clarification is required. KCQL, kafka connect query language was jointly developed with Landoop when Confluent commissioned DataMountaineer to write the JDBC sink. The reason we added it was to simplify the configuration but it also enabled us to filter and support various options of the many data sources/sinks we have connectors for. Confluent removed the kcql from the sink and reverted to a flume style configuration we were trying to avoid. It's good to see Confluent plans to support their Ksql in Connect, following DataMountaineers lead. We hope this is optional. We can look at migrating if it supports all the options we need that KCQL provides.

Regarding Landoops proposal. This was not about KCQL but SQL on Streams, also named KSQL which is integrated with their new product Kafka Lenses. We'll look at Confluents SQL and see which one to go forward with, maybe both but we have happy customers using our version.

But congratulations on your KSQL very nice! We (Landoop and DM staff) have proved many ex colleagues in the Investment bank world wrong about Kafka and this cements our decisions to use it. Thanks.
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