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Isn’t this the exact opposite of what Mike Pall wants for LuaJIT?

>> “Although we've not done a huge amount of direct LuaJIT research, we've always tried to stay abreast of its development”

I can’t find the post in the list-serv but I recall Mike Pall fairly adamant that he wants the project to be taken over by someone who:

A. Has contributed substantially and understands the internals of LuaJIT and

B. Not to make poor design decisions that other VM have historically made.

C. Be dedicated to LuaJIT

This Kings College London group who’s being funded to lead this admits they have no prior expertise on LuaJIT and they are mainly aware of only other JIT/VM.

Also, since Kings College London is an academic institution - doesn’t that mean that you’ll never have a consistent core team working on LuaJIT because students are just going to cycle through the school in order graduate.

Please take my comments coming from a place of caring. LuaJIT is really a marvel at how much it does in such a small code base.
It is nowhere near as slow as spinning drives, that's ludicrous. Mega IOPS are simply not required in a desktop. I'm not trying to run multiple VMs with multiple databases on this thing. In fact it's rarely writing at all.
You're completely right! There really, really should be lots more companies with bigger dreams than those of Snap.

You're so right, that thousands of people agree with you, and have created precisely those companies! They tackle issues like the cost of medicine or health insurance, provisioning clean water, or improving the basic materials we make our daily items from. They're working to get more people access to high-quality therapy or trying to reduce waste in our food supply chains.

Is it perhaps possible that Snap is considered highly innovative because the people granting that honor may be less than fully informed about the wide world of startups that ought to be under consideration? Perhaps the problem here is not one of what companies exist, but of publicity?

To recap: you're so completely right, you've correctly described the state of the world! Well done.
These the Evil Within 2 animated artworks will haunt your dreams forever
I'm not complaining. HN is about the best of what we've got. My Napoleon reference was the slobbering nature of the comment, which is so pro-moderation as to lose objectivity.
Activision Patents Coercive Technique for Growing In-Game Revenues
Some EU countries banned agro chemicals for general public. Now it's only for license bearers - farmers mostly.
Exactly this. The incentives are to plead guilty and take a deal: If plead innocent and found guilty: Life in prison. If plead guilty 10 years, 5 with good behavior.

Then take a poor brown person without good legal representation and having a fairly empirically justified belief that the justice system is out to get him, and he woukd be found guilty regardless. So exactly this.
The point of SNI, i.e. the reason for its existence, is to allow more than one SSL-enabled website to use the same shared IP address. Prior to SNI each SSL-enabled website required its own dedicated IP address. On a home network, is shortage of RFC1918 IP addresses really a problem?
"Taxes" are money paid to the government for use in government funded activities.
To be clear, you can still install Python 2 the usual way. The only thing that's changing is that it's not installed by default (and by extension, that none of the base system depends on it).
Well then let me thank and congratulate you for your efforts in building this.

As a long-time dash user in the past, devdocs felt like home and just works nicely and without any unnecessary features.
You should probably see a doctor that sounds more serious.
Ask HN: Which browser for web development and why?
The voting ring detector is in need of a serious upgrade. There are so many cases of vote solicitation by people with meaningful social media following and their posts even make the front page. It's mostly the Product Hunt style "Hey we launched on HN, check us out" which is code for "upvote my post". People have stopped directly linking to the post submission for fear of tripping the voting ring detector, but they either just say "We launched on HN" or link to /newest. Seeing such posts make the front page makes me question the effectiveness of the voting ring detector beyond catching the obvious ones.

A shoutout to `minimaxir for being one of the only people constantly calling out others for such bs. As you can imagine, people get offended for being called out and I remember at least 2 instances of him being treated rudely for doing so on twitter.

If anyone comes across such submissions, please report them to the mods by sending them an email. I'll admit I have not been doing what I suggested, but going forward I will.
I'm unsure... E-readers are wonderfully convenient to store multiple novels, but my experience is the same as in your previous post, even for novels. I tend to read non-sequentially -- going backwards and forwards in novels, re-reading previous chapters, going back a bit to re-read a paragraph I liked -- and e-readers are simply not good for that. Printed books are way better. I tend to remember what I read in paper books better than ebooks, exactly what you described for academic papers!
You reap what you sow.

If you DGAF about planning and resource management and just do the same thing year after year your fields will soon be useless for growing that one thing you've specialized in and it will suck to be you but none of your neighbors will feel sorry for you because they all saw it coming from years off.
The excess ID numbers are AFAIK due to deceased people being in the table.
Ask HN: Best remote desktop app for customer support?
Are there any better alternatives to TeamViewer? Which are known for good security? Would you advise NOT using remote desktop apps for customer support?
Yep - PNW forestry is a fairly reasonable solution, at least in the sense that it's sustainable as-is. But it's far from a natural condition for that area.

The comparison between relatively preserved parks and National Forests (e.g. Willamette) and the rest of the states forests is truly jarring.

For that matter, the same pattern can be seen across the country. Much of Pennsylvania is densely forested, but the entire state has only a few thousand scattered acres of old-growth woods.
I'm not saying there will be a good outcome, if P and you play along. I'm saying that's the argument.

I think cryonics is as much snake oil as Pascal's God.

I'm baffled that I should need to clarify that, given that's what I analogized the argument to.
My favorite Maine tale is about the obituary of Mary, a 103 year old woman who died in a small town in Maine. She moved there when she was three weeks old and spent her entire life living in the house on the small farm that she grew up on. She went to the local school, graduated and started teaching then later got married and had a family and eventually grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her obituary lead with "Mary, from away, ...".
The article is about pieces of hardware
I think consumer services, platforms, and software hit deep market saturation many years ago. All this to me sounds like consumer plays.

Right now the innovation has again turned to business software and services. I see most of the intersecting things in tech playing out in corporate offices instead of on my phone or my home computer nowadays.

I think it’s easier and definitely more headline grabbing for articles like his to focus on the consumer stuff. The real story now though I feel strongly is in the business space.
That's not the point. They just don't want to think censorship is an accepted part of their daily lives because censorship often implies oppression. But censorship is part and parcel of almost every forum. The social values of the people who own the forum, as well as incentives behind their operating it, determine what kind of censorship is applied.

For example, on YouTube, hate speech [which I know isn't actually a thing] is commonplace - they don't feel the need (or perhaps don't have the resources) to censor comments which certain people find detestable. But they have created complex systems to analyze videos so that they can identify certain ones and remove them automatically. The end result is that censorship isn't applied uniformly. In one example, a YouTube account that was documenting videos of attacks on the people of Raqqa was flagged for spreading terrorist propaganda. You could make the argument that while the hate speech didn't impact their bottom line, the videos could, so they accept a certain amount of unequal and unintentional censorship in order to maintain their business position, defend their corporate values, and of course, retain their user base.

Moderation is a more nuanced and human approach to censorship. By giving people second chances, answering emails, giving the occasional explanation, etc they build social capital and prevent emotional backlash that could threaten the status of the forum. By helping users to understand the error of their ways and have a chance to redeem themselves, they can't be accused of unfair treatment. But they are indeed imposing specific social and political values on their users, to the point of hiding or removing the post or user when it doesn't align with their values. This shapes not only the quality of the dialogue, but its content. This is the essence of censorship.

To severely paraphrase 1984: "To control speech you control language, as controlling language controls thought."
What is your use case for GoodReader? I'm curious.
It would make no sense to ban an IP for only a single session. Shadowbanning can still be rare (for whatever value of rare) when an IP ban is persistent.
Obamacare/ACA and overly generous state public pension plans (at least in some states) are putting economic pressure on state budgets causing higher education to be underfunded.

Increases in Medicaid funding which is shared by fed and state results in less tax money to go towards higher education.

Zeke Emmanuel, MD PhD (brother of former Obama Chief of Staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm), health economist Victor Fuchs, and former Congressional Budget Office Director under Obama Peter Orszag have all stated as much.

Boomers had a far greater proportion of their state university higher education paid for by the state than today's students. Completely unfair.
"Scooped up" is hostile - to end users. In the battle between Facebook Messenger and Instagram, Facebook was forced to innovate Facebook Messenger and actually add gasp features. Wait, no that was sidestepped when Facebook announced they'd bought Instagram. It wasn't until SNAP refused to sell out, that Facebook was forced to do anything something to Messenger (though in their desperation, they ruined it).

For those among us at HN hoping to be acquired for giant piles of money, "scooped up" sounds almost paternal, but for the people who actually use the end product (which may different than the customers in the case of ad ware like Facebook), it's a warning sign to flee the platform.

Even sustaining a merger is difficult, but what a company really wants when acquiring a tiny startup, long starved of "proper" resources, is for that startup to finally flourish and become the progenitor to a whole new industry with the help of the new parent company, and make all the shareholders piles more money. However, merging an acquisition is so difficult, and parent control (and branding) is so poisonous, that "Google came out with a camera that spies on you all the time" barely sounds like hyperbole. (I mean, it is, but there's nuance lost when talking about Alphabet-plus-all-child-companies level when they operate significant portions of the cloud, vs Nest, which as an upstart competitor, did not.
>somewhat common in the US in the parts of the US that are over-represented on HN

FTFY.
Fair. I sort of assumed from "don't even think about doing this unless you have signoff from general counsel in writing" that it was the latter, but on further research, I am indeed finding the former is more accurate to fact.
Being rich doesn't increase your chances of being robbed by your relatives or strangers, it's just the opposite it seems
https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5137
I'm aware of it, the majority of my static sites are still using Hugo since I haven't touched them for ages.

The two features I really wanted when I started Gutenbrg were Sass compilation and syntax highlighting built-in: a clean build of my blog with Hugo + Pygments was taking ~20s for ~20 pages at the time and needed virtualenv for Pygments, Node.JS/npm for gulp-sass and the Hugo binary. Hugo now has syntax highlighting in Go so that part should be better though.

Themes are supported in Gutenberg but there is only one so far as I didn't want to spend time on that yet. It is pretty fast to port themes though - took me about 10 minutes for Hyde: https://github.com/Keats/hyde - so I might port ~10 or so next week to get the ecosystem started.
It's a nice resource that I have been trying out. Very complete and useful. The only thing missing is real and good content. So, hopefully you get more attention and track so people start using it!
#MeToo just recently I had my first comment on HN 'flagged'.

It had several upvotes 19 constructive comments and was perfectly reasonable IMHO.

What gives, not a big drama. I shrugged it off, though it left a negative taste of things to come.
Build your perceptron neural net from scratch
Yeah, but why should we welcome a world were web sites become read only PDF?

Furthermore, the day a Facebook or a Blogspot will start drawing pixels instead of text people will keep using them and good by to copy and paste. We'll even get technical blogs with code samples which are impossible to copy, and some clever W3C standard to introduce copy and paste for text rendered into canvas.
There are layers to HN's transparency. Some policy is in the guidelines. Some policy is described in moderator comments, so if you want to keep up with it, you have to follow 'dang and 'sctb. Some policy is "public" but you'll only learn about it if you mail hn@yc and ask. Some policy won't be made public.

There's no master plan behind it all, but each of these ways of handling policy has a purpose. Describing evolving policy in comments allows the moderators to be responsive and flexible without overrunning the site with metadiscussion like they would if every new decision they made was accompanied by a formal change in the guidelines. Relating policy in email discussion gives them a chance to explain it in context and to take feedback from the people most impacted or interested in that policy --- we all know votes on this site wouldn't generate that set of users.

The stuff they don't make public is generally stuff we don't want made public. We forget that there are just a couple (I think literally) people running this site, and they're up against waves of people trying to create schemes to sell front page rank to spammers. They've got a sort of equilibrium that gives them a chance --- something Reddit seems to be failing at despite a much large team --- while still having the time to type out individualized contextualized explanations for all their routine moderating actions on threads (seriously, mods, figure out TextExpander or build something like it into your moderating tools).
yup, I was able to implement a basic blockchain at once the moment I watched that demo.
Utopic Dystopias
I don't think that's how trademarks work.

Still, terrible and unoriginal name choice:

https://github.com/search?q=gutenberg
More choices is not necessarily a bad thing
Welcome to the stackoverflow era of programming, where technical specs don't matter and frameworks are life.
agreed. I was just stating something, not a counter at all.
Pushing UI rendering to client side and other "rich client" properties stress the servers less, so it's an advantage for the app provider.
Sorry, it's probably the tenor of the whole thread I'm responding to, not you in particular.
The Effect of Climate Change on Cities
What is your review of Codesmith (coding bootcamp)?
Where do you get these numbers ? At work, I do not know where the servers are physically located (some VMware ESX in a closet). Most of my colleagues are in the same situation. Even for windows, many people use terminal services for teleworking. At my previous job in Belgium, it was similar (with a different X server).

I have provided support to Nederlands and Portugal using X11VNC.

Outside work, my wife and my mother are using linux. They call me when they have an issue. Hopefully, I can help them remotely 99% of the time.

IMHO, local desktop is the exception in entreprises.
Google's AI Now Creates Code Better Than Its Creators
Should we really teach our kids how to code?
If you want to ban some IP, just serve 403 to that IP. Deleting all of the accounts of people who like to order toast and eggs in the morning at the same place is what makes no sense.
And as mentioned, people will definitely use the flag feature to get rid of controversial articles they don't like. Anything about sexism will get flagged into oblivion, for example.
All of them. Because inevitably you're going to have a user on IE6 on Windows XP that the app doesn't work right for and you'll end up supporting it because management doesn't want to lose a customer. Ideally you'll want to be working with IE9+, Chrome ~48+, Firefox ~40+, Safari 9+ to ensure modern compatibility.
The Elm docs unfortunately don't work without JavaScript enabled, which makes them difficult to scrape / add to DevDocs.
Modern brk() can return -1 to indicate there's insufficient space above the current break address to allocate the requested additional space. I assume "in the early days" brk() could also fail to allocate space (after all the space available is not infinite) so "perfectly safe" comes with caveats.
If Dan and Scott were kings, they would be fucking epic. Best monarchs ever. It's hard to think of anyone who cares more about fairness, but clever enough to decide for themselves. And they're usually right. I think I can count on one hand the number of mistakes they've made that even remotely mattered. And from a strategic standpoint, that number is effectively zero.

There are probably a bunch of people behind the scenes, and they deserve lots of credit too. But there is something incredible about being able to post a dozen moderation comments every day for years without ever being so mistaken as to provoke community backlash. It would be really easy for them to offer an offhand opinion, or just make a bad call, and suddenly have people up in arms about it.

They're also some of the most humble people. Both of them have done some really amazing work and have cool hobbies. But I've sort of had to pry that info out of them over years.

http://github.com/gruseom/numen - Dan's project. JS REPL for emacs. It took another four years for anyone to even come close (https://github.com/NicolasPetton/Indium) as far as I know.

https://github.com/sctb/lumen - Scott's project. A self-hosted Lisp that compiles and runs in both JS and Lua. The whole codebase recompiles in about one second flat when using LuaJIT.

But like, that's maybe 5% of the cool stuff they've done. There's just no outward sign -- they don't bother with blog posts or any kind of self-promotion.

So yes, all hail the kings of lisp.
It's being called out to highlight a diversification issue not a profitability issue.
It's open source and very welcoming to new documentation additions!

Take a look at [0] and see if it would be worth the trouble of adding it yourself or at least starting the process.

[0] https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING....
> In our experience SSD write performance goes to sht if you don't regularly TRIM them.

Interesting, is that because of the load? It seemed "modern" SSDs have GCs good enough that trim isn't quite necessary anymore to ensure good performances in consumer loads.

> RAID cards not passing TRIM is a big problem for us too...

Are there NVMe RAID cards? I assume they'd necessarily pass the command along considering deallocate* is just one parameter/option of the DATA SET MANAGEMENT command, or do RAID cards just drop the entire command?
okay, what if I have them with diet coke?
If there was demand for it, every other apartment building rooftop could include a greenhouse.
When politicians get Tough on Crime for SuperPredtors and start a War on the Particular Drugs Browm People Prefer , the itentionality becomes bare.
Shadow banning isn't rare.

I've had accounts banned for no apparent reason, or for laughable reasons that are not even in the poorly written guidelines.

Moderators also have been repeatedly caught about heavy handed moderation. They control the platform, they control the message, they do not allow meta discussion, why believe anything they say?
Libor is fraud by design. Nobody learned anything from the scandal.
In this thread, some people are complaining of moderators downvoting (lowering the rank) of some submissions over others; and at least one person says "let the readers decide". I think that if I wanted a forum/news site where "the readers decide" and ONLY the readers decide, i'd go to Reddit. No thanks, i prefer HN due to the behind-the-scenes 'curation' or choice of content, which so far usually gives very interesting, sometimes exciting news, posts, articles and "Show HN"s.

As for comment moderation, I think that HN is a community with the least amount of moderation i've seen. Which makes me really happy.

I have submitted only three or four things here, so I don't really know how nice (or not nice) is HN from the submitters' point of view.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, 47 Organizations Join Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
$7 is cheap imo. I paid for a service similar to yours for years. Their price point was close to 10 times as high as yours, yet I happily paid my monthly subscription.

I love this.
I keep having similar thoughts as well. Something based around a raspberry pi, with a thinkpad style keyboard, including the pointer stick. Then have a small (~7inch) touchscreen and you're good to go.

I've been inspired by this:https://gizmodo.com/heres-a-pretty-legit-gibsonian-cyberdeck...
Kubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark is released
> A lot of people are about to start calling random tech support numbers asking them why their internet is not secure

Good. More pressure on all sorts of companies to add TLS to their ancient systems.
> Fewer than 1 percent of start-ups end up as $1 billion companies.

Is that the goal for society, to have more $1 companies (vs. having that value rolled into a larger, pre-existing organization)? Is there an assumption that more $1 billion companies will somehow mitigate the power of the Big Five? Are the Big Five stifling innovation?

Feels like it's only a problem if the big boys enter into non-complete agreements (like the hiring issue a few years ago).

To put it another way: do we need/want to spread the value from the "Frightful Five" to something like 7, 8, or more companies? Is a "Terrible Ten" better/worse than five?
It's the same as taking a photo of someone on the street in general, except this time the man flashed her. Would you say the same for someone who takes a photo with a clear face of someone on a food stand? Plus, it was 30 years ago, not yesterday, so it would be beyond the statue of limitations anyway.
That's a guess from Troy at this point, he also points out that there may be expats. It should be easy enough to define some statistical tests on the ID numbers and dead/alive status to see if they fit the demographics of the SA as of 2015. Also, the SA population pyramid has, for example, a bulge in the 25-29 group...the breached ID numbers should reflect those trends, rather than being uniformly distributed.

Also, remember that a big percentage of South Africans are poor, and likely to not appear in any databases except for Home Affairs itself, so unless that's the source of the breach I doubt there are any other DBs with even close to that number of ID numbers.
Wow, this is remarkably accurate..