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JavaFX, especially when used with Kotlin and TornadoFX, is really nice.

We're now at the point where you can bundle your app, JVM pieces needed, into a single distributable for each platform. With Graal and whatever else on the horizon there might even be just plain compiled-to-native options coming too.

If you don't like the JVM ecosystem I think QT also has potential but it seems much more difficult and labor intensive to create a decent application.
5 Ideas a Day Ebook (Voted #2 on Product Hunt)
What was the effect on your sleep like? Do you still need your normal 8 hours?

Also could you maintain a normal libido? My wife won't let me do fasts because it impacts our sex life too much. But I wonder if I would break through after a couple days and get things back to normal in that department.
EU Commission proposes to open up the .eu domain to the rest of the world
What does "clogging your gloms with advanced glycosylated end-products" mean?

From a quick google search, it seems that cooking generates more AGEs, which are somehow related to diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Simulating the human condition in the post-human world.
> All creatures try their hardest to out-compete everything else.

When we take a wider look at life, this just isn't universal. If you look at ecosystems in very stable environments (e.g. caves), the ecosystem as a whole tends to come into balance over time, where species are not aggressively try to outcompete their competitors, but instead fit into comfortable little niches so that the system as a whole keeps functioning well. In fact, evolution works on the ecosystem scale as well, and systems with aggressive species tend to be very unstable and prone to crashes. In environments with constant change, then ecosystems are constantly changing and competition becomes more fierce, benefiting aggressive species. This is not always the case, so I don't think it's useful to assume that everything is trying to move as aggressively as possible; otherwise evolution would select against species with long gestation periods and tend towards shorter generations and faster growth.
It's not a feature-complete clone intended to replace or compete with HN in any way, "HN clone" is just a popular term for an interface that lets you interact with HN live data.
Many coders have implemented such a project as a way of demonstrating their framework or exploring an approach as I have.
I've had conversations with enthusiasts who are incorrectly convinced that ownership/borrowing fixes problem X.

Trying to explain otherwise to them is an exercise in futility. Because ownership/borrowing.

So serious Rust project members may never claim this, but there is a large less widely experienced Rust community who have turned the claims Rust does make into something much stronger and more resistant to logic.
Detroit? Salt Lake City? El Paso? All I'm seeing is people demanding to be accommodated to live exactly where they want, even at the expense of the people who were there before they wanted to be there, even as there are plenty of viable options to go around.

But oh no, they don't have Seattle's views? Cry me a river.
> Put another way, the rest of us ostracize theology as a discipline, leaving its students to associate primarily with one another.

That's unnecessarily harsh and probably wrong.
Not to mention encouraging price bubbles and predatory real estate and mortgage practices.
I expect employees to unionize and bring these benefits back.
This is how a review is done. Thorough and covers the details that matters for a distro review.

Although I could experience the advantages it's offering over 16.04, I tried it yesterday and it's incredibly slow. Like 5-seconds-to-activate-focus-on-any-window slow.

Has anyone had similar issue? The last time I experienced something laggy like this was with crappy hardware.

It doesn't happen on RHEL 7.5 (with GNOME Classic), Fedora (with GNOME), Ubuntu 16.04 (with Unity). I have a beefy computer (HP Z600, 2x Xeon, 48GB RAM ECC), so I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware issue. Windows 10 also runs fine.
I had recently nudged into the 'obese' BMI category, so yes. From the reading I've done, most Americans/people who eat what could be called a 'Western diet' could fast for 30-40 days before coming close to bottoming out their fat stores.
It's not even specific to compilers; it's any type-checker. Compilers just happen to include one.
Super heroes in lego
I think that was more a comment on people who go "It seemed hard at first, but after a week it was totally natural and I hardly ever even think about the borrow checker anymore."

Which has not been my experience.
NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google'
> measuring and monitoring resistance levels

Ok, but what does that have to do with preventing bacteria from gaining resistance to antibiotics?
Potrace: Transforming bitmaps into vector graphics
@fuzzygroup:
First, this is awesome. It's a great example of channeling annoyance at Badness. As someone said, "Better to light a candle than curse the darkness".

I tend to agree with a lot of your points.

Re: JobHound, can you clarify your thoughts on what sort of privacy users should expect? Obviously a lot the value to those fully in the hunt will be using it to efficiently navigate public sites, but there are also private opportunities and some that might be sensitive. Any thoughts? Obviously easy to work around by separating job sets, but thought it might be valuable to others, too.

Thanks again!
What Rust gives you over Java is determinism.

Having a GC doesn't preclude you from leaking resources(file handles, textures, etc) and you're at the mercy of whenever the finalizer decides to run once the GC has determined it's time to free an object. Usually this manifests as your Java application humming along until you hit some GC threshold cliff and then perf/memory plummets.

I also can't enforce ownership in Java which drives me up the wall. Once you hand out a ref anything is fair game and calling code is free to add that ref to the root GC set so that it never gets freed.
You sure about that?

Eclipse comes with its own compiler and ONLY requires the JDE to develop Java application, not the JDK.

They also claim that its their compiler that implements the incremental compilation

https://www.eclipse.org/jdt/core/

>JDT Core is the Java infrastructure of the Java IDE. It includes:

>An incremental Java compiler. Implemented as an Eclipse builder, it is based on technology evolved from VisualAge for Java compiler. In particular, it allows to run and debug code which still contains unresolved errors...

>...The JDT Core infrastructure has no built-in JDK version dependencies, it also does not depend on any particular Java UI and can be run headless.

Not only that, but what does it matter if incremental compilation is "not tied to the compiler" if Eclipse was the only software that utilized it at the time?
I just feel like I am being punished with this since I was randomly picked for the beta. Here is a clause that just irks me: “If you fail to submit your ticket stub more than once, your account will be canceled and you'll be ineligible to sign up for a new MoviePass account.”

I have now had it happen to me 3 times in 3 months where I have driven to a theater only to have the service fail on me where I was unable to purchase a ticket. So, with this rate of error, it seems highly likely that accounts can easily be cancelled due to their error and not mine.
> it will cross-compile your C dependencies

That's really cool indeed! Rust's build tooling is truly world class.
OK for real. :-)

I've always liked Python for web dev because it is a good general purpose language, it's elegant, and has good web frameworks. Some other languages are really good at the web but not much useful outside of that. So with Python if you are building something with data analytics and the web it's a perfect choice. Python pairs well with a lot of areas. It doesn't pair with everything well, such as, Javascript I think pairs better with robotics. And there are other good general purpose languages too (Javascript, Java, etc).
I am an active contributor to Quora, which employs similar mechanics but has much higher adherence to being nice. When I see a silly question, I write a direct answer to that silly question and then write an answer to the question that may have been implied by it. I've written answers on data destruction for drug dealers whose phones are due to be seized, for example.
Alright but these people are all married
Quote:

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And woe to the millennial who dares dream of starting a family, warns Myra Lara, a 30-year-old architect and affordability advocate. Of her Seattle friends who have become parents, all but one has been exiled to the suburbs. “It sucks—I never see them,” says Lara. “But that’s what they have to do.”

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Lol "woe" indeed. This is probably the ultimate first-world problem.
Same reason Y Combinator doesn't have a bigger presence in the "Rust Belt"? Network effects.

If all the people are already on the West Coast what incentive is there to encourage relocation away from the West Coast as opposed to the continual brain drain from the rest of the country out to the West Coast?
If Americans want guaranteed retirement security, the government should build them a guaranteed retirement security.

In the UK its the exact opposite - the government actively plundered the private pension funds. People want something tangible.
The pessimism in this thread is proportional to anti-Trumpism among HN commenters.

This is a historic moment, but partisanship blinds us from acknowledging progress.
I can't seem to find any hard numbers at the moment, but I believe that the gender ratio for theology is fairly close to even (or, at least quite a bit closer than engineering or other male-dominated disciplines).

Keep in mind that, while there are variations among the individual majors, but in general women tend to be over-represented in the humanities. Also, relatively few humanities majors actually end up working in a discipline that requires their major.
Excellent article! The use of Lua solves a lot of potential issues here with competing writes to similar spaces for rate limiting, causing potential bizarre errors.

The one thing I would note that doesn't seem to be covered is if you are using a relatively large Lua script and running eval over and over it's getting cached every time, instead `SCRIPT LOAD ...` can be ran, which spits out a sha1 which can then be ran with `EVALSHA (sha1) (keys) (args)`. This can potentially speed stuff up as well as cutting back on memory.
Because Rust is a systems language?
> I was very focused for some reason.

Maybe because it was time to hunt... :P
Oh same here. Anytime I tell people I do keto, or IF, they lose their minds. The good thing is that I’ve always done my own thing without regard for what others think (hopefully within reason).

What you found is exactly how I feel daily. By sticking to keto, that loss of focus is minimized as less energy goes to my gut for digestion.
I introduced it as a strawman, just trying to be terse. You embraced it to say that we must be at some kind of pinnacle to be able to make moral judgments. I started by pointing out facts; despite the perjorative term "bastards", it's pretty undeniable that humans have pretty much decimated every other form of life that is either a competitor or not a domesticated food source. As for "blind", that's not a moral judgment, whereas "immoral" clearly is. I admitted that both are my opinion, not fact.
I'm sure a new solution will be adopted some day. The aspirin is likely just a novel cheap and, at the time, easily available solution. Possibly we won't need them in the future because we'll accelerate beam with superconducting rf cavities. Check out the PIP2 project https://pip2.fnal.gov/how-works.html
Smart for many reasons, the USA should do the same. Though because of lobbying and industry/gov revolving doors that seems highly unlikely to happen. Instead we'll probably be told "the science is undecided" and that we must "debate" the "science" for a few decades, and then eventually someone will politicize bees and pesticides with some nonsensical focus group generated slogans like "entitled pollen queens" and "plant-helping juice" so that half the country suddenly hates bees and loves pesticides, insuring nothing ever gets done about the problem.
Rust doesn't have the Billion Dollar Mistake, as far as I can tell. That alone makes it safer than Java.
As I recall the fast itself isn't that dangerous, it's when you start eating again it gets dicey.
>The value you crave would not even exist if not for them. And now that the hard work is done, you expect to waltz in and have it for the taking?

I thought the value was due to all of the high paid tech workers coming in with high salaries and driving up housing prices?
You can easily import your preferences into your new workspace.

I mean, it's not even difficult to find, File>Export and File>Import.
Not all locations are equally good places for cities, particularly now that the Interstate highway system is already built.

Still happens now and again, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside,_Florida
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I do not think he was speaking literally, suggesting that the fellow was taking his naughty gut bacteria out and spanking them but rather suggesting that long fasts could disrupt the balance of your gut flora and cause issues when you start a natural diet and start feeding a different ecosystem of bacteria.
I agree with all of the above, but it's worth noting that YIMBY policies economically pollute the areas they upzone with an influx of investment that can have disasterous consequences in the short term.

Obviously, we need more housing, which needs to get built. And in the very long term, "increasing the supply of housing will lower the price". But in the short term, increasing the supply of housing will raise the price of housing. And regular people still have to buy housing every single day, regardless of the daily price.

YIMBYs have never had an answer for the short and medium term, and therefore like to ignore the short term and medium term, which causes them significant opposition from local communities at both ends of the spectrum. The wealthy people want to restrict zoning to inflate their wealth, but the poor/middle class people want careful applications of zoning, so as not to be displaced by the violent increase in 'market rate' for the next 5 to 20 years while we wait for the increased supply to lower the price. They can't just sit around for years while we all wait for the demand to fall -- they need housing to live in during that time, and have to pay for it at whatever the developer chooses to set 'market rate' as.

YIMBYs have developer money behind them, so they will win this fight. But they have no answer for the short/medium-term economic pollution they cause, so they are hurting a lot of poor/middle class people they claim to support, and will continue to do so with each victory they achieve over the next decade or two.
I can't imagine a new OCaml or Haskell programmer getting this done faster than a novice Python programmer.

Personally, I don't think this is even an interesting metric. These are tools for experts, understanding expert experiences is more interesting.
Especially since some byte-code languages such as OCaml or C# can be compiled to native code instead of targeting a VM, the number of cases where writing such manual memory by hand make sense doesn't seem very large.
I actually knew several university professors that used emacs with the mouse. It made me cringe to see it, but they did.
For C, it's basically the cover of the K&R2.
I couldn't agree more with "We need more building blocks like Redis that do what they’re supposed to, then get out of the way." Redis has become such a foundational piece of software for me and the projects I work on.

Plus, it's just plain fun to use.
Iraq didn't "voluntarily disarm"
parent's post relies on that same reasoning, if you read it closely and with a bit of sarcasm. ;)
I think he or she had sufficient time to vet your list so send a firm email stating to 'destroy the list and do not share. and that you hope to heard from him/her soon.

if you feel he/she conned you to serve his other master, then name them publicly.
Most Millennials do not work for tech unicorns. Most Millennials do not even live in urban centers, most are living a very conventional suburban lifestyle.

Everyone else wants to think of Millennials as the first generation that is uniquely self-absorbed or whiney.
"Affordable housing" is not good for everyone. If it was, we'd probably already have it.

Existing real property owners have a serious financial incentive to oppose policies that might decrease the value of their property by 25-40% (or more), especially when a plurality of their net worth is tied up in that property.
But South Korea does not need more working stock. They already have a tough time keeping their younger population employed.[0]
Also as North Korea is mostly mountainous there's not a whole lot of new "city-building" area.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/south-korea/youth-unemployment-...
There are a couple of things mentioned in that sentence. Can you say which one you think is the "ultimate first-world problem?"
I wonder if there is a degree of separation from other students influencing the homogamy here: theology is often taught in a separate school of Divinity (eg Harvard), and at least some large universities have separate schools of Agriculture and Architecture ( eg Cornell).
I'd get a list of device companies nearby or where ever you wanted to live and start doing some research into what applications their products are for. If you apply to a company making, e.g., dialysis machines, then having even a basic knowledge of what a kidney does and how it fails will immediately set you apart from most of the applicants.

Look at their websites and see what types of positions are available and what type of work seems interesting.

You could also call recruiters working in that area and see what open positions they know of. Aerotek is in that field and I always liked working with them.
I think they mean theology majors are more like to value premarital abstinence.

And since most people religious or not still have urges people that value premarital abstinence will probably get married sooner.
Kubernetes best practices: Organizing with Namespaces
Nice! We have very rough winters in Kansas (driving, persistent wind and no humidity), so it won't work year round, but it may work for our summers
If Google opens a campus across the road from my house, my house's value would skyrocket with no work at all from me.
response ot your note: mostly because the traditional HN culture values comments with content in them, rahter than joke filler comments. Your second comment appears to fit in much better!
Forking Redis: SSL/TLS and Transactions
This might help:

https://youtu.be/3PWWtqfwacQ
People weren't interested in maintaining the early programmers.se site. It was a "what to browse when there's nothing else to do." As the crud started piling up the options were either abandon it completely (that was threatened) or clean it up along with the associated rules of what makes a good subjective question.

It takes a lot of work to maintain a free for all site by the community. It takes less work by the community to maintain a heavily moderated site.

The culture of a site is a reflection of how much work people are willing to put into keeping it that way.
Low and middle class voters outnumber wealthy voters. Why do lower and middle class voters not vote for government regulation of housing? Or government creating land trusts to ensure enough affordable housing now vs 20 years from now? Is it simply apathy?

Tangentially, I’m a huge fan of how Germany (Berlin in particular) uses government regulations to keep housing affordable.

https://boingboing.net/2018/01/30/then-we-take-berlin-2.html
Reunification is probably off any conceivable timeline for now, but opening up immigration would be nearly as big a shock. As you mention, the economic disparity is massive - probably the starkest of any neighboring countries in the world. It could give rise to an even more complicated and acrimonious immigration debate than exists in the US or EU today.
What does the app do? How much RAM do the company machines have?

Personally, I'd take the hate about Electron here with a huge pinch of salt. RAM isn't expensive, developer machines tend to have a lot of RAM and you're only wanting to launch a single app. A minimal Electron app takes about 100MB of memory which isn't much if you've got e.g. 8GB of RAM.
I expect the reason for the public response is largely thanks to the media reaction a year ago when everyone predicted that Trump would bring in a nuclear third world war. People put forward the dooms day clock, but the result today is very much the opposite.

When people look back in 10 years I suspect that this will be the main story, and the China angle taking a large backseat position. When people make bold predictions and the opposite happens then that make for a better story than details of geopolitical results.
I only know one person who studied theology and she experienced her first religious service 2.5 years into her studies.

Yes, even things we believe to be true we have to put evidence for on the table in scientific discourse.
Figured I would post this on here since I hit another milestone of 400 issues (and almost 60k subscribers) and yet I think most folks on HN don't know about it. Would love to hear any feedback and/or answer questions on here.

If you're not a subscriber, you can signup at http://hackernewsletter.com (I'm working on a new landing page, this one is ancient).
Do selection and drift play an important role in cancerogenesis?
Might be better to offer several "easter eggs" instead of one jack pot. If people have been searching for it for decades to no avail then I'm not exactly inspired to go look for it either. A string of discoveries would get me more excited, even if the value was much less.
I had the same experience with any programing language with a rich set of libraries since the 16 bit days.
Yeah. Found your blog and your Instagram.

Looks like a great trip.
> into North America

The article is about Europe.
> I never thought I'd see this happen.

Why? Societies/nations/etc always change. Given the state of NK, what's shocking is that it didn't happen sooner.

> I'm not incredibly familiar with the situation as it stands, but is re-unification a legitimate possibility?

Reunification is inevitable just like it was between east and west germany. The only question is when.

In the meantime, if all goes to plan, it looks like the koreas + US/China are going to officially end the korean war and relations between north korea and south korea + US are going to be normalized and we will ostensibly get the "unofficial" end of the cold war. Of course the biggie being north korea giving up their nukes.
As someone currently living in the Midwest/South. I love how spoiled I am with my low cost of living in a relatively under-exploited quirky/cool/hip destination.

If I knew a secret to get better tech jobs out here, I would do it yesterday. (If someone wants a technical cofounder in an interesting location, let me know. ;)

With so many of my friends on the West Coast, I feel the siren song myself, and it's tough to combat network effects.
Also curious about this
> give a “question quality” score made up by some algorithm that SO controls

This exists, and in some cases the evaluation results in some JIT help for the poster. In other cases, it puts the post into a "Help and Improvement" queue where more experienced users are waiting to suggest (or directly make) improvements.
Starter homes are $80,000 in Cleveland Ohio.

Starter homes are $800,000 in Seattle Washington.

It would be a long while before it becomes a problem.