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"""JRuby being faster than Ruby 1.8 proves nothing other than Ruby is not especially optimized. V8 being dramatically faster than any other implementation of a dynamic language on JVM proves the point of Dart paper: x86 gives much more opportunity for optimization than jvm."""

Reasoning: you're doing it wrong.

1) That JRuby is faster than Ruby 1.8/1.9 is not saying much.

Maybe x86 Ruby's implementation was not good enough from the start, and JRuby made a clean start. Perhaps you can make a x86 Ruby many times faster than JRuby with the right time.

What it does prove, by doing it, is that you can practically implement a language on JVM to be faster than a x86 language, despite the latter having much earlier head start and dev count.

2) That V8 is dramatically faster than any other implementation of a dynamic language on JVM DOES NOT PROVE the point of Dart paper that "x86 gives much more opportunity for optimization than jvm".

It could be just that implementations of dynamic languages on the JVM are toy projects with small teams working on them, while Google spend tons of dollars on a top-notch PhD team to work on V8. I certainly do now know of a JVM dynamic language with much money and team resources. Even stuff sponsored by Spring Source have much much less resources than Google's V8 team.

Also, check the benchmarks page you point to. Java is right up there in speed after C/C++/Fortran, and much much before x86 targeting v8. That's proof that nothing precludes a VM language being DAMN FAST.

And that's on the JVM, a VM almost set in stone, except of a few recent additions, and with a huge burden of backwards compatibility. Even better things could be achieved with a modern, unburdened, VM.

And the Dart team could even design it around the needs of the Dart language, most people would be happy with that, if it used a bytecode other languages could target.

Oh, and nothing precludes adding an AOT compilation system to a VM/JIT language.
Oh they do, all the time. OSS, ALSA, PulseAudio... http://xkcd.com/927/
Honest question: when was that, and what was the criteria for "best"?

I've been purchasing domains since the time when you had to mail in a check for the payment (and the grace period was like 6 months). I don't ever recall GoDaddy being any version of "best".
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Do judge all people with what they do with the money they earn, or just famous people?

Do you not shop at a store because you've seen the cashier going into a strip club?

Isn't it exhausting to be that judgmental?
When I read the headline of the article, I had to think exactly about this video. :)

There were indeed good reasons for writing things like DBus, systemd, PulseAudio and others.
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I believe the goal is not to see GoDaddy go out of business, but instead reverse it's stance on SOPA. And quickly.
I think blaming someone for innovating is possibly the stupidest thing one could do.

dbus is awesome. Best bus we have.

systemd is really nice and useful, overall a better upstart. The reason it's not a patch for upstart or sysinit is that their designs preclude certain features that systemd provides.

I don't know about pulseaudio, and I'm not sold on Journal.
The Links golf game rendered the same way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSBojv19gU8

Difference is that Link386 rendering was not exactly in real time. You'd have to way for the scene to render before you made your shot. Painful back in the day.
It would probably take the larger part of 7 days. Any registrar worth their salt will have an EPP interface. The only thing that will take a while to set up is the payment / bank accounts.
"More borrowing won't make it better" is grossly oversimplifying. If, for example, Italy can borrow at US-like rates but not borrow since that would put them in a surplus position then obviously that would resolve their problem. As the article explained, Spain never once broke to EU deficit rules until the crisis pushed their rate up.

If you have bought the idea of "expansionary austerity" then I don't know what to say - it ain't gonna work and it hasn't worked for anyone so far. The problem right now is exactly that "people have realized that there needs to be a plan that involves reducing debt levels" - "people" want to do that now but now is not the time to do it, it is causing wasteful under-utilization of capital and causing GDPs to run way under their potential rates of growth.

The assertion that "there are no buyers of new debt, at any interest rate" is incorrect -- Spain, of all countries, sold more debt than it expected to on the open market 3 days ago.

My original comment was that Krugman was right about this crisis from day-one and about the US crisis before that. I am really just repeating things he has already said many times in many places that no one anywhere seems to be able to refute with real data.
Better question wold be where are you all transferring to? And what garuntee do you have that your new register has the same 'morals' as you now and into the future? GoDaddy is the devil I know.
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Some would argue that you can't afford not to, if GoDaddy is supporting actions that potentially attack the underpinnings of your income source.
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Hassle? What's the benefit to them?
Fish oil compound a cure for leukemia?
They're big, cheap and safe. Have you ever tried to rescue hundreds of domains from a reseller who is gong out of biz or from a company being acquired? I have and it blows. I'll stick with the evil I know and skip the headaches of smaller registrars.
What I don't get about it - what does GoDaddy realistically have to gain from supporting SOPA?
"Having spent some extra time on research, fine-tuning, and optimizing the new server, we were glad to find that the gigabit network had became the bottleneck"

This matches my experience, RAID performance in linear IO
is an order of magnitude below what the disk should allow. This guy is relieved to finally get 1 gig of useful bandwidth out of 24 disks (about 1 gig a piece).
So it's no faster than a single disk.

(i know it's linear io in this case because the screenshot shows a large file copy)
codecademy.com and codeacademy.com two different entities?

thats confusing as hell, I feel like one of those should have realized the other existed and branded their product differently
Sorry but if I'm going to have to reevaluate all my tech providers each time some shitty tech legislation is beng voted on I'll have a lot less time to spend actually creating something useful for the world.

If we all had to analyze the political positions of corporations we do biz with we'd have a lot more to complain about than just SOPA.
I just own a few domais, but they are all registered at Namecheap, the first since 2006. I too am yet to face a single issue with their service.
Maybe they hope they will become default registrar for all the other proponents? Quite some big names on that list.
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They have been handling domain seizure orders:

http://www.techspot.com/news/46481-judge-oks-private-domain-...

an injunction against the top-level domain name registry, directing it to change the registrar of record for the domain names to GoDaddy (!);
an injunction telling GoDaddy to change the DNS data for the domain names so the domain names resolve to a site where a copy of the case documents are hosted (servingnotice.com/sdv/index.html);
It would be brilliant. It would mean if you were a tech company or involved with tech, that you would steer the hell clear of any offical/unoffical/private/corporate endorsment of any crazy laws.

If some legislator asks for your "private personal support" for some crazy anti-internet law, you might remember this and not tell them anything, for fear that they'll list your company.
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I think what the people in that (painful to read) thread failed to realize is how the QA process works. I'm guessing that there would need to be significant regression testing for some of those optimizations. When you are killing yourselves to hit a date, that's the last thing you want to worry about considering things are already working well enough.
I did not like the Java version one bit, (I felt) there's a significant amount of hand-waving in the book.

I am however a big fan of Matt Might's lectures : http://matt.might.net/teaching/compilers/spring-2011/ - v beautiful slides, v nice approach overall.
>Nope. RAID is not a backup solution.

OP isn't saying RAID is a backup solution. RAID is being used as a component within the backup solution (the server).
This sounds like you had a really bad implementation. Proper file server of this small size would not fail for several hours per month.
The only reason people hated PulseAudio was because Ubuntu shipped it as their default sound system a year or two before it was ready. Now it's a pretty mature sound system that works well (at least with all the Linux hardware I have)...
I could think of a few reasons out of the massive number of reasons why. For starters, its another service that ties user to the brand. While it probably won't be a huge money maker for them, there are tiny things that may be worth doing to help them leverage growth and not to mention more analytics.
They do use eNom as well, that's the one I chose when setting up my account.
Most likely they have been explicitely disabled to workaround problems.
Not much more to say than this: http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1321675-how-can-skyrim-be-s...

Bethesda are releasing patches, but right now they're fixing bugs rather than optimising performance and I'm presuming that it's a slow process because they need to test on all platforms before releasing patches.
Thank you for responding. That will be really helpful for me.
The way Poettering dismisses the "1970s unix mindset" is really sad. Here we have a big Linux contributor who apparently doesn't appreciate his heritage, which explains why he's constantly trying to reinvent it... and poorly, as the saying goes. I'm one of those who really didn't see the need for PulseAudio or any of the *Kit stuff, and even HAL was kind of a train wreck (all those years to make it stable and supported by desktop managers, to then throw it all away).

I'm sure he's just the most visible advocate of this approach, not the only one, but he's certainly responsible for a lot of the misery Linux desktop users like me were and are subjected to. After a decade of Linux on my desktop, I've switched back to Windows 7 in early 2011 and, to be honest, I'm quite happy I did.
Which 300k? I don't think you understand the US tax system. Most of the $1M is not taxable profits given the breakdown he's given.
There was two alternative for me : backbone and knockout. They are both good frameworks ( and serves different goals ).

* With backbone's models and collections, i can organize my application structure better. It's not easy but result is a clean code.

* Backbone's Router is no-brainer.

* Syc allow me to use RESTful JSON requests. Even i'm not using it, it's good to have such an option.

* Data-binding is a plain pain. You have to write your own code but there is always a library that you can use (eg. https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.modelbinding ).

* I can always read the source code and thanks the comments i can understand most of it. My complain about good and advanced tutorials not because of the laziness, it was because saving time.
NORAD's Santa trackers pull out high-tech stops
That's right. This Christmas, NORAD, the premier U.S.-Canadian air defense directorate, is once again using its super high-tech tracking equipment to keep tabs on jolly old Saint Nick.
No longer just white ear buds, headphones in vogue
When iPods hit the scene 10 years ago, the small, white ear buds that came with the devices became the symbol for listening to music on the go.
> the effort required to maintain a stable Linux desktop made me switch to OS X in 2007

I remember it was complicated in 2002. In 2007 it was already at the "mostly works" stage.
> On a personal note, the effort required to maintain a stable Linux desktop made me switch to OS X in 2007, after using Linux for 13 years.

To each his own. For me it's much better than Windows and GNOME attempting to copy OSX features has made it much worse. I'm not certainly not switching to OSX ever.
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Here is one reason why they will not:

Larry Page is trying to focus the company, not make it do everything under the sun.

See: Almost every extraneous service being cut.
I had no complaints about their service (other than the fact that they send tons of emails trying to sell more...) but, as a Canadian, I felt that was one of the few ways in which I could do something to express my serious concern with and disapproval of SOPA.
Email threads for groups suck - so we built plan.nr (150 invites - private beta)
The failure of Linux as a commercial desktop is also (not entirely, of course) his responsibility, considering the crap he pulled with all the desktop components he messed with (PulseAudio, HAL, DBUS etc etc), so clearly it's not a causal factor for his behaviour.
this is where people try to make long range contacts via voice or morse code or even digital modes... there are a lot of forms of competing, some consider getting two way communication with each state or country on a continent, or a rare island. some compete with the most number of two way communications in a single session. some try to get contacts with exotic places like remote islands where a radio person has set up a temporary station. there are many forms to this! some try to get the largest distance with the lowest power, etc. i'm not into it myself, but it is a unifying activity and something to do with the airwaves that can be fun.
Much better integration with Google Apps for your domain if you wanted it?
It seems like he feels he paid his $5 as "charity" to support this experiment, and now feels cheated because he realize that the experiment would've been successful at a lower price point, and so part of his money was spent on something other than his purpose.

So the issue here is that he made his buying decision seemingly not because he thought $5 was a fair price for the product.

Which doesn't really make it any less ridiculous...
> Rewriting some x87 FPU code and inlining a whole ton of useless getter functions along the critical paths because the developers at Bethesda, for some reason, compiled the game without using any of the optimization flags for release build.

That sounds appalling. This is not some tricky algorthm-level optimization - they seem to have simply disabled compiler optimizations. Or forgot to reenable them for the final release. Inlining a function should have zero impact on the QA process (some try to explain the lack of optimization by the need to 'fix' bugs). If it does, then there is some sort of memory corruption bug somewhere, and the code should fail QA anyway.

Ensuring compiler optimizations are active would be the first low-hanging-fruit thing to come to anyone's mind when considering performace. The fact that it was 'forgotten' means that no one even considered performance during the whole development process. Not even in the "let's leave it to the compiler" form.
Simple.com (BankSimple) doesn't support my browser
I've never seen a new company not support so many newer browsers (not newest)...I have FireFox 3 on my Macbook Pro and PC, and IE 8 on my desktop and in either of them you can't sign in using these browsers. They expect FireFox version 5+, IE9+, or the most recent version of Chrome or Safari.

How can they expect all of their users to have the most recent version of all the latest browsers? I can understand not supporting IE6 any longer, which I don't, but IE 8? FireFox 3? These browsers aren't THAT old, or THAT different than the newest versions, unless they're using 100% HTML5 in their app
I've been a very happy Namecheap customer for years, and I have steered everyone I know looking for a registrar to them. I moved from EasyDNS and never regretted it. Now, I'm glad to see they are politically enlightened.
Would love to get some HN feedback, we've just launched into private beta in the last few days.
start studying for the exams with online tests, and look for places near you (often! sometimes in some places multiple times a month) and get a license. the test teaches you mostly what you can and can't do with your license. you don't have to buy gear, for instance there are many low parts count projects you can build using junk components, but read about all the kinds of devices that people use, and practice soldering. i personally got into radio to use APRS after seeing hackpgh use it to track weather balloons. since then i build a very simple direct-conversion software radio, but you can also check out www.websdr.org to play with those kind of radios online using a java app. best of luck!! tons of things to explore.
I've been doing basic RAID stuff for a while, most notably for a client that does physics modeling (and other things). So far, my favorite build is:

- A box from abmx.com. Really nice people, good hardware.

- An Areca RAID controller (might have to talk to them about this).

- FreeBSD, which has good support for Areca controllers, thanks to Areca's friendliness towards the open source community.

- ZFS.

This particular box has had almost no downtime in the past year, and the downtime it's had has been caused either by administration tasks (software updates or configuration modification) or a USB flash drive failure (we've been experimenting with BSD and Linux server configurations on flash media separate from the server's data storage, so that we can do things like show up with replacement or upgraded configurations, plug them in, and be done. USB flash media is not reliable enough for this though, even if you're not doing swap on it).

I just added a couple of 3TB Hitachi drives to the array last week. Resizing the volume was a little fiddly because the Areca firmware needed an update first before it could recognize the 3TB drives (not a problem you'd have on newer models), but otherwise, everything happened live, while the box was up and running and doing its job. When the Areca controller software finished resizing the volume, zfs happily said, "oh, I'm bigger now! I can handle that!"

OpenBSD's softraid is also pretty good stuff, but I don't think it makes sense to use it unless you're trying to cheap out with a small 2-bay box and no controller in a RAID 1 or something.

SBS 2008 is not my favorite thing in the world.
Just updated to include James Moran. Thanks for the comment, you can e-mail me with the box at the bottom right of the map.
While trying it out, I could not find a "delete account" button. Is there anything like this, as i really do not like services, that trap me inside.

glad I used one of my bullshit-spam mail-addresses...
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Do you have a source to this? Couldn't find anything but I will happily update if I can get a source.
I've just realized that this is a great way for us non-US citizens to show that we care about SOPA too. I have just a single domain with GoDaddy which I got through an auction (who in their right mind chooses GoDaddy as registrar anyway?). It's not much but better then nothing I guess.
"A year or two before it was ready", people like Lennart were already advocating it as The One True Way for Linux audio, so I don't blame Ubuntu for jumping the gun.

Besides, looking at how things go in that area, now that it works well enough it will probably be replaced quite soon.
I had a spirited debate yesterday with my 22 year old son about "Occupy" and increasing taxes on the 1%. Since this puts Louis CK firmly in the 1% (if he wasn't there already), it will be interesting to look at him as a case study.

At the risk of down votes, and converting this to a political argument...

According to my son, in order for the 1% to "win", many of the 99% had to "lose". This seems like a clear case where we (collectively, mostly 99%-ers) decided to "reward" Louis CK with a million dollars, and none of us "lost" in the transaction. We decided willingly to fork over $5 for great comedy (arguably worth more!). The only potential losers are the traditional distribution outlets - which got zero from the transaction (so neutral, not a loss).

So, Son, what do you think of that? Explain again why you think we should penalize Louis CK for this?

Don't vote me down, kid. (My son will probably read this. I suspect there are probably few father-son combos on HN.)

Edit: My son said he's not going to answer me publicly. However, he says "I reserve the right to vote on the comment".
Technically it is, since 2005:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/01/31/google_is_now_a...

[Update - Yep still on the list http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/accredited-list.html]

There was speculation at the time it was done to get hold of domain registration data, which could be used by search algorithms.
Adding one honest Feedback. At first glance i found the "tutorial-function" quite interessting. The service is showing me, what i have to do/can do. But, being a little bit more savvy in using these kind of apps, I missed a "Stop the tutorial" button.

So I had to wait, before I could start making a plan. this friction was too much after some time and my mind just closed.

Very good idea for "not so savvy" users, though.
We don't have that in yet, I'll make sure we get a fix into the next update as you're right it's important. In the meantime if you want your details removed please email me - rich@plan.nr and I'll make sure it's actioned.
> I've switched back to Windows 7 in early 2011 and, to be honest, I'm quite happy I did.

Yes, because Windows 7 and OS X already have all this modern non-70s-stuff that Lennart is trying to bring to Linux.
This is the straw that broke the camel's back. I just migrated my 44 domains to NameCheap.

Use the "sopasucks" discount code, it takes $1.99 off each .com domain. For some reason, .me transfers are much more expensive than .com transfers: $19.99 vs $8.98
> On a personal note, the effort required to maintain a stable Linux desktop made me switch to OS X in 2007, after using Linux for 13 years.

I did the exact same thing (except in early 2008 - been using Linux since 1995), for the exact same reasons. A Kubuntu upgrade breaking my mouse config was the last straw.
Indeed Skyrim is butter smooth at 1080p on my 360, even in Markarth and Whiterun. Maybe it's lacking a few bells and whistles compared to a PC powerhouse (whose GPU alone would cost more than my console) but I don't care. Given the performance of Oblivion and Fallout 3 (which was okay-ish) for an inconsistent visual quality (see checkerboard patterns in the hills) I would never have expected Skyrim to achieve such a level.

Secondly, the interface on the PC has been criticized, but on the 360 it's just fine. I bet on a PC it's a mere remap from buttons to keys and it just begs for a controller instead of keyboard/mouse.

I have no PC to compare with and honestly care less, but from what I hear it shows where (some) priorities lie.
There is a skip button, but it clearly isn't clear enough. I think it probably needs to be more directive 'skip this and let me plan' - thanks for feedback
Why does it make you sad for a business to react to market conditions and try to garner more customers as well as let existing customers know their stance? That is why they exist. I would be sad if they didn't take a stance and use it to support their business.
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