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A black hole pulls material off of the star it "eats", creating an accretion disk.

Artist's conception:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Accretion...

But you're right- the bubbles are not the jets themselves. The bubbles would be interstellar gas energized by the relativistic particles. As the gas diffuses, it spreads from the jet's cone into a large bubble.
It appears that a terrible consequence of redefining prostitution or immigration law as "slavery" is that it may lead to regarding the original, actual slavery as "benign by comparison".
Nice, France. No.

(Also true for where I've lived before: Berlin, Zurich, Prague.)
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Yes, until I came to the comments and figured out the subject, object, and verb, I could not meaningfully parse it.
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I live in Tokyo. Public transport is very extensive here, though quite crowded. Many people don't own cars. I'd say most single people don't. I used to commute by bicycle in my previous job.

It's rarely a problem not to have a car. Doing groceries can be slightly inconvenient, but I often order online anyway.

If you wanna travel by car you can always rent one.

I used to commute by car in Sao Paulo and it was really stressful. When I choose the next place I'll live, one of the most important factors is whether I'll be able to live without a car.
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And before you tell me that the GC isn't that big a deal: it is. Literally every big project I've worked on in a garbage collected language reserves a bunch of memory off-heap at startup and uses that for allocations on the critical path because the GC kills performance.

You could replace occurrences of GC with malloc, switch the language to C, and it would be just as factual. Basically, what the author is saying is equivalent to, "Real projects have to optimize." Well, yes. This isn't deep. It certainly isn't surprising, and it doesn't strike me as a good reason for not learning a language.
Obligatory link benchmarking various Objective-C operations:

http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/performance-comparisons-of-com...
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The Holy Spirit dwells in us. "I am in the Father and the Father is in me."

Spirits puppet people--possessed people are under control of a demon, people speaking in tongues under control of the Holy Spirit.

God says...
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Here's an example of what maxklein might mean.

Ask yourself: is the relationship between Moulkheir Mint Yarba and her master typical of Mauritanian slavery? Or is it very atypical and unusual? Or in between?

I'll bet you have no idea. But if you knew - wouldn't that change the way you react to this reality? (Assuming it is a reality. Mike Daisey's reality sure wasn't.)

I have no idea, either, because Mauritania is a foreign country to me. I'm happy to let it remain so. I have enormous doubts that American social engineers can improve it from afar with pallets of dollars, or drone strikes, or whatever we're using these days. (We might improve our own country first, although it's admittedly harder because we can't use drone strikes...)
On one hand she's talking about the lack of diversity and on the other hand she will not encourage young girls to join engineering...

I think the problems she referes to are completely unrelated to female in tech!
> Sometimes it's nice to provide a few jobs and make some bank.

Unfortunately, with $17M VC funding, I doubt the stock owners feel the same.
Well there are many competing princilpes, and the way we prioritize them will affect the kind of society we end up with.

I believe in this instance, the benefits of equality outweight the costs.

If we believe that a "free" market would distribute prices differently so that lighter people paid less and you believe the free market price is fair. Then some small ecnomic harm is occuring, to those who pay more.

The social cost of rectifying this small harm however is, i think, considerable. It makes transportation harder for poorer people and perhaps those that need transport the most. And so on.

In this case, i think the $500 extra /flight can be distributed across the couple hundred passengers without much to-do.
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All blame shall be directed at Vidar ... But yeah, maybe we could optimize the doodle-date-finding-process. Suggestions?
But opening unknown URL IS dangerous. It's like URL shorteners that plague internet since Twitter - you never know where link will take you and what scripts etc. will run in your browser.
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None of his early literature mentioned private space exploration, but considering he fell out with NASA over the bureaucracy and spent the last years of his career in private industry, he would have been all for it.
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vim can split windows as well, and most terminal emulators support split sessions... my real question is what is the real benefit of tmux?

i'm not trying to start a flame war here, i used to use vim until i got into lisp. i'm always interested in looking into different workflows.
Any such thing happening in Munich?
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No car. Simply because the upfront cost was too much, fuel just keeps getting higher and public transport/walking has been completely adequate.

Only time I've needed a car is when moving house, but even then a hired Van has proven far more useful than a car.

Also parking in Brighton (UK) is an absolute nightmare, residential permits cost <£150 a year, and that's after the queue for getting one.
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Did you actually read the article? "benign" doesn't belong in the same dictionary as the words that should be used to describe the slavery described in it.
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If they're are sure as you are that your idea is going to make it big, they have an incentive to stay rather than go work for Google or Facebook, because they have a lot to gain from something huge. If they don't, you already have a problem, never mind the head hunting, because then they don't really believe in the idea. Then you'll have to incentivize them in the short term with cash probably (ie pay them more than Google or Facebook will), or realize yourself that maybe the idea isn't that good.
A simple way to remember forward/backslash (which I probably read on HN) is the phrase "Backslash is by the backspace"

Edit: This is for the standard US keyboard. A more general way of thinking about it, though a bit more to remember: associate "positive" with "forward", and see that '/' has a positive slope. Or just go listen to a BBC podcast, and let the sound of the broadcaster saying "bbc dot co dot uk forward-slash newspod" resonate in your head.
This model interacts a little quirkily with the expected lifecycle of companies which take VC investment. (If you haven't raised $1X million from VCs, feel free to ignore what any VC would say about you.)

There are a couple of clocks ticking. One is burn rate versus reserves, and having a portfolio strategy where you produce X flops to 1 hit and then cover your expenses does stop that clock. There are other clocks (+), and the studio model does not really have a pause button for them unless you're acquired for strategic reasons.

+ Prominent among them "How many days are left before nine months before the date at which the oldest VC fund from which took money expires?"

There are unfortunate-for-the-entrepreneur consequences of any of those clocks running out, since right before the buzzer it will be suggested that they sell the company. At that point, the value of the portfolio amassed by the studio model gets evaluated, and unfortunately the value of most past-the-new-release-window studio-esque IP is very, very, very tiny compared to the value of e.g. a company with an existing base of 200,000 customers and permission to charge 220,000 credit cards next month. It is not necessarily the case that the sale will value the company higher than the investor's liquidation preferences. That is just one way under which an entrepreneur who lead a company generating profits every year could be told that their 30% stake in the company was valueless.
That's it. I knew if I mentioned it, someone would pop in to help. =)
>I'd trust Ken Thompson and Rob Pike to understand what system programming is better than some random dude on HN.

You'd be surprised, Pike has more or less retracted the "systems" moniker due to the reaction it got. He avoids the term now as a result.

I know this because I've been watching Go itself very closely.

But hey, it's just Rob Pike. Maybe ken still calls it a "systems" language. I'm still just a random dude on HN who thought plan9 was a fantastic idea and keeps track of Pike's work as a result :)
Check out iGC. The claim is, by tailoring GC to the ObjC runtime in iOS, you can beat ARC's performance with GC. (Look at how ObjC allocates heap and use read/write barriers to reduce the number of roots that have to be traced.)
I agree about the openness shortcomings of VP8 but suggest most are to do with it being a last-ditch attempt to get something out to compete with H.264 in time rather than conscious decisions taken by Google to minimize openness and maximise control (though some have portrayed it as such).

I guess the big question is whether H.265(6,7) could be argued to be more open than VP9(10,11). I get the feeling the former will continue down the patent route and the latter will be more likely to be a well-engineered open source success story (hopefully emulating the Opus codec effort, who by the way, opted for the code as specification route too), but you never know.
Zurich, Switzerland. Public transport is very good. With the car-sharing company Mobility it's easy to book a car by the hour if needed. That plus normal car-rental for longer trips comes out cheaper and more hassle-free than owning.
In theory, gains in productivity from computerized resources would replace the need for human work. (Voicemail and word processors made secretaries obsolete in many organizations, for instance). But in practice, work has simply grown more complex and more voluminous to accommodate the productivity gains.

Consider the humble spreadsheet, arguably the most powerful business innovation of the last 50 years. Now that people can calculate complex models in hours, not weeks, have the fields of corporate finance and forecasting gone away? Hardly. If anything, more work gets packed into each day to fill the vacuum left by not having to crunch numbers on paper for days on end. And the level of sophistication going into deal analysis has increased, allowing people to spend more time planning and less time bean-counting.

Sure, some jobs have been in outright decline since the rise of technology. Secretaries, human computers (sorry, Frank Herbert!), many factory workers, and so forth. But the net amount of work to be done hasn't decreased. If anything, it's increased dramatically. It's just shifted to the knowledge-worker side. And knowledge workers' workloads have skyrocketed. All of this technology has actually made us busier and more productive, because it has allowed us to do more each day.

The theory that technology replaces the need for X or Y work is based on the flawed assumption that the total need for X or Y work remains static over time. In the knowledge worker's domain, it does not. It turns out that meeting the need for X and Y actually increases the need for, or at least the expectation of, more X and Y. In this sense, I tend to agree with PG's argument (and the arguments of those like him).
Have you had a look at Clay? http://claylabs.com/clay/
I had a friend in college who did programming for the "black box" on a military aircraft as an intern.

That wasn't as cool as my other friend who programmed the school's online class signup system...
No car. I live in London. Zipcar etc. work well.
Generally, one ought to start thinking about this instead of the "End of jobs". Jobs are an industrial-era economic construction, work is something we always had and will probably always have, even as an evolutionary relic.
Get a high fidelity prototype and quickly. Nothing better to keep them interested than a working model.
That's because it's somewhat inaccurate. Dr Aldrin is all for commercial space flight. Dr Buzz Aldrin is (Apparently) upset that NASA had 7 years from the decision to end the shuttle program to come up with a working replacement and they failed.

The Dr Aldrin is a legend, and so is Neil Armstrong. It was Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan who did the criticizing of SpaceX, not Dr Aldrin.
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SQL isn't, and if it's not a serious language, what is? Perl and PHP are what the web app layer was originally built on, and they seem to be designed to maximize developer efficiency for small projects.

I intentionally said most, since, obviously there are serious domain-specific languages. But stating that Go is designed for large code bases, creates a false dichotomy.

Go has the advantage of being designed for the kind of thing Google does - massive concurrency.

So, claims the C fan since there's GCD, so claims the Erlang/Scala fan since it has actors, so claims the Haskell fan since it has green threads, STM, and purity.

Also, is Google interested in massive concurrency or parallelism?

It's also like C, which make it easier to find good programmers who are confortable with it. Actually, you'd be hard pressed to find good programmers who are uncomfortable with a language that's nearly C.

That's a good point. But as a result it provides only a marginally better type system, at the cost of performance compared to C. Why not make it a lot better than C, with the same performance?
The best people always have many opportunities. It's like Joel said in 2006 [1]: the good ones never "hit the market" because they simply pick up the phone and call in the outstanding offers.

Don't fret. View it as validation you've got a good team. For all of you, if your startup is successful the opportunities from Apple, Google and Facebook will only get better. If the startup doesn't go so well, those offers will still be there.

1 http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper...
No, QDOS (86-DOS) did not have switches. IIRC none of the commands had any options at all. It did, however, have nice CP/M compatibility because there was a command (RDCPM?) that allowed you to read from CP/M formatted media.
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CP/M did not have directories as well.
You might have said the same about Angry Birds, and yet they've been able to milk that into about $100 million in annual revenue with App sales and licensing.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/37c3d96e-280c-11e1-a4c4-00144feabd...
You mean, the privacy of those people who will be scanned and groped by TSA thugs minutes after they've checked their luggage in?

It seems that people are ready to give up the last bit of dignity as soon as they enter an airport; if a company could offer a substantial discount in exchange for paying by the kg, many people would cope with it. Not everyone, but enough people to sustain an airline company.

The reason why it won't happen is because their pricing scheme is already optimized to extract the last dime each traveler is willing to pay. Introducing a weight variable would mess that system up.
Can you please show an example? This is interesting.
Been following Rust and bitc. I'll leave bitc alone and instead comment on Rust:

Rust gets a lot closer than Go, but is still straddling this awkward territory between C and Java.

I would imagine that Rust would be fantastic for implementing a database or a web browser or anything else equally complexity-management and performance driven. The concurrency and safety semantics seem to make that case even stronger for making it an excellent language for a database.

The non-optional runtime overhead that I have to imagine is endemic to the purported feature-set would seem to be a non-starter for systems (kernel, driver, embedded) programming.

Safety is one thing, mandatory safety means a mandatory runtime overhead with a mandatory reduction in control and power over the code which is unacceptable.
It's all part of the game. If your co-founders are any good at all they should be getting head-hunted.

You just have to keep making sure the idea pushes forward as fast as possible. If it stalls or the idea becomes uninteresting then the easier it will be for them to jump ship.
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It is possible to do syscalls in Java.

Following your example there are also JVMs coded in Java.
But that has no actual effect whatsoever, and absolutely shouldn't have any difference as to whether you use the kernel or not.

IMHO, they could have just as well dropped the 3. and just use a single integer to denominate new versions. What difference does it make whether it's kernel 3.3 or kernel 6?
It's different, because I'm saying that much system level work has to optimize by not using a garbage collector. I've literally implemented off-heap malloc()/free() in Java because GC is so untenable.

I argue that makes a language with has a GC that you can't avoid (as far as I know, it's impossible to allocate an 'object' off-heap in Go) a fairly poor choice for much system level work.

Which means, if Go is to find a niche, it's got to be at a 'higher-level.' And that requires competing more directly against Java or Python - a much higher bar than trying to be better than C.
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It's the most promising out of the current cohort that includes Rust, I'll say that much.

Clay seems to understand that you cannot compromise.
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Chances with these 'random dudes on HN' are that they actually know a thing or two, I'd hate to make any assumptions there.

As for your 'what people mean by systems programming', how about you both stick to the definition/description used here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_programming

That would make it much easier to communicate. From the looks of it systems programming is all about no compromise, specifically for the reasons outlined by the GP. Now I wouldn't know him from Adam but even outside the realm of driver and OS programming there is plenty of room for software that is 100% deterministic in terms of time and space consumed.

Note that the 'alternate usage' term in the page linked above was specifically not what the GP was talking about if I understood it correctly.
You've missed it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3679248
Initiate?
How about "re-instate dividend".
Apple previously paid a dividend : http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=AAPL&a=08&b=7&c=...
Question: could gamma rays such as these be collected to be used for energy consumption? Maybe a gamma engine?
Hoping someone smarter than me can answer this theoretical q.
No. Currently in Milan, Italy. Yes, previously in Aarhus, DK and Amsterdamn NL.
No one has heard from him for two days? Do police even investigate missing adults before a week has passed? The story may be missing crucial elements, but I don't think it's unusual for a grown man not to call his family for two days.

Also, what's a transhumanist and why is that relevant?
Not exactly surprising or bold, i.e. it is the easiest way to deal with the surplus of cash. However, it could be seen as an indicator that Apple's management cannot figure out how to use all that cash to continue the company's growth. In that sense, the announcement of a dividend is a bellwether moment.
> Aren't most serious languages designed for large code bases?

Maybe the big companies like Google and Facebook are approaching a new meaning of a “large codebase”. They have a huge number of programmers, the development is much more distributed into different locations and time zones, and the release cycles are much smaller than they used to be with large codebases in the past. There’s for example this very interesting discussion about the way these companies use their versioning systems:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3548824

Some of the practices (like keeping their whole codebase in one big repository) look quite questionable, if not downright stupid from a smaller viewpoint, but make sense in their case. Go could be a similar thing – most serious languages are designed with good modularization, encapsulation and other features that support large scale code bases as most of us know them, but that does not mean these languages are a great match for software at the Google scale.
I believe you are not looking for an alternative bank; you are looking for an alternative currency. The Federal Reserve gives explicit rights to private banks to not have to worry about whether the US Dollars in their possession are 100% backed up by actual reserves of US Dollars. In fact, they encourage banks to not be able to pay you back, through fractional reserve banking, if everyone were to withdraw their deposits. The Federal Reserve has a complete monopoly over how the US Dollar is managed in electronic form. I'm not even sure that a bank that refuses to participate in fractional reserve banking will be allowed to operate, or at least that you will be covered by the official deposit guarantee in case they go bankrupt.
I realize there really are no alternatives, which makes my advice somewhat useless, but by using US Dollars (or any other state paper currency) you are supporting the current monetary system (which includes the private banks).
And that was the inspiration to post here today & give this Meetup some frontpage love.
Isn't that what meetup.com is for?
C compilers can and do generate SSE. Programs do rely on this code generation for performance. They fall back on assembly when codegen fails. That doesn't mean that they aren't relying on the optimizations in other places.

And a huge amount of graphics processing is always done on the CPU. Unless you're using Direct2D or something, rasterization is always done there (and even if you're using Direct2D, a lot of rasterization is still done there).
Indeed. It took going to the actual article to obtain enough hints to actually parse this bit of malformed pseudo-English.
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