skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, on the plus side, all the modern JVMs do just-in-time recompilation, and have a had fair amount of optimization work done on them.

On the minus side, JVMs take a long time to start up and don't really interface very well with native code (JNI sucks). The JVM also tends to be pretty poor at using memory effectively. All objects need to contain class and lock pointers, for example. On a 64-bit machine, this generally means that the minimum size of an object is around 16 bytes (may vary by JVM).

Will Java still be used decades from now? Of course. I mean people are still using FORTRAN, COBOL, and Lisp, some of the first compiled languages ever to be developed in the 1950s and 1960. (Yes, Lisp is that old-- and FORTRAN came first.)

How popular will it still be in X years? Who knows. Consult a fortune teller-- sorry, "analyst."
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I wouldn't buy it, due to not really being able to see photos on an e-ink display. I've just become so use to color. Great idea though, especially for people that travel a lot, go camping etc...

It doesn't seem that snappy right now speed wise. Not sure if thats the phone or Android though (I'm not a big Android user), but nonetheless, cool stuff.
Your "at least" wording shows bias. There was one.
I buy an MSDN license. I buy a fishing license. The license is simply a fixed term item that you purchase.
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Any sources for the "INGV" alarms and the "strong evidence" and that they "were ignored"?

Because the other sources say that there were small shocks before and the scientists consciously decided based on what they know that this does not make an earthquake more likely.
You can just create a font and assign the glyphs in the web app.
Now make it work on xbmc …
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I can name 50 in the FTSE100 that are windows only.

Define "windows only". I've worked at several large "windows only" companies, and one thing they all had in common was that lots of people all through the company where using Linux for all kinds of things.
Please don't take this the wrong way but why do you have 50-60 browser tabs open? Are you using browser tabs as some sort of todo list? Isiteffective?
I am frankly surprised so many still use EC2 considering how frequently it breaks. It's not cheap, so the only reasons to use it would be reliability or scale right? Why not just get lots of boxes at Hetzner and OVH (40 EUR a month for 32GB of RAM and 4x2x3.4GHz cores) and scale up / redundansize that way?
I have been (by Reddit), and had no history of spam or disallowed use. I wasted time writing and responding to comments and nobody except me could see anything I wrote. I was unknowingly talking into the void for weeks. That was 5 years ago and to this day, I've never forgiven them.
What you quote says:

1. "They were not accused of failing to predict the earthquake"
2. "whether the seismic sequence could be considered a precursor event"
Since I got downvoted I'd like to point out that I'm not trying to lure the author of this game to bitcoins or to mtgox and I'm not downplaying the integration effort for this purpose (it's really easy, I tried it).

I'm just suggesting alternative mode of payment that would be useful fore some of his customers.

You can set up mtgox cart so that all bitcoins you receive are immediately sold and money transfered to you so the whole process is transparent for the seller. (S)he doesn't have to have any knowledge or interest in bitcoins. You can set price in dollars and the amount the customer should pay in bitcoins is automatically determined.

You'll also get more money for each dollar your customer pays than with PayPal.
I sometimes feel that papers or news/media outlets that do this should end up getting fined huge amounts and made to run public apologies (full page or TV) because its such a dangerous topic to mislead people on. That said, its no surprise its coming from the Daily mail.
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May be it would be better to reimplement protocol, like postgres-pr does but using java ? Protocol is rather simple, and postgres-pr could be used as a reference (it implements meaningfull subset).
Well, when I have some time off the development schedule, I write tests and/or improve the byproduct tools (e.g. build and deploy scripts).

Also you can probably talk to management and come up with more efficient parallel workflow.
To be honest, you don't need any php at all. People upthread already mentioned using ajax to get the next/previous quotes; why not go a step further and send it all to the user in a straight js file?

Think about it: you said you scraped the data, so it's not like it's going to be constantly updated - when it changes, it will all change at once and you can update the versions of your data files. And there's only a fairly small amount of data, especially compared to the size of your css and background images (1000 short quotes with title/author/image/url will be well under 500kB, and the compression ratio will be much better than images).

(hmm, 500kB might actually be too big - perhaps have 10 separate .js files with 100 quotes each, and download a new block when needed? If you shuffle the order of the blocks and then within each block, it will appear "random enough" to users)

So, far less server load, and much faster for the user too. Makes the forward/back problem someone mentioned much easier to solve too - the browser can remember everything itself, and you don't need to track anything server-side.
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Somebody should open source this design for other political causes.
Your harddrive is doing 3,100 MB/s? That's just over 3 GB/s, which I really have a hard time believing. Or is that a European comma, i.e. it's really doing 3.1 MB/s? Quite confusing. :/
Well, so sue me.

I was just arguing with books seeding "not being really something for which any valid defense can usually be given"
If I should have read it as "any valid defense IN COURT can be given", then again, so sue me. But it's pretty easy to defend the morality of this case.
This is exactly what I meant by my initial comment - I should have been more clear.
2000 geotagged pictures a day, every day of my life, automatically uploaded to their servers, and no word on how would one set up their own private server? Let me think about it... #not
Looks cool... but... Does this have a long-term future? Soon (I hope) we will all be wearing glasses with cameras in and I wonder whether that will render this obsolete?
People will everywhere rush to find scapegoats. What is much more worrisome is when the court supports them. The first thing happens everywhere, the second shouldn't happen in a civilized country
There have been days when I have had more than 100 browser tabs open. Users should be able to have as many tabs as they want.
Both Redis 2.6 and latest 2.4 patch release are ready to be monitored by Sentinel as targets of the monitoring.

Redis 2.6 includes an experimental implementation of Sentinel considered in beta stage, that will be upgraded with every new release of 2.8.

The development of Redis Sentinel continues in the unstable branch in the meantime. Basically at some point when Sentinel will be declared stable, 2.6 will ship with a stable version of Sentinel, however 2.8 may implement additional support for Sentinel features that may not be available for 2.6.
It costs 249 bucks for the later batches and 199 dollars for the early version. Expensive. I guess I'll have to wait for product evolution to make stuff cheaper.

On the other hand, the application for lifelogging is pretty long. An employed programmer(or indeed, anybody who makes money) should be able to justify the expense of 249 bucks no problem.
Buy it. Reverse engineer it, and hack it so it uploads to a private server. Release the code.

Unless they had already provide this option.
Immediately after that meeting, De Bernardinis and Barberi, acting president of the committee, held a press conference in L'Aquila, where De Bernardinis told reporters that

"the scientific community tells us there is no danger, because there is an ongoing discharge of energy. The situation looks favorable".

No other members of the committee were at the press conference.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100622/full/465992a.html
So this is basically forward error correction (FEC) optimized for TCP specifically?
A simple way to implement this on top of existing IP stack is to use a proxy split in two. One half on the mobile device and the other half on the static host connect to internet with a static connection.

Between the tow half proxy use a hardened UDP communication from the packet lost point of view.

The idea is not original since I (at least) had it long ago but never bothered implementing it. maybe it is already implemented in IPsec. Things are easy if packets are lost randomly. If they are lost in bunches, then things may become more difficult.

I'm however surprized phone data networks or wifi would not have such functionality built in.
Is a Google Glasses is going to be unequivocally better in all aspect than a box or even a camcording box?
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5 times overfunded in 3..2..1..
That's absolutely true, but the discussion here centers on home-run style start-ups, which tend to be all or nothing affairs.

One of the reasons for that is that very few start-ups are sustainable in the longer term without acquisition by a larger partner. And if they are they are by definition home-runs, but only very very few (< 1%?) manage to get that far under their own power based on only the initial investment at the time of founding.

And as soon as additional investment is accept the conditions around the company change substantially.

'lifestyle businesses' (which I'm a huge fan of) usually do not require big capital outlays, have a significant chance of staying afloat compared to what is referred to as start-ups on HN and can make more than enough money to make the start-up risk look like it isn't worth it for most players.
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How about a web site that shows celebs and tech leaders who support a woman's right to choose? Who are against it? For gun control laws? How about a web site against Italy's "articolo 18", which is much more relevant to startups than pot is?

Please, take the politics elsewhere. There are tons of sites for discussing politics. This is one of the few really good places for hacking and startups, so please let's keep it free of flame-bait.

It's in the guidelines, too, for what it's worth:

" Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "
The IP infrastructure is a lossy network. It's a reasonably big network...
No, you're wrong, an extremely scant number of applications can completely avoid allocating memory in the old generation. Your best bet would probably be to use the Disruptor approach of preallocating everything then avoiding any subsequent allocations if that's really what you want to accomplish. However, if you honestly believe "most real world applications" can avoid allocating memory in the old generation, I'd sure love to see some graphs of some heap profiles of real world usage of these applications!

CMS does a stop the world collection of the old generation, however it will do an incremental collection of the eden generation. If you've ever looked at a graph of the JVM heap observing CMS running under VisualVM or YourKit, you'll notice a distinct sawtooth pattern to its collections. The diagonal parts of the sawtooth represent incremental collections in eden space. The vertical parts of the sawtooth represent stop-the-world collections of the old generation.

The "small regular sweeps" you're talking about affect the eden generation, not the old generation. Collecting the old generation is a stop the world operation in every JVM GC option except Azul's C4 collector. C4 resorts to all sorts of clever tricks to avoid stopping the world, most notably read barriers and eager pointer updates. On the Azul hardware, these tricks involved hardware transactional memory. On x86 they don't have HTM (at least until Transactional Synchronization Extensions ship on Haswell). What they do, however, is quickly set up GC invariants and a trap on a given page. Whatever thread accesses a page that contains an object which needs to be relocated relocates the object on the GC's behalf and gets the new pointer. All that said, C4 is only available on the Azul JVM, which is commercial.

CMS can't do this. It stops the world at a JVM safe point whenever it needs to collect the old generation.
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The good thing about being with someone is that : being with someone ALONE. Not someone analyzing what I did with my wife one month ago, where, how, why.

The idea is not new, Justin started http://www.justin.tv/ recording everything in his life with a video camera.

I don't want anything I say or do being recorder by someone else(I know this camera only takes pictures, by now), and I don't want other people(smartphone manufacturer and the US government) to know what I did Thursday at 3:00 pm.

One of the worse things about living in a small village is all people controlling what others do, gossip here and there. In cities people were free of other people trying to control them, with cameras everywhere and web social services it is becoming rural village again.

It is big brother´s dream. In the future the government will use cameras on the street, face recognition and servers to track anybody at any time.
Well, I have to wear glasses and the extra features, such as a heads up display, are very exciting.
I'm not sure why they wouldn't let you have the photos yourself instead of forcing you to upload to their server. They want to sell the hardware, not lock you in (I think?).
Depressing. This is like that movie with Robin Williams "The Final Cut". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364343/ A total privacy nightmare. Your government is gonna love it though.
Reminds me of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2545823
Well, my analogy is:
I made a story where I come to a forest and pick berries and mushrooms, and then the next commenter comes and tells me that he's sure I also come to private toilets and steal the precious shit to eat.
First, I am not stealing shit, and second, I don't usually eat shit. This is plainly offensive so I had to "brace myself".
The feature table around FF 3 and 3.6 is just wrong. Opacity is in FF 3 and so are lineargradients, I've used both in it.

I haven't tested any others, but I strongly doubt the author did either.
Awesome, I've been looking for this. Will it scale to hundreds of users or will you need to ditch MySQL and use MongoDB? What language did you use to count from 1 to 100?
They would have to make batteries replaceable, since a product targeted to years of use.

Their funding goal of $50K is ridiculous. This is a software + hardware project. $50K is nothing.

Plus they need to pay royalties for using JPG once that project takes off.
For readers outside the UK, it is worth knowing a little context about the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail is a newspaper in the loosest sense of the word. It is essentially a propaganda rag, flattering its readership by provoking their emotions on topics such as women in the workplace (which is a bad thing and gives them cancer), women not in the workplace (which is a bad thing and gives them cancer), the causes of cancer [1], immigrants, taxes and house prices. Bizarrely, for a publication with such a high female readership, it's remarkably misogynistic.

Typical readers are middle-aged to the elderly, who do not like having their assumptions challenged and find catharsis in the simplicity of the world as presented by the Daily Mail. The phrase "Daily Mail reader" has become shorthand for someone demonstrating characteristics such as ignorance, extremely simple viewpoints on complex situations, and bigotry poorly veiled under spurious numerical data or contextless "factoids".

[1] http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/
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Um, the real graph looks just as stagnant as the Daily Mail one.

The difference between them is barely even there.

Is anyone actually looking at the graphs on the blog, or are you just reading the title?
Same as Black Mirror 1-03 "The Entire History of You". Very recommended BTW.

http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-30348/episodes/1065121884
It seems that there is not much difference between the gossip magazines and the newspapers any more.
This is an idea that probably rests on their software and ease of use capabilities, as small portable cameras have existed for quite some time now in the $10-20 price range: http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Digital-Video-Novelty-Camera/dp... or http://www.amazon.com/Mini-30fps-chewing-shaped-camera/dp/B0...

The geotagging of events, plus all the wonderful image recognition and categorizing (plus automatically judging photos as interesting or valuable) are the selling point of this camera. It'd be pretty hard to get shots of yourself though, maybe they could introduce some sort of opt in feature where other users of this kind of camera that were in a close by position at similar times would contribute to your feed? (Or did I just invent Color?)
This would be helpful as wearable surveillance camera. I can imagine retail workers, policemen and security guards wearing them.
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2000 pictures per day doesn't sound like much (a bit more than 2 pictures on average per minute) but this really adds up even at the resolution of this camera, they claim about 1.5 TB / camera / year. Uploading and storing that much data for a large number of users in a reliable and cost effective manner is a non-trivial exercise.

So the big question is what their monthly fee is and I think this project should disclose those (projected) fees and not just the price of the device because it could very well be that those monthly fees will be the large component.
Yes, a great show. Very, very recommmended.
So while it's legal, how bout, you don't get to drive while stoned until we figure out a good level that is safe. Or you know we could just keep weed illegal. Pick one or the other. You don't get to have legal weed, and no DUI level or it just reverts to "JAIL!"
Wouldn't it be easier to modify something like the already incredibly cheap (~$10) available key chain cameras? There are already quite sophisticated discussions on these out there http://www.chucklohr.com/808/index.shtml.
Let's not forget the paper's fascist past - "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" - http://www.voiceoftheturtle.org/dictionary/dict_h1.php#hurra...
I bet the scientists were recommending appropriate building codes, which weren't being correctly implemented.
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It depresses me that Apple have to do something like that over the Samsung lawsuit, but the newspapers can lie to our faces every day and get away with it. That said, I don't read newspapers anymore for this exact reason.
You are right, my mistake. Hah, that's what I get for saying most people don't know.
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It sounds as if they're always in love with their latest idea. Try asking for contingency plans, so that the designers begin to think more than just one step ahead. For example, 'if this doesn't test well with users, what else might I need to have lined up?' Also, carve out some time and spend a day in their shoes. Tell them you want to understand their process better and shadow the design team for a day, plus you can offer to do the same for them.

Of course if the tech stack kept changing it would be frustrating for the designers to have to junk their designs on a regular basis. But if you have spent a day with them, then you'll be able to make that argument in their language. This will allow you to empathize with their problems, but will also allow you to get inside their OODA loop [1] and identify things that they may be taking for granted or gaps in their comprehension that are biasing their decisions.

You don't need to be in an adversarial relationship with them, but the weakness in their design process is coming at a cost in engineering resources which they clearly aren't including in their calculations. You can point this out in a non-confrontational way by explaining the time cost of your lost work, and reminding them that 'a stitch in time saves nine.' It's not like you can pass the buck onto Apple or your framework supplier every time the spec changes, any more than the designers have the option of pretending the screen has a different aspect ratio or whatever.

1. OODA is short for Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action, and the 'loop' is the dynamic application of this process in a fluid situation - originally, in military combat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
Hopefully this doesn't work like this! Eventually I risk being thrown out Bavarian Heaven, meaning no more auto-beer replenishments! AAHHHHH!!!

But I think some heaven simply don't extradite residents... ;-)
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How about for 1 hour after when you drive? That's the point. At what level is it safe to drive. .08 isn't that high of a level, what's the equivalent for weed. Personally I just don't drive when I've had any alcohol at all. Given the research that I've seen, the levels in the WA law are reasonable as a starting point. Lobby to bring them up or just be happy you're not getting pinched for holding.
If I am reading this correctly, the patent in question has been inactive since 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#Patent_issues
Why are all of the images 1,680px × 1,050px then scaled down in the image tag?

Also, every version of Skype I use gets progressively worse. Facebook integration! Status updates from your friends! We moved feature A to menu B. Just make my calls not fucking suck.
Can someone explain something for me? Elon Musk made approximately $110m from the purchase of PayPal from eBay in 2002. His Wikipedia page states that he is worth $2.4B.

Where did the other 95% of his wealth come from?
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Then I assume your development workstation is an exact duplicate of a production server, and is serving a production load?

Even getting a staging environment to realistically resemble production is an incredibly difficult undertaking. Your development environment is a joke, sorry. If you're expecting it to resemble production in any way, I don't know what else to say except you're extremely confused about how a production environment actually works, or your production environment is a pathetic joke which serves a nonexistent userbase.
I have one of these, it's a pen which can actually write, but with 480p recording.
I use Unity too. Even for 2d I think it is the best cross platform game engine if you don't mind spending some money. The latest Rovio 2d physics game even uses it.

I used to be all about HTML5 but after a while I realized that I don't like javascript and I hate dealing with browser quirks. C# Unity is where it's at.
Just go with "You'll get an effing DUI if you do" and you'll pay the normal alcohol tax on being an asshole and lose your license and if you hurt someone you'll be in mega bonus lawsuit land. Stop with this BS "MJ is safer than alkehol", who cares, if you're disabled, you're disabled, DONT....DRIVE. Also, drive stoned for me and prove it doesn't do anything. My friends couldn't pull it off with college aged reactions, you must be superman if you can.
If the data (plots, spectograms, etc) was made public on realtime the opinions/warnings would be issued by independent scientists or ordinary people or algorithms that would issue the chance of something happening and nobody would get punished.

RAW DATA NOW.