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I work with the node source and I have made C/C++ based node modules.

Threading at the JS level in node is really ineffective. V8 has a global lock on all JS objects that prevent them from being passed between threads. The only way to allow threading is to serialize and deserialize the objects into new "isolates" (V8 language). V8 does this for some pretty obvious reasons, you wouldn't really want to allow threading at the JS level in a browser, now would you.

You can use threads if you dive down into C++ land, but event then, you should have a really good reason for doing so, because if you're only manipulating objects for processing you're going to have to serialize into a C++ data-structure, process, and then serialize into a JS object. Threads in node are good for doing process intensive work that doesn't require any two way input from the main event loop, otherwise it's very unlikely to be worth your time or effort.

This is why fibers are kind of silly for node and is also why process intensive programs should most likely be avoided in node (with rare exception). Please use node for what it is good at; it's a short lived connection proxy maven, and good at ancillary front-end work that requires complex state transitions (i.e. mobile). Working it into a monolithic stack is just asking for trouble and pain. No serious architect should consider it for a large monolithic rendering stack.
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The HDMI re-detection flaw happens on my wife's 39" Seiki on HDMI 1 and 3 as well. But using the HDMI 2 input, that does not happen. If you haven't already done so, try using the other two HDMI inputs to see if the problem goes away.
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I think telecom companies will start providing what is essentially just a data plan that any device can connect to. T-Mobile seems to be moving in this direction with their Un-carrier branding and month-to-month plans
There seems to be a bee in your bonnet. The person you just berated baselessly pointed out some of the practical problems with this endeavour. He didn't say they couldn't be overcome.
very nice work!
I can definitely see adding links to other Life. Linking parent, child, partner, friends, .. you can even have companies ... would create an interesting graph of your life
You think those companies won't try and close down on that market once the technology is available? I don't think breaking the Montana market is the key to success, either.
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If renewable energy doesn't live up to hopes, what's at fate is the future of industrialized civilization (and possibly the human species).

I've got my own very serious doubts as to how much energy can be delivered, and at what EROEI, from renewable / sustainable sources. The good news is that we've got technology, science, and understanding now which we didn't have 250 years ago, and the odds are very good that they'll survive even a profound decline in industrial and economic capacity. But to think that national and/or global economies will continue plugging away without energy sources of some stripe (and fossil fuels are going to become untenable whether for environmental, supply, extraction cost, EROEI, or other bases) is sheer fantasy.
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Great post. Mind sharing the company that did the packaging and shipping for you? (Or any alternatives)
Correct, but only if you don't set any *.domain.com cookies, which as it turns out most do.
While an unfortunate coincidence I got to admit, it does look like it.
The general point "history is rife with inequities" is not going to mean anything to any developing nation. "History is rife with inequities" only means something to rich westerners.

You are not going to get India on board by claiming Ireland had it just as bad. India's GDP per capita is $1500. Ireland's is $45000. That's a factor of 30.

China is going to think the same way. They are going to see any bluster from western countries about emissions as thinly veiled attacks on their ability to industrialize. That's a perfectly reasonable opinion.
Hi, maintainer of https://github.com/audreyt/node-webworker-threads/ here.

We're using it happily in production, and it's proved to be quite stable, and there's quite a few users — certainly more than the average amount of emails I get from other projects. :-)

It's true that I haven't heard from the earliest adopters (like Uber.com), but it might be a sign of its maturity rather than abandonment.

The last commit was 2 month ago, and only to repair compatibility with the then-just-released V8 version. It will likely require another commit for Node 0.12.0 — pull requests welcome!

Edit: Just released v0.4.8 to npm with references to the http://aosabook.org/en/posa/from-socialcalc-to-ethercalc.htm... writeup.
> If you have hundreds of years to live, why do something risky (or even expressive) RIGHT NOW?

If we transitioned into a post-scarcity society (your point 1), then why do we need people to take risks? How about a society living for self-actualisation?
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Agreed. I would love to see this UI on a RegEx parser too.
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Or how to even find them. I think this would typically be easier in the US than in Europe.
My 27" iMac can run in 1280x720 "HiDPI Mode", which is just the native resolution of 2560x1440 cut in half (quarters?). It's a native feature in OS X, although it has to be enabled manually before it shows up.
Haha yeah. I agree with you totally, however sometimes when the problem is a bug in another system and everything still seems completely rational this kind of knowledge is gold.

My story was a C# WPF application and certain events were not being unregistered. It wasn't the language built in event registration but a weak even registration handler in a WPF library.

It wasn't unregistering the event and it was odd to say the least because it was just an equals call. It turns out that the function was an anonymous function (that was defined as x = {...};) The strangest thing is that the anonymous function had a reference to it and I had thought that the references were being compared for equality.

But it wasn't being matched... So I recommended the inline declaration be changed to an actual static method and the comparison worked. I think I gave some kind of explanation about how it most likely compared the address of the methods or something. Or the comparer for a Action<T> was different than "normal" objects. Half the fun of it is figuring out how things really work behind the scenes though. For the person figuring it out though.
I've already seen what supporting Walmart has done to our country

Have you ever shopped there? Or do you just repeat what you read all the time? Wall mart typically only exists in rural poor areas, and I doubt a drive-by HN commenter has any sense of proportion on the real issues at play. Wall-mart migh mean more competition for mom & pop stores, but they also bring reliable and affordable access to otherwise unaffordable or trans-port prohibitive goods and services to people that don't have the wallet or the access to shop at whole foods or a boutique coffee shop that charges $5/cup. The reality is that even for successful stores such as these, the owners are absent, the employees make non-living wages (corrected for rent), and the extant competitors are out of business or severely harmed. Think of all the gentrification in the mission in the past 15 years...all of those (poor) people are more fucked by hipsters and their fancy shit than anyone ever was by Walmart.
The plan right now is to use PDF for the pre-release versions and start building for other formats on 1.0.

I've considered doing an HTML version, but I haven't put a ton of thought into it.
Actually, I would not want to fully-maximize much on a 50+" desktop display, except when I lapse into a pure-consumption mental state.

More to the point, I want an immersive, uninterrupted display surface. The bezels in a multi-monitor configuration just serve to annoy me by wasting space on my desk and in my field of view.
Source https://github.com/idank/explainshell

This is truly stunning. It's a small thing, and what it does is not stupendous. But the design, aesthetics, ease of use, in a word elegance makes the combined whole a superlative tool.
That's not really solvable in this case, though. All explainshell has are the man pages of the commands. It cannot know how they will interact with each other. It should be at least semi-possible in PowerShell (because you have output type information and parameter type information), but I hit a roadblock with ExplainPS a while ago and haven't had the time to resurrect it.
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Well, I'll be—you're absolutely right! How did I not notice this before?

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The linked paper is a little underwhelming: they find that people generally find a similarity-based tweet recommendation engine "interesting" even with the secret twist that it only shows tweets from those who have opposing views on abortion. Given the study wasn't focused on politics or controversy (except to the extent Chilean Twitter feeds in general are) and no attempt was made to gauge whether anyone had felt their views challenged or found interesting new perspectives, I don't think the "filter bubble" was really burst at all.
He can repeat it all he likes, he's just making the operator of Bitcoin Fog a millionaire. You cannot launder 96k btc without getting 96k btc from somewhere else, by definition; if you 'launder' without >96kbtc of other people's money, you just get your own coins sent to a new address, and you could've done that yourself for free.

Now, maybe he could manage the full 96k btc if he used multiple laundries over many months, but that is time he does not have.
What an absolutely vacuous response. We can't possibly question the almighty Bezos once he issues a plan from on high?

Give me a break. There are a lot of technical issues to drones that should be evident to most people, no matter "who they are". I'm at a loss to understand why you think they shouldn't be able to voice that.

Why is their idea unviable? Because they have no proof?

Proof is usually a good start, yeah.
This macbook pro spec page says hdmi port can output 4k at 24hz.
http://www.apple.com/uk/macbook-pro/specs-retina/
Its a total PR stunt, but you have to give Bezos credit for being WAAAY ahead of the curve (and the FAA, is now politically on the back-foot).
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Any idea about their rates? Honestly, this seems pretty easy to set up yourself.
I think it's good to learn contrarians' opinions every once in a while. This is the last book he wrote, I think. Although the subtitle sounds indeed like heresy in this 21st century, I wonder what motivated his views back then.

http://www.amazon.com/High-Tech-Heretic-Reflections-Contrari...
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for India to reduce its total emissions one of two things should happen

There are two other possibilities you don't consider:

1. India could prevail in negotiating for carbon emission reductions elsewhere (the US, EU, Japan). Technology transfers greatly increasing India's GDP/bbl wouldn't hurt either -- it's presently around $400/bbl, the US sees $1000/bbl, most of Europe is in the $1500-$3000/bbl range.

2. Stunning advances in renewable, sustainable, and/or low-carbon energy technologies could allow for growth in India's standard of living without additional carbon emissions. I put the likelihood of this as low.

Long run: there's a balance of population and per-capita resource consumption. The total sustainable rate is fixed. The question is: do you wish for a future with a very high population, or a for one with a high per-capita standard of living? They're at odds.
> Only governments can censor.

Bit of a side issue, but that's an interesting statement, I've never heard that before. A quick google doesn't seem to back that up, so I wonder what I'm missing, or why you said that?
Your conversion makes sense (USD -> BTC) so long as both mantain the
current trend (BTC increasing in value wrt USD). Why? It's like
investing in a stock or commodity that's increasing. I invested extra
cash in a few stocks, including TSLA, while it was on the rise. This
gave me a better ROI than holding USD or investing it in a CD or other
low interest rate account.

But as a borrower, deflation blows. If I borrow 100 BTC and the terms
of the loan are that I have to pay back 100 BTC + 10 BTC as interest,
but the value of BTC has increased by another 10% I'm really paying
21% interest on the loan.

But as a borrower, inflation rocks. If I borrow 100 USD and the terms
of the loan are that I have to pay back 100 USD + 10 USD as interest,
but the value of USD has decreased by 10% I'm really paying 0%
interest on the loan (actually, I might be able to beat inflation and
come out ahead).

This goes back to what I mentioned in another thread [1] about buying
and selling in either type of currency.

Let me hand wave some things, we'll assume that the real value of an
item or ROI is static, and only the nominal value is changing with
inflation or deflation.

Inflation: I borrow money to buy an item. I pay interest on the loan,
and gain the benefit of having the item today rather than a year later
when I would have saved up the cash. Over that year I pay off the
loan, but with inflation I may get a discount of sorts on the item. If
inflation is 10%, the nominal value is 10% higher the next year. If
the interest payment is less than 10% I've saved money. If it's more
than 10%, hopefully there was a profit in having the item now rather
than later or I lost money.

Deflation: I borrow money to buy an item. I pay interest on the loan,
and gain the benefit of having the item today rather than a year later
when I would have saved up the cash. Over that year I pay off the
loan, but with deflation I have an added cost. If deflation is 10%,
the nominal value is 10% lower the next year. If the interest payment
is negative ~10%, I've saved money. If it's higher, then hopefully
there was a profit in having the item now rather than later or I lost
money.

In fact, that matrix is essentially the same. Borrowers win in
inflation (or might), while lenders might lose (but it beats leaving
the cash under the mattress where it will lose value). Borrowers lose
in deflation in most circumstances, while lenders win as long as
borrowers don't default too often. Lenders under deflation
have to be confident that the expected ROI of their loans will beat
the deflation rate, or they might as well leave the cash
alone. Lenders under inflation are virtually guaranteed that
reasonable loan practices (subprime mortgages being an example of
unreasonable loan practices) will be better than sitting on the
cash if the economy is otherwise stable.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6811101
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As of right now, you can only disable the microphone completely, but I will look into taking care of this, as it is quite annoying!
Or you could have the command itself be statically positioned and only have the explanations scroll.
One of the reasons that this article may have wrong about the success of the Internet is that he was judging the Internet based on its capabilities at that time, rather than on what the underlying networking capabilities may provide in the future.

For example, he complains that it's too hard to find information online. His searches returned bad results and made it hard to find what he was looking for. This problem was solved (or began to be solved) only a few years later with Google.

He also mentions that you can't "take you laptop to the beach". He missed out on the idea that hardware would also improve until we have today's Kindles and iPads.

The Internet of 1995 wasn't great, but the underlying technical foundation allowed for growth and expansion that was unforeseen.
If people liked bank tellers and magazines more than ATM's and the Internet, they'd still be in business. (Wait, they are!)
But then you still have to remain vigilant against a clueless dev or random JS lib on www.domain.com setting a cookie for .domain.com, which your browser will helpfully include with requests to cdn.domain.com. With the completely separate root you're protected from that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Domain_and_Path
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Does the "rising" page on reddit actually work? On subreddits with millions of subscribers it seems to show one or two submissions, at best, and often the votes cast on those submissions don't reveal why they're considered to be rising. For example, many submissions on the rising page have scores, using the format (upvotes,downvotes), of (1,0) or (1,1)

Is this the intended behavior?
Agreed on all accounts, with one small, specific clarification:

If computation is local to each of many long-running threads, and the two-way messages being passed around is small enough (so the serialization overhead is negligible), then threads do perform better on multi-core machines than alternative models.

EtherCalc.org is one such use case: http://aosabook.org/en/posa/from-socialcalc-to-ethercalc.htm...
Maybe just me, but I'd love to sign up for a service that did this. I try to take in alternative views all the time, but it's very difficult because

a) I know the reasonable (agreeable to me) voices on my side - I have no idea how to find quality on the other sides.

b) I generally discover opposing views when someone I agree with throws up something so extreme to criticise it.

It would be amazing to have a discovery service that gave good-quality alternative perspectives. Not all the time, because a lot of the time I'm just looking for a particular thing. But certainly some of the time.
UPS vehicle dont cross my property while delivering. they go on public roads.
see this :
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You're right - I took away too much credit by saying that. However, brakeman had its own issues (tons of false positives, etc.). It's a great project but too complex / cries wolf too often for a lot of projects. Dynamic analysis has issues too, but it often finds more than brakeman (or any purely static code analysis tool).
A nice excerpt quote from that page:

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Why not use every tool at your disposal that can catch bugs early? Static typing does that. Sure, you can catch bugs later with testing, but why not take advantage of automated tools (i.e. the compiler)? That's one less test you have to write.
It'd be nice if there were an option to just give the answer for if you honestly had no clue.
What kind of stuff do people who do this write?
Wow, he is nearly totally wrong on every point! :-)

"The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."

And to think that we have really only just gotten started.... when I look back a few blinks to 2005 and realize that there wasn't even anything in popular culture known as Youtube... unbelievable!

The next decades are going to be amazing.
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+1

He's also a grad of the school of hard-knocks...selling early hurts and can leave one chasing what could've been for a lifetime.
My guess is homakov was being sarcastic / kidding.
Great tool. Would have preferred to use it locally without all of those dependencies on a machine without networking. But OTOH having it online means that it is easier to centrally manage and update.
Fair points, "everything around them" was an unreasonable overstatement. Weather will be a lot tougher to deal with (I suspect it becomes efficient or resistant for a long time, with weather resistant stuff being heavier) than for a car. You're probably right about birds too..these probably look a lot easier to peck into than a car. Again, anything protecting the package is going to weigh it down.

I would be surprised if the skies were more dangerous for a drone than the roads for a car, but I probably did understate the problems. I do agree though that self-driving cars for delivery are more more likely and practical in the near term.
I'd love to buy several of these. Would you consider accepting Bitcoin? I'm always looking for ways to spend it and I see you're on Shopify which should make it very, very easy.
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> I don't know if fixed-wings would help much with a box hanging beneath the drone.

The only reason it was "hanging" in the Prime Air video was for PR fluff.

Fixed wing transport is still amazingly good at cargo carrying, using "holds" in their monocoques.
Interesting links. The first is for American factories only, which is neat, but I'd be surprised if this case was made in America. I'm familiar with the second link, but I don't believe it's related to factories/mass production. The third link is being squatted on.
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I tried that as well. It says "Missing man page" :(
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