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It doesn't use threads, but programs are still preemptable. Single event loop uses multiple event queues. Every program owns its own event queue and runs in separate V8 context.

V8 supports script interruption for contexts. Engine puts interrupt guard checks into every function and every loop. So its possible to interrupt context even in a middle of infinite loop.

Yes, system doesn't solve multicore balancing problem for applications automatically. The idea is that every app can use available cores on a machine similar to a fixed size thread pool. So it can manually schedule tasks for available cores.

Whats interesting, that this thread pool could provide transparent access to computing power on other physical machines. So this should be pretty scalable.

GC pauses. Yes, this is a problem, but it shouldn't corrupt any data. I think hardware interfaces should provide some kind of error checking mechanism with the option to retry transmission. Worst case - critical parts implemented in native code.

Another idea how to deal with GC pauses is to reserve one core specifically for V8 concurrent GC tasks for every other core. Additionally this core can take care of all interrupt handlers.
> Not all issues boil down to "economic impact".

Arguably, they really do, but you have to remember that economics is about the distribution of scarce things (both material goods and services) connected to experienced utility (money is just a -- rather poor in many respects, but also very convenient -- proxy for utility.)
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The complaints about clang optimizations are misplaced; the example relies on undefined behavior; regardless of what you think about it, all compilers are free to do such things.

This is also a classic case of optimizing for the wrong and uncommon things (billions of objc_msgsend calls in a tight loop), instead of the really common stuff (like leaks/crashes due to a mistake in memory management, lower productivity across your entire team due to time wasted thinking about retain/release or tracking down aforementioned leaks, etc).
We are planning new features and design for our tool aimed at compiler students: https://github.com/pygram/pygram
There is a demo hosted in Heroku, details in the link above.

We are deciding if changing to Javascript and what other features to support.
I wholeheartedly agree that there is a lot wrong with GDP. It sure isn't directly equivalent to quality of life. BUT when the issue is morbidity and mortality among the working-age population, GDP isn't that bad a metric. And it has the advantage of appealing to greed.
100% agreement from me! As I wrote a few days ago here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7905511:

All my projects now have a default.nix and a shell.nix and I have this little snippet in emacs:

(setq haskell-process-type 'ghci
haskell-process-path-ghci "/home/ben/.nix-profile/bin/nix-shell"
haskell-process-args-ghci '("-I" "." "shell.nix" "--pure" "--command" "cabal configure; cabal repl"))

This drops you into a nix shell with all the dependencies for the project you're working on present.
You can also (especially easy if you're using projectile) run compile with the command nix-shell -I . shell.nix --command "cabal configure; cabal build" and that give you a nice list of type errors in your current project.
Repeatable builds with no cabal hell. In the words of disney: "I'm never going back, the past is in the past!"
If you somehow eliminated all other causes of death for working age adults, it would be 10/10. Because it's relative to total deaths, other causes of death are important in understanding what that statistic means.

It's also worth noting that a good chunk of all deaths among working age adults are preventable. Miscellaneous accidents, suicide and homicide are the most common causes of death at the younger end of the adult spectrum. Towards the older end, cancer and heart disease skyrocket and dwarf them.

See "10 Leading Causes of Death by Age Group": http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10lcid_all_deaths_by_a...
Though that imagines a future where we're using asm.js and probably OdinMonkey, not generic runtimes like V8.
> "microG"

Pronounced "MEE-KROG", right? First syllable rhymes with me, second frog.
I've been trying out Foursquare in place of Yelp when I'm looking for a place nearby (a good place to get an iced tea for example). It has performed well though I have yet to use it extensively enough to determine how it truly stacks up.

One thing I care about that Foursquare doesn't make obvious which Yelp does: if a business has free Wifi.

Funnily enough, about half of the time that a place has password-protected WiFi someone seems to have left the password (sometimes an out -of-date one) as a tip.

I check in to things not because I care about my friends seeing it (surprisingly few of my FB friends are on Foursquare), but because I like to easily see how long it has been since I've gone to a certain place.
Is it just a little disingenuous to suggest that the public is prevented from enjoying the benefit of company growth because they aren't allowed to invest in venture capital funds? They can't, of course. But they can invest in other vehicles that can.

Individual investors can't directly benefit from Facebook's appreciation the way they could Microsoft's. But their retirement fund sure can.

Meanwhile, there's probably a strong case to be made that in the large, individual investors shouldn't try to hit these kinds of home runs, because they're outgunned by institutional investors and they don't have the capacity to diversify as well as institutional investors can.
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Let me get this right - it's hard to tell who accumulates wealth (liver damage) if we don't know who is coming to the parties?
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Title is editorialized, it should be 'SOURCE INTERLINK CLOSURE AND REBRANDING PUTS 2600 IN LIMBO'.

The kneejerk reaction here is to hope that a bunch of hackers (read: script kiddies looking to impress) go after the 'new' company and cause havoc until they settle up. Credit to the crew at 2600 who as usual are advocating a calm, logical course of action and not looking for a personal army of hackers to carry out attacks.

I hope they are successful as I am a lifetime subscriber and I really like the print magazine. What happened is unfair and looks like a scam. If 2600 fight a clean battle and do not recover what they are owed, then I might not have a problem with some creative social engineering, etc. That's money I gave to 2600, and I'll have a real hard time feeling sorry for TEN if they have some technical difficulties in the future.

And 'Ten: The Enthusiast Network' should now be referred to as 'Ten: The Embezzlement Network' going forward. Call it what it is.
That's pretty much the case for any sort of punditry, particularly on the Internet. It doesn't matter what you say or how good your information is, as long as you say it with confidence. Because everybody else's information is just as bad, anyway, and people remember your predictions that come true, not the ones that don't. Particularly if your predictions are bold and unlikely.

In my experience, people who have done actual, rigorous firsthand research usually keep quiet about it unless they are trying to alter the general public opinion, in which case they'll throw out the minimum amount of information necessary to give credence to their unfounded and self-serving speculation. Why? Because solid, accurate information is very valuable in business, and why give it to your competitors for free?
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Email security is really bad. We have a lot of companies trying to roll out "secure email" every week.

There are a ton of problems to solve before one of these actually works, javascript crypto being the least (since HN likes to discuss it...). Backwards compatibility with old email protocols and insecure service is clearly a weak-link in any hypothetically secure service.

It would be nice to see a more distributed protocol...where the bulk of the world's email is holed up in a few company's data centers.
I'm working on a programming language. It's a reimagining of Python as a statically-typed, compiled language. The compiler is written in Python and targets LLVM IR. Currently working towards support for exceptions; raising already works, currently trying to work my way through all the stuff that needs to work for catching.
This is, in fact, happening when the stakes are much higher - in hospitals.

The UT Southwestern Medical Center is driven by residents' evaluations of their supervisors, and routinely operate on patients with absolutely no supervision present. The actual doctors are afraid of getting poor reviews and killing their chances for advancement, as has happened to their peers. So the residents do as they wish, often at great risk and harm to the patient.

I unfortunately have experience with this facility. My brother-in-law was operated on by their residents for a routine removal of a skin graft. Their supervisor (one of the faculty members mentioned in the article linked below) was not present. My brother-in-law received 5 holes in his intestines and was unable to eat for 12 months, surviving on TPN alone. The Mayo Clinic finally resected his bowels, leaving him questionably enough intestines for a normal life. Sadly, for state-affiliated medical facilities in Texas, there is little recourse after the fact. The state has limited damages in such a way that no attorney was interested in the case.

More details here: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/dallas/headlin...
Just went live with my game homepage
http://mo.ee/
We're working on having a new photo taken for a redesign of the front page that is coming up. Different trucks is a neat idea. We toyed round with some ideas and ended up with just wanting a photo of people moving. Not sure what we'll go with yet but different trucks is cool since it tells you that we have variety!
> so far I find his take on Piketty shallow and unpersuasive

I feel like he alluded to critiques that have been handled with far more depth by economists, but he was talking in a medium that doesn't really permit much more than a shallow, abbreviated treatment.

> it strikes me more as the view that is convenient for him to have

Some of the economists pushing the second critique Marc uses, that recent data doesn't line up with Piketty's model, aren't just complaining out of convenience or self-interest.

Peter H. Lindert writes in the NBER review "Making the Most of Capital in the 21st Century,"[1]
"Oddly, however, for the twentieth century trends that he and his collaborators have documented so well, the relevance of the wealth/income and capital/income ratios for the income distribution is less compelling. Across countries, the levels and movements of this ratio do not correlate well with those in income inequality."

Before dismissing Lindert as a right-wing partisan, check out some of Lindert's other work, where he argues that social programs don't have as large an impact on GDP as most people claim,[2] or his arguments in favor of progressive taxation.[3] [4]

Matt Rognline also has strong critiques of Piketty's reasoning and data,[5] even while emphasizing that he believes inequality is still a hugely important concern.

It's possible to worry about Piketty regardless of what's in your wallet.

Regardless, even if Andreessen's motivations were suspect, it doesn't actually tell you anything about the truth or falsity of his claims. "Bad faith" isn't sufficient to make an argument invalid, anymore than good intentions can make something true. Andreessen and these economists' reasoning might be poor, or Piketty might be able to salvage his model by convincing everyone that recent trends really are an aberration. More analysis will be useful to be sure. But questions about motivations or who is arguing in good faith or out of self-interest won't really have any impact on the outcome of those discussions.

[1] Sadly, gated: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20232
[2] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=372842
[3] http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Public-Spending-Economic-Eight...
[4] http://www.economist.com/node/2553322
[5] http://www.mit.edu/~mrognlie/piketty_diminishing_returns.pdf
"Technically could be prevented" .. how? Prohibition didn't work out well, and people can make booze with some fruit juice, air and a radiator even in the most extremely regulated environments[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruno
It's a cool idea, why implement it in a shitty language?
Thanks for the kind words. It's fantastic to see people making use of my project!
These are some great points about the challenges of going public, but I wonder how much of it is just a deliberate logical decision to reap the most benefits. There's an incredible amount of capital flowing around (to the extent that in many cases it doesn't seem to be the limiting factor as in classical economic theory. And remember when YC decided to decrease the investment for practicality reasons?) so why would you IPO as Facebook at 1B when you get both more attractive private offers and also you can get enough new investment until the IPO value is at 100B.
Two points.

1. Breaking reflexivity is not OK. Ever. a==a should hold.

2. The compiler knows that this is undefined behavior, and uses this to "optimize" to a wrong result.

However, it does not warn me about the use of undefined behavior. Not with -Wall, not with -Wpedantic.

marcel@localhost[tmp]cc -Wall -Wpedantic -Os -o undefined-realloc undefined-realloc.c
marcel@localhost[tmp]./undefined-realloc
1 2

I can't think of any reason for this to be OK. Either warn me, or don't use it. Silently breaking reflexivity...did I mention "not OK"?

Of course, that's only a minor point in the article, but it does capture the theme that's explored in the main point.
Are you seriously taking the post-dotcom-bubble crash as the boundary to compare the 80s to?

I still agree with you, even with your own sleight of hand. :)
Thanks! You might already know but the UK has AnyVan which is similar but perhaps more for long distance stuff. I think they have eBay integration too. You're right that is a huge market though.
Yeah man, the emperor totally has no clothes. Unfortunately the entire field is insulated from disruption until we can get clinical data into the consumer's hands.
Um, defying a court order is breaking the law. And the Court gave him several chances to correct the situation.

If he can't afford to live where he does, maybe he should sell the house and move.
'If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.' Mr. Gates worried that 'some large company will patent some obvious thing' and use the patent to 'take as much of our profits as they want.'

Bill Gates in the early 90's [1]. Pretty similar line of thought, no? Unfortunately, now Bill Gates is a defender of Intellectual Ventures [2] and Microsoft extracts billions of dollars every year from open source software by asserting "infringement" on such software patents that should've never been granted, and doing the very thing that Gates was condemning when Microsoft wasn't in the abuser's position.

[1] - http://www.networkworld.com/article/2230877/microsoft-subnet...

[2] - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/bill-gates-still-...
Except the former Soviet Union countries were not collective societies. There were rich, powerful people and there were poor, powerless people. Instead of dollars (as in the US), the currency was political power and influence which then led to a nicer car and a nicer apartment. Collectivism was just the narrative that kept the 99% from revolting - for awhile.
Quora is the only one of these that interests me primarily because most answers are posted by people using their actual names. Yeah it's not perfect and it has a lot of issues, but this is a big selling point for me. There are advantages to anonymity, but there are also advantages to sticking faces onto posts. Quora should be the place for the latter, and should play that up more.
Thank you. We reverted the title.
Yeah people seem to "like" the idea on there! We probably will not be hiring until we have streamlined our model a bit more and started earning revenue or raised another round of funding.
> You don't have to. Issue a self signed cert and provide instructions to add it to the browser as a trusted certificate authority. The fact that no one trusts you by default becomes your problem, the alternative is caring about the trust backbone (or I suppose, paying Microsoft, Apple, Google and Mozilla to add your CA, but I would guess that will run a bit more than $600/year.)

The issue everyone seems to be ignoring is that PEOPLE ALREADY TRUST HTTP!

They ALREADY trust my http web-site! All of them, on all domain names, and through all redirects!

Why should I take extra steps for them to lose such trust through adopting https? Why?

There is no economic benefit for me to add https. None. As much as I'd like to contribute to encrypting the whole internet, the whole https concept (with no backwards compatibility with http) is just too much trouble to deal with.
I love reading outsiders flail when trying to understand something like Quora by thinking in terms of naive, business-as-usual lenses.
It doesn't. It's building blocks all the way up. That's why I don't think that software should be patentable.
Your point is mostly orthogonal to mine, so your comment would have been better without the first sentence. But there's an interesting thing to consider on this tangent: television station owners do not necessarily own the content they broadcast, but might instead license it from production companies and distributors. The terms of those licenses include time/space restrictions --- television stations probably cannot themselves simply stream all their broadcast content over the Internet, because it isn't theirs to give away.
I suspect it was more correlated than you think, but you know her better.
Thanks, needs some improvement according to our metrics - a lot of people don't manage to make a chart, which is pretty fundamental - but it's getting better every day.
While the spirit is laudable—I'm not sure if there's an 'e-mail security' version of https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt, but, if there were, then I'm pretty sure that one of the reasons for failure would be "You are a private individual announcing that you will be rolling out a new standard for e-mail in a couple of weeks".
This is the greatest introduction to clojure I have seen so far
Hey I appreciate the response. I'm honestly not sure if they will buy it. If it's cheap enough and portable enough I feel it could be extremely effective in drawing attention from attackers.

If not I guess I'll just open source it and turn it into a con talk =).
Because, sadly, everyone is hopping on the JavaScript bandwagon. But it's not as bad as it seems. There is CoffeeScript which is IMHO a considerably better language, and there is ClojureScript which brings the wonders of Lisps into JS. And for simple webapp logic I can tolerate JavaScript. It's also an uncomfortable but true fact that JavaScript is today one of the most-used languages in the realm of forward-driving forces of tech (that would be the startups). Most GitHub repos are in JS, too.

However, the lack of integers will always be my pet peeve, and I really can't imagine how could someone arrive at such a horrible idea.
You are not the same person while drunk. If you think that the person you are while sober is a better person, you have a perfectly valid reason for not drinking.

I’ll just leave you with this:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/9-youtube-videos-that-prove-anyo...

Not so much to prove that you can do it, but more for the change that anyone can see. You could hardly tell that it’s the same person in the first videos as the last ones.

P.S.

I found the more relevant article I was looking for:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-things-you-dont-realize-about-...

It goes into more detail about what I mentioned above – how you are a different person while drunk, but you might not realize this until you quit.
The US diabetes mortality rate is about 2X that of other advanced economies, so, yeah, eating crappy food is going to be a lot of the rest.
The video feed is raw, no commentary and little editing, just FYI. If you want to figure out what's going on, you need to read up on background info and also listen for 10-20 minutes :P

As of 4:32 EST, it looks like a live video feed should start coming from the vehicle soon (within minutes), but timelines are changing every few minutes. I think the parachute deployment is still on schedule for 4:51 EST.

[Edit: There are now commentators, so it's a bit easier to figure out what's going on and follow the progress.]
Alternatives to traditional college education would be great. How will we know that they work?
I think just the opposite is the case. Individuals are better poised to diversify if they can drop investments across a large number of projects with tickets in the sub $1K range.

Imagine what would happen if you could really micro-invest, $10/day in 10 different projects. You'd even have kids actually learning to invest from age 10 that could beat the "pros" by the time they are in high school.
On a more positive note, I just found out about 2600.
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Why does it stop at 2011? The last that I've heard of Haswell was that it was a paltry improvement, and that core will be around for the next couple years.
Call it "Hey".
Pathetically, a large part of this is partisan. The Republican party was never, in recent decades, happy to prosecute big business for this kind of crime. It's the Democratic party which ever in recent memory had any willingness to prosecute big business, and largely lost that, because it hurts in elections. Democrats automatically lose independents without some message of non-partisanship (perverse that white-collar criminals have a party). So we get these weak moves which are then further blunted by the Republican party, so the Democrats can symbolically do something and the Republicans can symbolically label them as Communist Nazis without doing anything. The Tea Party and mainstream, Ron Paul Libertarian Party are focused on eliminating Democrats (i.e., Communist Nazis) and starting an armed revolution to ensure permanent right-wing rule any day now, but maybe not just yet until they get a few more votes - no declarations of non-partisanship required for these - but even if you could get them down to it, they wouldn't be willing to prosecute big business either. And many of the rest, including a lot of people involved in startups, are temporarily embarrassed millionaires voting reflexively against words like regulation and taxes even though that kind of policy is unlikely to ever benefit them.

But even if anyone was willing to be seen "punishing wealth creators" and "discouraging business" and "killing jobs" in this partisan climate, nobody of any party will want to face the political blowback for expanding bureaucracy and spending more money. There is a strong, non-partisan general allergy of the voting public to regulation, enforcement, and government in general.
That might work if you had most of your portfolio dedicated to early-stage companies, but that in itself is a bad investment strategy. Consider: it's the strategy behind venture capital funds, and venture capital as an asset class tends to underperform --- if you're thinking about Microsoft and Facebook but not Murpli and Foozblap, you're a victim of survivorship bias.
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I'm not justifying Lisp's reputation, I am trying to explain it. Whether Lisp's reputation is justified or not is immaterial to my comment. Personally, I believe that the reputation is not justified.