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This looks awesome to me. My application has GB of read-only objects that I cache in virtual memory. Unfortunately, Java does not have a way to exclude certain objects from garbage collection, so large numbers of read-only long-lived objects get processed for GC anyway and slow down the application.

I recall that Smalltalk back in the day had a save-to-perm feature in which objects could get moved to a section of VM that was not subject to GC. I wish Java had that.
The example e.g. uses Anemone (https://github.com/chriskite/anemone):

https://github.com/zillabyte/domain_crawl/blob/a22e1fe338e28...
Since spiritual energy cannot sustain life, and it's inconceivable that it ever could (there are no such masters, but there is indeed Apple computers for less than $500), life energy is not a possibility, where Apple clearly is for the vast majority of designers. A Tesla car is not a personal alternative for me, I make too little, but I would be an idiot to say that a Tesla wasn't an alternative to a vast majority of Americans based on their actual usage.
I think you may enjoy this: http://solitaire-ranking.org/rankings/sol_std_95

If you had a video of your attempt, or at least a screenshot of the ending screen, you would be either the #3 (if it was 3-draw) or the #7 (1-draw) Windows 95 Solitaire player in the world.
From what I understand, pilots spend countless hours updating their books with technical updates, procedure changes, and map revisions. And you hope that each one is 100% up-to-date when they fly. I think the EFB is a great innovation.
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Usually when people talk about native controls on Linux, they're talking about the controls used by whatever window manager they're using. By that measure, QT is not native on any of the gnome window managers, but is native on a KDE based distribution.
Imagine the combination of Uber and self driving cars. If Uber succeeds, they'll own a big piece of transit infrastructure.
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I've never understood valuing the choice of costume... if this is really an important signal, doesn't the hoodie just become the new suit?
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FTA: "He loved puns, palindromes, limericks and wordplays."

When my friend was shooting part of Dirty Pictures, he texted me to say "I just exchanged dirty limericks with Shulgin!"
Is it not similarly "tyrannical" to be bound by the views of people who lived a few hundred years ago. I believe that the constitution specifically forbade the vote to certain segments of society by race/gender? Which is one example where values have changed significantly.

Not to mention, there have been amendments to the constitution as I understand it - or are those only additions rather than contradictions/supercededants?
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If I ever pitch something someplace that's known to follow that rule, I'm showing up in a tuxedo.
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Only if it's evening, please...
It's a pretty icky thing to say, to be sure. This person set a new world record and she's receiving comments about her appearance? This woman performed an incredible feat of skill and she's being reduced to her looks. Doesn't sound like much of a compliment when you frame it like that, does it? Sounds like sexism to me.
The conversation is about someone's accomplishment, then it is turned to one person's opinion of her looks. That's the problem.

Bodybuilders build their bodies. Her accomplishment was scoring highly.
I also thought this was another Summer gimmick like the ice cream.
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You may enjoy this game, from Jin8 (much, much faster):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jw...

It gets particularly incredible at the 5:10 mark.
> I mean how often do we enter a contract (outside of purchases) in our lifetime?

In every email you read, every website you visit, every purchase, some sort of social contract exists.

> Does the Ethereum VM support advanced math? Ie. complex numbers, high precision values?

No, ethereum will not be good at or used for any of those things (directly).

> of what use are smart contracts and organizations if they are not accepted by your local jurisdiction?

Ethereum contracts are PRECISELY for instances where they aren't accepted by local jurisdictions, that's what machine-based enforcement is all about.

Bottom line, you're thinking of ethereum as a "faster horse" whereas the ethereum team is trying to build a car- The use for ethereum is that it opens up new possibilities that never existed before. (not that I'm saying it's certain to succeed at this goal.)
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This is just a random thought, but it does occur to me that a lot of effort is expended in discouraging guys from objectifying women, but little to no effort is expended in doing sort of the opposite: encouraging women to objectify guys.

That's because the people who think objectification of women is bad tend to also think objectification of men is bad. Those people don't want to live in a world of ubiquitous or or even just balanced objectification; they want to live in a world with none.
I've just flagged this due to the mechanical '10/10 great job, would crawl again' comments popping up, though I'm not sure this is best practice as the comments are suspect, not necessarily the linked story.

Is there a better approach to use?
I like that the app doesn't require any special permissions. It seems like every app out there wants to read all my contacts, detect my location, read phone state, prevent the phone from sleeping, read and write to the SD card, and on an on. Thanks for making an app that doesn't do that.
The game in politics is to convince those who think like adults that your selfish idea is actually beneficial to the nation.

National security is something with which real adults concern themselves, so it makes a good excuse for local oligarchs to erect trade barriers to protect their interests.

By debunking the argument they make ("security"), often the true impetus becomes clear ("profit.")
This same story is playing out across the country. Governments mandate low supply in high demand areas, which creates a bidding war that the wealthiest win every time. This is our generation's version of redlining. It is an injustice and it must stop, but you have to actually show up and say something so it's clear that there are votes at stake.

It's going to take more than showing up at one meeting, though. You have to organize and build a constituency for policies that will let more people live where they want to. That's what we're doing in Austin: http://aura-atx.org/
Yup, followed by an article titled "don't do business with hoodies"
Thanks for your suggestion. I hadn't considered staying in a part-time capacity a possibility
Ask HN: Object you'd like to see connected to the internet?
There is all this talk about the "Internet of Things" and how it's going to be one of the largest industries soon.

So I'm curious, what is something around you that you wish was connected to the internet(ex: Physical mailbox at home/work, desk chair, etc)? Or is there a product out that that you wish was improved(ex: smart lights, internet connected cars, etc)?

This devices can have sensors or actuators, but I want to know why you believe it'll make your life easier by connecting it to the internet.
Car2go also has a $14.99 / hour maximum, so you could potentially drive it a lot more and for multiple stops. No way you could hire an UberX to drive you around the city for an hour for that price.
The news is that China is imposing additional import restrictions on US technology.

The fact that the US also does this – something we're all aware of – doesn't change the fact that this is interesting news!
There's a regular business network meeting in my home town, I don't know what it's called, but most of the web design firms I talked to had a rep at it every week. Ask people when you talk to them if they go to any meetups or groups like that.

Business speakers are even easier. Just go to a place where they are likely to have presentations - a college, a conference center, business expos - and see what events they have coming up. Scout bulletin boards. Speakers generally like to have an audience, so it shouldn't be too hard.
I would love to start a reputation management company.

streisand.com maybe?
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See also Evets Kainzow:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/07/21/apple-co-founders-tet...
Tangential, but can anyone place her accent? It's really unusual. Maybe she was born in Texas and then moved to the West Coast as a kid?
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I'm a pilot and was surprised that the Navdy video invoked the "pilots use it -- it's safe" language.

Um, when I'm flying a plane, I don't:

- have other 4,000-lb planes 3' away that I could collide with after a moment's distraction

- compose tweets by speaking aloud while staring at a screen, and then when the voice recognition system doesn't work properly, have to retry multiple times while staring at the screen

- talk on the phone to my mother

- play music while navigating through crowded airspace (some pilots do on longer cross-country trips, of course)

- need to have my airspeed projected in front of me (maybe on takeoff it would be useful)

- have apps pop up notifications directly in my field of vision when I'm trying to focus on one of those 4,000-lb objects that's about to collide with me

- have some of those other 4,000-lb objects near me controlled by people who are composing tweets, etc. rather than focusing on the task of flying

What I do want to be doing is scanning the airspace around me for other planes, scanning my instruments to make sure all is well, etc...

Navdy seems like a good HUD implementation from a technological standpoint, and unlike other folks here I don't think it should be banned. But assuring everyone it's safe because "pilots use it" seems like a statement made without, well, talking to pilots first.
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>No system is perfect, but let's not pretend labor laws in the EU don't come with massive downsides (unemployment, difficulty to start or grow a business, purchasing power of discretionary income).

Unemployment wasn't caused by labor laws, it was caused by intentionally destructive pan-EU fiscal policy.

Difficulty to start or grow a business - compared to silicon valley, maybe. Fewer investors / smaller markets. Not really a labor law thing.

Purchasing power of discretionary income - caused by the high dollar, which is in turn caused by US military hegemony. Not labor laws.
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Disagree. I've been into Men's Fashion for about a year now and most menswear stores dress men like shit.

It's really hard to figure out your style, fit, and the items that compliment it but a man that has done that work communicates a lot IMHO. It's a holistic picture.

If it's clear you've put thought into something whether it's your body, your written or spoken words, your "costume", your app design, or your code design; that communicates far more than just selecting for anyone not wearing something casual.

I used to use a similar process for finding employees: cast my net for Haskell / Scala / Erlang and I'll find the best programmers. While that bias held true to a degree it also excludes a large swath of people that might actually be a better fit, my failing there is not developing a multi-dimensional and rigorous process for finding and vetting.
The new design looks good and the refund receipts are a very welcome change, as is the ability to resend them. Things that would be great to have:

* Receipts in the test environment, sent to a per-account "testing" email address

* The ability to set more customer information to be included on the receipt. For example, some customers want their address, phone number, VAT number, license ID, or cat's name on their invoice.
I should have stated I go to bed at 9pm.
"Facebook privacy challenge attracts 25,000 people who want 500 euros for doing basically nothing"
There is also Maidsafe:
http://maidsafe.net/

They are building a distributed file store system. They use consensus algorithms to ensure data integrity. There is a specification for a crypto-currency on top of that.

I do not believe the consensus algorithm has been fully implemented, but what they have looks promising.
The documentation is not great, but here is a link to more technical detail about how data is stored in the system:
https://github.com/maidsafe/MaidSafe-Vault/wiki/Documentatio...
Well, at least he gave some concrete examples. I was hoping for some concrete examples of what he was missing from you, because I am curious.

My own exposure didn't show me that much that was new/different in ways that were practically useful (and no, it wasn't writing FORTRAN or BASIC or Pascal in a different language).

Mind you, I have, for example used (mostly) immutable data structures and generally write in what many would probably consider a somewhat functional style. I also like HO mechanisms, but all of these are not at all exclusive to FP languages.

So as I wrote, I am looking for concrete examples.
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Every professional team uses version control. And nothing works better than Subversion for complex commercial projects. So asitrack provides built-in Subversion integration with your repositories and checkouts.

I disagree with this statement. I have found DVCS like Mercurial to be far superior than Subversion for managing complexity in commercial and non-commercial projects. I have increased confidence in branching as branching is a first-class concept (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2471606/how-and-or-why-is... for a good discussion on why DVCS is better than SVN at branching/merging). I also find being able to locally track changes without sharing them to be a huge benefit.

What are your thoughts on this?
Hoodie: $20-$40

Suit: $200-$2000
Here is another effective one-liner:
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Web scraping is just one example of what Zillabyte can do. The open source libraries out there can be a good solution, but our cloud platform lets you scrape the web at scale. That's the main value we can provide in terms of web scraping.

We also support analyzing internal data such as logs. We also provide a pre-scraped web corpus for our users to mine.
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Napster died long before founders fund existed. Perhaps they're just referring to Seans presence
That's a very harmful assumption to make. If you need a datapoint, I work remotely, and I always work at my "Bay Area" rate even though I've never lived there.

There was a point, early in my guy-on-the-beach-with-a-laptop era where I would cut my bill rate in half while working from the beach with a laptop. Clients were happy about that, and it more than paid for beers and thatch huts. Then one time I tried not cutting my bill rate in half. Nobody but me seemed to notice. So now I don't do that anymore.

Neither should you. The work you're doing is exactly the same regardless of where you do it from. Charge accordingly.
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>Is it a dream of yours to go? Is your current startup making money? How invested are you in the current startup?

No, an MBA is not a dream of mine, although I suspect that I would really enjoy it. My current startup is not making money, but I am very committed to it.
Yeah, so many fails. First they failed to use Whonix or similar separation which forces all traffic to go only through tor. Secondly you shouldn't ever mess with, normal (daily use), secure (secret / confidential), and anonymous (no identifying information what so ever) systems. All of those should be completely separate, as deep as hardware level, preferably with individual Internet connections. For secure systems it's good idea to use separation with extremely limited connectivity (rs-serial cable in my case), it's enough to pass ASCII armored pgp messages. AS well for anonymous systems you'll use prepaid data with burner phone and also replace hardware from time to time. You'll also boot the system from read only media, so when ever you'll reset it, it'll be clean again. But if you're lazy and don't care, it's easy to fail. If you use your normal system for all three settings, the results will probably be pretty bad.
Also always check signatures, without signature(s) checking it's trivial to give you version which contains well, what ever.
Very cool idea. Not too sure it's something I'd feel comfortable using but the savings would make it very tempting.
The one that fits their requirements, probably not a tablet at all. Something easy to centrally manage.

In general. The point was that signalling of status is _one_ of the reasons Apple products are bought for. There are of course other reasons, but I wasn't talking about those.
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Even in a business setting, there are ways to "stand out" in how you dress. As I'm typing this now, working at my 9-5 business casual job, I'm wearing a bright pink collared shirt with a striped bow tie. Why? Because I look damn good in it, and people notice. Just because I'm not wearing a tee-shirt and jeans doesn't mean I'm "conforming". Absolutely stupid.
Wow, how do lyft and uber manage to launch the same thing at the same time?
In China, strategic industries like energy, steel, and telecommunications are state controlled. Huawei, for example, is a "national champion," which means it receives subsidies, foreign employees cannot own shares, the Party appoints an anonymous board to manage the company's management, and so on.
It's always been legal (in the US) as long as they tell you when they WILL ship (or within 30 days, if no timeframe is promised). It's against the merchant contract with most (all?) major credit card providers though.
Actually the comments are a good mix of positive & negative.
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The "red sneakers effect" itself is a much more interesting reading to understand this new dress code.

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/The%20Red%20S...

The title pretty much sums up the conclusion: "The Red Sneakers Effect: Inferring Status and Competence from Signals of Nonconformity". One important point is that is important to realize that the individual is aware of the dress code and decide to nonconformity.

I wonder... if I ever have a meeting with Peter Thiel, I might appear in a suit, but opening with the line "I am aware that you disregard suits, but I just prefer to use it, i like to be elegant, sorry". Just to check if nonconformity to the nonconfirmity causes the same effect.
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Now that's some impressive response time.
Life from 100 years ago seems so much more real in color. We are so conditioned to color photos that B&W seems unreal. I bet the majority of the people in those pictures were never photographed again.
Is this just a response to UberPool? Or vice-versa? It just seems curious to me that within 48 hours the two biggest car-sharing providers launch the same feature.

Or did they hear the other was working on it and rushed it out the door?
Maybe I got brainwashed by their video, but I indeed think that a laptop like the Dell Latitude 13 (http://youtu.be/rq5dqKWymP8) is much better than a tablet.

There is a keyboard, a network activity light on the back of the screen, removable battery, spill resistance, compatible with the Dell Mobile Computing Cart to store and charge them, the laptop can open flat and has a touchscreen so it can do all what a windows table can, 8H battery life, USB ports, they claim that it's sturdy. But most important, there is a keyboard! And with the new features of windows 8 where you can reset the computer with factory settings with or without keeping your data, that's good, but still not as good as not being able to have any software problem like on an iPad.

I really like the network indicator on the back so that the student is immediately spotted when going online, nice idea.
I understand that this is something that Lyft has obviously been working on for quite awhile and put plenty of resources and thought into, but for some reason I still have a sour taste when they launch this just the day after Uber.

I'm really curious if this was rushed out as a response to Uber or if this specific date/time range was always perceived as the launch time.
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Scottish Highland dress may apparently be worn in daytime formal events and in the evening - and usefully contains a dagger (a sgian-dubh).
Looking at the original article, it seems like he is comparing sorting an array of NSNumber objects in Objective-C with sorting an array of primitive integers in Swift.

The only really big surprise is that the latter actually used to be slower. Boggle.
It wasn't clear if uber was going to start asking about destinations for uberpool. But lyft specifically mentions that; it seems necessary to do good matching. And the extra effort seems minimal.
There are so many people working for each company, consulting for them, advising them, and attending their investor pitches, that I suspect it is hard to keep secrets. It is like that in any industry.

I've had someone attend an investment pitch who I'm pretty sure then told a potential competitor exactly what I planned on doing. If this happens to my company, which is pretty insignificant compared to Lyft and Uber, I bet it is even worse for them.
Two posts on this came up at the same time. We've buried the other one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8143303) as a dupe because this one has the active discussion. But we'll change the URL (from https://www.lyft.com/line) because the Techcrunch article provides a lot of background info. Happy to change it back if people prefer.
The problem this algorithm solves is not how to distribute keys in buckets (key mod bucket_size works fine for that) but how to gracefully adapt when bucket_size needs to increase. This algorithm minimizes the number of keys that have to be moved to new buckets while incurring no memory overhead nor requiring a complex data structure.
It sorta looks like Lyft pushed this out ahead of schedule based on Uber's announcement. The website says it's SF-only and iPhone-only.

Which, if so, is a great testament to their ability to respond quickly. And also, as a user of these services, I love the competitive pressure they're putting on each other.