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I don't know what libraries you talking about but nearly everything from nuget starting with image processing and ending with orms and crypto work just fine on linux.

Even more when K will come out I don't think there will be any worries at all.
You can write D programs that only do C style malloc/free, or even do Fortran style no allocation whatsoever (static and stack only).
I thought Cortana was a brilliant idea, and a nice touch.
Halo has served Microsoft very well, it's an extension to that.

Just my take on it.
Not a Hobby
Someone already commented on this but it must be re-emphasized in blunter terms: the OP's title is sensationalized bullshit, period.

What has caused the improvement in speed is the building of dedicated left lanes. The fact that the city also added bike lanes at the same time does not mean that the bike lanes caused the speeding-up of car traffic (correlation != causation, and all that)...

Read from the source article that the OP references (and then glosses over):

http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2014/09/when-adding-bike-la...

> So what happened here to overcome the traditional idea that bike lanes lead to car delay? No doubt many factors were involved, but a DOT spokesperson tells CityLab that the steady traffic flow was largely the result of adding left-turn pockets. In the old street configurations, cars turned left from a general traffic lane; in the new one, they merged into a left-turn slot beside the protected bike lane (below, an example from 8th and 23rd). This design has two key advantages: first, traffic doesn't have to slow down until the left turn is complete, and second, drivers have an easier time seeing bike riders coming up beside them.
To riff off that:

.net - A bad name and it was impossible to search for information in the early days.

SkyDrive - Great name...but oops already trademarked.

Live.com - Makes no sense.

Bing.com - See Live.com.
So i'm assuming that you are advocating the "setting free" of unadopted domesticated pets.
I truly hope for the sake of the animals that my assumption is wrong, or that you are never put in that position of authority.

Euthanasia is the lesser of the many evils for those animals.
Read the article, please.

My implementation of a liveness analysis scales poorly with function size. It allocates a huge bit matrix (vector of bit sets) for liveness computation. This grows quadratically with the function size, which means that in some cases, obscene amounts of memory are required, and this data structure doesn’t fit in the cache
There are many parts to the book, but in one the author goes over formal systems. It was the first time symbol manipulation had been introduced to me as a way of formalizing things like arithmetic.

By that point I was already playing with numbers and looking for patterns in the Fibonacci triangle and various series, so being able to play with just symbols was natural and fun, especially if the system is constructed in just the right way so as to have meaning that transcends itself.

Later the book meanders through lots of other wonderful topics, but the theme seems to be simple systems which add up to something more than the sum of their parts. There's something about realizing how much depth lies in a handful of simple rules that really clicks and makes you value those rules in some way. After he's primed you with all kinda of these things, he introduces lisp.

It took another step or two after GEB for the beauty of lisp to really hit me, but GEB laid the groundwork by fetishizing recursion and simple foundations, among other things.
Same thing applies to most software I write.
Strategy, ideas and decisions are from higher ups.
Far away from implementation.
Hey now, Cortana is a really cool use of a property they had access to. One of the perks of being a huge, diverse (in the product / market sense) company.
Abimate.ee – a p2p marketplace for services
You're right... NASA probably would value stability and reliability over cost-effectiveness every time.

But then again... I think they're hurting for money; SLS is proving much more expensive than planned. And they have a lot of project managers who remember the Shuttle Era when it cost upwards of 600million per mission to launch the thing. These guys are super keen to avoid a repeat of this situation again if at all possible.
SLS is already going to cost around the same per mission due to its reduced launch rate. The commercial-crew program was supposed to provide 'cheap' access to LEO; If NASA is forced to buy Delta4 Heavies for each CST100 mission, the cost is gonna be almost as much as shuttle/SLS!

So if NASA were smart and daring, they'd choose SpaceX and SierraNevada and save mountains of cash... but NASA being NASA, they'll probably choose Boeing and be forced into paying through the nose for launches for another 30 years.
It's a very Microsoft move to drop the word which is what the product is and keep the word which is a UX element the product does not have.

I get it as a pure branding exercise if you just think about what Microsoft brands have equity and history, but it still strikes me as funny in terms of what the words actually mean.
I really wonder what would have happened if Nokia had jumped onto Android early.

Sad day.
My point was that the first optimizing compiler isn't comparable with what is expected of a modern compiler, so please don't compare their code & memory footprint. With the first fortran compiler it was garbage in, garbage out. A modern compiler can (often) turn garbage into fast code.

Nowadays inside a compiler it's 90% graph processing & reprocessing. Since you're dealing with (cyclic) graphs, garbage collection is very useful and if you don't use some automated gc, you'll probably roll you own in one way or anther.

And a X86 interpreter isn't comparable with a compiler either. I doubt that there was any GC going on in your example, everything probably runs in a single array that represents the memory. Maybe some temporary objects but JS engines have good generational GC these days, I don't think D uses a generational GC algorithm.
Try to drive in Chinatown. It is a nightmare with the bike lanes, let alone the traffic from along Delancey. It is nice to see the city encourage biking (well, at least for the Bloomberg administration), but the extra bike lane is hurting the safety of drivers in Chinatown, which, brings safety concern to bikers too.
Futrly – virtual time capsule. Send a msg into future
What a coincidence. I just released Tweetd, somewhat similar! :)

http://www.tweetd.com
Show HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8297959
do you have an example of what your talking about. I'm thinking even ugly things like input validation should be all in one spot and easy to follow and read. if there's a lot of weird state you need to track you can manage that in it's on class.
Hi, I just stopped by to say 'basic income'.
Much more interesting is to speculate if and when the old Nokia releases a new phone, say an Android model. There is probably contractual "rusty handcuffs" period of 2-4 years that prevents it, but I wouldn't be surprised if they have skunkworks projects already. Of course, a lot of factories and supply chains are gone, but know-how and contact networks would make it possible to bootstrap it again.
Perfect for the front page of hacker news!
This article is horrible. The author also states that

> One is that, for the most part, driving lanes weren't actually eliminated when they bike lanes were built — they were simply narrowed.

But there is nothing to support the claim that narrower lanes speed up traffic. Also this phrase is copy pasted verbatim further down the article.
What makes you a real New Yorker?
Missing connections in our education
I don't have an explicit source; but we can back into the numbers. Apple only breaks out COGS for the entire company; not by division. But regardless, the iTunes division is dwarfed by the iPhone/iPad/Mac divisions. Apple's gross margins are right around 37.5% -- which is very high. The average for the computer/electronics industry is closer to 20%. If you look at historical trends through their past SEC filings, you'll see that margins have actually been declining, and that iTunes was only a significant percentage of revenue for the last couple of years. It was less than 1% of revenue before 2007, so it operated as a very small part of the company for the first 10 years of its existence. Online media direct sales are actually not as big of a business as you might think -- for example, Steam alone did more revenue than the entire online movie sales/rental business (not counting subscription services).

As a percentage of revenue, Apple's operating expenses (which include R&D and the operation of the Apple stores, servers, etc.) are pretty low -- less than 10%.

All of this info comes from Apple's 10-K: http://investor.apple.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-13-...
Python “Evidence Net” – putting Django signals to work
The current quality and quantity of information previously classified as "news" is far beyond what has ever existed previously. Look at any news event and compare the information that's immediately available now compared to similar news events 20 or 30 years ago. People on the ground publish pictures, videos, and reports as the events are happening, and we can read reports from any source in the world translated instantaneously into our native languages. And we have access to all of this using a tiny computer that fits in a pocket.

The idea that quality has decreased is simply an absurd and obvious myth perpetuated by editors and professional writers who are unhappy that their control over the journalism and publishing industries is evaporating. Furthermore, the market has never really paid for journalism, which was always subsidized by ads of questionable efficacy and ownership by wealthy individuals.

Finally, the big secret is the a massive amount of non-fiction by professional writers is embellished, plagiarized, or outright fabricated, and there is almost no real fact-checking in the industry. The regular scandals are just the tip of the iceberg.

Journalism and non-fiction writing as they exist now are in need of a major overhaul. Thankfully, technology is creating a situation where the world is naturally moving forward.
> The vibration feedback and glancable message letting you leave the phone in your pocket or bag lets you go back to a less distracted life.

I'm pretty sure it causes a more distracted life just for the reasons you mentioned. Now I cannot even just ignore my phone or put it out of view, it is literally part of me!

Also is taking a phone out of your pocket really the "problem" they're trying to solve? It isn't something, day to day, that I feel causes me hardship. Maybe if I was a cyclist it would be useful, but I'm not sure you could read the watch while riding (or it would be safe if you could).

> I think a hassle free smart watch changes a significant portion of a highly connected person's day, lets them be more free, more productive, more organic.

So many buzz words. I was half expecting you to use "synergy" there. What you said doesn't really MEAN anything. It is just a bunch of fluff.
Star Wars Surprise: Millennium Falcon and X-Wing Pictured
I think he meant "stall a plane and keep it stalled for many minutes, flying it into the ocean". Stall/spin accidents are common, but they normally arise from loss of control at low altitude when there's not enough time or space to recover.
This is not true. There are other transportation means such as buses and subways.
imo not any more than hitting ctrl-f in notepad to bring up the search dialog is a mode trigger. Meaning I guess technically it is one but I don't parse it as such.
I saw a user testimony prominently featured on mbesto’s startup homepage. Turns out the testimony is quoting himself on how great his startup is.

Take that for what it’s worth.
I agree that this is the most interesting thing to watch for, whether apps will go with ApplePay or IAP. However it seems that credit card transactions also have a fixed per transaction fee of 19 cents or higher, not sure what these are for ApplePay yet, but that could factor in when IAP are just 1 dollar amounts.
And not learning anything ;)
Im sure its annoying, but its that way for a reason. You are belted into a multi-thousand-pound steel-reinforced vehicle. They are riding on some pipes with a Styrofoam block strapped to their head.

I most states its legal for cycles (motor and non) to pass cars and pull to the head of the line at a light. Not sure why; but that's the way it is. Stopped cars + agile cyclist = no problem.

When traffic is moving after the light, the car sure as heck better leave some room for the cycle, because any error there means an ambulance.
The "doesn't fit in the cache" argument has nothing to do with too many small allocations which obviously happen (otherwise GC effects wouldn't be noticeable) and which almost certainly can be replaced with much less allocations of some arrays of things. Which it what I suggest since my top comment.
The road is not a perfectly good place for bikes to travel. It's like saying the conveyor belt in an automated slaughter house is a good place to dance because it's flat and doesn't move too fast or that pedestrians should just walk down the middle of the road because it's not a bad walking surface.

The biggest possible problem is that as the auto driver you become responsible for any bike rider you come into contact with because they are unprotected regardless of the circumstances of the contact. I didn't ask them to get on the road with me, but I'll sure as hell be held responsible for their decision if something happens.

More importantly, as a tax payer, I've helped fund literally dozens of miles of really nice dedicated paved and marked bike only trails, complete with parking and overpasses, tunnels and signals at busy intersections. There is literally no excuse for them to play "Tour de France" on the same road I'm trying to get to work on.
Wow. That’s infinitely better than images for searching and accessibility, and it scales to different resolutions too.
Status is a feature
Does "ebay" or "amazon" or "google" make sense?
This isn't C, it's JavaScript.

The semantics of a global variable read are a more complicated than you think. Global variables reside on the global object, which can grow dynamically. Global properties can also be deleted at any time. Accessing a property which doesn't exist should throw an exception. Properties could also be getter functions, which would then result in a function call for every property read.

Have you written a JS compiler? Have you written a JIT compiler? Any kind of compiler for a real-world language? A garbage collector?

If someone knows of a way to get allocation statistics, then I can answer the question of how many allocations occur.
> Bikes aren't automobiles no matter how much we debate about it. They shouldn't be sharing the road with cars.

While I understand the sentiment you need to understand that cyclists are put in a pretty awkward legal situation themselves. They exist in a no-mans-land between pedestrians and vehicles.

Sidewalks are often too narrow, too close to blind corners, etc for safety. They're often VERY bumpy. At 2mph a sidewalk is fine, but at 15mph it tries to shake your bicycle apart. Pedestrians don't expect cyclists on the sidewalk and that can make for horrific collisions.

In the street cyclists get no respect. Cars cut cyclists off making right turns regularly. "Dooring" is a very real phenomena that can put people in the hospital. Cyclists regularly get killed by cars and the drivers suffer no real consequences.

Here's a NYT article on precisely this subject: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-to...

> pure safety concerns for the biker (who I as the automobile driver am responsible for in the case of an accident)

As you can see from the NYT article that's often not true at all. The police tend to look at cyclists the way you do, and many times don't find fault with drivers even if cyclists are KILLED much less injured or have their bikes destroyed.

> generally shitty entitled attitude lots of bike riders seem to have (probably earned from dealing with irritated drivers like me)

A lot of the shitty attitude has to do with a constant fear of death. Further cyclists are definitely treated as second class citizens on the road, despite being required to obey all traffic laws however ill-suited they are for pedal powered vehicles.

But if the law applies evenly to cars and bikes then cyclists have every right their three feet of roadway and possibly the WHOLE lane (depending on how wide the shoulder is and the lanes are) without fearing for their lives. But often that's not the case. It makes "sharing the road" a very adversarial experience and worse is that cyclists can't see who's about to run them over, honk at them, swerve far closer than legal, throw something, etc because the cars are usually going faster than the cyclist.

The idea that bike riders have shitty attitudes and drivers do not is a non-starter. The problem -- as you've stated -- is best solved by making dedicated room for cyclists rather than expecting everyone to just magically get along in situation which rewards neither for doing so.
The lack of a magnetosphere is a problem on geological time scales (thousands to millions of years) after terraforming. Mars is a great place for human life because it has soil, water, metals and gravity (though earth is far better).
Make a point to work with the best programmer in the company (or best that you can get to work with), rather than working with the portion that is inferior to you.
Or put more effort into Meego - which actually was a very good OS, and the N9 which was a great product. Adopting Windows phone was the nail in the coffin...
I remember playing Psycho Fox on the Sega Master System which had a similar inertia based control (except it was side scrolling rather than top down)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_Fox
I ran into the same bug, I think there is an easy fix. When swiping one of the blocks out, my cursor left the window. The event system missed the mouseup that happened out-of-window. So, add another handler. onMouseLeaveContext(dropBlock())
Thank you very much for your feedback!It's indeed a very simple implementation, the goal was more to explore MyHDL than to have a robust UART.
It's the middle of London ... prices are comparable to other major cities.

Regarding life circumstances, I was thinking about my own living situation with two young kids. I can't imagine how we'd physically store all the plastic crap they have accumulated in a Barbican sized flat, let alone prepare meals or keep up with the laundry. It would require a very different lifestyle. I'm sure people do it, but you gotta really buy into it and probably spend a lot of money on activities outside of home to keep them amused. Likewise if you are a real homebody I can't see the Barbican working for you, unless that homebody-ness is accompanied by a strong liking for minimalism.
One of my favorite programming videos: Jim Weirich on the Y Combinator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs
I'll be down-voted, although I solved the problem with: .. FaceTime. If you don't have a mac you can get a ipod touch. That's what I use to talk with my family USA->Italy. Is the only thing I found that is reliable and has a quite good quality.
From the thread on r/programming:

"The main issue from the post is quite simple: if you allocate a lot of small objects, D runtime will place them inside chunks (called pools) of fixed size (like 4 MB) that it requested from the OS. Each time a pool is filled up it will do a GC cycle and only if there's still no room for new object it will allocate a new pool. That means number of GC cycles in this situation is proportional to number of objects you allocate, while each GC cycle time is proportional to the managed heap size. It leads to quadratic complexity and awful slowness. If runtime allocated pools not of fixed size but adapted their size to the allocation rate, this scenario could be significantly faster."
It appears as though just installing the APK doesn't get you all of the Google Voice integration -- you need to wait for some server-side changes to your account as well. (Discovered this after a frustrating hour or so of trying to get GV features to work...)
“Human” dogs go to the beach
why the hack google ever made it possible to hit the search url with more than one slash there...
I think data comparing grade inflation by discipline would also be interesting.

For example, I would guess that in fields in which grading can be more objective (consider the question of whether a computer program performs to spec vs. grading an analysis of some kind of literature), consistency in grading would be easier to maintain.

Then there are considerations of what grading is for. If we consider grades to be certification that a student meets the standards of a profession, then majors leading to professions with lax standards might give higher grades.
iOS8 presents serious issues that prevent file uploading
Ways Social Media Is Changing Your Brain
Have you ever tried walking between a residential area and a commercial one in a suburban area? Most places don't keep up or even fully create the second system of sidewalks - what makes you think they would actually do so for a third system?

By far, most roads we travel on have no expectation of minimum speed, passability, etc. The exceptions that do are called controlled access highways and indeed bikes, pedestrians, horses, tractors (etc) are not allowed.
A Jolla speculator, http://followingjolla.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-small-print-t...
I bike, drive and walk in Manhattan frequently and find that I am delayed in each case by all of the modes fairly often, and cars certainly get in the way the most, especially to pedestrians. Whichever delay it is, it's just traffic. Sometimes I'll be upset about it, sometimes not. The attitude of some drivers that certain traffic is better than others is bizarrely entitled.
Apple Watch Battery Life – “Charge Nightly”
The garbage collector is shared by the three projects. You will not get a better GC this way.

Maybe ldc/gdc can optimize a few allocations away compared to dmd. I do not believe this is the case with compiler code like the Higgs discussed.
> He is wrong. In fact Apple charges the banks

The article you're linking to is not definitive. The source is anonymous and not confirmed:

"Under deals reached with banks individually, Cupertino, California-based Apple will collect a fee for each transaction, said one of the people, who requested anonymity because terms aren’t public."
Swift – From Beta 1 to 1.0
Yep. This is a studied psychological phenomenon. People tend to prefer options they believe other people are choosing. A.k.a social proof. (ref. Goldstein et. all: Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive)
27.0? Update...
I think a number of these countries practice polygamy widely. Polygamous societies tend to have a higher birthrate.
Unlikely that would be needed, but its a two-way contract, if either side doesn't meet their obligations, it can be canceled.
Researchers create a Maxwell’s demon with a single electron
I'm one of those bikers who hates sharing roadways with cars. It's not that I have to share, but between taking up so much of the road, pure safety concerns for bikers(since automobile drivers win every single colition) and generally shitty entitled attitude lots of car drivers seem to have (most likely because there are more of them so they think they own the road) I get my hackles raised every time I see one on the roads. Automobiles aren't bikes no matter how much we debate about it. They shouldn't be sharing the roads with bikes.

I see more people driving break the law every day while driving then I've ever seen bikers do in my entire life. People are jerks regardless of what they use to commute with.
Why must computer models use the classical model? Isn't it possible to encode what we know about quantum mechanics in a simulation and see what comes of it?