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jarsurgeon is a simple wrapper script that builds upon several pre-existing tools:

- Krakatau (Python)

- GNU make (C)

- git (C)

- javac, jar (ELF binaries that invoke Java)

- javap (alternative to Krakatau's disassemble.py; another ELF binary that invokes Java)

After repeating this workflow by hand for numerous JAR files, I figured it was worth automating.

Arguably the "disassemble" step could have been integrated a little better using e.g. jython or "import Krakatau", but I didn't feel that it was worth the trouble. Also, structuring it this way makes it easy to substitute jasper/jasmin or another bytecode (dis)assembler if desired.

The "reassemble" (make) step would have to be completely redesigned to use pure Java tools. Changing to Ant/Maven/Gradle/... might be helpful if the instrumentation has more complicated dependencies. For my purposes, GNU make was the most expedient solution.

Shelling out to run the binaries has the added advantage of making it easy to switch between different JDK versions.
Agreed.

You can also use HAProxy, or rinetd, if you want to handle other services too.
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Ask HN: Are users subject to anonymous karma penalties?
Hello,

I've noticed the last few times I've posted something that my new total karma is less than my previous total plus the total earned by the new submission. A casual look back at previous posts and comments does not appear to show someone going back and down voting old submissions.

Now karma isn't a big deal but it is annoying to be subject to unacknowledged penalties if that is the case.

Are users subject to un-acknowledged karma penalties from moderators?
without turning red.

Metal light emission depends almost entirely on blackbody radiation [0] which depends only on temperature. Aluminum melts at lower temperatures than iron and that's why iron glows before it melts and aluminum doesn't.

Blackbody radiation is also the principal source of sunlight (and all starlight). It was one of the first physical phenomena that required the quantum theory of energy to explain.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation
Yes, it's almost as if a certain imageboard took what could have been a legitimate issue and enthusiastically crapped all over it the way it usually does, stealing all the oxygen away from the story.
The same could be said of cars themselves. And phones. And kitchen knives.
(I am the other creator of this website). Thanks! We will be happy to see you on our website!
In addition to the sibling thread.

Compilation speed. Production quality native code compilers for modular languages always compiled quite fast. Just as an example with Turbo Pascal 4.0 (the first version with units) you could "fix 1 compile error->compile->fix next error" in just a few seconds.

Static binaries. Something any native code compiler should be able to do.

Method declaration syntax. Goes back to Oberon-2 (1991).

Most of the other stuff is a refinement of previous Rob Pike languages Alef (1992) and Limbo (1995).
Understanding 3-way merges
It's made up of a few different things - less state/federal government support, drying up economy (less companies paying taxes), and things cost more. We also live in a sprawl area, so more schools being built, etc. I've lived here for 10 years and for 10 years the property taxes have gone up. I would consider moving, but my kids are in middle/high school and I am trying my best to not uproot if I can avoid it.
1. No, it is a useful application of math. The moment it can be used for absolutely practical purposes like compression, it is no longer abstract.

2. It appears mundane because I just spelt it out for you. Was it "typical computer programmers" that invented JPEG encoding?
That assumes that all the inserts and auto increments happen in the same order for both databases, which can't be guaranteed. You might end up with users with different IDs, which is pretty bad.
I commend the exercise! In terms of sampling points in programming-space, I often recommend Prolog, though I think that might not be well suited to your goals here (you're not likely to run into a managerial situation where someone is pushing it...). Two things that probably belongs on either kind of list would be Haskell and some sort of Lisp.
> As for code size and other matters it depends on your use-case and in this day and age I think a few MBs here and there is not going to make or break an embedded product offering especially if whoever is making that product can deliver it with less bugs.

This statement alone disqualifies you from making any comment about embedded development and automotive embedded development in particular.
She'd have probably enjoyed the real South East Asia more
They aren't focused at developers.

I've got to sign up and maybe pay to 'cast.

There's no simple "This is how you get started...push buttan receive broadcast link."

etc.

I'm super super lazy.
I am the other creator of this website and I am curious: would you sign up if it had nice design and everything? We plan to switch to some nice theme, it just isn't our top priority.
I'm curious to know what exactly this makes this suited for agencies moreso than something like Slack, Lync/SharePoint, Basecamp, etc. etc.

I'm trying to figure out if I can get Slack into the workplace but if ChatGrape has something that's very agency-specific, I'll be more likely to recommend it instead.
I had to hire a Korean IP law firm last week. Options included:

- Kim & Chang;

- Bae, Kim, & Lee;

- Lee & Ko;

- Shin & Kim

- Jeong, Kim & Lee, etc etc.
People right now all over the world and in the US are already being asked to sacrifice their well-being and lives for pursuits most of them find utterly meaningless[1]. In addition many of the millenial generation are already crippled by debt, underemployment, and vanishing prospects for retirement. You're essentially asking these people to do the same thing - namely "massively sacrifice their well-being" - and so really you're just choosing favorites. Either way both sides are demanding a sacrifice. The only difference is who is being asked to sacrifice.

[1]: http://www.gallup.com/strategicconsulting/163007/state-ameri...
You still need to shift your cognitive, focus. It’s still a distraction, and similarly dangerous [1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_and_driving_safet...
The struggle of science to study Solaris is actually the point of the book, something which was discarded by the movie adaptations. People who know the story solely through the movie adaptations know that Solaris is manifesting people; but that is arguably the least interesting aspect of the story.

If you like Lem's description of fictitious scholarly research, I strongly recommend Jorge Luis Borges' short stories ("The Library of Babel", "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" and "Funes the Memorious" come to mind). The collection Labyrinths has some of the best ones.
Ok, nifty device, but what happens when you have a collusion or an accident and that device in front of your head starts flying around ?

I don't want to destroy their hype bu they should really give that problem some thought.
Why can't we just stop using phones while driving? No matter how much one reduces distraction, it is still more distracting than not using it in the first place. Twitter while driving - why on earth?!? For navigation it is obviously a good idea because you can keep your eyes on the street and don't have to look to your GPS or even try to read street names.

Watch »From One Second to the Next« [1] from the »Texting and Driving - It can wait« campaign.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BqFkRwdFZ0
This problem has always existed; the only difference with the Internet is that it's now harder to ignore it.
no way this stays legal in CA
Why do you think a startup is the best solution? Remember, startups have to make money. Good luck monetizing awareness.
It's builtin in my 2014 Mazda 3... It only displays usefull stuff though. Like direction, speed and distance to the car in front.
Broken in Firefox due to missing Canvas2D ellipse method. I filed a bug in Bugzilla (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1067039), but a quick fix would be replacing the ellipse with a rectangle.
That is no longer true. You just have to sell your startup to someone with more money.
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It's because of comments like this that I've reserved my opinion about Vim script managers, of all things, for many years. There's no "right" or "wrong," I favor a tightly integrated editor setup where I own my plugins. Further, I don't believe that reaching for a plugin every time you have a problem to solve is the best or only way to extend your editor. My .vim probably has 10-30 third-party script collections, but "upgrade all vim scripts" isn't something I've ever wished to do at the same time. I prefer to upgrade plugins that I know to be active projects after reviewing the changelog, and I do this about once a year.

Is it so hard to relate to the desire simplicity and control in editor config? It's one place where I want to keep the cognitive overhead as low as possible: No forking git repositories to fix a bug in somebody's indent script that's not been maintained since 2007.
I agree that people should just put the fucking phone away, but if this product is bought by people who already text and drive, maybe it's a net gain.
Any idea why Google's App Engine isn't more popular?

Too many restrictions? Too expensive?

It's used quite a bit by other AngelList companies:

App Engine 295
Heroku 969
AWS 388
Part of the problem is that it affects much older people so it's out of our daily thoughts, and we might not know them as well. Also, when people get the disease, they often go into hiding. Ronald Reagan, Margret Thatcher, and Charlton Heston come to mind.

I noticed that there's a Glenn Campbell documentary that covers his Alzheimer's. He was a little before my time and a superstar in his time.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Campbell

Maybe the movie will bring a little more attention to the disease.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049586/
Actually there are plenty of Navigation gadgets doing the same function, but non of them works on a sunny day. I bought some of them, but frustrated, non of them are really functional. I drive on a highway a lot and navigation is annoying when it's not in front of you. So how do Navdy solves this problem?
My family is all Irish, and the family tree for my female relatives is a tour of every possible derivative of Mary. One group of sisters were named Mary, Molly, Margaret, Maura and Mary Kathleen.
I see on their client list both Lyft and Uber.
I think the parent comment is referring to the lack of regulation of this product by regulatory bodies.

Cars are regulated to travel below a certain speed. Phones are regulated to their use outside of a vehicle (when operated by a human), and kitchen knives are illegal to carry in public.

While the parent comment is a little melodramatic, there's still something to be said regarding the safety of usage in this product and its affect on other people.
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Society has no use for them and doesn't deem them worth saving.
This shows how flawed the whole medical science is today. The issue is not Alzheimer, the issue is autoimmune diseases, specifically, leaky gut, constant low-grade inflammation, and others. If you try to fix just Alzheimer's alone, you've accomplished little! Fix the leaky gut issue, you've solve tens of chronic diseases at once. But, I guess, it's more profitable to sell 10 different "targeted" therapies instead of fixing one thing with lifestyle and proper nutrition! Another thing to add is the Hygiene Hypothesis - we're not adapted to live in a sterile environment, so, either get a bit more filthy (and resilient) or adjust your nutrition to more anti-inflammatory state. Anyway, I'm happy that there are conscious physicians who are revolting against the status quo and practicing Functional Medicine like Dr. Mark Hyman and others.
Iirc, lighttable is written using node-webkit as well (in addition to clojurescript).
Some of them, but retail management salaries aren't very high unless you are running the entire store. In many cases supervisors aren't paid much more than the staff they manage and they still want graduates for higher management positions.
The danger is that it creates the illusion of being able to text and drive safely, so that people who wouldn't text and drive on a cell phone do so with this product.
Sorry, I can't even feign concern about the state of Vim's source code. I'm a Vim user and plugin developer, not a Vim developer.

A single-threaded UI means I can easily tell what Vim is doing at any time. It means the editor never feels clunky because indexing or some other background activity is hogging resources. It also means I never get a "process is running" prompt like in IntelliJ or Emacs when I want to exit.
Because you want people to link directly to the trip or vacation or hotel or airline that they used. People usually don't mention it, they mention the destination.
Nice first step! I want this, but with eye tracking so it can plot perspective correct navigation arrows on the actual streets in front of me.
And Spanish Marias. I understand it's the result of General Franco forcing it.
Didn't really answer the questions. Do your property taxes increase because the rates increased or because the assessed value of your property increased, or perhaps because your governments added flat per-parcel fees?
To people on Hacker News, startups are like hammers, and everything looks like a nail.
I said it last time: it's shocking they thought the most important use case was "WATCH INTERNET VIDEOS WHILE YOU DRIVE."

And they still haven't changed their homepage.

Navdy could be really useful, even improving of total safety, as HUD navigation. But maybe that's not where the money is.
Check out Navdy's rad video!
I disagree wholeheartedly (except for your last sentence). Books such as Eden and Fiasco are firmly rooted in the tradition of the sci-fi adventure, even if he adds additional philosophical and scientific concerns that were completely his own. But Lem's work is mostly explicitly grounded in scifi.

As an aside, I find Lem's prose to be rather dry, most of the time (though The Cyberiad is a notable exception). I don't know if this is something one can blame on the translators. In his scientist-focused novels, especially Solaris and The Futurological Congress, this works well; also, those are short works where the stodgy prose doesn't overwhelm. In other, longer works such as Fiasco and His Master's Voice, I find the prose almost unbearable. (Those latter two could really use some editing, too. Fiasco opens up with a seemingly endless chapter wherein a guy wanders around on an ice planet in an exosuit, and the prose catalogues nearly every single step the guy takes; it's infuritating and sleep-inducing at the same time.)
Who digs out the gold used to make the computer you typed your post?

People already live in poverty, with crippled totalitarian governments, to support you today.

I agree, it is evil.
Wait, what image board? I never mentioned anything like that. They launched their original campaign months and months ago, but were harassed. That's what I'm talking about, the initial campaign.
> We honestly can't plan for it. We can only try to do our best today.

The article mentions "long-range planning" as an aspect of intelligence.

People incapable of effectively affecting their future by taking action now (requiring "planning") are generally considered hapless. No one anyone'd want to work with, except to assist as with a helpless baby.

The article also mentions sustainable anarchist visions, in contrast to the shadowy "global government we created to 'solve' the environmental problem" you mention. (Or does that somehow mean the US, the world hegemon?) In fact, he mentions our "global economic system in the form of institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund", which obviously aren't designed for environmental sustainability.
http://backspace.fm/ is a tech podcast in Japanese, in case anyone speaks or learns this language.
You're still not focused on the road though, that's just not how the human brain works, and insinuating that this device somehow makes texting while driving safe is hugely irresponsible IMO, considering how many thousands of lives are lost every year to distracted driving.

(I also doubt a commercial pilot is using this tech to send tweets to his mom while landing a plane. The "Pilots use this, so it's gotta be safe, right?" line just made me facepalm.)
Any advice on bikes if I don't want to spend $5k?
To be fair, that guy is a politician, who makes his hay by deliberately confusing the topic.
> I need to know how many turbines to build.-

And that is a patent-eligible application* of the abstract equation :-) You could potentially get a patent on that application but that would not preempt the equation itself. Somebody else could potentially get a patent on the use of that exact same equation to calculate the number of atoms to feed into an anti-matter space drive.

> There are multiple equivalent encodings to represent any mathematical operation...

And similarly there are potentially infinite applications of a mathematical operation. Patenting one application does not provide a monopoly over the mathematical operation itself. Now you may again try to conflate "algorithm" and "abstract mathematics" and "computation" again, but you cannot change the fact that the algorithm without its practical application is meaningless.

But even algorithms are too specific a word for most software patents. Consider a patent on a mobile app (valued at, say, $10 billion) that claims sending photos over a network that are auto-erased at the receiver after a time period expires. What is the algorithmic complexity of that?
I suspect there's a spectrum [of color perception among people with nominally normal color vision].

Indeed there is. The most common is a variant carried by around 2/3 of the human population (depending on ethnicity and gender), which results in a slightly different red response curve, as shown in color matching tests [1]; and might also be involved in some forms of actual color blindness. Other, less common variations involve mosaicism of both red and green pigments as well [see ibid, Fig. 8].

The tetrachromacy thing is a perennial media favorite these days; but IMO these subtler but actually widespread differences are much more interesting, at least from a philosophy of mind point of view.

[1] Deeb 2005 - The molecular basis of variation in human color vision. Link below:

http://www.mbfys.ru.nl/staff/j.vangisbergen/endnote/endnotep...
Thing with Withings products is that that they get all your data.

"For example, use of the online body scale leads to the collection of weight data and body mass indicators; use of the online blood pressure monitor sets off the collection of arterial pressure data; use of the online babyphone leads to the collection of environmental data (room temperature and humidity)."
http://www.withings.com/us/privacy-terms

Do I want this to be sent to these people (and sold on? is it? )? Shame cos I'd like to buy their stuff.

It's why I won't buy an Apple Watch much as I want one, dear god I want one.
https://www.jungledisk.com/

Their interface isn't the greatest but it works.
Range sensors that actually work reasonably well outdoors are neither cheap nor ubiquitous. Note that we're talking about imaging range sensors here, not single point measurements.

Time of flight cameras? They predominantly use NIR (900nm or circa) and so they're rubbish in sunlight. Try using your kinect outdoors. Beyond the kinect they're also very expensive, a few thousand each. The kinect 1 also fails outdoors and when the range is > 5m or so.

LIDAR? Well sure, you can buy a rotating line scanner - 100-180deg field of view typical. They're very nice, but also (new) you're looking at around $3-5k. Don't even dream about getting a Velodyne system, like the Google car uses.

Stereo? Yeah... well stereo is nice, but it takes a lot of computational grunt to do it in real time, reliably and in varying illuminations (good luck using it at night).

Thermal? We're getting there, FLIR make some fairly low cost, low resolution sensors, but still you're looking at $500-1000 a pop in OEM quantities.

RADAR/Ultrasonics are reasonably cheap nowadays and they're pretty good for coarse measurements like when you need to know how far you are from the wall in your garage. We're getting to the point where RADAR is good enough for collision avoidance (i.e. auto-braking) on high speed roads.

More cameras are cool, but you need to know how to process the data and present it clearly to the user. I can see the advantage of having a camera for a rear-view mirror particularly for vehicles like vans with no rear windows. Side mirrors are still useful and for most people the cost of installing multiple high resolution video cameras and monitors isn't worth the savings in petrol from drag reduction. If you replace a mirror with a camera you also need a very high resolution display, a wide angle camera that doesn't distort too much and a way of viewing it in any conceivable illumination condition. Mirrors are also nice and mechanical, unless you crash they rarely ever break.
The money shot

https://www.navdy.com/assets/bg_10-88a56c4c20214704cf0b39542...
Are you sure about the rear suspension? Yes, it can save your wheel in some situations (which you should really be avoiding as an amateur), but %99 of the time it's unnecessery weight that also happens to eat some of the power that'd normally go to the wheel. (I'm not a competitive biker, mountain or otherwise, I'm just curious)
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HUDs are already built into many high-end cars (including several BMW and Audi models, the Chevy Camaro, and even some lower-end cars like the new Mazda3). Same for voice-controlled phone and media systems. They're actually touted as a safety feature, since a HUD requires less eye movement and refocusing than a normal instrument panel.

Of course, it depends a lot on what you do with it. Moving existing displays like the speedometer and navigation instructions to a HUD can be an improvement in safety. But if it encourages more interactive phone use, that could obviously cause problems.
I consider it an excellent feature. Just a single mouse scroll is enough to tell me that the company isn't competent enough to engineering a usable website.
Sorry... I meant /v/ and the whole Zoe Quinn/GamerGate thing.