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more exactly malloc and free typically gives you shitty time guarantee.

The usual thing people do in real time is bailing out of any dynamic allocation, they know malloc is not good, they are afraid or don't want to deal with real time GC, and/or they know that if they do all the allocation first, they have a grasp on the worst case of their loop (I think the real answer is that it's a tradition).
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The best channel for these suggestions is our user voice [0], or devtools bugzilla component [1] though lot's of Mozillian's hang out on HN (and subsequently ring vote themselves out of oblivion).

[0] https://ffdevtools.uservoice.com/forums/246087-firefox-devel...
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Developer...
Agreed. If X does not have any observable evidence in my world, it might as well not exist to me (though it might exist Elsewhere(TM)).

But people who brandish the "evidence based" argument do not mean that. What they mean is that if X does not behave in a particular way for which it is feasible to design an experiment, then X ought not to exist.

In practice, what happens is that if I claim to have had direct experience of X, they will dismiss it out of hand and go trying to shoehorn some explanation which does not offends their world view. And if I go further and point out that there are millions of people who have had similar experiences during history, they will blast that we are all a bunch of brain-washed idiot sheep.

Personally speaking, and to make it clear, I have had a couple of experiences that make much more sense if you consider that there's more to reality than what scientific materialism would be willing to accept. Maybe there's is perfectly materialistic explanation that is yet unknown to us, but maybe there's not. I simply point out that accepting the limits of our own ignorance is a more philosophically sound position than to dismiss evidence before considering it.
I think the point is that 'not capable of digesting' is an inaccurate description of the issue. Most likely it would just take some time to integrate meat back into their diet... I've made much smaller changes to my diet which caused discomfort, but it lasted a week or two, and my body was fine with it. Likely this friend's transition would be more uncomfortable, and lengthy, but I can't imagine that if for some reason they HAD to eat meat again, their body would completely reject all meat indefinitely.
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All GC algorithms are not created equal.

What algorithm are you referring to when you say "better throughput at the expense of significantly increased memory usage"?

Also, why is unpredictable latency acceptable for you on servers but not phones? Wouldn't a latency spike on remote requests from an application degrade user experience just as much as if that latency were localized to the phone?
Reading this made me sick as I realized that optimizing the echo chamber to remove dissenting opinions is the apparent goal. "removing comments we don't want" is horrifying. Why don't we all just sit in a corner and pat ourselves on the back about how intelligent and enlightened we are now that we don't have to deal with unpopular opinions?
You're making the common mistake of disregarding disruptive innovation[0] at its early stages. Just because it starts out as only of low quality[1] doesn't mean that it will stay that way, or for long.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation
1: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Disruptiv...
On the flipside, I cannot imagine clickthrough rates and impressions that lead to purchases is high on a site that markets itself as a place to pirate digital content even for those not using adblock. And the nature of the site can deter larger advertisers from using it.

I'm not saying they made no money, but I doubt it would have been as lucrative as if those page views were dedicated to, say, www.wickerbaskets.com or something else.
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1. You mean "David Samuel(S.) Cohen", one of the writers for The Simpsons and Futurama, who decided to make his name "David X. Cohen" (not his legal name) because the Writer's Guild does not accept duplicate names?

2. Yes, people do believe he had a proof somewhere in his mind, considering the rest of his track record. Whether that proof was correct is definitely up for debate.
The law disagrees with you in most jurisdictions.

You will not have the same expectation of privacy as in a private location, but most legal systems recognise that walking out your front door does not mean you automatically give up all expectation of privacy.
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>Ever notice how people who make claims about why they got banned never provide links to the posts in question?

>their claims are nearly always false.

>perennial sob story

Hmm, I wonder where these fall on Graham's disagreement pyramid...

Seriously, how hard is it to tell the guy "shoot me an email and I'll look into the ban" and then make your judgment after that? Maybe the guy's bullshitting us. Or maybe he really was banned unjustly. How can you possibly know?
Yeh. I added it after the above question was asked. It was asked once, so it obviusly belongs to a FAQ.
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> By far the best way to express disagreement IMHO is to neither vote nor flag, but to post a response.

I sometimes wish downvoting comments that have no response was impossible period, but I have no idea how to deal with the edge cases. Still, it's frustrating to see responses (actual ones, not just a bunch of insults etc.) made in obviously good faith greyed out without anyone pointing out what is wrong with them. When I do know, I try to reply, but usually I don't feel quite qualified. But the person who downvoted should know, right? If they can't put it in words, can it really be that good a reason? Among people who mostly type very fast, mostly idly browsing this site instead of being in a hurry, the time it takes is not an excuse, either.

To me it says someone has enough time to care about something someone said being somehow wrong, but not enough time to tell them what it is; that somehow the fact that they said something wrong makes them unworthy of being told what was wrong about it. Oh, and that nobody else who doesn't "get it" doesn't deserve to learn, either.
> Prison is punishment first, rehabilitation second

That's certainly how it is now, yes. You think that's how it should be?

Most prisons suck are incompetent and ineffective and need reforming. Accommodating vegans is one of the many things that needs to be reformed.
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Well obviously the prisons disagree, and since they are fundamentally rooted in the denial of freedom then I don't think anyone involved in the prison industrial complex (even in Sweden) is going to care to hear arguments about how they should be nicer to prisoners.
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I try to use upvoting and downvoting to massage comments (and comment threads) into a sorting I like better, which seems similar to your philosophy.

I upvote particularly insightful comments, or those that I think will lead to an interesting discussion; I downvote comments that I think are particularly inane, and I sometimes downvote comments and threads that I think are commanding too much attention at the expense of a better discussion further down the page.

Our view makes sense, since the sorting effect is the main one that readers see, but it's somewhat problematic because the effects of upvoting and downvoting on the display order of comments within a thread are mixed up with harsh punitive effects at the user-level (hellbanning) and with sorting effects at the submission-level that don't align with our benign intentions—e.g., a submission whose comment thread has attracted many downvoted gets dropped on the front page, so downvotes are not an otherwise neutral inverse of an upvote.

It makes sense, if this view of upvoting and downvoting as a "sort higher/sort lower" command is widely held, to separate out (or water down) the punitive and submission-level effects of downvoting a comment, possibly transferring those to flags instead.
Entomophagy - eating insects - provides cheap protien. Would you be happy if you were forced to eat insects?

I don't think you understand how ingrained some of these "voluntary" diets are; how strong taboo is.

EDIT: also, forcing people to eat a certain diet is disproportionately punishng them. Do we give those prisoners reductions in their sentence just because they were life-long vegans before they went to prison?
There is a big difference in pricing between Borland and Smalltalk vendors. I remember the Turbo Pascal / Turbo C pricing and how it really made quality compilers accessible. Smalltalk never had that revolution.

Anytime you need to "call for pricing", you know its going to cost.
“You’ve made us all sharecroppers in Google’s fields for the rest of eternity.”
I formerly worked for a company where our primary line of business was producing Omega-3s from algae (nannochloropsis). Our company didn't work out (for unrelated reasons), but the economics and realities regarding the global fish stock ensure that a non-insignificant portion of Omega-3s/7s will come from algae in the not-too-distant future!

For those who do care though, definitely examine the origin of your algae products. Most of the spirulina / haematococcus (for astaxanthin) / nannochloropsis by volume is grown in rather disgusting conditions in China and India. The US, Japan, and European products are much cleaner but are often GMO if that kind of thing matters to you.
I felt sorry for Josh as well. He seemed like a well-meaning, overly optimistic fool, giving up real, potential happiness for an illusion, a wonderful fantasy, a pipe dream.
Waze claims to do something like and it produces the most retardedly slow routes ever. I just hate it when someone uses Waze on my Lyft because I just know I'll take 10 minutes more.

I don't think it's as trivial because there are lots of things to consider. Some drivers are just SLOW and it will have nothing to do with traffic. Maybe all slow/terrible drivers use your app so all the route speed information is completely based on specific patterns set by your app.
I see the distinction, I'm just saying the prisoner's ethics are irrelevant: the society decides what rights and privileges prisoners get in prison, regardless of what they think they are entitled to.
One thing you could do is look at history. The Economist article has a nice slider graph at the top, but what they expect you to know is how the US economy was doing across the 20th Century.

In general, but not exclusively, growth in the share of wealth by the 90% is correlated to growth of the overall economy and good times for all.
It is the society you live in. The entire point of prison is to suck, so as to be a deterrent against going there.
> I try hard not to let personal irritation leak through in my HN comments, but I do fail at it.

we are all, for good and for bad, unavoidably human.
I, for one, am very glad that I found this website. I migrated here from slashdot and arstechnica, and the community is much less toxic here. I also find that the level of discussion is higher and that the comments are often more insightful.

I very much hope that it can improve even further.
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Well there is a major distinction here. We aren't talking about "i don't care for meat." We are talking about someone's deeply held convictions on morality. Oftentimes vegetarianism is a major part of their identity and culture.

A vegetarian diet can be part of a relgious practce. Plenty of Indian religions emphasize a vegetarian diet - Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism. As well as well as the Seventh-day Adventist, a Christian religion.
If on the job you are expected to wear casual or business casual clothing, by all means do so. But only once you have the job. During the application and interview process, making a good impression is paramount. A suit is clothing literally tailor made to make a good impression. I have yet to meet the hiring manager who would dock a candidate for overdressing to the interview, even if overdressing on the job would raise a few eyebrows.
Tracking, aggregating and analyzing thousands of users with slightly varied destinations, focuses (less traffic, faster, scenic), and signals is not exactly what I'd consider trivial...
As far as I know ARC (like manual memory managenent) can lead to release cascades that can also cause application delays in games eg. Something you have to watch for. Malloc() and free() and equivalents do quite a bit of work under the hood (check today's linked tcmalloc article for example) that takes time.
Yeah, it's possible - HR should screen for cultural fit and sometimes they may pull a trick or two like that.

I've never toyed with applicants per se, but would occasionally ask them to explain me something that is either very simple or that they know very well, to test for condescension and arrogance. Bottom line is that if someone shows arrogance in an interview, they will likely suck to work with and unlikely to be good mentors to juniors.
Running these on the Nightly froze my Yosemite Mac and I had to reboot. Apple detected the graphics card issue upon reboot.
Thanks for guiding.
this was fascinating to watch and i'm glad mozilla is thinking about this problem, but i don't see how this is much different from flattr.

subscribe2web doesn't yet seem to solve what to me is the key part of the problem: in order for me to pay to opt out of ads, i still have to link my payment information to someone with a relationship to mozilla or some one else, and enable them to track what i read in order to distribute the funds. that's not necessarily better than google analytics and google ads...it's just different. and when it gets baked into the browser by default, it's potentially even more problematic than the status quo in certain ways.
Hey, would you be willing to swap a few bags of 1.0 or 1.2 (when they arrive) for some 1.1? I'd like to try it out to see if the digestive enzymes are worth dropping in to the 1.2 brew.
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Makes you wonder what else is wrong.
And also check out this paper comparing reference counting and GC, and the accompanying discussion on LtU.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2552

(Although I think the paper has problems and bias)
In the book, the name applies to some manufactured food stuffs. But all the people that try to make the joke about it being made of people miss one important fact. In the movie, only the Green was made from people. There existed other variants that were not made of people. If this one was from the movie, it would likely be called Soylent Grey. :)
You should ponder why Erlang or Haskell achieved a fraction of Go's adoption despite being on the market 20+ years longer.

Some people see languages as a bag of features (immutability! generic programming! laziness! operator overloading! algebraic types! hindley-miller type inference! pattern matching! exceptions! manual memory management!). See http://yager.io/programming/go.html for an example of that line of thinking.

Those people won't get Go.

Designing a language is not about cramming every feature you can think of. It's about making good trade offs.

A trade off is: you get something but you also loose something.

I use Go because it made the biggest number of good trade offs.

Or to put it differently: I program in Go because when writing code, it irritates me less than other languages.

If you want a longer explanation of that: http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentia...
Well, religious diets are arguably not voluntary. I'd say it's far different to allow a Kosher meal than it is to plan, purchase, prep, and serve a special diet to one inmate who has a preference of diet because that is how they chose to eat on the outside.
The people who hold the opposite ideology believe fervently that HN is biased the other way (liberal, politically correct, socialist, etc., are some of the terms they use). I realize it's a bit facile to say "both sides claim bias therefore we must be doing something right". But for what it's worth, no, we don't consider ideology when banning people, we consider incivility.
I would prefer to live in a society that was 100% supervised, if the laws of the society were sensible.

Wow, just wow. It boggles my mind how anyone could say that. So you'd really rather live in a world where you're under constant surveillance, your every move, word, action, behavior constantly tracked and recorded for all perpetuity? If so, I just have to say, I can't even begin to imagine the thinking behind that.

Personally, I would consider that world to be completely evil and dystopian, and would work to undermine, destroy, damage and subvert the "supervision" in any way I could.
Personally I hope hes rich, They did not invent torrents, they did little to improve the market for them directly, but they have provided something valuable in making one of the most takedown resistant sites on the Internet. That kind of technological exploration is incredibly valuable, and they provide a service a lot of people wanted, and it makes sense to profit off that if you can.
This is actually why I (sort of) prefer the slashdot voting system. It's not just flat voting, it's voting with a purpose and explanation.

At least that way if someone downvotes for not agreeing with a statement, they have to think about that reason and admit it to themselves, even if they don't admit it to the website.
Try vertical tabs:
https://github.com/darrinhenein/VerticalTabs

They are imho much more useful on todays widescreen displays than normal tabs.
The OPTIONS request you're getting is probably just a preflight request related with CORS policies.
I think when you're in that line of business, your entire infrastructure could be taken from you at any moment. That could make knowing your financials kind of difficult.

Edit: Why the downvotes?
Indeed. It's somewhat durable, too -- while I certainly experience a lot more luxury since I left Davao, I'm no longer comfortable with even LA-without-a-car level extravagance being treated lightly.

I think it's worth pointing out the mirror of your thoughts (which are completely correct -- if you haven't had cheap and simple options, there is a deep luxury to it): If you're going to buy nice things -- which are the only options in America, truly -- enjoy them.

Food and housing seem so obvious to me. Like, you can get a chicken sandwich here, and eat something that is recognizably made of chicken (you can in the Philippines too, it's just that's more fancy than normal). I guess it never struck me how much of a luxury even the low-end of American foodstuffs are.

And I can get an apartment near Detroit that (1) can be air-conditioned to exactly the temperature I want, and not just a tolerable temperature, and (2) is, well... nice. Not falling apart, no holes in walls or things, consistent electricity, internet speeds exceeding 100kb/s (often by 30x).

Now, I don't need all this luxury, but man, the modest increase in expenses (maybe 2x? I live pretty cheap in America) definitely increases quality of life. If it didn't, I would probably not live here.
I agree with this, but I think it's worth noting that the prompt here was someone making a specific claim. One doesn't need to believe they have made no mistakes to be certain they've never made a particular mistake, and there's significantly less room for differences in interpretation (though that's not to say there's none).
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This is probably the most salient point in michaelochurch's reply.

You can always get a job after a startup, but whether you will feel happy and satisfied in that job is a much more difficult question.
> Good moderation requires a ton of empathy and kindness.

Which is sadly lacking among many, if not most, moderators of online communities across the net. I'm not saying that's the case with dang; in fact, I wouldn't know. But it's a thankless job that is akin to working in a call center without pay. It takes a strong personality to keep one's head above the layer of filth floating atop the waters of discourse.
I actually don't agree with this from a UX perspective. The downvote arrow is currently in a predictable position. If you move it after the timestamp, it will be in a variable position. Although, I can imagine how you could argue that the downvote arrow should not be easy to hit.
"... After being hellbanned I actually realised that commenting on internet forums is toxic, generally a waste of time, and not productive. So I quit. ..."

Yes.

... But for those that like spending time commenting, I would have thought following a subreddit model would work better here, with the growth. Spread the power out. ..."

Agreed.
The FCC regulates content that it deems "indecent" or "obscene" - legally nebulous terms. "Bullying" could cover incidents like Dan Savage redefining Santorum.

The FCC has been trying to get their hands on the internet for decades, and I see enforced net neutrality as their Trojan horse. It's possible I'm overly paranoid.

fwiw, we probably agree on the actual definition of bullying, and also that it should be illegal. I put it in quotes to indicate I'm using it imprecisely, not because I'm OK with what I believe to be legitimate bullying.
> A spurious argument - Zuckerberg's money isn't from computer networking. Berner-Lee is essentially the inventor of the wheel while Zuckerberg created a Ferrari.

This analogy is ridiculous. But to follow through with it it should be rewritten like this:

- Tim Berners-Lee invented the wheel, the tires, the diesel engine, the windshield and the electronic that allow to roll the window down by pressing a button, the airbag and the car charger, etc. He made the car safe and usable by anyone. For free. Then he designed how those cars should behave when on the same highway.

- Mark Zuckerberg built a car a century or two after Tim introduced the world to the wonders of high speed travel, painted it blue and charged[0] people for riding it.

[0] That was the plan but in the end he went with social graph thingie to try to be the next advertisement agency.

> Obviously that leads on to a question about whether the inventor of an enabling technology such as the web should be significantly remunerated for their work, which society would apparently answer with a resounding no.

Society ? More like wall-street gamblers.
You still need a Makefile if you use things like godep, or their new `go generate` stuff.

They have a long way to go on tooling; however, getting to say that is a luxury, due to just how "right" golang has been for systems work. Golang has been amazing to work with, and has just been stupidly productive. I miss debugging (gdb) and generic compile tools like tup, but that's about it!
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Sounds great. I'd love to see it in https://ffdevtools.uservoice.com/
But thise prisons are stupid. They're very expensive and they just don't work.

And by removjg diets you are disproportionately punishing some people. A Muslim given the same sentence as someone with no religion will suffer more as a result of imprisonment purely because of the lack of dietary choice.

"Prison should suck" is a horrible sentiment, and runs contrary to the UDHR. I understand that American hasn't ratified that, but that's not because they disagree with it.
> Unix is a pretty general purpose thing.

Yea, until you want to query a normalized data set. Then unix is pretty miserable, because text is very ill-suited for indices and rapid and/or random access.