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As a former minimum security inmate, you couldn't be more wrong. Security status has nothing to do with treatment. Just from your comment, I know that you've never so much as been detained.

Prison is a lot better than county detention; in prison, there is a loose respect structure between COs and inmates (you live there, they don't). In county, inmates are dehumanized beyond nothing as a form of control and a mechanism to encourage plea bargains. It happened to me when I spent four months in county: "just accept this plea deal and you can go home," and when I refused I got "lost" in the system on the way back to jail. For 48 hours or more (I lost track). With no food or bathroom facilities. Twice.

All pretrial detention comes with a deadline, for the most part (beyond which you must be sentenced or released), and another tactic they use is to get you to "waive" that time so they can "better investigate your case," they say. One dumb individual I spent time with accepted this offer and had spent nine years in county jail without a sentence. I'm not making this up.

I became a much more cynical person during that experience and hate when I see people defending that system in any way. Whatever you think you know about our detention system, you don't. Whatever you think you know about minimum, you don't, too, and I have several scars to show you if you don't believe me.
Just because you don't happen to share their values doesn't make this the same thing as being a picky eater. I don't think you'd be so cavalier if the prison were doing something that goes against your values — for example, if the prisoners were forced to eat human meat.
We also just went through an acquisition and had legal costs in the same range. One thing that really helped us on that front was that both our attorneys and the acquiring company's attorneys were really forthright about not just the negotiations and modifications to the agreements, but with our motivations and reasoning for such changes, so that each side was actually able to help the other side figure out what changes should be made. This also helped us identify very early which changes were immaterial which allowed us to move along quickly without getting bogged down in semantics.
I figure that's up to the voters. Personally I upvote things I disagree with all the time, provided the comment presents a compelling argument worth considering. As for downvotes, it's never due to disagreement for me - only in times I find a comment to be unnecessarily negative, personal, or the opposite of "a compelling argument worth considering".
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"Simulation" in this case is just numeric integration the hard way, even though there's a closed form solution.

This is a calculus problem, not a programming problem. After you solve the real problem, the programming is trivial. If you don't solve the real problem, you can't really be sure your simulation gives you the correct answer.

Exponential decay is a lot like compound interest. Simulating this problem is like computing interest by compounding yearly instead of continuously. It's not hard for those methods to differ by a factor of two or ten or even more. You can't really know if your simulation will be affected without doing the math anyway.
Stop posting this shit. They have a 20 week shipping time, if they even hold to that. They're nothing but vaporware.
Kinda reminds me of LaTeX. It's my favorite way to write documents ever since I learned the language, it's so much more precise than word processors, but most people still defaults to them.
GC has better throughput at the expense of significantly increased memory usage, and variable latency for any individual task.

On servers, that's fine.

On my phone, I'll take lower memory usage and predictable latency any day.

Yay refcounting.
Java probably won because of its C-inspired syntax. At that point smalltalk was falling behind and C++ started to take off. To me Java was always meant as a better C++. At least that is my guess.

A lot of the people behind Self went on to work on the JVM JIT and later the Chrome V8 engine. Self produced many influential ideas in the JIT space like polymorphic inline caches and deoptimization and stack rewriting. Some of the papers published by the Self group at UCSB are fascinating.
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punishment alone is not an effective way of reducing negative behaviours - criminal or otherwise.

Yeah, we're gonna need a source.
There are a lot of things I don't like to eat and I'm pretty sure that I would find eating in prison quite troublesome, regardless of what the food is.

It's one of the many prices you pay for breaking the law, but surely losing your freedom and seeing the world move on without you should dominate this unease?
Laws can't satisfy every single edge case. I have to sometimes run red protected left turn lights (very carefully) on my motorcycle because they don't sense it. Sometimes you have to swerve out of your lane due to an emergency, etc.

We have judgement for a reason. I also feel like the current fines associated with various law breaking have the expectation that not all of the behavior will be captured and thus it's rather high. If I got an automatic $5 fine every time I went 10 mph over the limit I might be more amendable to it than if it was $300 each time (as it is now). Again, if I am speeding 15 over in the middle of a deserted highway it's different than doing so in a residential area.

Also per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i... I would not say ALL of those deaths are caused by "careless driving". In fact the majority is probably due to alcohol, falling asleep, etc. although I suppose you could consider being drunk while driving "careless".
That's really just a difference of opinion. As far as I'm concerned, the loss of freedom from being in prison is punishment enough, what happens to you there shouldn't be unnecessarily cruel or punishing.

The fact that our punishment-heavy system doesn't help recidivism should be a sign that purely punishment isn't effective at rehabilitation.
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True, but I think if we look around, we can find some fairly compelling evidence that we're not doing very well at raising the quality of life of the bottom percentiles...
For those who like me are wary of running unverified binaries:

- checksums: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/late...

- signatures: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/late...

- signing key: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/lat...

edit: reformatting

2nd edit: added https
I have been looking for something like this
Several times I had London cabbies stop the fare meter when I showed them (the same) short cut near where I lived.

"No, don't go to the lights, turn down this lane!". All of them had their brains explode that there was a better way that saved about 200 meters and 30 seconds of travel.

I'm not sure if there's an (unwritten?) rule that you get the rest of the fare for free if they're taking you a long way, but there was no resentment from them. All of them were incredulous there was a better way to do it.

(Just looked at Streetview. There's nothing special about that lane that should make it a big secret. I guess it must have been No Entry/One Way/something and changed recently before my journeys.)
Ah, what we really need then are eye trackers in cars. Look off the road for more than two seconds? Ticket! Not watching your mirrors? Ticket! Change lanes without checking your blind spot? Ticket!
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Drag and drop nodes in the Inspector like Chrome does.
Very thoughtful post, and for the most part I agree with you. I would like to point out that making comments has a downvote effect on stories. I'm still not sure if that's the right answer (aren't interesting discussions the goal here?), but practically speaking, that's a factor to consider.

If you're looking at a comment of case 'C' on a story that you actually quite like, there's a tension between the desire to clarify your disagreement and the desire to keep the story afloat. Perhaps this is one reason disagreement-cum-downvoting is so popular.
Perhaps flagging those comments would be better, since they are what you claim to be the problem.
It's still unelegant and inconsistent. If I claim my diet requires high-quality food determined by me daily, that gets ignored.

I understand Kosher for commercial enterprises like airlines: with a minimum of effort, they can satisfy many customers. But governments should have consistent treatment of citizens.
They don't currently[1] make medical claims and the ingredients are GRAS - generally recognised as safe - so they don't need approval.

[1] unlike during the kickstarter when they made a few.
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> I'm pretty sure that I would find eating in prison quite troublesome

Because you don't like the quality, or because it goes against your ethics?

Do you not see the distinction?
I like Firefox for Android much more than Chrome.

I find its UI better on my 7 inch tablet (those tabs in Chrome are small and annoying and I also prefer Firefox's UI when doing searches). It also has add-ons and for example I use AdBlock Plus (websites on your mobile full of ads are unusable), HTTPS Everywhere (especially important for mobile devices that connect to public Wifis) and LastPass.

It also has a Reader Mode that strips the annoying styling off an article, much like Readability or Pocket. You can also save articles for later reading. Feature is still young, but it's been working well for me.

It also inherits the Awesome Bar from the desktop version. It does a very good job at suggesting previous links from your history. This saves you from doing searches on Google, which many times is like searching for a needle in a haystack.

It's also a platform for apps, apps that get published in the Firefox Marketplace and that can work in Firefox OS as well as on Android (and more recently on your desktop). Much like Chrome for desktop does, but it works on your mobile. Still young, doesn't have many apps, but it's been growing and improving and the whole thing is based on web standards or APIs that Mozilla is pushing for standardization.

Try it out, you might like it. And let me tell you, once you become hooked to one of its add-ons, you won't be able to switch back to Chrome anymore ;-)
We already comfortably inhabit a desert, we call it Los Angleles :-) Perhaps a better example is the underground city of Australia, Coober Pedy. Non self-sustaining examples exist in the Antarctic as well.

The point being, Earth has hard to live in places, but not a lot of motivation for living in those places. Mars as a sort of sex appeal to it "Mars!" but its a valid question what happens once people figure out that its just a place that is really really far away from Walmart.
Only when there's no other choice.
It's not great UI and it's made worse if, like me, you mostly read HN on a tablet so hitting the wrong link is easy to do. A better speed bump would be to have the flag link always available, but have it take you to a page that says "you are flagging the following item: <comment/link> by <author>. You should continue if <list of reasons> and not <list of bad reasons>. [OK, flag it!]"

This (a) draws attention to the exact thing you are flagging (the individual comment/link, not the thread) and (b) puts the confirm link somewhere else on the screen so you can't double-tap the same hotspot by accident. The advisory text is optional, but as others have pointed out, it's not really clear where the line between flagging and downvoting should be drawn.
cough borland cough :) Oh I guess, i just felt it was strange that Cincom still charges a significant amount of money to run their stuff, per seat and per server pricing.

When you look at the market of tools today. Historically speaking, they were par for the course.
I think it's significant that you switched the parent commenter's "something they consider immoral" to "something you don't like". It does sound pretty mild if it's something you just don't like for mild aesthetic or taste reasons. That's definitely not the way many people think about some of the things that they don't eat.
You're still not paying attention to the words I have written. The word you are missing is ubiquitous. It's not about a single location -- it's about all locations.
Even IBMers didn't really like it. I heard similar stories of complexity over dynamicism turning into a 'Message Not Understood' fest. Maybe they didn't really understand the language.
TIL: HN is no better than reddit. Truth is downvoted here as well.
Vegan diets are much more difficult than that. Pancakes might use eggs, which aren't vegan.
Predictable performance.

That seems to be the main selling point for Rust, anyhow. Zero cost abstractions, predictable data sizes, well defined memory scopes, etc.
Having lived for some time in Beijing, where a "black cab" is a slang term for an unmetered private cab or metered cabs running with the meter off, reading the part of the article detailing "black cab advocacy" and "black cab protests" turned into more of a mental challenge than I would like to admit.
It does work for me, though: http://i.imgur.com/Hj6IlvM.png
and still IS depending on the distribution. Squeak and Pharo are great from what I understand, but are lacking some of the enterprise features present in Cincoms distribution. Though for 99.999% squeak and pharo are going to be more than enough.
SSL Labs analysis: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=members.zipca...

They might have revoked the certificate themselves via the GoDaddy webinterface by accident: https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/4747/revoking-an-ss...
Smalltalk is a little shrewd in some ways as outlined here. Self has already been mentioned as a great alternative (and the related papers are amazing IMO and influence most modern JITs).

But there are some other really interesting alternatives that IMO keep with the spirit: Io (io-lang.org), Ioke (defunct now, ioke-lang.org - some awesome ideas IMO) and Squeak which is being actively developed.

I'd recommend checking out some of these, I think you can easily install io via brew on Macs and used to be able to install joke as well. They improve syntax and/or add significant language features.
What do you think is worthwhile about Go? I agree that the tooling is nice, but beyond that, there is nothing interesting to me. Goroutines aren't interesting; languages like Erlang and Haskell got green threads right many years before Go was on the scene.
To be trite, one reason for an upvote is to be an opposite of a downvote. Frequently I find myself upvoting greyed-out comments (even if I disagree) simply because they have merit, despite the fact that some folks find them disagreeable.
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Yeah, this is how I generally approach it.

I don't care if I agree with someone. I just want them to provide more information and add some value to the discussion. If the information is invalid, I just do what I can to provide counter resources.

I also generally try to approach downvotes the way you're saying as well, though that brings us back to downvotes being "mini flags". I don't know that I disagree with that.

Mostly just bringing up that upvotes and downvotes aren't really defined. They represent the general unspoken opinion of the people voting, which I think is fine.
Your comment had zero content and no value for anyone other than you.

I'm happy you're excited about your launch, but, unless you're linking a technical, or at least informative, blog post or similar that describes ways you're solving the problem the person you replied talked about, Hacker News isn't the right place to brag.
I have only just become aware of flagging comments. Some of the threads tho' you would need to flag 100 and a lot of bad feeling is generated. Best nip it in the bud early I reckon.m
I expect that Microsoft will be using Go for their Docker integration.
You're in prison because you disregarded the values that society put in place, surely the society has no obligations to respect your values in prison (although it still goes to some length to do that).
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This is true for employers when considering applicants for a job (as you stated); but, as far as I am aware, YC does not employ any of their applicants directly. Since YC is a private funding group, the equal opportunity protections do not apply to their seed fund applicants. So this is more of an ethical issue than a legal one.
You're wary of running unverified binaries but you're OK when they're verified by a checksum downloaded over unencrypted HTTP?
So how you fit it all in the brain, then?
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A typical implementation of free(3) does not give real-time guarantees; whether you use GC or not, you need to know things about your allocator to have any kind of latency guarantees. I get a little disturbed when people treat malloc() and free() as if they were constant-time operations.
The mouse would be a lot slower for some users, not all of them.

I always hear that argument and my own experience makes me strongly disagree.

So, let's make an hypothetical example: In your own comment I need to select the text "would be font rendering". Using the mouse it took me all of one second to select it, and send it to the clipboard. May be a bit less, because I used to play Starcraft and I know my way around with a mouse.

I can look at some point in the screen, and have the mouse there in less time it would take me to count the number of words from my current cursor to the desired position.

Now it's your turn. Tell me how I can use the keyboard for exactly the same task and be faster.

Disclaimer: this is a real mouse and not the thing that laptops use. I can imagine a touchpad being slower.
I agree. Barring some economic windfall that hasn't yet been discovered, it will require a national (world?) crisis and a Manhattan/Apollo project for a project on this scale.

And the $6B pricetag is ludicrous. To put this in context, the state of California estimates the cost of high-speed rail from SF to LA at ~$50B.
I'd love it if you could make this work with Atlassian Stash behind a firewall.
>"To prevent abuse, moderators review flagged stories and comments and revoke flagging privileges from users who flag inappropriately."

I generally flag articles that are overly political, articles that look too much like advertising and anything behind a paywall. I haven't lost flagging abilities, but I do have some concern that moderators might not agree with me, particularly about paywalls.
There's the time switching from keyboard to mouse. The mouse is the enemy of fast typing.
This talk (mentioned in the article) captures a lot of the value that I see in Go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKGmK_Z1Zl0
It is a trivial problem. Track how anyone with a smartphone and your app on it moves around the city. Aggregate which paths they choose and which turn out to be faster / better. Then propose those paths to other users asking for routing instructions.

I work on a software for routing deliveries (https://www.fleetnavi.com), and although we don't have this functionality built into the platform yet, it's the first thing to do when we get volume.
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Note that this advice was revised after the UK once again was slapped down thoroughly by the European Court of Human Rights, who in January 2010 ruled that the much wider stop-and-search powers granted under section 44 of the Terrorist Act 2000 were illegal.

Notice the weasel words on the page you linked, which states "The power to stop and search someone under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 no longer exists" - not mentioning that it was not merely repealed, but found to be an illegal violation of human rights.
Anyone who understands Rust's good points wouldn't write a comment like yours. Rust's goal is to be a systems language that allows one to write programs with native performance (equivalent to C's) without sacrificing the safety of higher-level languages by leveraging an advanced type system. Haskell is an extremely poor candidate for that niche.
I think his point was that the standard (even C11) leaves a great deal of implementation-specific behavior.

C++11 has the same problem (as it has the same implementation specific behavior as C), but the standard library allows you to avoid most of it.
Can you prove that brokep is a millionaire? If not, how can you call it ”truth”?
I will slightly adjust that to - it depends on the company (do your research). Clearly if you are applying for a startup of early 20 somethings a suit makes zero sense (but then there is less doubt, no?)
That's pretty excited. Unfortunately when I try to edit and send a POST it gets changed to an option. Anyone know why?
'I'm also on "slowban", as Hacker News performs worse when I use it while logged in than when I do so in incognito, logged-out mode.'

While it's my impression (from other comments, &c) that your claim is accurate, this alone isn't necessarily proof. I would generally expect a site to perform better for logged-out users, as 1) it gets to skip any tasks that are for logged-in users only, and 2) it should tend to have everything it needs to render that version hot in whatever caches might be involved...
It's wildly inappropriate to lob a blanket accusation of fraud against every single person who has ever complained about your moderation.

People have wildly divergent views as to what's appropriate, what's a little rude, and what's over the line. This means that even if you really truly believe that there was NEVER a mistake made during moderation, that some people will truly believe what they said.

Good moderation requires a ton of empathy and kindness.
I had big troubles with cycles, the trick is that you don't know that you are leaking until it's too late.

Another trouble is the cache pollution.
I agree - the front cost is not as high as it used to be. Although, the maintenance cost is probably high which is what I was hinting to in my comment. How has your experience been around upgrades in the last two years? The apps like iMessage check BIOS to ensure that it's apple hardware that they are running on. And between upgrades, those things can potentially change. How many adjustments have you had to make along the way?
> Third, it is one of the foremost examples of hacking diet.

> Fourth, the HN audience is a key audience of early adopting efficiency seekers.

There is nothing new about Soylent, apart from the unethical crowd-funding[1] and easy access to the public.

Liquid total meal replacements are common and have existed for a log time and are available from Amazon. They don't always push the total replacement aspect because lawyers and I guess because they never expected anyone to want to do so, but people live off existing products and have done so for years.

[1] "puts you in perfect health" and other unethical claims which seem to have been quietly dropped.
It's a markov chain if your state is the vector representing the size of each cell
I wonder if this implementation will allow the GWT debugger to work with Firefox again. The last version of FF that works with it is, I think, 26. When they removed the NPAPI layer.
Yeah. I think the real answer to "where is an upvote defined" is that it isn't, and there are probably good reasons for that.

I try to ask "does it add information to the conversation?" and upvote or downvote based on that.
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