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There isn't any malware when downloading from

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde...

Or when packaging the Java application with the runtime

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/windows...

Or using one of the commercial JVMs that compile Java to native code

Or just bothering to read the dialog when installing it from Java.com.

While it is true the bundling shouldn't exist in the first place, any knowledgeable Java developer knows how to get applications deployed without it being an issue.

Actually my biggest problem with Java is Google dragging its feets and making the Android fragmentation a return of the J2ME headaches. Sun and Oracle were right all along.
I loved VB6. Programming games in it using DirectX, in my cracked copy of VB6 when I was 13 was one of the first forays into real programming. I still remember being super confused about double-buffering way back when; my initial game programming in VB started with picking up key events and moving an image around, but it was blurry and laggy, afterimages galore and impossibly to composite correctly. That's when I found DirectX. Not long after I moved into working with web technologies, and the rest is (my) history.
No, he meant that too. I haven't watched the video for a few years, but I believe he explicitly uses that scenario as one example.
> I will never charge you to use, license, or obtain this software. Doing so would make me a jerk.

Feeding your family or paying rent seem to be real jerk moves then I guess.
Fair enough.

Wallaby.js will be less expensive than some similar commercial solutions for other languages.

In any case, feel free to sign up and to receive the pricing info as soon as it's available.
"Knowing everything" implies far more than our intuitions may initially tell us, and can lead to "a set of all sets" type of paradoxical problems (i.e. the premise of the argument is absurd). This and other philosophical thought experiments like the Chinese room abuse our intuitions about being human, learning things, performing tasks, etc.

In this particular experiment, if Mary's omniscience allows her to invoke the specific pattern of neural activation that is triggered by observing a blue sky, then she won't learn anything new, otherwise she will. It all depends how far we take the absurd claim of her omniscience.
> Personally, I don't want to live in a society in which no one helps anyone because of fear.

You shouldn't talk to police in the situations you describe. And of course we don't want to live in this type of society. It would be great if police behaved differently.
Is next step that Chrome accepts js in the form of precompiled binaries from websites? Sounds a bit futuristic, but compiling would be reduced to checking the security of the binary.
TextMate or SublimeText support anywhere in the future?
And all of this existed in 1988 with NeXT Project Builder/Interface Builder. Which was used to write the first web browser.
The article reads as if because of political correctness it HAS to be true that there are no differences in intellectual capacity between men and women. It also misrepresents Summer's quote - I think what he said is that the distribution might be different, he never said women can not be as smart as men.

I don't know if there are differences, but I think it's very wrong to assume there aren't just because it seems modern and politically correct. Especially since the alternative theories put forward to explain lack of women in maths or CS are usually harmful, heavily prejudiced and inflammatory. And barking up the wrong tree is unlikely to solve the problem (for example if billions are spent to fight assumed sexism and sexism isn't even the cause).

It's also funny that whenever there is a job which seems to call for "women's strengths" nobody has qualms to claim "women are better at x" (say empathy, risk management, relationships, whatever). I wish people would at least make up their mind, do they believe there are no differences or not? Then if they go praising papers that seem to show female CEOs are more successful, how do they explain it if they don't believe in differences?

There is also little debate about physical differences - I think few would suggest it is sexist to have separate football leagues for men and women. Although, to be sure, women can be stronger than most men - but most simply aren't.

Edit: HN doesn't let me comment atm. To the comment accusing me of sexism: I said it's wrong to assume there are no differences for PC reason. You say it's sexist to assume differences. That's something entirely different. It's always wrong to assume something without evidence (and then there are just degrees of belief):
Can you consider integrating Nike running into gyroscope? I believe they recently introduced new API for that, and I already have hundreds of km logged in
NCrunch, a .NET equivalent of this start at $160 USD, I'd be expecting this to land in the same ballpark to be able to be developed sustainably.
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> You could take an item out of both bags un­til you ex­hausted the sup­ply of one bag. If the other bag was si­mul­ta­ne­ously empty, then you’d know they had the same car­di­nal­ity.

Well, since you can't exhaust the supply of an infinite supply of integers, I don't see how using this method is acceptable when trying to find a one-to-one correspondence.

I feel like I may be missing something so would appreciate if someone could chime in.
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If that's true, maybe it is a good thing if society stirs people into the right direction. So that when they find they want children, surprise, they "accidentally" chose just the right profession for it.

Personally I thought about income prospects when choosing a career. In my experience women are less likely to do so, which makes sense.

(Edit: can't write more comments - it makes sense because women have the option to have children and are not expected to provide for the family financially).
The word "dangerous" is not exclusively used to indicate the likelihood of physical injury. It is also widely used to describe the likelihood of any undesirable consequences. The undesirable consequence in this case is a weakening of the argument being presented.
What's illegal and what's enforceable are two different things, particularly in Eastern Europe.

Uber just launched in Romania and it's having a hard time getting off the ground. I asked a taxi driver why he wouldn't join. He said he'd be scared for his safety from other taxi drivers.

Anecdotally, getting a cab from a major hub (airport, train or bus station) in Bucharest, without calling dispatch, entails a fixed price and the meter turned off. Illegal? Surely.

The main advantage of western countries, culminating in the U.S., is that laws are enforced regularly and predictably, most of the time.

Germany is doing just that. They're old laws, sure, but they must be enforced until they get a change to revise them.
That sounds like a red herring. Without reading the story further than the first paragraph, I guess the reality is more like this:

Police in city of Ferguson knows of 16 000 arrest warrants for people from all over the USA, plus a number of foreigners, and Ferguson has 21 000 residents.

Some smaller city may have just 210 residents, and its police force may (theoretically) also know of the same 16 000 arrest warrants. Does that tell us that the USA is a horrible police state? No. It tells us that people are comparing numbers in a way that does not make sense.
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This is one of those ones that everyone seems to get wrong - even otherwise very grammatical people. Even Hollywood gets it wrong: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313737/ (You'd think Hugh Grant, with an English degree from Oxford, would have known, noticed, or cared, but seemingly not...)
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One thing they can easily do, which once happened to me after being nothing but polite: take your driver's license, walk back to their car, and play on their phone for half an hour. I imagine the chances of that would go up with a non-cooperative response.

I'm certainly not saying you should spill your guts, but at least being as polite as possible without saying anything incriminating seems sensible.
I appreciate the update on Phileas and Fogg! I remember seeing the launch on here a couple of years ago.

I'm curious about "idea factories are a dime a dozen, and nobody would want to work for one". I've turned down similar arrangements in the past because they felt vaguely sketchy, but didn't realize "idea factories" are common. What are the problems with them?
this article has a 28th-feb-2014 date, which suggests that the author used ver: 1.2 for measurements.

with a bunch of quite far-reaching changes f.e. runtime being re-written in go itself, fully precise gc (resulting in smaller heaps), elimination of segmented stacks, change in implementation of interface values etc. in version 1.4 of go, it would be instructive to compare how these observations /conclusions hold.
> Imagine if doctors used such techniques to get people to participate in medical trials. We'd reject any claim that the subjects gave consent.

They used to. From the Nazis to Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
So why do you think there is nothing to this article?
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"It would have required one more guy in the world to say, ‘Yes, we will fight SoftBank’. It never happened, but that’s okay.”

Got me there. i like their spirit.
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Latest news is that the faking might be faked. The TV presenter in question has announced to answer that during his next show.

Might be a case of, "Hey look, you can't tell which footage is faked! For the future, you might want to get you some scepticism regarding video proof!"
Very easy. Ask other guys if they are happy with this situation. If not, next time he comes and starts the same conversation again. Ask him to fuck off with his bully gossip stuff. This ain't the place for that. And do this in front of everyone. He won't show up again.

however this seems like an awkward situation I've seen much worse things than that. You won't believe. May be I'll start an ask HN about it.
We don't expect criminals to consent to being prosecuted. Those parallels really don't make a lot of sense.
And what exactly do you think the now underemployed is going to do with their time?

Before getting too dismissive of the article: ask what happens when there are large numbers of underemployeed young men and women with no money, no jobs, no prospects.

They don't just stay at home.
> I will never take down or start charging for what is available today.

You'll never take this down... ever?
This looks cool. I'll gladly pay for great tools so they can be built and improved. Can't wait to try it. I'd love to see Sublime Text support.
RulerZ, specifications and Symfony are in a boat
I can only speculate, but here's a few of the issues I have with them:

* No incentive to see anything through, since there's always a "next idea"
* Lack of vision. Most of the good startups have someone with a general vision, which is impossible this way.
* Harder to recruit people since there's no core idea to get behind
* Since the only way these are funded is by a rich person (after all, no VC would ever invest in one), it's susceptible to the whims of said rich person.
* What happens if something becomes successful? How does equity/spinning out/etc work? And, if it spins out... all the revenue for the "factor" dries up.

There's a lot more, I'm sure.
See https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/212
Cities: Skylines. Wikipedia says it's made by Colossal Order, a Finnish company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities:_Skylines

EU4 and CK2 are made by PDS, part of Paradox Interactive, a Swedish company.

The confusion was because the thread is actually about Cities: Skylines. That's the game that's only distributed by Paradox, not also made by them, and the one I was confused about.
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Rspective in numbers
Except it's not a good argument - if you believe knowledge is equivalent to experience. In order to understand what ammonia smells like I need to understand how the mind as a whole interprets the presence of ammonia. Once you have understood how the mind interacts with ammonia then you know what it is like to experience the smell of ammonia. You might say well, I can imagine how it must feel to understand how the mind works and my internal model of how it must be to understand how the mind works indicates to me that this would not allow me to experience the smell of ammonia. But you would be wrong. Just as the machine in the Chinese room argument understands Chinese and understands that part of the world described within Chinese.
I worked for a Korean company for mover 7 years and a few times a year found myself in Gangnam. I was out with a colleague and his sister, she said "oh, everyone (meaning female) has had a little work done." Given, as you suggest, the prominence of the plastic surgery business it isn't surprising.
Wow, that's new for me, would never thought of that.
I kind of think the authors own bias is showing through here. There is a prize for women not because women are thought to be any less capable, but because they are thought to be equally capable.

If they were less capable they wouldn't be under-represented, and there would be no reason to encourage more women to compete.
Professionally it wasn't even that limiting. It handled COM calls OK so you could off load to other libraries if you wanted. I was still developing professionally in VB6 as recently as this time last year (exactly 1 year ago in fact).

While I am extremely glad I got away from VB6, the old dog still had life in her. The main limitation was having to develop in a windows XP virtual machine for better IDE compatability.

By the end we did much of the newer development was in .NET libraries we called from the VB6 front-end, but the front end was still handling most of the data.
Pretty much. The problem is how you define "good" and "evil"? Can the US military use this software? Can a church that prints a document about "traditional marriage" use this software? Can an anti-fascist group use it to organise physical confrontation with far right groups? What does evil mean? You'll need to ask a judge.
I used my Authenticode cert for this, it wasn't very expensive.
Why people are so eager to ruin privacy? That is ridiculous.
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Its not a license. It doesn't say the "licensor" will not do something nor does it say that the "licensee" can't do something.

It is a bunch of opinion statements.

It is a non-lawyer attempting cuteness... and failing.
> "Technically, there was a walker that went from the place of employment searching for an occupied dwelling to source employees from."

Thanks for the correction. It's been a while since I played those games. Now I'm all nostalgic and hankering to play them all over again.
"IBM, its customers, partners, and minions" (which is the most hilarious part)

see e.g.: http://wonko.com/post/jsmin-isnt-welcome-on-google-code
How secure is Mailbird?
There was a time when churches were considered to be a safe shelter for anyone in need.

The story is disgusting, but the Archdiocese spokeperson's comment is simply outraging: “We do the best we can, and supporting the dignity of each person, but there is only so much you can do.”

I assume he's talking about protecting the "dignity" of the wealthier visitors, so they won't be disturbed by unpleasant views and odors, right?
It sounds like a good idea. But it would not meet the FSF definition of Free Software, nor the OSI definition of Open Source. So you wouldn't be able to include it in many open source software packages.

"malware"/"spyware" is complicated. Does Ubuntu count as spyware? They have some integration with Amazon web shops. Does Debian? It has a "popularity contest" for packages ( http://popcon.debian.org/ ).
This reads like an Onion article.

If they're that concerned, they should deliver them themselves using their own personnel. And wait until that process gets compromised..
Cecil Adams, of 'The Straight Dope' fame, once answered a question related to perceived vision of sitting close to TV inducing myopia [1]. Although, he plainly refuted this as a possible cause, but he cites a study where the correlation suggests that it might be the "product of our civilization".

> 'The most striking demonstration of this was a study in the late 60s of eyesight among Eskimoes in Barrow, Alaska. These people had been introduced to the joys of civilization around World War II. The incidence of myopia in those age 56 and up was zero percent; in parents age 30 and up, 8 percent; in their children, 59 percent.'

[1]: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/865/will-sitting-to...
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Furthermore, each individual will feel it differently
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
<3 WTFPL. Also see http://dev.bukkit.org/licenses/2977-idgaf-v1-0-license/ ;)
The OP talks about local police. In US, the customs are unfortunately a very different form of jurisdiction. Sometimes I hear citizen aren't in the US jurisdiction until they've crossed the border. Which is a problem that US citizens probably need to solve through their democracy.

Centuries ago, constitutions were written to protect citizen with a heavy focus on local police scopes, but now that we all routinely walk through borders and on planes, we probably need to rewrite those constitutions with international police checks in focus. We can't afford to be in a no-law situation a dozen times a year.
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Another problem where double linked lists are generally better suited than arrays is caches with LRU eviction.

Example:
https://github.com/sebcat/store/blob/master/store.go#L68-L15...
Just because situation is better doesn't mean it can't be further improved. You're considering 'No Spotify' vs 'Spotify' instead of 'Spotify' vs 'A better Spotify'.

If you think on principles, Spotify should in the long term aim for maximum customer satisfaction. This means optimizing the satisfaction per customer instead of per music play, seems to be currently done. By concentrating money on bands each user listens to each of those bands (getting more money) should theoretically improve in quality (and give Spotify more attention), increasing overall user satisfaction. It's a simple reasoning.
Is Titan submarine the most daring space mission yet?
I'm surprised Tropico doesn't come up in these discussions about simulated-agent city builders more often. Maybe it didn't feel Sim City-ish enough because you have to place all the buildings yourself, or because of the comparatively low population limit.
Okay this looks pretty interesting. I'll give it a go. Right now my primary editor is Sublime 3 (occasionally atom.io but it's kinda slow) so support for at least Sublime would be awesome. I've been meaning to try IntelliJ so maybe this will give me that excuse.

Thanks for sharing!
How does it integrate with Apple Health?
> Yeah, especially since you need to pay a regular fee to use Xamarin

You can use Monodevelop[1] which is 100% FOSS. AFAIK Xamarin is just Monodevelop with some extra wrappers and custom libraries for cross-platform mobile-development. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

If you're just making normal applications, libraries or web-solutions you don't need Xamarin.

[1] http://www.monodevelop.com/
> because of political correctness it HAS to be true that there are no differences in intellectual capacity between men and women

Saying that women are in principle as smart as men is not a statement from political correctness, I didn't get that angle from the article at all. The thesis brought forth by the article states that the separate female award is a lesser prize, and it's difficult to argue with that. The rationale for having such a lesser award might even have been honorable, they might have instituted it to encourage participation, but in the long run this is a self-defeating measure.

> I don't know if there are differences, but I think it's very wrong to assume there aren't just because it seems modern and politically correct.

As I read this I'm having painful flashbacks to threads where commenters claimed it was never proven that black people as intelligent as white people. And some even less cautious users flatly asserted that black people are dumber as a known medical fact, and everybody who disagreed was just doing it to be politically correct. This was racism then, as this is sexism now, there's no doubt about it.

Even if you really didn't know the answer, wouldn't the default assumption have to be equality?

> nobody has qualms to claim "women are better at x" (say empathy, risk management, relationships, whatever).

I'm highly suspicious of such claims, and I think most other people who don't match the "political correctness advocate" pattern are, as well.

> I think few would suggest it is sexist to have separate football leagues for men and women

You don't get to claim differences in any area where it might be convenient just on the basis that there are some known physical differences. The assertion "it's not sexist to assume men are physically stronger than women on average, so it cannot be sexist to assume men are also more intelligent" is a non sequitur.
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I new that those things happened there but not that this was was so widespread!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_G...

"estimates of the numbers of German women raped by Soviet soldiers have ranged up to 2 million"
If most of population performs crimes routinely and don't think it's a crime - it's probably because your law is stupid.
So, Linus Torvalds is a punk

http://www.wired.com/2012/06/torvalds-nvidia-linux/

wait a minute

http://www.cnet.com/news/torvalds-gives-nvidia-software-thum...

I do not know if it is fake. But even if he did, this is about the administration, not the ordinary German.

i think Germans must think more carefully what is happening with Greece.

IMHO, in Germany happens the same as it happened in Greece. The difference is time, Germans are before crisis. We are after crisis.
Not sure. If it spins up a new V8 instance every time, then no. But I don't think that happens. It probably keeps a V8 instance around, so in-memory code caching should already work.

Edit: looking at the plv8 code, it doesn't seem to create a new Isolate for every request. So I think for the same instance of PostgreSQL the in-memory cache should also hit.
:( don't talk as if your whole audience is men.
Uber is actually providing a better alternative for users of public transportation. Though the legality of the service is an issue for now, hope they will able to find a fruitful solutions with the authorities and continue to operate. More alternatives creates more competition and this will be good for users of public transportations.
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We just started using HipChat on monday. Overall we're very happy with it. This new client is definitely a bonus.

One thing we're a bit sad about though is the fact that it follows the same pricing model as Confluence and Jira for self-hosting, so for 25 users you pay $1800. This is okay for tools such as Confluence and Jira but HipChat (no matter how good) doesn't add that value for us.

This is a bummer since we love self-hosting, and for some client data it is even a requirement. It's especially in stark contrast with the cloud version, since it's free for the features we use..