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I'm afraid that it does seem to me as if you have misunderstood what Eckel said. He doesn't claim that Java introduced virtual machines, or that virtual machines were too slow to use, he claims that Java introduced virtual machines to a new audience who thought they were too slow to use.
I'm sure the old people I know who still refer to black folks as "negros" don't mean anything by it. I also bet the people who throw around "gay" as a generic pejorative aren't thinking of actual gay people when they use the word as an insult. That doesn't make either one acceptable here in the 2010s.

Same with telling a woman that doing something "manly-man" style is doing it skillfully.

And even if you know it's going to be taken as humorous, let me give you a hint: it's not very funny. It's just not very good as humor. There is much better material out there if you're going for a joke.
That hospital used robotic packaging of pills, labeled for each patient. That's very similar to the consumer-grade system discussed here, but with fewer crosschecks.

A similar service for horse feed supplements has been available for years.[1]

[1] https://www.smartpakequine.com/WhySmartPak.aspx
Basically XP Boost is there for returning players.
Experienced players who want to create alternate account or those who move to another server.

It is there for convenience sake but Riot certainly goes out of its way to make creating a viable alternate account rather inconvenient. Being F2P I guess they have to have diverse revenue sources.

All this talk about "cheat" or "increasing competitiveness" is just nonsense.
How can you even create accounts on most websites without an email address, including on Facebook?

I think the intent is to generate revenue from Facebook ads while getting good press from developing countries. Still, I'm glad it generated a backlash. Enforcing a data cap for free accounts would definitely make more sense. Internet is the whole shebang, not just a limb.
There's a common misconception that erased generics are wrong. It's just that, a misconception: erased generics are just a bad fit for introspectable and runtime-heavy languages like Java. The GHC Haskell implementation also uses erased generics.
I'm still not convinced. In order to write the string portion of the code, I need to know the names of the variables in play and I have to order them in them in some order in the string regardless.

So I still don't think

"A is {a}, C is {c}, B is {b}".format(**locals())

is better than

"A is {}, C is {}, B is {}".format(a, c, b)
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Everyone has different experience. I never had hardware problems with HP, Lenovo, Dell notebooks. It was built badly, it could broke something, but notebook worked well. With Macbook I had broken HDD which was replaced by warranty but it took almost a month without my working tool. And 2 years later sound just stopped working. Headphones work but buggy. I don't think I can pay for repair, probably will tinker with it myself.

My iPhone 4S had broken WiFi just after warranty expired. All cables from Mac and iPhone are in terrible state.

I don't really think that Apple hardware is better than others. Not worse than others, but not perfect. Choice is between OS X and Windows or iOS and Android. Otherwise there are many comparable machines.
The thing is, you've got a woman right here telling you, "this is exclusionary and seems stupid on the face of it." We don't even have to guess at how it's taken by someone who doesn't fit into its built-in description; they're telling us in plain language.

The different viewpoint, I guess, is that the original author has some outdated views on gender competence.

I've seen lots of comments saying "oh but it adds flair to language," and that's a reeeeeally weak defense. There is much better language available; that stuff just sounds stupid at best and retrograde at worst.
It appears that if something becomes possible and advantageous (according to any imaginable reasoning) some people will use it. It's unlikely that each technological genie can be put back, instead we as a species should be considering effective reactions.
Not a Slack defender but if you are unable to see that it is better crafted, you're just not looking very hard.
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No we need weapons to defend others. The USA and UK are in part two of the richest nations in the world because they are physically isolated from threats, we grew, and continue to grow, rich of trade with the rest of the world.

The West has the capacity to be heroic and for a brief period at the turn of the millennium was actually doing that. Kosovo and Sierra Leone were examples of successful military intervention followed up by nation building. Before that the first Gulf War was again a successful intervention.

The cause of peace allows Rwanda, Bosnia and a hundred other regional conflicts and genocide to claims the lives of millions and blight regions. We should not let Afghanistan and Iraq - and really the root problem is Iraq detract from the potential to affect positive change in the world.

Finally it's worth saying that military capability gives humanitarian capability. The recent Philippines disaster saw HMS Illustrious deliver all the spare rice in Singapore in a short space of time along with a number of helicopters as well as fit, motivated, organised and well led teams to assist in disaster relief.
> To believe that one can compete with the psychologists who design addictive behaviors into today's modern day entertainment is not a bet I would take.

Perhaps. But maybe it works the other way around too. Today's adults are bombarded with addictive, manipulative products all the time, and most find themselves woefully unable to resist (cf. phone-staring parties).

Isn't school the best place to get kids to develop some ability to resist this kind of addiction? External pressure stops working as soon as it's gone, but internal resilience doesn't.
I tried to clear that up with this, "Short of having foreign troops as we have them overseas, in your hometown."
I was trying to convey that there is always an alternative unless it's out of self-defense.

If the Chinese were in the US today, I'm not sure we'd have much choice. I'm also not sure the people of the mideast have much choice either. Does anyone seriously expect them to embrace our "help"? It's asinine and insulting to their (and our) intelligence. It's unfathomable to me that anyone over there wouldn't be taking up arms against 'us'. It should be radicalizing the moderates. What a gift that was for the extremists.
The money, lives and hatred created was senseless. Our troops and their population are deeply invested in a conflict that didn't need to happen. Well, except on their side. They had to fight us once we setup shop in their country. These wars are a business venture transferring wealth from the citizenry to those colluding with the gov't, not a noble cause.

It meshes with my personal experiences quite well. Unless someone takes a swing at me, I don't fight. I get by well with this principle. I'm never in jail and never standing in front of a judge, and no one gets hurt unnecessarily. I think the same principle would do our nation-state a lot of good.

You can't say it's a response to 9/11 (a "swing at us"). Because if this were about stopping Islamic-sourced terrorism, we would've invaded Saudi Arabia first, foremost and long ago. It was a response to nothing, it was an excuse.
There are no gamdevs on the c++ committee, probably because games companies are cheap bastards and don't want to expend resources on something that will affect them 10 years down the line (or even 2). Join the committee.
It’s more usually referred to as pay2win
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So you like to be an asshole and impede communications because you don't have anything of value to add, and you get offended when someone calls you on it?
They tend to stay on the ground, beside the tank of liquid nitrogen.
There are actually interesting parallels to Silicon Valley and startups for techies. It is "the place to be", "the place to prove yourself". The cosy safety net of corporate life leaves you with the naggging feeling that you're not quite as good as someone "hacking" at the startup.

The notion isn't new, Shakespeare as usual sums it up:

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
> Type erasure is the very reason that Scala could adopt a more advanced type system.

No. Having a byte-code interpreter which is essentially an assembly language allows you to create any type system you want. It is wwhen you require interop with an existing type system that you are constrained.

>Otherwise it would be absolutely forced to essentially conform exactly to Java's type system since the targeted bytecode would require all sorts of type annotations which would have to be correct-according-to-java.

One could argue that it would be prudent to base your type system on the type system of the platform you choose. Essentially what Scala chose the route of not integrating deeply with the platform type system. That choice could have been made regardless of how advanced the type system of the platform was.

So if the platform had offered reified generics, Scala could still had chosen to ignore those and gone with type erasure. But they could also have chosen to support reified generics. I'm interested in what concrete constraints that would have imposed on Scalas type system, except for interop with Java.

Ironically, the chosen design has forced Scala into adorning with all sorts of type annotations to ease interop with Java: It has to lie about the generic type argument the same way Java does in the type metadata, i.e. "consider is a collection of Shapes. Note: it may be other object types so you must perform downcasts yourself*".
Would you consider sharing your rewritten documentation?
https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/139607

So it would seem Scott Forstall (of Apple) is now an advisor to Snapchat, and owns 0.11% of the stock... I'd been wondering what he'd been up to after Apple.
> No, because the monetary market doesn't do a good job of predicting scientific discovery.

That's not a problem with the market, that's a problem with people, and there's nothing you can do about that. The market matches supply with demand. And besides, 'ability to predict' is also not necessarily coupled to demand. There are people who are willing to pay to see science even if they can't predict success.

There are also a lot of people who like saying that 'something needs to be done about funding' but when when pressed: "well why don't you help pay for it." they don't reach into their own pockets. These people are part of the problem.
There are two quotes from above I'd like to call out here:

1. "Net neutrality ensures network operators don’t discriminate by limiting access to services you want to use." - in a country where there are huge economic obstacles to connectivity and the internet is not affordable to everyone, offering certain services for free automatically discriminates against the services that are left out since they are not deemed to be "essential" by the government or local mobile operators. Also note that these countries don't have the most ethical of the governments (yes, I'm from India and have seen how the government works pretty closely), and mobile network operators are ultimately responsible to the share price of their stock, not the overall social welfare of the country.

2. "Internet.org doesn’t block or throttle any other services or create fast lanes -- and it never will." This is true, but if one looks from a slightly different perspective, free lanes are as bad - maybe worse - than fast lanes. One has to admit that internet.org is ending up creating free lanes for certain services, in a country where the toughest obstacle to internet connectivity is not lack of availablity of mobile network infrastructure, but the economic situation of the country's poorest poor.

Like with all tough cookies, the solution doesn't lie in suggesting that this is better than nothing. It lies in admitting to the apparent problems in the internet.org ecosystem (clear lack of net neutrality) and working out the answers. A solution lies in offering the internet as a whole for free upto a basic data usage (limited by bytes, not services), working on innovations like the low flying drones or loon style projects which place mobile internet infrastructure in places where there's none (I know internet.org is already working on this), working on business and technical innovations to enable the mobile operators offer better, faster and cheaper services to more people and finally, working on faster, cheaper mobile devices. ($50 is not cheap enough in a country where median per capita income is as low as $616 (2013) - in comparison, the same figure for US is around $26k)

I understand internet.org was founded by Facebook to connect the remaining 4 billion - and it's a very noble initiative. But we have to be very careful of the long term.
In Portugal.
I have a vague memory that the Samsung work was partly done by their non-Android Bada OS team, which would make sense as Android is in many ways tied to Webkit/Blink/Chrome.
I don't think there's a good answer to that. It depends on how much compute and bandwidth does every request need :)

As you're using Azure you can easily setup rules to autoscale, so you can just leave it to do the magic for you or you can learn from its behaviour and setup your own desired architecture.
Why Are Facebook, Instagram and Twitter Unbundling Their Apps?
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Ask HN: Any advice for reapply the job at AmazonAWS/Google?
Last year I went into couple interviews with Amazon AWS and Google but unfortunately I couldn't make it to the offer.
I've learned A LOT and I wanna try again. I want to make a short e-mail to the recruiter and ask for a second try.Anyone experience the second attempt? Any advice and suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks :)
A risk: this will foster a generation of internet users whose definition of the internet is something along the lines of cable television. Pay per site acceptance will be fed with Mark's mothers milk.

Also, I'd rather not call this "internet".
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There appears to be a strong opposition to weapons systems that can autonomously decide to open fire, but it is rarely explicitly evaluated against the alternative.

I wonder: why does it appear preferable to have a human control a weapon?

Is it because we assume the human is capable of compassion and empathy? If so, what about anger, fear, prejudice and hatred?

It seems to me that a machine with clear mission objective, rules of engagement and criteria for friend-civilian-foe identification may actually be preferable in terms of minimizing unnecessary war casualties.

Ultimately, it is humans who'd program these machines and you get to do a lot more calm thinking when coding than when squeezing a trigger. Also, code can be reviewed and tested, split-second decision cannot.

Moreover, down the road, when humanity reaches a state where most wars are fought by machines against machines, the pointlessness of the exercise may become a lot more apparent.
> I'm interested in writing some random things in Rust, but very much not interested in _re_writing Rust code in newer Rust. This probably means it's still too early for me, if the standard library is expected to expand soon after 1.0.

Why would you have to rewrite code because of an expanding std lib?
Yes, I would prefer if they mentioned what it did in a few words instead. Maybe they are aiming to trigger curiosity.
I use the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator[1].
This way, I can start from the current layout associated with my keyboard, and add the key I need.
This way, It does not changes anything that I'm used to. It only adds new things.
This might be what you're looking for?

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665.aspx
https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/135225
https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/49813

Nice, forcing the execs to chime in to a $50.000 bribe
As someone whose startup failed failed way after it actually failed, this is the point at which a business fails: "We've gone without salary"

That's it. If a business cannot sustain itself, it has gone bankrupt. A bankrupt business is donesky.

But in my case it took being fired from the company I founded to face the facts. Not making salary is not cool. Not putting food on the table is even less cool.

Remember, you can't eat equity.

PS: I'm 27 now, the startup failed failed when I was ~23. It feels like a different lifetime. You will move on.

PPS: if you want to talk about stuff at length, email me -> swizec@swizec.com . Even a mini depression can suck :)
There is no difference between knowing when your startup fails compared to when anything else fails (eg. a relationship).
It fails when you've lost hope for a future with it. If you don't believe that it's gonna work out, that's the time to stop doing it.
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What's the big deal? Why do you care about those documents so much? They all seem really meaningless, but maybe I'm missing the point... someone enlighten me?
Of course he gets what the problem is. You're being very gullible.
"Which is why we need government funding, though not government control, of research"

Without accountability (which is what you mean by 'government control'), all you will have is crony funding, and a downward-spiraling quality of work as effort goes toward scientific rent-seeking instead of real scientific product. This problem is inextricable. In order to have accountability, you have to have benchmarks, which really means that the only type of science funding the government is consistently good at is translational, with defined goals. A good example is the moonshot.

If your claim is that government will politicize science, well then, the problem is with demanding that government fund science in the first place. It is a ridiculous position of entitlement to demand money, obtained from taxpayers who have little choice to comply, with nothing in exchange.

For an excellent counterexample to your assertion, consider Peter Mitchell. He created an private, nonprofit science research organization very much dedicated to a 'basic science' question and solved a fundamental question in biochemistry: How does the cell generate energy? Although there is no way that industry would have funded this, there was also no way that government would have funded it either. He won a Nobel Prize for his work.

Do not make the mistake of conflating 'private' with 'for-profit'. This is a false dichotomy that overlooks important social efforts, such as the Polio Vaccines.
Sounds like you already know the answer. If you have less than $1 you are broke, you have been broke for a long time. You need money for shelter, food, warmth and security.

Rich people can start companies, companies may run at a loss for years before making good money. I think this is normal.

Re: hard to get money in a poor country - well. They have less money. But it's hard to get money in any country, rich countries have more competition -- see how hard it is to get into Ycombinator.

There are some comments about inheritance tax, but we'll leave those for another day.
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Make sure you're watching out for yourself. If you feel like your needs aren't being met then you need to sit down and speak with your partner. It may be working for him, but it doesn't seem like it's working for you.
"NXP 11U37 microcontroller; 128 kB flash, 10kB SRAM" [1]

Does anyone have an idea of what this is used for?

[1]: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Retina+Macbook+2015+Teardown...
Well, if you're living off your savings to work on your startup, then it's officially failed when you'd rather get a job than continue to burn through your personal savings.
Releasing open specifications would be better than releasing the drivers.
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I always tinkered with electronics as a kid, and these protections against tampering were easily defeated by melting the cap of a bic pen with a lighter.
Build your tools :)
> I'm not parroting, and saying I am just convinces me you're not interested in a discussion, but in being right, and insulting people who disagree.

Then why do you say nothing of individual North Koreans, and not even touch on any of the points I raised in the first post you replied to?

I said "People need to spend more time meeting, talking to people and experiencing life, and less time in front of the TV digesting everything the media tells us to believe." and your reply was "No. The West is not just as bad as North Korea. The West has more freedom of speech, freedom of information, and general freedom to be human."

I suggested a conversation, a meeting of peoples, which is exactly what the article is about. It's not about a North Korean PR stunt, it's not about an officially sanctioned marathon. Yes, all that happened, but it's about what happens when North Koreans are allowed to meet westerners.

> My conclusions are based on evidence, mostly from people who went there as tourists, shepherded by the government itself, and still saw horrible things. That, plus the refugees and the stories they tell, paint a consistently terrible picture of what life is like in North Korea.

Again, you're debating how terrible North Korea is. That's not the point.

> It's possible they're all lying, all the photos are doctored, and North Korea has just as many lights as South Korea when night falls.

Yes, North Korea is less developed, there's less lights (granted, nearly every place on the planet has less lights, especially per square mile, than South Korea). Again, that's not the point.

All I'm interested in is seeing the PEOPLE that are on the other side. This article is interesting because of the interactions with people in an isolated, some would say repressive, state that is opening up ever so slightly to foreign interaction. That's the point.
Oh, so they are finally making a film about Tesla. Cool. https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/86961
I think it is better, in the way that if enough people care about it, there will be strong reactions which will pressure the senate to not sign it and the parliament to withdraw it.

And if not, well, cynical as it might be, the people's majority will have gotten what they deserved, without having a good excuse (not knowing) and only the few that cared will be the real victims.
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The maths still holds. When money in bank is less than this month's salary -> business failed.
Seems that the major unknown is about the SSD controller [1] to know if it uses a custom controller or not.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9173/more-pictures-of-2015-mac...
Why don't you care?
Many early stage startups can't afford to pay salaries prior to raising capital. When I started working at a full-time capacity on my current startup, I went through 6 months without pay.

"If a business cannot sustain itself, it has gone bankrupt" might work for some more traditional cash-flow businesses, but I don't think that it applies very well to startups.
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