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|This is interesting, but I'd not focus on Bitcoin too much. This could be a test-bed for Goldman for something much bigger, because central banks are seriously thinking about digital, potentially Bitcoin style, currencies.

So bitcoin without the bitcoin? Have a think about what you said and what attributes bitcoin lacks that don't qualify it for widespread adoption. The narrative that's being pushed by the media is that bitcoin is almost perfect but unfortunately the big guys can't use it. The reason is that they can't print more of it, for free, on a whim.
Just read the advantages, some parts seem a bit old. Touting object oriented design as something enabling refactoring, whereas the trend for the last fifteen years has been toward interface-oriented design (with golang being the most extreme case).

Also, in a world of unikernels and app containers (trending toward the most static and restricted deployment unit possible), having an os being able to change its parts while running seems a bit useless.

But, who knows ? maybe we'll see new patterns emerge. That's a fantastic time for people interested in OSes.
VirtualBox. I don't have a spare machine lying around, but still cool...
Python timezone handling might be easier than you think
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9462967
> How is that "one of the best kept secrets in the air cargo industry"?

I guess it's only part of the problem, solving for one plane.

In practice you would want to solve for varying demand, for multiple customers, for planes that eventually are delayed, crews that get sick/delayed, for different planes, for routes that pick/drop different cargo at different places.

And of course, you want to price all of that in a way that makes you money.
> With generalized polymorphic inline caches (dispatch chains) you get that cost down to the dynamic check and the JIT compiler can remove all reflective overhead.

...which results in a scenario no different in terms of overhead or expressiveness, than you'd have with a static MOP with runtime dispatch.
Purely direct democracy does not work. Representative democracy is needed because you can't possibly design a system where everyone has to be bothered to assess every new law proposal. Most of the bills are about subjects people know nothing about. It takes time to research the subject, gather expert opinion and then emit a well grounded vote. That's why you need to assign a group of people full-time to the task of assessing new bills, aka representative democracy.

In direct democracy, you either have populist votes or non-participation. It is inescapable.

The fact that the current system is broken is no excuse to move to one that is flawed from the start. We now have the technological means for an evolution of representative democracy: Liquid Democracy, or delegative democracy. It's representative democracy with "continuous elections". It might work (better).
This is the approach taken by LY-Linux ("patch leap year"), although better implemented IMO. In fact, I typically only have to restart my servers once every 4 years (at most).

Look it up, it's awesome.
(Please don't.)
> The number from a few years ago showed college freshmen using Macs by 70%.

In the US, perhaps. Where I study, I can count the number of people owning MacBooks on my fingers. They're still way too overpriced/lacking in hardware compared to PCs at the same market rates.
How accessible is the book (the google preview on that page does not help assessing how complex the text is) ? I guess it's better to start with "Types and programming languages" by the same author ? I don't have a formal education in these topics.
Why a shared_ptr/weak_ptr solution wouldn't work?

The main entity list would use shared ptrs, while objects themselves would have weak references to other objects.

When an object wants to use another object, then it has to create a shared_ptr to it.

It might be a little slower than simple integer ids, but it can save a lot of trouble.
There are 7 (seven) mentions of IoT on that site. Eight if you include URL.
Why don't you give remote working a shot. Check out some work on weworkremotely or stackoverflowcareers.
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Hopefully they don't end up on the streets in a few years...
How many servers does this run on? How does this scale?
One name for this is Eternal September: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
I'm not a hypochondriac, I swear, but this really hits home. I have medically diagnosed ADHD; seemingly contrary to the disorder, I often find myself getting stuck daydreaming for hours. I honestly _enjoy_ it, and as a consequence of my incredibly realistic daydreams I never get bored. Seriously--I never get bored. It's like a dopamine rush I can turn on whenever I want. My stories are better than any movie because I'm actually _in_ them.

The walking in circles bit is just uncanny. My most creative thinking (or most vivid daydreams) happen when I'm doing exactly that. It's really weird (and I'm acutely conscious of how it must look), so I never let people catch me doing it. Something about walking in circles turns up the realism an order of magnitude.

I think this is highly related to my ADHD, and now I want to tell my doctor about it. I don't want to rid myself of this, but I do want to control it better.
I was also a user, and experienced many of these same things.

Makes you wonder if they didn't spread their net too wide too quickly. Perhaps "Gay Secret for the SF area" might have taken off -- and given the team the chance to tweak/nail the experience.
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The different types of mutual funds are open ended fund, close ended funds, large cap, small cap, mid cap, sector specific funds, index mutual funds, etc. Investors can invest any of them depending on the risk lenience and their financial condition.
I don't think you could die, but sims could make their individual rules.

I think for a sword fighting sim (as an example) you would put the rules into the sword (hitpoints, damage and so on). Then everybody with a sword could participate in the fight and the sword would tell you when you are dead. Presumably instead of death a sim could teleport you away from the sim.

I suppose you could also have an external object (the mastermind of the sim) track player stats, but there might be limits on how many players you could track at the same time (not sure).
Glad to see that I've still got some fans.
David Simon on why he created The Wire and set it in Baltimore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYXNdELqCe4
IIRC, Sun sued Microsoft for creating & pushing proprietary extension that, when used, limited the created application to Windows platform and MS' JVM.

Not for improving Java itself, afaik.
Hmm, the OCaml could be a lot shorter:

let rec fold_channel f acc chan =
match input_line chan with
| line -> fold_channel f (f line acc) chan
| exception End_of_file -> acc

let comma = Str.regexp ","

let values_of_line line =
List.map float_of_string (Str.split comma line)

let sum_channel chan =
let folder line tot = List.map2 (+.) tot (values_of_line line) in
fold_channel folder (values_of_line (input_line chan)) chan

let sum_and_print_file filename =
let chan = open_in filename in
sum_channel chan |> List.map string_of_float |> String.concat "," |> print_string;
close_in chan

let () =
match Sys.argv with
| [|_; filename|] -> sum_and_print_file filename
| _ -> failwith "Exactly 1 filename must be given"

This is also a bit faster, and almost all of the difference is because I hoisted the Str.regexp ",". I suspect using a split-on-character operation would make a bit more difference there, but of course the spartan OCaml stdlib lacks such a function.
Lol, I was "Oxygen" and ate a pair of "Hydrogen".
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Thanks for trying it!
I would guess this is because I build the linux releases with gnu libc.
See here: http://www.blang.io/2015/04/19/golang-alpine-build-golang-bi...

You can also try compiling from source (see the Journey Wiki on GitHub for instructions).
A lot of VCs funded Color, so I don't see why
To be blunt, it seems like you're hindering your self. You seem reluctant to take on the "new things", and work with them. Almost as if you are deliberately attempting to rebel.

Why wouldn't you go and work in an Agile environment? It's a lot less stressful I've found. Also, you say that you don't want to have to argue about using one thing over another, but realistically it's not an argument. It's a discussion about using the right tool for the job.

Just because you're a developer, doesn't mean that you can't work towards taking the other jobs - there are a lot of people that take the change - if they're willing to.

In my opinion, you just need to suck it up and be open to learning new things, and new technologies.
I am really loving this new Microsoft. What I would love would be for Microsoft to offer resources to get Clang/LLVM working on Windows as well as MSVC so it can be a first class compiler in VS.
You're right I should have been more clear. 10 years in the same position.
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I think the impressive bit is not just having the scale to be able to afford to be worrying about that level of detail. There are a lot of companies that would benefit from the 5% of reduced waste in packing their devices into crates, but it does seem like Apple is uniquely adept at achieving fringe optimizations which turn around incredible ROI.
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Why should sentences be graded by financial gain instead of damages? Wouldn't that lead to someone who wrecks a whole network just for kicks and notoriety to be less punished than someone who, say, earns a $50 credit by abusing a race condition on some HTTP server?
Assuming the details are true, your comment does count as substantive: it describes concrete personal experiences. It also seems to have an agenda, but readers can evaluate that for themselves.

The moderation point is off, though. An unsubstantive smear doesn't suddenly become a good comment just because someone else shows up and posts a better one.
Pointers can be easily mapped from and into integer indices or file offsets in-place, so there is no big difference really.

I think it is generally not a good idea when in-memory representation of objects is identical to the serialized representation. This approach tends to backfire in a number of ways, such as format incompatibility between software versions, or hardware architecture differences, so it is always better to assume that your serialized representation will be different from in-memory representation.
Because it's usually potential damage instead of actual damage.
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The argument here is that when things go sour you can restore a running process more quickly. Of course things should actually work and issues should be fixed, nobody is suggesting that.
What exactly triggers re-absorption of your smaller cells after you divide? Sometimes a size differencr is not enough.
SuSE seems to me pretty much like another Red Hat
I think it's quite easy to build a GC-like system for a particular subsystem of the engine.

The only nuisance is the lack of reflection in C++, as usual.
I came here to say just this. Considering he had no prior experience and by his own accounts he is quite the geek I thought he spoke very well. He was articulate, kept his answers on point and not too long, perhaps a little wordy but people tend to over talk when nervous.
An HR term for these people is 'solid citizen'. They can make great employees in service/administrative roles. I wouldn't rule someone out for this alone, I would want to know why they stuck around and how they performed. Having someone that just wants to do their job well and head home without wider career driving pressure can be really valuable.
Why jump to 'alternative to capitalism'?

You can have capitalism without everything being a free market. We already do.

As I said, the issue is with our implementation. It doesn't make sense for land to be fully subjected to a free market because the endgame is fairly obviously lords and serfs. The same doesn't happen elsewhere really.

If the state built homes until there were enough for everyone and then we played capitalism with food and cars and trains and skateboards and yachts and TVs and the Internet and all of those other things higher up the hierarchy of needs, would you not consider that capitalism?

You'd still have returns on capital, you'd still have people owning more or less land. You'd still have bigger and smaller homes.

But you might not be able to force (or heavily nudge towards) people into wage slavery. :)
Exactly.

The mechanism that makes bitcoin what it is - which is that mathematically it cannot be 'printed' without substantial effort and complications - is the only 'issue' to the old guard, the elite, the current power structure. The media is either diligently covering the given talking points or they know that bitcoin is a threat to the power structure and play up doubt about bitcoin to appease.

Its only a matter of perspective between thinking this one 'weakness' is a fundamental flaw or a feature that offers the most significant contribution to human financial liberty in the last six thousand years.

The cat is out of the bag and the privileged few will NOT be liking this cat!
I think they're doing some work on it, and I believe someone else is also supporting LLVM for windows as well.
This is related to "Data Retention Directive" [1] which was declared invalid by EU Court of Justice for violating EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

It means member EU states must update their legislation which will prohibit metadata retention by communication operators (including ISPs) to absolute minimum (generally only what's required for invoicing).

That's why this ruling by Slovak Constitutional Court seems a bit pointless. Slovak parliament would prohibit mass surveillance sooner or later anyway as a result of EU Court of Justice ruling.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
Yet most games are written in GC languages (flash, java on android, objc+arc on ios, javascript, C# on unity).
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Thing is, Zuckerberg is pretty right. The media frames it as a "scandal" or "indiscretion". But if only everyone had convenient access to education that enables us to consider this perspective obvious...
Statistics done by mathematicians has very little to do with p-values in my experience. They are more common when other disciplines try to apply statistics to their data.
This is hilarious! The voices are excellent and its just so bonkers absurd with the random junk on twitter being shouted out into my headphones.

Instantly shared this with everyone :)
Excellent business practice!
No, it works!
I would like to know what behavior is different with some real examples of broken functionality.
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I love David Simon's writing (and "The Wire" is the best thing ever to be on TV, in my opinion), but I was unable to read this article because the secondary navigation ("Popular on Facebook" ... "Q&A", etc) which kept swooping in every time I scrolled up drove me utterly insane. The fact that the actual text was overly large and offset strangely to the right also did not help.

Why do people have to ruin content in this way?!
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Keeping lots of integer mappings in memory
I need to store a lot of integer mappings in memory.
Real time reads is what I expect, writes/updates to the mappings is less frequent.

I have looked around and foundnd that Redis and Aerospike are close to what I have expected.

What tool/technology should I use and How should these tool/technology should be evaluated?
Twitter now allows playable games embedded in tweets
Fun fact: after downloading it and looking around, this is definitely based on Windows Phone.
I could listen to this shit all day if it wasn't hogging my CPU (probably my nouveau driver on Linux, not the site's fault). Really really nice!
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iOS Safari sometimes increases text size automagically.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6210788/how-to-avoid-ios-...
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Meh - I'm on facebook all the time. Maybe they track my not very interesting interests and people use them to show ads which uBlock then blocks. His "flagrant disrespect and violation of my human privacy" doesn't really bother me. If I was doing anything I wanted to keep private I wouldn't do it on facebook - I just assume stuff on facebook is semi public. I'm not sure quite what the big problem is.
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a funny way to look at regulation; how arrogant!
Best rule of thumb I've seen on this: 3 jobs/roles over 10 years.

Many people do a quick jump when they've hit the wrong environment, as long as that is not standard behavior it's OK, and even a good thing. You do want to see some ability to stick a good company. On the long side, company matters. 12 years at Google would be very different (especially with role variety) from 12 years (especially without role variety) at a stagnant government department.
> I thought this partnership was going to enable running Windows software on a Pi.

That's how the tech sites (mis)reported it. It was never about running full Windows, it was about embedded devices and IoT
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The only reliable approach to this I can think of is to 'write' the program purely as a declarative specification mapping every supported input pattern into a corresponding expected output pattern (for a familiar example, spec driven unit testing: http://jasmine.github.io/edge/introduction.html).

Then one needs to write whatever's going to generate the implementation (currently that 'whatever' is a human programmer). If done right, it doesn't matter what the underlying platform is (theoretically, this could even be used to train a neural network).
Interestingly enough the interview, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, is a pretty respected news presenter/interviewer in the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishnan_Guru-Murthy
Facebook today is equal if not more complex than Google. They process a huge amount of user data and it's all searchable. The relationships in that data are much more complex than in web search results.
The messaging about Windows 10 on the Pi 2 a few months ago was pretty bad and many people assumed it was the full Windows 10 desktop experience because so little info was released at the time. Only if you dug into the details released at WinHEC a month ago could you start to see that it's a shell for running simple Windows universal apps.
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It's great how this just works on my iOS device.
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Useful bits of information in there. The fact the arm-gic driver doesn't handle any of the priority features of the GIC can be quite a bit of hindrance.
At least, FIQ gives you ONE trump card.
Uber is in a inherently interesting space, directing large numbers of people using software for stuff that happens outside of the computer.

That means that instead of solving problems that are sticky enough in the lab never-mind in the world, they can solve them with a market. For problems like who should deliver what package and how to optimize that, they can offload a lot of the intelligence to drivers.

This might have interesting implications for other products.
Everyone should read Bill Gates' infamous memo Windows: The Next Killer Application on the Internet (January 1994):

http://www.microsoft.com/about/companyinformation/timeline/t...

Some notes: The Marvel product turned out to be The Microsoft Network (short MSN v1, not to be confused with later iterations of MSN web services): http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2306,00.h... . The Cairo operating system (aka Win96) was never released: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)
The removed text reflow function in Android brought me to tears and Google does not intend to fix it.[1]

Opera for Android is the only option that does this really good right now (in a browser that doesn't feel like a malware data collector).

Lightning browser (open source) released an update this week that brought text reflow to post Kit Kat devices, but the way the text reflow works doesn't come close to the original Android implementation or Opera. Just try it on Hacker News.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62378
Zuckerberg stole everyone's life, at least high percentage of lifes. What a "man", what a "success".
I wonder why politicians that enact unconstitutional laws don't get punished. They breached the rules. Everybody else except bankers and the police get punished for that.
Do you mean the games that push your hardware to the edge, like DOOM and Quake I-III at the time?
I expect some small EU countries, probably East-European, have governments that are agile/smart enough to pull serious datacenter biz into their borders by passing sensible legislation and backing it up with actual (non-)action.

They are in many ways more sovereign then the larger and/or more economically developed EU nations. And they still have politicians that are concerned with (democratic) principles, instead of the two-faced puppets of plutocracy that we find waaaay to often in high public positions.

Go Slovakia!
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I am sorry for being on a tangent but how old were you when you were diagnosed? I am 20, and I am having real trouble staying focused on one task and can definitely relate to what you said.
My experience is that Lightning text reflow doesn't work at all like pre Kit Kat Web View text reflow. How have you configured Lightning?
Rather difficult to extinguish an open source project that in no way depends on Microsoft.

The most annoying thing they could do is unsign the drivers somehow (difficult, since programming is done over a generic FTDI chip or directly in the case of the Mega32U4) and force people to develop using a different platform.

I suppose if everyone hopped on the Windows bandwagon and then Microsoft pulled their project, it would be an issue. For instance if suddenly you no longer had access to the services, but that's not really a killer.

You can buy Arduino clones from China - I've never paid the 'official' Arduino or Sparkfun mark up. You can make your own minimalistic board since the bootloader is freely available. You could even go barebones and learn to code for AVR chips without Arduino getting in the way (it's cheaper and leaner).

Worst case everyone runs to OS X and Linux.
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It's a nice story and everything, but this is Hacker News, not CNN/FOX/BBC/<insert random newspaper here>.
To be honest: No experience with that.

But that's yet another example of something that has no relationship to the core clr (-> bundle, local installation, 'just a dependency').

So yes, Windows needs restarts to update some files. And yeah, for most stuff / everything but the kernel (?) you don't need that on Linux.

No relation to the ease of deployment of .Net, especially not the open source/cross platform thing that started this thread.

It is literally as easy to deploy as any application on your platform and doesn't need to be deployed explicitly.