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You're mixing up things.

JBoss releases updates to its implementation rather frequently. If you look at their release dates it's almost every other month. See ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/jbeap/

You're quoting an individual bug that has been open for some time. Did you also looked at the many bugs that were fixed after a few hours after being reported? Do you dare to state that Spring has no bugs or that none of their bugs is open for more than a day, week, month?

Java EE has a spec cycle of about 2 to 3 years (there was an article about this recently, Google it if you want). That's the time between 2 spec releases. It's about the same time as between major supported JBoss releases, so between EAP 5, 6 and 7. There's 3 to 4 years between major Spring releases (Spring 2 2006, Spring 3 2009, Spring 4 2013).

And Java SE doesn't release a major new version montly, let alone yearly either. A spec should move fast enough to stay relevant, but slow enough to provide the stability needed so lots of other technology can build on it.
The Python GIL problem could been solved in Python3 by just moving all global interpreter instance variables into a single struct and changing the C API to take a pointer to this interpreter struct as the first argument in all C API functions. No thread local variable hacks need be used and all interpreter instances could have been completely independent of each other, allowing for seamless and efficient share-nothing multi-threading. Python3 was not intended to be 100% compatible with Python2 anyway, so it was a perfect opportunity to fix this long standing design bug. But this opportunity was lost.

Strangely, the Google V8 team repeated Python's API design error and also relies on global interpreter variables and thread-local variables to swap interpreter contexts, or "isolates" in V8-speak. Although my understanding is that the V8 team recognizes the problem and are (slowly) addressing it and changing their APIs accordingly with each successive release.
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Which makes total sense.

It's the things (end product) that matter, and unless they could only/better/easier be implemented in $LANGUAGE, then it could have been many other languages that could have been used as well.

Whereas something like C did change the world.
Out of curiosity, what 3rd-party sw did Apple bundle over 5 years ago?
> "Safety is our highest priority. Since the start of our programme six years ago, we've driven nearly a million miles autonomously, on both freeways and city streets, without causing a single accident," said a spokesperson.

Assuming the spokesperson is correct here, this would seem far better than most humans on the road. According to this article[1] (also about driverless cars):

> To put that into perspective, the average U.S. driver has one accident roughly every 165,000 miles. Here's how we got that figure: our average mileage per year is 16,550, according to the Federal Highway Administration; the average length of time we go between traffic accidents is 10 years, according to Allstate.

And since, according to the article, it doesn't seem like they've yet caused accidents, I would presume that "million miles" figure is still on the rise.

[1]: http://mashable.com/2012/08/07/google-driverless-cars-safer-...
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I thought the article was too lengthy/wordy, so I didn't read it all. I was curious if it described the same anti-corruption approach that I know was once suggested in India: "legalize one side of the corruption". That makes those in a corruption scheme think twice (or more) -- now both sides are equally punishable (thus create a bond by bribing/taking-bribe).

That's also a game-theory approach to corruption!
Thanks for the link, I did not know that cleaner/pristine Windows install are available out of the box. Out of curiosity, if these laptops are the same price as the one laden with "crapware", why are'nt consumers buying these instead? Is it awareness that they are available?
I am so tired of people complaining about this kind of BS. I'm a short, not handsome white man who knows fully well he'd never be hired to be the CEO of any company. Why? because people respond to tall, handsome men and I'm not one of them. People also respond to attractive women, and I'm not one of them either. Guess it just wasn't in the cards for me to have an easy life, just like it wasn't for THE MAJORITY OF US! Some people got lucky and won the genetic lottery, most of us didn't. End of story.
>"If you're going to call me out on my vested interested in NIH funding, I think you should acknowledge you have a pretty similar (opposite) conflict of interest :)"

Why, what would the opposite of being in the NIH be? I don't get it what you're trying to say about the person that "called you out" on the NIH link and your opinions.
Many comments here fail to see the difference between:

A: lack of certainty of being extradited to the US

B: the certainty of not being extradited to the US

Many comments claim A, but logically Assange needs B.
More than they do.

Every time I've looked to hire one its disappointing that they're so un-rounded in their skillset.
You may he interested in the EU SPreadsheet Risks Interest Group which talks a lot about the problems of error checking and auditing spreadsheets.

http://www.eusprig.org/

Ray Panko also has some excellent work on this.

http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/SSR/

Personally: yes, spreadsheet use is scary. They're error prone; hard to audit; overly trusted. One person will create a very complex spreadsheet. If that person moves on the company is stuck with a mostly opaque blob created by someone who hasn't had any training in creating readable maintainable code. There are risks for sensitive data to be inadvertantly distributed to the wrong people.
> For example, I frequently hear liberals say that if libertarianism were pushed to its logical extreme, you'd end up with Somalia.

I only ever see that in discussions where libertarian participants attack every criticism drawn from real-world experience with "but, that's only because of government, but in a real libertarian system, that wouldn't happen".

> For some reason, liberals are insulated from the question on what happens when leftist ideology it pushed to its extreme.

Except in the real world, where conservative arguments often start with some caricature of what leftist ideology pushed to an extreme would be presented as exactly what everyone even mildly to the left of them actually wants, at a minimum, and immediately. (And, yes, the reverse happens from liberals to conservatives frequently, too.)
Bing maps is decent on non-mobile, too, somewhat to my surprise. I've stopped using Google maps entirely. (I have never made much use of google maps on my phone, actually, since it constantly nags me to log in to a google account, which I refuse to do.)
DS8 and I have recently been enjoying Christopher Zeeman's[1] Royal Institution Christmas Lectures[2]. The first one on linking and knotting has the same flavor as the article and could be a good intro for parents doing this at home.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Zeeman
[2]http://richannel.org/christmas-lectures/1978/1978-christophe...
Why is this any of your concern? Why not let Google police and enforce their own TOS?

Is it just a hobby for you?

I see lots of shady stuff on the web, and I just ignore it and go about my day.
Telling the New Yorker that they should produce TL;DR versions of their work is like telling Thomas Keller that the French Laundry should serve Soylent.
400 out of the 4800 driverless cars were involved in accidents last month. None of them were the driverless cars' fault :-P

Just kidding. I'm glad no one got hurt!
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Some really interesting work was presented last year: http://www.future-programming.org/2014/program.html

I sincerely encourage anyone fiddling with new ideas in programming to submit a proposal. :)
posting it on YouTube is likely to end his career in any society.

Given that the video gains enough visibility of course but I would still take that with a grain of salt.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9526167.
"People aren't squares"... ergo they're circles?
>Coffee itself might not have anything to do with it; rather, coffee follows a certain lifestyle which is healthier than that of non-drinkers.

Which is what most competent research controls for in the first place.

Besides, coffee is something so prevalent that even junkies and never exercizing couch potatos do it, so it kind of controls itself.
Yes. People spent $700 on what were supposed to be their own computers, following their own wills. In fact they got computers which ignore their instructions (i.e. to fetch a webpage) and instead fetch the modified version that Lenovo's partners want them to see. The computers are not their own, they are Lenovo's. Full refunds are in order.
In the last 8 months:
- Number of human-driving auto accidents in US: ~10.6 mil
- Number of self-driving auto accidents in US: 4
Guess which one merited an article?
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Editing to add that all 4 crashes were apparently caused by human drivers https://twitter.com/msquinn/status/597738756511277056
the system i've laid out here can help solve that problem:

https://github.com/neyer/respect

if someone you respect, directly or implicitly, performs the investigation, then you can respect the results of the investigation. if someone you don't respect does it, you can disregard it.
Have everyone empowered to dispense justice is an interesting proposition, but there's a big difference between insects and people.

People aren't all logical, analytic creatures, especially when they operate in groups. They tend to act on emotion rather than logic and it often isn't clear which information is factual and which is rumor. People tend to be susceptible to groupthink, and often go with the crowd.

Having everyone dealing out justice might work if everyone was calm, rational, logical, and well-educated, which is often what game theory supposes, but that's not how things work. In reality, I would think that such a system would result in mob violence, sometimes triggered by good information, but often triggered by hearsay and rumors.

Not everyone agrees what is correct behavior and what isn't, so what would be acceptable to one person would not be acceptable to another. We'd get a lot of uncertainty whether our behavior is acceptable or not.

If we had a system where a mass of people decided via some sort of upvoting/downvoting, it would be a "tyranny of the majority", where minorities would be oppressed by majorities just because they had different standards of what is acceptable behavior. Goodbye civil rights, because those would count for nothing if a member of the minority did something that offended the majority.

It seems to me that this is what happens in anarchical places in the world where authority has broken down. Anyone can and will dispense justice. Violence because someone was offended by someone else's behavior (which I find completely non-offensive) is common and mob violence is common.

Strong authority often breeds corruption but a lack of authority can also breed disorder and chaos, an environment where people who can gather followers become a strong authority and become corrupt. It's bad either way.
They had guns when they came in the door, but Goggans had said something to the effect of 'you'll never take me alive' on a BBS post, so they were a little more proactive in his case... :)
You are under the assumption that 'efficiency' means resource efficiency. That is untrue. Exhibit A is how convoluted our current system is with our non-renewables. Replacing people with machines won't fix that.

Efficiency is celebrating the fact that you can drop your expensive annual costs and the liability of employing humans to conduct your business. People are expensive and demand things like rights and benefits. Machines can be had with a purchase/lease and maintenance costs.

Machines won't negotiate or get a lawyer. That's efficiency.

Meanwhile, we'll strip the earth to build these machines in the name of efficiency while more of the population is made useless and left to rot by an economy that functions without them.
With Java EE being clearly the better tool compared to Python and Ruby.

Python is laughable. One word; GIL. Nuf said.
In this kind of system, I think the negative points are to remove the burden of confirming infractions. It's in an individual's best interest to both keep driving AND to remove poor drivers. Hitting the correct ratio is the key.
"freedom from violent coercion"

The problem with that is, they're just fine with every other form of coercion.
Given that this is the only way Go provides to gain access to generic-like behavior, you shouldn't be surprised when people use it that way, and the intent of the team is quite irrelevant.
Still is.(gave it a try yesterday. Not a lot has changed.)

I do like the git-bash on Windows, though. For some reason I've avoided installing cygwin.... ever.
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Tens of thousands of people die in car accidents due to human error every year[1], but society won't accept a single death from a self-driving car[2]. Interesting dynamic, isn't it?

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_...

[2] This article.
My impression is that there is (a) smart and (b) appearing smart. There are many tactics to win the popularity contest: conning people into believing you are smart, but if asked they couldn't put their finger on why they vote you as smartest in the room.

So, many of the tactics listed by others in this thread are to con others, and maybe that has more value since the interest may be in climbing the social ladder in a corporate culture.
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And you know that how? News articles in the normal media titled "Lenovo spreading Spyware" reach exactly those normal customers, and it is quite possible that this has an effect. And further, those users interested in the stuff are the ones recommending laptops to others.

We simply don't know the effect because we know no sale figures, or do we?
Likely because it's a terrible idea.
There are some pointers to better terminology at the end of the post — e.g. I like Terry's session guarantees (read-your-writes, monotonic reads, etc) — but they too only cover a small subset of the design space.

In the end, this stuff is still evolving, and we simply don't yet know the best way of describing things. I wouldn't want to propose some alternative classification scheme that would be no better than the one it replaces. But I do want to encourage people to be precise and thoughtful with the terminology they use.
We tried this in chicago with bus drivers blowing through reds and getting caught on our red light cameras. Turns out the unions strong-armed the city early on to make bus drivers non-responsible for traffic violations and the city ends up paying their own fines.

The larger issue with urban corruption is how unions enable this corruption. All the technology and feel good sentiment doesn't mean a thing if unions continue to have this much power over the taxpayer. Police unions make sure the bad apples don't get prosecuted as well, so this goes way beyond mere traffic issues into human rights issues like being killed in police custody and having a 'code of silence' and all the powers and wealth of the police union against the victim's family looking for justice.
I'm curious, are you concerned with the fact that you can't get HP updates after your warranty is up?
We merged this thread and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9525610. The bloomberg.com article is more informative, so we'll use that URL instead of https://learn.flexport.com/weve-raised-money-to-reinvent-glo....
It is infinitely better to have a product, customers, and technical debt, than to have no product or no customers and no technical debt.

Personally, I focus on avoiding technical debt when the cost of the debt will outweigh the costs of cleanup even within three or four months. So I try to keep to some best practices - having tests, having a good build system, running a linter, because I find those systems help me reduce bugs. And every time I have to fix a bug for a customer in production, it is a major time sink. Every time I have to manually test a new release, or fix problems after the fact, or block my teammates because I checked in bad code, then I am wasting time. So I try to do enough clean up to make sure I avoid breaking things all the time.
Please see the FAQ about job posts on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
$39.59 on amazon for the paperback, new.
$116.90 on amazon for the hardcover, new.
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Unfortunately, this is essentially never the case. The reason is that if the outcomes were probabilistically independent, then you would just declare a standard protocol of always running the test N times, and call that the test. It's safe to assume that such trivial optimizations have already been done for medical tests.
No problem, just put the retraction mechanism in a lifting mechanism to lift it out of the ground for maintenance!
You're probably right. Maybe I was just stretching to bring up a point that might be irrelevant.
> society won't accept a single death from a self-driving car

What has convinced you of this?
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Really? Wow. I was cruising the shelves of SoftPro books (back when they had shelves and a physical presence). The sticker on my copy says $32.99.

Well, the link I provided was to a worldwide library catalog, you should be able to interlibrary loan it to your branch if you're interested.

Or you can get a copy on Abe Books for pretty cheap.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=Calen...

But no, my upper lark limit is considerably lower than $265.90. :)
I think you also need to consider the number of regular cars vs the number of self driving cars.
And it's not even consistent with itself.

The Delphi car was stationary when hit, it says, and then later says they were all "going very slowly" during the collisions.
There are 255m cars in the US (1). 10.6m accidents represents 0.04 accidents per car.

4 out of 48 self driving cars in California have been involved in accidents which is 0.8 accidents per car.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unit...
> Unfortunately, the baseline assumption isn't correct.

To quibble with that quibble, though the steel mills thing is in the title, I wouldn't call it a "baseline assumption" of the longer discussion in the post: the post talks about how power affects datacenter costs, with one sentence at the end mentioning steel mills.

He links the "steel mills" phrase to a page on a Microsoft datacenter in Quincy, WA. I don't know much about the history of that area, but I did read that another Microsoft datacenter was built in The Dalles, OR, which had very cheap power and historically was home to aluminum manufacturers that needed a lot of power for the electrolytic process involved:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html?e... mentions the datacenter and that aluminum smelters were once in the area

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_smelting talks more about the process and how it takes "prodigious amounts of electricity"
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In case you want some other sources of the same "story":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9524678 (nbcnews.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9524737 (startribune.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9524859 (ap.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9525344 (sfgate.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9525852 (seattletimes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9526220 (yahoo.com)
Impossibility results are really good for proving that one or more things are impossible.

The CAP theorem is an impossibility result.
Dead comment by user bombless. Reposting so Carol gets to see the comment (since she asked specifically for additional ways to find information) in case she doesn't have show dead on.

>About the ‵mod′ keyword in ‵use′, if you ask it on IRC I'm sure many people including me would point you the relevant PR that was made around October. Nice article by the way.
There is several different economic losses to calculate here, each surpassing $5.

There is the cost of removing the malware, and cleaning up any damages it caused. This is normally done by estimating how many hours a professional would spend on it, and the wages they would demand.

Second, is the for-profit claim of "TRESPASS TO CHATTELS". If someone goes and steal a car to run a taxi service, one would look at the ill-gotten gains as well as the potential economic loss the car owner might has sustained from not having access to the car. "borrowing" other peoples cars once the owner has parked it is not risk free, and the law recognize this beyond just looking at used up gasoline.
> In reality, I would think that such a system would result in mob violence, sometimes triggered by good information, but often triggered by hearsay and rumors.

Basically what you see today on social media, where everyone is empowered to be an agent of "justice" (a public shaming and harassment-based justice system).
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> It's usually someone who paid a lot of money to have that video created and wants to see it "put to use". They spend very little time browsing their own website after it is created and hope that they get some form of return out of it.

This is it
Someone who left the NIH system to work at a biotech company

Because I can't reply below: It's a little disingenuous to suggest you never benefitted from the NIH system if you've gotten a PhD at a life-sciences institution. Nearly all of the money at these types of places comes from the NIH, even if you were never specifically on an NIH grant.
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> You are a very whiny person

Please don't compound the problem by breaking the site guidelines as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Instead, you can flag a comment by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking "flag".
"Why are libertarians the only group held to a pure ideological standard?"

Because they keep espousing positions that have proven to be terrible ideas. They forget about history, and why things like government regulations came about.