skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the NES ran on an 8-bit processor at nearly 1.79 MHz with 2 kB of slow onboard work RAM. On the surface it would seem we could expect a 32-bit or 64-bit CPU sixteen generations later running at between 2 and 4 GHz with dozens of times that memory in just L1 cache, to be able to match that. But then Javascript is a helluva drug.
"NSX is getting strong traction"

With fewer than 500 paying customers, I don't see how you can describe NSX as having "strong traction".
Manhattan? [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_New_York#Plot
What is "evolutionism"? I've never heard that word before.

Ah, Wikipedia has the answer: "In the creation-evolution controversy, creationists often call those who accept the validity of the modern evolutionary synthesis "evolutionists" and the theory itself as "evolutionism." Some creationists and creationist organizations, such as the Institute of Creation Research, use these terms in an effort to make it appear that evolutionary biology is a form of secular religion.[8][9]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionism
Photography – HDR, Flash or a Splice of the Two?
Very true, I hope I didn't imply that I was giving a complete list of reasons why people are against it, because I'm not sure a complete list is possible.
My tone is aggressive because someone was working on a project, a larger company picks up the same idea, and the first suggestion is to give up completely, and accept to be bought out.

Instead of considering any of the other options, or that the small company could actually compete with the larger company (hint: Google doesn’t operate most of their services outside of the US at all), the only real suggestion is "you’re in for a buy-out".
To be honest, I'd rather have the government kill me, in many situations.
Actually, he's right; the abbreviation for kilo (thousand) is lower-case k. The abbreviation for mega (million) is upper case M. (Lower case m is milli (thousandth).)
Except card marking (this region of the heap was changed) is only one way of flagging changes. It's entire possible to instead record the address of objects unconditionally and then flag them as they are visiting during a generation.
Another problem, the financial sector is hooked on low interests rates. The Fed was planning to raise interest rates this September but with these terrible numbers there is no way that is going to happen this year.
"If blade1 needs to talk to blade2, running it through a firewall means that the communications needs to flow out of the blade back to the datacenter network (ie. flowing north to the top of the rack switch). That adds latency and requires more network and firewall capacity, as all traffic needs to leave the chassis."

For years (15 ?) I have been putting very simple, very small ipfw rulesets in place on non-firewall systems that allow only the traffic I believe that system should be sending/receiving.

It's a firewall. It's on the host itself. It is a firewall that is securing "east/west traffic". It's a simple model that any host can implement and has very low (typically zero) cost.

Related:

This is the first, and last, time I will ever use the term "east/west traffic". Christ.
Here's the link: https://vimeo.com/125111378

I'm also confused about the grandparent comment, since the video clearly shows direct manipulation of the actual sketch.
What about B': Life in prison + an option for assisted suicide.
Nonsense every business knows winter occurs annually and businesses need to stop making excuses
Who is talking about banning subjects? It is just a question of keeping science in science classes, and the study of religious ideas in classes about the study of religions ideas. For example the change from the geocentric to a heliocentric model and the Galileo controversy are important parts of the history of ideas and should be studied as such. But obviously the Ptolemaic model should not be thought in astronomy classes as if it was valid science.
No it wasn't. Here are the charges that were involved in this trial.

http://freeross.org/the-case-the-goal-and-why-this-matters-2...
I think it's great that his LinkedIn page is still online.
"having serial murderers dumped on their shores as they were two centuries ago"

you are talking about the british, right?
I'm very sure there are economic analyses of this. Searching hasn't brought up details, but there are things like

- the think tank "Center for a New American Security", which seems to have some influence on politics and runs studies such as

http://www.cnas.org/research/us-defense-policy-and-military-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_a_New_American_Secu...

- this handbook, which seems to be published by a combination of US and French Army researchers:

http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/cgsc/carl/download/csipubs/Frenc...

(do you need reading material? http://usacac.army.mil/organizations/lde/csi/pubs - wow)

- This Australian publication discusses costs in an abstract way:

http://www.army.gov.au/Our-future/Publications/Australian-Ar...

All of these deal with robotics and the military. Ethics is discussed widely, but visions and plans are also given (for which a cost analysis should be necessary, but I haven't found details).

Concluding, the current vision of the developed world's military seems to be to replace some humans with robots and have the rest work alongside them, giving them the most dangerous tasks. (A publication lamenting the fact that army operations can be life-threatening is somewhat ironic, by the way.) However, the previous points cited child soldiers, which are neither trained well nor do they receive the benefits you mention. So we're dealing with different contexts, and both statements make sense, IMHO.
Note: If you have https everywhere, the article doesn't load because time.com's https setup is broken. (They're using a *.wordpress.com cert...)
We've discussed these issues before (back a year ago when I viewed him as just inexperienced but promising) and he seems to think C# is a bullshit language, that C++ would be better. But judging from the code he writes, things would be much, much worse for us if we were working in C++. He doesn't just write C++ in C# (which would be bad), he writes bad C++ in C#.

He just... doesn't seem to learn. It's not so much that he makes mistakes, it's that he makes the same ones. He will change for a little while after I talk to him, then revert back to really, really bad practices.

I mention quitting because I'm bored of the project and just wondering if it's not time to move on to greener pastures.
AFAIK this was the concept behind Wuala. Founded in Switzerland, later bought by French company LaCie. According to their website the clien side encryption is still there, however they discontinued the collaborative disk space business model.
You're probably right that firewalls allow negligence elsewhere.

But if they can't secure their one firewall, what makes you think they can secure their complex network of a plethora of interdependent services running across many subdomains on a whole roomfull of machines?

"Simple" is a key step to effective security, and I think the reason we've latched on to firewalls is they are often the simplest, most contained, and most standard way to reduce the attack surface of your network.
How the fuck is that relevant? How many people died last year from taking too much aspirin they bought at Walmart?
This is true, but when one if that competition is too great, it might be a viable exit strategy to consider (rather than just closing up shop).
HigherMe is hiring an inside sales rep
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We're from Boston, but participated in Y Combinator's winter batch in Mountain View, California. We may settle in Silicon Valley , or we may stay in Boston - we're hopeful you're on board for either decision.

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We're looking for

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- Someone with 1 to 4 years of experience in inside sales - calling 100+ prospects daily - ideally selling a technology solution to retail and restaurant customers (although we're flexible on the latter)
- Someone with the potential and hunger to eventually build and lead a sales organization, but also ready to be an individual contributor while we grow and scale

Successful candidates will receive a market base salary, competitive commissions, and a large equity offering - we're excited to be building Boston's next unicorn startup, and can't wait to see if you have what it takes to join us. Email rob@higherme.com, and tell us why you're the right fit for us.

The role will be based in Boston for the next several months, but we're open to remote work beyond that.
Your third options sounds real good for a freelancer. He is giving you a pay-check, albeit indirectly.
Do you have a journal proven beyond a reasonable doubt to have been written by Ross Ulbricht that includes them discussing how they paid to have a person killed? Because a jury has yet to decide whether the government has such a thing, too.

My point is, we haven't seen the evidence, a jury hasn't decided about the evidence, why are we talking about this? We can't pretend that Ulbricht's sentence for drug trafficking was fair because of his charges for violent crimes, because the charges for violent crimes have yet to complete. This sentencing happened in a court of law, where speculation about the result of different court cases is as valuable as some dude on the internet saying icelander killed people.
How do you feel about Pascal, Ada, Erlang, Haskell, Python...?
While I don't agree with mkempe, I don't see why this kind of messages should be downvoted... Choosing a name is a difficult task, and honoring someone with their name in a new creation is a noble gift, but the page does not explain why it was named like that, and so it remains elusive. Google could have take the time to explain it. But it's not like it's a shame, mkempe.

Also, if you could see who downvoted you, you could perhaps start a little war, so I don't think that such a conversation system would be better.
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Just out of curiosity, does this developer seem panicked or overwhelmed?
You're an idiot. Flashbacks are not a real thing. Pretty much every negative effect of LSD is exaggerated or based on biased reports by the government to justify making anything that gets you high illegal. An LSD 'flashback' is more like deja vu, like "Wow this is really similar to something I've experienced before", not like you just randomly go back into a full on trip. If you're schizophrenic you probably shouldn't take LSD, sure. But if you have heart palpitations you probably shouldn't drink Red Bull. People should be responsible for their own decisions, not you or the government or anyone else.
It's used exactly like that in finance all the time.

http://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stand...

http://english.stackexchange.com/a/182072
Sure but if the argument is in the realm of real-world impact, at least then it can be debated and the evidence weighed.

Maybe this "harm reduction" argument here is full of it, I don't know. All I'm saying is: if one side uses as their only argument "because I said so," then there is no real debate.
"They built supercomputing before anyone heard of the cloud."

Minor historical pontification on my side: The term 'cloud' is only the current term for an old idea. Before cloud there was 'grid'. Before that was the Amoeba OS and other distributed OSes. Long before that, a 1960s hope for Multics was that it would be:

> ... a utility like a power company or water company. This view is independent of the existence or non-existence of remote consoles. The implications of such a view are several. A utility must be dependable, more dependable than existing hardware of commercial general-purpose computers. A utility, by its nature, must provide service on demand, without advance notice in most cases. A utility must provide small amounts of service to small users, large amounts to large users, within very wide limits. ... http://www.multicians.org/fjcc3.html

That's shortly after the CDC 6600, and before the DOE really got into the supercomputing business.

In any case, I don't know the politics of supercomputing, and my experience in that field is even older than yours. When I look at current clouds systems, and try them out, I throw my hands up, because they don't handle the types of architectures I use in my research. I do compute-heavy work on medium-sized data, with algorithms that works best with stateful nodes in a boss/worker system. Luckily for me, I don't need low latency, so building something on top of ZeroMQ is good enough for what I want, and easy to do.
I think at least Facebook's usage would fall under the category of facilitating inter-app communication. They just communicate with almost every app out there.
Feel free to grep for 'murder-for-hire' in this document
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1391..., where the judge ruled on the admissability of evidence about Ulbricht's attempts to hire murderers to kill 6 people.

Or if you don't grep, you could just start from the beginning; the judge essentially leads off with the murder-for-hire subplot right from the beginning of her ruling.

As mentioned by dragonwriter, this murder-for-hire scheme was an overt act charged as part of Count One of the indictment (p5)

http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-sdny/legacy/...
Right? Your fucking son made is own decision to try Heroin. Sorry he died, but don't go blaming the dealer for your sons actions.
Yeah, if I calm down a little bit and try to think rationally, I start to think that way, too. I'm a little flustered right now because we've been having problems with performance on the project, problems I've been tasked to fix, but they keep pulling me off of it to firefight stuff that turns out to be the kid's fault. I'm just worried I'll end up spending all my time fixing his code and my client will wonder why the big features he expects me to build have ground to a halt.

And I've been on the project for 3 years now. I'm pretty ready to move on. I'm not really getting anything of personal development out of it anymore. I've been working in VR stuff on the side and a LOT of people have expressed interest in my work. But I just don't have the momentum to do that fulltime yet.
Somewhat. I'd much rather just amend the Constitution, but that's a slow and unreliable process. I do not see it as inevitable that the Supreme Court will just get rid of it. The Constitution specifically mentions capital crimes so it cannot be argued that the DP is inherently cruel and unusual or otherwise prohibited by the Constitution - sure some people try to make that argument, but like all people that try to cherry pick only the parts of the law that suit their argument, they're wrong. An amendment is the only way to go, and frankly we should be making more use of the amendment process instead of treating the Constitution like some religious artifact that's going to disintegrate if we alter it.
from Kotlin's blog
" ...now Quasar provides fibers (lightweight threads), Go-like channels, Erlang-like actors, and other asynchronous tools..."

Getting these capabilities available for Android development in a reasonably lightweight (unlike Scala and Clojure) package that Kotlin offers -- is a big deal, in my view.
Android support for the combination of Kotlin+Quasar not there yet (as Quasar is planning android support nxt ".. It didn’t make the cut for 0.7.0, but Android support is next on our major feature list. "

I am guessing here, but unlikely these async features are available for Kotlin-JS, which means that clojurescript is still more capable that Kotlin in these areas.
Overall I thing the GOP has a great message, but they don't follow through.

Over the last 30 years the GOP has raised government spending far more than the Dems. Consider the Medicare prescription drug plan without any negotiation for lower rates.

It's just redicusly over the top levels of corruption.
E) stop trying to apply simple heuristics to people.

The solution is really simple in principle but also really difficult in practice. Treat everyone as an individual, case by case. Use prison as a place for reform and rehabilitation, not punishment. Provide the resources, programs and incentive to help them reform. Prison should not be separate from society, but merely limit the freedoms they have abused (ie.for violent offenders remove the freedom to assault; for organised crime the freedom to associate) until they have proven their willingness to reform and that they no longer pose a threat.

But now you have three problems, doing this is really expensive, really difficult to judge when rehabilitation is sufficient, and really, really hard to put fair and just limits around continued incarceration. Mind you, the current system has all these problems anyway.
Replying to GP comment and you as such.

Hypothetically, (I'm not sure how widespread this technique is), some (Java) compilers turn heap allocations into stack allocations when they can prove that transitively an allocated object does not become reachable from other threads.

This general technique "escape analysis", i.e. "a reference to this object /escapes/ a given reachability type[1]", can be used to transform general heap allocations into thread local or stack allocations.

[1] Let me define reachability type as {can be accessed from anything, can be accessed from this thread only but is of indefinite lifetime, can be accessed from this thread only and it's reference is not take by any object allocated onto my local heap, ...}
It's mostly the Nexus line that doesn't have SD cards. Google was/is a big believer that multiple storage devices makes for bad user interaction.
I'd probably feel panicked and overwhelmed too if I were in way over my head but felt like I had to save face because some hotshot freelancer was brought in.

Sometimes it's not the problems you point out, but how you point them out. (Not saying that this is what is happening in OP's case, since it's hard to judge from a paragraph or two.)
With applications like Textsecure a lot of sensitive metadata accrues, still. One way around this can be https://bitmessage.org
Then you may like this, Super Mario Levels. He has some moves! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_apb7EcsWgc
Reasonable options haven't been exhausted until California stops producing crops like rice.[1]

Our ideal climate, ample water supply and
innovative farming techniques result in some
of the highest rice yields in the world,
while at the same time providing rice of the
highest quality.

That was written a few years ago. Growing rice in a desert is hardly an "ideal climate", and the recent drought has certainly changed the perception of an "ample water supply".

Same thing with other water intensive crops like almonds. TV was recently reiterating the trope that a single almond takes 1 gallon of water. That seems way high, but I haven't searched further.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20060210141916/http://calrice.org...
Both Blaise Pascal and Lady Ada Lovelace were honored explicitly when these languages were named after them. (I got my programming start with UCSD Pascal!) Their creators --Niklaus Wirth and Jean Ichbiah-- never dreamed of using these names without explicit tribute, since the naming was intended as a tribute.

The other programming languages you mention I don't know as much about -- Python users do seem to be regularly paying homage to Monty Python, so I'm quite happy with their intellectual and cultural honesty.

As for Turing, how could it ever be acceptable for someone to name a product after him and not explicitly mention him, his work, or his importance?

I love computers, software, and the people who made it possible, from Jacquard to Turing via Babbage and their heirs, friends, emulators, and more. I include a number of Ancient Greek philosophers in the lot. We have a responsibility to honor history and our ancestors; Google should, too. It's not a difficult proposition. Not doing it is unbecoming.
I was more commenting that the very updatability you were discussing is pretty much directly analogous to what git is in the first place. So now we're building a system that has the same functions as git, but isn't git.
Trefethen's improved BMI formula: 1.3 m / (h ^ 2.5)
Life is a series of cycles, there are ups and downs. Its normal to feel down and uninterested in your work at times, just as it's normal to be excited at other times.

If you find that you are disengaging more than anything else, then maybe you need to find a new job where you could have more passion, being excited about what you do could certainly help.
I don't know, I'm not on site so I can't see what he's like. We've been fine with the 100% remote situation for about 3 years now. I don't really know when things started to go sideways, because we were supposed to have been transitioning the majority of work off of my plate (which seems to have just meant they don't tell me about some 10% of things). It's getting weird.
I think that also comes from being forced to discuss, express or summarize in words something that comes from an emotional or playful state and, excepting the literary arts, exists largely independent of language.

They've got to say something to sell a piece, or to convince people they had something intellectual to say if that's their goal career-wise, even if it's not their goal in making the art itself.
I started the project 3 years ago. He was hired in about a year ago.

If I were on-staff, I'd be the most senior programmer, and I'd be the first person to last more than 2 years in a long time. I think the freelance arrangement actually helps insulate me a lot from the weird culture of the company. I've been on the project the longest, and I have more experience than any of their other developers combined.

I also charge more than twice what they pay them, combined. Which is still not a lot. Turns out they hire these people off of Craigslist and then don't pay them very well.
May I suggest 'The Quiet Coup' by Simon Johnson (2009) [1] as an answer to 'what oligarchy?'

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quie...
This is... appealing.
> instead we've imposed the old industry on the new tech, crippling it with DRM and laws

Are we stilling talking about music and not movies? I have a ton of purchased or free music from sources ranging from small online vendors to major companies like Apple and Amazon. None of it had DRM.

I'm not a fan of the major music industry players but the problems are mostly contracts, not anything which can easily be changed by a tech company. If you want music without DRM, there's more freely available to anyone on the internet than anyone could listen to in one lifetime (seriously, don't visit https://archive.org/details/audio_music if you have a metered internet connection).

The catch turns out to be that musicians like to sleep indoors and eat nice food like everyone else. It's fine to pontificate about how art deserves to be free but if you really believe that you should be staying up nights trying to figure out a realistic way for someone to make more money from your approach than signing with a record label.
Problems with building es in Lego Universe