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Hah! I used the first Harry Potter novel as an audiobook to help improve my ability to understand spoken French. There are phrases that I use even today, nearly 15 years later, that I learned from listening to that novel over and over and over again in my car. I think I must have played through it nearly 100 times.

As an aside, French literature pretty much sucks - don't kill yourself to get to the point where you can read Dumas or Zola in the original, it isn't really worth the effort (although I do have a bit of a soft spot for Maupassant, and French poetry is absolutely wonderful).
Andrew Wilson (the translator) was my Latin teacher in school (20 years ago!), and I remember he made the subject quite fun. Having someone who is so passionate about their subject makes a huge difference as a student.

The effort and ingenuity he put into the translation is wonderful. I can't speak any Greek, so having the translations and logic laid out is a wonderful insight into translation as a process.
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The thing is open source programs often build their success on the fact they are free, get a lot users quickly, feedback and discussions on their forums on how to improve it, free translations from users, sometime patches, etc. Then when they suddenly exploit all this by adding ads, people are understandably upset.

It's just a fact of life that open source software won't make you rich. Either they are ok with it, or they create a commercial product from the start. But adding crapware afterwards is not a proper solution.
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I'm not sure what you're trying to argue here. If you want to serve many requests that do significant CPU work in parallel, multiple cores are necessary no matter how efficiently Go manages the connections.

Additionally, even rendering HTML templates can take quite a bit of CPU time and when Go's concurrency is limited to a single-core, that means only one template can be rendered in parallel, blocking other requests.
We can easily draw a parallel with people addicted to social networks.
The Greenspun article on his experience with VCs back in 2001 is interesting if you're in to that stuff and have not read it http://waxy.org/random/arsdigita/
Well, to be honest, this is exactly where Sourceforge has been headed for years and years. You could look at its behavior years ago and say "Yeah, follow this out on a line" and see this exact situation in the crystal ball. Sourceforge has been scummy (and getting scummier) for years and years.
> this is no different

Creating something with our knowledge and the ability to learn ever faster than us is very different.
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I like blocking inotify in principle - the problem is that it just didn't work! I think there is a gap in the Linux APIs in this area. Its multicast IPC mechanisms are just too heavyweight.
Not written in Go but look into OpenSMTPD[1].

[1]: https://www.opensmtpd.org
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The YARN UI has the same information as the Spark UI.

But have to agree that Spark is amazing.
Webpack is so last year, man. Surely everyone is using jspm now!
I really, really, really hope that JavaScript doesn't become like C++...
The books are community-curated. Those books were added in 2012. I searched for updated links to those two books and updated their entries; you should be able to read those books now.
Yes. It's a simplification.

Necessity isn't a criterion for fair use, it's the reason fair use provisions exist in the first place.

Making satire of or discussing a copyrighted work without using copyrighted material is extremely awkward if at all possible. Internationally speaking (i.e. aside from the specific definition of fair use in US law), necessity is a good rule of thumb, just like profit/non-profit use.
Ninite is pretty slick and crapware free.

https://ninite.com/

I can't wait for the new package manager in Windows 10, though.
Well, it is very impressive, but still a very long way from what a real animal can do. What if the obstacle is at the edge of a canyon? It will suicide :D . Those tests are very restricted, but even after they will think the robot is ready, there will be cases they have missed in which it will fail.
Why shouldn't you pay more for receiving the liability benefits of a corporation?
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Go would help for security, but would it help for configuration? Unless you configure it purely by writing extensions in Go.
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Thank you for your details response,

1. Yes for email delivery they can always bring their own smtp like sendgrid or mandril, in that case may be they may not have to think about delivery?
2. Don’t you think customers can save money on self hosted if we sell for onetime payment (let say price at 6 or 8 months subscription cost) like whmcs.
3. What do you think about customer acquisition cost for both options will it be equal or any one will have any advantage over other?
Good luck!

By the way, there is a rather popular static site generator written in Go: http://gohugo.io/
Is anyone using AMQP in a public API?
FileZilla has other issues as well: for example, for the longest time they refused to encrypt stored passwords, although the bug's been reopened now so they may change their mind: http://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/5530
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Personally, I'm not concerned with that. I'd be more concerned about powerful robots controlled by governments/corporations/anyonewhohasaninterestincontrollingyourbehaviour.

Look at what's happening in Yemen. The population there lives under the fear of drone strikes by the US (that includes the civilian population). If governments are prepared to do that with drones, what reason is there to suspect they'll turn down using something that's ground-based to impose control?
To be fair, this looks more like a mountain goat jump. Impressive non the less !
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I for one welcome our robotic overlord
Not really, no.

As far as missing out on Real World social interactions and stuff; I make sure I get some sunlight and talk with people :) Living in a hostel I get a lot of that anyway. Plus, between organizing events and going to events of various kinds I don't miss out on much.

As far as missing out on programmery things go; I don't mind. Part of this is because programming has been a hobby for most of my life and only recently did I start treating it as a viable career option. (I had thought of it as a "backup plan" in the past but didn't do much to maintain that).

I'm not doing as many large contribs as I was doing last summer or this winter. And yes, that can get to me at times. I have this huge queue of things that I've planned to work on, and sometimes someone else picks it up. It's initially saddening, but then I'm happy because someone else wants to work on something I thought up, and if they hadn't, it would never have been done in the first place!

In open source you're generally surrounded by awesome people so I'm used to it; I don't really have anxiety issues due to that.
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I know about a guy who, after finishing and shipping the nightmare-project-of-his-lifetime went and became a car salesman.
Since you have no control over it (aside from ripping it out of the wall), you're at the mercy of whoever runs the box to adequately secure it. When it gets hacked, any shady business conducted by the miscreants will be emitted from /your/ IP, so you're exposing yourself to TOR exit node level liability.

You might be able to work around that.... but it depends what's running on the box. If it's a backend server for some organisation (database, etc) then you could have some sort of tunnelling router between it and the fibre that routes all packets back to the organisation's datacentre.
ES6 may make the language itself more complex, but I would argue that it does make your code simpler and more concise. Destructuring and arrow functions may seem gimmicks, but they do reduce the visual complexity of the source code and allow you to concentrate on more important things.

And stuff like the module system, class system, promises etc. really needed to be standardized because there were too many different solutions floating around and the fragmentation was hurting the ecosystem.

Personally, I think that ES6 is much more usable than any previous version of JavaScript.
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The main issue is that this advanced tech creates a powerful lever for mad leaders.
1 clumsy cheetah robot at MIT may not be that scary, but 100.000 fully armed and armoured killing machines, which can avoid obstacles and track humans with all kinds of sensors, under the control of leaders wanting to 'right' the wrongs of history scares the shit out of me.

At the same time, this progress cannot (and shouldn't) be stopped, but we need to quickly 'evolve' our moral and ethical standards in order to accommodate for these new powerful tools.
Just like giving a loaded Ak-47 to a monkey is a bad idea, making this tech freely available to everyone is similarly stupid.

And that's because a lot of monkeys are wiser than a lot of humans.
Give those humans a button which controls an army of robot killers and they'll press it just to see what happens.
They do exactly this for their products, if you look in the URL you'll see /dp/something if you do Amazon.TLD/dp/something it takes you to the product. Someone mentioned dark social and that's exactly what it's for according to one of the Edinburgh Amazon devs. :-)
Given that it is externally powered, where would such a thing be useful today?
click-bait article really.
Its like saying Google doesn't have the programmers in US it needs.
my points:
1) Snapdeal is in Delhi- Not really a hub of software engineers. Most of them are in south of India and very few people really want to move to Delhi. Also, people from south India almost never like to move to Delhi. Even people from North like to stay in Bangalore because it offers many career opportunities.

2) Snapdeal is really no big deal in India- With flipkart,google,microsoft and a bunch of awesome new startups in south, and Snapdeal having no presence in bangalore/Chennai/hyderabad etc- Programmers have a lot of options.

3) I know very very few people who use snapdeal. with amazon,flipkart and ebay i don't see why snapdeal is relevant. Why would a good programmer move to join this company? its not one of the big ones. Its not a cool startup and equity will be low.
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A pun on on Nicholas Carnot, the creator of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_cycle
This reminds me of when i was learning to drive. In the beginning I was only aware of what was immediately in front of the car, and as such, drove very slow and had pay extra attention because a lot of important stuff was coming in to my field of view all the time.

Now, when i drive i look further down the road, i plan out how to follow the road, i see the intersection coming up, and try to anticipate the routes of the other cars/bikes and that requires far less energy, than only processing the immediate surroundings.
Harry Potter was the first book I read in English because I was familiar with it since I had read it a few times in French. It was a great learning experience.
Wonder how many others thought exactly the same, I did too.
It may be legal, but it can still be considered anti-social and short-sighted.
What if the obstacle is at the edge of a canyon? It will suicide :D

Not to worry, the drone flying ahead will already have mapped the terrain :)
At least with let you can reliably shadow the previous binding, which in most cases will be equivalent.
I always thought of Bitcoin as an implementation of this idea.
using something that's ground-based to impose control?

I think we have that, they're called soldiers.
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Yes, but this robot is not that. It's not even a step in that direction.
And tagged you as its next kill :p
In the JRuby case, JRuby compiles Ruby to JVM bytecode.

Jython may do the same: rather than create cpython bytecode it may produce JVM bytecode which may be optimized by the JVM. However, I do not know anything about Jython performance and they could not be employing the same tactics as JRuby.

With modern Java features like lambdas coming into java 7 and 8 and other interesting languages like Scala, Groovy, etc being written for the JVM I'm sure things have come a long way since the time jython 2.4 was being developed on Java 5/6 and I'm sure the JVM has many more optimizations that dynamic languages may benefit from.
There was a time when it had just opened when it was a really useful place to get opensource software.

The Usenet group alt.comp.freeware converted several people to the idea of open source by having links to sourceforge posted there.
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It's a scientific principle to study the exiting body of knowledge, at least the important works, before you publish your own theories and findings.

BTW, your keyboard seems to be broken.
Like the way drones are used?

I think this is an optimistic view of human nature.

I suppose these animal robots could help with same-day deliveries.
Right now, the closest we seem to have to a learning machine is IBM Watson, and to be honest, it's really far behind human intellect in terms of adaptive thought. Though maybe in 10-20 years Watson may evolve into something much more capable...

As to a robot army + an evolved computer intelligence... that could be scary. It's easy to imagine something like remove anyone that isn't a "pure" X... where X is a combination of racial and religious dogma. In practice, and with practical limitations on resources, it's hard to imagine such an army that isn't outmatched (at least in numbers) by armed people (lets not weaken the 2nd amendment too much).
Baguette does in fact mean rod, wand or baton - the bread related usage only dates from 1920 if Wikipedia is to be believed. Go to Google translate and put in “magic wand” and you’ll get “baguette magique” as the French equivalent, with “baguette” alone as an alternative.
Yeah, but you still have all that content in Yell.co.uk so you can get it from there.
> I down voted you, I owe you an explanation.

I do think you might be breaking the guidelines of the site - downvote should not be used just for disagreement, or? - but who cares, you're certainly not the only one ;) In any case, thank you for the explanation! I appreciate it.

As for the rest, I partly agree. I am too late to voice any constructive feedback. It was just a general comment on the direction things seem to be going. And I'd rather not participate in the es-discuss, because JavaScript is not my professional focus any more, so I do not have the time or the required expertise. I understand that my comment seems kind of like taking a passing shit on someone's hard work, I'm sorry about that. I hope everyone takes it as nothing more than what it is - just an opinion ;)

All in all, I feel the language is getting overstretched and overcomplicated. And when I see destructuring, I wonder if it's really worth it. Too much complexity can be a problem.
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> there will be cases they have missed in which it will fail

i.e., parity with real life.
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Looks like we are not getting out of this discussion, so here we go...

This "people with good education asking for a military coup" is blown out of proportion by supporters of PT. Perhaps a few crazies do indeed think that, but most of the ones during the protests were talking about "intervention", due to considered abuse of the institutions by this corrupt government. And even that can be done in a totally legal and according to a due democratic process.

However, what the supporters of PT keep repeating is that "the opposition wants a coup", you included. So you are doing no better than "the other side of the trenches". If you really want to engage in the discussion, you should be prepared to argue with the "best" part of the opposition, instead of just trying to invalidate the whole other side based on a few exceptions.
They could consider opening development center in Bangalore or Hyderabad instead of US. If there are good enough developers in India for Google and Microsoft Snapdeal should not have problem finding the right people.
Too bad they don't include range datatypes, à la Ada, where you can state "x is a number in [3;17]". Those exist since the 1970s. I can't imagine how one can ever write a program without range datatypes.

Oh, I need self-modifying code and both computed and assigned gotos, too. I'm used to using them since FORTRAN.

Come on, Go team, fix your language so that we can start using it.
I wish there was no reason for stupid warfare, but:

Aren't they better off than the Vietnamese who lived under the fear of Napalm bombardment? (or, for that matter, Japanese fearing the atomic bomb) I don't think that robotics has significant negative impact on warfare (and I wonder whether it has a positive impact).
> I do think you might be breaking the guidelines of the site - downvote should not be used just for disagreement, or?

Well, it's not mentioned in the guidelines, and there's a bunch of people who do use downvote to disagree. There's a few posts from PG; one where he says that people upvote to agree so it's understandable that they downvote to disagree, and others where he sees it as a problem to be addressed.

It's probably a good idea for people to upvote any posts they think have been unfairly downvoted. This sometimes happens, but probably not often enough.
VCs have some sort of superstar economics going. The highest potentials hit the superstars VCs first, and get picked up. Second tier goes to second tier VCs and so on. The market sorts itself out.

So when a first tier VC disses lower tiers for 'not adding value', he is probably stating the truth, but sadly there is no alternative. The superstars can't scale up without lowering the bars somewhere, so they don't. The companies looking for VC can't be too picky since no capital is no chance of traction. So in the end, you'll settle for the capital you can get and take the reduced value as a given. Remember that the outside option (no VC) gives no value, and the negative value is relative.
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There isn't any need for the OS to be virtualized now that Android supports dual-personas (i.e. Android for Work). [1]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/a-revi...
Facebook is not cool anymore but Facebook is more useful than ever was and will probably remain so for a long time: they managed to get almost all available users (directly or by aqquisitions) and changing the status quo would be really difficult (not even Google was able to do it..). Facebook is the userbase.

I still use FB because everybody is there, if I need to talk to someone or arrange an event, I can send them a message without knowing their actual email or phone. I'm not interested in knowing that a friend I meet once a year went to the restaurant (I can easily block it) but I am interested in being able to contact him if I need to. Facebook is great for that.
> 95% of my grocery shopping is done through http://instacart.com
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Please don't editorialize the titles of stories you submit to Hacker News.
Perhaps it is worth asking the mirror services to put some pressure on as well as the content creators?

These are two popular mirrors in the UK & Ireland (both academic institutions):

http://www.mirrorservice.org/ (University of Kent)

http://ftp.heanet.ie/ (Ireland’s National Education and Research Network)
Probably closer to 99.99%.
In all tests I know, xxh64 should be about 2x faster than xxh32 on x86_64 systems. Surprisingly, it doesn't match with the readme table.
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Seriously. Assuming humans are the pinnacle of intelligence (or anything) is so boring.

I will celebrate AI Day. The day we were surpassed by our creation, in every way.
I did not down-vote you for disagreement, I'm firmly against that. I down-voted because it is misleading (probably unintentionally) to say JS is adding a "constant stream of new features"; rather it is all committee and consensus driven work spanning many years with many, many people participating.

I should exercise more restraint next time. Thanks for your reply.
Yes, in one sense people are better off with drones than they would be with land mines or cluster bombs or "shock and awe" style area-bombing.

Those are (pretty clearly, IMO) war crimes.

But still, it's useful to be worried about the potential "desensitising effect" of remote warfare. Is someone operating a drone subject to the same psychological pressure to avoid killing other humans as someone pulling a trigger? (Turns out that yes, that person probably is, but that their political superiors possibly aren't).
I'm not trying to justify it, just observing that when you don't pay anything then you can expect this sort of behaviour.
A little meta - where can I find some written guidelines for HN commenting? It was my understanding that downvotes serve for moderating (their cumulative effect is to gray out a comment...). The comment above has been downvoted somewhat, and if that continues it could get grayed out, as if it were spam or trolling. Is it really?
DARPA again. Great to see more money flowing into military research.

Irony off.
My first guess would be that it combines a standard "black-box" technique for solving optimization problems (e.g. genetic algorithms, simulated annealing), with an electromagnetic simulation at each iteration. But that is just a wild guess :)
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Google Photos just released today, and it's Desktop Uploader only support Mac OS X and Windows. Where is Linux?

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You forgot Mac Lisp and Object Pascal. :)
Which leads to the appeal of a mechanized infantry that never gets tired, never gets sick, kills without remorse, follows orders invariantly, doesn't eat or drink, has an upgrade path but most importantly can't be killed only destroyed or broken.

Sure the first generation won't replace all soldiers and they may never replace them all. We will need logistics and support people of course. Its not a perfect solution. But the second it becomes cheaper to put a robot in the place of a human on the battlefield.

They will.
Yes - but replacing soldiers is happening and will continue. Having only machines on the battle field will lower the entry level for war.
MetroHash source code is impressively close to xxHash one, to the point that it seems to be a tweaked version of it.

Yet, the author never mentions a single word about it in its source.
Its funny you say that because everyone I meet knows flipkart but don't really use them but use snapdeal all too often.

From foreign news articles it does seem like flipkart & amazon are the big deal which is why I find it confusing why in india snapdeal is a bigger deal.