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>I'm going to mention this too. I don't understand what you mean by "they point to objects in the arbitrary cost anyway". The fact of the matter is that you have to trace all objects at some point.

I think he means that if you have object references, then those references are interesting for the application itself, and not just for the GC tracer. However, I don't buy this statement simply because, even if you elect to store things as references rather than interior allocs, your app will only pointer chase the things it cares about, whereas the GC tracer may chase pointers that your app wouldn't otherwise.

@Ron:

The "arbitrary" scope better not be really arbitrary since even GCs are typically tuned for the generational hypothesis: your objects better be either short lived or long lived, anything in between is likely to degrade GC performance. In fact, if you like at some of the big data java solutions, once they reach a certain heap size, GC starts killing them, and they end up building their own semi-hybrid solution of moving stuff off-heap, and then managing that memory themselves (using the exact same block/slab/arena allocation techniques being downplayed here!).

For things like databases where object lifetime is in the hands of the user, arena/slab allocators work just fine. The additional advantage here is that you rarely need to destroy just a single object somewhere, typically it's an entire blob of related stuff. Arena destruction is more efficient here than GC because it's it inherently has more context than GC (the engineer wrote it, afterall). Is it more challenging/harder to implement than simply punting to the GC? Probably yes. But if you run afoul of GC's ergonomics and/or need to start tuning the finer points of GC behavior (i.e. see above comment about most of the big data java projects hitting this wall), the time spent there may end up exceeding arena impl costs.
I'm looking forward to all the jif/gif conversations I'm about to have.
To be fair, we are probably going to just keep them as parking lots and pile more people into the cities. But yes, this type of thing is exciting.
If there is sufficient demand, advanced manufacturing will just follow. Just see how much smart phone tech has grown over years and where it was before that.
> but natural rights have formed the basis of most modern (english revolution and forward-- american, french, russian) revolutions.

The idea of particular divine ordinances -- which is what doctrines of natural rights are -- are fine ways to organize identity and action around that identity, including revolution.

That that is true doesn't, in any way, make any particular such quasi-religious concept correct. And, even if it did, I can't think of any of those revolutions that included, in their conception of natural rights, a right to buy drugs, as such. So, even operating in such a framework (and even once we've agreed which framework of natural rights we are operating in), you probably have more work to do than just simply asserting it to establish the claim "people have a right to buy drugs" is valid even within that framework.

> If humans followed the law above all else, then we would not have democracy, or even republics.

Yes, most people would agree that there are principals beyond the law that justify arguments about what the law should or should not be, and most would probably even agree that some of those principals are sufficient to justify breaking the law as it stands -- and even to justify soliciting homicides if they are threatened sufficiently.

However, that kind of high-level agreement itself is very different than agreeing that the "right to buy drugs" is in either the first or, more relevant to the claim that the Ulbricht verdict is a miscarriage of justice, the second class of principals.
Capital Punishment: The end of the death penalty
What is the revenue model based on?
> Rights are the things that we would all agree should be legally protected if we were all rational about it.

There are lots of definitions of "rational", and I don't think that explanation actually works (or even makes sense) for any of the obvious ones.
Reference counting is still not the same as manual memory management, and there is a heavy cost to reference counting as well. Reference counting trades throughput for latency relative to a garbage collected runtime.
In the original, "not a reasonable argument" was specific to this instance. I try to avoid generalizations as one can almost always manage to find a corner case exception.
Wow, I had never heard that about anyone in the music business. Amazing. But there is no way they were gonna pass on reselling all the back catalog one more time - at from $15 to $20 a pop retail.

16/44.1 is a studio quality master. The best practice to send a mix in is to use the same format as the end product unless the mastering engineer wants something different.
One of my favorite long-form blog posts about OOP[1] explains why data type inheritance is generally quite useful, but the entire concept of inheritance has been unfairly maligned because in OOP languages, inheritance of data types is tied to inheritance of function implementations, resulting in the fragile superclass problem, breaking encapsulation, etc. We've thrown the baby out with the bathwater.

[1]http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/object-oriented-progr...
Show me an AI that can do these jobs, and I'll show you one that can do any job.
Yep. It's easy to wrap early stage research in shiny PR and highly polished videos. Shipping a compelling product that incorporates the tech in a meaningful way is orders of magnitude harder.

Sadly, pushing the hip video is much easier and cheaper than building the products, and it makes you feel good about yourself. Kind of the corporate version of this psychological phenomenon: https://sivers.org/zipit
Pretty awesome, that you learned some Dakota! At least it gives you something to work with, if you wanted to expose your kids/nephew to it. Bilingualism from childhood is a really powerful and amazing gift to a child, and really it doesn't matter what the languages are: a heritage language is as good as a major national language.

The dual-language immersion programs are really awesome; I've seen kids from monolingual English families learn to do all their math work in Spanish by the end of kindergarten. Teaching kids language in that way is so much more effective, I hope those programs only become more popular.
You try to criticize Israel and you don't actually know anything about the area, do you?

Gaza. Does the word mean nothing to you? Apartheid is about two types of citizens, Gaza is not in Israel, the concept make no sense there at all. (And did you actually read the article you linked? I suspect you didn't.)

> In my criticism of Israel?

You didn't criticize Israel, you suggested they solve their problems by massacring millions of people.

> Fear is the mind-killer.

And mindlessly hating other people is the civilization killer.
So I put that into Google Translate and it detects it as Japanese. It then translates it into English as "Gonba~tsu Te, ne!" So I have no idea what you're saying.
> And you've made a bald statement equivocating between the morality of legality of something.

No, I haven't. "Equivocating" is, you know, pretty exactly the opposite of "expressly disambiguating".

> Would you like a list of examples where extremely illegal actions are clearly and controversially moral

Presuming you mean "clearly and uncontroversially", no.

Though if you are arguing that "the right to buy drugs" is in that category, I'd like to see an argument for that.
Sure, but it's still an extremely useful step. Fighting against it does not help the environment.
Because they can't just give a dirty bomb and smuggle into into Israel?

You can say but.. they will hurt the Muslim population.. but hmmmm what did Hezbollah did when they shot thousand of missiles at the norther part of Israel and hit many Arab villages or Hamas shooting and hitting Bedouin settlements in the south of Israel..
It's fine to kill "your own" as long as you take the infidels with them..

That same "I don't believe that they will do that" was said about Nazi Germany.. fool me once shame on me... fool me twice... oh nvm I'm dead...

The US promised to protect Israel in the first golf war, they shoot missiles that hit Tel-Aviv. Israel wanted to respond but the US asked Israel to hold back and they did.

US will not do Israels job for them.
How many engineers work on, say, the Unreal Engine. The linux kernel? Windows? Do you think any of that stuff would work even marginally well running on the JVM (assuming the JVM had native driver support)?

I don't quite follow your claims, nor do I put any stock in the tenure of your programming career.

As for the off-shoring point, off-shoring is going to create questionable quality code regardless of the programming language.
You are mistaken, Israel is not an occupying power within Gaza.
We had that discussion (when talking about doing the dishes) and they were at least convinced that restaurants do their dishes the same way - open the tap, rinse the dishes...

There was no way to proceed. Obviously these guys did it that way at home. Stating that this is wasteful (and even worse for a restaurant!) didn't help. The 'sink full of water in which you dip all the dishes of the night and whatever you need to clean' was considered 'ewww'.

I'm still baffled today (we returned about 2.5 years ago). I still have exchanges about water usage (i.e. "It is our right to use as much water as we want to grow our garden") with my coworkers to this day.
The Thirsty House Stores Water in Its Walls
I wish there were an equivalent for finding internships. One suggestion: integrate with Google Maps, allow the user to outline an area and show jobs in that area. I found myself searching the names of major cities in my area.
> Is anyone here a lawyer in this area of law? I don't really trust webcomics....

I think you can trust this one. The author of the webcomic is a lawyer [0]:

"
Yes. I went to Georgetown Law, where I was an editor of the American Criminal Law Review. I started out defending juveniles in D.C., then was a prosecutor with the Manhattan D.A.’s office for about 9.5 years, first in the Special Narcotics office and then in the Rackets bureau. I’ve been doing mostly criminal defense since then, both white-collar and street crime, federal and state.
"

0: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?page_id=7
10 Most Radioactive Places on the Face of the Earth
Ask HN: Need Advice Losing Focus and Motivation
Hey guys,

I thought I should post here and seek advice. I'm a 25 year old dev and I really lack motivation. On some days when things are going good, everything is great and I love what I'm doing but otherwise, and this is the norm, I'm disengaged, lacking focus and generally uninterested. What I would want to do on such days is seek novelty with respect to what I want to work on, for example today I wanted to go off on a tangent and try to learn more about type inference in compilers. Clearly something is going wrong here and I can't really identify the problem or a possible solution. I would really love to hear from someone who's gone through this or more experienced devs who can give me a different perspective on this.
Robots like the knight armor of long ago, are very expensive.

I highly recommend this TED talk about how the future of war could return us a feudal world.

http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_suarez_the_kill_decision_sho...
Do you have a journal proven beyond a reasonable doubt to have been written by icelancer that includes them discussing how they paid to have a person killed? And did you also confirm that the payment for that supposed hit was transferred? Because these facts were shown at Ross's trial. Its alleged because he hasn't yet been specifically convicted on these charges, which are still pending in Maryland.
These are some interesting points, but we can look for a peek into the future with airplanes which communicate through anticollision computer systems. I'm not an aviation person, but I believe the actual collision avoidance must be performed by a human being, however the devices themselves communicate with one another to determine the corrective flight path.

Also, you can enforce cars with directives to save "the most" lives with policy and law. Of course people are going to buy the crowd-plowing car if it saves their own asses. That's why you make it difficult or impossible to buy a car that will do this, instead only authorizing cars that make the better choice to drive the streets.
I disagree with this.

There's this common argument that prescribes utility to studying Latin via the value you gain by understanding biological, legal, and religious terminology.

I think that the net utility that you gain through this mechanism is approximately zero. Or rather, the net utility over other, more direct methods of acquiring this knowledge is zero. I think you could gain the requisite understanding of Latin to gain 99% of this utility in a few weeks of study, and that if understanding these roots is so important it should be material in our English classes, not in a long-term study of the Latin language itself.

Besides the "it helps you to know roots" argument, the study of a language gains utility largely in being able to speak the language, make do when traveling to places where the language is spoken, or consume the literature and media in the language. Moreover, the utility you gain from the language increases exponentially - a year of (half-assed, high-school-level) study is pretty useless, but after a few years of it, especially with higher (college-level?) standards, it's immensely useful because it opens you up to whole new worlds.

I think the best argument for teaching languages in high school is that this exponential growth starts earlier and is more likely to ever happen (especially for people who don't go to college or don't study languages there) if we start earlier.

Granted, there's utility gained from appreciating the culture of the language even as you learn the beginnings of it in high school, but I think that's dwarfed by the long-term potential for useful bilingualism and having the ability to more more easily experience new cultures.

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also, anecdotally, my bad Latin has given me essentially 0 utility in my entire life since high school. Perhaps I got a few novelty realizations here and there, like identifying that "tractor" came from "trahere" and "et" means "and" in "et cetera", but those are trivial. Maybe my experience was unusual and others gained more from it. Also, admittedly, I can't really quantify or remember whether it improved my SAT scores or whatnot, but my overall assessment is that my Latin study was negligible.
Maybe the best long-term policy is drug decriminalization and treatment (etc), and maybe were that already the case, Ulbricht would not have been tempted into doing anything bad.

Nonetheless, that has no bearing on this case. Once somebody is dabbling in murder, they need to go down, because they are clearly not somebody we want in society. That they were "tempted" into it by potential profits enabled by misguided prohibitions is irrelevant.

So yeah, decriminalize drugs, focus on treatment, etc. Maybe that will make the future of our society brighter. But Ulbricht belongs behind bars.
My free software will respect users or it will be bullshit
Daddy, what did you do in the war?
Meet the Repairman who ranks #1 for “Google” and doesn’t even know after 4M visits
I was assuming the sentence was spoken during the trial.
> By that logic relatives of deceased drunk-driving victims should be testifying against bars and liquor store proprietors as well.

Uh, should I be the one to tell you that such relatives often do that very thing?

But at least bars and liquor stores don't often go about torturing and murdering their employees, so at least they have that going for them.
Why not hire or even sell hitmen, you can't get into more problem if they get you

A bit of a strange argument to make in this particular case.
Okay sure. :). Thanks.

Unfortunately I can't ask webcomics questions. Looking for answers to questions above.
That is because a lot of people are simply ignoring the evidence available since they have an ideological stake in Ross's non-violence. The balance of probability here is that Ross intended to kill 6 people and fucked it up.
> You can say but.. they will hurt the Muslim population..

Well, I'd actually say that Iran would have no benefit from that.

Really, the main threat to Israel from Iran -- or any of Israel's other regional foes -- getting nukes is that Israel's own nuclear arsenal would no longer provide it as free a hand in its own policies towards it neighbors as it has heretofore had, since it wouldn't be holding an unequaled trump in any runaway escalation provoked by Israel's policy choices.
Ok, we keep talking about malloc -- which malloc impl are you specifically referring to? There are many allocators out there these days, so let's be a bit more concrete. If not specific name, at least the class of allocator. Most of the common ones you'll find support thread-local allocation buffers, for starters.

>Sure, it is rare in "well written applications", but how costly is it to write a well-written application in a large team, and how much extra performance can you get?

>Also, think about what kind of data we're talking about. The interesting data is database data, and that has both arbitrary lifetime as well as concurrent read/write. And if you don't use malloc/free, at best you need to write your own manual memory allocator which is just as complex, and at worst you basically need to write your own GC.

If we're going to talk about databases, then "well-written" better be one of the top concerns, and team size should be irrelevant to that. And the more mechanically sympathetic of a product you're building (and db's are right up there in pretty much all aspects: cpu, i/o, net, mem, etc), the more you need to have control over those resources.

Have you, for example, looked at how postgresql manages memory? sqlite? redis? memcached? nginx? varnish? And, as I mentioned in the other reply, most of the big data java solutions end up rolling their own off-heap mem management infra using the same techniques as you'd use without GC.
"Produced by GARPA under funding by DARPA" at the end of every video may be kind of entertaining to hear narrated.
Would be interesting to see how their German-speaking user-base compares to the rest of the world. („Wix“ = to fap)
It's hard to see how being blackmailed regarding the details of one's illegal activity could count as entrapment for murder.

It seems to me that DPR came up with murder as the 'solution' to this problem, even if we claim that the problem itself was entirely manufactured.

Entrapment defenses are only supposed to prevent innocent people from being coerced by police into committing a new crime, not to provide a get out of jail free card to criminals who were somehow fooled by the police.

So the real question is not whether the police gave him a reason to hire a hitman, it's whether he ever would have hired an assassin at all.
Absolutely. It used to be more signal than noise. It feels like the "growth hacker" community (I used to be one of them btw, so not judging) saw it as some "viral" platform for posting their products. It's a walled garden in terms of submissions too, so when I find something I really think is cool and helpful, I cant even submit it.
Something I noticed is that anytime Ryan comments on the product or likes the product, it's usually the most-voted product. It seems to be heavily biased-often times, for two products that do the exact same thing, one gets to the front page and the other doesn't because it has the backing of Ryan or some other big name hunters.
The obvious lesson is that you shouldn't build a service that skirts right on the edge of "Apple definitely won't like this."

Well at least you kept your sense of humor about it all. It will probably help your chances at employment (or investment of your own business) going forward. Nothing wrong with pushing the barriers a little bit.
Interesting timing for BuzzFeed to announce plans for an IPO.

http://www.businessinsider.com/buzzfeed-ipo-2015-5
It was anti-Israel which is not the same thing as antisemetic, no matter how much zionists keep saying it is.
Are you trying to explore building a business, or are you trying to get into an incubator? If the former, taking on a co-founder is likely to be counterproductive because you don't believe there's a real need, at least yet.

While I won't suggest that incubator programs are incapable of delivering value, if your target is Western customers and one of your biggest challenges is reaching them and establishing credibility, that's a very specific challenge. You might want to consider that there are ways you can try to address that directly because there's no guarantee an incubator in the Middle East will be positioned to help you much on this front.
Have any of the carding forum operators been sentenced to life in prison? Or any prison time? Or even been arrested?

I say this as someone who just found out he's had $500 stolen from him. Of course I half blame the banks and credit card processors who allow card numbers to be passed around so easily.
Murder is terrible, sure. But if it was to save thousands of innocent vendors and customers, then perhaps it's justified. The government does exactly that every day. It's Ross's fault he allowed anyone into that position in the first place. But an extortionist was directly trying to ruin the lives of many people. It's not entirely different than shooting an intruder in your house.
No, because the producers are aware that the stand-in is not really a minor or in any serious danger.
I was about to make this comparison when I realized that (at least in SF) it's more apt to think of Airbnb as the result of overregulation of the monthly rental housing market. Those laws, rather than helping the tenants they were designed to protect, have pushed landlords to enter a different market. At public hearings, I've seen very few representatives from the hospitality industry and far more from tenant groups and apartment associations.

If I had to guess, I think hotels are less concerned about Airbnb because, while they both belong to the same market, they each have slightly different niches to serve and demand in the market is already high.
> When the court give out harsh punishment, they also de-incentivize the next person from limiting the scope to only drugs. [...] Why not hire or even sell hitmen, you can't get into more problem if they get you.

One of the factors in the life sentence was that evidence was presented in the trial that Ulbricht did not limit the scope of his enterprise "to only drugs", and that elements of the enterprise included trying to hire a hitman to eliminate problems.

So, I think that this case stands for exactly the opposite proposition than "hiring hitmen won't get you into more trouble than restricting your crime to just drugs".
Still, I prefer for the evidence to be presented in an open forum, under oath and subject to rebuttal, before I will believe it.

And yes, I think I have a sort of psychological "stake" as you say in Ross' non-violence.