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Are any startup words/ phrases missing? Love to get some feedback.
Verizon doesn't make phones (I think; not too familiar with them), so what do they care? But Sony, yes, I think that when the app store opened in mid 2008, they would have realized they have no other choice but to rally around a single software platform, and one that's made by a company with a bigger brand in the software world than them. If GPL was the bitter pill they had to swallow, they would have. The upside to GPL from their perspective would have been that all of their competitors have to abide by it, too.

Also, just to clarify, the pill really isn't all too bitter. Use of OpenJDK wouldn't have dictated that all apps must be GPL -- not even bundled apps made by the manufacturer. The OpenJDK has a clear "classpath exception", which makes it more like LGPL -- any code dynamically linked with it is not required to be GPL. The only implication is that any modification they make to the actual runtime itself would have needed to be GPLed. I don't think phone manufacturers make any technologically groundbreaking, game-changing changes to the runtime -- anything that could hurt their competitiveness had it been free.

So I can understand Google's decision, and they certainly believed going GPL was an opportunity cost, but in retrospect, choosing OpenJDK would have -- at the very worst -- delayed Android's adoption by a single year, but would have ended making everyone's life much easier. I think that in hindsight, it's clear that passing on OpenJDK was a big mistake. Don't fear the GPL.
> You're talking about implementing your own GC inside JS. A valid use case, but a niche one.

Any asm.js code that calls into DOM apis is going to need this.
Otherwise they don't know when to free stuff.

Most of the current asm.js code out there just binds a single canvas element, and works with that. But if you want to actually call anything else....
But Spain occupation set in motion all the revolutionary movements in (latin) America. From 1808-1810 most spanish colonies claimed their independence.
AnonOpsIndia – Told truth with facts about Reliance Jio Chat app
Fuck that state.
From a fund. It was at 60% of the loan balance and the annual yield is roughly 12% before taxes.
That Flare Mobile crap on this site is constantly applying zoom CSS attributes and vertically centering the useless sidebar share buttons making the reading experience very horrible. The page freezes momentarily anytime a scroll event is triggered. And, I'm not even using a mobile device!

A bit ironic since this is an article about reducing blocking for improving performance.
Thanks for the link. Both are good.
Which Programming Languages Are in Demand?
I own Audio-Technica ATH-M50's. Way better.
> Has anyone here actually ever TRIED fasting a full 24h day?

I've been IF throughout the past 8 months. It's by far the best way of losing weight I've found (10kg in 8 months). I'm planning on doing more fasting this month to lose another 2-3kg which will get me to my goal weight.

The longest stretch for me has been 5 days.

It's hard for me to describe how I go longish periods(some go for a month+), but essentially it is a 100% mental effort. I visualise my hunger as a switch which I turn off. When the switch is off I am immune to hunger. It sounds ridiculous but this kind of visual imagery works for me.

I've tried going into a fast without first spending about half a day "tuning" my brain via visualisation and it was a disaster, just as you describe.

For me fasting has by far been the best (easiest, most effective) way of losing weight. Before this I spent about 3 months cardio training with only minimal dietary intervention which resulted in huge muscle tone in my legs (had a work colleague once remark : "dude! your calves are fricking huge!") and no noticeable abdominal fat loss.

Throughout my fasting I've also been weight training. The results at the 3 month mark are unbelievably cool :)
Hardly exciting stuff, async libraries have been doing this for things like DNS queries (where there's no portable non-blocking API) for decades. Good for Nginx addon devs I guess.
So in other words "wave hands dismissively"?
> Lucene is Java ... there are tons of ports of it in C, C++, Python, etc.

There used to be several ports, though most are dead and/or are several major versions behind. A new C++ or Rust port would be great, though unrealistic given the huge project side.
Oh really? And these are secure exactly how?

Or does this first party with enough motivation to build a custom ASIC (or hell, right some custom GPGPU code) ownzerz the network?
Except it isn't. Attributes of languages include their documentation syntax and extension API. Getting this right makes a remarkable difference for how easily a person can grok a new library or extension and make it useful. A good language has a common "language" overall, not just code syntax.
That's funny but it's not blocked for me. That's the only time I've visited SourceForge on purpose in a long time.
I think it would be cool to see something similar from MS about IIS and .Net which have used thread pools for some time, though only relatively recently has asynchronous development taken hold at the application level (beyond lifecycle events)...

In practice, I've seen plenty of errant bugs because of race conditions in sites that start to come under heavy load. I wish more people would take the time to understand how their platforms work. That said, I've really come to appreciate the node.js approach.
"I would encourage you to support any proposal that would result in the maximum engagement by the MPAA in Internet governance. Of all the things we do to protect our industry, this one is fundamental. Ron Wheeler put it well when he said if we’re not there we don’t count."

- https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/112456
An easy way to fast frequently is to just skip breakfast everyday. Then you automatically get a 16+ hour fast and keep your eating to a short window during the day. This helps kick in autophagy [1], a process whereby our cells repair themselves; a garbage collector for our body if you will. This is most likely the process the scientists are observing as slowed down aging. It's not really a foreign topic as there's 397 published papers on autophagy on PubMed. No fancy hyphenated diet products needed.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy
No doubt good and bad ideas can be found in all places, and some portion of religious and cultural superstitions may be emergent (or deliberate) results of real phenomena (e.g. avoiding pork because the last guy you saw eat pork got sick).

Fortunately we now have science, which basically amounts to a hill climbing algorithm for identifying valid and rejecting invalid ideas over time. I'll note that I was once extremely active in the same community mentioned in the comment to which I replied, so I do have experience on both sides of the aisle.
Oddly enough, this may be completely accurate while at the same time being an irrelevant and narrow view of the world based on a view of humanity as essentially static. Not only does widespread DNA testing show that evolution continues at a high pace, but modern humans are quite different from the creatures of the same name only a few decades earlier. Modern people are hooked to networked personal media devices while zooming around at high speed in vehicles of metal and exotic composites. Electrification of everything that uses power and increasing share of sustainable generation sources is changing energy use fundamentally while enclosed farms are proving to be orders of magnitude more productive than existing high productivity farms. Whatever has descended from humans in the next 100 years will live in ways very much unlike us, thus being essentially an entirely new kind of being.
Why don't to actually link to the original Quora answer where the gamasutra post was lifted from?
I lost 35 pounds. I didn't measure anything else, and since ending the fast 2 months ago I regained about 5 pounds. For several weeks following the fast I only ate fruits and veggies which is why I think the weight gain has been so little compared to those who fast and then resume their old diet fairly quickly.

Also, in the first 48 hours of the fast I did a rather extensive physical workout program which is meant to bring your body into a keto state much earlier than it would otherwise.

At the end of the day I feel like I got to know my own body on a whole new level. I didn't do it with the intention of losing the weight, but of course it was a welcome addition to all the other benefits I took away from this experience. In a year or two I plan on doing another one for 40 days.
Right. People should realize that there is no latency difference between blocking and non-blocking IO -- in fact there is a small difference in blocking IO's favor. The difference is in throughput when there is a very large number of concurrent requests, namely more than about 10K and certainly more than 2K. If you're serving under 2K concurrent requests, blocking IO is probably a better choice than nonblocking. Of course, the number of concurrent requests you need to serve depends on the time you spend serving each request; Little's Law and all that.
> And guess what... all of this just makes it harder to put 20% down on a home, further exacerbating the cycle. Especially when you're in a bidding war and someone is willing to outbid you because they're putting less money down (which is a terrible financial move, but one that happens all too frequently). Bidding wars are low key one of the biggest reasons people go into housing debt, they get caught up in a specific house and aren't willing to walk away regardless of how the finances have changed since they first looked.

Having gone through a 'bidding war' twice purchasing my last two homes, I can say this not really the case as in the market dynamics you describe the appraisers can't keep up with market value and usually therefor those contingencies are waived as a prerequisite by sellers. This means the buyer needs to come up with cash for whatever difference between sale and banks appraisal price. This in turn results in deals falling through because people didn't have enough liquidity so now the seller requires proof of liquidity and actually prefer offers with bigger % down payment, even if the actual offer is lower. For the same reason all cash offers often get accepted over higher mortgage backed offers, just because there's less risk for the seller of the deal falling through. But yeah, to your last point, buying a house in any hot market sucks and comes with lots of challenges, the first of which is overcoming the absurd prices.
...and then the bacteria reverts to previous within a few days of returning to the previous diet. Gut bacteria adapts really rapidly to whatever you're eating, whether you do a "reset" in between or not.
I don't have beats, and I haven't tried any out in awhile, but I liked their bass heavy sound when I used them for a few seconds. I also think they're good looking headphones. Some people are willing to pay for that. Doesn't seem like it's a big deal.
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Which Colors Bring Happiness in the Family?
When it comes to video encoding, the tradeoff is often between encoding live video or not encoding live video.

I think there's also an important tradeoff to be made in how much of a carbon footprint we dedicate to software. I really don't think we should be trying to make software expand to consume all available resources. We have to be both efficient and secure.
The more cores you have and the more RAM, the bigger advantage GC has. The thing with having lots of RAM is that it's very hard to take advantage of it with on-stack data (which can, at most, use about 1-2% of the total RAM available -- do the math) and thread-local heaps. Once you use thread-local heaps/arenas, you need to shard your data. Any cross-shard access would mean locking, which doesn't scale very well. That's exactly where GCs shine: they let you have scalable, concurrent access to data with arbitrary lifespan. That's why Java is used for those kind of applications -- it performs and scales much better than Rust can hope to do on large machines.

You are right, though, that if the processing is extremely "batchy" and all data dies at the same time, then it doesn't make a difference.
Go take a degree in computer science, learn about intermediate code representation, compiler frontened, compiler backend, CPU instructions, JIT compiler, AOT compiler, register selection.

Then make little drawings about which piece of Android is converting intermediate code representation into native CPU instructions.

For brownie points compare the quality of generated Asssembly code between Hotspot, Dalvik and ART for the same unmodified jar file.
Some fans even made patches for bugs in Master of Orion, in the binary.
You're not so much paying for a good look as you are for their marketing costs. Unfortunately if consumers don't educate themselves, they end up paying via ads and marketing.
I'm not an expert in Objective C but I believe that all dispatch is done by a library call that accepts the receiver, the message name, and the arguments. This means that there isn't any place to store per-call-site data, such as the kind of caches used in this paper.
Undigested food does not stay in your intestines and neither does any toxins.

Can you name any of the toxins?
Running out of CPU will cause problems regardless of what platform/framework/system you're using. This problem has no meaningful software solution (whether you leave your requests pending in a queue as in Node.js or reject them outright - The end result is your user is not being serviced) - It's a hardware problem.
That's some of it, but also it's just to see if we can come up with a better name than Daala. We also have to check trademarks, etc. There hasn't really been any major discussion around the name yet on the netvc mailing list [1]. The first netvc working group meeting will be in July at IETF 93.

[1] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?email_list=video-c...
Wouldnt it be better to have a lunch instead? That way the body has a chance to use excess energy before storing as fat for the night.
From Black Mirror to the BBC: get ready to change channels with your brain
It'll be interesting to see if the quality eventually changes now that Apple owns them.
NIEM is a government data exchange standard
The Arc language (which runs this site) is a remarkable attempt to "fix" what went wrong with CL. It lacks a decent runtime and native code compiler (it offloads everything to mzscheme, the way clojure did to JRE) but it is already more than a proof of concept.

The problem is that there is no more DoD or other grants for creating new Lisps anymore (particularly due to Java mass hysteria and prevalence of packer's mentality).

BTW, making something similar to SBCL (everything written in itself, except for a tiny kernel written in C) for Arc (a core language, without the kitchen sink syndrome) is of moderate difficulty compared to meaningless piling up of more and more of Java crap.
Deconstructing the (Original) Xbox Boot ROM
Ask HN: Ever used a bungee task chair?
Like this one? http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/bungee-task-chair/3251352?Keyword=bungee+task

If so, what is your height, weight, did you find it comfortable?
Fair enough, which may be an overstatement... it cannot easily limit access to specific content...

http://foo.com/some/content //blocked
http://foo.com/download/content?id=baz //blocked

For the first url, without a querystring, adding one probably shouldn't affect the block.. in the second should adding more query parameters be not blocked? what about changing the ID, should all content be blocked now?

It's a huge technical challenge to block this content in compliance with the law as it stands... let alone to expect companies to proactively block potentially infringing content... even Google doesn't do very well at this and they have far more resources than most.
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can you suggest what are the brands that spend more on quality and less on marketing? i think those brands should be supported so their already minimal reliance on marketing is further reduced.
Why Care About Code?
The parent said that he didn't believe it was true that support was difficult. I was saying that if it's something his CEO is dedicating lots of time and resources into, it may actually be difficult!

Obviously a CEO a who values support is important, as obviously support is important.
Depends on your definition of "works". If "works" means "looks fashionable" and "impresses your peers", then the $450 shirt is works a hell of a lot better.
From reading through the readme:
"Incognito mode is a necessary feature for a web browser, but since ...some API not there anymore... the incognito mode is conflict with our UI design, so we stop it"

I would rate incognito, or privacy and security in general much higher than UI features/design. Seems to me to be an odd feature decision at best.
Thanks! I'm contributing to an open-source project where we do a lot of standardization (including MP4). We're trying to improve the parser generation by using a model from the specification. We even have some funding for this. I'd be happy if we could discuss this (contact@gpac.io). Better standards means a better world for everyone :)
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Why Google knew about Dylann Roof before you did
I personally like Beyerdynamic headphones. They're quite common in studio settings.

Sennheiser has some great stuff as well.
Grado.
It seems obvious that the best headphones for any recording are whatever the mixing engineer used. Any seeming improvement caused by other gear suggests a deficiency in either the engineer or one's self (whether in hearing or in equipment.) The answer in most cases would suggest that the consumer has worse taste and worse gear than the professionals.

Perhaps every recording should list what headphones were used during the final mix.
Thanks for the pointer, I'll keep an eye on it. I think Daala is a good sounding name, but if trademarks are a problem, that's a different story.
my android phone does :-)
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Is there anything on Postgre Roadmap to allow, simple, easy, replication out of the box?
seeing this comment on HN, made my PG, a Lisp book author, is amusing. I have to admit that while I don't do Lisp day-to-day probably my favorite Lisp book(s) were written by him. The practical hacker in me prefers Python, Java and C.

But the elegant hacker in me? Prefers Lisp. And PG captured that in his writing.
A motion for injunction asks the court to make some party do or not do something. Injunction orders have lots of routine but fact-specific details. Anyone filing a motion for injunction will file a proposed order, to save the court the hassle of pulling those details from the motion and typing them into an order, and also to eliminate any "loss in translation" from that process.

Lawyers know that submitting a proposed order is routine (not just for injunctions, but almost any motion), and that the judge will strike or rewrite anything he or she does not agree with. But when you phrase it the way the article does--that the media companies get to write the order (as if everyone else doesn't)--that falsely implies special treatment and influence.
GIVE IT A FUCKING BREAK. Jesus, find something that actually matters in ANY POSSIBLE WAY to whine about.

Do you know how god damn pathetic it is to drag that bullshit into every single thread that relates to Rust or Mozilla.

It makes you look pathetic and doesn't garner any sympathy or cause anyone to shed tears for poor ole Brendan.

Just let it go for Christ's sake.
I'd second Grado if you like open-air style cans. They have a fun retro look and on top of that the pads are easily replaceable. Also, Audio-Technica make really good headphones for the money.
This is troubling for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that there is some support for the idea that being transgender is itself a mental disorder, unlike say homosexuality.

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2004/11/surgical-sex

"As for the adults who came to us claiming to have discovered their “true” sexual identity and to have heard about sex-change operations, we psychiatrists have been distracted from studying the causes and natures of their mental misdirections by preparing them for surgery and for a life in the other sex. We have wasted scientific and technical resources and damaged our professional credibility by collaborating with madness rather than trying to study, cure, and ultimately prevent it."
High margins. No wonder Apple bought them.
How much time in between prolonged fastings do you believe is healthy to do it? I'm pretty interested in finding a good time eating - time fasting intervals where I could take advantage of the energy given by the fasting time and the reload of food in our bodies? Hmmm a guess for me (I don't know about the topic) would be a 10 days each 2 months, maybe? You did some kind of exercise or some activity that required big efforts?
No, search recognition is not in the initial setup
NPM managed to look at all the other package managers out there--bundler, etc.--and pick the worst way of doing things.

So, first, the entire idea of having arbitrarily nested--and versioned!--dependencies is not good, least of all because it means that you can end up with like five different versions of underscore or lodash in your project. This is just plain ugly.

Second, there were two issues spanning like two years of discussion about this nesting. Specifically, on one of the official operating systems supported (cough windows cough), this nesting of directories tends to cause things to break in weird ways. This is especially annoying when bundling for deployment or cleaning during CI.

They're still hemming and hawing about fixing it--and that's only after finally admitting they goofed.
Defining the future of work: The year without pants
It is my understanding that Graal -- one of the two JITs used in the paper -- will be available for use with "stock OpenJDK HotSpot" as a plugin (as opposed to a special HotSpot build), starting in Java 9. At least, that's the plan[1]. Is that correct?

[1]: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/243
I think my audio technicas look just as cool as beats, if not better.
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Actually you'd want the mastering engineer's gear, not the mix engineer. And they both almost never use headphones to do the bulk of their work - it's almost always specialized studio monitors.
Actually since you have no idea about what is causing the load (it can be wait on network IO) this is why I think that running your production system in that shape is not recommended. Out of curiosity in what situation is it ok to have significantly more things waiting to be running than your actual capacity? Seems like a bad capacity planning to me. Anyways, this is how it was done (keeping the normalized load around 1) in my previous gig where we had ~5000 nodes and it was working fine. I work on Hadoop clusters nowadays and any time we run into a load of 100+ there is a severe degradation in the service, timeouts etc happen. In reality high normalized load over time (not talking about 1 minute spikes) should be avoided, this is based on my experience.
Source for the Atari 800 version of Donkey Kong is here

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/130904-donkey-kong-source-c...

Beware gnarly 6502 assembly language :-)