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There seem to be a few points in your comment, let me try to answer them as best I can:

The Go 1.5 compiler is not slower because it is written in Go, it is slower because it was mechanically translated from another language. Human eyes will improve it over time.

Garbage collection is a throughput hit the language designers (and I) are willing to accept for improved safety and simpler APIs. I'd rather not pay it, but I choose it over spending a large chunk of my API documentation describing various ownership scenarios like I did in C++. It's a tradeoff I find acceptable for most programs. You won't find me using a GC on a clock slower than 100 MHz, or in a sub-millisecond realtime system (but I probably won't be using linux either there).

I'm also willing to pay the performance hit on non-critical generic code, and I use interface{} for that where I can. If benchmarks show it's a problem, I'll do something differently. That might be hand-rolling an algorithm, which is unfortunate for the programmer who follows me and has to read it. But it doesn't come up much.

The performance price for generating large amounts of extra code in the compiler is reasonably well understood, and not something that would be amenable to simply trying and benchmarking. One would have to implement generics, then spend several programmer-years tuning the compiler over various programs, compilers are complex machines.

Again, I haven't met a compiler expert who doesn't think that generating code for widely used generics would be expensive. And they would be widely used, any good generics solution would have to replace maps and slices, and would permeate the standard library.
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Just because no single person owns you, still doesn't mean you are working for basic subsistence in slavery-like conditions. And others knowing that can, and will abuse you because of that.
Yeah I don't think you'll be surprised to hear that I'm not a heath care worker, I'm a programmer and amateur logician. You may have noticed that my prior statement did not touch on the subject of actually addressing health concerns, it was about the sense of secrecy surrounding these programs. That wasn't an accident, I find the topic kind of boring because people generally take the approach of simply imagining their desired outcome, assembling a list of prerequisites for the realization of the outcome, and then advocating for the implementation of those prerequisites. Boring, because I think it is the wrong approach - one that often leads to such thinking as "the end justifies the means". You do make a very good point about existing and deeply rooted suspicions held by minorities, the cause of which is certainly worth reflection. I would like to point out cooperation and force are not necessary for the implementation of any objective, especially when you're operating on such a grand scale. Also, I don't think Buffett is secretly trying to kill off any races - but I do think that the sensitivity surround the topic is directly related to birth control's early history in eugenics.
Probably besides your point but: Instead of cropping that cat picture, they set a custom size in html that doesn't match the picture's ratio... if you want to see the cat's real proportions, right click on the picture and click view image.
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GTK for a new project instead of QT? Really? When GTK looks and feels like absolute crap on anything that's not Linux (and some would argue Linux too)...

Who ever thought this was a good idea needs to seriously re-evaluate the situation. Such a shame.
All new users to IRC need to understand that there is a loose etiquette to asking questions.

In general for help this may assist someone: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

and for IRC - this may help: http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxHelpAsk.html

In my experience the two main points

1) "Don't ask to ask, just ask". Which means don't type "can I ask a question about Hacker News please?" just go ahead and type your question!

2) Don't ask if someone is there to help. Instead of typing "Can someone help me with a bug about Hacker News?" just go ahead and type about the bug!

and a lesser point, now that many IRC rooms are less busy than they once were, is to wait for an answer. If need be, repeat your question in a few hours.

Now - the benefit of IRC in asking questions is the rapid narrowing down of what the question actually is. This sounds simple, but it's a crucial part of bug finding, and help giving, the helper has to know what you are asking.
yes, maybe I am wrong, but in my opinion, there isn't a SINGLE person in the world that would like to make a living cleaning the mess of others.

>Saying someone on by low wage job is 'modern slavery' is pretty obtuse when real life actual slavery is happening right now in parts of the world.

This is exactly the reason I used "modern slavery".
The Web is a huge disappointment. It not only provides the technical infrastructure but also the data for unprecedented social control and mass surveillance. It's a delusion to think that anyone can influence the Web's advancement. It's already clear cut.
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Thank you for your brutally honest feedback, this is great stuff! We're trying to work out all the kinks before we launch.

Our goal is to provide an all in one solution that will bring teammates together in one place. Using 5 different tools/logins wastes time, money, and stalls productivity.

Your feedback tells us that our onboarding has quite a long way to go ;)

Thank you so much for taking the time.
Seems to me that ad blocking, if it becomes widely adopted could push advertisers and publishers to work together to place ads in a more dedicated way with individual publishers, skipping the ad server networks altogether. This would put user data back, and the control over ads back into the hands of the publishers and advertisers. Maybe not efficient at first, but closer to the original model that the writer describes for print ads.
What's this site for exactly? Their about page is sort of vague.
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Absolutely. The taxi cab industry is example number one for regulatory capture. The foolish talk about "employee rights" for Uber drivers makes no sense. The market will determine the rate for labor of any types, Uber drivers included. All legislation around "employee rights" will do is take them away. Why is it necessary for the government to make illegal a voluntary exchange between Uber and drivers at any wage and any labor agreement? Either can walk away at any time. If Uber wasn't providing these drivers a service, they wouldn't sign up.
We'll have automated cars waaay before a robot learns to make my bed, clean the edges around my bookshelves, and separate my whites from my colors
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Just addressing the analogy but tree squirrels aren't so good at digging and badgers aren't so good at climbing. So when a squirrel takes a job that involves digging not based on their digging ability but on their species being under-represented in digging jobs then the other badgers would be rightfully perturbed.

The piece does a petitio principii in assuming that squirrels and badgers are both naturally predisposed as species to perform the same tasks. They may be, but it's a pertinent conclusion to the analogy and so can't be assumed.
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I think you've completely misunderstood what @indubitably was trying to say...
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> maybe you want to add some documentation/links to the proper Api documentation

That's an excellent idea, added in http://git.io/vOOKi.

> how to get a comments url

A comment permalink is a strange combination of the comment itself and its parent post. You can build a comment permalink using the following template:

reddit.com/r/{subreddit}/comments/{link_id[3:]}/_/{id}
I'm talking about different robots for different tasks. We already use a lot of them. In terms of costs, this is the catch, these robots could be delivered on-demand in the houses. This could be the startup. Even if the "perfect" technology were decades away, this is a good mission, with a good transient plan.
"According to a 2009 Sports Illustrated article, 60 percent of former NBA players are broke within five years of retirement. By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress."
For those 23 days he'll be beaten half to death in order to extract a 'confession'.

The criminal justice system in Japan is a farce.
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So the TL;DR is run your day to day on a VM that has a good internet connection if you use docker. Ok.
I am a Patreon. Was a pretty painless process, now I support a podcast that means a lot to me, for a few bucks a month. It really is set and forget.

Seems like a great way to garner support from your community, in an ongoing fashion, as opposed to kickstarter.
If you'd seen the graphs you'd see that the stop time is related to total memory used. 10ms only happens with a large number of gigs of memory being used. For more reasonable amounts (up to a few gigs) the stop times are 1-3ms.
This article does a pretty good job highlighting many of the challenges in this market. Although I'd like to point out one additional aspect - in the $400-$800 billion home services market, I would say less than half of that is actually consumer facing. I don't have an exact number, but I would estimate that 50-75% of that market is actually B2B. It is commercial property managers, apartment complexes, general contractors, etc hiring smaller contractors (cleaners, painters, carpet installers, window washers, etc) for recurring business, sometimes contracts up to several hundred thousand dollars/year. At that size of contract, you had better be able to provide trained, high quality workers who can consistently deliver. What these larger businesses are paying the smaller contractors for is managing and training of the labor that actually does the work. Once the contract is set up, all that is required of the larger contractor is a phone call - not much more work than tapping a few buttons on an app on your phone, but much less cost to the smaller contractor who doesn't need to develop software to win business. This aspect of the industry makes it very difficult for software to have a big impact, and it probably partially why there are no profitable success stories in this space (Angie's List, Yelp, all the on-demand startups, all have yet to achieve consistent profitability).
Note that the post is from 2013.
I'm not putting him on a pedestal at all. He's by objective standards simply one of the best programmers that I know of, just like Usain Bolt is an extremely fast runner.
My theory is very simple: more math less women.

This predicts the % of women in academic physics relative to academic bio, IT relative to HR, and quite a bit more. Anyone who disagrees is welcome to try and find cases where this theory fails to fit the data.
"Sumail started playing Dota 2 as a 7-year-old. Now 16, he’s still..."
Dota 2 was released in 2013.
The whole story wasn't settling well with me, I meant, whatever happened, we are talking about hundreds of Million here, and it didn't seem adequate that the owner of this company would get away, merely because hackers hacked their system. He should have been behind bars, no matter what.
Dumb question, but how did he start playing Dota 2 at the age of 7? Surely thats a mis-print - it's not been out that long? Development only started in 2009...
"Modern slavery" does not include "low paid menial work".

Modern spavery exists in several different forms: actual slavery, bonded labour, and forced labour.

Employment compliant with US law is unlikely to meet those definitions. (Although children working in US tobacco farms is legal and problematic).

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/apr/03/mo...

http://www.antislavery.org/english/slavery_today/what_is_mod...

Maybe you meant "wage slave"? There's probably better terms, becase as soon as you mention "slave" people will think you mean slavery, and "wage slaves" are not in any sense slaves.
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Thanks a lot! I discovered link_url and that would have worked for the moment, but the real comment permalink would have taken a lot of time to find out.

The link to the json-wiki page is perfect as well, that is exactly what I searched and did not find. Thanks again.
>or they figure out the "thankless" part faster than men //

Or men figure out the "thankless" part equally quickly but aren't as bothered to receive encouragement from others as the women?
I don't see that they accept Bitcoin.

Too bad :(
They mean the original Dota.
these look interesting... but like all things like this i wonder what the actual costs are of lifting the weight is?
Maybe they meant Dota 1, which was released in 2005? But that still makes no sense.
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Do you think they called "slavery" in the past?
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As someone who actually lived in a socialist country (the one that started the whole socialism business :), take it from me. While the original framework devised by Marx in the 19th century referred to means of production, in actuality the socialism that came to pass meant that salaries were set for a given position / seniority with no relation to the person's education or how good of a job they were doing.

Ie that was the socialism as it was practiced 'on the ground' (which was in no small part responsible for why USSR economy collapsed).
Yes, Homejoy could have developed and provided to its cleaners tools to make the cleaning faster (for example: something that would be to a toilet brush what a hoover is to a mop - I have no idea how to develop such a thing), making the overall cleaning cheaper - it would take less time, and cleaners charge per hour.
As a Pakistani myself, I don't find it charming, because back in home it means nothing, playing games with such devotion only would lead one jobless or burden on the family. But still I applaud the efforts of this lad. But this is something we 3rd world are far from seeing as a career or money making opportunity. I wasn't surprised that only this year China has allowed the manufacturing and sales of Game consoles., previously it was all banned. I myself had to stay from gaming away in my teenage despite all the excitement I always managed myself to keep it at distance, to lead a healthy career. Today is one of those days I realize that me and my US cousins live in a different world, a really different one.
You can see the woman's touch! /jk
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The probable reason this got posted today is that the big The International tournament is currently happening. Group stages happened earlier this week and the elimination bracket happens next week in a Seattle stadium.

http://www.dota2.com/international/overview/
Your answer appears to be wrong.

Here are inflation figures for the UK from 1990 to 2015:

http://www.rateinflation.com/inflation-rate/uk-historical-in...

Can you spot the year that minimum wage was first introduced in the UK?
The NSA even spies on domestic targets, and shares unredacted intercepts with the Five Eyes and Israel ;)
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9983224 (18 hours ago, 212 comments)
Except it doesn't, unless you squint really, really hard. Finding cases where this theory fails to fit the data is too easy: women participation in physics and math is growing and is far higher than in CS, where it's declining; more women go into biology than into history (women participation in history and physics is quite similar). It also doesn't explain the low women participation in politics (again, similar to or lower than in physics[1][2]).

That you continue to believe this theory despite so much contradictory evidence is perplexing.

Also, it's a bad theory in that it's a description rather than an explanation. Even supposing it fit the data better than it does, why would it be the case that more math = less women? I mean, no one suggests that men are 5x or 8x better at math than women as direct studies clearly show it is not the case. So even if it were a good description (though it isn't) it is not the least bit explanatory. The ultimate explanation of such a theory is still likely to be social.

It is probably true that women, on average, are more empathic than men, and therefore would prefer professions that involve working with others more, but that difference is nowhere near the actual participation rates that we find, so it can't be a major explanation.

A "theory" which fits the data -- on average, of course -- much, much better than yours would be "women choose professions with less money and less prestige". This "theory" is surprisingly predictive because, amazingly enough, women choose to be paid less money than men even while doing the very same job, so it must be right.

[1]: http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/leadership-and-politica...

[2]: https://www.american.edu/spa/wpi/upload/2012-Men-Rule-Report...
They would be meaning playing DOtA since age 7. The original DOtA has been played since pre-2005 under various guises. Dota 2 is largely identical to the original dota as far as gameplay goes.

Exactly where DOtA starts and ends can be a little bit fluxy. It has evolved in a rolling fashion over many different patches that often tweak gameplay in large ways.
> Changing what something has been called for a long time because the word has (relatively) recently been coopted to mean something else sounds like a really bad idea to me.

It's how language change works though. Very few words still mean what they meant several hundred (or even tens of) years ago. The people who write dictionaries are perfectly pragmatic about this. What is the aim of journalism on a mainstream news website? To communicate? If you want to communicate with someone who doesn't have a science background, a member of the public, you have to be sensible about it.

So what's the alternative to "organic" in that context? "Carbon-containing"? The latter is far less misleading to the average person. And to people who understand both, either works. So why wouldn't you want to do that?

It's pure stubbornness on behalf of scientists (and I say that as a professional scientist myself) to be prescriptivist about this sort of thing. And, again, I'm not suggesting we stop using the word in technical contexts (the classroom, textbooks, journals, etc.). It's just that I've been at a few outreach events recently, and I talk to people casually a lot, and so many people read "organic" in a headline and think "signs of life" that it's obscene. It's a real problem. We can either choose to try and communicate better, or we can carry on misleading people–because we are misleading them, whether we like it or not. Burying our heads in the sand and just pretending otherwise doesn't help anyone.
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I've been watching this game for years, and I can say with confidence that Sumail is the real deal. He has skills that few can match. Right now he's playing the middle of the biggest tournament in e-sports history and he's about 10 games away from winning $6 mil (of which he'll keep $1m). The tournament, organised by Valve has a prize pool that's mostly crowd funded, so its likely to be a steady source of income for the top players of Dota 2 for a few years at least.

I guess we'll know by next Saturday what Sumail's fate is.

For more info

* Free to Play, a documentary about 3 Dota players - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZYMI1zB9s [75 mins]

* Dota 2, a game that's free to play - http://store.steampowered.com/app/570

* The International tournament - http://www.dota2.com/international/overview/

If anyone has any questions about this I'll be happy to answer :)
Dear NYT, what the fuck are you doing with your website? Opening a single tab of your page in Chrome instantly consumes 400+MB of RAM and my MBP fans go into 100% mode.

On mobile, it consumes a shitload of data and makes the entire phone next to unusable.
> but they have an outsized influence.

some proof needed.
They probably meant Dota 1. Dota 2 is an HD remake of Dota1 with the exact same units and game mechanics so most players consider both games to be the same thing.
Dota was originally a custom map for the Blizzard game Warcraft III released circa 2005. In 2011 Valve hired the developer of the custom map to make a full standalone game and that became Dota 2. Most players (including me) played the original game before shifting to Dota 2.
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I suspect this is due to the algorithms handling reports - not an actual human action. Atheist Republic - a massive community for atheists and skeptics on FB - was also taken down after being report-bombed by malicious users, this despite the fact that it was not in serious violation of any FB rules.
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its a symbiotic relationship. stars exist generally at an equilibrium point where gravity is trying to make it collapse, but the pressure produced from the constituents pushing outwards balances it out.

this is because if something is collapsing from gravity it will stop once some other force is pushing out harder.

this explains a lot of phenomena and is a key piece of understanding the modern theories of stellar phenomena, e.g. via the pauli exclusion principle, why neutron stars can form during a supernova (from the extra inward pressure combining with the gravitational collapse exceeding the degeneracy pressure of electrons in the plasma)... its also why beyond a critical mass the collapse doesn't stop at all and produces a black hole.

in any case energy is always conserved... but the ultimate place it is being extracted from to power a star is the gravitational field. everything else, e.g. the nuclear fusion, the light pressure from temperature etc. is a result of that energy being transferred into the star as it forms and continues to evolve.
> Yes, of course they did.

Protestants in what is now Northern Ireland could consider themselves eg, 'Ulster Scots'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Scots_people
The best way to organize a mix in iTunes is to create a playlist with all of the songs, make sure the album title is the same for each artist, then select all of the songs and open the Info menu (CMD-I) and mark them as a Compilation. Marking them as a compilation will organize them on the file system together under the "iTunes/.../Music/Compilations/" directory, which hopefully will make migrating off of iTunes in the future an easier thing to do.
I really wonder why people keep submitting highly editorialized headlines when the guides clearly state not to do it.

On the article:

If this pans out it could spell the end of Thinkpads as high quality laptops that deliver premium performance while being very robust and sturdy. Who is left in that niche? Are we left with only either apple laptops, or shoddy plastic jobs that need to be kept in bubble wrap at all times?
I think static content generators get us really close. Something like Jekyll creates easy to maintain, and optionally very low tech, sites of almost any size.
i believe it is very much the consensus.

the FLRW model of cosmology, which has made numerous confirmed predictions teaches us that the big bang is a geometric property of space-time i.e. a consequence gravity, and particularly Einstein's field equation from general relativity.
Australia's pretty backward about this stuff. E.g. example: someone on HN yesterday was saying Jeremy Clarkson (from the UK) wasn't old enough to remember the racist version of 'eeny meeny miny mo'. I remember it and I was born in Australia in the 80s.