jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What it means is that unless you are comfortable modifying Erlang itself (BEAM, internal data structures, hash table allocations, etc.), then your install of Erlang won't scale like WhatsApp. You'll also need a ton of monitoring because Erlang definitely isn't of the "just turn it on, it'll be fine" variety. Nothing at that scale is.

That's fine, but people do tend to oversell Erlang IMO. The types of things Rick Reed talks about in his talk are standard issue stuff. Lock contention? Okay, how about using an architecture that doesn't require locks in the first place?

With Erlang, you're forced into the Erlang way from day one, and it'll be tough to escape. The good news is that Erlang has a good design overall, so as long as you can modify the engine under the hood, you'll be fine.

I don't think anyone should be scared away from Erlang, just be aware what you're getting into—like any other tech you could deploy.
I pledge not to use nodejitsu or have any dealings with nodejitsu employees until I see a blog post stating that they have changed their minds and are not going to hijack npm trademark.
> not only open source

That means the opposite of what you thought it did :)
Feature request for the Mac OS Vagrant port: please don't copy your executable into /usr/bin when running the installer (and that seems to be the only reason the installer exists at all — it would be better distributed just as a .zip containing the Vagrant directory; I can take it from there). /usr/bin is for system-provided executables, not for applications. I understand the wish to provide an easily-accessible command line executable, but Vagrant users likely know how to modify the path or make an appropriate symlink.
I'm very impressed by the FCC report on the T-Mobile deal (linked in the article). There's a lot more technical rigor, analysis, and just plain skepticism than I would have guessed. The FCC calls out AT&T for making faulty assumptions and mathematical errors in their calculations. They even dedicate an entire appendix to shredding AT&T's economic model for the merger.

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-11-1955...
Wow, that's impressive! My streak is a mere 416 days so far: http://abughrai.be/github_streak_416_days.png

I think the most important thing is that you must want to do it. Without an innate desire, it would require inhuman willpower to maintain such a streak. That said, it does get easier over time. Once you get into the habit of doing at least a little work every day, the streak comes pretty naturally.

I say "want" and not "like" because wanting and liking are not the same thing. I usually find myself frustrated and annoyed by code, but for some reason I keep coming back. I think most programmers are weird in that respect. As Douglas Crockford says:

I think there has to be something seriously wrong with you in order to do this work. A normal person, once they’ve looked into the abyss, will say, “I’m done. This is stupid. I’m going to do something else.” But not us, ‘cause there’s something really wrong with us.[1]

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taaEzHI9xyY#t=26m50s
The world would be a better place if they did.
Also, you literally are Apple’s product to their iOS developer ecosystem, in the sense that developers fork over 30% of their revenue to Apple for access to you.
Annoyingly IOCP didn’t cover everything as well - for example, CreateFile of all things!
What a great day. Next to prepare: Youtube with it's super creepy listening recommendation algorithm. If you say something out loud it will appear in your feed.
Not directly. But Nim took a lot of inspiration from Oberon/Modula for its type and module system.
No they don’t do that. Especially for anime. What they have found is that the copy paste and tweak method produces stiff results so no one in the industry does that. It’s a weird phenomenon.

Every frame is literally sketched by hand entirely which makes actual skill required. Anime especially given the more realistic human proportions and extensive use of z-axis. For something like sponge bob or South Park in the US it’s much easier... but in Japan the animation is a real skill.

Take a look at this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yglxt331WoY . This type of skill of animating is basically non existent now in any place other then japan.

Also blacksmiths were not always the least paid. Prior to the industrial revolution it was a common job.
I appreciate this kind of a view. You may disagree with a few policies of a company and remain in favor of some. Works for people, brands, governments equally.
I think people forget how ubiquitous smoking was. I remember back in the 80s, you basically couldn't go anywhere without ending up stinking like an ashtray. And it was even worse decades earlier before I was born. Everyone bellyached as anti-smoking laws kicked in, but slowly, attitudes changed, and now, it's not such a big deal. I bet if you got rid of anti-smoking laws, you wouldn't even see a huge uptake in public smoking or smoking in workplaces these days, because people's minds have been changed and there are a lot fewer smokers.
How can an app track activities in other apps? Is it only possible if those other apps use the same tracking networks, or can the app track activities in _any_ other app? How does this work? What can facebook extract today?

(I'm surprised a bit, i thought phones offer app isolation).

The only things that comes to mind is to correlate device ids from different apps if the apps use the same analytics/advertising networks.

Pls enlighten me...
Yes. Apple has its own problems though. The only reason it can do this is that it has a generally authoritarian behavior wrt app access (see Fortnite), as with closed standards for accessory connection, etc. This is a company that uses platform-exclusive APIs as a cudgel for compliance.

I applaud the fight in that it hopefully makes Facebook weaker but I'm not cheering for Apple having this power either. I'd rather wish for their greed to cause these two to destroy each other.
Well really they should pay the Uber driver until they passenger is fully departed, but right now passengers get upset if the driver doesn't end the ride the moment they arrive (and if they start the drive before actually departing), so the driver has to load and unload on their own time.

I try to make up for it by telling the driver to start the ride the moment I walk up, and letting them know not to end the ride until I've left, but not everyone does that.
Ok, thanks. I'm sorry about this. I got frustrated because I felt like I had been responding in good faith for a whole series of comments and the other person was being rude to me in all their comments -- not just in this branch, but in the other branch of this convo where we interacted. But I should be an adult and hold my temper. I'll do better next time.
Trauma is the natural state of the universe. To think life should be free of trauma is a hyper-modern and sheltered view of the world enabled by our extreme comfort provided by modern technology and the invisible labor from less privelidged people and those who lived and died before us.

Trauma is the natural state, and our resilience has and always will be a defining characteristic of successful people... Of whom we are descendents.
For me, I do regret the countless hours I wasted learning vi. Back when I was a C++ developer, editing text was a tiny, minuscule portion of what I did. The overwhelming vast majority of time was spent reading, navigating, debugging, discussing, and explaining code. When I did switch to a mainstream IDE (Visual Studio + Visual Assist X), I was far far more productive in all areas that mattered to me.

And so, even if I was born an expert vi user, I don't think I would have gotten any boost in productivity as a developer. Just my opinion though! :)

(Yes, I know how you can get vi editing in VS. I purchased a copy of ViEmu.)
was "because they used Bylock app" ever the actual headline? It presently reads as "Police nab 50 FETO terror suspects across Turkey"

Asking because that seems to hint that the app was cracked - which isn't at all apparent in the article.

My read indicates that the police simply infiltrated the group, using whatever comms the group used.
If the Uber drivers are independent contractors. Wouldn't they be a business under 15 employees, thus not required to be ADA compliant?
Thinking out of box.

Am I right that this may essentially end Dart project at Google?

As far as I understand Dart was an attempt to have another Java in case that Oracle/Google conflict will not go anywhere.

As soon as Google will be able to use Java on dart platforms there will be no need for Dart.

Just guessing.
That solves the actual vote but that's not the big issue. At the start you have to get enough people interested and talk to other people to get them interested and the company can use that to do some 'totally not retaliatory firings/performance reviews of key organizers.' If it were as simple as just needing to make an up or down vote there wouldn't be so many issues but there's a lot of anti-union propaganda out there you might need to convince people out of before trying to vote.
I think it's an interesting idea, and not a terribly poor on the face of it.

Unfortunately, for us non-uber-rich people, uber-rich people have a lot of money to hire people to help them "avoid" taxes, under the euphemism of "minimizing tax burdens".

I think we'd probably need to address that first, by simplifying the US tax code (perhaps making it X% full stop, across the board, no loopholes, applied to all income earned beyond Y/year), before experimenting with such a strategy.

Of course, there will still be some sleazy people hiding their wealth (and income) behind personally-directed "non-profits" and "charities". But, these are probably easier to litigate than the corporations those people work at/for.
So I'm pretty disappointed now. I didn't hear the reasons why they ditched Dart? Compilation to ES6/7 cannot be the technical reason, as there is a huge run-time and memory overhead by using only ES6/7 compared to Dart. Looks more like a marketing decision, Dart not have gained enough momentum or such.
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Unfortunately one problem with the recurse center's concrete rooms is that they were only architected to be able to handle immutable people, looking outside is strictly forbidden, and when you leave a room, it collapses.
Thought this was a great article don't know why so many negative comments
What I find interesting is that DDG ranks our site: https://VisualSitemaps.com 2x higher than Google when searching for “visual sitemap generator”...and of course sans ads.
Reminds me of http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-long-chase/
Thanks! Yes, currently evaluating custom integration with platforms like nounproject. Infrastructure diagrams are also coming soon, it's been a common request.
>It also feels a bit odd that a remote team needs to "foster cohesion".

Some people (in SV?) seem to be unwilling or unable to work on a team where everyone just does their job, they want to be friends with their teammates as well. They justify that with "team chemistry is really important."

I don't really get it myself.
My problem is not with paying. My problem is that I am being asked to pay not for the content itself, but to remove bullshit limitations that shouldn't be there in the first place.

Also, it's very naive to think Google will suddenly stop tracking you just because you're paying for Premium... quite the opposite actually, as you've now given them a valid credit card and billing address.
The solution to that is more regulation to foster competition. Break up the giant monopolies and the market will naturally improve, and life will get better for everyone.
> having a Github project matters, but nobody looks into it the code.( nobody looked into mine, because I was never asked about it.)

Just because they didn't say anything does not mean they didn't look. I look and take notes about what I see, but in the actual interviews I very rarely talk about their GitHub. I mostly just stick to the script.
I switched to DuckDuckGo in my browsers, so now I just type search terms in the address bar. When I need non-personalized Google results I add "!s" at the end and DDG redirects me to Startpage. When I need personalized results I use "!g" instead. There are other operators (like !w for Wikipedia search), and you can add bang commands at the beginning like this: "s! search term" - or end like this: "search term !s"
Wikipedia? Really? Google that number and you'll find they aren't the only site to use it. They could have gotten it from anywhere, including a lot of textbooks.
Tesla has something like 4 billion miles driven with Autopilot. This apparently has 35 million miles. (It isn't a direct comparison, but the overall rate in the US is around 1 death per 100 million miles driven).

Anyone who uses these numbers to even imply this is safer than Tesla knows nothing about statistics. It is way too early to draw any conclusions about Comma's safety. It is also probably too early to even draw statistical conclusions about Tesla's safety.
I think giving first priority to Israeli citizens when Palestine is under occupation is the definition of second class. There should be some kind of even distribution based on proportion of population. If they don't want the responsibility, they should withdraw barricades and forces from Palestine.
Using LIMIT N is a great habit to develop to prevent yourself from hogging resources too, during exploration.
Do you have a link to that Lowe's whiteboard sheet?
I think you’re making a lot of assumptions that FDA approval/disapprovals are slow due to a sense of urgency. I’d like to see evidence for that, I’d personally assume it’s quite the opposite— they’re trying to get it as right as they can before doing something at scale that can’t be easily undone.

If 15 doses lead to issues compared to 10, then you jeopardize all those vaccines which are slow and difficult to make. You also give people false sense of hope and possibly either get lower effectiveness or build public distrust. These are tough balancing acts.
As always when these topics are brought up with that sense of urgency, I will raise my hand and ask "Whose ethics? Unethical according to who?"
Explain? The fact that the population of greater Houston has more than doubled in 30 years tends to support the idea that they are building enough for growth. They've got a city the size of Berkeley that didn't even exist 50 years ago.
The history of science is full of examples of resistance to changing how we understand the world based upon newly found evidence that goes against established norms. I think the scientific method is sound, and the real problem is human nature.
Big game companies just make what sells. I don't see why anyone would expect that to change. It shouldn't surprise anyone that many games aren't very good; most of everything is crap, and games are no different. But the logic in the best games has absolutely progressed since the 1980s, and even many (though not all) FPS games put quite a bit of effort into making their game characters move and act in a believable way. Far more than they did 34 years ago.

Though there's undoubtedly still plenty of room for improvement. In terms of how smart computer characters move and act, I think Robin Hood, the Legend of Sherwood (2002) still stands out: there, when a guard spots you, they first become curious and come check you out. When they're sure they've seen you, they raise the alarm and attack you, and other guards that hear them, join them. When a guard finds a dead guard, they look for their boss, who then organises a search party. It's all very logical, and it results in a very exciting isometric stealth game. Especially the fact that the guards cooperate, but need to communicate over credible distances first, makes the whole thing work very well. There may well have been other games that work like this; I don't pretend to know most games, but I've never played anything else quite like it.
FWIW, I use a Paperlike screen protector, and have been very happy with the writing comfort I get out of it.

If there's one thing I'd absolutely miss with the actual writing experience on a ReMarkable, it's colored highlighting. I've been using the same color coding system for years and years now, and I'd hate to lose it. But it might just be worth it to lose the backlight and the glare, and gain the ability to do my reading outdoors.
I'm not American, I just prefer that people that really need it get it rather than that I'd get it as long as I can find some other way to make ends meet. That would include selling off my assets and working crap jobs if that's what it took. It's nothing to do with shame or finding people that do need assistance vile, I just don't consider myself (for now, this may change) to be one of them.

But then again, I've always been the 'help yourself' type of person, my main reason for that is that I like to have some control over my life and government hand-outs rarely come without strings and can be withdrawn at a moments notice.

But for those that really need them it's very good they exist.
IANAD, but this sounds spot on. Nearly every problem he describes is explained by a slight adjustment to the pain threshold. His throat irritates him. His limbs hurt. He is tired. He can't focus. These are all things we all feel all the time. He feels them more.

It is consistent with responding to anti-depressants for a short time - before the initial semi-euphoric effects wear off, and then going off them once the trough after that begins. It is not uncommon for there to be a peak and a trough before stabilizing on an anti-depressant.

I wonder if OP has ever stuck with one anti-depressant for very long. They are very effective against this type of pain, whether the OP is depressed or not.
FYI, though it's always good to learn, if you want to copy files and preserve permissions, you can use:

cp -p <src> <destination>

on a modern GNU box.
Unfortunately the talks on such subjects are filled with opinions of bystanders ... insightful articles/comments comparing X vs Y from people that used both in production are few and far between.
rabbits and lemonade?
Because neither Verilog nor VHDL is code. HDL is a slightly handwavey description of the graph of a machine, not something that runs on a machine.

You have wires, not variables: real physical wires connecting gates and LUTs. Since you're dealing with real-world electrical current, each wire can be in one of four binary states (null, low, high, grey). There's no concept of time beyond the speed of light itself unless you deliberately bind a clock line from the outside to a wire.
Those points are valid, and many of them pulled me back from buying an iPhone since before there were Android widgets on the market.

I am pretty sure though that one can find 10 things the iPhone does better than Android ... like fixed screen resolution, better dev tools (although that's debatable, as I just want to work on my OS of choice), more polished design for the hardware, etc...

Competition is such a wonderful thing ... those guys at Google that decided to throw Android in the marketplace to increase competition (such that their search engine remains in business) are pure geniuses.
There is reselling to other investors:
dnforum.com, namepros.com, domainstate.com plus many of webmaster/IM boards have domain areas (ie. digitalpoint)

Marketplaces:
sedo, afternic

and plain ol' contacting people who might be interested via email, phone, letters, walking up to their store.
I definitly agree, people disagreing with fail fast are taking it too literaly, ignoring the spirit of it. It's not about failing, it's about confronting to reality.
Careful with this line:

iVillage who have realized 800,000 new visits thanks to Tynt’s link-back service

No it's not visits: the linked case study says 800k links. Mind you, that's also very good (from an SEO perspective), but it is a very important detail to clarify.
1. agreed.

2. flash = javascript + super vector libs + sweet IDE. it has been around for a decade+ so yes: it is better.

3.a. 3D (webgl) does not make 2D obsolete. I'm not sure you imply that?

3.b. not everyone wants a scene graph for doing games. SVG + CSS is superior if you want a scene graph but plenty (and i would argue: the best) libraries for opengl, sdl, you name it are non scene graph driven.
Thanks for the clarification. I did mean the text though, more specifically the whole "database of textually described recipes".
Hi Brian, good to see a FSK version of quiet-js. Will definitely give it a try later.

Edit: fix typo
Is there an opportunity to create a business that kickstarts products/services and assures that the funders get the product they contribute to. The business would provide a framework of services to help kickstart the products listed, as well as help with any/all aspects of the delivery (incubation, local resources, grants, testing, etc)
Given that these clowns were not exactly low profile about their wealth, I imagine their opsec was less than optimal.
Yup, and the article ends with this:

>>All these things are almost always true. But Heuristics That Almost Always Work tempt us to be more certain than we should of each

The most important thing to realize about risk is this:

The difference between [using knowledge, skill, technology, and planning to manage risk] vs. [getting away with something]

If you aren't managing risk, it is managing you. And you can get away with something for a long time, but it is always a matter of until you don't, and then it is too 'effin late for you.

When you are managing the risk, you can make an entire career or lifetime of doing things that will otherwise kill you in seconds, scuba diving, flying, mountaineering, building tall structures, working with molten metal or dangerous chemicals, etc., etc., etc.

You can also get away with very dangerous things for at least enough time to fool you into thinking you are smart. The article discusses this at length.

This is why when you need to understand and manage the risks, and also be very alert to close calls - they mean that even though you thought you're managing, you've actually gone into the land of [getting away with it], just saved by Pure Dumb Luck. Don't say "it's okay it worked", look at why, because you might not have as much PDL next time.
Indeed, for a while with Google there have been nominal ingress quota limits of (iirc) 750 GB per day.

It seems that in the context of research universities there may be a mismatch in communication and use of "unlimited". Google said something it didn't mean, then eventually realises and claws it back.

This has happened twice in a few weeks - once for "forever" on free G Suite, and now with "unlimited" for universities.

I'm surprised that they don't get more marketing collateral for selling the credibility of G Suite to enterprise clients from being able to talk about case studies like storing and processing multi dimensional time-series medical imaging data on their storage platform as a way to say "we're ready for your data, and you can feel good while you pay us, as we support this great research"...

Clearly the revenue push has arrived for these services. 100 TB per institution isn't really a lot when you consider research data, but might be more tenable if you consider purely students with the odd slideshow and video. Unfortunately this makes life easier for the less scientifically rigorous fields of study that make a few slide decks, rather than the ones where a student might collect a few TB of data in an hour or two.