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Yeah I have a similar attitude as you. Death itself does not really scare me. I often use the analogy, "It is like before you were born". It just doesn't exist or concern you after you die. What does scare me a bit is the idea of aging, losing physical ability, and mental faculties. I am afraid that once I am old I will always looking back at "better times" with nothing but death waiting for me in the future. I'm 23 now, so it is inevitable that my mindset will change. Also, aging happens slowly. You don't just wake up and realize you have no physical ability anymore. Thankfully.
I think you miss the major points of the article. It is long if it is judged by the "standard" length of an article in a blogging era, and thus shorter attention spans of readers. It is not that long if one considers that the author was trying a topic that is hard to illuminate.

That doesn't mean it is a well-written article. Although he made his points clear, the writing could be better. I have read better articles on similar topics.

I think writing is a universal skill in terms that good writing can be applied to both literatures and technical books. The ways to convey one's points are usually quite different based on the topics. An imaginary example, an extreme one, is to write a novel in a way like writing a book on a programming language. Similarly, as readers, we can't expect the same reading experiences on Madame Bovary
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This is awesome! I've been working with Phoenix for a bit now, and aside from the fact hex/phoenix doesn't yet have all the libraries that rubygems/rails have, Phoenix has blown my expectations out of the water. For such a big and complex framework, the entire functional plug system (functional is love, functional is life) makes the whole thing easy to grok in a way utterly unimaginable in a traditional rails framework.

By the way, in case core team is reading, what's the motivation behind removing infer_model_view from the render functions?
Note the Ashley Madison wiki page says that these BS accounts are actually presented in the terms and conditions. I'm kind of impressed with the hutzpah of even giving these fake accounts the name "Ashley's Angels":

Several aspects of Ashley Madison are described in the Terms and Conditions as "For Your Entertainment."[19] This included Ashley's Angels, a feature that generated fictitious profiles to simulate communication with real members and perform market research. According to the site, Ashley's Angels accounts "are NOT conspicuously identified as such."[20] Ashley's Angels profiles were limited to messaging only guest accounts and users could opt out of the feature via their profile management page. Users were charged the standard rate to read messages from and chat with these fictitious profiles.
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Emergency vehicles rushing around may or may not be good overall. They have a few advantages over your average crazy driver though such as lights and sirens to get the other vehicles attention so they can move out of the way.

Police often have additional driver's training. I happen to think that police often drive faster than they should, but this is less the case for emergency vehicles. I rarely see an ambulance or fire truck moving at high speed. They are pretty aware of their job to get somewhere safely, and I am typically only passed by an ambulance if I am stuck in traffic myself.
Erlang processes have state and you interact with them by sending them messages. You can do OO if you want :P
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After spending nearly 7 years in the Ruby and Rails ecosystem, I changed jobs and have been working in with Elixir and Phoenix for nearly 3 months. I have been very satisfied with the process. The community is amazing, the tooling is unbeatable, and the quality and availability of open source libraries is great, especially for such a young project. The future looks very bright for Elixir and Phoenix!
Ghost Rank is opt-in, and it does help the advertising industry: [0]

>We rely on Ghostery users who opt-in to participate in a feature called Ghostrank®, which sends us anonymous information about the data collection technology they see, and where they see them. We take that information, add our analysis, and sell it to companies to help them audit and manage their relationships with these marketing tools. None of the information we share is about our users, nor is it stored in a way that could be used to trace back to our users.

Ghostrank® is off by default, meaning you can use Ghostery without sharing anything with us if you prefer. (But please opt-in! It is how we keep Ghostery free and continue to make it the best tool out there!)

Further, from their privacy policy: [1]

>The Ghostrank information we collect helps to increase our tracker intelligence, and to improve our products and solutions for businesses. We do not use any collected information to track individuals or to target ads to them. Ghostrank data may be licensed commercially and incorporated into our solutions for businesses. To learn more, contact Ghostery at privacy@ghostery.com or visit www.ghosteryenterprise.com.

Disconnect is monetized through user payments: [2]

>We are a consumer software company and rely on payments from our users. We believe basic privacy protection should be available to everybody, irrespective of the ability to pay. In support of that goal, we have a two-part pricing model. For our desktop browser extensions, users can “pay what they want.” For our mobile software applications we offer a Basic free version and a Premium paid version that has additional benefits. Payments help sustain our work and also support nonprofits that share our corporate values.

[0] https://www.ghostery.com/en/faq/how-does-ghostery-make-money...

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/priv...

[2] https://disconnect.me/help#how-do-you-make-money-
It's about product search engines trying to force Google to rank them more prominently in search results. Which worries me a little, because I remember what Google's search results were like before they hit vertical search engines with the anti-spam hammer and it was an awful experience - page after page of worthless niche "search engines" all doing their best to convince you they had meaningful results, only to fail to deliver on their promise once you actually clicked the link. (Not forgetting the "review sites" with zero actual reviews.) And it didn't even matter to them because once you'd clicked, they'd made their money. Once they couldn't funnel people in through Google and had to convince users to actually search with them directly, it was the end because they had nothing worthwhile to offer.
This is something not to be neglected: having a patched and backported LTS is not negligible in the enterprise.
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Two are quickbooks and freshbooks. You really should study accounting if you've never seen discounts tied to the date paid. Cash flow is important to every business, and a lot of businesses do give discounts for quick payment.

http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/the-best-invoice-payment-term...

https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/openforum/...

Being able to define your payment terms is important.
I remember Plonk!

You must be a bit old ;-)
my employer uses erlang because it's a huge leap forward operationally over ruby/python/go/java. the erlang/otp concept of a release is extremely straightforward and reliable and the beam (erlang/elixir vm) run time introspection and debugging tools are second to none. it's trivial to attach to any running application and get a REPL with full access to the environment. you can even update running code in place
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> but it's not an irrational argument

Actually, irrationality is at the heart of it. As with global warming denial, the argument for back doors is a denialist argument against all evidence and against all expert advice.

Moreover, pro-back-doors argument isn't trying to defend a law enforcement status quo, it's trying to defend a program of illegal mass surveillance, because that is where pervasive strong encryption would have the largest impact. Fuck these people and the horse they rode in on.
I'd love to see the code for that if you've got it (I have a recursive version in Javascript). Because the recursive one is really simple to read, intuitively grasp what is going on, confirm is correct, test, modify, etc. And rewriting it to use a stack, while possible, feels harder to me to think up, reason about, and no matter how I try comes out uglier. I haven't spent a lot of time on it, mind you (in part because the recursive one hits everything I care about), but I'd love to see one as elegant written iteratively.
That is good to know. Do you have any recommendations for a more mature version of grpc (cross-platform communication with a high speed encoding)? Thrift?
> Death is incredibly terrifying. I don't understand it and I don't want to, I just want to live.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

edit: Oh I guess something more practical than reciting poetry might be useful, so uh, (1) read every paper ever published, (2) acquire all possible engineering and lab skillz, (3) raise lots of capital, and (4) remember to have fun.
i.e. don't confuse a statistical characterization of the data with more fundamental physical processes from which the statistics arise. Though that said, is there a scientific way to categorize the difference between models for one vs another without a human looking at the situation and trying to decide?
Which ones? As for the list, very few of those co's have the potential to be billion-dollar businesses.
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I've used Rails, but a long time ago. However, I really enjoyed Ecto; the migrations, the query interface etc. Still wrapping my head around changesets (I think it's quite simple, but when I began with Phoenix there were just so many new concepts).

Very exciting that they are branching out to support MongoDB as well. I'd love if they could support more untraditional Postgres operators for arrays and json (I guess there's always a tension between least common denominator and using the specialized features of each DB). You can get around it with partials, but it makes the code more messy.
For Firefox users, YouTube is supposed to prefer HTML5 video if an H.264 platform decoder is available and then fall back to Flash. YouTube should be serving HTML5 video to OS X, Windows Vista+ (except for some variants without codecs like Windows Server 2008), and Linux (if ffmpeg is available).
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>An ideological response would discount the arguments, discredit the sources, and proceed merrily along.

But that's exactly what happens in the media where most of the people get their information about these studies.
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It's saddening that a possibly avoidable organ leads to the most "lethal" cancer.
>but biology isn't physics, and human life span is as much social and technological as it is biological.

The only way this statement has basis in fact is if you're talking about lifespans that are less than 80-100 years. Clearly there are large technological and social influences on early termination of life.

But there's pretty much no basis for asserting technological influence on the other end of the spectrum.
The alternative targets of such petitions directed at the federal government that the courts are not empowered under the Constitution to address are:

1) The Congress,

2) The President (and executive branch more generally),

3) Insofar as the former two entities are Constitutionally prohibited from redressing the grievance raised satisfactorily and/or choose to exercise their discretionary power to not do so, the State governments, who can initiate Constitutional changes which may resolve the issue.

It is, however, not a Constitutional obligation of the federal judiciary to inform people of this in response to lawsuits that are outside of the power of the judiciary to resolve (though, its not uncommon for them to do so, at least as far as pointing to the first two alternatives.)
You can have all the organ replacement you want. Once your drive train (feet/ankles/knees/hips, which ultimately impact on your spine) is shot, all you're gonna want to do is lie in bed.
So return an error message with structured data about the error, and then log it in your protocol layer.

Most of the time, when you're handling RPCs, you're processing the responses asynchronously anyway, which makes the concept of an exception (which unwinds the stack) superfluous anyway. You should absolutely be handling error conditions. That doesn't mean you need to use the language mechanisms of exceptions to do so.

CORBA got into trouble because it tried to make remote objects look too much like local objects. Don't think that way: think in terms of messages passed between communicating sequential processes, with an error indicating that the process will have to do something else.
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I followed D for sometime, it has taken all the good parts from other languages in an incremental manner - contracts / actors/ functional concepts.

Do you vision D becoming a transpiler platform, similar to JavaScript land where languages target D source ?

x-lang => D => ldc => binary
You know, I'm okay with this body not lasting. I'm not too terribly fond of it anyway.

I just want a good and working migration plan.
So, similarly to AIDS, the proximate cause is a specific problem, the root cause is AIDS and a reduced immunodeficiency system. The question is, do we treat aging as this unavoidable and untreatable condition that will kill us, or do we treat it as a condition to be managed or cured like anything else?
Personally, I have enjoyed using it. I prefer to stay closer to the SQL than perhaps most would and writing queries in Ecto felt a lot like SQL but with added composability.

Unfortunately, I don't have experience with using the ORMs you listed in anger so I can't make a direct comparison. Anecdotally, I have found it much nicer to use than Django's.
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It seems really interesting, and a good idea.

What I don't understand though is the incentive, what motivates a program-author to "[b]e careful writing such diffs; you need to fully understand the
program and handle all cases"?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10133850
Linked article light on details. Far more info on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel

EDIT: My link was bad. Thanks, zawaideh
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I think some college campuses try to walk the line with under age drinking. A quick search shows Purdue has a policy that grants students amnesty in the event of alcohol poisonings [1]. I don't know if anyone has run numbers to see the net effects of such a policy.

I imagine that it removes some of the teeth, but if the negative aspects associated with drinking decline, then it seems like a good basis for arguing that similar policies should be applied to harder drugs, even if they remain illegal.

[1] http://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_2c255e7c-a2a4-5...
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I think too this is a good setup.

Self-Destructing Cookies, especially, is rarely mentioned in such discussions, but is a godsend to enable cookies for the convenience of staying logged only in domains you trust (e.g. I have: archlinux.org, feedly.com, mozilla.org, stackoverflow.com, ycombinator.com) but not breaking sites that depend on them (e.g. no gmail if you simply disable them).

Also, if you use Firefox, enabling `privacy.trackingprotection.enabled` in about:config is a good no-addon-required first step [1].

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Polaris#Tracking_protection
Thanks for these explanations ! Things are much more clear now.

Indeed, I have no experience in programming zookeeper,
even I use it a lot behind tools like kafka or storm.
Last I checked there was a very pared down version of Ubuntu. I've used it for running VMs that didn't need a gui or anything like that.
Lawsuits would have happened a while ago, except the amount of money users will tend to have lost, won't make for a good enough trade on the personal cost of public embarrassment.
> CentOS and Debian lack corporate backing.

Not anymore, CentOS is fully backed by Red Hat now.
I was earnestly hoping that this comment was satire, and comfortably believed that until I got to the bit about 'bland crust'. The pizza is indeed well seasoned and dressed with olive oil. The crust, however, is pretty fantastic.

So, unfortunately, not satire; just sad, uneducated and possibly treasonous.
And I never said it did. I was refuting the illogical leap from "First Amendment" to "I can say or do whatever I want and not suffer any consequences, period".

You were the first person to mention the "First Amendment".
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Sorry, but I will have to destroy you here.

First, the word 'lawsuit' does not occur in Article III (nor anywhere else in the US Constitution). You making a distinction between the word lawsuit and petition here is nonsense.

Second, Article III, Section 2, Sentence 1:

>The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution

A petition for redress of grievance is exactly a case in Equity and is specifically allowed under Amendment I.
Thanks for this. I'm not sure why they wouldn't use a fallback mechanism instead of making this an explicit setting?

Edit: This is strange. I went to change the setting and it is greyed out and cannot be changed. This is in both chrome AND firefox. Both are up to date with most recent version, and my macbook was bought this year. Neither have adblockers enabled.
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I suddenly want an omelet.
This is why we need effective media watchdogs that record past performance in a consumable fashion. I don't know (m?)any websites that do it well, though.
I've worked with multiple ORMs (Hibernate, Rails ActiveRecord, and Grails GORM), and I've always been able to easily switch betweens RDBMS's unless I specifically decided to step out of the ORM and use a DB-specific feature or query. I'm not sure what you mean here?
I think mrmondo refers to the "lists" that the ABP-family of extensions support. They are lists of domains and regexes to block, and maintained generally by third parties (not the addon developer).

Some of these lists are specific to geographic regions.
FWIW the URL should probably be updated to http://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-10-the-framewor...

http://www.phoenixframework.org/blog seems to point to the most recent post.
Good points Mike.

"Be honest about what you can and can’t do."

Yep. Got burned on this once in my short time freelancing. Got cocky and thought I could pull off implementing something in a technology I've never used under a fixed contract. Live and learn.

"Question whether you’re building the right thing – within reason."

I really appreciate this point. I deal with mostly non-technical clients who sometimes don't always know what they want. Being able to get to the core of what they're after and say no to things that would make me a lot of money but be useless to them is crucial.
I read it as, "There is some value created by the work someone does. When the value created is capped, and there are on-going demands from the workers to increase pay/benefits/other in excess of the value created, the employer has an incentive to seek a replacement good [in this case automation; in other cases, other employees]"
> I could say that being a person of faith may influence my looking forward to death

Rather heavily, yes. For the sake of argument, to put yourself into someone else's position and understand it, consider how differently you might feel about death if it simply meant a permanent cessation of consciousness. No more thinking, ever; you're permanently and irrecoverably gone. Not "floating in a black void" nothingness, but "there is no you anymore" nothingness.

Alternatively, if your faith includes the concept of a soul, imagine a soul being irrevocably destroyed; it didn't go anywhere, it was just lost.

That might make it clearer why many people find death both terrifying and horrific, no matter whether it occurs at 20 or 120.

> I am very curious why people would want to live forever on this earth. It seems like it'd become quite dreary and boring,

I find it easy enough to imagine a few billion years worth of possibilities. There's always more to learn, to see, and to think. Even if you'd seen the entire universe, other people are a literally endless supply of novelty.

And if you can't imagine an eternity of life interacting with other people in happiness, how exactly do you envision an afterlife?

> especially if I gradually lose control over all my normal physical and mental functions.

Living forever doesn't mean becoming increasingly decrepit. The same processes that create a hard stop at 120 are what make a 100-year-old systematically less healthy than a 25-year-old, and they require the same fixes. Anything that would successfully keep you alive forever must necessarily keep you free of age-related health complications forever.
Actually, I can sort of accept that. I'm sure people would be upset to find they were chatting with a fictitious account, but I'm also sure AM made the chats entertaining and flattering. The question is whether they actively lead the men to believe there was a real chance of a hookup, and how much leading is bad and how much is normal and how a flirtatious women would act? I guess AM would actually have stats on that based on real female profiles.
Well, um, that's exactly my point. It's not that I can switch to another service, it's that other people won't, unless they each have a strong reason to. So if I feel a ubiquitous web service maligns my business, I should be concerned about their power over the populace, not just me.
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if you were to program in JS in a style which calls for passing operations around you would have the operator `+` wrapped, so the second version would probably look like this

var sum = range(100).reduce(0, plus);

or rather

var total = sum(range(100));

this does not take away from the beauty of APL.
I had missed one of the two check boxes on my last reinstall.

This simple change makes Ubuntu very fast again.
> By the way, in case core team is reading, what's the motivation behind removing infer_model_view from the render functions?

I'm not on the core team, but speaking as an Elixir user, explicitness trumps all virtues.
You aren't alone in thinking that long lines reduce readability.

It's a fact proven out by years of practice in print.