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If latency were the primary concern nothing would beat the BEAM platform. It was built for that purpose, low latency is absolutely critical when you make a phone call.

Of course that's a bit like a benchmark (meaning, it means absolutely nothing to you/your code). If there were any more latency in the Erlang solution it would be the same algorithmic issues that could pop up in any software.

Go is more efficient for CPU throughput, but BEAM has been fine tuned for decades to keep latency down and wouldn't be able to top for responsiveness.

My personal opinion is that they made a mistake. Reporting about swapping out a stack like this is weird because it looks like they don't know what they're doing. What's next month's blog? We're Moving to Rust? I'm glad they're satisfied, but you gain improvements anytime you do a rewrite- even in the same language.
I wouldn't have migrated my existing stack anywhere. I'd use PyPy which would've done wonders for responsiveness on the existing product and adopt containers for deployment.
As I've pointed out in other places, the thing about that word/words like it which would make it/them 'inconsiderate' is not offense, so it's an invalid example.
I haven't thought about IPFS in months. One thing I do remember thinking about months ago, are aggregators and distributed indexers.

I don't know enough about those kind of security attacks to comment.

My comment "you guys are great!" refers to their team as people not necessarily the project itself. I've worked with them before, and they are awesome folks.
For the first time in quite a while I am actually tempted to update my mac to Yosemite. It isn't explicit, but I am fairly certain it won't work in older versions of osx.
Try reading the first few pages: http://www.amazon.com/Cow-Country-Adrian-Jones-Pearson-ebook...

This reads nothing like Pynchon.

I agree that the author of the article managed to convey a different impression quite successfully.
Please check out slc build and slc deploy from StrongLoop which attempt to solve exactly this issue and are being used by major deployments.
Well, good luck shoving this code back in the bottle (read: git archive).

It's out and 22 public forks already. Who knows how many git clones...
I find stash useful primarily as a place to hold things for a few minutes, and no longer. In particular, I frequently use "git stash", followed by "git pull --rebase", and if all went well, "git stash pop". I could just as easily do "git commit -a -m 'WIP'", "git pull --rebase", and "git reset HEAD^", but I find stash more intuitive.
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It mentions "Mike was fed with liquid food and water that the Olsens dropped directly into his oesophagus."
Perhaps I should quantify: "not crappy for the price". Sure you can get some snazzy stuff, but bang-for-the-buck I've found the 4000's have been a good price point.
Agreed. Rather than memorizing a set of commands, if you know the layout of a git repository, you start thinking about the state you want to put the repository in and how to reach that state using git commands.
Wondering if this is really suitable for production databases. Is there support for performant synchronous replication ala the DRBD MySQL HA strategy?

It would be awesome to fire up MySQL on a different box seconds later with no data loss.
> if that "person" would be interested enough to even stay alive

If you "ressurect" someone's brain, it should behave like the person behaved when it was alive — and people usually prefer being alive to being dead.
I think the whole point is that it runs in a browser, where you can't install sqlite otherwise. If you're running node, you can almost certainly run a native binary of sqlite.
I use a trackIR and linux-track with good success. The only issue is you have to have a reflective dot (or 3) on your head, ideally on the bill of a hat. It is accurate enough that I have to use the trackpad maybe once a day. I don't think it would work well for drawing or anything like that though ...
> I presume someone has written this in the hope of people using it. If it was used on a forum I posted on, I'd feel it as an imposition.

I would assume the use case is for you to choose to use it on your own writing.
"What I would love to see is a $PROJ rewrite in Rust." has kinda become a mantra of mine, particularly for things like SQLite which are core dependencies of so many other things.
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Right, it only works on positive integers, but my original example using exp and ln works in nearly all cases (though you probably want to do some rounding in the case of an integer input). That's actually another point in its favor. It's constant time and handles the odd cases.
> sudo linux boot

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/linux/cli.js:60
fs.accessSync(keyPath)
^
TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'accessSync'
It's not because COBOL was good that things written in it lasted; it's because it was there. The things written in it made COBOL last, not vice-versa.
Just read the article. Yeah, a Bloomberg terminal does a lot (a lot alot) more than scroll "news tickers, checking Bloomberg email, and trading." When the author suggests that Google might make a play for market share (or some other Web 2.0 player), it is clear that there is an enormous lack of understanding as to exactly what Bloomberg is, as a product.
I have been using voicecode.io (with dragon naturally speaking) and IR head tracking so that I don't have to use my hands for anything now with pretty good success. The head tracking mouse has a much smaller learning curve, but programming by voice has been rewarding as well.
> Who gives you, or anyone else, the right to "create a world" in which I am a member of and can dictate what I can and cannot say?

"Dictating"? You're not being required not to say words. People are suggesting it might be inconsiderate. Although I suppose that eventually it might become culturally unacceptable.

As for 'the right to "create a world"', nobody has a "right" to change culture, it's simply a thing which happens. Some people attempt to influence how it changes.

Though another answer might be that everyone has the right: everyone has the human right to free speech, and speech affects culture.

> I see this in our next generation and this trend is most troubling indeed

Culture shifts are nothing new. People believing they can change culture, and doing it, is nothing new.
This would definitely be classed as animal abuse today.

To quote the article:

> Reports indicate that Mike's beak, face, eyes and an ear were removed with the hatchet blow. But Smulders estimates that up to 80% of his brain by mass - and almost everything that controls the chicken's body, including heart rate, breathing, hunger and digestion - remained untouched.

So in effect the chicken was still alive and potentially suffering the whole 18 months. Lovely.
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It's all about use cases. I have many tablets that I use for a variety of purposes. They all fit a certain need.

I have one in the garage that I use as a Sonos (whole-house music system) controller and to occasionally look up shop-related queries (IE - "what is the torque spec on the axle bolt for my bike?").

I have one next to the couch that is also a Sonos controller and I use for weather and "2nd screen" duties. IE - "Why does Con Air's cinematography style look so much like Michael Bay movies?"

I've got one in the home office I use for hacking, many other gadgets I use have tablet-based interfaces.

I have a retina iPad on the nightstand for reading, checking the news/weather/sports/social networks and to control my house lights - part of my bedtime routine.

My most compelling use though is for when I need a light computer for travel. Two years ago, I went to Hawaii for a week on two carry-on bags (including big camera and diving gear). I had my iPad with me and, while there, work had a serious server outage. I was able to SSH into the server, initiate repairs, and get everything fixed while sitting on the balcony in the sun. I did not carry (and could not have fit) any normal sized laptop in the carry on. I also used to it check out various tourist destinations and find places to eat while I was there (which I could have done on a smartphone, true).

I'm an extreme geek, I have embraced the culture of technology, my house is filled with many gadgets that have served me well and others that have served only to drain my bank account. I have no hesitations about buying something if I have even the slightest inkling that it would improve my life/workflow.

In the above, all but the iPads were cheap Android tablets that I dont think I paid more than $200usd for (none of those needs required a whole lot of horsepower).

To speak to your specific interest, tablets are awesome for casual web navigation and almost awesome for note-taking. I have yet to duplicate the ease and awesomeness of a pen on paper for note-taking with any tablet app/stylus combo. Many tablet note-taking apps have great features, but the actual 'feel' of a quality ballpoint pen on wood pulp has yet to be duplicated - for me, I've spent far too much time being 'constrained' by computers to be able to think as freely as I can with a pen and paper. Switching will almost certainly be a painful adjustment. That said, if 'computers' are your native medium, then note taking on a tablet can be a powerful thing.

For example, Microsoft OneNote is an amazingly awesome note-taking app for computer-savvy folks. They really nailed the balance between digital data entry and analog notation while presenting it in a fairly intuitive interface. I've only ever used it on PC, I'd love to see as brilliant an implementation on a tablet. Not sure it's possible without a mouse-'mindset' interface.

Though really, as long as you don't need big horsepower and aren't on an extremely constrained budget, it's not too hard to get your feet wet in the tablet world cheap. I just saw a not-horrible import Android tablet for <$40 on a sale site.
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Yes, Yosemite was the first version to come with Hypervisor.framework
> Exactly. My point (in case it was unclear, as I was unsure if you were just reinforcing my point or misinterpreting it)

I was trying to reinforce it.

> A lot of companies try to reclassify employees as independent contractors because it's cheaper in many ways

Which is why i support Uber for using it - they have a good business model that is really changing the industry. I remember calling a taxi and maybe one showing up an hour later, now i can get a ride in minutes.

> Unfortunately, it seems every few years there's a new way to circumvent those laws which needs to be addressed.

Which is why i support the class action lawsuit against Uber for abusing it.
We could technically do something like that, but we couldn't meet the compliance requirements.

A better alternative in a laptop form factor would be a zero client laptop, but they are very niche devices.

I didn't really go into detail about the full use case, they get other benefits from the overall snappy iPad experience in terms of switching apps, etc.
Looks like we're almost to the point where we can say "universal" instead of "isomorphic".

Awesome.
They are hoping to support Hyper-V soon (open task).
Glad you mentioned the 'constrictor' - one of two knots invented in the 1900s (all others of course documented in the 1800s and before) and by Ashley himself (as I'm sure you already knew). What is the other knot?
A compiler won't generally turn x * x * x * x into ( x * x) * (x * x) without being asked to (e.g. -ffast-math) as floating point math is not associative.
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just fixed this. reinstall and try again
To harp on the American rail system: I could literally not type on portions of the ride from Palatka to D.C. The tracks were so wobbly and bouncy that my hands would jump all over the keyboard.
As a german: This.

Europe can afford to have better trains and public transit systems across the board because it's easier for us to have a consistent level of quality, since we simply have much less area to service and trains are a viable alternative for a massive portion of the populace.
That sounds great, but where is the source?
It's both; half of it is a continuation of what we did with Microcorruption. (There are two tech trees; you can play with either or both).
I guess she'll be adding a few more names to her 'resentment list'.
Well, yes. The chicken was definitely alive. None of us can know whether it was suffering. Once you remove parts of the brain, all bets are off. In a human, the front of your brain (such as the prefrontal cortex) is where a lot of what makes you "you" lives.
> People are asking that works containing graphic depictions of things likely to cause severe distress to very small segments of the population be labelled in some cases, so that people in those groups can prepare themselves.

The thing is, with how triggering actually works, pretty much any kind of sensory stimulus is likely to cause severe distress to some very small segment of the population -- and triggers are as likely to be color patterns or other non-verbal visual cues, smells, non-verbal auditory stimuli, etc., as words presented orally or in writing (and as likely to be associated with oblique descriptions as graphic ones); the intensity and frequency of demands for trigger warnings on the expression of particular ideas, or in particular styles of expression, are not rationally related to the propensity for an actual triggering response in the population, but they are associated with the political and ideological sensitivities of the groups making the demands.

Discussion of the validity of those political and ideological sensitivities aside, the use of "triggering" as the rationale for the warning labels is not consistent with the actual demands.
FYI, it's a common mistake, but it's just SQLite. :)
All because we're reduced to freight lines, as the lines built expressly for commuters (with their welded rails and better maintenance) are long gone.
Wasn't a scientist able to extract DNA fragments from dinosaur bones by leaving them in an acidic solution?
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First, hat-tip to Marko for running a business with integrity. I really like the parallel between data and finance as it relates to privacy.

As it turns out, banks have a very similar history of making promises & violating them. There are many parallels between banks & debt and data & technology.

I wrote a post titled "Silicon Valley Data is the New Wall Street Debt" that you folks may like:

http://livefreeortry.com/2014/04/30/silicon-valley-data-is-t...
There's also a fantastic 7-minute film based on the dark wisdom of Golem XIV. You should really, really watch it:

https://vimeo.com/50984940
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I don't really understand; the images in the article show a chicken with its entire head and neck removed, which doesn't jibe with that description. Am I just mistaken about chicken anatomy, or is there something missing?
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Bakker notes that lots of what people call dinosaur fossils are in actuality just bone. Fossilization is rarely a complete or perfect process. So this may in fact be bone.
Your numbers sound so out-of-whack because you're assuming that only a person with the skills to earn $150k is capable of building a small stone hut in a third of a year.

And if you read the article itself, a third of the time is spent waiting for unseasonal rain to stop.
One important difference between RAML and Swagger is that Swagger is not owned by a single company. Swagger working group is working on an open governance model to make it even more vendor neutral. Everything about Swagger is open.

Disclaimer: I'm working on Swagger on behalf of Apigee.
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That's not really what he meant by "exponentially more powerful." The Culture is a helpful example, because it's a society administrated by ludicrously intelligent machines called "Minds" that are obviously and immediately more capable than a human could ever be. Their intellectual dominance cannot be overstated, and a single Mind is probably smarter than all of humanity put together. Each one is perfectly capable of observing a human's brain and accurately predicting their future actions, even though doing so is highly discouraged by social custom. They are truly "exponentially more powerful" and "potentially unknowable." A recurring theme in the stories is that the Culture's people essentially live as the Minds permit. They could not possibly sustain their post-scarcity lives without the Mind's superhuman abilities, and the Minds could trivially enslave the entire populace if they wished.

By contrast, airplanes aren't exactly black magic. Any regular adult human can figure out airplanes. They teach the prerequisite skills for flying, designing, and building aircraft in schools. The majority of humans alive today choose not to master the secrets of flight because there are only so many hours in the day and they have other stuff to do, but that's not the same as yielding any agency to someone "exponentially more powerful." They could just as easily have ended up the airplane guy if they'd made some different decisions in college. Cars, medicine, waste management, and energy are similarly things that anybody could potentially understand and work with given some reasonable amount of study. You'd run into trouble mastering all of them together, but that doesn't make the required mind "potentially unknowable." There are no supermen who enable modern human society, it's just regular chumps like me and you in organized groups. We could totally become two of those chumps! In fact, we probably are already two of those chumps.
It's good React practice, but it's not really Flux. A lot of Flux/Flux-inspired frameworks have components actively listen to global stores.
> sudo linux boot
Error: Timed out waiting for linux to boot

thats because xhyve fails with

vmx_init: processor not supported by Hypervisor.framework
Unable to create VM (-85377018)

might be better to output the error from xhyve right away
Would be interesting to see how this benchmarks against the in-memory db of lovefield (https://github.com/google/lovefield)
Right, and I have "girls' night out" with my friends and occasionally address them as "hey girl!", but god help the new co-worker who comes up to me and says "you're a girl software engineer!"

Honestly, I can't believe you'd think that would be remotely appropriate in this context (or that I'd even have to have this discussion on Hacker News at all, or that ainiriand would feel a sense of "pride" as a male -- yeah, I checked his gender -- over a group of female biologists -- a science that is more than 50% female...)

"Guys" is casual. "Guys" is sometimes used for a mix-gendered group, but with a female-only group, you might use "Gals" or even "Ladies," but "Girls" is only used if you want to emphasize youth/casualness/fun (hence, the group of 50-something's calling themselves "the girls")

I've lived on the east coast, I've lived on the west coast, I've spent a great deal of time in the middle -- no one refers to a group of women in a professional context as "girls." After mid-puberty, that word starts to carry specific connotations when used as a description.
This is a great question. Any answers would be illuminating. I've largely given up on the idea of hypermedia APIs that work like this, because the mindshare and tooling just doesn't appear to be there for it. I've never seen a client library that is based on following rels from a root, rather than generating URLs based on out-of-band information.
* older: the railroad was invented in the 19th century, and I think the US railroad network circa 1900 was superior to Europe...

* smaller: not really... depends where you count.

* more population dense: nobody is expecting good rail transit in Wyoming or Montana (although, Scandinavia seems to do okay with low density). The Northeast, Midwest, and California are all very dense and still have much worse rail transit.
Mega-McCarthyism?

I see it rather as either a comment on the search of truth (and its absurdity, nonsense, sense of being lost, despair) OR a "bureaucratic singularity" - creating a sustained, self-living bureaucratic organism, which does not need any external input.
Oops. That's one detail I missed in all those API tutorials. Thanks.
"We" is who? Europe or USA?
In ManualFlight mode, according to the upper left part of the screen in: http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/images/dragon/inter... it looks like it is showing the view from an external camera.
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As a long distance runner I have no doubt there's value to exercise. It pays to be healthy. It's also hard to stick to an exercise plan year round.

This is a small sample size study that only lasted 4 weeks. Anecdotally, longer duration exercise regimes can themselves result in burnout-- it's hard to make it a habit.

Perhaps the takeaway here is that a short-term exercise regimes can serve to distract you from the work that is burning you out?
I said, "Huh, he really changed up his style for this one." It did have the same lyrical qualities as his other work, though. More importantly, it had his name rather than someone else's on the cover, which slightly increased my prior for whether he wrote it or not.
That could be it. I just turn mine up to listen to music without earbuds when I'm alone, but that would probably upset neighbors in a crowded place.
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"Also, the Milbrae and Burbank station locations will be in less accessible areas"

Millbrae isn't a "less accessible area". You've got both BART and Caltrain. Do a little research author? Millbrae is actually the best place IMO in the Bay Area to stop, especially if they ever expand BART.
How are employment opportunities in Boise? Only companies I'm aware of are Micron and HP.
The problem is that it isn't so much about an interface-compatible version of $project in Rust - the value of things like SQLite is in the huge amount of testing and perf work that's been done over the years. You could do a toy reimplementation, but the value wouldn't be there.
Oh geez, I'm glad I'm the only one with the battery frustration. I've given up and I'm getting the 5x as soon as it comes out and trashing the Nexus 4. Without a new battery, it's pretty much a brick.
People aren't considering that the current thinking is that exercise might not be enough to make up for all the sitting that we do: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/regular-exercis...

By trying to walk a certain number of calories daily, you might be healthier.
To pick just one example from the article, there's the argument that successful high-speed rail has to go from dense city core to dense city core while simply passing through ex-urban locations. The ex-urban stops are one of the whole appeals of Acela in the Northeast Corridor in the US as they allow travel to New York City without going to downtown Boston.

The article sort of went off the, um, rails when it basically suggested that if only US cities were bulldozed and re-engineered to the priorities of less land-rich continent then rail would make a lot more sense.

I even like taking the train in general but it's hard to make the numbers work in much of the US.
The argument from the article is that old data isn't useful, current data is. So once you figure out what you want to look at, you can start looking at current information. Even if you have older records, you're generally not going to end up trawling your old datastores anyway.
I don't know enough about DSP to get into a debate about this, but I'm going to trust that Monty, who is one of the foremost experts on digital audio, is correct with what he's talking about. Plus the wikipedia article on the nyquist-shannon sampling theorem [0] suggests the same.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampli...