skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jason's coworker here.

The Erlang benefits you have mentioned above also fully apply to regular web requests and applications. One of Ruby biggest flaws (and consequently Rails') is poor support for concurrency. And Phoenix performs well on all aspects Jason mentioned because running tests, serving data, etc is all done concurrently.

I was also skeptical at first. I've heard talks and benchmarks reporting Phoenix is from 10x to 20x faster than Rails (like this one: https://gist.github.com/omnibs/e5e72b31e6bd25caf39a). After porting our authentication service to Phoenix (our first), we saw similar gains with less CPU and memory usage (as well as better response time averages and 99 percentiles). Our deployment infrastructure for this service is now one fourth of what it was originally.

Other than that, Rails definitely has a huge ecosystem and that should be taken into account by those planning to move to Phoenix. Honestly, it has not impacted us in any significant way but YMMV.
This story was told better in the book [1]. Specifically the part where they used a Soyuz to re-align the space station. They didn't think it would work, because it was the first idea they came up with and it seems so genius. They spent hours looking for a second solution before trying it.
Dragonfly: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir
I had a lot of hope for some wilder C# changes with the .Net core change. But i see a lot of hold back from established codebases. I almost wish we could fork the language to target the Java-esque crowd and the Go/Swift/Scala crowd.
The UC is the top tier of a multi-tiered public higher education system. A CA resident, even one set on a UC undergrad degree isn't going to end up $200k in debt or at minimum, can easily avoid it.
Prove it to whom?

If you want to exploit the talent, I don't think becoming a recruiter is the best way to go (contra the other advice).

I am not a recruiter, but I don't think their challenge is (necessarily) identifying dev talent. They have to

1. Convince dev talent to sign up for the company
2. Convince the company that they can find dev talent
3. Look through a lot of dev talent

It's more like a broker. They have to find a particular talent/price mix that keeps bother parties happy.
> Why not just compile MinGW executables using gcc under Cygwin?

I have no idea. A cross toolchain for making Windows programs compiled with GCC, and linked with MSVCRT.DLL could be made available as a Cygwin package. All of the utilities for controlling the build can just be the Cygwin ones; all that is needed is the cross-gcc.
> My understanding is that for the real-thing, they also used the Watson Tone/Sentiment analyzers to see if players would be culturally a good fit, i.e. get along with their team-mates, not just whether they're good on paper.

This seems reeeeally unlikely, considering both the inaccuracy of Watson sentiment analysis, and that one would need to collect a rather substantial personal writing sample from each candidate.
Save the driver or the crowd? Scientists wonder how driverless cars will choose
Yes, C# really prefers adding two dozen special cases and language features instead of providing one generic way of achieving something like in Scala. :-(
Results from the 2016 Python Language Summit
2016: The Sex Life of the Screwworm Fly – The Golden Goose Award
Keep Your Company Moving Forward with These Business Expansion Principles
Server sends an HTML and browser fetches what it needs. Not fetching content is simply an advanced form of caching.

More importantly even if you grab the content it's rendering that takes power downloading files is very low energy. Even just disabling auto play sound / video is going to save power.

PS: Assumptions about how browsers interact with websites is basically a failure to understand what's going on IMO. Telnet to port 80, send fetch request on a web-server and you will get HTML unless they require HTTPS.
It's a 90 day free trial vs... free.

Ridiculous argument. Scummy as hell too.
Many companies allow you to exercise your options and file an 83b election with the IRS. This only really works well though for the earliest employees because valuations often go up so fast that the exercise prices becomes prohibitive a year or two in. Then later, if your price is low and the stock price is high, exercising becomes cost prohibitive on the tax side where you pay taxes on the difference (AMT) even though you can't sell the stock. It is complicated issue but at its core is the IRS IMHO.
impressive that he doesn't follow anyone.
"Capable at" is sometimes used, and is correct; it's just significantly more unusual than "capable of". COCA (the Corpus of Contemporary American [English]) lists 32 results for "capable at", such as:

> I don't think she's capable at this point of doing what's needed (spurious)

> Goldenrod was most capable at locating specimens in the black intervals

> a very cool band that's, you know, extremely capable at what they do

> a helping agency capable at reaching out at low cost and high impact (not spurious, but this one feels unnatural to me -- I'd prefer of here)

Anyway, 32 hits for "capable at", of which 17 are spurious and 15 are genuine; 14710 hits for "capable of" (I didn't bother to sample those, but the rate of spurious hits will be significantly lower).

I believe StavrosK is correct that "capable of reading German" means the opposite of "unable to read German", while "capable at reading German" means "having a high skill level in reading German". I don't agree that "capable of" would be patronizing in this context, since it's very common in English-speaking forums for people to be totally unable to read German.
I can't believe someone thought that was posting to HN. Can't even work out if there is a point to it. V-necked sweaters, men owned by women? WTF? Is this guy seriously insecure in his masculinity or what?

I think this was some sort of political opinion but if that is the level of political discourse in America today you guys are screwed.
If you compare like jobs rather than workforce averages without regard to distribution of kinds, you'll find different results.

You are also wrong about federal pensions, they aren't as a rule 80% of your final year salary. The normal FERS formula is 0.01 * high-3 * years of service (full months of service less than a year count as fractional years). The "high-3" is the highest annual pay of any 3 consecutive years of service. To get 80% of the high-3 (which, with increasing salary, is still less than 80% of last service year) you'd have to have 80 years of service.
IKEA Is the Largest Charity in the World
Lots of people do at 22-23, aka before a car rental company will give you a decent rate based on their actuarial models of judgment.
Good luck, Comodo. You won't find any friends here. Not that I care either which way but I'm fairly positive I know what HN's copypastemind has decided well before this drama sprouted. Let's Encrypt is the new SSL Jesus.
> You can throw administrators into "professorial caste"

That makes about as much sense as throwing the C-suite of a manufacturing company into the "laborer caste". Administrators these days mostly aren't former professors and have very different jobs.

> Here are the salaries of professors at George Mason

First and most important, GMU falls into that "elite" class I mentioned earlier. It's atypical; as an R1 institutions, their professors are paid on average far better than professors at the huge majority of higher ed institutions in the US.

Outside of places like GMU, professors make closer to mid five figures. Again, we don't have to speculate. Use Google if you don't believe me.

Even then, you'll notice my point still stands -- the reporting you linked to just completely tops out around the typical base salary of top tech firms. If professors are benefiting, they aren't exactly getting rich.

> The payroll is dominated by professors

1. "Dominated" is a bit of a stretch. The page you link lists 4,043 employees, and other GMU data states there are 1,263 full-time instructors (which will include non-professors, BTW).

2. GMU has an atypically small student:teacher ratio.

3. It doesn't follow that professors benefiting the most from this growth.

4. At a place like GA, professors are also typically bringing in more money into the university in the form of grants.

> And how is the financial industry benefitting from the peddling of useless college degrees?

> Private student loans only account for 8% of student loan debt

So "only" 80,000,000,000. Not to mention handling endowments, etc.

How much do you want to bet there are 0.01%ers who made their wealth off of higher ed? Because those people almost surely exist, and sure as hell weren't professors...
The article you linked to specifically talks about how easy it is to turn them off.
> “It’s a 24-hour community within the confines of a building—you can choose to stay in the entire weekend and be happy and engaged,”

Excuse my language, but who the fuck wants that?
I had similar experience as yours and was comfortable coding web pages via cgi-bin with vi. :-)

That is why now I am very interested in containers and microservices in both local and network senses.

As a "consumer", I am also very comfortable to communicate with people via message apps like WeChat and passing wikipedia and GitHub links around. Some of them are JavaScript "web apps" written and published in GitHub by typing on my iPhone. Here is an example:

http://bigdata-mindstorms.github.io/d3-playground/ontouchsta...

Hope I can help more people to "hear the music" and _make_ and _share_ their own.
What seems unsustainable to me, as someone who is from Boston and lives in Boston, is how the hell is the supply going to meet demand? It's all luxury and nothing else - and there aren't that many rich people in Boston. Plenty of condos are vacant near the seaport, because they are simply too expensive. I'm on the upper-middle class side of things and I had to buy an ugly, somewhat distressed property in order to enter the market. It's just insane and not sustainable, and yet I hear the mayor recently said there would be a housing shortage for at least the next decade, so it's just this odd combination of too much rich people housing, and not enough reasonably afforable housing, and yet rents and house prices are rising 10% a year in some places, which is just unthinkable.

It's something you can see from 10,000 ft and go "there's no way this is going to last, but I want to ride the wave while it's still good and get out before it gets bad."
You should probably ask about domain-language-IDE combos.

For example (and these are going to be controversial, but they're just examples):

Datascience - Python - Spyder IDE

iOS - Swift - Xcode

For the web, you get a lot more competition because it is a little harder to develop, and there are lots of backends and front ends to pick between. Probably:

Web app- Django/Rails/Restful Node - Sublime, Dev tools in chrome

and so on...
You might want to add SSL (through Lets Encrypt) to give the user any trust. I am not uploading a list of email addresses of other people when they can he hijacked.
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Even more, you gain a trademark simply by using a mark in, well, trade (commerce). It isn't required to register a trademark in order to have the trademark, or to be able to protect it. Yes, your case is stronger if it's registered, but registration is not required.

http://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/trademark-faqs#1...

Federal registration is not required to establish rights in a trademark. Common law rights arise from actual use of a mark and may allow the common law user to successfully challenge a registration or application.
> "If your income is low enough, your payment could be as low as $0 per month."

> So $0 a month is unaffordable??

"If your income is low enough." Read the headline again.
Utah K-9 sniffs out porn – or the devices that carry it, anyway
I agree. I hate to be a downer about this, but these days I'm glad to find someone who knows how to debate well, much less argue well.
I think I agree with your point in general, but it doesn't sound like you played much Quakeworld or Quake 3. Spawn times on all items are on a fixed timer, and a large part of the game dynamic is, when you're behind, knowing when the opponent picked them up and knowing when to contest them. And obviously being skilled enough to do so. Variants of Quake 3 (and Quakeworld for that matter) are still played competitively, and the skill ceiling is extremely high.

Your suggestion is that these games would allow a weaker player to win because of lucky spawn or item pickups early in the game, but this never happens.

In all games (Tennis, chess, whatever) one player very often has to play from behind -- whether you agree this is a good thing or not I'm not sure, but it is one way to design a game, and the way many many competitive games well before video games work. If you play better you gain an advantage, otherwise what is the point of playing better until the last moments?
Elite university tuition is essential... why?
Safari has the same problem that Edge/IE has - it's only on one OS.
> Lets get the facts right guys! We are the good guys that have been giving free SSL certificates since 2007 and managing them!

Rarely are self-proclaimed titles worth anything; I don't think this is any exception.

I think it's particularly laughable he calls 90 day Free SSL a business model. Or when he implies making it some other number of days would have been acceptable to him.
How is that impacted by a faster implementation technique?

Are you arguing that some people rely on ArraySegment being slow?
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but "from a legal standpoint," there has to be evidence of use in commerce before a trademark can be registered, and it's crystal clear that Comodo did not use "Let's Encrypt" in commerce, and it's also crystal clear that ISRG did.

You can also file for "intent to use".
That was indeed an important bug for the rest of our findings. To give you an idea on why is this data so important to Uber, this is what we got so far:
1 - Possibility to brute force invite codes in riders.uber.com - $5000
2 - Possibility to view sensitive data from other riders and drivers - $3000
3 - Possibility to get private email using UUID - $5000
4 - Information regarding trips from other users - $5000
I was fortunate and privileged enough to have a father who very much liked computers and made sure we always had them, even though he's never been all that savvy. So while I never had difficulty in procuring either the hardware or the software, I do very much recognize pretty much all the rest of your writing – down to the first real job and everything. I'm still very much friends with my old clan members today. Feeling very nostalgic right about now!

I remember as well when QW came out and my friends would refuse to play it, considering it cheating. So they only ever played LANs, or university connections – since some were studying at the time – which were usually super fast. (At the time, if nothing else.)

So many great memories.
This is one of the main reasons I voted to remain in the end. I was undecided for a while (and immigration was not even an issue for me) - Heart says IN, Brain says Out. In the end, both brain and heart agreed on IN, with a prime reason being that I have a lot of friends who are European living in the UK, I've hired many EU national to work in London, and I myself am both British and European (French). I don't want that unwelcoming message sent out to them, on my conscious. Europe is not right, its even broken in some ways, but leaving it is not the way. We hack things together, build complex systems that serve millions and basically solve impossible problems every day. We can fix this too, but only if we stay.
There seems to be several versions of Red Orchestra. Do you have a particular one in mind?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Orchestra
Knowing how interest works probably won't stop people from racking it up.

Also I remember spending around a month learning about interest and finance-related math somewhere around 8th grade, so at least in some us schools it was being taught over a decade ago.
It is, but occasionally I get thrown a question that I don't expect and I give a suboptimal answer. And occasionally I don't know what their takeaway from different answers are. Like when they ask how hard I'm looking or what has me looking.
I finally got a chance to view your photos. It looked like quite an exciting experience. Thanks for sharing!
The strange blissfullness of storms
For Crying Out Loud: Stop Hiring Sign Flippers
Would issuing RSUs instead of options avoid this issue?
As someone who works for IBM I'd have to disagree with you there. No one has ever told me we are a huge cloud company, I mean obviously I've been told we're investing buckets of money in cloud technologies and that we have made it a key strategy point to focus on growth in the area, but not once has anyone even intimated that we 'are [a] huge cloud company'.

What IBM is, realistically, is a ridiculously large (and I actually mean ridiculous in the sense of 'how are they not under more anti-trust investigations because they seriously own roughly everything") company with an unbelievably large number of very vert wealthy clients who are scared beyond reason of losing their market share if they don't start using <Insert "new" technology here> so internally everything that happens and looks like a publicity stunt is usually met with a response of "Well no shit we could do that. Why the hell didn't our marketing team point out that we had that capability in the 90's when it would have been impressive"

A lot of the Watson hype seems to actually be because a lot of the companies who traditionally would say 'hm, I dunno about this whole analytics thing. Shouldnt we just stick to spreadsheets and man hours' now have a named thing they can buy that really just covers up that they are actually just investing in a platform with some hadoop clustering and some racks full of P8s (obviously theres a little more to it than that).

The fact that watson can do seemingly cool stuff is actually just a nice way of saying 'anyone can do cool stuff if they invest a bit of cash in technologies that have been around for ages but large companies now have a small window where they can start investing in these technologies and they even get to act like they are an early adopter, of course sans-risk'

I find it amusing that our sales pitch to a rugby team in australia to sell them analytics tools and services failed about 4 years ago, so we gave it to them for free then said we would tell them who the next 10 players to get injured would be and how they would be injured. After the predictions were exactly correct at about injury 6 they were suddenly very interested in buying the stuff. Interestingly, if we sold the same thing now it wouldn't be an analytics platform, we would probably use watson (read: not rebuild that thing, just use the existing stuff because its easier) and it would be marketed as a "watson solution".
I know someone who lived in one of those places. They moved out because they found it too isolating from the surrounding environment.

I suppose the high rise thing is unavoidable to a certain degree in some cities but in the Boston metro area there are so many other options that seem more attractive to me--especially for anything approaching that kind of money.
US trademarks are easy to register.[1] The whole process is online and starts at $225. I hold several. You don't need a lawyer unless you're in some crowded area ("AAAAA Plumbing" would be a crowded area) or confusingly similar to an existing trademark.

There's no reason for a startup to not register a trademark.

[1] http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/filing-o...
Ad-blockers are taking over the internet. It seems that most people here believe that Ad-blockers must be enabled by default in browsers which is quite strange.
Why was a link apparently not in the most obvious place, on the https://www.rust-lang.org/ web site? A small notice across the top would not have been disruptive, yet I and others would have seen it.
There's value in face-to-face interactions and conversations like meetups and hacker spaces or math circles for kids.
Introducing: Nuclear Throne Together
First government to make obligatory open source administration software
> there many more examples from Led Zeps music like this.

Yep, there's no disputing they have a lot of form for this sort of thing.

Ironically copied from http://www.warr.org/zep.html#Thieves :

"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" - A folk song by Anne Bredon, this was originally credited as "traditional, arranged by Jimmy Page," then "words and music by Jimmy Page," and then, following legal action, "Bredon/Page/Plant."

"Black Mountain Side" - uncredited version of a traditional folk tune previously recorded by Bert Jansch.

"Bring It On Home" - the first section is an uncredited cover of the Willie Dixon tune (as performed by the imposter Sonny Boy Williamson).

"Communication Breakdown" - apparently derived from Eddie Cochran's "Nervous Breakdown."

"Custard Pie" - uncredited cover of Bukka White's "Shake 'Em On Down," with lyrics from Sleepy John Estes's "Drop Down Daddy."

"Dazed And Confused" - uncredited cover of the Jake Holmes song (see The Above Ground Sound Of Jake Holmes).

"Hats Off To (Roy) Harper" - uncredited version of Bukka White's "Shake 'Em On Down."

"How Many More Times" - Part one is an uncredited cover of the Howlin' Wolf song (available on numerous compilations). Part two is an uncredited cover of Albert King's "The Hunter."

"In My Time Of Dying" - uncredited cover of the traditional song (as heard on Bob Dylan's debut).

"The Lemon Song" - uncredited cover of Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor" - Wolf's publisher sued Zeppelin in the early 70s and settled out of court.

"Moby Dick" - written and first recorded by Sleepy John Estes under the title "The Girl I Love," and later covered by Bobby Parker.

"Nobody's Fault But Mine" - uncredited cover of the Blind Willie Johnson blues.

"Since I've Been Lovin' You" - lyrics are the same as Moby Grape's "Never," though the music isn't similar.

"Stairway To Heaven" - the main guitar line is apparently from "Taurus" by Spirit.

"White Summer" - uncredited cover of Davey Graham's "She Moved Through The Fair."

"Whole Lotta Love" - lyrics are from the Willie Dixon blues "You Need Love."
Bulgaria's government becomes the first in the world to obligate by law its administration not only to publish, but to develop in open source mode every software product that gets created in a public tender.

Older news of the intent: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/bulgaria-sta...

Yesterday the parliament accepted the law that makes open source development mandatory.
Cool, I am indeed interested. I read Aaronson's "Quantum Computing Since Democritus" and enjoyed it, but that's the only source I read concerning computational complexity.
What is the benefit to users of having folder names in the URL? Seems like it totally avoids the issue if a unique ID or encrypted name is used.
Recruiting is probably not an appropriate career to leverage this skill - identifying talent is mainly the job of the hiring manager/team to determine.

A recruiter's primary job is to find the talent and convince he/she to consider the opportunity. Sure, your ability to screen upfront is helpful in saving your employer time, but the job is far more sales-based.

to play the numbers game & bounce back every morning in the face of constant rejection and indifference. That, above all, will ensure your success as a recruiter.

To learn recruiting, like any new job, it's smartest to make a full-time committment. Once you've mastered it, you can definitely work any schedule you'd like!