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It really is. We're rebuilding our entire backend in Elixir and it's just been incredible every step of the way. I can't recommend it enough.

The language and ecosystem are an amalgamation of industry lessons from the past three decades on what it takes to build robust networked applications. It's the most painless programming experience I've had.

These days other languages feel like museum pieces when I have to jump back into them.

Not to mention being able to run dozens of services, background jobs, and API in a single box as one "umbrella application"!
You may have more experience than me, but at this point in my life, I find myself disagreeing with this. In fact, one of the biggest problems I had with education is teaching dogmas. On the other hand, when I did teaching, tutoring and lecturing, I always tried to make it clear and explicit that what I'm telling is a practical simplification, that it has limits here and there, but within these particular constraints it's a good approximation. And the feedback I got was always that it made things much clearer to people - people felt it makes sense, because it had context.
I think you are indeed missing the point. Of course you can invoke a constitutional right as grounds for breaking a law. If Constitutional rights didn't trump laws they wouldn't be good for much of anything, would they? That is literally their entire purpose: To be invoked as justification for violating unconstitutional law.

The salient question is whether this is a matter of restraint on speech or simply a matter of prosecuting her behavior independent of any related speech. There's a much longer discussion (or court case) to be had on this point.

But as to the question of whether you can invoke a constitutional right to justify breaking the law? Absolutely, no question about it. Yes.
Is it possible we already have an entrenched system in place that squashes the possibility of a decentralized internet before it can get off the ground?

Not only is no one economically motivated to share traffic towards the edge, no one will be building physical network capacity for it either.

I wonder what projected bandwidth numbers look like (if, for instance, youtube or netflix was completely distributed) - is the edge network close to being able to handling this?
The problem is not (quite) with the concept of "fluency", it's that we we confuse it with being good at a language.

Given your situation, I would just launch into a German explanation complete with the bit where I say I don't know the real German words. Then I will muck about with hand gestures and phrases like "smaller bits of would" etc until they get it.

I would do all of this while screwing up my declensions and conjugations. And I would do most of the screwing up fluently. Less fluently if I notice the error.
It would be much more productive - and I think Amy would agree - if the case that gets to the Supreme Court is one that bans construction of oil pipelines through sacred (Sioux or otherwise) lands. Not the ridiculous one where she's accused of rioting.
Really smart monkeys. And monkeys which will (hopefully) be self-correcting to converge on the bulls-eye.

Most people don't realize that the "markets" are 49% random, 48% sentiment driven, and 3% fundamentals. If you approach the problem with that assumption held true, monkeys throwing darts isn't such a horrible mechanism for investing.

See: "Monkeys Are Better Stockpickers Than You'd Think:
Why dart-throwing primates demolish S&P 500 returns and most active fund managers don't even come close."
http://www.barrons.com/articles/SB50001424053111903927604579...
I think edge to edge connectivity being limited is mostly a software (routing protocol architecture) issue.

For example, I live in an apartment and the ISP has a router installed in the building. Coax cables are running to each apartment. I can see 15+ wifi networks from my home. Yet to fetch the exact same front page of a news site my neighbor is reading and has a cached copy of, I am routed through the backbone probably half way around the world, or to a CDN at the other end of my country at best.

I don't think photons really care which way they travel but the shortest the path the faster they will get there and the less photons we send the cheaper it ends up being.
Many of comments here are about storage but I hope that some solution will also care about content. As we see on popularity of AdBlockers and need for privacy, I hope Decentralized webs will have better business model than advertising.
If you are being sarcastic, it isn't working. Did Verlaine have a lifetime paid appointment to not create any poetry? While other artists were soldiers because they needed income?
Although the general idea of simulating a protocol for a Honeypot is reasonable, it does not seem like the authors have anything to contribute here. They vaguely hint toward using an LSTM to solve a difficult AI problem. An LSTM's output would be significantly worse than a hand coded solution at simulating a network protocol. They do not provide any data, metrics, or analysis.
On a side note, it might not be a good idea to directly glare at powerful LEDs.

French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety noted [1] some points that might not be photo-biologicaly safe, the main points being:

> spectral imbalance (significant proportion of blue light in white LEDs);

> high levels of radiance (high brightness density per surface unit emitted by these very small sources)

In the french version of their report, they refer to luminance [2] rather than radiance.

The spectral imbalance photochemical risk seems linked with cumulative dose of blue light, so there is also a risk with low but long exposure light LED screens. It also perturbs circadian cycle (flux or redshift might help in that case).

See also a previous HN discussion about a warning from the American Medical Association about the spectral imbalance in LED streetlights [3].

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[1] https://www.anses.fr/en/content/led-%E2%80%93-light-emitting...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminance#Health_effects

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11992946
So why does the playback of html5 video from a site outside the bounds of the page require specific support for the service?

Why wouldn't you just make this play any <video> element in a floating widow and be done with it?
How to handle him? Ignore him.

If the company evaluation process is so bad that one person on a team signalling - plausibly or otherwise - how hardworking they are with a few late emails reduces your salary raise then you should probably consider moving to a different company anyway, depending on how much you care about that raise. It's not that individual's fault the process is broken, and that individual changing their behaviour isn't going to fix it. If the company process isn't that bad or nobody in management bothers to read the timestamps on his emails when they read them the following morning anyway, then who cares about his showing off (or unusual pattern of organising flexible work)?

tbh if you have remote email access and sending the odd late email actually counts in your favour, and you actually care about the internal politics of appearing to be harder working than you actually are, it's not that difficult to hit the send button on an email you drafted in working hours after you've sat down at home and had your dinner. Or use a plugin to automate the process with some email systems.
>I don't really like living for the benefit of others.

It's much easier (satisfying, even) when the other people are friends, family, spouse, neighbors... people you care about. It is no sacrifice to expend time and energy helping these people.
I find this fact quite fascinating. The pipeline certainly was controversial however if it wasnt for illegal activity, it probably wouldnt have gotten nearly as much exposure. Yes, most agree with the protesters. I also imagine that most people dont want to have their meats pumped up with hormones. Does that give the citizens grounds to break into farms and destroy/steal property? To protest offshore exploitation, is tresspassing onto private cargoboats reasonable?

Id like to know if theres a form of successful activism that doesnt have to devolve into criminal activity, even if minor. From what I gather, usually companies/parties complicit in the problem activities can simply ignore protests.
probably sarcasm? that's the way I read it, at least.
Ask HN: Is there a company monetizing data from garbage? (Household waste)
Curious. Because the garbage from my house will reveal more information about me and my habits than my browsing habits.
> Loading (and error, etc) state should be the responsibility of the component doing the content rendering

It's often divided in two: One container fetching the data, and a pure component rendering it.
You think the arrest will stand up to existing federal scrutiny? I sure don't.

I wouldn't be real surprised if a ND state court tosses the charges.
The most obvious check would be to go somewhere else and run some experiments. We have not done that.
"She now has a legal and public platform to defend her actions and position as a journalist."

That's the point - she shouldn't need to defend her actions and position as a journalist, certainly not to a court. That's the point of press freedom.
What's up with all these news article titles? I can't take them seriously.

"This is super important."

"This matters."

"ABC just XYZ."

"ABC just XYZ. Here's why that matters."

Like no shit, isn't explaining how something happened and why it matters how articles work? It just makes it feel like a tabloid.
So they are blocking by blacklisting foreign ISPs? What happens in tor network?
Yes, my original idea was spouse and my little girl.

But some cultures consider that parents are responsability of the sons. Some people include brothers. Some include just women from the family. So, I preferred to mean it in a broader sense.
Really? Could you point one out then please?

I just read every root comment and I don't see one example of "low-effort trolling".
The OP topic is complaining that acedemia is too reluctant too fund things that are unlikely to succeed.
Well, he actually does have a record of success. He wouldn't have a strong following if he treats all humans terribly.
I really have no idea how this all works in terms of what's allowable as a journalist, and what we merely let them get away with to avoid bad PR.

That said, it feels like the trespass charge could be successfully prosecuted (if not for the difficulties in proving that were mentioned in the article), but riot? To call a journalist a protestor merely for being there? That seems like a HUGE stretch.
I just tried it from a commercial VPN provider. Tried New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Atlanta.

Worked just fine. I was able to watch a show that's only on American Netflix.

I also have a VPS in Texas that I use with openvpn. It works fine too.

Are they just blocking the "watch American Netflix" services?
"He has never been tempted to buy a television, but was persuaded to watch The Big Bang Theory last year, and said he wasn't impressed."

... [choppy panted laughter]
Constitution is above the law.
Ah, cool then. (Sarcasm, not exactly the best conversational device for short-form plain-text, though.)
Yes, the author makes the fundamental mistake of thinking that custom ROMs and having root access are the same thing. It is possible to have a custom ROM that does not give the user root access, and such a configuration is more secure for the user.
I'm, too, not an American but a libertarian. And I don't support either candidate.

Tbh. I find it horribly sad how much time and energy people invest in this election where the both possible outcomes are equally bad.

"Voting for the lesser evil" is still voting for evil. So why not take all that time wasted on internet arguments about which evil is the lesser one and do something fun instead?
If GitHub censors your code, or even if they don't, you can publish it elsewhere
IPFS isn't an anonymous network and you don't share files that you didn't download. It works more like a distributed CDN for static files.
Well the way I learned it, you kindle fires by igniting the kindling. The kindling then ignites tinder (an intermediate stage), which then ignites the real fuel.

But I also often hear the two-step usage where tinder is includes kindling.
So if I understand correctly, this has nothing to do with the students attending these schools and instead concerns the course materials made free to the public.

I don't know -- I understand that it must not be helpful for deaf students, but it seems like it would be cheaper for the schools to just stop sharing the courses instead of dealing with a lawsuit. What does the NAD expect to have happen?
Google Code shut down, and everything of interest moved. There was no problem.
It isn't arrogant to assume other people are at least as well read as you are. It would be arrogant to assume that they aren't.
Yes, I use https://github.com/larose/utt

Disclosure: I'm the author.
"Yes and no. I'd have a hard time driving from Norway to the US, or Japan. I might drive to Germany, but it would be much more pleasant to fly, take a combination of train and boat, or just go by train."

I encourage you, no, plead with you - drive your car to Germany. It's so much fun and so enjoyable and spontaneous to drive internationally. You can stop anywhere something interests you and hold to whatever timeline you like.

One of the more stupefying cultural traits of young europeans that I know is the unwillingness (even among car owners) to take driving vacations. This is especially unbelievable when you consider that europeans could literally drive to China, let alone Italy/Greece/Russia/CZ/Spain/Turkey/etc.
Actually, it's even easier than this: they just make a list of accounts that have connected via a border-hopping service, then block that service, and then see where the listed accounts connect through. Since the accounts themselves can be flagged, Netflix will always have the advantage in detecting new workarounds.
I think the constitution is the law. Right?
Even if you don't like JavaScript, it's really surprising to me that a CTO picks something like Elm that nobody uses and only a few know or are interested in [1].

I'm curious to know how the author will recruit developers, specially in France. My last company migrated all its backend in Node this year, ONLY because it was the easiest option to recruit full-stack developers. The market is completely saturated here (there are a lot more offers than developpers), you spend months to recruit a front-end developer or a full-stack developer with front-end knowledge, and I don't see how you can attract someone with Elm. Having 1 or 2 years of xp in Elm on a resume is not really usefull when all the companies use JavaScript. You don't even know if Elm will still be there in 2 years.

[1] http://stateofjs.com/2016/flavors
Leaving out the marketing hyperbole, it means that Numerai's core software is an automated trading system derived from, and ostensibly trained on, the most accurate pricing models and insights put forward by participants (the data scientists).

Participants with the most accurate [1] insights are paid a sum in exchange for the insights being incorporated into the hedge fund's trading system, which in turn manages the fund's capital.

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1. "Accurate" is a tricky word and I can't comment here on how much effort Numerai puts into ensuring that insights are accurate over meaningful time scales instead of being the result of e.g. overfitting. The insights could presumably be accurate on ranges of anywhere between "once" and "months."
Again, with your edit, you miss the point. You can invoke any amendment you want at any point in a legal defense; whether or not you win is a matter of how you justify it.

Killing a person and calling it 'performance art' is a totally different type of case than what we have here.
There is sort of heroic stereotype of "real men" from the past. And today most men have some feminine traits, and do not fit well into that stereotype. Here is sort of example: http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/rod-eccles/where-have-all-...

The point is the fact they were called "pussy", not the outrage. There was some feminine trait for which they were called 'pussy".

> Other people have opted out of that arms race and

Majority of people have opted from traditional gender roles. Marriage is at all time low.

> don't feel obliged to obey the gender roles about their clothing/style/personality (or their bodies).

I assume you are talking about LGBT, more specifically trans. By being trans you are expected to follow another gender stereotype (clothing, style, personality). All trans are expected to overcompensate; wear similar makeup, hairstyle, have mild depression, have certain political opinion. Also being trans should be a result of deep existentialist crisis...

50 years old guy with a beard, truck, wife and kids. Guy who become trans for some trivial reason (job, avoid draft), does not fit well into this gender stereotype. And he should not be a trans (but in theory he has a right to be).

> Say that to your average transphobic/antifeminist "activist".

It depends how you phrase it. Those groups have a folklore about gender-fluid women (hairy feminist). And most guys will agree they are not "men enough" to marry.

> Do I fear being discriminated by people like them in the job/housing market, or harassed?

Guys after divorce have a similar problem. It depends a lot on a vibe.

Rest of the comment is pretty loaded. Feminist interests are not always aligned with trans-gender interests (military service, prison rape..)
> Are journalists immune from laws? Which laws? What constitutes a journalist? These are the kinds of questions that courts sort out.

You state this as if it needs to be done. It's settled law. The state is clearly overreaching.

Journalistic freedoms shouldn't have to be retried just because some large corporation is irked.
I doubt anyone on HN would pay for a service like UFlix when the DIY alternative is much more efficient.

For less cost we use our own US-based vps, running something like the shadowsocks proxy. It's the same rig we found to work the best in China against the great firewall.

With its own dedicated IP, it would likely be cost-inefficient for Netflix to detect without blocking an entire range of legitimate IP addresses.
That's just binary? I find hex notation much easier to use and to communicate verbally.
Netflix has been messing with settings in their system that are breaking the experience for users in the middle of the US too. For the last two weekends I've been getting strange experiences accessing their site from my house.

My PC works fine and can access content. My cell phone, connected to the same home wireless randomly gets messages "You are using a proxy and cannot access this content". Testing both units on whatismyip.com and my own web server show that requests are coming from the same IP. A day or two later it will start working just fine. Stop breaking things or I'll just stick with Amazon and drop your service.
There's so much content on Canadian Netflix these days (Star Wars!), why would anyone bother with it?

As an aside, when I was in Paris, a hotel I was staying at routed their free WiFi through a US VPN (presumably so the Americans wouldn't be offended by having Google return results in French or some shit), and I couldn't even watch French Netflix in France! So annoying.
When you have Donna Brazile feeding the Clinton campaign townhall questions so that she can prepare the answers. Threats for super delegates switching to Bernie and Debbie Wasserman Shultz stepping down. It's clear evidence of a rigged election. Who knows what was happening that is not in the emails.
> ...I don't get it? This sounds like it should be saying we try to "plan ahead" too much, but then the description seems to say we don't do enough.

My view may be biased by my experience, but I understand it that - no matter how beautiful logical structure you invent that makes all the requirements fit perfectly, the business will quickly come up with a new case that doesn't really fit anything. Business requirements are unpredictable because they make no fucking sense - they're combination of what managers think customers need, what marketing thinks it needs, what future visions your boss has that he didn't tell you (or that he doesn't himself even understand yet), all with a sprinkle of peoples' moods and the subtle influence of phases of the Moon.

See also the motto of American Army - "If we don't know what we're doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions!" ;).
So are you saying that Trump is better because he could not be impeached?
> far more people want to learn/use Python than lisp.

It's also much simpler than Lisp, without the confusing ideas of 'code as data' and 'programmable programming language'.
Just to clarify, you think that opposing immigration makes someone a nazi?
This won't work longer term if you also watch shows from your home region. A former Netflix engineer and I were talking about enforcing this sort of thing and people who "hop regions" always watch shows from different regions at different times. That flags your account, and your "home region" is known from your billing address and the "other" regions will get locked out.

From what I understood they were still working on the "driller" problem where people who live in Canada but work in the US as oil drillers/exploration folks during the week in the northern part of the state, and go home for weekends. But the thing you can't change are watching shows from two different regions on the same account.
The reverse could be to say the activists like Amy Goodman are exploiting the 1st amendment to push their agenda. She isn't really a reporter.

The first amendment protects both freedom of the press and freedom of speech. Pushing one's agenda, even if that's what she's doing, is definitively protected and not an "exploit".
25 years ago Amy Goodman very narrowly avoided execution while covering the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.[1] Her brave reporting brought attention to one of the worst atrocities relative to population of our lifetimes, in which perhaps a quarter of the population were killed by Indonesian forces with weapons supplied by the United States. Prior to this any mention of East Timor was pretty much mocked and there was a total media blackout on the U.S. role in supporting Indonesia's brutal government.

I think she can handle this one.

[1] http://m.democracynow.org/stories/7169
The US has a long history of county officials doing things they shouldn't. This case deserves attention, but it's hardly consequential evidence that freedom of the press is under some new threat.
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Yes that's one of the foundational ideas of evo bio. Young people are more risk-seeking.
I know that it's not Netflix's fault per se and they're under pressure from the dinosaurs running the media companies. However really well done - you're now leaving people with no choice but to torrent again.
ugh. Hollywood should just release content globally at the same time so this won't be an issue.
Constitution is above the law because it is not the law. It cannot be changed the same way that a law can; it doesn't go into the low-level things that laws generally do. In many ways it is a repository of meta-law. It defines the boundaries of laws and rights.
Literally there were fewer cities with McDonald's 20 years ago. Globalization is real.
It's still hard to produce photonic circuitry at the complexity we need for CPUs and such.

Graphine and nano carbon and carbyne and whatnot? Could be what we need to produce a post-5nm IC fabrication technology for manufacturers.