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I live and love in Amsterdam and Golang seems to be the quintessential hipster language for this quintessentially hipster city.

Booking.com's soup du jour if you will.

Basically, if you aren't using JavaScript in a web shop, and you claim to be a "full-stack" "ninja", then probably you are using Go around here as a jobbing programmer.

I know that sounds terribly cynical and obviously a massive generalization but that is my personal experience.

I don't have a problem with Go per-se, but I do have a problem that a lot of people seem to go to extreme lengths to defend what someone else mentioned is frankly a pretty "mundane" language, citing memory safety, but more strangely portability and performance as its wonderful virtues.

When I meet with the zealots of the Go community around here I often have to quickly excuse myself with good grace.

Seriously, if that's what you want... go (pardon the pun) use C#, it is a saner and more expressive language, has a higher performance runtime and is way more portable with less vendor / career lock-in.

Go... I just don't get it.

Positives... Has a fairly nice package manager like npm.

Isn't made by Microsoft if that's your thing.

Oh and heaven forbid you don't have to think much... until you do because it is slow.

For a project like Tor though, which is damn slow as it is, I think it is totally the wrong choice.

Developers, please suck it up, get over it and learn C/C++ and some variation of Lisp.

Fine, go play with different languages for fun stuff. Use python for ML, try serious meta-programming in D, or jump into Haskell for kicks.

On the other hand modern C++ really can be a very safe language to work in if you can be bothered, and you are only deceiving yourself and your project going with something less sympathetic to the machine itself, especially if you are working on infrastructure level systems.

Sorry if this offends anyone, and of course it is just one opinion, but I think I'm being fairly nice as compared to what Linus might have said in comparison.

Basically stop it with the hobbyist shit. You are horrifying me and probably many others.

You aren't writing a web page here, so please treat the project seriously.

IMHO
Check out the business cards in the projects listing, they are gold.
Are websites like that supposed to carry a warning for epileptics?
I'm going to read these too. I think nakedcapitalism is such a great blog.

I agree one is created as debt which will be destroyed ultimately on repayment. However this is the nub - they create 100 and demand back 110 at a later date, therefore more must be lent in the interim to avoid a deflationary collapse.
Give him a break. He's a copywriter, not a designer. Come on! Although, I'm sure there are plenty of used car salesmen who would love for him to put cats wearing helmets riding on skateboards through explosions on their website.
Sometimes when a pedestrian gets hit by a car, it is actually the pedestrian's fault. If you are not paying attention to what is going on around you, why do you assume that everyone else is going to cover for you? They aren't paying attention either. I see people step out into traffic at random locations without looking practically every day.
I'm not sure it's given people a skewed view per se; it's just a product of its time: late 60s, early 70s. This kind of pseudo-academic grassroots stuff was en vogue.
I guess his point is that you /could/ set this to a weak key if you want, but I can't think why you ever would
Yes. I was required to use Lisp for intro comp sci in College, followed by all the AI courses in Lisp, then a few jobs.

It's just never been a go to language for me.
This is probably a dumb question, but if they usually share the same network, isn't there some way to give emergency responders priority?

I hope I'm not fear mongering, but I can't say I'm looking forward to the potential influx of IoT devices. As I understand it, many IoT devices appear to be highly vulnerable to hacking. Vendor lock-in and flimsy security requirements don't sound like a good mix.
I don't think looking like Ruby is at all what makes people like Elixir. Maybe it has attracted a bunch of people to look at it because of that, but I don't think that's why anyone stays (because anyone who cares about that quickly realizes that it isn't actually very much like Ruby at all). I agree that it's a more complex language (though I wouldn't say "significantly", but that's very subjective), but it doesn't really "feel" that way to me because its design choices seem more consistent. But on top of that, it has really good tooling, which I always found to be a major pain point in getting started with Erlang.
A rise in violence is inevitable. The left/right are fundamentally at odds with one another. Once people realize that certain things are not "just the way it is" and accept it, the more they'll see it as violence upon them. Therefore, the logical step after that is retaliation. That is the point where the left/right can no longer co-exist within the same nation.

It's like everyone is living in this rosey world, where we accept things that we disagree with for 4 years because "it's just the way it is", and "gee-golly we lost". If you think a policy is wrong/bad/immoral, do something about it, otherwise you don't really think it's bad. The illusion will break at some point, and it will make a lot of people very angry/violent.

You can already see it happening now with sanctuary cities, and blatant disregard for basic laws. Certain groups have decided to do something, and we will be seeing a rise in unrest/violence.
And when S3 was glitchy recently [those] depending solely upon it suffered. Arguably less than they may have otherwise. But with one's own hardware one has more control.

EDIT: fixed swipe typo
This is beautiful, if a bit close to the bone.

> "The AWS poster has led to healthy conversations with my child, especially how to show the green checkmark even when things are not going so well." - Manager
Yeah, it's hilarious but photosensitive epileptics should beware before fiddling with the slider at the bottom.

He could have left off that last one ("hardest sale") and avoided the issue, but I think most people aren't aware of the issue.
> Cancer relates to our fundamental constitution as multicellular organisms, our limited lifespan, the epidemiology of the aging population, socioeconomics and the future of society.

This is the most important part. Life is cancerous. When people claim to cure cancer it's sort of an oxymoron. There are indeed no such things as cancer genes but more like a breakdown in the cooperative biochemical networks that make multi-cellular life possible. It's actually a great wonder how all those cells in your body manage to cooperate at all without stepping on each others' toes all the time.

In a way the delicate balance is a constant fight against entropy and entropy always wins. Enough breakdowns and misunderstandings in the biochemical networks and the multi-cellular ecology and you have cancer.
Ah, sorry, I was too busy teaching my large sons that 2000 connections to a Postgres RDS database is way too many
OP here, no issue, thanks for pointing it out; I even appreciate it, I'm a bit of a grammar nazi myself - but yeah people vary. I think it's ok to post that kind of comments on HN, outside of HN probably less.
Some of my friends cite 'sources' that humans came from Mars but destroyed the planet's atmosphere and had to escape to Earth. They seem (slightly) less crazy now!
It's against the rules to do this, as explained in the FAQ, so please don't.
Well the issue with us is that our business was born out of our abilities, alone the business would fall apart. For now, we have no choice to be co-founders. But thank you for your input.
Repairs of all these things are performed by the cell itself without killing itself, so they're surely physically possible. But they're limited by a lack of outside information -- e.g. if the DNA is too corrupt, the repair processes can't check the uncorrupted DNA of other cells. That could be fixed with advanced enough technology.
Sure, you're counting on the AI to not be able to exploit its hardware to communicate with anything. That seems like a huge assumption against a super intelligence.
Ruby is my goto language for replacing shell scripts and even the occasional one-liner. I find it much more suited to that task than Python (more shell-like features, better regex/text processing, more flexible program structure), and much better-designed than Perl.
Well not everyone in every culture thinks no serious work can be done on April 1st.
Thanks for the input, it is inspiring and rather useful for us.
@AgentME -- correct

@franciscop -- keep an eye out for the rest of the article (it's already written and will be released soon). I go over the impacts of an attacker knowing the secret in much more detail. I also have sections on prevention for both application developers and library/framework authors that I think you'll find interesting!
I would say, "obviously,", but in reality "on your left" doesn't even help most of the time because of the headphones.

I think you're underestimating just how oblivious people can be.
You can also use arrow keys to progress the slider one step at a time.
I don't agree with a lot of the right/alt-right/whatever people who are out there, but I think the anonymous poster hits on a point I've been mulling for a while.

We are completely legitimizing the behaviour of shutting down discussion because we are doing it too.

There are universities who boycott discussions from people who don't agree with them, there was a petition with some large number of signatures to try and stop Trump visiting the UK, in Germany people who openly support a political party lost their jobs. I don't think we're even capable of changing an opinion we hold anymore, we can't even discuss it.

Nazi's? Racists? People who think they have a right to abuse children? I disagree with these groups, but they have a right to exist even though we find them abhorrent. You can only punish criminals.

It's a dangerous road to start persecuting only on thought/worldview and yet we're doing it already.

"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins."
How cancer fits into the evolutionary context is obviously important to understand, but the author's conclusion is unfounded. Cancer rates in the ancestral environment is set by a balance between costs and benefits of anti-cancer mechanism. But we are not in the ancestral environment, and there's no a priori reason (Darwinian, thermodynamic, or otherwise) to think that cancer rates couldn't be driven down to negligible rates given our much greater resources.
I would argue that it likely devolves into statism, if "devolve" is the correct term.

Not even most anarchists want "mindless violence and chaotic lawlessness," rather they simply want to opt out of certain laws and legal responsibilities.
I bought a few of these. They are quite cool, and the documentation is probably half the value. I Think I owe it to the universe to support this type of endeavor.
Oh god. I remember hearing some years ago about the ancient ancestors of guinea pigs... bison-sized, roaming in packs. Looking at the claw-marks, clearly from a far more enormous sloth, really puts the relatively puny Guineazilla into perspective.
Love it! This is great communication, and I'd like to book Joe even though I have no copy that needs writing. (Or meet for a cup his namesake.)
I agree with your point, but am always a bit put off by these "most complex ... in the known universe." It's something that people say that doesn't really hold up to cursory scrutiny.

E.g. we think of stars as big balls of fusing matter. But that's an idealisation. Is a star really less complex than a human body? It all depends on which questions we want to answer. So there's an asymmetry in this argument.

Take a thing that we're trying to understand down to the finest detail, and compare it to a caricature of some other thing that we're not trying to understand at such a fine resolution.
I got side-tracked by the talk of version control. Do they use a single repo for everything? It seems like it from they way they talk.

In that case, I am surprised git is a good fit. SVN might have been better, though some commercial solutions like ClearCase or Perforce would actually be right for that sort of work-load.
> But there's new evidence today that even walking across the street is getting more dangerous.

This is such an odd way to phrase it. Walking across the street is not more dangerous. People are acting more reckless. The amount of danger is the same as it has always been, pull your face out of your phone and look at it!
HBM Upstages DDR in Bandwidth, Power
I distinctly remember a paper about AI figuring out how to either get wifi or send radio waves without access to the relevant hardware. Can't find the link at the moment though :/
I remember my old 8086 PC turbo'd to 8 MHz would crawl along as it rendered the wireframe space shuttle demo image that came with Autocad. I somehow got my hands on an 8087 math coprocessor, plugged that bad boy in, and the difference was phenomenal. Good times.
You made it about you when you went on an irrelevant rant. You obviously couldn't wait to find someone to disagree with. And you're welcome.
Seems weird that from what I hear about the intense interview process that Google programmers go through that they'd feel a need to dumb down the language of choice.
Watch this: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_on_our_place_in_the_...
Reducing Ruby apps memory usage and response time by using jemalloc
6.5 bil to cover the entire nation sounds low. I think the price will end up being more. I wonder who will responsible for overages.
I've seen this over and over but it's false. Adding dependent types do not negatively affect type inference for the non-dependent fragment in any shape or form. On the contrary, Agda/Coq type inference is far more powerful than in Haskell. While Agda/Coq do not have let generalization, that is by purely a design decision and not some kind of limitation.
The umbrella is just one of potential examples of $thing_to_do. But for me putting umbrella next to the door didn't really work. I'd have to put it on the floor for it to work, and I don't like putting things on the floor - though it's another highly effective solution :)
Isn't this what advertising agencies already do, but with deep learning (based on your past behavior) instead of the slider?
And I was just about to commend them for their willingness to be a bit snarky :(
Nobody thinks we won't notice when it's more imminent; the concern is that capability research has always been faster than safety research. If we wait until it's imminent, we risk having no chance of catching up in time. Why not devote a tiny fraction of our funding to starting the research now, so we can be ready on time? Worst case we're early... which in this context is a lot better than being late.
There is a belief, accepted as dogma in some studio
boardrooms, that streaming services like Netflix have
conditioned consumers to access content whenever and
wherever they would like it.

Huh. Boardrooms doing dogma about customer preferences, in 2017, eh?

Makes me think of a very silly kids' book from a few years back. The title was The Stupids Die.

If the multiplex movie theaters can't come up with ways to measure customer preferences and insist on relying on preconceived notions, investors should simply abandon them.
Are they in any sort of business to confirm these claims?
For Hollywood movies, I only do matinees. Frack paying $20+ for a single ticket. At that price point, if the movie sucks, it generates massive butthurt. These days I only go to a nighttime movie if somebody I like wants me there. Maybe 2 a year?

Art house tickets are like 5-10 bucks on smaller screens. I can buy pizza and beer at these places. There is a narrow table to hold my pizza and beer. This is my price point for a nighttime movie.

Good luck to Hollywood at those dollars.
I think I understand the author's point, but just as people here are making sweeping statements about biology, he seems to have some minor misconceptions about technology.

Let's take a step back ... my understanding of what the author's saying is that "solving" cancer is no easier in some sense than "solving" biology.

Yes, we have to think of cancer as some kind of adversarial game -- it's not enough to solve a snap-shot of that game. But ... that doesn't mean that we can't have active defences that work for the vast majority of people. It's just that maybe we need to know how to build people from molecules, first.

I think we'll solve biology in the sense of being able to engineer life from first-principles. I make no predictions on time-frame.
Pretty sure just using existing ATT cell network with new dedicated LTE band and prioritization on backhaul to internet.
This is why I prefer not to pass session information to the client in the first place. Have the session key be just an opaque, cryptographically random token that is then associated with data on the server (via a keystore of some sort). Then the cookie becomes nothing more than a bearer token.

There are some use cases this does not cover, such as authentication across multiple systems, where one or more may not have access to the authentication source, but even in that case it'd be preferable to have a separate, internal, private microservice that exchanges tokens for session information.

None of this will stop an attacker that has network access, but that's not what the article is considering, and if somebody is inside your network you might have bigger problems than session hijacking.
You're getting teased a bit but I think this is a very smart thing to do.

The automatic processes of our brain dominate the majority of our behavior. If you're a deep thinker who often ties up his attentive thread thinking through a tough technical problem or something, you need to prime your automatic process with some surprise that triggers the association.

I think Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow does a good job explaining this. But I also like the idea of the "elephant and the rider" from Jonathan Haidt. This quora post (https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-rider-and-the-elephant-met...) gives a nice summary but I highly recommend his book.

Bringing it back to TFA, I think the Japanese as a culture might have a better relationship to the frailty of human rationality. The enlightenment was a great period in Western history but it cemented a belief in the power of reason and the universality of truth.

The Japanese have a longer history of training the mind through repeated action, visualization and behavior. Western cultures just want to power through it with rationality. So, we don't point at stuff repetitively and repeat things out loud to ourselves even if it would save lives. Kind of a bummer.

I dig your upside down tomato can, man.
Hahaha, this made me laugh.. My good deed for the day has been upvoting a comment to allow someone to change their hackernews header colour.

It's taking me a while to parse this event.. I'm going to turn off the laptop and go get a drink now. Maybe two.

Damn you internets! What have I become!
As a teen, we just looked at food as something we had to eat. Talking about food was, yea I guess, uncool? And they were advertising heavily back then too? I wonder if it's related to the Internet? Yes--I will take a easy shot. Child watches enough stuff on the Internet. The happy/successful people are thin. (Yes, we cared about weight/looks, but it was different.). Child starts to worry about diet. So, now food is see as more sexy? I don't know? Pesonally, I thought people stopped with the whole meal picture taking?

Actually, looking back, the girls-women I knew, appreciated good food more than us. I noticed it after drinking at parties. I would watch the women eating(when the party died down, and pizza, etc. was ordered, and they were satisfied. Guys were still thinking about the possibility of sex.

I am getting older. I notice parents are forcing their kids to go outside. I noticed one family do this, and they have healthy active girls. They are always outside doing something. Then, I have seen it fail.

When I do go out, I just don't see young people anymore. I think it's mainly do to where I live, but it's still confusing.
Check out http://lingscars.com. It will desensitise you.
Totally recommend Dr. Tom PhD. Made a great video on automatically making NES games 3D.
The Brand-Confused World of IMAX and LieMAX (2014)
ah I can see how that sidebar is confusing now. the point was just to highlight the configuration names across different frameworks. as @ameliaquining points out, a randomly generated secret that's been leaked to github has much the same effect as one that is easily guessed.

I'll think about ways to make it more clear! Thanks
Checkout is golden, it asks you for number of dimensions in your universe: http://svedic.org/TEMP/KleinBottleCheckout.png
Technically we should also be encrypting SIP, but hardly any telco offers that. The funny thing about UDP vs TCP is that UDP actually requires far more traffic to keep working than TCP in the typical residential setting - re-regs have to happen less than every 30s to keep the virtual UDP connection in the NAT open. Telco forbids / does not support TCP, not to speak of TLS or DTLS. Completely nuts. (VoIP for residential use, especially if you want an actual telephone (you know, thing with a handset and a cord goes to the phone with keys and a big display?), creates so many problems. Literally and in every aspect not worth the money; both analog and ISDN worked far better and were far cheaper than VoIP for the consumer). You can't even have better voice quality, since HD has numerous compat problems, depending on the other side. Such a clusterfuck.

I am glad that telcos have as little say in internet affairs as they have.
I agree. Good ones always have good options. I avoid contract to hire, because even a talented developer who chooses to stay as contractor will avoid contract-to-hire positions.

I guess you just have to go with who you think is the best candidate, and if the decision turns out to be incorrect, fire quickly.
Realize 1.4 Go build system with file watchers, live reload and output streams
> His insights have also attracted interest — and, more importantly, money — from policy makers. In 2014 the U.S. Department of Agriculture forked over a $5.5-million grant to support Wansink’s Smarter Lunchrooms program, which has since been put into practice in more than 30,000 schools across the country.

there's something painfully appropriate about that quote appearing on the same page with a "trending" article titled: "Trump Proposal to Cut Indirect Research Payments Would Hit State Universities Hardest"
Scaling to Millions of Users
Raftingo rafting
This argument doesn't follow. The fact that most multicellular organisms get some cancer yet organisms with quadrillions of cells exist is good evidence that cancer rates can be driven to arbitrarily small levels; there's no fundamental lower bound. In the ancestral environment, cancer rates are set by a resources trade-off, and, since we have vastly more resources, there's no a priori reason to think we can't drive the cancer rate vastly lower than today.

It's like arguing that entropy always increases and therefore fighting disease is fundamentally hopeless, or requires non-logical approaches. Yes, of course "ill health" can't be cured in general, but we can drive disease rates ever lower.
It's... actually right in there? Although not being Amazon's creation kinda diminishes it.
Level 23 trick... instead of leaving your umbrella next to the door, leave your house/car keys with your umbrella.
You do realize they didn't pick Go, yes?
I would recommend updating your .gitignore for VS2015. The .vs directory and *.VC.db should both be excluded from the repo.
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What from the description do you think described that document?