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Personally I am a happy Python developer and I don't feel it's worth it for me (in terms of time) to learn another language. Maybe once Python starts to be obsolete I'll switch but in the meantime I can't afford spending time learning something new just for the sake of it.
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Caves like that presumably connect two areas of air that are not otherwise connected, and not in equilibrium with each other, no?

Unless I'm missing something, TFA suggests that you can take a big system that's generally in equilibrium, and run a tube from one part to another, and get a similar effect. This seems like a very different proposition from what's happening in caves like you mention.
The expressions "arrested for X" is not a statement of guilt or innocence regarding crime X. It's a factual statement about why someone was arrested. Maybe you're not a native speaker of American English, but it's a typical expression and doesn't, on its own, imply judgement.

I'm honestly surprised by this reaction to his arrest. He may turn out to be innocent, but it's not like US authorities are grabbing random foreigners off the streets and applying arbitrary charges here. They (per the reporting so far) have evidence connecting him to Kronos in a criminal way (not as a researcher). He's in the US. They have enough to believe they can charge him and prove their case. Why would they not arrest him? Your country would almost certainly do the same to any foreigner who they believed violated their laws and still entered your country.
Fiat currency takes time and materials and energy to produce too, is that wasted?
the hype machine on the other side is massive though. you have tens of thousands of "investors" flooding every communication channel with bitcoin talking points and saying how much money they have made.
> there is a new revisionist history of the Western world that is being pushed, one that holds a shared "white" or "European" identity as paramount

I don't think it's either new or revisionist -- the vast majority of European have been white, going back millenia.

And very many Europeans, particularly educated ones, have considered themselves as European, both in geographical terms, and in civilisational terms -- e.g. they thought of them selves as Romans, or as part of Christendom, or as part of the West.

> it isn't really up for debate whether there were Roman soldiers and civilians in Britain who came from the far reaches of the Empire and beyond. Yes, including from Africa.

Indeed so.

> Whether we would have looked at these people and said they were "black" is, as Dr. Beard explains, pretty unanswerable

In terms of what they looked like, most Romans were of Mediterranean appearance.
That's a bold assumption to write only 30 minutes after the OP posted, and probably only a few minutes after it hit the front page.
Also disagree with you based on experience ;)

patio11 blog is HTTP only but this blog is HTTPS.

HTTPS without keepalive is likely to kill any cheap VPS, establishing HTTPS connection is intensive.

That being said, the core of the issue is that they should use nginx (or apache in mpm-events). And they should have cloudflare.
thats exactly what i am saying
Probably not? Daniel Stenberg is a network protocols geek and software author, not a security researcher.
Clojure has been around longer and is generally more mature than Elixir. It also has a much much larger community.
That's a weird memory from the 90s/early-00s, I remember downloading software from their FTP and I've no connection with Canada (this would be in the UK). Linux images etc, iirc?
There are two types of people who are racists. Those who are racists, who already think you're an idiot, and those who are not who will then think you are an idiot.

As ever, calling people names just gets you universally thought of as an idiot.

So don't do it.
So that was just him driving in and not an autonomous car?
https://vimeo.com/208642358

The car drives into the salt circle then stops.
I want to hate the FBI but also like this post. Also I'm hungry.
Too awkward to filter out the junk. There needs to be a point and click way of telling the program to filter out words and users.
Right, if only America were as "ethical" as other countries like the one that gives a person who murders 80 children a little 3-room apartment with a Playstation 2, personal PC, kitchen, exercise area, etc. where they can write their memoirs
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I'm not disagreeing. It was meant as a note that Erlang on the other hand is already being used in production environment in banking industry.
I wouldn't worry about it, the GP is clearly trolling, there's nothing of substance in what they're suggesting.
Ask HN: Is there an Amazon Subscribe and Save monitoring tool out there?
I like Amazon Subscribe & Save, but the bait-and-switch (on price, not product) has bitten me a few times.

You only get alerts from Amazon if the price goes up 15% from one automated purchase to the next. If the price goes up 14% one month and 14% another month, they won't notify you. the notifications aren't great, and I usually miss them.
> If Roman Britain was ethnically diverse

You probably mean racially diverse -- most Roman soldiers / administrators were ethnically Roman, regardless of race.

> then what happened to the diversity?

Cities have historically been population sinks, not able to replenish themselves without constant population flows from the countryside. If there were non-white people in the cities it might not have left much trace in the population's genes.
Super fast – that's really impressive! There may be an off-by-one bug. The next page of results seems to be missing the first element (e.g. 30, 60, etc). The results go from 29 to 31, 59 to 61.
Well Erlang Solutions supports Elixir in a major way. Goldman is running a lot of core critical systems on Erlang (supported by Erlang Solutions as far as I remember).
This is simply not true. Everyone on US soil has the same rights when accused of a crime.

Incidentally, the rights of the accused are stronger in the US than in any other jurisdiction in the world. He has the unqualified right to remain silent and to a jury trial in which illegally gathered evidence is excluded. He would have neither of those in the UK.
Presumably you would do a private sale or sell little by little.
Romans were in Britain 2000 years ago. In 2000 years, with negative environmental selection - maybe the gene for black skin was turned off. Everyone is focusing on skin color, what about curly hair or ...

This is all silly any how.
Elixir seems to have better abstractions at building CRUD apps (and websockets) than Go. Are you building CRUD type apps? Have you writing lots of SQL vs using ecto to be painful?
I believe Klarna (dominant payment service provider in Sweden, handling >$10B/yr) is starting to do some stuff in Elixir (having already invested heavily in Erlang).
Based on my experience, it is not that big outside of english speaking countries at all.
Call me very sceptical.

Where did he all has the money from, which he spent in Vegas? It looks very suspicious to me.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4762608/Marcus-Hutch...

* Rented a Lamborghini, and wanted to rent a helicopter flight to the Grand Canyon.

* Stayed at a £1,950-a-night mansion rented with seven friends with Vegas' largest private pool. Who paid for this?

* Didn't attend the 2 conferences there.

* Admitted in a police interview that he created the code of a malware that harvests bank details, a prosecutor said in a Las Vegas court.
But Erlang has been in production use for decades. It's not a new language nor a fad.
One solution is to add redundancy. A stop sign, for example, could broadcast a low-power radio signal, and be accompanied by a retro-reflective strip with a coded pattern on the side of the road leading up to it, and emit tones at particular ultrasonic frequencies…

GPS could be a part of this, but it's easy to imagine what could go wrong. Somebody mistakenly installs a stop sign without updating the database. Another person makes a mistake configuring a cache parameter and the CDN starts serving up last year's map. There's a whole class of problems eliminated by keeping the information local. Imagine if you had to drive looking only at road information served over the internet -- would you trust it?
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Yeah. You don't have the right to vote in our elections for example.

Non-US citizens arrested in the US will potentially face deportation and permanent expulsion if the crimes are serious enough, like rape or murder. Other than that the police will likely treat you just the same as any American, which is not necessarily great but at least it's equitable.

Now the federal law enforcement departments are more brutal in their techniques. They're usually only involved in serious crimes though.

And extraordinary renditions are illegal kidnappings so I don't think there's any expectation of rights afforded or decency shown in that sort of situation. You're gonna get tortured in Egypt/etc. whether you're an American or not.
AOO could also fork LO, and call it AOO version 5. Then LO becomes to AOO what Debian is to Ubuntu.
> The "we are all immigrants" narrative is pushed to justify mass immigration and open borders.

This is indeed the case, and the nativists v. cosmopolitans culture war is raging throughout the West. It's one of the reasons behind Brexit, for example.
After reading the second paragraph the headline should be rephrased "Who has tried Elixir and then decided not to use it and why not?"
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> Someone from the UK could've stayed in the EU, but didn't.

Pretty soon that won't matter either way.
or there are few people that have used it in production :P
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Yes, I understand, I was just wondering if Erlang would be considered a "proven language".

From my (limited) Erlang experience, Erlang & Elixir have the same core functionality. Elixir has a "nicer" syntax (I prefer Erlang's syntax but most devs I've talked to like Elixir's).

So if Elixir isn't proven but the concurrency model & programming paradigms make sense, maybe Erlang is a good choice.

* WhatsApp Scaling to 1 Billion users in erlang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c12cYAUTXXs
* https://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/395/Erla...
It all depends on how fast you sell it. If you market sold it on a single exchange sure you could flash crash the price to close to zero for a moment that wouldn't be in your interest though.

More likely you would implement a strategy to sell off a little bit every day. It would take some time to liquidate it all at the best possible price. This isn't any different than the problem faced by any wealthy person with a large position in a publicly traded company would face. You can't market sell 300 million of anything in an instant and not more the price. Bitcoin also has private markets where high touch trading desks match large sellers with large buyer so it is conceivable you could use something like that as well to get a good price and exit your position relatively quickly.

That said if you you are the person who had the vision and stomach to hold that position all that time it's unlikely you would find yourself wanting to sell it all in an instant just because the price crosses 3k. You almost certainly believe 5 figure Bitcoin is possible if not likely and a 6 figure Bitcoin price isn't out of the question. I could seem a person in that position selling a bit to make life comfortable but not panic exiting their position entirely.
Via the OTC trading desks and somewhat private brokers that would be open to you with $300m worth of btc, you would have no problem liquidating $25m or more per day at the current ask. This would require extremely minimal effort, a skype call basically.
Yes, I know the reputation of the Daily Mail. But there are too many facts in there. The mansion, the admittance, the lamborghini.
Why were you targeted in the first place? (Sorry I'm not familiar with you)
I agree with a lot of your points but I still believe he had his rights violated.

He was denied access to a lawyer for 48 hours.

He doesn't even know who his codefendant is. How can anyone mount a proper defense (the strongest form of which would be "I don't know this person and I've never communicated with him") without that information?

How can one properly exercise one's habeas corpus rights (that is, challenging the detention) without either of those things?
Because CCD based cameras see so much more IR than we do, you could probably make a set of IR reflective/absorptive stickers that could be placed on street signs that would be virtually invisible to humans but totally alter what the CCD sees.

OT: My favorite street sign graffiti is the hula-hoop stickers that artists put on pedestrian walking signs.
The tech community's reaction to this is frankly laughable and embarrassing. The man has been accused of a crime. A grand jury has seen enough evidence to indict him. This is the United States of America, where as someone accused of a crime he will have more rights than he would in just about any other jurisdiction in the world.[1]

Yet so many in this forum and elsewhere are spreading ridiculous conspiracy theories and accusing law enforcement of malfeasance, without any evidence whatsoever.

[1] For example, the unqualified rights to remain silent and to a jury trial in which illegally gathered evidence is excluded, neither of which he would have in the UK.
Don't use. You're gonna be in big troubles to recruit developers who knows that tech.

It's already an issue with Erlang. It's made 10 times worse with Elixir.
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Profiling, I'd rather not give any datapoints to FB besides, they could add to my shadow profile.
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I honestly hope author goes more indepth in next part of the article. Most common use case that I have seen for BlockingQueues is to use them in conjunction with ExecutorService and ThreadPoolExecutor.

In that context you have to use/implement Task rejection policies if queue is full. Blocking operation Put on the queue is not used when submitting task to the service, it uses Offer method instead. It's a bit misleading.
Plus it's running on the JVM, which is already used and trusted by virtually everyone.
Yes, but his software has wide applications including being used in DDOS attacks, downloading copyrighted content and so on.

I find it hard to get my head wrapped around the argument that gun manufacturers are somehow exempt from being at least at some level involved in the crimes perpetrated with the stuff they make but that for software we're going to have a completely different standard where simply making something and selling it rather than using it is the bar to clear.

Especially since so much software is 'dual use'.
Since most - if not all - airport lounges are behind security, you'd still need a valid boarding pass (and thus a ticket) to be able to reach them. And even if you don't, most lounges require that you present a boarding pass for same day travel together with your paid membership card to get access.

In this case, I assume the goal was to eventually cancel and fully refund the dollars in the ticket so that all lounge access could be had for free.
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Are you hiring developers who can't learn new languages?
Erlang has been in use for decades, so yes. For many years, and possibly still true, nearly every phone call in the world went through Erlang code. Yes it's proven.
The Daily Mail is so shit that most wouldn’t even use it as toilet paper.
In other cases where Google's algorithms have come up with something embarassing, they have corrected it. It is revealing that they have chosen not to do so in this case.
Brackets is pretty good and it's very fast for a hybrid. I don't use it much these days though except when I just want to use a different editor for a change.
That's a really interesting (and, in my opinion, negative viewpoint)

I have been a Python developer since 2006/2007 and every time I depart to another community for a while, I return with a ton of new ways to think about problems. Not only that, you'll usually have a newfound appreciation for things in Python you might not have really cared about before (eg decorator syntax)

- Becoming a Rails developer was a game changer. The Pythonistas tout it to be 'magic', but it's really not. It's easy to understand what is going on. Once you use a tool like Rails in more advanced situations – every Python web framework looks like a horse drawn carriage.

- On a related note, reading Eloquent Ruby was one of the most epic nonfiction reading experiences of my life. After reading that book, I rarely see "programming magic" to be magic anymore. I understand it all. A lot of the knowledge from that book translates well to Python too, since Python and Ruby are very similar.

- Learning Clojure and using it day-to-day at FarmLogs has made me think more functional than I did previously.

It's usually not just the language that is going to open your mind - but the frameworks, tools and communities that grow around the language. It's like visiting a new country. You're gonna love certain customs and dislike others.

Anyway... saying you don't have time for something that will open your mind and make you a better programmer sounds like a grumpy old man who's missing out on the world.
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I would highly recommend you not hold true to this. Learning encourages growth especially in languages like elixir and erlang which offer a functional view of how to approach problems. This can lead to better use of functional Python functions and methods such as map, lambda, etc.

Whether you use the other language doesn't mean there is no benefit to learning it
Yup and newer results debate Putnam's assertion. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01419870.2013.831...

Basically the only real assertion that could be made is that Americans are more scared of diversity than other countries.

As to monocultures being bad, if we are looking at the rest of nature, then it's bad in the sense that it leaves massive vulnerabilities to being wiped out in one go. For example the potato blight, black death, bananas and so on, which arguably isn't the same thing as culture is far more adaptable. No one says monocultures are bad, they say they are risky. The reason everyone loves McDonalds french fries is because they are the same anywhere you get them, but if that particular potato has a bad year everyone will notice.
Given this, if successful, is creating storms at the top, won't it continually and repeatedly be hit by lightning? And given that it is some kind of fabric, cause havoc?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14883900

"We'll just cover all of the possible use cases" - Self Driving Car Engineer
> the same study failed to find Norman genes either

How would a Norman gene be different from a French or Norse one?
Erlang and Elixir are both fine languages, but the BEAM is slow and not suitable for anything computationally intensive. Extending your program whether via NIFs or Ports is a PITA. It's great for anything requiring many active connections like front controllers and P2P, but outside of that you're better off with Clojure if you want an FP with immutability IMO. I think that you need to be working on a niche concurrency-focused application, or have engineering manpower to burn, to justify using a different language for such a narrow case. Erlang library support still is not very good except for, again, concurrency-focused ones (gproc for instance).
Well you'd have 100,000 BTC which is handily also approximately the daily trading volume looking across all the exchanges (at a cursory glance; I expected it to be higher). So it would take more than a day but not a significantly long time to shift them.
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It is, but we still have colleagues to consider.
> I bet it's far easier to write an auto-updater than it is to figure out each OS's update method (building a deb,rpm,etc)

Write some POS 'blindly overwrite files, no you can't downgrade, what do you mean "changelog"' updater?

Sure, I bet you can do.

Write something that handles user preferences, changed config files, conflicts etc as well as apt/dpkg? I doubt it.
That might sound unfair, but that doesn't make it necessarily wrong. There are also things that are intuitive, but wrong. We can reason and overrule our intuition.
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They have the brand to recruit with the budget to pay first class support and contractors at > £1000 a day. Do you?

Even with that, it's still difficult for them to recruit.
>github.com/cznic/ccgo was used to port sqlite to Go.

Where is the result of this? Is it publicly available?
I'm pretty strongly on the Elixir train, but here's where I see its greatest weakness:

On many platforms, the best practice is to have stateless application servers, with separate stateful data stores. On the other hand, the big advantages of Erlang/Elixir are in managing state along with your application logic.

In a vacuum, that can be a big win. But I'm worried that the advantages are not enough to overcome the weight of tooling, services, and best practices built around the stateless model. For example, Heroku explicitly tells you to avoid application state, and Docker is built around a destroy-and-rebuild ethos.

For my project, Elixir/Phoenix is great as a "better Rails", but I know I'm only scratching the surface of the platform's strengths.
Yes. From the interview above:

Is this actually an autonomous car, or is it conceptual?

I don't actually have a self-driving car, unfortunately....
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I made a quick PDF conversion, formatting its not great but its readable: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bxqlrprz7ys3mc6/How%20to%20Design%...

(Thanks where is due: to generate it I used ziptabs-extension + easypdfcloud.com + combinepdf.com)
There's a difference between being "denied access" to a lawyer, and a fool not requesting one.
If it slows the team down significantly and that speed is not regained in either performance or development time, then I personally would not hire developers to learn X new language.
Learning languages and using them to develop an actual production-grade product are two different things.

Pick something proven.

I worked in a Scala shop and people spent tons of time flailing about arguing over syntax, dealing with bad IDE plugins / slow tools, etc. They'd have been better off just sticking with Java.
UK is a high-income country so these things listed as lavish can be done on bus driver level of income. 1950gbp for 7 people is like 280gbp per night, which is less than any luxurious accommodation in London.

An employed UK citizen doesn't have to rob a bank to stay in Las Vegas for few days and rent an exotic car.

Oh and I would not take a Daily Mail article as a facts source. What it could have actually happened is that he created a proof of concept code that can do these things, not actually creating a malware to steal bank details.
If the column of air is really moving at 300 MPH, they'd better diffuse that at the bottom so people (and things) aren't sucked into the chimney (it would suck to be ejected at the top without a parachute but you could probably sell a ride to the top to the wing-suiters).