skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that you need to maintain supervisor hierarchies yourself because you know your application better than any other method I know of at the moment.

As for writing your own supervisors being impossible, the better word might be 'impractical'. It's clearly possible to have supervisors on the JVM given Erlang has a version on there (called Erjang). In no way is it practical to have it in Java the language, because the language's semantics simply don't match supervisors as well and they wouldn't be that useful there.

You're making the mistake of taking all features one by one and saying "sure, language X can do that" without considering how they would interact together or how well they would fit the language as a whole. What happens when you have a bunch of processes linked together and you kill some of them while they're modifying shared data or holding locks? What happens to objects that are shared and that need to be converted when doing hot code loading in some processes while you kill processes holding versions that are too hold (because they're seen as oprhans)? How do you deal with preemptive multiprocessing and scheduling when everything is done at the same level in a single language? Can you keep the soft real-time constraints with the garbage collector you currently have (Erjang had to drop that constraint)?

It's [relatively] easy to just make a Frankenstein out of features because of Turing completeness. Making a sensible ensemble out of them is a challenge and Erlang does it in a way I haven't yet seen in other languages. If you've got other languages that do it as coherently and have been battle-tested for decades, I'll be glad to add them to the list. Until then, you might as well classify your arguments in the same category as the eternal 'sufficiently smart compiler' in terms of practicality.
Try blocking all distractions. Auto-hide the dock in OSX, get rids of tabs, block reddit, HN, facebook in /etc/hosts, sign out of instant messengers. If you notice any other distractions, write them down as they occur. Drugs do help, so ask yourself if the insomnia is worth it.
get some better recipes.
If you make it at home, do thin crust, go light on (or skip) the cheese and heavy on the veggies, it must reasonably healthy, I agree.
For a start, 'MMR' isn't a disease. It's an acronym for the vaccine which is Measles, Mumps and Rubella. Each of which is thought of as a benign disease, but can have bad consequences.

Measles has a death rate of healthy adults of 3 in 1000. It is deadly for people with compromised immune systems, such as someone with AIDS.
Mumps is less of a threat but can still lead to other complications such as testicular infection and possibile sterility in young men.
Rubella is generally benign but if a pregnant woman contracts the disease in the first trimester it has a 1 in 5 chance of miscarriage, and in the remaining surviving cases the infant can be severely handicapped including sight, heart, bone and organ problems. You absolutely do want Rubella immunity amongst all women of childbearing age.

So I don't understand the anti-vaccine crowd either. Because the range of possible outcomes can be also very bad, and the chances are much higher of contracting one of the diseases than of developing Autism.
However, I see it around as an alternative to IE -- usually IE6.
I don't think it's quite that simple. Most scientific views boil down to "belief" -- by that I mean that most people are essentially taking the word of some expert or other without themselves genuinely understanding it and, also, the lovely drawings of the solar system, tectonic plates, etc that you find in scientific materials are basically made up fantasies. If you used any kind of meaningful scale for the solar system, it would not fit on the pages of any book. In 8th grade, the entire class was asked to do a model of the solar system. I was sick and missed a bunch of school and turned mine in late. The teacher was trying to ding me hard for not having a scale. Then I explained that I had run the calculations and if I used 1mm = approx 33 million miles, then Mercury would be about 1mm from the sun, Venus would be about 2mm from the sun, Earth would be about 3mm from the sun and Pluto would be about 100 meters plus 8 millimeters and the model wouldn't even fit in the classroom. Tectonic plate drawings are basically a mental model and while you can find geologic evidence of them, they don't look as nice and clean as the drawings suggest and it was a very controversial theory for like the first 50 years, IIRC.

So I think most arguments like this boil down to "belief" on both sides and it is usually pointless to try to sway the other side. I didn't stop vaccinating based on "scientific" anything. I stopped because the people who had information that was getting me healthier all were anti-vax. So I stopped based on "social proof", so to speak -- which isn't really any different than most folks who believe their scientists and doctors are correct but they think it is vastly different, so my "social proof" only damns me as it is viewed as further evidence that I am a fruitcake.

So I generally make no effort to argue the science involved.

Peace.
If there is no one to push you, you will have to find ways to push yourself and keep growing.
Beans have higher protein content by weight than beef.
Would you immunize yourself or your children for things like MMR now?

I think science and doctors are getting better at studying the holistic approach you talk about, and some things will be born out by the facts and others won't. I am glad things are working for you and your family, and certainly I would contend that a sufferer of a disease like CF is a someone who can rely on herd immunity and boost their immune systems in other ways, and not draw critizim for doing so.

Certainly what you eat has an a large impact, but the complexity of our bodies is such that it is very difficult to draw conclusions on what helps people or not.

I strongly disagree with "the chemical impact is greater than what drugs do to the body". If your diet is lacking in vitamin c does getting the vitamin from an supplement (in "drug" form if you like) have a greater effect that getting it from an orange I think you would agree not and I would say it is the same. (I am using vitamin C here as the supplement/drug because it has been shown to be taken up by the body just as effectively in both forms.
Thanks for the info. You had success in Georgia - wow. First report I saw of success in a warm climate. Maybe I could try your tricks if you are willing to share.

The only thing I just don't use is deodorant. It gives me real skin problems (rashes on dried skin), so I just use soap and water at various intervals during the day. It is so weird - tried various brands, same problems every time I use it again.

Honestly, that's why I thought it was worth trying in the first place: even if I never noted any side effect of using soap/shampoo, maybe I just don't notice them because that's what I consider to be normal.

Still, it really sounds like a fad, but if it is helpful, why not.
Homeless Man With the Golden Pipes Has Prayers Answered
After many of us regretfully ripped up our mega millions lotto tickets when we heard 2 people in Ohio were cashing in there seems to be a bigger winner. . . . .
Fluin: Like a cross between IM and a Forum with real-time updates
Fluin: Like a cross between IM and a Forum with real-time updates
Unpacking kwargs is pretty much equivalent to building a dict. The major slowdown is 1) looking up dict and 2) calling a function:

>>> def dict1():
... {"a" : 1, "b" : 2}
...
>>> from dis import dis
>>> dis(dict1)
2 0 BUILD_MAP 2
3 LOAD_CONST 1 (1)
6 LOAD_CONST 2 ('a')
9 STORE_MAP
10 LOAD_CONST 3 (2)
13 LOAD_CONST 4 ('b')
16 STORE_MAP
17 POP_TOP
18 LOAD_CONST 0 (None)
21 RETURN_VALUE
>>> def dict2():
... dict(a=1, b=2)
...
>>> dis(dict2)
2 0 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (dict)
3 LOAD_CONST 1 ('a')
6 LOAD_CONST 2 (1)
9 LOAD_CONST 3 ('b')
12 LOAD_CONST 4 (2)
15 CALL_FUNCTION 512
18 POP_TOP
19 LOAD_CONST 0 (None)
22 RETURN_VALUE

Given that, I'd assume that the overhead doesn't grow as the dict grows.
Staying alive is quite different from performing at peak mental fitness.
There are less hype about US these days. That's all. US is no longer the powerhouse it used to be.

US used to be a symbol of pride among SE Asia tourists: you have to visit US, smell the air, buy their bands, etc. These days, Japan and other exotic locations seem a lot more interesing.

It used to be working there is like some sort of symbol of success. These days, only IT and blue-collar workes who still want to go to US. The rest stay put.
Your argument that "vaccines cause autism" has huge problems, not the least of which are thimerosal-free vaccines over the last decade.

In addition, the authors of the first study you cited appear to be involved in vaccine litigation and in a business that purports to treat autism by "chelation therapy" and would thus seem to have a vested interest in research findings that show heavy metals cause pathology.

Your second link doesn't go to a paper - you linked to some anti-vaccine website which itself doesn't link to a paper.

There actually is a paper in JANE here:

http://www.ane.pl/pdf/7020.pdf

You can read the paper for yourself - but I am personally not at all impressed by an N=16, with N=3 in the control group. Complete MRI data in this study were obtained on N=9 in the treatment group, and only N=2 in the control group.

Another discussion of the posters that preceded this second paper's publication can be found at:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=100
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=1989

and the second paper itself at:

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/new-paper-vaccines-cause-auti...

You rather carefully chose to note that neither paper was "written" by Wakefield. However, the authors of the second paper noted that Wakefield reviewed their paper and actually helped design their study:

"We thank Drs. Saverio Capuano and Mario Rodriguez
for veterinary assistance; and Dr. David Atwood, Carrie
Redinger, Dave McFarland, Amanda Dettmer, Steven
Kendro, Nicole DeBlasio, Melanie O’Malley and Megan
Rufle for technical support. Special thanks to Dr. Andrew
Wakefield for assistance with study design and for critical
review of this manuscript; and to Troy and Charlie Ball
and Robert Sawyer. This work was supported by the
Johnson Family, SafeMinds, The Ted Lindsay Foundation,
the Autism Research Institute, the Greater Milwaukee
Foundation, the late Liz Birt, David and Cindy Emminger,
Sandy McInnis, and Elyse Roberts. Prior to 2005, Carol
Stott was involved in vaccine litigation."

Papers aside, some anti-vaccine folk seem to have a great deal of emotion invested in the issue:

http://briandeer.com/mmr/carol-stott.htm
Wouldn't there be sodium in the chicken broth (and likely the tofu as well)?
Fat is what causes me to gain weight. I cut out fat and I lose weight. This is no surprise that you lose weight when you your weight was stable and cut something, anything with calories out.

That said, if your goal is to lose weight then pizza may not be for you. But that wasn't the goal posed in the article.
A "sodium free" meal that includes chicken broth? Do you know how much salt is in even low sodium broth?
or HTML5
What's wrong with red meat?
Both sides say they want to keep the Internet free and open. Which side is lying?
Lot of nonsense in this article:

> Regulation = Freedom only in George Orwell’s 1984.

I guess we should stop regulating that whole "freedom of speech" thing. Who protects your freedom of speech? AT&T? Verizon? Did you forget?

THE GOVERNMENT.

Who makes sure your kids can drink from the same water fountains that white-kids drink?

THE GOVERNMENT.

I could go on of course, perhaps quote that god awful regulation known as the Bill of Rights, but I think the point is clear. Unlike a company, its sole purpose isn't to "maximize profit". Its "Board of Directors" (Congress) and "CEO" (President) is elected by the entire People of the United States (or [insert country-name here]). We have the power, every few years or so, to throw these elected representatives out.

Net Neutrality is our generation's freedom of speech debate, and just like free speech, it needs to be protected. Yes, by... THE GOVERNMENT, because that's how you protect the nation as a whole.
You can spend less than the author suggest and drink your meals.

http://bolthouse.com/our-products/beverages/proteins

..or you can eat it with water...

http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Food-Bar-Pure-Powerful-Bar/dp/...

Yes, it is more expensive than $0.25 per meal eating ramen noodles but it uses even less time than cooking the ramen and you can eat while you keep working easier.
I love the spate of unbalanced parentheses around 1700. Probably an OCR failure, but still amusing.
What's bad about cheese? Pizza without cheese doesn't taste nice.
This is a remarkably poorly written article.

I can see highlighting AT&T's change in marketing and seemingly trying to confuse customers by dropping mention of 3G. However, I don't see any evidence here that AT&T is starting to use the term "4G" incorrectly. The article papers over this inconvenient lack of perfidy on AT&T's part by using the term 4G on average once per paragraph.

Is this the WSJ or is it techcrunch?
> ssntnece

Did you use it to type this comment?
This (terribly wordy) article makes about 2 decent points:

1. The FCC is more than happy to step in and assume the power to regulate the internet, as every entity desires growth.

2. The more ISPs have to play to politics game, the more they will suck up to power, and look for ways to appease that power (ie gradual censorship).

To actually convince anyone, I'd suggest cutting most of the hyperbole and trimming up the salient points. In addition:

3. Communication has always been tiered between bundles of lowest-common-denominator services, and general net access. Past innovations were driven by modems (at least $20/mo on top of a landline), while the masses had only dialtone.

4. Don't be scared by graphics showing lots of hypothetical pricing options, the highest priced tier (what one currently considers "standard") will be the standard $20-$40 more than the budget tier. (A quick litmus test as to whether something qualifies as internet access is whether it allows ssh/vpn. And there will always be internet access available, barring it being made illegal, in which case government certainly isn't the remedy)

4. The more non-packagable applications there are in widespread use, the more common the demand for standard commodity access. Bittorrent and VPN are quite embedded.

5. If you are worried about net neutrality, work at a local level. Cities already have the power to regulate who strings wires on public land, and can even build out public infrastructure! The incumbents have been somewhat successful scaring off community fiber projects, but they won't win that battle indefinitely.
and most of them won't execute even if they have the idea. just because you are a 'hacker' doesn't mean you can execute.

execute means a lot more than just hacking on an idea.
1. I switched to a good quality, high brine sea salt.

2. I worked hard on reconfiguring my body chemistry, some of which is specific to my genetic disorder but my general understanding is most modern diets are too acid and high acidity promotes viral/bacterial growth. So check your PH balance and work on it if it is out of whack.

3. I embraced ascetism and I own very few possessions. It was a necessary part of getting myself well and we have found that if microbes are growing on us, then they are also growing on all the things we routinely touch. So you may not be able to break the cycle without some lifestyle changes of a sort that most people sternly reject.
nVidia may not have much choice but to try, if it's being locked out of the x86 CPU market at the same time that the market for third-party discrete GPUs on x86 PCs is being squeezed hard. And supporting ARM Windows may not that big a burden for PC game publishers if Windows' ARM support is first-class and producing an ARM build is largely just a recompile for the studios.
The problem with that is, they will be held accountable for delivering those advertised speeds.
Absolutely agree: eating a healthy diet is worth both the money and the time. Longevity is extremely important. Life is a marathon even if you only see it as a series of sprints.
ATT isn't saying that your iPhone is 4G. Your iPhone supports HSPA 7.2. ATT's network is HSPA+ but they don't have any HSPA+ phones yet. HSPA+ is what ATT and T-mobile are calling 4G.
I am - and to be fair I don't think anyone else used the word "loyalty", so I could be swinging at strawmen, but that's what some of the discussion sounded like to me.
Chop the ends off your cilantro and keep in the fridge in some water like a bouquet of flowers. Will last much longer!

Also, look at CSA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture) deliveries. In many places (certainly the Bay Area) you can get a small weekly box delivered right to you door for a totally reasonable price!
I sincerely thank you, it's something I've always wondered about but never put in the time to actually look it up.
For me this is the first time I've (indirectly) looked at primary sources. I'm no longer relying on the benevolence of some other expert, I can check the data myself!
Actually, it's pretty much exactly in line with the latest USDA food pyramid: http://www.fns.usda.gov/eatsmartplayhardhealthylifestyle/ima...
Thanks a lot! My thinking was that it would be the same as now we rely on e.g. jquery website that the code is working as advertized. The key in my case is that the code is available in the form ready for inspection - so that rather just trust, one can verify.

Another application of this would be to take the backend redis data file and use it as an "image" (somewhat similar to Lisp/Smalltalk approach).

The biggest problem I thought of would be the pollution of the "start" page and the management of the links between as well as hiding the unused files from navigation. That's still an area for experimentation.
If it was true as a general rule that "you should never be the smartest person a team", then all teams would break down if everyone followed that principle, because the smartest person would leave, then the previous second smartest would be the smartest and they would leave, and so on. This is not to say that you should necessarily accept the position in question; only that your decision should be based on a different principle.

If the real question is, "should I work on a team of people who are not smart enough to accomplish their goals" then obviously the answer is no.
How does this make the language harder to parse?
Like? I've never eaten a tasty microwaved meal.
Nvidia Outs Denver Project ARM-Based CPU For HPC
I have to say this particular article really seems like spin.

1. Facebook is still not “essentially” a public company

The problems which are being raised aren't so much saying FB is becoming a identical to a public company but that it's getting of some and only some of the benefits of publicness. That is exactly why this is dodgy, why the SEC is looking into it and so forth (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfina...). Quote the letter of law a few dozen times more to us and it won't change a thing. Certified investor only regardless, it's raising a lot of money in something that looks like a public auction on terms that aren't those of a public corporation. Yes IANAL but I'm from alone in viewing this as "skirting" regulation. The point is that it is more dodgy, not less, to occupy a gray between public and private corporation because you are roping investment while giving out less information (and it's true I keep repeating "information, vee vant information...").

this isn’t an IPO no matter how badly some members of the tech press want it to be.

What do you call raising a few billion dollars with stocks issuance? It indeed doesn't technically qualify as an IPO but I think that almost enhances "be evil" as a slogan here...

The reason entrepreneurs like Zuckerberg, Reid Hoffman, and countless others who opted to [not] sell their companies in the last few years do not want to go public has nothing to do with disclosing quarterly numbers

Publish those numbers and show us...
I do.

Unless you're starving, your brain pretty much only runs only on glucose. That means that whatever you eat, good/bad fresh/packaged, whatever, just gets converted to glucose.

Assuming you're getting basic levels of required vitamins, I don't see any reason why one diet would be beneficial over another in terms of brain performance.
Buy frozen vegetables. Seriously, it may not be the best choice, but they don't go bad, and its so easy to make them!
That's the thing, we need employers to actually post for themselves with a contact address. Your site is a form of that, where you connect with 10-15 direct employers, which is great. We need more of that on the boards, via linkedin, maybe stack overflow, indeed, startuply. However I think this issue affects larger corporations even more so, and they use Monster/Dice, how do you improve that?
Thanks very much for those sources.
It's pretty clear this is a troll account (ie, one that exists to post controversial statements in order to cause grief). Here are some examples:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1782355

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1935416

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1994504

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2041013

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027532

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018434

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018405

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881991

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1935387

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1919731

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1914963

I think the best response here is to down-vote and not engage beyond the sensible rebuttal that has been posted.
@spooneybarger - sure, it means knowing how to monetize, how to hire, how to market your product(s), etc. almost none of these skills are exclusive to hackers. there aren't any deeply technical barriers precluding idea guys (and im generalizing) from doing these things well, or better, than anyone else.
I heard about this on ESPN radio today. Great story.

I admired the man's candor, admitting to drug and alcohol abuse as the reason he was against the ropes for so long.
You're right, I was a bit hasty and didn't consider that. It sure does look like a function though, where other languages typically use {} or something similar.
I'm familiar with this sort of spam, but it's unlike any of the other cases mentioned recently. I believe the site itself is legitimate, but it's been hacked.

Our system first detected and blocked hacked content on this site on 8/30/2010, but at that point it was only a subpart of the site that was hacked. It appears that not only has the site owner not gotten the issue under control, but now the main root page has been hacked. Luckily our automated malware checks are now flagging the site; visiting the Chrome should show a big red page and a message like "www.startingtowhoop.com contains content from onlineisdudescars.com, a site known to distribute malware." So the ball is rolling to alert visitors to this site and the owner of this site.

I wouldn't expect this site to last too much longer in the results (probably gone in a few hours or tomorrow). You're getting a glimpse of some of the stuff we have to deal with to return good search results, including site owners who don't deal with hacked sites for months at a time and hackers who do massive attacks across hundreds or thousands of domains with a malware chaser. :(

P.S. You might want to edit the url in your submission so that no one else clicks on that links and gets malware. IE doesn't use our Safe Browsing API, so IE users might get infected.
Not at all. I've been holding off buying (and rooting) a Nook Color to see glimpses of whats coming in 3.0. With how bad I thought that looked, I guess I can go right ahead with my NookColor-for-reading-in-bed plans.