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Erlang (the language) can not run without OTP as OTP is essential to the runtime environment of Erlang. They are the same entity, which is why the official name is Erlang/OTP.

EDIT: an example to be more specific. The basic libraries such as the code server (in charge of loading the Erlang modules in the VM) are packaged as Erlang applications, which is an OTP framework construct. These parts of the OTP framework themselves are included in the Kernel application, and written in normal Erlang.
Tech experts, including Google, to discuss future of the USPS
You can also check out libebb - http://tinyclouds.org/libebb/
And now for a bit of perspective, here in India I am working with a 512kbps connection, which is the only one I can get without any 'fair use' caps. The latency for the fastest DNS is about 350ms, and on weekends, my bandwidth can be as low as 200kbps.
That's a shame. I was just thinking yesterday how great it would be to be able to host web pages in a P2P fashion (after all, people are building an economy of the bittorrent infrastructure). Sites like WikiLeaks would get a great advantage of this sort of protocol.
You just need the copyright owners to sue now.
The copyright holders can also ask the SFLC do it for them, I'm sure they would love it.
This seems to be comparing apples to oranges. Node.js is a way lower-level tool than erlang and with it come the advantages of programming close to the next lower layer in your stack (in this case syscalls) and less potential for error in node.js itself.

I think people are working on things similar to erlang that are built on top of node.
I'm a huge fan of Procfile. When I use a Procfile app, I know that regardless of the language or the configuration of processes, workers, clocks, or what-have-you, I can always get it up and running with a single `foreman start`.
Now, kill his dream
I worry that your karma->clout->followers->karma cycle may be gameable, or create "superusers" a la digg.
The macbook air has an 800MHz frontside bus, which isn't even fast enough to take advantage of last-generation SSD performance.

You would get better performance from the unibody macbook and a 3rd party SSD (1066MHz fsb), and even better performance with the macbook pro and the latest generation of SSD (2.5GT/s Intel DMI).

And there's also no ethernet jack on the air, you're not going to get the same performance out of the usb ethernet adapter.
>>...in a $3.3bn deal. The company's $1.9bn debt is also transferred to its new owner, valuing Warner at $1.3bn.

Wouldn't [Value of Warner] = [Price Paid] + [Debts]? Or am I missing something.
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That's one lame "Javascript is off" warning, on the former.

Degrade gracefully, and let the client see something of what you have to offer. They might actually decide it's worth their while, and gather sufficient trust, to enable Javascript.
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In addition, here is an article about Tagmask by TheNextWeb: http://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/05/05/tagmask-aims-to-curb-inf...
The fundamental fallacy is that there needs to be a hierarchy with managers one tier above the engineers who report to them. If the paradigm were more that the product managers and engineers were both doing their bits to make sure that the product went out properly, and there was no assumption of dominance or hierarchy, there would be far fewer ego issues.

And really, sounding aggrieved because people who don't need to put up with your "management" don't do so is rather shortsighted.
By "Russian tycoon" they mean "The US-based business of Russian-born, US-educated, US-residing-since-1978 tycoon"

His company has also been a significant stakeholder in Warner Music since 2004.
The reason they should be compared is because getting comfortable enough in Javascript to stop complaining about asynchronousity causes one to think about that aspect of programming the same way Erlang programmers do.

Erlang and Javascript are similar in that they both developed in highly asynchronous environments. And with multiple instances of Node.js, they have similar models of getting things done concurrently; that is, share nothing, pass and handle messages.

Both communities seem to prefer dynamic and/or functional solutions to programming problems rather than the sort of solutions you see in statically typed, "object oriented" languages. Though Node.js does make use of Javascript's object model, whereas Erlang uses very light weight processes to separate concerns.

Erlang's syntax is "weirder" where weird means doesn't look like C. It's semantics and facilities are much more strictly functional, though with some discipline you could use the same semantics in Javascript, minus nice functional features like pattern matching.
The article cites sales of Panic's Coda and BBEdit.

Panic has been around for a long time and has an established brand among Apple users. If I wanted a Panic product, I'd go directly to Panic.com where I've purchased from them before, and I'd prefer to give them their full price instead of 70%. Random Hanchor LLC product of questionable usefulness? I'll let Apple shield me. Hence, lower App Store sales of reputable products, higher sales of unknowns.

Coda and BBEdit are also relatively old products. Citing their slow sales as evidence that the Mac App Store is ineffective would be the same as citing slow sales of Adobe CS3 on the App Store if it were for sale. The primary purchasers for those products owned them well before the App Store even existed.
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If you're advocating the removal of a tax, then yes, it's a tax cut. Whether it does harm to San Francisco or not is absolutely worth discussing. Let's start by asking where the city will make up the revenues it loses from removing this tax. Or is your solution to lay off more teachers?
The article says he made his money in property and subsidized industries. I don't really know, but I'm afraid this might mean he's even more likely to pursue stupid property laws and continue antagonizing Warner's customers. Does anyone have a better idea of what might change at WM as a result of this deal?
IP matching, supercookies, browser fingerprints (http://panopticlick.eff.org/)...
that sounds like an awesome investment, what are you subscribed too?
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It seems that 64%+ are delayed because of somewhat predictable reasons. Someone needs to build a model that shows how one plane arriving late effects the whole system.

To me it seems there is still room for optimization.
The first thing I thought of when I read this was the episode of 30 Rock where Jack talks about "Meetings Magazine." Too funny.
The problem with this whole argument is that the author assumes that deterministic memory performance is completely necessary. It's certainly nice, but there are so many times when it just doesn't matter.

While I agree that Java sucks because it makes certain very common things require extreme verbosity, worrying about garbage collection isn't all that important except in systems-level programming (which isn't done in Java really), and large GUI that need tons of memory and still need responsiveness. But many people wouldn't even think to use Java in those cases anyways, so I'm not really sure what this guy's point is.
I'm still not sure why it's a big deal if I get off a plane at a stop, but getting off a train isn't a big deal.

They could always allow some way for you to inform them, "I'm leaving, don't wait for me." (or simply you could just go to that gate and tell them. That way they aren't holding the plane, and no one else is at a loss. You don't inconvenience anyone else, except maybe a few confused people working at the gate.

None of this still solves the issue that airlines don't have transparent pricing. If restaurants acted like airlines, you'd have people in the same place paying anywhere from $5 to $200 for the same meal, and you'd be unsure of one day to the next how much they'll be charging. You could even pay for your meal upfront, only to find that they 'oversold' the meals and you'll have to go hungry.

If you want to talk about unethical, let's talk about inconveniencing customers by overselling flights.
It sounds like you're looking for the Freenet project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet
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I interpreted this

(1) Various encode/decode steps along to publishing the photo online don't corrupt EXIF data

As referring to online photo-sharing sites which will strip out EXIF data for privacy reasons, like Flickr/Facebook/Imgur.
Yes. I take license violation very seriously. Imagine if Apple was violating a Microsoft license in this way. They'd be sued in a heart beat. Companies need to realize the (L)GPL is serious. It's not something you can just ignore because it's convenient.
Net worth is price paid minus debts. Similar to my net worth would be my assets minus debts.
Yet, despite the taxes, companies keep starting up in San Francisco. Maybe some people in SF don't want a Google-plex in the city? If you want to argue that it is bad for the city, post commentary from someone who isn't an investor in startups.
Are you in a major city or a more outlying area? Is that a wired, or wireless, connection? Even wired access could have wireless backhaul... assuming yours is wired, is that the reason for the slowness, or have they really been mad at work all over India laying conduit with copper instead of fiber?
Ask HN: Do You Still Read Comics (And Do They Inspire You)?
How many of you regulars here derive pleasure and draw inspiration from reading comic books?

Do you eagerly await the latest X-Men to be put on the shelf of your regular newsstand on your way to work, or have it on order at your newsagent? Do you subscribe to your favourite titles and have them delivered to your home?

Or have you set aside the monthly issues, concentrating on collected stories and omnibuses, hanging around in comic shops on your off days haggling over prices and conditions of individual books with fellow comic traders?

Do you follow any particular title, such as Batman, The X-Men, Thor, The Avengers - or are you a Brit and a Squaxx Dek Thargo, a hardcore 2000AD addict until your dying day?

One of the oldest regular comic readers I ever heard of was 83 when he died. Japanese businessmen read their manga religiously on the commute to work. So nobody is really too old to read comics.

Taken in that light, how about you?
I spluttered incoherently after reading that line. Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/882/
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While I agree that it does come across as very biased, I think it might be a valid and valuable evaluation of some of node's current areas of weakness.

Maybe rather than taking it as flame-bait & starting a holy war over it, we could take a deep breath and pause to remember that not only does e-Mail always come across as more abrasive than it should, SOME programmers have that 'just sorta mildly autistic sometimes(1)' difficulty expressing themselves in ways that take the time to address all those layers of social nicety that people sometimes expect. (more gruff, factual communication, less time for mediating language).

It seems to me that this is actually a really great opportunity to put a list of things on the node.js TODO list (some of which, I think is already available through various addins).

If Joe Amstrong is one of the creators of Erlang, he's clearly quite brilliant as a programmer and his evaluation of node's should be taken for what it is: a great opportunity to make node better.

(1)Not that I'm accusing the OP of that in any way ... it's just that the "tone" isn't really relevant to the rest of the discussion.

edit actually, on subsequent readings, it sounds less abraisive as well. Even he says that he doesn't know why node was created, but does know why Erlang was.

It kindof reminds me of the quote that was attributed to Einstein:

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its
ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life
believing that it is stupid."
— Albert Einstein
I hadn't realized that there were any parsing issues around MediaWiki's markup. 5000 lines of PHP? Eek.
Actually the IE9 SS issue was a bug. It's since been fixed and no longer displays this weird behavior in IE9.

IE9 also does well on other benchmarks too like the Facebook graphics benchmark, where I think the only browser to beat it was FF4.
It could be an easy way to find work by a photographer you like. ie, if you see a cool landscape, just drop it in and find the photog and their works.
freenet and other services already do this. You can already use your browser to browse freenet, if you get the freenet program. They recommend using Chrome in Incognito mode for maximum privacy.

And it is impervious to DNS takedowns and you can even set up a darknet. It's used in China a lot. Also Perfect Dark is used. They operate on distributed hash tables. The problem is that without a central server, the only way you can connect to the hive is by hoping one of the last known hosts is still up. It also needs to use heuristics for routing.
This looks pretty sweet, anyone use their service before?

http://staticloud.com/about/
This is a great tool, glad to see something this useful. My webapp has a 2-3 background scripts that need to be run, this is far better than nohup!
These apply to all languages, not just Javascript. It's pretty basic techniques for keeping your code nice:

Decouple/Blackbox

Naming Conventions

Start using these techniques now, refactor old code over time
Never forget the US government's horrid track record at civil liberties, and always remember the corporations have better lobbyists than you.
"not visiting the sites that record this information"

is, in fact, perfectly sufficient

I have to run, so:
@falconas: of course this is a sacrifice. But if sufficient people feel similarly, over time, one would expect companies to act accordingly.

@nobody_nowhere: damn, I totally forgot about cdns. But I can't imagine cdn contracts allow the cdn to use visit information from clients... or do they?
But surely openness is a spectrum, and if they've released versions in the past, and they claim they will be releasing this one, then that still counts as being "open"?
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Oh, it's simple! All we need is for each node to sign their content with a private key. Then everyone can check the validity of the content with the originating node's public key, even if it comes from some untrusted intermediary.

Hm, now all we need is a centralized server to distribute the public keys securely. But that's a lot of keys (one for every node), so let's use a distributed system... oh wait :)
The inclusion of stock options as part of the payroll tax is a fairly recent interpretation of the tax code in SF.

While I agree with your general feeling on tax cuts, this should be seen as a new tax that should never have been implemented in the first place.

The fact that city hall is specially treating some companies (Twitter) is even more odious and unfair to other startups in the city.
It's a hard place. If they sue, they will be blamed as hardcore radicals. Remember most of the tech journalists depend on advertising.
Maybe. I haven’t seen any evidence as of yet, but it is early. Also, the effect of followers/clout upon karma is pretty conservative. Another way around that is that eventually, I expect that people will be as interested or more interested in their hubfeed, rather than the front page. If it gets busy enough, I might exchange the two as the logged in home page.

Do you have any ideas why it might get gamed in particular?

(BTW, did this story get frozen at 5 votes? It got there quick and then died. :/) EDIT: I guess not. 6! :)
It's capped at 1mbps as well, even if you get a good signal.
I doubt this will every successfully result in a stolen camera being recovered. But, it is a cool new idea that certainly has other obvious applications such as finding other photos by the same camera.

Would it be better rebranded to a different purpose?
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I've always found it sadly ironic that the people who elected our representatives have less say in how our representatives act than corporations with lobbyists.
You're changing the subject. It can be both bad that airline pricing isn't transparent and bad to exploit it to reduce your own fares at the expense of everyone else on the same route.

However, I will note that as annoying as airline pricing is, particularly to geeks but yes to everyone else too, they do serve a function of capturing revenue from customers who aren't price sensitive (biz travelers) and thus lowering fares for people who are very price sensitive (older leisure travelers). You would not be able to argue that airfares were "unethical" if they simply and "transparently" locked in a constant average fair $150 higher than the current bottom end price on Kayak, but the airlines would be making the same money.

For all the complaining and anger around airline pricing, it's also worth noting that these companies aren't Exxon; they aren't rolling in cash. Airlines go BK all the time. It's a tough business.
I don't know what situation is now, but Apple used to be the main contributor to Webkit. Who should sue Apple?
Net worth is assets minus liabilities like debts. He paid 3.3 B so far, and he's still on the hook for 1.9 B in debts, so the net worth is more.
I tried a photo taken with a Fujifilm Z37 which is on the supported list. However, the photo didn't display a serial number on the EXIF data. I'm pretty sure I've never seen an option in a camera to not write just the serial number. Perhaps the list isn't 100% correct?
Yelp, Wikipedia, and StackOverflow are highly SEO-dependent, but if they were removed from Google results I'd start visiting them directly. They're genuinely great products with real brands.

I think that's the best test: how many people come to your site because they saw your domain in the search results and recognized it as likely being a good choice vs clicked the link randomly.

If you only have completely random drive-by SEO traffic you probably have a shitty site and it will get bitchslapped every time Google improves its system.
Supercookies, at least inside flash, are unlikely to be used following the lawsuit against quantcast and clearspring [1].

Full disclosure: I work for quantcast. This is nothing more than my personal opinion, and should not be taken as company policy. For company policy, feel free to review the settlement [2].

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/zombie-cookies-laws...

[2] http://www.quantcast.com/inside-quantcast/2010/12/reaffirmin...
Good but nothing special, i live in lithuania and i download files at 140MBit/s .I am using cheapest my internet provider plan and if i want to pay more i could get faster internet.

p.s. i pay 17usb per month
What have they ever done that's been harmful to you?
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> If someone has access to your email client you're hooped anyway.

I once made the mistake of emailing a friend of mine the password to an ssh account — roughly 6 months later someone logged in with that password and added a spammy link to one of my HTML pages — my friends machine wasn’t hacked, but likely the (university) server storing his email had.

Also, our online shop email the buyers from a generated non-guessable address (to track replies/bounces). Occasionally these receive spam.

So I don’t trust that what I write in an email is only seen by the person it is sent to, unless the content is encrypted.

And just for the records, I disabled password login and installed fail2ban long ago to avoid new server break-ins :)
I feel this article had great potential, but it somehow strayed away and missed a lot of important points. As well, the title should be along the lines of “Understanding Entrepreneur Values” or of such. And Swombat I would love to hear your thoughts on the concept of “how to stay true” “questioning values” and digging deeper into the basic concepts we have build around the idea of “Entrepreneur”

That being said, here are my thoughts.

1)	I don’t feel the notion of “Good Vs. Evil” is remotely relevant. They are labels we put on Social accepted behavior. Instead, the argument should revolve around then notion of how Entrepreneurs respond to incentives, for instances in the case of “Should I sell my company for x million, and leave my employees in the cold” or dealing with pressure “My company is not doing so well, shall I cut back on my CRM program, or fire employees”

These are more related to the notion of “entrepreneur value” where as serving the customers and having good employees are high value tasks, and choosing between one may come down to what is “valued” higher for the founder.

A more psychology related piece on being a founder:
http://bhorowitz.com/2011/04/01/what%E2%80%99s-the-most-diff...

2)	I would also like to take a minute to explore some of the entrepreneurial values as listed by OP and dissect reasons behind the actions. If we are talking why some Entrepreneurs put “treat customers right” above the “bottom line” or vise versa, it really isn’t much about being a “good” entrepreneur or a “bad” entrepreneur. In the book “Confession of an Ad Man” by David Ogily, he argues that the reason behind why companies are not putting a lot more marketing dollars into their marketing programs is because often consumer sentiment and marketing results is an un-measureable thing. As a business student, I can tell you that we are trained to be scientist, in the sense that we are taught scientific methods that are based on quality research that someone somewhere has quantified. Something that is unquantifiable is a scary thing, because

A)	We cannot prove it’s success
B)	We are not sure if we are doing it right
C)	Shareholders would have a hard time grasping the results

As humans, we like to be right in the most efficient manner. Therefore anything unquantifiable, like investing behind raising consumer values is a scary thing. Hence why a lot of businesses care more about bottom line then customer experience. Although this trend is changing =]. Now you might be thinking, can’t we peg a value against returning shoppers and aren’t there a lot of studies in the recent support the notion that returning customers have a high value. Yes and yes! Again, companies are slowly moving toward that direction and almost all (and their shareholder) still measure success based on bottom line. Overall, It’s not the notion of Good entrepreneur vs Evil entrepreneur, but external and personality traits that affect action.