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This is probably a HN phenomenon rather than being Erlang specific. I suspect that as HN ramped up in users, we learned all these great new technologies and now they are 'old' to the community.

Thats why you dont see as many posts about nginx, node, nosql, erlang, haskell, etc. At least not nearly as much as 2,3,4 years ago.

The most popular language I see now on HN is clojure, which tells me a lot about which language stuck with people.
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I completely agree with you here. Having used Visual Studio as my primary editor for a long time, I finally decided to give vim a try last year given how all my hacker friends raved about it. It definitely took a few days of understanding the basic concepts and going over the steep learning curve, but now I'm way more efficient with my coding than before.

It's been the same experience with git. It definitely has a steeper learning curve, especially coming from a centralized source control system like TFS and Perforce (for me at least), but having worked through that curve, I feel git has been much more useful to my workflows than what TFS or Perforce (or insert any central source control system) has ever been.
Another good reason for using fictional examples when it fits your argument is that their contexts are more limited and less likely to trip context-driven ideological or emotional biases.
Sure - you need physical access to get to someone's post-its. Might as well install a keylogger then.
So, two prehistoric men discuss cooking:
- cooking meat should make you live longer
- I don't know, man, my father always ate raw meat
and he lived without any problems all the way
till the old age of twenty one!

My point being, just because it's the old way, doesn't mean it's the better way.
What happens when you make a mistake? How do your manager and peers react?
lein new noir myBigWebApp

http://webnoir.org/

I think Clojure makes a lot of sense for the web, emphasis on immutability etc. I also am a sucker for lisps, and I think the Hiccup templating system is nice. Noir seems to do middleware well. Plus, real nerds get on that ClojureScript.

Then again, I kind of also believe that the back-end really shouldn't do much more than process CRUD commands, and that most of your serious application logic should happen on the client. So it doesn't really matter. Pick something with a DB adapter you're comfortable with and get to javascripting.
A while ago I started using my camel cased name: JeanHuguesRobert (some sites don't like jean_hugues_robert)

Long and weird enough. Well, too long sometimes. In those cases I revert to my "unix login name" ie jhrobert.

But, for twitter, where size matters, I got @jhr - I guess it must have been a long time ago.
It's really unfortunate that there are still places where people casually call 1 mbps "broadband." It's the same in rural areas of the USA though.
Because the whole point is to be maximally explicit and not implicit.
Although I think there are degrees of mathematical understanding in ML, and I've noticed people often mean very different things when they make statements like "less mathematically rigorous". Understanding how/why regularization works is pretty trivial mathematics and if you don't understand how that works I'd agree that ML is a bit too 'black box'. But look at something like the Kernel trick in SVMs. I'd argue it's important to understand the idea of mapping points in one dimensionality to another in order to understand why you would use a linear vs Gaussian kernel. However the mathematics required to create your own kernel functions is much less trivial. If you're going to be doing original research is SVMs I would say this is required math, but for practical ML knowledge of 'how' a kernel behaves without a deep understanding of 'why' would be adequate. I would consider an understanding of how but not why to be 'less mathematically rigorous'
Well argued and the right time to make the case for the harm that comes from helicopter parenting, with good evidence.

This made me laugh though: "If there’s a predator loose in the neighborhood, your daughter doesn’t get to go to the mall.". Is that because I'm from somewhere that spells it neighbourhood instead of from the US or just because I understand statistics? Do the kinds of people reading an NYT article about raising successful children actually think that "predator on the loose" is a real thing outside of very rare events?
But a lack of buildings (due to the Wall) should mean rents are higher. Same for bombing destroying buildings, this results in fewer building on the market.

As to pre-war architecture, all of Europe, including Eastern Europe is full of it.

The only thing which might give me some insight is that you mention it takes time for the population to build back up?

So rents are cheap because Berlin is today still under populated?

But why is that? Or why are other formerly bombed out cities not also under populated? In Easter Europe there is still a lot of migration from the smaller cities and villages into the big cities. This may be why those are more expensive than Berlin. But that only begs the question why is Berlin specifically so slow to re-populate? Is it because other German large cities, even with higher rent, are more attractive? Which would explain why the rent there is higher?
No. Mars having less atmosphere is exactly the point. Such an entry system hitting Earth's atmosphere would be like slamming into a brick wall--it wouldn't survive. And the greater density air on Earth would make the sky crane segment completely unstable. Not to mention that Earth's gravity is simply too large--components of the system would be crushed under their own weight.

Believe it, because it's true.
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Python/Django or Ruby on Rails. If you have to move fast and change ideas quick and timely. Pick on of them.

Given my current project where i am the sole developer i dont want to know how much more time i would have spent coding in e.g. PHP.
I /kind of/ respected Malcolm Gladwell until I found out he is just a shill for big tobacco.

http://shameproject.com/profile/malcolm-gladwell-2/
Berlin's cheap because it's located in the middle of former East Germany, which has cheaper rents than West Germany.

Right, but the original comment claims is cheaper even than most East European capitals, most of which were and still are in even worse economic shape than East Berlin.

The other claim is that it's actually a great city, but you say that other cities probably have more economic opportunity which does explain why Berlin might be so cheap.
Communities like this were a factor in accelerating the broadband buildout in Sweden as well.

Here, when we broke up the telco monopoly, instead of splitting it up regionally (like AT&T), they were split into roles. So after the splitup, the ownership of all the POTS copper and related infrastructure (buildings, backhaul etc) ended up as a separate entity[0] who had to treat everyone the same and couldn't favor a single telco.

Come DSL. To get DSL, this company obviously has to upgrade the local switches for DSLAM operations, and for this operation they would charge the first telco to request a DSL connection for the upgrade. In the DSL buildout rush at the turn of the century, the big telcos obviously focused on densely populated areas. So people who lived on switches that were too small to be attractive to any big telco would start up a coop like this to save up to pay for the upgrade themselves, and there were several small broadband operators who would take care of the technical, broadband-providing bit. And once your switch was upgraded, suddenly you could get your pick of any of the DSL providers.

There were/are also a ton of small, local wireless providers who use directional antennas to service people who live too far away from a DSLAM.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skanova
I don't know if I'm too cynical, or if he's too optimistic, but the "as long as the ideas in the book cause them to think" part is where I think he misses the mark. I know too many people who read them as gospel.
Did you read the article? It explains this in detail. A couple of things here.

First, trivial bits of a work with minimal creative expression are not covered by copyright. This sort of thing is called "de minimis". You can't assert copyright, for example, on the words "You're welcome" just because they appeared in a work you've copyrighted. If you could, you'd certainly be rich, but that kind of rent seeking is a little beyond the purpose of copyright. Rebecca Black's "Friday", as awful as it may be, is full of creative expression. Google is arguing that rangeCheck is extremely minimal and perfunctory, kind of like if it were accused of copying the word "Partying" from Rebecca Black.

Second, IIRC Oracle is making a big deal out of this copying. Google was willing to pay a statuory fee for its indiscretion just like it would if it had actually used a trivial function from a high schooler, but Oracle is trying to make this function out to be a difficult and important part of Java, meaning it deserves a share of Google's profits.
This was a great 200th episode. Congratulations on the milestone guys and thank your wives again.
One thing that struck me reading this is that many of us from the first batch are still in the YC orbit. Exec (JKan) and Hipmunk (Steve, Alexis, and Chris) went through YC, and Justin, Emmett, and I are part-time YC partners.
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Casino games aren't really games either. They're all solved, when you play them you've already lost, and the best thing you can do (other than leave) is follow the program to lose the least (barring blackjack, which gives you something like a +0.1% with ideal play IIRC.) The only way to win a casino game is to stop playing. Casino games are "games" like lottery tickets and Candyland are "games," and far less than sports books or parimutuel race betting are.

Any definition of "game" that is inclusive of casino games can pretty much encompass any process that has steps that are done in turn. They are simply spaced doses of reward and punishment doled out by a random number generator.

Poker, like you said, is not a casino game. It can be made into a casino game, as long as you remove all opponents and rearrange the rules to make it a constantly losing proposition.
Micropreneur Academy? It's not the perfect fit for everyone, and it's not free, but I've heard good things.
The point is not that it could be written by a high schooler once, but that, given the same constraints, it could be written by a high schooler again without ever having seen the original.

If I could give you a vague description of "Friday" and you could immediately go and produce the exact lyrics and melody that Black did, I'd say it wouldn't deserve copyright protection either. Of course, "Friday" is far more complex than that.
> Can someone explain to me why it isn't possible to steer the capsule with the heat shield such that it can be used to deplete virtually all of its speed?

They do exactly that. But Mars' atmosphere is so thin that terminal velocity of the capsule is still supersonic.

> I can imagine a system where the capsule pitches up near the end of its run so that it starts gaining altitude and then deploys a parachute for landing once it has reached its apogee.

Parachutes don't help enough in 0.007atm. Even with the biggest chutes possible (remember: they're heavy!), you'd still be hurtling towards the ground like a missile.

> Another thing is the crane mechanism, which is to protect the rover from the debris kicked up from the rocket motors. I was wondering why the rover couldn't just be encased in a simple lightweight protective box and then placed directly on the deck?

Weight. Believe it or not, the sky crane delivers more payload to the surface.

> I appreciate that their system probably is the best design as they are a smart bunch, however I haven't heard the reason's why some of the more conventional mechanisms weren't used.
>
> Does anyone have any links to the other designs that were considered and rejected?

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2009000...
Note the use of the NEXTID tag, which was already listed as "historical reasons only" in HTML 2.
Yes, in The Netherlands it's perfectly legal. We have to pay a considerable fee for our blank media (it's twice UK price) but in return downloads are accepted.

That's why NNTP "sharing" is so popular here.
FWIW we sold a few million units between the A1000 and the A500 over the lifetime of the product. The FreeBSD folks weren't interested in some "other" way to manage system configuration (it was all user level anyway), and third party awareness isn't a measure of quality for any product.

To this comment "Well, I could have posted this from the HN account I abandoned 4 years ago but who cares." I don't know if anyone 'cares' whether you post on a newly created count or existing count, but I do care that creating a throwaway with a snarky name often can indicate a lot of unresolved personal pain and anger on the part of the poster. That stuff can eat away at you and leave you in a bad place. As a community we've lost too many good people to unresolved anger and depression.
Amazing how you could change a few phrases here and there and turn this straight into a Michael Lewis how to.

Just trade business for high finance with a pinch of major league sports and spend your anecdotes on overwrought descriptions of your main character's idiosyncrasies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis
Was expecting a much larger gap in performance from standard frameworks, it's not that faster after all. And how can PHP with it's per-request lifecycle be faster?

Cache for the performance comparison: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wSdyzM4...
Using obscenities is almost always the lazy way out. Its presence signals that whatever is being said might not be totally serious. It's a marker of casual speech, and emotional thinking.
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I'd agree with this, and append the suggestion that if particular parts of your application have high performance demands, those should actually be decoupled from the main app into API'd services. This tends to make the entire application more elegant while using the appropriate technology for each task.
Just searching $100 logo gave me a bunch of hits, like these guys:

http://www.100dollarlogo.com/

Designing a logo is one of those things, like naming, where lots of effort may be spent on seemingly small outcomes. That's because a good designer will generate a ton of options and spend a long time thinking about what message your logo needs to convey.
Whoops, i forgot to mention http://code.google.com/p/gorilla/
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"I'm not sure how to solve this problem"

Easy. CSR has exactly the same screen as you do. With the same security questions as you have. In this case it seems, those questions were never asked. You design CSR frontend where they must themselves answer those questions before proceed. You may pay off that CSR, but she/he does not know answers to those questions so she/he can not do a thing.

If you forgot answer to those questions, alert is escalated, which needs two together CSR's + their supervisor to unlock your account + you must make Facetime call + whole process gets documented carefully.

What did I miss?
It reminds me of the results of my highschool art class project 25 years ago. We were given a sheet of construction paper, a few straws, some glue and a couple of rubber bands. The challenge was to build something that would keep a light bulb from breaking when dropped from the top of a ten foot ladder.

I spent a week of class periods building what looked like a replica of the Lunar Module with fins - the legs were springs to absorb the impact. It worked great when I tested it but failed on the testing day because the teacher was holding it upside down when he dropped it.

My friend, who goofed off the whole week drawing comics in class spent 5 minutes wrapping his bulb in straws, then crumpled up the paper, uncrumpled it and then wrapped that around the straws. A couple of loops of tape and he made a landing "vehicle" that worked every time.
The bay is sufficiently less population dense, making lots of projects "bang for the buck" seem off.
Facebook employees were able to login to any acount using the password "chucknorris".

Including being able to read private messages of their friends, families, ex-girlfriends, etc

This wasnt just true when facebook was a university startup, but even when they were already the largest social network in the US.
This is great! How long before shepherds start setting up twitter accounts for them?
People: let me provide a little advice, please. If you click on the poster's name you can see their avg karma. You don't have to respond to just any dumb thing said out here, especially not when a person's comments are consistently voted as not useful -- e.g., photon137. That's why those scores are public.

When someone tries to cast a complicated political question like this in terms of yup and nope, just assume they are a dumbass and move along. And have faith that other reasonable people will do the same.
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Yeah, that was not well-received. Though the problem really isn't the "bad language", it's the deliberate rape metaphor that makes it tasteless at best.
BART running 24 hours is not an option. It would be epically expensive for what -- 6-7 additional hours of sparsely-used trains?
Yep, DNS, along with email, usenet, ftp, gopher, and many other internet services were long-established before "the web" was created.
Hella less traffic on 101 though.
Most of the famous "Cambridge Five" studied languages and history and were some of the most successful Russian spies of the 1950's. Just because he studied math does not excuse him from his association with the KGB.

I'm not saying he's still active, but those relationships are for life, and you don't just walk away from the KGB/FSB unscathed. Just ask Alexander Litvinenko.
Thanks for the pointer! It's a bit pricey, but if this was a serious project it would probably be worth it. The price motivated me to search once again, more thoroughly, and I found another section of the great LWN coverage on huge pages that mentions that oprofile can pull out the hairy bits of Intel's PMU:

http://lwn.net/Articles/379748/
Then save as should revert the original file to how it was when opened and create a new file with all the changes in that.
It should forget all the autosaves for the original file.
> We sped up ActiveResource by about 35x by reimplementing it in C++ (with no changes required to our apps).

What version of Rails is this? And can I talk you into open-sourcing it, if you haven't already? :)
Ah, I was buying my tools at Home Depot and Lowe's (how the heck it's supposed to be pronounced?) and was thinking that may be I should now shop at Sears since I can afford it. But looks like may be it's not a good idea anymore.

>For instance, I've heard it suggested that companies use long-term equity, say 15 years out.

Not going to work, they will just trade whatever they got on some secondary market.
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That is a clever way of saying he just makes shit up.
The security of an ID is protected by the state. Screwing around with that is a federal, put your ass in prison, kind of breach, irregardless of your intention or the context.
The team directly addressed that crazy landing system v.s. the alternatives in a press conference just a few days ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwXe_X4UKoM#t=30m16s
I'd maybe go for small components with small APIs so team members could build upon and combine on top in whatever language they want.
"What Erlang does, you simply can't do with ... anything involving ... the JVM."

As a matter of fact, Clojure runs atop the JVM and has a concurrency model that parallelizes even better than Erlang's, although Erlang's model of concurrency is presumably more fault tolerant.
Just browsed some of the comics, and between Gladwell's popularity and smbc's, I take the former.
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Like this?

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/22/time-warner-and-embarq-ca...

See also:
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I applaud the effort but not the method.

The last video on their website shows the trenching, laying and backfill operation. IMO, it's better to lay a 2" or 4" continuous PVC pipe between the access points rather than lay the outdoor fiber directly into the trench.

It's better for protection, diagnostics, additional capacity, and if needed, other types of cable (twisted pair, coax) can be run alongside.

I think what they are doing is great, but seeing the workers walking all over the fiber while backfilling the trench made me shiver. Isolating and repairing a break is going to be difficult downstream.
I'm not going to argue on how expensive it is, but consider this: a 24 hour subway means many fewer people would have to drive. If you don't have to drive, you don't have the choice between not drinking that night or leaving before midnight. If drunk driving is reduced by eliminating cars, then 'last call' can be extended to, say, 4am. Less traffic, less drunk driving accidents, more booze, more late-night coffee shops.
I find it ironic that the site isn't loading now.
Yeah, that's pretty dubious. I was under the impression that all video players do that anyway - that video is encoded in the YUV color space and always converted to RGB on playback.

To blame that for their poor performance suggests that their YUV-RGB conversion code is among the slowest in the industry.
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Not really. More having a smaller attack vector. There are less people that could authorize a reset, they are better paid, and centralized. (rather than being an underpaid store clerk)
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>Why?

Obviously the only way to answer this is with personal opinion. For me, whenever I see a blog post with "why this fucking sucks" or other language I'm not necessarily offended. However I do feel like I'm suddenly talking to a child.

Fuck, Fucking, Fuckshit etc isn't shocking or expressive anymore. It's just an indicator of inexperience.

I can't seem to get my point across so instead I'll say I can't seem to get my FUCKING point across.
In my experience, I have never come across Ada in the spaceflight domain.

Among the big players in spacecraft flight software, there seems to be a divergent east-coast/west-coast preference for C and C++, respectively. In my estimation, this is the reason: there is a wide variety of target hardware and OSes and the need for FSW to be reused across all of them (embedded linux, VxWorks, QNX on PowerPC, SPARC, intel architectures). In terms of development environments and compiler toolchains, only ISO C (and to a slightly lesser degree C++) is supported by all of them.

Edit: Various instruments on spacecraft may be programmed in Forth or other nifty languages, for example, and there's a growing effort to make some of the more "interesting" challenges in spaceflight (autonomy, fault management, guidance-and-control, etc..) to be coded in custom domain-specific languages or other scripting languages like Lua.
That is an interesting approach. Given the retail presence Apple has the opportunity to ask you to go to an Apple store in person and talk with service personnel there. One could easily put a picture on file (every Apple device has a camera now) of the owner, and the two bits of information:

1) You have the device with you

2) You are the same person as the picture of the owner

Would set a reasonably high bar to cross.