skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main (and close to only) user of Erlang was Ericsson, and here is what the Wikipedia has to say about it [1]:

"Shortly thereafter, Erlang was banned within Ericsson Radio Systems for new products, citing a preference for non-proprietary languages. The ban caused Armstrong and others to leave Ericsson"

Not exactly a strong endorsement for Erlang.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)
Pretty obvious - modeling your interests is (in the limit) equivalent to modeling you.
True. There are also things like UFS fragments and ReiserFS tail packing etc, but does plain ext3 or ext4 implement any of these optimizations? I don't think so. So in the most common case nothing is gained by this optimization.
If they make it look like ED-E[1] then I'm sold..

[1] http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/ED-E_(Lonesome_Road)
> the man who had a blade replacement for a leg

Oscar Pistorius. He's a multiple gold medal winning Olympic athlete. He has two blades. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pistorius)
The point of war these days isn't to kill the enemy, but to convince them to surrender and join your side. Faster combat reactions might kill enemy soldiers faster, but if that were the goal you would just drop bombs on them.

You get people to surrender by being reasonable and helpful until they shoot at you, and then fighting back fairly following the rules of war. You have to make being a soldier in your army seem like a better life than being a soldier in their army. Telepresence and combat AI have some value, but will not achieve the main goals.
Everybody has to get their 10 buck slice a month, and I guess $100 for the cable too.
Music is advertising
From where I sit, those "primitive" IEDs seem to be giving America and allies all we can handle in Iraq and Afganistan...

I get that technology is changing the world, and that drones HAVE changed the battle field already, but on balance it seems well known that one day we'll walk out of both of those countries either having lost or fought to a draw - how ever you want to spin it.

I don't see how an action shot of a solider leaping with metal assisted legs, never sleeping and eating grass will change that.
Not to mention the sound would sometimes lag behind my typing (I only wrote three sentences until I had to close the tab), which sounds somewhat similar to scraping your fingernails down a chalk board, only with more bass.
But there is a substantial link between dropping caffeine and sleeping better. And there is a link between sleeping better and getting more effective exercise. And it is hard to get effective exercise and still manage to live on something like Mountain Dew (which might prompt an improved diet).
It's really a matter of slow and inconsistent reaction to changes in speed, not the change in speed itself. The delayed reaction of one car causes it to decelerate more then they would have had to, then for the car behind the impact is greater and so on. Simulations suggest that as little as 20% of vehicles having computer-controlled reactions (very fast) would just about eliminate these shockwave traffic jams.

Related, see #6 in this article: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/03/magazine/innov...
I'm a Swede who will gladly punch you in the face when I see you. The Pirate Bay trial was a spectacle but in no way representative for Sweden in general.
Ask HN: What unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
Find a good domain name is getting harder and harder. I found out a thread in HN from 3 years ago and I think is relevant and could be useful to a lot of people, myself included.
'People are using it like assembly' does mean that all or even a significant fraction of people are doing that. It's sufficient that a noticeable number of people are doing it and there are tens if not hundreds of projects that compile other languages to Javascript.
Eh, I like Google services. I use a Google Apps domain. I used to run everything myself on a co-located server, sharing back-up DNS and MX duties with friends doing the same.

Using Google services is so much better. Not only in terms of me not spending time actively managing it, but also in terms of reliability, performance and feature set.
Just to reiterate this - I had the exact same problem, and they replaced the display immediately.
If HBO can turn away from cable, and either go independent or partner with someone like Amazon, Apple, Netflix, or.. pfft, everyone, this could be interesting. That is probably hugely wishful thinking, though.

Edit: Then again, they're already offering standalone service in parts of Europe.
Baby stuff review
nice, how about Europe ?
can easily run to 40% of the cost of the project

If, over the long term, it's costing you 40% to keep the popular versions of Linux working, then you're doing something wrong. Could it hypothetically cost that much? Sure, but only if you're incompetent.
Why wouldn't he just get treated for H. Pylori if he had stomach ulcers
FWIW, here are the causes of death of US soldiers in Iraq [1]:

2573 Hostile action
2496 IED
665 Non-combat
402 Helicopter accident
361 Vehicle accident
63 Unknown
39 other-unknown
31 Airplane crash

Over 800 are accidents, and IEDs are just enemy robots.

1. http://apps.washingtonpost.com/national/fallen/
As a recovered heroin addict I can say they're very different from going cold turkey. The symtoms may be the same but the intensity is the huge difference. Also, the mental process is very different too. Whenever people ask me what it's like I always say I'd rather have the pain of childbirth or terminal cancer. Pure hell is what it is. Oddly enough though, it's often times the more "benign" addictions that are hardest to kick. Maybe because there's less pressure to do so or because they're more socially acceptable.

Caffeine, like heroin,isn't completely bad in and of itself though. It's the effect of taking too much and becoming dependent on it that are the real problems. Even vitamins can be harmful to your health if you take too much (which is luckily quite hard to do because the body just can't absorb them efficiently, at least in pill form).

Drugs aren't bad. Behaviors are bad. What we do with them are bad. I'd have no problem having a cup of coffee with my child (if I had one and the kid was old enough). Now, had I not experienced real, severe addiction myself I don't think I'd feel this way and I can understand if others can't understand why I feel this way.
The article seems a little misleading. Using turbolinks won't make your site slower than not using turbolinks. Even the people in a café in Prague will enjoy improved speed over a full page load. The point of the article is that a JavaScript MVC framework could make your site even faster. Fair enough, but I fail to see how that's a flaw in turbolinks. By that logic it's pointless to make any speed improvements unless we write our backend in assembly.
+1 for iA Writer. Get it for your iPad or Mac now. http://s831.us/XclFCg
We really need an ASCAP/BMI for video.
I recommend reading "Shantaram" if you want to get a written sense (not that I can confirm its accuracy) of the total hell that is cold turkey off heroin. Both may be tough and painful to quit, but in "Shantaram" the turn off heroin is described as: imagine everything that is in any way good in your life, your being: warmth between your toes, energy to look up at the sky, hope for tomorrow, etc: now imagine every single shred of that positive-chemical-energy is shredded. What's left is all the horrible pain of being with none of the chemicals that help us get by. Or something like that. Great book, mostly about Bombay in the 80s and heroin only has small focus, but really worth the read!
I absolutely 100% agree with your final sentence: it isn't like I'm saying "the mosh people are perpetrating a plot to confuse people into doing this thing that is bad for them, a use case that no one in the world would ever have... (and trains are a communist plot: I doubt they exist)" ;P. In fact, I found the actual research paper that this was all for quite fascinating, and was glad to get a chance to talk directly to the author/developer about what he discovered.

I simply have been part of a ton of conversations about mosh, and I know that a lot of people who see mosh don't know what the design tradeoffs are towards the "high-latency w/ packet loss" use case were, and often are just looking for a tool that lets them move their shell around "between office1, office2, coffeeshop, and home".

ssh+screen by themselves simply is not a sufficient solution, as it doesn't automatically reconnect, so you either need to know how to setup autossh (which isn't marketed or optimized for this use case) or realize that the shell script isn't that difficult to build: I'm just trying to provide this information to people. At numerous points here I have been very clear: if you have interest in the features that you can only get from this integrated protocol setup, you should definitely try and possibly choose to use mosh.
Israel Websites HaCked bY AnonGhost
http://www.cyberwarzone.com/anonghost-takes-down-10-websites-latest-leak
Don't forget for iPhone. Attaching a bluetooth keyboard to your phone feels funny, but it is the single best writing tool when you're travelling.
I was wondering exactly the same thing, especially after reading "Most hackers actually don’t care much about code quality. Thus, if they get something working which seems to solve a problem, they stick with it.".
Any chance you might be interested in summer interns?
You erase the error of your parents, and go with the man's father's last name for husband, wife, progeny, and pets.
Point 1: There is no other way to write client-side browser applications.

Point 2: Node.js allows a team of 1-2 quickly get a server-side app up and running. Once a project takes off and needs to scale to a larger team, it's extremely easy to switch to and write C++ components.

Point 3: Who cares if history is repeating itself or not. It's an impressive technology stack with huge corporate backers. Besides, Perl is still used and although nowhere near as cool, still works great for writing shell scripts.
Car companies TODAY have been shipping en masse large number of self-parking and automatic accident avoiding cars and have decades of experience in building and shipping reliable control systems.

Google can't even produce bug-free software, make high quality hardware or even ship anything at any decent scale.
No No No..don't change a thing on it. Or maybe just one thing:
Make the vote up and vote down icons a bit sleeker.
FBI.gov hacked by Anonymous
Given that this has been solved in Spanish seeking cultures for quite some time - well, I guess I'm surprised that either no one at NPR speaks Spanish, or was willing to point out that this isn't an unsolved problem.
Mosh needs a proper security and crypto review. AFAIK that has not been done.
Totally blind mice get sight back
Sometimes the mindset is not to achieve but to create. Having hundreds of people critique your work builds character. This relates to the same psychological concept behind Toastmasters.
It seems to me hard to really say whether caffeine is healthy or not. Rather the modern western lifestyle -- a lifestyle we've agreed to, or accepted, for the most part -- that has very little to do with biological rhythm needs to be evaluated for its health effects. As long as we're going to accept that everyone is going to work long mid-days in unison, sleep 8 hours per night, in unison, etc: then we're going to appreciate aids (fluorescent lights, caffeine, heaters, air conditioners, melatonin, food) that help us conform with everyone else.

Some may not feel they need caffeine as much as others: so be it. But the idea that any of us can really be deemed healthy or not, due to whether or not caffeine is part of the diet, seems to me to lose the forest through the trees
I would be very interested in this. Maybe you could upload the flashcards to Github, too?
Why did infinite scroll fail at Etsy?
While I like this solution because it is indeed the simplest and most common, it will not work for gay males.
And he doesn't mention payola.
I used to be addicted to soda as a kid, but quit it in high school. Now 21, I can count the number of caffinated beverages I've drunk on my hands since 16. I get the same reaction to caffeine now.

It is really scary to think the norm is to guzzle that stuff like candy daily.
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUREKA_Prometheus_Project.

A mean time between human interventions of 9 km may not seem something to brag about, but this project ended before Google was founded aka 10 Moore's generations ago. I think Mercedes has continued working on driverless cars ever since.
I started having issues with ulcers and acid reflux in college, and for over a decade I took Prilosec (omeprazole) to control it. Last year I started drinking wheatgrass and other veggie shakes (and trying to eat a little healthier in general), and I've been able to stop taking the Prilosec with no major acid issues.

It started when my brother forced me to listen to one of his self-help CD's from Tony Robbins about the acid/alkaline diet (http://www.alkalinephdiet.com/anthony-robbins-alkaline-diet/). Mostly I view that stuff with a huge amount of skepticism, but my stomach will vouch for this one. As long as I have a veggie shake or a couple salads each day I'm able to safely drink coffee and alcohol, and occasionally eat pizza and other spicy food.
How much is Netflix worth nowadays? If HBO can spend $2 billion on a single deal, wouldn't Netflix be a smart buy for them? It'd be one less company that they need to compete with in content bids. I guess I could see their relationship with cable souring a bit, but at least they'd have Netflix to fall back on?
eBooks are my thing. eInk stopped being exciting quite a while ago.
This seems counter-productive to me -- you're going to be spending a lot of time memorizing functions you'll never use.

If you just look up function when you need them, you'll memorize the most important ones you use over time, no special practice needed.

So I really can't see how this isn't the worst form of "premature optimization". I guess it's fun if you've got nothing better to do, but I'd never recommend it.

(But I'm not saying you shouldn't read through a language and its libraries so you know what's there conceptually. That's a good thing to do, so you know what to look up later.)
I need to rephrase, I guess...

If we put robots in the field and leave our soldier at home / base using telepresence to control the robots, the soldier don't have the immediate fear of death and can take the moment needed to identify friend, bystanders, or foes. Friendly fire wouldn't be much of a problem if none of our soldiers are actually in the combat zone. Robot blowing up, bad but no headlines.
From what I have read, the prefix used to be NX* in the NeXTSTEP days and was changed to NS* around the time OpenStep came on the scene.
The established market collects data from Android phones, commercial vehicle tracking, some municipal systems, and mobile phone providers. A couple ten million casual end users is two orders of magnitude less than the billions of points Inrix aggregates. They're also almost certainly already covered by either aggregate Android OS or cellular tower data. How valuable is a patchy 2% of the industry standard?
I noticed you had vacancies for Marketing and Social Media interships, would you be interested in Engineering interns as well?
I think in general we're at a point now where everything is going to come increasingly faster than we expect. The singularity is near after all :)
Volvo are planning to ship their first self driving cars in 2014.

http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2012/12/03/volvo-plans-to-...
Here are some domains I'm sitting on, with descriptions of what I originally planned to do with them:

inputsandoutputs.com - mechanical turk-like API for outsourcing
pingathon.com - website/server monitoring
schedulicio.us (schedulicious.com, schedulicio.com) - online scheduling
Going off caffeine gives me 2-3 days of indescribable headaches, then it's a pronounced fatigue for another 2 weeks. It ain't pretty.

However, if coffee must be eliminated from your diet, I believe you can always use caffeine pills - same energy without any side effects on the stomach.
A data stack is indeed not required -- see Om (experimental):

http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Om

It uses prefix notation: instead of a data stack, each function takes the remainder of the program for rewriting.
Startups: Keep It Simple, Stupid
Unlike the author - and by "author", the author of the essay has a book on the topic which he wants to sell you - I can't say that I physically feel any better or worse after quitting caffeine. I finally quit because I didn't like how I felt dependent on a chemical compound I didn't actually need. It took me several attempts.

The physical addiction is minor. The biggest effect was that 18 hours after quitting I would get a headache, become tired, and sleep for a while. That would be gone within 48 hours after quitting.

The bigger problem is the social habit. I was used to having a soda next to me when programming. Free sodas at work didn't help. I don't like tea, so the replacement was water, which gets boring. Bubbly water and flavored waters help, but not much. Fruit drinks have too much sugar, and I don't like tea.

I also liked getting a drink as a way to take a break, with a goal that I could achieve during that break.

It was hard to keep the habit broken. When work got harder again, I thought I could just have a single drink per day ... then two ... then three, and so on. It seems that when the stress is high, it's easier to abstain than to temper.

Believe it or not, wine replaced soda. I found that I only drink a glass of wine in the entire evening, and I don't have a desire to raise the amount. This may be that I didn't start drinking wine until I was ~30 while I started with Pepsi when I was ~10.
I'm assuming that it's basically the real-life-meets-wikipedia equivalent of an SEO firm.
I've implemented ScriptCraft as a bukkit plugin now. Bukkit's API and plug-in deployment mechanism is sweet. ScriptCraft and Bukkit are really well suited.
Well, that depends on whether we're talking about banana republics or ideal republics.
Thanks for the bukkit recommendation - it really is a great minecraft framework to code against. I've since added a ScriptCraft bukkit plug-in...
https://github.com/walterhiggins/ScriptCraft/blob/master/buk...
Those who are interested in seeing the hoax article can find a copy of it at this mirror site:

http://www.thefullwiki.org/Bicholim_conflict
Video game speedrunning marathon to benefit Prevent Cancer Foundation
Amazon and Netflix are now direct competitors to HBO; "partnering" with them would be at best surrender, and at worst suicide. Apple's a non-option; if they wanted in the subscription streaming business, they'd do it themselves. Independence or death are their only choices outside of cable.
> self-parking and automatic accident avoiding

Unfortunately these are really simple systems relative to safely driving on the road without supervision. If we're talking about the same things, then self-parking is just a software for recognising the front/end of some vehicle parked on the side and where is the good parking space - in some models also a distance monitor for automatic stopping. It's not that difficult to implement and all the tricky conditions still have to be checked by people - for example my auto-parking car will completely ignore people in its way, anything on the street, will abort if it's on a slope down, will not check for lots of issues that you're supposed to correct manually.

Collision avoidance is for now a simple break when some object is getting close fast. Only a handful of cars implement something more as far as I know, since actively changing the course is actually a rather large challenge to do it right...

I have to disagree with "Google can't even produce bug-free software" too. There's a big difference between programming a web application and doing something that's close to safety critical software. It's a completely different set of skills and requires a specific approach in general. Even then... regarding bug-free at scale, I think they're doing fairly well so far.
Or just do like they do in Quebec where women never take their husband's last name. In fact, it's the law.
Not that I'm arguing with your assessment of car companies' experiences, but self-parking and autonomous driving are completely different beasts. I wouldn't be surprised, if the first company that creates a viable driverless car isn't one of the incumbent car companies. As Tesla have shown with electric car.
It's not any simpler than going with the wife's mother's last name. Or the husband's mother's last name. Or the wife's father's last name.
Ask HN: Coolest tech gadgets you've seen this year?
Looking to play around with some new tech gadgets any ideas?
Most of the comments are ignoring that OP posted this as a small weekend project, not the next great writing software. Congrats on producing this usable piece of work, I like the minimal aesthetics.
Bullshit. Back in the day men killed each other and then ate corpses. But don't try to base any article on the premise that people still practice cannibalism widely, do you?
How Millennials Protest
The Difference Between Makers and Manufacturers
Do stores in the US not have instant photo-printing machines? In the UK the Boots pharmacy (and other shops) have machines with a range of inputs (which may include bluetooth?) which can print 6x4s instantly. It costs far less than $15 a print.
dealpuncher.com - daily deal site
bootclipper.com
tubilee.com
hangtrend.com - old startup moved to dress.me
Debt is ingrained in America’s way of life
Gentoo with XFCE.
> Using turbolinks won't make your site slower than not using turbolinks.

No, but it encourages a style of development that makes you rely much more on the server side speed than you should. That is the major flaw I was trying to bring attention to.

The general sentiment was supposed to be: interested in turbolinks? Well take a look at THIS first.

Client Side MVC frameworks are certainly not all about speed - they have other advantages such as great organization of your Javascript code, API first development, etc.
I am medically curious and would like to hear the dehydration story. :-)
This is exactly the same "trick" as plotting graphs on a logarithmic scale - it gives you a different point of view on the data which sometimes (but certainly not always) reveals useful insights.

I wonder if there are interesting scaling/growth/startup point of view changes that are equivalent to other data visualization transformations? Is there a growth-data version of changing from cartesian to polar coordinates perhaps?
yeah, jQuery certainly eclipses everything else. Though I don't know what you mean by obscurity + MDN... it does seem weirdly anaemic for such a big / complex / important piece of the API, but I don't know if I'd call MDN obscure. Or, I hope it isn't, I find it wildly useful.
Ask how long it will take them to actually get you your stock certificate, should you accept. Doing anything stock related with a startup is can of worms - things always get delayed due to board meetings, valuations, fund raising, etc. These things all leave the door open to you, one way or another, not getting your stock. I'd definitely ask them about this. The answer will give you a preview of what the process of collecting your stock will be like.
I'm not sure I agree. If the only time perole's driving skills are used is during the most treacherous time to be driving, that will be scary.

I already avoid driving during the first snow storm of the season because, after six months, people have inevitably forgotten that ice is slippery (seriously, it a frightening and dangerous to be on the roads during the first storm!). Now factor in the fact nobody has driven at all during the last six months and it will be exceedingly messy.
Reviving brands that aren't quite forgotten [i.e. Polaroid]