skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Erlang Reference Manual is a very good example of such a document.

Erlang has had quite a bit longer to produce such a document, though, hasn't it?

Why bother doing that when you're still fiddling with the language?

In terms of CS friendliness, I get the impression that Haskell is far more popular with that crowd in that it has more things of interest to people doing language hacking. Erlang has "functional" and "actors", but not a lot of other stuff that seems to be of interest to the CS crowd, like types.

> "There is no language documentation" is a perfectly acceptable answer for me; it just means there is no way for me to discuss the specific benefits Elixir may have

No way at all? I think you can tell a lot about a language without some kind of formal documentation.
Yes, this is precisely what I mean when I said "if macros worry you ..." in response to your question about unprincipled meta-programming. If you do not like Ruby-style DSLs then you would not like Elixir's use of macros to achieve similar goals.
Accidentally downvoted you. Sorry!
I don't really get this argument. Putting aside that if someone wants to follow you and take pictures they can do that already, and that glass itself doesn't cause you to become that person, the worst you can experience will be in the background of someone's picture or video.

Miniature cameras have been available for years, strapping one to your head doesn't make you a stalker.
The inverse of that is the Microsoft experience - I can remember a similar resentment slowly building across the late 90s. We all still used MS products, and jumped to their tune, but the underlying resentment meant that as soon as an alternative appeared (OSX for some, ipods and/or iOS for others) we jumped as quick as we could.
Litecoin seems to solve the wrong problem with Bitcoin.

Bitcoin's mining difficulty is calibrated fine for having a fixed limit. It's the fact that Bitcoin and Litecoin both stop at a fixed amount of units that makes them ultimately deflationary currencies that don't reward spending.

BitCoin is unique in that you can get an exact, real time measure of how the 'economy' is doing, whereas with the American economy these measures are extrapolated based on statistical work. Somebody should fork bitcoin and create a monetary policy adjustment algorithm that responds to changes in the transaction rate and prints more money (i.e., adjusts mining difficulty) in response. They should also remove the fixed ceiling.
As far as I understand - no. However it's not like other people don't get sad, and always stay happy and motivated, they are just able to break out of their bad moods quickly enough.

Depression is very widespread though. Up to one third of population will suffer from major depressive episode atvleast once in their lifetime(Major depression is the most serious subtype of depression). And around 10%-15% of population currently suffer from various types of depression.
In my house we have a rule that we don't discuss password hashing at the dinner table

Cryptographically, you can address the problem you've set out for yourself simply by hashing a 128 bit random number along with the password, and keeping that number a secret. If attackers can get your code, it doesn't matter how you obscure your hash, because they'll have the algorithm. But through trial and error, an attacker might figure out how you tweaked an algorithm; all the atoms in the solar system (or something like that, I can never remember) could be computers trialing and erroring against a 128 bit random number and they'd never figure it out.
Most of the cardinal signs of major depression, and some of anxiety disorder, are mentioned in this article. The Internet is no place to make a diagnosis, but I hope it's a reasonable place to make a friendly suggestion to consider seeing a physician.
The iPad Will Lead Apple's Next Wave Of Growth
I may be missing your point. It sounds to me like this argument could invalidate any antitrust case. "No, it's not illegal for us to collude on the price of widgets, because we're cooperating to sell widgets instead of competing with each other."
Yeah, especially when the advice is to mimic them and create informational products or similar.
How many times has someone bet on the underdog and lost? I'm not really comfortable with OP choose the evidence they like in this way. Where's the basis for comparison? If you're talking of betting, how are you defining the reference class and what are the odds?
How can you recommend Audacious for Windows users? At this point it's nothing more than a half-working port. It can't seek files, render non-latin characters or even follow OS Cleartype settings (it renders text with no AA at all).
You will feel the same way.
The founders have had $1 salaries for almost a decade, according to the article. Not sure why this symbolic gesture is news now.
LivingSocial e-mail to customers after 50 Million customer data compromised
I should have worded that a bit better.

The majority of Bitcoin trade occurs at Mt.Gox, so you could say the market is pretty centralized.

Actually, Bitfloor had to cease all trading operations indefinitely. That aside, there are plenty of other reputable exchanges that need to gain more market share. It's ridiculous that a DDoS attack could be used for price manipulation purposes. That shouldn't be too much of a problem in a diversified market.
Getting Closer to Dick Tracy - A QWERTY Keyboard for Your Wrist
I'll take a sloppily named Haskell codebase over a well-named Python codebase, especially when reliability is compared.

Type-safety of the Java kind might be overrated. Type-safety of the Haskell kind, though is hard to over-rate. It catches the vast majority of bugs, including ones people would refer to as "logic bugs".
In my humble opinion, a set of people here have this "no focus problem." (depending on my form on the day - me included). One can see it more positively as Too Many Aptitudes problem, which gives it a significantly better viewpoint, as elaborated here [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486708]. Actually, I think the previous #1 article [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5616786] reflects this by reaching #1 on HN!

You all are smart people. Else these essays/articles wouldn't exist!

But, as edw519 pointed out:

The single most important thing I do to "achieve laser focus
and concentration" is to work in such a way that I don't need
"laser focus and concentration" to get my work done.

This has to be done the night before.

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5550366]

David Kadavy wrote about his related approach here [http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/mind-management-intro] what was reposted a few days ago, as far as I remember. I really like this viewpoint. Take note of David's words, especially:

If you can’t meditate for 2 minutes, you have bigger problems than being “too busy.”

There is a significant difference between being dispersed and having a disease.

--

edit: format
Encipher.It 2.0 - javascript crytography strike back
No, it's often much easier than that. I do live in a pretty quiet neighborhood, but that's not what I meant either. There are a couple of things. One is that people tend to be vigilant WRT their home's primary access, but pay less attention to side-doors, back-doors, garage-doors, and windows. So you can often find one of these left unsecured. The second is that the latches on windows are notoriously bad WRT their ability to stay closed. They can often be dislodged by just bumping them gently while applying pressure in the right place, even when installed correctly. If they were installed incorrectly, or just carelessly, or if the house has "settled" windows can be even easier to defeat. Another weakness of windows is the glazing, sometimes it just slips out, or can be easily pried loose, sometimes it takes a screwdriver. Until very recently, little attention seems to have been paid to the security of windows in residential construction. There are a few other more-foolproof entry methods that I know that do little or no damage, but they aren't the sort of thing that a burglar would do.

PS I learned most of this at Texas Fireman's Training Academy (and just paying attention to my surroundings), in case you're wondering.
You have obviously already made up your mind that the Glasses suck so why do you even want our opinions?
Oh wow, so now you're insulting people who disagree with you? Impressive, makes me think even less of the big banks if one of them employed you, frankly.

I don't see anything clumsy about my reasoning. The Libor scandal, for instance, is pretty clear-cut. The rate was set by, simplifying greatly, polling the banks and averaging. There is evidence that some of the banks misrepresented their actual cost of borrowing in order to further their own interests, and thus skewed the rate improperly.

Is any of this in doubt? Now, it might not be the Illuminati secretly picking the president and ordering him to clone Hitler, but it sure does demonstrate that our market economy isn't quite as "market-ish" as we had hoped.

That's a big problem in my book because the fundamental argument in favor of markets as a means of organizing economic activity is that they generate socially optimal outcomes. Otherwise, there's no reason for most of us to buy into the system, it's just feudalism (which economists and capitalists take great pride in having vanquished) all over again and most of us are still just serfs. If those markets are being manipulated, then are the outcomes socially optimal? Or, more specifically, are they more socially optimal than some other method of organizing things? If not, then the whole system is called into question, and that's a huge deal.
Sure, but how much are trains and coffee in Thailand? China? India? Malawi?

There's a lot of world out there beyond Europe. For the vast majority of it, $500 goes a long way.

Try to keep in mind that there are lots of things that are possible that you don't yet know how to do. It sounds like you're just now learning that you can travel cheaply on the road (from people who have actually done so, no foolin'). Rather than accuse us of lying to you, you might be better served taking some of it on board.

Then book a flight out here. I'll use 1/1000th of my monthly budget to buy you a beer!
Also in many VPS slices you have a guaranteed amount of compute power but when the others aren't using the CPU you can use more, burstable RAM allocations too, whereas a dedicated blade trying to compete with a Linode slice will have hard limits. While that doesn't apply to all use cases it's a fairly common one.
If someone wants to follow me and take pictures they have to pay the price of making it obvious that they are doing so.

Using little spy cameras is already thoroughly antisocial, glass seeks to change that and normalize public recording
Firefox OS is a brilliant idea. Yeah, another phone OS is an uphill battle, but the idea of wrapping the entire OS around extremely mature and hardened web technologies is just a great idea. How many of us are familiar with web development, and how many are familiar with the nuances of compiled native apps? If I have to set up another one of those horrible android dev environments just to make some small tweak of open source app, I think I'll die. Can't wait to see how the performance works out, and more widespread availability. I expect performance will be better since there's so much less between the JS and the hardware. Much better idea than an Ubuntu mobile OS. You might be thinking, oh what about the critical mass required for an app store? I don't care at all and would gladly run Firefox OS on my primary phone today as long as I have 4G. Native apps are so 3G. Web is all we need, and I'm sick up android constantly updating.
Java Flaw Targeted By Crimeware Toolkit: Patch Now
I will not buy Glass if there are ads. Period. I think most people are with me and Google knows this.

This probably won't extend to Android or any other Google service, but I can see why they would choose to forgo ads in Glass.
Wolfram Alpha details gender differences in Facebook usage
Or if he isn't good at picking, the thief can take the picture and just make the key himself with something like this https://dx.com/p/advanced-key-cutter-16425
Twitter co-founder says more techy leaders needed
Ask HN: Review my startup
Hi Everyone,

This is the first time that I've submitted anything here, but I follow and read HN daily.

OSEF launched a few days ago. It's very much a functioning minimum viable product, but there's still work to do. It's bootstrapped by me and my partner.

OSEF is a collective photo sharing service that lets any single group of people, even those that don’t know each other, to create a collective private photo album, wherein each participant can contribute photos, comments and invite new participants to the group.

http://osef-app.com/

* You can check out album number 1372 which I created for Hacker News. Feel free to add your pictures and test the system.

Briefly: OSEF enables quick and real time photo sharing, without the prior need of exchanging email, face- book or any other address’s etc,.

Each album can be password locked, and the application is absolutely free - no registration is required!

The collective photo- album can be viewed by all participants /guests on their mobile devices, PC, laptops, and streamed live to any screen.

We are particularly looking for feedback about the usability, and advices for initiating a viral campaign.

Thanks, Sharon.
You reuse your passwords? Tsk tsk tsk...
'Aurora' Cyber Attackers Were Really Running Counter-Intelligence - CIO.com
The "rule of law" part sounds good, but in practice, a naive simplification.

A close friend has been a public defender (criminal defense attorney) for 20 years. In her experience observing 20 years of cases, there's a direct correlation between wealth of the defendant and likelihood of getting off.

"The unspoken reality is that in America today there exists two systems of criminal justice. One for the wealthy, which includes kid-glove investigations, lackluster prosecutions, drug treatment, light sentences and easy, if any, prison time. The other, for the poor, is one of paramilitary policing, aggressive prosecution, harsh mandatory sentences and hard time. Wealth, and the political connec tions inherent to wealth, not race, is the determining factor in deciding which system one gets. This is most obvious when wealthy hip-hop artists and athletes, many of them black, are charged with serious crimes. Class trumps race every time, even if the wealth is new found..."

"... corporations can and do commit high crimes and misdemeanors with impunity. Likewise for governments and their agents, such as the police or military." — https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/(X(1)S(z3ez5uic5qiulf453pf34...

If this holds true for a black guy caught with a gun in NYC, why think it doesn't hold true for a finance guy conspiring against his clients?

Cheat your bookkeeping clients out of 10 grand and you're in the slammer, cheat cities or nations out of 10 billion and you might lose a couple tee times at the country club for depositions.
Get better memory from playing sounds during sleep
Now he's paid by Rackspace - so his enthusiasm is not bought here.

Make no mistake: he attracts attention to himself and then sends some of it to Rackspace. He's a shock jock, he would bash Google+, Google and Google Glass if he thought it would be better for Rackspace, but it isn't. He has calculated that by being a Google billboard he will fare better.
Government Requests to Remove Material From Web Rise, Google Reports
Did you read the GP? It says either some people are uniquely hyper-self aware, or everybody is the same. All you've done is state one side of that argument in the form of a maxim.
Are those recordings currently posted on Facebook or Youtube, with you tagged in them? Do those cameras follow you inside every pub? If so I am quite sorry for you.

This isn't fighting governments, this is creating the panopticon. All the public footage will be used by governments and I think you'll find that it will be much more invasive and even malicious than what governments are currently doing. Governments are mostly interested in illegal actions and are at least partially constrained, the general public and anyone who doesn't like you will be happy to use this against you in every way conceivable.
Experimental CSS Shaders Bring Photoshop Filters to the Web
It's funny, the whole post is about how nice those glasses are and how amazing. But I cannot really see why they are useful. If I understand the OP correctly, it features the same functions as a cell phone but without ads and being more social. I think he misses the point, staring at a cell-phone every 10 seconds is not non-social because of the looking away but because of the permanent distraction. It's a sign of politeness to be 100% focussed when talking to someone else.

I think I'll buy them if they are below $200 but I won't use them much. Watching Terminator is much cooler anyway ;)
Cory Doctorow on DRM, Copyright an the Future. A collection of Articles.
>why is it that being fans of a popular sport and wear you team s jersey is cool, while being fans of more niche interests like geeky movies or tech isn't, to such a degree that kid who like it gets teased?

Because one is "popular" (your words) and the other is "more niche" (also your words).

So if the many want to tease the few (which is how teasing goes anyway), it would be the people doing popular things to people doing more niche things.

>there is some thing inherent in being more intellectual that provoke those who aren't.

Yes, that's it's a niche endeavor. Nothing anti-intellectual only about it.

People would equally tease the sole guy who collects stamps or the sole girl who still listens to Milli Vanilli.
In high school, I kind of looked down upon the culture of 'caring a lot' about getting top grades. Partly because I saw much of it as suckers jumping through arbitrary hoops, and partly because I reckoned that my memory was easily capable of holding all the necessary information, if I just put in a meagre number of hours studying (which I hated, so usually didn't bother). I focussed on trying to impress the teachers by answering the difficult questions in class which (seemingly) stumped the 'straight A' students, and also I loved English class because that was the one where disciplined study yielded little advantage. If someone got top grades but didn't outwardly show any flare in any of these areas, I considered them 'not that intelligent.'

Not saying this was justified, but it's definitely how I felt. What I probably should have realized is that in the long run, self-discipline is an extremely important trait no matter what your natural aptitude is. But I also think schools should make more effort to make subjects appealing on an intuitive level, not just a stack of exercises to slog through - I would have done much better in say maths if that was the case. I have to admit though, even though my attitude is different these days, what your wife did in college to get top grades still seems... kind of lame.
Python was my favourite language, but after a year of scala I can't go back. Syntax is almost as lightweight as python, sometimes even lighter (_.something rather than lambda x: x.something is a godsend); tuples and case classes mean it's easy to define a new type for things where you'd use a dictionary or object() in python, and the type system is expressive enough that it doesn't get in the way, not to mention the joys of e.g. the typeclass pattern (which allows a level of dynamicity that would be simply impossible to do sanely in python). There's a mature deployment story (because at that stage it's just .jars) and the huge java library ecosystem is available up to a point.
Internet Explorer, Windows XP rank highly at work, but BYOD threatens mutiny
Unsolicited Advice:
For exercise, I found that yoga has worked extremely well for me. I started in January and it has been going great!

A few factors have really kept me motivated to go:

1) For the first 10 weeks, it was run like a college school class. The roster was fixed. Attendance was taken.

2) It is expensive. When I pay this much for something, I feel obligated to use it. In this case, the first 10 weeks were a Christmas gift so I really felt obligated.

3) I can practice outside of class literally everywhere. This is impossible for a lot of gym workouts.

4) It is hard. I feel seriously challenged.

I did Tae Kwon Do in high school. A lot of the above points also apply to martial arts. Plus if you do martial arts you get extra style points according to http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
The odds that you'll be the best in something very competitive are low. Sorry to say. If that's your selection criteria what are the odds that you got the perfect genetics and a better upbringing than everyone else there? Sure, effort and all that jazz - but everyone else who sits down and thinks similarly is executing a similar strategy, effort isn't that rare. You might get a slightly better study algorithm, spaced repetition vs cramming or something, but that's a thing here and there....

That said, I've rarely found being the absolute best at something to be worth the effort even among a small pool of a few thousand people. Crippling over specialisation I believe is the meme. If you can't be the absolute best, you might want look for related areas you can get better quickly - most of the time, in my experience, it can make the initial problem you were having trouble with easier anyway.

It's also a lot harder for you to get fired if you've got your fingers in lots of pies =p
Related: can you expand it to include the reverse (geolocation to zip code)? Anyone know of a restful service that might do that, alternatively?
Internet Explorer workplace dominance is threatened by tablets and smartphones
The Last 3% Takes 97% of the Time
I'm not sure why people have a problem directly with the fixed bitcoin limit. Unless there are some radical changes in medicine in the next few years, none of us will ever live to 2140 to see it.
> If macros worry you unduly, then Elixir is not for you.

Really? It seems interesting, but I'd simply choose not to use macros in my own code. Seems like they can be avoided in most situations. There's even a heading in the introduction that says 'Don't write macros': http://elixir-lang.org/getting_started/5.html
CSS Background Animations
How We Cope with Spammers, Fakers, and Cloners
It's not, and it doesn't.
How do you successfully launch a product?