skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no clear winner. Haskell wins on having a powerful type system and producing generally efficient code. Erlang wins the maintenance-race by far since you can trace on the running system and deploy code while it is running. And the fact that Erlang is built to be robust over fast.

Saying that Erlang lost in its home turf would be a wild extrapolation of what I wrote. I don't really think there is a clear winner, but rather a set of trade-offs you will have to make.
How to Write Good Copy and Get Heard
I really enjoyed his presentation about writing the bittorrent client in haskell comparing it to an erlang implementation: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Combinatorrent-Haskell-ca...
Lately though, I've been blogging at medium.com as well:

https://medium.com/@jlouis666

since I prefer the platform to blogger.
Regarding 4 (Newfoundland): the Harper government pretty much pisses off the entire provice on a weekly basis. Harper's conservative base is out west, Newfoundlanders certainly don't think much of him. Peter Penashue was the only Conservative MP voted in here in the last election, and he's gone now, thankfully.
And this is precisely my point, especially in the US where so many people carry guns, presumably to be able to stop people who look like they might be a threat.

But to imply that it wouldn't be even worse for someone who looks like they might be Middle-Eastern would be pretty disingenuous. I hope that's not what you mean.
You have the causality wrong. Rap Genius has Andreessen Horowitz because Rap Genius is special.

In this case, the user experience for a Google user is worse when Rap Genius is removed. Google has some incentive to be more active in fixing the problem there, especially since Rap Genius was cooperative, technically competent, and aside from their "rapper swag persona", genuinely nice guys.
There is no total order on type systems. ATS is quite advanced yes, and as of late, I would put Scala in the same group of languages with highly complex and powerful type systems.

But I have a hunch that the type system of Haskell allows for more expression than the comparable ATS type system. Even though ATS has variants of dependent types and also linear (perhaps affine?) types.
I understand your feeling. On the other hand, what we get a lot of in this industry (every industry, actually) is a CEO who will not admit that the product has problems, even though it clearly does. So I'm encouraged. Although I will also probably be migrating my data out of Evernote this weekend. But I'll keep an eye on it, and perhaps get back into it later if they improve and I haven't come up with something better in the meantime.
Having worked for large ftse100 publishers who had sites penalized in algo updates its stinks that such an avowedly black hat site gets of with a slap on the wrist.
Because the point of the article is not to convince bitcoin advocates but to point out Krugman's intellectual contortions and dishonesty, when bitcoin possesses features that should appeal to him. The NSA has to walk a tightrope, because they want US government and other security-related communications to remain secure. They cannot recommend flawed encryption to their own. I have heard no mentions of SHA-256 being flawed, and the bitcoin software is open source, an unlikely honey trap. Use your own judgment.
SMS can transmit small programs/binaries(2011)
The Internet of Soda: Why Coca-Cola Has Stockpiled 16 Million Network IDs
Could be, given that book burning was always more of a symbolic act to intimidate the supporters of the ideas contained in the book rather than just the act of destroying information. What could the purpose of burning records of environmental research centers and monitoring stations possibly be, for what's pocket change to a first world Government?

I have just read this, not being from Canada, but this Harper fellow seems to have an internal war with the institutions of the State in charge of the monitoring and protection of the environment and a budget deficit, so he went forth and dismembered the one in charge of water, despite what his advisers said, and what's common sense nowadays, that water ecology is in danger world wide after heavy abuse.
"Was a few months away from my one year cliff."

Money. That's the reason. Had it happen to me a couple of times in the Web 1.0 days. Greed ruined some great products, a few companies and not a few friendships.
Probably the story is missing the help of a highly skilled SEO consultant/company but it's impressive anyway. To get it done so quickly they had to work 24/7. Kudos!
Exactly, many large companies have a company policy that limits them to only confirm the dates and title at the company. Any further elaboration is prohibited (positive or negative) and a former colleague of my missus did get into trouble for elaborating positively in a proper reference when they had such a policy in place.
I get furious at the types of comments that plague these submissions to hacker news.
usually it starts when someone submits an article that in some way holds society at large accountable for things like the lack of women in STEM, or someone’s difficulty in entering the “hacker” or “maker” culture.

this article hits both targets really well. and, like clockwork, the top comment does the following:

1. immediately suggests that it’s absurd that the author could blame society in any way for her difficulty/inability to enter the field of computer science.

2. uses his now-accepted theory that it is always, unfailingly, willpower (and only willpower) that prevents one from doing anything to basically posit that sexism doesn't exist (because it's all willpower). he implies that sexism in tech is a fault of a character flaw - impressionability

3. completely invalidates the concept and social power of identifying as part of a larger group. this guy is so privileged and used to identifying as a “hacker” that he can’t even comprehend the concept that someone might want to identify as a hacker (but have trouble doing so, say, because of comments like this)

if it’s not something like the above, it’s a comment that completely ignores the content of the article, and nit-picks about something like what the author _actually_ meant by the term “hacker” (which, if it was spoken by a man, would most likely not raise such questions)

I know I'm spitting venom, but I see this stuff so often and say nothing...I felt like it was necessary here.
It's possible that you're both right. According to the author they had hired new management spots. It could be that this new management decided they needed certain specialists positions filled, but didn't have the budget to do so unless, of course, they could free up budget by letting others go. And that's often the problem with generalists; if they can't place you into a specific 'need' spot on the org chart then you often have a target on your head instead.

In other words, maybe he didn't get fired for being a generalist, but instead was fired in favour of a hiring a specialist.
Just saw it and starting to play with it!

This is exactly what I was talking about in this blog post:
http://continuousdelivery.uglyduckling.nl/docker/run-docker-...

With a single installer on Mac which will bring both, boot2docker and native Docker client, we have a fully functional Headless Hypervisor!
Next step is Windows?
Idris was not on my radar in 2010 :)
Show HN:  A service locator for PostgreSQL UDF's
Github repo at https://github.com/einhverfr/PGObject-Simple-Role/tree/maste... but linked to the CPAN page because there are examples of how it works there.

I wrote this as a basic service locator for PostgreSQL stored procedures. It is a variant on the way things have developed in LedgerSMB. My hope is that this sort of thing will be built for other languages and used in other programs. The main idea is to help ensure that one can wrap PostgreSQL db's in a sane functional API that can be loosely coupled from application logic so that it can evolve and applications can catch up.
I'd ignored this, trying to have a nice holiday with my family (without having to contend with wrongness on the internet :), but would like to introduce some facts. Datomic is not an append-only b-tree, and never has been.

There's a presumption in the article that "immutable" implies "append-only b-tree", specifically, an argument against append-only b-trees is used to disparage immutability. That's pretty naive. One only need to look at e.g. the BigTable paper for an example of how non-append immutability can be used in a DB. Such architectures are now pervasive. Datomic works similarly.

One can't make a technical argument against keeping information. It's obviously desirable (git) and often legally necessary. Our customers want and need it. Yeah, it's also hard, but update-in-place systems (including MVCC ones) that discard information can't possibly be considered to have "solved" the same problem.

Prefixing a polemic with "apparently" doesn't get one off the hook for spreading a bunch of misinformation.
Notational is the best.
Actually, eating healthy is a lot less expensive than eating unhealthy because eating healthy involves eating less food in general.
Don't be so spiteful. It might very well be that they have relations, don't make it sound like that's a bad thing. Besides that they also seem to just have cleaned up their act very thoroughly.

And about Franz Kafka, I think he'd turn in his grave if he heard about how petty people like yourself criticize a website that tries to make literary criticism of his work digestible and enjoyable for the masses.
Wish our industry would take game patch notes[1] as inspiration. They’re very meticulous in listing out exactly what bugs were squashed.

[1] http://www.dota2.com/news/updates/12114/
Here, let me jog your memory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik

(Apologies, but Godwin's Law seems unavoidable in this context. Yes, here's a historic example of a no-shit Fascist party who fired lots of academics because of their ethnicity or their field of expertise and replaced them with a whole fabricated fake "science" that was ideologically acceptable to them. Note: burning libraries was explicitly part of the program.)

It's excessive to call Harper's government "fascist" (although Harper has prior form for hard-right politics: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2011/04/19/0... ), but this is indisputably a tactic used by fascist movements.
Well spotted, it looks like all of their news article URLs end in '-lyrics', even those when it's not even slightly relevant eg: http://news.rapgenius.com/Snapchat-find-friends-abuse-lyrics

More shady SEO practices from Rap Genius, disappointed but not surprised.
Edit: the reply is to the now reacted comment:

> They're a startup, and this was a problem which was either going to kill them or be surmounted quickly. Naturally, they surmounted it quickly.

Google laid out a clear plan of action for them. Is it hard to believe they finished it quickly?

Yeah, most of the other sites I refer to were also start-ups by almost any definition.

They did not quite finish their action plan. They got away on reasonable doubt.

This is the first time I am seeing this defense considered by Google.

I willing to bet any other non-vc funded bootstrapped start-up would never be afforded this consideration by Google.

This rant is not a judgement on Rap Genius, I am actually glad they maneuvered around this.

I am judging Google.

They have killed other start-ups for reasons such as other sites farming and duplication their content more vehemently. Reasonable doubt has never been considered for anybody else and most likely will never be hence forth.
Except that it's only been removed from the App Store. I still have it on my iPhone.

Are you saying that Apple shouldn't let developers stop selling an app?
Can someone clarify for me, again, what is so special about Rap Genius? It's just a bunch of stupid rap lyrics. So what? In fact, how are they not being sued for copyright by the owners of all the lyrics they're posting, anyway?

I run across Rap Genius now and then and have always considered it to be spam, just like yahoo answers, ehow, and mahalo pages.
These are pretty specific questions and would vary depending on the model and config. So my answer will be purely hypothetical. I have built and flown quadcopters the most. My most efficient configuration with high quality motors was very fast at about 50mph and could sustain that speed for 8-12 minutes depending on battery size, making the maximum distance 10 miles. Currently that is extremely far for a quad copter to fly. It could hover for about 18 minutes. The quad weights in at 3 lbs so adding another pound would drastically reduce its range. Cost to build this cheaply; Motors $200, long range tx/rx $350, flight controller w/ gps $70, ESCs $60, frame materials $60, battery $50, remote controller $50, wiring $10, props $60. This drone could be built for around $1k. It should be noted that while quads are more efficient they are also the most limited by payload. Ramping to a hex octo or deca would increase payload and potential battery size, and potentially flight time/distance, however efficiency tends to tick down.
…you know how to write code. Why should it imply you're a hacker?
As a native Floridian, here is what I would do. Buy generator, take it to area that has lost power. Resell it for 2x price. Most people don't take care of there generator until they actually need it. It sits in the garage or basement, until the lubes dry it and the bearings seize.
Difference between Servlet and JSP
There is something I do not get: Note taking is very important to the OP but he does not even want to spend 5 USD a month?

That also made me sad when Simplenote was bought by Automattic and became free as consequence. It was great that Simplenote was not simply shut down, however, 'free' is not a business model I want to rely on. But Simplenote is still the best although it has some reliability issues too.

As a general side note, syncing – even of relatively simple text notes – is a challenge. If you really on synced data, there is no way around having your own independent local backup with some kind of versioning.
Love zim wiki, use it every day, but: it still doesn't detect file change on disk. So after (1) edit on host A, (2) sync with git (or rsync or btsync...), (3) go to already open edit window on host B, you can end up editing a stale buffer, and then you have to merge manually.

Still better than the alternatives.
The comments are turning out to be 'bragging' <div>'s rather than insightful suggestions. Rather than the 'how'.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Evernote?
Given the amount of people asking for alternatives in the Evernote thread making the waves right now and since I’ve been looking for one for a while now, figured I ask what others use.

OneNote, Simplenote, org-mode seem to be some popular ones.
The future of big data
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I have a few SanDisk Extreme SSDs and have found them very reliable.

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-2-5-Inch-Solid-SDSSDXP...

It seems like they picked very random SSDs to test, and everything from 8GB to 480GB drives, but only 6 drives total.

The website below indicates that smaller capacity drives will wear out faster, so the original posts tests are completely flawed.

http://ssdendurancetest.com/
Before you book your Aus plane ticket, you may be saddened to know the UK and Aus Woolworths are completely unrelated [1] and very different beasts :(

The Aus/NZ ones are much more like supermarkets, I went to one in NZ and sadly found Pick-a-mix was not a focal point at all.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Woolworth_Company
The article implies that MIT knew that students were downloading JSTOR files illegally.
> I still have it on my iPhone.

That wasn't clear in the article. However as others noted: It's also been removed from their list of purchased apps, so if their iphone gets damaged, or it gets deleted from their phone due to a mishap, they're still out the cash they paid and left with empty hands.

> Are you saying that Apple shouldn't let developers stop selling an app?

They should do the same thing Steam does: Remove the store page and keep it available for redownload by customers who paid until it positively cannot function anymore.
The Bitcoin network split and tanked when it exceeded, what, 500k transactions an hour?
http://news.rapgenius.com/Marc-andreessen-why-andreessen-hor...

Rap Genius [...] and have always considered it to be spam

That's pretty absurd...
If you need to run any cables/fiber over any property that you don't own, then yeah.

If you just want to set up a DSL reseller account, knock yourself out.
This seems like it would be a "truth in advertising" violation. From your pictures, normal recourse looks like binding arbitration but maybe the truth in advertising angle can make it a bigger deal. Especially since someone else pointed out that they have included Latin America in their warranty list for years.
As someone who "eats healthy" and maintains a healthy body weight (through a combo of eating the right amounts + exercise), I couldn't disagree more. I eat less of my salmon, yes, but I'm still paying $4 per meal when I eat wild caught salmon versus $0.50 for that pre-cooked-chicken-from-a-bag.
Not to mention the app UIs change every week. For example yesterday they added smileys to Skitch. It is utterly frustrating that every time I open the Evernote app or Skitch app to use it, the button I am looking for has disappeared and another button has taken its place.

Does any Evernote alternative have OCR? That's the only feature keeping me using it.
> It might very well be that they have relations, don't make it sound like that's a bad thing.

It is a bad thing here: it shows that Google is apparently willing to act preferentially to favoured businesses, undermining the idea that search results are provided with neutrality.
I don't know about other people, but I probably would much more productive all the bustle that the internet brings about, and I'm very much aware of the problem (and I try to improve).

On the other hand, the internet has exposed me to so many wonderful things and ideas that it was probably all worth it. I just try to be mindful what I put into my brain these days. It's really easy to tether over the edge and waste a whole lot of time.
I keep on thinking about writing one that actually mirrors the way I think of tasks.

I don't think of all tasks equally. I have long term things, that usually get put off until they are not so long term. Big things that can be subtasked. Small things. Important things. Things that need done by lunchtime. So far I have not seen one that does anything like this. Does anyone know of one?

Anyway, writing it will be on my todo list.
Why are you showing us this - is it your app?
What is Workflowy? The page is just asking for me to signup without providing any details on what it is, and then there is a bunch of people saying how great it is.
Cool!

Congrats Jordan, it's promising.
Can someone clarify for me, again, what is so special about Rap Genius?

Why? You've no doubt read 10x reasons people here have said so (in the other threads). Do you just want to argue? If you don't agree, fine, but clearly a large and vocal group does. So what? Move along - find other things to care about.
Schneier on Security: NSA Exploit of the Day: IRONCHEF
"So now you’ve got customer data stored in two places, and you need to sync them. Syncing can actually be a challenge: Which database is the “master”? How often should they be synced? "

I've called this problem the "Non-Authoritative Data Source" problem for years - NADS. Never quite caught on though...
Except that support people may not have database access. I certainly wouldn't be happy if it added unguarded content into the logs and they got me to email it to them!
No, there was a proposed settlement with the Author's Guild that sort of but not really was an exclusive deal with Google. But that settlement was not approved.

That proposed deal did apply only Google, but it didn't preclude anybody else from negotiating their own deal.
I'm using nvALT but I would never sync my private (as in "private diary") notes with an unencrypted web service. For "transactional notes" like shopping lists I use Simplenote though, because the Android app syncs really fast. Plus I'm using Evernote for saving websites because it's the best solution for saving the whole content including images and tables.
> Google has some incentive to be more active in fixing the problem there

That's exactly how I feel too. Though the incentive for google is very unclear, the lack of clarity is explored further below.

> You have the causality wrong. Rap Genius has Andreessen Horowitz because Rap Genius is special.

Not saying Rap Genius is not a special lyrics start-up. Not even saying that it would not have been a good candidate for any VC financing them.

Though, Definitely saying that the special case leniency shown by Google sure make it seem like having Andreessen Horowitz is the only thing different between Rap Genius and scores of sites before with this and similar situations.

> In this case, the user experience for a Google user is worse when Rap Genius is removed.

And its not when other good sources are removed because they were link bombed or their content was scraped more than their competitors?

> Rap Genius was cooperative

Find me one person in their situation who would not be. It was to either co-operate or die.

> Rap Genius was technically competent

How?

> Aside from their "rapper swag persona", genuinely nice guys.

I am judging Google.

I have nothing against Rap Genius founders, nor their "rapper swag persona" and I'll believe you when you say the are nice guys.
Holy shit I just got a reply from Charlie Stross!

Honestly, I don't see the parallel at all. GoC isn't trying to rewrite science: it's closing scientific institutions (minor ones) as part of budget cuts. Certainly it's not doing so out of a nationalist campaign against scientists of a specific race, which is what defines fascism (isn't it?). Arguably it's a politicization of science, if it's intended to suppress climate science; but that has nothing to do with fascism, it's just bad policy.
I've followed SEO on and off for years and I wouldn't have thought that their strategy of allowing people to generate and embed links back to the site was shady at all. I even recommended something similar a few years ago in good faith.

They're useful, relevant, and it just seems like good marketing. These things will spread organically and drive traffic even if you remove the SEO benefits.

Could you say that Scribd or Slideshare are doing something similar by allowing people to embed documents in their websites along with a no follow link back to their site?
Took me less than 5 minutes: http://play.golang.org/p/RnrpAs-iH5

I really like the outcome with multiplication:
http://play.golang.org/p/vF9aq6xF10
Healthy eating is not as much of an economic issue as articles like this would suggest. Don't get me wrong if they taxed bad foods it wouldn't be a terrible idea, and not inappropriate now that we collectively pay for peoples' bad choices with healthcare.

Considering the avg diet, many people will be able to consume less. I did this personally in an attempt to live on a minimal budget. If healthy eating costs .47 more per 200 cals, and $1.50 more, just cut 600 cals out of your diet. The avg cal consumption is 2600-3000 in that range. Unless your an athlete or serious physical activity, its more than most people need.

I know this can be done. I went on 1700-1800 cals a day for four months (some days less, and still around that range) and feel great. Cut my food budget about in half. Changed grocery stores, you can actually live on very little money when you cut out the crap you don't need.
Hacker Monthly – January 2014