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Disclosure: I am a Go contributor and my day job consists in writing and maintaining Erlang systems. I am not biased towards any of them, on the contrary, I really love both languages.

Do you have any arguments about Erlang’s syntax being “actively” clunky, whatever that “actively” means? Or is it just your personal opinion? (This comes immediately to mind: http://rvirding.blogspot.se/2014/01/erlang-syntax-again-and-...)

Another claim that you make without baking is that Erlang is 70-80% redundant “to” Go. Care to elaborate? How have you measured that number?

Let’s go to the next point where you claim that Erlang is a “bad” functional language. What does that mean? “Bad”? What is that? Maybe you mean that it isn’t a pure functional programming language? That’s not a bad thing, nor good, but it’s not bad. Erlang has never aimed to be a pure functional programming language, it aimed at solving a very specific set of problems. Erlang is a functional programming language, and its simplicity, the minimal syntax that you can pick up in a day, actually makes it a really good choice for introducing functional programming to someone who has never had contact with it.

Let me tell you something about Erlang and Go. Contrary to what you have read in the news, Erlang and Go are totally different. As a user of both languages I have no idea what you mean when you say “there's still some nice aspects of the Erlang language as compared to Go, you've still gotten quite a bit of the Erlang value out of Go”. What? What aspects/value? The only thing that these two languages may have in common is the fact that they both offer concurrency primitives as first-class language citizens. Even with that, the concurrency models are very different. Only someone without experience in the languages would say that the concurrency in Erlang is like the one in Go. On the other hand, none of the aspects that make Erlang an amazing language for its niche aren't present in Go. In Go you can mutate state, Erlang is immutable. In Go you use channels to communicate between processes by sending data, in Erlang you send messages. Erlang processes are garbage collected individually which makes it a perfect fit for soft real time systems, Go goroutines are not. Erlang has primitives for building distributed systems, you can spawn processes on remote nodes just as you would spawn processes locally, Go does not have this either. In Erlang you can reload code while the system is still running, in Go you cannot do that. I can go on and on. So, yeah, don’t trust the news, see for yourself before you “advertise” stuff that you have only read about in the news.
The propaganda completely unbacked license response by Yahoo to the Openstack/MongoDB fiasco and now this are making me want to delete my account on the site
How is that alone a density issue?
The article notes their explanation:

> Shipitsyn says that the impedance monitor in the Gobe can measure glucose by monitoring the water moving in and out of cells. Insulin opens up the cells when you eat sugar, he says.

No matter from what angle I try to make sense of that statement, I only arrive at it being bullshit.

At best, they have a standard grade sensor that, in a narrow band of perfect circumstances, makes a statistical guess that arrives at barely workable accuracy (article notes 80-90%) for a reading of something that is almoste entirely unrelated to your blood glucose level. Even if it was reasonably related, it would still not tell you anything at all about what you've eaten.
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It's an intriguing idea.

Just as we have mile-per-gallon ratings for city driving, highway, etc, we could have mile-per-day ratings for different lifestyles, based on how much you eat out, whether you have children, whether you cycle, etc.

Commuting distance might be tricky to incorporate, as there are a wide range of places you might work. If you live in Guildford, then if you work in Guildford, your commuting distance could be 3 miles, but if you work in central London, it could be 30 miles. Perhaps that falls into the classification of lifestyles as well. Perhaps we just exclude commuting as too variable.

If we knew how long it took to get to places, we could make this measure in the time domain rather than the distance domain - minutes per day. Say you work for Google in London. If you live opposite East Croydon station, your commute is 11.3 miles by road, and takes 16 minutes on the train. If you live opposite Wallington station, your commute is 11.1 miles by road, but takes 38 minutes on the train.
>Exercise, nutrition, and (probably) drugs can slow the decline

You seem well acquainted with aging research so I feel it appropriate to ask, what about the role of genetics?
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How do you know it's not a total scam?

The pattern on display here is a classic - make bold (but impossible) claims, attract a crowd of the faithful who want to believe, backpedal and prevaricate when called to back up your claims, collect as much hype and as much cash as possible and then never deliver.

It's the same pattern as was seen with perpetual motion machines several times last decade.

HHere's a question - what would make you change your mind?
Well, "liters per kilometer" would be even better.
Gallons per 280 miles is even closer. And since there are seven days in a week, you can weakly justify that as 40 miles a day every day of the week.
Okay, and where's the original article?
Why the hell do companies think it's trivial to just give away data about huge swaths of its user base? Is it some kind of ego thing, like, they aren't willing to admit it's a security issue, so just pretend like this is a feature and not a bug?
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I find it fantastic, but I travel a reasonable amount.

The other day I was waiting for a plane, and Now notified me the flight was cancelled nearly 10 minutes before the staff at the gate knew.

I just forward all my itineraries to my personal GMail account, and then Now tells me where my hotel is, what time check-in opens and it finds me restaurants nearby.
I am at the point where I am pretty much convinced that it is beneficial for me to move off Google's services. Evenmore, because the speed of pushing unwanted products seems to increase rapidly. E.g. even if I have a paid Google Apps account, I cannot use Hangouts to its fullest without also using Google+, e.g., I cannot send pictures from my Android phone without Plus (which apparently creates a conversation-specific Plus album).

Unfortunately, it is quite difficult to find good paid replacements without sacrificing too much functionality (which is a testament to how good their products are). For instance:

- Fastmail: it's fast, has great webmail, but no ActiveSync for mobile devices. The calendar is still beta and there is no CardDAV syncing yet. Offers XMPP, but since nobody does federation anymore these days, it's not that useful anymore. No replacement for Google Docs.

- Exchange Online/Office 365: provides ActiveSync and EWS works well with Mail.app. Lync with Skype federation looks like it could be a replacement for Hangouts. Offers an online version of Office. However, my Android phone does not seem to work well with their servers, duplicating calendars, etc. Also, they miss features like sub-addressing, identities where you can relay mails via another SMTP server. And although they don't do ads, I am not sure how much they can be trusted.

I am most inclined towards using Fastmail.

Any other ideas/experiences of getting out of the Google infrastructure?
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I've got the same thing with code, not with music or anything else.

Thats why i really like to refractor something, i guess
This is the original article.

Check this out:

http://gawker.com/npr-pulled-a-brilliant-april-fools-prank-o...

http://www.uproxx.com/filmdrunk/2014/04/npr-april-fools-day-...

http://kotaku.com/a-reminder-that-not-everyone-reads-before-...

Thanks Ran: http://ranprieur.com/
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I just tested this service with gmail and it did in fact work. Pluto sends an image that contains the body of the message. After about 30 seconds the image is replaced with another that says "this message has expired."

A very remarkable hack! Especially since Gmail caches images on their own proxy servers. I wonder how long until Google finds a way to prevent this?

Here's some background information about the founders. One is a CS grad from Stanford, and former Google employee-- http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/4/2/law-school-email-...
One of the few level-headed articles on the subject. I'm impressed at how the author avoided misrepresenting either side. You rarely see that in these situations.
I hope the crowd funding sites crack down on crap like this before it poisons the pool for legitimate hardware startups using presales.
AFAIK, MPG is not used anywhere in the world but in one country where people don't even grasp the beginning of it.

MPG is actually quite useless to do range estimates. If you got n gallons you could possibly maybe travel more or less m miles depending on a variety of factors unrelated to the vehicle fuel efficiency such as speed, terrain, open or closed windows, driving with A/C on, and much more.
There are a few mythbusters episodes dedicated to the myths of fuel efficiency/consumption.

GPM doesn't seem that useful for budget estimates either as this depends on the fuel price, well maybe it is in the US where oil price is maintained artificially low but in other parts of the world you have a hard time guessing the price of oil 6 months from now or at the next gas station.
I've seen price fluctuation of 0.8$ per gallon from a week to the next and 1.5$ per gallon from a gas station to the next in the same city.
GPM is only useful to compare vehicles between them, which is something people in position of power in the USA do not want.
Actually, that's one area I don't know much about. Since we can't yet easily change our genes, I haven't looked into it much. I'd bet they play a big role. For example, people probably express (or are sensitive to) different amounts of telomerase and BDNF.
Bob Martin (Uncle Bob) turned 60 a few years ago. He still programs and laments that programmers move into management as they age.
Agree with what you are using as a rule of thumb.
However there is the other point of view also.

Unexpected leaps forward in a scientific discipline, especially in medicine, should be met with great skepticism.

Many advances in medicine also seem to have been suppressed by vested interests:
E.g., http://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_rhodes
This seems neither new nor groundbreaking, however.

http://dst.sagepub.com/content/8/1/54.short

ETA: a 2011 review of the state of the art: http://knowledgetranslation.ca/sysrev/articles/project21/Ref...
I used "charitable" as shorthand for "in accord with the principle of charity", and did not consider the possibilities for misinterpretation thus created. I think it reasonable to hope that the principle applies nonetheless.

I similarly used "evil" in somewhat less than the strictly literal sense; while I understand that someone very familiar with feminist theory may not apply a label like "sexist" with pejorative intent, both trivial surmise and empirical evidence indicate that someone without such familiarity is likely to react defensively when the label is applied to him, because whether it's meant pejoratively or not, it comes across as though it were. Simple pragmatism suggests that the use of the label, as a means of convincing people they should modify their behavior, is counterproductive -- but this, of course, is a tone argument, and therefore verboten.

As you, I also find much value in feminist discourse, which offers suggestions whose adoption would, I think, considerably improve not only our industry, but our society at large. Unfortunately, feminist activists generally have the least facile grasp of tactics for social change of any such movement I've ever seen, studied, read about, or heard of -- if your audience think you're browbeating them, you're browbeating them, and browbeating people is generally not an effective method of convincing them of the rightness of your cause. (I know, I know -- another prohibited tone argument. In my defense I can offer only the axiom that whether or not something rightly should be true has never been demonstrated to have a discernible effect on whether or not it is.)

Of course, when persuasion fails, there's always Alinsky's method: organize to secure power, and use that power to impose punitive sanctions on those who fail to conform. Modern feminist activism seems to me to include an increasing number of people who would happily follow precisely that program -- but who, thus far, have been hamstrung both by their general tactical clumsiness and by their earnestness, an insurmountable obstacle to power in a political system so thoroughly corrupt as that of the United States. Perhaps that'll change, and perhaps it won't; either way, I will not, indeed in good conscience cannot, ally myself with a movement willing to countenance the use of such methods, however fervently I agree with its goals.

Update: You seem to take issue with the continuum of rationality I define in my prior comment; am I right in surmising that, where I use "more rational" and "less rational", you would instead use "rational" and "irrational"? If so, I respond thus: I'm all in favor of extending someone the benefit of the doubt, but when sooner or later it becomes apparent that only one side of the conversation is actually trying to have a conversation, doubt can no longer fairly be said to exist.
I find it that HackerNews itself, while it does waste a lot of my time reading and toying with such "dead ends", keeps me on the edge of things. I've started using Go because of posts and discussions here, and it's changed the way I do my work in the past year.
Oh, I see. But all comments seem to be in on the joke, so I assumed the original one was somewhere else. I don't use FB
The diagrams here discuss the losses:

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml

They are only rough estimates using existing vehicles, but engine losses are pretty constant, and if you take the 'power to wheels' group, wind resistance is always the largest factor (especially in the 'highway' cycle, which is sort the best one for your concern).

Choosing gears to make the engine most efficient at a higher speed will increase that contribution (without really changing any of the others much; I guess there are a bunch of critical points where the different fuel losses cross each other, and they aren't necessarily straight lines).
i do love lua, although the most I've really gotten to play with it was programming drones (called turtles) in the computercraft mod for minecraft.
The original conference paper upon which the NYT article is based: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/projects/bpea/spring%202014...
The facebook link where the jokes are is here:
https://www.facebook.com/NPR/posts/10202059501509428?stream_...
It seems that there's some promise of medical devices that can break the skin relatively safely, but it's still early days: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-26721547
You can actually use the search API and you get the comment + article text and parent URL as the result.

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Example HN user page (where you can also find comment + parent):
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> The core of hacking is not writing the code but working out what needs to be written.

It's really difficult for me to get certain of my co-workers to work out what needs to be written. Mostly it seems we discuss minutia and get off on tangents rather than work out the whole thing; it's difficult to get them to look at it from anything but a low level (arguments about how an API should work takes an hour). Do you have any advice on how to get people to discuss the work in a realistic, high level way?
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Ah! I love how udacity instigates new methods for learning to program and by actually using the trending fun projects in the world right now!
The numbers speak for theselves.
Movements are how things change. And youre not going to start a movement if 99% of your age/gender/ethnicity isnt even remotely interested in the subject much less the cause.
I don't like to be tracked.
You can actually do prosthetic vision without surgery, thanks to the magic (and I use the word advisedly :) ) of sensory substitution: http://www.seeingwithsound.com/ http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kuipers/readings/Bach-y-Rita-natur... . The latency of sound-based sensory-subsitution systems is very high though.
Thanks. Maybe that's the one that should get submitted!

Succesful troll is successful :)
> But the biggest problem facing the 16 patients who had signed up for the surgery was that the lead doctor, William H. Dobelle, was ill. He died while the 16th patient was still recovering from surgery in hospital.

> The project ended with his death.

> “When he died, there was no medical journal on the 16 patients, with myself being the first one implanted. Nothing was ever written and documented.

What the fuck? An experimental surgical procedure is being conducted, and nothing is recorded outside on elderly doctor's brain?
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It's probably hard to tell in most specific cases, but it can be argued that some inventions were just ready to happen (e.g. the telephone and it's race to the patent office) while others may have taken decades longer if the right genius hadn't been in the right place at the right time (Einstein's relativity perhaps?)
The hard drive makers are correct. We should fix the mistake with RAM. 4GB of ram refers to gibibytes, not gigabytes. RAM comes in chunks of powers of 2 due to architecture. There is no reason the capacity of a group of spinning platters needs to be divided up into powers of 2. With that said, there is no reason to rate an SSD in gigabytes over gibibytes.

Ironically, my spell checker shows a little red squiggly under gibibyte. Even the developers don't believe it's a real word.
Isn't this basically how weev got sent to federal prison?
Animated pictures of a Jump'n'Run game make blog posts really hard to read. Might be related to the way human attention works, but well.
Just because it's still up for debate in some of the more unenlightened parts of the world doesn't mean it's a reasonable position to support.

So, many things can be argued to be a "political view" somewhere.
While surely there are few hackers older than 60 or 70, the history of the personal computer is still too young for the question to be a meaningful indicator of how long people keep hacking. The Altair came out in 1975 meaning that someone that was 20 at the time and started hacking on it right away is only reaching 60 next year. The first mass-market personal computer (the Macintosh) came out in 1984 and working with computers was still a niche at that time. Those hackers that are over 60 now are either super early adopters or those that started hacking late in life, so in any case a very small group. I'm sure there will be plenty of hackers over 60 in a few decades :) - Also, looking forward to fragging and playing Starcraft in the nursing home! :)
Worth bearing in mind that this is effectively DRM for email, with all the negative connotations that DRM brings.
Can you give us more information about your programming background (if any)?
It's mostly just a side project. I spend a lot of time, sshing though various boxen and then needing to quickly plot of results of an analysis. I wanted a solution to quickly dump a plot rather than often having to upload them somewhere and download again to view.
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I remember seeing a French Mac many years ago (pre-OS X). I don't know what kind of mega it used (there was no giga back then), but file sizes were reported as "Mo" rather than "MB", for "mega-octets", "octet" being the French word for byte. It sounded much classier to me.

Of course, aficionados of RFCs will know that "octet" is (or at least was) the preferred term for "byte" in IETF documents as well. I don't think this is because the RFC editor was secretly French, although i'm sure he was thoroughly classy; presumably it's because early RFCs were written in the era when the byte had not quite settled down at eight bits, and needed to be unambiguous.
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We're talking about different kinds of abuse.
Interesting performance and consistency characteristics, but "keys of up to 255 bytes with values of up to 255 bytes"? What is the use case?
From a European point of view it seem obvious that the gallons per mile trick is a small but effective cog in the larger US automobile conspiracy going on for decades. From the destruction of public transportation[1] to the many billions of dollars bailouts and current tesla battle this conspiracy is quite an obvious and documented one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Streetcar_Consp...
Wat. This seems a bit belated in it's submission to HN.
No news here and be aware:

There is no SELLER protection for virtual goods.
The buyer may lie, use the bought currency and still get its money back filling a complain.

There are means to avoid this but you will incur in more costs...
Sure, of course, but I would caution against playing armchair developer on someone else's product.

I'm sure product decisions I've made seem odd and inscrutable to someone else, but that's because they don't know about the backend interface to a legacy system, etc.
I thought this was great.
It makes sense.
Also evidenced by the fact that theres not a lot of women at the peak of economic accomplishment, but also not a lot of women in the homeless shelters in the dregs of society.
Nobody trusts a Moscow-based company with a lawyer and PR office in the US. To see this, simply set up a single webpage with a Paypal button advertising for this product. You will get money, but probably not 1M$.

On the other hand, people seem to trust IGG and Kickstarter (at least to some extent). This can be demonstrated easily by observing that content which would – on a normal website – not collect any funding seems to do well on these platforms.

So, no, it is not entirely about criminal responsibility, but about a misuse of trust, trust that IGG has and which it conferred to some company by letting them use their platform.
Is this for unix domain sockets or network sockets ? - the description of "unix sockets" makes me think the first but the reference to "SSH -L" makes me think it's the second.
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There are a couple of issues though. One is that this decline coincides with a decline of challenges in most people's lives. That's a cultural thing and doesn't have to be that way for every individual.

The other one is the definition of intelligence. Take the speed component for instance. It greatly affects the IQ score, but does it equally affect our ability to come up with interesting hacks?

In other words, average IQ score does not equal individual problem solving ability.
And range estimates are usually only needed when you're sitting in your car driving ("do I need to stop at this gas station or can I go on to the next one"), and every car I've ridden in made in the past decade has a remaining range display.

Budget estimates and car fuel consumption comparisons OTOH are needed when you're either buying a car, or at home planning a trip ("is it cheaper to drive or fly?")