skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of things that strike me as being wrong about this essay. Most importantly, to understand the success or failure, you have to think about it, and its economics, like any other product on the market. Granted, programming languages have different characteristics as products than lighthouses or tv shows or telephones, but they do share things with them that we can learn from. This is a somewhat dated attempt of my own to share a bit of that thinking:

http://www.welton.it/articles/programming_language_economics

A few other things:

* Like rdtsc says, Erlang does not fit the mold in a lot of ways. It had a large corporate sponsor from the get-go, which was good for it in some ways (money for developers), and perhaps bad in others: lots of production code early on means it's not possible to change stuff that is less than optimal.

* As per my article, new/small/unpopular languages need a niche, a beachhead if they are to gain traction. You can't create a new language and platform from scratch with an ecosystem as big as Java's (indeed, piggybacking on the JVM is a popular strategy because of this), so you'd better have one thing where you absolutely kick ass. Erlang has this in spades, for instance. Ruby had Rails. Tcl had Tk and a few other "killer apps". PHP was way easier to get started with than mod_perl, back in the day. I don't see this for Dylan, particularly, but then I don't know much about it, so maybe it's there somewhere, and BruceM will figure it out and the language will gain a following.
The Hubble isn't flying through the atmosphere, and is specifically engineered to take very long-duration exposures.

You've seen the Hubble Deep Field image, right? The one where Hubble's operators found an entirely empty region of sky and stared at it for over 134 hours over ten days and 342 exposures (mostly separated to keep individual exposures from being degraded by cosmic ray strikes).

That's really not comparable with an aircraft, moving through the atmosphere, with turbulence, engine vibration, and other factors contributing to deviations from a steady trajectory. Though the image does appear to be fairly plausible from others' comments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_deep_field
Reminds me of BlackIce back in the day... awesome tool this Glasswire. This is what I wanted for everyday network paranoia.
It's less a matter of cost and more of its situation: orbiting, not flying, through vacuum, not air, with careful attention to stabilization and vibration elimination.
So... you're operating what is effective a commodities brokerage?

I assume you've got enough insurance to cover fighting with the CFTC and the SEC?
Possibly transformer explosions?
Chances are good that people who browse that way are looking for niche subjects that are equally outliers, so if there's any value to their traffic at all, search engines would do well to figure out that for X sites and Y visitors, the default browsing behavior assumptions do not apply.
Now it would be a nice next step if he uses his wifi card's RSSI + Helmholtz reciprocity to verify the theory.
tl;dr Let's consider price/income in addition to comparing historical prices or to contemporary cities. Houses generally cost 1-2 years salary. Nice places to live are expensive if they are hard to build on. There's an interactive graph with selectable cities, 1990-2014.
Great to finally see a versioning number! 0.0.1
As he says, it's really not the right hue (red light for fishing squid would make no sense anyway, since it wouldn't travel very far in water).
C'mon man. Norway's the #1 importer of Teslas [1]

Otherwise, man I wish Canada would manage our oil money like Norway. But we burned that bridge a long time ago.

[1] look it up
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Bernie Sanders (Independent - VT) is the nation's only socialist Senator.
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Right, and do you need to create a company in Ireland to sell copies of Windows in France? The money is most certainly funnelled into a select few "companies" set-up in very specific countries. This is classic big business accounting and perfectly legal. It's also utter BS to spin it any other way than trying to avoid paying taxes on the money.
Is this sarcasm ? Because the rest of the world http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/evaluating-drug-d... is not waiting for the US the show the way and, Russia being the exception, the prison industry isn't as strong as it is in the US.
People have taken to down voting things that they don't agree with, it's sad because it stops debate and contrary opinions.

Down vote trolls, down vote personal attacks, down vote propaganda - sure.
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It costs a lot of money to get that large of an object into that ideal location, though. In the context of my original comment, "cost" could be seen as a proxy for "difficulty" of any kind. Perhaps it was too short and a bit flippant, but it seemed appropriate to respond in kind to the original comparison between Hubble and an airplane.
Someone like Bernie Sander[1], who is a self described socialist.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders
Also, MGRS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGRS
Imagine if hackers were to somehow to find out where this tool is being hosted and then brute force their way in? Presumably such a tool is heavily secured and off the grid, but if it is somehow accessible from the Internet and an attacker were to find out where, it's only a matter of time now that the cat is out of the bag. Could you imagine hackers having access to troves of metadata and information like that? It's a scary thought.

I'm surprised such a thing took so long to be revealed. If you've got as much data as the NSA has, wouldn't you want a Google like search engine to be able to search through it? It makes so much sense which is why I am surprised some people are surprised about this.
Well, it's not really Canada that has oil, it's more like just Alberta isn't it? Norway is a unitary state while Canada is very federal.
In Lua the user manual is the reference, so if the language does something different, it is considered a bug. If something is not described in the manual then it is an implementation detail (unspecified) and code that relies on it is broken.

This led to several alternative implementations, among which at least one (LuaJIT) implements completely a version of the language (Lua 5.1).
As I mentioned in the comment section on the link, I think splitting into 16 and represented as a sequence hex digits would be amazing. It would vastly simplify operations since 123 contains 123(anything else) and is only contained by 12 and 1. Tada.

0xDEADBEEF would represent about a .14 mi^2 area. I wonder where it would be... Guess I'll have to implement it to find out! :)
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And refactoring courses.
Did you solve that system by inverting the helmholtz matrix? Your steady state time independent solution looks like it's suffering from major numeric instability. If you didn't already, you should solve the system with linsolve() and see if your results stay the same.
Great app! Serious question: why hasn't something like this become a standard app if not OS feature? It is something I have always wanted. Want something similar for Android phone too.
Remember, the revolution will not be televised. And now also not on <your favourite app>. And not on your news channel. No smartphone, no coverage, no action.

This feature will be abused.
I can't really think of any feasible way for the user to be only person who can initiate a remote shutdown.

(Sure, you can probably come up with some hypothetical scheme involving public key crypto, but we know they're not doing that, and if they did most users wouldn't be able to figure out how to kill their own phones either).

You don't need any crypto. The user sets a killswitch password in her phone, then the command must provide the same password. If the user hasn't setup any password, the command works without one.
the foremen had a great song about that: http://www.royzimmerman.com/lyrics/best_peace.html

here it is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luMdJAia-bw
Looks like people like the text-balloons, we'll proceed with implementing them.
Laser Pointers factory sell green/blue/blue high power laser pointer
We are a laser pointer factory specializes in manufacturing various types of laser pointer, laser color: red, green, blue and so on, there is power: 10000/50/20/200/500/100/300/5 mw,Low price, good quality!
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It has a lot of baggage. "War on drugs" was I believe first uttered in public by Nixon and I don't think anyone used the phrase after Bush (the Elder).
I agree about disliking the terminology, although (as far as I know) the phrasing dates back to Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" initiative in 1964. The aspiration that was being reflected there was that the US government could apply the same fervor, resources, and ingenuity to uplifting the poor that it had applied to WW1, WW2, and was then still applying to the Cold War. Because of that, I always felt like the phrase was a swords-into-plowshares type of saying rather than a militant one.

Of course, that was 50 years ago- as the phrase has gotten recycled for initiatives like the War on Drugs, it has lost that nuance and context, and sounds more like some zero-tolerance, overly militant government program (which parts of it were). Many or most Americans would agree with you that "War on X" needs to go, including me.
According to the Intercept, the U.S Military has banned employees from visiting First Look because there could be classified information on the site. [1] [2] (extra source since you can't see the real one..)

Maybe that is what you are experiencing?

[1] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/20/u-s-military-b...

[2] https://thebulletwire.com/u-s-military-bans-glenn-greenwalds...
That's about the stupidest thing I've heard in a while, so stupid I have to assume it's sarcasm. Of course the great state experiment is how we got here in the first place. Reagan, as governor, defunded mental health care and just said fuckit, throw all the addicts in prison. Then he took his ideas "to prod" by doubling down on Nixon's "war", with the helpful (to his party) side-effect of throwing millions of black people in prisons.
> And states do have a general character/culture -- consider the differences between California and Arizona or Nevada.

IMO this isn't true now, and it's demonstrably been getting less and less true in recent years[1]. The claim that states seem like they have different cultures if you consider it isn't really helpful either: The human brain loves imposing structure on things, so if you claim that a certain area is a single entity, naturally one's tendency is to think of things as "Californian" or "Arizonan", etc. In much the same way, one thinks of an Italian living on the French border as ethnically Italian, and a guy living a few miles away as ethnically French. Drawing arbitrary lines is convenient enough, but pretending there's any sound reason behind these distinctions is silly (look at the recent history of Central/Eastern Europe to see exactly how arbitrary state lines are).

[1] I'm referring specifically to the fact that it's a well-studied phenomenon that the urban/suburban/rural divide in culture+values is becoming a lot more significant than the state-to-state ones.
That's not particularly big news in the article either (that IBM support Macs internally). See this article from 2012: http://www.cultofmac.com/144386/if-ibm-can-win-with-macs-and... (Where it's postulated that IBM has the largest total number of Macs in an Org (outside of Apple))
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> It's not about the past state. It's that their present state is always reduced back to that previous state.

It's a fucking name. If a person can't live with the fact that they used to be called something else, they need serious help with their self-image. It's not on other people to let you pretend you were never in jail, it's not on them to let you pretend you weren't raised in Cornwall, and it's not on them to let you pretend you were always married to the same person. It's on them not to bring it up when it's not pertinent, which it sometimes is, particularly in medical, judicial, sexual and demographic contexts.
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Any chance Spotify will provide a realtime API for tracks you have listened to?
Wow that's great! I'd been looking for another kw tool that wasn't relying on an externally built/maintained kw database.

Well done, I'll be visiting with utmost frequency and paying the toll, sir.
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It's been proven to work some places. South Korea has had cable TV stations (plural) dedicated to e-sports for over a decade.
The term is harsh, and I've heard numerous complaints over "War on X" phrases, as you say, but I think this one is justified/beneficial. It indicates that drugs are the "them", and "us" encompasses legislators, regular people, and users the like.
There's truth in this. Generally, I search for part numbers on google or rockauto, and then you can find them on amazon. The UX for finding parts that fit your car on amazon is either confusing or broken, I'm not sure which.
Are Democrats more likely to oppose the war on drugs?
why not set up more suboxone clinics? I know it is just substituting one addiction for another, but it will reduce crime and stop deaths.
relevant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
Where to get help with Common Lisp
> The cynic in me wonders whether existing residents are just attempting to (and succeeding in) increase the value of their real-estate investments (however small) under the guise of protesting gentrification, though that might be a little far-fetched.

I honestly didn't even realize this was the cynical view, I thought it was quite evident. The fact that people protesting high housing costs could also be against development seemed so insane that the only rational explanation was low-information anti-high-rent voters being bamboozled by all the advertising etc that the homeowner crowd puts out (and election advertising is made even more potent by SF's referendum system).
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As is the movie Pioneer. Quite horrific experiences. In Norwegian and English, about former fishermen who laid the first North Sea oil pipe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_%28film%29

60+ reported to have died, and diving at that depth has since been disallowed.
Would you or others care to share the story of how they got hacked?

The only time I've been aware of getting hacked, my friend handed me his computer and said, "You're a nerd, find me a live pirate stream of the Big Game. Quick, people are coming over!" Friend may be too strong a word, but I gave it a shot even though I thought it hopeless. I went to some sketchy pirate sites, and I clicked on a link. A popup launched, and immediately there was an error; "Shockwave has crashed."

"Do you install updates?"

"No, why?"

Another time, my brother was lamenting that he couldn't take pictures with his phone because his SD card broke. I never used mine, so I pulled it out and handed it to him. A few days later I had to get some information immediately and the only device available was my phone. I was on a website and an error popped up; it was to the effect of "Can't download someapp.apk because you don't have an SD card."

Close call.

Edited to add:

https://incidents.org has good reads.
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I need ideas
I have built backend and I have built iOS and Android apps for employers. I have been very good at it.

Now I want to build something of my own. But I have no ideas! I have spent a month to come up with an idea, and I have nothing. So I am turning to this community.

My goal is to build a service that I can charge a low subscription price, say, $5 per month.
Or, a mobile app. Do you have a burning need that can be solved by software?
It is interesting that I often see people coming primarily from a strongly typed language say this kind of thing, whereas people used to working in dynamic languages rarely make obvious type errors.

This says something about what tooling does to people. Haskell people say they think in types but this make it look wrong. It would appear they are less good with types when you take their tools away. People working primarily in dynamic language probably end up writing programs that are mostly correct in that respect because they have no other choice to become productive.

This looks similar to how people who are raised in clean environments are more vulnerable to bacteries. This is not a bad thing: we still improved life expectancy a lot with hygiene and antibiotics. But we got weaker immune systems and allergies.
Furthermore, think of how profitable surveillance on certain individuals could be. Could a military contractor not have a thriving side business funneling out intelligence on innocent American targets? Could multiple people not be hired just to clear tracks and make justifiable excuses for accessing the records?

If Snowden, as one person, accomplished what he did with (the majority of Americans would say) good intentions, imagine what a team of people, who were just as smart if not smarter, could do if they didn't have morals guiding their actions. Imagine how well a team could cover their tracks, dot all the I's, and cross all the T's, compared to just one guy.

This is all common sense, but it bears repeating.
The interesting (tragic?) part of this is that other parts of the book writing process do pay ok.

I was a technical editor for Understanding and Deploying LDAP, 2nd Edition, and Addison Wesley paid me $5000 for my work. There were two technical editors, I presume the other tech editor received the same remuneration.

I very carefully tracked my effort - it took about six months, and and I was able to take a friday off every other week from work thanks to an enlightened boss who saw that it would be useful for his LDAP administrator to enhance his skills in such a manner.

So, 6 months x twice a month x 8 hours - about 100 hours of work, or $50/hour.

Of course, I was also drawing a Salary at the time, and the real reason I was doing this, was out of passion. I was determined to make sure not a single issue got by me. I labbed out every example. Tested out every command. Verified every URL. Flagged everything that wasn't 100% clear to me.

But - I realize that as a technical editor, I was probably putting in < 5% of the effort that the two authors were putting into this, even if it was a second edition (which presumably meant less effort than the seminal first edition).

At the end of the day - every technical boot author I know either did it out of desire to create something create, or to build out their reputation.

I've never met one who actually thought they could make any type of living doing it.
Non paywalled link: https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web...
*he's the only self-proclaimed socialist. Surely there are more who possess similar ideologies, but aren't outwardly socialist.
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The Tesla isn't priced as a luxury car in Norway. Electric vehicles are exempt from taxes and fees, which is mostly where the money goes when you buy a more traditional vehicle. They also don't pay anything when passing toll booths, IIRC. Where I grew up, people now pay ~$10 just to pass toll booths to and from work every day.

There are other benefits as well, like free parking, Tesla's free charging station--and most importantly for many--you get to drive in the lane reserved for buses and taxis instead of dealing with traffic to and from work.
Intel reveals world’s smallest wireless modem for the Internet of things
Mysterious lightning flashes that appear to precede earthquakes could be sparked by movements in the ground below, US scientists say.

...

"Our first suspicion was this has got to be a mistake. There must be something stupid we are doing," said Professor Troy Shinbrot, of Rutgers University, New Jersey.

"We took a tupperware container filled with flour, tipped it back and forth until cracks appeared, and it produced 200 volts of charge.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26462348
> Addicts, including some prisoners, will have greater access to synthetic heroin substitutes to help them reduce their dependency on illegal narcotics or kick the habit.
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Wow, those stars are amazing at altitude and with no light pollution, I wish the passengers could see up too (and also without a nose-greased, scratched-up plastic in between).
Except that it is not how it turned out. It turned out that "us" was law enforcement and "them" essentially anyone else.

Mostly any kid smoking small amount of marijuana. Being free of drugs wont necessary help you, because law enforcement so much power, that they can take away your property even if you have done nothing wrong. And you can still get stopped and searched for drugs for no reason.
Do you have any examples of companies rejecting profit-improving innovations which empower skilled workers?
I'm in a similar boat, and I'm about to embark on my first idea.

All I can tell you is, keep at it! Think of ideas, and write them down; draw diagrams of the architecture; investigate what other people are doing.

I came across this site today (on HN I believe):

https://www.mashape.com/

This is chock full of subscription services for inspiration.

Good luck to you!
In general, I agree with you. But one counter-example would be my experience with Hive in Spring 2013. Our team of four had to ramp up on a very aggressive deadline without knowing anything about Hive. One of my colleagues picked up the O'Reilly book on Hive, and it was by far the most extensive, comprehensive, and convenient reference. The online resources I found were either outdated, incomplete, or would take much more time to find the answer I was looking for.

Another example would be several months later, when I got a job at a company with a lot of Hadoop work, not having much experience with writing MapReduce code. I had two weeks between jobs, so I picked up 4 books on Hadoop. It's less than a day's salary, and allowed me to feel like I could hit the ground running at the new job (and I did). Those books are all outdated now, but I still feel like I got my money's worth from them.
You're not the only one... a friend of me who works in the IT department for a big IT company says about 20% of their daily network traffic goes to Twitch nowadays. It's a bit ridiculous if you think about it but he said he has many colleagues who have a stream open on the background of one of their screens.
I imagine that you'll get downvoted to hell for saying that, but if I was the NSA I'd do exactly this. I'd also threaten you if you refused to comply.

I would already know exactly which employee to target based on your dubious interests gleaned from your internet searches.
That may be an answer - just use the OSS reference version made by another richer more capable state
Wait, what? No thoer way to earn money? These are common thieves looking for victims to rob them out of as much money as they can. People with skill, a PC, access to the internet and good social skills.
There are also aircraft-based observatories. Principally for exploring specific wavelengths of light absorbed in the lower atmosphere. And, incidentally, rather less expensive than orbital observatories.

Good guidance, getting above turbulence, and having specific compensation for movement/motion all helps.

My points stand: the characteristics of Hubble are not directly related to cost, and attributing the distinction to that alone is a poor explanation.
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