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>for God's sake appreciate the fact that you're in the hilariously small fraction of people who get to blog about the pains of working too hard by choice.

This made me think: How would a similar blog post from one of the albañiles (construction worker) be? Earning 13 bucks a day doing hard physical work and then having to do another job to earn a little more.
Polymer uses standard 2-way data binding. How does this fit into React's flow? I'd love to see an implementation of Polymer using the Flux architecture.
Parrot should just be abandoned, MoarVM is the way to go.
An introduction to distributed load testing with tsung
The Tallest Residential Tower in the Western Hemisphere
To me this is the same question whether we need directories or not in a file system. Ideally, your file system is a flat database and files are indexes by a vast array of automatic and manually added metadata that allows to easily retrieve them. Microsoft tried to go this direction with WinFS that was eventually cut for Vista, maybe because it wasn't practical (yet). Looking how people use the Internet though, where 90% of browsing will start at Google, this does seem a very reasonable approach for many things in the future. At the end, why should humans do manual indexing and retrieval if the computer can facilitate this part?
That might be. 100K just based upon our stats from previous apps, and how well we managed to monetize those.

but 100K is indeed not that much. How much would you say it costs top buy that kind of downloads?
Here's a classic example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrMD_z_FnNk

This was a massive hit with students and the like, and spawned many online techno remixes, before that was a thing.

(BTW I'm not an advertising executive or anything, but I was told this by someone who works in print media.)
In my experience, telling programmers "all functions must have unique names" means you get a half-ass module system tacked on via common prefixes. In other words, you get "foo_bar_function1", "foo_bar_function2" etc.
Can't this be managed by feature branch owners regularly merging from development? If I was coming back to a feature branch that had been dormant for a while, the first thing I'd do is pull from development to catch up. Yeah, it might break the feature branch, but better to break it there than actually on development.
>Down voting is not for disagreeing, read the guidelines for HN.

(citation needed)
That is not acceptable, not morally right and just plain wrong.

Lies and deception everywhere - what if the guy turned out not guilty? Do they still think it's fine?
> Some firms on Wall Street use Erlang -- remember Serge Aleynikov case, he is an Erlang programmer.

His erlexec thing is quite useful: https://github.com/saleyn/erlexec - I started contributing to it myself before I realized who he was.
We are three employees, and living in Norway is not cheap. Our salaries are way below what you'd make if you worked in a kindergarden or a grocery store for example.

Plus office rent and various software expenses.
I wrote a prototype programming language + distributed function storage system like this a few years ago.

I stopped when the madness became unbearable.

Exhibit A: https://github.com/mattsta/zlang/blob/master/priv/site_macro...

Exhibit B: https://github.com/mattsta/zlang/blob/master/examples/editor...

(unbearable from an "i created a new unmaintainable language pov, nothing bad about the distributed function storage feature.)
Gaia Satellite Could Detect 70,000 New Alien Worlds
> I've not found textsecure to be buggy at all

I've had all sorts of issues with the push messaging causing some crazy infuriating problems... had to disable it on my end and on friends phones too.
Also had some oddness where two friends with identical handsets - one couldn't set TextSecure as the incoming SMS client even though the other could...

It's great, I rave about it and try and talk everyone I know into using it, but there are some odd issues occasionally...
You missed the point that the very best newest cancer drugs are really expensive and if they're good give you an extra six months of life, and if they're not good give you perhaps an extra fortnight of low quality life.
Thank you for your reply - it's very useful to me to see the viewpoints of others. It's becoming clearer all the time that my use of and views on language are very much in the minority.

However, to respond ...

> "Only" is an adverb in this case,
> and can be placed anywhere in the
> sentence for stylistic reasons.

That doesn't seem right to me.

Only what can I do in Erlang?
What can only I do in Erlang?
What can I only do in Erlang?
What can I do only in Erlang?
What can I do in only Erlang?

These, to me, mean different things.

> we all knew what the title meant,
> your sandpaper notwithstanding.

This is a case of "plausible interpretation" and I agree completely that of the different interpretations, probably only one of them really made sense given the context. It is still the case that I had to re-read to make sure something else wasn't meant, and I find it hard to believe that I'm unique.

But what I take away from your comment is that, in your opinion, we should just go with the most plausible interpretation we can think of, and not worry too much about being too precise. You are clearly in the (possibly overwhelming) majority.
I'm interested in hearing more about your work! Would you mind trading a few emails? My email is in my profile if you're interested. :)
This is a very hasty conclusion.

I think it's several orders of magnitude more probable that several greedy and half-intelligent people (intelligent enough to execute a darknet market and unintelligent enough that they aren't already well-compensated for their intelligence) saw a MASSIVE vacuum open up in the ecosystem when the Silk Road shut down. And they went for it, with varying degrees of success.

Tor is an anonymizing TCP overlay. That is all it is. It will make it so your TCP stream is not connected to your IP address.

But that's all.

I got asked a question, just two days ago, if Tor would make someone anonymous if they logged into their facebook account. Do you think it will? Do you think it's advertised that way?

Further, even the Tor developers acknowledge that hidden services are not a priority for them. Their priority is far and away client usage, because their largest userbase and their funders' priorities are bypassing Internet censorship, not running darknet marketplaces.

What was your reasoning process that lead you to discard the other explanations rather than Tor being weak?
A bit of an assumption yes, here's my reasoning though. Traceur and Typescript (and perhaps Flow and AtScript) are similar efforts made by different players that require transpilation and are potential visions for a direction javascript could go in. This combined with the author's quote "All of the other players..." made me think that's the family of solutions they were referring to.

NaCl and Dart are both by a single player and there's nothing else like them that I know about but Mozilla's asm.js, which the author is praising here, so they didn't seem like likely candidates.
Sounds like Tor needs more donations:

https://www.torproject.org/donate/donate

I think they already said a while ago that "hidden services" are not a well researched feature of the Tor network, and the Tor Project is generally strapped for cash as it is.
Some people have already been mentioning this but I wish to clarify some things.

When Erlang was designed/invented the goal was never to make a new language, the goal was to design a way of building systems with a set of specific characteristics, massive concurrency, fault tolerance, scalability, etc. One part of this was the language, Erlang. But at the same time we were developing the language we were also looking at how you would use the language and its features to build such systems. The language and the system architecture went hand-in-hand with support in erlang for the type of patterns you would need in the system architecture.

These ideas and patterns existed before OTP. So there were Ericsson products built on top of Erlang which used these ideas and patterns before OTP. OTP "just" took these ideas and design patterns and formalised them in a generic, cohesive way. Plus of course a lot of useful libraries.

So we were never really out to design a functional language based on the actor model, we were trying to solve the problem.

(We had actually never heard of the actor model but were told later that Erlang implements it)
I think what you're discussing is really just namespacing ala C++, Java, or .NET. Especially with Java and .NET, you don't import a self-contained module directly from individual source files. The modules are technically all accessible at any time (or at least, the ones linked in to the build, which in the case of the Java and .NET standard libraries is quite a smorgasbord). You just reference the class/function you want in some way: either with using statements or with fully qualified names.

Because, really, if you start throwing everything into one store, you're going to run into the naming conflict issue, and any attempt at addressing the naming conflict issue is going to either look like importing modules or look like namespaces. You either have to explicitly state what your program has access to, or you explicitly state what function you mean when you have access to everything. Realistically, if you give every function a unique name and don't use namespaces, then there will start to be functions called system_event_fire() and game_gun_fire() and disasters_house_fire() and you're right back to having namespaces, just not in name or with a syntax that makes things nice when you know you're dealing with specific things.

Though, it'd be nice if types weren't the only thing that could be placed into a namespace directly in .NET. I'd like to put free functions in there. The Math class in the System namespace only exists because of this. I'd have prefered there to be a System.Math namespace and Cosine and Sine be members of it. Then I could "using System.Math;" and call "Cos(angle)". Instead, I'm stuck in a limbo of half-qualified names.

And I like it. I like it a lot more than Python, Racket, Node.js, etc. and having to import this Thing X from that Module Y. I like the idea that linking modules together is defined at the build level, not at the individual source file level. These languages are supposed to be better for exploratory programming than Java and C#, but actually, you know, doing the exploring part is harder!

Sometimes, I really do just want to blap out the fully qualified name of a function, in place in my code. System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User. If I'm doing something like that, it's a hack, and I know it's a hack, and having the fully qualified name in there, uglying it up, makes clearer that it's a hack. Though, I suppose I'm one of the rare people who actually do go back and clean up my hacks.

EDIT: I thought I wrote more, weird.

The network-accessible database of every library, ever, is definitely a great idea. I think it's where we're heading, with tools like NPM, NuGet, etc. It seems like a natural progression to move the package manager into the compiler (or linker, rather, but that's in the compiler in most languages now). Add in support in an editor to have code completion lists include a search of the package repository and you're there.
I would like Perl to be the Perfect Extended Ruby Language. Sometime ago, there was a post from some Perl people about using Scala for the next Perl. Today Haskell, Clojure, Julia, Scala, Ruby and Lisp (batteries provided by quicklisp) are very big contenders.

Perl has cpan but I think the Perl community is really small, the great exodus happened long ago. Perl can make you feel as a real hacker, also J, but cryptic syntaxes is no longer buying you anything.

How can anyone seriously take any credibility to a calendar when Perl 6 has been delayed for ever.

Perl 6 is not the gift that Perl 5 was hoping to receive, Perl 6 is a modest advance not a revolution.

Today, now, we need much more. I wish Perl 6 the best, but I doesn't believe it will gets much traction.

Edited: Grammar. Summary: Too little, too late, there is no longer confidence.
Presumably office rent and salaries.
Looks great for a static screen. How does it handle scrolling?
How would data syncing work between React and the components seem to be a more important question. One doesn't really need React to create a web component in this example.
Google’s Boring Barges Were Scuppered by Fire Safety Concerns
You mean Europol?
the hash must account for bound variables so that fun add(x, y) { return x + y } is the same as fun add(a, b) { return a + b }. Beta-reduction independance.
Social Media, Yeah What Else You Got?
And I really like the new API. Kudos to the creators. I would really like to use this new API in a simple, straightforward and internally consistent way - and grab the byte stream after encryption to feed it into my existing I/O framework. Please forgive the sarcasm, but all my comments are derived from a will to see this new API succeed, which is why I don't want this use case to be overlooked while designing it. If I was happy staying with the original OpenSSL API I probably wouldn't have voiced my concern as fervently.
Even, say, the difference between "never attend church" and "sometimes attend church" (which evidently makes divorce 10% more likely)? Or how about the difference between household incomes of $85k and $110k (bars differ by 3% out of about 40%)?

But I'm glad to know that these are all results with low p-values, anyway: that adds some real confidence to these results. (Though I ought to ask: how many of these significant p-values were between, say, 0.03 and 0.05? How many different correlations were originally considered in the study before they identified these significant ones?)
You say that as if organisations involved in the international drug trade are not engaging in "real evil shit". Not all cannabis sold in the United States is grown by long-haired Californians. Much of it is grown in Mexico by violent drug cartels that use slave labour and kill indiscriminately. They are practically the definition of evil, and sites like The Silk Road are pushing their product.
1. Binaries: this isn't really an issue. We ship the JVM with anything that we do in Java.

That comment is just about the exact definition of the blub paradox.

When presented with a more advanced idea, there's no underlying context to join the discussion, so the brain jumps to what it "already knows" instead of a more advanced concept of what's actually being talked about.
You might even have many fans left to reach yet. I've been interested in your progress every time it's come up but I didn't know there was a Kickstarter going till just now :-)
A Perspective on When a Business Plan Adds Value
0) Don't engage in business someone else has a large interest on the status quo (drug distribution and sales).
He ask the reason for `not contributing` to that projects, not `using` them.
For those that were wondering:

> Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators, or RTGs, provide electrical power for spacecraft by converting the heat generated by the decay of plutonium-238 (Pu-238) fuel into electricity using devices called thermocouples. Since they have no moving parts that can fail or wear out, RTGs have historically been viewed as a highly reliable power option. Thermocouples have been used in RTGs for a total combined time of over 300 years, and a not a single thermocouple has ever ceased producing power.

Source: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/rps/rtg.cfm
So I know there are some initiatives and even a Swiss company that wants to clean up our space junk. Has there been any thing written(and Im sure there has, Im curious to read it) about when we will hit a tipping point that it becomes dangerous to even launch into space?
It's not very productive to talk down to people, even if it's satisfying to you. There's a better way: http://xkcd.com/1053/
Harvard Authorized Study That Photographed Faculty, Students Without Notice
I don't have much sympathy for the online drug dealer. The wild west atmosphere of the net is ending (sadly), but all they're doing is providing another pretext for governments and powerful interests to seize more control.
A Note on the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma
I'd love to have something like Jekyll that just makes my existing setup static, and I can just regenerate it when I want. So my Wordpress site becomes static, sure I'll have to fix a couple of things, comments going to a different URL, searching would be broken, but I love that WP interface, and I've got several sites in it. I'd love to take my PHPBB forum static, that thing is horrible, but also nice to have, or my Wiki, both of those sites attract all sorts of evil people, it would be nice to have them all be read only. The longer I keep the PHPBB and this particular Wiki going the more attack vectors are being found, I'd love to just have a bunch of HTML docs.
Takeaways from UX Futures Summit 2014
This interaction looks like it could be confusing as everywhere else people are used to the drag-and-drop interaction (or, in mobile, tap-and-drag).
#hashtagsarestupid
Twitter's future: How high can it fly?
Great stuff.

Congratulations, Gavan. Very promising projects are failing to get funded now, it got really hard for games in KS.
Strictly speaking it's a joint venture with the CIA :p
Why You Should Kill Your Competitor in SaaS
Presumably this happens at the spec stage. At least it's implied.
I would recommend Leading Snowflakes as a great read for first time engineering managers: http://leadingsnowflakes.com/

And subscribe to the author's weekly email list. Great set of reads and links here:
http://softwareleadweekly.com/
Thanks! @NathanBartel had fun with that one.
React Components for Google Material Design
Does anybody know if there is anything similar for golang?
And let's be honest, if one were to go to jail in the US, Brazil, or Russia, especially as a (formerly) wealthy American, the US is an order of magnitude better than the other two.
From a perfectionist viewpoint, the decision's almost correct: TLS work on streams and fds are streams in POSIX. Although an ANSI C's FILE* would be a more portable thus wiser choice.

However, given that the world's flawed and FILEs (and fds) aren't proper objects that end-user can create and use with their own functions (like an implementation of read(2) that'd yield to an event loop until the data's there), guess it warrants yet another ad-hoc struct. Or a bunch of functions that work on some context struct and that you're supposed to pass data chunks by yourself. Like in classic OpenSSL API.
Hi!

Right now we don't display the description of design on mobile browser anymore. Does it look better on your phone now?

BTW, have you ever browsed Everious with an iPad? If yes, how's your experience?

Thanks again.
EDIT 2: Author removed the image.

I clicked on the link. It shows me a full-screen image with some text telling me to click and drag and tap and slide. So I clicked on the text and dragged and ... it's text.

I pressed space (probably subconsciously) and found out that it scrolls and it's an article about user interaction. But the only thing I saw at first is a picture and a title. It seems like they went out of their way to destroy usability so it looks nice. Especially ironic in an article about user interfaces.

I don't think it would really hurt to put "scroll down to read some text" on there, so you know you can scroll.

EDIT: this is what I see: http://i.imgur.com/euC9MeN.jpg
I don't know how Movieo is getting their artwork images, but if they're provided by a third-party API (Spotify's API provides album and artist images), then why not?
Morality is an aspect of subjective perception. It is not, in fact, entirely clear that these black markets are unhealthy for the world. Are they causing drug epidemics? Are they funding terrorist groups? It's hard to say. Maybe this would remove drug activity from the streets. But the point is, they're pursuing novel problems in the world without actually giving any effort to show us the calculus that went into their decisions, and that is immoral as an agent of justice paid by our taxes.
Just curious if this is true - I read somewhere that during WW2 long-term starving people (months) were able to cure their diabetes. There was also some paper about a drastic diet that allows pancreas to regenerate itself and resume normal insulin production. Can someone please shed light on this? Does this work on some subset of diabetes? Or is it just a hoax/unknown?
I'm just starting to do some work on a system that is going to be very distributed with many endpoints, often on unreliable networks connecting back to a server.

Erlang (elixir, really) looked promising for this so I've been investigating off and on while we do some prototyping and flesh out some of the details. So far it seems to be that you get nearly all the advantages of Erlang with running something like RabbitMQ and then being able to write message consumers in whatever language you desire.

Everywhere I think Erlang would be a good fit, seems that relying on RabbitMQ instead and having less code to maintain in-house makes more sense. I'm still very early in my Erlang journey but so far haven't been able to convince myself to use it directly. I must be missing something.
Your bot behavior spotting would flag me as a bot
Check out the paper (Table 3) for significance statements: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2501480

Some of the trends in Part 1 are not statistically significant (e.g., "never attend church" vs. "sometimes attend church"), but I presented them regardless because they have a pretty clear trend. I believe p-values are only presented in comparison to the reference point.
Load-balancing Docker Containers with Nginx and Consul-Template
This is a pretty standard view for Medium posts - little to do with the OP.
Imagine the AP would impersonate as the FBI to get raw material for some of their reports...
Yeah, seems like this would conflict with other gestures like scrolling or swiping.
They're branching out from simply manufacturing their own criminals to catch now? I guess I'm sort of impressed. It's like a child, learning to tie their shoes, except this child has a gun and can send you to jail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosam_Maher_Husein_Smadi
Erlang is about 10x slower than C++ on most examples.

damned lies and benchmarks. hipe enabled? VM tuned properly? attempt to use halfword emulator? comparing C++ the compiler optimized down to SSE2 instructions to an emulator VM loop?

How much slower is Ruby than C++? Ruby runs every startup in the world. This website is the home of "DO THINGS THAT DON'T SCALE" including using fast to write programming languages at all costs even if 3 months later their "we have modules for every occasion!" design will be inadequate (you are testing your _ideas_ after all, not programming language speed, at least of the majority of use cases for people on this site).

a good candidate for writing a distributed server

distributed means you need monitoring. monitoring means you need supervision. supervision means you need restart strategies or failover or other promotion mechanisms. all that is built into erlang for free. optimize for _reliability_ not for speed when creating distributed systems.
I quite like the idea. I think it would probably still make sense to have "collections" where a bunch of related functions can be grouped together, discovered and worked on as a unit (this would just be an optional extra layer on top of the global function database). Although there would no exclusivity in collections so a function might appear in more than one, or zero, collections.

Another idea: Unit tests could be stored as function metadata.