skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wooga is using Erlang

http://www.wooga.com/

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1016648/Why-Erlang

EA uses it as well

https://github.com/Eonblast/Emysql

Blizzard / Activision / Demonware paper of Erlang

http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/395/Erlan...

As for Java, Deep Silver FISHLABS is using it

http://www.makinggames.biz/features/the-backend-development-...

I have lost my Making Games magazines, so I cannot remember of the other names.
For their service infrastructure, certainly. Napkin math suggest that they have to sustain peak floods in the ballpark of 500M concurrent clients. Give or take 100M.

However, if you could cripple DNS propagation/resolution from their systems to the next-hop upstreams, it would show up as services being very slow to respond. They do serve content from multiple domains.

I'd be interested to know how Google's 8.8.8.8 infrastructure defends them from DNS level manipulation...
I used to take substantial (up to 60mg in a ten hour period) and well-tolerated (very little sleepiness, no euphoria) doses of valium when flying. While I never took it when not flying, I had (and to some degree still have) an intrusive desire to be taking it, especially after recent usage.

I took it to fly for maybe 4 years, with an increasing dosage (I started at 2mg), and flew about once every 2-3 months, and had a couple of noticeable comedown periods. I don't know if that fits your "addicted to valium" definition, but I didn't have any noticeable "more awake" feelings in the 2-3 month dry periods.

(I recently switched to beta-blockers, which are neither addictive nor habit-forming, for flying, with a greatly decreased valium dose, and it's going great. Would highly recommend trying it for anyone uncomfortable with the direction their benzo tolerance is travelling, and with appropriate symptoms)
First version (1995) of the first german language online-newspaper recreated
In recent Google SREs AMA, they talked about how they mitigate DDoS attacks.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/177267/we_are_the_goog...
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/177267/we_are_the_goog...
Give us this day our daily selfies
I think you would need to add good firewall traversal technology (UPnP, etc.).
One issue is that without using Tor Browser itself, any attempts to de-fingerprint your browser end up making an extremely unique fingerprint if anyone's looking hard enough.
> You seriously believe that? You think the government makes common sense decisions?

Decisions like that are made in the open. You can tell if your self-driving car has a license plate on it and keep lobbying to remove it until they do.

> How long until we hear about them logging the serial numbers broadcast by our tire pressure sensors? Or what about the unique magnetic signature of our vehicles detectable by all the loops already embedded in the road?

So it's a cat and mouse game. So what? If they want to log RFID tags they have to spend a billion dollars putting readers everywhere, at which point people rip the tags out and the readers are useless. Find some other way (and some other billion dollars) to fingerprint individual cars and people will realize that it's profitable to sign up their self-driving car to transport Uber passengers and suddenly tracking the cars is meaningless. And so it goes.

> Tampering with NIST, clipper chips, export controls. This is not sustainable, people will eventually tire.

All of those things failed. Nobody gets tired of winning.

> Also, the argument sounds very similar to what was said about TSA security theater

The analogous thing to not having TSA security theater is not having mass surveillance. You're arguing the opposite -- mass surveillance for everyone. You can't make the slippery slope argument when you want to start at the bottom.

> No, my point is that you can't prevent something technically practical while the government operates in secret, enjoying a monopoly on information.

Which I'm not disagreeing with. Government secrets should be aggressively minimized. But once again, governments being transparent to their people in no way requires people to be transparent to their governments. And there is apparently some dispute about what is technically practical.

> That is why warrantless home searches aren't extremely common, because it would be impossible to do in secret - old papers have very little to do with it.

Which is all we need to do here. Make it so that spying on you requires them to physically enter the space you're in so that it's only practical to do it according to the rules with probable cause rather than in bulk in secret.
Angular is not a framework, it's a very naughty boy. Now piss off.
(Actual quote from Sergey Brin)
MDwiki: A JavaScript CMS/wiki. 100% Clientside SPA Using Markdown
Their implication is that it never goes away. I'm inclined to take their word for it.
What happens when FaceBook goes down? Guardian referral traffic analysis
When you use Tinder, you are looking at and using Facebook profile data, as well as logging in via Facebook.
It happened that I read the initial robots, empire and foundation cycles first, and then the "glue" novels that Asimov later wrote for the sake of general consistency. And those added novels contain wonderful twists - it was such a pleasure to read them!
Self-driving tractor in 1978
I'll tell what the Romans didn't give us, they didn't give us decent documentation, that's what!
Hello, in the last couple of months I've been working on a message queue of the kind you describe, which is, one that is more biased about providing a number of features already built in inside the broker itself, instead of delegating it to the client. I understand the case for the other approach taken by NSQ and other systems, it's just a matter of what you want to do.

However while my queue project supports persistence, synchronous replication, delayed jobs, at least once and at most once delivery semantics, automatic federation, there is one thing I don't support in the list of features you mentioned: ordering. And I believe there is a strong argument for not supporting ordering in certain kinds of message queues.

By implementing only a weak form of ordering (approximated wall-clock ordering, so that, usually jobs are served in roughly insertion order) we gain: availability (as in CAP, the system can continue with a single node), latency (even in the case of synchronous replication, you need to care just for a message to be replicated into N nodes, regardless of what those N nodes are), and functionality (the queue can auto-reissue messages after a specified retry-time, so at-least-once delivery is trivial to accomplish for consumers and producers). Depending on how the system is designed, to give up strict ordering also wins you scalability.

So I agree about your reasoning but my feeling is that message ordering is a big point that really changes how a message queue is shaped. My bet is that there are many problems where ordering is not needed but all the other features are.
That seems a tad... high.

$70,000 = $2 trillion a year, assuming 24/365 usage.

Total value of all oil produced in the world (assuming $50/barrel) is roughly $1.4 trillion a year.
"Modification Date: Donnerstag, 2. Februar 1995"

Wikipedia says that "Spiegel Online" was slightly earlier with a release date of October 25th 1994. Even the first with some conditions "the first online presence of an established news magazine, one day before the Time site".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_Online
Device Reception – Independent performance testing
http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/cormorant-alpha-shutdown-... estimates that the Cormorant Alpha shutdown cost $10,000,000/day, or about $100/second. That figure comes from multiplying the oil production (90,000 barrels/day) by the oil price ($110/barrel). Where did you get the $70,000/second figure from?
From google people saying " why do you want anonymity if you've got nothing to hide" to this, is really the confirmation that technologist are poorly equiped when it's about dealing with political or social issues.

What facebook is doing is what some french corporations were doing during ww2. It's called collaboration with a fascist state. ( and no, clearly it's not of the same scale, of course).

Let's not forget that those were cartoons making gentle fun of an IDEA. Just an idea, and nobody is forcing you to have a look at it. They're not making fun of people suffering, they're not trying to have people killed, or spreading hate and anger. First and foremost it's about learning to laugh a bit. But there's one way you can recognize fascists for sure, it's that they have no sense of humour.

Now, even more preoccupyingly, turkey is putting journalists in jail. But they also have a very strong tradition of modernity, and they have a strong army, traditionnaly not aligned with islamist. Which means they could still revolt and massively vote against the ruling party, if they have the chance.

What facebook is doing is saying that nothing outrageous is been done in the country. They're helping the government instead of calling him out.
Worth having a play with colorpy, some nice examples here of how you go from a spectrum to a 'human' colour:

http://markkness.net/colorpy/ColorPy.html
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It's boring because it's not a "pure" color, as it must be a mix of different wavelengths that is weighted similar to what get to the surface of earth from sun. So it's boring in the same sense a white noise is boring -- it has little information. On the other hand, a more pure color means there must be something that is changing the sun's light as it reflects it, or it's emitting light of some specific wavelength, which has more information.

Or put it simply, it's the color of dirt, and dirt is boring.
I go to Taito Station and play Ultra Street Fighter 4 and/or coffee shops when I don't have much else going on.
Not here in Japan. I just left as a matter of fact. Lots of people there.
Still a sword, but not the same kind of sword most people think of:

For much of their history, the Roman Legions used a kind of short, broad-bladed sword called the gladius. There were various types across the centuries, but generally they were quite a bit shorter than the swords we see in the movies, sometimes as short as 18 inches from guard to point. This was not a great one-on-one weapon; all other things being equal, a warrior with a traditional long-bladed sword would usually beat a shorter one.

But the Legions didn't fight one-on-one. They fought shoulder-to-shoulder, leading with big rectangular shields, and thrusting around the side, top, or bottom with the gladius. Quite a few of their of their enemies came from traditions that emphasized personal glory and used big, long swords that needed room to swing. These men had to space themselves out further to avoid hitting their fellows, and so each one would find himself facing two Legionnaires shoulder-to-shoulder. A bigger sword doesn't help much against odds like that.

(I am not an expert and I have probably got some details wrong; feel free to correct me.)
"chilling effect" is probably the term you're looking for, though maybe it's not an exact match.
Australia launches cyber-weapons in global counter-terrorist operations
"The issue was resolved at 23:10 PST and the site stabilized shortly afterwards. Our internal and external monitoring shows that API requests are being served with normal latency and error rates, in all geographic regions. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you and the users of your apps."

No hints there, guess we'll just have to wait for a full post-mortem to come out.
And what good is physical security if you don't have it? If it doesn't exist in practice then pointing out that it exists in theory is just being pedantic.
Peer-to-Peer Systems and Gossip Protocols (2007) [pdf]
Director, lead, and architect are all very different roles. Most directors I know have probably never written a line of code in their lives. Architects are people who stopped coding 5-10 years ago or are consultants that try to sell computer systems. Leads are people with a few years of experience out of college on exactly one project, probably all on one platform and one language who are trying to get out of engineering and into management as fast as possible. But don't worry, all those people would be glad to take your money. You are going to get vastly different outcomes. A director will immediately start spending money and hiring engineering managers. An architect will immediately start spending money on enterprise-y stuff and trying to hire engineers. A lead will be out of their narrow element and no longer be a capable lead. They will be stuck back in beginner land. All will try to fake it until they make it.

You are looking for a top level engineer who can transition to management and then up three to four levels within a couple years. Such a person probably doesn't have any trouble getting their own funding at a percentage a bit higher than 2%.
> we never let one country or group of people dictate what people can share across the world

That's even more hypocritical, given that Facebook itself enforces its own prudish values on the rest of the world by systematically censoring harmless and completely legal content because "omg, boobies!".

Zuckerberg saying "Je suis Charlie" makes me want to throw up. If there is one other force besides reactionary muslims that has a chilling effect on the freedom of expression and liberal values in progressive Western countries, it's the dominance of reactionary American tech companies like Facebook.
the slight difference is that "der standard" is a daily newspaper. "der spiegel" is a weekly magazine.
That approach used to work but so many sites now are utterly reliant on jquery and other bulk.

The new trend is not only needed javascript but localstorage.

I cannot believe the sheer number of sites I have to use now that will not function without localstorage enabled.
Except one leaves the congressperson happy and one leaves the congressperson angry. Do you think the angry or the happy person is most likely to anonymously disclose this information to a journalist?
> Because it's often of no interest for the customer. At all.

So what? Why must every single word be about the customer? I find "our incredible journey" posts inspirational and as long as they are clear what will happen with the service and what it means for the customers I don't see what the problem is.
This is an interesting article that raises questions about larger scale application. I wonder how the "nomadic" startup method would work once a startup has shifted from a single person effort into a larger team collaboration. Is there a need for teams to be physically in the same place? Would it be beneficial for entire teams to constantly be on the move?
Considerably better even, since you are unlikely to touch your face with your bum.
Tracking state with muxjs, data-binding make easy
Gah, misplaced a parenthesis. You are correct. I shouldn't do math before I've had coffee.
The same could be said for many things. Cars, plastics, cattle, factories, pesticides, airplanes, etc. Why are fossil fuels special?
Interesting, didn't know that. They mentioned logs like bootstrap.log and dpkg.log, which I noticed, but looking at my shell scripts now there is also nondeterminism/host influence in:

etc/resolv.conf
var/cache/ldconfig/aux-cache
var/lib/urandom/random-seed
etc/init.d/.depend.{stop,start,boot}
etc/shadow
etc/passwd- and family (with trailing hyphen)
etc/apt/trustdb.gpg and other keys

(not exhaustive)
My first computer was a BBC B Microcomputer when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I played Elite with my brother for about one and a half years. Great memories.

Anyone other Acorners remember Repton? Also a cool game. You had to wait 10 minutes for the game to load off a cassestte though!
CSS media queries reveal your fonts and screen dimensions. Maybe someone could tie that in with lazily loaded images with unique IDs, thereby tracking you. It would be nice if people could disable media queries, as they're annoying anyway sometimes. You can disable fonts, at least in firefox.
The original news title says

"Turkish court to block Facebook pages insulting Prophet Muhammad"

http://www.trt.net.tr/english/turkey/2015/01/26/turkish-cour...

"Insulting" and "critical" are not the same thing, so the truth is quite twisted in the NY Times article title.
This view is quite popular on HN. It is false.

Substantially nobody starts a startup with the idea that they will get bought out by $NAME_AN_ACQUIRER. This is a sucky and very stressful way to buy yourself a job interview at the cost of two years of your life. There's a much, much easier way to get a job interview with, without loss of generality, Dropbox: ask for one. If you're a designer with sufficient chops to get a prototype funded by YC, you can have a job at Dropbox by Friday. (Step 1: identity any design lead at Dropbox. Step 2: coffee date. Step 3: interview. Step 3 may even be optional, depending how good you were at steps 1 and 2.) It's the hottest hiring market in the Valley in the history of ever.

Many people have a poor understanding of the rough economics of selling a company in a soft landing vs. taking a hiring bonus from AmaGooFaceSoft. The hiring bonus is substantially more lucrative, particularly for non-founding employees, when you amortize it over the time (and opportunity cost) required to achieve it.

I appreciate that it is frustrating if someone pays $19 a month loyally and then finds one day that $19 doesn't suffice to field a team of five engineers and designers continue to work on producing them bespoke software development. The source of frustration is not "unsustainable models" or "evil VC funding" -- it is, simply, that $19 doesn't buy that caliber of software development unless it's being paid by, oh, +/- 4,000 people in parallel.

There exist options if one desires continuity of service in a SaaS app. They require custom legal language and start at $10k. If you don't remember signing custom legal language and you denominate your SaaS spend in dollars or tens of dollars, you haven't purchased continuity of service, even if you think you're entitled to it.
It's not a perfect contrast because "Jewish" describes both a people and a religion whereas "Muslim" is only a religious designation.

In the West - America, at least - religious bigotry seems more acceptable than racial bigotry. Bigotry against Muslims is not, then, the same thing as bigotry against, say, Arabs.
> very few, currently

I've tried disabling JS and all sites were completely broken and resulted in a horrible experience. I guess though if you set your bar very low few sites really need it.
You could buy a shirt and it came with the membership, or pay less for just the RSS membership. He delivered a personal RSS link with a random string. That worked until people moved to Bloglines, because it shared URLs among all its users and thus exposed private URLs to anyone looking for the daringfireball.com feed. At that point, he moved to password protected feeds, until people moved to Google News, which didn't support password protected feeds. This is when he began the weekly sponsorship model.
I just came on to comment that. Larry Niven was a favorite of mine.

Another great short story of his: Inconstant Moon (turned into an Outer Limits episode) about a man who notices the moon is /unnaturally/ bright one night, and comes to the only rational conclusion: something has happened to the sun...
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Was completely dead in Australia.
Down on both my local ISP and VPN to the National Research network. It was not a DNS issue as the IP Address is the same as it was during the outage.

"Host unreachable", maybe they took out the load-balancer?

- traceroute to star.c10r.facebook.com (2a03:2880:f00c:6:face:b00c:0:2)

1 redacted
2 ge-1-0-0.bb1.a.syd.aarnet.net.au (2001:388:1:5001::1) 107.649 ms 91.569 ms 91.814 ms
3 ae9.pe2.brwy.nsw.aarnet.net.au (2001:388:1:88::1) 91.981 ms 92.822 ms 103.957 ms
4 ae5.pe1.brwy.nsw.aarnet.net.au (2001:388:1:87::1) 92.447 ms 93.29 ms 101.182 ms
5 et-1-1-0.pe1.rsby.nsw.aarnet.net.au (2001:388:1:66::1) 94.606 ms 109.654 ms 91.987 ms
6 et-0-3-0.nsw-msct-bdr1.aarnet.net.au (2001:388:1:a3::2) 96.119 ms 92.032 ms 92.57 ms
7 6453.syd.equinix.com (2001:de8:6::6453:1) 99.204 ms 111.52 ms 190.499 ms
8 if-xe-0-3-1.3.thar1.1MH-Sydney.ipv6.as6453.net (2405:2000:ffd0::a) 90.392 ms 90.862 ms 92.174 ms
9 if-3-0-0.2.core1.PV4-Piti.ipv6.as6453.net (2405:2000:ffd0::1a) 232.07 ms 210.376 ms 163.293 ms
10 if-xe-3-1-1.10.tcore1.TV2-Tokyo.ipv6.as6453.net (2405:2000:ffb::22) 191.668 ms 200.129 ms 226.642 ms
11 if-ae2.2.tcore2.TV2-Tokyo.ipv6.as6453.net (2001:5a0:2200:300::2) 192.905 ms 191.953 ms 201.681 ms
12 if-ae6.2.tcore1.SVW-Singapore.ipv6.as6453.net (2405:2000:ffa0:100::49) 288.696 ms 279.671 ms 269.912 ms
13 if-ae11.2.thar1.SVQ-Singapore.ipv6.as6453.net (2405:2000:300:100::d) 264.938 ms 264.522 ms 266.912 ms
14 2405:2000:300:100::16 (2405:2000:300:100::16) 354.279 ms 349.7 ms 389.75 ms
15 ae2.bb02.sin1.tfbnw.net (2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::84c) 349.649 ms 348.205 ms 347.904 ms
16 ae0.bb01.hkg1.tfbnw.net (2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::1bdc) 349.552 ms 356.726 ms 348.74 ms
17 be6.bb01.pdx1.tfbnw.net (2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::5dd) 366.212 ms 368.99 ms 368.89 ms
18 be9.bb01.prn2.tfbnw.net (2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::f5) 365.81 ms 366.327 ms 366.598 ms
19 ae10.dr02.prn1.tfbnw.net (2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::1c27) 377.387 ms 365.613 ms 365.392 ms
23 * * *
24 ae10.dr02.prn1.tfbnw.net (2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::1c27) 387.156 ms !H 383.877 ms !H 374.672 ms !H
You do know that PPA rooftop solar is zero $ upfront & cheaper than 'normal' electricity, right? Nothing stopping the poor from getting it. In fact, I would be very surprised to hear that PPA customers average income is lower than in the general population.
Enterprises Need a Realistic Cloud SLA
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And forgive us our sheep-throwing.
Why do I have two public IP addresses?
Mentioning in minorities in contexts that aren't explicitly positive is pretty much a holocaust-tier offense.
I am not sure FF hides the real OS in user agents. Check about:config for general.useragent.override and if its value exists, then at some point you or a plugin specified an override.
sorry about that :)
https://bitneer.com/facebook.com/ping/
working now of course.
That's weird... The following article has a quote from one of the dementia study authors that specifically calls out loratadine/Claratin as an antihistamine that does not have anticholinergic effects:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/1137023...
Know what you mean. I know grugq to some extent, and really doubt this was his motivation. However, yes .. passive global network analysis (eg. NSA) can benefit. So I still have the same thought process, and switch signatures (browser+IP) before reading things like this. Just for compartmentalization...
Rails had the same civilising effect, and the same mild backlash when people eventually grew out of it.

Heavy but well thought out frameworks, we salute you! (Even if we don't use you for new projects anymore.)
Between Silk Road 1 and Silk Road 2, both administrators lived in San Francisco and used their real name for an email address.

What're the chances?

Or is there something about wanting to admin a darknet market that precludes moving to a beach in Asia with wifi, and using the bitcoin you're taking a cut of.
> than the person he nearly killed

An injury like that to an elderly person in a non-advanced country probably was fatal. Maybe not right away, but falls are one of the largest killers of the elderly, not from the fall, but from the after effects.
Also, "The end of eternity", it's partially related. In one of the books (I don't remember on what exactly, could be "Foundation and Earth" ? ), he makes a references to what happens on these book.
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