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Erlang's killer framework is OTP. Not everything is for writing webapps.

I'm happy for Erlang to never have a decent web framework. I prefer Erlang (I don't write webapps) but point everyone to Elixir and Phoenix if they want to do webapps.
Yes with InnoDB it is.
I agree that on Mac it can be pretty frustrating to use. On Windows, not so much.
The great thing about .NET is that it has a ton of great features but never feels overwhelming or slow.
This comment is far more true than people realize. And the worst part is, it's not an exaggeration in the slightest.

> You cannot point to the acceptance of one app as evidence that some rule isn't being applied to another app.

This is something they won't even discuss if you question how other apps can have some feature they may not like. You could have the same exact feature, and you'll get rejected.
We are using IPSEC VPN for external access. It works with standard clients in Windows, OSX, Linux, Android, iOS, whatever.

It allows not only access to files on NAS, but also to webapps on another box and remote desktop on yet another box.

Though I'm thinking about how to configure haproxy to allow Remote Desktop Gateway and https on the single IP, that we have.
In antitrust cases, much of the game is in delineating the bounds of the relevant market. Apple would argue for it being really wide, as you have done.

One of the other comments here argues for it being "the market for iOS apps", which is far narrower, and seems way too narrow to me. If Apple built the device, and the OS, and the marketplace, of course they're going to have a monopoly there. Just like Walmart has a monopoly on things sold at Walmart.

A definition of the market that seems sensible to me would be the "mobile device apps" market. There, Apple is one of two players with any significant market share. It's not a monopoly, but it's probably enough "market power", in the antitrust sense, to draw scrutiny from regulators.
Older people tend to have no problems with liver and kidneys. But most younger people won't go near offal*

None of the butchers within a 10 mile radius of me make steak and kidney pies, only steak pies. I'm rather partial to steak and kidney pie, so I did go looking :) Each one said the same thing, that nobody wants kidney in their pie anymore.

* OK, pate, black pudding and haggis are exceptions; but you can't 'see' the offal in these, so it doesn't look like offal
Is this compatible with jq?
Previous discussion, from two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6355579
> Apple has no monopoly in any market.

Antitrust "monopolies" aren't monopolies in the sense of no other players, they are monopolies in the sense of practical lack of competitive pressure displayed through market power (also known as pricing power) which is the ability, within some -- potentially narrow -- range to raise prices without losing sales to competitors (hence "pricing power", but market power could perhaps also be demonstrated by being able to make other adverse changes without driving sales from the party with market power to competitors.)

In a sense, this does match the "no competition" definition, in that having market power indicates that while there may be other players -- or even bigger players -- in a named market, they aren't in a practical sesne actually acting as competitors in the sense of economic theory, because the goods are revealed by market behavior not to be substitutes.
For me C has been a constant companion for almost 30 years now, C++ for 25 so I have some attachment to those languages.

Everything else seems to come and go, especially scripting languages. Right now I like Python but I'm not holding my breath.
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"I sometimes find it both funny and frightening that the majority
of the world’s academic research is actually being done by people
like me, who don’t even have a PhD degree. Many advisors, whom you
would expect to truly be pushing science forward with their decades
of experience, do surprisingly little and only appear to manage the
PhD students, who slave away on papers that their advisors then put
their names on as a sort of “fee” for having taken the time to read
the document..."

That's a bit like saying: "What's so great about Henry Ford? He didn't _build_ the damn cars."

It appears that the author's definition of "true science" is akin to knowledge-that-needn't-be-effectively-communicated-to-anyone, which, in my estimation, is not science at all.
What I really want is for requestb.in (and friends) to generate a cURL CLI command for me, just like Chrome developer tools does.

This would be useful for things like grabbing a test Stripe webhook sent to requestb.in and sending it to your local dev server.

(I think there are some things you can host yourself to capture and replay HTTP requests, however - I can't remember what they are)
They still have arguably done more for the language than any other major corporation. Saying "they could have done more" seems a little petty.
Apple always closely controlled what hardware can be used with their software, even in the 90s... which is why I never purchased it. Always been the opposite of Microsoft in that regard.
I don't think his perspective is shaped by much knowledge of the history of the country, or the history of the region.

Of course, I might be assuming.

But @hackerboos: just a friendly heads-up. We're not downvoting you because you 'gave an opinion'. We're downvoting you because you didn't justify your assertion.
4/ OneDrive?

5/ OneDrive for Business? (which not the same as OneDrive)
Not a discussion of Elixir vs Erlang. Its not a zero sum game. Every improvement to erlang is an improvement to elixir and vice versa.
> But what's the alternative?

https://github.com/pjc50/pjc50.github.io/blob/master/secure-... : my own notes on sync/cloud storage services. I have my own prejudices as to what I want, but that may align well with the prejudices of HN.
Isn't http://codecombat.com/ exactly this?
These are outliers though. Aside from insider trading cases, the norm is institution pays $X to settle and everything goes away (tax-deductible btw).
Hey HN, project creator here. Would love to get your thoughts! Cheers.
One of my friends runs one of the largest water districts in Australia. Upon learning I went to Singapore for a business trip, he told me a funny story about the lack of concern for anything but progress in areas with large Chinese populations. He was being given a tour of the Marina Bay, which is the central bay in Singapore, by the Chinese developers leading the project. They bragged how they dredged the entire bay, reinforced the walls with concrete, and so forth. Basically, they took a natural bay that had existed for thousands of years, and enhanced it to be more stable and sterile. In noting their progress, the Chinese developers stated that they had to move the fisherman to a part of the city that was not so clean, shiny, and modern. My friend, being Western, asked them what they did with all the fish. The Chinese laughed and laughed. They thought he was joking.
>There are currently zero known cases of intelligence agencies forcing CAs to sign bogus certs.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/syrian-man-middle-agai...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/iranian-man-middle-att...

http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/32469/hacking/china-runs...

http://thehackernews.com/2014/10/chinese-government-executes...
Regarding Pattern Matching and Algebraic data types, I am not sure that they are implementing both of these ideas to the fullest extent that you would find when we typically refer to these items in existing functional languages.

For example, Pattern Matching. From my glance it appears a nice way to assign bindings from an expression, but I didn't see anything about guards. Also, any kind of pattern matching without the ability to check for exhaustiveness defeats the safety they provide usually comparable with inheritance.

Which comes to Algebraic data types. All I know is there are several boxes you must tick to really call it "Algebraic data types". I am not sure all those boxes are "ticked" here. This question came up when swift introduced "Algebraic data types", but no-one could get recursive ADT's to compile. it does look like this proposal allows recursion, but there are other things i'm sure are at play such as how it works with generics.
This is what I use
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Good point. People often forget that these are individuals responsible for this wrong-doing, not weirdly anthropomorphised corporate entities. The money that these banks pay doesn't come from some giant vault but from share-holders. If you have a 401k, you may be helping foot the bill. Without any criminal convictions, it seems more like a shake-down than justice.
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Think different. Or else.
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Thanks good idea on posting on Reddit.
How many normal houses in the US have an alarm system? I cannot think of a single friend of mine who has an alarm system. Some live in Chicago, some live "in the country".

I guess I remember a friend's parent that had an alarm system, which oddly was one of the few houses I know of that was broken in to. I think the burglar cut the alarm wire on entry and got a bunch of stuff.
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Seems a bit anecdotal. I've had none of these issues. What if you just need to restart your computer?
The Ericsson team does plan to open up things like that.

But pmods shouldn't be used like an example of them going against the community in driving the language forward. Very very few people in the community objected to their removal. Many of us were happy and thought it should have happened much earlier.
It's not the same because the Pebble is an iOS accessory! So it's extremely relevant whether or not the iOS app supports it as a feature.

This is completely different from specify Samsung, Google, etc which would have nothing to do with the iOS app.
In Cloud9IDE they've done a very amazing job of integrating collaborative editor with bring your own server. From what I've been able to tell, both the built-in editor and filesystem watches will trigger change operations and the two are used together to produce a very seamless user experience.
What exactly does Dropbox do that WebDAV can't do?
Well done. Here was my attempt at the same:

https://danielmiessler.com/study/pvsnp/
More like "Elixir and Erlang". It's certainly interesting to compare the relative momentums of each language and think about why that may be, but I hope people don't see it as a zero sum competition.

I was intrigued by Elixir, coming from a ruby background, but one of the key points for me was the robust and battle-tested Erlang VM and OTP. And as I've played with my Elixir app, I've found myself looking at Erlang code.

Erlang is one of the main draws of Elixir, and conversely the enthusiasm around Elixir will be hugely beneficial to the Erlang community.
You're describing what is actually going on in the real world. VCs are competing at Demo Day and valuations rise. Some think it is too expensive and avoid it.

1 on 11 isn't as realistic, because the VC would compete by wanting to put in more money. So 3 on 11 to 3 on 30.

The point of this post is to illustrate the math, but most importantly the second half is to show that this math isn't quite the right way to look at it. It is instructive to those that don't know much about this stuff.

I don't think a more complicated scenario would help explain this. For example, I left out option pools.
Probably to win over the public by coming up with bizarre scenarios. Look at how many HN'ers think he shouldn't be punished. If you want to hack, you should deal with the consequences. I don't see any problem here. Part of parole is continued punishment and to see if the person is serious about being a good citizen or not.
"What can we do? Help!" Well, that response from Apple seems pretty clear in describing the solution. Its the iPhone marketplace, not a mall, Apple owns it. They make the rules in their own store, being anticompetitive is allowed in your own store.
not only that, but Chrome can pin certificates: chrome://net-internals/#hsts
That ransomware attacks were on Synology boxes that had their web console exposed to the web. Nothing to worry about when using VPN.
This is the kind of behavior that gets a company in trouble with the FTC.

Indeed but Apple is aware that the FTC isn't likely to punish them enough that the behavior will be a net negative.

If only the Federal Government would be as serious about "Sending a message" on antitrust as they are about low-mid level drug dealers, this kind of thing would be a lot more rare.
I was taught the marketing angle: "So what?", followed by "Prove it!"
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It's not too far from having similar to a mobile Locker service. What if you didn't have a key to your trunk, but Amazon paid you $50 a month (or a more appropriate value)? They could have a delivery carrier put goods into your trunk before you left for work, and retrieve the goods while you were busy working.

In some ways, it's also like international drug running - identify users that work in the USA and live in Canada, break into their cars, and leave illegal materials there. Then your counterpart will break into their cars while they're working, and retrieve the illegal materials.

You're exactly right that "incidental driving" would be a complicating exception. But I cling to the delusional belief that all exceptions can be handled. :)
I implemented version of this several years ago, except against human players instead of against an AI, and with randomly-generated levels instead of a succession of harder and harder levels.

It was a semester project where we had to hand in a game satisfying a few basic requirements, and since we were done early we were allowed to add as many extra features as we wanted. One of those features is that whenever you clicked on a unit and ordered it to do something, a log message would show you a ruby command which would do the same. You could then open the console and control your units using arbitrary ruby code, and you could also attach AI scripts to your units.

This was before the era of github, so the source may or may not have been lost to history. I'll update this comment if I manage to find it.
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I love that you have automatic bulleted lists!

Any chance it'll have automatic numbered lists as well in a future version?
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I got an SSL error on Ubuntu, also it showed me the OSX keyboard shortcut's (At least the icons were for an apple keyboard)
You're asking people to join the beta and give you their email address with a very minimal website. I'm not even sure which phone this supports, or whether there is a non-phone way to interact with this.

Can I browse items for sale via a website?
They've been milking Resident Evil dry since 2002.
This reduces their taxable income, so part of it is a benefit to DB so the real number they pay is around ~67% of the headline number. We also have no idea how profitable LIBOR manipulation is over several years. I can imagine incredible lucrative.
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This is a car boot in the US: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Denver_bo...
I'm probably more progressive than most on HN, and would love to see big conglomerates broken up.

But on this issue, I think the accusations of illegal activity are absurd for multiple reasons.

1) Apple does not have anything near total domination in the mobile arena.

2) Apple clearly has a right to control the content in their App Store. Whether that's removing offensive material or just material they don't like.

3) This is not a new provision being brought out to squash Pebble.

If you want to go after Apple, go after the way they don't allow consumers to modify the software or install custom software on iOS. That's much more of a legitimate antitrust complaint than Apple controlling what content they host in the App Store.
>> I feel like people are really overstating the momentum Elixir has

I don't think so at all. I see elixir gaining a groundswell of momentum very much like the early days of rails and node. Of course it's the beginning, but I see a whole different crowd of people interested in elixir - the "gets things done" crowd rather than the "this is cool/elite" crowd I see playing with factor or haskell (sorry, but it's true).

Elixir does not compete with Python, Ruby or JS - it solves a whole different problem, which is the "massively multiplayer" requirement the apps world is obviously moving towards. No-one I know likes Go or Scala. Clojure is a genuine competitor, you are right about that, but it lacks the ruby community spirit showing itself in elixir. Say what you want about ruby but its community moves mountains.

It's early, yes, but I know a lot of good rails devs who are embracing elixir and they're all "smart and gets things done" types. A lot of torque is building behind taking elixir mainstream, and there's excitement in the air. Time will tell, but it's a bet I'm increasingly ready to make.
A NAS box is going to get hacked (X), have backups neglected/misconfigured/misdelegated and then have data accidentally deleted or experience disk crashes, etc. You can improve your chances by investing time and energy on taking good care of it, but even then you can still get bitten.

(X) devices from both vendors you mentioned are pretty frequent victims
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This is a disgusting sentiment. Doing things well can carry an intrinsic reward, and cultivating that is one of the most important things in a rewarding life.
This part gets best at why I jumped ship last year, at the end of my math postdoc:

"(4) Academia: Where Originality Will Hurt You
"The good, healthy mentality would naturally be to work on research that we believe is important. Unfortunately, most such research is challenging and difficult to publish, and the current publish-or-perish system makes it difficult to put bread on the table while working on problems that require at least ten years of labor before you can report even the most preliminary results. [...]
"Ideally, the academic system would encourage those people who are already well established and trusted to pursue these challenges, and I’m sure that some already do. However, I cannot help but get the impression that the majority of us are avoiding the real issues and pursuing minor, easy problems that we know can be solved and published. The result is a gigantic literature full of marginal/repetitive contributions. This, however, is not necessarily a bad thing if it’s a good CV that you’re after."

I came away with the impression that there are a few people given extremely wide latitude to work (or not) on problems of real significance, who had generally been granted 'rock star' status by the math community in one way or another. It's a 1% whose academic freedoms serves as a motivation for the other 99%, who will try to write a bulk of irrelevant papers while dealing with a massive teaching load. A job in industry ultimately felt like it might provide more freedom in the long run than the academic track, with less danger of ending up in a adjunct teaching gig in Wichita.
It's not about political enemies. It's about what choosing her says to me and many other people about Dropbox, their ethics and their priorities. Iraq war aside, the attitude of a board member about government power and the NSA's ability to snoop on any and all your data, in secret, protected by gag orders, is extremely relevant for a cloud service and for anyone who thinks what the NSA is doing is wrong.

Are you saying that it is wrong for people such as I to not trust or feel morally off using a business based upon the ethics or philosophy of its leadership?
I predict context-aware spell correction.
> You seem to be suggesting that this isn't wrong just because a rule exists.

This thinking is called "legal positivism". While famously used by soldiers after war crimes, it does not even apply in that case. Just because your laws or orders say so does not mean, that they are right, morally justified or that you will not get punished afterwards.
Typed the following :

hello
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hello

a scroll bar appeared, could not see first line anymore without scrolling up.
I'm sure this only partially addresses your issue, but one can use DTL (Django Template Language) with N2O:
https://synrc.com/apps/n2o/doc/web/elements.htm
Did it? Microsoft didn't get pwned in court over the fact that the OS came with a web browser, they got pwned in court because they were enforcing deals on OEMs that didn't allow them to include another browser.

I'd argue that Firefox, Chrome, and Opera did not flourish because of a court ruling, they did so because they were better in every sense than IE. Microsoft has never stopped anyone from downloading whatever browser they choose.
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Can Amazon decide what you can buy on Amazon.com? Can Netflix decide what movies you see in their app?

(not trying to troll you -- but I think you'd agree that they do, so it's not the freedom of the Internet. I do agree that there is a difference -- but I am having a hard time justifying it for myself)
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Ubuntu 15.04 released
Interesting idea. Are they saying only the Audi owner will be able to have his stuff delivered to his car? Isn't the car going to be where the driver is, most of the time?

How about being able to use your boot as anyone's dropoff point? Say you've got the car somewhere and someone needs their stuff delivered. They come by, hit an app for authentication, your boot opens, they take their stuff.

Lots of issues, but why not?
>> I always wondered, why do small companies use Dropbox at all?

For smaller companies who don't want to manage infrastructure, the short answer is time.

* Setting up the NAS.

* Servicing the NAS when a drive fails.

* Setting up a backup for the NAS.

* Supporting people for connections to NAS
>It appears that the author's definition of "true science" is akin to knowledge-that-needn't-be-effectively-communicated-to-anyone

How did you get that from "Advisors shouldn't treat advisees like shit and then take an unfair amount of credit for their work."?