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FindFace is already used in Russia to find, identify and attack gays, sex workers and porn actresses.

One of the incidents https://globalvoices.org/2016/04/22/facial-recognition-servi...

Atom has recently gained a significantly better support with the atom-elixir package. Adding language-elixir and linter-elixir packages creates a moderately enjoyable experience.

So, to say "I trust/distrust all media sources in equal measure" demonstrates a wilful ignorance, or incredible naiveté.

>Having an effective universal annotation platform in wide use across the web

...funded by venture capital with an expectation of hyper growth and liquidity event would not necessarily be beneficial for all users. To put it mildly.

>People keep complaining about how slow Atom is, how much memory it hogs up, etc

Which is exactly what people have been saying decades ago about Emacs, aka "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping".

Atom adoption among SO developers increased from 2% in 2015 to 12% in 2016. VS Code is at 7.2% and it's not even out of beta.

Both Atom and VS Code are built on Electron so it seems that web tech for building code editors and IDEs is getting really popular.

Elixirscript is a thing though and it's being actively developed https://github.com/bryanjos/elixirscript

Robert Virding has just announced the release on twitter https://twitter.com/rvirding/status/710259707819249664

I feel that this LFE release further validates BEAM as a promising platform for future development of new programming languages. Also I look forward to reading SICP converted to LFE. Available chapters can be found here https://www.gitbook.com/book/lfe/sicp

TcpKali mascot is an example of great visual identity for open source projects: kawaii-touched fearsome ancient god zapping servers. It's both memorable visual symbol and an apt metaphor for core feature (load generation).

RJ-45 connectors with a skull hanging from the neck and a latte cup are just cherries on top.

Don't trust Alexa results, they are mostly useless.

Quantcast is usually more accurate and Quizlet US Rank on Quantcast is 37.

I don't know about Go but Elixir/Erlang has a concurrency model that spreads one request workload over several cores.

>typo 0 server. It's bare metal, but much more performant than here

Packet's 0 server is Atom C2550 and costs 36$/month.

Scaleway C2S server is the same Atom C2550 but it costs ~$13/month.

Scaleway C2M is C2750 which has twice as much cores and costs ~20/month, so I am not seeing how it is possible for Packet 0 server to be "much more performant" when in fact Packet's offering is so much weaker.

>normal-intelligence humans who like working hard

Because working hard is a virtue, right?

Great news, I will. I guess that option wasn't obvious for me when I was looking over http://stardog.com/#plans

Stardog is great and would be even better with a friendly licensing policy towards indie developers. Their community version is too limited and enterprise version price is per server, contact sales. Current developer version is for testing only.

I would happily pay for a developer license or something like that.

AFAIK linux and mac release is coming later this year and even then it won't have JIT support.

Microsoft's Chakra engine is available as an alternative backend for node (windows only at the moment) and has native support of async/await.

https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore

RethinkDB + graphql is exactly what I missed from Meteor :) Meatier seems like a promising stack.

Its ironic that your username is an ad for the addictive, manipulative game.

This applies only for a diminishingly small amount of large corporations and is not applicable to absolute majority of HN startups/bootstraps/side projects.

As someone who has taught himself development after more than ten years in entrepreneurship, marketing, advertising and strategy, I find you arguments too simplistic, with no regard to strategic tradeoffs. A successful business needs to be able to "fire" some of its clients to gain competitive advantage or increase operational efficiency. And sometimes those clients are users with old browsers.

Branding a request for proofs to general, overarching statements as personal prosecution (Spanish inquisition, really?) is a sign of discourse grounded in ideology, not practical considerations.

>I don't need to 'cite' what I can see with my own eyes from the stats of my payment services provider.

Your original statement was broad and general, not qualified. Your anecdotal evidence is not sufficient to support this claim.

In the context of the discussion about supporting IE 8,9 and 10 and using your terminology flexbox (which IE 8-10 doesn't support) seems to be "all kinds of sexy stuff" and "not keeping things simple". Right, got it.

http://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox

>It is extremely rare that the cost to support a browser outweighs the economic importance of those using those browsers.

Citation please. Are you really sure this applies to modern front-end web app with reasonable complexity?

Amazon RDS support for PG was released in November 2013 so I wouldn't hold my breath.

Postgres 9.5 is a great release. Upsert is, obviously, a very welcome addition.

But I am more interested in row level security policies and its impact on evolution of technologies like Postgrest. It may even spawn a new generation of backend architectures that don't really need app servers to power SPAs and mobile apps. A possible exciting new niche for Postgres.

What is not great about Postgres ecosystem is that megacorps who benefit the most from selling hosted Postgres instances ( AWS/Amazon and Compose.io/IBM ) are not present in the list of significant sponsors of PostgreSQL foundation! Heroku/Salesforce is only on the Silver sponsorship level.

That's really bad.

http://www.postgresql.org/about/sponsors/

>Are you making better projects as a result of dropping "old" tech the moment something shinier comes around?

That's a lot of assumptions you are making there. Why "better projects" is the only metric considered here? Perhaps, OP utility in front end technologies is based on their learning. Or what's you reason to assume OP is dropping old tech "the moment something shinier comes around" and not after a reasonable period of exploration and trial?

Prototype.js was created in 2005, 10 years ago. Angular was released in 2009. React was released in 2013.

A lot of churn? Absolutely not. Someone staying current, perfecting their skills and knowledge? Good for them!

The HN trend of "hipster shaming" people trying new, sometimes esoteric technologies (even if it's only for the novelty factor!) is not conductive to constructive discussions and really has no place in the community named Hacker News.

That's great SciFi but maybe don't do the spoiler thing and edit your comment? The main side effect of mind-to-mind communication doesn't get revealed until the end of the story.

Yes, I did try googling that. I am not sure why you missed the result from the etymology search, perhaps you should have used "" for strict matching of the term.

Anyway, "In theater and film, a hero prop (sometimes just "hero") is a prop that is intended to be seen close up so it's a lot more detailed than others. That's the oldest definition I know.". The source is in the reply to the sibling comment.

This google search: `"hero image" etymology ` provides results with a second link containing a thorough discussion on the origin of the word.

https://www.designernews.co/stories/47337-why-is-the-hero-im...

Do you accept "it wasn't real free market" argument when free market policies and deregulation fail or lead to an increase of suffering, poverty and inequality?