Hacker News: vdaniuk

New comment by vdaniuk in "Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy"

vdaniuk — Wed, 18 May 2016 13:07:06 +0000

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...

New comment by vdaniuk in "Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom"

vdaniuk — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:52:29 +0000

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.

CSP Elixir library

vdaniuk — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:56:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vidalraphael/cspex

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11528794

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Elixir macro utilities

vdaniuk — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 11:04:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/skirino/croma

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526103

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by vdaniuk in "Keeping secrecy the exception, not the rule"

vdaniuk — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 08:01:33 +0000

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

New comment by vdaniuk in "Code to block unwanted News Genius annotations"

vdaniuk — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:43:27 +0000

>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.

Introducing React Storybook by Kadira

vdaniuk — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:11:03 +0000

Article URL: https://voice.kadira.io/introducing-react-storybook-ec27f28de1e2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11399748

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by vdaniuk in "Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users"

vdaniuk — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:51:11 +0000

>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".

MonadEx: monads for Elixir

vdaniuk — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 20:34:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rob-brown/MonadEx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11371429

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by vdaniuk in "2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results"

vdaniuk — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 20:23:59 +0000

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.

New comment by vdaniuk in "Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development"

vdaniuk — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:40:48 +0000

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

New comment by vdaniuk in "Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development"

vdaniuk — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 02:07:49 +0000

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

Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development

vdaniuk — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 02:04:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rvirding/lfe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11302125

Points: 312

# Comments: 91

New comment by vdaniuk in "TcpKali – Fast multi-core TCP and WebSockets load generator"

vdaniuk — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:23:21 +0000

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.

New comment by vdaniuk in "What's the Best Cloud? Probably GCP"

vdaniuk — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:37:28 +0000

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

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

New comment by vdaniuk in "C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers"

vdaniuk — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:41:27 +0000

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

New comment by vdaniuk in "C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers"

vdaniuk — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:36:21 +0000

>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.

New comment by vdaniuk in "Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming"

vdaniuk — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 12:39:41 +0000

>normal-intelligence humans who like working hard

Because working hard is a virtue, right?

New comment by vdaniuk in "Blazegraph 2.0 – GPU-accelerated distributed graph database"

vdaniuk — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:14:54 +0000

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

New comment by vdaniuk in "Blazegraph 2.0 – GPU-accelerated distributed graph database"

vdaniuk — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:31:23 +0000

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.