text stringlengths 0 100k |
|---|
An Open Letter to the Erlang Beginner (or Onlooker) One of the #erlang regulars, Jesper Louis Andersen (jlouis) recently posted a reply to an old post about whether Erlang is overhyped or not. I definitely have to agree with jlouis on this one and his blog post is pretty good. His reply stirred a lot of arguments up on... |
After weeks of back and forth negotiations, congressional Republicans and Democrats have finally struck a deal on a $1.1 trillion dollar spending bill, legislation that would avert a government shutdown and fund government through October of 2016. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wi., announced the deal on the package, calle... |
Chelsea are looking at chasing Chinese cash again this summer by heading for football's emerging nouveau-riche market in pre-season. The Premier League leaders have been in discussions about a mooted tour of Asia which would take in a trip to Beijing followed by a stop-off in Japan. Club chiefs are keen to boost the Bl... |
Advertisement Last year, IEEE Spectrum profiled an ultrasonic alert for wind farm operators designed to let them know when bats are nearing their turbines. The potentially bat-saving technology can't be ready soon enough according to this week's issue of the journal Bioscience. University of Colorado ecologist Mark Hay... |
Victoria University sports students will gain behind-the-scenes access at Real Madrid Football Club through a new partnership signed this month. The five-year deal signed with Universidad Europea de Madrid will see students in selected masters programs travel to Spain where they will be embedded at the school and have ... |
Giuseppe Valiante, The Canadian Press MONTREAL -- The American fugitive dubbed the "Godfather of Grass" will remain detained pending his deportation after the immigration board ruled Tuesday he still represents a flight risk and danger to the public. There is "no clear and compelling reason" to depart from a previous d... |
The low emission vehicles market in the US is growing, thanks to increasing implementation of stricter emission standards. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US has developed guidelines to help consumers understand the importance of the green vehicles and low emission cars, which is encouraging market gro... |
Image copyright Weibo / Cuicheng Hao Image caption Chinese social media users have depicted Kim Jong-un as a dangerous chubby despot "Our Neighbour is a nut, a nut with a weapon." That's how one irate Chinese social media user responded to North Korea's claims to have detonated a hydrogen bomb, in a location not too fa... |
When people think of anti-gay places, the gay mecca of New York City does not often come to mind. However, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community is a hotbed of homophobia, where LGBT people are shunned, abused, rejected, and told they must change their sexual orientation to be accepted. Chaim Levin, 22, grew up feeling ... |
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) -- The Summer Olympics in Rio are officially less than two months away, and fencing will be one of the sports featured. One Madison woman is making it her mission to promote the sport right here in Wisconsin. "After moving here to the United States, I decided to open my school to share my love, my ... |
I never had anything to begin with, and I can't tell you how strange it feels to watch all my friends free-falling down to my level: WASHINGTON — Americans' net worth plunged a record 17.9% in 2008 as the value of their homes, stocks and other assets dropped swiftly, the Federal Reserve said Thursday in a report that d... |
UK based DJ & Producer Dave Seaman is looking for £25,000 to make the very first crowd funded 2 x CD DJ Mix compilation album. (That we know about anyway. We might be wrong but that's what Google says and Google is always right). It seems like a lot of money I hear you say. And you'd be right but albums are expensive t... |
Republican candidate Greg Gianforte used his victory speech after winning the Montana special election on Thursday to apologize for body-slamming a Guardian journalist the day before. Within minutes of being declared the winner, Gianforte appeared on stage at his campaign headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife... |
Female nudity isn't hard to come by in the media, but the bodies we see usually represent a fairly limited scope of sizes and shapes. The Nu Project, a collection of nude photographs shot by Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum, seeks to add some variety to the mix. Blum started The Nu Project in 2005 but said it really ... |
Chairman Dean deserves enormous credit for all the good work he did for the Democratic Party. But, his opinion piece begins by saying "If I were a Senator, I would not vote for the current health-care bill." He goes on to argue that the bill does not bring "real reform." Signing his article as a "former chairman of the... |
But they don’t want to win elections, they just want a tax break Manif Pour Tous, a group that came to fame protesting same-sex marriage in France, is becoming a political party. But the group doesn’t actually want to win elections. They won’t even be fielding any candidates. Instead, they admit that their new status w... |
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- In the beginning, even Dana White was a skeptic. The current UFC president was teaching boxing in South Boston in the early 1990s when the company's earliest events took place. And like most who were allied with the sweet science, White and his partners at the L Street Gym flat-out dismissed t... |
What has been surprising is the play of the opposition within the division, with only the New York Jets as a (so far) sub-.500 entity. But let's give credit where it's due - even though there's an argument to be made over playoff-worthiness from Buffalo and Miami after the past weekend. Still, with eight weeks remainin... |
Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC In one of his last appearances on the season finale of “Saturday Night Live,” a rapping Andy Samberg traded a rhyme with Chris Parnell that seemed loaded with underlying meaning: “On these New York streets I hone my fake rap penmanship / That’s how it began, and that’s how I’m-a finish it.” This... |
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said women should be punished for having abortions if the procedure is illegal in the US. In El Salvador, women are punished for having abortions. Some Salvadoran women say the near-total ban on abortions ends up punishing those who haven't even attempted to terminate th... |
In 2000 the Supreme Court ruled that random vehicle checkpoints aimed at finding illegal drugs violate the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. That is why police in Mayfield Heights, a Cleveland suburb, do not have a drug checkpoint. Instead they have the next best thing: a fake drug checkpoin... |
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Dodgers altered their pitching rotation Wednesday to give Zack Greinke two extra days of rest as he tries to pitch through discomfort in his right elbow. Clayton Kershaw, who was originally scheduled to start Friday against the New York Mets, will instead go Thursday against the San Diego... |
Passware, a computer forensics and password discovery company, on Tuesday said it discovered a way to get passwords from a Mac running OS X Lion. However, it may not be as dire as it seems. [ad#Google Adsense 300×250 in story]While the implication is that you can plug in the Passware Kit Forensic into someone’s Mac and... |
Adele performing "Water Under the Bridge" in Gianvito Rossi heels on "The Tonight Show." Adele’s fans now know what it’s like to walk in her shoes. The British songbird indulged a concertgoer in Birmingham, England, on Friday when she accepted a new pair of Crocs during her show. “I’ll actually put them on right now,” ... |
MITCHELL Marsh was left distressed on Wednesday night after a ball he smashed at training struck a young net bowler in the back of the head. The confronting incident was eerily foreshadowed earlier in the day by former Test stars Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell, Lenny Pascoe and Barry Richards at a World Series Cricket med... |
Editor's Note: Lynzee's off this week for the holidays, so we've left you with a Classic gift-giving themed List for the Christmas weekend! We'll see you with a new List next week! This year (2015) was the 20th anniversary of Hideaki Anno's genre-defining giant robot anime. The series has cultivated a large fan followi... |
Dr. Spiros Michalakis probably isn’t a name with which many fans of the MCU are familiar, but his work with the company helped define Ant-Man’s abilities and, according to him, will help explain how Carol Danvers gains her powers as well. In 2014 Marvel Studios consulted with Michalakis, a quantum physicist at the Cali... |
Labour leaves the the world waiting an hour before responding to the announcement that government cannot trigger Article 50 without recourse to parliament. “Jeremey Corbyn”, it mistypes, “says there must be transparency and accountability to parliament on the terms of Brexit”. This email cock up isn’t Clinton-esque in ... |
MIM History October 1, 1993 marked the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Maoist Internationalist Movement's predecessor - the original Revolutionary Internationalist Movement. May 1, 1994 is the 10th anniversary of the changing of the RIM's name to MIM - after our original name was appropriated. These anniversary... |
Although ancient sky watchers viewed eclipses as portends of ill-omen, modern scientists have found many uses for eclipses that could scarcely be imagined even 100 years ago. TECHNOLOGY THROUGH TIME ISSUE #44: EINSTEIN This Hubble Space Telescope photo shows the actual lensing of light by the gravity of an entire clust... |
Scenes from the Lone Star Motorcycle Rally on the Strand on November 6, 2014 in Galveston, TX. Scenes from the Lone Star Motorcycle Rally on the Strand on November 6, 2014 in Galveston, TX. Photo: Thomas B. Shea, For The Chronicle Scenes from the Lone Star Motorcycle Rally on the Strand on...photo-7109248.97186 - |ucfi... |
Naomi Campbell is considering "every option available," including a lawsuit, after Cadbury used her name to promote its new Bliss chocolate bar, the Independent UK reports. The advertisement reads, "Move over Naomi, there's a new diva in town," with an image of the candy posed on a mound of diamonds. According to the I... |
In December, I listened to the Radiolab “Apocolyptical” show which was all about the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary event. Famously, in 1980, Walter Alvarez and colleagues described an iridium anomaly at the K/Pg (also known at K/T) boundary which was subsequently specifically tied to an extraterrestrial impact event. T... |
Nuevo Laredo is a border city in northeastern Mexico, surrounded by hills and earth burned by the sun. Thousands of trucks ride its main highway, delivering legal and illegal merchandise to the United States. Although not as well-known as Tijuana or Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo is one of the busiest land ports in all of... |
Always demand proof, proof is the elementary courtesy that is anyone’s due. —Paul Valéry, "Monsieur Teste" The e-mail generally looks like this: Subject: Fabulous bit of historical knowledge Ever wonder where the word "shit" comes from. Well here it is: Certain types of manure used to be transported (as everything was ... |
The number of wounded who have sought medical treatment in Israel since the Jewish state began accepting wounded Syrians stands at approximately 2,500 people. Follow Ynetnews on Facebook and Twitter In mid-August of this year, a bus from the Jewish-American aid organization Amaliah brought 21 Syrian children and their ... |
A government surveillance video obtained by ABC News has shed new light on a tragic incident at the U.S.-Mexico border, sparking outrage from members of Congress who help oversee U.S. Customs and Border Protection.The video shows that in 2013 two U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers appeared to encourage, or at ... |
Everyone want to know; "how to get closer to Allah (God)?" Is it mockery that gets you closer to God? His countless blessings are for those who try to get closer to Him. He loves his creature too much. So if you want to get closer to Allah (God) you should love His creature. It is just like that if you love someone's l... |
This is a guest post by Ricardo "arcee" Cerqueira who takes things apart for sport, on a quest to understand how they work. He currently works on Android devices at Cyanogen. As people started receiving their Nexus 6Ps, some began freaking out over a new message that comes up on the screen when booting into fastboot mo... |
About These are the first videos I've ever made, so please understand that they weren't designed with as much skill as the PEPCan. Below you'll find the full story of this invention, but if you're just looking for the schedule or the planned future developments, scroll to the bottom of the page. How it Started I have b... |
Gary Keller’s The ONE Thing takes a controversial – yet highly effective – approach to entrepreneurship and building a successful business by dismantling the conventional idea that multitasking is necessary to achieve your goals. It’s focusing exclusively on one thing, he says, that will get you there instead. The ONE ... |
Please enable Javascript to watch this video WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed Hillary Clinton to be his successor, according to a video posted to the Democratic frontrunner's campaign site. "I don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office," Obama said of the former... |
One of the biggest action stars now days will be making an appearance at this years Stan Lee’s Los Angeles Comic Con it was announced today. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will be there for just one day (Saturday the 28th) to promote his upcoming film JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE. More information is below courtesy of the... |
Shania Clifford (Facebook) An Ohio teenager who won a gold medal in a statewide masonry competition — and the first girl to win the top prize — found out on Facebook that she won’t be allowed to compete at a national leadership and skills conference. Shania Clifford saw a social media post by the boy who won third priz... |
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. economy looks much more vigorous in the second quarter than previously thought, as a report released Thursday showed businesses got off the sidelines and spent some money. The acceleration in business investment, if it’s sustained, could add to the economy’s momentum in the months ah... |
Fire crews battle a blaze aboard a Mexican tanker in the Gulf of Mexico, September 2016. Mexican navy A fire aboard a Mexican oil tanker in the Gulf of Mexico was put out late Sunday, but about 100 emergency personnel are still monitoring the stricken vessel, according to AFP. The tanker, the Burgos, erupted in flames ... |
Space simulations are all about making a buck, and Chris Roberts' upcoming Star Citizen will be no different. Hauling freight will be one way to earn a steady income in the game, but until last week fans didn't know what the gameplay systems that governed it would be like. On Friday, the Star Citizen team unveiled thei... |
I wish I didn’t care about all the doping in SoCal masters racing, but I do. With regard to races that I actually enter, I can put it out of my mind thanks to the advice of a fellow leaky prostate masters profamateur, who wisely said this: “If you can’t race your bike without wondering who’s on drugs, this isn’t the sp... |
Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), a potential Republican presidential candidate, has an interesting perspective on the tumults of the civil rights era that swept through his Deep South state. As Barbour recalls it in a new profile in The Weekly Standard, things weren’t so bad in his hometown of Yazoo City, which took until 19... |
Major League Soccer today unveiled its 2015 regular-season schedule, a campaign that sees each of its now 20 clubs play a 34-match clip, with Columbus Crew SC's slate beginning on March 7. For Major League Soccer and Crew SC – the League's first club – 2015 is the 20th season of play dating back to the League’s inaugur... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.