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In all fairness, it's what I switched from VB to.

My current position is that HHVM's existence means that PHP is a serious contender and kicking it out the window is probably not the greatest of ideas.

The fact that it doesn't have good console interaction support out of the box kind of killed it for me though.

Once my computer setup's stable (this 1024x768 laptop screen isn't that great for dev work :p) I'm going to be looking at some other languages.

I don't mind PHP overall, and since it's so widespread if I want a small script that'll almost certainly run "in most places" I'm likely to turn to PHP. (To continue the console argument, though, it's entirely possible that php[-cli] might not be installed, only the Apache module, which is annoying.) Similarly, if I was to build a major "community-oriented" project which I wanted to succeed... I might actually write it in PHP because it's such a simple language to work with and learn (at least it was in my case).

My personal goal is to keep it a "minority" language, though. Going forward, if I write for my own purposes I want to try and use other things, and if I had to use PHP internally somewhere I wouldn't be that impressed. :p
Yes and that's why I included culling in the options. Doesn't need to be voluntary. Diseases, war, famine all are under the same umbrella.
Released early on good behavior! Wow, just wow.
This joke always comes to my mind with plate readers:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-URBVGKEBRss/U0GgQetIwEI/AAAAAAAAC2...
> "Then your problem isn't the license. The problem is your government."

The license will still be administered by someone / some group. Whether you call those with the administrative powers a 'government' or not isn't really important.
Hans Rosling has a documentary about it, check it out via Google, it's on youtube of vimeo or something.

It's not so much that overpopulation isn't an issue, of course it is (that's why it's called 'over' population), but rather that the trend line is that population growth is very rapidly slowing, that people tend to overestimate population growth, are unaware of big population centres that are shrinking, that the average worldwide children per woman rate is < 2.5 (used to be > 5 just 50 years ago) and that population will likely decline after we add a few billion more.

That's not to say that it isn't an issue, but traditionally we held some really weird views about overpopulation. Basically we looked at this graph: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Po...

and extrapolated the exponential growth, and ended up with scenarios of doom, war etc. Food shortages for example are consistently predicted, but food production growth has outstripped population growth substantially and food security is better than any time in the past (yet far from perfect).

Obviously there are huge sustainability concerns, but the biggest source is our level of consumption levels and patterns, not our population numbers, which comes in second.
Are there any psychology/sociology studies how one-child policy impacted China's society? It has been documented how having one child vs siblings impact one's psyche. I wonder what kind of impact it has on a culture/society as a whole if most are from single-child families.
Tell me which one doesn't and I'll buy that one. Sorry other hypothetical people.
I believe the First Law would require that it save that maximum number of persons.
How this is true. My brother had an Elonex Pentium 120Mhz laptop, and that was truly brought to its knees when playing an MP3.

Playing mods and xms was alright, unless they were complicated. Encoding MP3s was another thing altogether - I was wowed when a schoolmate had a dual CPU machine that ENCODED faster than it ripped CDs. I could only dream of such a thing - encoding was far far far slower than reading the data from the CD in the first place.
In London this has been a pretty common thing in the form of supper clubs for at least the last five years, and I don't think anyone is worrying about the restaurant industry collapsing just yet. They tend to be small scale, infrequently run, events in someone's home, with a large one seating maybe ten or twelve people.
That would be eugenics. The how-to gusto and historical tone-deafness of three commenters in this chain are flabbergasting.
And this emotional reaction is the root of the problem. When that original crime happened, the public demanded someone jailed, it didn't matter that it wasn't the criminal. Society is hung up on the retribution, so long as that's the case, prosecutors don't need criminals, just patsies that can't properly defend themselves or exhibit social flaws.
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I still think that Windows NT 4 was the best Windows OS ever. And may be the best GUI ever. I always switch to classic theme, if I have to use Windows. In last versions it's not very classic, though.
Brutal and cruel? I agree it's a severe limit on the personal freedom but China doesn't value personal freedom as highly as the west does. Brutal and cruel is not the right terms for this in my opinion, you can have a beautiful, rich and fullfilling life with 2 children or less. You can plan to have just two children (up to some point).

Also, I think it could benefit the earth if more countries would limit children.
Oddly, there has been a stream of APIs since then too, yet you can get by writing in the old ones no problem!
The earth doesn't have a "carrying capacity" or a "maximum population". The earth has resources that are used more or less sustainably at different times and in different places. If we all still lived like hunter gatherers we would have run out of resources and become extinct thousands of years ago. Luckily we've had social, economic, and technological development.

As soon as anyone frames sustainability challenges in terms of the earths "carrying capacity" they are revealing a bias that is unhelpful. Even if you accept the premise that the earth does have some 'maximum population' then so what? It's a useless proposition -- what are you going to do, force everyone to only have one child, that is unsustainable as China discovered.

Luckily, as the parent pointed out, overpopulation is not a problem. The rate of growth continues to decrease, and global populations will peak in my lifetime.
The most disgusting thing about the policy is that the citizens let the state have that much power.

It's a terrible thing to let economic concerns so dominant the public arena and politics that people let the gov't decide how many kids they have.
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Income ranges definitely play a big role. That's at least part of why full-time "help" is more common in some areas of the world than others.

This is admittedly a bit different as it's more like bringing the restaurant experience to the home and doesn't seem to really be intended as a day-to-day thing but rather an alternative to going to a restaurant for a nice meal out. It's really not that far removed from a caterer although caterers tend to focus on larger parties. (Though, when I worked part-time for a caterer back in school, we did handle more modestly-sized groups like Thanksgiving dinners in a house.)
I am curious. Usually in numpy basic linear algebra are delegated to BLAS and potentially really fast if configured to use a fast BLAS implementation (OpenBLAS, MKL, etc).
Does the numpy fork of PyPy use the same approach ?
Very true. They succeeded in getting a desktop into most homes.

Staying fashionable is more difficult.
Prepare to be twice as angry! /s Ken Anderson spent only five days in jail. http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/ken-anderson-releas...

>Am I the only one who is horrified at this?

No.
No one's denying that. "Brutal and cruel" was referring to forced abortions of pregnant women with more than one child.
Clearly using ALPR is convenient and produces better results. So would studying people's sex habits by surreptitiously using their laptop cameras instead of asking for volunteers.
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This is obviously not at all the concern that people have regarding overpopulation.
It is refreshing to see the 'How can I check whether the model assumptions are fulfilled?' section included. Causal modeling is notoriously easy to misinterpret.
And you need space to plant stuff to feed everyone. Can 11m² be enough to feed an average person through the whole year?
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Fences: neatly ignoring that a lot of the countries not building fences don't actually WANT fences around the EU.
ugh. hummingbird. don't remind me.
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But problem is resource consumption, no?

It's a complete speculation, because I can't cite this, but isn't Earth not capable of sustaining 7+ billion people? Exponential population growth brings even greater exponential rise of greenhouse effect, oil consumption, deforestation, etc. IMHO it is the main problem of overpopulation.
Something that's never taught is how to deal with emotions in constructive ways. At least, I don't know who I was supposed to learn it from. I think a lot of us carry emotional turmoil with us that boils over in unrelated situations.
I'm not sure about the 'huge strides'. I feel nowadays with 'flat design' (is that the right term?) I don't know where I can click and what actions will be performed. It's like the UI is a bunch of text labels, but they may actually be links, but they may actually perform an action. Although there's no way to know, since the label doesn't say what action is performed, and since we don't have mice anymore, we don't have hover-hints.

Take as an example the calling apps in Android. It'll show contacts, with name, an avatar, maybe a phone number. Which of these are clickable? Which of these will result in the phone making a call, and which will result into going into looking at the contact? How do I send an SMS rather than call? How do I edit it? How do I get a call history? Every time I use it I click on things without being sure what will happen and I am always surprised at what happens.
Nice work. "Try Portus" section is really pointless...and slow.
Heh, since we're stuck on Windows 7 I still use classic mode despite having a very capable machine, out of preference. I also use fluxbox when on *nix.
> Most people would agree that mentally ill people should not have children.

It is vastly oversimplifying, and prejudicial, to say something like that.

Many more people than you seem to think have experienced, or will experience mental illness in their life.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/prevalence/any-men...
Just because it's undefined behavior doesn't forbid you to think about what to do outside of the defined range. Especially if your competitors have done just that.

In this case, we even have a notorious range. EOF (which usually is implemented as -1) and unsigned char. You can't easily represent that in standard C types without using a type that lets most of the type's range fall into the range of undefined behavior.

I didn't expect undefined behavior to work, I didn't know that it was undefined behavior as the parameter you have to pass is an int. So the compiler can't inform me that I'm doing it wrong and at runtime, there are no checks. So, this bug in the code can go unnoticed for a long time.

BTW, note that isascii() is defined on all int values. It's all POSIX, so there is probably a historical reason for that. But the defined range of isascii() proves that covering the whole range of the input parameter's type is not something outrageous to ask for.
Yay!

The language module is a 1.5MB JavaScript beast and people routinely complain about 150KB frameworks on HN. Are there plans to have a whole program optimisation pass to prune dead parts of that module (a ceylon webpack or ceylon closure command) ?
That wouldn't lead to eugenics, it would very much already be eugenics.
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As interesting as this is, its more just a way to have a 'local' eating experience - see how Parisians cook at home. It doesn't really supplant the restaurant experience, its just a different eating experience...
Cooking for oneself, or inviting over friends for a shared meal isn't what is at issue here. The conflict is over a new commercial enterprise - people preparing and serving meals for profit in their homes, mediated by apps/web services - in an industry with existing regulations. The situation has many of the same tensions as Airbnb vs the traditional hotel industry.
Maybe that is the one thing EMACS cannot do.. making screenshots ;)
It's a communist gov't. The people "letting the gov't decide" has little do with it.
When I was younger (about 10-15yrs ago) my parents got me a birthday present that was a grayscale LEGO picture of me that I had to put together. They didn't tell me what it was, I just got a big LEGO square base and a ton of different of colors of 1x1 nubs to "paint by numbers" from the diagram included. Pretty neat to see a color version of essentially what I did so long ago.
Kudos to writing the converter - good exercise.

FYI, there are numerous such tools available on the web: https://www.google.com/search?q=picture+to+lego+converter
???

That's not the way you control birth rates.

You control birth rates by controlling FEMALE fertility... not male fertility.

There are mathematical reasons behind this, but for the purposes of simplicity I'll give the lay explanation. ie - A female can only have one (or so) child every 9 months. A single human male can produce one every day. So having a population with only one male, but 100 females, allows for a FAR higher reproduction rate than a population with 100 males, but only one female.
My desktop looks much more boring than these. But then again, I'm using multiple "workspaces" :)
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I put my money on this guy: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hoverboard-duru-1.3270569
> Nobody likes updating Java, and we couldn’t risk having strange behaviours caused by an outdated JVM
> The application is built on top of the open source version of Google Chrome, i.e. Chromium

So instead of updating Java, we now have an ecosystem where everyone and their dog are shipping their own bundled Chrom(e|ium) instead, which surely is not going to cause even more upgrade-related problems in the future.
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467290

I got rejected, but I was expecting it - we didn't do ourselves any favors with our video, and we were way too early in the cycle (we didn't even have an english version of our webpage).

The YC Fellowship would have been a better fit for us, I really hope the experiment works and they do it again! :)

In case you didn't know about it: https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/
> You're still free to have children if you want, but you're only supported by the state if you got a license

This will only mean the most vulnerable (who need the most support) will be unsupported. You're creating an underclass.
What are the "modest levels of first-world consumption" in the estimates you mention? And how recent are these estimates? There are many factors that likely will contribute to a smaller first-world footprint, e.g. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-will-burn-less...
I don't even know what to say about that... I'm speechless.
Not everywhere, and only recently. Brady violations are unfortunately still too common. Probably because the only punishment for it (before Ken Anderson) is that the DA might have a conviction overturned, later, if caught.
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So I want to start being a home chef once every week or two with my wife. She's an amazing cook. I'd enjoy hosting, setting up, serving, etc...

Getting to make a great meal would be fun. And getting paid a little bit would make the hobby even better.

How do I get started? Which one of ya'll is starting this app?
Thanks for sharing. Just looked on their site, but can't see when the Fairphone 2 will be coming and what other OSes it will be able to run additionally to Android 5.1. Any idea?
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I completely agree with you. In terms of population alone, we are exceedingly multiplying; something that might not be of out best advantage. More even when you consider that there will be less opportunities for an increasing number of people, and we will lose this personal freedom you spoke of -to an extent-

I am also pro child limit laws. I would suggest nothing too strict, just impose a tax on the third child and up. We know from psychology that little restrictions and the mere fact of a 'cost' would reduce the intrinsic desire of people to even take an action, in this case child bearing.
Furthermore, I think a tax is a not an extreme measure, considering the fact that you would still be allowed to have children if you want. But do keep in mind that the poorest, less educated are often the ones to have plenty of children, which ends up harming the family, this might be good for them.
A slap on the wrist. The prosecutor should have gone to jail for MUCH longer.
Yes. But a branch predictor can also be right every time. Or it could be right so often that it is better than the larger memory footprint of the program.
The whole 'in power' is just a means to justify racism/sexism/etc. Anyone who defends it is defending racism/sexism/etc.
> "It's faster!" - no, it isn't to any human perceptible degree

MS uses it as the default on server systems because it is faster and IT departments are often forced to make the best of aging hardware, and sometimes turning off the effects can, in combination with a lot of other little tweaks, contribute that little bit needed to make a system useful for another budget period.
I was using the middle model. The lower model shows a peak of 8-9 billion in about 2050. The upper model shows continued growth past 2011. Hence, "large error bars." Anyway, I agree it is not the best source, but I didn't want to leave my claim completely without citation. If you investigate a bit, I think you'll find that my claim is consistent with UN estimates.
Well, we definitely know that the policy combined with the already-existing culture resulted in a massive gender gap. Not sure of any studies beyond that, I too would be interested!
I thought the same thing, it's not at all clear what it does or why I would want it.
Not to mention that the only reason he's actually doing any time at all is because he plead guilty.
yes, but BLAS only helps you with some operations and not others. In fact most of "basic" operations are still done "by hand" in some templated C in numpy. Additionally, doing vectorized operations lazily (which is not present right now in pypy but was at least considered in the past) yields great improvements.
Oo0o0ps, you know this before us Chinese.
No, you've still failed to comprehend the point: people, in general, do not have more then 2 children on average, as they increase their lifestyle.

Which highlights the other reason people talking about overpopulation are unsettling: suddenly everyone's playing psychopath.
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yes. However the delegation only happens if you use the numpy.linalg module, or if numpy has chosen internally to call the numpy.linalg module (i.e. logic in numpy.dot will call out for large ndarrays)

Our vectorizing JIT can use SIMD semantics on all numpy looping calls. For instance, non-matrix multiply A*B or for ndarray + scalar calls

While many numpy users are in the habit of manipulating large square matrices, there is a significant number of users who use small arrays, or process RGB pixels
Have you seen any of the drones able to lift a human? Absolutely no way that's sneaking around undetected unless the prison is uber incompetent.
Kudos to the pypy team! I suspect pypy would benefit from some kind of marketing campaign. It rarely lets me down and yet lots of python devs don't know about it.

The most popular package(s) that don't work with it have been numpy, scipy, etc. When I first encountered pypy, there was a numpypy and I wouldn't be surprised if that's different now. But bottom line, tons of python code out there needs more performance and has no dependency on numpy or any C extensions.
If only certain people are encouraged to have children, you automatically have an underclass, no matter how it's implemented. I think that providing free (or more incentivized) birth control would lead to very few cases of unwanted children. IUDs and vasectomies are simple and effective.
If that is all it will do why not write and release. Interesting analogy. Viruses are now understood to facilitate horizontal gene transfer. Viruses and the rest of our microbiome are functionally key constituents of the "human" organism. This relationship is not a one off. It is found, to a greater or lesser extent, in many biological systems. Yet, we have only formally welcomed one such distinction into the public discourse surrounding the Internet : Memes. I think there is an argument to be made that, software viruses are not absolutely bad, and that code once release has a life of its own. We should therefore accept, and in some circumstances embrace, such contributions to the code base of the Internet.
Will this affect those of us who already have it installed?
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No matter the history, using communist as a synonym for totalitarian is lazy.
Pop-up restaurants seems to be the more common term in the US but they range from this sort of thing to relatively small-scale but even regulated (a la food trucks) temporary restaurants.
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I get your point here, but since the bundled Chromium version is compiled by ourselves we do not rely on an external toolset, allowing us to support just one version at a time.
If you're intrested, we use Sparkle (http://sparkle-project.org/) to deliver remote software updates.
Anderson should get life without parole. A message needs to be sent to government officials that abuse there powers.

Taking 25 years from this innocent man is just the tip of the iceberg. He also took 25 years from his relatives. And this is probably not an isolated incident for him.
That's why there is only one implementation of git in the world. Oh, wait...
Well, The hobbits did not get eternal life, quite the contrary. While is super duper to get to see the blessed realm, most scholars agree that for mortals getting to see so much beauty is bad and actually shorten one's life.
Headline is wrong. An update to the plugin was rejected (with the option to resubmit), but the previous version is clearly still in the store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

I empathize with the developer, but Occam's Razor suggests this isn't anything more than a typically crummy vague Walled Garden app store rejection. I'd take their advice and re-submit.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't even want to read the article because of the title's vulgarity. What's up with this trend?