skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My own anecdotal evidence - I couldn't believe how fast our Drupal 7 websites were, and they only threw a couple of deprecation notices. They definitely felt 100% faster. We will be upgrading soon.
That's how a lot of software that can handle 12 bit already does it. It is only baked to whatever format the display wants (yes, 12 bit displays exist, they are tens of thousands of dollars, and only used very sparingly during post-production).

Presumably, it is either padded to 5 bytes, or two pixels are shoved into 9 bytes when shipped to the monitor.
https://kinsta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/hhvm-php7-benc...
I think I would define it as more of a hamlet, if that.
http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
> … in my life I have never before or since witnessed a media blitz for a "technical" standard as the coming out party for XML in the '90s.

You don't remember the coming-out party for Java?

It's really sad: we could have had Lisp and s-expressions; instead we ended up with Java & XML, and now we have JavaScript and JSON (which go from bad to better in terms of usability, but bad to worse in terms of safety and stability).
Why do we insist on character worship. Hyperloop is not his idea - it's a totally obvious idea that has popped up many times since the 1800s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop#Historical
Compressing the air in front of the capsule is not some fantastic stroke of genius - it's trivially obvious.

All he has done is drawn our attention to a really good idea.
A different site with the same article and without asking you for a subscription: http://www.artificialintelligenceonline.com/3814/japan-seeks...
It's something I call creationism. You give something a name ("insults"), ask some grammatically-correct questions about it ("where did it go?", "to whom did it stick?") and now you created this magic, metaphysical thing which you feel really exists and needs to answer your questions one way or another.

While in the mundane everyday world, the young warrior simply made a fool of himself.
Adobe to Kill Off Flash in January’s Creative Cloud Update
It's really hard to define what's good/productive and what is not (apart from choosing optimization function, there's so many unknowns, like e.g. speeding up technological progress could be leading to our quicker extinction).

So if I look at this frustrated guy rewriting app from one JS framework to another, and some other one being happy looking at some pictures of sheep, I'm really not able to tell which one is spending his time "better".

Of course there's also this thing that for one person exploring depths of some computer game may be very exciting and worth spending time, while somebody else may not get his dopamine unless he creates something new. Everything seems to suggest that the there are more consumers than creators out there <insert education system rant here>

But what I actually wanted to point out, is that when you look at human history, it seems to me, that even when spending a lot of time watching cats, average Joe is able and is doing a lot more of meaningful stuff today than he was able in the past. Again, meaningful is hard to define, but I mean there's more opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before. More niches and small global communities. Less time spent on dull repetitive tasks (yes, I think it does still hold true if you include China).
When you put stuff in namespaces you need to remember in which namespace it is (and which library to refrence).

Number.parseInt is not that bad but I'll take to_json() global function instead of (new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer()).Serialize() (or was it Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject()?) any day.

Sure, names of PHP functions look arbitrary and inconsistent but when you know the name of the function you know everything you need (apart from how to use it which you can quickly and unambigously check like: http://php.net/file_get_contents )
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I was waiting and waiting for this as well, but checked homebrew during RC6 and there was a PHP70-memcached, so I took that to mean it had finally caught up?
The easiest is to never use .keys() or .iterkeys(), and always iterate over the bare dict:

for k in dict:
...

if k in dict:
...

If you do need a list of keys, list(dict) has the advantage of working in both Python 2 and 3.
MY worst mistake as an entrepreneur
If you want code snippets included as (distorted) pictures inside an article - here you will get it.

On the other hand: I learned that there are quite powerful pre-rendering libraries. That was nice.
> And every php developer would wish that suddenly all php in the world upgrades to v7. We are years away from 7 having a big penetration in the ecosystem. And years more till it hits enterprise.

It will depend on hosting companies for some public websites and sysadmins for internal business apps. Ironically the sysadmins I know will be the hardest people to convince, for some reasons.

that's basically why as much as I can , I chose solutions with no dependencies when I'm working on apps for internal use (like Go,Nim,..). It solves a whole lot of issues. I just can't stand having to convince someone else to do his job in order to do mine.
I suffered insomnia for years (5+ years for sure). I had very poor sleep hygiene. I went sleep at 2 am, and woke up at 11 am. I felt tired at work and I drank coffee everyday. I was coffee-maniac, and coffee effectively destroyed quality of my sleep.

So you see that I spent about 9 hours in bed and I had very bad sleep quality.

A few months ago, I started learn a lot of stuff about sleep. Most of what I read on the internet was useless.

But I found in academic sources (i.e. inside ".edu" and ".gov" domains) two very important concepts (they tightly connected to each other):

1. Sleep effectiveness;

2. Sleep restriction;

You can get idea about them here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_restriction

I started to follow very strict sleep schedule.

1. I go to bed in the interval between 21:15 - 21:50

2. I wake up in the interval between 06:00 - 06:03

Note that my wake up time is strictly fixed.

Now I spend even less time in bed (21:50 - 06:00), but I feel much, much, much better. As my fitbit shows me, I have much less interruptions during the night.
Tiny implementation of AES-256 (Rijndael) using x86 assembly (not using AES-NI)
JSON is the least-bad solution in the present day, but it's not a good format in itself. It's excessively verbose, overloads symbols and strings and cannot map general objects to values.
Ahh, so you completely agree with the article.

While "100" is an easy-to-remember round number, it's just an
approximation. Some fields might require ten or twenty hours to
achieve a level of medium competence, while other fields might
require several hundred hours.
On one hand, this is a little land with a few building in unattractive location/condition. Not so queer. On the other…

We are at a point in time when the wealthy are extremely wealthy. The billionaire club is substantial but even below that, personal wealth in the tens or hundreds of millions exists. What do people want to do with that wealth? It's more than can really be spent on comfort, entertainment, sex and such. Once upon a time money was power, or could be converted to it. Roman Consuls put personal wealth into political enterprises. They were the system of government and the wealth was intertwined with it. But, the main point was they had social, societal and military ambitions.

Where are the people today who would like to create a 1,000 person community? Where are the wealthy who would like to try a bold experiment in communalism, anarchism, feminism or whatnot?
Yeah, that whole debacle does concern me, but I don't think I've ever used the stock OS that came with a machine. Even if Lenovo did have a Debian option, I would still wipe it and replace with my own trusted setup.
Yes, aggressive fishing is a different problem (but a problem nonetheless).

Ocean acidification however, is caused by the fact that the oceans absorb the excess of CO2 present in the atmosphere; and livestock are responsible for more CO2 production than all of transportation.
Sure, I believe it's useful in that rich western countries continue their leisurely
transition to cleaner energy as it becomes cheaper, combined with gas taxes and carbon trading and such. Billionaires investing more money in cleaner energy can be marginally beneficial, though there is already large and increasing amounts of capital allocated by the markets toward this end.

But the deciding factor is can we make everyone stop using the cheap fossil fuels that are basically free money lying in the ground. Oil price will follow demand. It might get cheaper if western countries cut consumption, but someone will still buy the rest with the lower price. And there is nothing in the horizon that would displace oil and coal at their minimum profitable production prices for developing countries (where most people live) in the requisite timeframe. If we leave it to markets, this is the case by overwhelming odds, Zuckerberg or no Zuckerberg.

Think what needs to happen on the world stage in order to enact a global ban (1) on oil pumping and coal mining within 20 years. That's the job. Interests of nations addicted to the oil income, interests of nations whose agriculture is entirely dependent on cheap imported oil, etc. Easy UN consensus?

And this is just the energy sector, there's more to climate change drivers. So fixing this is necessary but not sufficient. The same political measures that are needed to coordinate the energy sector will also work for the other sectors. But energy tech won't.

(1) A very high tax really, that 99% prevents use in fuel applications. Ban is a simpler word.

edit: added bit about fossil prices reacting to demand in west
http://www.zend.com/en/resources/php7_infographic
It's 13:29 here :)
A lot of other latency-sensitive applications tend to have so many adverse performance conditions (that can usually be remediated with a lot of blood sweat and tears) under virtualization that it becomes easier to just go bare metal and deal with physical infrastructure overhead.
I've never had more "Oh my, this is awesome" moments with anything than I have with Emacs. I'm Going to check out org-drill.el too. Thanks!
> Yeah, but that's quite rough.

Even that's a bit of an understatement.

> I picked 0.5g because that's close to what you get during an airliner take off.

You don't get any more than that even during landing?
The headline is scary. But then if you read carefully -
"Not the Flash Player..but Flash Professional, the main authoring tool used to create Flash animations". So nothing to panic right away. Adobe is moving towards a better world.
You would feel less airsick if the pressure in an airplane cabin was the same as on ground. I think they mean that Hyperloop will maintain the outside pressure inside the pod (not a smaller one), and that will reduce acceleration sickness compared to airplane travel.
Our production environment is just this month upgrading to 5.6.
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At first I was very confused by this alleged Hamlet obsession. For many Germans, the number one source of knowing about Shakespeare is him getting quoted a lot in Star Trek. Followed by that one Berlin wall/Romeo and Juliet crossover Asterix story.

But if someone writes about the stage art scene, then the german stage art scene becomes "Germany" and suddenly it all makes prefect sense. Classics get reinterpreted to add new twists, but that only really works if the original material is sufficiently well known to the audience. It's hardly surprising that in a country with a different language (and different literary tradition) than English, only few of the works of Shakespeare reach that threshold.
What if some social event wants you to be awake after nine?
I would end up sacrificing all my social life if I go your route.
I stopped Inbound Mkting and focused on Outbound and tripled our leads – Here’s how
Just launched this, after playing with it for a while. Looking for constructive feedback. Thank you in advance.
I only have an iPhone because I need to have one for testing and developing. I've always kept my iphone jailbroken for this very reason.
Most of your complaints also apply to JavaScript
Sure, I don't think they have ever hid the fact that they play the game, what they are trying to do is play it in a responsible manner. Yvon Chouinard's book is worth a read, it's a fine line to tread and, in my opinion, lazy to take the cynical way out. (Not that I think you are!)
I wonder why small children are so restless they disrupt their parents' normal operation. There should be a clear evolutionary disadvantage in that.

You might need attention, but attention has two sides and as a baby you don't want to get angry adults' attention, especially in more primitive societies.
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Collecting user feedback inside Podio
> PHP is the language many people love to hate

Do you think there's a reason for that? Maybe a direct one? That it's a bad language for example? Why would it need to be anything more complicated than that.

So I don't think your guess is accurate. It's simply a bad language on its own. No need to compare it to anything. And I don't think anyone can deny that, no one will honestly say that "php is a good language". You can say it has some good features, or that it's good for certain tasks, or perhaps that it's better.. but that's all.
Interesting to see not all major publishers are involved, e.g. Springer and Elsevier are missing. Given their (especially Elsevier's) policies toward making content publicly available I'm not too surprised.

https://hypothes.is/annotating-all-knowledge/
I don't think 'we' have trouble acknowledging your elephant.

Rather, simply pointing at the elephant smashing everything in the room of the Middle East seems unproductive in light of the fact that we have such an elephant in our very own room. Ours just happens to not be smashing things currently.

It did do so quite recently though (and rather more violently that ISIS), and not just throughout our entire history, but the history of all of humanity. The elephant is part of human nature.

Isn't it much more productive to look at the many underlying factors that might cause elephants to go berserk, both external and internal to the human individual, and then try to find solutions based on that?

Increased income equality might be such a factor, or it might not. But at least it acknowledges all the elephants in all the rooms, and offers a possible way out. Pointing at the one elephant somewhere else does no such thing, and is likely to enrage ours (in fact, it already seems rather agitated).

Finally, I actually do think that the increasing inequality and centralization of power in the US does significantly increase the chances of a regression to a more 'medieval barbarism state'. It's just not happened yet.
I did not know about this, thanks for telling me. I updated the article with this information.
This field is old and interesting

http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~zorzo/cs/n-versionprogramming.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-version_programming

This is an excellent overview http://www.adelard.com/papers/divchap.pdf in regards to https://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~lyu/book/sft/
> And decently fast (200km/h) intercity trains.

Surely you mean 200mph? 200km/h barely qualifies as high-speed rail on old lines in europe, new lines require 250, 350 lines are being rolled out and plans are being drawn for 400 lines in the UK and Russia.
تور کیش آذر ۹۴ هتل ایران کیش ورود ۱۵ آذر
Proposal: Rules for passing pointers between Go and C
I just type JsonConvert and hit Alt-Enter. #JustReSharperThings
SemVer for Library Maintainers
fending off security issues

This is my general experience with all platforms and operating systems. You have to keep up to date.

PHP was early on the web scene, and like ASP it encouraged a lot of bad practices (like concatenating user input into SQL strings) before people knew better.

These days, in the hands of a competent developer, it's no worse than any other mainstream stack as far as security goes.
Google would likely avoid something like this I think seeing as they're already under anti-trust scrutiny.
That's where basic income would shine. Both social security and repair stalls! People that do it for socialising and odd buck.
> Number.parseInt is not that bad but I'll take to_json() global function instead of (new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer()).Serialize() any day.

It doesn't have to be one or the other.

In fact, array functions could just be under the same static class, like Array::TheFunction() . It would be acceptable and limit chances of namespace collision .
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It's Japanese Macaque, so should be either Japan or a zoo.
I spent a good while trying to integrate Doctrine into my projects, and in the end I found it bloated and overly verbose and went back to PDO.

I am sure that it has valid use cases, but for a lot of straightforward PHP projects, it's complete overkill and adds more work than it saves (in my opinion of course).

I agree with knowing PDO though, I would say that's required knowledge for any self-respecting PHP developer.
I worked some of the follow on projects to the 777 that involved the next generation 737. A lot of people may not realize this, but much of the software and avionics that goes into Boeing aircraft is designed, built, and manufactured by other smaller third parties. The amount of work that goes into those embedded systems is truly impressive. Additionally, the rigor with which it is built is exemplary. Software standards for commercial aviation are extremely strict, disallowing the use of dynamic memory allocation, pointer math, and other typical low-level language "features" or "shortcuts". There are also strict code coverage test requirements, demanding that primary partitions of the flight avionics have their code tested in what is known as MCDC [1] Additionally, I/O code that uses low level data buses must be tested for bit independence. The process is extremely rigorous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_condition/decision_co...
DreamHost are still in the process of upgrading to 5.5.
people outside of the company who think they know better

They're called "owners", and despite the best efforts of managerial capitalism to transfer power entirely to the executive officers they do get a vote on what the company does.
This seems like you're not anchoring at the beginning of the interview process. If you're being lowballed constantly, why not start the interview with something like "I appreciate the opportunity here, but I'm looking for at least $X in salary."
VTech Hacker Explains Why He Hacked the Toy Company
https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/buy/ But thanks. I was looking for thing that would import me proper namespace and reference proper dependancy.

Doesn't help you that much though when Microsoft releases new version of its web stack, naming different things with same class names as before just putting them in different namespace. I still need to guess which of the namespaces I actually need when I'm trying to get running something that I found on the internet.
The Periodic Table of Israeli Tech
Thank you for pandas.
Red Hat has doubled down on being email spammers
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This is an arrogant and immature type of thing to write. This is programming, not high school cool-kids club. PHP is a wonderful tool that was mostly responsible for the dynamic web. Before it became popular, the web was mostly static HTML with an occasional CGI form, probably written in something like Perl, mostly just for emailing the webmaster. Maybe some small amount of JavaScript for something like rollover effects, but that's about it.

It's kind of like the situation today with the resurgence of JavaScript. One day the kids of the next decade will be posting snarky attitude basically calling JavaScript users retards because they don't use the cool-kids' PepoCOde. Lame. PHP is still excellent technology, and very relevant still for building dynamic server-side websites.

It used to be that people using JavaScript were made fun of for being "scripters", not "programmers". Everyone knows JavaScript is the language of Mort. Only Franken Elvis uses C.
I dunno though: was Excite even capable to let the Google-that-was turn into the Google-that-is?
I've got to say the challenge is the most interesting application experience I ever had, and I think more employers should adopt this kind of technique in their hiring process. Applied. Hope to hear from you soon.
This isn't the actual IS report though, it's a report by the Institute for the Study of War on the IS report.
It's just a short drive to Wounded Knee; that would make it a convenient tourist stop all its own. "On your way to Wounded Knee, stop and stay at the haunted bed and breakfast in Swett!"
The article is basically an advertisement for some Japanese guy's company.
That's a good question. My social life is mostly daily (e.g. rock climbing etc). I don't drink alcohol, I don't go to bars/nightclubs.

But sometimes I have to brake my sleep schedule.

For example, two weeks ago I had to fly to another country for a job interview. Unfortunately, I had no better flights, so I had to go to the airport at late evening.

I finally got home (from airport) at 3 am.

I felt very tired during next 4 days.

My sleep schedule was:

Day 1: 3:30 am - 8:30 am

Day 2,3,4: 21:30 - 06:00 (applied sleep restriction!)

If I didn't apply sleep restriction in the following days I would mess up my sleep at lest next two weeks.

In my case, one night with broken sleep schedule costs me 4 days.

I think it's possible to brake your sleep schedule once in 3 weeks but if you do it frequently it would be bad for your sleep hygiene.

So frequent alcohol and night-life is not compatible with healthy life style (at least for me, it's 100% truth).

So it's probably question of priorities.
Humans need to sleep in dark.
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Recent work includes:

+ AWS/Docker platform to securely host a large public-sector microservice-based web app taking millions of pounds per month (yes, PCI) in payments.

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+ Lots, lots more.

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You won't find anything remotely recent squeezing into a mere 2MB. You can't really get Linux that slim anymore without cutting out major things like the network stack. 4MB is still (just barely) enough ROM for a real router, if you're judicious about what features to include, and don't mind the lack of a browser-based configuration interface.
> It doesn't have to be one or the other.

Sure there's a spectrum. But even with one level I'm still guessing whether it was String.toInteger or Integer.toString, or String.parseInt or Integer.parseInt or Number.parseInt or whatever ... and since I need to check I don't mind finding out it's a global function named str2int or even int() that takes whatever.