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> * It's 2016 and PHP still doesn't have a module system, Python had one in '91, Perl had one in '94, Ruby had one in '95

Composer is widely adopted and has been the standard for years now. It's not baked into the language, it's a community driven effort that has been wildly successful.

> * inequality operators still have no === equivalent

Still true. Pretty easy to deal with since there are functions for handling equality of all scalar types.

> * sorting is still indeterministic when you have null values because NULL < -1, and NULL == 0
> * arrays are the only containers in the language and they simultaneously act as sets, lists, and associative arrays which fucks up almost all array functions because you don't know what they will do

Both of these things are true. Neither of these things regularly snag me in my development, but like many other dynamic languages, they do need to be carefully designed for. Unit testing, strongly typed scalar vars (new in PHP7), or using SPL object data structures instead of language primitive help here.

* PHP has had exceptions for almost 10 years now and a lot of functions still require you to use their specific error function to tell if it failed. So if you don't call say json_last_error, your code will SILENTLY return the wrong thing

I can't think of a function I regularly use besides json_encode that has this problem.

Much of that article was originally a disagreement with the approach PHP generally takes and is subjective in the first place. I'm not trying to sway people's opinion to actually use PHP, I'm just saying that despite the worts it is a capable language with an incredibly positive and productive community. It's no longer the dumpster fire it once was.
Thanks for the link. I was looking into liquid Haskell and refinement types and thought that it's a great idea but rued the fact that it wasn't built into the language. I am definitely going to try Idris for one of my projects.
I've been the person disabling the accounts of former employees in just that situation after a couple of warnings. Not being an employee or always on-site I have no idea if there were other "dumb and inconsequential" rules also being broken, but I know for sure when the "no personal email or surfing" rule stopped being broken. Admittedly the case I'm thinking of was a low-level staffer not a medical professional (or developer), but on the other hand I've also seen the advice to "find your indispensable person and fire them (before they quit or get hit by a bus)."

I've also been the person being asked "hey, just between us, how can I check my email/MySpace/LiveJournal/Facebook/Flavor-of-the-week?" Answer: Get a smartphone, use their app or check your email during breaks on your phone not on the company network. Some places are more rigid about this and some are less. I also tell businesses that I can do some measure of blocking, but that at its core things like this are a business and HR policy thing as much as they're a technical issue to be addressed.

And finally, I've been the person charging for cleaning up viruses, doing nuke-and-paves, and (fortunately only once) restoring from backup after what I'll still call "stupid user tricks" when a senior partner wanted a newer version of Office and went to download it. Ain't Cryptolocker fun?
China is 1.3 billion people, and you want to know if a 7% crash in their economy is 'worthy'? Are you hacker news worthy?
Color me not shocked. One Kings Lane just seemed like a rehash of another overvalued flop, Fab.com
I do not see any proof that such a correlation does not exist. Your link contains an offhand remark that does not cite any study or data. I think it's common sense that if you offer something for free, more people will use it.
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Same with the Bernie Sander folks.
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And various Economist articles:

http://www.economist.com/topics/chinese-economy
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From the HN Guidelines:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Seems worthy, in my opinion.
Stopped trading about 30 minutes. China's stock market is a super large casino, childish, speculation, ignorance.
https://medium.com/@Mfrbee/china-stock-trading-halted-early-...
I find the failures to be sufficiently spectacular that they're entertaining.

But on a more serious note, as some of the higher-order techniques of applied mathematics become more and more popular and find expression in tools ordinary people can use, that's liable to change a lot of things. If we get better at characterizing systems and making model-controllers for them, this might just matter a lot.
this dangerous move could lead to instability, which is the worst thing the party expected to see, the only explanation, as once mentioned by a radio host, is most likely the current leaders have no idea what to do.

In the past 20~ years the leaders in China are graduated from the best engineer school in China, the current one is far from that, somehow he became overly confident and to some extent reckless, I feel that's one way to explain what are happening there nowadays, including this busted stock cycle.
It was a mistake of desperation. They had previously inflated a massive property bubble, both residential and commercial, that was in the process of exploding and severely damaging the economy. The stock market bubble they intentionally created, was meant to offset that event (perhaps both economically and psychologically). As the stock market bubble began, people shifted their capital from housing to stocks - many were relying on the perpetual upward movement to keep themselves solvent vs the losses in their real estate assets.

China is still a heavy-handed command economy in many ways. The Communist Party's reputation and 'people authority' is directly tied to the economy delivering continual material progress gains (which the party then takes a lot of credit for, with the downside being the implied responsibility if things go badly). The desperation stems from 2007-2009, when the global economy crashed, and ended their over-boom (some of it was fake, backed by highly leveraged consumers and a slightly cheap currency that had been pegged to an artificially cheap dollar). At that point, China made a decision to inflate bubbles rather than accept much slower growth. The real estate bubble bought them a couple of years before it turned back against them.

China is now eating through their capital reserves rapidly, while trying to prop up the most over-valued stock market on earth, and simultaneously dealing with a manufacturing sector that has been shrinking for five straight months (to go with the big bust in several specific segments like steel). They're trying to fight reality, when they should have instead learned from Japan's similar past mistakes in trying to prop up fake growth with bubbles (China is even making the same zombie corporation mistakes that Japan did).
Oh Hacker News, you have a delightful way of sucking the fun out of almost everything.
Sure, but you need to understand that I'm not trying to predict what would necessarily happen, only to show how such a thing could possibly fail.

Think what could happen if your brain worked much faster. The world will mostly seem to slow down. A very conceivable outcome is one of boredom and possibly madness. You could perhaps multi-task and think of many different things, but we are generally terrible at multitasking, so we have no idea whether an intelligence even could multitask well.

Another problem is that we don't know anything about the information capacity of a mind. A faster mind of the same size could potentially have trouble dealing with all that extra information (again -- madness, maybe?)

One thing that hints at those capacity limits is the need for sleep. We don't know why, but some hypotheses say that it's necessary to do some "information cleanup" operations in the brain. It is possible that an AI would need to sleep, too. The AI may need to sleep a lot more to handle much more information.

It is therefore conceivable at least that a mind has to work at a speed that is commensurate with the speed of the world around it, and one that is appropriate for its capacity.
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by the way this is the second 7% crash in less than one week.
Do you mean they literally don't make the English subs available? Even for the stuff they produced? A clunky UX is one thing, but if they legitimately restrict the sub availability where the rights are available then I'm a bit shocked.
The internet provideth: (Apologies for providing reddit if it's not your cup of tea, it was just the first result in google for "photoshop battle british guy lying in street with beer")

https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshopbattles/comments/3z0ufu/ps...

That being said, the root article itself seems about as useful of the above (Not to say not funny, however). Perhaps I'm being cynical in thinking this but it seems an obvious realization that entertaining pictures are often the prime seed for a broad viral reaction, this newest iteration being nothing that hasn't been seen dozens and dozens (thousands?) of times prior.

To echo the grumpy old man, "You kids my lawn". Now to go find a good cane and porch.
Maintenance turns out to be a subdiscipline of logistics.

And if your instrumentation is good enough, it really becomes a subdisicipline of logistics, plus maybe the machines can begin to defend themselves from ordinary abuse.
How many politicians (elected or not is irrelevant) do you know of who make difficult long-term decisions, that they don't have to, when things are good?
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Can someone explain to me my why stock markets have "circuit breakers" to stop trading when markets go DOWN by N% but not when they go up by N%? Isn't that kind of playing favorites to folks playing one side of the market vs. the other?
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The so-called "myths" the author highlights are more like fallacies than actual facts. He briefly touches some points related to copyright and claims that that's all there is to it.

> Myth #5. Artists Feel Restricted by Copyright

Remixing works under copyright means you need the author's permission to do so, usually by paying royalties. This would be fine if copyrights ended at some point. Currently, in the US, they last way past the death of the author.

> Myth #4. Copyright Harms the Public Domain

He mentions The Little Prince as if all works are really popular. There are tons of works that are not popular, their authors don't even care about them anymore or are dead or companies have gone bankrupt, and remain under copyright. This makes it illegal for people to make copies and keep these works alive. Access to such usually also requires payment and what's affordable for some may not be so affordable for others.

> Myth #3. Copyright is an Attack on Artistic Freedom

He only mentions the freedom of the original author. Indeed, their freedom is not touched. Everybody else is hurt, though. Nobody else can express their artistic freedom on works under copyright without permission (which usually means paying royalties, but can also be impossible if the author doesn't approve the derived work).

> Myth #2. Copyright Costs Consumers

Nobody argues that authors need to be compensated for their work. How much is "fair" is a whole different story. Should they keep being compensated 25 years, 50 years, 100 years, 500 years, forever?

> Myth #1. Copyright only helps Corporations

Copyright, in general, is a good thing. Perpetual copyright is not. Copyright that extends beyond the life of the original author is not. After some time, only corporations will benefit, since their heirs will live much beyond the original authors and will profit on someone else's work.

EDIT: Here's a nice video on why eternal copyright is bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4
If someone is just trying not to be a downer, they'll say something mildly positive (or very positive with a weak tone) and move on to another topic.

If they're continuously gushing about it and extend discussion of that topic far beyond what you attempted, they're probably serious.
Yes, we support Ghost in Virtualmin. I like it a lot, but I like the huge ecosystem of WordPress (and my higher level of familiarity with it) better.

It is a technical book, but no math. There is table support in some extended versions of Markdown, so that's not a problem. And, I've found syntax highlighting works OK on our website (which is Drupal with a geshi filter setup for Markdown text format posts...it is a little clumsy in that it has to be wrapped in <code></code> tags, but it works well enough that I'd be comfortable using it).

I just started googling WordPress plugins for Markdown. Maybe that'll do the job well enough, and I'll do my editing in vim or Atom.
> Isn't that kind of playing favorites to folks playing one side of the market vs. the other?

We also often see things like bans on shorting stocks. Again a bias to being long equities.
I came across as aggressively flamey - but what I intended to communicate was the difference in the communities. In the Ruby community, if somebody posted a really long regex driven scraper, people would ask why it was written and recommend looking at libraries/gems instead of writing your own. In Python, it ends up on the front page of HN.

Ruby's community is very pragmatic and Python's is more scientific. Most people I'm discussing learning programming with are interested in making something, and pragmatism is far better suited to their goals.

e.g. from my perspective, as someone who uses programming as a tool, writing my own scraper is boring (other scrapers work well enough for me). From my friend's perspective, writing a scraper is a fun experiment.
They are entirely lacking experience. China's capital markets are very new. Most of it is still so new it's considered embryonic and barely functional. Mass population speculation on and ownership of stocks is entirely new. Large scale real estate ownership by the Chinese people is relatively new.

30 years ago none of this existed. That's the very definition of inexperienced in the fields we're talking about.
Abrams 'mystery box' will probably keep Cinemas alive for a while. Even with an unlimited access card I'm still not jaded enough to watch movies home. It's not the same experience (a crowd, the room, the size of things, the room).
If an attacker is able to gain root access to your proxy, or inline with a TAP where your proxy is sending intercepted traffic to, you probably have much bigger problems.
Yes, cops in the US are expected to have an above-average working knowledge of the law. If you have a question about the legality of something, you're more likely to get the correct answer asking a random cop than a random civilian.
This new rule is interesting:
"The China Securities Regulatory Commission capped the size of stakes that major investors are allowed to sell at 1 per cent of a company's shares for three months effective Jan. 9"

Having implemented the A/B market for foreign ownership I'd have to guess this rule will be done post trade with a naughty stick.
7% crash in their economy

Correction: 7% crash in their stock market.
The government pushing the stock market up seems a new thing under the present leadership (since 2012?) and kind of dumb like they don't understand markets. Having the stock market priced high doesn't make people richer in real assets although they may imagine their bits of paper worth more. On the other hand it can lead to real assets being misallocated to doomed but overpriced dot coms for example.
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Could that fit with Netflix's current culture? They're big on content that's curated, high-quality, high-definition (with graceful degredation). Live news' editorial agility and responsiveness would require a department with a substantially different attitude and expertise.

They're capable of expanding and pivoting though, more than most companies, so if they decide it's a priority, it's possible. It seems like a pretty big commitment though.
> I started by timing how long it took the pans to bring a cup of water to a boil over the maximum gas flame on my stovetop. The copper and the cast iron each took 3 minutes, the aluminum-stainless combination 2.5, and the thin nonstick aluminum just 2 minutes. Light and cheap win for speed.

Not sure that's the right test... speed isn't what you're going for. For example, aluminum foil would very quickly conduct heat straight to the water opposite the flame, rather than distribute it broadly across the surface.

Because heat transfers fastest across the gradient where the temperature difference is greatest, foil would win the day even though it's a terrible cooking surface.

A heavy copper pan would evenly distribute the heat it's given to the sides and all over the bottom rather than straight to the bottom. That's kind of the point.
I use my PO Box for everything but my phone, gas, electric, and Internet providers obviously have (need) my home address.

Your utility companies have yours as well.
This certainly isn't a perfect answer, but for one, markets don't really do that. They climb steadily and drop quickly.
I like how they don't know where the data was obtained from, yet they know it didn't come from them.
Stopping downward spirals prematurel is a short term solution that will lead to larger downturns in the future. Referencing anti fragility
It's increasing Bitcoin popularity in China, I suspect. And 81% of Bitcoin exchange volume is already in CNY (average for last 30 days). I'm guessing that the price will stay in the 420-450 USD range.
There are a lot of comments in this thread about the problems Uber solves. I'd like to pose a different question: which of those problems is not solved by Flywheel?

For those who don't know, Flywheel is an app that lets you call a regular taxi cab with an Uber-like dispatch system. You watch the cab arrive with GPS and pay on your phone. It is some small fixed cost over the cost of a cab, no surging obviously. And you can put in your destination for the driver to navigate to via GPS, just like Uber.
> There's also a lot of people working on this so stuff changes fast and often. Think about all of Facebook's different products vyying for attention in the feed. Think of all the PMs with agendas who want their product in the feed in certain ways.

If you can't maintain a complete understanding of the process, you are playing a guessing game.

This isn't some special magical FB-centric problem.
completely agree and this will make a good start for lot of people.
Just a guess, but maybe because people are more likely to "panic sell" than they are to "panic buy".
All countries have a long history of economic mistakes, in fact. There's absolutely nothing special as it applies to the West.

See: Japan's recent 25 year rolling disaster. China had hundreds of years of economic mistakes prior to the last 40 years or so. Asia is littered with demonstrations in very bad economic governance over the last 50 years.
hmm interesting. Didn't know that. Wonder who they sell it to.
That's... an optimistic take on "markets."
It's true and I find that feature very annoying. Of course I can turn it off, but they shouldn't turn it on by default IMO.
Yeah, I was only looking at it from a router's perspective. Router's don't care much about the host stuff, and really, anything between a 64 or 128.
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But those passwords would be encrypted, as it comes from TWC. While any other 3rd party who gets it from user can altogether skip encryption.
320,000 people didn't download malware. A privileged user at TWC did.
That rebuttal's use of WordPress as an example of PHP done right is not very convincing... Also, Facebook and Wikipedia uses HHVM instead of standard PHP
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> Does that actually work?

Don't know that's why I said it was "a positive hypothetical upside". It was in response to gp post about "well what if it has a has a negative effect somehow". So I just replied with an equally un-substantiated claim "Well it could have a positive effect too".
China's circuit breaker is actually bi-directional. NYSE is indeed uni-directional like you described.

[0] http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/07/chinas-latest-step-to-curb-sh...

>Meanwhile, a 7 percent rise or fall in the CSI300 Index will prompt a trading halt in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges for the rest of the day, the statement posted on the exchange's website said. Both circuit breakers will only be activated once a day.
Have to agree with some of the other responses. So what if they "have to" take cards. I believe that voluntary trades are the only moral ones; to use coercive force against someone in a commercial trade just to get my way seems rather thuggish. Also, once I manage to force them to take me against their will: what service should I expect? Top notch, or the sort of service a resentful party is likely to give when they didn't want the business in the first place.

Nope. Even if it were my only option to get I ride... I'd not use this sort of law to get it.
I don't really see much support for radical transparency here. You are saying it will be great because it's great. You need arguments that are convincing to someone who thinks you are starting from nonsense.

If it helps, I tend to be frank/blunt to an uncomfortable extent. I sort of try not to because people find it off-putting, but I also sometimes don't notice I'm doing it. So it's not like I am in opposition to what you are saying, but I don't necessary see that it would be so great.

(re being able to reply, there's a speed bump built into the site, if you click the time stamp through to the individual comment page you can always reply there)
Its most likely some 3rd party not contracted with TWC, assuming TWC stores the passwords using 1 way encryption.
No offense to you but when I hear "socialize" it raises my hackles. People at my relatively great employer use this term and for no reason. We can communicate with each other but to use a term like "socialize" is to insult both you and me, for I can find no positive association with its usage.

*and it has nothing to do with politics. I am about as Left as it gets.
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The reason is that selloffs spread panic. If a market is crashing by 7% or more it can easily lead lots of other people to sell just for fear. This is not a problem for markets that go up.
Panic spreads faster than exuberance.

When you look at the history of commodities and equities trading you will see that a big chunk of the market can be held by people who don't feel they have enough visibility to understand why something is going down, and so when it goes down in an uncharacteristic way, they panic and join in the selling and that grows quickly. The "down" side is that people lose money from panic. But if the market goes up quickly people generally hold on to their stock waiting for it to go up still more, so there is no need to slow trading, it slows itself.

The apocryphal saying “financial markets are driven by two powerful emotions – greed and fear.” is fairly simple but it does capture the essence of the primary movers.
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