skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would assume by this point that PHP devs would be fairly confident and comfortable with their decision to continue with PHP and would be used to others bagging on it unnecessarily.

As a JS/Web developer you learn to ignore the hatred of the web that it seems to get from the HN crowd.
There's a special place in hell for language designers that make you use shift that often.
Ehh, in the end, cloud orchestration is only going to get easier (lowest common denominator of primitives) and as long as you don't marry yourself to cloud provider-specific tooling, you'll be able to push your VMs and/or containers to where you can optimize for performance, cost, whatever.

I think containers are hyped _far greater_ than the benefit that they provide, and I still think it'd be swank if you could have CDNs retrieve containers and run them at the POPs if your workflow allows for it.

Interesting times and all that jazz.
If you were interested in the feeling of being drunk, drinking all the liquor you could find was the right procedure. If you were interested in why people drink, I would suggest that you used the wrong procedure.

The right procedure would be to get a glass of a good wine, or a good beer (not a mass-produced one) and sip it over dinner for about forty minutes, with friends. Depending on how big you are and how you personally metabolize alcohol, it would probably make you somewhat relaxed. And it would taste good. If it did not, you could find one that did.

In many cultures, alcohol is a food. It comes with side effects for sure, which are the sedation and decrease of inhibitions. The side effects are part of the enjoyment, but by no means are they the entire point of it.
I think the endgame for programmers is very different to pastry chefs. Yes there are bootcamps, but part of their success is being selective in who they accept. No one has yet shown how to take an average person and get them a well paying programming job. Egalitarian dogma states that programmers don't have special abilities or interests but the market has been very stubborn so far.
I used to run one of my site (25K unique visitors a day) on PHP 5.3, when HHVM came out with stable version I shifted to HHVM and I had similar experience. Now I am running it on PHP 7 and I have to say I am more than happy with results. As much as PHP is not cool for today's developers it has served on some really high traffic sites and stayed useful even with the test of time.

P.S. Now I wish somebody just implements a good Async IO system and ability to run HTTP right off the PHP engine (I know there is php -S ...; I am talking about a better async system).
They call themselves Loonies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
Olbers' paradox is based on the assumption of an infinite static universe. Taking that assumption you arrive at the paradox. So therefore the assumption must be wrong - ergo evidence for the big bang model which solves the paradox.
Reading about this, I personally think what a waste.

The idea of colonizing Mars has a certain appeal because there would finally be an escape from nation-states and the games they play with their citizens as pawns. No indoctrination that starts at preschool, appeals to patriotism/nationalism where your state is the best and everyone else is inferior due to some combination of religion, ethnicity, or values.

It represents a new beginning, a world without artificial, fictional boundaries where all must cooperate to survive, a place where there is a recognition that we are all one species.
Parent is talking about investors, not about firms. From afar, there seems to be a great deal of overlap. Up close, not so much. An eternal task for executives is convincing owners that the firm shouldn't just sell all its assets and distribute the proceeds.
College -- I recently did the math and figured the tuition alone for my in-state education in Ohio was something like $22k. Doing software engineering consulting in the valley, it's not hard to bill that in a _month_ -- granted I've been out of college for 15 years and I have a ton of relevant experience, but overall, for me, an education has had huge financial upside that continues to pay off.
I've never personally dealt with software that licenses to a network interface (and the idea does seem silly...)

This was super super super super fun on IRIX when NIC died. Usually in the midst of work chaos.
An experienced worker can work faster at the same level of quality, or at the normal pace or even slower but with a much higher quality, or a combination of these. Not being a domain expert, I can't tell for pastry chefs. (E.g. for sushi chefs, increase of speed seemingly dominates increase of quality, quality as experience grows.)
So it's like make then? We've had tools to do this for 30+ years.
There are also galaxies that are 99.9% dark matter apparently [1]. I don't think they are counted in this survey.

[1]: http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/galaxy-found-9999-dar...
I have to agree with the user "douche" who also replied to you. Depending on where I've gone and how much of a baking culture the locality had, I've often had very cheap, very good food, especially vegetables and baked goods.

(Actually, I'm constantly frustrated that baked goods, especially bread, in the United States aren't made fresh and sold in bulk. The good life was five fluffy pitas, still warm from the oven, for about $2, shelved alongside sweet croissants and savory burekas selling for roughly $4/lb. By comparison, basically everything in America is just crap, especially when I'm paying for the $35 artisanal free-range organic crap.)
At ServerPilot, we decided early on not to support HHVM for similar reasons: we could see PHP 7 was going to offer the same performance benefits without the pain, breakage, and downtime of HHVM.

Early on, before PHP 7 was released, we had to explain this to many of our users who use ServerPilot to host WordPress, Magento, Laravel, and other PHP apps. They often thought there was no downside or risk with HHVM, it was as simple as dropping it in as a replacement. Nowadays, with the hype around HHVM dying down, we don't get requests for HHVM support much anymore.

For a huge company like Facebook, HHVM makes a lot of sense. And the existence of HHVM really sped up the PHP 7 development efforts and provided a great benchmark for how fast PHP 7 could be. So, the PHP community should be very grateful to Facebook for that even if HHVM isn't the future of PHP.
I've been thinking about building some reusable django app that could be used in other projects to integrate and make them compatible with gnu social, but I never put the idea into practice (I still think it is a good idea).

Recently someone posted here on HN a compatible server (https://github.com/Gargron/mastodon), it isn't what you are searching for, but these 2 posts about the topic in a short period of time shows there is an certain interest.

Maybe its the push I need to start building that reusable app. Regarding your question, you should start by looking at https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/ and the wiki.
Thank you! I tried the rm that GlobalSign recommended to no effect, but your sqlite3 command immediately fixed the problem (on macOS Sierra).
Awesome. Do you have anything regarding server implementation?
Also, accents. Google sells phones all around the world and has worked very very hard to get training data from everywhere. For example, it has no trouble with my Indian accent at all. Siri... She's very American.
A practical introduction to functional programming
"The prices seem a bit low for 2016."

there are dates on the various shots. Haven't noticed price increases since then. The shop is owned by French owners who grow the fruit/veg (sans exotic). Famous in my town.
I can already mix static and dynamic types. Use Haskell. With Data.Dynamic you get all the dynamic types you want.
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I'm surprised that no one has drawn parallels with the underwater city of Rapture from Bioshock.
I don't know about Facebook but yes, in Google's case they offer superior wages to their employees.

However that doesn't diminish my original statement because Google is likely to hire the most expensive talent and also their employees in London are paid I think about 30% less than their counterparts in the US. I suspect the American programmers are actually more effective at their jobs for a number of reasons e.g. being at ground zero when new domains open up but there is still likely to be wage gap which I'd explain by the depressed wage market in London. There are many very effective workers who ought to be paid twice or triple what they are currently earning. I know some of the younger programmers in the UK are being paid as little as 12-16k a year.
> people took umbrage?

People no. You, yes. Please don't speak for other people.

> you grossly misrepresent the motives of people who drink

I do? I offered my OPINION on why I believe people drink. What qualifies me to give such an opinion?

10+ years as a bartender (from dive bars to high-end restaurants - the last being Spiaggia in Chicago). During that time, I continued to further my understanding of why people drink. Asking clients and gaining deeper knowledge. Let me ask you...why did you start drinking? Yes, you can point out that after high school...blah, blah, blah. I am not speaking to the fact that those have a choice once they reach an age where they are less pressured into doing things they have less control over at a younger age. You seemed to have completely missed the point of the article and my commenting an experience where peer pressure has not affected me.

So yes, I would say I am qualified to make statements not only about my personal experiences (those of which NEVER supported a position for or against drinking). You seemed to have done that for me.

> "experiment" of "drink everything in the house" comes across as misguided at best

Misguided at best? You are grasping at straws now.

> preconceived notions at worst

At worst? Let's put this into context.

Whether or not I develop an opinion before or after an experiment doesn't predict the outcome of that experiment. That is like saying because I heard about how bad heroin was growing up and tried it then...what exactly? What are you trying to say exactly? Because as far as I can tell, you are saying a whole lot without actually saying anything.
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Can you cite your source? I haven't seen this anywhere.
The Tallinn experiment: what happens when a city makes public transport free?
...which, of course, make it easier to assume the presence of a particular field and crash.

Using an explicit map for dynamic attributes at least makes you aware what is guaranteed and what is optional.

This removes much of the neat magic that such a dynamic approach affords to languages like Ruby, JavaScript, and, to a lesser extent, Python.
Advances in robotics made easier by forthcoming 3D printed TurtleBot
I thought it was Opera's fault: sites would load fine on Firefox or Chrome, but not on my primary browser.
>It feels like Von Rossum is making life hard for the PyPy compiler project again.

Or perhaps, he realizes that to require these typechecks at runtime would either

- require a massive rewrite of the CPython interpreter

- cause a performance penalty in code that is statically typed (there are pure python libraries that allow this, and yes your code runs slower)

Further, it offers a relatively narrow amount of help to pypy, which has already come out and said that they have no interest in using annotations for efficiency gains, because they're a jit and they don't need them.
I interviewed at Google in March 2014 and was given an offer. I wasn't interviewing for a specific team. After the in-person interviews my recruiter set me up with 2 different team managers to talk to about potentially joining their team. I wasn't interested in either team, and my recruiter said "That's ok, we'll find a place for you," and a few days later found a new manager for me to chat with. I joined their team.

I did know I was interviewing for a general SWE role, but not anything more than that, and from all appearances the team was completely up in the air until after my interviews.

I don't know how much has changed since 2014. I also didn't get any of these pre-screen testing questions from a non-engineer. Is that normal practice for all interviews now?
One aspect of the Dunning-Kruger effect is that your own lack of ability at a task precludes your ability to judge the difficulty of that task (because you don't know your unknown unknowns.)

This often surfaces in the software world as non-programmer managers asking "how hard could it be?" and assuming software developers are unskilled, interchangeable, replaceable cogs.
Stable Chrome for me was definitely broken. And in fact, trying to view the details on the revoked certificate caused Chrome to beachball.
>Perhaps there's more people in Paris that know how to make awesome croissants. Maybe it's considered "fancy" food in the US and marked up accordingly.

True, but I can still make far superior chocolate-chip cookies (an American staple pastry) at home, for cheap, than I've ever had from 90% of stores and bakeries.

Try out the following recipe with the addition of half a lemon's juice, switching out all the sugar for brown sugar. You can either use the full load of chocolate chips, or substitute dark chocolate, or do like I do and half the chocolates so you can enjoy the cookie.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/10813/best-chocolate-chip-cooki...

(Mind, I might be an edge-case, since I've practiced baking since I was five years old.)
Ohhh. Sorry I must have missed that. In that case, how exciting!
MIT folks also working on the same problem: http://www.embrlabs.com/
Well it's hard to compete with nonprofits that don't pay taxes. Non profits compete with government. In fact non profit education outfits do pretty well against public schools.
This seems to assume that a developer necessarily hits an MVP in PHP faster than in other languages. This might be true when comparing with the tooling/dependency nightmares of JS/NPM, but a half decent Python dev can get a Flask app up and running in about 15 minutes.
>Growing up I often pondered the reasons why people begin drinking: Peer pressure, wanting to fit in, the need to feel cool, etc. None of these things every pushed me in the direction of needing to drink.

None of these are the reason most people drink. They would all be bad reasons to drink. You are saying we drink for bad reasons. You make a caricature of drinking (all the booze in the house) and say that's why you know better. The gist is that you missed the target on why others do something, and imply that you, scientifically, are wiser for it (you're drinks not only taste better than ours, they don't make you lose your inhibitions!).
I've skimmed some of the GraphQL discussions and chatter, but my main question is actually much more on the server side. I'd love to see guides that cover setting up GraphQL APIs on top of existing datasets. Preferably more than just "use the official Node GraphQL library" or that PostGraphQL thing. In my case, we've got a bunch of Python services that currently offer up JSON APIs. I'd like to know what sort of changes and efforts would be needed to set up GraphQL endpoints for our systems. I think I've seen that there's a Python GraphQL library, but a lot more "how-to" info on the server side of things would be great.
I haven't read it myself, but I heard that's what Laszlo Bock said in Work Rules.
Is it currently possible to fire something from Earth and have it curve around to the other side of the moon without being vulnerable to a point defense system along the way?
This is huge for a long list of middle market companies who shudder at the prospect of moving a data center from their on premise closet to a hosted solution while leveraging the same exact vSphere infrastructure they already have sunk time and money into.
Mr. Heinlein addressed these issues some fifty years ago in _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_.
Say I have 30,000 VMs deployed in my VMWare infrastructure. I have a good licensing agreement with them and have thousands of applications.

By just shifting workload to AWS without doing anything to the VM, I can save a ton of money. In my case, for every dollar I spend on AWS/VMWare, I could probably avoid spending $2.50 in data center buildout costs and $3 in application rationalization.

With Softlayer, you're inviting IBM into your house, which is rarely a good idea. Give them an inch, they take a mile.
Are Hipsters the New Yuppies?
Argumentum ad hominem.

RT is state-supported, but it is only one of a number of sources that all reported pretty much the same thing. Guccifer, who was an unemployed taxi driver when arrested, led to the disclosure of HRC's server, and claims to have hacked it "like, twice."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/guccifer-hacker-who-says...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/04/romanian-hacker-g...

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hacker-guccifer-i-got-inside-hill...

^^^ There. Mainstream, American-as-apple-pie sources.
Thanks to Perl that's used for string concatenation.
Why would it help a surgeon to be cool? for the regular reason that everyone works better when at a comfortable temp or due to a specific medical reason?
> I suspect you can with some effort

That is my point. You require effort in an order of magnitude greater than with PHP in order to achieve the same result, which in the case of a beginner, is the difference between continuing their journey in programming or abandoning the ship.

You are failing to see the big picture and are taking for granted the plethora of initial setup you have to do to begin working with a language like Rust (ex. generating bindings for a database driver written in C if it doesn't exist in cargo), you were just nitpicking in the syntax of the previous example (which BTW, I took care to clarify it was an example of bad code to avoid people not familiar with PHP from getting the wrong idea).

It was my fault to say "you can't" in my previous message (see Atwood's Law), I really meant "it requires too much effort".
I get the nostalgia for these machines. I have great nostalgia for my old computers, the ones I learned on.

I have watched some videos of open genera. I don't see the appeal. It was neat for the time, but I have a hard time seeing what problems it solves for today. I'm not trolling, if someone can give some specifics, I'd be interested to read them.
> > If someone thought they were in a simulation, they might try to find a way out of it

> This is completely nonsensical.

It really depends on the nature of the simulation. For example, if the simulation was something like what was depicted in The Matrix, where one's experience or senses were being simulated while one's real body was outside the simulation, then it could be possible to find a way out.

Of course, if your entire existence was simulated and you had no existence outside the simulation, then it would be more difficult, but perhaps even then not impossible, depending on whether you believed that a copy of yourself was still you. For instance, one could conceivably "upload" a copy of one's mind/brain in to a robot that was external to the simulation and that robot could then potentially have access to sensations/experience outside the simulation. Of course, then it could be argued whether that's another simulation.

But the potential for whatever is "outside" the simulation being just another simulation (ala Inception) is always there. And I'm not sure how one could ever be certain one was ever really "outside" and not just in another simulation -- though it might be possible that one really is "outside" without being certain of it. Or one could be certain and mistaken, or certain and correct. But then one could always be mistaken.

> > or might start not taking life seriously.

> People already do this just fine.

I meant people who took their life seriously because they thought it was "real" and then finding out that they and everyone/everything around them was simulated might decide, as a result of this realization, to no longer take life seriously. For example, they could have valued human life before, but when realizing that the beings they thought were alive before actually weren't, then they could start not valuing them anymore.

Of course, some people don't value their own lives or those of others regardless, and don't take their life seriously anyway.. but I'm not talking about them.

> Free will is a pretty thought, not anything to do with a simulation theory.

The point of bringing up free will was to show under what circumstances one's beliefs would not have any impact on one's actions. Those circumstances are ones in which one does not have free will.

If one does have free will, and one's actions really are shaped by one's beliefs, then the belief that one is in a simulation could have an effect on what one does.

If one does not have free will, or one's actions are not shaped by one's beliefs, then the same belief would not have any effect one what one does. One would do what one was determined to do regardless.
> what being drunk felt like from a scientific perspective

I was interested in what being drunk felt like.

In another comment, I explain how I pursued further knowledge for "why people drink."

> In many cultures, alcohol is a food.

Completely agree. I live in East Africa when I am not in Chicago so I have first-hand experience on the role of alcohol in other cultures.
Is it really? I've never heard this particular wording before (and neither had Google, mind you) but it very strongly resembles Shoot The Other Node In The Head (STONITH).
Thanks for providing that.

Thomson grants for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life

Thomson says, abortion does not violate the fetus's legitimate rights, but merely deprives the fetus of something—the use of the pregnant woman's body and life-support functions—to which it has no right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defense_of_Abortion

This has a real sleaziness to it. Her argumentation is to separate into two, something that cannot logically be separated.

It's like saying you have a "right to breathe all you want from our oxygen rich biosphere," ... while in outer space.

I'll say this again, because it has just struck me so strongly, and it is so strange. What is it about our society that we have people so passionately arguing for killing off our progeny?
True, but this new variation is fundamentally different exactly because now it's not just an abstract process of unknown nature, but a "computation". It will be interesting to see how the idea will be reconciled with "science". E.g. with "random mutations" allegedly driving evolution, to name just a single aspect.
I'd even invert that bit about coming from the future. Due to the aging demographic shift and the otherwise impossibility of saving on a generational and national scale, there's a huge demand to encumber future earning potential for goods and services today. This is fundamentally why interest rates are so low - our aging population demands to be owed goods and services when they've retired, and the only way to provide that is to convince people to provide it in the future (ie, take on debt).
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Chefs and cooks generally don't command high wage because there is plenty of competition, including those who don't cook for living.

There is a limit as to how much people will pay to have other people prepare meals for them. After all, people can cook meals for themselves if all else fails.
The lack of understanding of this comic has done more damage. Every person suggesting a new specification should have at least some idea of why people using the existing specifications would be interested in migrating, and how.

I think ActivityPub has that to some extent, and the group reached out to existing fedsocnet implementations as part of their work. Time will tell if it was enough, or if we now indeed have yet another specification next to all the others.
Looks like he really did hit a sore nerve.