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I think you're ignoring that many people might not even read the article at all. Proving comprehension sounds incredibly hard; proving someone has at least tried would probably be a huge step in the right direction compared to the mayhem which is most comments online.
> In kirundi (a common language in Burundi) there is one word for both yesterday and tomorrow.

This is true in Urdu and Hindi as well.
For those that (like me) hadn't heard of it: https://philsturgeon.uk/php/2013/09/09/t-paamayim-nekudotayi...
> No, I think that the data has been adjusted, sometimes purposefully and sometimes unknowingly, in a direction which results in more warming due to the peer pressure involved.

Any example of those pressures?

> Then, we have scientists who make models which should be falsifiable, but instead of declaring that the models don't work when they fail to match reality, they make adjustments to "fit the curve".

Any example of those fittings?

A lot of talking of "the left" like demons but none of you can't give just one example of those falsifications. Perhaps because there is none and "some right" is just inventing them?
Entirely off topic but your comment made me realize some people read acronyms as the letters and others will read the full wording. So I'd say "a HN comment".

Ok back to the subject.
The semantics is the major pain point. It doesn't flag many errors. Python is a much easier language to dev/debug in because of this. Also, if you're going to transpile, why not transpile from a nicer language? ES6 is competing with ClojureScript/TypeScript/etc.
They would also write articles with a different worldview.
I wish someone more interested and prepared could have conducted the interview, but the talk is worth watching anyway.
Is there a PHP modding squad in Hacker News? Legitimate, non-offensive anecdotes are getting downvoted in this thread while all positive comments are being upvoted.

I think I've seen such a trend rising in the past few years, but I wasn't sure: every thread covering PHP in some way gathered a crowd that defended "how PHP is much better since 5.x" or referred to PHP being hated by people without any good reason.

And yes. This very comment got downvoted to 0 in less than a minute from its submission.
Having affordable housing only creates stability if they actually pay the rent.

From what I've observed, the problematic homeless people primarily need health care or to be put in a mental institution (for the really unstable ones). Affordable housing would certainly be nice, but having that isn't going to do anything for the ones that piss on the floor or jump off the balcony of a public library because they wouldn't be able to pay (or want to pay) any price for housing.
In America, people say "just a sec" even though you will wait for more than one second. The confusing way Americans count seconds.
It feels like a step backward to be designating specific sets of files as being unworthy of encryption despite using a FDE setup.

It's also annoying to have more than one system partition to deal with when all of the pieces of software and hardware involved are perfectly capable of working normally with a single encrypted partition.

Boot is a special case to some extent as most people aren't going to care if the few files in there are readable, but then again the initrd is in there, and that could contain things that would otherwise be encrypted if they were on root.

For example, some people set up dropbear sshd in the initrd, so it's possible (even likely, depending on the tutorial being followed) that it may have a real, unencrypted copy of the sshd host key(s) the main OS would be using, once it boots. Whether you care depends on the deployment, of course.

I suspect that in some obscure cases, allowing unknown parties to see the kernel binary may count as an info leak that could be used for other attacks, potentially even against other more secure systems that happen to be running the same kernel binary.
In addition to PHP itself undergoing a lot of good optimizations a lot of tooling and frameworks have come a long way as well. Composer and most modern frameworks play much nicer in the ecosystem and it is quick and easy to get something up and running which gives access to most of the things you'd need in a webapp. I'm a big fan of Laravel personally but there's plenty of other great options nowadays.
But you can?
What if instead of having jobs, you just let people do whatever they want?

If you want to work together with other people to do some goal, then do that.

If you want to spend all your time watching movies or traveling or playing video games, then you could do that and zero of the "work" stuff.

The mega rich already live in that world. They can choose to work, or not, and are generally able to do anything. I don't hear them complaining about how they are bored or need something to do with their life.

Now imagine that everyone had the same resources as the mega rich do now.
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How "rare" indeed! Imagine if car accident rate was 10%. Every 10 days you'd total your car.
PHP has some design decisions (e.g. shared nothing architecture) that used to be laughed about - nowadays it's obviously known as a big advantage - PHP can scale linearly with no overhead.

[Edit: read what Slack devs wrote about PHP, their server side is written in PHP https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329 and beside that Facebook uses PHP/Hack and MySQL as core tech)

The syntax is inspired by Perl and C family (C/C++ and Java) and many functions one knows from C family are inbuilt. The advantage, it's friction free, hassles about memory management, dynamic typing allows rapid development, experience, etc.

The focus of PHP is all around the web, it was the first successful language designed for the web. All inbuilt functionality has been carefully selected, everything is built in and can be used from the start. You only need to copy the files via (S)FTP or SCP to the shared hosting server (nowadays it would probably be called "server less", e.g. Amazon Lambda) and press F5 to reload the page. It's basically the easiest environment to start, and can be Sean as the successor of Visual Basic 6 as the entrance for many younger devs after 1999 in the programming world. And the good thing almost all the negative cruft of the earlier era got removed with PHP5 and PHP7 (and the compatibility is still there, old PHP4 code still runs (or with minor changes)).

Today most languages like Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, etc also offer asynchronous frameworks to let them scale a lot better - compared to them, you don't have to change your code with PHP, it was always shared nothing and is fast by default - according to benchmarks often faster than Python, Ruby, etc.

Nodejs, Go and Java offer nowadays very comparable performance (with Java and Go being slightly faster) in common benchmarks and real world. Nodejs with (vanilla) JavaScript and PHP allow for faster development - no static typing, no compiling step.

Erlang/Elixir is the latest hype. Beside some different terminology and focus around functional language parts, actors model, the inner working of ErlangVM and e.g. HHVM are not so different. The shared nothing, one thread per execution model offers similar results. ejabberd XMPP server software written in Erlang and used at WhatsApp (now part of FB) revived the interest of Ericson Erlang eco system. PHP can handle such chat services as well, see Slack. https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329
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English is not immune to these sorts of variations.

In South African English

"now": sometime maybe/immediately. This is hard to decipher.

"now-now": very soon/immediately (this usage seems less common nowadays)

"just now": at some point in the near future
Thanks dude :) I had a different opinion as well.. but as you know, nothing is a "fact" unless you have the data to back it.
I'm not saying we shouldn't practice defense in depth where it's possible.

It's just that I don't think preventing this style of attack is actually the most relevant/impactful application of this style of research.

Again, I'm not saying this research is irrelevant. I'm saying it's way more relevant than this particular example implies.

> would be less detectable compared with a whole missing sign.

This kind of assumes that the attack wouldn't work in the first place, no? If cars are crashing people are going to investigate to figure out why, and even the most thick-skulled beat cop can figure out that stop signs with rando weird ass stickers on them are probably worth running up the chain...
I fully agree. Its all about how to do x stuff at y cost. PHP served a market segment. Now the other languages can do the same, if not better, at the same cost.
What a disgusting what to view other cultures.

The only confusing thing here is that this article assumes the way "we" tell time makes sense, and the way "They" tell time is confusing.

It is as if somehow everything "we" do is the one and only best way, and any other way is simple and quaint.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/04/all-new...
I was not really running down pure math. Indeed, see my post below where I explained that some pure math is crucial to my startup.

I was saying that I, personally, find foundations as in the OP down in the basement, dark and too far from applications in any sense.

For making money as a full prof of math, first have to get there, and that usually takes over 10 years if make it at all. Yes, it's possible to play the academic game; heck one paper in math I published is pretty, surprising, etc. but I can't imagine that it will ever be useful directly or even indirectly even by several steps of indirection for the foreseeable future if ever. I've seen people publish such things and make some progress in an academic career; to me that's playing an academic game; I chose not to do that.

When I was a prof (I didn't want to be but did it for a while trying to help my wife in her illness), it seemed to me that I was getting paid by students, pizza parlor owners and workers, auto dealership owners and workers, farmers, etc., and for them I wanted my work and teaching to be useful -- to me, personal curiosity, art, etc. didn't count. I really wanted the department to be clinical, professional, practical, like law and medicine, i.e., welcome people from outside academics with real problems and then seek to solve those problems. When can't solve a problem, then maybe that will be a good research direction; if make good progress, then already have one application!

For applied math, determine that not by PDEs but by what can find that is useful. Early in my career around DC for mostly US national security, I found lots of such applied math. And my startup, while more focused, is basically some applied math. PDEs? I had very little to do with those; the one case was the Navier-Stokes equations, and they were so difficult to work with that the project wasn't making much progress and I was pleased to move on to other topics.

It's not easy to see what pure math is the more useful. For the pure math I do respect, especially for utility, it appears that in some vague, large sense the results are fundamental, important broadly, and, eventually, inescapably relevant, but that is a difficult judgment call. Functional analysis? Sure. Algebraic geometry? Less sure. Foundations? Slim chance.

I was not trying to give career advice to other people possibly interested in math but just commenting that I found the foundations as deep as in the OP just too far down in a dark basement. In math, that's an old remark about foundations -- "Drop what you are doing trying to be useful and come with me down into the dark basement and wrestle with really subtle issues down there." Standard, old remark in math.

You read lots of stuff between the lines I wrote, stuff not really there.
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Yep. Not sure about Kirundi, but in Hindi it's not really an issue since the tense of the sentence gives it away.
clone() is still broken after three months: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1878
My guess is there isn't and non constructive criticism just tends to get down voted.
20:00 has an interesting snippet where Chomsky relates the breakdown of working class cultural institutions and education then takes a stab at Google (one gets the sense the real audience response was edited heavily in post production).
One of my early jobs in the late 60s/early 70s was with a small government group providing online data processing services to various local hospitals. The system ran on two CDC computers, a 1700[1] and a System 17. These were originally intended for things like process control, but this group had added a home-grown multiuser timeshare system on top, then an online pathology application system on top of that!

My first experience in this group was watching them debug a problem. They had an old FORTRAN listing spread out over a table-sized (10Mb!) disk drive unit. The bug was in 5 lines of code, but it just didn't make any sense - it was as if one line was simply not being executed.

Eventually one of the guys went over to the command console and looked at the object code on disk. "Hey, that 'IF' statement isn't in the object code!". More head scratching ensued, until someone looked more carefully at the grubby thumbprint at the start of that line on the dirty old listing.

Under that grubby thumbprint was ...

[can anyone quess?]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_1700
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>Unlike the author I know what I am talking about because I am an actuall Mexican.

That means you don't know what you're talking about. If you are immersed in it you definitely won't be confused about it at all. This article is written for people who are not Mexican observing from the outside.

It's like someone from the US claiming the imperial measurement system isn't confusing. The more immersed you are, the less relevant your view is to outsiders.
What does this stem from? Fear of violent conflict?
What would be an interesting study would be to graph the preciseness with which a culture views time and the level of advanced society they have.

Slavery to the clock may stick in the craw a bit, but cultures that took time seriously could co-ordinate groups and individuals better and get more done. The result was a higher standard of living.

Is the Japanese obsession with getting their trains precisely on time one of the reasons they were able to industrialise so quickly?
Ahorita is not used outside of Mexico, in other Spanish spoken countries, you use ahora.
The "CleanFeed" technology mentioned in the article, and similar technologies are deployed at all major UK ISPs (basically if you've seen it advertised on TV, it has this) which was, as the author says, deployed originally to intercept potential "Child Pornography" and block it using an otherwise transparent HTTP proxy. The proxy looks at the HTTP 1.1 Host header, or even the entire HTTP request, and decides either "Yeah that's bad" and gives a bad saying you're a bad person and should feel bad or lets it pass unmolested. This is impossible for HTTPS because the server's identity is authenticated using public key crypto

Anyway, this illustrates a peril of developing technology. Inevitably Big Copyright (in this case I think originally the major music labels) took these ISPs to court. The court asked them a plain and simple question - do you have technology that could do what Big Copyright wants here, and block arbitrary sites? And CleanFeed meant the answer was "Yes". So the court said, "OK, since you _can_ do this, we're ordering you to do it".

Now, some small UK ISPs simply don't have censorship capability, and the court told them since you don't censor anything (Child Porn, videos of people being gruesomely killed, how to cheat at popular video games) we don't find that you have any liability for not censoring copyright infringement either, carry on.

Years later this got extended still further, the UK government "ordered" the big famous ISPs to censor stuff that might offend people or was "inappropriate" for children or whatever. And all of this is managed opaquely so it can be used for any purpose that the government sees fit. But again, small ISPs simply don't obey, and the UK executive has a _history_ dating back to when printing books was a new technology, of going to court, insisting that "public morality" demands censorship and getting shut down very embarrassingly by judges, so this time they have chosen to simply pretend the smaller ISPs don't exist. tl;dr if you live in the UK and people have heard of your ISP your access to the Internet is censored. Switch to a tiny ISP run by people who'd rather face jail than destroy the Internet, or pipe everything through a VPN and/or Tor.

Note that this is all separate from the UK "Snooper's Charter" which is very secretive but probably implemented in the backbone. The "Snooper's Charter" stuff doesn't block anything, but does monitor metadata for everybody, all the time, basically like the NSA in the US. Changing ISP can't help you there.
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> I see your comment as a strange mix of optimism about humanity's creative abilities and fatalism about the end of the world coming soon.

There's a very large and vocal group on HN that believes in the advent of AI and regularly comments as is it was a done deal. Almost every robot/AI/ML thread gets hijacked with this idea/meme.

In the meantime Google can't get my first language right, the windows 7/8/10 search is a joke and Facebook wants me to be friends with my SO's exes. And 2017's revolution ? Dial menus in messenger.

I suppose when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I've been using sqlectron (which is also based on electron), because that's the only one I could get working with Redshift (a Postgres 8.0 fork): https://github.com/sqlectron/sqlectron-gui/

Edit: I think I'll be sticking with sqlectron for now. Postage looks pretty featureful but very quirky. Good work on it though, good to have more free alternatives to Datagrip/pgadmin3 on Linux.
It's very possible. In Urdu, a a language with strong roots in Farsi and Arabic, and spoken in Pakistan, India ... Iran?, the word tomorrow and yesterday are both "kal". But the (auxiliary) verb associated with "kal" will clearly determine whether the tense is referenced as a tomorrow or a yesterday.

"Kal awoge?"
"Will you come 'kal'?

"Kal ayeh?"
"Did you come 'kal'"?

My mother speaks Urdu. She too confuses the English versions sometimes. This mispeaking of hers is one the great sources of love we have for her. And she tries her best not give us a chance to show it!
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Bitcoin can be anonymous. All you have to do is mine the coins while you are on an anonymous internet connection (such as tor and a public wifi hotspot).

Another way for bitcoins to be anonymous is to use a "mixer". If you send your coins to a very large wallet (that contains a lot of money owned by a lot of other people), and then whoever controls that wallet then distributes those coins to a bunch of other newly created addresses (which you control the keys for), then there would be no way to tell whose money was sent to those wallets. It might be your money. It might be a thousand other people's money. This is called bitcoin laundering.

Transactions are always traceable, though. People might think their bitcoins are safe and anonymous, but then they use their own personal computer on their own personal internet connection to actually spend the bitcoins on something illegal. Guess what? News flash! The NSA and who knows how many other government agencies have been monitoring internet traffic since the 90s! Ever heard of Carnivore? How about NarusInsight? Do you honestly think they can't track P2P traffic? Do you honestly think that your P2P bitcoin spending transaction can't be traced back to your IP and to your address? They can probably track a lot of Tor traffic, too.

The only way bitcoin is anonymous is if someone keeps every single step of the entire process anonymous. Mining/purchasing has to be anonymous. Storage has to be anonymous (no third party wallets). Using an exchange has to be anonymous (good luck with that). Selling the coin (or purchasing something with it) has to be anonymous. The chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and each link has many potential attack vectors.

For example, you might think you are using a perfectly safe bitcoin "mixer" service, but for all you know, the feds are actually the ones operating the mixer service, and are tracing every single transaction from start to end.

So yeah. The long and short of it is that Bitcoin is heavily monitored and traced, which is why the government allows it to exist.
800/999 is worse than brute force at that point…
Weird to see this today because I was using netboot.xyz only yesterday to install OpenBSD.

My only gripe with netboot.xyz is that it seems to be missing a few of the less mainstream yet still platforms like NetBSD and Dragonfly. But I know from my own experience writing something similar but not as good that the maintenance of something like that is rather large. So I can't really complain.
PHP in general is easy to write. Philosophically, it's all over the map due to mostly historical reasons. People say that the current development team are making it better and I don't disagree. There's just so much you cannot do when the core is so shakingly built.

Still, most of the uglies of the languages can be learned and then circumvented in action or by using proper tooling.

PHP 7 followed the general trend of bringing stronger types into dynamic languages. You can now annotate function arguments with types. I believe that makes it possible to write a static type checker, but I haven't seen one yet.

Why people hate it? I cannot speak for the whole public, but I dislike the language because it let me down. My first experience with PHP is from 1998ish, when I saw it as a way superior option to Perl, and ported a web application to PHP.

After that, I learned about programming. I didn't touch PHP again until 2013, when I got a job in a PHP shop. I went there with an open mind, thinking that the programming language is one of the least important things when building products. But every step of the way, PHP somehow got in my way. It hadn't gotten better in ways I would've liked. It let me down.

Now, of course, I don't work there anymore, so the amount of fucks I give at the language is slowly declining. Soon, I'll be able to not care at all.
How is that different from 'wait a minute' or 'wait a sec'?
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