skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some distance between the US and the UK but it's still comparatively modest compared to the world as a whole.

If, for example, Asian and Middle Eastern countries influenced the law of this hypothetical world government in proportion to their population, then the UK might be compelled to execute violators of the drug laws you refer to.
I think North Korea is getting lots of help: their rockets are from Ukraine (or perhaps Taiwan) and now a hydrogen bomb? If it truly is an H-bomb, then did some other nation gave it to them?

In any case, NK is moving in the wrong direction. If we don't stop them, Japan will.
My cats exhibit "drug seeking" behavior all hours of the day that their food bowl isn't filled (I don't give in), if this is the criteria.

I think the study would be a little less useless if they would have not taken the food away. If the fish are choosing drugs over food, that's a bit more indicative.

Although, we really need to see if we can push these fish to the point of robbing old ladies on the street for that one sweet hit of hydrocodone.
There's an analogy that describes PHP as a weird sort of toolbox. Everything's there, but they are all a little funky.

The hammer is a double sided claw hammer, the pliers don't have serrated edges. They will do a job, but perhaps not the job that you expected.

Eventually it leads to everyone using this weird little toolbox ends up with a weird sort of house that might collapse at any moment.

Things have moved on quite a bit since then. Certainly in PHP 7, you're able to give it the same treatment as a "proper" programming language and people do.

My view is though, it's a little too late. I don't think new people are coming into PHP because the barrier to entry has become higher than other languages.

It has become almost impossible to write a PHP application to do even the simplest task without getting bogged down in all sorts of over engineering and so called "design patterns".

We all know PHP will be around for a while longer.

Yet in 2017, I wouldn't recommend learning about PHP. Go learn something else.
Nope. Should it?
Maybe offer to trade code reviews with another developer?
> but what had happened since Oracle bought them has been nothing but depressing

Oracle is nothing but a cancer. Everything they touch turn into goo. This is not the first company to be killed by Oracle acquisition. And not the last.

And don't let me started on the ridiculous range-check trial: this sums up the disgusting state this company has fallen into.
The second (somewhat ironically my setup, minus the "big" adjective) setup does not negate the first use case. I simply enjoy listening to high quality music wherever I happen to be. And I can with good headphones, which pretty much universally use a 2.5mm jack.
it doesn't rule out the fact that there was an annual subscription fee at some point in time.

https://blog.whatsapp.com/615/Making-WhatsApp-free-and-more-...
There's a huuuuge second-hand market for cars and washing machines and whatnot. You can easily get another run-down item for super cheap. Then there're repair services that refurbish old items. You'd be surprised what handy people can do. Yes, they wouldn't be as good as new, but they'd work pretty well.

With service-everything approach, there would be no second-hand market. Independent garages/repair shops wouldn't get much business either. Everybody would be stuck in rent market wether you like it or not/
We can agree to disagree on that point. Redhat is basically the universally supported platform in the enterprise. You want to call inf or a support case on that SAS HBA? You need to be running Redhat. You have a flaky NIC? Redhat. New Fibre Channel HBA? Redhat.

And rightly so, the vendor on the other end needs to know they've got an actual live person to work with on troubleshooting. Without Redhat I have no doubt Linux would still be alive and well, but it would NEVER have gotten the foothold it has in the enterprise today (coming from someone who worked at one of those hardware vendors back in the day and tried to push for support of other distributions).
What is disturbing is that Google lately has started to silence anything that does not fit their political agenda.
You are correct about the word "literally," but I am in the camp that feels we should proceed cautiously in such matters. Just because a published professional got away with a mistake or made a deliberate artistic choice in 1905 doesn't mean it should become mainstream usage. When the word "literally" can mean, casually, either "literally" or "figuratively" then it ceases to have any real meaning. The figurative use is best when used with extreme obvious hyperbole. For me to say "I care enough about this post that I am literally standing up right now" when I am, indeed, sitting down, should be seen as a mis-use that weakens the word. Done frequently and it introduces avoidable entropy into language.

See also: enormity.

We really do need to take some care here or else we'll soon be spelling "lose" as "loose." Although that particular issue is probably coming from non-native speakers, it's being picked up and used by others and may eventually become accepted. That will not ease our ability to communicate.
Maybe times will change but currently you are lucky if you waive less then 98% of your possible income if you use a donation model.
Like go for a walk instead of driving or wash clothes by hand?
Will have to test this our later. If it works half as good as it shows to, I'm really excited.
Ahh, yes, I knew about that one. I believe that's part of contract law. If I rented a place with A/C, washer, dryer, and washing machine, then the landlord is supposed to maintain those appliances.

I wonder if the FL law gives more leeway to the renter to have the air-conditioner fixed and to take the money off the rent in that case. Wasn't easy to find that in the law.

"Effectively the same" is true. Though I did once rent a garage apartment in north Florida for the summer which had no A/C. The water to the place went under the driveway. I measured the cold water coming out of the kitchen faucet at 95F.

I spent a lot of afternoons at work that summer.
The log(total) term increases without bound whereas the pos/tot term is at most 1, so in the limit of a lot of votes you will beat an item with fewer votes even if all your votes are downvotes.

That there are two configurable parameters is a good thing. One parameter controls how much of a penalty you get for having few votes, the other controls how many votes count as "few".
Vetpercentage verlagen verbetert je gezondheid en geeft een strak figuur
Spoken like somebody who is completely ignorant of the current state of PHP.
I don't believe the 4-6 weeks timeline includes applying for and receiving a security clearance before starting?
Startup Marketing Should Skip Traditional Advertising
Sounds like an altcoin
Not in general parlance, but people know what sneakers are, and certainly those into collecting would probably use the term.
> You don't want to get involved with complex configuration and programming.

I don't? Why do you think so? And what is this "complex configuration and
programming" you're talking about?

> Developers and administrators could easily write I put files in node-farmer. Where as in other automation tool it's a nightmare.

Uhm... what? What is nightmare?

> For example Ansible, you need to write your inputs in YAML programming language,

YAML is not a programming language.

> isn't that easy to learn a programming language to do the work ?

Yes, it is that easy to learn another programming language to do the work.
Programmers and sysadmins do that constantly.

> Everyone is not skilled in programming.

Well, I don't want people unskilled in programming to write programs to
manage environment I operate in.
We need neutral octopuses to be the judge.
Ah, yes, I just read about it, as you say HS2 doesn't connect directly into the city centre, that would require HS3, or the '20 miles more' link (http://www.20milesmore.com)

The ultimate time saving would be to reduce Liverpool to London travel from about 2h 10m to about 1h 10m, with the standard HS2 'classic compatible' network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2#/media/File:HS2_c...) doing about half of that, and the HS3/20MM link the rest.

The extra link also would provide much greater capacity improvements, whereas HS2 on its own wouldn't do too much on that account.

Still, the HS2 improvement is worth having, and it seems inevitable that once that is built, the extra link will follow. Personally I think they should be building HS3 right now, in parallel.
That is true. Even outside of messaging apps, I very frequently see maximum growth as an inherently optimal metric to shoot for.
The examples mentioned in the other posts confirm my impression that Haskell is a good language for text processing and server applications but a pain for writing rich desktop applications.

One of the things I miss in Haskell is a way to compile to C, and a convenient declarative GUI which also compiles to C so that all code can be linked together, and distributed as a single binary. The GUI doesn't need to be native. Lisp has its own GUI (McCLIM), Smalltalk has one (Squeak), Rust has one (Conrod), why not Haskell?
Ethereum or Bitcoin for investing. They have real intrinsic value. Most the other currencies are just spin offs of the original deal or overly ambitious white papers with nothing implemented. Stay away from NEO.
I also don't think PHP deserves a Turing award, but the remark about abstract methods and protected properties is completely irrelevant - you can have an amazing language without these and crappy ones with them.
What Syria, Iraq and Libya all have in common -- dictators with brutal policies that naturally create a lot of domestic enemies. Did US try to influence those countries? definitely yes. Playing dirty? of course. But that's world politic for you.

Single out the US isn't helpful for the discussion. Do you think Russia, China, EU have all just stayed away from all of the conflicts? How about Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, even Turkey?

Ask South East Asia countries what they think of China; or ex-USSR states of Russia; or Sri Lanka of India.

North Korea has the support of China and holds South Korea ransom. They don't need nuclear weapon for self defense.
> It's super easy to focus on a single metric (user growth) when you have a seemingly unlimited amount of capital

Where are you getting this from? Whatsapp was a very lean shop _because_ they had very little capital to work with. Even after Sequoia came along, they sailed a tight ship.
My experience has been that, in general, lawyers who negotiate contracts go way too far trying to eliminate risk. If you are talking about a really big contract with serious money on the table, a good practice can be to befriend a lawyer with lots of litigation experience to help you balance that tendency. It's sometimes worthwhile to get the opinion of a lawyer whose eyes light up when someone else says, "Fuck you, sue me!"
It was indeed sad when it became clear that the market is not interested in Solaris, nor in many other Sun products that could no longer be sustained.
reading old C like this, I always wonder how could people code like this back then but apparently it was transpiled from fortran. So I'd assume the original code looked better. I dug around and found it, for comparison here is the original rooms.f vs. rooms.c:

https://paste.ubuntu.com/25458063/

https://github.com/mgius/zork/blob/master/rooms.c

Here is the full fortran code: http://gunkies.org/wiki/Zork#Source_code
For nation-states, nuclear weapons are not hard to do, they are 1940's technology after all. Once a source of uranium is available, the only obstacles are international treaties and countries that enforce them. Iran and Iraq's geopolitical situation makes it less delicate to enforce.

Same with rockets. The technology is basically 1950's and they would also have plenty of samples from the 60's and 70's. These days there are plenty of examples of amateur teams sending things to space and even private companies can build better rockets than nation-states.

Also, to add, I think a lot of the perception that North Korea is technology backwards is thanks to propaganda which is often exaggerated. Having seen a computer science team from there speak about 15 years ago, I was quite impressed by their level and sophistication (it was a presentation about the kwangmyong network) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network) so I'm sure they have many other clever people in other branches that are competent to work on anything the state requires.
I do not see it, i just see huge value to society with each.
One of those is not like the others.
Because some of dying Sun's products could yet be made profitable though others couldn't?
A cavalcade of GOTOs
For the love God, why is the opacity set to 0 on the text? So that JS can be used to fade in the text... Why would you do this? You're just annoying people who do have JS enabled with annoying animations and barring people who don't have JS enabled from reading your content. It's not even that JS is used to dynamically fetch the content, all the content is right there in the HTML, it's just deliberately hidden with CSS.
Same as you ?
Or less cynically:

WhatsApp: cheap plentiful messaging

Airbnb: cheap plentiful vacation rentals

Uber: cheap plentiful taxis

Amazon: cheap plentiful stuff

Facebook: ... umm i'm sure there's something here ...

Google: cheap plentiful access to information

All of these disrupt the slow-moving complacent dinosaurs of the past.
Don’t judge PHP by a 15-year-old interview with its creator. The internals have been completely rewritten by an incredibly talented team that continues to make improvements.

Also, many of the demons from PHP4 (in use in 2002) have been excised, e.g. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_php4_constructors
Yeah, as long as they have nukes, even a single working one, no one will touch them.

Kim Jong Un is no fool. His iron grip on power comes from his ability to steer the nation towards a situation where there is adequate amount of fear about the chaos of interfering with it.
Put it at the bottom of the ocean in shallow water, on top of a fiber optic line. You get free cooling as a bonus! Not sure about backup power, though.

https://news.microsoft.com/features/microsoft-research-proje...
Is Apple any better on this (real question)?
Show HN: 200+ premade Bootstrap blocks for Pinegrow
For me, the IoT takeaway is, if you want to be able to trust it, you need to do it yourself. Commercial products seem to always want to sell your data to the highest bidder, aside from the potential firmware security problems.

At least with the Pi, Arduino, etc., you can control what your Things are doing, and have reasonable assurance they aren't doing things behind your back.

I have a Pi graphing outdoor and basement temperature and humidity using rtl433, MRTG, and some scripts, picking up the signals from existing temperature monitors. It's quite a surprise to see how much else is on 433 MHz in my neighborhood, even when using the stubby magnetic mount antenna that came with the RTL-SDR dongle.
Doesn't "drug seeking" pretty much mean that the fish behaved as if the drugs were a reward?

Drug use becomes a problem when drug seeking merely competes with basic motivations, it doesn't have to completely replace them. So I wonder where you think the line should be drawn.
These small optimisations are pretty independent though. If you double the number of engineers you can do twice as many of them.
But what will judge the octopi?
Did you read the article? They're explicitly not focusing on user growth:

"But while Facebook has long prided itself on the way its growth team has turned attracting new members into a science, Koum is equally proud of the fact that WhatsApp has not done so. Instead, all of its attention has gone into making the app as simple as possible to get started with—it doesn’t even require you to create a user name or password—and so useful that you’ll tell friends and family about it."

And that's consistent with what I've read of their pre-FB approach. During that period, they definitely didn't have an unlimited amount of capital. They got to 250m users (as of June 2013) [1] on only $8.3 million [2].

So no, I don't think this does a disservice. Especially when you compare it with things like Juicero, which rode a wave of hype into a $120m failure (14.5x what WhatsApp spent). Hype can get you money, but unless you focus intensely on user experience and user value you won't build the audience you need to succeed.

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/2614/monthly-active-whatsapp-...

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whatsapp/funding-rou...
maintenance to keep the app compatible is all that is needed

That's not insignificant. Look how many iOS apps will be abandoned when iOS 11 forces 64-bit compatibility.
To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors
GPU Database SQream DB's (http://www.sqream.com) main component is Haskell based, in two parts:

1. The open source SQL parser - HsSqlPpp https://github.com/jakewheat/hssqlppp, 35700 LOC + 3900 LOC of tests

2. The compiler and optimizer (proprietary) is roughly 55,000 Haskell LOC

Edit: And we use Pandoc and Quickcheck internally for a bunch of different things
Sun wanted to sue as well but didn't have the resources as it was, unfortunately, dying.
Game Devs Start Your Engines Lumberyard
Donate to the EFF. They're the only organisation providing solid advice on how to protect yourself against these (IMO unconstitutional) border searches [1]

[1]: https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017
Airport luggage carts
VoiceOps is hiring back-end engineers in SF to build AI for B2B voice data
Automated Crowdturfing Attacks and Defenses in Online Review Systems
> It has become almost impossible to write a PHP application to do even the simplest task without getting bogged down in all sorts of over engineering and so called "design patterns".

That's rubbish. There's nothing that stops you creating a single script to return a value based on stdin or get parameters.

Design pattern nerds exist in every language. PHP has them no better or worse.
Dear Firefox developers,

I’ve been using Firefox as my standard browser since 0.9.3 (except for a year or so when it was run-a-browser-from-a-USB-disk-or-use-IE and Firefox was just too terribly slow, so I used Chrome—by the next year Firefox had fixed its game and I could switch back), and for the last few years Nightly has been my standard browser.

I get why you’re dropping the legacy stuff and I’m looking forward to what’s possible after it’s gone. When the announcement came out in November last year that WebExtensions would be the only way come 57, I was intensely sceptical that it’d be ready within a year (no one was using it at that time) and prepared for a deal of pain: I’d just have to live with it, come November. (It’s not like I have any better options in mainstream browsers; they’re all hopeless with even only twenty tabs.)

Well.

You’ve proven me wrong, and I’m delighted. I was able to replace all my legacy extensions with WebExtensions ones with minimal loss of functionality (I miss the ability to style the chrome with Stylish, not that I was actually using it for anything other than shaving half pixels off here and there on my high-DPI screen). My Dad (also a programmer) is still grumbling about some status bar thing that broke a short while ago, but we went through his extensions and came to the conclusion that it’s really not that bad—the extensions that stop working at 57 were ones he didn’t use, or ones where there are already good alternatives available or a clear plan for the changeover.

(The fact that in several cases I did have to swap out one extension for another was a mild nuisance, but as a Nightly user I’m doing this a few months before everyone will have to, so I expected it.)

All in all, I’m happy with how things have gone and impressed at how well the migration is going. All that I really want now is to be able to hide the horizontal tab strip in favour of my vertical tab bar. And it looks like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447 is almost there. (It’d also be good if file: URLs didn’t mess with said vertical tab bar something awful, but as I haven’t filed any bugs about that yet or investigated to find existing reports I’m not allowed to complain.)

Good job!
We used to have it in the UK, I think Rumbelows was one of the bigger vendors. Cheap consumer goods killed its business.
One more incentive for China is that in the scenario where the US is severely weakened, it will be a regional power with nukes sitting among prosperous nations not having nukes.

It's an infinitely better situation then for China, rather than being surrounded by nuclear armed countries.
Yes, that part is fraud, but the linked PDF spent vastly more time complaining about the markup.
To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors Then and Now
It varied by country. Some places it was $1 for the app. Other places, $1/year. Other places, free entirely. My guess is their goal was to make enough money to keep in the black, but to otherwise not worry too much about revenue. That let them maximize growth while avoiding the headaches and dilution of raising money.
It would be interesting to refactor zork into HTML+CSS and set it up like cssZenGarden.com so folks could add their own designs.

Although a much smaller text adventure game would me more achievable.
At least in the GNOME ecosystem:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ebassi/status/827482509982195712
>Kim Jong Un is no fool.

Eh, do you actually think Kim Jong has any power in North Korea ? I see him as a pure figurehead, with all power in the hands of top military brass.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1989695/why-isnt-fi...
No need since I can choose what I start, in what order, and I can check every simple script myself. They were short and doing one thing well. Good luck doing that with 300+K lines of code with systemd.

Arguments like this really don't help systemd and show either ignorance or worse.