skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can try that, but the market for that is probably very strange. For example, I can imagine that demand goes up with price, because no one wants a cheap child. And for some combinations of properties of the child you'll probably have to charge less than nothing (i.e. pay the adopters).

Of course, someone who really believes in the market would harvest the child for organs. (Sarcasm implied.)
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Perl used to be "too big, too popular" and writing Perl apps that plugged into mod_perl was what every company was trying to hire for.

PHP will likely be replaced, but not for a long time and it will take time. And there are still a lot of perl hackers out there too, none suffering (aside from having to use perl).
I agree the population size is a huge part of the problem, though I think it has more to do with immigration worries than voting-in-EU-institutions worries. There was already a bunch of nationalist ire over the proverbial "Polish plumbers" flooding western Europe and undercutting local labor, once they were fully admitted to the EU with free movement of labor. The prospect of 70 million Turks having the right to move to any city in Europe is much more unpopular than that (and good fodder for anti-immigrant populist parties), because there's more of them, they're poorer, and they're perceived as more foreign. If it were 10 million Turks, there might be more of a chance of getting people to agree.
(I will add I don't know how Plan 9 did this, since I never really touched the system)
Adventures with /Analyze for Visual Studio–the Good
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I really like the Lenovo X201. Good build quality and extremely portable. You'll need to get a docking station if you want a DVD player, but other than that, it's a pretty nice machine.
At first glance, you're right. The problem is, though, that the word "capitalism" has different meanings for different people, and has also undergone a general shifting of the meaning of the word. This is not unlike the word "liberal" (as in politically liberal), which has changed in a similar fashion.

This snippet from the Wikipedia entry for capitalism synthesizes it pretty well: "Classical liberals such as Mises, Rand, and Rothbard define capitalism as a market system with no interference by States (laissez faire). Some define capitalism as a system governed by capital accumulation regardless of the legal ownership titles."

anamax is referring to what could be referred to "classical capitalism," while you, ramchip, seem to be referring to "state capitalism".
http://www.ramsan.com/
India unveils world’s cheapest tablet ($35 ONLY)
I guess a direct link to our chronicles of toiling outside of the limelight could help.
It's a mess because there are several ways to do the same things, and no two things are done in the same way. It feels like any time I want to do something new in OS X I need to learn a new system of some kind. That is bad design. It should just be obvious.
I wonder if an app that would let you list the one thing you need right now to move your project along would help... it would make the chance meeting phenomenon an internet occurrence, which seems like it would greatly facilitate finding that one person.
dank u wel, Peter! How did you promote mefeedia? I'm curious to know what caused the linear growth.
Awesome stuff, about time someone built this!
>>Does the author know anything about PHP at all?

The author doesn't know about any other languages either, it seems.

I stopped reading when he argued that PHP's assocative arrays was an advantage; hashes/dictionaries are in all the scripting languages. (Afaik, they come from AWK by the way of Perl, anyway -- they were created many years before PHP existed.)
I use mine occasionally while browsing, to select links that my fingers are too fat to resolve correctly.
Even in 6th Edition Unix, devices were files in the filesystem as well. And in 6th Edition Unix, you could open and read a directory as a file; that was how you found out what its children were. There was no EISDIR. I believe this behavior persisted until at least SunOS 4.

Adding sockets and windows outside the filesystem is one of the things Rob is specifically complaining about here, and in fact complained about at the time as well.
I can confirm that I will die first before PHP.
In this terrorized culture, everything sounds terrifying.
PHP is totally fine, for startups and for web projects.

Examples aplenty.
They look really, really nice. And the specs can be boosted to impressive levels.

Just too bad that it isn't possible to see the machines on display somewhere. The keyboards look bit like the newer MBP keyboard, and I don't like those at all. But I guess I could dig into some reviews and check that out.
I'm curious at Hacker News' thoughts on what it takes to start a startup hub.

For instance, here in Blacksburg, VA (Virginia Tech) a few local entrepreneurs and Angels are trying to get the startup community here off the ground. We've gone from little activity, to having a populated co-working space and regular meetups. The community is small and close; which is great for all those involved.

However, most companies that start here still aspire to move out to the Valley. The opportunities there still dwarf the opportunities here, and we're constantly in danger of losing what few founders we have.

Granted, Blacksburg isn't exactly a geographically optimal spot for techies to flock to. But is it possible that the larger hubs such as the Valley have too much pull for smaller communities to really take off?
One word: deployment

To me, the best thing about PHP is that it is so easy to deploy to pretty much any shared hosting on the planet, not to mention really easy to set up on your local machine (with WAMP/MAMP).

I love Rails, but on many occasions have built projects in PHP (using a decent framework like Kohana) just because I was putting this on my client's shared hosting account and didn't want to deal with having them get a new server, or just plain setting up Rails. Yeah yeah, I know there's passenger now, etc. -- still not as stupid easy as dropping a php file into a web directory (and assuming that Apache is set up with mod_php, or FastCGI or whatever -- which it always is).
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Relatively few people who have three children out of wedlock are "Smalltalk hackers". Just sayin'.
The 24 projector thing is awesome. For the hologram part, they (and everyone else) are still using tech from 150 years ago. Probably because it looks amazingly convincing when executed properly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppers_ghost

Alas, still no star wars holograms.
Paul (or anyone else), in note 3 you say "Starting a company is common, but starting a startup is rare. I've talked about the distinction between the two elsewhere..."

I'd appreciate any links to the places you've mentioned this.
You have a high bar. I've written posts much more "minimal" than this one. I actually thought it was reasonably good -- and potentially useful.

Will see if I can make the next post less minimal.
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I can't think of any other languages that let you do `echo 'Hello World' > /Library/WebServer/Documents/index.php` and you already see that in the browser because it comes with your OS. It's hard to beat that for normal folks just starting out making web pages.
For example, you start a site for college students and you decide to move to the Valley for the summer to work on it. And then on a random suburban street in Palo Alto you happen to run into Sean Parker

I thought that was the fake movie story, and in real life Sean Parker went after Facebook, flying to Harvard to meet Zuckerberg and eventually convincing him to come to Silicon Valley.
Monkeys 'feel' texture of virtual objects
That's a really good point. I've actually considered going back through some old articles that were popular, and updating them -- based on things I've learned since then, and some of the comments from readers. Will have to try that out.
Why The Drop In Productivity Is Not So Bad After All?
Any user with an application called notepad.exe, nano, etc. can write text and save it without spending more than 5 seconds working out how to save it.

Any user with a web browser and Google Analytics will have to learn about how to use all its features, hell there are even expensive training courses on it!

Whether it runs in a browser or is an application isn't relevant to how easy something is to use.
Good catch, though for what it's worth Apple's actually has the correct time on it. Hers appears to be doing some initial date/time setup via JS, but it doesn't appear to show the correct time, at least for me.
I rarely vote articles, it's irritating to navigate towards the little arrows: it's enough to target both the article link and comments link. Only if I catch a good article early enough I might give it a vote to boost it's visibility.

For what I've observed, giving a 0.01 implicit vote for each entry where both the article and the comments page were opened should yield sensible results. Articles chosen for reading have already been preliminarily filtered in my brain and I generally enjoy most of those articles.
For better or worse, the Ruby web community is so centered around one specific framework that people tend to just say Rails instead of Ruby.

The post isn't comparing PHP with no frameworks versus Rails. Indeed, the author's conclusion is that Rails doesn't sufficiently separate itself from PHP with an MVC framework (and he listed a few).
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@doomlaser - it's interesting to hear the argument put that way, because nothing I use flash for involves video delivery (or very little of it). Video delivery is to flash what hot topic was to...whatever my favorite bands were in 1995. It's the generic mass market application of something arguably meaningful, useful, appealing and capable of changing the world. Below that are the banner ads. But in the middle, it's true, there's this wide audience for streamed video that should have been served by browser technologies long ago, and that Flash really should never have been a part of, except that it filled a void as the only plugin widely enough adopted to support cross-platform video.

The loss of video to native browser technologies takes nothing away from the things Flash has to recommend it as a method for blitting graphics to the screen. It's one thing to try and do it with canvas and divs in Safari -- it's a joke getting things to line up, but it's not impossible. But if you want it to look the same in IE? A guy's supposed to run a startup and worry about Firefox reversioning every 4 weeks at the same time? Realistically, if I wasn't running my app in Flex I wouldn't have a company; I'd have a giant pile of IF IE statements and a bigger list of complaints.

So this clock is where the rubber meets the road, in a funny experimental way. It's got "no flash" in the title, so we can assume this is where an HTML5/JS proponent with some coding savvy thinks the line should be drawn; this is what can be achieved with the technology available cross-browser given the state of the DOM art. And I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying that it's nonsensical to throw out good tools to prove you can do something with bad ones.
In a Scrum environment the PM often fills the Product Owner role.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Scrum_%28deve...

"The Product Owner represents the voice of the customer and is accountable for ensuring that the Team delivers value to the business. The Product Owner writes customer-centric items (typically user stories), prioritizes them, and adds them to the product backlog."
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The Stream Map of the World
Node.JS will replace it. Not a fanatic Node user either.
If performance is a problem, then PHP is most certainly not the source of it, the vast majority of performance issues people are having in PHP are related to poorly written code, bad understanding of the language, and most of all use of third party software that were never meant to be performant(WordPress, SugarCRM, Symfony, ZendFramework ...).

And HipHop is most definitely not the solution, the only reason to use HipHop is if you are Facebook.
Yes, everyone knew the Greeks were cooking the books. Hell, even the press knew - it was in the papers. But the expectation was that once they joined the Euro they would act more like Germans.

That seems to have been a bit of a miscalculation.
One of the interesting things about doing Passenger deployments for Rails is that it's very similar to doing PHP deploys, with the added benefit of the server not reloading any application code until you tell it to.

For example: you can update the Rails code on the server, maybe run some data migrations or last-minute production tasks against the new codebase, and THEN tell Passenger to reload the application code.

On an unrelated note, having the Heroku service around for low-traffic side projects or whatever is just plain awesome.
There are problems with ORM, but there are much larger problems with PHP+SQL. Most of the problems created by ORMs are easy to workaround, though (to the point of having to write SQL sometimes), while problems created by SQL only are not (like n+1).
Depends on whether they are running a current account deficit too, in which case there will be net borrowing from abroad. Many countries borrow quite substantially abroad.
The first step is to offer them to university students , they probably have WIFI and electricity.

And yes, rural electrification is a huge challenge, but it's much easier to deploy a solar panel per school , to power some tens/hundreds of low power tablets.
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This is a good piece, but, this is well-trodden ground.

This is "economies of agglomeration", and it's basic urban economics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_agglomeration
No 1. Reason: Streamline operations cost with regards "communication/collaboration needs". Disparate system cost more than an integrated collaboration suite.

No. 2 Reason: Overhead reduction.

There are gazillions of other reasons...
Why iPhone 4S IS a big deal
A sager or clevo ph150hm most resellers have specs that will be much better than any mainstream laptops for a fraction of the price. As an example I plan on picking up a i7 16gb ram 2x 750hdds and a 6970m with a 95% gamut NTSC screen for about $1500
As a Python developer in SF, I can 100% agree with this. Ruby/Rails has replaced PHP for almost the entirety of new projects going forward out here — at least with the developers I know and respect — and Python makes up the rest.
I was actually having a conversation about this recently. A few of us were talking about how startups are almost "normal" here (Waterloo), so it doesn't seem odd to work 9am-10pm. But when you go home, people think you're crazy.

It's that subconscious influence that makes it so hard elsewhere. If enough people tell you that you're crazy, it takes a really special person to be able to shrug it off. I think the interesting thing here is that having a great co-founder has a very similar effect. I would even go as far as to say startup hubs and co-founders play a very similar role in keeping you going.
Just having a Hacker News meetup has helped London a lot i'd say, it's helped me find like minded people as I found there were a lot of 'old business' and finance folks going to the events that weren't designed for what they wanted to do in business.

London Hacker News is now the biggest (or top few) monthly startup meetup here.
Content irrespective, that's some difficult to read text...
Oh, I'm pretty much totally with you about the silliness of HTML5/JS/Canvas animations that keep popping up on HN. I agree that they all tend to run slow, use too much CPU, and take too much code to produce.

E.G. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899782
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Rails doesn't really need that much hardware, that's a very common misconception. PHP is not the fastest thing in the world either, unless you go with a compilation cache server. Rails can be easily perform well under single machines. I have VMs with 512Mb of ram handling thousands of users per day with Rails with no problem.
Germany is split in three (35% no religion, 30% catholic, 30% protestant), Greek Orthodoxy is prevalent in Greece.

There is nothing particular protestant about Germany and there is nothing particular catholic about Greece.
"They won't hire you if you can't learn the language on the spot."

Learn the language is a pretty vague criteria. Do they want you to write helloworld? Modify a working routine? Write fibonacci? What will they be doing to test you?

This firm wouldn't happen to be Goldman Sachs, would it?
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He discusses his definition of the difference in this essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html

In particular,

There are millions of small businesses in America, but only a few thousand are startups. To be a startup, a company has to be a product business, not a service business. By which I mean not that it has to make something physical, but that it has to have one thing it sells to many people, rather than doing custom work for individual clients. Custom work doesn't scale. To be a startup you need to be the band that sells a million copies of a song, not the band that makes money by playing at individual weddings and bar mitzvahs.

I'm not sure it's the best way to distinguish, but it is how the term is often used, especially in the context of startup funding, where "startup" is used as a synonym for basically "the kind of thing a VC would want to fund".
Happy Birthday: KDE is now 15
You weren't, really. The reality we have today is far removed from that video. Like, really far removed.
Great video was even better to be apart of it live.
Bailing out the Greeks made some sense when it was seen to be cheaper than bailing out German banks. But as the situation stands it looks like bailing out Greece is throwing good money after bad, and the German banks will have to be bailed out anyway. So from the German perspective the right thing to do would be to let the Greeks go bankrupt.
I recently got a new (and hideously expensive) memory foam mattress. I have to say that it does make me feel less sore in the morning.

That said, the mattress before it was a cheap piece of crap, so it's possible that anything would've felt like an improvement.
Lots of PHP folks call that a disadvantage... It's nice knowing I can mess with files and after pressing F5 I'll always have the latest version. Yes, ok, caches can get out of sync, but they're easy to clear. There are furthermore no good PHP deployment automations, things Rails and Python have because of the level of complexity.
Context: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3075405

Balsamiq's comment there to the effect, "It's fixed." (It does not link the parent pastbin item, wherein they describe their course of action going forward.):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3076281
I take it you have never tried to get major changes to core server infrastructure approved at large bureaucratic institutions. Writing your code in php is often orders of magnitudes faster, easier and cheaper than getting a decent RoR setup installed.
I was not talking about popularity, I was talking about mindshare, two very different things.
If you're talking about popularity, Java, C and C++ are more popular than php, but I don't see you pointing them as viable solutions. tiobe.com
For the last paragraph in that post, the Valley is different (from NYC,Boston etc) in that it is NOT the hub of anything else...other cities are metropolitan areas of various things going in in them...unlike valley, where there is only a very narrow band of activities that thrive...
PHP is not the devil. It has some funky design decisions, but oh well. Mixing HTML, SQL and logic is the devil. The problem is that PHP makes it too easy to do (some would say it encourages it).
Speaking as a nanoengineer now doing a web startup (in SF for 2 weeks now), this is just the way the world works.

Startups and nanoparticles can spontaneously form anywhere under the right environmental conditions, but they can just as easily break up in isolation. But if the local concentration is high enough, something magical happens. Even when a person or a molecule jumps ship, another one fills its place almost instantly. Suddenly, these things are "stable" but not only that, they can grow, sucking up bits from the surrounding environment and merging with others.

Critical mass, in SV it's the right kind of people, in nanoengineering it's the right kind of molecule, either way, once it gets going, you just hang on for the ride.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_micelle_concentration is one nanoengineering example but there are others.
The Shocking Truth Behind Blog Networks
Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGS2tKQhdhY
"No boom, no bust..."

I meant to say India was unaffected from 'global recession'. Obviously there was no housing bubble in India.

"...it was govt corruption."

You mean in a crony-capitalism govt alone is guilty? How?
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I wrote a little status update here if you're interested: http://pastebin.com/V3jwaL1Q

On one hand I feel bad for posting this and possibly infecting people as a result. On the other we now all have a wonderful collection of tips for securing Wordpress websites. This community is _truly_ valuable. Thanks all.

Peldi
I think the flying out to meet Zuck part is true, but it's also true that he later bumped into him that summer in Palo Alto (not sure if they'd stayed in touch).
tl;dr: Let's all reinvent an even less standardised X11 in JavaScript and HTTP!
It's fun to hope but have you gathered any data that suggests that people are frustrated with having to create accounts for bill-sharing apps?

If you built this to further your own education/skills, great job. If you built this to turn into a product, do your research first or else a lot of your talent/effort/time will be wasted.
If you are waiting for your computer, you are wasting time.

Humans can work around waiting. Computers can't. No matter what I do, it's my computer that is waiting for me most of the day. The occasional compilation run that takes a while I can wait: I use the time to ponder about my code, or looking for an answer to something I didn't quite get right, or just staring forward and getting a feel for the program I was writing. I might tinker with an Emacs buffer without saving so as to not interfere with the compilation. I often work better when compilations are slow: I realize I need to be sharper myself to justify another recompilation. This means fewer bugs and more thinking before writing.

For reference, I have a fairly new quad-core laptop with lots of memory but I'm working on a huge project that certainly takes a few minutes to compile, minimum. I'm still better off with a laptop instead of a more powerful desktop system because the mobility suits my living and coding habits better, so I'm intentionally volunteering for a perf hit.