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I appreciate that you went ahead and clicked through to the data available, rather than critiquing a press release for not containing enough hard data. Here's why I think the plots did not show standard deviations --

Standard deviations are not an appropriate summary when talking about extreme values.

We're basically conditioning on extreme values ("plot temperatures of all cities having their hottest March on record in 2012"). So, while the standard deviation might be a useful summary of:

P(temperature on day t),

a standard deviation would not be a useful summary of:

P(temperature on day t | average temperature is highest recorded)

In general, after you condition in this way, the events ("sample paths" of the function "temperature at time t") don't look like the rest of the population.

They're oddballs, and by definition, there are only a few of them -- only one March can be the hottest on record. Maybe the best comparison would be the second-hottest March, so plot that one.

There would certainly, for example, be no reason to believe this population looks Gaussian in the tail. In fact, it would probably be misleading to make any assumption about what a "typical" extreme sample looks like. This is probably why just other sample paths (temperature as a function of t) for that location were given, rather than some summary statistic. You can't average oddballs.

There are probably locales for which standard deviation is not ever a useful summary. I'm thinking of places which are subject to strong unpredictable variations, like Santa Ana winds, that are more a 0/1 phenomenon. This would result in a multimodal distribution of temperature, which would make standard deviation misleading. That is, it could be really cold, or rather warm, but unlikely to be in-between.
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Why not? I have to choose between posting a link or a text, so I added my commentary as a comment. What's wrong with that?
I was replying to the parent comment, not the story, and the claim that we could somehow determine the significance of 8.6 without knowing more. As for press releases, "It was hot" is probably a sufficient level of detail for most people. :)
I can't believe this article is on the top of this site. At least 50% of what's written in there is totally wrong/false. Other information is terribly out of date. And even more information is merely half-truths and lack of understanding of the language. Even pure supposition like "PHP was originally designed explicitly for non-programmers" is incorrect.

This article is garbage -- don't be taken by it.

I'm not going to argue that PHP is a great language, but this article is a complete disservice to anyone who has bothered to read it.
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... and that's why we don't use English as a programming language.
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If they're physically removing access to the Internet, the only way around it would be to physically restore access, which isn't exactly a matter of breaking through some firewalls or firing up Tor.

The only realistic way I could see this working on a large scale is a very wealthy, motivated, and low-profile hacker somehow managing to string in fiber across the border from neighbouring countries, set up multiple wireless access points, and get a mesh network going across the country.

On a small scale (say, for a hacker and his buddies or an underground resistance force), I suppose you'd only need to get a decent wireless-N access point near the border (in Turkey, perhaps?) broadcasting a WPA-encrypted hidden network, then have specific people in strategic locations running cheap wireless-N routers configured with Tomato or DD-WRT to act as repeaters. Obviously this isn't foolproof (hidden networks are easy to find if you're looking for them), it would be easy to cut off if it were discovered, and it would be slow as balls, but if you could manage to get a large enough chain going everywhere it needed to be, and its use were coordinated well enough to ensure that it would only be used in urgent situations (and only through Tor), then it could prove to be an invaluable resource.

But yeah, Iran's people need another revolution, fast.
I work for a very large ISP. When I get there I found that a lot of tools are done with PHP, and I'm not talking fancy PHP. mysql_, no APC, no framework, almost no objects, no web services etc.

The other day I was asked to do a cron task and I was able to do it with Zend Framework very quickly and quite elegantly. It was surely not the perfect tool but since it integrates with the culture of devs and sysadmin there it was certainly good enough and very maintainable.
My major gripe with PHP is the lack of predictability. I end up having times where I say, "I know there's a method to do this" but my fuzzy autocomplete is drawing a blank. I google it, and it's named something completely different than what it should logically be. mysql_escape_string is a good example.
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> what makes PHP so great for beginners?

From what I can see and aside from the ease of install, it is the namespace. You type <?php and you have hundreds of functions at your disposal. Not the case with Python or Ruby where you need to understand imports and global objects.

Sometimes everything not being an object helps, but only in the short run.

It's not great, but it's the easiest to grasp.
What English is good at is expressing a huge variety of ideas. I once heard someone argue on NPR (sorry, no citation) that English is perhaps the /best/ language at expressing absolutely any idea to another person precisely because it has such a huge vocabulary and so many idiomatic phrases.

I've sometimes heard of programming as an art, like poetry, but if so I'd prefer to maintain that it is a minimalist art that enjoys pragmatism and flourishes when reduced.

Put another way - I don't want to write 'A Tale of Two Cities' in PHP, I want to write a website in PHP. Or more correctly, I don't want to write a website in PHP.
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The difference is that it was easier in the past for people to program casually; it hasn't gotten easier. Consider the microcomputers of the 80's: it was very difficult to own one without knowing at least a bit of some BASIC dialect. Consider microcomputers now: most people get away without ever knowing what it's like to write a program. People who actually want to learn how to program must go out of their way to do so (and that's if they even realize programming is a possibility).

So, perhaps computers themselves have progressed much like cars. It is now possibly to use a computer casually. But programming per se is significantly less casual than it once was.
I think the message is simple: standard deviations don't provide insight when your main concern is extreme values (max/min temperatures, in this case).
Please enlighten me! I'm interested in correctness.

The "non-programmers" remark refers to a quote from the PHP 2.0 documentation. I tried to minimize the editorializing.
So why are they connecting the nuclear facilities to the Internet anyway? And why can't they just built an intranet only for the nuclear facilities. Sounds like a false reason with a different agenda behind it to me.
It'd take me 3 weeks to check since I'm really poor at this level of math. Probably the reason I'm not going to maintain such software. ;)
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Nearly every other item is wrong; I didn't bother listed them all because it would just take too long. I'm actually still reading the article since I posted that comment and I'm still finding errors.
I don't know and a quick Google search doesn't give any sources either.

Nevermind: The quote seems to be from "The Conquest of Happiness: A Modern-Day Interpretation of a Self-Help Classic".
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Even if they did that. So what? Do you think Russia cares about manipulating their gas supplies? They only care as a far as market forces go, and they know others will quit buying from them if they make it too expensive, and that's about it.

But who gets to decide that Iran is not allowed to do whatever the heck they want with their oil supply? Is Iran indebted to the world to give them oil? Maybe the world should just find an alternative if they don't like it. That's not a reason to start a war. And if people really understood that this is the real reason and not some imminent nuclear threat, they'd probably be against the war, too, and learn to deal with the situation, and adapt.
Yes, this is why PHP is easy for beginners. The standard practice is to edit directly on the server. It's a hard habit for a lot of PHP devs to break. It's very straightforward and direct: Edit a file, hit reload, see the result live.

Something like, e.g., Heroku is awesome, yes, but not only do you need to learn how to debug a thing which you can't really touch in production, not only do you have to master the distinction between "the file I just edited here" and "the file on the remote machine"… but you have to use Git for that. I love Git, but years of watching PHP devs try to figure out Git have taught me just how intuitive it isn't.
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I'm quite sure this won't be their greatest concern.
Several people have brought this up. I thought about it for about ten seconds the first time and told them that English is definitely worse.

Luckily, programming languages are a bit easier to learn and replace than spoken languages.
If this acquisition goes bad, Facebook goes from being worth 100 billion dollars to being worth 99 billion dollars. People don't lose their savings or retirement accounts.

To me this just confirms that people who talk about bubbles now weren't here for the last real tech bubble.
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That's an additional magic incantation people have to learn to add to the start of every file. In PHP, that magic incantation is invisible because they never have to type it or even know that it exists.
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All else aside, this story is an inspiration to people like me that are in the US on restrictive H1B visas, like Krieger was.

All I need to do now is find out how the hell he did it. Well, that is to say, who he got to help him with it...
Well, that's coming from the perspective of someone who doesn't like "private" in the first place; it forces me to rely on whatever use cases the author has imagined and makes extending the class in a novel manner a pain. Except this is PHP, so I can just go change the "private" to "public" anyway.

Namespacing within an inheritance tree is a problem, yes, but just hiding as much of your namespace as possible sucks. As does ahem ahem double-underscore prefixing. Surely there's another option here, but until someone figures out what it is, I'm okay risking collisions.
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PHP is just an interpreted C and standard libs all rolled into one. The first version was literally a set of macro's. PHP has baggage that other languages don't because of its immediate and rapid super popularity.

If you look behind each one of the features you will find that they aren't 'design decisions' but rather a consequence of circumstance.

Most of what is being discussed in this post doesn't really matter because:

a) most PHP developers will never touch some of the smaller nuances

b) newer versions of PHP are changing things (and people still keep using older version. there was an entire holdout movement with version 4). this entire post could have been pulled from the PHP issue tracker.

c) super duper huge websites and web applications are being built with PHP

I don't consider myself a PHP developer, but the argument about it being useless in spite of all the evidence is just ridiculous.
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Erm... OK... use something else then.

Fortunately there are many options when it comes to web development. You don't like PHP? Avoid it! Do not use it! Use Ruby or something.

I used to get cranky about Facebook. Now I don't use at all.. what do I feel about Facebook now? Nothing. No point getting your pants in a twist about something that doesn't need to a part of your life.
Popularity doesn't determine how many design flaws exist in a language, merely how many people actually get screwed over by each of them. Python and Ruby aren't perfect, and they've had more than enough attention for the flaws to have been found. Even if every developer in the world migrated to one of those languages overnight (o happy day) that language would not suddenly become as profoundly inept as PHP.
I agree. Blaming PHP for copying Java is a little absurd.
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Here's what I don't understand, and I'd love to hear why I am wrong about this because I am sure I am wrong, I just haven't grok'ed /why/.

A lot of people seem to be arguing that this move may have been not to get Instagram tighter with Facebook, but rather to prevent any other platform or company from acquiring Instagram. Ergo, it's a move by Facebook to further cement their lead as 'the place you share stuff'.

Ok, if that's true, in what way does buying Instagram 'further cement their lead'? Isn't Instagram really, extremely easy to code on your own? I'm in the process of learning Rails and I feel confident I could bang out a Heroku app using S3 for storage to upload/display/process photos. Then all you need is a thin native device to grab photos from the library or from the camera directly and upload it to that app. You don't need to have any platform-specific code outside of handling the camera and photo roll on the device.

Point is - did this do anything to stop, say, Google Plus from making their own Instagram?

Another related argument is that this means that the existing user-base of Instagram will get folded in to Facebook. Personally, I would be flabbergasted to find that more than 0.1% of Instagram users don't already have Facebook accounts. And if you are not using Facebook for photos already, you're either not going to want to share them at all, or else you've already got someplace else you want to share those photos.

Basically - where is the value in this acquisition? I mean any value at all? It seems like they paid 1B to avoid having to develop a very very small app.
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There's surely some middle ground, here. PHP defines constants with a function, creates functions with a function, creates data structures with a thing that isn't actually a function but is inexplicably designed to sorta resemble a function. Only now are these basic value definitions getting dedicated syntax.
In C++11 you are supposed to use move semantics in your own classes. I'm not 100% sure but I think the standard require that the STL use move semantics.
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I was kidding (and lost the final asterisk); I would lose a lot of faith in Python if that ever worked. :)

Maybe new devs should learn Perl, instead... http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Acme-Everything-1.01/lib/Acme/...
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I think you're confused by the graphs too. They don't plot daily temps, and they aren't even necessarily for the hottest Marches on record. It's all YTD averages. 1998 January in most north east cities was really an extreme value, but if I'm reading the graph right, it was possibly a colder than average March, but the YTD values are buoyed up by January.

Look at DC. Until the last week in March, 1998 is flat or even trending down. That seems like the actual daily temps were possibly below average, no? Whatever, YTD may be pretty to look at it, but I don't think they're good for interpretation. http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/images/us/2012/mar/wa...

I just mention this because "temperature at time t" is not what we're looking at.
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That's equally circular. How do you know it's an extreme value?
One of the main reasons why I am so scared to use Wordpress is PHP. The article does a good job explaining why security holes in applications built on PHP wouldn't be a surprise. The only alternative is to constantly upgrade to the latest version. Sometimes, that breaks things like plugins. That is too much overhead for a blog.
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I had a longer response, but I think the short response is that this is just the way the corporate world is.

Things were also different when Silicon Valley companies were smaller and unknown...people seemed to join tech because they liked it, not because it was cool or they wanted to be like Steve Jobs or Zuckerberg or whatever.
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I don't agree with that analogy. To me it's more like saying that your children should have different parents through elementary/middle/high school.
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I wouldn't know an opcode from a gerund, and I don't want to know.

Now I can Write a Program for Dummies, or I can write Python the Hard Way, or I can <script>alert('hello world')</script>, all as close as https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=how%20do%20I... while holding a sandwich in one hand. That's not as casual as the OP would like, but it's pretty darn casual compared to The Day.

Edit: vocabulary.
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The actual article quotes the government official as saying the Internet incites “atheism” and other supposed moral evils. :)
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