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> One may argue that if she has no understanding of the European financial meltdown, and just wants to find evidence for the failure of the welfare state where there is none

There there. Relax.
I was not arguing that the social measures were the only cause of the financial meltdown. They are, probably, a contributing factor. You brought up Spain, which in particular, I am quite familiar with due to personal relations with a Spanish. Real estate was the major factor (as it was in the US), that is true. However, when Spanish citizens tell me they show up at the ER for a sore throat because the ER is closer to work/fit their schedule/whatever instead of setting an appointment with a doctor, I think that's a big "social" expense that could and should be avoided. Why do they do that? Because it's free! So who cares, right? There's nothing wrong with providing free health insurance (and I'm a big advocate for it), but showing up to the ER without a reason should be penalized.

Also, when I hear that people who have no desire to work (because they're homemakers, for example) show up at the unemployment office simply to collect unemployment or just to be eligible to "fun" courses (to fill up their days), that's a social expense (in Spain, if you're unemployed, even for an extended period of time, the government will pay for all kinds of courses, be it knitting, accounting, or something else). Those are expenses that affect a country's well-being.
I AM all for these things. But that's what I meant that they may have gone too far.
This is very interesting that this comes right after a pretty successful launch of the 5by5 iOS app.

I think Gruber probably wanted a higher % and more money from it than Dan was willing. Maybe even more than the other hosts?

Gruber and Dan's chemistry on the show was definitely on the decline since the old Bond movie reviews, though.
Cons listed are '8MP primary camera', and 'Not released yet'

How are either of those cons?
As much as I like the Metro concept, I thought that they nailed the UI with Windows 7 Aero. On top of that Windows 7 users tend to agree that it's the best that MS came up with hands down.

I don't understand why they would take such a risk. The only way this won't be awkward is to look equally good and really boost performance.
This made me laugh the first time I saw it: http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
Ask HN: best HN app for iPhone?
I've tried a few of the free ones and not found anything that consistently loads comments, or displays web pages in a native browser. Any recommendations please!
Canvas mostly works across browsers but there are still variances and browser-specific edge cases you have to detect. Cross-browser audio is an absolute trainwreck, and APIs like gamepad, fullscreen, etc. are all very finicky as well and will require careful effort if you want to use them in each browser. Plus, each JavaScript runtime has things it likes/doesn't like so to get playable performance for a serious game in all the browsers you'll have to spend a while figuring out how to tune your JS for all of them (or writing browser-specific versions). This is made worse by the fact that some of the major browsers don't have usable profiling tools...

But sure, if all you want to do is draw some lines and bitmaps on the screen, no problem.
Judging by the "React in the Industry" section, this was my thought too. In fact, I was sure it is until I saw serious comments here.
Interesting, if only because I've always been fascinated by the time period and events surrounding the adoption of electricity.

A really interesting book about Edison and Tesla is "Empires of Light" by Jill Jones.
Yes, the first thing I thought after "ooh, neat" was "Are there any portal communities for HTML5 even close to those for Flash?"
I went to Maryland and was a student when this happened. The video you mention was filmed from South Campus Commons Building 3, and I lived in 4. I was at a friends house when this happened, and rode my bike home shortly after this happened, not knowing all of this had happened (not a big basketball fan). As I was riding my bike down Baltimore Avenue, two cops in riot suits were standing on the sidewalk beside the street, and when I was just square with them, they suddenly jumped at me screaming stop. I almost lay down by bicycle as one of the cops tries to tackle me. He managed to kick my back tire, and I skid to a halt and dismount. They come up to me and point their 50mm canister guns in my face and start yelling in my face. I smile at them and sort of laugh, and ask if there's a problem officer. They say I was entering a restricted area, and tell me I have to turn around. I point to the my building and they don't really care. They say I have to turn around. These cops don't get to go to riots very often, so when they do get the chance, they like to have as much fun as they can with it.
"The goal of a regular text is to inform or entertain. The goal of Web copy (and ideally your website in general) is to get people to do something"

Good article, on the whole. But I disagree, slightly, with this point. At the risk of being cute, I'd say that the goal of all text is to get people to do something. Writing is persuasion. The particular end may change, but the means should always fit some end. Writing devoid of purpose is bound to be powerless. It's rambling. It's filler. It's extraneous.

Before writing anything, whatsoever, consider why you're writing it. Consider whom you're writing it for. Consider what you'd like that person to do, or think, after having read your copy. You need to be engineering an outcome. If not, you're basically gambling that your reader will stumble into something accidentally. Instead, leave nothing to accident. It doesn't matter if you're writing a cookbook, web copy, a letter to a friend, an email, or a science fiction novella. You're trying to get your reader from a point A to a point B, and the first step in doing so is taking careful stock of what A and B are.
> Php is the DSL for the web.

What does it mean to be a DSL for “the web”?
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Your experience sounds like mine. I've been on a CPAP for almost 3 months now, and after 5 hours of sleep I'll lie awake in bed ready to start the day. It's really amazing what "good" quality sleep does for you. During my sleep study, I peaked at 52 apnea events/hour (25+ is considered extreme). Plus, my wife is getting better sleep without my snoring!
Define competitive? I didn't realize all languages were in a competition to be... what? The best?

I write in PHP not because it is my hobby, but because I know it very well and it makes me a lot of money. The companies I work for use PHP because they can find many talented developers. Using a proper framework, being very strict about unit testing, and following other best practices makes our codebase a joy to work with.

I'm sorry if you feel this isn't possible with PHP, but my point of elitism still stands. Who cares if PHP isn't "competitive", whatever that means? It works, we can create applications that are used by thousands of people a day to do important things (online education in my case), and most of all it brings in money.
The text on the left hand side is nice and readable. Big, set out nicely on a grey background with a bit of dropshadow to help keep it readable against the background.

The text on the right hand side is a bit small for me. The background image and the small size make that text hard to read for me.

There are a few typos and errors in the text; eg "How do we different from other social networks?".

The idea is probably good. But I'm unsure of a few things. I connect to other people interested in things I'm interested. If one of those people is sharing images and video will I see all of those images, or just the ones relevant to my interest?

Imagine I'm interested in netball, canoeing, and real ale. I connect to Bob because he's interested in Real Ale and Dog Showing. Bob posts a lot of images of his Dalmatian at various shows. Do I see all those dog show photos?

EDIT: When I'm using Pinterest I get a lot of stuff that I'm not really interested in. And I know that I'm missing a lot of stuff that I would be interested in.

I pin stuff to a board called "Humanitarian", for example. I'd really like to have other similar pins shown to me. So if I could have a list presented of "here's some other tags / boards / users you may be interested in [developing world] [africa] [unicef] [unhcr]" that'd be great. I don't know if that's an idea you can use.

It's a nice idea. I'm not sure how it'll work to compete against facebook, because FB allows people to set up little groups.
One should also take a close look at the formulas for volumes of unit-radius n-balls. For even numbers of dimensions it's

pi^(n/2)/fact(n/2)

which behaves very interestingly[1]. It's equal to pi in two dimensions, peaks at the 4-dimensional ball (about 1.6 pi), then is driven to effectively zero by the time you get to 20 dimensions or so (value of ~8/1000 pi).

Again, however, the radius isn't changing. I don't think of unit balls as being spiky--they're still rotationally invariant in all d rotational degrees of freedom, so calling them spiky doesn't sit well with me.

Instead, imagine you lived on a line, only walking up and back along it forever. Then, one day, someone introduced you to the plane and then a volume. These are vastly larger than the space you were afforded by the line: exponential blowup.

It's also driven home by how the Lesbegue measure in d-dimensions assigns zero measure to all (d-1)-dimensional (or lesser) objects. Adding a dimension just makes space immensely larger.

And so pegging the size of our unit ball to its 1-dimensional parameter, the radius, causes its volume to vanish.

[1] Wolfram Alpha chart showing the volume of the n-sphere in units of pi http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=pi%5E%28n%2F2-1%29%2FGa...
>> I have yet to see a serious programming shop that would bet its billion dollar business on frameworks built by others.

Even the majority of PHP development uses frameworks these days.

You didnt answer the questions at all. Nor did you provide any of your qualifications with actual arguments.

And you dont "experience raw power" of a language, instead one can actually meaure it and formally classify it.

Here is a question for you to put things in perpective. Whats the order of complexity of adding an element in the middle of "an array" in PHP?

I think you are confusing "raw power" with the sound an idiot makes, when they write bad algorithms, in languages with questionable language design.
Part of this article is bullshit, there is nothing "fundamentally random" about physical processes. It is just that you can't measure it without disturbing it. so you must use probability to help you.
Light Table isn't a Java IDE, so this isn't a fair comparison.

For a dynamic language, where a REPL will no doubt be part of your workflow, an IDE that aims to merge the process of editing and interacting is probably quite valuable. Like emacs with slime but less daunting to the unfamiliar.
Building the USS Enterprise over the next 20 years
It's less that is _can_ and more that it _has to_ in order to be optimal.

The launch window pretty much guarantees that if the rocket launches, and stays on a course that is designed to get it outside of earth's atmosphere using as little fuel as possible, it will meet up with the orbiting space station "by chance". Launching outside of this window means that it would have to spend fuel to realign itself and go find the space station on it's own.
Trying to build fast platform on top of a superslow language is a joke.
In hundred years they will be known as "QR Code museum" :-)
I think hristov's theory holds up just fine. I think the initial drop was short sales by people anticipating that exact situation.
There are none that really work, but I use this to read

http://ihackernews.com/
It may be C++ but it is managed C++ that runs on the above the WinRT layer just like C#, and Javascript for metro. It will have the same restrictions as the other languages. It is actually interesting, in fact when you start a metro project at least in beta, you get the WinRT libraries and that's it. A ton of the traditional .NET classes have been moved into the WinRT library or removed all together.
Linux kernel devs openly spoke of their dislike for Itanium. There are many recorded instances of this.
The exact costs. I was wondering how much it will hypothetically cost to launch that mass to orbit, in order to compare that number to the cost of the complexity of an aircraft carrier.

It's not really a useful comparison, I know, just thought I might get a kick out of it.
I agree on some level. Certain tasks require sleep, others can be done in deprivation. If I am familiar with a programming language and problem I do okay even if I am sleep deprived, however new tasks or very difficult problems I cannot do well on a lack of sleep.
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As someone who worked for a major European social network written in PHP, I can say with full confidence that PHP's syntax and it's standard libraries are objectively worse than those of other languages (as in inconsistent and less productive).

That being said there definitively good frameworks out there for PHP and having good libraries is much more important than the syntax of the language, so becoming familiar enough with another language until you are as productive as with PHP might not be worth the effort for you.
> But building the spirit of your business and betting its survival on a Frameworks is just out of the question.

People building stuff in PHP use frameworks as standard too, even if it's one they built themselves.

I've recently converted a high traffic personal project from PHP to Python with no impact in performance. I also didn't feel like I was being slowed down by Python or Flask.
I would go so far as to say the default state of a human is mediocrity and general failure. It takes discipline to achieve even moderate success
I'm not sure I understand.

Imagine something like radioactive decay. We know how probable decay is, but we cannot know when an atom is going to decay.

We cannot predict when an individual atom is going to decay, thus that process is fundamentally random?
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I think your point about the cubes gets the idea across much better, after all any lower dimensional slice taken through a sphere will look spherical rather than spiky, but you can take slices through cubes that perfectly illustrate their spiky nature.
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It is built using the very same dashboard software that is about to be released next week. So I thought this would be cool way to have launch count down timer
If there’s one thing I would severely criticize Edison and his company for, it was how they handled the patents for technology used in shooting and showing film. They had some weird idea that film was fundamentally something that should only be used for “shorts”, and so they were in constant conflict with unauthorized movie-makers and cinemas (one of the reasons why Hollywood came to be a major film production spot was because it was a relatively quiet place very far from New York City, an Edison stronghold).
@jtreminio

I did not claim one cannot run succesfull projects in PHP. I stated the exact opposite. And im doing that again now, in the hope your reading is just suddenly improved.

PHP has a legacy. It started off as a template language, and slowly got more and more control structures. So, its an accidental programming language.

Language are not competitive, but language design features sure are. Nobody with the actual skillset to design and implement a programming language would consider, for example, merging vectors and dictionaries into some kind of mutated frankenarray.

This does not make the language unusable. And language design features are not the most crucial arguments to pick one language over the other in the short term. But they are, for a community and industry in the long term.

To my surprise, i read in this thread that PHP now finally has a cyclic garbage collector. That's a good example of a competitive language design feature, which utility is not in any way subjective. A large range of algorithms and design patterns couldn't be implemented efficiently or effectively without this particular feature.

And its too easy to cry "elitism" every time somebody points this out.
Haha Ayn Rand proponent vs Ayn Rand proponent: fight!

> Evolution designed them to accept cultural assumptions

It's a bit presumptuous to squarely pin something like that on evolution. Evolution is likely to favor many things, including individualism and rationality. Yes, Aritstotle said that man is a political animal. Yet Aristotle didn't spend time observing baboons on the plains of Ethiopia.

I'm not sure where Ayn Rand stands as a writer because her writing is hard to separate from her philosophy as she chose writing as a tool to transmit her philosophical beliefs. I also loved Roark in the Fountainhead (yet I tend to identify more with her imperfect characters like Gail Wynand), and as I'm currently somewhere around p.300 in Atlas Shrugged (warning: as it is a very long book, my judgement of it may easily be a wrong one), I feel that she wrote Atlas Shrugged when her mind dogmatised her beliefs (the Fountainhead, I think, was written when she was still questioning herself and reading it feels like reading a bit more honest piece to me). Despite her later dogmatism, I respect her as a philosopher because she (a) opened my eyes to how absurd Hegel-derived philosophies are, and (b) made me understand the cult of Athena in the ancient Greece and the impact it likely to have had on Western civilization. Since Ayn Rand was so much courageous philosophically than Marx, I think it would be completely unfair to everyone involved to call Marx but not Rand a philosopher.

> an isolated human is weak and vulnerable

Not really, unless you immerse him/her into an unfamiliar society. Although I'm not a follower of Thoreau, I think he made a fair argument that it is not at all unhealthy to live outside of society. Now I'm not an advocate of moving into a cabin in the woods, I just wanted to point out that there exists a different perspective.

> leaving society amounts to suicide

No, leaving a society is much more like quitting cocaine than committing suicide. Society is a lot like a drug. It takes some time to become hooked, but once you do, it seems nigh impossible to leave. Hence the recent success of Facebook.
>>What’s more, Edison was haunted by Dally’s death to the end of his days. It agonized him. While Dally was alive and suffering, Edison kept him on the payroll and took care of all of his expenses until the day he died. In the early 20th Century, let me assure you that keeping employees on the payroll who couldn’t work was not a common practice.
<<

I read in one of his biographies that in the latter years he kept a lot of employees, against his son's wishes, who were basically doing nothing for sentimental reasons because they had been with him in the early days.
PHP as a platform is not super slow. Have you ever visited shootout.alioth.debian.org? most of the time PHP performs better than ruby, python or perl. It's up to 3 times faster.
Edison always reminds me of Steve Jobs.

EDIT:
1)Mocking existing/others' technologies/inventions just to claim theirs is better, even while its not. 2)Marketing skills 3)Focused on sales.

Sorry for upsetting you, fanboys ;)
Obviously, it's especially pretty awesome for multiplayer game development because you don't have to worry too much about figuring out what method of communication to use, firewalls, etc.
What are you comparing PHP to when calling it super slow? As far as I'm aware, it performs in the same league as Python, Ruby and Perl.

There are reasons that this may be a joke, yours isn't valid.
PHP doesn't have closure like JavaScript. JS accomplished language for evented approach. Because JS have got closure, cascaded scope and prototype chaing.
That awesome idea,In fact Esperanto is the 27th most used language by Wikipedia. Google translate have also recently added Esperanto as an available language choice.
Do they really start out equal? I've played chess for a few years, and all I know is that it gets quite competitive rather soon. Probably you are referring to scholastic chess where teachers plunk down chess sets in front of their pupils and teach them the basics. Sure, pushing wood around is fun for a while, but there will be the point where you need a lot of tenacity to continue.

The issue about CEO compensation has absolutely nothing to do with this argument.
One practical application of this stuff is in understanding high dimensional discriminants.

Consider two populations, A and B, with N real-valued traits. Suppose each trait in group A is normally distributed with mean 0 and stdev=10, while group B is distributed with mean 1 and stdev=10. (This is true for trait 1, trait 2, etc.)

Each individual trait in these groups overlaps quite drastically. Imagining that all the mass of the normal distribution is contained in a ball of radius 20, then for any single trait A lives on the ball of radius 20 about 0 (namely [-20,20]) while B lives on [-19, 21]. Barely different, right?

On the other hand, in the N-dimensional space, the point (0,0,...,0) has a distance sqrt(N) from the point (1,1,...,1). So in 401-dimensional space, the ball of radius 20 around (0,0,...,0) and the ball of radius 20 around (1,1,...,1) don't overlap at all and the discriminant f(traits)=sign(trait[1] + trait[2] + ... + trait[N]) works fantastically.

This is one reason why "big data" can work well - chaining together many weak predictors gets you a strong predictor.

See Lewontin's Fallacy for a biological example of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewontins_Fallacy
Long-polling of what? Connecting to any datasource is going to block the event loop.
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It's called equity now.
As a community, as an industry, as an ecosystem, trying to move forward and leaving past mistakes is a good thing.

Our doctors no longer use voodoo dolls. They've moved on. And nobody with any relevant educational background would promote much of phps language design. We've moved on.

Unfortunately, PHP lives on as well, as some kind of eternal september of web development.
Do you want equal pay for equal labor or equal pay no matter how much people put in? Men earn more because they work longer hours and make more sacrifices for their career. It's that simple.
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Yes, they start out equal. This is discussing competitive chess from real chess organisations from the ages of about 8 through to late teens early twenties.
It's because you have to turn showdead to on (in your account profile)
Of who?
"Looks like serif"? Did you mean to say it looks like a proportional-width font?
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I think I could put up with it for a year or so. That's all I'd need to be financially independent for the rest of my life.
I do this all the time and add, "I like this game. Your turn." It normally gets a smile (at least in person), but doesn't really help with the flow problem.
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i wasn't able to scroll up in firefox 12 or chrome (on fedora )
when it says to scroll up to see what it is.
Oatmeal's tactic to go viral was simple: create a good looking comic and express an extreme view, one that moves you psychologically and you think, "wow is that true? I didn't know that and I bet none of my friends do". Well played Oatmeal.