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You're going to be sorely disappointed when you find out that the majority of user-facing applications at Google are in Java, which you'll hear even less of on places like here.

The reason you don't see mentions of PHP all the time on places like here is that Python and Ruby are considered "hip" languages right now. Every one and their mother wants to learn it to show off how cool it is. Which is freaking awesome because the more people that learn nice scripting languages the better, but it means people aren't being driven to build new services on PHP to show off because instead of listing off 10-20 buzzword plugins by other people, you have a limited amount of mature things you can use to make a PHP application. This is not saying that Python and Ruby don't have mature platforms and extensions.

Have you done any professional programming in the past? I absolutely guarantee that even doing an short term internship at a company using a programming language you don't know, the nuances of that specific language won't be what you take away from you but rather the different ways to think about a specific problem.

Maybe once every month I face a problem at work or on personal projects where I can say "Hey, I remember this, it's a really obscure PHP fault!" versus many many times a times a day when I think "hmm I could build this as a singleton or a factory or a ....." and can use my previous experience programming in those fashions at previous jobs to figure out what the best way to do it currently is.

Learning a new language isn't about dedicating your life to it. It's about learning new methods of completing tasks, which you can almost always apply to other languages.
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Exactly. My first reaction was "Okay, my mind is thoroughly blown." ...then my second thought was "wait, feeling around a bumpy touchscreen will just lead to more accidentally pressed keys unless they don't trigger until they're pressed down"
Could you take little sections of this stuff, stack them together, and use them as a sort of programmable matter type thing?

Maybe if you fold them over or something they could just basically expand and contract. So you expand a bunch in one section to make a feature. Then wrap the whole thing in a very flexible skin. Press a button on a computer, and it morphs between (for example) an alligator shape and a person shape.
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This.

The philosopher Zizek has a great bit about the "unknown knowns" (the quadrant Rumsfeld wasn't smart enough to articulate). Meaning, of course, the unperceived fabric of Western ideology -- that works far better than explicit propaganda ever could.

Here is exactly when he starts talking about it in his Authors@Google talk: http://youtu.be/_x0eyNkNpL0?t=3m18s
My parents grew tomatoes in their garden every summer here in the US. I've been eating tomatoes like that since I was a child. Sliced, as a side, in the summer, with a little salt and pepper. I only do this when they are homegrown though.
> I've never been able to wrap my head around meat-imitation
> vegetarian and vegan options

I was inching towards becoming a vegetarian. Being a foodie is a pretty effective strategy.

Substitutes are great because vegetarian food is (can be) great. Thai panang curry made with seitan tastes great. Brown rice and Field Roast (tm) tastes great. Deep fried tofu tastes great.

Then it's not about giving up meat. It's more like choosing something else and not having time for meat.

An different example. I'm now working towards the troglodiet, informed by Dr Terry Wahls, Eat To Live, 4 Hour Body, etc. Veggies, veggies, and more veggies. Meat. Seeds and nuts. Legumes.

Wahls suggests eating 9 cups of fruit and veggies a day (in addition to the rest). If you can do that, you don't have time, attention, appetite, craving, etc for simple carbs like treats, rice, pasta, potato.

(I coined the term "troglodiet". Hysterical, right?)
I'll bet one of the first apps to take advantage of this will be a back massager app.
The part I tried to stress was "fair compensation", but perhaps that's not the correct legal or contractual term. The closest real-world analogy I can think of is this: you want to by a DVD but cashier is ignoring you. So, you slap a $20 bill on the counter and walk out with the DVD. Of course, the analogy fails because we're not talking about a physical product and the way copyright is set up allows the copyright holder to decide who can and can't get access to the media, even if two parties are offering practically the same price.
> You aren't taking it. You are copying it.

If we want to get into semantics we should really pick some words that are more neutral. So.. you consumed it and did not compensate them for it. Better?

It is kind of funny when you think about the term leech used in the torrent world. If you download something and don't make it available for upload, you are leeching. You are taking but not giving back. So to consume someone's product and not compensate them for it... I guess that makes you a leech?
Here is a good interview with Marcin Iwinski (CEO of CD Projekt Red) about DRM:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2012/05/18/th...
Perhaps it is a trust issue. When I get someone's contact information, I expect to be consciously aware any time I give that information to someone else.

"Would Alice want Bob to have her contact information? She gave it to me, but that doesn't give me the right to share it with others--it's hers."

It seems like asking an assistant to go through your contacts to prepare for a meeting, and while he's at it, he copies them all to his computer so he can do a better job. A little creepy and maybe acceptable. At best it's not what you asked for.
I'm confused. Is the author genuinely stupid or just trying to look cool?
ESPN does exactly this with ESPN3.
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I've made a change to credit the image more prominently with the photographer's name.

As a photographer myself, who does offer images under a CC license, I understand the importance of crediting. It was not my intention to slight them in any way.

And you'll find that a good many of the articles that we publish contain original reporting. Thank you for reading.
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While this is not a direct violation of California law SB1386, it is not a long distance to be able to argue that the companies in question are acquiring unauthorized personal information. While we're not talking SSN, driver's license, etc etc., the definition of PII is only going to expand over time.

Basically, if I don't have a personal contract with LinkedIn, it is extremely thin ice for them to be collecting my e-mail address just because I was invited to one of your meetings.
I think the advice to not use an ORM* is very misguided. Use the ORM for the 80-90% of queries that are "SELECT * FROM table WHERE id=5" and "UPDATE table SET name='jim' WHERE id=5". For the rest of the queries, use your ORM's ability to run custom queries. People who have problems with ORMs are probably not using them correctly.

There was a debate on HN about ORM's a while ago, and one of the most significant comments I read was something along of the lines of "Every project I've ever worked on that 'didn't use an ORM' implemented the same functionality of one in a less-maintainable way."

* Or other object-oriented abstraction layer for database access, ORMs aren't the only option.
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Not directly relevant, but one should also recognize that there are examples of modern-day American academics who do suffer censure for being outspoken dissidents -- Norman Finkelstein being an example (http://www.americanradicalthefilm.com/).
Man, I knew this was coming. I just thought it would be like 5 years from now.
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The key criticism in that article seems to be "ORMs are imperfect abstractions for SQL." Who the hell cares? This is the real world. We don't need perfect abstractions.
This is the same government that thinks that people at the New York Times should be indicted for espionage.

... at the same time as they feed the New York Times the leaks and favored access it needs to adequately serve its propaganda function, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ord... being one recent example.

Chomsky likens the NYT to a court stenographer, which I think is such a delicious phrase. Fun documentary version of one of his most famous books: http://www.hulu.com/watch/118171/manufacturing-consent
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When Paramount canceled the last Star Trek series, the Trekkies actually tried to raise money to pay for producing another season, but Paramount turned them down.
Nothing like an impartial source for an opinion. Worthless prattle.
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I would guess it's largely the same as a person who buys a premium gym membership but never uses it.

I would guess there's a lot of businesses that make money by charging people for things that they don't use.

Case in point , services that allow you to subscribe online but can only be canceled by telephone. Making a telephone call is not exactly difficult , but there must be a significant quantity of people who can't be bothered to do it in order to make it worth their while implementing that policy to begin with.
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There's decades of good TV to watch. You don't need the newest stuff. Who only reads books that came out last week? If you've never watched The Prisoner or Fawlty Towers, for instance, you can get access to them cheaply and watch a TV episode every day for about a month. And it'll be better than almost everything you could get with a TV subscription today.
I imagine in ways analogous to how they avoid paying US taxes, even though they are incorporated in the US.
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The headline and article is troll/hit-bait.
How Google+ and Facebook Got It Wrong
I've wanted to write my thoughts on this for a while. I hope they are working to solve this problem, but in short I feel too much emphasis has been put on allowing users to limit who sees their posts, instead of focusing on creating engaging supportive dialog to posts through smaller groups.

I'd be interested to see what solutions others have for this problem, but who hasn't read a comment on Facebook before and went to comment only to realize the group was too large to write that inside joke?
> Looking forward to World IPv6 Launch day on 6/6.

It's already here! W6L occurred at midnight UTC, which was prior to your post.
I think people want to watch it sooner because they want to be able to discuss it in the present tense with all their friends in real life and on forums like reddit who all pirate it.

Also , if you watch something 10 months later you're going to have to find a way to navigate the internet for 10 months without tripping over spoilers everywhere.

Buying it via cable, assuming there aren't other shows you want to watch on cable , you are looking at $25 per episode.
> Similarly, I pirate Game of Thrones, but would happily pay up to $5 per episode if it were an option. I will not buy the DVDs, as I have no desire to see it again. If I could buy the DVDs at the same time as the show airs (without getting off my couch), I would happily do so.

How about when you pirate the episode, you put the $5 aside, and when it's released on DVD, buy the DVDs, regardless of whether you want to watch it again? This has essentially the same result as buying the DVD "at the same time as the show airs".

This is what I have done with shows that are cable-exclusive. And as a perk, I end up with the DVDs.
> So.. you consumed it and did not compensate them for it. Better?

Not really. Why do I need to compensate them? You give a creator money to encourage them to do more, not to compensate them. Compensate implies they loose in some way and you have to make them whole. That doesn't apply here.

In this case the author of the post want to encourage them to do more, but they refuse because they believe they can do better without his money. At that point his moral duty is complete, and they have no right to complain if he consumes (I hate that word since it implies destroy) their product.

You don't seem to get the point of copyright. You have it reversed - you think copyright lets creators prevent people from doing stuff - not so. The idea of copyright is to encourage creators. (It's right in the US constitution - check if you don't believe me.) If you try to encourage them, and they refuse, then you can do what you want and they can't complain (morally anyway). The restrictions only exist to serve the purpose of encouragement. If encouragement isn't possible then the restrictions are meaningless and are ignored.

A leech is only a leech if he doesn't try to give back, but in this case the author of the post tries, but his offer was not accepted. Even in the bittorrent world that is not called a leech, it's called a seeder.
I'm not a privacy researcher, but my guess is this is probably less "they won't answer because all your worst fears are true" and more "they won't answer because they don't want to narrow their future options and political maneuvers".
I'd love to see this problem fixed one day, but honestly I think not enough attention has been paid to keeping the supportive dialog and comments to a post relevant in social networks.
Samsung hasn't said anything, or at least there isn't a press release that I've been able to find. You're taking words from Apple Insider and putting them into Samsung's mouth.
I hardly watch TV. Basically because my entertainment demands are asynchronous. I need entertainment on-demand when I need it. I can't adjust my schedule to the TV's schedule.

TV is for people who can sacrifice something else for the sake of a show. I can't and I won't because my time is worth doing something else. And when I need entertainment there are other things that fill that need.

Its like the radio, I turn it on when I need it. If something interesting is playing I hear, else I have a whole hard disk full of songs to hear to.

Also the ads and breaks between shows, movies and songs. When uninterrupted entertainment is available at dirt cheap prices. Who likes to waste their time watching/hearing ads.

TV is becoming the new radio, basically.
An exact replica of a Porsche would violate Porsche's trademarks and patents. And the copyright for the operators manual in the glove box. And incidentally also the regulations governing VINs.
$500k is almost the entire budget of the FreeBSD Foundation. I don't know what the Linux Foundation spends money on, but the FreeBSD Foundation does great stuff with its money.

And if you happen to have a "paltry" $500k sitting around, feel free to send it in FreeBSD's direction. :-)
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When do you tell them that? Before or after you've invested?
1: I have not checked, I assume it was impossible based on the post the parent made, I've never watched it myself or tried to buy (or download) it. I take his claim that he can not get it any other way at face value. Selling it a week later does not count BTW, (just in case that is what they are doing). If he wants it now, and they refuse then too bad for them - they lost his money. That was their choice and they should not complain.

2: Fair use is most definitely an "excuse" (as you call it). Fair use lets you decide if you are allowed to do something. You don't have to go to court before quoting a passage from a book in a review - fair use lets you do it without even asking.
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They can't make a relatively simple change and capture that market (read the dcurtis article linked above).
Thanks Matthew - glad to see you're willing to make that change. I noticed a number of other TNW articles from today also using the same anonymous attribution, one of which was another of yours (http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/06/05/apple-tv-5-0-2-softwa...). If you'd take a moment to fix the attribution and mention something to your colleagues as well that would be awesome.

A couple of the other articles I noticed are here:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/06/06/bid-for-a-dinner-wi...

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/06/05/trickster-for-mac-help...

http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/06/05/tvs-status-quo-may-be...

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/06/05/here-are-the-winners-o...

Thanks!
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It's these kind of forward projections that cause booms and busts, ie. people assuming that housing prices will increase at a steady/regular rate over time. Just as we saw that this doesn't happen in a steady way, nor will facebook steadily decline over the next 3 months.
What about the unofficial actions?
That's pretty cool actually - small world!
Aside from the "Time Warner owns HBO" issue, it makes sense to distinguish content producers like HBO from, say, Comcast (who are far more evil).
I heard a story somewhere that public key cryptography was known to the NSA long before the 70s. Maybe they are 30 years ahead in cryptographic number theory? Maybe prime factorization isn't actually hard? Maybe...
I use Firefox on a 2011 MacBook Pro/Lion and I find that memory usage constantly increases, even when very little is going on (starts at about 200MB, soon reached 500MB). Because of this, I have switched to Chrome, whose memory stays about 200MB.

My fingers have gotten used to doing command-option-shift-click which opens a new tab AND switches to it.
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>>Is HBO hurting for money?

I am pretty sure HBO charges money such that they hedge for losses that happen through piracy.

Few days back, I met a guy who runs a cab fleet. He pays his drivers once a week for the fuel they need. On further inquiry on home much he pays, it turned he always pays for atleast 4-5 litres of extra fuel a day. The drivers cheat, they say they need more fuel for lesser distance and cite mileage problems. But he was dead sure, that was not the case.

How did he hedge for all that. He takes fuel theft into consideration while billing his customers. Drivers don't loose out, the cab company doesn't. But consumers pay a little extra.
Unless you disabled it there are hot posts every half dozen posts in your home stream. The hot stream itself has it's own link in the left hand sidebar called explorer.
I'll second that. One of the better Rails books I've read.
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I've seen trees where the largest single component of the mass comes from butterflies. They alit on the branches. Water for most trees' mass mostly comes up out of the ground, though.

On the larger point, testing learning is hard in principle in that you are usually testing theory. Practice is the basis of theory and much harder to test.

But even then, writing a good test to test theory is very hard. Most objective test questions on university tests are terrible and only slightly, if at all, more likely to reward the testee for knowing the theory.
I actually do watch HBO, but I can see exactly how this works (and how I got sucked into the super-premium package). You sign up for the standard internet+tv bundle, for say $60. Then you get HD for an extra $10 or $15, then the DVR is only an extra $5 a month on top of that, and then they ask you about HBO. And you think, "I've seen some good shows on HBO, that's worth the additional small percentage of my cable bill (now up to $80/month)".

And then you don't watch HBO (or at least not as often as warrants the money you spent on it). It's like all those 'options' you get when buying a car (Only $200 for floormats? that sounds like a deal!). I think it's called the bundling effect or something similar.
Addressing both replies: Facebook continues to have perhaps the highest ratio of users (choose a metric if you wish) to engineers, quite possibly by a large margin. I believe that's a good proxy for responsibility.
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HBO is a Time Warner subsidiary. Until that's not a thing, this just simply won't happen. I'd like it to, but the business realities just make it unfeasible.
It's fairly easy to construct a portfolio of web applications in whatever language you want to use and/or demonstrate competency in a language (eg contribute to open source), but it's much more difficult to say you worked on an application at the scale of Facebook. That experience is invaluable and the lessons you learn there are applicable even when you move on to applications in other languages.

You should also probably look at surveys of language adoption b/c PHP has much greater market share. Hacker News is a very skewed sample.
I don't think anybody has ever shown any studies with animals being extra rewarded for achieving difficult tasks. To speculate, that may relate to our social wiring.

Not even the dopamine system is exactly and entirely a "reward system," there are multiple pieces carrying out various signal-processing tasks without clean alignment to our intuitive categories.

Despite the existence of localization and specialization in the brain, it is not common for any high-level behavior to weigh completely on just one distinct piece of the brain.
I think we need more of this. Crazy niche languages that are unafraid and unashamed of to be ambitious and novel in paradigm.

We have plenty of choices for minor syntax tweaks or extensions of OO and ML. We need to get brave again.