skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our interpretation is that the concept of a client and a server is no longer relevant. Clients are just machines that are over the network that you don't trust. An iPhone is more powerful than servers from 10 years ago. It's a (bad) brief explanation but do you see my point?

Perhaps the only relevant concept now is publishers and subscribers rather than clients and servers?
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Because you can't learn everything under the sky. Most of them are strictly Windows programmers, with lots of console (video game) experience. They are just not interrested in Linux, OSX, etc the way other people are (me for example).

What's the point for them to learn something like this, if they don't see how this is going to help them in what they do?
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> for example, I could directly my car for something else valuable far more easily than I could directly trade bitcoins and cars aren't a very meaningful medium of exchange today.

Are you sure about that? Bitcoins are easily divisible, a car isn't. Yes, you can take your car apart but the sum of the parts is worth much less than the whole car. Bitcoins can be easily transported and even transferred internationally. Exporting a car incurs a lot of overhead in transport fees and taxes. Even selling a car to someone on the other side of a large country might end up being too expensive.

No matter what you think of bitcoin, it should be compared to existing national currencies, gold, etc. I like the concept of bitcoin, but I believe that even risky currencies like those of (say) Mexico, Turkey, etc are a better bet than bitcoin.
+1 for arguing the other side clearly and with an absence of fanboyism, but I don't think it holds up in the software field:

* Apple would be where they are with or without these patents - copyright would probably be sufficient.

* They are holding back innovation by attempting to win via legal means what they should be winning by marketing better products.

* These patent wars exclude companies which do not have the deep pockets to fight with the 'big boys', who can and do use patents as a club to snuff out upstarts.
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So your argument is:

Ideas/products with excessive speculation have failed in the past. Therefore, this product will fail.

I disagree with that. It suffers from survivor bias (or actually non-survivor bias). Mackey doesn't discuss ideas with excessive speculation that ultimately succeed. The internet in the 1990s and the California gold rush both had excessive speculation, but ended up being successful... so no one refers to them as 'extraordinary delusions'.
Well, I'm reading this from my GNex :-)
Is it possible that our reaction to techies and what they can do comes entirely from within?

i.e. the geeks are not really doing anything to intimidate the rest of us, they are just going about their daily lives. Its us who are assigning special labels to them, assigning special meaning to what they say ("oh he just mentioned his stackoverflow reputation, big showoff" :-) )and getting intimidated.

Also, I see this in all walks of life. Chess players have ELO rating scores, cyclists and runners talk about miles per week, programmers talk about their stakoverflow score, SEO consultants talk about their # of twitter followers etc.

If you want to be really intimidated by child prodigies, look at other fields like mathematics (Terrence Tao?), chess (Bobby Fischer). Truly awe-inspiring (and dare I say, God given) talent from a very young age.

We have it OK here in IT. Probably time to work on ourselves to be satisfied and compare less :-).
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It's not a feature of PHP, it's a feature of the world. Had hosting providers put the same effort to make deployment of Python, Ruby or Haskell web apps, this argument would be void.

Similarly, LPG is a great car fuel here where I live, because of a good price and abundance of gas station, but it's not the case in the US.
RedHat OpenShift?

Or they're just like Heroku and sit on top of AWS?
I can only talk about my experience, but I've had zero downtime with GAE since we migrated to the HR datastore. Development is x1000 harder, but then everything Just Works.
Don't see why this was downvoted. Once your opponent is executing arbitrary JavaScript on your browser, there's no real reason for them to try tricking you into clicking a link when they can just use one of the outstanding security vulnerabilities for your browser to install malware.
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It also has a variables and instruction pointer. The point is that this state is not preserved between different requests.
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Note the use of "true" in "no true Scotsman".
It's too bad it takes 15 seconds to perform each search...

Ever tried Google flight search? Instant.
The blog's github interface is annoying: in order to save-to-disk more than just the opening paragraphs in Firefox, I had to bring up Web Developer's View Generated Source function and save the result of that. Not cool for anybody who prefers to study offline.
Is this the same EC2 zone that went out just 3-4 days ago??

Second or I believe third power outage/loss of service for AWS in the past 10-days if I'm not mistaken.

This is wild. I wonder what's going on at Amazon and if they're capable of handling this much usage in addition to having power issues, etc.

Instagram and Netflix servers are down from what I hear and have been down for a few hours. Now it makes sense that they're being hosted on AWS.
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Some info about our skills:

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-her: she is going to start her first full time job as a developer in 2 weeks, these are some of the things she knows: core Java, HTML, CSS, EJB 3, JPA and JPQL (I believe she has some EclipseLink experience), Glassfish and Tomcat and some knowledge of databases

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No, but the opposite is true. I curse on top of my voice every time I have to use Windows (which is disgustingly ugly in my opinion).
The problem is not if the bank's site breaks; the problem is what happens when a phishing site displays "error: connection to ConfidenceWord database failed". What percentage of users will say "oh, the bank's site is messed up; let's go in anyway"? A high percentage.
I had used it before the HR, so it might have improved.

At the time It was like voodoo, and you had to triple-check your datastore actions, because they could fail for no reason at the backend.
If Paul Graham endorses something, he'll write an essay explaining exactly why. Investing is gambling, and he's seeing what happens. On the off-chance that bitcoin does survive getting in early could pay off bigtime.
That's a crazy amount to be paying a month for under $500 worth of RAM (2 x 16GB DDR3-1600 registered ECC for example). As the other reply mentioned, you should look into dedicated servers or colocation if you don't mind dealing with hardware yourself.
Strongcoin does this, I believe.
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Exactly right Apple is scared about this. The phone market is slipping through their fingers and they're willing to do whatever it takes to get their grip back.

It turns out their one-size-fits-all approach really doesn't fit all so they go patent nuclear on Android while borrowing a lot of Android's ideas along the way. I'd love to see Google sue the shit out of them for stealing their notification system.
Hey! At least Amazon.com is up!
It sounds like you're agreeing with the OP.

Heroku is a great deal for people just starting out, somewhat at the expense of those who have already grown larger. His strategy seems sound-- use Heroku at the beginning, then if and when it gets unjustifiably expensive, switch to AWS.
Is coinbase using aws or heroku and down right now?
Seeing an application error on coinbase.com...
Funny, mine was the exact same.
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That's cute, but the server is actually at getbridge.com, it's not IE6. A browser cannot serve requests. The IE6 client is communicating via getbridge.com, from where the actual connections are being served. There's just some centralized application code in that particular IE6 browser that is controlling the channel logic.
> An iPhone is more powerful than servers from 10 years ago.

It's also more powerful than the computers that were used in the Apollo missions, but an iPhone wont get you to the moon, now will it.
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As I read I thought, wow this dude sounds just like my friend Phillip from high school. Glad to hear you're doing well.

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What's even more incredible is that their IOS app is more useable than the regular website.
"a string is not a number"

Well then use ===, but when a string contains numbers then php will do the type conversion for you. It's a convenience.

It may not work correctly by your definition but it's pretty intuitive and useful the way it is.
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True, but Hipmunk searches all airlines almost all over the world, and allows all destinations all over the world.
15 seconds is not a lot when comparing it to other flight planning websites.
According to the AWS status page, only one availability zone within US-East is down, not the whole US-East region. Running a highly-available service exclusively from US-East is a reasonable strategy as long as you're spread across multiple availability zones.

I'm not an AWS customer, just reading their docs; please correct me if I'm wrong about any of this.
Without the iPhone, there would be no Galaxy series. If you don't get that, you don't get that.

It's up to those two companies to work it out. Until that happens, this is what we get -- and Samsung, at least, has little to complain about.
Did anyone else find it odd that 15 out of the total 20 articles the author has linked, to back up his arguments, are his own on the same site?
That would be because Amazon.com doesn't use AWS.
Definitely worthwhile to get a designer in, if only for the basic branding elements; logo, type, palette.

Spend some time on designer hangouts, like dribbble, find some designers you like and ask for some quotes. In my experience it's always better than what an 'amateur' comes up with and surprisingly affordable.
But it may be great detecting small drones, however.

Filtering out all the noise, I suspect, is 'the hard part'. One would have to detect objects in a point cloud and determine if their paths are 'organic/random' such as animals - versus those that take more direct paths...
Underground cables have many problems like rats (and other vermin) or people harvesting copper/metals.
No, it doesn't. Even the name servers of Amazon.com belong to UltraDNS and Dynect, instead of their own Route 53.
> You're measuring the success of a website in terms of traffic.

I wasn't disagreeing, and in fact I didn't even express an opinion regarding this. Success means a lot of different things to people; I was stating your definition of success for clarity.

The user doesn't care whether I write a website's back end in PHP, Ruby, Python, Haskell, C++, Ada, Clojure, or even Erlang. The success depends on how useful the site is and how well it's marketed. This isn't circular reasoning.

There are more websites written in PHP because PHP is an easy language for beginners and therefore more common compared to Ruby or Python, for example.

It's an absolutely untenable position to assert that the programming language itself affects how much traffic an site receives, which is what you originally defined as "success".
Sun is far away, you'd still get data back before it hits, but if buster made satelite hit another satelite or descend to earth it would be a worse situation.
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We're across availability zones and definitely ran into an outage across zones tonight.
Or each other...
I was here when this all started.

When Android surfaced, it did not look blatantly like the iPhone. That is, until the Galaxy appeared. From the moment I saw a Galaxy prototype it was obvious: they were going to get sued.

Whether or not the iOS vs Android war makes sense at a high level is an interesting discussion, but this is pretty simple: Samsung practically begged to be the first to get sued. There isn't a lot to say about it after that.
Wait.. What other uses are there for a Twitter API? What I don't understand is why Twitter can't just insert their ads I to these API requests and be done with it.
So many people point to Heroku as the comparator to the wide availability of PHP.

Unfortunately Heroku is down right now. The wide-availability of choice, it's ubiquity, is why many PHP sites are still running right now - they are not reliant on a single point of failure.

There are many thousands of hosts, spread across the world, offering Cpanel accounts so I'm not tied down to the meteorological events in North Virginia.

If an act of God happens in Michigan right now, I can switch my site very quickly from there to a freshly minted Cpanel accout in California (thanks regular Cpanel backups!), or London or Manchester (Possibly not Newcastle right now, though). I'm really spoilt for choice here.

What are the alternatives to Heroku that don't have the same failing that are running right now that are comparable in getting an app up and running equivalent to PHP time?
Umm...why does the delete account button links to /checkout, and asks me for my credit card info?
Robust systems aren't hip. Get back to work and ship, ship, ship.
Your statement is reductive. You can replace xtend by all the new jvm language. In fact these languages haven't proove anything. On the contrary of groovy.

On my own experience I use groovy not only for grails :

- virtually all java classes can be replaced by groovy classes. Groovy is far more concise. eg. I use groovy for spring/backed bean.

- SwingBuilder

- gpars
Proof that kitsch can get you pretty far. But it's time for this site to start refining the visuals a bit.

I count seven different font sizes on the home page alone.
Why the hell would you subject your developers to looking at anything in IE6? Are they masochists by nature?
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I find Hipmunk's look unintuitive, but I can't speak to the prices because I don't use it anymore.
I'm not sure if others have noticed, but Rackspace London is probably the worst host I've ever used in my entire life. I'm not sure if this is because they were acquired or what, but it's genuinely frightening how awful the service is and how rude, irresponsible, and incompetent the staff are.
Transcription is the textual output of the speech recognition process, be it phonetic, LVCSR or direct. All current applications of them do take some context in consideration, usually via a transition matrix and lots of training data.

What I'm proposing is to pass the output of speech recognition through a binary classifier that answers the question "is this text gibberish?", which is trained with the help of a textual language model, unrelated to the speech recognition pass.
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I think the callee expects the return address in %rbp, and by System V convention will pull certain arguments from above %ebp on the stack.

This might not help, but it's an interesting article on stack frames for all interested: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/09/06/stack-frame-layout-o...
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I've always found the double-standard amusing :)
Same way only easier; since your skill is more specific making it easier for people to figure out what to hire you for and for you to find out who your clients are.

I guess your portfolio could relate some use cases. And lacking those there are a zillion open data projects that could probably use your help which you could use to build your name. Also a good way to network a bit as probably people with big data know other people with big data who are hiring.
I learned programming 25 years ago, assembly, pascal and c. Over the years I've learned and used Java, php and python.

PHP is only a cage if you let it be. PHP has all the tools you need to build anything. I prefer python any day, but I don't like to see people who never got beyond the newbie level criticize something just because they couldn't make it work for them. As the old phrase goes, a bad workman always blames his tools. The criticisms you have leveled at php are all the usual newbie ones, not understanding how stings and numbers are equated etc, it's like a python programmer not getting is vs ==, or a JavaScript programmer not understanding undefined, or a SQL programmer not understanding why null = null for purposes if group by, but not in equality testing. You have to undertake the language in hand properly before you can use it properly.

And yes you did make that assertion at the beginning of your thread. Go back to the first comment you made here on this thread.
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> How much of a MacBook Pro is Apple innovation? and how much of it is doing a great job of pulling together supplier's innovations with some great design and system integration?

And how much was it that suppliers were being pushed by Apple into being 'innovative'? Would anyone be producing laptop size retina panels if not for Apple's demand? How long would we have waited for retina laptops if we had to rely on HP, Dell, etc.?

Combining old components into new products can be just as innovative as creating new components themselves. Innovation is not restricted to the lowest levels.

Edit: let me clarify this a bit. If apple goes to LCD panel suppliers and says 'you only support 1080p in this size, but give us 2880x1800 and we'll buy x million units', is it the supplier who's being innovative? Remember that apple also had to get nvidia to produce a mobile graphic chip with a much higher max. resolution -- it seems to me that it was Apple's vision of the whole that drove the innovation for the parts.
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While I also find Debian to be net superior, I'd say Redhat is nowhere near as bad in comparison to its alternative as PHP, or even MySQL.
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Would it be expected that Amazon will issue substantial refunds (e.g. no charges for June hosting for impacted users) due to the problems today?
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Re pascal, that really was a language that had unpredictable order of evaluation. Not to mention its issues with forward declarations leading to infinite recursion. Fortunately i have relegated pascal to the attic of my mind. These days I seldom stray far from python or JavaScript. Both of which are wonderful languages. Java's ok when eclipse is used to auto complete the verboseness.

Start out in pascal these days and try getting a job!