skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct, and all those currencies float. Guess in what direction? Down. Have a look at 'Currency Wars' and see how all country's drive down the value of their currency in order to export more easily. As they do, paying off debt becomes easier. However, for people that actually save money (or who are on fixed income like pensioners) it means their purchasing power becomes much smaller.
Link to Currency Wars: http://www.amazon.com/Currency-Wars-Making-Global-Portfolio/...
I still write PHP every day, and I'm not planning on moving away any time soon, but there's a reason so many people crap all over PHP.
This is always going to be the case with PHP – it's got the lowest barriers to entry of any web language, so it's going to have the largest share of bad coders. It's not a problem; people have to start somewhere and you can't, in an authoritarian manner, stop people from writing blog posts if they're not expert.

That said, I don't think it's about this. I think it's about respect. And people, right now, just don't respect PHP.
It may be serendipity, but I like that pythonweekly comes out on Thursday and pycodersweekly comes out on Friday, as opposed to one massive dump of interesting Python stuff on one day.
And this whole time I thought it was about jobs and education.
Okay - so, first thought upon hitting the page is "What? What am I supposed to do? There's a black, blank YouTube box but no play button. I'm lost - I'm outta here."

What is a music search engine anyway? I'm truly confused.
This is basically an explanation of flask internal organization for flask hackers and extension developers. You do you not need such knowledge to create flask applications. Actually due to this features it's possible to have nice and clean end-user programming experience without too much magic. Comparable level of complexity exists in any modern web framework -- just read the source of Django or Rails.
It should be noted that this only indexes the journals and does not scrape the research PDFs themselves.
"Likewise with great copywriting. If you don't trust that every word your co-founder wrote has importance, and that you should at least review with them before making changes, then you didn't pick the right co-founder. It's ok to work toward improvement, but that work shouldn't be performed unilaterally."

Totally agree. The overarching issue here is cooperative communication.
Take it a step further: if there weren't any government intervention, then they wouldn't have to pay any lobbyists. The companies wouldn't even need any laws enacted. They would - as the phrase implies - do whatever they wanted. The lobbying is the process by which they are able to enact their will, despite, in theory, being a regulatory mechanism.

If anything it's member's only laissez-faire, where only those with enough money to buy lobbying influence are given carte blanche.
By the 'ignorance' comment I meant:

It wasn’t until I tried to clamp down my privacy settings that I had a moment of real panic. My full name, ‘scrapbook’ photos and profile were all publicly searchable.

Social networking 101 nowadays is that you don't enter data until you've figured out how to lock it down first.
The TRUE problem with PHP is that you can prototype extremely fast in it, and then you are stuck in PHP. Django and the like have a lot of setup time to really get started, even if after a few hours into it you're already saving time compared to PHP.

I've found it hard to argue against PHP with my former bosses, due to this fact.
I personally believe that displaying your wealth to the wrong people is a wrong choice, especially when one teases with his wealth.
"one with 33% more beans for free, the other at 33% off the price"

I don't know if it matters, but to me "33% more for free" presents more information. It tells you that the quantity has increased and the cost has stayed the same. "33% off" just tells you the price change but nothing about quantity. Now I have to figure out if I'm actually getting the same volume I did last week.
Most people enjoy jumping on the bandwagon, I prefer to look at the bigger picture.
Fair enough, and your position makes sense to me. (A lot more sense than those who would specifically curtail software protections.)

I think there's something to this approach, but I can't help wondering how anyone would define the lifespan of a product.

Also, I think reasonable definitions would be much longer than you'd like and closer to the existing 20 years. I kept my last mobile phone for 6 years, for instance, so I'd probably say 10+ years is reasonable for technology in a mobile phone. WinXP is 15 years into its invention cycle, etc.
Well, it works for some, so either the team of this theoretical person or manager was a unique snowflake or there were people problems causing this distinction (e.g. people who abuse it, crappy manager who was using stupid metrics that prove their biases).
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In fairness, big corp worker here, we make a plan and it is heavily dependent on market, and if we are off then our bonuses are too.
Why exactly "bad tutorials" always be the problem ? And how is it related to lowest entry barrier ?

Did you read the article ?
I'm very curious why you would want to move to Argentina. I've just read a blog from a guy (Ferfal) about moving out of Argentina because of all the violence, repression and hardship. 'Surviving Argentina' He predicted this news as well. http://ferfal.blogspot.nl/search/label/Argentine%20Collapse

"They investigated your finances if you bought a big screen TV for the world cup or send your kids to a private school. In a way they “nationalized” and ruined private health care by including every crappy social medical plan into private health care services that used to be of acceptable quality. They banned the purchase of foreign currency, pretty much froze importations even taking a Fahrenheit 451 twist when they banned the importation of books, like a poor taste Bradburian joke.

No one saw this coming? Really? Hey, those guys that said Argentina was great for expats and that expropriation wasn’t a risk, I suppose they crawled back under a rock in Salta or somewhere."

Is Spain in such a terrible state that Argentina looks better? Any thoughts?
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It's odd, I see this story everywhere. Now even in CNN. But I still haven't seen a story that explains where the numbers came from and what they represent. For instance, is this worldwide or US only? Are all PC makers considered (large and small ones)? For instance, are Brazilian PC maker Positivo's sales considered? Some stories refer to "PCs with Windows" or "Microsoft's PCs". Does that mean they only count PCs bought with Windows preinstalled?
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Fringe case but I have a Roku attached via HDMI to a 32" monitor. This particular monitor has a 3.5mm speaker output jack and the connect amp has a 3.5mm input. Connect the the two and viola. If you're ok with stereo output for TV/movies it sounds just fine.
zorked send me a note at sam@rubiconproject.com. I'm happy to walk you through the industry a bit. We could definitely work with you.
There is no one true mathematics vocabulary. You don't appeal to authority, you just need to clearly state your assumptions and definitions. It is totally reasonable to define a line segment in a general way of two points that are not necessarily distinct, and point as a degenerate line. This makes the set of line segments topologically complete, which may be convenient.
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Here is why it works like that: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximizi...
I've been looking for a solution like this for usability testing and the only comparable solution I found was screen recording that was restricted to jailbroken iOS devices which lead me to believe screen recording was one of those areas that was restricted by Apple.

If this feature or a similar one was added to an app (turned on via user consent or otherwise), would Apple approve it? This is limited to one app and essentially another analytics plugin.

Of course, this isn't a big deal if you're only testing a beta in restricted sessions (and the headline explicitly mentions beta users) but the potential for this in real world testing is huge.
> The core of the PHP community is filled with a lot of really talented and smart developers doing some really amazing things.

Like those, who failed for years to actually consult the results of the test suite before shipping a new release? http://gcov.php.net/viewer.php?version=PHP_5_4

Like those who change stuff incompatibly to the worse, while introducing security holes?
http://php.net/manual/en/function.is-a.php
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55475

Like those were security fixes create even larger holes?
http://thexploit.com/secdev/critical-php-remote-vulnerabilit...

Like those who can't program a sane line of code in the language PHP is written in? "OMG, this calculation overflows, let's replace the int by an float!"

You can't make that shit up. I have nothing against stupid people, but against stupid people who fight against every kind of process who could prevent their own stupidity like

- "learning from mistakes",

- "learning the language they actually program in",

- "handling bug reports in a way it doesn't alienate reporters" or

- "having a decent test coverage".

Instead of thinking about yet-another-documentation site, what about fixing the devastating quality of their API documentation (especially the comments)?
Just to add fuel to the fire. AFAIK, there's no established measure of happiness, other than self-reported in surveys, and questionnaires. I should try asking in cogsci.stackexchange, if they have mapped serotonin levels in the brain to happiness in repeated experiments.
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The problem is always this: what can I buy with the money I have? If all major currencies (including home currency) float down, then I don't lose very much. However, if my home currency loses 10% or more per month relative to other currencies, then I would very much like to have access to foreign currency. This was true 30 years ago in my country and this is probably true in Argentina today.
No front wheel. Makes you look even sillier than when on a Segway. Lame.
This looks awesome. What are the future directions? Are there aggregations and more advanced filter in the plans?
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I propose this wiki content reside on https://wiki.php.net/

Sure, the page self-declares that it is "mainly used to track internal development of the PHP project", but its a wiki. We can change that.
Having to fake an exchange rate sounds like the economic conditions in badly run countries like Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Russia, etc.

What I am wondering is, with a depressed economy like that in Argentina, what is crime and personal safety like? I am particularly wondering about violent crimes for money, because how people react to a bad economy is determined quite strongly by culture and not just the economic situation alone.
For the last few years I've been toying with a variety of techniques for finding available domain names. This is one of my more recent attempts that I thought would be useful to all of you on HN. I created a simple search and alphabetical lookup with pagination to be able to browse through these domains as easily as possible. I built the website search functionality yesterday, so it was quick and dirty (but hopefully the UI is clean enough).

Since the current listing is cached, the only way to tell if a domain is truly still available (and some other HN member hasn't picked it up), you need to click the "Test" button to run a new WHOIS test. If the domain is taken, it'll automatically be removed and you'll be informed. If not, you'll get a nice little success message with both purchase buttons.

I'd love any suggestions. Let us know if you find anything good :)
It's not down for me. content.4chan.org's traffic level is hardly going to be affected by something like that.
I do not see anything silly on this. It is not the "Segway killer" but, for many, a nice alternative. If it sells at the foresee price it will have good market.
Interesting fact - in the gallery is no picture of actually someone riding on it
http://rynomotors.com/gallery/

ps: Couldn't open the link by OP - maybe there is one. (seems down)
I should clarify. The costs of getting a drug into animal testing are relatively low (in the millions of dollars), however, the failure rate beyond that stage is still very high (~90% failure rate) as are the costs.

You are correct in saying that efforts to reduce the costs of failure are paramount to R&D companies. In fact it is a huge focus right now. However, the requirements for approval are growing in size, so it's somewhat of a one-step forward, two-steps back deal.
Yes, but if the estimates were too conservative, then the adjustments should be upward, not downward. Adjusting unexpected profits upwards is clearly just a punishment.
I think a discovery that improves the storage time of qubits by 6 orders of magnitude is unprecedented. Also, even if this technique has terrible qubit-qubit interaction properties, it would still be useful for storage. You could just read the qubit out, do computation in a different medium, and store the result back.
The chaotic comment system IS the application. There's nothing else and that's what makes it so unique.
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The Argentina economy isn't in a depression or recession, just oddly managed. But yes, crime, especially robberies, is extremely high.
The problem with them all moving down is that it affects the value of your savings. At the same time the fact that they are all moving down is supposed to make investing them in things that creates or retains value more attractive.
nah, it's been Farked
Go to a local coffe shop, listen to other people's conversation about what they are working on. Build that, faster.
Sure you can patent hookworm therapy! You can't get a composition of matter patent, but you can get a use patent. There is a company right now running clinical trials on a similar therapy.

http://biotechtranslated.com/2011/07/30/the-hygiene-hypothes...
+1 JackC // very nice definition. With a tinge of truth :)

I only visualize the people with their crappy and expensive earplugs and ipod telling how much they love music. And they seems to ignore how much their sound is distorded.

Hispters love the words and attitude and despise the knowledge. That's my definition.
A very impressive achievement. Where can I find an example of how to use it?
Yeah, not impossible, of course. I was being a bit silly. I don't feel that the Segway has been a huge success that "needs" to be killed. Granted, the way that verb is commonly used in tech writing is a bit ... weird.

I guess the Ryno looks interesting, although I failed to find the price (or availability information). I'm not at all sure about all the revolutionary talk, that sounds a bit too much like the pre-Segway hype with talk about how city planners will adopt this, and how it will help get people do more face-to-face communication.
I first started hearing the word used that way about at the same time as Ruby started becoming more popular.
This presentation, but with notes by Armin:

http://dev.pocoo.org/~mitsuhiko/FlaskPatterns_notes.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wTfQiGFAKE
Another day, another "Problems with PHP" article. Seems like everyone has to toss their hat into the ring.

If someone were to write a "Problems with PHP and Proper Password Hashing" post it would be #1 for weeks!
Although sometimes optimising somebody's individual productivity gets in the way of optimising the productivity of the company as a whole.

That's the real rub. It's entirely possible that the Right Thing To Do - from the perspective of the firm - is the do something other than what is most optimal for the individual. Sp, as a lot of us geeks tend to be fairly individualistic, and because it can be hard to isolate the variables when you're talking about team productivity, a lot of us fall on the side of "optimize for the individual."

As somebody who's radically individualistic, and who is also a startup founder, I find myself torn on the idea of whether or not it even makes sense to have an office, or whether it makes sense to push for a completely distributed team.

I'm getting a bit of a real-world experiment with these issues now, as my $DAYJOB has me in Chicago for a 6 month consulting gig and my co-founders are back in the RTP area. We use email and IM heavily now... but we had an in-person "hack day" last weekend when I was home, and there was definitely value in all 3 of us being in the same room, huddled up together.

I'm leaning towards thinking firms probably should have offices, and that most people should be in the office at least part of the time. But I would take a pretty laissez-faire approach towards it, I think. Provide offices, but give people fairly unlimited freedom to work remotely or come into the office as they see fit.
Well here is one picture of someone riding it.
http://rynomotors6.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/ryno-down-tow...
I would view asking questions to get someone to realize that they fucked up as passive aggressive. Ask if you're genuinely curious, but if it's clear that your friend/coworker/cofounder screwed up by meddling in something that they don't have expertise in, then call them on it!
Normally I think "Product X Killer" is kind of a ridiculous statement to make, but in the case of the Segway I would double that. For a competitor to kill another product implies that product is wildly successful and without any real competition. The Segway was hyped as "as big a deal as the PC" and "more important than the Internet". Instead it's fairly useless and banned in the places it would be most useful (ignoring the medical devices using gyroscopic technology). The Segway Killer is called your legs and a bicycle.

The Ryno isn't even a Segway competitor. You might make the bold claim that it would be a motorcycle killer, but even then... I mean, it's a one-wheeled motorcycle. Let's be practical here: the Ryno goes 20mph with a 20 mile range, can't be used on sidewalks or pedestrian areas, and only really exists to draw attention. It's not competing with the Segway, it's not competing with motorcycles, it's barely competing with scooters or bicycles. Hype it up because it looks interesting and has some neat tech, but don't make the claim that it will revolutionize transport just because it can stand up on its own.
I think you're correct that I misused "zero-sum," since the utility of the front page is not always the same; it can increase or decrease based on the quality of the articles. I incorrectly used it to describe a situation where the gain for one is the loss of another, which is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a zero-sum game.

Regarding your point, I think we're dangerously veering into platitudes. Of course I agree that a front page with "good" variety is better than a page with "repetitive" articles. And of course I agree that "too much conformity" is a bad thing. But I was originally countering the commonly spoken notion "If you don't like it, don't read it!" Because of the gain-for-one-is-loss-for-another nature of the front page, exactly what appears on the front page drives the community. If too many off-topic posts become the norm, HN will become a general interest site, and lose the community that makes it so valuable.

edit: There is zero reason to downvote mikeash. I tried to correct with an upvote of my own, but apparently at least two HN readers are mistaken.
Say what you want about the quality of the game (I personally detest many of its more recent changes and its loss of clear direction), Minecraft has a huge and very, very active community. Notch might not have cracked designing a game, but he's certainly cracked making a game community.
markets aren't efficient (don't listen to what they teach at school), they trade on emotion, perception is more important than reality
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How do you get information on these spreads? Are people who accept illicit trades openly advertising their services or maybe even rates? Or is this more underground like moonshine or drug trade, and do you need to be 'on the inside' to have access to these services? That last situation would seriously hamper liquidity and dampen the 'real-time' aspect tremendously, no?
>Having to fake an exchange rate sounds like the economic conditions in badly run countries like Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Russia, etc.

"Badly run countries"? Zimbabwe maybe, but for Venezuela and Russia, I beg to differ. They are doing things THEIR way, not the US/neo-liberals way that would like a better slice of the pie, but Venezuela is much better off than all the dictatorships and banana republics in the region, and Russia is way better than when Yeltsin did things that benefited certain foreign interests...
One more here: http://www.likecool.com/RYNO_one_wheeled_Segway--Bike--Gear....
That's not a PHP problem. It's a PEBKAC bug.
And heck, some access 4chan over Tor, which means any statistics about latency and location are quite probably wrong.

(You might think Tor is slow for image-heavy sites, in my experience it isn't. Tor is high-latency, but throughput is reasonable)
Perhaps you can learn from the Perl community's experience as they realised they had the same problem less than a year ago?

http://blogs.perl.org/users/mithaldu/2011/10/perl-tutorials-...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3158276
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I've thought about this argument before, and I realized that it just doesn't make sense. It's probably the most delusional way to describe building a business.

Lest we forget, the old way of charging for something still works. In fact, with the internet, it's extremely easy to reach a huge international audience. Customers don't give one shit where you live.

If you are trying to get a lot of big investors for your social platform that has to explode, sure, SF/SV is probably the absolute best for that, but you can start a business anywhere.
What happens with your network when the power goes down in your area, do you lose connectivity to the outside world?

Also, I just realised that I may have come across as a bit patronising! That wasn't the intention, I was just relating to what can be done with a lack of resources and a bit of ingenuity :)
I can set up a new Django environment in virtualenv, using Pip in about 15 minutes (using sqlite) without using a 'skeleton' template. Having not touched PHP in years, it would almost certainly take me longer to get PHP up and running with Nginx/Apache.

With Django 1.4's templates, you get more speed boost on setting up each app. With 'manage.py runserver', you don't even have to mess with Apache/Nginx to get running.

Regardless, comparing "PHP" to Django isn't particularly fair, even though I would argue that it isn't as one-sided as you make out. You can get started in Flask in slightly more than the time it takes to type 'pip install flask'.

If you're baselining PHP to Python, then know that Python has a much greater penetration on Unix servers, though arguably 'web hosting providers' are also very likely to have PHP installed (if it isn't dedicated).

Since you brought up Django, how long does it take to get started with CodeIgniter or Symfony (a better comparison to Django)?
This looks like a step backwards, applying traditional vehicle mechanics, where the Segway has already graduated from them.

Also, the Segway was always pitched as a _walking_ replacement, not a _driving_ replacement.
The kind of "monster" that wants the country as a whole to survive, not just the few lucky ones that can "store wealth".
If TBL is representative, CERN would be running on NeXTStep if it still existed, or FreeBSD as the next best thing.