skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the thing. Once you have "fixed" PHP, you're left with a brand new language that few people know, won't run your existing code, isn't included in Linux distributions or hosting packages, have no books about it and no answers on StackOverflow.

Of course these things will all happen in time if the fixed version takes hold. But if you're willing to throw out PHP and start anew, you can have all of the above right now by learning Node, Rails, Django, etc.

I think the comment above about needing a Jeremy Ashkenas (that is, a CoffeeScript for PHP) is the only realistic way for a "fixed" PHP to succeed. There needs to be a smooth transition, and a FixedPHP-to-PHP5 compiler could provide it.
Ask HN: best practices when looking for a seed investment?
I make myself remember the job and life I had before I started my start-up and it keeps me motivated. I don't want to go back to that. Ever.
Japan is a joke!
Hierarchy, Coercion, and Exploitation
Motor - async mongo/python/tornado engine
I find it baffling that in this day & age you can deploy a site that doesn't render on mobile. /dolphin browser, desktop-mode
or if you zoom the page (as I do with almost all sites I visit. I'm not sure if I have bad eyes or just sit away further from the monitor than most people)
Hyperbolic Titles are wearing on me..
Ignoring corywatilo's link-bait title, it's worth pointing that

>within a year or so, the number of Air Force pilots flying unmanned planes could be higher than the number who actually leave the ground

is true because the pilots being trained to fly drones already outnumber conventional pilots in training.
Show HN: Ask The Room
www.asktheroom.com is a free app I made over the last few weekends for including polls in presentations. It's minimalist, but seems to work pretty well. I was very pleased with the URL!

It was a great use-case for AppEngine. It uses a few other nice third-party toys too: blog.megafaunasoft.com/2012/06/ask-room.html
I don't think "creator" goes with "trader". Every creator I know enjoys having people enjoy their work, but would also like to eat. However, as soon as their basic needs are covered many prefer to give their work away because it isn't being created to make them rich, it is being created to be useful to people.

This is why open source works.

The tension, I believe, is scarcity versus sufficiency. In a scarcity society you have to horde everything. Life is a zero sum game, and you benefit most when you are better off than people around you. If you ask an MBA how they would feel if a friend bought the same car they had just bought they will tell you it cheapens their car a bit.
In a sufficiency society, we stop trying to beat the people around us and start collaborating with them, forming communities of discovery and creation. If you ask working class people how they'd feel if a friend bought the same car as them, they say it makes them feel better: now they both have great cars. People are happier, more satisfied and more contented when they feel like there is enough to go around. They are also more productive, creative and innovative. There isn't the wasted effort of geniuses stuck trying to figure out where their next meal comes from.

The rich in a scarcity society are better off (though still less happy): both because they are richer and because they are richer than people around them. Humans use comparative status, not absolute status as their measuring rod, and it's a rush to know you are more powerful than the people around you. However, in a world of nothing but scarcity life is incredibly miserable, lonely and riddled with anxiety.
"...most primitive societies have no concept of property -- this is why they are primitive."

Could you elaborate on that a bit? I'm having a bit of a problem with it, I think mostly because

"...I make the same carving and get to keep it. This is the beginning of civilization..."

doesn't seem to match what I know of the history of civilization.
First, I want to counter your use of "like" in quotes, as if programmers couldn't have perfectly valid reasons to like these languages.

I like Java for its low-cost allocations, sane implementation of constructors, and checked exceptions that prevent undeclared control flow behavior. The huge trove of solid-quality libraries and a general community focus on unit testing and documentation (perhaps in no small part driven by Apache) has been quite valuable.

I like C# for its type inference, relational algebra ala LINQ, reactive extensions, adoption of F#, and a general R&D focus on adopting language design from the functional languages.

I like Obj-C for the ease of which I can drop to C and assembly, and the ease-of-implementation inherent in Apple's GUI frameworks. That's about it -- there's a lot to dislike about ObjC.

All that aside, and given my own significant familiarity with the underlying runtimes, I'm trying to understand what you think is so advantageous about Apple's ObjC runtime. It is effectively an extremely simple dynamic dispatch runtime, reliant on the OS memory management combined with reference counting, zero support for any complex runtime state inspection (say, to support breaking reference cycles), and now with some C-derived glue for closures and compiler-emitable calls to support somewhat-automatic reference counting. The class registration system has hardly changed in 20 years, has no support for namespaces, the type encodings available at runtime are complex-to-decode-strings, and the whole thing is, quite honestly, the kind of rickety design you'd expect to emerge from C hackers in the late 80s early 90s, incorporating none of the advances in the field from either Sun/Java or Microsoft/C#.

ObjC predates the work on Strongtalk that led to the modern JVM, it either predates or fails to inherit from the language R&D outside of C, and predates the CLR runtime work done by Microsoft. It's a DINOSAUR.

I don't really understand where you see the runtime advantage here, and I spend nearly all of my time writing ObjC.

The only advantage I see to the ObjC runtime is that it's required to interface with their native libraries.
SockJS doesn't have those problems?
ARM Delivers 64-bit ARMv8 Linux Kernel Support
The State of Servo; a Mozilla experiment in browser design, implemented in Rust
Not to mention that the bindings are essentially C with Python syntax as they are mainly implement their functionality by causing side-effects :/.
Mobile App Stops Broken-Hearted Lovers From Calling Their Exes
I kinda did it for all previous releases, like the box on the right here: http://blog.ziade.org/2012/06/12/circus-04-released

Will do it for 0.6 thx for the feedback
According to a new analysis, if you want to run a tech company, you shouldn't drop out of college.

More like "if you want to run a tech company, but you're not already running one that's becoming so successful it needs your full attention, you shouldn't drop out of college."
lots of knowledgeable comments being made here already so clearly this is an interesting area but - what is the use case for this? I don't understand why I might need it.
Ah well, I found it funny - Humor is always risky I guess :)

The documentation at http://circus.io otho does not have such things
Wait until every police force has a dozen little drones in 2015 and they start paying for them by automatically generating (incontestable) speeding tickets.

If they WANT to write you a ticket, all they'll have to do is track you from home to work, as long as it takes and it will be perfectly legal, completely warrantless.
There Will Be No Accounting for (Other People’s) Taste in Tablets
> So are you saying the whole yolk divides in half continually to form the embryo?

No, the yolk does not "divide", the developing embryo feeds on its content.
Civilians tailing civilians is one thing, but military tailing civilians had some legal problems[1]. I am not really happy they used one to execute what should be an illegal search for some cows in ND[2].

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

2) http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/crime/north-dakota-po...
Csync2 a filesystem syncronization tool for Linux
I agree regarding the syntax. Most of differences as compared to ObjC seem to be focused on simply removing characters, increasing ambiguity for the reader, without any adequate justification for their removal.

The ugliness of ObjC has little to do with brackets and semicolons, and a lot to do with the lack of higher-level functional constructs and type-system features.

A language that was ObjC-compatible and yet could succinctly express LINQ/Rx-level type/api complexity would be a genuinely interesting successor to ObjC.

Syntax aside, however, the emergence of ObjC-compatible languages is contributing to the pool of knowledge on how to produce one, provides a set of possibly re-usable code to do so.

[edit] Dug into the code. It looks like the author is actually forking clang outright. This is an interesting approach, as it allows you to swap in a new compiler that supports both your language, and objc, possibly interchangeably.

The way that clang is designed (and as I understand it, I haven't looked in great detail), it's pretty much impossible to use it as a library to backend your own front-end parser/lexer atop -- you have to fork clang itself to inject your own code in.

I'm undecided as to whether tying yourself to clang (instead of the underlying llvm) is a net win for an alternative language implementation. Thoughts?
Was it this one?
http://www.geekwire.com/2012/lean-technical-chose-furnished-...
Ex Nokians launched a compnay called Jolla to continue working on MeeGo
Let's assume FB will cover Microsoft's old turf.

That said, I wouldn't want to work through FB/MS anyway (think MS Certs, 'corporate dev bloat' with SharePoint... Now... FB Job Auth API). And I might be able to leverage my 'brand aversion' to isolate dev shops I do wish to work under. They probably would prefer it that I not allow the 'excess' of FB into my life anyway. Or they might simply find FB's brand generally repugnant. All in all, FB won't be leading tech-intersect-science innovation (designer drugs through cool UIs, all the NP-hard problems that come from dual hypertext/image cool URIs, neural networks and actual utilities and ecological solutions). FB, at best, will be the ID/human-auth system for SpaceX.

FB has inherently limited itself to custodian software. Keeping the 'human namespace' tidy. Boring. Like MS and its 'hardware philanthropy' FB just wants to be present with the path of least resistence. MS succeeded with its imperative to put hardware everywhere, and they naturally earn market victory with that. Well, now humans are the new hardware, and FB is approaching that model. 'Desperation' should be determined based on how closely FB mirrors MS's Moore's Law Model. That would presuppose artificial shaping of the market (something along the lines of eugenics-thinking).

There will still be innovation, and that's what we will compete for.
Ask HN: How can get people to stop gushing at me and, instead, promote me?
I have had a lot of talented, intelligent, important people gush at me about how wonderful I am, how wonderful my websites are, how fantastic my writing is. Everyone wants to pat me on the head, give me emotional encouragement and crap like that. When I say "Hey, I don't need that. I need money. I need traffic. I need help monetizing my websites." most people spit in my face and tell me the sites have zero commercial value and ther is no money in it, even people who latched onto me and made life changing decisions based on my writing say thhings like that.

I am frothing at the mouth frustrated. This has been going on for literally years and has been done to me by people whose names you might recognize. How do I get people to stop telling ME I am wondetful and, instead, get them to tell their five hundred closest friends I an wonderful, they should follow me on twitter, read my writing, donate, buy something, etc?

As of yesterday afternoon, my bank account is suddenly at negative a few thou. So my already difficult situation has gotten dramatically worse. I need to solve this post haste.

Thanks.
Perhaps you have not been thrown someone else's list of 15-20 locations and tried to determine why one was not matching, and what was being matched before it based on specificity, whether or not it was a literal or regex, whether or not it halted further matching in the order that specific type was defined.

The complexity is entirely unneeded, mod_rewrite could def use some minor convenience tweaks, but is far more intuitive and therefore more effective in both understanding and debugging. I assure you that "match in order defined, unless passed through explicitly by a sub-condition" is sufficient and simple for 99.5%.

nginx's "match literals, then match everything, then choose most specific, in the order defined by its type" is craziness, "getting used to it" does not make it good, it's simply the first unnecessary step in making it useable.
I agree that the real problem is the recession of the nonfinancial economy based on consumption and production.

I disagree that the problem is a drop in private credit. The problem is the decoupling of productivity from broadly construed returns (on assets and on labor). The problem is that productivity has become unable to outgrow debt service.

We need private debt reduced as close to zero as possible, and we need to rebalance our economies to once again power themselves off productivity improvements (driving returns on investments, labor wages, and hence both consumption and investment) rather than debt growth (which is like cocaine: a temporary high followed by a major fall).
Wrong. There's a concept in journalism called newspaper dateweek. A story written on Friday can refer to the day on which it is written either as "today" or "Friday." LAST Friday would be the month & day, e.g. June 30.

You are confusing how things actually work with how you think they should work.
Although the title is link bait, this really doesn't surprise me.

Driving across the New Forest in the UK last summer I was "stalked" for half an hour by a couple of Apache helicopters. Every few minutes they'd pop up from behind cover or on the horizon somewhere, always pointing directly at my car.

I see no problem with it at all.
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After a quick glance it seems that it doesn't support iterations. How would you use it with a list of users ?
This is most similar to AngularJS. `data-hide` <=> `ng-hide`
Most people have a number of small-c connections of varying strength. That's not what I'm talking about. On the other end, there's Connections, which most people don't have. Small-c connections require energy to maintain. They can dry up. Big-C Connections don't, unless you fall into disgrace to a degree that very few powerful people ever will. Big-C Connections mean that people will go out of their way to help you out, in the hope that you'll one day return the favor.

Just as there's money (in the sense of the $1.25 I might spend on a cup of coffee) and then there's generational wealth, the same thing exists for (c|C)onnections.

Having Real Connections doesn't mean that the VC will fund you. That much is true. It does mean that if you get rejected, you get a sit-down explanation of why, and what to do in the future to get funding, and probably an EIR position. If there's another VC who might be interested, you'll get an introduction. That's what having Real Connections buys you. No, you don't get funded if it doesn't make business sense for the firm to fund you, but you get all the assistance (including an EIR gig in which you can learn what is required to be a "real founder") you need toward getting there... and an unending supply of chances.

Without Connections: "We're not interested. Sorry. Our policy is not to discuss our reasons."

With Connections: "We like your proposal, but <A>, <B>, and <C> are our issues with it. We also think you need a couple more years of operational experience. Speaking of which, one of our portfolio companies is looking for a <executive-level role> and would like to have it filled by Friday. Can you interview on Thursday?"

Most people, of course, don't have kind of safety net.

The people in power in society, by and large, don't consider the rest of us to be their social equals. Nobility in the pejorative sense is very much alive in the U.S. If you think otherwise about that set of people, you don't really know them. I do, and they're not nice people and they're not interested in helping out outsiders. They want those doors to stay closed.
I prefer descriptive titles. I don't know what an article called 'drone zone' will be about.
I won't decry having options, but I am not sure what Apple would stand to gain by switching the first-class language of their platform to Ruby. If you look at any RubyMotion code, it ends up being an almost line-per-line copy of the equivalent Objective-C code.

Given that the languages come from the same lineage, it is not even a big jump to switch between them from a developer's point of view. The thing that really stood out when I was learning Objective-C is that it essentially was Ruby, just with some C thrown in. I often wonder if people go in thinking Obj-C is some kind of worse version of C++ and then miss what the language really has to offer. While it is certainly not perfect, I'm constantly amazed at how elegant the design of the language really is.

Ruby could shine if Apple were to create a whole new set of APIs based around the language, but that would mean throwing away nearly 25 years or work. It would be a tremendous undertaking for what could be positive gain, but is just as likely to introduce a whole new world of problems, especially in the early years.

Official support for Ruby would certainly be welcome, but I don't see benefits in outright switching; not without also removing the Objective-C APIs from the equation and creating a whole new platform that centres around Ruby.
Man can not live on trolling alone.
Knowing what happens to the averages is next to irrelevant in trying to do the extraordinary.

Also importantly: these are CEOs, not founders. CEOs are often a different breed, and there is a selection effect for mainstream acceptability.
Seattle has terrible weather. You can tell by the quality of the raincoats everyone is wearing.
No offense, but I can see that freaking some people out if they don't realize that it's probably a training exercise (especially Apache helicopters!).
How information communication technology is helping India fight corruption
It reminds visitors that you're frugal, even if you aren't.
The F-16 trainers out of Wright-Pat used to user our house as a target - they'd circle it sometimes. It was pretty neat.
I don't think I've missed the point, though it's possible I'm talking past you. I've granted what you're saying-- I don't think synthetic replacement of parts of my brain should alter my identity or consciousness any more than a nap does.

But that's a kind of pointless philosophy, because I'm definitely not the same person I was ten years ago, and in ten years I'll certainly not be who I am now. Synthetic replacement wouldn't change that-- if it did, then it would not be me. And if that process were enabled by technology to continue at its current pace indefinitely, I don't think that Me+100years would have much more claim to being Me' than my grandchildren would; both would be radically altered derivative products.

It follows that I don't see how a synthetic brain is supposed to maintain my consciousness in the long term more than having children will. Or in brief: I don't see the question "would I still be me" as particularly interesting or useful.
Being pro property, primarily in the form of land, in the US is linked to virtue. A republic eventually is founded on the virtue of its citizens, not laws or paper. So property owners, as steak holders in society, are thought to be better behaved. Yeoman farmers are independent and self sufficient which makes them less likely to be manipulated into abusing power. Moving towards a manufacturing/finance society changed that equation dramatically and now all the incentives are towards self-interested manipulation. Virtue has become a public facade, not a private goal.
I don't know how to title this photo...
I will put this on my desktop...
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What? It's a fact that capital is riskier than earning wages. If you can earn $X working, and have a neutral choice between the two, you will want an expected value of >>$X to be a capitalist. Economists have found this holds across income strata. Don't compare capitalist millionaires to your average laborer; that doesn't tell you anything about the risk-return of capital ceteris paribus.

Anyway, I was just trying to answer the original poster's question. I'm sorry that you are "sickened". To be honest, what often sickens me is people who think their sense of moral superiority entitles them to ignore the way the world is.
This is pretty much only useful for JS apps.
The problem comes when you have data changing after a view has been rendered.

Rendering the whole view again can be expensive. As well as this the user might have interacted with the page in which would probably make the user loose his changes.
The important thing to remember is that AGI (which the article discusses) and how much money you "make" are not very correlated once you make above, say, 200K a year. A key reason is unrealized capital gains - I guarantee you that if a billionaire makes $77 million, most of that isn't going to appear as AGI. In a sense, realizing capital gains means something went wrong, not to mention income which is very wrong. Other factors that keep money out of AGI include tax-exempt bonds, business expenses, and capital loss harvesting. (And these are just some of the legal ways.)

Please, when you read an article discussing AGI, keep in mind that it is a semi-random number. Unfortunately since it's the number available, it's what gets used.
How exactly is this different to gecko webkit etc having to support non standard features shipped in MSIE because lazy developers wrote shite code?
In my experience, the actual optometrist at Walmart is basically running his own business, he just happens to be renting the space from the chain, and doesn't really interact with them all that much.
Louis CK has gotten a tonne of free advertising on HN (and now techdirt). When that gravy train stops, it's going to be a lot tougher.
Look. You are the one making the claim that you can exploit this. I call bullshit. So either prove it, or drop it. Accusing me of being "confused" does not provide evidence for your claim.
You are having two different people evaluating different situations. Having the same person evaluate the situations would make for a different picture.

Put $500000 in to a new business: This may make lots of money, or you may lose it all. That part stays the same whether or not you are rich or have to beg, borrow and steal the money.

Put 2000 hours in to a job: You are almost certain to be able to collect the money from the hours you put in to the job, no matter if the company goes bankrupt or not. Your expect value may come out lower than starting a new business, but your worst case scenario is much better. Even in the case of the employer leaving town and a locked door when you go to collect your paycheck, most governments have some kind of program to pay employees when there employer does not and to chase down and punish the employer for not paying.

It's impossible for me to fully evaluate the two risks, but I agree with conventional wisdom that having a job is the less risky path for an average individual to take. For the investor, perhaps things are different.

I don't think it has anything to do with higher status, though.
My current desk is a solid wood door with these legs:

http://hairpinlegs.com/products.php?id=5

It's the most sturdy desk I've ever used. There is no wobble and I'm sure you could easily stand a few people up on it.

Those legs aren't super-cheap, so it's not the least expensive desk you could build, but it's very strong and looks pretty nice.