skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PHP is still usable, sure, but there's just not many compelling reasons to do so, except in certain cases where it does offer a clear-cut advantage (low-friction, newb-friendly development and deployment of simple dynamic sites, for example).

I also find the "there's tons of spaghetti code in other languages" argument tiresome. That's true, but well-designed languages tend to help keep people off that path - or at least do a better job of doing so. PHP is not one of those languages, hence the need for a "PHP the Right Way".

As asserted in the post, PHP is indeed used on a ton of websites. Most of these websites were written when PHP was the best tool for the job. But languages evolve. Other languages have learned the lessons of PHP and improved upon it.

PHP has done a fine job of "modernizing" itself lately, but it's still stuck with a lower quality overall design than some of the alternatives, and those alternatives have kept moving forward at the same time too. It reminds me a lot of IE's "look, we've implemented that thing that the good browsers had 3 years ago" announcements. It's great that PHP is not standing still, and that continued improvement must be awesome for existing projects that are built on PHP.

But for me, starting new projects in 2012, there's zero compelling case for using PHP, just as there are many old languages that would have been "the" choice once upon a time, but are now replaced by better things.
My core belief is that companies/people behave the way they do, in both good in bad ways, because of financial incentives.

If this is a real market for this kind of paid service, I believe that sets up the correct financial incentives. It also solves for scaling issues, troll issues, and financial sustainability of the company.

If I can't validate the market via the join.app.net campaign, then we can still say that we tried, and won't take anyone's money/let anyone down.

Happy to meet in person
The misaligned incentives are the hardest problems to solve in this case. An example use case could be a weekly email sent to you with 5 anonymous resumes/bios, of which you pick the best two. You would probably be able to passively collect income as the service could pay ~$100 for each "review" and then pay a bonus if one of your reviewed bios gets hired. Still, there's the incentive to sign off on two random resumes and collect $100. At that point, the question is whether it is worth your time as an industry professional to spend a bit of time and earn side cash. This is completely meant to disrupt recruiting agencies by the way, not to source co-founder level team members.
I come from a reasonably well off family. Ma parents did not think they could have children, so they adopted a boy and a girl. Then I came along.

I look like my parents, think like my parents and in many ways, behave like my parents. However, I have outright rejected their religious beliefs (so there are some differences, but these could be the lack on indoctrination or maybe circumstance.
My sister met her biological mother for the first time when my sister was 23. They both smoked, wore similar clothes, had similar musical tastes, similar social past times - in just about every way, they were very alike. More importantly, my sister is almost nothing like me, despite the very similar nurture/environment.
My brother was a very similar story, always in trouble with the law.
My parents had a strict policy, if one got something, we all got it. However, they recognized strengths and nurtured those.
So we have a family whose genetics have driven our looks, personalities, interests, careers (if you consider crime a career for my brother) and in my view, intelligence was also varied.
Adoption did not influence my siblings as far as I can see (by comparison with biological parents). All I have ever seen in my life in nature, nature, nature.
To add to this, we all have kids, and guess what? Our kids are all similar to their parents too. Looks/behavior and again, I'd argue intelligence.
Having said all of that, we are all intelligent in our own ways. As an example, my brother is very street wise- he's a great manipulator, a player. He can handle himself in many situations.
I fundamentally reject any urgument that nature plays no part in any aspect of what makes a person, including intelligence. Do you think the similarities end with looks?
Please step back a bit.

Let's say you are measuring IQ (whatever it indicates) in some giant between-subjects design or meta-analysis which also includes some number of "independent variables" outside your experimental control. Then you do some kind of multiple regression.

What you are doing is building a very high-level, black-box model finding maximum likelihood parameters to fit some observed data.
Each underlying data point is a slice of a snapshot of the behavior of a very complex system.

This is worthwhile insofar as we can account for variance that we might see in future samples and can therefore predict and confirm that we have an understanding of the system. It doesn't actually give us visibility into the complex system because regression terms rarely correspond to anything concrete. This offers only the vaguest possible constraint on attempts to decompose the overall effect into causal factors.

The weights in the regression do not, individually, have a meaningful interpretation outside of the model. (The implication and meaning of a term in a theory depends on the meanings of other terms in the theory).

But for some reason we decide to disregard this, and are primarily interested in which weight is bigger. And the reason we are interested is as a way of showing which ideological school is right or wrong: where the ideological schools are some version of "DNA is so important" and "environment is so important". If one school is vindicated - what? Everything they say is true?

We are testing hypotheses, not people. To badly paraphrase Popper: we send our theories to die in our stead...

Are you getting an idea of what I am saying about nature vs. nurture here or are we just talking past each other?
Lots of impressions and yet nobody but developers truly use it. MySpace isn't entirely dead are we forgetting that Justin Timberlake and Specific Media purchased the company not too long ago and have been working effortlessly in the background preparing to relaunch the website? If anyone should be worried it should be Google, Facebook, Tumblr and Pinterest because many seem to forget MySpace possess a pretty large catalogue of indie and mainstream music, they have licence agreements with the big four record labels, have millions of videos... People love an underdog and I think MySpace is in a prime position when it relaunches.

Comparing Tumblr or Pinterest to Google+ is like comparing a motorbike to a car, both forms of transport but each serves a different purpose. Google+ haven't won anything yet and I doubt they will, the landscape is going to be marginally different come 2013.
Now available in bulk, but I still haven't received the E-mail I signed up for months ago that was supposed to announce availability.

How hard is it to manage a mailing list?
So one in one thousand positive results is legitimate. How is this tool remotely useful?
I swear I read that headline as 'trapped' not 'tapped'.
$60 million is a low price now?

My but we live in a world of inflation.
Turns out we messed up the shipping rates, if you order we'll be happy to refund the difference or just get in touch and we'll be happy to handle your order in person :)
Yes ....

House prices are rising, but condo prices are not. The cranes (in your video) are putting up lots of space so the demand is being met. Houses (as in I have a basement) prices are still rising.

Lots of foreign investment. People are buying house with CASH. 1 million dollar crappy places with cash. We even have a tumblr about how crappy some of the situation is http://fmlistings.tumblr.com/. Toronto is perceived as a safe place to invest. I agree that we have better regulation of the finance markets, but it's starting to get out of hand.

But ....

There are still cheaper places available. You just can't live in the city. You live in the suburbs and commute. Pickering, Milton, Barrie, etc. It's like living in Manhattan. You most likely can't afford it. So queens, brooklyn are cheaper options.

Prices in Toronto (IMO) were low to start with. Vancouver prices were higher than us, but there was no justifiable reason for it other than it was "nice". Economically, Toronto is a better place for jobs. My thought is that we are catching up to what it should have been and ...

The government is intervening. They are removing the easy credit without raising interest rates, by making it harder to afford a mortgage. If the market doesn't respond in kind, They will continue to make efforts to slow the market. I have faith in the Bank of Canada. The governor has repeatedly put us on notice that he will intervene if it is necessary and if we don't reign in our personal debts.
Definitely. But that's the thing. GP said he only has G+ because he has GMail, but uses those other email workalike interfaces because they are superior products. Just pointing out that they work in strikingly similar ways to email.
What I'm curious about is how Congress can appear so technologically clueless about big bills (like network neutrality, etc) but then even know what BigTable is.
I'm in New Zealand, and ordered mine about the same time as you (NZD $55). The ETA when I ordered was 8-9 weeks, and it's been 3-4 already. Much like you, I haven't heard anything from RS in the meantime, which is a bit disappointing; a weekly or by-weekly update just to let me know what stage of production my orders at would be great, even just to know they are aware of it.

Kind of annoyed that I held off my order for a couple weeks after I got the notification. In the two weeks I waited from the time I got my notification to when I ordered the backlog went from 6 weeks to 9 weeks. If i'd ordered earlier i'd probably have my Pi by now.

Might order a second one from Farnell, but I hear they're still pretty backed up too.
Do you have any evidence at all? Because history is filled with writers who get away from all the distractions so that writing is the only thing can to do.

Personally, I think you're confusing important with easy. When I find a video game I like, I can play it for hours. But that's because it has been optimized for playability. But when writing or coding, sometimes I get frustrated. What I'm going may be important, but it isn't always easy, and that's when distraction will strike.
PayPal Acquires Card.io
Was looking for a list similar to this. Thanks!
Now that Twitter is 'stable,' the API is being overhauled and they are moving away from being a single page application.

You forget Twitter has been dealing with technical debt for years. The fact that Twitter still runs on Rails and serves as much traffic as it does is testament to what the engineers there have built.
Yes, like Dribbble, we trust our designers to spot designers' talent.

But unlike Dribbble, we're not looking to build a popularity contest.

Actually, let me ask here: how much does popularity of a designer matter to you in choosing a designer to join your team?
This is a catch-22. I have to refer to the comparable service and API to give some idea of what we are talking about, and where the inspiration came from.

Whether any startup founder likes it or not, their startups and projects will get put into buckets and will get called things like "the X of Y" or "like X a Y put together" or "X for dogs".
Smart move... now they just need to buy up SQUARE and iZETTLE.

Anybody know the price paid?
Not sure what you mean. Do you mean the landing page screen? I am in the middle of a redesign of that page. Hoping to have it up this week.
(‘Average net worth' measures the total combined value of a household’s liquid and real estate assets, minus debt.)

That's only one side of the story, maybe Americans have more leverage?
Have you worked out equity pay packages for startups that need your solutions but don't yet have capital?
This reading app has wonderful UX — my feedback is somewhat biased, admittedly, because it's ripped straight off from us (Inkling):

http://tinyurl.com/inkling-frommers-france

(yes, you have to create an account to view content, but it only takes a second)
I prefer to just use a tool that simply removes distraction instead, like Quiet (http://wireload.net/products/quiet/).
Leap Motion taps former Apple iAd VP Andy Miller to be President and COO
It's a pretty looking website, you hired a good designer to help you skin it Kirill. Nice.

What's the main difference between you and dribbble? They let you people message designers about projects too, no?

Good luck!
Use Google for Great Images
I believe SoftwareMaven was referring to the literal "lead" spelling that the writer used (as the majority of actual journalists use the "lede" spelling), not to the reference.
Hacked this together in a couple seconds, there is probably a better way:

nnoremap A :call EndOfLine()<CR>a

fu! EndOfLine()
normal $
if getline(".")[col(".")-1] == ';'
normal h
endif
endfunction
Besides a keygen, software might be bundled with a list of keys to use when downloading from certain sites.
Curious, what's your revenue model? Your terms mention Our basic service is free, and we offer paid upgrades for advanced features.

So, do the designers need to pay a fee to be listed, when they receive a message from a client etc.?
Hey buddy, I work in information security and even I get pissed at our proxy more often than I praise it. It takes a lot of paperwork to get a site allowed through, and no paperwork to get one blocked.
Why There Are 24 Hours in a Day
We have a winner!

After I discovered people were doing that, I was rather surprised that they thought that the trademark serial number would be a valid registration key. I guess people don't read.

Edit: Thanks for the heads-up about the typo. Oops!
Although it bends HN etiquette, I want to go beyond just an upvote to say "thank you very much" for this.
The sheeple love to feel important and free, no amount of argument and reason would make them see the reality ;)
I think it is more likely because they want to build a social network for collaboration around Office 365, Yammer and Skype, and maybe, be able to give some uptime/quality guarantees to customers (things would not necessarily be better, but more under control of Microsoft)

If you have a distributed system but want to wiretap some calls, I think it would be easier to have some back door for instructing clients "whenever you make a call/get a call from one of these numbers, CC us".
So you get punched - and the time you want it most it goes into lock mode. I hope it still continues to monitor when it is locked.
Facebook ads aren't relevant? I'm no ad expert but I heard of someone proposing by a very strictly relevant Facebook advert.
Since you have a family, it probably has been a while since you goofed off for an extended period. But for me it always gets old. There is only so much time I can spend doing nothing before I get hungry for something of substance.

Note that raising kids is a very substantial activity. I've taken the summer off to hang out with my brother and his family. Even a lot of the nominally fun time with kids means I'm helping educate, build character, and encourage good habits. So maybe the energy you would otherwise put into making a product is going into making a family.
Coupon codes get shared anyway and that should be taken into account when sharing them out and pricing them. I always check retailmenot.com before making purchases at web stores with a coupon code field visible in their order form.
Show HN: Karmabee - Get any favor done by friends in your social network.
I'm more worried about this:

> There is not a single mention of the many failures to replicate, methodological critiques, or skeptical meta-analyses about n-back.

Can you refute that?
No emails listed in the WHOIS at all? Try webmaster@domain, postmaster@domain, and a few variations of those. Or dig into one of the "whois archive" web sites, maybe you'll find an earlier WHOIS record with owner info.
Investigative work by Redditor shows power of Twitter
Congrats Sean and Matt!
Yep. I'm upset with this but I hadn't even considered the reproduction aspect. It's the fact that they're using the models in their own thing.

If they were just sending out verbatim copies of torchlight without profit then it would be a different issue.
Why you should work at TaskRabbit
The popup you wrote had a humanizing effect. It's not just a faceless piece of software anymore. It's a a genuinely nice guy who built a cool product and wants to get paid.

As a concept, people know that there's a real person behind every application. But it's not until moments like these when they're actually confronted with that person. Much less offered a deal for trying to rip them off.
This is essential watching to understand China better. IMHO. YMMV. I changed a lot of my opinions after watching this talk.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/martin_jacques_understandin...
The problem is that often there will be several factors linked together. Richer households will have better nutrition, but they'll also behave differently, have more books, associate more with other richer families, etc. It's really hard to unlink these factors, even when trying to control studies statistically.

Nutrition is a really low hanging fruit, and you have to be pretty poor for it to have any effect.
Show HN: Mobile platform for bands and artists
They don't mention their false negative rate, nor any of the rates for competing tech. So we can't say that this device catches the one in X that other machines don't catch. And we can't say that this machine finds 1 in 1,000, where competing machines only finds 1 in 100,000.

In theory early detection is good, but I'm not sure what treatment is available if cells are found this early ad the stress for the other 1,000 people is going to be significant.
> Wait, you have a G+ page, space, whatever automatically because you have a gmail account?

No - you have to opt in.

> Is there a way to get rid of that?

If you want to disable G+ on your account (which will also remove your G+ profile), you can go to the "Google+" section of your Google account settings page (https://www.google.com/settings/plus). At the bottom there is a section labelled "Disable Google+".
Using history as a guide, SMTP was open. But number of people using gmail+yahoo+hotmail+aol etc (a handful of implementations) account for more than 99% (just a guess) in consumer market?
Telephony started off with open standards, but in any country, it still came down to a handful of companies.I would guess that if the telephone market was not geography and government constrained, it would have ended up with a handful of companies for the whole world.
These days, I don't even see the trend of something starting open and eventually becoming closed. It starts off closed from the start. facebook, twitter etc.
The takeaway, is that, anything that presents users with dead simple thing wins. Anything that makes users do the work loses. People don't care about open or closed. It is always what is easiest. nothing else matters.
Right, but now we've circled back to the original point, which is that when you do give notice, it makes no sense for the company to insist that you leave immediately and escort you out, as you were in control of when you gave notice. If you wanted to do any damage, you would've just done it and then gave notice.
If you've already been on Plus, and you're in chrome or (I think) Firefox, it won't do a search when you type "plus" as the top autocomplete suggestion will be "http://plus.google.com. To search, you'd have to key down the list of suggestions.
The world isn't so simple that we can slap 'good' and 'bad' labels on everything and expect things to be perfect. It's also not so trivial to condition people that we can simply create a punishment/reward system and expect it to fulfill it's role accurately.

Look at the failure that is the legal system and how badly it addresses the problem of crime. Even under the threat of the harshest penalties, crime still happens. Even after locking someone up in a cage, they are still likely to re-offend.

Think about it - people cooperate with people they like. Trying to take someone's money, physical freedom or whatever else makes you their enemy. People are very unlikely to cooperate with their enemies. The trick is to not trigger that "you're an enemy" response. The result is an open line of communication and a real chance that the behavior will change.

In other words, we're not Pavlov's Dogs and a little common sense goes a long way.

Given how many people are enamored by computing devices which only have one button, it's clear that the vast majority will pay full price instead of going to the trouble of downloading the pirated software, installing it, doing whatever needs to be done for the coupon code to come up and then paying. It's much simpler to buy the damn thing and be done with it. If someone is going through all that trouble, they probably can't afford the retail price.
Flirting with iOS after Three Years on Android
It depends...

For a bootstrapping startup trying to ship: not much.

For a brick and mortar business looking to help establish their web presence with a mobile app: quite a bit.

And often times it's the latter category of clients that pay more.

I'm just brainstorming here, not criticizing Scoutzie at all. You guys are off to a great start.
Some indie game producers release on piratebay right from day zero. Usually with some kind of easter egg version, e.g. all in-game characters have a pirate hat, no other hats are available like in a legitimate version. This makes sure that no-one pirates a badly cracked buggy version and gets a bad experience and decides not to buy the game.

Thankfully free demos are coming back so it is easier to test a game legally before making the decision on the purchase.
congrats to Mike and the card.io team!
"If my $3 purchase only nets the author a $80,000 income from a popular work, there is little incentive for him to continue to work on the software."

I've seen variants of this comment around. I wonder if some folks have some illusion that an 'app' is like a lottery ticket that makes them rich forever. Rather than spending 10 - 15 years making Apps and taking any excess money and saving/investing it for retirement or some future kind of thing. I reminded a young high school student who was enthralled in the dream of "release and the money comes rolling in" [1] that the reason its called 'work' is because you have to keep doing it to keep the money flowing.

[1] A big shout out for Corona as a nice easy to get into App development environment.
1. By definition

2. Because the math works out better

If it turns out that things that depend on prime numbers work in all cases except for 1, you might as well define 1 not to be a prime number.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number#Primality_of_one
What's the incentive for Meetings.io to offer this? Are there ads?
A workable substitute for self-discipline is to make it hard enough to do the bad thing that either your laziness or your better nature wins out.

E.g., I don't keep cookies in the house. Instead, I go to the store if I want some. It's pretty rare that I'll overcome my laziness enough to head out for them. And then on the way I often come to my senses.

In this case, I might make it harder to edit the hosts file. E.g., a daemon that puts the block back automatically unless I solve 25 captchas.

I also really like LeechBlock's option to insert a 30-second pause before viewing banned websites. Since it cancels the countdown if the window loses focus, I have to just sit and wait for half a minute. 90% of the time I'll say, "But I don't even want to look at Facebook now," close the window, and get back to what I want to be doing.
You've had too much TV propaganda IMHO. China's bureaucrats nowadays have way more respect for their people than South Korea's elite. No idea about Japan.