skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
register_globals was removed.

PHP5 changed the semantics of objects entirely. Before they were value types.

Still, yes, not enough has changed IMO.
A bit more attention?

If spending half an hour thinking about an idea, and another 20 minutes building a 4 page website comes anywhere near a $1 million valuation, then I really don't know what to think anymore...
Here's a much better article on the topic by Dan Ariely. This is one of his primary areas of research, and he addresses it in his books (including a description of his experiments).

http://danariely.com/2012/08/15/understanding-ego-depletion/

I made a separate submission for the above link, it deserves it.
You know Google isn't the first search engine, right ?
All laws have boundaries, sometimes non very clear ones. But they are still usually understood. Copyright is violated everyday, by almost everyone.

Do you realize that the GNU GPL is based on strong copyright law, and that removing it means the free software movement, who can enforces freedom through the GPL, would be almost powerless under your proposal? Does that affect your thoughts?

I'm not derleth, but personally, I think it's a decent trade. Particularly since more and more free software is non-copyleft anyway.

(I'm an employed AGPL developer, by the way).
A la your question, I added this commit to prevent deleting long-standing red tasks: http://goo.gl/Wc6Yr . Thanks again for the input
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It's a sensible choice and i understand the reason for it being this way. It does seem like it's exposing an implementation detail, though, and out of the rest of the core language syntax, nothing else throws an exception.

I'm happy to see the feature, but this is one of those quirks that, in another five years, will end up in the next "A Fractal Of Bad Design" blog post.
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This is certainly a debate about semantics, but I don't think you mean "semantics." They changed the implementation of objects. And they added new syntax. But they made no changes that affected the old syntax -- except the one I mentioned.
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There's no doubt that it's a very extensive book on software development and a very good one but I personally don't recommend it. If one really wants to know about software development, I find that it's much better to join an open source project and discuss the development of the project with other people than just reading about software development. It's almost the same thing as learning everything about an internal combustion engine but having no idea how to fix one.

In hindsight perhaps I shouldn't have bought the kindle edition of the book (Code Complete) because it's a very large book and it's not those kinds of books where we must read from cover to cover and I don't think it's very practical to read those books in a kindle but perhaps it's just me. Just my 2 cents.
> Imagine one of these payloads landing on someone's head. Wolfram Alpha offers up "2.4x impulse force acting on a baseball being hit by a bat" as a comparison when you plug in "5 lbs * 30 mph".

I'm not sure what value this comparison has. Impulse force doesn't tell you much of anything about how much damage would be done to a persons head.
There is a common pattern here: Leaderships like CEOs or presidents set up an inanimate conceptual objects such as companies or countries to symbolize their ideals. The primary objective seems to motivate rank and file to work for these symbols and indirectly for them by having rank and file believe that they represents those symbols. It's funny how subtly of leadership has common patterns across small startup to large countries to activists groups.
The ironic thing is that dumbphones generally had no restrictions on installing your own Java apps, so the iPhone is actually a step back in that regard.
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> It's hilariously inaccurate to say that NYU students are loaded.

First of all, I said "overwhelmingly likely" to be loaded. And I guess we're at an impasse until one of us takes the time to get the raw data. Because I know you're dead wrong, and you know I'm dead wrong.

I do know that nearly half the students these days don't need any help AT ALL. And just being able to drop the over $60,000/year to the school alone for four consecutive years would imply "loaded" to me, and well, every sane American. And not all the rest of the other half are drowning in student loans - the distribution doesn't break down into "drowning" and "loaded". Also, keep in mind the ridiculous cost of living in Manhattan. NYU students, relative to the rest of the colleges and universities in America, are rich as shit. Compare NYU to Harvard and say they're broke. Don't compare NYU to nearly any state school and say that.

Of course plenty of students get financial aid there. I never said they don't. But do you really think it's more likely that 4 college buddies who can drop everything they're doing with a cool pipe dream idea but no talent (source: the code they themselves produced) - you think those guys were in the bottom quintile that are drowning, not the upper half that can pay full tuition with no assistance? From my view, you're kidding yourself, likely because of the attractiveness of the "scrappy startup" image.
Do you means emacs mode for this stuff? If so, I think the emacs-lisp-mode is enough.
Only comments. You still can't downvote stories.
I guess so, I'm not well-versed in programming nomenclature, I haven't done a CS course.
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So the guru stage involves no unit tests? I have to admit that when I program on my own I never write unit tests. But in a corporate environment it's blasphemy. Plus on my own (solo) projects I know the app like the back of my hand and it's a reasonable size so I can keep everything smoke tested. But on large corporate projects it's really easy to add a showstopper you never notice. I'd like to hear the author talk more about this (or commenters).
There are fewer than 2^33 humans on the planet, so I do not think "2^(6 billion) subgroups of humanity" is an accurate figure.
Mormons don't drink alcohol, right?

Hope Romney doesn't get in...
There is room for a language that generates HTML by default, compiles every library anyone could ever need into the core, and puts it all in the default namespace. All you need to make that socially acceptable is something like GHC's -XNoImplicitPrelude option. By default, you get what might be considered to be a big mess. But when someone with a clue shows up to turn your prototype into something maintainable, they can turn on "expert mode" and program normally again.

That's what PHP is missing: expert mode. As it stands now it's very difficult to turn off all the traps, so experienced programmers are forced to switch to other languages. Compare this to Perl, where it has silly behavior by default, but you can turn it off with "use strict" at the top of the file.
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I managed to get the pagination I needed via judicious use of "page-break-before: always", but yes, this is more a strategy for "I need to programatically generate PDF files" than "I need to generate PDF files which look exactly like this".
I'm confused, what was he trying to do? Surely just having liquid nitrogen in your mouth (without swallowing) would case serious issue.
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When we were in high school, a friend of mine used to get liquid nitrogen from his father, who was a chemist, and put it on his tongue and blow smoke out his mouth and nose. I thought he was nuts! That he would crack a tooth, or some such, but he never did.

IIRC correctly, he stopped when he accidentally swallowed a TINY amount. I think it made him burp for a while, but other than that, he was apparently unharmed.
Precisely. They extensively tested all sorts of catastrophical scenarios back on the simulators on earth.
and the guy who does that seems interesting and relying: http://www.poeschko.com/
I think this is awesome! And the domain, http://cocoa.io, is AMAZING. Very catchy.
Putting a small amount of liquid nitrogen on your tongue does not cause any trouble, as long as you don't swallow it. I have a friend who used to do this frequently. See a comment I made elsewhere on this story for more details
Why not use zeppelins? Could they be energy efficient? Just not sure how to deal with wind. But it has been done, so I guess it is possible.
I love Ruby. It is my favourite language by far. And I strongly believe that it is possible to do a Ruby implementation that is fast enough for most uses.

But current implementations are slow. And there are a lot of things in the language that makes a fast implementation hard. For example the fact that class definitions are executable and can be re-opened at any time, including by passing a string to eval(). They combine to make it extremely hard to make method calls fast. And since pretty much everything is method calls in Ruby, that's not good.

As an example, a Ruby implementation has to be able to deal with code that might overload the + method for integers, so even basic stuff like integer additions can't be statically inlined without precautions to handle cases like that.

I'd say for what they're doing, with tiny little rewrites in Nginx, Lua might be better suited - the Lua implementation is known for being extremely fast.
How is this different from Quora ?
That was his point -- having liquid nitrogen in your mouth is safer than it sounds, since you get a gas layer insulating the liquid from the rest of your mouth.

But in addition to the danger of accidentally swallowing, I've also heard stories of people having teeth crack by doing this; so I'd say that "safer than it sounds" is still far from "safe".
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This is a very good reason why Tibetan Buddhists aren't vegetarians; they couldn't survive on plant matter in the high Himalayas, where barely any plant growing agriculture is possible.

Animals are incredibly effective in converting widely dispersed plant matter into something we can actually use for energy. Pigs are even probably the world's best recyclers, able to eat anything (garbage, but hopefully just organic left overs), which we can then benefit from indirectly (there is a good reason why many cultures don't eat pork though, its kind of gross when you think too much about it).
This is an old story (see the date of 1999?), as a WPI guy ive heard this one a few times

The guy was attempting to use a cute little physics trick. I'm no physics major, but the idea is similar to walking on coals. You can have the liquid nitrogen in your mouth briefly and it doesn't burn you. Swallowing it, however is a totally different story.
When the drones come to US cities, and it seems they will within a decade, I'll be moving to a smaller town, however small or remote it takes to escape the noise. I'll accept that I'm an old fogey who can't handle "progress".
> 4% wealth tax

We already have a wealth tax. It's called "inflation." If the government wants to tax wealth, all they have to do is print money. The culture of living within your means and saving for the future basically died before I was born, so the point that this kind of policy punishes responsible citizens who are capable of living frugally, within their means, and saving the future is essentially moot.

Sales and income taxes are easy to implement because they're based around money actually changing hands. Property taxes are easy to implement because the physical thing that's being taxed is clear. General wealth taxes rely on accounting and valuation of illiquid assets, which is easily subject to gamesmanship.

If this was implemented, you'd just cash out your bank account every day, then tell the tax authorities you "spent" the money (in reality you keep a suitcase full of large bills under your mattress, but they have no way of knowing that). As long as you don't make a ton of money, and could conceivably be spending it on living well (vacations, movies, good food, alcohol, flowers for the significant other, etc.), how are they going to prove otherwise?

If you have more money, it gets more difficult to use that particular trick, but you'll also have more political power to get loopholes written into the law, and pay accountants to figure out how to make the loopholes work for you. And it'll also become more worthwhile to go to the trouble of keeping money overseas out of the range of taxation, or set up exotic financial structures like life insurance policies, trusts or derivatives, which don't have a definite value until they become payable.

I'm not an accountant, so some of the details might not be one hundred percent right, but it feels like that's a fair first approximation to what would happen.
*Grocery stores usually have 3-5% margins. I was using Google as a hypothetical if their margins were low.

So basically businesses would charge a sales tax (3%) increasing prices for the consumer.

Then the consumer would also pay 3% income tax.
The consumers would pay 4% wealth tax.
The business pays 3% revenue tax, taken from the consumer.
The business wouldn't pay 4% wealth tax.
Essentially the business would pay 0% tax, and the consumer would be on the hook for it all.

So a person who earns $50,000 and saves $20,000 per year would pay the following:
Year 1, $1,500 on $50,000
Year 2,
$1,500 on $50,000
$20,000 from previous year saved - 4% tax $800 a year
$2,400 in total taxes.
Year 3,
$1500 on $50,000
4% on $40,000 = $1,600
$3,100 total tax

By year 20, the consumer who would have accumulated $400,000 would end up paying a total of 170k in taxes on savings, resulting in almost a 42% tax rate on their wealth.
The field of CS is currently where the field of law was in 1970. The overt discrimination of the 1950's and 1960's was gone, but indirect forces existed to keep the number of women in the legal field small. Law schools and law firms made determined efforts to increase the representation of women. Fast forward to today, half of all law schools graduates are women. Nearly half of all associates in large law firms are women. At some old-line NYC firms, 20-25% of partners are women. Law schools and law firms no longer make a concerted effort to recruit women, they just happen to end up with roughly evenly distributed classes.

It's easy to say that women are just "less interested" in CS/Math, but that's a cop-out. One might point out that a job in a large law firm is often boring and exceedingly detail-oriented (it's kind of like debugging code actually). One might point out that such jobs are also guarded by an entrance examination that depends very heavily on formal logic, something women aren't stereotypical good at. Yet, law firms around the country are full of women.

The problem is not so much that there are not enough women in CS. It's that 40% of the kids who get SAT Math scores of 700+, and 30% who get a perfect 800, are girls, yet top CS programs, which presumably screen heavily for math aptitude, might have only 5-10% girls. Given that CS is such a great way to a solid middle class income, and so many girls clearly have the aptitude for it, I find it very difficult to chalk up their self-selection out of CS to merely "interest."
Arduino is C/C++. It's mostly a C++ abstraction built on top of the avr-libc library. The Arduino IDE is written in Java though.
Conterminous? I learn something new on HN every day, but new words are unusual.
Because this particular subgroup makes up the majority of the population. This should be blindingly obvious to anyone who isn't trying to be disingenuous.
From what I could gather, it's a common parlour trick in his circles to pour liquid nitrogen into your mouth, at which point it will sort of stay on your tongue (above an air cushion that protects the tissue) until it's evaporated. But this time he swallowed, and once it's inside your body the vapour cannot escape into the room as it expands, creating horrific amounts of pressure on your insides.
Nginx is "battle tested" as one of the most used web servers, particularly as a reverse proxy. Lua is battle tested as an embedded language for just this type of thing.

In comparison, Go is a pretty much unknown quantity.

I'm curious as to what problems you think that this might lead to that aren't just as likely or more likely with a Go based implementation.