skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're working with PHP professionally, you probably have enough privilege in the world to be able to spare the few afternoons it'll take you to learn a real programming language and stop having to suffer such amateur-hour bullshit day-in, day-out.

Ugh, really? For what it's worth, I've been doing web development professionally for the last fifteen years, and actually really enjoy coding with PHP.

If you're suffering from amateur-hour bullshit day-in, day-out, I'd kindly suggest that you're doing whatever you do wrong.

Seriously, spend a weekend learning Python or Ruby. Your life will improve vastly.

Python never really did that much for me, but I probably should investigate Ruby one of these days. Right now though, I'm enjoying playing with Erlang, and want to take a look at Go at some point.

Horses for courses, I'd say.

Using a shiny and expensive IDE to make hacking PHP suck less is like buying a huge box of band-aids as the solution to the problem of your carving knife continually cutting you open.

Surely using an IDE, for whatever language, will generally make your life better?

Whilst syntax-highlighted Vim or even Notepad++ have their merits, you can't beat a lot of the features modern IDEs provide, PHP, Python, Ruby, Erlang or otherwise.
"And observe that if I forget to tell the computer to save my work, it loses it!"

furious scribbling in the audience as everyone takes notes

I'm so glad we're finally getting away from this paradigm after four decades. For example, the iPhone notepad (and now Mac TextEdit) doesn't wait for a cue from the user to write the few dozen bytes of new input to persistent storage.
It's the HN equivalent to Reddit's 'How a Differential Works' video.

http://www.reddit.com/search?q=differential+works&restri...
Top Reasons I like Postgres Over SQL Server
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Is 1M Uniques/Mo Really What You Want?
I decide who is intended to use my scripts, thank you. I have many scripts where I am the only user.

Also, the issue of having an alias changing behavior without warning on my command line still exists.
I use this pattern from time to time (and should probably alias it). While checkout -b (or reset --hard <hash>) is good for most cases, I like making a stash entry if I'm in the middle of a logical unit of work and don't want to commit before I do something experimental.
Presumably Shodan ignores robots.txt, right?
Puff piece, a.k.a link bait.

Anyone that goes through the discussion threads from which this article originated from will see developers cordially debating about pertinent engeneering topics regarding the future of the project. Nothing more.

I personally think both projects will thrive as a result of this fork.
That's not true. Google seamlessly supports both HTTP and HTTPS, and many other sites do too through simply using // as the protocol.
This should be obvious, given that the primary backer to the American Revolutionary War was the French monarchy. grumble grumble kids these days...
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So when we do have more freedoms than other countries, it's "quaint" and dangerous?

The examples I gave are things that aren't omnipresent among liberal democracies. It's not quasi-tyrannical to outlaw "hate speech", just less free. I prefer more freedom to less.
Hmm, odd, I see stable, weekly and tip on the PPA. I'll just wait for 1.1 to hit stable, it should be enough for hobbies, thanks.
Anti-Spec Campaign — Designers' Rights
More sensationalistic headlines?
Shodan is nothing new, and I find nothing "scary" about it.
>but shut down the industry as a whole - devastating local communities by getting rid of a ton of low-skilled jobs.

The same arguments were thrown around when we were talking about abolishing slavery. The economy will adapt.
Thanks! I think so too. :)
I've passed several polygraph exams when (if they actually worked) I shouldn't have.

Utter bollocks, them.
Haha no problem. Check out http://craig.is/writing/chromelogger/techspecs for info on how to write your own library.
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The creator of Bitcoin included a newspaper headline from the Financial Times the day of Bitcoin's release in the very first block.

While he may be in possession of the earliest coins, he obtained them after the public release of the software, as it would have been impossible for him to include that quote in the genesis block before the day he announced the release to the whole internet.

The quote: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"

From: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/banking/ar...

You could have had any of those blocks. I had several.
Desensitization would be my hypothesis.
I just ignore the flags that I don't need.
Developing for Windows Phone 8 in Apache Cordova
At this point I would say you are better off just buying bitcoins rather than a rig. It's only going to get harder to mine and yes you will be more efficient/faster than most but it's a losing game. Although I do have a miner and already pre-paid for an ASIC rig - I wish I had just bought BTC with the money as there will only be 21M btc ever!
i've only used the CLI on Win for features TortoiseGit was missing, though its SVN-ancestry has a lot of terms-clash with the actual Git commands issued under the UI.
Weird prediction: some 22 year old is reading a bunch of these now. He/she will enter the foreign service of his/her respective country and become a great career diplomat as a result.
Sounds like a plan, hopefully stable in the PPA will be updated to 1.1 soonish, thanks.
Google in talks to buy WhatsApp for $1B
Not alone, certainly, but almost certainly in the minority. I don't think I've met anyone in person (in five professional years, granted) who uses a GUI for anything Git-related except complex merges or history visualization, both on rare occasion.

Not sure why your perfectly reasonable question is getting downvoted...
Here's an example from early 2012 that I don't think would have been possible with Google:

http://console-cowboys.blogspot.com/2012/01/trendnet-cameras...
Income inequality is a useful statistic for more purposes than just describing the strength of incentives in a system. Surely it is also one measure (amongst many) of the fairness of a system; a measure of how truly egalitarian a society really is.
I thought this might be a good read for programmers who don't know statistics.
Actually, I was also wondering as I was also taught basic statistics in high school (India) except confidence intervals.
Try buying something with your APPL stock before converting it back to USD at the current market rate and tell me where your value went

Why would I do such a thing? It sounds like a giant waste of time.

Even if I were to, say, buy a Microsoft Tablet for 1 share of AAPL stock, no wealth has been transferred into or out of Apple Computer. Instead, the vendor now has 1 more share of AAPL and 1 less Surface, and I have 1 more Surface and 1 less share of AAPL.
Any idea why it was changed. Now it is just misleading (as demonstrated by the grandparent).

I appreciate there's some HN submission guideline about keeping the same title as the pages you are linking to, but surely a slight bending of the rules is the much better choice in this case? The link isn't really to the page, but a specific data point on that page.
$500 always-online Xbox successor to launch in early November
I'm happy to answer questions, as always.

This is a bit more inside-baseball Silicon Valley-esque than my blog/podcast usually is, in that a large portion of it covers angel investing. If you're looking to raise money, particularly without the advantage of physically being in the Valley, I think it is probably worth your time. Plus if "We just got a feature request on behalf of Obama" isn't the coolest SaaS story you'll hear this year I will eat my hat.
I would actually venture the opinion that the South did have the legal right to rebel and secede. The North just reconquered the South and readmitted it to the Union state by state.

In other words, you can try to rebel. You don't have the right to win though ;)
From my experience, developers who rely on visual interfaces don't understand Git as well as developers who mostly use CLI. When relying on visual interfaces, at some point Git stops being the powerful tool it is.
If I see direct evidence that you committed animal abuse to kill it, then yes, even then.
That's funny. I thought cobrausn was a "purpose built troll account."
Interesting, this is the first technology blog-like site I've seen that does not have an RSS feed...
Be quiet... don't give them any ideas. Next I will have to declare "Nerf Gun Friday afternoon" benefits on my tax return ...
> It isn't free

And isn't available in any of the linked libraries available to me.

And I already had a long email discussion with Laurent back in 2011, about his comments on Steve McConnell's blog.

If I may make a suggestion, when the source material is likely to be unavailable, it might be better to quote the reasons given rather than the conclusions -- then we can try to follow the reasoning rather than having to take someone's conclusions at face value.
Animals do not have the rights we accord to people who phone call centers. But should they? That's where discussion of this issue most frequently breaks down.

It's not really about farming or filming. The issue comes down to whether people think it is moral to eat meat. (or meat raised on a factory farm, or meat they did not kill themselves, or some other gradation on the vegan-carnivore scale)
GPL may be equivalent to LGPL
An analysis in International Free and Open Source Software Law Review suggests that the copyleft clauses in the GPL are weaker than is thought and that the GPL may be functionally equivalent to the LGPL.
Well that would have actually given this submission a purpose, rather than just being a repost.
Karl Marx said the process of value creation is thus: a carpenter goes into a woodshop and bangs on wood for eight hours a day. The raw materials (wood, nails) plus partially used and worn down materials (saw blade etc.) are transformed into tables, which are worth more than the materials used. $2000 worth of material becomes worth $2160 in eight hours. In eight hours $160 of value is created.

The carpenter keeps all the wealth he creates for the first six hours of work - all $160 worth. The last two hours he keeps none of the wealth he creates - it goes to the woodshop owner who rents the woodshop, owns the mechanical saws etc.

This is how business works. It is obvious. Of course there are caveats, which Marx spends thousands of pages covering - only a fool would reply to this saying my summation of thousands of pages in a short HN comment missed one of those caveats.

It is also obvious how in a system like this, the owners are making money while the workers are stagnant or doing worse. And the method owners have of doing this is obvious - either have the worker work more hours for free per day, or try to somehow increase the amount of wealth that is created every hour. Obviously both methods are used.
This is awesome, I never knew such a thing existed! But it's also quite alarming that so many devices are connected to the internet/computers that probably shouldn't be.

So my big question is: Is there a way to solve this 'security failure'? And if so, what is it/is it feasible? For someone with malintentions, Shodan seems to be golden.
I'm a relatively new HN reader (~1 year) and have taken much away from my time here (much reading, few comments). I understand where you're coming from with concerns about quality; however, I resent the fact that I may be considered part of the increased readership responsible for "HN's decline"
Neat.

FYI -

ls -1

Returns "Argument not found."
As with all headlines that end with '?' the answer is no.
HootSuite is killing it in a different way altogether: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/hootsui...
> The economy is also not a theoretical abstraction.

Yes, thank you. Irritates me to hear people pontificate about the importance of "incentives" in the system, with the only real concern of economists being the overall increase in production and wealth. It's as if the distribution of wealth is of no concern whatsoever to economists and business people.
>The 2nd Amendment is still in force today not because it is old, but because the American people, today, want it to remain in force.

How does this apply to the rest of the bill of rights, though? Two major instances I can think of the oft-maligned "legislating from the bench" both apply to civil rights, first desegregation, and more recently marriage equality.

The courts are ruling the existing laws cover marriage equality despite the outcry - and this is a good thing. Some things are right and wrong regardless of how many people want it to be a certain way.

I don't think whether people "want" something especially when it comes to equal rights should have any impact on how the law is interpreted. One of the good arguments against direct democracy, IMHO.
It is farm workers filming the videos. It just happens that these farm workers got hired as farm workers with the sole intention of filming the videos and did not disclose this intention to their employer. I'm not sure how it can be construed as trespassing to enter your place of employment, regardless of what your intentions are.
Google used to contribute to Firefox before Chrome and Firefox is still alive, although more people use Chrome and IE now so it lost its popularity.
The site seems to be running on AWS, so you're probably right. It's loading very quickly now though so I imagine they've upgraded to a bigger instance.
"My Profession No Longer Exists"- History Teacher Quits (Wash Post)
> The idea has a great number of pros, and almost no cons.

1. Certificate problems with embedded devices.

2. Much harder to control what's going on with your network.
> All these bright minds and no one takes the time to model assumptions of perpetual compounding growth of the economy! It's not linear, duh!

Planetary Resources. Colonization of Mars.
Getting down is way easier than getting up.

ISS has some engines, crashing on earth is very simple, you can just thrust in the opposite direction that you are going (thus falling into the planet, although slowly and probably astronauts can find the attacker and put it back into orbit before anything serious happens) or you can trust in a diagonal of sorts, to slow your speed AND toward the planet (if you just accelerate toward the planet is more probably that you will only create a elongated orbit, and if you insist, you will slingshot out of orbit).
At least over here, traffic lights fail and turn off on their own, no need for hackers :) . Now, fixing them (for example setting up a "green wave"... hmm that could be a more interesting use :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_wave
Thank you for this. Moral absolutism with respect to killing animals for meat doesn't advance the conversation; it just gives vegans a way to feel superior. You seem to understand that what matters (to many people) is the quality of life for the living animal.

A note to all hard-line vegans: If you want to do something to improve the welfare of the animals we raise for meat, engage people in discussions of humane farming practices w.r.t. livestock. Most meat-eaters you talk to aren't ready to give it up. So ask yourself: Would you rather live in a world of factory farms, or a world where animals are raised and slaughtered in the most humane way we can manage? Give up on the idea that you'll convert everyone you meet to a vegan, and you can still do a lot of good in this world. When you take hard-line stances like the poster above, you alienate your meat-eating audience and end the conversation.
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Furniture site in Australia.
How come it is better to buy BTC?I mean it is trading at 180 right now.If I were to buy 15 BTC for example, I would have to pay 2700 while a good ASIC would mine 15 in a couple of days with a much higher value.Then again, maybe I don't understand it but that's how some of my friends do it.

Of course it is gonna be harder but I am talking about the next 2-3 months.
You're making the same mistake as GP. I love Git, and I know that asking "what branch was this commit on" makes no sense. My point is that some users have different requirements as to what a DVCS should provide. If Git can't fulfill some of these requirements, then just say "Git can't do this" rather than beating around the bush.
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404, and searching for "macronomicon" doesn't dig up anything
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I started a furniture site. Please comment?

Thanks!
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Looks like your probation period is over.
Thanks for the note. I still have some work to do on the regex.
Unfortunately, this is a very common mistake made by those that treat their tests a an after-thought. Tests should be cared for and maintained as much as (or perhaps even more than) the production code.

If tests are difficult to read or reason about, it is much more likely that they will become stale, brittle, or worse, be ignored. If one does not plan to keep tests well-maintained, might as well never add them in the first place.
They are not making it necessary, only convenient. You're not harmed by seeing a few ads.
I disagree.

The sheer magnitude of income inequality is a social problem in its own right. It doesn't matter all that much if the inequality happened with or without corruption. What matters is that some people work hard and are rewarded with quite little, and have unnecessarily difficult lives as a result -- and furthermore, that the system appears to be trending towards _more_ of that, not less.
Some of this is inherent to the nature of plugins that alter the guts of a large program—look at the issues Firefox has had. At best Wordpress could rewrite itself to be insanely parallel _just in case_ a plugin in any particular area is slow, but that's a whole lot of work, the result is harder to maintain, and PHP isn't particularly amenable to it.
No, but YMMV.
Show HN: My floor desk
For the past one and a half month I have switched to using a floor desk. I dont know if it is a thing, I just used something like this sans the actual desk :P http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dollars.html .
> companies can have a direct effect on laws by pouring money into the government,so it kind of is democratic, right?

"corporations are people my friend!" ;)
How to kill your startup idea
If the best argument in favor of HTTPS everywhere is that it will prevent your ISP from showing you ads, the movement is doomed.
Portable TV, Raspberry-Pified
The honest letter to a potential customer
>You misconstrued. Reject as little as possible (<> reject little) was the motivation with respect to more naive random walks which suffer at dimensionality.

Misunderstanding on my part; apologies.

Can you clarify the statement on dimensionality? Moment calculations converge at a sharp rate of 1/sqrt(n). Riemann sums as approximations to integrals (moments) suffer from the curse of dimensionality.
For the lazy:

The reason for Yesod's poor showing in that benchmark was due to a flaw in the implementation of the benchmark. A certain function (newSTDGen) was called repeatedly within each request, even though it should have only been called once; it's a relatively "expensive" function so this had a large impact on the results of the test.

In addition, the Yesod test used TCP sockets to communicate with MySQL while the other frameworks were set to use UNIX sockets. This has also been found to have a non-trivial impact on performance, as discussed in this SO thread:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/257433/postgresql-unix-do...
I think the missing concept here is composability. Hamlet composes cleanly with Haskell, XSLT doesn't. Although it should be pointed out that Microsoft's XSLT implementation is more than capable of running arbitrary code.
I certainly do now. I was 22 when my first computer was stolen. Didn't really worry about it then.
Why is this even news? It's over two years old. Where's the IE8 count down?
One of my favorite interview questions for developer candidates is, "tell me about your side projects" because I know that the people who really love software development are doing something on the side. Side projects, whether intended to be "the next big thing" or not, are extremely valuable for developers and employers.
Foxconn may be firing suicidal workers before they can kill themselves
Investor tools and services are how it's done with traditional currencies.
no one mentioned this at all?
Margaret Thatcher May Have Helped Invent Soft-Serve Ice Cream
The Developers Guide To Android History
Trespassing is a crime no matter how noble your intentions.
Patent trolling is probably unavoidable, but I'd say much less likely when it's initiated by individuals. Legitimate claims must be accessible, and the courts need to be the test.

Your second point cuts to the heart of the issue, should patents be treated as traditional assets? One possibility: Once you sell your patent, it loses legal protection and becomes merely a trade secret.
From a mathematical perspective, it looks as though your statement could imply that GA may potentially be viewed as a finite dimensional analogue of GP. Interesting.
Seconded, and in this world of test based interviews and be awesome now expectations, I want to create a company and a ethos that is not merely family friendly, but family biased.

- not duvet days, but sick kid days - we expect you simply not to turn up 9 days in winter and call, 3 days in summer, just because you have a sick kid and shoukd be there not here

- remote working as a default

- benefits including emergency nannys, flying ou to a conference - fly your kids too! (Yeah might not see that as a benefit :-)

I don't know how to get there just yet, but as a family man and business owner I know I need to hire people with child care responsibilities, because else I am just hiring 25 year olds, and I like old school.