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What would be valid choices for using PHP today if not for dealing with legacy code bases? It's the only thing you know? You don't have money to pay programmers for other languages? (PHP devs are commonly the cheapest)
I'm trying to push for that WordPress ticket, but it's unlikely that we'll get any significant traction for a while. The database class in WP (apart from being fairly horrible) is a huge component to make major changes to like that, and we have to consider backwards compatibility.

Here's hoping it gets merged in the next 5 major releases. I'm not holding my breath.
Let's modernize apartment hunting with a mobile experience that works
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It is not the duty of the state to provide legal funds to a private company. If the company goes bankrupts in the middle of or shortly after the trial, the taxpayers have paid for it and will never get that money back.
The mere existence of a conspiracy theory is not proof of a conspiracy.
You must be a fun coworker.
My take - shouldn't be a disease.

Reasoning: most diseases have a direct "cause and effect" - if you can't eat healthy because you weren't forced to eat anything other than chicken nuggets as a child, that may well be a disease. (My GF suffers from this; she says we will serve mini hamburgers and chicken fingers at our wedding...) But obesity in general, to me, is not a disease.

However, if labeling it as a disease can help people in any way to get on the path to a healthier lifestyle, then it doesn't bother me. Calling it a disease should not be a crutch, but hopefully a way to address the problem. I believe insurance companies will have to cover operations that can help people lower their weight.

I believe in Canada our health plan covers that, kind of bugs me though because it comes from my taxes rather than paid insurance.
Gulags and concentration camps weren't set the same day they set the surveillance. Those came afterwards.
What program do you use as code snippet manager?
I'm wondering what program do you guys use to manage your snippets? I've used a few but didn't find one that I'm completely satisfied with. Currently I am using Texter from lifehacker but it's not cross-platform.
In other news psychiatry is bullshit and I would say psychology is not far behind. The whole point of society is that we don't assume people are a certain way until they harm someone. If we no longer do that we're no different from any of the other totalitarian regimes and religions that prescribe their own flawed dogma about what constitutes a flawed person deserving to be punished. Any such civilization should be overthrown because it runs counter to all ideals of the enlightenment.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2013/05/04/p...
Is there a Wikipedia equivalent of 'Let Me Google That For You' ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation

You can see their income statement from 2011 on their webpages: TechCrunch reported them here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/15/mozilla-releases-annual-rep...
You're assuming I'm making a claim that I'm not. And if anything, you have it completely backwards. IF the claim were a simple "Google is complicit with the NSA", then one could say that the available evidence weighs in favor of that claim. IF Google want to make a claim "we are not in bed with the NSA" the burden of proof IS on Google to prove that "we are not in bed with the NSA", especially in light of evidence which strongly suggests that they are.

It's a moot point though, as the only claims I'm making are:

A. I don't trust Google (and Yahoo, etc.). That doesn't need any proof, as it's simply a statement of my position.

B. There is probably something more to the NSA/Google/Yahoo/MS/Apple relationship than what Google/Yahoo/Apple/MS are publicly saying. There is evidence (the PRISM slides) to directly support this.

I'm not making any more specific claim (eg "Google have a secret server that the NSA ssh into and do direct queries on Google's database" or something) because, quite simply, I don't know. And without the rest of the PRISM slides, or the other Snowden docs, or some other input, we'll probably never know. But I've seen enough to not trust Google/Yahoo/Apple/MS/etc. completely.
Yes, but people are saying that "someone" specifically tailored an unusually violent car wreck and fire to kill this guy. The key word is "unusual", which is what you would not see if the pros actually wanted him dead.
He has not confessed so there is no explanation from his part.

I read the police investigation (it has been "leaked" to WikiLeaks but it is actually official)

Some of the evidence:

The IRC nick "tLt" brags about the intrusion.
Svartholm acknowledges that he has used this nick in the past but not to make these statements.
However, in conversations where the bragging has been done, other chat participants have asked something like "Anakata: Are you still in Cambodia" and tLt answers the question.

There are files on his computers that originated on the intruded computers.

There are files on the intruded computers that originates on his computers (build artifacts etc).

Svartholm acknowledges that his computer must have been used for the intrusion, but that he did not do it. He says that Remote Desktop or Powershell Server must have been used. However, forensic investigations of Windows logs etc show that no one has ever logged in with these services since the OS was installed.

One / some of the intrusions have by using the login credentials of Monique Wadsted, lawyer supporting the prosecution in the Pirate Bay trial.
Thank you for the explanation. I'll take a look, but if what you're saying is right then we probably shouldn't consider this case in the context of The Pirate Bay. Being a member of The Pirate Bay team doesn't grant him immunity from any future misdeeds.
A reminder: bitcoin, like tor, is useless if the government has a realtime analysis of the L3 network traffic of a majority of the participants, as we have learned they do in the US under NSA's MAINWAY and MARINA programs.
"appointed by politicians"?

Not in the Germany I live in

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenamtlicher_Richter
Absolutely. Godwin's Law is the sort of thing Hitler would have invented.
You underestimate the impact mobile software development has had on language utilization: http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/

The Objective C number isn't coming from server development so one can infer a lot of Java's popularity is coming from Android.

In a perfect world, Google would have picked a great up-and-coming language for Android AND brought the tooling up to parity with Java as they developed Android. But they made the optimal choice at the time to be able to provide a very mature and powerful (n.b. did not say "friendly") toolchain at launch with the relatively small team they allocated to Android.

Android isn't built around a JVM. The Android Dalvik VM has properties that make a small OS that runs many VM instances possible. The JIT compiler strategy is tuned to increase performance without a big hit to battery life. Dalvik is the best VM for mobile devices. So if you think the VM has a strong influence on the popularity of a language, Java in Android will be a leading language until some significantly better JVM language gets good enough tooling in the context of the Android SDK to challenge it.
The trend continues where all things eventually get implemented in Javascript. Waiting for JS.js
People in design agencies have simply no chance to work with GIMP. If they cannot open files from recent versions of PS, they cannot do their job.
I have seen this a lot. People send you files, which you can only open (properly) with a recent version of PS. They just expect that you can work with them. Same with MS Office. Same with Illustrator. Same with expensive 3D software.

I am sure, some designers would love to work with OS, but their social environment makes it too hard for them.
PHP - where technology meets obesity :)
The "absent browser-manufacturer consensus" limitation in the post suggest that the hope is that a better development platform won't come with the cost of a fragmented web; i.e., that whatever the choice is for improvement (Dart or something else) it won't be one or more vendor-specific targets, but one broadly-accepted target that can be used freely without worrying about either locking-out users of other major browsers or providing different browser-specific alternative s.
We need less posts like yours (and mine here ;) - complaining about other posts.
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So what's the overall reaction to the recent reversal of MSoft's Xbox One policies?
tptacek is clearly a fake account! No one can post that much upvoted stuff for such a long, sustained period. Someone ban him!
No, as the women being raped are not witting planners in their own attack.

This is, on the other hand, a very popular argument when blaming the getaway car drivers of bank robberies.
I haven't used either, I have used only $http so far but I have observed two important differences:

- Support for wrapped responses: ngResource expects that you return an array for GET, so you need to return [objects]. See https://github.com/mgonto/restangular#my-response-is-actuall...

So, if you return something like `{meta: ..., data: [objects]}`, you are out of luck. Does anyone know a work around for ng-resource? I am using tastypie server-side which returns wrapped responses.

- restangular uses promises for callback, so you can do foo.get().success(function (){}) just like $http, while ng-resource uses jquery like foo.get(function () {})
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Wouldn't that have huge problems with durability? A single scratch could render a lot of data unreadable.
It's a combination of things. I wouldn't say there's a "smoking gun" necessarily, but a lot of small things, taken together, strongly suggest that there is more to this.
Perhaps these kinds of questions would be met with less "wtf" looks if they were asked in reverse, as in: "My manager ordered 10 000 000 hard drives for GMail. Do you think we'll need them?" It's much easier to judge an estimate when you see it than to come up with it (especially in an interview where the emphasis is usually on whether you're right or wrong), at least for me.
There was something like this more than a decade ago. I remember reading and complaining about it at the time, and feeling slightly superior that we weren't that crazy here in the (pre-9/11) US. sigh
Any news, no matter what it is, immediately causes panic selling. So, short term price drop. Then? Who knows?
Price has been pretty stable for awhile now. There's always 'the crazy periods' when it get's hyped up and the price is all over the place, but in general the price hovers around plateaus. Currently around ~$100.
Indeed. Making the causal link all the more slippery.
> CAN adapt its body temperature to the temperature of it surroundings (i.e like reptiles do)

THat's pretty much the opposite of adapting, they fail to regulate body heat (as reptiles do) and are thus at the mercy of environmental heat.
It's almost as if he exactly followed his own advice about growing a business, and now has the free time to sit around commenting on HN all day.

Bots these days. :D
I think the key is that we don't have Article 58. Per the quote in the op-ed, the NSA has had the ability to make America a tyrrany since 1975 and it hasn't done so. None of history's police states required digital surveillance. What they required was, you know, tyranny. We don't have any right now. I look at this purely as a question of privacy and due process.
Yes it has, and the sharing of site-visitor data with google on sites all over the web is something to be concerned about IMHO.

However, again IMHO, tracking casual web use is a different class of data to my interactions with my government, and I very much resent those being sent to foreign companies and (by inference) foreign powers, however benign and friendly our relationship is.
I would argue with "objectively useless". We are not just labor for the entrepreneurs.
Unfortunately it's attitudes like this that usually end up making Government projects so eye-wateringly expensive.

Assuming they listen to your suggestion and act on it as you suggest, it seems the only option open to them is to design their own in-house (In UK for that matter) version of Google Analytics to do their own analysis. Regardless of the cost and time this would add to the project, it's unlikely that it would be anywhere as good as Google's offering.

The other, more likely, option would be to decide it's too expensive to implement a different, more complicated, solution; so they don't bother. They don't get the feedback and analysis on how to improve their services and the customer experience declines until you're back where you started with a poorly designed product offering hard-to-find information and people are posting angry comments on HackerNews about how bad gov.uk is and how they would never run a start-up like that... I'm almost certain someone would say "Why don't they use google analytics to improve things, like everyone else".

Instead, we need to be applauding a massive operation like Gov.uk for taking a dose of reality and thinking, "we're not doing anything amazingly special here, we're providing people with a quick way to check their council tax, or bin collection dates, or maybe pay their car tax. let's just get the job done as best we can."
Craigslist is down.
Mobile view can't be disabled, on Android stock browser at least. That means I can't zoom out and read the text at the much smaller size and higher info density I prefer.
It's still useful, just less anonymous.
I suppose you're more a "tool" developper than a "business process automation" one.
In the latter, you very often have to talk through the problem with your customer.

But it is an assumption indeed... Only it is based on my personnal experience.

As for the comment mentionning google developpers, the ones i see are good enough verbally to talk about their jobs at google i/o.
"The wicked flee when no man pursueth."

No, it was encouragement to try it.
This is huge and, regardless of what you think of its labeling, will forever change the way we treat obesity. It's become a real problem in the US and as much as we would like to blame obesity on an individual, the country as a whole is suffering bc of it. It impacts our health, our relationships, and even our economy, and it's time to step up to make some real changes here.
I don't know anything about dsl's commenting history, but this comment sounds elitist. Not sure if you meant it that way, but your point would have been made without the implication that top schools are a requirement to be globally meritorious.
These 50/day numbers are really disheartening.

I thought I was doing well with 10/day (recently, not lifetime), and I'm not even on there.
Add to that the inability to quickly scroll to the bottom of the article. At least you fixed the top scrolling.
Tools of my Trade
I've never been pressured in to pirating something for work so it's never come up.
My understanding is that the contractors that built this capability are selling it internationally anyway. The only thing that's US-specific or surprising about the system is its interaction with our particular laws and particular rights, which it doesn't need to pretend to respect in other regimes.
I have lost quite a lot of weight recently, and went out of obese to normal weight range for now.

I do think that there is a clear difference between 'I should cut back on the cakes'-type overweight, and 'I have inadequate control over my eating'-type obesity.

It's not as simple as 'eat less', 'put the fork down chubby' or 'get out and run/lift/whatever'. I have trouble with controlling my appetite, and I have issues with knowing when I should stop eating (it's quite hard to hold back when every body signal indicates you are still very hungry).

In my view obesity is a disease, but it's false to think of it as being like the 'flu. It's a chronic issue, like high cholestorol, blood pressure or a peanut allergy. There are environmental factors and behavioural reasons why it is a health risk, but the underlying cause has a physiological source.
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Yes you are correct. Most of the posters on that list are very prolific posters. It's relatively easy to get karma if you spend 10 hours on HN and immediately submit the latest breaking news or post 50 posts a day.

A top list of average karma per post would be a better metric(assuming it doesn't count karma for articles).
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Thank you for replying. Godspeed.
its written by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
Looks correct to me; it joins two independent but topically related clauses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon#Usage
Avalon Asic factory
With the rise of very fast javascript VMs, lots of things can now be done in the same language, javascript. That doesn't meand everything should of course, but a Node Webkit app is definitely a case where I want a JS DB instead of a native one. Less powerful of course but less of a pain for my app's users.
Because HN is written in ARC which is somewhat tedious and not well known except by people like PG who don't have time to fix HN.
And thank you, colinprince, something that really does stimulate my intellectual curiousity, becoming a rarity on a front page that is starting to re-confirm my intellectual stances.

Walking faster now.
That's what I've always heard as well. Same thing as Microsoft tolerating Windows piracy in China.
Except that it's up slightly since this news was released.
That is fine for writing. How are they gonna read the thing. Also isn't exposure to direct sunlight going to obliterate everything inside?
Some obese people do eat a lot, but the causality direction is unclear. It's likely they eat a lot in large part because they're obese.

The human body in general is amazingly good at calibrating how much you eat versus how active you are to stay within a pretty consistent weight range - if it weren't, we'd all starve or become morbidly obese in response to tiny inadvertent changes in diet or exercise. But in some people, that calibration mechanism is off - they feel hungrier than they should or their metabolism works slower than it should given their size, and the mismatch leads them to become obese. We don't yet know why and we don't yet know what can be done to reliably change or fix it.

We've almost certainly been underthinking the whole thing.
I think he means more "Total Comment Karma / Total Comments", to see if the top users get, say, 3 karma per comment, but average 20+ comments/day. Or if they post relatively few comments, but really high-quality ones.
"organizational skills". aka politics :/
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There is something to suggest that obesity is more than simply having a bad diet. Obese people react differently to food, and it appears to have a genetic correlation.

One paper suggests that there is a dopamine response difference in the obese:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11210998

The causal direction is open to interpretation, but I still think that there is a difference between 'overweight' and 'obese'
It's not fat... it's overloaded...
The sorting continues in college; SAT scores are most predictive for the first year, before less-capable students switch out of the hard majors. My guess is that nearly all of the engineers Google hires score very highly, and in that sense the SAT is indeed predictive of success there (since you can take it in middle/high school), but they might have determined that discriminating on the high end between differences of <1 SD (about the validity between retakes) might not tell them much.
Enterprise grade Git
Do we use politics or technology to fix this?
"What they required was, you know, tyranny. We don't have any right now."

We have all the pieces in place. Widespread surveillance, a "legal system" that allows anyone to be arrested and imprisoned, soldiers carrying out police work, secret courts/secret laws, mass imprisonment, etc. All it would take is for someone to arrange those pieces properly and tyranny would ensue.
If you're counting imaginary points on the Internet you'll always be disheartened.

HackerNews has never been about Karma for me. I'm here for educated discussion. As soon as this site ceases to be the forefront of intelligent technical discussion on the Internet, I'll bounce, but I care much more about discussion than Karma, which is worth reiterating.

Karma has no value, but the strength of your arguments carry weight.
I'm glad it's not just me.

I read a proposal today for bp;dr (behind paywall, didn't read). Can we have an acronym for "fucked up zoom on my ipad"/"doesnt even render with ghostery enabled"/"stupid marketing modals render it unviewable"/etc?
> the only option open to them is to design their own in-house (In UK for that matter) version of Google Analytics to do their own analysis.

They could just install Mint on their own servers. Problem solved.

http://www.haveamint.com/
Use XMPP/Jingle with ZRTP. Why would anyone trust Skype to begin with?
The cambrian explosion is really interesting but I'd rather read about the thing itself, not framed as a polemic against creationism. I don't care about creationism.
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Don't worry, my recruitment interview also include algorithm and data structure quizz.

But when i do, it's in front of computer, and i'm sitting right next to the candidate while he taps, to see his line of reasoning. Then, if he's in trouble, we talk about it, i give him hints, and see if he understand what i'm saying and fix the code.
It's till better than needing a plugin or stand-alone app to read text in the original PDF format.
There is not really a lot of substance in those assertions. There might be more legacy PHP codebases than, say, Ruby ones, but that's going to change as Ruby ages. The allegation that PHP is being used by people who don't know anything else is just subjective and wrong, and ultimately nothing but flamebait. You can get cheap PHP devs because PHP is so ubiquitous. You can also get really good ones. Same goes for RoR and Python/Django by the way as they become mainstream. As you move away from the cutting edge as successful projects do, there is always an influx of less-skilled developers trying to hop onto the wagon. That doesn't say anything about the things good developers can do with the right tools.

In the end, there is just nothing constructive here. PHP haters, fashionable as they may be, will agree with you. PHP users will roll their eyes and move on. And very little factual arguments have been exchanged beyond useless posturing.
The "structured behavioral interview" he mentions is what I've settled on over the years too. You get a much better idea of what the applicant has really done and is passionate about than seeing if they're good at pop quizzes.
> You're clearly not a commercial designer, then

Grandparent was specifically talking about hobby use, not commercial/professional designing:

> Photoshop is something I use a lot on a hobby basis
UK: 10K USA: 650k - US has 6 times the population of the UK so it look like the problems is ~10 times worse in the US.