skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't take php much more seriously than I take pop music. They both exist. At one point in my life I enjoyed them both immensely. Now I have chosen music that better fits my tastes and solutions that better meet my needs.

I don't choose my music by popularity, and won't try point you to popular repositories. You need to look at your needs, and decide what works for those needs. If that is php, that is great. No need to look further. If php doesn't cut it for you, you will have to decide what you need and find a solution that works for that.
In a country that's stricken with extreme poverty, a caste system that births you into such a fate until death, where women can't walk the street at night without the fear of getting brutally raped or molested, a country that starves while massive stockpiles of food reserves perish due to kafkaesque bureaucracy and corruption; I hardly think that privacy breaches are India's top concern.

The political system is already ineffective and the use of typewriters to "secure" communications only proves that the priorities of the leaders are so misaligned to what the country needs to make any progress with it's problems.

India has great potential to develop into something more than it is, but until there's significant political reform then it's progress will always be slow and its people will continue to suffer.
I don't seem to be able to view the actual submission text for the Ask HNs, just the comments. I like how you don't use readability or any of that, just load the page. And also, is there a way to add Open in Chrome to the share button?
Patents have always struck me as a bit like a mob protection racket. Either you pay for the right to do business or they send lawyers in to make your life hell. The business landscape is a bit like New York back when it was ruled by gangs. A business might openly pay protection to one gang while secretly paying another gang to shake down their rivals. These patent troll companies are a bit like those shake-down gangs, only even less discriminating. They wouldn't exist if respectable companies weren't lining up to sell them patent rights.

Perhaps patent law, as it currently stands, really is analogous to DIY justice. If you want a patent, it is entirely incumbent on you to pursue it. There isn't any kind of public authority running around trying to determine who came up with what first and making sure they get compensated for it. Lawyers are the new hired assassins and goons. Perhaps the only way to tame this jungle of gangland warfare is to develop something like police for the business world.
I helped fight Acacia on the Streaming video patent that threatened to kill porn on the Internet.

There are definitely trolls out there. Acacia was one of them.

At the same time there are organizations that are viewed as trolls that have legit claims to enforce their IP.

The MPEGLA that collects royalties for h.264 is a good example. Most people who use VLC never pay their royalty. They should. Part of the reason we don't get better video codecs is because the royalties don't get paid and so there isn't reason to do the research into improvements.

Yes, there is WebM, no it is not free of patent issues, but that is another subject, not for this thread. The point of this is that there are many times a patent is needed, and sending collection letters is necessary.
Fair enough. You meant "a service similar to Lavabit" and I was reading it as "Lavabit", especially because your first comment said "India should totally adopt Lavabit".
I'm open to the possibility that this is true, but experience with regular expressions seems to indicate that terse and complex DSLs are resented for their lack of maintainability. The analogy to music notation is good, but how much editing is done on music in musical notation? The top priority is conveying music to the performer.

I'm glad to see an open source APL implementation that isn't a derivative like J, because it's good that these things should have reasonably canonical implementations out there for people to use. I don't think J's popularity is much higher for relying on ASCII, but I also don't think it suffers much because its syntax isn't APL's. Realistically, these options are not presented or noticed by the vast majority.
>At this point we almost need to stop saying facebook programs in PHP

This isn't the first language-incompatible change they've introduced - see XHP, which used to exist as a Zend extension(?) and is now rolled into hiphop
Perhaps best case is that the FTC concludes that patent trolls aren't breaking the law at all. That could be the start of software patent reform.
I'm looking for the original study I saw. I haven't found it yet, but here's one that found that trackballs were superior to thumbsticks, even for users familiar with gamepads and not trackballs (hardly a revelation, certainly, but you'd be surprised how many people contest it): http://www.yorku.ca/mack/FuturePlay1.html

But come now, my original statement was hardly all that bold. Obviously the reason that gamepad aiming sucks is just that thumbstick aiming sucks. Replace the thumbstick, solve the problem. (And as a bonus, get analog movement as well as analog aiming--the traditional WASD doesn't allow for speed gradations.) I used to game exclusively with a trackball and never had any troubles. The only reason I stopped is that nobody makes trackballs for left-handers anymore that are any damn good. And if you don't believe me, I just gave you a couple of quotes from gaming professionals.
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You clearly know much more about iOS hacking than I do. It's well outside my area of expertise, and I'm grateful for the corrections. I learned a lot getting up to speed on how this actually works over the past couple days.

Pretending to have knowledge when you don't understand the fundamentals of the problem is both a good way to make yourself look foolish, and is certainly the cardinal sin in engineering. For that, I apologize.

For context, the reason I've been insistent is that there is a particular company that claims to be able to pull data from iPhone 5 and below in spite of the encryption. Whether this is true or not, I don't know, but I've heard it from a person I trust in mobile security.

If you keep up with the jailbreak hacking community (which I'm just now getting into), the Grugq (a fairly reputable source) posted on MuscleNerd's twitter that he's heard a private company has a new 0-day bootrom exploit, which would fit with the information I've heard.

Regardless, I should have just shut the f*ck up and let you teach me some science, instead of letting my competitive instincts lead me down a rabbit hole. I'll work on that.
> I recognize this doesn't include Steam sales

Who buys retail games anymore?
You're suggesting he buy a printer and print the photos, then address and stuff envelopes himself instead of using the service he found (lob.com)? I can't see that being cost- or time-effective.

Unless I have a high-volume business need for a printer I will never own one again. They are space hogs and money pits. Ink/toner is outrageous, buying paper in small quantities is expensive, and the consumer grade printers are slow and flimsy. The few times a year I actually need to print something I just go to kinkos or break the rules and print it at work. Maybe I'll look at using lob.com or a service like it though.
Oh for crying out loud, not the "India is so poor that they shouldn't bother with expensive luxuries like space programs and Internet privacy" argument again!

Pray tell me, what is the connection between "extreme poverty, a caste system, the safety of women walking the streets at night and massive stockpiles of food" with better Internet privacy measures?

Are the two a zero-sum game? Will implementing more secure email and Internet communications across all government departments somehow make Indian women more likely to get raped or molested? Or entrench the caste system even further?

> India has great potential to develop into something more than it is

Thank you for your vote of support. Do let us know when we'd become eligible for Internet privacy though.
No, a Kit Kat bar has way more energy per gram than wood, or even TNT. A king size Kit Kat bar packs basically the same energy as 0.5kg of TNT. That's a lot of power.

Probably only a straight-up chemical fuel like gasoline or methane packs more punch per gram.
You know, as a 80APM mid level player I wonder if this will be usable for me. I love Starcraft but I'm pretty sure the fast wrist movements are seriously screwing up my wrists, and I don't even play that much, so it would be worth it to me to try out an alternative interface, even if it's a little slower, if I can not fuck up my wrists before I turn 30. Though I have tried playing with a trackball and it also sucks so dunno if this can be any better, but I'll probably give it a try at least. Hmm... probably not really going to work with control groups and spells and the like, but maybe I could play team games with it lol.
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Hotkeys are pretty important for RTSes too (at least SC2). I will definitely try this out for ergonomics reasons but I don't know if they'll have enough hotkeys to make it playable at a reasonable level. But maybe if buttons are context sensitive or something it could work out.
Hate? They've got missiles, nukes, a dirty little war with Pakistan, and many regional political challenges. It is not some lolcat site that takes PayPal, it is armies and central bank policies. They were caught with their intel pants down and their response was to make a show of unbuttoning their shirt. It's like a Tom Clancy story ghostwritten by Robin Williams. A little hate is warranted.
The big Telcos would get reprimanded if they said a damn thing about anything. Forget about the whistle blowers and read this for a second.

I think there are a lot of people who forgot about CALEA

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD IT WAS EXPOSED IN 2006.
I agree, though I think a thumb trackpad probably gives you a little more precision than a regular trackpad. That might be the difference between unplayable and barely playable. I guess you might be able to play against someone a league below you or something, which might not be too bad if you just want to relax for a bit.
Does this article really say that uniformed troops won't get paid but half of civilian defense department employees will?! Either this is another press fail or our government is even more fucked up than I thought.

Perhaps like the sequester earlier this year all the damage from the "shutdown" is just for show. After all "essential" services will continue and the government decides what is "essential".
RMS wrote:
> To begin with, GNU will be a kernel

Right. Not so much. That was exactly the last thing to happen as it turned out. He and everyone else in the effort worked on the tools and apps.

By contrast:
> I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and
professional like gnu)
> and things seem to work. This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months

Anyhow, torvalds had already put in the work on the kernel and wanted feedback.

Torvalds had a kernel and no tools. RMS had tools but no kernel, so the inevitable happened and they were wed. Torvalds even chose the RMS version of a marriage license.

The marriage is fruitful, but RMS is frigid and bitchy the whole time, solely over the name of the child -- even though the child has matured and gone on to a brilliant career they can both be proud of.

This would also be a good time to note that Torvalds is not the one who chose the name of Linux -- usenet chose it.

I have great respect for RMS and admire his courage (and self-discipline) very much, but I really wish he'd let that thing about the kid's name go. Just let it go already Richard.
I'm sorry sir, but you clearly are both racist and bigoted without apparently seeming to realize it.

"The Apu travesty" - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/jul/16/theaput...
Everyone should be using PDO these days. Whether they are is another matter. :(
> If the Russians are doing it, there must be some merit to the solution.

That's like saying, "I saw my doctor smoking so it can't be that bad for you, right?" Maybe there's merit to the method, maybe not... but just because someone else is doing it too doesn't mean it's good to do.
I'm interested in what you have to say. I'm particularly interested in how does it manifest that Mach was a research project and that the researchers knew nothing about practice of writing operating systems.
> They've got missiles, nukes, a dirty little war with Pakistan, and many regional political challenges. It is not some lolcat site that takes PayPal, it is armies and central bank policies.

In short, like the USA, which does all of these at far greater scale?

> A little hate is warranted.

And apparently, a little racism and bigotry.
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"Internet background"! This is coming from our second most senior elected official in charge of this area. Is she a fucking puppet? Yikes!
Did I say they should do without expensive luxuries and internet privacy? No. I did say that prioritising using typerwriters for internal communications of a handful of their government offices above the fundamental issues that affect hundreds of millions of their countrymen is ridiculous.

The article isn't about internet privacy for their residents. if it were, are you saying that the rights of women and the starving population is fine as long as no sneaky NSA is reading your emails?
That's what removable media is for
I like the look of this "hack". It adds things to PHP that I missed from C# .. now if they will add Accessors syntax, that would be nice, especially for those that use Doctrine2. PHP is as professional of a language as the user. I found fun working with PHP, C#, (node)js, python and think each has its own way, quirks and benefits.
It's a strange, strange world when your code has more gravity than the language it's written in and you start warping your language to fit your view of it.

I'll be the first one to take a swing at PHP, but Facebook has done some awesome things with it. I used to program in PHP and it does have some really nice bits...I mean, it's hard to fathom not waiting for my container to start anymore and go back to the days of save/reloading.

Cool. Nice link, OP.
Also the Facebook mantra being "move fast and break things" (that anyone working with their API appreciate), it's easy to have a high productivity in most languages.
Why does productid have weird number like that?
Normal PI0x4zz5 instead of 0x4zz5 or just numeric figure
Related: the web's most viral colors

http://www.shift8creative.com/posts/view/the-web-s-most-vira...

Actually, I think one trend that we'll see soon is standard color palettes that will serve as signals or templates for user flows.
Designer Creates New Anti-Snooping Font That Google Can't Read
I used to smoke Black and Milds exclusively, and you would have found me out in the rain smoking mine. I was completely addicted to them. And of course there's no pharmacological reason to think that cigars or pipes would be less addictive than any other form of tobacco. The reason that you don't see people smoking them as often is that they aren't the social norm for smoking in public.

If you want a way to take in nicotine with lower risk of addiction, get an e-cig.
I was conflicted about what you were saying because on one hand you seem to be moderating yourself after making an extreme statement, but then this statement clarified it for me.

Not sure if you realize it, but as an employer if YOU have to ask someone to work extra for you, there are all kinds of problems here. It probably means - you treat maybe unknowingly your reports one level below you and you demand they work for you and not with you. It also probably points to a lack of leading by example. If people see you sweating, reasonable people who are interested and feel valued and believe in your goal and mission will help you out and not leave you out in the cold.

So under no healthy situation you should be asking anyone to work for 80 hours. Hire the right people and then get out of their way.
Allow me to quote you:

> In a country that's stricken with extreme poverty, a caste system that births you into such a fate until death, where women can't walk the street at night without the fear of getting brutally raped or molested, a country that starves while massive stockpiles of food reserves perish due to kafkaesque bureaucracy and corruption; I hardly think that privacy breaches are India's top concern.

Your infering that privacy should hardly be India's top concern is a non-sequitur.

Privacy doesn't need to be India's "top concern" for its government to fix it. And neither is there a link between fixing it and all the other (valid) ills you described prior to it.
Good old Z Button on the N64 was always the best to shoot stuff. Goldgun walk around the conrner Z, dead.

I generally like more buttons instead of all these other things consoles use, you can easly have four buttons on the back, maybe more. The PS always used to have two shulder buttons, witch I did not like because you either had to us your index finger for both. I imagen something where they are just in the back where my fingers naturally would be.
Nicotine is an excellent salve for ugh fields, if you aren't addicted. Once you're addicted, it's an OK salve.
So the argument is that:

(a) your taxes went to Nasa, who used them to collect interesting data

(b) other scientists who are not funded by the American taxpayer took that data and turned it into an interesting research paper, which probably took them months of actual work to write, get peer reviewed, and revise

(c) those scientists published their work in a journal which charges for access, which you claim they did for free

(d) part of that process means the journal owns the copyrights now

and therefore, because (a) is true, then you must be morally entitled to that work for free.

If that's the standard, if you went to American public school, and that school taught you to play guitar, does it make it right that all your music can be copied for free?

I think you're missing the part where the scientists that did the months of real work are not paid or funded in any way by NASA.

Should NASA insist that all research done off of it's data be open to the public? That's a different debate.
> I did say that prioritising using typerwriters for internal communications of a handful of their government offices above the fundamental issues that affect hundreds of millions of their countrymen is ridiculous.

Your comment is mind-boggling. Using typewriters for better security is somehow a prioritization over solving fundamental issues? As in, if they spent some effort over security at their embassies, it affects their ability to solve other problems? You should get over yourself.
Here's an important excerpt from his wikipedia page:

tl;dr: He has been a professor of law at both Stanford and Harvard. He's not just "some guy who thinks he's going to stick it to the man".

He is director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University and the Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Previously, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Center for Internet and Society. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons and the founder of Rootstrikers, and is on the board of MapLight.[2] He is on the advisory boards of the Democracy Café,[3] Sunlight Foundation[4] and Americans Elect.[5] He is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation, Software Freedom Law Center and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.[6]
From the WSJ article

"The Pentagon wouldn't confirm the alleged Iranian hacks. A department spokesman said its networks are attacked daily."

"Once the intruders got into the Navy computer system, they were able to exploit security weaknesses to penetrate more deeply into the unclassified network, the officials said"

I have a weird feeling Iran didn't do a damn thing that concluded to hacking "unclassified navy networks"

If the pentagon didn't say so then how is WSJ saying so?
Not sure what the pricing will be like, but AMD is aiming to release their Cortex A57 based CPUs in 2014[1].

[1]http://techreport.com/news/25338/new-amd-embedded-roadmap-sh...
I'm far from an expert on this, but F# has no requirement for all forms to be explicitly typed, so I'm a bit puzzled as to why this is hard.
This is great news for Clojure.

Based on my experience, dynamic languages without optional typing make large scale enterprise development unbearable.

Sure, one should be writing unit tests, but in the enterprise context those tests rarely do exist, or if they do, either don't test what they should or are so complex that invalidate any re-factoring taking place.
Any programmer in almost any language who mixes types like that without understanding the implicit type conversion semantics is asking for trouble.

Implicit type conversion is evil, and I don't see how PHP's sin of favouring string -> number over number -> string is any worse than, say:

// Javascript
console.log(+(+!![]+(+[]+[]))); // outputs the number 10

Or:

// C, Java

float celsius, fahrenheit1, fahrenheit2;
celsius = 100;

fahrenheit1 = celsius * 9 / 5 + 32;
fahrenheit2 = 9 / 5 * celsius + 32;

assert(fahrenheit1 == 212); // OK
assert(fahrenheit2 == 212); // Oops! It's 132. What happened?