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>There's nothing that PHP is very good at that Python, Ruby, Perl or C# can't do nearly as well. That's why it attracts so much criticism.

PHP does have a very important thing going for it. Its super easy to throw in a PHP script on s cheap webhost. No configuration needed, and if you need database access, there are many libraries that are simply a file drop, and include_once away.

Sure, its not perfect. But no language is.
Would there be any loss of liquidity if trades were matched in 1 or 2 second intervals? This would eliminate all front running and colocation bias.
Why do they even try? It takes an hour to change the logo and host it somewhere else.
Jeff Hammerbacher, CTO of Facebook, now CEO of Cloudera.

That said, actual product companies are making a comeback in Silicon Valley, and are using innovative new tech like 3D Printing, and there's some amazing work going on in Virtual/Augmented Reality as well (Occulus Rift, CastAR, Google Glass), - all physical products.

And lets not forget Tesla upending the world's perception of the economics of producing and owning electric vehicles.

While I agree with the sentiment about smart people wasting their potential chasing cash, I think it's only an intermediary phase before the next wave of "insanely great", life-changing products hits critical mass.
Nope, and incidentally its not the same thing you originally said at all

productively

You missed the most important word.

As someone who has spent quite some time on Javascript codebases its amazing how quickly things break down when you get developers of different levels working on the same codebase. Optional typing allows a whole batch of problems to be caught way before weird errors/exceptions client-side. Productivity goes way up when the tooling can check basic errors.

(Part of me still wishes Haskell was an option for web scripting but I can dream)
My son had a fascination (amongst many others) with hairdryers. We once watched an advert together for a pink barbie toy hairdryer that blew out sparkly bits when on.

Noticing his interest I asked him if he wanted one. He looked at me as if I was an idiot. Pink is for girls he explains. I think that's the end of it but no, he goes on to say he'd like a blue one.

Clearly he hadn't fully internalised the cultural rules at that point. Not long afterwards I can remember him becoming acutely embarrassed by the pink play house he'd inherited from a cousin that he'd previously enjoyed playing with.
we're still on Windows 7. On XP, until April.
Glad you liked it! That spreadsheet was my favorite easter egg :)
I really wish people focused more on allowing women to build careers after their children are raised. Stop judging women who do leave work as somehow less mentally capable once they're done.
No it isn't. It's a waste of time if you're curious about the effects of a full dose of LSD or want a trip, but that's not the purpose here.

Did you read even the first sentence of the article?
This is an absolutely perfect example!!!

"Series of tubes"
never has linking to meatspin felt so socially responsible:

http://www.thrivelinks.com/xVOug38auu
Glad you enjoyed the post! re: free version-We have a 14 day free trial and are always willing to work with other startups on price. Ping me at alex@groovehq.com and we chat more...
I'm installing it as a chroot on my Chromebook, I hope this goes well. Otherwise its sudo delete-chroot unity.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Master Foo and the Programming Prodigy.
http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/prodigy.html
According to Sony, PS4 will cost USD 1850 in Brazil
Why resort to legislation? Create such a market yourself (or with a team) and see if your tweaks naturally drive demand from market participants. No force necessary.
I'm tired of the narrative about how everyone over 30 can't work overtime because of their half-dozen special-needs children and their demanding spouse and their massive underwater mortgage and whatever else.

I'm over 30. I have more time to work because I'm not dating and partying and backpacking.

While trying to elicit sympathy, this narrative actually does more harm than good.

Besides, it's just not true, at least with me and my peers. We're more financially stable, harder working, honed, and more focused than we were when we were 20.
>Wealth, freedom, and education empower men and women to be who they are.

What if wealth just frees people from the necessity of subsistence labor efficiency enough that they can indulge themselves with arbitrary rule-following and role enforcement and not starve to death?

I'm not sure if a culture can afford much moral policing overhead until it reaches a certain point.
The comment you replied to has no DOCTYPE.

Therefore it is not XHTML.

It's not even HTML. It's quite obviously just an HN comment and not subject to the syntax rules of of XHTML or HTML.

So, your complaints about the tag formatting are unfounded.
Tapbots and the State of Our Apps in iOS7
Can you please let me know the Firefox version & OS version?
I'm not sure Hollywood is even ostensibly paying for quality though.

I'm not trying to be smartass, just that having been around the industry there's a lot of companies below the top tier that are quite direct about their intent to just make something that sells for more than it costs.
Obamacare Website Violates Licensing Agreement for Copyrighted Software
Pretty much, a Microsoft account is a one-way trust relationship between your machine and Microsoft.
> People need to look at OpenSUSE again!

Agree. Not because I necessary dislike Ubuntu, but because openSUSE is awesome. It's insanely flexible (hence the chameleon mascot), fast, YaST is great, one-click installs are great for newbies, openSUSE build service is great, and installing software/new repositories is very easy. Zypper also beats yum and apt-get...
Gun box - Safe gun storage
Agree, the title is link bait for creationists
That's awesome. Thanks, look forward to reading it!
I don't know the answer, but don't forget that Schneier got his initial fame from writing Applied Cryptography.
I'm a vegetarian who is supportive of hunting. If you are going to eat meat, hunting and butchering it yourself is by far the most ethical and environmentally sound method of obtaining flesh as food. I simply can't reason with someone who finds it OK to eat an animal, but sleeps with one on the foot of her bed, and rages when someone else hunts.

That said eating octopus and specifically the GPO is particularly unethical if you subscribe to intelligence being related to sentience. Additionally it appears that octpus legs contain brain cells, the part you eat is in part brain.
I've seen other people use that counter top as a desk. I actually intend to do the same. I like what you did for legs there. Props.
If you don't mind could you tell us a little bit about your setup, hardware and software?
Agreed, you should absolutely call your parents (I call mine about once a week). StoryWorth isn't meant to substitute for a relationship.

I don't think it's an either/or though. One important part of StoryWorth is that these stories are saved for future generations. For example, my paternal grandmother died before I was born, and I would love to be able to read her stories today.
Oh, it's a lot worse than that :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/linkedin-sued-hacki...
Its not the engineering, its the objective. Latency arbitrage is code-word for front running. Woops.
Some of those problems are "Nine women can't make a baby in one month" type problems. Sometimes the solutions are stumbled upon by accident, rather than by concerted effort, especially in medicine.

In fact it wouldn't surprise me if some sophisticated neural net algorithm developed for HFT was repurposed and used successfully for other things - medical research, climate modelling, brain research - basically anything involving non-linear dynamic systems.

Only problem of course is that all those HFT algorithms aren't FOSS, but the incentive to develop them in the first place would be greatly diminished since they'd lose whatever edge they had almost immediately after publishing.

The markets are a pretty decent lab for experimentation and learning about complex systems, which we're still not so great with, as long as systemic risk can be prevented and every player forced to take their losses instead of passing them off to governments. I personally don't think HFT is remotely as much a problem as what caused the financial crisis - a few flash crashes here and there plus an "HFT tax" on asset prices, vs the arguably-fraudulent origination and dissemination of trillions of dollars of bad debt resulting in the near total annihilation of the global economy. I think we'll gain a lot more (or at least lose a lot less) as a society by prioritizing the latter problem.
You're wrong, it can be done productively, the evidence is the thousands (tens of thousands?) of such apps that exist on the web, most of which were written in regular JavaScript.
I actually thought the comment was brilliant satire, becasue you wee being critical of a comment about being critical
New Kindle Fire HD Emulators with Amazon AVD Launcher
I have no use for this, but it should really be caching compiled versions and recompile resources only when they become newer than what's cached.
How we ran a usability study in one afternoon
Trick is to bypass 'making' stage, I just bought it second hand. I DIYD only things which are impossible to find (ultralight telescope, hexa-copters), tables are on every corner.
Theoretically, people would pay for the things they value and problems they want solved, and the market would do the rest.

Practically, most people don't actually have that many major problems that need solving, and it is pretty simple to invent something that isn't what someone needs, and convince them that they need it, then to come up with novel ideas.

Industry and free enterprise does not solve problems much anymore. It sells the process of convincing people they have problems.
You'd best look up the definition of "front-running". Reacting to an event the fastest makes you the quickest behind-runner, but you're still behind. Not front-running at all. Where did you even learn this term? Are you just regurgitating something you've heard elsewhere?
Woodworking is a fantastic outlet for creativity, and seriously underrated/underappreciated. Great way to take a break from coding. Extremely rewarding, and not very difficult to learn the basics, either.

Since we're sharing, here's a couple things I've made around the house:

https://scontent-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/302582_2063...

https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/309672_1015...
Of course, this is a British publication and so this wouldn't have occurred to the headline editor. It certainly didn't occur to me until you mentioned it.

Most Brits would read that as disarray about the timeline of human evolution, not a challenge to the 'story'.
Crowdfunding as a salary, or crowdfunding from your salary
Just saw the PyOtherSide project as well for Qml, Qt5 and python - fairly interesting.

https://github.com/thp/pyotherside
Good call on the NUMERAR countertop!

I ended up pairing a NUMERAR countertop (73" x 25") with an adjustable height base (like this http://www.thehumansolution.com/uplift-900-electric-sit-stan...) and am very happy with the combination.
Adding to that, Swing is just almost always annoyingly slow and unresponsive in my experience.
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I wonder if it feels the other way in women's studies classes. I understand those are largely female-populated.
Try looking up the definition of 'arbitrage'
I didnt get that far. I was just starting to read the home page when I got the horrible modal asking if I want to learn how to make $30k in a month and cancel link "No I dont want to grow my business". This page is somewhere between tasteless and sleazy.
Re. Coli
Advice on the YC Application
Hah. Its not that simple to just pull off. The js code snippet is part of the theme and so we have to restructure several things to selectively place it on certain pages and not others. As a developer I hate having interrupts come in so I dont do that to my guys. We put it in the queue, it'll get done this week.
Bottom line is that you need a world-changing secret-sauce, not just an app.

On one hand you're dealing with people that have infrastructure like http://awsofa.info/, world-class poker players, and child-savant-data scientists working for them,

On the other hand you have excellent (legal) gerrymandering done that makes some believe it will be very difficult to significantly change the House until 2022 (first election after the Census) The people in those locales are going to pick the same type of people and that was the plan.
I used to like my cooking playset too, and I am not a woman :)

And the question is whether "woman's propensity to seek stability over excitement, security over competition" is socially driven, perhaps exactly because it lowers their chances of success.
Calvin & Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Gives Rare Interview
Star Trek 1971 Text Game
Maker Square to Launch Dallas Campus
How many extra customers would being number 1 on HN bring? Would love to hear if you ve got such a number.
Because of course "real investment" is saintly like the Dalai Lama, and is certainly not looking for a profit.
> Besides her one caveat at the end of the article, the author seems to be making the case that this study implies that cultural factors are non-existent.

I don't think she's saying that at all. It's not one caveat at the end - the rest of the article is described as presenting a possibility, not an absolute truth. Hence she uses the words "hypothesize", "far from conclusive", "what if", etc. etc.

Of course since she is arguing against the point of view that cultural factors are everything, she focuses on the other possibility. But she writes well and is very careful to not say that cultural factors are nothing - which is a correct position to take, because scientific research into this area, as she points out, is ongoing. We just don't know the answer to where things are along that continuum.
It's an interesting thought!

But in my experience, at least, once a network cancels a show, they're usually happy to let it go. Especially if it's been dead for a few years or more. And Exec Bob is likely to have switched jobs or moved up by then, anyhow. There's a ridiculous degree of fluidity in the "musical chairs" that is the creative executive career track.

Also: once a show has moved from development to air, the show changes stewardship from the Development department to the Current Programming department -- so there's a different executive in Bob's place now, who is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the show. Bob can absolve himself of responsibility if the show makes it to the air and then gets canceled. Bob is responsible if not enough shows make it to the air in the first place, or if not enough of his shows seem to last beyond a season, or find audiences.

In general, though, Bob is judged on his hits (or lack thereof) more than his misses. He's incentivized to take a lot of swings at bat in order to land a home run. Home runs can often be career-making, even if they were sometimes just luck of the dice.
Stick around here long enough, and you'll get to see it happen.
Can the armrests of your chair slide under the desk easily while keeping the top surface of the arms rests almost parallel with the desk surface? The cross section bar right below the actual desk surface could prevent this.
It's not necessarily "monkeys", but, disturbingly, Microsoft developer tools are becoming more and more oriented towards "wizard-and-designer-clickety-clickery" type development.

The term "wizard" came about because of the AppWizard and ClassWizard features in Visual C++.

Clickety-clickety has been a goal of Visual Studio since before it was Visual Studio.
TSA Admits In Leaked Doc: No Evidence of Terrorist Plots Against Aviation in US
The MPAA estimates [1] that the company has $2-4 million in assets, but seems to be asking for the higher number just to send some kind of a message.

If I'm reading correctly, it would be isoHunt, not the founder, responsible for the judgment, so they would just declare bankruptcy, and the MPAA would get whatever assets are left in liquidation. The founder wouldn't be responsible for paying the remainder.

[1] http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-says-piracy-damages-cant-be-mea...
This is a completely fair point, however I think it's worth pointing out that especially considering the broad range of stuff Qt covers by itself, it's actually quite willing to intermingle with standard C++, and has continued to inch closer to standard C++. For example, Qt's containers work with std's algorithms (including the new C++11 iteration protocol) and Qt 5 introduced a new form of the signal/slot connect that's type-safe, based on templates and can connect to any callable (so including lambda, wheee ...), instead of being a macro that operates on normalized signature strings and annotated methods (while also still allowing you to ditch Qt signal/slots and use e.g. boost's if you prefer).

And there's of course also a lot of historical reasons for the overall approach - when Qt started out, standard C++ was significantly weaker both in what the standard contained and how the standard was available. That's not to say I think Qt's mode of operating is obsolete, though; a lot of the value of Qt comes from good API hygiene (pleasant API design, consistent API pattern reuse), and I find that having my $usecase be met by a nice Qt-style API is generally a pleasant discovery.
This turned out really good. I had a similar journey a few years back where I took a class and built a custom headboard. It was a lot of fun. The two "hacks" that I got out of the experience were to (1) use biscuit joints (in replace of dowels). And, (2) to buy a Kreg jig. These two things made putting together just about anything a lot easier.
The table top should have been done with plywood.

There is this persistent myth that
plywood == cheap
which is absolutely wrong.

You can get very nice expensive plywood that will be stronger, prettier, cheaper, and longer lasting than a solid piece of wood.
> It was really hard to keep reading after this line. It's like saying painting your bedroom red will make you better at sex.

I had the experience that having to switch back to SVN made my workflow significantly worse, lowering my productivity a tiny bit and thereby making me a slightly worse programmer overall.

The importance and convenience of cheap local branches is nothing that will be known to someone who hasn't used them. If you are used to them, using a system without them makes you feel you are doing the job that the tool should do.
>Switching distribution because you don't like the main Ubuntu flavour's defaults is just fragmentation when there's no need for it.

What reason would you have to stay with Ubuntu if you don't like any of its defaults? If someone doesn't like Ubuntu's changes to Debian, but still uses Ubuntu, isn't that just fragmentation when there's no need for it?
I'm about to hit 30, and I concur. Having a wife and kid has made me more disciplined and better at time management. Also, having an infant has made me more tolerant of getting less sleep...
A lot of teams have, for example, a "development" branch next to "master" through the whole project - and are doing fine.

It's a matter of taste and agreement within the team, I'd say.
After reading this article I realized I have a completely unrelated nerve wracking situation in my life that could benefit by having a "superior" work for me rather than the other way around.
>a country's economic status and its gender differences is interesting, but all it really means is that economic factors might have an effect on gender equality IN ADDITION to cultural and biological factors

One theory, purely my own.

It is well known that women are portrayed a certain way in fiction (TV, movies, books) that reinforces and may even create some ideas of gender roles. When a country's economic status increases, they have access to more American media, so their children start to internalize these roles.

TV and movies are written and produced by mostly men from mostly a man's prospective.

http://www.seejane.org/research/

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/elb9501.html
Why Silicon Valley needs Washington DC
It wasn't that long ago that everyone had a 13 year old nephew that made websites. Also it is easier to create a very simple website than to create a very simple desktop app, since a simple website doesn't really do anything. There's really no equivalent desktop app to the Geocities type websites.
I prefer native UIs, but does Wireshark have people willing to write separate Linux, Mac, and Windows UIs?
That's a perfect description of children figuring out the world. I remember having the same confused experience as a young girl, being embarrassed that my girly friends would come over and I wanted to build things outside instead of playing dress-ups. Convincing an 8 year old girl who's been told not to get her clothes dirty to come out and play in the mud is tough, until you let her wear your own overalls and you both go out and get filthy. I'm sure her mother wasn't impressed with me but I'm proud of that day.
The big players generally try to pay for quality, especially in scripted TV. That's because there's such a huge spotlight on everything, especially from critics and advertisers.

That doesn't mean crap doesn't get through the system, though. Some networks (cough VH1 cough) and production companies seem to specialize in churning out low-effort crap with a high expected return. That's a legitimate business model, I guess, but it doesn't seem to be the prevailing logic at broadcast networks or premium cable companies.

The operative problem is that quality is very hard to ascertain. A lot of our perceptions of "quality" are drawn from hindsight -- and from the heuristic bias of looking only at the winners, thinking their wins were obvious and preordained.
Just use --compile flag. Here is the issue: https://github.com/somu/sword/issues/7
I got a free copy of 2010 by attending a launch event, and 2012 from the (now defunct) websitespark program. Anyone know of any freebies for 2013?
This is an interesting problem: should you err on the side of creating new species every time you find a bone fragment or should you assume it is more of the same?

I think I come down on the side of those who create new species until sufficient evidence can be found to merge them. It strikes me as better science — a connection is, to my mind, more significant than a lack of a connection.
Thank you for your service to humanity.
Be you, bravely
As a fellow woodworking enthusiast, don't fool yourself into thinking it's a cheap hobby! It's all fun and games until you realize you want a jointer ... and then a bigger jointer.
Someone..please do one for Redbox. I am tired of getting spammed everytime I rent a movie.
> For example, say you've got a function that ends with a for loop. CoffeeScript will actually convert that into an array allocation and return the result of the array.

Simple, just return anything else, or nothing at all:

myFn = () ->
for el of array
# loop body
return

> CoffeeScript also can't make up its mind about whether parens are necessary.

Well, in some cases they're optional, but it's predictable and hardly "can't make up its mind". I've never run into a problem with this. Implicit parens wrap to the end of a line or block expression, and it feels pretty natural:

f g h obj -> f(g(h(obj)))
f g, h, obj -> f(g, h, obj)
f().g().h obj -> f().g().h(obj)

Every time there's a space, you're introducing a new fn call. Every time there's a comma, it's adding a parameter to the fn call. So yeah, you will have to use parens for any chaining style (a la jQ and many others), and to disambiguate complex nested fn calls, but that's expected.

I prefer to think of parens as sometimes optional.
Wood door mounted to studs in the wall.