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So here's the dumb Docker question for this thread... while I understand the theory behind Docker, why would I want to run WordPress this way? Say I have an Ubuntu server, with a bunch of users in /home/ and they all have a bunch of WordPress sites running in there, isn't that fine the way it is? What situation do I start running WordPress in Docker like this?
ARM was meant to provide low cost servers, however with the prices of cloud servers coming down I am not sure how successful will these be.
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in New York? London? Sure.
I'm curious why some workarounds become widespread, but others don't.

For example, why don't US companies find ways to compensate all employees through some sort of interest or dividend instead of salary/wages, for the radically lower taxation?
PHP forum scripts are mostly horrible, out of date and bug-ridden messes. Make something simpler and better that's not a service.
Then phrase it another way, without the pronoun. The whole point of this discussion is that we don't know who Satoshi is/are, so don't bake assumptions into your thoughts and writing on the topic.

It's not pedantry - it's helping yourself think clearly.
Alright, I get that Satoshi might have spent those old coins before. But can he/she spend them now without everyone knowing about it?
A contributor is supposed to be following the coding guidelines of the project from the start. If they don't bother to do that, they absolutely should be rejected. Why is it hard to follow a consistent style?
Well iPad is as close to a console as a device could be. 3 year support, yearly refresh that brings good incremental improvements and probably they will surpass consoles when the cycle moves on - so they will only need a way to stream and controller.
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A tautology, as far as I'm concerned.
Pointing it out with a logically equivalent blaming statement probably isn't going to help.

It would be better to suggest an alternate wording: "People who are capable of higher level thinking and who are directly affected by a given issue may want to carefully consider whether or not advocating for a given solution will bring an overall positive impact to the issue. I'm surprised Scott Adams is wishing harm on others while at the same time appears to be ignoring the complex issues related to the government sanctioning assisted suicide."

Clearly Adams is grieving. From experience, having a parent suffer sucks. Losing a parent is even worse. Suicide is a complex issue and I respect the fact others consider how difficult it can be to legislate it properly.

Edit: clarified the 'assisted' portion of the argument.
>decisively murdering somebody

Is that what Scott Adams was proposing? I'd think you'd be hardpressed to find someone who is interested in decisive murder.

Edit: lostlogin - you're right. Those horrors exist. I'm not from the U.S. so I forget that such medieval concepts are still in practice. Again, the great irony - the right to die is not allowed but can be forced on you.
> subscription-based nonprofit that pools legal expenses and member patent portfolios and fights defensive cases on behalf of startups and small businesses.

You might find this interesting: John Walker, one of the Autodesk founders, tried to popularize the same idea in the early 90s:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_105.html

Unfortunately, too many companies didn't want to give up the option to sue and the rise of the limited-liability shell company made it pointless as there's no point in counter-suing a company with no assets which will fold if any counterattack succeeds.
> super slippery slope

In countries where it is practiced, the slope appears to have a sufficient coefficient of friction.
Looking at it, seems interesting. I'll take a deeper look onto this.

2#, I agree. I'm trying to get as many users as I can, posting to HN, reddit and all :).
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Ben & Jerry's used to have a company policy that limited the pay of top employees to 5x an entry level employee. Of course it was dumb-foundingly stupid and they ultimately had to drop it when they were unable to find a CEO capable of managing a $75 million dollar company for $88,000 a year. The company suffered from mind-boggling mismanagement as some positions remained unfilled for years and were then often filled with grossly incompetent hires who were willing to work for such pay.

We no longer live in a manufacturing economy. In service industries the value of an employee is almost entirely reflective of their responsibility and/or the amount of money they bring to a company. Most of you work in software... how much more valuable is a GREAT engineer vs a mediocre engineer... or an awful engineer?

This is childish sophomoric ideological baloney based on jealousy, not on need. How many Swiss do you know that are dying of starvation or lack of health care? The world bank says the average income in sub Saharan Africa is a little over $1,300 a year. Maybe we should tie all out incomes to a maximum of 12x THAT number. Would that make the world more fair? Would that actually help anyone in Africa? Would it help economic development or encourage more people to start businesses?

It is hard to see this stupid legislation as anything more that rich people in rich countries bitching that someone's Bentley is bigger than their Mercedes.
Miracle cures are announced all the time. Cancer-patients in their terminal phase usually get told that a new ground-breaking drug is right around the corner.
Probably "abstract" wasn't the best term; "context free" maybe? As in, there's little common ground and few if any goal-driven activities involved. You don't "get together to do X", you just "hang out" or "meet up" without a particular reason in mind, and it basically boils down to everyday smalltalk, shooting the shit and mindless drinking. I guess that alone is rewarding enough for normal people and helps keep loneliness at bay but it doesn't do much for me.
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> It may make sense to translate the same English sentence to something slightly different in different contexts in German

Then obviously you add context. It all has been solved for xx years http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Context...

> JSLint/JSHint should be able to check for usages on an identifier like TITLE, PARAGRAPH_ABOUT_FOO, etc. easier than comparing strings (you'd have to build something custom for that)

That's not difficult if you absolutely need it

> Brevity. If you have the same long string of text written twice it may be useful to have a shorter identifier for it

You don't need them twice. Add attribute telling: this text can be translated. That's all.
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2) You're saying remove the supply of part of the equation? By this logic my iphone should cost $100,000 because it generated that much value for me. Or I should've paid my accountant closer to 50k instead of the 1k I paid him because that's how much the penalties would've been.
For more details about this processor:

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Peformance:

It uses DRAM process.for a snort test(intrusion detection) this (relatively small) chip compares to 9 large FPGA chips.it takes 1/9 of the power. They have 8 chips on a dimm module.

Question: what are some interesting applications for this ? and how do they map to finite automata ?
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BC is worth more when everyone wants more than they have.
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>if the state requires doctors to assist you, or the state requires insurance companies to require doctors to assist you

I'd see it working similarly to gay marriage: no bishop or chaplain is forced to marry two people, but it leaves plenty of open-minded officials to help if they want to.
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thinking about some AI technologies like Natural Language interfaces, intelligent OCR scanners, video crawler with using machine vision .... etc
Re 12: It happens (sometimes? eventually?). It took me 15 years though until that point came. And the answer was just looking at Wikipedia and other code samples in other languages to get some understanding of it. I also implemented it wrong and it kind of worked (not as well, but well enough) and only realized my mistake months later.
7 booleans to try and maintain state instead of a single enum value

happens quite a lot in my experience
Base it on a system that is already working:

http://www.patientsrightscouncil.org/site/holland-background...

EDIT: oh dear, I did not read the rest of this article. It is actually vehemently opposed to Euthanasia and quite interesting (though very biased).

"The study found that, in spite of the fact that medical care is provided to everyone in Holland, palliative care (comfort care) programs, with adequate pain control techniques and knowledge, were poorly developed"

That is ridiculous. I spent hours with a friend recently receiving the most extraordinary palliative care, in his own home, before deciding to euthanize (fortunately he died the day earlier).
The bible doesn't condemn suicide(or abortion) anywhere in it directly. However, as with any good moral book, it is ambiguous. You can use it advocate any position you chose.

> Yet the Christian right insists that the agony be prolonged to a maximum.

Christianity didn't always hold this view. I suppose some of the movement comes from the commandment "Thou shall not kill". Of course that is a very poor translation. A better one would be "Thou shall not kill without justification".
> Secondly, social security is structured a bit differently from the U.S. version: Contributions are taken out of employee's salaries (and matched by the employer). Contractors would be required to act as commercial entities and contribute themselves.

Actually, that's exactly how social security is taxed in the U.S. People call that matching tax "self-employment tax." :-)
Please HN don't disappoint me with "slippery slope" and "it's too complicated" arguments. I want to continue to believe the level of discourse here is better than that. Its not just do-able ... doctor-assisted suicide is right.
> Physician assisted suicide is a super slippery slope

This has been disproven by the countries that have implemented it and not "slipped...unless you have some evidence of it being slippery?
"Is he just angry at everyone?"

He is irrationally distraught, to the point of advocating violence.

The reason this piece works (for me) is that everybody is irrationally distraught at this time in their life. So while I get that he wants pain and suffering inflicted on those he views as responsible for his dad's suffering, I could line up a million more people who want to cling onto dear grandpa as long as the old guy has a breath. Everybody is irrational and emotional at this time. That's the nature of the phase of your life that involves burying people you love. And it's the exact reason that others behave in ways he finds abhorrent.
1. Wait until something ships before thinking it's changed anything. Medicine is littered with would-be wonder drugs which turned out to have critical shortcomings — if these were easy problems, they'd already be done by now.

2. In many cases, new treatments don't help outside of the early stages — in the story you linked, the description suggests that the treatment wouldn't help someone who's already in an advanced stage of the disease. Great for the future, perhaps, but cold comfort to when someone is already past the point of permanent damage.
I feel like pre commit is better than pre receive.
Idiot or not, his identity took some time to be discovered. People are oh-so-wise after the fact about DPR's dumb mistakes but can't tell the difference between their perceived brilliance and hindsight.

Successfully hiding your identity is an all-or-nothing measure; either you are outed, or you stay anonymous. So the only remaining way to gauge how well someone hid before the final reveal is to look at how long it took people to find them and how much effort likely went in to finding them.

DPR ran Silk Road for some time before being discovered. In that time, countless law agencies sought him, he was a massive target for online fraud, blackmail, vigilanteism or even simple crime.

Just imagine if you tracked him down; a quick break-in and some force and you could escape with a laptop worth tens/hundreds of millions of dollars, none of which would be reported to the police!
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>Quad socket x86 is still prohibitively expensive

What? You can get a 1U, 4x16 core, 256GB server for ten grand. http://www.thinkmate.com/system/a+-server-1042g-tf
What about assuming they want to suffer?
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How do you decide when it is appropriate for the police to use lethal force?

I think you've fallen into the trap that the world should only implement perfect solutions.
In a 2 party system it pretty much is right or left. As a
foreigner I'd argue that its far right and right though.
all those extra layers are going to end up making it more costly in some cases.

Also, parts of contracts can be invalidated. Just because you put something like that in the contract doesn't mean you're not violating labor laws.

Some jobs make more sense to be outsourced, in which case contractors will usually already exist and offer "reasonable" prices that will be cheaper than having a full-time employee around.

Other times it doesn't make sense, but employers will try and convince employees to become contractors, so that a lot of employee taxes end up coming out of the employee's side of things. Of course, the employee thinks that this is necessary to keep their job. The construction and taxi industries are very bad at this. It's exploitation, plain and simple.
Maybe there could be a new kind of social network, one where in order to maintain your online friendship connections, you have to occasionally/physically get together with your friends and if it doesn't happen it means that the connection doesn't really mean anything so you gradually lose it. This would automatically accomplish what some people with hundreds of fb friends try to do by cleaning up their friend list by asking those who want to remain friends to reply.
> the Christian right insists that the agony be prolonged to a maximum

I'm not aware of anyone of any ideological stripe who insists disproportionate medical measures must be taken to keep somebody alive. On the other hand, the Hippocratic oath far predates Christ.

By the way, I'm not sure you understand Christianity's relationship to the bible. It's a small minority of Christians who subscribe to anything like the scriptural literalism you evoke. A lot of them happen to be American Calvinists, but they're still a small minority.
though i agree with the comments that there's not really an idea restricted to php (jtheory) and your interests would be good to know (jtheory, dutchbrit), i throw in a wild idea as you didn't provide those…

an application in which you keep track of your fridge's content (throw a cam driven barcode scanner in there) and suggests meals to cook based on the lowest investment (stuff not in your fridge) taking into account the store closest to you (can throw a little location based feature) your favourite meals sorted desc based on a custom rating (client specific rating db?)…

should keep you busy for a while? B-)
That really depends on what kind of software you're running. There's a wide range of portable C/C++ Unix stuff that compiles fine on ARM. If you run a distro like Debian or ubuntu, you can just install the armhf port and have all that stuff.

Where it gets tricky is if it's something written for an environment that itself has no ARM port yet, such as the JVM.
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Well, the PS4 also has some kind of voice controls and media capabilities, with more to come in the future. Just because they don't make a big deal about it doesn't mean the console only does games.
Well if you like working with natural language. As far as I know, nobody has ported Natural Language Tool Kit (NLTK) from Python into PHP. I've ported small parts to suit my needs, but I am sure a lot of PHP developers would love having access to the whole thing directly.
"Hitting The Market" != "there is no general availability of the Dell "Copper" servers at this time."
> Pointing it out with a logically equivalent blaming statement probably isn't going to help.

It wasn't meant to help the OP. I have no belief a logical and reasoned conversation could occur there. It was meant to help those reading it determine what methods were used. It does help those unfamiliar with structured reason and Socratic thought principles.

> It would be better to suggest an alternate wording:

I completely reject your alternate wording. Make it your own, not mine.
Furthermore, once you toss out the schizophrenic/paranoia explanation of why the NSA is doing this, the only other explanation is economic espionage, which they've claimed they haven't been doing. However know one knows the truth, and given what has been demonstrated so far, most countries should assume the worst with respect to the use of the NSA for economic espionage, and treat the US as a suspect trading partner.
Find some WordPress bugs/issues/features and start hacking away [1] or find another open-source project to contribute some PHP work to.

[1] http://codex.wordpress.org/Developer_Documentation#Contribut...
My favorite method for generating ideas is this:

1) Find a task I have. If I want to make money later from this idea, this task should probably be something I already pay money for, but if I just want to make my life easier, than forget the money part. My credit card statement is a great place to look for the money making ones. Once I have the task...

2) List out all the steps this task has. Be as detailed as you can.

3) Figure out how to remove as many steps as possible.

Seems simple, but I don't see people doing this very much. Instead they focus on making something because it sounds cool or is going to be the next Facebook for people who use Groupon.

OXO is one of my favorite examples of doing this. They make household goods.

1) Task: they studied the tasks people have in the kitchen. They watched how people cooked and baked using measuring cups.

2) Steps: one of the weird steps people have in cooking with measuring cups is when they lift the cup to see the water level against the cups ruler. They would do this 4 or 5 times trying to get an accurate amount of water in their cup.

3) Remove: they figured out they could add the measuring cups ruler to the top of the measuring cup so that people could see the measurement while they used the kitchen faucet to add water. They no longer needed to lift the cup up to read the level.

So simple, but they shaved off those 4-5 extra steps, and they sold millions of their new measuring cups in 18 months.

They innovated on a measuring cup. Pretty inspiring when you think of how long measuring cups have been around and how simple they are. There are so many newer more complicated things around us today that could use the simplification above.
>that is 32 logical cores at 3.0 GHz

Just having 32 logical cores doesn't mean much for performance. Hyperthreading is not magical, dual quad core cpus is still 8 cores, with potentially some minor performance gains from the hyperthreading depending on the application.
Those figures are pretty close to being lies. A quad-core 3.3GHz Xeon that's only serving 6950 requests per second isn't going to be at anywhere near 100% utilisation, which means there's no way it's running at anywhere near its TDP. Same for the RAM. The x86 isn't going to be anywhere near 5W, but it's going to be significantly lower than 102W. They're also ignoring the fixed disk and PSU overheads, shifting the power side of the ratio in favour of the Calxeda, and using a benchmark that's going to end up network limited is a solid way of reducing the performance advantage of the Xeon.

I don't doubt that ARM does have a better power/performance ratio, but it's nowhere near 15x. Using such obviously misleading statistics leaves me suspecting it's way closer than that.
While it is illegal for Scott to kill his father, or allow the doctors to kill his father, it is not illegal for his father to engage in highly dangerous behavior.

If this were my dad, I would leave him alone in a house with lots of clearly marked poisons, and warn him explicitly not to drink any of them because I absolutely do not want him to drink any of them, and then I would go for a really long walk. It would be a shame if I were to come home and find that he had accidentally taken a drink of poison instead of his beer. A shame.
It is important to understand that unless you build an "extreme" living will (food and water denial), there are many circumstances where you will still be tortured indefinitely. I speak from family experience.

My father suffered many strokes towards the end. This caused neuropathic pain ... completely untreatable pain coming from inside his brain (primary somatic sensory cortex). He lost his ability to speak, move, and was basically just in continuous agony, only really maintaining the ability to suffer, with no hope for recovery.

Even with durable power of attorney, withholding food and water requires court orders and takes time (sometimes months)... why is making someone die horrifically of dehydration perfectly legal, but painlessly giving them a shot is illegal?

> I'd also add that this means the family members should be able to dose up grandma with enough morphine to put her out of her misery -- and I imagine such a thing happens a hell of a lot more than we will ever know

That is how my fathers suffering ended. Not by a family member, in the end it was by a nurse. The nurses and doctors and everyone seemed to give quiet nods of agreement after days of failed attempts to mitigate the constant grimace of agony. I don't think anything was ever said explicitly, but eventually a male nurse came in and made it clear that if we wanted it, today could be the last day. The decision ended up falling on me, and I said yes, the door was closed and the nurse pulled out multiple needles of something, to this day I am not sure what, but it was obviously they were packaged individually for dosage control and he had a handful of them. he slowly injected each into the IV without saying a word and my father slipped away. I am not sure I have ever been more grateful for anything prior or since.
Most folk would choose everything medically possible to be performed to keep them going for another 24 hours. Why question medicine and ethics when you can kick a Christian instead?
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That's like saying intolerance of intolerance is intolerant.

In fact, I'd like to have simply said, "stop being an asshole", but that sort of direct, rude comment gets downvoted here on HN. Meanwhile, an extremely rude, condescending, dismissive, but roundabout comment stays neutral or is even upvoted.