skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, despite all the naysayers PHP's going through a bit of a revival at the moment. It's certainly not dying.

It's recently got Composer as an awesome package manager, the Laravel 4 framework, new features like short array syntax, closures etc and support from more PaaS (e.g. Google App engine). The community is really getting behind all this as well, which will help bring up the reputation.

I'd still recommend anyone to learn PHP as their first programming language. It's still the easiest to hack your first idea together, there's more jobs than any other language and the standard of code is improving now the language has the features and infrastructure it needs.
It would be interesting to see if you can tease out throwaway email accounts (Gmail, in my case) from primary personal accounts and work accounts. I guess the throwaways might actually be more interesting since that's what people probably use for online purchases or registering for websites.

Also, I wish I could have maintained my first email at delphi.com but at the time they didn't allow holding on to your email when you stopped paying for the ISP.
$179 no contract android phone that doesn't suck is going to be very tempting, especially now that Straight Talk, Net 10, Virgin Mobile, etc. are starting to gain in popularity in the US.
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At least, when everyone is on Bitcoin, you can't shift purchasing power to you (via inflation or massive taxation) and have bigger vote on how cars should be designed. You have to earn your vote (make people send you bitcoins voluntarily) to shift the status quo.
I may have over-read it, but I understood it as than citizen being targeted because of his presence in a third-rate country, and therefore by default a possible terrorist and an affordable loose.

What is strange is the use of 'minor'. As far as I know, their is officially no caste system in the US, so no minor or major citizenship. It may also be another case of me over-reacting, 'minor' meaning in this situation 'only one'.

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I suppose the referred story is there: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/opinion/the-drone-that-kil... but I don't know if it's the only time that happened. Close enough I suppose.
Use of gadget/template is totally optional. The _primary_ use case for Gadget is RESTful web services. That's why you can route to a resource, and have the appropriate controller methods hit by the correct HTTP verbs. The reason to provide support for HTML rendering on the server is no different than providing plaintext rendering: it's really really easy. It's almost free.
What if everyone decided to put a tech embargo on this town? Refusing to do business with the inhabitants.
Seems like it would be easier to just install Linux in a VM for your Unix work, or a Windows VM under a Linux host.
If it's true that anyone who can say "Ruby on Rails" in 2013 is called a "programmer"...
Honest question from an ignoramus, would companies be able to avoid fighting patent battles in this district by refusing to do business there (thus preventing any claim of jurisdiction)? If so, what's the size of the market they would have to avoid?
Good stuff. Can't wait for CentOS to pull this stuff in so I don't have to pay for it :)
> Seriously, another case of using Mongo incorrectly? I want to believe all the Mongo hate, but I can't because I always find out that the actual problem was one or more of:
> * poor schema

You're right. If people read the awesome mongodb docs before using it, they'd figure out that mongodb's ideal, good for performance schema has limitations that doesn't fit with a lot of projects. Of course this may have changed since mongodb evolves pretty quickly.
> Well then the onus is on them to show why Somalia is not a good example

I don't see how that follows. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You got out of North Korea by hand-waving that nobody explicitly wants a "totalitarian, all-controlling state" - yet the libertarian argument is that the constant push to have the government control more and more parts of society constitutes clear, if inadvertent, steps towards exactly that.

Also, the point raised isn't about whether Somalia/North Korea is a libertarian/statist paradise, it's why libertarians/statist don't move there. The answer is in almost all cases, "because I don't want to".

That said, Somalia being unpleasant has a lot more to do with it being extremely poor and ravaged by civil war than is has to do with a lack of government. But in the stateless period, a good number of things improved significantly, despite the lack of government: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Somalia_(1991%E2%80%...
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Not with BT!

MBP:~ matt$ nslookup piratebay.sx
Server:	8.8.8.8
Address:	8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	piratebay.sx
Address: 194.71.107.27

MBP:~ matt$ curl -H "Host: piratebay.sx" 194.71.107.27
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>Message</title>
</head><body>
<p> Error – Site blocked</p>
</body></html>
That is pretty great. Thanks for the link! Would be cool to also have an installer option but it's also nice being able to stick it on a USB device.
That is likely a better use of resources than railing against her individually.

As the face of hypocrisy, its (perhaps) actually worth rallying against her individually. Does she really represent you (or by extension CA, SF, SV...etc?). Human nature has very strong instinctual aversion to public demonstrations of hypocrisy of one's own activity. This is true because political power is power rested in delegated authority. That is rooted in trust. And duplicity and hypocrisy mark such an agent as untrustworththy. This reduces their eventual political tenebility. Its one of those experiments, ironically derived from cognitve science about why people don't <change their mind> on a publicly revealed preference or bet. In this case, it (perhaps) makes sense to use the result in a constructive way.
The fact that they're not marketed as a clinical tool for diagnoses?

From the 23andme homepage: "A simple DNA test led to an unexpected diagnosis for a mother and daughter, changing their lives forever.". Obviously the key is the "led to" phrasing, but you can't deny how that wording is trying to position the product.

The fact that they are not marketing themselves as a substitute for seeing your doctor and in fact encourage you to seek out your doctor if you have real health concerns?

As I mentioned in another 23andme thread, basic take-home pregnancy tests are regulated by the FDA. Certainly, when one of those tells you that you are pregnant, your actions don't stop there and you will eventually follow up with a medical professional. What differentiates 23andme's genetic testing from a pregnancy test?

(on a side-note, I would appreciate an explanation for the down-vote on my earlier post in this thread. Are we supposed to down-vote people we disagree with, or was there something wrong with my wording?)
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Photosensitive Game of Life (demo inside)
I coded up a game of life simulation where cells are photosensitive, and are placed in a finite square well with a propagating electromagnetic wave. Thought you guys might find it interesting to look at or tinker with.

[Demo] (http://sicurelli.com/photoGameOfLife.html)

[GitHub] (https://github.com/illerucis/photoGameOfLife)
This is correct. It uses features of the kernel and modern filesystems for efficient isolation.
Yeah — famo.us is a javascript tool like D3, jQuery, etc. So I think use cases are more centered around new and interesting interface concepts, that could be applied within a wide variety of specific apps.
Interesting, I'll have to play with it. Thanks for sharing.

You should consider adding benchmarks to that it is easy to compare martini to net/http. This will let you keep an eye on performance as you work on it and accept pulls.
It does hinge on the definition of retention - but the definition here is to contrast not being retained at all. So even retaining it long enough to digest it (which IMO is still data retention) is to be considered retention because the claim is that there is actually no retention at all.

~"Data is not retained" here should mean something like the port that data is being sent on is closed, or the packets input on that port are dropped by a firewall.

Minimal retention is still "retention".
Why do you consider "Tycho" despicable?
Death and rebirth of the CIO and what it means for the future of IT
If someone wants to learn webdev, I would recommend javascript as a first language. Just use something like parse/firebase and you don't need sever-side at all.
Well, I live in a developed nation with LTE, yet I barely use mobile internet, since Wifi is essentially everywhere in urban zones.
Gold is also a bet, just like Bitcoin, that it's the most marketable commodity (more than 90% of value is in this speculation, not in production demand). People tend to come up with valuing most the money which is most liquid, most accepted by others. If Bitcoin2 comes along it should be so incompatible with Bitcoin1 and so much superior that people would want to make that bet again with Bitcoin2. Most probably, though, Bitcoin1 would be extended since it's possible and so many people desire these new features. If not enough people desire new features, then another currency wouldn't be as liquid as the first one.

Universe wants one money, anyway:
http://blog.oleganza.com/post/54121516413/the-universe-wants...
Wouldn't it be better to make NPM more distributed so that anyone could set up a mirror and help out?

EDIT: Not saying it would be easy; I'm just wondering if you've considered this direction.
Granted I am upgrading from a 2 year old Galaxy Nexus that would fully drain in a few hours, but I am quite happy with the N5 battery life. The only way I don't make it through a full day is if I play A LOT of Plants vs. Zombies 2.
> * didn't read the manual
> * poor schema
> * didn't maintain the database (compactions, etc.)

The real world dictates that this happens more often than not. You know why I like Postgres? When I don't read the manual, create a crappy schema, and forgot to maintain the database it STILL seems to work okay.
Sure. If the proposal is "government is tyranny, abolish the FDA!", there aren't any merits, the proposal is fundamentally unserious and comes from a place of deliberate ignorance. That's the kind of idiocy I was objecting to.

Any realistic proposal (as in, we have an idea of how much extra risk we're incurring) is going to have a lot of technical details and probably require a huge amount of research to justify it -- it's human lives that we're talking about here. The potential $ savings are big but that doesn't matter if you're dead. Like I said way upthread, there is plenty of room for improvement, but "libertarian pixie dust will make everything better automatically" is the same thought process that led to collective farming and killing 10s of millions in Russia and China.
My quick calculation below shows that the device is not capable of 1MW power output with declared parameters (amount of heated water produced). It's calculated maximum power output would be like 160-180kW, which strangely is quite similar to declared input power. So it's not a heat pump, it's an ordinary (but expensive) electric boiler ;) I only wonder what it does with all that nickel and hydrogen...
Agreed. We can definitly have unrestricted free markets with community owned syndicates and still be able to create tailored products and respond to demans.

IMO, we need to start talking about workplace democracy if we're going to continue to entertain the idea of corporate controlled society, so that the common person can at least get their vote back (indirectly, by choosing who leads the company which bribes officials...).
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No, it's not "just as good". It's stuck as web development language due to design constraints.

Python is useful for a lot more than web scripting, and so is Ruby.
The Docker support is awesome. But I'm thinking that's less of a RHEL feature and more of Docker itself?
It is incredibly important when looking at these kinds of measures to realize it is not a simple yes/no. Introvert/Extrovert. It is a range of possibilities. For instance many people are very near the center, and find both kinds of activities equally enjoyable.

They don't get particularly "recharged" in that vague sense, but they never get discharged by the opposite either.
They can also attach a molecule to the side of an existing drug and patent that, and then stop manufacturing or marketing the original drug.
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Link to press release:

http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2013/11/red-h...

Also, the virtualization.info post claims that RHEL 6.5 is supported on Itanium, which I believe is incorrect.
Blaming the victim who repeatedly returns to his or her tormentor despite knowing better?

Yes.
I hate developing in windows because of the command line. This actually improves it quite a bit :)
I came to share the same thought. We need to preserve freedom for the future and set the damn standard for the rest of the world. I don't want my children or theirs to think surveillance like this is acceptable. It's absolutely not.
> the CLR which has terrible inefficiency due to immutable strings, the CLR startup time and insane cost of reflection

That's true, PowerShell is slower than bash. It does more, and that has a cost.

That said: it's by far the best designed shell in terms of syntax, and actually separating presentation from logic.

Eg, print me a list of processes started in the last hour (from memory, I don't normally use Windows)

ps | ? StartTime -gt $1HourAgo | kill

Notice the lack of silly things like creating regexs to represent time?

Unix shells are MS Word. Powershell is LaTeX.
Hm, ok. While I know that the chinese government still tries to define its system as a communist one, it is quite possible that they are simply searching by now. Given you use of the word heaven you probably know that better than me (if my limited chinese is correct).

But there are other examples. Take Stalin, under his reign there was a limited (but successful) effort to produce food using a free economy, which he shot down. Which was tragic given the food was needed.

But that leads to far. I mainly meant that the existing systems claiming to be communist aren't, and some were able to use the tools of capitalism without becoming a western country, e.g. without becoming an indirect democracy - thus showing that capitalism is an economic model, not more.
Not at all. You're the one who stated that people are inherently bad and that they need to be controlled. I don't agree with Ayn Rand at all.

I just believe in freedom and liberty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism.
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I hope perspectives like this are one of the main outcomes of the And model of the post -- that people don't see the skills associated with introversion as "versus" those of extroversion.

So that just like you point out with fitness and intelligence, so with introversion and extroversion, so people can find solitude, focus, and meditation help them develop skills of being outgoing and gregarious.

And that people can find talking, socializing, networking, and partying help them develop skills of spending time alone or with a small group of close friends.
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Sometimes you also need programs that don't have good Linux versions and bad Wine support. I tend to find GUI heavy applications are a pain to use in a VM.
The issues that existed "until 40 years ago" were pretty obvious. I read a lot by Ludwig Von Mises. And I am not Keynesian.
Even though I find it draining to be in social scenarios, I remain suspicious of this introvert/extrovert divide. I find it draining to be in social scenarios because I mostly don't like people. It wasn't always this way and I don't think it has anything to do with some intrinsic, immutable quality of myself. And I certainly don't think it's some special thing that others need to respect about me and so forth. That's the part that really grates for me, the implication that there is some special class of person that needs to be treated with kid gloves, and "respected" (i.e. condescended to) in certain ways. Just be honest, you want people to fuck off. I certainly do.

Same thing with "flow" - if you can't do your work because of extremely minor distractions like people walking by your desk, are you actually good at it? If it takes you 12 hours to get into the zone, whose fault is that?
From the article: "Neither the Moto G nor Moto X are sold in China, a result of the Chinese government's ban on Google services, which flow into its phones."

I don't understand this statement. All Android phones can have Google services; just add your google account in the settings. Is this feature disabled on Chinese Android phones?

It seems like China would be a natural market for such an inexpensive handset from a well known maker.
Because 1) a lot of startups seem to choose "startup technology", i.e. whatever famous startups are using, just because it seems fashionable and/or they don't consider if it'll actually solve their specific problem; or 2) they're technically curious and end up using it just for fun, even if it's not a good fit for their problem.

I've seen people using Redis for their MVPs, which is hardly necessary to serve 100 or 1000 or 10000 users. When you have a hammer at hand, everything looks like a nail.
"but we're not smart enough to receive information on the genes in our bodies."

No, and that's not what he claimed. Society at-large is not sufficiently educated or informed enough to know whether 23andMe's genetic profiling regimen follows best practices, actually correctly interprets the genome, and provides information that is both open, accurate, and appropriately disclaimed, as needed.

23andMe has chosen to pay lip service to the FDA, and steadfastly refuse to respond. They know what is required, say "yes, yes, we'll do that", and then don't.

"The fact that they're not marketed as a clinical tool for diagnoses?"

Only by very careful wording, and even then only subjectively so - sufficiently so that the FDA is concerned.

"Arm your doctor with information on how you might respond to certain medications."

"A simple DNA test led to an unexpected diagnosis for a mother and daughter, changing their lives forever."

"Find out things like if your body metabolizes caffeine quickly, or if you're at a higher risk for diabetes."

Statements like these may not /literally/ be "clinical tools for diagnosis", but the reasonable layperson can easily interpret them as such. For comparison, I'm an EMS provider. We are taught all through school that we don't diagnose. We "assess" and "rule out" and "treat for", and only a physician diagnoses. Do you think we don't say "this person has appendicitis/other given condition", and act that way, and do you think it makes a great deal of difference to the patient I speak to? "I'm not diagnosing you with appendicitis or a kidney stone or a XXX, but that's what's going on."
Out of curiosity, how do they normally pay the bills?
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Avoiding performing measurements because you're worried about how the results could possibly be misused is a political motivation, not a scientific one.

I'm just trying to argue in favor of this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6794926 , not about whether doing the testing is a spectacularly good idea.
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I'm just saying that powerful roles with attract power hungry people. Most regulation positions in banking and telecommunications are generally seated by previous company execs... So what's the difference in this particular regulatory body? I would definitely not make the blanket statement that MD's are always good people. I'm sure some can be pretty devious or ignorant to their (powerful) decisions.
Advanced NPM download statistics
Let's you see download statistics by day, week and month for every package on npm (node.js package manager).
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I would have agreed about the abysmal battery life if I only have a day’s worth of experience, playing around with it a lot more than I would usually, which is what a lot of anecdotes on the battery life are.

Read reports from N5 users now and you’ll find the battery life is nowhere near abysmal when tested against the conditions one would put with a phone they use normally.

I was one of those that lambasted the battery life when I first got it. But now at the end of the day my battery life barely dips below 50% and I use mine a fair lot.
Data Decay and the Illusion of the Present
IMHO human and animal rights are technology, too. At least in the sense of progress being made there as well.

It's not that long ago black people were slaves/segregated, and women's suffrage is even fresher. And as much there is still to improve, some progress happened; instead of, say, there "always being one class of people considered subhuman", which no doubt some people have uttered in defeat back then, too.