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> As someone who grew up in an Asian family, those words are uttered nowhere near enough (never).

Curious - what do you think it is about Asian families that prevents them from saying that they love each other?
Aww, thank you. That always makes me feel good to hear.
Why do we still use 0/non-0 exclusively for exit succes/failure signaling?
Bitcoin is also a huge bet against P=NP
Well I think the problem is that from the title, NBC seems to suggest (at least in my opinion) that he is a scientific researcher. I think he's actually a policy maker, which puts his credibility in a different light.
The first cause of death due to head trauma is car accident. Economically and humanly, it would have a greater impact to make wearing helmet of peiple in cars. Why aren't there any laws mandating helmet wearing in cars?
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And who cares about that, in turn? It's just the glue you write your data structures, objects and functions in. You can still write shitty code in a nice language, and you can architect something well thought out in BASIC.

A nice language makes for shorter, more expressive code, sure, but that's like having a fast car that handles well; it still matters more where you're driving it. If someone is making a trip with a caravan of a million rust buckets to a nice place, why would they care about some Porsche owner moaning about how that is all so very wrong?

If PHP developers complained all the time about how programming sucks, then you could maybe tell them to use a better language. But the PHP devs aren't really complaining, rather people who aren't even using it.

People use Wikipedia. I dare say Wikipedia improved a lot of lives a lot. Meanwhile, a gazillion static blog generators written in hip language of the day prove no real benefit over notepad, or this textarea right here. It's like making a trip with a handful of people to a place that's been explored by others decades ago, and then being bitter that nobody cares, and hating on the roaring party going on next door.

If you want to make language A or B more popular and better accessible when it comes to web hosting, write the killer app in it that nobody can do without, and which can't be implemented in PHP. That should be simple, since PHP sucks so much, right?

Lastly, is the HN code nice? I wouldn't even know, it's that irrelevant. The HTML it puts out sure is atrocious, but even that doesn't matter.
His point was that winning 27 billion in a roulette without ever losing is easier than doing same thing with stocks. His argument that probability of picking right color is ~0.5, to do it for 27 times is 1/2^27 - about one in hundred and thirty millions. Now consider stocks - there are over ten thousand choices, only lucky few are winners. So picking the right ones has to be fairly low probability. Now calculate probability of picking only winning stocks for a year as (probability of picking right stocks on any given day)^(244 //number of trading days in a year).

That number is way way way smaller than probability we computed for casino option.
Any of the myriad of good languages available out there? Php is only easy to install because it comes pre-installed in most low-end servers out there. Without that fact, php is just as cumbersome to get started as any other language.
Right. But if you read the Constitution in light of the Federalist papers, it is clear that those limitations on federal power apply domestically. Otherwise, it is clear that the framers intended to create a fully sovereign entity on the international stage, with the sovereign right to do all the things sovereigns have the right to do, which is pretty much everything. Indeed, that was one of the purposes of the Constitution: to create a strong central government that could act in international matters the same as the European sovereigns. The idea of the Constitution recognizing rights of foreigners that limit the power of the federal government internationally runs wholly counter to all that.
I say we just dump a few tons of various vegetation all over Mars and see what happens :-). There's plenty of space to do archaeological research, it's not like Mars is the size of Machu Picchu or something...
I assume because even Back In The Day, PHP functions lived in a namespace, i.e. a hash table, i.e. a thing where you want the hashes of the keys to be somewhat evenly distributed.
I don't know the exact quote but Warren Buffet has explained before that there are a lot of great investments you can make if you have thousands or millions of dollars to invest, but once you start getting into the billions, it's a lot harder to get that same return.

In my own experience, almost anyone can make hundreds of dollars, It's not super difficult to make thousands, but as a single person, scaling into the 6 or 7 figures usually requires working/partnering/networking with other people. A lemonade stand or a bake sale or yard sale is natually limited by location for example.

Another relevant example is Bingo Card Creator. You could argue that Patrick has just about maxed out what is possible to make selling bingo card software on the internet. It is no surprise that his second product Appointment Reminder has a much higher ceiling and I'm guessing that it makes a lot more than BCC does by now.

No matter how much effort Patrick put into BCC, getting past 100k a year would be a festivus miracle. Appointment Reminder could very reasonably hit 7 figures, but 8 figures would probably require a full on sales force, support staff, etc. and even then it would be a real push.
In conclusion, you should invest in time travel research.
Why is there always this knee-jerk instinct to disclaim any critique of unfettered capital?

As a dude that makes this disclaimer when trying to make a more subtle point, it acts as a sort of a preemptive dismissal to the just-as-kneejerk "SOCIALIST!" or "ENTITLEMENT!" critiques. A way to separate critiques of a business model itself from some saying "in this one context, this business model has some ramification that aren't so hot" is useful.
I like how people write blog, get tens of comments and feedback and yet they haven't done the simplest research required for saying something in public with this certainty
If someone's willing to pay 200/30 ~ 7 times the current market price to buy Adobe stock, well, I'm sure there current shareholders would be more than happy to oblige the time traveler.
Right now client IP's are logged in the web logs as part of logging requests. Logs are kept up to 7 days.
that's exactly what i thought - the power of compounding is amazing to look at when you see it in action with higher dollar amounts.
But your writing system overflowed before your finger overflow. That's not very intuitive. Each finger represents a unique glyph until suddenly on the last finger it takes two glyphs to represent it.

If you were using base eleven you'd put your pebble down when you hit dec(11) aka base11(10). That pebble represents dec(11). Then first finger would be dec(12) aka base11(11) and once again your first finger represents 1.

So in base11
[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A] - pebble - [11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,1A]

A pebble and five fingers would be dec(16) instead of dec(15) but your five fingers still represent 5. The pebble represents 11 instead of 10.

But really, once you're into double digits you normally wouldn't be counting on your fingers anymore. You write 10.
Conversely, I wonder how much time/money has been spent porting away from PHP, or working on stuff like hiphop?

I don't have an estimate, but it's an interesting question if you're going to argue in terms of economic impact.
Yikes! Nobody tell the author about options. It might cause their brain to explode.
Well, apparently the amnesty wasn't approved by the White House, who says that it's not under consideration either way.

http://reason.com/blog/2013/12/16/white-house-says-there-wil...
The typos in the texts communicate so much. The rawness and stress of the situation. Wow, this was surprisingly touching.
The problem has actually gotten worse -- by acting like asshats and spying on US citizens (as well as a whole litany of other stupidity, like racist drug laws, ...), it's presumably a lot harder to recruit and retain great people for the less-sexy roles like IT/IA.
Starbucks has an odd one.

They will not delete your account but upon request they
can “scramble all of your information so that you don’t
receive emails and none of your information is available
to [them] for potential fraud”.
Glad you point out that Bell Labs' gifts to the public domain were involuntary (they distributed unix source code without giving away the rights, then took them back; UC Berkeley then created a free replacement so they could keep teaching OS courses and At&T tried to sue them to oblivion and lost).

If you want to make the argument that Google isn't Bell Labs, it's probably better to point out that Google isn't really tackling really fundamental research projects like inventing the transistor and the laser. Even producing Go isn't on par with C because C was amazing and unique for its time, whereas Go is just part of a flood of new languages.

Bell Labs:UNIX::Google:Linux distribution.
Here's the relevant House Oversight Committee hearing from Oct. 1, 2013: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/EPAI
What would "really" happen is that you would probably be investigated and shut down somehow, if not outright imprisoned, as you get into the size of transactions that becomes impossible to ignore.

But it's still a fun thought game. I've wondered myself just how good you could do with perfect knowledge, and really, there's a million answers to that question depending on the exact ground rules you lay down, and they're all equally false, so you might as well pick a nice, concrete one to play with in your head.
It's true Yuri is mainly a late stage investor, but for a while he experimented with earlier stage investments.
So, clearly there are disadvantages to underexposure to bacteria (hygiene hypothesis etc.), but are they so bad that they outweigh the risks of allowing bacterial exposure? In other words, is there any evidence that the optimal level of exposure to bacteria (i.e. the level that minimizes the sum of the risk of pathogenic infection and the risk of cleanliness-related problems like allergies and autoimmunity) is nonzero?
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I'm not based there but I'm pretty sure there Boston's big enough that you'd find good opportunities there. Maybe start there and consider a move later.

Sounds like you have a direction - do more in application security while holding on to a degree of flexibility and keeping in touch with platform / infrastructure skills. Flexibility tends to result from smaller companies, but autonomous teams in bigger companies might also get this.

What opportunities are there within your current company to look at application security? What skills would you need to develop to do those - this is likely programming / networking more than infrastructure. Can you push for exposure to those areas within the current company? If you are good then there will be many companies where you will get latitude in what you work on, so don't feel too scared.

Generally it's a good idea to push your skillset as far as you can go in the current company, ideally get a couple of successful applications in place based on your good performance and skillset. You can then negotiate for what you want (pay, learning opportunities, responsibility) from a position of strength. Nothing to stop you negotiating straight away but if you get push back then you need to think about what your plan B is.

Also make a list of companies you like the sound of in Boston and try to find out more about them. Even if they're not hiring see if you can find people who work for them and arrange meetings. You should get a clearer idea soon enough of what's out there and whether they'd really be the right kind of place for you.
All six of those things were or would have been novel in the 1970's but not so much today.
They also dressed much more uncomfortably - suits and hats in 100 degrees heat, as well as -20.

But they also valued dignity and discipline, and were generally pretty damn hardcore compared to nowadays...
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The comment you're replying to wrote:

"Ignoring the obvious difference in reach and success, in what way are Go, Dart and Android not equivalent to C, C++ and Unix in terms of open software projects?"

You replied with:

"What all of these things lack in comparison to C, C++, Unix, and itself Java for that matter, is broad, industry wide repercussions."

Which is exactly the one thing the original comment wasn't asking for. Your criticisms may or may not be true. However, I think it's fair to ask what differences exist while IGNORING the magnitude of the success of each company's projects. The article asserted that Google would never release its work to the public in the way that Bell Labs did because it is a publicly traded company. To counter this assertion, the original comment listed present day examples of open source projects that Google has released. The success (or failure) of those projects doesn't negate the fact that Google releases a lot of code to the public.
Like drug possession and alcohol production.
Google to Bell Labs is not an apt comparison. The better one would be Google to AT&T. Both Google and AT&T have components (like Bell Labs) that produce open technology. The author's omission of Go, Dart, and Android is glaring.

This article will look even sillier in the future when we're being taxied around in our driverless cars, after Google has had the decades that Bell Labs had to make its accomplishments.
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It's unlikely the stock would go up after such a transaction, though.
Anything on a billion devices (in five years) is very interesting. Android lacks broad repercussions, wut. Because it wasn't crafted by CS titans at the dawn of computing?
And i think it's actually an obligation to look after the shareholder's interest, presumably under the threat of the top dogs being replaced. To my mind that's an important but subtle difference from the "legal obligation to maximize profits"
The collection of records has not been manual since sometime in the 80's - the switch can generate a report of all this data. But I get the point.

I think metadata alone is useless - it gives you associations, not content, you could be calling someone not very nice to talk about the fact that they owe you money for work you did on their car - or about blowing something up. All this metadata is useful for is generating leads for traditional police work (aka shoe leather) to follow up on and dig up information the old fashioned way.
Google isn't doing basic research like measuring and discovering the background radiation from the origins of the universe.
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There's the short film Noah that takes on a teen's computer screen. You might have seen it -- it was posted to HN. Unfortunately, the creators only put it on YouTube for a limited time.
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Unix was certainly an improvement on multics.
No one else finds these texts disturbing and probably contributing to the damage these (rare) events do?

What does texting your child continuous achieve other than pushing them into a point of emotional panic, both unable to deal with any current problem (unlikely).

But also damaging them after (likely)

This was one person killing another. A rare event that we as society have to deal with maturely, it happens, it almost never affects us. Deal with it.
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That you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.
The idea is to be a DNS server distributed, which any person may rise a node.<p>http://adns.io/
As long as I've been responsible for buying my own soap (i.e. since 2009), I've made an effort to buy non-antibacterial soap, primarily to avoid contributing to the antibacterial resistance tragedy of the commons.
Is the PHP source from 1994 available anywhere? That would help determine if this is Rasmus's satire or not.
and aerofs i believe.
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>No statistics? It's a planned feature, but I feel like this should have been like priority one. Bloggers like to see that people are reading their material.

Hmm, not only that, but it was in the frigging demo as shown for the Kickstarter. With all the extra money you'd think at least they'd get the basics right...
How is calculating in binary easier? I think it's easier to do relatively complex calculations in base10/12 in our head than to write an immense amount of numbers down then trying to work with them further. Wouldn't one page of calculations turn into ten? Or maybe I'm too tired to think straight...
You could theoretically plow that much money into call options because there's no physical limit to how many people can write the option and take the opposite position. (ignoring position limits, which the exchange would probably notice at some point.)
I am surprised nobody has mentioned short-term capital gains taxes.
"Php is only easy to install because it comes pre-installed in most low-end servers out there. Without that fact, php is just as cumbersome to get started as any other language."

It comes installed because it is easy to install. Someone had to install it and PHP is sure easy for any SysAdmin to get installed. It is easy to start because the PHP folks made it easy to get started.

Look at the steps to get PHP installed versus other languages. Then look at what "Hello World" and a simple form take.
I don't know if ab sends HEAD requests! Thanks for the link to httpress; I've been having trouble with ab failing at high concurrencies (1000 concurrent connections) and also being the bottleneck.
People create same "MVP" blogging systems for free, in less than a month, from their home and with no funding. For Node too -- or even with more difficult to work with technologies.
I always loathe these attempts to compare how "innovative" the past is compared to the future, when the relative ease of mining entirely new fields of endeavor is not considered. One might as well complain that Humanity's days of invention are clearly behind us, because in the past thousand years we've come up with at most one invention on par with Fire, The Written Word, and Agriculture. And piffle, Computing is hardly that anything more than an obvious extension of other things anyhow.

We do not get to discover brand new fields of endeavor every day. Of course Go isn't as "innovative" as C... probably no computer language can be as innovative as C ever again. (Or Lisp, or a couple of others.) Even if one were to somehow be constructed (or simply pulled from the future somehow) it would almost certainly still have some sort of pedigree that could be traced whereby people could poo-poo its innovativeness. This is not a weakness, this is a strength of the richness of the field and how much exploration we've done. We don't get to discover new fundamental things every day precisely because we've done such a good job of exploration in so many fields, not because we've lost the ability to explore.
Involvement couldn't have ceased, since the US wasn't involved in the beginning of WWII.
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Grew up in an Asian family, raised by mostly my grandfather. Never said "I love you" to him even once, not even after I found out he had terminal cancer. I loved no one more than him.

I did, however, visit him in his hospital room daily, and saw him at least once a week when he was home. I'd like to think it was implicit, based on my actions.

Maybe it's a cultural thing? Where it's like taken for granted that the family takes care of one another.
I think you actually understand contractual law. We've made an agreement that the ticket belongs to you, and back that agreement up with documentation showcasing that its been purchased and its been purchased on your behalf. You are the rightful owner. I would be impossible for us to cash it in. Any court of law would uphold that the ticket is yours. We have no ability to not keep our promise.
A lot of people here seem very upset that this isn't a recipe they can follow to riches. Clearly this is just an exercise illustrating wild growth, and an interesting article. No need for people to be so bitter.
Who ultimately decides the patches cannot be added (for whatever reason)? It's ultimately the bean counters and managers beholden to them.

So I'm not really going to look down on the govt IT workers (or contractors).
I reaffirmed the differences in scope because I lean toward the opinion that the achievements in Bell labs were substantial on technical merit alone, to such a degree than I don't think it would have necessarily been less historic if they had been private inventions. I don't think you can make a meaningful comparison avoiding this aspect.

Go, Dart and Android, to a great extent, have also been 'set free' yet they will never match some of the technologies out of Bell that we haven't even mentioned.
>And who cares about that, in turn?

Anyone who has to maintain bad PHP code, for starters.
Its not that rare to exceed the 300GB datacap if you're not using cable as your primary means of video distribution.

Netflix uses 2.8GB/Hour of streaming on its highest quality setting [1]. That's only 107 hours of video per 300GB. Now include four family members, and normal internet traffic...and voila you're over 300GB in one moth.

[1] https://support.netflix.com/en/node/87
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+1 this. SMBs all the way. It's a good balance between too small and too large. I always saw it as better to be standing on 100 legs rather than 5. Less instability when you lose one.
YC has gotten bigger. I don't write everything myself anymore, and other people may feel they can't take such liberties with formats.
19.6% is less than the S&P 500 index performance in 2013!
S G Collins claims it would have been impossible to fake the landing: http://www.openculture.com/2013/01/moon_hoax_not_short_film_...
> As an example, today my admin dashboard popped up with a notice that Fred had closed an estimate for about $30k. I tabbed over to GMail and wrote Fred a quick congratulatory note and asked him if there was anything I could do to help him close future estimates faster and with less resistance.

I don't know how this application works, but is there an option to opt out of this? This seems like it could be a serious problem. Fred seemed happy, but there are a lot of other businesses which I'm sure wouldn't be too pleased to have their business activity popping up on Brennan's dashboard.

I hate to hit a negative note because I think his articles are helpful and its great that he is out there building something and making things work.
That he futzed around with function name lengths instead of just fixing the hash function is a pretty good analogy for both the design of the language as a whole and to much of the code that's written in it.

Queue "it's popular and therefore must be good" trolls.