skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if you can say that "those fools have been using it and don't even know it." It's hard to tell if they had a time machine would they go change that decision (to use php). Anyway I agree that there has already been too much time spent on this language, no need to waste more beating the dead horse.
I had the same idea, it's great to know I'm not alone :-)
I was imagining an 'enforced' democratic website ie the website runs the live code that any user can submit patches and/or vote on, and no-one has root.

At some point this sort of thing becomes a co-operative business... kind of big for a side project :-/

Anyway I started a python prototype (see my profile), and would love to bounce ideas off you!
It puts the importance of good language design in perspective in two completely different ways, though!

You're completely correct, but at the same time, PHP also stands as a stark warning not to throw things together with no design, lest your misshapen child end up being immortalized.

PHP is simultaneously the best-case outcome and the worst-case outcome for a badly designed language.
healthcare.gov should be a good addition to this site, if it's possible.
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

finger overflow!

(ten plus) one, (ten plus) two, ...

For base ten, you can just put a pebble down for each overflow, and the fingers will always count the units. If you were using base eleven, you would count [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A],[10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19],[1A,20...], so a given finger wouldn't always correspond to the same digit.
We equate suits and ties with being dressed up and well dressed now, but that was normal style for many people in many walks of life then. There would have been very cheap jackets and shirts just the same as there are very cheap jeans and t-shirts in contrast to very expensive dress. There is also the fact that even in the 40's having your clothes made at home was not unusual and simply getting squares of cloth was cheaper than pre-made.

So they may look very dapper and done up now, but then it might not have been the same. We can't look back at photographs with the same eye to fashion as we would now.
Please, people. This article is a spoof, a scam-within-a-scam. I can't believe people actually swallow this story. Someone's having a good laugh right now.

"All right, if I win a game of hearts with less than 15 points, I’ll do it" -- please!

I used to love baiting the 419ers; I would redirect their inquiries to a throwaway hotmail account where I would draw them out with silly questions and comments. Usually it would not last much beyond 3-4 emails, though; they seem pretty good at sniffing out a baiter.

419eater.com is excellent, and there are or were a couple of other good collections out there, some really funny exchanges. In one, this (supposedly) dumb American flew to some town in Thailand instead of Nigeria, and the Nigerian got so mad he cursed and told him to go to hell. So much for that scam!

Sadly, I took down my scam baiting correspondence after I applied to a job with a Scottsdale networking company and their "security guy" did a google search that netted these exchanges. "You need to list these as relationships with foreign entities," he scolded. "Huh? It's just a joke, they might be in Florida for all I know." Nope. No sense of humor. They withdrew the job offer which was just as well; a very large bullet did I dodge that time!

More recently Nigerians, or similar folk, have been posting fake ads on Craigslist. A couple of years ago when we were looking for an apartment, I came across an unbelievably good deal, a huge luxury condo in Newton, Mass., for like $700 a month. It sounded just too good to be true; I contacted them and asked if it was a typo. They said in slightly less good English than in the ad that, no, it's not a typo, and they're going on some sort of mission to Africa for two years (uh oh, here it comes!) and needed a good reliable person to rent their home. Sniffing a scam, I decided to test them by mentioning that we had a pet howler monkey, but not to worry, he's very quiet and well behaved (howler monkeys are in fact considered the loudest land animals) and they didn't bat an eye, so I continued embellishing: he does sometimes fly into fits of rage and throw things, but for the most part he's pretty well house trained. When can we move in? But they stopped writing back.

People do get suckered, but usually it's because they are quite gullible, or lonely, or desperate, or some combination thereof. The character in the vice.com story had all of those qualities in abundance, making the story that much more believable, and he threw in quite a few details that seem factual enough, but overall things just didn't add up.
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I'm really surprised by the naysayers in this thread. Mozilla is a not-for-profit. The largest and most influential when it comes to action on the web given their footprint directly in-front of the users.

You're complaining about lack of some edge-css features, silly bugs that have been open for a long time, and the fact that they may be chasing down some avenues that yield little fruit.

But, the web I envision without them is one that I do not want any part of. While I switched and used Chrome (for the tools), lately, the only browser vendor that I trust is Mozilla. I switched back to FF, donated, and decided to start dipping into their code/docs to see if I can help out.

While certainly not perfect, they are the company that we should be supporting. Not necessarily financially, but by being advocates, code/doc junkies and designers.

Here's to Mozilla and here's to 2014. Congrats!
Are they still in "stealth mode" (eg havent figured out a brand identity)?
Indeed, and the title is incorrect too. Function names were not renamed to end up different buckets; Their names were picked that way.
They may not be Bell labs but they are the closest that this generation has.
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?
While this is true, I think Microsoft Research is much more akin to Bell Labs than Google (though I'm biased). See e.g. this list of top CS papers [1].

[1] http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html
This really isn't a good article. It's not terribly eloquent, nor is it unique or new.

Also, it avoids the big, ugly question. The author writes: It was warped thinking, and it produced bizarre results. That's about copy protection, a.k.a. "Digital Rights Management" in Newspeak. Great, warped thinking. Honestly, I don't think that mere fear can cause decades long periods of "warped thinking". Most people get talked out of "warped thinking" fairly readily, when they see some evidence, or some bad fallout from that warped thinking. The popular culture industry can't possibly be on a decades long binge of warped thinking. There's got to be some other motive. And that's what this article resists thinking about.
This is a very well written tutorial. Chrome users should make sure to activate scripts in their address bar to see the code.
Yeah, it wouldn't be a highest and best use of his talents... eg hard-core crypto research. The opinion pieces seem like a highly-visible side hobby.
Well, not really. Consider the (very common) case of a PHP-based blog, forums or shop being hosted on shared hosting. The latter gets an upgrades, and the site explodes.

(I say do it anyway. It's like IE6; give it a long grace period, then tell people they need to get with the program.)
How do internal tools used by Amazon, Facebook and Google compare to?
Ask HN:
What about usability? "I wasn't too worried about not being able to remember the few function names." certainly indicates that usability decreased. That may have set a pattern for it getting broken, eventually.
Sure. But now you know how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.
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I'd argue that PHP has been popular because it makes hiring a developer optional for the vast majority of folks who want to put up a website. In the days before Facebook et al. Your options were Geocities and family or a cheap shared host with apache and PHP3-4. When the most sophisticated portions of a site were a gallery and contact form, the "put files here, done" methodology is pretty hard to beat.

It being a "bad language" is irrelevant for someone who's end result requirement is a functional page over technological purity.

Disclosure: I develop mainly in C#
That can't possibly be true. I refuse to believe it.
I seem to remember a PWC connection. Did PWC own @stake (what was l0pht) before it disappeared into Symantec? Or did their army of pen testers diffuse elsewhere?
Oddly enough, I get a lot of flack from my friends for being an openly fair weather fan.

With politics, I support policies, not politicians. I understand the draw for rooting for the guy who 'thinks like you', or, if you find somebody who 'gets it', but the flip side of that is that it's hard to reconcile where they're wrong. A lot of people will actually conform their own beliefs to match the beliefs of a politician they like.

Polls of the NSA surveillance highlighted some of this; many Democrats who hated the PATRIOT Act under Bush didn't mind its abuses under Obama, and similarly, many Republicans who were okay with the law under Bush hated its uses by the Obama administration. Same law, same nonsense, and admittedly, Obama made at least a token effort to instate the FISA court, if only to give it the appearance of fairness.

With sports though, I'm exactly the same. I'm a Ravens fan, but if we don't make the playoffs, I'll pick another team that's convenient and start rooting for them. If we have a years' long streak of bad luck, like the Bills, or the Browns, I'll jump ship and root for a better team.

Yes, that makes me a 'traitor' to many 'real fans', but the counter is that I don't get anything out of being a fan other than some manufactured emotions. If it were Green Bay, and I owned shares, that'd be a little bit different, I suppose, but until and unless I get some kind of perk for a winning season (beyond the one I want most, which is to see my team make the playoffs), I just don't see the logic in being wed to them arbitrarily.
On the other hand... http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/mac-plus-introduce-modern-we...
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In the payment industry there is the concept of PCI-DSS. It is basically a set of requirements regarding the handling of sensitive data. While a lot of it is just common sense some of it should be applied to any sensitive data that you are working with.

Encrypted database tables are not that common. More common is encryption of the whole disk or database using Oracle or some other software/hardware.

If you are storing full credit card #s it better be encrypted while the data is at rest.
Well, if some offer is not good enough, Germany is welcome to pass stricter minimum wage laws, so that the 'minimum viable job' would pay more.
I would argue that the e911 data is not a voluntary disclosure. The cellular companies were compelled to generate and provide this information, as well as generate and store hordes of other information to assist law enforcement. In short, I don't think the government should be able to compel a company to store a class of data about its users, then because now they are holding it (at the behest of the government), then strip the data of privacy and compel the cellular companies to provide it to law enforcement.

I don't find a substantial difference between the police planting a tracking device on your vehicle, and requesting geolocation data records for your mobile phone, they achieve largely same goals, thru only what I consider marginally different means - meaning, both should require a warrant.

The exception to that would be geolocation data that is generated as part of making a phone call. I want to hold the line on what can be monitored to the era before always on mobile communications devices. Just because the data is there, does not mean it should be able to be gotten without a warrant.
The filesystem layout on Linux was never pessimized in order to work around using string length (STRING LENGTH) as a hash function.
...except PHP still has htmlspecialchars as a core library function. If Linux ever had these some of warts, they were resolved long ago.
It's a joke. A clever satire. I simply refuse to believe it's real.
The states definition of criminals or criminal actors has been wrong many times, certain criminals are cool and romantic in many profound ways.
Like Perl, PHP is a long-lived, heavily-used-in-production language, which means there is a lot of cruft that has accumulated over the years that's difficult for the platform developers to just slough off. But much like there is a Modern Perl movement that has coalesced around voluntarily cutting out cruft and using a much cleaner, nicer-to-work-width subset of Perl, there is a similar movement in PHP-land that's doing the same thing.

PHP The Right Way (http://www.phptherightway.com/) is a good place to start if you're curious what "modern PHP" looks like.
Thanks for the post on Flask and Rethink. I am starting a side project using these two and it is always good to come across helpful resources like yours.
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Don't work in that area but

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_Data_Encryption

Apparently widely used enough to have support existing for it.
It is... it is called Apple ID ....
On large deployments, every bastion (internet-facing host that handles traffic) should gets its own caching resolver and a copy of the internet-facing zones, pushed by puppet/chef. Helps a bunch w/ DDoS if the shop is too custom for CloudFlare || similar.
i think another reason both facebook and g+ are in decline is that they're insisting on the whole "our way or the highway" approach - g+'s real names crap, and facebook's relentless publicisation of every move you make, are unpopular with tons of people, and even if those people reluctantly stay on because that's where all their friends are (in facebook's case, at least - g+ threw away any chance at stickiness by being high-handed before people were hooked), their engagement with the platform is diminished.
Better idea: bite the bullet, drop PHP. Switch to a language that was designed. In the eyes of many of us, PHP is beyond redemption.
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I got GB region only from your link. The worldwide view shows ongoing growth: http://bit.ly/1dIbkpF
+1 to official Java drivers
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>In this case, a prospective employer can essentially offer you any wage they like - will that be a truly "voluntary" contract, even though you have no choice other than to accept it?

"Bargaining power" is misleading because that is not how a market works. It's not two party's haggling over what they think a "fair price" is, it's a lot of parties and prices tend towards supply and demand. Unlike the bargaining model, supply and demand still works even if one party doesn't have a choice.

For example, you have no choice but to buy food. But farmers can't force you to pay extreme prices because you have no choice. They have to compete amongst each other and the price of food falls towards what it costs to produce.

Messing with the supply and demand price can create problems like unemployment. It's too expensive to hire new workers at the minimum wage, or there is a much higher incentive to outsource and automate work, or just not do it at all. To continue the food analogy, if you set a maximum food price, farmers would just stop producing if it cost more than the maximum price.
I guess its comforting to have such a simplistic worldview.

Time to grow up.
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Terry is also a (hellbanned) regular on HN. [1] He is believed to have schizophrenia, and most of his comments come across as a bit ... "out there". But occasionally his skill at systems programming shines through, which is fairly sad considering how crippled by his mental illness he appears to be.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=losethos
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Obviously the effects of trading are non linear and moving that kind of money would significantly altered the return somewhere. However it's cool to look at.
Ironically, the carriers who have the most billing and call quality troubles are not the legacy incumbent local exchange carriers, its the newer VoIP based carriers.

In your 10mbps scenario its either a lack of QoS on your circuit (either from you or your ISP) or poor generally qualities of the end to end connection - like too much jitter or something.
> You're just making up a random fact to support your case, and leaving the burden on the reader to substantiate your claims, correct me if I'm wrong.

And the only fact supporting your case is a sentence from Facebook's Q3 report. Total active teen usage was stable while younger teens are dropping off. If you want to claim that Facebook was downplaying the extent of the problem then that's a very bold assertion. Hiding critical information such as that for investors is what get's executives in trouble. It's also why they bothered to share a piece of information that sent the share price tumbling 20% after an 18% jump.

The use case of Facebook is not messaging. It never has been. The use case of Facebook is their social graph. It's your online identity. It's being the lowest barrier of entry to use the internet.
While these old photographs have a certain aesthetic appeal, none of the people depicted in them appears particularly glamorous.

Most of these pictures bear witness to a harsh life. It would be interesting to find out the charge for each person.
Either way, it's hillarious :-)
This just in: compounding interest exists. But seriously, I don't know what the point of this article is. It doesn't even consider the fact that the amounts it's talking about eclipse the market cap of just about all of the corporations it's talking about.
If you liked that I urge you to seek out more: it gets even better. I especially recommend his talks that can be found on YouTube - he's a scientist and philosopher with the timing of a standup comedian.
Think about all the personal and professional feedback you've received over your entire life. Have you ever been told you're too curt, abrasive, or aggressive? Has anyone told you that what you say is fine, but how you say it alienates or frustrates people? Do you feel like people avoid interacting with you or generally bring up issues (especially personal issues) with other people well before they bring them up with you? Do you feel like you're constantly being misunderstood or that people are taking what you're saying the wrong way? Do you often find yourself rationalizing the impact your words have by telling yourself other people are too sensitive, too stupid, or too deluded to hear what you're saying?

Because right now, that's what's happening. And unless this is a particularly off day, I'd be astonished if you haven't had this reflected to you before by friends, family, and/or co-workers.

You're 100% right on the technical merits. Everybody here understands what you're saying and agrees with you — nobody cares. It seems like you're going out of your way to humiliate the original commenter for no good reason, e.g., by calling him delusional, even after he admitted that he understood what he did in high school in no way rose to the level of what Carmack did.

The OC was describing the sensation vindication and pride he felt when he figured something out on his own and later learned that a more advanced version of same idea already had a name. This is a feeling most programmers can relate to, I think. I only learned what a "trie" was, for example, years after I implemented a shitty version on my own.

Whatever your intentions are, you have to understand the impact your words have. And in this thread, at least, it's not pretty.
I tried google plus once. It was a barrage of information, so I closed the tab never to return. The software ain't good.
"Journalists tend to have their own cultural biases--although more on political topics than technical ones."

Glenn Greenwald actually argues for transparency in advocacy rather than pretending that an objective journalist even exists. Long-winded conversation about it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/opinion/a-conversation-in-...

Also check Paid Content for a bit of a summary:
http://paidcontent.org/2013/10/28/glenn-greenwald-vs-the-nyt...
No, this wouldn't work in the slightest. The "hypothetical" account would soon have the pains and limitations of an institutional investor... it would move markets so much that this wouldn't be possible to make trades as described.

Perhaps a quant can run this on a market simulator using historical data and show how much it would diverge from reality.
* Go is just a less crufty C with a few niceties (modules, gc, coroutines).

* Dart, imho, is just an attempt to capitalise on Java expats, like they did with Android, but this time in the browser. It's sadly a much less interesting language than Javascript, which it aims to replace. It does however fit the bill of getting more enterprise friendly software running in the browser and in the cloud.

* Android is a pretty crappy Java runtime running on top of Linux. It's not at all interesting.

What all of these things lack in comparison to C, C++, Unix, and itself Java for that matter, is broad, industry wide repercussions. None of them are the culmination of years of careful research. If you look for the huge public-facing industry epochs out of Google, you're looking at marketing and social change, not individual technologies.
that has generated billions and billions of dollars for the world economy.

That's an interesting thought. Has it? I wonder what a lot of websites would have used if PHP has not been around. I wonder if, overall, PHP existing has actually generated billions and billions of dollars in value.
Yeah, "somewhere" is right. This calendar has our mythical time traveler buying over $200B of Adobe stock. The only problem is that Adobe's market cap is a mere $30B. There isn't $200B worth of stock to buy!
yet another article that can serve as evidence we are nearing a market top.
1080p streams pretty much, especially tv. Not even every day
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Those same arguments would apply to Python too, and it doesn't seem to have nearly as much cruft.
Oh, base 10 leads to redundancy when finger counting. Because all ten fingers is the same as 0 fingers plus token. Base 11 wouldn't have that problem.

I don't understand "[..] so a given finger wouldn't always correspond to the same digit."
Do you think it would have been better if the Nigerian government intervened and tossed him in jail for a few years? How would you feel if the roles were reversed and it was a Nigerian coming to your country to defraud your government?
MS Research is all kinds of awesome in my book just for sponsoring a lot of the Haskell guys.
There are times that posts on HN really read like blog comment spam (e.g. My mom made $6,000 last week at home).
Yes it does, it specifically states that at the end. It's a silly hypothetical, not meant to be a step-by-step guide.