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Not only does China use the best date format but they also only have one time zone for the whole country and DON't practice DST (summer time). If only the whole world could adopt this policy it would solve a lot of headaches.
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On the other hand, what about time-to-market and worse-is-better and good-is-the-enemy-of-perfect? Could it be other efforts in the same space failed (and you never even heard of them) because they wanted to do things "right"?
For sure. WordPress has a lot of legacy backwards compatibility on its shoulders. If they could shrug it off and start again, I'm sure it would be a lot cleaner.

The project I'm working on (https://github.com/idno/idno) is PHP, but explicitly doesn't support legacy versions, in order to rule out the way of working that was finally made obsolete in v5.3. I'm very happy with the language, and I can usually express what I need simply. Reflection could use a little love, mind you.
I'd like to make two points.

Firstly, before anyone builds an AI that can look after people, maybe they can fix the software for looking at Xrays WHICH ALWAYS STOPS WORKING IN THE MIDDLE OF A BUSY CLINIC.

Secondly, I challenge someone here to put a number on how much it would cost to produce an AI that can operate robustly in a clinical environment. This includes the costs of developing such a thing, deploying it as well as testing it. Testing it would arguably be one of the most difficult and complex software testing problems ever. Now whatever that number may be, I hazard to guess that it's a lot. So what you are proposing is to spend a lot of money, so that we can practice medicine... slightly better... MAYBE slightly better.

The greatest improvements in healthcare come from the development of novel therapeutic technologies (antibiotics, vaccines, anaesthesia) or public health measures that change behaviour (sanitation, seat belts, quit smoking campaigns etc).

All of this frankly makes me sceptical of the wisdom of spending zillions on building medical AI, even if such a thing were possible.
> Do you think young chimpansee boys and girls play with different 'toys'?

Yes, they do, and their preferences are largely similar to those of human children.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982210...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18452921

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513802...
When people think of "complexity" in regards to music, they often think of instrumentation, texture, production quality. But some of the most complex music ever written - the Well-Tempered Klavier - was written in mostly 2-4 voices for an instrument with no dynamics. I think the 2-3 note limit really forced chiptune composers to focus on compositional complexity, thus making that music stand out even today.
Or perhaps 'standards last forever'. By the time someone thought to say 'Oh, we should probably fix this mess we created', it's already being used in to many programs to change it out for something else.
Why do you think that there must be a tradeoff between simplicity of denotational and operational semantics?
I'd like to second the call for an official Java(/Scala) driver. Would be real helpful to push RethinkDB forward in the circles I'm in.
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I know. I can totally see an intelligent man, including myself, being conned by a professional. I probably have been already, as I gave small amounts of money to people asking for money under various premises, and I'm pretty sure at least some of them lied. I also had done some bad deals with some providers that turned out to be crooks and lost some money on that. So I can see how it can happen. And I don't even mention politicians who do it every day. But the overall premise of this particular story should have raised some red flags, no? It's one thing selling somebody a property with an ocean view in Nevada - not everybody knows where Nevada is, after all - and another thing getting an offer of a million dollars out of the blue from a Nigerian criminal.
I have no idea how accurate the 60 Minutes story was, but this article is woefully unconvincing. Calling your rebuttal "the definitive facts" is childish.

My favorite line is: "There are as many red flags surrounding the BIOS Plot as there are in all of China." Who writes this?
Isnt that the point though even if 10% think differently when its purely profit driven that is still not enough.
>Whether evidence is easy or hard to gather is a red herring.

No it's not, it's incredibly relevant. How can you take an evidence-based approach to newborn and infant care when no studies have been done? How do you run studies ethically on infants who can't give consent? Are you willing to subject a baby to an untested delivery procedure, that could potentially go very very wrong, or would you rather stick with the devil you know?

>Patients present a body of evidence. Small or large, that evidence is what doctors and machines both use to generate diagnoses. The places where machines have the potential to excel is situating the evidence within a broader universe of evidence.

Such was my point; that a human doctor or nurse, supplemented with computer analysis, will inevitably be a better care provider than either human or computer alone.
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Well instead of flagging my comment, I think it would be more constructive if you present your opinion and engage in discussion.
That was actually fixed in 5.4: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php

You can now write

$numbers = [1,2,3];

Or even

$numbers = ['first' => 1, 'second', => 2, 'third' => 3];

I'd think the mixing of associative and sequential arrays are one of the key things that lowers the barrier to entry though.
True. But Wordpress is a blogging engine with tons of stuff bolted on to make it behave like a CMS. It appeals to the same group of people that disable error reporting to make their spaghetti code work.

I do a lot of PHP programming. Frameworks like Laravel are a godsend. Sometimes I have to work on a Wordpress project and it makes me cry.
It's there to help guarantee that the server the browser is connecting to actually understands websockets and isn't being "tricked" into opening a connection through clever request formulation. With that guarantee in place, browsers can trust servers to properly check for and limit cross-domain requests and the like and not need to use something like CORS to negotiate that stuff.
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> An f1 racer driving an f1 car will always beat another f1 racer driving a beetle.

Which is nice when you're having a race, but rather useless when you don't.

> Plenty of killer apps use other languages- Instagram, Pinterest, Quora, and Youtube, for example. Google certainly wasn't written in php.

Those are't apps in the sense that you can install and modify them, are they. The fact that youtube exists does nothing to drive Python adoption. Sure the same can be said for Wikipedia, but not for MediaWiki.
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People say that to justify the "yea, capitalism!" statement that is about to follow. But it's not true. Google doesn't have an obligation to do squat, at least not legally (and most who claim this use the phrase "legal obligation"). Sure, the board can vote out some C-levels (maybe), but no one is going to jail. The next time you hear someone make that claim, know that what follows is likely as equally uninformed or follows an agenda.
Try to ignore single downvotes (these are not flags).

The buttons are small and people often hit the wrong one. Especially on mobile.
The parent is spot on. Bell Labs was the first to leave the Multics project.

It took several years for Thompson, Ritchie, McIlroy and Ossanna to get funding.

They did it under the radar with a PDP-7 garbage picked by Thompson while sending letter after letter to get funding for a DEC PDP-10 or Sigma7 which they would use to create the OS and play games/simulations (i.e. Space Travel). Mind you computer time in the late 60's was upwards to $75 and hour.

After all is said and done Bell Labs at the time was a government regulated national telecommunications monopoly and was not allowed to sell it. They could licenses it though and did. Berkeley only had to pay for the tapes since they where a school.

FWIW they didn't get the funding based on asking to program an unspecified OS but to create system specifically designed for editing and formatting text. The big buzzword back then was "word processing". Also the higher ups already knew by then that they had something which Ken and Dennis had done on their own. AT&T bought them a PDP-11 and the first end user applications where for AT&T patent dept. to be used by secretaries.

Thus, during 1969, we began trying to find an alternative to Multics. The search took several forms. Throughout 1969 we (mainly Ossanna, Thompson, Ritchie) lobbied intensively for the purchase of a medium-scale machine for which we promised to write an operating system; the machines we suggested were the DEC PDP-10 and the SDS (later Xerox) Sigma 7. The effort was frustrating, because our proposals were never clearly and finally turned down, but yet were certainly never accepted. Several times it seemed we were very near success. The final blow to this effort came when we presented an exquisitely complicated proposal, designed to minimize financial outlay, that involved some outright purchase, some third-party lease, and a plan to turn in a DEC KA-10 processor on the soon-to-be-announced and more capable KI-10. The proposal was rejected, and rumor soon had it that W. O. Baker (then vice-president of Research) had reacted to it with the comment `Bell Laboratories just doesn't do business this way!' --Ritchie 1979 http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/hist.html

Towards the end of the 80's Berkeley students took a nod from Richard Stallman and put their distribution on the net (which was mostly rewritten at that point (It was Keith Bostic who proposed removal of non-AT&T code)).

ATT UNIX was licensed at about $200k while the BSD patchset was just a piece of software you added if for anything the TCP/IP stack, vi, job control, curses, mail services and csh.

I don't for a minute believe that Google or ATT are in any way for the greater good of society and research any more than I would believe that apple or microsoft care about education and/or removing vender lock-in. It's not like any of the aforementioned monopolies have invested in real problems like cancer research and/or a cure.

If you want to explore the innovators it's best to look at the McIlroys, Thompsons and Ritchies, Bostics and Stallmans and so fourth who really did innovate and change our lives for the better.
Taken from PHP 1.99 source [1]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/e8k4n2mx1y5vsa4/Zrzut%20...

So yeah, it's true :).

[1] http://museum.php.net/php2/php-1.99s.tar.gz
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Async workflow was in F# about 5 years before C#, and implemented purely as a library - no hardcoded keywords needed. As I understand, any language with monad syntax can create such a feature.

The new generic variance is actually interesting. AFAIK, the MSR team had that as part of the spec, and it's been sitting in the CLR since 2.0. It's curious that C# is the only language besides MSIL to expose the feature.
Presumably the reverse is also true. I guess boys don't want ponies and princesses either, and now that I think about it, boys are portrayed slightly negatively in e.g. Barbie movies. Just market segmentation I guess.
What's wrong with property as a means of production? Look, I'm not saying that stolen property is legitimate, even in the case of land. But that's a tricky issue, and perhaps some kind of "reset" is required (and arranged) in the future.

But if you acquire property legitimately, then there's no problem with it, even if it's not constantly in your possession, or occupied by you personally. Anything else would just not make sense. For example, if you park your car somewhere and go shopping, will the car cease to be your property just because you're not in it?

On a fundamental level, property can be thought of as "value you want to control". Something has value, and you get to benefit from it, because you've either produced the value yourself, or you've acquired it through a voluntary exchange (or contract etc). You build a house, the house has value as a dwelling, and you want to benefit from the house by either living in it or selling it to someone else.
There was a time (and it wasn't terribly long ago) that "self trained" developers garnered additional respect in the community because they had the sand to go in and learn a system under their own power instead of having concepts spoon-fed to them in class. Academically trained developers were known first and foremost for over-engineering otherwise simple tasks and typically required two to four years in industry to break of bad habits.
Even with the "PHP is a personal hack", it doesn't make sense. More effort goes into naming functions than writing a one-line xor "hash".

I'm more inclined to believe Rasmus is trolling here. Sure, he used strlen, but it's too hard to believe functions were named with this in mind.
I think in some ways we're thinking of automation in the wrong way. That doesn't have to mean having having an AI doctor, with, you know, a lovely bedside manner. Reducing the cost of blood tests so that you can do a sweeping diagnosis of 50 problems at once rather than just 10 is a sort of automation - the doctor no longer has to carefully navigate their way through "there's a chance that it is this, but the blood test is expensive, so we'll try something else first". It's automation to analyse blood tests in combination, and look for profiles for diagnosis. It's automation for a patient to have their own smartphone-connected blood pressure monitor, which will alert the surgery if the read-out is dangerous. It's certainly automation to use software image analysis to pick up the presence of cancer cells in tissue biopsies. It's a step-by-step process, it doesn't have to be all at once.
Actually, Google has helped to discover planets, among other things

See, e.g., http://research.google.com/pubs/author37653.html
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I feel like a sucker for responding to such obvious self-serving link bait, but full of gratitude to the very human staff at the hospital where I had a minor procedure last week I will anyway. Here's the simplistic refutation that is all the simplistic premise deserves:

Until you pass a Turing AND a Voight-Kampff test, stay the fuck out of my health system.
That's more happenstance of what happened to be on-hand. It's unlikely using, say, ASP with VBScript, would have generated any sort of "better-is-worse" type scenario.

A Windows 2000 server with IIS/ASP installed had the same time-to-market advantage as PHP.
It's fairly understandable that delete from a retailer is hard. In many places retailers are under obligation to store records relating to transactions for things like tax compliance, agreements with credit providers, anti-fraud and accounting laws. i.e. Amazon

What does delete even mean in these circumstances? The best they're able to do is just remove your public profile (if such a thing exists) whilst leaving everything else intact.

It's also understandable that collaborative works have no real delete (as the end user perceives it). The very nature of a collaborative work means that removing some contribution from the past could alter the work as it stands today. i.e. Wikipedia

What's really surprising are the media outlets on the list with the high level of difficulty. The EU data protection laws only permit a company to retain that data which is necessary to provide a service, for as long as the service is provided or the company is obliged (by law) to keep the information. Those outlets (Gawker) seem to hide under the collaborative works stuff, but if you've an account but never made a comment then deletion shouldn't be objected to.

General rules:

If there was a monetary transaction they're going to keep your info but might delete your public profile.

If it's a collaborative work you might get your profile deleted but all of your contributions will remain as a public record.

If it's an interaction with the government you're never going to get it deleted.
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But multi-byte safety is one thing, and executing arbitrary code is another.

It's still not an explanation of how you go from injecting a deformed string to executing code.
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You grew up and became you? ok.

Next you're going to tell me how you're living a minimalist lifestyle and have shed most material goods that drag everyone else down, and you don't understand why other people don't. I don't believe you because I know too many actual, complex people. We live private, inner lives. We think we know how certain people see us. We think we know how our actions are perceived. We think we know who we are. But we are wrong.

Your response sounds like the beginning of a novel, followed by "and then one day everything changed"

I don't know. Good luck with being the real you.
In what perspective? PHP doesn't have to bear the weight of many other programmers dealing with their suboptimal design decisions.

A popular DB had an intentional feature that lost data on 32-bit builds. You might not get bitten until you've gotten plenty of data in it - it's still a terrible design that hurts everyone.
Is this not what you want? http://www.leonardodigitale.com/index.php?lang=ENG
you can still deprecate in Vx and remove in Vy.

I mean, I may understand keeping the strange array-is-a-hash thingy, but changing function names is easy.
You can drop the first two. And the third can have different motivations: I think here we just have a mathematician with sufficient time on their hands who enjoyed coming up with this. I think the primary valid complaint is: overly complex for its task.
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Also useful is namechk.com. I didn't even know I had an account on some of these sites. It turned out I had a 5 year old reddit account, a 6 year old account on ebay, and more. Of course, I deleted most of them.
I doubt Limbaugh hates the Pope for spreading the word of Jesus. I'd imagine rather Limbaugh thinks that what the Pope said is not the word of Jesus, but the word of this particular Pope, and since Limbaugh is not, as far as I know, a Catholic, he is not obliged to equate the two. I think Limbaugh, as any person, is allowed to disagree with the Pope, especially in political matters, and why you describe such disagreement as "hate" is a mystery for me.

As for the questions of greed, the Catholic church is not one of the poorest establishments on Earth, and has various episodes in its history which do not look very good to modern eye. However, such is the nature of men - it is natural to expect people to deviate from high morals and sometimes be greedy even if their religion rejects greed, and sometimes be hateful even if their religion opposes hate. That, however, does not make greed or hate religious institutions, and does not make them property of a particular religion.
Whisper’s privacy page says the company owns the intellectual property, both images and text, that people post; Whisper reserves the right to sell that stuff to third parties.

This is absolutely not true. From the TOS:

For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your WhisperText Content. However, by submitting User Content to WhisperText, you hereby grant WhisperText a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Content in connection with the Service and WhisperText’s (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your User Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such User Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under these Terms. The above licenses granted by you in User Content you submit to the Service terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your User Content from the Service. You understand and agree, however, that WhisperText may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of your User Content that have been removed or deleted. The above licenses granted by you in user comments you submit are perpetual and irrevocable.

I have no connection with WhisperText, I was just interested by the legalimplications of such a policy, but decided to double-check the accuracy of the blog summary first.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6920011 for some clarification. In case it helps, consider the following two ways of thinking about land as property.

1) Any land covered by something valuable that you "produced" yourself is your property. A house, a corn field, a copper mine, etc. But land in a state of nature is not. For example, 10 acres of forest in a state of nature would not be your property, because you haven't "mixed your labour" with it.

2) Even that 10 acres of forest can be your property, and you get to control (access to) it, because you need to know that you will get to benefit from any value you produce with that forest, even if it takes some time to get started, let alone "materialize" that value. Maybe you're planning to build an amusement park, but need to figure stuff out first, and make sure you'll have everything you need before starting the project. Maybe that will turn sour, and then you'll switch to some other goal with the forest. But if you don't have the right to control (access to) the forest before you do something with it, then you just won't do anything with it because you have no guarantee of getting to benefit from the value you produce. The latter case would be a loss to other people too, because something they'd benefit from (even if in exchange for a fee) would not come to be.

I think both 1 and 2 make sense.
You're right of course that inflated drug prices and lawsuits are significant costs, but, for instance, the NHS analyses all proposed pharmaceuticals for cost-effectiveness, and barters with the manufacturers at a national level, and medical litigation in the UK is almost nil. The system is more efficient, but there is a base-line which is impermeable. The only way to go below that is to train many more doctors, and start paying them something closer to an average wage, but, firstly, they'd just move abroad, and secondly, you would not be able to persuade the candidates to train for ten years if they didn't earn a decent professional wage. The only other option is to move some of the burden onto technology.
The point of most 'haters' is that trying to do the right thing isn't good enough.
Medicine is no longer an intuitive game. The best results come from following rigorously tested algorithms, not intuition. Research, on the other hand, is where the creativity is and that should continue to be done by humans.
Can you explain how, in any possible universe, using strlen as a hash function and choosing function named to bin on length in any way helps PHP, at all?
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