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Just to be clear: PHP didn't change these language constructs. The old constructs are still available. You made a conscious choice to use new language features and are now (understandably) frustrated that they don't work in a 5-year-old version of the language.

> 5.3 was released in 2009. Language constructs ought to have been standardized by then.

Absolutely not. By this logic, no languages would ever evolve. The PHP core team are making an effort to evolve PHP into a better, modern language. If you want to take advantage of this, then do. If you want to write code that runs on your clients' older servers, then write backwards-compatible code and don't expect to be able to use new language features.
The article actually acknowledges that point, stating that the Star Trek universe (and the Federation within it) is not really a post-scarcity society. There are lots of examples on the show indicating that scarcity, resource-allocation problems, and supply/demand crises still exist.
... and now literally means figuratively. Language is silly.
> They are a tool to remove the need to call `free()` at the right time, with the downside that you don't get to control what the GC thinks is a right time instead.

That's not actually true. They also allow you to do things that you otherwise couldn't. Try implementing persistent [1] maps or sets without a GC.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
We had that in Finland too, I don't think anyone likes queuing. When I send slimmer packages do you then receive them directly?

In any service a certain amount of people will unsubscribe each month, but so far more people are joining and overall the service is growing.
It is somewhat good news for online anonymity that we don't know who Satoshi is. The amount of resources that have been poured into trying to uncover his identity is the equivalent of a medium-sized open source project. He has survived the army of geeks.

The state of user-user or user-corporation anonymity is good. If you want to stay anonymous from other users or a corporation then you can gain anonymity by spending a few hours reading tutorials/guides online and then installing Tails or Whonix (both which solve the metadata problem in OP and a variety of other attacks) or an alternative homebrew solution (machine isolation/snapshots) and apply a level of discipline to isolate your identity.

Last best OPSEC move Nakamoto made was to disappear - removes so many options in tracking him down. Hanging around and living off the credibility you've built with your anonymous persona is likely only going to breed complacency and the odds of slipping up increase each day (you see this in many cases)

I doubt he'll ever be tracked down. I doubt even a gov investigation starting today (for whatever reason) with all the power it has would achieve it (unless more than one person knows the secret, in which case a US investigation has a broad range of legal methods to compel testimony and reveal it).

I know a lot of people are sick of talking about Nakamoto and prefer to focus on what he produced (you can't even google his name anymore without 50% of the hits being about the Newsweek article), but being able to invent such an important piece of transformative technology and remain anonymous for so long, possible forever - is a brilliant accomplishment worthy of its own attention.
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Some I like:

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http://mike.fogus.usesthis.com/
http://phil.hagelberg.usesthis.com/
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> I wish developers would stop equating "complicated" to things "I don't understand".

Rich Hickey's presentation on this topic should be required viewing for everyone: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
The person presenting a UK license or passport is the easy case. The person presenting a non-European passport and a pile of letters from the Home Office? Not so much. But then, discriminating against foreigners was the point of the law.
"50 top startups" is an unrepresentative sample of the ecosystem. It's not clear what criteria were used to place startups on this list, but almost all had entered the Valley hype cycle, indicating heavy-duty funding and/or a paid PR push. If their funding runway was long enough, and they were able to get follow-on rounds (or be acquired/achieve profitability), it shouldn't come as a surprise that just 12% have hit the deadpool.
Just a note: "a==a is false for NaN" is only true if compiled with precise or strict floating point mode. It will return true in fast mode, which is often what is used. Do not rely on this behavior for checking NaNs, use isnan instead.
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> If your language is Java and you talk about how you are ok with their decision on erasure because of the legacy concerns, that's a good answer. I may (or may not) agree, but it's still a perfectly good answer.

I wouldn't feel comfortable answering "what would you change about X" with something I actually wouldn't change about X (though maybe I should).

(FWIW my language was Scala, and while I've only been using it for ~5 years there's very little I would change. The answer I gave was to use HLists rather than Tuples in the standard library, but that feels like a nitpick more than anything else)
It is - with the difference that playing Monopoly doesn't disturb the life of non-players.
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How would those games be then ported to other platforms?
Land Value Tax.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent
From what I know, jugaad's meaning crosses the boundaries of ethics freely. In the business community, unethical practices also get the same title. I am not a native Hindi speaker, so would be good if someone can elaborate.
jugaad in many places would be better described as a kluge.
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This uneducated rant has already been posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7961948
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The bigger the hype, the worse the crash, the cheaper the Bitcoins at the bottom of the crash :) I've got used to this since the great crash of 2011.
I recently spent about 20 minutes setting up c3 (http://c3js.org/) for a commercial product I'm developing. Great library, but its footprint is fairly hefty. Looking forward to giving this a try, if it is just as quick to implement.
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"We found that Blackphone lives up to its privacy hype."

In all fairness I wouldn't say Ars Technica, good though some of their coverage is, are really the people to determine this.

Especially in an article in which at no point do they ask "where's the source?".
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There are certainly enough strange things over here to do a drink version, but taking into account the shipping cost if it was twice-monthly just like Candy Japan (2 cans every two weeks) then the subscription cost would need to be ~$38 to cover the extra shipping cost.

First time I went to Japan was just when 9/11 happened (watched it from the traditional guest house common area TV). So liquid limits had not yet been invented at this point. Before heading home I filled my backpack with a bunch of different drinks from the vending machines and then had a fun time trying each with friends and giving them ratings.

I think there would be even more different tastes with drinks. With candy as long as it's sweet 99% of people can enjoy at least a bit. But even in our small friends trial there were people who could not stand anything coffee based. Green tea based drinks are also a bit of an acquired taste and seem to be disliked by many (our tea-related candy that included some green tea bags got relatively low feedback).

Maybe it would have to be mostly sugary drinks. Or there would need to be a way to indicate which types of drinks you can tolerate, in which case things would get a bit more complicated.
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At the moment I have no plans to open the data completely.

I do sometimes share the data with particular projects or developers on a case-by-case basis. If you are thinking about using the data for something interesting, you can contact me through the website.
You're comparing cost of living without taking into account median salaries?

I don't think any comparison is complete without some sort of salary survey.
Looks nice, but a little outdated given all the new material design stuff.
> if a race could materialize star ships they would not need too

Sorry can you rephrase this please? I really can't get the sense of it.
> If I'm reading it right, this RFC is seeking public input on a proposed policy

No, all the IETF published documents are called "request for comments" for historical/cultural reasons. This is an actual finalized policy document.

The phase where the IETF seeks input to these is the "Internet-Draft stage".
There are things we can do today to move us closer to this ideal and move people away from a system that's designed to make us all slaves to small amounts of wealth. I'm looking at you, Basic Income.

I don't understand. On the one hand, you believe money is harmful, and all we need to do is properly distribute resources. On the other hand, you advocate distributing money.

It seems more in the spirit of the rest of your post to advocate a "basic survival" program. For anyone who needs it, dormitories, nutritious food, comfortable uniforms and entertainment can be directly provided. Then no one will need money for their daily sustenance.
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What the NYT article didn't mention was the lack of sterilization of the ISRO spacecraft.

A huge portion of the budget for a probe like MAVEN [1] or JUNO [2] is spent reducing the chance of Earth microbes colonizing Mars or a moon of Jupiter.

It would be a huge shame for us to have doubt whether the first extra terrestial microbes we find in the solar system were really alien or simply Space Age Earth based life

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAVEN
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)

EDIT: Why the downvotes? Is what I'm saying incorrect?

EDIT2: Sources:

NASA cleanroom assembling Curiosity - http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/images/content/482654main_pi... (source:

ISRO assembling the Mangalyaan Mars probe in question http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/01608/vbk-05-mars... (source: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/indias-october-28-m...)

Engineers don't use gloves or facial masks for interplanetary missions.

This jives with this video and the following anecdotes -
http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/14/india-to-launch-its-first-... via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6551331

>This comment has nothing to do with India, ISRO, politics or Mars, but I am curious if anyone with expertise can comment on the clean room practices seen applied in this video. Is it odd that the workers don't have on full 'bunny' suits and have (what seems to be) a relatively large amount of skin/hair unprotected? I don't know if it matters that much, it just seems a little lax given the cost of failure.

> Firstly, I've visited ISRO Bangalore(A few years back). And I did see the exact things you mentioned. I did ask the guy(Not sure, if he was the PR guy) who took our class for the tour. His answer was, they were likely assembling some test equipment and not the real equipment that was going to space.

(Which unlikely given parent's NYT article:)

> The modest budget did not allow for multiple iterations. So, instead of building many models (a qualification model, a flight model and a flight spare), as is the norm for American and European agencies, scientists built the final flight model right from the start.

It's unclear whether the room is a particulate controlled up to standard, but they may (hopefully) do sterilization through chemical and heat treatments, but that alone isn't enough for planetary protection.
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I think the real reason in difference in costs is that in India salaries are much lower and profits expected by 3rd party providers are much smaller.

So building and engineering is way cheaper. How about quality?
>I wish developers would stop equating "complicated" to things "I don't understand".

The argument is a bit more about evolved than that, but flawed nonetheless. The argument usually invoked for Go is that, by eschewing selected language features, it prevents developers shooting themselves in the foot with unneeded complexity introduced by faulty abstractions.

I get the argument. I have seen my fair share of dug-out-from-hell complex projects. What the argument misses though is that not all abstractions are faulty. Computer science, as most science, is a game of ever increasingly abstract reasoning. If implemented correctly, the more abstract the better. The endgame is "Computer, build me a Mars round-trip ship".

Abstractions are good, when well written. They allow us to think on a higher level. Think of them as a fixed learning cost replacing a variable development cost.

Go kind of throws out the baby with the bathwater.
related is this book by Carl Selinger, "Stuff you Don't Learn in Engineering School". while i didn't attend engineering school, these are things i didn't learn until after grad school, things that will get you far in life and work.

https://ieeetv.ieee.org/meet-the-authors/carl-selinger-stuff...
Wherever numbeo and expatistan get their data, it's utterly hilarious that the summaries rank San Jose CA about the same as Valanecia/Alicante Spain.

Let me just say, there is an absolutely ludicrous error somewhere.
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Project ARA can't ship fast enough.
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Honest question: with tooling (IDE) and build tools (SBT) to my understanding remaining as-is despite of developer feedback, and Java 8 presenting itself as a nice comeback (in my opinion) - is Scala adoption for big companies (Facebook, Google, Twitter) still going up as it were in the high times of it?
That author seems to think that this was okay behaviour by Barclays, because the clients had choices and could think for themselves(ie caveat emptor)

I do not see how lying to your clients about the type of pool you have is ok. If it is necessary to have some HFT operators in your pool then do not be a chicken and come out and say so. Is honesty not the best policy anymore?

You can be getting the best deals(fills in this case) and still feel like getting a bad deal. It is human psychology.

Let's say you find the best deal on a specific car for $10,000. Dealer claims that you are not paying any dealer markup over retail. However, later you find out that there was a special promotion from manufacturer, where dealer got the cars for $1,000. Even though you realize this was not something you could get yourself you would still feel miffed that you were not given a larger discount.

I admit my example doesn't have very realistic numbers.
If the phone's software is not free (as in freedom), are Silent Circle's assurances of security and privacy any more meaningful than Google's 'don't be evil'?
That's mostly why I kind of feel like I want to wait and see if the spacecraft actually manages to do what it's designed to.

If you have to send multiple 70+ million dollar missions because the hacks keep failing the cost benefit is not all that good compare to the more expensive 300 million dollar mission.
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Do these purchases affect the NY real estate market as a whole (other than say, skewing statistics)?

For lower end housing stock, homeowners usually "jump" up to more expensive properties as they become more financially stable or as they need the room. This market seems entirely disconnected from that, but I'm not sure.
missed a beat, should have been called "Paranoid Android".
Also it is frequently misused - hoi polloi means 'the masses' but people always say 'the hoi polloi', meaning the the masses.

</pedantry>
I got seated next to the boss and it was rather awful. I always felt an unscrupulous gaze if I had anything open other than Xcode or Sublime :x
AppCache is relatively new right? Is there no chance of pulling it out of the wild before making a headache in 20 years?
The laws of physics don't really prevent us from having a post-scarcity economy. The sun puts out vast amounts of energy. If we had technology like replicators that turns energy into basically anything we like, most things are already taken care of. I don't really see how labour can be a problem either. If most production jobs are done via replicator, many people have nothing to do. And in the Star Trek universe there are holograms that are capable of performing complex tasks, certainly anything the "service industry" would require.
The book "fortune at the bottom of the pyramid"[1] has several interesting case studies on building businesses on budget for the needy. Some of them like "Jaipur foot"[2], "Aaravind Eye Care"[3] are excellent examples of how "jugaad" works in India. It doesn't have to be a kluge as someone stated below. Ofcourse the word is liberally used to indicate ways to circumvent the "official" or "ethical" way. So, it depends on the case at hand ! If used in a positive way, "hacker" is a good english substitute for it.

I think "jugaad" gets ingrained naturally when you are on a budget and don't have access to all the cool tools but have a desire to build something.

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fortune_at_the_Bottom_of_th...

[2] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaipur_leg

[3] : http://www.npr.org/2011/11/29/142526263/india-eye-care-cente...
Can you provide some sources which demonstrate the lack of sterilization of the ISRO spacecraft?
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One way is to pay users to generate content.

Back in 1999/2000, I was CTO of a startup building a website aimed at independent travellers (which we defined as anyone who wasn't on a package holiday - i.e. people who were booking their own flights and hotels, and picking their own activities). Our plan was to become something like what Wikitravel is today - a kind of crowdsourced travel guide, with recommendations from other travellers for places to eat/drink/stay, things to do, sights to see, etc.

The idea was that a traveller would come to our site, search for, say, places to stay in Dublin, and the list they would get back would consist of recommendations/reviews submitted by other travellers.

We faced the exact same chicken-and-egg problem the OP describes - we had a website based on user-generated content, with no content.

People who were travelling/backpacking around the world during their gap year were a clear part of our target market and, at the time, there was no mobile internet, so gap year travellers would use internet cafés to access their email. The biggest and most popular internet cafés in London were run by easyEverything, where, on any given day, you could find dozens of travellers and tourists.

So, we did a deal with easyEverything to buy terminal usage in bulk, and we then gave away £1 worth* of usage to anyone who wanted it, in return for them writing a piece of content for the website.

We literally had people, wearing branded t-shirts, at these cafés, grabbing people as they came in and asking them if they wanted some free Internet time. From our perspective, it was a very successful approach - we were getting UGC for less than £1 per piece of content and, at the same time, publicising our site and getting a bit of brand awareness.

Unfortunately, the company didn't survive the Dot-com Crash but that's another story...

* I say "£1 worth" because easyEverything used demand pricing - if the café was empty, that £1 might buy you 90 minutes, if it was busy, it might only buy you 20 minutes.
On the other hand, how could they skip this topic in an article about a "privacy" phone?

If find the trustworthy value of a phone is about equal to the privacy leak bounty. If each customer trusts the phone with, say $300 worth of information, then that should be a hell of a big bounty.

So Ars Technica should have talked about "where's the source" and "how much is the bounty".
The goal of the study _is_ to improve the site. Facebook wants the users to return to the site, and users who become happier when using the site do that. Facebook isn't paying its data scientists to perform studies that have no meaningful use.
Mike switch alone would go a long way. It would also make a great marketing point.
Generics generally simplify code, you know. Plus, generic code tend to make guarantees non-generic code cannot.

Picture this function:

foo :: (a -> b) -> (b -> c) -> (a -> c)

What does it do?

As you can see this function takes 2 arguments, which appears to be functions. It also returns a function. The argument and return type of these functions are unknown, so you can't manipulate them. You can just pass them around directly. This puts really tight constraints on your code. So, assuming nothing fancy happens, there is only one correct body of code for this type signature:

foo f g = \x -> g (f x)

In other words, function composition.

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Generic functions have more guarantees than non-generic functions. Therefore, you are more likely to know what a generic function is actually doing.
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"Paranoid Android" is already a thing - http://paranoidandroid.co/.
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"Learn new tools"

I disagree with all this part. The way things are going, being a jack of all trades will only make you irrelevant very quickly. The market needs experts, and being an expert means focusing on one thing and one thing only. You should only learn new tools if they're relevant in your field of expertise and if they're widespread or there's a good chance they might be in the future. Otherwise, you're just wasting time.
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> Just to pick one thing, you mention 'efficiency'. Capitalism is not very efficient in a lot of ways. However, it happens to be more efficient for large groups of people than all the other systems people have tried, if you don't mind me poaching Churchill's quote about democracy.

It's worth pointing out that even a lot of ideologists putting forward alternative future societies does not see their future societies as likely to be more efficient than capitalism.

A key aspect for Marx, for example, is that the efficiency of capitalism and industrialisation acts as an enabler for socialism by bringing society to a post-scarcity level (at least in terms of basic needs), where it is possible for society to redistribute without leaving everyone in poverty, and where it is possible to as a result leave people free to make more choices surrounding how and how much they work.

Capitalism is more efficient than older systems because of the level of competition, and more efficient than most proposed future systems because most of these future systems are not expecting to be subject to the same constraints and requirements.

In Marx case, one of his arguments for why he believed a socialist revolution will eventually happen is in fact that he believed that capitalism will necessarily become so efficient that the revenue base starts shrinking as unemployment increases, while production capacity keeps increasing. That level of efficiency would necessitate drastic societal changes, and you could, if we reach that point, afford substantial extra inefficiencies and still most people would be better off.
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