skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about people who need websites in general. Not your fancy startup. Also please name me a single startup that for some reason could not flourish using PHP as opposed to some other language?

It's really more about the talent of your team than the language you choose to write your app(s) in.
> High powered broadcasts... FM radio stations on 106.7

are not even close to comparable. Cellphone towers do not use frequencies and powers that travel nearly as far as those employed by radio stations.

>The scarcity isn't artificial.

Nope, it's artificial.

The next generation of base stations performs beamforming for physics-based channel sharing in addition to CDMA ("algorithm-based" channel sharing). Beamforming effectively allows you to employ a sizable number of "virtual antennas", each aimed separately at individual receivers. With multiple base stations it's an even more effective strategy because you can create signals that constructively interfere at a point rather than along a line. Everyone gets their own spatially-localized signal and can transmit their own spatially-localized signal because the same trick works in reverse for reception.

So no, there isn't fundamental spectrum scarcity. Perhaps there are too few beamforming base stations installed, but that's a problem to be solved through investment in new technology, not by allowing carriers to impose business models that de-commoditize bandwidth.
Again with the bullshit, this conversation is over.
Is this going to block adverts? That seems..insane. I mean sure Facebook are doing well with their mobile app ads (I'm guessing you get Google Play or something?) but are they just going to stop people clicking adverts that lead offsite or to an app you're not allowed?
Given that many charities that pay up to 95% of the funds they raise to third party marketing companies, I don't think it would be out of line at all to give the sites hosting these ads a cut of the funds they raise. There's nothing wrong with offering a win-win proposition, and it would get you more traction.
There would certainly be some upfront cost to making tractor-trailers autonomous but they would save an expensive employee per truck, the trucks would arrive faster and more reliably, and they would save in fuel costs (optimal driving).

They would need to setup a way for the trucks to refuel, just an attendant at the truck-stop that would be paid a small amount for refueling them, or maybe a new kind of pump that would automatically fuel the trucks when they pulled up to them.
What about the hundreds of billions of dollars -- might be approaching a trillion since the 60s (+) -- that federal and state governments have contributed to telecommunications infrastructure?

(+): I can't quickly find a coherent dollar amount for any time period, but it is significantly large and a few quick estimates put some investment programs in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
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The trouble is the data starts to take on a life of its own. Sure, it was difficult to acquire, but now it's there, in that huge collection of data, and getting rid of it is more complicated than

DROP TABLE x0x0_2003;

Honestly, is there any precedent where reasonable information purges have been required in the past, targeted or otherwise? I would be similarly hard-pressed to selectively erase information from my data, and all I have is a couple hard drives, a filing box, and a number of sales receipts buried in every corner of my life.
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Back in the day there used to be a lot of flash games like this on Newgrounds. Clicking through fake OS's is very nostalgic.
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namecheap.com

I only do 10 year registrations (SEO) and NameCheap has a big discount for those.
Anyone found a decent replacement? A quick search turns up the following but I haven't dug in to them yet:

1) http://vibeapp.co/

2) http://www.connect6.com/

I'm going to miss the email prospecting hack the old Rapportive gmail gadget provided...was great for getting feedback from potential users: http://www.techforagents.com/1780-how-to-hack-prospecting-wi...
Ask HN: When to hire a dedicated security engineer?
I suspect this is largely dependent on the type of company and the information that they deal with as to how early a company decides to have dedicated security engineers.<p>Can you share your experiences and reasons as to when you decided to hire your first security engineer? How many employees did you have?

This is the initial hire that is responsible for bettering the overall security posture of the company from administration to technical.
I use GoDaddy. They have amazing customer support and you can always find 33% off a domain. It ends up being under $50 for 5 years. I wouldn't host with them or provide a primary email as they spam like motherfuckers, but just to register it has been a positive experience.
I have domains registered with Namecheap, Dynadot and Gandi. I'd recommend any of them, although with Gandi be aware they have an "ethics" clause in their ToS which strikes me as being rather subjective and fuzzy. I wouldn't host anything public-facing on the domain I have registered with them for that reason.
So your software can get disrupted if you don't continually re-invent to it keep up with the times.

Your social network or social app is actually way more fickle and less defensible than he thinks. Think about precursors to Facebook like Friendster and MySpace. Suddenly they became uncool and poof they were gone.

If you look at teen's perceptions, Facebook.com is next up on this sad list of has beens. That's why they're paying through the nose to diversify out of that product. AVC has found no magic bullet with their strategy.
Laravel alone was enough to bring me back to PHP. It seriously has made PHP exciting again (I come from a Codeigniter and Zend background). It takes all of the things people love about Ruby on Rails and brings them to a PHP framework utilising modern features like traits alongside the fantastic selection of packages like Cashier. The even more surprising aspect of Laravel isn't how great it is, but rather the fact it was built by one guy... Other frameworks like Zend, Symfony, Codeigniter were built by teams. Of course, Laravel has contributors nowadays being an open source project, but in the early days it was mostly Taylor taking the reigns.
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Anyone else interested in making a site that just links to all the pages Google has been forced to remove from their search engine?
Got any counterexamples? What well-known OO languages don't work like this?
My worry isn't that service providers are finding ways to package and sell limited internet access, and that this violates net neutrality. Ideally I wish there were something preventing this, but if you're paying only for Facebook access, you know what you're getting, and it's just not the same as paying for a standard broadband connection.

My worry is that, if the majority of consumers start paying to access only the sites they care about, we'll end up in a situation where the Internet looks more like broadcast media than like the world wide web.

Imagine if the barrier to entry for creating a website were such that you had to negotiate with content and service providers to get your site featured in the right packages. Looking to start up a new e-commerce site? Get included in Comcast's "shopping channel" package. Want to start a sports commentary blog? Make sure you're in AT&T's "unlimited sports" package or you'll be missing out on your biggest traffic source.

My fear is that the majority of consumers won't really notice a difference, at least not right away. They'll be able to get access to all their usual websites, and if it comes at a heavy discount from the full "Internet" package, they won't really get upset if they can't access a particular website. Especially if every service already comes with the top 500-1,000 websites in their language. My mom definitely wouldn't notice any difference, and many of my less techy friends might not either. So if you left it up to the consumer, you might end up right back where you started with pre-packaged TV subscriptions, leaving the majority of the long-tail Internet to stagnate.
It's likely that there are many ways to turn it off, and without selection pressure they all randomize.

If there's 10 codons needed to make it work, and there's no selection pressure, then there's only a one in a million chance it's working by chance. Even when it gets close, there's a 9:1 chance that the next mutation will make things worse instead of fixing the issue. Mostly it would stay around the noise floor with ~2.5 of the codons set correctly.

That being said, I doubt it's as simple as "these 10 codons must have these values for this taste receptor to work".
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Google was once heavily invested in just saying no to GPUs across the board. They even had a convenient FAQ from their platform team filled with all sorts of out of date FUD demonstrating why GPUs at Google were simply never going to happen.

The hiring of Geoffrey Hinton changed all that with Deep Neural Networks which are easily 50x more efficient on GPUs. And in the meantime, Baidu demonstrated what one could achieve by integrating them top to bottom in their search engine while Google happily stuck its technological fingers in its ears singing la-la-la-la.

Given that Andrew Ng's lab's other achievement was to demonstrate that 3 quad GTX 680 workstations were equivalent to that 16,000 CPU core system at Google, Baidu seems like a really great place for him to go.
There's also https://github.com/Tvaroh/moreartyjs
BitTorrent's Bleep messenger is a secure, decentralized chat platform
Except that electricity is fungible. Electricity encoded with data is not.
While I wouldn't expect much privacy from the provider holding my email, I would expect privacy from the government ... assuming there wasn't a warrant to access it.
The first two I read aren't even WTF the worthy and are perfectly reasonable. Even in the classic fractal of bad design article, only 1/3 of it is actually valid.
Dynadot has been rock solid -- also, as a plus, they have an API (albeit a mediocre one -- but hey, it works). I like being able to register via CURL without dealing with their web site, and we integrated basic domain purchasing into our product as well.
I use name.com.

They'd be fine, except that if you use their DNS servers, they by default add a wildcard record pointing to spammy domain parking pages, breaking NXDOMAIN. And don't expose it in the UI, so that it's very easy to miss that they're doing it and not easy to figure out how to disable it. (Answer: by adding a wildcard TXT record).
> You keep writing backlog. Backlog and back catalog (the latter being what the rest of us are talking about) are two different things.

It's been long enough that I don't recall if it was you or not who originally started using it in that manner. backlog is a shortening of the term 'back catalog', and the poster in question pointed that out, I simply ran with it.

Since I don't recall exactly, I won't accuse you of having edited your post, but someone did as I can't find it now, but it was definitely used in that manner.

> But a more general usage applies to Good Old Games as they started, a collection of otherwise out-of-print (in a manner of speaking) games.

GoG started as a company that made it convenient to play older games by patching/adjust/configuring them to play on newer versions of Windows. That was their service. They weren't selling older games, they were selling the service of making them work on newer OS's.

They have never been strictly a "back catalog" company, ever. Never in all of the time that I've been using them have I ever considered them to be an "old game" company. Characterizing them in that way is a mischaracterization.

It's like calling MS an OS company because they happen to sell an OS (hint: they're a software company), or calling YCombinator a software forums company because they happen to run software forums.

It's stupid.
How does it compare to Maxima? http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
I wonder what's the home efficiency.
Most policies and laws regarding regulation of the internet are wrong, unworkable, and unreasonable. What's one more?
I'm at work so I was looking to peruse the proposal without downloading things. You can read it from PHP's git mirror: http://git.php.net/?p=php-langspec.git;a=blob_plain;f=spec/p...

I'm not sure that I would call PHP4 objects object oriented, as I remember it, it was all such a huge hack (down to being able to return null from a constructor). I only had to maintain some code like that at the tail end of PHP4's life, so I never found out whether that was how OOP was done in PHP4, or if it was a hack to simulate OOP in a language that didn't support it.
right, and then it becomes even less readable because someone calls in the namespace somewhere and half of your project uses 1 version, half the other.

No, just stick with the consistency of using the stdlib as is. If someone really has a problem with these specific issues they don't need to be developing, period.
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A good security guy (not someone who just has a ton of certifications) is very expensive. If you have to ask, you don't need one. That is unless your partners or clients demand one or you screwed big previously or you're in business under threat (e.g. of Chinese government interest).
Isn't the regulation pretty similar in the wireless world? Wired providers get monopolies to dig trenches, but don't wireless providers get monopolies (or oligopolies) to use certain parts of the wireless spectrum? I'm pretty sure anybody can't just buy equipment and start broadcasting.
They're talking to the companies in question.

i.e. they won't offer a "Netflix" package with Netflix's agreement.
I take a more middle-of-the-road philosophy in my house, with primary reliance on space heaters for room-by-room heating. Why do I care if the kitchen is 72°F at 2pm while I'm working at my desk in my office?
Yea exactly as you described - add to cart etc, then click checkout it asks for signup. Don't make people sign up to buy something, allow them to check out as a guest and then ask them to create an account after the transaction. Requiring authentication before the purchase is made is a huge abandonment trigger
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Carpet/rugs were a status symbol of ultimate luxury when they were expensive; as synthetic fibers became cheaper new construction settled on plywood and carpet flooring as actually being cheaper than hardwood flooring. Pretty soon carpet was "gross" and "tacky" and hardwoods became a status symbol.

Prior to cheap aluminum manufacture through the Hall–Héroult process, aluminum tableware was light weight and considered excellent, after the process it was cheap tacky and flimsy and everyone knows you need some heft in your fork for proper balance and etiquette.
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What's to stop them from having "Sprint Business Network". Set up your business website with Sprint hosting to allow the $12/mo members to access your site ... for free!
> Anybody can buy up some equipment and tower space and just start offering mobile voice+broadband.

That's surprising to me. How can the FCC charging billions for mobile spectrum licences? [1] It would seem to me that there are government-granted monopolies for both wired and wireless.

[1] http://www.networkworld.com/article/2307154/network-security...
If someone wants to post articles on the technology behind beamforming, I'll be in the new queue upvoting.
Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone are all poor countries with limited access to health care.

Additionally, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_in_Sierra_Leone opens with "Water supply in Sierra Leone is characterized by limited access to safe drinking water."

The parent made no statement that all of Africa is so limited, only that the outbreak was in Africa. The countries most affected by the outbreak were correctly described.
Do you have a link to read more information about this?
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If you're going to rag on a programming language on a site like Hacker News my advice would be to make sure you know what you are on about before you do. There isn't a programming language out there that doesn't have its quirks, look at Javascript, it has more quirks than you can poke a stick at, but that doesn't make it a bad language.

In your examples I am not seeing the issue? Am I missing something here? Your examples work exactly as I would have expected them to, as they would in other similar languages like Java and C++. Lets stop the hate for the sake of hating PHP, it definitely has its quirks in relation to methods and order of parameters in particular, but things are getting better and they're not deal-breakers for getting things done.

If you want to see how great things are in PHP, I would checkout the Laravel PHP framework. It is a very well built and robust framework that uses the best parts of PHP and abstracts some of the worse parts to make the experience of developing in PHP fun again.
The last goddamned thing I want in what is fundamentally a string-spitting language is to have the string features wrapped. Do what you will with the rest of the modules, but leave the damned strings alone.
why would they pay you any money if you had another motivation to do it?
I would like to think that in any sane project they would choose one of the namespaces and stick with them. Moreover, I think that as you deprecated the older namespaces, this problem would go away.

You could make the exact same argument with removing register_globals: half the project using it, while half the project using the superglobals. Clearly there'd be some pain, but I don't think it would be as bad as you're trying to make it sound.

I'm not really sure I follow the logic that if someone has an issue with the state of a programming language then they shouldn't be developing. How does that make any sense?
I have to admit, I find it odd that we name immutable data structures based on what they don't do instead of what they do.

Of course, what they do is efficient persistence. You want a snapshot of the data? You want a non-volatile reference? You've already got one! That's the feature. They should be called persistent data structures.
That is a reasonable sounding argument, much more reasonable than I expected before looking into it. I also came across explanations such as this one: http://clivebest.com/blog/?p=1169 which explains why increased CO2 will still increase the greenhouse effect.

An appeal to authority is not the strongest argument, but there is a near universal consensus among the scientific community that increased CO2 will increase the greenhouse effect.
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Note specifically the email section compared with these two:

http://www.softlayer.com/virtual-servers

http://www.hpcloud.com/acceptable-use-policy
If the provider has a monopoly, that doesn't really matter.
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If you're getting bored after 6 months, you might be better off chasing contracts than settling on a full-time job. It can be stressful sometimes, but it beats being a cog in the machine.

Perhaps if the company you were working for belonged to you, you might take more interest in the problems, no?
Pretty much all of it, be it in government handouts or tax rebates.
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Yes and no.
There are countries that use USD as well as their own currencies.
Often the banks offer much better rates than any US bank. Part of that is the risk of the bank collapsing, or the government confiscating deposits, introducing windfall taxes, etc, but part of it simply reflects supply and demand - sometimes those banks find it hard to borrow internationally themselves, and are desperate for deposits.
There’s also the potential that those people are in on it, attempting to launder money - “cheap drink, $20 counterfeit, $17 in real currency as change"
Definitely, it's an interesting topic. I would like to take a look too.
Do you have kids or anything like that? I would honestly just leave.
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Very few apps post an entirely new application entry when they update to a new major version. When you go to Twitter's developer page, you see "Twitter", not "Twitter 1.0, Twitter 2.0..."

I'm really not sure what this is asking us to do, if an app isn't getting additional financial support when it updates to a new major version, then I'm not sure what pressure there is if people start moving away. Is it (to borrow from my earlier example) "stop using Twitter entirely" or "use a different Twitter app?"
My social game (for the last 3 consecutive months) has brought in about $8000 - $10,000 a month. Pretty consistently averaging about $300 a day. Generally spend about 4 hours a month on it total. To note: The developer I work with spends much more time on it than I do; but it is not a focus / priority for either of us. It took about 18 months to get it to this point. It probably got to break even in roughly 5-6 months.
Its different because not only do mailmen not open mail as a matter of course, for advertising or operational purposes, its a felony to do so.
Seriously, what's improved by adding 64-bit support to Firefox?
I was untder the impression that a Java implementation that wants to call itself Java can actually call itself Java if it is made to pass specification test suites.

There is currently one major Java(-like) implementation that does not do that, and that is the variety that runs on Android. But there are plemty of other Javas that call themselves a Java.
Nope. I'm more of a Python/Java person and even I expected the observed behavior. Given that Python is my primary language, I'm pretty sure that I'm supposed to hate on PHP as much as I can, but really, this is stretching it.
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I see the author is German :).
There is no SEO benefit for 10 year domain registrations.
Facebook first needs to bring HHVM up to full compatibility before they try altering the spec.

I also discovered Facebook makes all their "contributors" (anyone who does a pull request) sign an agreement with them, which seems weird and not cool. https://code.facebook.com/cla
None of those systems are interference free in practice, the amount of which increases with the number of users. Spectrum is still scarce but these methods may make it more efficient to use, especially if channel use is coordinated.

Also beamforming doesn't work as well from the mobile station because you don't have multiple, sufficiently separated antennas.
Google has a LOT of highly famous AI/ML/DL researchers like Hinton, Kurzweil and Norvig to name some off the top of my head. Ng is certainly very highly regarded but he was one of many there. It seems like at Baidu he's top dog.
> The next generation of base stations
> Perhaps there are too few beamforming base stations installed

That is the key points. In the near future it'll be artificial but it hasn't been until those exist in sufficient quantities and with sufficient QoS. Simply because it is technically possible for them to get away with less spectrum doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of installed base stations don't function that way at present and that the technology wasn't available to get that performance until super recently.

That is like saying everyone could buy an autonomous cars and so human driver error is no longer an issue.
Solid, simple post. A similar lesson applies to performing numerical operations on a set of numbers, when linear algebra could be used instead. The performance differences are huge.