skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One might argue that the SOLID principles applied in Symphony and inherited by Laravel are in fact anti-patterns which only serve to add massive cognitive overhead. They've wrecked countless Java projects over the years and are now going to do PHP the same favor.

There's even less reason for a scripting language with a GIL to be saddled with this level of complexity, than there is for Java.
So if there is none of that...
The kid could also have an organ transplant.
Re: 4). As a pure mathematician, I would argue Calculus and Linear Algebra are the father and mother of pure math as well (okay maybe not logic).
Free and open were the key points. Since the transactions are public they are independently verifiable. I am not accusing the state of lying or fraud, but this would be a check on that possibility.

Again it is not likely that Bitcoin would ever make up enough of the tax revenue for the thought to even be relevant. It was only in response to the transparency question.
No picture :(
Could need some link to the issue perhaps?
They don't have a veto-proof majority.
Totally agree. I think that Symfony2 is a pain in the ass.
Laravel lets you have something working really fast. Then you can improve the code later on.
I enjoy your analysis :-)

I don't know about "could care less" conveying the semantics - I genuinely paused when I first read it to work out which meaning it had.

Let's saying "caring" goes 0 to 10. "Could care less" includes everything from 1 to 10, assuming integer granularity - it's very much the right hand side of the scale, anyway.

Only "couldn't care less" covers that 0 rating.

So - perhaps it's terrible in conveying semantics and only context/tone imply the disinterest being communicated?
Title II as written requires that rates be filed with the FCC and approved by the FCC (tariffs & rate regulation, respectively). Last-mile unbundling would force the people who currently run lines into your house to let other providers sell services over those lines.

These regulations that are part of the law are all going to be removed as part of a process called "forebearance", where the FCC can basically not enforce those parts if they feel it would be contrary to their overarching goal of increased broadband adoption in the country.
Total Recall is based on Philip K. Dick's "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". It is 18 pages.

Total Recall (1990, Schwarzenegger) was 113 minutes: 6.3 minutes per page

Total Recall (2012, Farrell) was 118 minutes: 6.6 minutes per page
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Why?

I don't think so for the simple reason that academic books in English usually aren't translated because people in countries outside of the US can read English. Even academic books that do not have any native English speaking authors are usually written in English. Books are more likely to be translated to English than from English, because translating to English multiplies the size of the audience many times, whereas the other way around does not.
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That's actually the first course I took by him. I took a few of his other HTML/CSS courses and I am doing PHP Fundamentals (to get into Laravel later) because of the "jQuery and PHP" parts of the 30 days course. All good stuff.
If you're using pypy, the slow parts might not be slow anymore. It might even run faster than C, because JITs are better at some things than static compilers. http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/02/pypy-faster-than-c-on-c...
So, the open source timeseries DBs (RRD Tool, Influx, and KairosDB), and others like sqlite or even InnoDB didn't make the cut? That surprises me.

> file systems are way better in managing the data

Except they're not managing data, they're just separating tables, to extend the DB metaphor. And you still run the chance of running out of inodes on a "modern" file system like ext4.

After having briefly dug into the code, I'm particularly worried about the fact that instead of minimizing iops by only writing the relevant changes to the same file, Prometheus is constantly copying data from one file to the next, both to perform your checkpoints and to invalidate old data. That's a lot of iops for such basic (and frequently repeated) tasks.

Still in wait-and-see mode.
> Microsoft seems to be trying VERY hard to change their course and attract more developers back to their platform(s). They're clearly willing to make strategic investments in open source projects.

RPython/pypy is kind-of a competitor to the CLR (especially with DLR) so unless it's for a CLR/DLR backend I doubt Microsoft would show that much interest.
Chinese airspace is highly regulated, especially in the cities mentioned. Theoretically, every single drone flight has to be reported and registered with multiple military and civil agencies.

Enforcement is a different story.
A few of these issues could be completely avoided by using a hosted Wordpress service like Pressable or WPEngine. Both of these services offer hosting cheap enough where I don't even think about launching a Wordpress site anywhere else and it will probably be a long time, if ever, I worry about how my site is running.
What could be those ORM features that you're missing? I've been working with Laravel 4 since before it had documentation when I had to go through all of the code to understand how it works and I know that besides what is described in documentation - there's a number of features that are available, but not listed.
Looks like I'm not alone in having to ask a million SQL questions on Stack Overflow before deciding my results are too bad to go on GitHub.
FCC Chief Wheeler Proposes Utility-Style Rules for Internet
What does the phrase "bright-line rules" mean?
As a wild guess I would say that using msbuild-scripts is the way to go if you have automatic builds in place.
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We could say that grocery shopping is ritualized hunting ...

It is 'gathering' the other main component of 'hunting and gathering'.

... or that a piñata is an encouragement of ritualized torture.

It may amuse you to know that I did actually look into that. However, the piñata's origins seem relatively innocuous.
This is zero-sum thinking. The un-genetically modified kids are no worse off than they would have otherwise been.

Second we could easily solve it by making it available to everyone.

Third, the world is hardly genetically fair as it is. People are born with all sorts of horrible genetic conditions every day. If anything this will make the world more fair.
In Sweden, a (free-for-tenants-to-use) shared laundry room (or in-apt laundry) has been legally mandated for all new apartment buildings since the 1940's, which is the reason there are no laundromats, and no coin-op laundry rooms either.
I'm not sure how it is now, but I lived in Austin 1998-2011, often volunteered at Interactive, and stayed through the music festival. Most of the people I met there were either:

1) Marketing and throwing parties to promote their own startup/product

2) There to drink and hang out at above parties

3) Marketing their book and trying to meet influential bloggers to write about their book

4) Attending because their company paid for them to attend some talks

It seems like it would be hard to stand out as a recruiter at SXSWi given how big it is now. You'll see a company with a huge budget have The Roots or Foo Fighters play at their party or something over the top. I think sponsoring local meetups for specific languages/interest groups would work better.
For a 23 year old, I wouldn't consider 4xx high, to be honest.
EDIT: It depends on what the versioning represents.

I don't think there have been as many breaking changes in Rails vs Laravel, and Rails at v4 has been over ... 9-10 years? Laravel is < 6 years old, with, from what it seems to be, rather significant philosophical changes between major versions. Doesn't mean it's bad, but perhaps closer to using gentoo vs centos.
I concur. Symfony 2 is incredibly powerful, but at the same time incredibly messy to work with.
Well, I believe this kicks off the biggest lobbying effort seen in a long time to get this to not happen. I certainly hope that the US internet gets Title II.
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#1 Using Wordpress.
Great question, fundamental really. If it's auto pilot what's to stop some malicious hacker from diverting the drones. If it's manual how much are the pilots getting paid and are they bonded? Seems like a huge can of worms to me.
I haven't used Prometheus yet, but I'm not sure I agree that it makes sense to send dimensional time series all the way down the alert chain. It allows full-featured alerts to be used, yes. But you're not going to be able to put all of your alert logic into the prometheus chain, so you're going to end up having alert rules in at least two places.

For example, in response to the latest security hullabaloo, we recently added a Nagios check for libc being too old, and for running processes that are linked to a libc older than the one on disk. This isn't a time series check; it's just an alert condition. Polling for that alert condition isn't what Prometheus is going to be good at, so cramming it into that alert pipeline is awkward. If we used something like Prometheus, we'd have rules in two places already.

Polling prometheus for saved queries and simply alerting on a threshold might result in a simpler system. The rules that could be expressed in an alert pipeline could be expressed as different queries, and all rules about thresholds, alerting or notifications could be done further down the pipeline. There's still some logic about what you're measuring in Prometheus, but not about what thresholds are alerts, or when, or for how long, or who cares. Threshold rules could all live in one place.

This isn't a knock on Prometheus, which of course supports a workflow along those lines, and seems interesting. Nor is it a knock on the prometheus alert system. I just wonder why software in the monitoring/notification/alerting space always ends up muddy. I believe the overlapping boundaries between projects are a symptom, not a cause. I keep asking myself if there's some fundamental complexity that I'm not yet appreciating.
Nicely put, though I'd point out

> It might break some usual physics intuition,

It really shouldn't in light of Noether's theorem: The fact that time independence of the action S gives rise to energy conservation in the first place tells us pretty clearly: If your action has time dependence, you don't have conservation of energy.
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China tightens Web controls; commenters must register real names
Does sound nice eh. I often type "floral" instead of "flora", it's definitely not floral.
The FCC is an 'independent' agency which means that while congress can ask questions, make suggestions, apply pressure, and vote on members of the commission it cannot force the FCC to introduce, accept, or reject any proposed rule-making. Like most regulatory agencies, the purse power is limited since the FCC is funded by regulatory fees (I say limited and not zero because I believe the fees are paid by industry to the treasury and then allocated by congress). Also, like most regulatory agencies the makeup of the commission is statutorily party-balanced with the president selecting the chairman.

The commission still has to vote on this proposed rule-making though.
After giving notice back in September, I went full-time into my own startup on the 16th of January. While I absolutely loved my job at The Control Group (they're hiring btw!), I've made so much progress on what was my side project. It's called Pleenq, and it's an extension that allows you to highlight objects within images and link them to where they can be purchased. I made a quick demo video of using it on my facebook feed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYlbMLays2Q&feature=youtu.be (if you watch the video, I realize now that it was a Mets cap).

The leap from making money to making absolutely nothing after having just gotten married in October probably looks like the workings of someone who has gone completely bonkers. Even though it's a terrible time for me financially, I feel like it's the best time for my business to take root and thrive. I owe a lot of how I think about this transition to the hacker news community as a whole, since there is a direct correlation between the time I started reading hacker news, and the time I started dreaming of owning my own successful company.

I don't have a landing page set up yet (man there's so much work to be done!), but if you're interested in knowing when Pleenq goes live, send me an email at justin@pleenq.com and I'll add you to the first round of invites!
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http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002367.h...

>>bright-line rule = a judicial rule of decision that is simple and straightforward and that avoids or ignore the ambiguities or difficulties of the problems at hand. The phrase dates from the mid-20th century. The metaphor of a bright line is somewhat older than the phrase bright-line rule - e.g.: "The difficult part of this case comes with regard to ... the activity of the Board of Temperance ....A bright line between that which brings conviction to one person and its influence on the body politic cannot be drawn." Girard Trust Co. v. I.R.C., 122 F.2d 108, 110 (3d Cir. 1941)./"[T]he McCambridge majority opinion ... agrees that the Kirby bright-line-rule is but a mere formalism ...." J.G.Trichter, Bright-Lining Away the Right to Counsel, Tex. Law., 6 Nov. 1989, at 26. Cf. hard and fast rule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright-line_rule
I am always very leery of big-ticket science published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), as this paper is. Many papers (including this one) are not subject to peer review because they use what has been called the "inside track" (http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-publishing-the-inside-... though note that Nature is not a disinterested observer). This paper was "contributed" to PNAS, which means that the authors reached out a member of the National Academy of Sciences (usually a famous late-career scientist) who they believed would be sympathetic to the line of work, and asked this person to serve as contributor (essentially a type of action editor) on the piece. Importantly, this person (Marcus Feldman) happened to be a colleague of the first author (she appears to be a postdoc at Stanford, he is a professor at Stanford, and they have written papers together), but the conflict of interest is ignored. Unlike a normal action editor, however, the contributor is not expected to identify potential adversarial reviewers, or even to take negative reviews into account! As a result, a significant minority of PNAS "contributed" papers clearly wouldn't have made it past peer review elsewhere. Famously, the 'contributed' track has been widely abused (e.g., by Linus Pauling, who hoped to beat Crick & Watson to discover the structure of DNA--unfortunately, his structure is clearly wrong.)

I am not saying that this is the case for this paper. However, I note that there are no linguist authors, no linguist reviewers, and no linguist editors, involved in the process. And, as a linguist, I don't understand the motivation for this work. The presence of a phoneme in language X and language Y tells me next to nothing about the relationship between X and Y; there is no theory of "phoneme evolution" because the evolutionary metaphor is irrelevant at best (there is no analogue to selection). And we've known for centuries that unrelated languages in close contact may borrow phonemes from each other (retroflex t in South Asia being the parade example), and obviously close contact will lead to genetic transfer too.
Title II includes several sorts of provisions that apply to "common carriers" very similar to, e.g., how railroads were regulated back in the day. The government sets the prices for carriage (rate regulation), and carriers have to lobby the government to change prices (tariffs). Last-mile unbundling means that carriers must lease out their physical infrastructure to competitors at some wholesale price.

These things are bad, which is why the FCC is saying it will not apply these provisions. For example, even today most municipalities set a regulated rate for basic cable service. It averages about $20/month nationwide, and doesn't come close to covering the cost of actually building a modern cable network out to a neighborhood.

Unbundling kills investment into the network, because why spend billions of dollars on infrastructure that you'll have to lease out at wholesale prices to your competitors?[1]

My theory is that unbundling is what killed DSL as a competitor to cable here in the U.S. FTTN has been quite successful in the U.K.,[2] as a gradual scheme for building fiber further into the network, with a last-hop of VDSL that can get faster as it gets shorter. There has been little FTTN deployment here in the U.S., because there's just no way for telcos to recoup the billions of dollars spent on fiber if they're forced to lease the VDSL at the other end to competitors for a song.

[1] See this Brookings Institute (not exactly a conservative hotbed) analysis, which calls the U.S. experiment with unbundling "disastrous" and concludes that it reduces capital investigate. http://www.pff.org/events/eventpowerpoints/022207BrusselsCom....

[2] Unbundling is part of the strategy in the U.K. too, but it's structured so that the prices BT charges to competitors are guaranteed to generate a substantial profit.
>The benefits of automation only accrue to the owners of capital

If that was so why would consumers purchase automated goods (or services)?

Fundamentally consumers buy a product if it is perceived to be better, cheaper or both than some existing alternative[1] or if they prefer the brand[2]. If the product is better or cheaper then the consumer benefits (and the poorest consumer benefits the most) and if the product is neither better nor cheaper, why would they buy it at all?

[1] this isn't necessarily a product or service: the alternative to driving may be walking or riding a bike, the alternative to buy some specific item of amazon may be to do without it.

[2] throwing the label "hand-made" on a product may increase its value, it is hard how to see throwing "made without human hands" on a product could increase its value, so this would be a point against automation.
Well, privacy or no... I have found just the sheer "overhead" of _dealing_ with FB to be exhausting. I mean, really.

Trolling through so many mundane and inane posts to get to the few relevant items of interest has become a huge time-sink, for me.

Yesterday, I posted a simple, non-accusatory statement that said that I was stepping back from FB for a while, maybe forever, and that we could still stay in touch via email and text. So far, the response has been nothing but positive.
IMO, that fact has helped make Laravel successful. Sometimes, software projects benefit from a benevolent dictator rather than design-by-committee.
To say that a professor is the best person to learn from isn't 100% true. I had a linear algebra professor who simply lectured by reading straight from the book and then occasionally drew the diagrams. Alas, he apparently was a valuable research professor and had tenure, so there's little that could be done. In this case, the professor was hardly the best approach towards learning the subject.

And as for experience, well, in the case of a CS student wishing to enter industry there's a good chance that the majority of your professors never even worked in industry. So if you're looking for people with experience to learn from, well, then you're in quite an unfortunate situation.

This led me to conclude that a degree offers no such guarantee that someone knows something. It offers a guarantee that someone was introduced to a number of concepts and demonstrated an understanding (or knack for cheating, cramming, what have you) good enough to pass and move forward. This is why I shudder at the thought of hiring old classmates who had to be hand-held through their 4 (or more) years of university, I know better despite what their degree might say.

Which is why that people who earned a degree...earned a degree, that's it. As far as I can tell they have no right to call themselves an engineer until they begin to practice engineering and practice it well enough to demonstrate the value of their thinking.
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Agreed. We will see self driving car deliveries before we see drone deliveries.
What sensibly-run organization would choose a scheme where their revenue would be exposed to such large fluctuations, as opposed to the dollar? It's nuts.
I'd be all for browsers blocking the ability of web sites to intercept or repurpose ctrl-W, personally. But I think repurposing ctrl-S is often a good idea.
Haha, such a common misnomer.

When you're dealing with a bear that has never seen people before, it has no idea that loud noises like rifles are dangerous. I've seen a friend fire a .375 right past a brown's head from 50 yards and it didn't even blink. The bear just kept eating berries sitting on his butt.

You can lay on your horn in the car, fire bear bangers and smash pots and pans together - they don't care.

I've also seen someone unload into one with 5 shots from a .303 - all shots hit home in the heart/lung area (later we found both lungs torn apart, though not the heart) and it kept running full speed for over 100 yards. If we had been closer than 100 yards, it would have had us.
I think 'about' should be changed to ~ (approximately) because the current phrasing sounds like you're saying, "give or take $100M" like it's nothin'

I'd prefer to see

Staples Agrees to Buy Office Depot for ~$6.3 Billion

to

Staples Agrees to Buy Office Depot for About $6.3 Billion
It's a clear line with little (or, ideally, none) room for error or ambiguity. Think big, bright line in the sand that you can't miss; you're either on this side of it or you're not.
Might be a business opportunity, ala https://railslts.com/.
You might have misunderstood GP (or I might have misunderstood you).

What GP is saying is that people with the same language interact more with each other and therefore reproduce, thus narrowing (averaging?) the gene pool to the speakers of that language.

Not that you'd be unable speak a language because of your genes! The cause-effect GP proposed would be language -> genes, not genes -> language (which is what I guessed you meant to refute).
Sorry, meant to say "some of the things I like and the community ofcourse"
I read it to mean that FCC will not force last mile unbundling. Whether they go further and write a rule that will act to prevent state a local unbundling rules is another matter.
That's a shitty explanation for dropping Whoops. The first time I remember the discussion of it being dropped got brought up was because of a bug in the framework relating to the assets, where Taylor didn't hesitate to blame Whoops and deleted comments on Github pointing out that the problem was actually in his own code.

It would've been super easy to add some code that sets the HTTP code for Whoops's response if that was the problem - but the fact is you should demand your framework users define their own 404 handlers.

The old Blade tags now escape all HTML, that hardly counts as working.
It has been a pretty crazy past few days, but I'm here (and trying to stay awake) to answer any questions.

Here's our blog post about launching: https://medium.com/@signupsumo/from-napkin-to-shipped-in-7-d...

Also checkout what we have planned next on our Assembly page: https://assembly.com/signupsumo
Is BTRFS a lost cause?
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Tom Wheeler has really outdone himself with this announcement. It'll apply to mobile networks as well! Turns out this dingo knows how to stand up for what's right!

I know it's early but this is a great step forward.
> Is it posted somewhere?

How very 2015 ;)