skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it was published in the NEJM today:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1206319

Academia moves slowly. You want to make sure that your innovation actually had a net positive effect (does the patient actually survive?), you need clearances, you need to do the write-up, the journal needs publication space; honestly, I'm surprised that it's just a year. Novel techniques are attempted every day. You don't hear about them instantaneously because a majority of them don't work.
Lossy mobile connections are very common in the world.
"Good Will Hunting" - inspiring and heartwarming classic

"Django Unchained" - Quentin Tarantino's latest amazing film

"Indie Game: The Movie" + "Mojang: The Story of Minecraft" - the most amazing documentaries that I have ever seen

Honestly, I cannot think of any other movies that can join these four in my list of favorites. I would LOVE to see a documentary about the lifecycle of a mobile app development team's entire development process.
Thanks! I actually moved to the UK exactly one year ago to improve my speaking/writing English skills, and every suggestion helps. I hesitated when writing this comment and went for "willing" because it sounded good (not a very good way to choose what word to use…).
Oops, I meant mongoengine, not mongoose. I've been coding in node.js of late.
This is Weev 1.1, and is ridiculous.
The companies responsible for these heinous breaches of the public trust and basic computer security should be drummed out of existence.
Where in the world is what you said any different?

The unfortunate thing is that the reputation thing does not seem to extend to customer relationships. It boggles my mind how companies in China seem to be so willing to offer their customers substandard (or even unsafe) products for the sake of saving pennies here and there, especially in an age of weibo and capital punishment for the worst executives.
> Is C/C++ the next wave of web development?

asm.js is certainly not targeted at writing web applications in C or C++. It's more about supporting arbitrary languages and getting existing native code bases (e.g. libraries and game engines) on the web.

There's some more background in this presentation:
http://kripken.github.io/mloc_emscripten_talk/

(That said, based on anecdotal evidence, C++ seems to work pretty well on large projects where predictability and reliability matter. So for really large, complex web apps, C++ might become a popular choice. Not really seeing this happen though, as web applications generally handle the hard stuff in the backend.)

> Dart, however, seems like a friendlier environment but it probably won't be as fast a C++(asm.js).

It probably doesn't have to most of the time. Hardly anything in the web applications I've worked on was ever CPU-bound, the network is usually the big bottleneck. We're just scripting the browser after all, most of the hard stuff (rendering, storage engines etc.), is already taken care of by native code.
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> Great news for the folks working at Makani!

In the short term, yes. Given the history of Google and its diversification efforts, not so much.
I think this community really needs to get over this. Individuals, groups of individuals, or even entire communities do not get to determine the definitions of words or how words are used. Words usage is determined by society at large. If this is how hacking is used by society, then that's what it is. That's how the English language works. That's why the word xerox is an acceptable verb. That's why the meaning of the word gay has changed.

English evolves according to how its speakers and writers use it. Let it go.
Wow. Awesome graphics for the web!
it's really hard to find a phrase starting with "make no mistake" that doesn't culminate with a negative or dismissive slam.

As urbandictionary puts it, "a weasel-y, thought-terminating phrase that is supposed to lend gravitas to a weak position in an argument. Used by doomsayers and the overly dramatic."
@zsch I refactored your code using OOP and the factory design pattern. In this form it is much easier to alter the logic of the game. https://github.com/deckar01/mod7/tree/refactor and https://github.com/deckar01/mod7/tree/penalty-fives
also, there isn't a single typo in jobs' emails (at least anything immediately obvious), whilst in comparison murdoch's responses seem sloppily written and careless.. as you've pointed out, it does seem as though a lot of effort went into jobs' emails.. and in the end, it would seem the effort paid off..
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If I die today, I will die happy!
Or just click on the "Call Phone" button next to the "Start Hangout" button in Gmail? That's still there for me, is it not for other people?
When people say they like/long for Java I usually understand that they like the tooling support and robustness of language/api/libraries and ecosystem in general.

I think Dart looks very promising in that regard especially when you compare it to JavaScript without feeling as heavyweight as Java.

Dart is actually a very terse and expressive language. Less ceremony and feels much more like other dynamic languages like Python or Ruby. Yet having optional typing and simple semantics it is one of the dynamic languages with extraordinary tooling support.

In a way Dart gives you the best of both worlds. It takes the good parts and leaves out the bad :)
but your ratio of genuine-email-from-strangers to spam will plummet sharply.
Sikuli 1.0.0 is out
Sikuli is a screen capture based automation tool. Very useful for UI testing. Yesterday version 1.0.0 was reached.
thanks now I have 17 tabs open...
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Microsoft has/had a somewhat captive audience, so they can do a lot of milking. The justification from Microsoft is two-fold:

1) Having to pay for patches gives publishers an incentive to release less-buggy games the first time. When consoles first started enabling developers to release patches, it was fashionable for gamers and reviewers to complain about patches. Many people subscribed to the idea that patching was lazy and games shouldn't have bugs at all. These days people are more likely accept patching as a good thing, so this patch cost is really more damaging than helpful.

2) Microsoft does extensive QA on your patch (just like they do initial releases) to make sure it doesn't do anything egregious, and this process costs money. Gamers don't always care who screwed up, they will blame the console-maker. So Microsoft benefits from ensuring patches don't brick your console, etc. However, it's not exactly clear how worthwhile this process is considering the buggy patches that have come out. Surely it doesn't cost them anywhere near 10 grand to pay for the testing process.

Although the top-end games are still getting more and more expensive to produce, the quality of game that the average developer is able to make on her own has risen dramatically. You no longer have to have very specialized skills to create a great game that will sell a million copies. Publishers and console-makers don't hold the power they used to. There are so many available open channels for developers to release their games to large audiences with no interference. MS is refocusing away from the gamers who rely on them less and less, to a more broad audience.

Other similar behaviors Microsoft gets/got away with: charging gamers for the ability to play online, charging a 'licensing fee' for any game released on the system (other console manufacturers do this as well), showing advertisements while navigating the console's menus.
That might be true in your case, but I'm running Firefox 21 smoothly with over 11 tabs open as I type this. And I have a truckload of addons changing my addon bar approximately 12(of 24 installed).

What you are experiencing is definitely abnormal. The only days I have that kind of performance issue is on my old laptop. In which case try switching to Aurora/Nightly, it might help.
Finally, Primack debunks this bullshit PrivCo report.

Thank god.
Ask HN: Why isn't there a vertical search engine for health?
Why hasn't anything replaced Webmd for general health information? And why isn't there a vertical search engine for symptom/potential issue matching?

Seems like an opportunity, but I'm curious why there isn't a site that already exists for this.
We launched this today, I'd be interested in what you think about it!
Finally a company with a sense of integrity and responsibility.

Regardless of how they raised the money the had a debt that they needed to pay and they did which is more then i can say about most companies.
"Tesla will be the only American car company to have fully repaid the government."

All other companies only care about their stock and how to make more money the last thing on their mind is paying back their debts and the government lets them get away with it because their "too big to fail".

Let me tell you something ...there's no such thing that is the result of their bad decisions and if they don't fail they will repeat the same mistakes again and again because they can.
What will this Medium post look like in two years?
After getting very excited and doing a bunch of work, we did a lot of performance tests and discovered that for our use case all they did was increase processor load for the same work - the penalty associated with serialising and deserialising things to go across postMessage was greater than the work we were getting done on the other thread.

Of course this was in the early days, and it'd be good to retest it to see if it's better now.

I think that there are a lot of interesting use cases for WebWorkers, but you also have to be aware that for some things they will actually slow down your application.
isn't tearing preferable to input lag? As I mentioned, with v-sync on there is a very noticeable rubber-banding effect, with it off the result is (perceptually) far smoother.

>It [vsync] should always be enabled by default

Not sure about this. Surely the goal is to maximize perceived performance not 'correctness' (where correctness in this context is defined as each frame being fully drawn before the next one starts).
The comment linked on Reddit by parent is by Charles Nutter, of JRuby fame.
Awesome graphics and low time-to-crate: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html
If I could make a suggestion... give some indication of what the editor can do on the site itself. Description, screenshot, that sort of thing.

If I could tell what it can do I would be more inclined to come back later and try it out. As it is, all of the login methods you support and the YouTube video you link to are all blocked at the office - so all I can do is admire your logo.
Or rather, how Google plans to rule the consumer computing world.

It's been a while since the average Facebook addict really needed a computer anyway, they can all throw their laptops away and switch full-time to phones and tablets and I won't care.

But businesses and professionals have different needs. I don't see web apps and NaCl apps replacing Office suites, IDEs, or 3D graphic design tools anytime in the next decade, no matter how much Google tries to advertise Google Drive (Docs) as an Office replacement. There's a lot more to "computing" than shiny new consumer-grade gadgets. Although I vaguely remember a Chrome add-on that can SSH into remote machines, why would I use it when I have GNU utilities running natively on my OS?

> What does your desktop look like a year from now?

Probably the same as it does now. Lots of terminals and text editors, maybe a browser window or two in the background.
It says University of Illinois...
The other model is a paywall.

When I worked for a publisher there was a long debate over UX vs page views and ad impressions.

I think Google has rules around how you can load ad's also so it might not be posible to do anything dynamic. Google has all the ad inventory so is the dominant player.
Solution: Soda fountains instead of cans. Lets seem the take that thing home!
Nice game. I would suggest a "subtraction" option.
If you click on a number and the sum is neither a multiple of 7 or 3, then how bout you allow the user to click on a selected number again to deselect it and subtract its value from the sum.
I wonder if something similar would be made for eye-sight correction. Most of nearsightedness, and farsightedness cases are caused by irregular size of cornea.

A 3D generated cushion from the outside, would be able to perhaps make a groundbreaking change in eye care services.

the muscles will eat into the cushion, in 2-3 years, enough for eyes to get rehabilitated and re-accustomed to the shape.

Imagine a future, without specs! No laser surgery, that cost hundreds and thousands of dollars.
It is provided, just typeset weirdly. UIC is centered between the first four authors (Petullo, Zhang, Solworth, Bernstein). AFAIK all four of those are at UIC :)

According to the author's own website[1], his position at UIC is ongoing, as well.

[1]: http://cr.yp.to/positions.html
> Both Packaged Apps and Native Client apps work on any computer that has the Chrome browser installed.

Hmm. On my Mid 2011 MacBook Air, I searched for the referenced "Cracking Sands Racing" game on the Chrome Web Store, but found no results. I clicked on the link from the article, and am told "This application is not supported on this computer. Installation has been disabled." I guess they don't work on any computer after all.

When I try the Chrome Web Store, I find it difficult to distinguish between apps and what I would call just links to websites. For example, the top result in the "Lifestyle" section is an "app" that is really just a link to a random shopping site, full of the usual tracking cookies and advertising crap.

I feel tricked: if I wanted a shopping site, I'd have searched for it. Does Google just let anyone submit a link to their site and call it an app? Applications ought to have a higher quality bar.
I wonder how to approach this if one has to manage multiple Twitter accounts... for example for several brands

Anyone any ideas?
Butter smooth and so atmospheric graphics, especially the rowing part
I 'm more interested on why hackers are interested in this article. Somebody will come up with a good idea on how to process the whey further. Yoghurt production certainly hasn't destroyed Greece until now, so there is a bit of sensationalism here as well.
Also, why is sum=3 not a fail case?
Bad example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feta:

Since 2002, feta has been a protected designation of origin product in the European Union. According to the relevant EU legislation, only those cheeses produced in a traditional way in some areas of Greece (mainland and the island of Lesbos), and made from sheep milk, or from a mixture of sheep and goats’ milk (up to 30%) of the same area, may bear the name "feta".
Hi, We're definitely not a collection agency or something. I can see why you were thinking that if you read the website that way ;). You can compare the platform with what Paypal does with their "donate"-button. Only now you're not stuck to Paypal and you can pick the payment providers you would like. Besides that we do have eye for design, customer support and what donations should be about.

But for further releases I will take another look at our terminology and references with more images/screenshots of our application.
> (8 nation alliance, Opium Wars, World War II, etc). It's irrational and this is no excuse or justification of their disgusting behaviour, but I think this is what's happening in many cases.

Even today, "Caucasians" don't visit countries to make friends (Africa). The behavior is justified, from a pragmatic perspective.

Being a hippie peace freak is just silly.

> "Chinese hackers rising" that's so popular these days distracts us from the much-more formidable power that our Pentagon already has.

True that.
And Saul Griffith is also Tim O'Reilly's son-in-law.
Have you guys been born yesterday?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8h_v_our_Q
Square launches in Japan.
Difference: IE was ugly and IE experience was ugly.
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:) Where were you originally from (rough area if you don't want to be too specific)? As much as I'd like to move back home I fear I've been spoilt by living in the UK to expect cheap and plentiful internet, great public transport, and loads of interesting opportunities!
"plans to rule the computing world through IE"

serious overstatement, no? Should be "plans to rule the webbrowsing world through IE" probably..
Nothing controversial here. Also add - "If something is stupid but is works, then it is not stupid"
It is in his repo, it just isn't in the hosted version yet.
You'd be surprised to know that surgical instruments make good murder weapons.
You're right, it's described in 3.5 of

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/compiler.html

It seems like it was contemporaneous with the proposed c90 extension and also supported the = except optionally. But it was definitely something in the plan 9 compiler rather than only a gcc thing.
It's all going to be made in China eventually.
Read http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/29/collect... to understand the world-changing ambition that DPR has. The Silk Road is a lot more than trafficking narcotics for DPR. To the point that reading his thoughts in this Forbes article is what made me think he could be Satoshi.
I suspect the answer is "liability".
Sounds like we've finally found a use for all those oceans we built.

The problem with liquids like this that use up oxygen when you dump them in water is that they use up all the oxygen when you dump them in the pond. Dump them in a place with plenty of water and they find all the oxygen they need and happily degrade without killing all your fish.

Back in my Environmental Engineer days, I worked on a study of Ethylene Glycol (the stuff they use do de-ice airplanes), and how it affected the local wetlands. The worry wasn't that it would get into the waterways. There's no stopping that if you spray thousands of gallons of it onto a runway. The worry was that those local waterways wouldn't disperse it fast enough for it to harmlessly degrade into weetabix and rainbows (or whatever similarly neutral stuff it turns into when you add water and oxygen to it) before it affected the critters in the pond.

So it seems like a nice solution to this, that definitely won't fly if you tell anybody with an easy sense of environmental outrage and a disinclination to read a chemistry book, would be to load up a big boat full of it, steam well out to sea, and open the cork.
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Seems to me that this never really seemed like much of a "hard negotiation", Murdoch pretty much held his hands up straight away and said he wanted to make a deal. Not the hard-nosed deal I was expecting.
At the HN meetup in Tokyo just last week people were complaining about the lack of something like Square in Japan. I guess things will get better now.

Transforming your iPad/iPhone into a register is also pretty neat. I wonder if they'll look into putting an NFC reader in there and interface with all the IC cards here. Most people don't pay for their coffee by credit card.
Amazon, BN, and Apple don't pay advances (...to the vast majority of authors. Maybe a few exceptions for big name exclusives).

Many authors write books, send them to their agent to sell, and then get paid up-front by a publisher, followed by an agreed royalty should the book sell more than a certain amount. This offers a certain amount of security, more so than self-publishing.

The more important point is that for many authors, the international markets are a big source of revenue. Self publishing in English is one thing - sorting out the translation is quite another.

I think it's important to not tar all publishers with the same brush. There are actually a growing number of independent publishers dedicated to the indie/digital space.
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But it's not a game, out of curiosity, are there any good games written in WebGL(because all I see are demos)?
A bit overly dramatic. Long term, I think there will be a harmonization between Chrome packaged apps and Firefox OS apps, and maybe even Surface RT. I personally prefer 'drive by' apps and I think install should really mean "bookmark and pin my cache".

The real issue is keeping the Web viable, as it is under attack from native platforms, and both Google and Firefox have to keep aggressively upgrading the platform to keep to competitive with what's available.

We've seen an astounding amount of innovation in the browser in the last few years. As Larry Page said at I/O when asked, eventually developers should not have to think about the platform.
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So I take it that Japan doesn't have EMV chips in their bank cards yet? I'm curious to see how Square tackles that when they hopefully expand to Europe and Australia.
Nice design! Clicked on create an account button thinking I will be able to create an account and customize my feed. But it just added me to your waitlist. Found it a bit deceptive - maybe you should change the text to request an invite.

Its a crowded space with many options. Best of luck!
I wonder where they're going to take the Go downloads page to:

https://code.google.com/p/go/downloads/list
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I'm looking forward to having them launch in the UK! Does anyone here have access to the beta?
Not great if your keyboard is in Dvorak :-)
Google Play Services is the golden child of Android apps
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No, but a few million Lebanese grandmothers did. Which seems like too low a number...
Anyone who needs an unbounded list of stuff and who cannot afford the memory to over allocate.

At least that is my biased opinion coming from embedded!

(No STL, everything done from scratch)
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>far lower than hot fusion temperatures which are in the range of tens off thousands of degrees

>tens off thousands of degrees

>forbes

LEL
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Why do you think this is language zealotry? I am very interested in a language that gives benefits of dynamic languages and speed of statically typed ones. So benchmarks like this are important and I wish more of the octane benchmark was also ported to Java and pitted against dart for comparison.

Also check this one:
http://dartogreniyorum.blogspot.ch/2013/05/performance-optim...

and later with Simd:

http://dartogreniyorum.blogspot.ch/2013/05/dart-beats-java-i...

Btw, I think even with the modifications made to Java version mentioned in the link you gave, I think latest version of dart now beats Java.

Edit: Author of blog post also compared Richards and Tracer benchmarks: http://bonovox.be/blog/dart-vs-java-richards-and-tracer/
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From the article
Heat energy is really just a jumbled distribution of energy. The energy is distributed randomly over many molecules, if the heat is in a gas,...

From what I remember from my school physics lessons -
1. heat is not "a distribution of something over something"
2. it is also not correct to say "heat is (or is contained) in something".

Heat is energy transferred from one body to another because of their temperature difference. Heat is energy in transit.
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