skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's up with all the unrelated hate towards SO in the other comments?

Yeah, i don't like when interesting questions get closed for being off-topic either; but it's not what happened in this case. It's just a SO user who gets mad when someone responds in CoffeeScript a question with a JavaScript tag (or when a question tagged as JS is really a CS question). I'm pretty sure i recall him doing something similar (and using the same kind of "because it's ugly!" arguments) in at least another SO question.
not another shitty mail service
Funny thing is I'm really familiar with the tech - I did COIN in the bush war in Angola, where we did a lot of triangulation (old school, using an oscilloscope). I've given up trying to explain the difference.
Google still has a team of 10 people working on GWT (they have no developer advocate anymore, so no one really advertises it). GWT is considered "infrastructure" by Google now. AdSense/AdWords both use GWT I believe (and that won't be changing anytime soon, so Google will continue to support GWT. There are also other small tools from Google written in GWT (Flights, their jobs site, and others I'm sure).

GWT doesn't have nearly the team it used to have, but its still being supported by Google.

EDIT: to add, GWT has recently transitioned to a non-Google site[1], run by the GWT committee. As well, a GWT focused conference is being organized by Vaadin[2].

[1] http://www.gwtproject.org/

[2] http://gwtcreate.com/
So what are the negatives? This NYT article reads like a PR piece for medical tourism... What about malpractice insurance in Belgium/Poland and what happens if there are problems down the road with TFA's hip implant?
I can't begin to imagine what the ITC will do having been completely undermined by Obama. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple suffers from some international retaliation for this.

Obama doesn't fully understand how commerce works.
It's unfortunate the wsj article's main topic/pic was of a rock star teacher.

The lesson US needs to learn is that 'teachers' just in general in S Korea are RESPECTED (like honest-lawyer/doctor) and not viewed as someone who just wasn't smart/achieving enough for some other career (which is the impression in US). This just translates into a situation where becoming a teacher in a public school in S Korea is just about one of the hardest careers to achieve in S Korea, especially if you want to teach in a major city.

I know of someone (Korean American) whose cousin back in S Korea just couldn't get a job as a teacher near Seoul, capital S Korea. And the cousin had always been considered a good/model student while a student herself. She was smart/motivated but just not good enough, due to the fierce competition. This fierce competition leads to a situation where you end up with highly qualified/motivated teachers. Not always but most of the time.

This whole hagwon story is just a result of the respect parents place on education/teacher. Don't pay too much attention to hagwon story. It's just a by product of the real lesson we need to learn, that parents value education for their kids.

In US, there's the general impression that one becomes a public school teacher because he/she didn't have the grade for much else.
It is very difficult to move a non-trivial product from corporate developed with source code available to community developed even if both are technically open source.

If things like design docs & decisions, the main bug tracker, commit rights, and so on are all internal you end up with no one with the institutional knowledge to take over if the company decides to drop it. The most famous example of this is probably the open sourcing of Netscape Navigator which lead to a four year gap before the next release, due to a ground up rewrite.
Nobody did, but that is how life goes. An attack is found. A defense is found. And you can't build a secure system without knowing all of the attacks and corresponding defenses.
Uhm, just curious, how did you come up with this name?
> As a hiring manager, I can tell you what I'm interested in when seeing a potential new hire: a well-written, concise resume, links to code samples (whether on Github or elsewhere), and how well they're going to work with the rest of the team. Work for Pie appears to take the long route around coming up with an executive summary (of sorts) for just one of these three attributes. It seems highly impersonal and I'm surprised that you got any developers to sign up for it even with the promise of free internet points.

Work For Pie actually compiles a score based on StackOverflow scores and Hacker News karma, in addition to Github and Bitbucket contributions. I would argue that actually touches on two of those points mentioned, because you could get a sense of a candidates coding ability, in addition to their personality from their HN and SO accounts (to be fair, assessing a candidate's personality and cultural fit is really outside the scope of a third-party recruiting platform). As a developer who was signed up for WFP and logged in regularly to see how my score was coming along, I thought it was a fun, arguably gamified approach to measuring my growth as a developer. It doesn't cost anything (for developers) so I'm surprised that you're surprised developers would sign up for it. Logging in for my first time was actually a huge wakeup call because I realized how disassociated from the development community I was, as well as how little I had to show besides a CS degree. I didn't ultimately get a job through WFP (possibly because I stubbornly chose to move to Portland, and it appears that most of their connections are in Memphis or SV). But I think their WFP 'score' is a useful and fun metric for budding developers such as myself (and theoretically it should be for hiring companies as well)
Not global. Scoped with the "def".
Michael, thanks for making contact by e-mail, outside of these public forums.

As discussed over e-mail, I've created an in depth report showing that SnappyCam indeed takes full quality 8 Mpx shots on the iPhone 5.

With the amazing discussion and interest here on HN, I thought to share it with the community here as well:

http://www.snappylabs.com/blog/snappycam/2013/08/03/snappyca...

I'm off the grid on a hiking vacation for the next 2.5 weeks, back in late August and look forward to the discussion then.

jpap
You seem very confident of your input parameters. What are you basing 0.2-1EB on? It seems like there is a lot unknown about the utah data center, so all their "expert estimates" sounded more like guesses. Hence my conclusion "nobody knows for sure".

Even if, as you say, the estimate is 100hours per person. How much time does the average person spend on the phone? My current cell plan has 200 minutes per month, and I never go over. Say the average person spends 1000 minutes (16.7 hours), that means you could store a month of rolling phone conversations, and be only at 16.7% capacity. That leaves a fair bit of extra room for persons of interest internationally.
Because they, like many other countries, have created an arms race. The perceived status rank of each university with its fixed number of slots and the behavior of employers, who give applicants jobs with pay and prestige corresponding to the relative status of what school they graduated from, create essentially a forced ranking of all kids coming out of the educational system. The demand for afterschool tutoring is not driven by a need to fill in gaps left by a poor daytime education but by a desire to get ahead of others in the relative ranking. This demand does not depend on the quality of the daytime education.

It is assumed that your success in life comes from your relative standing, your percentile in the forced ranking, not from your absolute level of education. Both the public and the private education systems optimize for getting their students as high on the relative ranking as possible, not for training each to be as valuable as possible in terms of what actual services he can provide to his family, his employer, and his society.

It is often assumed (around the world) that the former will yield the latter. In other words, competition for ranking will make everyone more valuable. This is only partially true, though. The ranking is a one dimensional aggregate of a few dimensions that are easiest to measure: solving math problems, answering trivia questions about English vocabulary and grammar, remembering historical facts, and so on. This causes those few areas to be over-invested in, hence others to be under-invested in, relative to their real ability to produce value for self and others in adult life.

The real economy (not just money but quality of life) is far more diverse and multidimensional. Post-primary-school education would be better if it didn't force everyone to focus almost all their time and effort on maximizing the same three or four dimensions.
You don't sound like an ass at all. Hell, if I had wasted the better part of an evening due to a simple nomenclature mix-up, I'd post it as well when the right concept comes up. It might save others some time.
Then you are doing it wrong.
see also: Noam Chomsky
I feel like this should be part of the browser.
I assume SO analyzes their logs to determine how many google searches take people to close, versus open questions. I wonder what the results are.

It might be fun to create a Chrome extension that created such a tally.
I am not the author, I merely found it interesting and thought others on HN would. :)

I assume the name comes from "browser link".
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Although there is clear legal justification for this veto, I still fear that it was issued for perverse reasons. Apple is a lobbying juggernaut and is a favorite among the Government.
Undoubtedly, Apple exerted extreme pressure on this decision, and I have severe doubts that this same conclusion would have been reached had Apple sought an embargo on Samsung products. Absurd cases and wholesale perversion of intellectual property law are nothing new in this country. Why has the administration only intervened for Apple?

It's just worrying when proper execution of the law becomes transactional.
So far the response to the suggestion of adding a native Dart runtime to anything other than Chromium proper has been extremely negative. WebKit didn't want it, Mozilla doesn't seem to want it. Maybe Opera will include it since they're using Blink?

It may not be a Microsoft feature but it's basically being treated the same as one. Native Client is getting similar treatment.
> Angular has a lot of built-in services, managing $http requests, $q for promises, etc. But in this part we are not going to talk about any built-in service, because they are more complex to explain and that belongs to a new article.

Statements like this worry me. Authenticated requests to REST API's should be drop dead simple in any JS framework.
> Try to remember that it's first and foremost a search engine with ad-revenue. Anything else is a product of a liberal work environment and driven employees.

But that's actually a really good reason to hesitate a bit before betting your own project's success on anything they put out that isn't directly related to the search engine or the ad products. It's not "playa hatin'" to recognize that things from Google that aren't strategic to them may get dropped some day, it's just being pragmatic.
Most of the difference here is that our hospitals have to fob off the money they lose from treating patients without health care onto those that do. They charge a lot more because every 5th or 6th person coming into the emergency room has no health care, must be given treatment, and will never be able to pay for it. Thus, we all take on that burden through a backdoor, round the corner, through the mailslot, rather than just by dealing with it and giving everyone health care....
No, what I did was identify a pathological behavior and give my opinion that it's unnecessary!
How Brains Race to Cancel Errant Movements
Yes, I know they have people working on it. Among other things this work consists of closing 90% of existing bugs as assumed stale.

I'm sure that if you have code that works today it will continue to work if you change nothing (although there is talk of dropping support for IE8) but there are a lot of rough edges that will now never be improved. That's not optimal for people who bought the story that google was selling to developers just two years ago at IO -- that this was the wave of the future and well worth devoting effort to learning and pitching to clients.
Google Racer
I don't know about insurance malpractices but how this malpractice outweigh or even relevant to this topic. And also out of of curiosity does USA hospital give guarantee of not having any problem with implants.
Snap Circuits and Lego both are excellent. Here are a few on my 9yo son's wishlist (from Dad):

http://www.amazon.com/Makedo-FreePlay-Kit-For-One/dp/B007UN4...

http://www.amazon.com/How-To-Balloon-Animal-Kit/dp/B000ELV4E...

http://www.amazon.com/Art2-D2s-Guide-Folding-Doodling-Activi...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007GC0IO8/ref=oh_details_o... (and related kits)

HTH
It could work if it was accredited/malpractice was covered somehow, then just make a hospital in Mexico or the Bahamas. Of course it would need to be less expensive than the USA, have better outcomes, and have the same level of legal responsibility...we are a very litigious nation.
True, but the directive will reach to those places where html5 is not a welcome guest.

But to be sincere, I picked one thing to a directive, there are infinite ideas but I needed one easily enough for a "hello-world" type of post.
The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory (2007)
Man Booker Prize Longlist great news: Jhumpa Lahiri made it
Certainly amusing demo.

What might actually have a chance at winning me over (having deep real-world experience with and trust of other tools) is an account of more complex usage:

- deep look at componetization/composition techniques,

- how it plays with CommonJS/AMD/Harmony,

- honest accounting of drawbacks, pain points, non-ideal usage scenarios,

- explanation of all the magic, e.g. what's happening under the covers to do data-binding, does the global namespace get polluted by DI features, etc...
Given the presence of modern technology like Emscripten, it would be a 'one-liner' to load a compiled-to-JS equivalent of any native ActiveX plugin (assuming it does only things the browser can do; same goes for Dart - Dart2JS is not going to be able to implement SIMD or threads or anything else that the native Dart runtime adds).

It's against the spirit of the web because:

1. Dart is controlled by a single player

2. Dart was implemented by a single player

3. Dart was designed for the needs of a single player

4. Dart was designed in secret before being released to the world

Those four factors combined make it seem evil even if it's not, and definitely contributed to the negative reaction it got from WebKit.

If using Dart means relying on Dart2JS (which it does, because Google completely failed to get any other browser vendors to consider adopting it so far), then Dart is now just another competitor to things like GWT, Emscripten, TypeScript, etc. Dart2JS at least delivers reasonable performance thus far but it's hardly a compelling option compared to actually writing the language that runs in the browser, especially given that it has an entirely new home-grown set of libraries that aren't mature yet.

If Dart is still alive 5 years from now, however, a lot of these factors could change. If it manages to prove itself somehow, maybe a Dart VM would get into WebKit or Gecko (seems unlikely due to implementation hurdles though), and the libraries will absolutely be mature by then.
Fun fact: In Norway, everyone's salary is public :)

(Well, technically, the amount of taxes paid is public, from which you can make a good guess at salary)
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I want that for mail. I keep planning to write something that can connect to an IMAP server and present the contents via NNTP, but it is low enough on my list that I don't know if I'll ever do it.

I know that the effect can be achieved by running an NNTP server, and using a mail/news gateway, but that's a lot more complex. Most NNTP servers are meant for big multiuser situations, and that makes configuring them complex, and often requires a lot of supporting software. Massive overkill for someone who just wants to read their mail in their newsreader and get a good threaded message view with a good UI.
Well for one they've got a million dollar view.
I agree. Also, no more zooming car ads and I would consider Yahoo as my home page again.
I guess since I've moved to Portland, I've been spoiled with what a thriving tech scene can be like. I also went to a hackathon in Nashville right before I moved away and was impressed by their community. Brad (one of WFP's founders) is the organizer of the Memphis Python user group, which is (as far as I know having moved away from Memphis mid-May) one of Memphis' few tech meetup groups. There's a reason that a disproportionate number of startups come out of Silicon Valley. The culture there feeds into itself, and networking opportunities are orders of magnitude greater. You mentioned that you not hearing of them was indicative of a marketing failure on their part. My own take on it is, if they had been in the silicon valley area, they would have had many more opportunities to get their name out. The Memphis tech scene is too far from any of the big hubs, and, yes, it's true that anything that can be done in person can be done over the wire as well, but in practice, not having the ability to put yourself in meatspace with people who might be interested in your product/startup is still a huge disadvantage.
I saw this on Canary a few months ago its a pretty nifty feature
If YouTube didn't hire the best and the brightest they wouldn't how know to copy Soundcloud.
Plagiarism's Plague in Computer Science
> Dart is no more an attempt to replace the web with a walled garden than GWT is (which is what I work on). It is a tool, like Typescript, like CoffeeScript, like ClojureScript, like Emscripten. There's no "plan" to create a lock-in walled garden based around programming language.

Regarding the Dart language, I agree fully. It's another option like the ones you mentioned. They all generate JS, and since we have pretty good guarantees of JS running the same on different browsers, everything is interoperable.

But regarding the Dart VM, there is a concern. Of course the Dart VM on the server etc. is fine, but there is an issue in the browser: If Google ships the Dart VM in Chrome, and the Dart dev tools generate a 'fat build' containing both Dart and JS, and Chrome runs one while the rest of the world runs the other, we are at risk of fragmenting the web.

As Chrome's market share rises, many people are testing first and foremost in Chrome. It is possible that they will not include the JS part and ship only the Dart part, or that they will do far less testing of the JS part, leaving it suffering from bugs and performance faults.

Even if the Dart VM is open source, that is a bad situation that could break the web as we know it.

> The way I see the potential of a DartVM is the same as OdinMonkey+asm.js

The crucial differences is that asm.js is a strict subset of JS. There is 0 risk of someone shipping something that only runs in one browser - it is literally JS, and will run fine everywhere.

(And not just will it run, but it also runs quickly everywhere, because asm.js is not a random new subset but the result of a long-running industry trend, for example in this link asm.js code was fast on 3 different browsers http://j15r.com/blog/2013/07/05/Box2d_Addendum )
Couldn't this have already been done by dynamically changing the favicon using javascript? Or did that not work with all browsers.
The ITC found the Apple could neither prove that the infringed was covered by FRAND, nor did Apple agree to what the ITC thought was a reasonable agreement. Of course the ITC considers FRAND which is exactly why Motorola's injunction against the Xbox was denied.
Eric Holder admitted that he can't do his job. He needs to be fired.
Some possible reasons:

* The hospital system in Belgium is 99% either state or non-profit owned. Less sticky fingers. Less luxury.

* Infrastructure (buildings, tools, ...). The infrastructure is extremely heavily state subsidised.

* Medical professional wage negotiations. Medical professionals earn quite a bit less in Belgium than in the US. Quite many (most?) medical pros actually seem to have their priorities right: helping people solve medical problems.

* Choice. In Belgium, people, not insurers choose the hospital they go to, based on reputation and perceived quality.

* Volume. Healthcare in Belgium is fairly accessible, probably one of the most accessible in the world. This means few people putting off operations for financial reasons, so higher volume.

* State subsidies spilling over to foreign patients in unintended ways. I could very well imagine some of the marginal cost of an operation on a non-resident American citizen also being carried by the state in other ways.

Two anecdotes, logical consequences of this system.

1) My (poor by US standards) 90 years old neighbour had a hip replacement at the age of 86, 100% paid by the state.

2) An aunt working as a nurse told me about a phenomenon that was quite common until a few years ago: "winter rabbits", old people "dumped" into hospital for several weeks even if they were not ill. Relatives dumped them at the hospital as a (to them) low cost way of getting rid of them for a few weeks while on holiday for example.
Open source doesn't mean anything if all the early design decisions were made in secret and ongoing design decisions are made by a single stakeholder. That is not how open web standards are built.

Yes, you have the source code, so you can fork Dart if you want, I guess. How are you going to get your Dart fork into a browser?
Did you write about it? Your profile don't provide any links/information, and it would be very interesting to see what project you are working on.

Maybe write a blog post about it and submit the link? Alternative, do something like (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5332317).
No, it's that many of us don't agree with how commerce and government actually work together.
The ITC specifically considered FRAND, so interesting that you or the perpetually wrong troll Mueller decide that it is abuse.
FYI, Dart is starting to be used internally, on multiple projects, and some pretty large ones.

And Dart's part of the Chrome team, if Chrome wasn't enthusiastic about Dart, Dart wouldn't exist.
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Custom fields in Rails using PostgreSQL
I might have to scrape this...
"Action against regulation of large corporations with good relationships with the government" is only a subset of "action against regulation of business".
I don't think anyone would advocate for repeating the history of JavaScript; everyone involved seems to agree that it turned out pretty poorly, and it took a huge amount of hard work to get to where we are now with ES5/ES6.

It's true that Dart and JS are the same in this regard, but it's not 1995. If Dart was introduced in 1995, it'd certainly deserve to beat LiveScript and we'd probably be using it now.
The point is that Dart will run on all browsers. ActiveX only ran on IE.

Dart's also friendly with the web. It has a full DOM API and JS-interop. It's not a plugin.