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>How sad that this is launching after the NSA scandal has pretty much ensured it will fail

I very much doubt 95% of the potential audience will even care about that.

>This is almost certainly the most efficient and optimal way to do desktop computing

I fail to see how it's the "most efficient" and "optimal". I don't see anything optimal about struggling with network level latencies in some remote shared system.

>We've been waiting really for decades for networks and CPUs to get good enough that it's actually viable for a real good experience on the client end. And when we finally get there

For tons of applications we'll never "get there" (compared to client computer). The latency, even the one caused by the speed of light limit (200 ms for a roundtrip around earth), is big enough to be disturbing for a lot of desktopy stuff -- much more if you add all the additional latencies and factor in common connection speeds.
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For some more elementary material, I also recommend Andrew Ng's machine learning course on Coursera. He's a great teacher.
Hyperboring - a collaborative media remix editor (aka Google docs on LSD)
A web experiment in realtime sharing & co-creation. Here is a promo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_R-uAjwH-M
Somehow ==> https://square.com/cash (which isn't the same at BitCoin, I fully appreciate, but it's good to see some thinking in this direction)
AIUI there's all sorts of considerations & trade-offs. E.g. the motors have a limit to how quickly they can change output (up to around 400Hz today).

Because there's no swashplate on the upper rotor of those wee co-axial rotor designs, they're really ineffective in cross wind. You can't apply the required corrective input when the top rotor gets blown off axis.
Strictly speaking it's not a doc. It's a snippet on the main page that tries to show case available language constructs. I do agree however that wrapping Fibonacci in a class looks a bit strange.

Documentation that showcases features in the terse form is available at http://synonym.dartlang.org/

If you have better ideas you can file a bug or even submit a pull request for the site: https://github.com/dart-lang/dartlang.org
I met these guys at SIGGRAPH Asia, HK 2011, where they had two prototypes which already worked as advertised.

Really a kick-ass product. A bit expensive as an x-mas gift for a 3rd party ... but maybe I should get one for myself? :)
> enterprises locked in a system

Why would anyone do that? We have a super nice solution for that. It's called "site-specific browser" or SSB.

It's like a browser without address bar, which automatically opens a specific URL on start up.

You can have one per intra-/extranet application and you can update them individually on a as-needed basis.

You get all of the benefits of a fixed platform without any of the downsides. Well, you'll need a little bit more RAM and and a little bit more HDD space, but that really shouldn't be an issue.
> People that write Java don't like JavaScipt, would be another way to look at it.

Sure, but for different reasons: principally, lack of type safety. That's completely orthogonal to syntax.
I expect ECMAScript 6 to be finalized in 2024.
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Ask HN: Would you add video live chat to your website?
I am thinking about building a live chat support service that supports video and i am wondering if anyone would want to use it on their website ?
>Then all hell will break loose

Or they will still not care.

If that's something that affects 0.001% of business, and if some culprits have been found and punished (for the leaks to come out), then businesses will probably continue using AWS and not caring, thinking "what are the chances"?

Except if something causes direct and measurable money loss, they wont really care, even if it's proven to have hurt this or that other company.
Web pages showing people how to do things are documentation. No inclination to contribute, Google have known that verbosity is a common reason for disliking Dart for 750+ days and haven't done much about it. I'm fine using JS and, when I want strong typing, know that Typescript is there.
I use Snapchat so apparently I'm an idiot.
I couldn't stop screaming in my head 'THIS COMPLETELY GOES AGAINST THE ANARCHIST-LIBERTARIAN ROOTS OF BITCOIN' while reading this.
Why you should use MongoDB. Not always though
It all depends on just how the API works, but this has potential to be huge for IBM.

Done right they could be sitting on the mythical Star Trek computer here, being trained by paying customers in how to answer questions about a wide range of industries.

Just off the top of my head I can think of a ton of features in our application which could be enhanced with access to a computer that has been primed with the accumulated knowledge of the Internet.
This was bound to happen, and cannot be stopped from happening, given the nature of bitcoin.

It's not the end for bitcoin anonymity. There will always be a market for "dirty" coins, and there won't be one definition of "dirty" either. The countermeasure is a multitude of such tracking tools, each operating on an opt-in basis, each with a different definition of "dirty". Then merchants and users would be able to choose what provenance has what value.

In fact, there is an opening now for someone to build an alternative system that isn't associated with regulators. One that perhaps might help us track stolen coins, like those from Pirate@40. On the other hand as a voluntaryist I happen to believe that DPR (the other pirate) deserved his coins, and I would accept his coins at face value.

If such an open-data solution existed, then I would feel inclined to support merchants and exchanges that reported their bitcoin addresses, knowing that (a) if their funds get stolen, people have the opportunity to reject the stolen coins thus reducing their value and the incentive to steal and (b) the public can perform audits on these bitcoin exchanges. On the other hand I wouldn't feel comfortable with a closed solution where the data gets walled off from the public, which selectively benefits those with access to the data.

The future of bitcoins will be full of unexpected surprises that seem obvious in hindsight. I think this is one of them. To the moon!
No real danger for EEG if powered from an isolated laptop.

ECG can cause safety issues if there is a significant current across the sensor leads, but even that is unlikely unless the completely wrong resister values used and the person hypothetically has a heart condition.

Disclaimer: I'm not a physician, neurosurgeon or lawyer. I did however design and repair EEG systems.
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I'm currently doing EncFS over Dropbox, which works great. I'm also writing my own EncFS alternative for adding an encrypted layer over any backup program, which I will release soon (it already works well).
Could Zuckerberg be forced out of the leadership now that FB is public? sounds like a good reason to push him slightly aside, especially given how aqui-hire-y everyone is recently
>fib(n) => n < 2 ? n : (fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2));

+ the laziest way to do memoization:

var cache = new Map();

fib (n) => cache.putIfAbsent(n, () => n < 2 ? n : fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2));
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The boilerplate is the issue, saying to ignore it is illogical. Unless it's not actually necessary in dart (mraleph says something in another comment) in which case it shouldn't be in the docs.

I have no interest in or against Dart other than wanting to see a compelling modern alternative to JS. Not sure why you think criticising Dart and it's website is 'spreading FUD'.
ShowHN : Code documentation following the spirit of literate programming
Grocco helps easily build documentation for your awesome code. It takes your documented code, and in an admission that people aren't machines, generates documentation that follows the spirit of literate programming.
It amuses me that the first thing I saw when it loaded was the word "penis".
Only most other nations doing such either are already bedfellows with the US (the "Five Eyes" et al), or don't have any real reach and power to do anything major spying or even to take advantage of any data they can gather.
Where do you find your freelancers?
If you work in an agency or startup, where do you find your freelancers?

Hacker News? Google search? a freelancer site? word of mouth? or somewhere else?
Definitely not blocked here in Australia. In Our Time's archive is one of the Great Wonders of The Internet, as far as I'm concerned.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/archive
In the answers I do not see any mention of the Second Time Around Problem, which conclusively answers the question with "there is no way to know".

The idea is: suppose there is a universe that has elements that are fundamentally random. It is nondeterministic. Well, let that universe run for its lifetime, and record everything that happens. Then make a deterministic universe that just plays back the recording (this is the "second time around").

From the viewpoint of someone living inside the universe, there is no way to tell whether it is the first time around or the second time around.

...

But the other thing to point out is that this question presumes an old idea about the passage of time, which is that things happen in a sequence A, B, C, D, ... and that if you are at C then D "has not happened yet". But if you look at relativity, this appears to be a naïve viewpoint. In relativity, the time at a faraway point in space that you would consider "simultaneous" with your own clock depends on the relative speed between you and that point. As you speed up and slow down, you can make a faraway point "go forward or backward in time" with regard to which moment there you would consider "now". The crazy thing is that for angular movements the relative speed is amplified by distance, so when you are moving around at everyday speeds the "now" on planets across the galaxy is going back and forth by thousands or millions of years. (This is hard to observe because you are viewing tiny amounts of light from very very far away that have been traveling for a very long time, and the light that you are about to see was very close to you when you did the angular movement so it will not be much affected, etc, but hey, the math says what it says, you either believe what physics tells you or you don't.)

So when you make a distant "now" go forward, then backward, then forward again, do you expect the two forwards to be the same, or not?
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As usual, the working culture in Norway is most likely heavily overstated to contrast with the (counter productive) Anglo-Saxon way of doing things.

I cannot speak for Norway, but since my country, The Netherlands, is known for working even less hours, I seriously doubt the situation in Norway is very different.

Although those hours may be normal for the ordinary office and factory worker (and thank god for that), there is absolutely nothing abnormal about entrepreneurs, self-employed and people at start-ups working different and/or longer hours. (And even then most of them actually don't.)

We are neither lazy nor anti-entrepreneur. We just have decent labour laws to protect those for whom a job is just a job, which is 90% of the population.

But nothing is stopping the other 10%. Please note that this article suggestively heads a paragraph with 'Golden handcuffs' (including the quotation marks), but fails to reproduce any such quote, or any evidence of any kind of limitation.

It's just the typical desperate attempt to suggest that there must be something wrong that needs to change about prosperous countries where people work considerably less on average, and are happier and healthier.
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> Why does everything always have to be the latest and greatest thing on earth?

Probably because the existing solutions have pain points and the "latest and greatest" technology solves those problems, but introduces new ones, which will be solved by the next big thing. It is a never-ending cycle because people tend to want to improve on what they have.
I think most people think it isn't because you can't measure something without influencing it and thus changing the state.

Not being able to record the state doesn't mean it isn't deterministic.
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Ajax Crawling – Node & PhantomJS (Spanish)
- https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy
- http://www.fogbeam.com/
- http://fogbeam.org/

Looks great!

Any chance any of these could be applied to legal corpora? (Cfr above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6731714 )
main()=>print('Hello World!');
Around 30-50 fps with a lot of geometry on the screen, sometimes peaks at 60 with an i7 950, 12gb, 280x and the latest version of chrome.
Mozilla decides on no more -moz- vendor prefixes
I've learned to ignore all new tech offerings from Amazon - they're all US-only anyway. It's like the rest of the world doesn't exist to them.
This reminds me of SMAC, on discovering (iirc) Quantum Computing:

"Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded"
I look forward to "Why I switched from Go to XXX in only 1 paragraph!" in the next week.
You seem to be talking about "pursuing personal gain", whereas I meant thinking for yourself in contrast to group-think / herd-mentality.
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This book had a massive positive influence in my life. I'm glad I was introduced to it in my teens.
Ex-Citrix employee here... Sounds exactly like Citrix unless it is a partnership: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/ci...

"As an extension of its ongoing collaboration with Amazon, Citrix is now delivering its innovative networking and desktop virtualization solutions from AWS."
That argument is, roughly, Humean scepticism.

Science is a game we play where we do experiments, build theories, do more experiments, and so on.

Any scientific answer to how the universe works has to start with the assumption that the nature of universe can be understood in the first place (otherwise we'll never get anywhere.)

Edit: This was in response to your comment prior to edit. Up to "..."
Sounds good , what does the actual codebase processing in the background , can you through some light on it !!
This is weird. If the observer in the universe is able to make accurate predictions consistently and repeatedly, doesn't that give confidence to his beliefs that the universe is deterministic. What you might be referring to is another way of saying that "any theory can be proven wrong if and when we observe a data point negating it". So, of course, there is no way of knowing if the universe is __truly__ deterministic or not, but then again we can say the same thing about sun rising from the east (unlikely as it may be, it might well just not rise tomorrow at all and then we will have to revise our theories).
Wow, are they going about this entirely wrong?

You don't screw around with the standard to try to drive adoption of encryption. You should solve a user interface problem by improving the user interface, right?

It's also not about getting an SSL cert. If you're doing anything interesting at all, you need an SSL cert, even if only for some percentage of your population. You also do need decent ways for people to distribute keys to their devices.

But at the end of the day, it's the green light/red light which is going to drive user adoption. The browser which capitalizes on privacy features and presents them best is a huge winner over the next 5 years.

Ultimately people should get the level of security they ask for. I don't think the spec should be catering to users who don't even know that http must die and https is the only way forward. Nothing could be more obviously true.

What's not obvious is the adoption rate once HTTP2 is baked. What the spec should be contemplating is how they can get the best roll out. There are so many awesome features we want to start being able to rely on, but if the new stack isn't pervasive, some people will think it's hard to justify coding for it.
On the consumption side, yes. As far as I can tell, you still need to write out the function interfaces :(
A heli carrying a DSLR is big, expensive, hard to fly, dangerous and maintenance intensive. It's good for lifting a DSLR but I would go with a multicopter, the more blades the better. A hexacopter or even an octocopter are very stable, easier to fly, possibly cheaper to build and have a fail-safe, if a motor fails you can land it safely because the other motors take over. You can find a nice video about the subject here:

http://flitetest.com/articles/T_Rex_800E_DSLR_Camera_Gimbal

It demo's a Heli carying a DSLR and afterwards (after the first 7 minutes of video) they talk about this compared to multi-rotors. For the best video results you should probably pick the stable octocopter, you can fly FPV as well with a multicopter, great for live previewing your video.
It is not the same I guess. Since there is dart2js, I think we can force a Dart application to run on DartVM when the browser is Chrome and run as js when it is not Chrome. I might be mistaken. You'll just see performance gain, the application is the same.
The problem is that even if Dart is completely open and patent free (and I agree that there is a vast difference between Dart and ActiveX in this regard), if the other browser vendors like Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla don't pick it up, it will still be a walled garden, even if the wall is built by the others.

Also Google has shown signs of embrace, extend extinguish when it comes to essential parts of Android, which makes me a bit wary.

I would love nothing more that Dart superseding JS as the goto language (and compile target) for browser development, as it is doubtless a step forward. But there are pitalls hidden on the way there and the outcome is determined by the path we will take.

Of course hesitations are political, because the outcome will be determined by political actions of everybody involved, Google, MS, Apple and Mozilla. Technical merits alone don't guarantee a happy outcome, sadly.
I am in Cairo, which is great, regardless of the pollution, traffic, violent protests and revolutions.
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I know what you mean. In the last paragraph he writes "If the real service is as good as the demo (and I have no doubt that it wouldn’t be)", which seems to suggest he does doubt that it would be (or that he has no idea what he is talking about).
2 things:

1) If we define "universe" as "everything that exists" then you cannot record everything that happens. Because the record would be part of the universe and would have to recorded and the record of the record would have to be recorded...

2) The "first" and "second" universes would not be universes on their own. The "second" is a continuation of what you call the "first". So the system you describe would be random. Because the "deterministic" things that happen later on are based on the random things that happened earlier.
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Indeed, I've always been insanely over protective of data (since I had a hard drive crash in the 90's take out an essay I was writing for school) but for some reason I never applied that to my phone.

Then my phone and wallet got stolen and it was a massive mess as it had access to just about all my critical stuff (dropbox, google apps, email accounts etc) and I had no remote wipe and no password on it (yeah I know).

Now I have both remote wipe, a strong password and very little sensitive data on my new phone, far too easy to lose the keys to the kingdom.
Which Social Media Should You Post That Thing You Want to Share On?
Very interesting stuff written in a clear way.
I'm actually finishing my master thesis on music genre recognition through machine learning, which is focused more on traditional ensemble learning, but I think that it would be nice to study deep learning in greater detail.
Thanks!
I wonder how much of this is total commitment. If there is no punt, the offense is really forced to make it happen or put the defense in a terrible spot - does that change their mindset to be more gritty, more concentrated - more "these 10 yards has to happen"?
ANSI animation in the browser, using HTML5 and canvas
I totally agree on that. What makes Dart better than, for example, GWT or Coffeescript? In the end of the day, it's just a new language targeting JS. And that new language is doesn't have any advanced or interesting features except for the name of the company that created it.
I don't know about Costa Rica, but I found Panama to have somewhat of a scene, for instance Acelerador de Empresas de Panamá via http://ciudaddelsaber.org As I have relatives there as well, I have always had an interest in doing a startup in Panama. Been a few years since I have been there, I have to get back.
Its built on an opensource project form github https://github.com/nevir/groc , The application logic is written in django, Celery processes the queue of generating documentation.
> [..] and the person hypothetically has a heart condition.

That alone is a massive problem - how do you know? Most people only discover things like this when things start going wrong. And if you make things go wrong, then you risk doing even more damage. I've never had any of the tests done professionally, but I imagine there is a certain amount of assessment that takes place before the tests are even conducted.
The notebook will not be your point of entry.

You can say that to yourself at night before you go to sleep, if it helps. But, really, the notebook is not the problem.

My advice is to keep your eye on the ball, and do the big things that move the needle. Security is about layers, and there are a lot of layers that are bleeding right now, all over the industry.

There are also a lot of really good suggestions here for password management, if that's what you want to focus on.
Building his/her business is more important at this point than upgrading his/her technical skillset.
Oh if only Apple could license Watson to replace Siri.
It should be more usable now. We don't do much in the way of culling yet, and the amount of data in the sandbox just then was far too much to render at once.
The shortest version I've seen: https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/340187980452999169
You can use a svg in a url() and in this case it's inlined. If you url-decode it's:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="1.1" width="1920"
height="1120">
<defs>
<filter id="blur">
<feGaussianBlur stdDeviation="5"/>
</filter>
</defs>
<image xlink:href="http://placekitten.com/1920/1120" width="1920"
height="1120" filter="url(#blur)"/>
</svg>
Expected web design trends for 2014 
What do you think about upcoming web design trends? We selected our types .
your idea is great :) i would really want 2 see such an app :) I was thinking of doing something similar some time ago, but did not have the time
That's the point. We don't.

We just need the service Dropbox offers (and preferably from Dropbox, since that is so ubiquitous it makes it easy to use with third parties and integrate with other services).

But we can have either individual accounts (which doesn't scale, and doesn't have the convenient team-features) or commit to the whole $795/year and hope we'll soon get to the point where the benefits outweigh the costs.

Dropbox for Business is an all-or-nothing package-deal with 3 separate benefits (features, volume and accounts) which cannot be purchased separately even though most clients only need one or two in limited quantities. And to top it off it's an upfront whole year commitment.

It's dramatically different from the pay-per-use proposition of any of the other SaaS products we use.

I've done the "what do we want to get started" math twice in the past few years, and Dropbox for Business stands out like a sore thumb.
Becoming a Digital Ghost - Opting out of global surveillance programs